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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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and police brutality? According to them there shouldn't be any difference, right? Because the issues that BLM and Antifa had don't really change if you change the president. I don't think so. So are we going to watch Antifa become the ally of Republicans because, you know, the enemy of my enemy situation? Antifa is going to turn on Biden, right? Because Antifa is not Democrats. They're Antifa. They don't have a party per se. So they should turn on Biden pretty quickly. You expect the Squad to turn on Biden. They've already done that. So they're going to start demanding stuff.

Now here's my question to you. Let's say the Senate holds Republican. It looks like it will, barely, right? Maybe by one vote or something like that. Maybe it's just Pence who's the tiebreaker or one vote plus Pence, something like that. Is that enough to stop Biden or let's say stop the Squad from going full socialist? Would a Republican Senate be enough to stop that stuff from happening if you only have a one-vote advantage? I don't know if that's enough, but it might be.

It could be that the thing that would surprise me the least, and indeed I've predicted this in the past, is that a regular Democrat president would have to govern like Trump did policy-wise. So my assumption is that Trump proved enough things to work. In other words, he tried different things and they worked such that whoever is president next kind of has to do that because it worked.

For example, do you think that a President Biden would just stop all work on border security? Probably not, right? Because it's not really good for Biden if things get out of control at the border. That means that Democrats lose the next election. So even Democrats can't really open the border because they would never get elected again.

So what about, say, North Korea? Is Biden going to get tough with Kim Jong-un? Probably not. He'll probably take something close to a Trump approach, which is, well, we won't threaten you if you don't threaten us. Something like that.

Do you think that Biden would just stop negotiating a trade deal with China? So he says in all caps, Trump tweeted it must be a good one. So let's go look at that. Let's see what Trump is tweeting if it's so good that you just had to tell me. All right. So he says three minutes ago Trump says, "How come every time they count mail-in ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?" That's sort of a generic thing to say.

16 minutes ago he said, "Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key states, in almost all instances Democrat-run and controlled. Then one by one they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. Very strange." And the pollsters got it completely and historically wrong.

So it looks like he's setting it up for the mail-in ballots to be the fraudulent thing that cost him the election. What do you think? Do you think that's real? Is your opinion, if you were not just being a team player, if you were not just backing your candidate, if you stepped away and said to yourself, okay, if I'm being objective, I'm a space alien, I'm just looking at this situation, do you think that the election was stolen by mail-in ballots? What do you think?

Now I do believe that fraud is somewhat universal, meaning that probably every state, every county had a little bit of irregularity, and there probably is like that every time. But do you think the mail-in ballots really were like legitimately they had a bunch of them waiting and they just waited to see what their vote was and then they said all right we don't need all of them but let's use half of the fake ones we had and dump them out there? Do you think that happened?

Because it would only have to happen, and like I said, maybe you only needed to do it in Detroit or one or two places. So you wouldn't have to do it everywhere all over. You would just need a few places. That's it.

So looking at your comments, I'm seeing some yeses, some nos, etc. Now I think the real issue is going to come down to how many of them can be rejected because there's some signature problem or something else. And I don't know how you ever solve that.

So it looks like Trump supporters believe that there was a major fraud involved. It looks like the president is very persuasive, or he's following, I don't know if he's leading or following in this case, but he does seem to match his base. That the majority think that something illegal or fraudulent happened. I don't know how to handicap that.

Somebody says, do you still think Trump will win? Well, my most recent prediction is at least for a time we would have two presidents. And that CNN would say we have a President Biden and Fox News would say, they're not saying that now, but that they will at some point say we have a President Trump reelection. And that would happen if Trump managed to wage a legal attack against the result. It had some teeth. So if Trump comes up with some kind of a fraudulent accusation or accusation of fraud and there's actually some evidence, you never know.

But if the vote goes the way it's just being counted straight up, it looks like Biden would win at the moment. It looks like that. Then I'm just saying what the news is telling you.

So here's a question. If you thought that, let's say you had a theory that Israel secretly controls all the big decisions in this country, did you believe that? Did you think that Israel was really running the show? Because Israel wanted Trump to win. So if Israel was behind any mischief, either they didn't do anything or they did something that wasn't as big as the mischief from the other side. So can you rule out that Israel has that much power over the political process of this country? I feel like if this holds, it would be a pretty good example of how they didn't get what they wanted.

What would Biden do with all these peace deals that are happening in the Middle East? Would he reverse them and go pro-Iran? Probably not. It's sort of too late for that, isn't it?

So the one thing you should wonder about is if Biden could do any of the things that he says he wants, or would he be forced by circumstance to simply do something very close to what Trump was doing but put a new name on it and try to pretend it's different.

Somebody says, does Israel really want Trump to win? I think yeah. I think you could say that with some confidence, yes.

Arizona has two percent left to count, so that wouldn't get it done. So we have to assume that that goes to Biden.

So let's say Biden gets inaugurated and he becomes the president. What will we say was the reason? Some of you will say fraud, and you'll say that forever, I think. You also have to look at the social media companies, because at this point I don't know if humans can overcome the algorithms. You know, I call the algorithms artificial intelligence. And I had said that whether Trump wins or loses, that he'll be the last human president. Meaning that AI, if AI and the algorithms are what caused Biden to win, and of course they did. Of course they did, right? Because the stories that get promoted are the ones that influence. So the algorithms probably picked the president.

So one filter you could look at this is that the

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human activity was somewhat irrelevant because AI caused us to do what we did. So it was really in charge. That's one way to look at it. The other way is that the Democrats just did a good job on everything they did. Did a good job getting in more people who would vote their way into the country, did a better job of campaigning, controlled the media better. That's another way to look at it. Someb…

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