Episode 1206 Scott Adams: Why Biden Will Start to Look Worse Every Day, The Republic Becomes a Bullyocracy, Coronavirus Lies
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1 hour and 3 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden has the worst day of his presidency so far, and it's not even close to being good enough to beat Donald Trump. Is it possible that Biden will be worse than Trump for a long time? And if so, what will that mean for the economy?
Transcript
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Dale, if you don't know why people are greeting you, it's because I use your first name in a humorous fashion sometimes.
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Joe Biden has said that if we don't be more cautious with the coronavirus, that we could lose 250,000 more people before January.
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And he said in public that a quarter of a million people might die from coronavirus on top of the quarter million or whatever it is now that have already died.
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Now, I would like to tie this to a larger point.
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The larger point is this, that I believe Biden will start to look worse every day for a long time.
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And the reason is because he's moving from a campaign scenario in which everything's hypothetical.
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You know, hypothetically, Joe Biden would be great on these topics.
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Hypothetically, he'll make all these changes that will make you all happy.
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So when you're running for office, you're running against hypotheticals and imaginary scenarios.
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So what's going to happen if we were to game this forward a little bit?
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What are the obvious things that will happen if we just sit here and wait?
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Well, number one obvious thing is that he's going to start to be compared to Trump because you can't avoid it.
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It used to be good weather, but now there's a hurricane.
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So in a way, everything has to be contrasted to make sense to you.
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And of course, Biden will be compared to Trump and all of his policies because why wouldn't you?
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But let's go down the list of things you're going to compare Biden to Trump in and see how you think you would predict it's going to go.
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I think he misspoke, but maybe he thinks it's true.
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The economy works well if you tell everybody it's going to work well.
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The economy is completely destroyed if you tell people things are going to go bad.
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Trump, for all of his flaws, which his critics would be happy to point out, understood that the economy was not separate from health care.
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They're all part of this big thing, and if you don't take care of all of it, you might lose all of it.
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It's like, well, there's health care, and then I'll just deal with this, but I don't have to think about the economy because that's a separate question.
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But if Biden scares the pants off you on the virus, even if he's right, right, I'm not talking about whether he's right or wrong, but if he scares you, what's it do to the economy?
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If Trump tells you the economy is great and getting better, even if it wasn't true when he said it, what's the outcome of that?
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Well, apparently he's pretty convincing on the questions of the economy, and people invest, and they buy stock, and they spend money.
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So if you're just taking the economy, I don't think Biden has even the slightest chance of, in the end, looking good compared to Trump on the economy.
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Now, the reason is he doesn't get the psychology right, but he's also looking at raising taxes.
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Now, even if you think taxes should be raised because you want to fight the deficit or because you think it's more fair, whatever, or you think it will fund valuable programs for the public, so you might like that idea, but there's no way it's going to be good for the overall economy, right?
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When Biden starts putting back some of those controls in place, will that be good for the economy?
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If he starts talking about Green New Deal and any kind of pressure on fracking, is that going to be good for the economy?
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So I think on the economy, Trump will have a permanent advantage that will only look bigger over time, because if Trump is not out there doing new things to cause the illegitimate press to say bad things about him, you'll start to forget the bad things.
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In other words, the most likely outcome of the Trump administration is that all of the bad stuff he did will start to reduce in your memory, because you won't be reminded of it every day after he's out of office.
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But every time we talk about the economy, pundits are going to say something like, you know, Trump would have played it this way, and that would have worked.
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And then, you know, I think Trump would have done that a little differently.
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He might have bullied a little more, and that might have worked, for example.
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If Joe Biden does anything like opening up immigration, and I don't think he will, by the way.
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I think he's moderate enough that he'll have some, you know, some controls on immigration, maybe not as much as you wanted.
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But how is he going to look if big caravans start heading toward the border?
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Could we predict that it is very likely that gigantic caravans will head toward the border during a Biden presidency?
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What will happen if Joe Biden either gets tough with the caravans, like Trump, or does the opposite?
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Basically, I don't think he's going to look good in the long run, only because of the nature of the problem.
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It has nothing to do with whether Biden would do a good or bad job.
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Whoever has that job, when this problem occurs, is going to look not so good.
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And people are going to say, why wouldn't you go meet a tyrant if it calms down the risk of war?
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Why wouldn't you go shake hands with a dictator if it reduces your risk?
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And Trump is going to look like a genius, at least in terms of that specific question,
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to know that it's a personal relationship that made the difference.
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He avoided nuclear war, or at least the risk of nuclear war with North Korea, with a personal relationship.
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Is Biden going to meet Kim Jong-un and try to keep that going?
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Again, it's going to be hard to compete with what Trump did on a whole bunch of stuff.
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So he's going to be fighting that ghost the whole way.
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Do you think Biden's going to do a trade deal that's less good than what Trump was pushing for?
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Well, if he does, he's going to look like he failed.
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Because it's going to look like Trump was trying to get this.
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But it's going to look like Biden's a bad negotiator.
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So you can see just the way the things are naturally lining up.
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Biden is going to start with his honeymoon phase, which is now.
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But the only way this can go is bad for him, I think.
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And it has nothing to do with whether he does a good job or not.
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It just has to do with who he's compared to and the situation.
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If you wanted to dismantle Antifa and Black Lives Matter and reduce the importance of the squad, was Trump the right person to do that?
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Trump was exactly the wrong president to get rid of Antifa because they picked him as their enemy.
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He was the wrong person to get rid of Black Lives Matter because they had decided he was the symbol of what they're fighting against.
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And, you know, the squad, of course, just uses Trump as their boogeyman.
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So, Trump would be the worst choice to minimize those three entities.
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Biden might be the best choice to minimize them.
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Because Biden can't do his job unless he consolidates power.
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And he's not going to want to be out there with, you know, Antifa and BLM destroying cities under his watch.
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So, it's obvious he's trying to diminish the squad and trying to diminish the whole defund the police thing.
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So, if you wanted less of any of those entities, I think you'll get less of it under Biden.
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You know, if you wanted just, if that was your only problem in the world, I would pick Biden for that every time.
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Tucker was reporting yesterday and the news was reporting that apparently we've checked existing blood supplies from late 2019.
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And there was a whole bunch of coronavirus in there.
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So, here's the thing to make your head explode for today.
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Everything you've been told about the origin of the coronavirus.
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And it might have been the Wuhan lab and all that.
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And it might have been, you know, a certain timeline.
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Pretty much everything you've been told is false.
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I don't know if the Wuhan lab had anything to do with it at this point.
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But everything you thought about that is false.
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You know, we treated all that stuff as just, well, that's history.
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Think about that when you say to yourself, is the next story true?
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Think of that when you say to yourself, well, a story this big, with so many people reporting
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that it is so, well, under those conditions, it's such a big story and so many people looking
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at it, they must have, you know, gotten close to the truth by now.
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We live in a world where even the biggest story in the world is just fake news.
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And if that story can be fake news, what else can be fake news?
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You know, that's the Gilman amnesia idea, that if you know about a story, you know it's
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bullshit, but all the ones that you don't have any special expertise in, you say, well,
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In the real world, all of the news, all of the news is probably not true.
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Like if you were just going to put a bet down, there's a brand new story.
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The bet is, will this story still be true, let's say in five years, or will you know
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And I'm not even telling you what the story is about.
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And you will be right, I don't know, 70% of the time.
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General Flynn retweeted somebody else's tweet suggesting that the President Trump should
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Now, CNN is having a panic attack because a retired general is suggesting martial law in
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the United States and what would, you know, you could imagine it would lead to a change
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in expected government, if I can say it that way.
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But I'm not entirely sure that CNN knows how Twitter works because when you retweet things,
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It might mean it's something you should consider.
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It might mean somebody's just telling you something's out there and it's part of the story.
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Don't you sometimes retweet things that are just a story?
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You know, if a caravan of 10,000 immigrants crashed through our border,
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I might retweet that story, but I wouldn't be in favor of it.
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But we could imagine, it's reasonable to assume that he wouldn't have retweeted it without having
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For some reason, I have a gigantic lawyer following.
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I don't know if you do that, but there are probably more lawyers who follow me than just
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about anything, which makes sense because I talk about persuasion.
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If you're an attorney, you probably want to pay attention to anybody who talks about the
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Can you say, I'm going to declare martial law, but it's not like some general martial law.
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It's just going to be this little narrow, one topic, just martial law about the election.
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And the martial law will specifically say we'll redo it on some timeline.
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Again, talking about the news is not endorsing the news.
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But can somebody tell me, a lawyer, if you can limit this martial law idea to a single topic?
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I say, well, you know, actually, let me answer my own question.
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If you imagine that martial law was a generic order that just puts the president in firmer
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control without the subsidiary government processes, I suppose the president could pick and choose
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So the government could say it's martial law in general, but you can ignore the in general
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part, the only part I'm going to care about or do anything about is just the election.
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He doesn't have to use all martial law mechanisms.
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He could declare it and then just use whatever part he wanted.
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So I don't know how constitutional it is or how practical it is.
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I'm just going to put it out there as a thing that's being discussed.
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I don't know if any of you do, but I would not endorse martial law at this point.
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There might be a place where that is more of a something to consider, but I don't think
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They're dropping into my Twitter feed and they're saying sarcastic things such as,
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You said to us, wait two weeks, you're going to see some strong evidence for the accusation
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And here's my answer to the people who are saying, where's all that strong evidence
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So I tweeted an answer so it'd be in the record.
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I said, Democrat trolls keep asking me, where's all that evidence of election fraud I said
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I had to break it to them that they will never see it because Democrats don't get to see real
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And when I made that prediction, I should have modified it by saying, well, Republicans will
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hear it because Republicans hear the news on the left and the right.
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So Republicans will hear the good evidence and have.
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If you're watching the live witness testimonies, I don't know if you could need more evidence
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Now, whether or not those witnesses all collectively have enough of a story to change the outcome
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of the vote, I doubt it, you know, I didn't see enough happening that just their testimonies
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But can we say there's no strong evidence of fraud?
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I would say at this point, I would say at this point, with that many witnesses, I think you
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could say there's a 100% bounteous, plenty of evidence, some of it won't be true, some of
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it will be people who saw things and misinterpreted it, some might be lying, some might be, who knows,
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there's disinformation, disinformation, whatever.
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But you certainly can't say there's no evidence, and you can't say it isn't strong if it's eyewitnesses
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What exactly, you know, you can imagine that there would be like a murder on Fifth Avenue.
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I'll just use Fifth Avenue to complicate things.
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There are hundreds of eyewitnesses, hundreds, hundreds of people, and they tell the same story.
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Yeah, we saw this guy kill this person right here.
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Hundreds of eyewitnesses telling the same story of the same event.
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Yeah, you got people saying that people can say anything.
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Well, I'm pretty sure that hundreds of eyewitnesses to a murder would be enough to convict you.
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I mean, I think that goes way beyond, you know, reasonable doubt.
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You're going to get pretty convicted with that many witnesses.
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Well, the difference is that the Democrats have packetized their crime
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so that you can see a lot of it with your own eyes.
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You don't know how much other stuff you didn't see.
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So that's the catch, is that the courts won't reverse an election
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unless you can make a case that the number of votes you can prove were fraudulent would do that.
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Did you see the interviews with the two postal contractors who had pretty specific stories
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that make it sound as if, at least the one of them I was listening to,
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he tells a story where it sounds like he drove a large truck across state borders
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with what are allegedly fake ballots to change the outcome in Pennsylvania.
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He drove it all the way from New York to Pennsylvania.
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Now, and then he's got some kind of a story where he parked the truck,
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he was told to park the truck somewhere different,
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and when he woke up in the morning his truck was gone?
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I don't doubt that we live in a world where elections can be stolen
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by somebody driving gigantic trucks of stolen ballots.
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That is within the realm of things that could happen.
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And somebody's correcting me that the trailer was taken,
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Because if you don't know what I'm going to say,
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because you should know by now exactly what I'm going to say.
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Yeah, I'm a whistleblower, and I drove this truck,
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But it's a little too clean, if you know what I mean.
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back up to something I said from the very beginning
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So if somebody presents a new piece of evidence
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and you haven't even looked at the evidence yet,
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what odds do you put on this new piece of evidence?
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But that doesn't mean anything about whether or not
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It just means that confirmation bias kicked in,
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if there had been a real theft of the election,
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that there would be a whole bunch of confirmation bias
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you haven't been alive for the last several years.
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I'm not looking at Joe Biden's 80 million votes
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It's obvious that couldn't have been happening.
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but I'd say it's possible it could have happened.
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Here's what I mean by it's obvious it was stolen.
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So as long as your role in the alleged scheme was,
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telling you how many holes there are in the system.
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We're not even the same conversation with security.
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if this plan changed the presidential election,