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going to go off at any moment now. So here's the funniest story of the week. Trump is, according to Rasmussen polls, leaving office or left on his last day with an approval rating of 51%. It's not too bad. Now that's Rasmussen, of course, so you know if you see some other poll you're going to get a different result. But also on Rasmussen, so you use the same methodology, same company, they have Bi…
← Previous segment →y more, like five times more. More people, let's say he has a higher popularity, blah blah. So people are thinking how in the world could Biden have won this election?
Now the response to that is that people were voting against Trump, not for Biden. Right now when you first hear that you think, okay, well that makes a little sense. They're voting against somebody so that might not show up. But wouldn't that show up in the approval? Is there somebody who approved of Trump, did not approve of Biden, and still voted for Biden? You know, how exactly do you get higher approval of the person you're voting against?
Right now I'm still on the side that says there's no proof whatsoever of any election irregularity that's big enough to change the election. There is, however, also no proof whatsoever that the election was fair. Now is that a reasonable thing to say? You know, does the election have to prove it's fair or is it the responsibility of those who have claims such as the allegations of fraud? Is it their responsibility to make their case?
Well, if it were a legal case of course you have to prove that there's some crime that happened. But in the rare case of an election, as I've said before, I think the election is the one case where I think the election system has to prove it was not fraudulent. Meaning it needs to be at least transparent enough or at least auditable enough that if anybody had a question it would be easy to check. You just audit it. It's transparent. See if there's anything to it.
So this is just the one example I can think of. Maybe you can think of another, but I can't. The one example in the world where the burden of proof should be on the accused. I can't think of any other case that would be appropriate. But for the election it is. The burden of proof on the election system to prove it was valid and fair. And we don't have one that's designed so that it could do that. So whether or not you wanted to do that, it's not designed so that you could. And then apparently we're not moving toward that.
Would you say that the election, let's say the election disagreements if you will, may be the biggest problem in the country immediately? What's Biden doing to fix it for next time? So Biden's the president. It's his job to fix stuff that's broken. And the country almost got torn apart by a belief that the election was not at least transparent enough. So what's he doing to fix that? Nothing.
Every day that Biden doesn't do something to improve the transparency of the election I think is evidence of fraud. Now it may not be evidence of fraud in the past but it's definitely all evidence of fraud in the future. Because if you don't fix something that's not transparent and in the face of people doubting it, fairly aggressively doubting it, you're not really planning to do it fair next time, are you? Because it seems like you could do a little executive ordering or at least some presidential jawboning to make people at least try harder to make the thing transparent. But no, I don't believe this will ever be a topic he cares about.
I'll bet he'll say something like, well states have to do that. They sure ought to do it better maybe. But I don't think he's going to go after it. Now arguably it is a state issue but that doesn't make it not his problem.
All right, so that's happening. And again I don't have any proof that the election was anything but fair. I say that. It'll all remain on social media.
So Biden issued an executive order rescinding one of Trump's orders and it's a real head scratcher. He rescinded Trump's order that banned Chinese companies, which we assume can be controlled by the government of China, to prevent them from selling bulk power systems into our grid. Now the worry is that if you get any kind of electronics made by a rival, if you will, China, that they would have maybe a software way into the whole system. They could bring down our electrical grid and they would have tremendous...
You're disappointed in me for what, Sassy Southern Patriot? I'll give you about a minute to tell me why you're disappointed in me before I block you all. Because it's okay to say anything that is content-wise like why you disagree or what your opinion is or some facts I missed. But I don't really want you to come on here and tell me that you're disappointed. Because you know what? I don't care about your disappointment. I do not give a about your disappointment in what I've said. Because the moment I start caring about that I'm worthless. The moment that influences me that one that somebody came on here and said I'm disappointed in you, the moment that affects me, this is all worthless. It's all worthless the moment that that matters to me. So I can't let that matter to me. So don't bother saying it unless you've got something useful to say. Okay.
All right, so Biden rescinded this order that would have, by Trump's order, that would have kept the Chinese companies out of our power grid vendor process. Now wouldn't you think that rescinding an order like that would, number one, be headline news? Didn't see it. Didn't see it on CNN. Did not see it on Fox News. Is it possibly fake news?
So the first question I have is, is this real? Because it's not covered on either CNN or Fox News, at least with a quick look I didn't see it. So if somebody could give me a fact check on that it would be great. Now it could be that the only thing that's going on is Biden is pausing all the executive orders of Trump so he can just look into them. But what is there to look into? What exactly is there to look into in this? I don't know what you would look into.
Is there an argument that says that the Chinese government should have control of our power network? Or is there an argument that maybe it would be racist if we prevented the country of China from controlling our power grid? I hope that's not the reason. Or is it just because Trump did it so it has to be undone? What exactly is that about?
Now of course every Republican is saying, could it be that China controls Biden and that China has secrets about Biden or Hunter Biden or anything like that? Now I have no reason to believe that any of that is the case. Well, I have reason to believe it. I don't have proof of it. I have to be careful about my choice of words, right? And don't you think that we deserve an explanation? Don't you think your news should be telling you right now, hey there was actually a real good reason for rescinding that. It's not obvious but let us explain it so you can feel comfortable with it. That's not exactly what's happening, right?
So if it's true that he did that, Biden did rescind that EO about the Chinese companies in our power grid, if it's true and we don't hear any news about it from the major news sources, what's that tell you? Well it would tell you that your news sources are corrupt, both on the left and the right. Anybody who doesn't cover it if it's true. If it turns out it's not true, and I think that's at least a 50% chance right, that is not even true that anything happened with that. So let's find out
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about that. All right. Biden has a little trap that he set for himself, which is he's branded himself the pro-science president. So if he does anything that's not pro-science he's got a little extra explaining to do. Ah, good coffee. And so every time there's any inconsistency either in logic or math or science it's going to be fun to criticize. And by the way, everybody who told me, Scott, why…
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