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Back to episode — Episode 2653 CWSA 11/08/24

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Ford plant and some other plant and tried to keep American jobs here and it was just sort of brilliant because it gave you a first look at what a Trump presidency would look like. And you're like oh wow he's already on the job. He's definitely putting in the work. For me I like that. So here he is again telling you what he has in store and he's very specific. That's ten things. Here they are. Imm…

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usk the guy who took 80% of the employees out of Twitter and increased the number of features. He's willing to work for free. He has all the credibility of the public and he can do this thing which desperately needs to be done. Yes yes yes.

You know the Democrats are talking to Beyonce. They can't even get Beyonce the same way. And Trump's got people like Naval and Elon Musk and a whole bunch of others just volunteering to do the most important work that needs to be done. RFK Jr. he just comes and says you know the food supply is poison. Our Big Pharma is all messed up. If you let me I can fix all that. What does Trump say? Oh no I could never work with the Democrat. No nope. Oh no there was that one time you said that thing that I disagreed with. No he just said wait what is it you want to do? You want to fix our food supply and fix how pharma gets decided so that science is more prominent than that? That's a good idea. Go do that.

So I'm going to predict that this will make its way to the Trump administration. That they will be looking for good ideas to do right away and that I would be surprised if this doesn't happen. So I want you to watch for it because I want you to see your government at work. So Mike Benz has a very good reputation you know among at least the right as being a really solid smart source. So if he says this is a good idea I feel like I'm pretty certain it is and I think that the Trump administration would have the same impression like oh wow really we could get all that done with one executive order? Let's run that up the flagpole. See if it works.

So watch this one. Just watch if this good idea gets translated into policy.

Well as you might imagine and Wired is reporting that the left is complaining that maybe the election was rigged because how in the world could all those votes be missing? You know they're looking for their own missing votes because Kamala didn't get so far. They haven't finished counting the votes but if in the uncounted semi-counted votes is lower. Now here's the funny part. My understanding is that there is a Russian-inspired hoax that says there are 20 million or maybe 14 or 15 million votes that are sort of missing. Meaning that they were people that allegedly voted in 2020 for Biden that didn't show up for Harris. Where would they be? You know that it would be very uncommon to go down 15 million votes from the election before especially if it's the vice president from the same administration. Like it should have been pretty close.

Now the reason that's a hoax and this is my understanding is that when all the votes are counted it's going to be about what it was the last time. Now why that seems so off is that some of the blue states where the outcome of the presidential election is obvious like you don't have to finish counting in California to call the state for Harris right? You don't have to finish counting in New York. And since there's such big populations you know if you're only 75% done counting you've got several million sitting there that are just waiting to be counted. But there's no problem with it. They're just waiting to be counted. Now if they were the states that were close that would be a whole different suspicion. But if it's the states that you already know where they're going and nobody's questioning it's a blue state and it's going blue and they haven't finished counting, you know we might end up with the same number.

But what's fun about this is that apparently it's the first hoax that worked on both sides because the Republicans and even in the comments people are putting it in the comments because they think it's real. So the Republicans are saying aha we have now proven that 2020 must have been fake because all those votes are missing. They're not missing. Okay so just to be clear there aren't any votes missing that we know of. They just haven't all been counted. But at the same time according to Wired the people on the left are saying this election must be rigged because there are 15 million votes missing. So somehow if Russia really did this — and again I don't believe any of the Russian stories. Some of them are going to be true but just automatically I don't believe anything about Russia. Oh Russia did it. Russia did it. Russia. All right. But this would be one of the best pranks anybody did if you

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could get both sides to think that it means the election was rigged for the other. Pretty clever Putin if you're behind that. Well as others have mentioned when Joe Biden addressed the nation after Trump's win we've never seen Joe Biden look happier. You know I saw the comments about it before I saw him and I thought oh you're just being political so you're sort of having fun with it and you're j…

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