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the people who supported me privately? Van Jones. He actually called me and said what the hell is this all about? And then I told him and he listened. Wished I had not worded it that way. Was not supportive of my message whatsoever, just to be clear. He was not supportive of what I said, but he was supportive of me personally and said in direct language, I don't think you're racist, but didn't lov…

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is bringing to this fight, I'm getting tired of complimenting them. You know from the pager thing to pretty much everything. Yeah at least since the poor defense of the Gaza situation, that was suboptimal. But the way they've pressed the war is really impressive. And so of course they had to attack Iran because Iran did the massive 200 missile strike. You can't let that go. But they managed to, as far as I know, kill zero people. Is that right? I think the death toll was zero of a fairly massive, completely controlling the airspace over Iran, didn't lose a single asset, and destroyed practically all of Iran's air defenses.

So the first thing Israel did was show Iran, and this is the important part, that they could easily destroy Iran's entire air defense. If you destroy their entire air defense, can Iran win a war? Well it'd be kind of hard. Iran has also demonstrated that even a massive missile attack they can basically shoot down enough that they were largely unscathed. So now Iran has the following knowledge that it did not have before. Number one, if your proxies go after us we will not just shoot back. We will destroy the entire country that they're in. That would be Gaza. And if you think Hezbollah is going to be safe, not so much. We're going to blow up every one of their leaders. We're going to keep trimming their leaders for as long as it takes and we're going to blow up every military asset that they have in their country no matter how long it takes. So that's new.

So then they prove that Iran's missiles aren't going to work and then they prove that Iran has no defense because they don't have any air defense. Israel took it out in one day. I think that was the big story. The big story is you see we're up here, right? We're now above your entire country. There's nothing you can do to shoot us down. Do you want to keep this up? Pretty good. But the thing that's amazing about this is the level of civility that got into war. Right? War is normally more like Gaza. It's messy and civilians are dying. But somehow two countries made a deal to do a fake war and then they fought it and it was conclusive because it's telling Iran, okay I guess I'm not going to make this a bigger war.

And some think that maybe Israel reduced their ability to make more rockets for another year or so. But here's what it almost feels like, and I always use this. Yeah it feels like an old Star Trek episode. But here's what they could have done. Both sides could have created a fake army base and tell the other side it's fake. Say hey Iran, we're going to build this army base. It's going to be completely fake. The F-35s going to put on it our cardboard. But we are going to put our best defense. So the missile defense is going to be our best stuff. But the things on the ground are just cardboard and plastic and you know just looks like a base. We'd like you to build one too. Why would we build a fake base? Trust us. Just build a fake base just like ours. But do put your best defense. So make sure that you have real rocket defenses. But the base itself should be fake. Why do you want it to be fake? Well we don't want to hurt anybody. We simply need to every now and then compare our technologies. So here's what's going to happen. You attack our fake base and we'll try to shoot down as many of your drones and missiles as we can. Then we'll see how you did. Okay all right. Two got through. Not much damage. What did you learn? Well we learned that if this had been a real base that we also would not have damaged anything. Exactly. Exactly.

Now in a couple days when we're ready we'll let you know when. But we're going to attack your fake base and make sure you got lots of cardboard planes there because we really want to make this a good test. All right we have many cardboard planes. Yeah but use real defense. All right your defense against our military and our planes that should be real. Yes it'll be totally real. How'd you do? Oh we lost 100 percent of our anti-aircraft defense. Okay Iran what have you learned? Okay well we learned that when we attack you we don't really blow up anything. You just blow our bombs out of the sky. And then what else did you learn Iran? Okay we learned that anytime you want to you can knock out all of our air defenses and we're helpless and then you can pick us all off. Exactly. So what should we do about this? Well same as we were doing before. No no maybe we should fund Hezbollah less. That's it. That's it. Fund Hezbollah less. Yes do that. Because if we have to blow up another one of your fake bases we'll do it. We'll do it. Oh yeah? Well if you blow up another one of our fake bases we're going to send missiles at your fake bases that you'll shoot out of the sky before they even reach the ground. So that's the kind of war I want. I want a war where nobody gets hurt. There wasn't really any chance anybody would. It's all very civilized. And when you're done you've learned something really important. You've learned if you mess with Israel they're going to mow your lawn and you're the lawn. And if you take it to the next level you're really, really going to be sorry. Message learned.

And that ladies and gentlemen is all I had to say today because we're coming into the final turn. Let's see, on Tuesday it'll be one week from election day. And how do you feel about the polls? So as you expected there will be enough polls that say it's a tie that cheating is completely on the table. We do know that there are so many reports of irregularities. I don't know how many are true and how many are not. That there's no way that the public can trust the outcome of the election. And we know that our politicians on the losing side will tell us that the election was rigged. Doesn't matter which side loses.

Now I did see Bill Maher and I've seen some other people argue that January 6 is still the big problem. And you know Trump tried to overturn the country or take over the country. Here's my best short argument for that. Number one, what day was the peaceful transfer of power scheduled to take place? January 20th, right? Is it 20th or 21st? The actual transfer day. Give me a fact check. It's like January 20th or 21st. I forget. But that's the day of the peaceful transfer. Was there a peaceful transfer? Yes, yes there was on the day that it was planned.

What the Democrats keep doing is conflating January 20th with January 6. January 6 is when our system allows you to still argue about who won. Do you know why they allow you to argue about who won? Because we have courts and we have free speech. If you have free speech and you have courts, all of that time between election day and January 20, it's fair game. You can protest. You can complain. You can demand audits. You can take things to court. You can fight as hard as you want to fight, you know in the political sense not the physical sense. And there's nothing wrong with any of that. Now did some people take it to violence? Yes. Do both sides wish that that didn't happen? Yes. Were they representative of the larger amount of the crowd? No, not even close. Less than 1 percent of the people there did anything violent. And there's no evidence that the mass part of the crowd had any plans to do anything violent. They just didn't like the election outcome.

So the first thing you got to know is that everything Trump did, if he believed the election was rigged, was very logical. And that's where the Democrats start. They start with the assumption that Trump knew the election was lost on his part. That's not just wrong, it's stupid. And we've been allowing them to do that stupid thing for four years and I've not seen one person say, oh hold on, you're starting stupid. So we don't need to talk about the rest. If your base assumption is that somehow the country could know if the election was rigged or not, and that somehow you believe that Trump is not like half of the country that believes it was rigged. In what way would you imagine that he doesn't know or doesn't believe it was rigged when I believe it was rigged? Half of the country believes it was rigged. I believe all of our elections have been rigged at least in my lifetime. And I believe that the way our system is designed, it's for the purpose of rigging. Because if you want to do it for the purpose of keeping it honest, it would look completely different. And everybody knows that.

So every time I see somebody get in a conversation about January 6, they let the bad guys make them think past the sale. The sale is what did the protesters and Trump believe about the election. If they genuinely believed it was rigged and it was obvious it was rigged, everything they did was appropriate. That's it. And then you say but violence. And I say I don't care. Because if it was rigged and 99 percent of the people were nonviolent but 1 percent were, that's just the way the world works. I'm not in favor of violence. I'm just saying that if you rig an election right in front of the public, expect some violence. Expect some violence if you rig it right in front of the public.

Now I'm not saying it was rigged because I don't have proof of that. I'm saying that it was designed for the purpose of rigging and it has every hallmark of being rigged. And every election I've been involved with probably was rigged. And if the elections are the only things that can't be rigged and aren't rigged in the United States, and every other institution and major organization from health care to finance to everything else is so obviously rigged, if you believe this is the one thing that's not, when it is the most riggable thing that we've ever had in this country, you're not a smart player. You're just not putting much brain power into the conversation.

So those are the key points. Don't let anybody assume that anybody knew the election was good because that was just not the case. I've never talked to anybody that was involved with a protest who thought that Trump actually lost. Have you? Have you ever spoken to one person, even one, just one, because there were like 20,000 people there. It was a big number. Just even one person who said I protested but you know honestly I thought Trump lost fair and square. Even one. If you can't find one person in that entire crowd who believed Trump lost, why do you think Trump believed it? Of course he thinks he won. Of course he does. And imagine what he's seen that you haven't seen. Can you imagine how much stuff you see when you're president? When you find out like what the CIA has really been doing. So suppose you knew that your country had overthrown 80 other countries. I think we did like 80 coup attempts. I don't know how many of the 80 succeeded but let's say 60. And of the 80 succeeded. If you knew for sure that we could overthrow countries and get away with it and not get caught, how would you think it wouldn't happen in our country? In what world would they not apply the same skills to control this country?

And you listen to the Democrats like Kamala and they'll say it out loud. They'll say out loud that you know we can't allow the free speech. If you can't allow the free speech you also can't allow free elections. You know that's the same thing, right? If you say that as Harris does that Elon Musk is a bad person because he lets people say whatever they want on social media. If you can't have free speech you can't have free elections. Like you couldn't possibly be in favor of free elections if the person running isn't allowed to talk. The people running should be allowed to talk. And obviously she would have censored them if she said things that her side said were not true. So Kamala Harris wants, you know like on paper she'd say yes anybody can run for office but she would want one of those people to be uncensored and the other to be censored because it disagreed with their party. It sounds like I'm making that up but she says that out loud. Yeah. So what would be the point of running for office if the things you said could be censored by the other s

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ide? She's pretty much telling you she doesn't want elections or at least not real ones. But maybe that's not so different than how it's been all along. All right I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately. And if you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining. I will remind you that on Monday, that would be tomorrow, I'll be appearing on The Young Turks talking to Cenk on Monday.…

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