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's signaling the election will be rigged. Which one of those do you choose? Do you choose the one where things are so bad he just told you they're going to rig the election and you better not complain? That would be awful but not as awful as having a sitting president who doesn't know he just told the country that the election is going to be rigged and they better not complain about it if it's not…

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where? Does anybody notice that? Because there must have been some during the election in 2020, but did everybody scrape them off their car? Have you ever seen a Biden bumper sticker in the last 12 months? Because they must have scraped them all off the car, right? I think they hid the shirts. I think it should be embarrassing at this point.

Because Democrats, here's their message for the midterm: there are many imaginary problems that you can ignore. So according to Democrats, these problems are either exaggerated or imaginary. Crime? It's all in your head. Inflation? That's just everywhere. Everybody has inflation. Immigration? No problem. Schools hurting kids in a variety of ways? Change the subject. Election integrity? Don't you dare. The Democrats' main focus is literally on imaginary problems.

Now you don't think that the Democrats have noticed? Because no matter what your opinion is of Democrats, they do have the same IQ as Republicans, roughly speaking. You know that, right? There's not that much of a difference. I don't know if there's any difference, but I don't even know which way the difference would go. But Democrats on average are roughly as intelligent as everybody else. You don't think that they noticed that their team is focusing on things that they even they can tell are imaginary, or they're treating as imaginary things that are clearly real like crime and inflation and so on.

But instead the Democrats are focusing on these following issues which they believe are real. The risk of insurrection by men wearing bison hats. That's like the main focus of the Democrats, is the risk that the country will be overthrown by even more people wearing bison hats who are unarmed. They also, of course, the entire platform was launched on the fine people hoax. The idea that Trump had once called neo-Nazis fine people, which literally never happened. They also are very concerned about the insufficient masking and vaccinations because they're pretty sure those things will make a big difference to your well-being. They're concerned that there's not enough wokeness and if we could have more wokeness and more attention on pronouns, things in this country would be a lot better. They're concerned that there is too much capitalism, a little too much capitalism in free markets, and that the United States creates too much energy and keeps us too safe. Yeah, how is that not embarrassing? Seriously, that isn't embarrassing.

When you see the president and Fetterman representing your party as two of the most important people in your party at the moment, that doesn't embarrass you? Now I know what the NPCs would say. Now they would say, Scott, were you not embarrassed by Trump? To which I say Trump was different. Trump was, I'll call him an acquired taste. You could love him or you could hate him, but I don't think people were embarrassed too much, right? Because even if he did something that made you turn away from him, which a lot of people did, you still weren't embarrassed because you liked the things he did up until that point. You might be, well, I liked him on immigration, but oh, he said that thing and I'm out. Whatever. But I don't think embarrassed would be the right word.

But I think the Democrats have a right to be embarrassed, don't you? Let me just check in with you. Am I right that if you push the embarrassment button on the Democrats, that they would feel it themselves? That it's a little bit embarrassing that they said they were going to save the country from a liar. Just think about that. The Democrats said we're going to get rid of the liar and they gave us Biden. That's not embarrassing? That's not embarrassing really? That should be embarrassing because it's not like you weren't warned. There was no warning whatsoever that Biden might be a huge liar. He didn't say anything coming that would tip you off. You should be embarrassed that you didn't see that coming, right?

Now if you voted for Trump and then Trump said some provocative things that made you uncomfortable, would you be embarrassed or would you say to yourself, well, that's what I voted for. I did vote for that. So you know, I like the good stuff. Maybe I don't like the mean tweets, but I knew what I was getting. Nobody surprised me. But I feel like the Democrats are acting surprised. What, Biden is lying to me?

All right, well I think, let me check in on this too. Is my overall theme accurate that the Democrats are focusing on imaginary problems? They do focus on

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imaginary problems or exaggerated. You know, imaginary is sort of a... all right, well, okay, looks like you agree. Some Republican entity created a TV ad claiming that the Democrats will, specifically Biden and Harris, are anti-White. And they give specific examples. COVID relief that was based on race, college admissions, affirmative action, right? So they have specific examples which are somew…

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