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same stuff you're looking at? How do you explain that? Do Democrats just imagine that these people that most people would say are brilliant and successful and well informed, do they tell themselves that these people are actually dumb? Are there Democrats who say it's a good thing I'm smarter than Elon Musk? Are they saying that? Are there some people who are doing their own investing and they're…

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nly going to do friendlies between now and election day. But it is the question that ends the race. I'd love to see Scott Jennings ask the question on the CNN panel. I'd love to see somebody else force the question so that the voters have to struggle with it themselves. I want the Democrats to struggle with how is she going to answer that question. Because either she's just starting the biggest problem in the world by saying our president is going to be Hitler. Well I don't have to finish that anyway.

So CNN fact checker, I told you this, that Tim Walz got fact checked hard for saying that Trump lost the most manufacturing jobs which wasn't even close to true. Daniel Dale slapped him down hard. So again I'm going to compliment CNN because Dana Bash at least she got halfway to being realistic about her opinion of how Harris did. She failed and I think that she essentially admitted that. And then their fact check slaps down Walz as hard as you can slap somebody. So you know not everything CNN does is going to meet my difficult criteria for success but I appreciate what they've done on this.

Let's see what else. Tucker Carlson was giving a speech at Turning Point Action and he says Americans have reached their boiling point with all of this. And he is worried of course that Trump will win on votes but then the election will be rigged or stolen. And he said quote, "When they tell you they've won you can look them straight in the face and say I'm sorry dad's home and he's pissed." Dad's home. Now that would be Trump.

However I would like to suggest the following. I don't believe the Republicans have anything whatsoever to stop the Democrats from rigging the race, telling the media that it was fair and then arresting people who complain. There's no counterforce because nobody's organizing Republican street demonstrations and if they did they would just get locked up and be in jail. There's nobody you could assassinate even if you wanted to which is a bad idea it wouldn't change any outcomes right. There's nobody you could kill. What are you going to do shoot your neighbor? That's not going to work. What are you going to do march? Get a sign? That's not going to work. Complain on social media? That's not going to work. What are you going to do?

The thing I worry about, I saw Mike Cernovich say something along the same lines. What Harris has dropped in the last two weeks especially yesterday where she's going full Hitler you know full Hitler messaging on Trump it looks like she's trying to get him murdered because she doesn't know how she could win fair and square. And then Jamie Raskin is waiting in the wings to not certify Trump if he wins and then of course the courts are waiting in the wings to put him in jail if he wins. So their plan is clearly that they don't have the policies or the person to win so they're looking to ramp up the odds of assassination, odds of jailing people etc.

Can anybody explain to me anything, anything that Republicans could do if the election is obviously stolen but the media insists that it wasn't and the legal system just does what they're told and they lock up people who appear to be breaking the law? What are you going to do about it? What's the military going to do? Nothing. So they just, it seems like they're trying to neuter the military with this whole fascist General Kelly thing because if you hear that a general said that this guy's a bad guy then if something happens to the bad guy that a general said is bad well that tells the military to stand down right. So it looks to me that they're setting up a condition for rigging the race. If Trump survives it looks like they're creating a situation to rig the election. I believe it's going to be right in front of us and I believe that it will be obvious and I believe that the news will say it's fine and that there's no recourse. And if you could think of a recourse that's like a real world thing you could actually do let me know. I don't know any. I mean I can't even think of one in sort of a hypothetical speculative sense. We're not going to take to the streets. People are not going to take their guns out of the closet. They're not going to shoot their neighbor. What are you going to do? There's nothing.

You know you hear all the time that the CIA has run all these coups and rigged elections in other countries. Do you know why it's happened so many times? I guess there are 80 examples of it or something. Do you know why it's happened so many times? Because it works. You can overthrow a country. All you need is the media on your side. That's it. If the media says it was fair then they can apply as much muscle as they want behind the scenes and the media will say yeah it's all working out everything's fine relax go back to work. I'm not aware of anything you could do if they steal the election no matter how obvious it is. You could take it to courts and the courts will say well we don't have time you don't have standing even if this is true the specific case is not enough. What are you going to do? The courts can't sort it out. There's no street muscle that's going to sort it out. If you can come up with anything anything that's nonviolent and could right a wrong like that should happen let me know. I can't think of anything. This country is so neutered that we just like the 80 other countries that got taken over allegedly they don't complain right. Even Ukraine was taken over what twice and it just went on like well I guess that's who's in charge now anyway.

According to Rasmussen half of the country thinks there will be violence after the election no matter who gets elected. But don't worry 23% say violence is very likely to follow. Okay. So the point is that half of the country and it's both Democrats and Republicans think that if the wrong person wins or no matter who wins really there's going to be violence.

Oh look who it is the head of the ADL. What's he being blamed for? Ah so somebody is saying that the ADL, The Washington Post is saying that ADL data on right-wing extremist violence is a fraud. Really? It says The Washington Post but I don't believe that. I don't believe The Washington Post is throwing the ADL under the bus are they? I'll have to look into that. The ADL as you know is just a corrupt organization in my opinion anyway. So people are certainly primed to think violence is happening but since there's no violence that anybody could think of that anybody could do I don't know. I suppose if, well let me ask you this. I'm seeing some things going by in the comments that look important but I'm not sure yet. Yeah it was dated 2022. Okay it was an old article. Got it.

So Harry Enten at CNN says Trump is up one in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Is that the blue wall? And Biden was up five in the last election so that's bad for Democrats. Independents were plus 11 for Biden at this time but now they're only plus two for Harris. Basically every poll that's moving is moving toward Trump even if slightly. So all movement is toward Trump everywhere. So Democrats are obviously prepping Plan B: assassination, Raskin plan of not certifying or jailing Trump. Even the LA Times didn't endorse Harris. So the editorials editor resigned because the LA Times refused to endorse Harris and I guess she thought they should. And then it was on social media and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill he tried to be helpful and so he posted that he was going to cancel his subscription to t

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he LA Times. And then the editorial editor who resigned over it had to remind him no we still want the employees to have jobs so you're not really helping me Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill is not helping. All right my favorite comment on the internet by the way. The LA Times used to run Dilbert and the LA Times censored Dilbert when it was rated totally G. Dilbert got censored in the LA Times more than…

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