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it wasn't fraud if it turns out that the basic facts being alleged are true? Let's say it's true that 128,000 votes appeared suddenly and a hundred percent of them were Biden and that's the story. If that was the final story and we never got any deeper explanation, would you accept this election as valid? I don't know. To me it would depend a little bit about whether that one change would change…

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l it's not defeatist. I would say that the odds of a challenge that's got some meat to it is pretty good. I don't know if that wins the day but there's a pretty good chance the president has a case. And if he could find a way to get that case to the Supreme Court, does he have an advantage because of his conservative judges? Maybe so.

Somebody says kudos on keeping going today. Well let me ask you people, how do you feel? How do you feel today? Now of course you feel uncertainty and stomach aches and all that. But is your life ruined? Will your food taste differently today? Will your job change? For most of you you're not going to be able to tell the difference. Frankly for some of us it will be a life-changing event if Biden gets in and gets his tax plan. For example people like me have to make some real decisions about literally leaving the country. Because the tax rate that Biden has proposed is confiscatory, if I think that's a word right. Confiscatory. Meaning that I made my money under a certain set of rules. In other words capitalism. And the government said here are your rules. If you follow these rules and make some money you get to keep it. That's what I thought were the rules.

If I follow all of your constitutional rules and your laws and I make a bunch of money and I live in the United States, I get to keep it. I thought that was the deal. Now if I had been told from the beginning you know you can make as much money as you want but you're going to have to give 65% of it to the government, and by the way that's low. The 65% of it is just your regular taxes. If you're in a high tax zone I would also be paying property tax. I'd also be paying sales tax. So my effective tax rate if you take all of my taxes under Biden might be 75%. I might get to keep 25% of every dollar I earn.

That's enough to make you look at another country. But it isn't that easy to just move to another country and avoid taxes. You got to give up your citizenship and it's not easy. So it's no easy deal just to move somewhere else. It's not something you can do. Plus you want to live in the country with the biggest military. You know you don't want to live in the little island that can be conquered by just about anybody who wants to. I don't want to live on a little island that can be destroyed by a hurricane either. So it's hard to move out of the United States. It's a little bit of a network effect if you know what I mean.

Somebody says they won't let you go. Somebody says the market is up. Is it? Let's see. So markets l

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ike certainty. So Amazon is way up. Well that's interesting. Bitcoin has been having a run so that's staying solid. The broader market is up solidly. Apple's way up. Israel's up. I've got a fund of stocks in Israel and that's way up. Interesting. What the hell. Okay. I'm just looking at a comment. Did you notice they changed the way we voted at the last minute? Just looking at your comments. Some…

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