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ve any argument against anything I said. So calm down Bob and log off. Okay. But anyway these ghost buses are not proven. But there are multiple witnesses who say they saw the same thing. They say that the people getting on the ghost buses were let's say unusually fit. There are also a video or a photograph I saw where there are a number of people in the crowd on January 6 who appear to be well tr…

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xact opposite standard for Ruby and for Hunter. For them innocent until proven guilty but if there's an allegation of ghost buses and we don't know enough about them guilty. Guilty. If they would like to tell us everything they know about the ghost buses, if they would like to tell us everything they know about the number of undercover people then I say oh maybe not guilty. Maybe just doing your job. But if you're not going to tell us guilty. Doesn't mean they're guilty but that's the working assumption when your government doesn't give you full transparency. Same with the election. That I have no specific knowledge of something wrong with the election but it's not transparent so I make the reasonable assumption about any non-transparent government entity or process. Same assumption for all of them. All crooked. No Ruby is not equal to the government. She's somebody who worked there for a day on the election. That's definitely not. No more than Hunter was.

A federal judge is warning Elon Musk that he has to testify. You know how many government processes are working against Elon Musk right now? So there's no question about it that the government has weaponized all of its departments against Musk. There's no doubt that Biden called for that action in public when he said they're going to look into him in a whole variety of ways or we have lots of ways and everybody in the government said oh I guess you want me to investigate them. I'll see what my group can do. And then they did. They did.

Now the fact that the government is going after Musk when he's the most unambiguously positive force in America today and they're going after him trying to take him down. Are they trying to destroy everything that's good? Like try to think of anything that's good in America just anything. What is it they're not trying to destroy? They meaning Democrats. I can't think of anything good that they're not actively trying to destroy. Anything. The economy. The border. Anything.

Anyway there's a company that lets you be a truck driver from your house. So it's basically a mostly self-driving truck. The company is, I saw this in a post by Linus Tech Tips. The company is iride. European. And they already are in operation and it's a self-driving truck but they have humans who sit in front of a monitor to make sure that no human interaction is needed. So the human only gets involved in the edge cases and if the human needs to take a break they just have another human who's also working remotely take over so that they're watched all the time.

Now would you trust a human whose job is to watch a monitor just in case there's a problem? How long could you sit and watch the road without doing anything? Could you sit there for eight hours and just go yeah still looks good still looks good? I think it'd be like those guards who were supposed to be watching Epstein. You know they were asleep. I think I would have had a night job if I were one of those guards and then I would just use the daytime to sleep. Because what are you going to do just look at Epstein now? There's Epstein again. Still looking at him. Still alive. There he is. He's sitting on his bed. Like you get real tired of looking at stuff. Can you? Anyway I think it does give you an alert if the truck needs your attention. It does send you an alert but I don't know how much time I would spend actually looking at the monitor. I feel like I'd carry my phone around in case I got an alert and I would just go on with my day. If I got an alert I'd be like oh steer over to the left a little bit there.

All right so the Trump lead in the polls continues. Pretty much every news story about a new poll is a new commanding lead by Trump. Everything's going in one direction only. You know pro-Trump. But there is some polling that suggests that the race would tighten up considerably if Trump got convicted. So if Trump gets any conviction on any of his 91 counts the polls are telling us that people might turn against him and vote for Biden. Does that sound right to you? That to me that sounds super obviously wrong. Like super extra obviously wrong. Are they trying to prime people to act that way? That would be almost exactly the opposite of what would happen. If you put him in jail he's going to be the president. Let me say that as clearly as I can. If they put Trump in jail you guarantee him the presidency. Guarantee. Fucking it. Yeah no doubt about it. I'd even vote. I might even vote in that case. Yeah yeah. Make no mistake he's not going to jail. Yeah do we agree on that? The legal process might find you know that they want to put

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him in jail but let me just say this clearly. I got 80 million reasons he's not going to jail. I got 80 million reasons he's not going to jail. I think it'll be scary and risky and it's always possible but no no no there. You think Democrats don't know where the line is and I think sometimes they don't know where the line is. It's because conservatives are not easily flustered so they bend and be…

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