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ings and just destroy themselves. But every now and then somebody is the Wright brothers and they create a flying machine. So there's something about the permissiveness of our system that allows creativity to come out. And so far that's been the difference. The biggest difference is creativity. Now somebody says capitalism, but I think they have a lot of that advantage in China as well at the mom…
← Previous segment →re all the time. They're the same as they were. They're not the same as each other. They're the same as they used to be. And they used to be blabbers. Nothing changed that. If you haven't heard anything, what are the odds that there's something there? Every day that goes by and you don't hear about it with some specifics, the odds of anything being there go way, way, way down. Now it doesn't mean I'm right. It is a prediction technique. Just track it and see if I'm right.
There's a new propaganda documentary whose name I may or may not have written down. Something like "Fox News and the Big Lie," I think that's what it's called. And the idea is it's a documentary showing that Fox News, according to the theme of the documentary, was culpable in spreading what they call the big lie about the election. Now I haven't seen the documentary yet, but it's getting a lot of attention on social media. But there was one part that I thought was quite interesting.
Did you know this? You remember Sidney Powell was talking about Smartmatic, one of the vendors that do voting machine technology. I don't know if — I can't remember if they're software or hardware. Smartmatic, are they software or hardware? Doesn't matter to my point. But did you know that when you were listening to all those allegations that Smartmatic had some issues, according to this article on CNN it says that in 2020 Smartmatic only had — there was only one contract for doing anything in the United States. So in the year 2020 there was only one county. It was a big one. It was LA County. But probably didn't matter to the overall outcome. That only Smartmatic was only operating in one county in the whole country.
And the allegation is that Fox News left that out, because your idea of how big the potential problem was is very different if the vendor is only operating in one county. But here's the thing. When I read this, the way it was written was as if they were trying to mislead me. This was on CNN. It was written so — here's the actual sentence. "The company accused of orchestrating a nationwide election fraud had a single contract in the 2020 election to provide a new voting system in LA County." That's it. That's an ambiguous sentence, isn't it? Let me read it again. See how you interpret this one sentence.
"The company" — so this is talking about Smartmatic — "the company accused of orchestrating a nationwide election fraud had a single contract in the 2020 election to provide a new voting system in LA County." So one way to read this is that Smartmatic had a trivial amount of involvement in the election. I feel like that's what they want me to get out of this sentence. But if you break it apart, it seems overly specific.
Do you know how to identify a liar? They have an overly specific denial. "Did you kill Bob on Tuesday?" "No, I didn't kill Bob on Tuesday." See what I mean? If your denial is too specific, it's usually an indication of lying. And the way this was written is that they had one contract in 2020 to provide a new voting system in LA County. What's left out of that sentence? Did they have any existing contracts? They had only one new voting system contract. The word "new" was there. They had one new voting system contract in one county. Is this telling us that they had lots of other existing contracts? They're just not new? I don't know. I can't tell.
But I don't know who's doing the propaganda here. Did Fox News leave that out, which would be a propaganda-like mistake no matter what their intent was? Or is CNN shading the story in a way that's just completely misleading? Yeah. Now Dominion is another story, right?
Now let me emphasize that to my knowledge there is no evidence of either Smartmatic or Dominion doing anything illegal or inappropriate. I want to say that clearly so I don't get banned from social media. To my knowledge there is no credible evidence that's been presented that I've ever seen that looks like either of them did anything bad. Now keep in mind my larger philosophy is that any kind of automated system can be corrupted and that given the number of intel agencies that would love to do it, it will happen. We just don't know if it's happened yet. So corruption of automated systems for voting is largely guaranteed. You just don't know when it's going to happen. So that's the part I don't know.
Well, the Afghanistan war is over. Or is it? It feels creepy and disgusting to say that this war is over. Is everybody with me on this? To say that the Afghanistan war is over is creepy and disgusting because it's not over for some people who are trapped there. It's not over for our allies that we stranded. It's not over for the service dogs we left at the airport, allegedly. I don't know if that's true. So I wouldn't call it over. But at least the last soldiers have left, allegedly. And who knows if that's even true.
Now Lara Logan is reporting or tweeting that from senior U.S. sources that the house-to-house executions have already started. And now we don't know who they're executing, but we presume it was people who supported the United States or the Afghan government. Maybe other people. Maybe gays. Maybe at least one folk singer was taken out and shot. Ned he sings. Let me say that again. A folk singer was dragged out of his home and shot in the head. Not because he was singing anti-government or anti-Taliban stuff, but because he sings. So they dragged him out and shot him in the head because music outside of a religious context is forbidden by the Taliban. Although the Taliban has been doing their act — I'll call it acting more progressive — and they said, well we're not going to make a big deal about the music, but it is anti-Islamic, they say.
So the thinking, at least the reporting, is that maybe Kabul doesn't have so much executions, but the places where there's less media and fewer eyeballs, that they might be executing people like crazy. So there's that.
Here's your latest CNN propaganda by anecdote. I told you that there will be exactly one anecdotal story basically about somebody who didn't get the vaccination and then died. So it's going to be something about people who made the wrong choice according to CNN and they killed them. So there'll be one per day. And here's the one per day. Daniel Wilkinson, a U.S. Army veteran, died from a treatable illness after being unable to find an ICU bed in five different states, his mother tells blah blah. So here's somebody who didn't have COVID. He's a U.S. Army veteran, which of course means a little more to us today, right?
If you were going to do a story about something bad that happened to a U.S. Army veteran, today would be the day to do that story because we're all feeling unusually close to our military. Is that a fair statement? Wouldn't you say that as of today that you as a citizen of the United States, let's say, don't
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you feel close to your military? Do you feel that? I feel close to them. Meaning, you know, connected. Like, you know, we're sort of all in this together. That wasn't always the case. You know, it's a luxury in this country that you can let the military go off and fight their wars and you can think about other stuff. I mean that's a gigantic luxury. But at the moment we do feel close to them. And…
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