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to trust it. But oh my God, it's like we found the problem. And I often say you can't really have a conversation about anything important with anybody who thinks the news is real. I mean, if you believe the *Washington Post* is like real news on politics, you would be so lost. So lost. Well, here's your propaganda update. Remember I tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anythin…

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other side. But I think when it comes to the political stuff, you could call them pure propaganda. They don't seem like they're trying too hard to show both sides anyway.

The latest is that Harris will not be on Joe Rogan, but Trump will be, I think on Friday. And she will not be on the All-In pod, which Trump has already done. And those are not the wrong decisions. If I were in charge of the Harris campaign, I would tell her not to do those because she has the option of only doing friendlies. If you have the option of only doing friendlies and not having anything that's unexpected, well, why would you?

Harris was at this, I guess they called it like a town hall with Maria Shriver. And somebody in the audience asked if they can ask questions. And Shriver told her no, the questions are predetermined. So what's the audience for? So they've got an audience of question-askers, but the questions are already written. So the audience was there as props to pretend that the questions have some organic history to them. But Maria was at least totally honest in public and said, nope, you do not get to ask questions. These are predetermined.

So you've got one person running who is in my opinion the most capable persuader, maybe one of the most capable presidents we've ever had. When people complain about Trump, it's weirdly that he'll be too capable. Now they add to the too capable that he has bad intentions, which are not evident as far as I could tell. But if you add together very capable with, in their view, the propaganda view that he has bad intentions, that could be scary. But it's funny that they've completely stopped with the he's incapable stuff. It's just obvious that he has capabilities and he has strong capabilities. He was president. He showed it. We see what Biden's done. Doesn't look so good compared to what Trump did. So it's now really clear that Trump was a highly capable operative. Maybe you don't like his policies. Like if you didn't like what happened with abortion, for example. But nobody says he didn't get it done. Nobody says he didn't put on the court people who would get done things his party wanted. So if you just look at stuff he did, even if you don't like it, you still have to say he got it done.

Now you could argue, well, he said he'd build the wall but he didn't get it done. Well, that was entirely because Democrats pulled out all stops to stop him from doing the thing that even they want to do now. So I mean, is that really... if they pull out all the stops to prevent you from doing something that everybody wants, it's not exactly his problem. I mean, that's something else going on.

But Harris, on the other hand, is the least capable candidate for president I think we've ever seen in American history. I would love to know if historians could even come up with a second one. Because we've got somebody who can't even go to an interview unless it's a friendly that they know the questions. That's the lowest level of capability. That's the level that you could pick anybody at random and they could succeed. All right, we're going to pick you at random. Can you read from this teleprompter? Yes, yes I can. Okay, good. You can do a rally. Can you memorize an answer to a question if we give you a week to memorize it? Yeah, yeah, I could do that. I could do that. Well, now you can be president of the United States. It's literally all she can do. She can just take prepared, memorized questions and she can do reading off a teleprompter and she can do angry yelling like Hillary Clinton did. And she can tell a bunch of lies about the other side. She's never been... this is the most incapable candidate I've ever seen. Now there may have been worse ones for Congress. I'm sure there have been. But we've never seen anybody this bad in terms of just minimum capability.

Usually when I'm looking at president candidates, I usually think I'm picking something like their policy preferences. Because usually I think, well, you know, Bush versus Gore, very highly qualified, capable people. It really was about the policies, right? If you looked at Clinton versus Dole, very qualified people, highly qualified. So it's about the policies. But this Kamala Harris thing is not about the policy at all. It's about I don't even know if we could survive having this level of leadership or lack of it. I mean, that is bad stuff.

All right, let me tell you the most dangerous story of the day. You ready? This is under the category of recreational belief. I'm going to tell you a tale, but I'm not going to tell you I believe it. I don't disbelieve it. I don't disbelieve it, but I definitely don't believe it. And I'd be looking for your help to tell me if there's some reason I shouldn't believe it or some reason I should.

All right, so this is based on a post by Patrick Byrne. You know him. He was the CEO of Overstock.com. But his resume is very impressive. I've taken a look at it and you can tell that he's a really smart guy and he's been really connected in a lot of things, you know, for real. So his ability to see behind the curtain would be better than most.

But here's what we have to decide. Is what I'm going to tell you another Kraken or is it the truth? Because the Kraken is when you think, oh no, now I know eve

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rything, and then you go out and you talk about it and then you become Sidney Powell and then you lose everything and you get sued. And you know, now in the end, Sidney Powell I believe was shown to be faultless. Am I correct? Now she was going to lose her license or something, but I don't think any of the claims she made about the election ever became a legal problem that was confirmed by a court…

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