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Back to episode — Episode 3010 CWSA 11/06/25

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didn't do it. You better hope he's getting advice, you know, because the advice can be separated from the person. But if he's doing this himself, okay, he's got game like you didn't know. So find out if he has an advisor and then find out secondly if his advisor came up with both of those things, only one of them or none. So we need to know that. Once you find the person who came up with those two…

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he's bad at this. Trump is, because he's taking a strong stand, but it's not very practical if it's not going to work." Nope. As long as you understand he always takes the strongest stance, then the very next thing he goes into, whether it's election integrity or some other topic, everybody's going to expect him to take the strongest stance because it's just what he does every time. And that gives him automatically the foundational approach like he's the one who has the starting point because you know what his starting point is? The strongest position.

So does he believe that he can win in any of these particulars such as mail-in voting or any of that? I don't know. I mean, somebody probably told him he had a chance. But he doesn't need to win. He just needs to take the strongest stance and make sure everybody knows it. Yeah.

Anyway, when Karoline Leavitt was asked what evidence the White House has that there was any rigging involved, what did she say? She said she would provide evidence of fraud to reporters after the briefing. Really? Because that would be done by now. Alleging that fraudulent ballots are being mailed in the names of other people. Well, you know, Republicans, come on, Republicans. You've been playing this game for a while. It works. So that's why you're doing it. The game is if you can find three people who messed around with mail-in ballots, you can talk about those three people and then people who are not paying attention must think, "Oh, it must be a lot of people." Well, maybe it was just three. So I'm not sure that whatever the details are are going to blow you away. Probably not.

Wait, what is this? Something on my desk. My god. Oh my god. Oh my god. It's the Dilbert 2026 calendar. Did you know that this is now available as of yesterday for your purchase on Amazon.com? It's the only place you'll be able to find it. Only on Amazon, nowhere else. Free shipping. At least if you're signed up for free shipping, if that's what you have. And by the way, this is twice as good as every Dilbert calendar except for last year. Last year was as good as this one because it had comics on both sides. So on one side it's got the newest Dilbert Reborn comics. Those are the spicy ones. Little extra spice. But also on the front, well front of the calendar, not the box. It has the traditional ones that have already run before, which is normally what the calendar is.

Oh my god, there's something else on here. Oh, I forgot to read you a reframe. You want a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain? Now, this book's been out for a while. But if you haven't joined us lately, you don't know that I read a reframe or two every time when I remember it. When I remember it. I'm remembering it right now. All right. Here's one. My feelings are the result of my situation. Most of you think that, right? However you're feeling right now, it's because of the situation. It's because of the people, the things, the money. This is the situation. And if the situation were better, you'd feel better, right? Well, here's a reframe. How I feel is my choice. You can choose to be happy in almost any scenario except when you're in physical pain. You can just sort of choose. Now, it seems like you can't, but I'm a perfect example of what they call baseline happiness. You know, when I was in my 20s

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, I think I probably the first time I heard that people would have terrible problems like health problems and stuff, and they would be just as happy as if they didn't have a terrible health problem. And I thought, that can't be true. There's no way that's true. If you had a terrible health problem that suddenly you never had before, you couldn't be as happy. But honestly, when I'm not physically i…

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