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with New York Times and some basic reporting entities that he thinks he trusts. But I feel like that's a 40-years-ago strategy. I mean back when we had this idea that there were a few trusted sources and if you stuck with the trusted sources you were in good shape and you were in better shape than all the poor unwashed bastards who were looking at the wrong news. And now it's completely reversed.…

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ou know, was allegedly a gotcha on CNN because there was a CNN reporter standing in front of the only Dropbox and wherever they were. And as he was standing there on one side of the Dropbox the video is showing a citizen pulling up and stuffing a whole bunch of ballots into it. And then the video was, you know, obviously the box is being rigged and stuffed right in front of the CNN guy and he doesn't even notice. But did you know that half of the states allow you to do that? Half of them allow you. And they have various flavors. Some of them allow you to take your relatives or your friends or something. Some have no rules. Some say it has to be a close relative or something like that. But they have various rules.

So all I'm trying to say is if you see a video of somebody allegedly stuffing a box and it doesn't tell you what the rules are for that box, you don't know anything. Is that fair? If you do your own research and learn that it's a state with a certain set of rules you might have a useful opinion. But don't just look at somebody putting more than one ballot in a box and believe you learned something.

Now just to be clear I do not believe that all of the drop boxes are a pristine system. The odds of somebody dropping a bad ballot in a Dropbox are really really high, like 100%. You know that at least one bad ballot got into one Dropbox somewhere. Probably 100%. But you know, did it make enough of a difference to move the election? Well in Bridgeport, Connecticut apparently that's the allegation, but we don't know the prevalence of it.

All right. Reports are that gun sales in the US are way up for Jewish Americans and that's no surprise. Remember I told you that there was a theme that everything was headed in the right direction? Well I think there's this gigantic wakeup call for Jewish Americans to find out that the team they thought they were on likes them less than the team that they thought they were opposed to. A lot less. Now you can say to yourself, but Scott, what about those marchers in Charlottesville? What about the KKK? To which I say, oh you mean like BLM and Antifa and the pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas marchers? I'll say let's say pro-Hamas. To me they're all the same people. They're just a bunch of racists.

So I think where we're wrong is that we keep being told that there's a left and a right. There's not. There's a top and a bottom. Politics do not go in a smooth line from the left to the right like a line with two points. It is a circle. It's a circle. All the normal people from the left and the right are at the top. These are the people who are so normal that they could have a dinner party with each other and not want to stab each other. They're just normal people. Normal Democrats, normal Republicans, normal Independents, all there at the top. They take the circle around to each side to the bottom and you get Black Lives Matter racists and Antifa racists and the anti-Jewish racists. Basically all the racists are at the bottom.

So if you could make just one mental change, see it as a circle not a line, everything makes sense. Have I told you a million times that your brain is a visual engine? Whatever you visualize is what is your truth even if it's not true. If you see one reality but you don't have an image of the other reality, the one you see is the one you're going to say is real. So every time somebody says left and right your brain draws a picture of a straight line and now you think the people on the left are fundamentally different from the people on the right. And they are. The

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y are fundamentally different but not in ways that you give a shit about. In the ways that matter they're just a bunch of racists at the bottom. At the top, normal people. At the bottom, bunch of racists. We're going to find something to be racist about. If you solved all their problems tomorrow they just find something else to be mad about. So let us stop saying it's left and right. It's top an…

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