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Back to episode — Episode 2440 CWSA 04/10/24

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ay it but I'm giving up on the fentanyl and TikTok arguments. And the reason is they're both coming from inside the house. When I thought it was a problem with Mexico or China or both I kept saying, hey Congress, hey president, hey CIA, go after them. Why are you not shutting them down? Why are you not doing more? But once you realize that in all likelihood — I mean by far all likelihood — both t…

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against the cartels. But now that I can see the cartels are our guys I don't know what to do with that because there's no form of persuasion that's going to make any difference because everybody will just say it's not happening and then that's it. It's not happening. No. And if it were it would be secret. We couldn't tell you about it. And if it were and it were secret there's some bigger purpose. So you know you don't understand. Maybe there is. There might actually be a bigger purpose and I don't understand. Anyway that's what's going on.

Vivek has a plan for fixing elections. He says here's his plan. Here's how we move beyond fights over stolen elections and we unite our country. Number one, make Election Day a national holiday. Number two, single day voting. Number three, paper ballots. Number four, government-issued voter ID to match the voter file. And then number five, English as the sole language that appears on a ballot.

I wouldn't mind Spanish on a ballot. I don't think that's the big one. But you know that you do make accommodations if there are a tremendous amount of legal citizens who have a language issue. I don't think that's the biggest deal to add Spanish. I wouldn't add anything else. But Spanish is a special case anyway.

So whether you agree with this one or not, would you all agree that this would be a simple, practical, huge improvement compared to the current system? Would everybody agree that Vivek has nailed this completely? He's nailed it completely. This would actually make it impossible to argue about it because it's just a good system and we've seen it work in other countries. We don't have to wonder if it works. We can observe it. Oh, this works fine in these other countries. So why won't this happen? This will get no traction and will never be close to being implemented.

Do you know why? I can only think of one reason. That our system is designed for cheating. There's no other reason. It's not because of money. It's not because we d

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isagree this would work. It's not because of efficiency. It's not because of timing. It's not because of credibility. There actually is no reason to do it the way we do it unless the whole purpose is cheating. It's designed to be impossible to audit. It's designed to be easier to cheat the mail-in ballots. So it's exactly what it looks like. And by the way I'm not speculating about this. So the o…

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