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. In other words, I don't know that her accusations were debunked. Maybe you do. I don't know. So I just don't know.

But here's roughly what Patrick Byrne will tell you. Look on his account and you'll find it today. It's brand new, just happened hours ago. And it's a six-part but small parts, you know, like six six-minute things, something like that, in which he describes a little bit of the history of Venezuela and how that affects our elections.

I know, I know. I hear your thoughts. I hear them. I get it. It's the Kraken, isn't it? It's definitely fake, isn't it? Well, I don't know. I have no way to know. So I'll just tell you roughly what he says. And if this doesn't make you interested enough to listen to the whole thing, then you're dead inside. Because the story he tells is so freaking interesting that recreationally you're going to love it even if it turned out not to pass the fact check. And I don't know. I really don't know.

So for legal purposes, allow me to say the following. Every company, person, or country that I mention in this context is just because of something I heard, not because I think it's true. My opinion on whether it's true is suspended. I don't know. I really don't know. And usually I have a strong inkling, but I don't have an inkling on this one. It's really weird.

So here's the story. Venezuela is not a regular government. And there for years it's been a gay cartel. And that the gay cartel is not something that's separate from the government. It is actually the government. And that the generals in Venezuela are the head of the cartel. And it's the richest, most powerful cartel in the world. The president would again also be head of the cartel.

So but here's the fun part. According to Patrick Byrne, the Venezuelan head of the cartels are basically a P. Diddy model of male rape. Right? So the way Venezuela is being held together is that the people in charge who are generals or presidents and stuff are literally just raping the other men to keep them in line. And that it's so common that it's not even like there are a few bad eggs. It's more like the main operating system of Venezuela is men raping other men to keep them under control. Is that true? Well, I would have said that Diddy thing wasn't possible prior to the Epstein stuff. I would have said that's not something that happens in the real world. But I guess it does happen in the real world. I just don't know if it happens in Venezuela.

Now the gay part is probably more bisexual than gay, meaning that most of them are married, probably have regular marital relations. But apparently there's a lot of male raping. That's the claim. Now that doesn't have a lot to do with the bigger story. And again, this is Patrick Byrne's claims. These are not my claims. I have no idea what is true and what's not.

But the story goes like this. Sometime in the past, when the Venezuelan cartel wanted to make sure that they had good control over Venezuela, it sent three engineers to start a company, a software company for election machines. And although they started it in the United States so it would look like a US company registered in Delaware, there would actually be sort of under the control of some Venezuelan characters. And then that software allegedly in different forms ended up in all voting machines. So even companies that have different names — and I'm not even going to name the names because you know all the names of the companies — that the Venezuelan fake software, meaning software that was designed to rig elections and that was the only purpose for the company, was to design rigged machines. And that that rigged software, although it has been rewritten in other languages, is on all the machines. So that there isn't any voting machine anywhere that doesn't have Venezuelan software on it.

Now, do I think that's true? I don't know. Well, I don't know. It's a lot of a story. It gets better. There's also a claim that the hardware for most or all these machines, which looks like it's coming from Taiwan, is actually from mainland China and they just launder it through Taiwan. So you think it came from Taiwan. So the claim is that our elections are determined by Chinese hardware and Venezuelan cartels. And that every country that uses any kind of voting machine is controlled by Venezuela. In other words, Venezuela gets to decide who is the president in every country that uses voting machines. And that somehow Castro was part of that as well.

Now that's a pretty big claim, isn't it? So I can't really wrap my head around that as all being true. I will say that if you look at the materials, you know, you look at the video that Patrick Byrne did — by the way, I think he has a book. I believe he's got a book out. So maybe this is some of this is related to that. But it all hangs together. So that doesn't make it true, but it would explain so many things.

And one of the things I always think about is that in my world, I see the world through a Dilbert filter that whenever I hear something like, oh, our CIA is super competent and they got control of everything, I always say to myself, do they? Is the CIA the one highly capable organization in the world? And everything I've ever been involved in was a mess. But not the CIA. No, everybody's bad except the CIA. They're just nailing it every year maybe. But the other possibility is that they're terrible. What if they're terrible? They might be. If they're terrible, then it would be entirely possible that some criminal entity is running all of our elections and several of the elections around the world.

But the American version of this is that the CIA is the one overthrowing all the countries. And maybe the CIA is behind the voting machines. Now one possibility is that that's exactly why the story exists, so that you don't suspect that the CIA is behind everything. Maybe so. What we can't determine, and if any of you have any insight into it, it'd be great, is is this the great reveal or is it just another diversion so that you don't expect the real bad guys? What do you think? You're going to have to hear the whole video to have an informed opinion because I'm just giving you the highlights.

But I feel like it would be reasonably impossible to confirm the following facts or to debunk them. Number one, do we know that the hardware is made in China and just labeled as Taiwan? There's probably some source for that. I don't know what the source is. Is it true if you took every voting machine everywhere and looked at the software, even though the language might be different, that it's basically the same line-for-line code and that it came from a Venezuelan source? Those seem like things that you could possibly find out are true or false. And I haven't, so I don't know.

But I'll tell you it's such a mind-blower that when the Epstein thing comes out, you have to change everything you think about everything. And the Russia collusion story comes out and you have to change everything about how you see the world. And the 51 intel people who said the Biden laptop thing was fake and you've got to change everything you're thinking about the world. And then the Diddy thing comes out and you have to change everything you think about music. And then this comes out right in the middle of all that. And now I have to change everything I think about everything if it's true.

But if it were a diversion or a way to discredit people like me, because if I talk about it then I get discredited later. So I've already said enough that *The Atlantic* could write a hit piece about me, say that I'm pushing a story about Venezuelan cartels running the elections. Do you see how this works now? This is not something that CNN or Fox News would do because again they're biased but they don't operate as purely propaganda entities. They know they're transparent. But *The Atlantic* or the *Washington Post* are kind of a different animal. I've already given them enough that they could write a story that would seem like I believe it and I'm pushing it and maybe I'm part of a Russian propaganda or Venezuelan cartel, right? Don't you think you could take what I've already said and then if nobody was going to check what I said originally because people don't, you could just write an article and people would believe it. Oh, he's pushing this thing.

So my interesting situation is this. I'm drawn to risk. Sort of a flaw of mine. When something's dangerous, I tend to go toward it. And it was very dangerous for me to even tell you that Patrick Byrne has a story to tell and the basic idea of what it was. Very dangerous. It could be the end of it. It could be the last time you see me basically. It could be that dangerous. But I tell you for sure that I genuinely don't know if it's true. I genuinely don't even have... I'm not even leaning in one direction. And that's rare. So the fact that I'm not even leaning in one direction is also telling me something, but I'm not entirely sure what it's telling me.

Now I haven't seen anybody debunk him. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I do have some feelers out to see if I can get a better handle on it. If I find out something, I'll let you know. But I don't suspect that if you look at all the claims about our election systems, these included, it's certainly hard to argue that we're going to have a good result.

And here's what Speaker Johnson said. He said he doesn't expect that we'll have a result in the election. So Mike Johnson, the Speaker, said he expects Democrats to refuse to certify election results if Trump wins. Now would that be unusual? Turns out no. That would be normally what they do. So according to Johnson, the *Post Millennial* has the story: "Democrats have now made it a tradition to object to electors in certain states and they have done so every single time a Republican president has won in the last quarter century."

Now I didn't know that the Democrats have called foul on every single time a Republican won. And of course it would work the other way as well, right? If the polls say that Trump's going to win but Harris wins in the last minute and votes come in at the middle of the night. So under what scenario would either side certify this election? So we have an election system that's designed — and everybody knows it — to guarantee that both sides think it was rigged. How do you do that accidentally? That can't possibly be an accident given that we know how to avoid it. Where is this coming from? It's very confusing.

Well, here's a story that I don't have any insight into, so I was kind of sitting it out but I'm observing. MSNBC has been talking to some citizens about the election and they ran a package in which they were talking to some black voters about how they felt about Obama saying that black men may be sexist and that's why they're not supporting Kamala Harris. And I saw one of the black men who was being interviewed saying that he was deeply offended by that. Deeply offended. And I wondered, I wonder how common that is. It's anecdotal, so I don't want to make too much of it. But I don't have a sense of what would be insulting to other people. You usually know what would insult you but not somebody else. Do you think that was deeply offensive? I mean, it was clearly a slight. But do you think people will actually vote differently because they were so mistreated?

I feel like again this is totally anecdotal but it feels like Black America is having some kind of awakening. And you see it in a whole bunch of ways at the same time. And a lot of it had to do with the migrants coming in and watching the people that they thought were their biggest supporters bringing in somebody let's say with even at least in the short term bigger problems and diverting resources to them. And then probably black voters were saying, huh, this wasn't exactly what I was expecting. So I think that's going on. I think people are realizing that the stories about Trump are all lies. I think black Americans figured that out. They figured out the hoaxes. There are a whole bunch of videos where there'll be a black content creator who's doing a video saying, I just found out all this Trump stuff is all based on hoaxes. There's a whole bunch of them now. Ag