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eir mouth shut about the COVID thing for years. So if somebody says something is an acceptable source, doesn't that really mean that they don't want to say it's not acceptable? Meaning they don't want to be the one who says I'm not sure that's a good source. And then it says in order to ensure that synthesized products are valid. What do you think would be a synthesized product? Well, I think in…

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question. Because every time you bring it up, he's not going to say something that causes a fight. He's going to say, well, thanks to me you get to work that out with your state. So you're in much better shape to get a law that your state likes by majority than if the federal government did it. So I actually made it easier for you to get what you want in your state. Now if your state doesn't want what you want, well that would be sort of between you and your state. And at least that's easier to fight with the state than it is with the federal government.

So we've moved it into the place. In other words, Trump moved it from a life and death, kill the baby or don't kill the baby, which is enormous energy, right? People will get off the couch for abortion if you let it become the emotional thing. You know, you're controlling women's body or you're killing a baby. They'll definitely get off the couch for that. Do you know what they won't get off the couch for? Well, let me explain how FISA works. FISA, you've got the you're against the advancing of the procedural thing to debate the reauthorization of the warrant. That doesn't get anybody off the couch because bureaucracy is not exciting.

So Trump basically said let's bury this in the bureaucracy where it belongs because it does belong there. And that takes the energy out of it. It takes the fun out of it. It keeps you on your couch. So all Trump needs to do to win is to make sure abortion is not the lighthouse topic. You know, if abortion is the lighthouse, then all the moths are going to be like yes, walk toward the lighthouse. We'll vote against Trump, monster. But if the lighthouse isn't lit and it's just a bunch of other topics like, well, you know, there's the inflation and you got the border and stuff, I think Trump wins. So I think Trump wins.

So think of the abortion question and Trump's opinion on it as an energy play, not a play to get some specific voter to change their mind. You want some people to be less interested in voting. That's it. Your opponents.

All right, there's a new poll from Ipsos. It says Biden has a clear — that he's got 41% approval or actually people would vote for him compared to Trump at 37%. So the polling from one of the more credible, they say, outfits is that Biden has leapt ahead and now he's winning. Based on what changed? What exactly changed? Trump softened on abortion? I don't think that changed it. What changed?

Well, so I looked at the FiveThirtyEight rankings of pollsters and they're 17th, which doesn't sound good. In reliability there's 17th in reliability, but it's actually out of like a hundred. If you're in the top 17 out of a hundred or so that would be toward the top. Do we trust Ipsos? I don't think so. I don't think I live in a country where I can just automatically trust polls. I think that the polls are going to have to support any cheating. So if there's any planned manipulation of the election — and I don't have any information that they would, but if they did — they would have to rig some of the polls first.

How hard is it to rig a poll if you're the CIA or the FBI? You walk into a polling company and you say, you know, we know a lot about you. It'd be a shame if the news heard about it. Sure would be good for us if Biden had some good poll resul

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ts. Do you think that happens in the real world? I don't know. Probably it probably happens in the real world. Yeah. Somebody needs access. Somebody needs a favor. Yeah, I don't believe that polling is necessarily a non-corrupt entity. So I don't believe it automatically. Speaking of polls that we don't believe automatically, Axios is reporting that 42% of Latino adults surveyed said they support…

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