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nd that out in the 50s?" Whatever it is, I'm just making that up. And it cogitates for a moment and then I push the speaking button and then it gives me a little customized news report. And it's great. It's just great. And everything I ask it shows me the sources. It doesn't seem to show me any sponsored stuff, but maybe it does. It just doesn't have anything labeled. So I'll be real interested t…

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ladies and gentlemen, I give you the best marketing campaign for any movie in the history of movies. Do you believe that she was having continuous orgasms with people in the room not having real sex and moving the camera angles and "move your elbow" and "you're on my hair" and "can you turn a little bit in this direction"? I do not. I do not. No, I do not believe that she had any orgasms while she was filming it. I do believe that as soon as I read she had so many orgasms filming it, I said to myself, well, make a mental note. I might want to watch it. I might want to watch that. So oh my God, that's good marketing.

So I'm going to give Nicole Kidman my highest grade for persuasion. I don't care if it's true, by the way. It's a movie, right? She's creating a piece of fiction. If she used a piece of fiction to market her piece of fiction, I'm okay with that. I'm totally okay with that. It's fiction. It's fun. It's entertainment. If part of the entertainment is some BS in the marketing, that's fine. It's just part of the show. Go ahead.

Meanwhile, Boeing expects to make a big third-quarter loss, and they've also got a big strike coming, and I think they had a satellite blow up and they don't know why. And so Boeing's got a lot of problems. I did hear somebody speculate that Boeing's problems may not be totally organic, meaning that if you were China and you were trying to compete with the United States and you were trying to compete especially in the really important areas such as not just manufacturing but manufacturing of high-tech stuff like airplanes, and China has some new competitor to the Boeing products, that you would try to get your competitor to embrace DEI.

Now, I don't have any evidence that China is behind the DEI practices of Boeing because if they were, they'd have to be behind the DEI of everything in America. And then I say, but are they? The thing about DEI is that it's no more believable as an organic thing than Black Lives Matter or Antifa were. And those were both fake as far as I know. I mean, it's no more believable than the Patriot Front. So I don't know. I do suspect that there's at least the possibility. So again, this is recreational speculation. This is not based on any knowledge that someday we might find out that one of our regional adversaries — and I'll say just economic adversary — may have planted the DEI flag in America to see what damage it could do. Because they knew they wouldn't have the same problem in their country, so it wouldn't spread to them. It would be the ideal virus.

Yeah, when I call it a virus, now you get it, don't you? Because when the actual virus came out of China, it was really, really bad for people. But DEI is basically a mental virus. You know, a meme virus. And it's one that China is immune to. They're immune to it. So they could unleash that virus on the rest of the world and they would dominate all manufacturing forever and essentially dominate the world without conquering anybody militarily. So they could conquer most of the Western world with a DEI virus.

Does that mean that they were behind it? No, it doesn't. It does mean that if you came to me and said, "Scott, you're the head of China and I've got this plan to dominate all manufacturing of high-tech and everything else so that we'll effectively run the world because nobody can operate without our products. Here's what we'll do. We'll fund anything that has to do with DEI." And of course the people taking the money will be happy to take the money and spread it. And that will make people feel really guilty if they're not accepting this thing that's so obviously good for everybody. And it'll be like a virus and it will destroy manufacturing in the United States without benefiting anybody. So even the DEI people thought, hey, it's going to lift everybody up to equity. It would in fact crash the industry so everybody's poor but about the same. We'd all be poor and starving and cannibals.

So I don't have any reason to believe that China was behind DEI. But again, on paper, if somebody had brought that idea to me and I were in charge of China, I definitely would have implemented that idea and said, you know what, I think this little idea virus will destroy the United States at least as a manufacturing superpower. Well, so you never know.

There's a video that's coming out of Seattle. PJ Media has it. And it apparently shows the ballot machine not working. So this is Oregon. And here's what I want to say about that. I wouldn't trust any of the anecdotal election reports. So there are other stories of machines that are reversing votes. I don't quite believe those because they're a little bit on the nose. They don't seem to ever get any major media backing. And I wouldn't be surprised if it happened once and that maybe there's some process where it

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's immediately corrected or something. So I can't say there isn't a problem. I'm just saying that it would be dicey to believe any of the individual reports. Most of them will be fake, but we don't know which ones. I did see a report today, and I saw the documents. I can't be specific about it, but apparently NBC is hopefully sending out guides to people to tell them how to vote in their state. A…

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