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ed it bad. And you need it now. Go. Huh. I can feel some ballots being disqualified with one sip. That's all it took. All right. So I couldn't stop thinking about last night. Last night I was thinking about last night. What would it be like to be Joe Biden or Trump? But more importantly, what would it be like to be Joe Biden? And you figure he's probably exhausted, right? And he's got to go to s…
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There's some small chance, I guess, that Trump could pull Arizona out, and then who knows? If he holds Pennsylvania, anything could happen. But at the moment the odds are looking like Biden is going to have an electoral, tiny, tiny advantage when the votes are counted. We'll see.
Now, what did we learn last night? Number one, how were the professional pollsters? Well, I would say Rasmussen was pretty close. Rasmussen once again proves that they're one of the more accurate ones. But all the pollsters who said that Biden had this gigantic double-digit advantage, were they lying or were they wrong? Or my hypothesis that it was the world's greatest dad joke. Now, it would be a better dad joke if Trump had won. But I think we can conclude that there was something wrong with those polls.
And unless you assumed that they were all colluding and lying or incompetent, I suppose the only other possibility that I can think of that's likely is that Trump supporters were lying like crazy to pollsters. So are we ready to admit that that was real, or is it too soon?
Now that we know the polls were wildly inaccurate, we didn't know that for sure, but now that we know that for sure, what's the explanation? Incompetence? Collusion, meaning they were trying to influence the vote by faking it or showing Biden was ahead so he gets more fundraising or something? So some kind of mischief, incompetence, or Trump supporters lying. Which one do you think is the most likely explanation? Like most things, we'll probably never agree.
I'm feeling pretty good about that prediction. The other prediction I made is that we would at some point, not permanently, but at some point, I predicted we would have two presidents. Now we're not there. We're not there. I would not call this situation that prediction. But we're not done when the votes are counted. You know that, right? There will be legal challenges and things discovered.
And let me ask you this just for context. Let's say the IRS took a dart and they just threw it at a bunch of names of companies, and the dart randomly hits the name of one company, and the IRS says, all right, we're going to audit you top to bottom. We're going to look at everything you've done. What are the odds that randomly throwing a dart the IRS would find a company that had tax violations?
Do you know the answer to that question? Because the answer is pretty close to a hundred percent. Now, it doesn't mean these companies are all crooks, but taxes are complicated. Things happen. Judgments are made. And if you have a big, rich, target-rich environment with complexity, yeah. I'm seeing in the comments you're saying 100%. Yeah, anybody with experience knows that's the case. Big company, 100% chance the IRS could find something they didn't like.
Now, what are the odds that the Trump administration will look at the outcome of this election and they'll look at all the reports that people are saying of there was this irregularity and this irregularity? What are the odds that the Trump campaign will not be able to find something that's real? You know, not just something they made up, but something that has some substance that they can complain about to maybe potentially possibly overthrow the results of the election. What are the chances that such an opportunity exists? 100%.
So if you're saying to yourself, are we done once the votes are counted? I doubt it. The same way, you know, if the IRS audits you, they're going to find something. And I'm sure the Trump administration can find something to make an argument about. And of course they do have the Supreme Court on their side. But we don't know if any of it goes to the Supreme Court. Might it end up at the House of Representatives, as our Constitution seems to prefer? Anything could happen.
Here's another one. What happens if Joe Biden is deemed mentally incompetent before the electoral college? What happens then if the electoral college voters vote? What happens then if they can't cast their vote for the person who won the most votes? As far as I know, if they can't do that because, let's say hypothetically, he's just not capable at that point, or maybe there's some legal problem by that point. You can imagine two scenari
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os in which something happens. By the way, there's no evidence that I'm aware of of Biden himself being involved in any crimes. I'm just saying anything could happen in a big, complicated world. You can accuse anybody of anything. And yeah, what happens then? Does Kamala get the electoral college votes? How does that work? Does the House get involved? So if you think that we're done or near done…
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