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Back to episode — Episode 1202 Scott Adams - Dale and I Tell You the News From Both Realities

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e Court that they're likely to agree and throw out a bunch of votes. So Pennsylvania is looking good. Not only that but a couple dozen state legislators have said that they don't trust the certification of the election. Pretty good source, right? Pretty good. All right, somebody just reminded me to put my ring back on. Thank you. Here's the second version of the news. Pennsylvania, they keep try…

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ss and appropriateness and it's sort of subjective, right?

So the thought is that you've waited too long to make your claim and therefore we can ignore the claim. So the claim was ignored because they said you missed a deadline. This is the important part. There was no deadline to make the claim per se in terms of a law or a statute or anything like that. It was just felt by the court that it seemed too long.

Now remember I told you that the court will rule on your feelings sometimes more than they will rule on the letter of the law. So I think this is one of those clear cases where they said it would seem inequitable and unfair and it would disenfranchise voters if we do this. So we're not even going to look at the claim that it was unconstitutional.

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ribe what I just described other than saying they put feelings ahead of the law? And I believe that this is a common thing, not an uncommon thing, rather, that the court does sometimes say what's best for the world in our opinion. We're the judges so we get to be a little subjective. What's best for the world? And sometimes judges think what's best for the world is to ignore the law or ignore the…

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