uest and I guess they didn't get what they wanted, so they must be suing for it now. They want any records about statements made by Director Gabbard. This is about also the voting machines. Made by Gabbard during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in which she stated, quote, "We have evidence of how these electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast." Now that's different from saying that they've discovered rigging. She's not saying that. She's saying they discovered a mechanism by which rigging would be somewhat trivial.

Now do you think there's any chance that if voting machines are riggable by let's say a standard hacker, is there any chance that they didn't try? No. No. Is there any chance that they didn't succeed? Well we don't know, but it looks like there might have been more than one way they could have. So if you have enough time and you have enough at stake and you have enough hackers, what are the odds that it would be rigged? The answer is 100%. The only thing you can't know is when. Has it happened yet? Well that I don't know. If things had kept going the way they were, would it happen for sure within the next 10 years? I don't know but probably so. The situation is such that I often describe this as fraud is guaranteed if you've got lots of people involved, very high stakes, there's lots of complication that's where you hide things and complexity, the code is complicated, the elections are complicated and then you wait a long time. Under those circumstances it's always rigged. Always 100% of the time. The only thing you don't know is how long it takes. So we don't know if it happened yet or it was guaranteed that it would happen. I've never heard anybody except me make that argument. By the way it's the best argument. You can borrow it.

So yes, I think the sale of Dominion is probably going to open up a very big chest of surprises. So also Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and OAN were all part of these defamation lawsuits. So I guess those all got dropped as part of the sale. Well good.

Well Princeton has announced that it will begin requiring standardized test scores for admission for 2027 and beyond. So now Columbia is the only Ivy League that doesn't require looking at your test scores before they accept you for the college. Do you know why Princeton is going back to requiring test scores? Because when they didn't, they got really bad students who didn't do so well. So it turns out that measuring stuff works. How many times have I told you that if you're not measuring, you're not managing. You can't manage anything if you don't know if the changes you make are making things better or worse. You've got to be measuring. So at least they measured and they found out it didn't work. But the fact that they ever stopped measuring, dumb.

I posed this on X. I borrowed an old saying and reworked it. I said, "The best trick the devil ever played was convincing the world Democrats were the pro-science side." Do you know how much that cost society? That somehow we all got convinced? Even if you're Republican, you might have been convinced that the Democrats were the science side and they couldn't tell if men were women. They thought IQ was not predictive. They thought climate models are real. They thought that fighting crime by allowing more of it to go unpunished would work. And they thought that overpopulation was a problem instead of underpopulation. And that's just a sample. We thought that the Democrats had the right science. Just think how expensive that was. All of those things. I mean these are literally end of the world kind of problems because if they still think that overpopulation is the problem and they don't want to have kids because they think the climate models are real and they're all going to die, these are existential risks to civilization. And I don't believe that Republicans ever had any improper scientific ideas that would have killed us all. Am I wrong about that? Maybe I just couldn't think of an example of it. But was there anything that Republicans sort of reliably got wrong in science that because it was wrong could kill us all? I'm not aware of anything like that, but there's several examples of Democrats who could literally end civilization with their bad ideas about science.

Well Thomas Massie has put in some legislation that he hopes to get signed, but I doubt it will, to repeal the 2013 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. You might remember that that's when I think Obama pushed that through and that allowed our intelligence agencies, the CIA in particular, to use propaganda against Americans in America. Whereas they, well the government I guess in general. So I guess it used to be illegal for the government to try to propagandize and brainwash you. But then I think it was Obama who made it legal again. And that was about the time that the Russia collusion hoaxes started and basically the government started massively lying to you with hoaxes probably more than any time in history. But it was legal. It was specifically legal that the government could lie to the citizens over and over again. So that's the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act allowed them to do that lying. Thomas Massie wants to withdraw it. Now do I have to tell you again? Although Thomas Massie often votes against the MAGA agenda, as long as there aren't too many Thomas Massies, he's the most valuable person in Congress because he's the only one who does a whole bunch of things that just look like common sense to me. But for political reasons, you know, maybe they won't get signed, reasons we don't always know. But I love the fact that he's trying. Like he went to work and he did something today. I don't know that the rest of them did. What did they do? Went to a meeting, talked on TV. He actually did something. Might not work out, but every time I see Thomas Massie is doing something, I say to myself, well at least you extended the argument. You know at least you showed that there's a priority that's been missing. Maybe he'll get this one done. It's doable. This is doable. I just feel like it would have been done sooner if it were easy. So there must be something that keeps us from being done. We'll see. Good luck. Good luck, Thomas Massie, on that. I like that there's one person operating on principle. Yeah, we need at least one. Rand Paul does as well.

So Trump signed a proclamation to make Columbus Day Columbus Day again. Because it used to be I guess they changed it to Native American Day or something else. I don't know what it was. But now it's back to Columbus Day. Now Columbus h