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Now, I wouldn't bet very much that this will become a big thing, but how cool is it that what at least some people think is our biggest problem, the CO2, could be our biggest solution? I've long wondered if we will have an industry where sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into products, in this case a battery, is going to be a thing. So much so that people are sucking too much CO2 out of t…

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aid of if it melted down. But what they would do is they would drill this ginormous 30-inch hole, 30 inches wide, a mile deep, and they would put some kind of mechanism, nuclear mechanism, a mile into your hole, so to speak. And somehow they would need no mechanical parts, just two pipes. I'm not sure how this works. They put some water into it, and the water heats up. The pressure of the water is enough to keep things pressurized, so you don't need mechanical pressure, just the weight of the water, because there's a mile of water. And then I guess the nuke cooks it up and then shoots it back up as, I don't know, hot water or steam or something. But the point is you could actually have nuclear power in a hole. And then if the thing melted down, you just close the hole. Yeah, because it would be below the water table, so it would never need to be continually cooled because it would be below the water table. And if anything went wrong, you just leave it there. Apparently you can just cover the hole and walk away.

Now, will that ever become a thing? I don't know. But how cool would it be if it did? We just drill gigantic holes and put non-mechanical stuff in there, things that don't need to be revised too much because it's not mechanical, and just have all kinds of power.

Well, remember that CEO of Telegram, the messaging app, got picked up in France. There's talk of, you know, he's looking at 20 years of charges that look suspicious to all of us. The French are going to extend how long they're going to hold him. Let me tell you everything about this story that you need to know. You will never know what this story is about. I don't think there's the slightest chance that you and I will ever know what this guy was up to and who wanted him arrested or any of that. Probably the real story is something you've never even heard. It could be anything.

So here's the scary part. The Telegram CEO being picked up is more proof that any government, whether a democracy or not, can arrest you, make up a bunch of charges, and hold you forever. So if you think that, oh, it's a good thing I've got this justice system and all that, you really don't. We're at a point where the government can make up any story and hold you as long as they want. And you know this has the Tate brothers written all over it, meaning maybe the Tate brothers did something that the law doesn't like, but I'm not sure that's why they were arrested. I feel like whatever the reason was, we'll never know. It's some other deep, dark reason we'll just never know. So to speculate on this story seems like a waste of time because we'd just be guessing. But the one thing that is the takeaway is that any government can arrest any person for any reason and just make up charges and keep them in jail forever. I think that's guaranteed and evident and obvious at this point. So it's a scary world.

Here's a story that shouldn't bother you a bit. Over a million ineligible voters were removed from the Texas voter logs, according to Governor Abbott, and he was bragging about his election integrity efforts. So thank goodness. Thank goodness, right? Imagine if there had been a million ineligible voters. A million. Now that doesn't mean that they would all vote, but the speculation that some people have is that the ineligible voters, maybe they get a ballot or maybe somebody pretends to be them, but that in some way somebody's voting those names without being them. But that's not something you have to worry about, is it? I mean, we would obviously know with our tight election security. You would know if a million people were going to illegally vote, or even any big number. Ten thousand. Ten thousand would move a lot of races. But you would know if 10,000 people had voted who were not legal voters, right? Because our elections are so secure. There's no way you wouldn't know that, right? And there's no Kraken that's ever been found. Am I wrong? Nobody ever found a Kraken. So there's no reason to believe that large amounts of illegal voters are voting in the United States. That'd be crazy. Crazy people who believe that. Come on, come on.

Well, here's the next story. There's a claim that there are a thousand ways to commit election fraud. Elizabeth Nickson's writing about this. So there's an engineer and data science scientist. By the way, I don't know the validity of anything that's going to be in the following story. I'm going to report that it's being reported. I can't tell you it's true, but here's a report. See if it would answer all of your remaining questions, because it would. If this is true, and I don't know that it's true, I'm not selling it as true. I'm selling it as something that's reported. If it's true, it answers all of my questions. Now that's the first time that would have ever happened, because I do say if there were massive cheating, how in the world would we not know about it? You know, how could you really get away with that? Well, here's a theory. I'm just going to read it to you, but again I'm not telling you it's true. I'm just saying, well, I got a lot of questions now.

So this engineer and data scientist, Kim Brooks, she was working on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia. So isn't that great? We got all these volunteers who are helping, making sure the voter rolls do not include dead people or people who moved away or people who can't vote for one reason or another. So she cleaned it up, and she'd clear a name. Let's say there was a specific name. She'd clear it either because they're dead or whatever, takes it off, and then she's pretty happy it's off. It's off. But then it would be back within a month. What? She would remove it from the election log, meaning eligible to vote, and it would be gone, but then it would be back in a month. Huh.

Now remember, I'm not claiming any of these reports are true. I'm claiming that there is a report. Huh. How could that happen? How can you take it off and then it would come back? And so it says at that juncture she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names. So reportedly, again I'm not saying this is true, I'm just saying it's reported, reportedly she looked deeper. For new registrants, the culprit was principally Driver Services creating new registrations. And in this case the manufacturer was a person or persons. In other words, there was a person doing it using a program within the government office. Someone was stealing names and duplicating, even tripling that person's vote, and then forging their signature. Sometimes it was someone who just died or a teacher who had no voting record. In the case of a nurse who died in 2022 with three registrations, she was registered to vote in two counties, and all three of her voted in the 2022 election and the 2024 primary. Each signature was slightly different and even spelled different. They even in the signature they spelled their own name different, three different ways, allegedly. And again I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying it's reported.

The operation works under AVR, or automatic voter registration, is being used to register migrants. They will not vote, but their names have been entered into the voter registration database when they apply for a driver's license, and their vote will be voted for them. I imagine that this is repeating something everyone knows. So the allegation is that's why the border is open, to get more of these non-voters illegally on the voter rolls. How many states do you think use this system, this automatic voter registration system, in which one database would be populating the other database and massively illegally, if the claim is true? How many? Well, the claim is that in 2020 there are 20 states who use the system that would allegedly, I'm just saying what is reported, I don't know what's true, allegedly take names from one system that were not eligible to vote, the driver's license databases, and put those names onto the other system. But in the case of people who were registered two or three times, there must have been something beyond just taking new people and putting them on the rolls. Must have been something beyond that.

So how many states use that system, the one that's suspected of being the culprit in these elections? 20. There were 20 states who allegedly used these systems. How many of those did Trump lose? Of 20 states that used that same system, how many did Trump lose? 18. Trump lost 18 of 20 states that use this same system, allegedly.

Now the claim is that there are these registration fraud rings, as identified in the Arabella document, I don't know what that is, in the work of Omega for America. So there must have been somebody who looked into this. And the idea is that each of these states has a dozen or more NGOs which do nothing but fill out ballots for fake registrants. And Peter Bernegger, whoever that is, his team in Wisconsin has video of NGO functionaries doing just that. What, at 1:00 a.m. early morning after election day? What? I don't know that that's confirmed. And Porter reports multiple schemes using the deceased, non-voting, and felons, blah blah blah. They steal an individual's driver's license number, Social Security, blah blah. The only thing that changed is the address and the signature. Generally they use people who don't vote. They change a street number, a county, a signature. Huh.

Well, what do you think now? Let's put this in context. All right, the first context is that when the original 2020 suspicions were coming out and there were lots of different claims, I said that whether or not any of these election rigging claims are true, the one thing you could know for sure is that at least 95% of the claims would be debunked. Was I right? Yeah, probably 95% of the claims were debunked. Some of them are not debunked but not confirmed or not found by a court or not big enough or somebody didn't have standing. So you know there's some gray area stuff, but 95% of the stuff you could check turned out to be not conclusive.

Now, so what would you say about this new claim about this one database that's feeding the other database? Is that in the 95%? Well, you don't know. But the caution is that every claim has a 95% chance of not being true. That's my claim. So this is another claim that you might say has a 95% chance of not being true. But let me tell you what's different about it. This is the first time that all of my questions could be answered, which is how could they do this at a scale and get away with it? If it's done, if there's massive cheating, how can you get away with it? Now I had been thinking it had something to do with the computer code after the vote is given, and maybe there is something like that, but I don't have any proof of that. But this would make way more sense if it's true that there are NGOs who are dedicated to putting together these fake voter lists.

That gets me to my next point. We have a world in which it would take one whistleblower, just one, to change the entire freaking world. Because America would be completely changed by one whistleblower who actually had the goods. You know, say a video or said yes, I personally did this. This is what we did to the database. If you could get just one, everything's changed. The entire power structure of the United States would be altered forever. And of course the United States affects the rest of the world in a big way. It's a world-changing event. One whistleblower. And that one whistleblower would get rich because there are going to be some big rewards.

And if I were a whistleblower, I would say how big is the reward? And they might say something like we'll give you $10,000. And then you say if you really have the goods, nope, 10,000 doesn't even get me interested. All right, we'll give you $50,000. Nope, not interested. A hundred? Nope. We'll give you a million dollars pre-tax or after-tax? Pre-tax? No. We'll give you $2 million. So after taxes, unless Harris gets selected, you'll still have a million left over. Well, now we're talking. For $1 million I will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I worked on a team that rigged the election and that I know where the other NGOs are doing the same thing. If that's true. Again, I don't know that it's true. It's an allegation.

So how would you like to be one of those cheaters knowing that all of your co-workers, all of your people complicit, allegedly, allegedly we don't know that that's true, every one of them could get a million dollars for turning your ass in? Oh, it's getting interesting now.

People have, I've been telling you forever that this movie, this reality we're living in that's way too much like a movie, there is something required that hasn't happened. The movie cannot be completed until the Kraken is found. Every part of this movie requires the Kraken to be found after we're sure that it can't be found. That's what an act three looks like. That's a real act three. So I'm going to double down and say that I don't believe that given the current setup, the design of our election going forward, and part of the design is now the whistleblower rewards. Right, so the whistleblower rewards are now part of the design of the system.

Here's things that you could guarantee without knowing anything. If somebody drew a system on paper and brought it to you and said all right, here's what we're going to do. We're going to give $100 no questions asked to everybody who rings your doorbell. What do you think will happen? And I'd say well once word gets out I would imagine it'd be this huge line of people ringing my doorbell. Correct? Now did you have to test it? Did you have to actually run a test? No, it would be so obvious from the design that people are going to knock on your door forever trying to get their $100. Very easy to predict.

Now let's do it with the election. If you had an election system that was super complicated and it would be really hard to know if anybody was doing anything like what was suggested, and the stakes are gigantic, I mean it's practically life and death, fortune or no fortune, I mean really, really high stakes, and it's possible, so it's possible, and the incentive to do it is through the roof. It's the biggest incentive you could ever have. If you showed me that on paper and said what do you think will happen, there's lots of ways to cheat and the benefit of doing it, the upside is gigantic. Well I would say well on paper there's going to be massive cheating. There can't really be any other way this goes.

Now we were told that there really was no way to cheat without getting caught. If that's true, well then I revise everything I've said. But we know it's not true. If anybody involved in the election wanted to have a fair election they would just say hey let's just do paper ballots and then everybody will stop bitching, right? You do the paper ballots, everybody looks at them, you can recount them if you want to. Everybody's happy. And we know exactly what to do to get to that point. We know that we want to clean the voter rolls. It's really easy to know how to do it legally. Is that what's happening? No, no. Every sign that we're seeing, especially in Georgia, there's a new movement by the Democrats to resist cleaning up the voter rolls. Why in the world would they want to resist cleaning up the voter rolls and removing ineligible voters? Only one reason. There are not two reasons for that. The only reason is that they plan to use those dead voters and ineligible voters to vote. What else? What else could it be? Give me the other reason. No. If you read the reason it'll just look like nonsense words put together. No, there's only one reason.

So on paper the design of the system pretty much guarantees massive fraud. That doesn't mean I have proof of it. It's just that the system design guarantees it. And now there's a tweak to the system design. Now the system design includes this new element that wasn't there before, which is knowing in advance that there will be a whistleblower reward and probably a big one. Because remember the whistleblower doesn't have to accept the offered award. The whistleblower can negotiate. If you had the goods, which by the way if you're a whistleblower you should negotiate. Don't take the first offer because you've got this drawing hand there. So negotiate. So if you add negotiating and whistleblowing to the current system, what does the design tell you will happen? Again I'm not being magic or guessing. I'm saying if you design a system that very clearly will give you one outcome, what are you going to get? Well you're going to get that one outcome. It's designed to give it to you.

All right, our design in 2020 almost guaranteed a rigged election because it was possible and the stakes were high. Now I don't have proof of that. I'm just saying that the design guaranteed that there would be an effort. Now we have a design that pretty much guarantees that at least one whistleblower will try to get rich. Right, it's hard to imagine that all those people who would be willing to do this illegal thing, they're all criminals. Every one of them is a criminal. Do you think you can trust a criminal not to take a million dollars to sell you out? You can't trust a criminal. So if I take this design and just fast forward it, the design should give us a result that we don't trust at the end of the election. It should create a situation where the government is not willing to certify it. That's our design.

Now I'm not saying magic will happen. I'm saying our current design guarantees it. Right, the current design guarantees rigging. It guarantees it by design. And now that we've got the whistleblowing thing with enough money behind it, that's a design that guarantees a whistleblower even if they're making it up. You know somebody's going to take a run at it. So the current design pretty much guarantees we're not going to have a result by design. Again I'm not saying if this happens or if this. No, by design we can't get a result this time because it will be evidence of massive cheating beyond the margin that would determine the outcome. So my prediction for the race is no outcome. Now what happens after that is a big black box in my head. I have no idea. Maybe redo it. I don't know. Do you keep the old president in charge long enough to fix something? Does the House pick a new president? And then nobody's happy. I mean the whole country would fall apart if they just said oh Trump's the president. So I don't know what happens, but my prediction is no election certification. So we'll see.

Kamala Harris got community noted because she said that Biden and I believe that women should make decisions about their own health care and their body, not the government. And the community note said you required health care workers and big companies in the military to get COVID vaccinations or lose their job. That is the opposite of bodily freedom.

So now I'm fantasizing that the debate happens between Harris and Trump. Harris of course is going to bring up this, you bad Republicans, you want to take away the bodily autonomy. And then Trump says well you know everything that I did was to take the decision away from me in the federal government and move it closer to the individuals in the states. And women are the majority voters in those states. So if you can convince each other what to do with your bodily autonomy, I'm sure the rest of the world would go along with it. But women, you need to decide. You need to decide what it is and I'm sure the system will support you. I know I do. Takes the whole abortion thing off the table and then you do the kill shot. But if we're talking about bodily autonomy, your team is the one who had mandatory vaccinations and I would never

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do that. You know I was in charge of making sure you had the option, but I would never make them mandatory because I would not want mandatory constraints on your body. But you might. I mean you might want to do it on your own in your states, but it's out of my control. And I think you're both happy. Everybody's happy that I don't have anything to control your body. Everybody good with that? It'd b…

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