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m to be on disability. I mean it's not about money. It's about what's right. It's about what works. It's about common sense. So yes, a longer sentence, all things being equal, for that kind of thing makes sense. But the next part is, are all things equal? Is this just an ordinary, we've got evidence you hurt somebody, it's a police officer or somebody acting in that capacity? No. Here's the extra…

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the American tradition, maybe they have to serve some jail time depending on what they've done under that context. Maybe. But the context really matters. And the pieces in the media have been telling us forever that we could know and that Trump knew and everybody knew Trump knew that the election was fair. Let's get to that.

The other one-third blame for the violence is with Pelosi and Milley and whoever else turned down the right amount of security. In other words, it was an inviting trap, intentional or otherwise. If protesters saw no hope of getting into the Capitol, would they have acted violently to try to make it happen? If the protesters had pulled up and you know a bunch of military people with military weapons, lots of them, like lots of them, which is what Trump ordered, he ordered lots of them, he just didn't get it. Do you think that the protesters would have said, huh, looks like I got to fight my way through five layers of armed and trained killers who are heavily armed? Maybe not. Maybe not.

So if you're in charge of security and you don't put enough security in and you knew you didn't and you were asked to do it and you didn't do it anyway, you're one-third responsible for violence because security is supposed to prevent violence so that the bad guys come up and say oh it wouldn't make any sense to do any violence in this situation. That'd be crazy. And we're not going to get into the building. But if you think that punching a cop might somehow increase the success of your protest, I don't recommend it by the way, don't punch any cops, but if you think it might work, as bad as that is, if it worked you're going to try it. If you think it's not going to work, you don't try it. That's why security matters.

So I'm going to say one-third it's on the protesters who hurt cops. Don't like that. Very bad. One-third on the security and one-third on the design of the election system which is designed so you can't know who won. Nobody can know on any federal election. It's not knowable. You can only know what they told you. That's it. That's all we know. And you can know if you found proof, but you don't know if there's any proof they didn't find. And that's where the idiots try to convince you you can tell if somebody's been hypnotized, let's say brainwashed, versus they've thought it through. If somebody says, Scott, you have to say the election is fair. Well no I don't. No, everybody knows it was fair. That's not somebody who's thinking about anything. Because if they were thinking about it they would know that all of our institutions are corrupt, right? Science has been lying to us on a lot of things. Health care, we went through the pandemic, need I say more? Finance of course has been rigged at the top forever. Government completely corrupt in so many ways. FBI, Department of Justice, lawfare. We don't have any institutions that aren't corrupt. And we completely know it.

Are you telling me that in the context of everything being corrupt, we've got this non-transparent, potentially easily riggable system, and it's the only thing that wasn't rigged? Oh, how lucky. The only thing that matters the most is the only thing that was pure. Maybe. But that would be the biggest surprise in the world if you've lived in the real world. Do you think that the most important system and the one that you could rig if you wanted to, and you let's say you were the CIA, you think that's the one thing that's not rigged? The one thing that's not a real opinion if you think that. That's like just something to laugh at. Oh, you think that's the one thing that even if we can't tell they didn't rig it? The United States is an election-rigging monster. We've done it, what, 80 coups in other countries, which by the way might be good for America. I'm not sure that the coups are a bad idea. But the point is we have all these very specific methods for rigging elections in other countries. Obviously you think none of that got turned inward? What, because it would be wrong to do it? We just watched the same group of people massively organize this censorship campaign by using every trick that they use against other countries. They're trying to overthrow. So we don't have to wonder if the very same cats are doing things that they would do usually ideally only to other countries that we're trying to somehow control. You think they wouldn't use it internally when we just watched them use the other tools internally? Of course they would. I don't have any proof it happened. But if you think that that's somehow unlikely, you couldn't be dumber. I mean you couldn't be dumber than thinking it's unlikely. Did it happen? I don't know. I don't have any proof anyway.

So then I said this is where the NPCs claim everyone including Trump quote knew it was a fair election. Because, and by the way this is a writing trick. If you know when you're writing something there's going to be a specific disagreement, you want to slay the specific disagreement before it even comes out of their mouth. So that's what I'm doing here. So I'm calling them NPCs and saying if you think you knew it was a fair election, no that is stupid. So I saved my F-word for the point I want them to remember. There is no way for any citizen to know who won any federal election unless the winner is outside the inner circle like Trump and he still wins all the swing states. I'm not too worried that Trump's current election was stolen by Trump because the person who has the least access to the gears of government at that time won overwhelmingly. So that's not something that the bad guys would have done. And I don't think it's something that the Republicans could have pulled off on their own. So that looks real. But not because I can tell the elections are well done. Only because if this person won it means that they didn't have the means to stop them because they wanted to.

All right, so a few more things. There's an ex-CIA agent, what's his name, daily mail is reporting about this. You've seen him in reels probably. He's on social media a lot this week. John Kiriakou. So he worked for the CIA for 14 years as an officer. And he said that the agency actively seeks to hire people who have sociopathic tendencies but avoids them if they have a full-blown disorder. So apparently the ideal CIA agent or officer is somebody who's a little bit sociopath. And that they're the ones who rise to the highest levels.

Now that makes complete sense. You know when you hear about Pompeo trying to organize a hit on Assange, how many of you could organize somebody's murder? Like even if you know I could organize Bin Laden's murder, okay that's easy. I could organize the murder of a cartel hitman. I mean I can do that easily. I mean it wouldn't bother me, my conscience. But it seems like the CIA would be in the business of sometimes getting rid of somebody who was a law-abiding person but they're just in the way. They're stopping some larger national ambition. Now I don't think it's legal to kill somebody like that. But I also think there's some flexibility if you know what I mean. So I do think you probably have to be a bit of a sociopath and that that would allow you to rise to the top. But it might be the only thing that allows you to do the job.

Imagine if you were the head of the CIA and you were super woke and somebody comes to you, you know I think we're going to have to kill this leader of this African country. And you'd be like whoa whoa whoa, you're going to kill a black guy? Well no it's not about being a black guy. He's the leader of this African country, has really big problems. You know we think we want to take him out. You're going to kill a black guy? No I'm not going to allow that. Have you killed an equal number of white guys? Well we're not really keeping track that way. We're just trying to remove people who are threat to our national interest. Okay but you can't kill the black guy first, right? So you need a sociopath who just says what's the reason we need to kill him? All right, approved.

Someone according to Futurism publication, someone invented a fake therapist and got quoted in tons of articles including Newsweek. So I guess there's some chat place where therapists and people talk, and one of them was just a fake one by somebody in some kind of sex product business. They invented a fake one and the fake one did so well that it was widely quoted in national media. Now I don't think the person who invented the fake one necessarily had any therapist skills. It was just somebody else pretending to be a therapist. But just think about the fact that you can simply pretend to be a professional and the news will say well sounds good to us. Sounds good.

Meanwhile according to New Atlas publication, an affordable housing project was 3D printed in just 12 days. So if you like walls that are

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hard to change after they're done, this 3D printing might be just the thing. They have to finish it with humans using for the electrical and the plumbing and stuff, and that takes the longest time. But it was just a three-unit, three-story multistory thing in eastern Ireland. Now I don't think this technology is quite there, but you could see it's going to be. I would rather the 3D printer made Le…

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