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Locals platform. Now you should go check it out. Locals is a subscription platform anyway. I think I was going to talk about the news today. So the New York City Board of Elections had a little issue. They were trying to elect a new mayor, at least the first phase of that. And one of the candidate

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s, I think it was Eric Adams, noticed that there seemed to be more than a hundred thousand votes that seemed to sort of appear out of nowhere.

And once he noticed — I don't know if other people noticed, but the reporting is that he noticed, the candidate — and when he pointed it out, sometime later they looked into it and found out that 135,000 pre-election votes (in other words, votes that were not for this election, they were pre-election) were being counted because they were not properly purged from the system.

What are you telling me? That the only reason over a hundred and thirty-five thousand votes were not mistakenly counted is the only reason because one of the candidates noticed there was something wrong? Was that the only reason they caught it? Again, because what if he hadn't noticed?

Let me ask you this. The election is pretty close. I would imagine that say 25,000 votes would be enough to change a result. It feels about in that range, right? Let's just — we're talking just hypothetically here. What if the difference had been 25,000 votes and nobody noticed? What if nobody noticed? How easily could nobody have noticed 25,000 votes? It would have completely changed the election.

Now as some smart pundits noted, this is going to have a bad effect on people's trust in the election system, to say the least. To say the least. The difference is sixteen thousand. Somebody's telling me. Were you talking about the national election, the sixteen thousand, or the local election? I'm not sure what your reference was.

But how chilling is this? Now here's my point. If the problem you're looking for is in physical ballots, I figure you could probably find that with an audit. And thanks, Dennis Dimenis anyway. You can actually fill in the rest about this story because everything that you thought about the national election, it just brings it all back and you're like, wait a minute. Are you telling me that we were this close to having a completely incorrect election and it's only because somebody caught it? That's the only reason that it didn't go the other way? How easy would it have been not to catch that?

And then my other question is how many other things potentially could have gone wrong on the digital side of things that you wouldn't catch, right? What if a digital system — and I'm not alleging that anything like this happened because as you know, no court in the land has proven that there is widespread election fraud, so therefore it didn't happen. That's called Democrat logic.

Let me try that again. No court has ruled that there was widespread election fraud, therefore logically and according to science it didn't happen. Now a lot of you are saying to yourself, wait a minute, that's not logical. That's not logical at all. Don't give me your old stale classic logic. The new logic is if you didn't look for it and therefore you didn't find it, it doesn't exist. It's Democrat logic. It's 2021 logic and you've got to catch up.

If you're lost in the past with your old classic logic where things have to connect and make sense and be sensible to other people who are observing, well we don't live in that world anymore. So let it go. Just let it go.

Well, as I tweeted provocatively, it is not my job to convince you to get vaccinated or not vaccinated because I'm not a doctor. So that's between you and your doctor and your conscience and all those things. So can we first agree I'm not trying to persuade you to get vaccinated or not? That's not the point of what I say next.

But when you like as much knowledge as possible, wouldn't you like to have all the information that you possibly could to make your own decision? I think you would, for those of you who have not decided yet. And so I'm just going to add a little bit of information and this might not apply to you. This is a personal experience. My personal experience now being fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccination, which we've learned is also protective against the Delta variant, the one that we worry about the most.

So I've got protection against the variant. I'

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ve got apparently permanent protection. They say we won't need a booster if you have the Moderna or the Pfizer, I think. So I won't need a booster. Permanent protection against that and all the variants. Personally I haven't experienced any side effects that I could identify. Doesn't mean I'll never have one, right? I suppose there's some non-zero chance that somewhere down the line I have a compl…

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