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st cut it and then eat its little guts out when it's done. You want to talk about politics? It's a holiday, so we don't have to, but I feel like there's just so much going on that we sort of want to, right? So let's dig in. So I believe that both Iran and China have congratulated Joe Biden. Now, does that scare you? We'll get to the Kraken and the Pennsylvania hearing and all that stuff. But her…
← Previous segment →Biden be the finisher? It's possible. It's not impossible. And if any of you are saying, Scott, don't be such a naive, gullible fool, as long as the leadership of Iran is in place they will only lie to you, they will never make peace. Maybe. Could be. But they're also in a nearly impossible situation, so that can make you flexible. Who knows?
So I'm not going to predict that will happen, but I'll just put it out there as maybe anything's possible.
Biden sent out a Thanksgiving tweet reminding us that we are not enemies with each other, we Americans, but we are all enemies with the virus. Sounds good. But you called half the country racist basically because of the way you handled the whole fine people thing. I'm not over that, and I'm not going to get over that. I'm certainly willing to work with whatever administration is in office. You know, I'm certainly willing to be friendly to everybody that I meet in person. But no, I'm not really over that. And I've got a feeling I'm not ever going to be over that because there are some lines which, when crossed, you can't go back. That was a one-way trip, the whole fine people hoax thing. That was a one-way trip. You don't get to come back from that.
So you can be president, perhaps. You can even get my support. But Joe Biden, I hate your guts for that, and that's not going to change.
Here's another best case scenario. Are you ready? Imagine the things that could have happened that didn't. One thing that could have happened was that Trump won the election narrowly. Riots, right? Riots. Four more years of Antifa, Black Lives Matter ruling the streets. It could have been bad. It could have been bad. Maybe not, you know, maybe it had died down, but I'm not sure that would have been the best path for the coherence of the country.
And really there's a mental health question. I think the country is suffering from mental health problems, like literally, not joking, not making a political point, like in an actual mental health way. The COVID stuff is really kicking our brains' ass. And then you add on top of that any division that comes out of politics, and your brain is getting quite a workout here in terms of mental health.
So would a second term of Trump, if it had sparked even greater violence and unrest, been the best thing for the country? Maybe. But let's just walk through the other options, okay?
The other options were that Biden wins clean. And by clean I mean in such a way that even the people who thought there was massive cheating would be willing to say, ah, okay, but there's no such thing as that much cheating. So maybe there was some cheating, but he still won because he won by 60 million votes, you know, hypothetically. So I don't think that was possible, and we didn't get that, right? So it wasn't possible for Biden to win so cleanly that nobody doubted the process. And if Trump had won narrowly or even by a lot, I think that would have been riots.
So what would have been, if you could have drawn this out on paper, what would have been the best outcome? I'm going to propose that we might be experiencing it. It just doesn't feel like it, right? If I said to you, hey, guys, are you having the best case scenario right now, you would look at me like I'm crazy. It's like, are you kidding? The election process is in question. The process has been a mess. How is this the best case scenario?
Well, let me make my case. It goes like this. Did we avoid the riots in the street so far? So far, would you say that your assumption about what kind of unrest there would be immediately after the election, were you not wrong? Everybody who said there would be massive unrest after the election, I think you'd have to say they were wrong. That didn't happen. So that's good.
So far, anything that gets us to not rioting in the streets, that's better than it was, right? So let's bank that thought. But let's continue.
Suppose what comes out of this is a national understanding that our election system is not secure. Now, whether or not there was massive cheating that changed the outcome, separately but connected to that question, is are our elections secure? Because you always have to worry about the future as well, right?
Suppose the only thing that came out of this was that we learned how to fix our elections and make them secure in the future. That would be amazing. That would be a really, really, really good outcome. You could even argue it would be the first time that the United States had a true democracy, democracy, republic, you know what I'm talking about. Don't be pedantic, all right?
We could be heading toward the second American revolution. It just happens with software and with our election process. We might be learning that for the first time ever we might have the opportunity to let the people pick our politicians. I don't know if that's good, but you do fight revolutions to get that, so people obviously want it.
So if that was the only outcome, we moved to let's say a maybe a blockchain system. I would guess that in four years we'll probably have a parallel system. Well, here's the way I would do it. I would build a blockchain-based app, and I would run one election with parallel systems. And I would say for some of you who volunteer, do us a favor, vote on the app, and then separately vote the normal way with a ballot or going in person. And we won't count the app votes the first time we do it. We're just going to run parallel systems and see if we learn anything, see if anything breaks. Then if it works, you fix whatever problems and maybe put it into action. But I would run them parallel and just do it as an experiment.
If that's all we got out of this, it would be amazing. It might even signal the coming of the golden age.
Now suppose that President Trump decides to go George Washington on this. Let's say he pursues the court cases and Rudy makes his case. Now he might not win in court in the sense that the election is reversed and Trump is put in office. I don't think that's going to happen because I just don't think the courts will look at the facts. I think they'll look at the big picture, you know, what's going to keep civilization together. And so I think that they might go for whatever gives you the most stable situation as opposed to technically what the law would indicate. So that's what I think.
Now suppose the president says, I'm going to take my opportunity. I'm going to go George Washington and I'm going to say, you know, according to this process and according to the voters, I have convinced you, you the voters, you are convinced that the election was stolen. I could fight and get power back, but I'm going to go George Washington and I'm going to say let's keep the system intact. It would look kind of a strong play. And then he starts maybe another career as a media news mogul. It's a big success. It's a lot of fun. Could be good.
Suppose the Republicans do hold the Senate, which I have a lot of doubts about because if the election was rigged at the presidential level, why wouldn't it be rigged at the state level when they do this Senate runoff thing? What would possibly stop them at the local level from rigging it again if they rigged it the first time? So if you imagine it's true that the
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y rigged it the first time at a national level, which means rigging it at the necessary state levels, why wouldn't they do it again? What possible thing would stop them if it worked? So I don't know that we'll get a Republican Senate. But let's say we do. That means that maybe Biden doesn't overtax me and maybe we get a little relief from the social unrest. Maybe Trump's voice is just as strong b…
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