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p too much. It was just as good as I thought it would be. Sometimes I think I'm exaggerating. Then no, not exaggerating at all. Story number one. The fellow named Tyler Bowyer, he reports that he was elected to the GOP chair in Maricopa County and he says he met with then-Senator McCain, who is now the late Senator McCain. And he said he met with him just out of respect for the office. And this i…

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some employees of Google and Alphabet are trying to organize to create a union. We don't know how well they'll do. But I wondered, why do you need a union at Google? Don't you always hear it's like the best place to work and people are fighting to work there and salaries are good and benefits are great and it's a prestigious job in the middle of the most active industry in the world and a great place to live in many places depending on where the office is? Why would you need a union?

And so I looked at the details. Turns out they're not so focused on compensation. No, they're not really focused on working conditions, some of the things you would expect from a union. Nope. They're focused on the lack of wokeness at Google. Because as woke as Google is, it's not woke enough because it's doing contracts for the Department of Defense, you know, protect country, homeland security. So that's no good according to these folks at Google. And what else have they done? They've profited from advertisements by hate groups. Now when I say hate group I mean a group that somebody else doesn't like. Maybe that group is a hate group, maybe they're not. But if you hate them, well let's call them a hate group. It's close enough.

So those were the two things that they surfaced as being worthy of note for their major claims are two wokeness items. Now how perfect is it that Google could be taken down by wokeness? I don't know that it'll happen but it's a fun story. But not as fun as, yeah I'm gonna get to Trump's phone call. I'm building you up to it. This is the build up.

So attorney Lin Wood, who as you know is working for the president's benefit on the election fraud stuff, but that's not all he's doing. It turns out that Lin Wood has something else to say today. Totally believable. And it goes like this. Now let me be very clear, this is not my opinion. What you're going to hear now is somebody else's opinion or fact, we don't know. But it goes like this. Lin Wood tweeted, I believe Chief Justice John Roberts and a multitude of powerful individuals worldwide are being blackmailed in a horrendous scheme involving rape and murder of children captured on videotape. It's captured on videotape. Well if it's captured on videotape obviously it's true because there's never anything that's on videotape that's not true.

Hold that thought. Hold that thought for later. But given that it's right there on video and apparently he has access to it, there's a crypto key and there's a file and something and he apparently has access to it, wouldn't you think you might see, I don't know, one screenshot for example? I don't have to see the whole video because it sounds like the video is pretty bad, which totally exists. And you know why you know it exists? It comes from a credible source called the lizard squad.

Now if you are going to be a credible organization one way to advertise your credibility is to name yourself the lizard squad. There apparently some hackers who got into these files and have determined that these are actual files showing rape and murder of children. And wouldn't you expect to see at least a screen grab? Maybe not something that shows the whole story but wouldn't you like to know that at least Chief Justice Roberts is on it? Because if he's not on one of these videos I'm not so sure there's any kind of evidence. And by now wouldn't we see at least a screenshot? Not the whole video of course, we don't want to see that. But a screenshot. Or how about has he shown it to somebody else? Let's say a prosecutor. Has he shown it to a prosecutor and has the prosecutor said yes I've looked at this video, looks real to me, or at least something I need to look into to find out if it's real? Where's that? Kind of missing. Kind of missing.

Well here's my take on this. I think the odds that John Roberts is on any kind of a blackmail video are really, really small. Like really, really small. Like if you were to take all of the allegations that have ever been made since the beginning of time and rank them from most credible to least, this might be close to the least.

Now let me say this as clearly as I can because I know you're not gonna hear me. This is one of those topics where I could look at you and say two plus two equals four and a lot of you will go away saying he keeps saying two plus two is five. I don't know what's wrong with him. And I'll just say two plus two is four and you'll hear two plus two is five. It's going to happen right now. Are you ready? It'll happen right now. Not to all of you but some of you watching will hear two plus two is five when I say two plus two is four. Are you ready? Here it comes. I'm guaranteed it's gotta be true that there are very important people who are being blackmailed by major intelligence services. That's got to be true because it falls into the category of something that would have a high upside potential. Blackmailing important people if you're an intelligence agency, your risk of getting in trouble for it is zero because that's actually your job. What is somebody gonna say? Hey intelligence agency, your guy is trying to blackmail me. And what is the boss of the guy doing the blackmailing gonna say? Is he gonna say oh I gotta fire that guy? No, no. The head of the agency would say well that's why we hired him. He's supposed to be blackmailing you. And by the way he did a good job so you better shut up because we got all the evidence on you.

So if you have a case where there's no risk of penalty at least for the person doing the blackmailing because it's literally their job in an intelligence agency, there's a gigantic upside. And then the third thing that's necessary to be guaranteed that it happens is that there are a lot of people involved. If there were only on

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e important person in the world, well there's a pretty good chance they haven't murdered or raped anybody. But if you have lots of leaders you can guarantee some number of them, and it might be a pretty big percentage like an alarming percentage of them, 20, 30, and 50 it's a big number, have done at least something they could be blackmailed for. Maybe it's 80 percent but I would say minimum 30 pe…

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