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o any other way. But this is all by way of saying if you're worried that the Democrats have a stranglehold on power I think they're self-destructing because when they were out of power at least the presidency they had the luxury of saying crazy stuff and not having to do any of it. Now if they say crazy stuff they're either going to disappoint because they don't do it or they're going to do it and…

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I believe that is what I wanted to talk about today. Should the Trump wing of Republicans form a new party? Now if the Republicans want any hope of ever getting power back they need to be one party. The reason it worked with Trump is that he managed to do the near impossible which is he unified the Republican party. So now I don't think you want to start another party. What are the chances of 2024 having auditable elections? I would say zero. Zero as far as I can tell. There is no interest in the government, not real, and just there are people talking but there doesn't seem to be any real interest in fixing the election system. Have you seen it? I don't see Biden saying I'm going to make this my highest priority to make this auditable. I don't see any chance it's going to happen.

So I'm seeing a question about the Patrick Byrne story. I think that's the story about Italy being somehow involved in fixing the election. So my take on that just quickly I've talked about that before. My take is that Patrick Byrne is like a really smart guy. If you look into his background and credentials he's super smart and successful too. So you've got that on one hand super smart successful person making a claim but the claim is of a nature that I don't believe ever right? So the claim is sufficiently fantastical that I dismiss it as sort of a Bigfoot kind of a claim which doesn't mean it's not true. I'm just saying that if you were going to look at claims that sort of have that vibe you know it's complicated and you know you can't see nobody's showing you the direct evidence it's people who talk to people about a complicated scheme and another country. Anytime a story has all of those qualities to it you should bet against it. So i

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f I had to bet 10 to one odds is if I had to bet but that's ten to one is there a ten percent chance it's real? Yeah maybe. Maybe ten percent chance. Remember I've told you that any individual claim is almost certainly false but that doesn't change the fact that you have a big system that involves software and the odds of a big important system that involves software not being hacked is zero. Now…

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