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ssian regime. That's not too bad. All right, let's talk about Elon Musk. So Elon Musk tweets his suggestion for a Ukraine-Russia peace plan. Do not get mad at me for reading it, okay? If anybody has a Ukraine flag in their profile, don't get mad at me. I'm just reading it. You can get mad at me later, and you will be. Boy, will you be. But don't get mad at me yet. This is just Elon's idea. So he…

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see, a majority, 55 percent of voters still believe that 2020 was affected by cheating. And that's up from July, where it was 52 percent. So in the context of the January 6 hearings, the political intention of which was to make Trump and Republicans look bad, what the January 6 people bought was more people siding with Trump that the election was rigged. Did you see that coming? Not the entire January 6 thing was counter-persuasive. And I think it was counter-persuasive because not only did it prove there was no crime, but when you saw how sketchy the whole process was, it made you more likely to think Trump might have been right. Maybe there was a problem.

By the way, do you know how big this gamble is by Trump? The size of his gamble that he's never backed off from the fact that the election was rigged in his opinion. Not my opinion, by his opinion. That is a big risk. Do you think it'll pay off? Do you think there will be a day where he'll still be able to benefit from that, where he's proven right? Well, I don't know. I don't know. But I'll tell you this. There are some things percolating that I've seen that suggests there's more to the story to come, which I'm not telling you that there's a kraken coming. All right, I don't want to get into that trap again. But there are some, let's say there's more information in the pipeline. It could be like all the other information. It turns out to nothing. But there's some stuff in the pipeline that's recently come to light. So you'll find out about that later or not. Maybe the mainstream will completely block it from you. But I think that as a risk-reward to play, you know, Trump always sort of takes bigger risks than other people. I guess you'd agree with that.

And I think he's taken an

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interesting risk with this because, you know, he could easily win the election simply by saying, you know, let's put it behind us. Am I right? All he would have to do is say let's put it behind us, and suddenly, you know, they would try to use that as their big he's a fascist sort of thing. But once he put it behind him, it'll be hard to use it anymore. If he would just say, you know, the system p…

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