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ust play the tape forward for a couple years and whoever was in that position would be stealing a trillion dollars a year because they can. You could even put an honest person in that position and after a few years they'd be like seriously every time somebody asks for a check I just authorize it and nobody checks? Nobody checks where I authorize the payment? Nobody ever sees if it's legal or appro…

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we won't know who you donated to because maybe there's some kind of company process to make it easy so they don't just go to a website. They do something internally and then it gets summed up and sent to the politicians maybe. So in the real world there's no such thing as the employees independently decided to give to a candidate. That's not really a thing. There are lots of individuals who do on their own decide to give the candidates but if you see a bunch of them in one industry that means the executives had their finger on the scale and were not so subtly nudging the employees in the direction they wanted them to go. And again they can say any one of these five politicians would be a good place to give a donation. They don't have to just pick Bernie. You know Bernie will get his share and they would bribe the other people at the same time.

All right. There's more coming out about Kamala Harris in her campaign and not getting on Joe Rogan which was considered an error. But boy when you hear the back and forth there's more details coming out. I think somebody has a book on it. But when you hear the details of the negotiations basically Joe Rogan said I can schedule you in in lots of different times and you just have to do what everybody else does. Come to my studio like Trump, like everybody else, and talk for three hours. And I think Rogan wanted them to sign some kind of deal. But the overall take on it is oh my God Kamala Harris's staff was so incompetent they could not figure out how to essentially take Joe Rogan's money because appearing on Joe Rogan is like money. You know it's like one of the best things you could do if you think you'll do a good job. So he's offering her just as he offered Trump this gigantic platform. I mean the best platform you could ever be on in terms of reach and independence etc. And they couldn't figure it out.

And then apparently so here's part of why they couldn't figure it out. They thought that if they send Kamala to Texas for just that that the money people would complain because Texas is not in play and that she should be spending all of her time in the states where she could win the state but she couldn't win Texas so why go there? Why go there is because Joe Rogan's there. That's why. So instead of just saying oh the best thing we could do is go on the Joe Rogan show they decided to play it another way and they started negotiating and they're like all right here's what we'll do. We'll have a fake rally in Houston. This is real. We'll do a fake rally. It's really a rally but they would do it just for the purpose of giving her a reason I think it was on maybe reproductive rights or something so that would give her a reason to come to the state and then since she was already there that would give her a reason to do the Joe Rogan show. But I think they picked like the only day he wasn't available to do it so they couldn't schedule it. They couldn't say yes. They had to come up with a whole fake cover stor

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y to get her in the state. Every part of that is screaming incompetence. Let me tell you how Trump would have handled that. Joe Rogan invited me on the show. Okay schedule it. That was it. That's all she needed to do. And did he ever say oh I can't go on these days because people will judge me from what state? No it had nothing to do with the fact that he was likely to win the state because argua…

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