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Back to episode — Episode 3012 CWSA 11/08/25

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guess. Where did she get promoted to? It's a place called the CIA. That's right. If she had moved to anywhere on the whole planet except the CIA, I think I would have just missed this. But really? Really? All right. But now I'm going to give you my BS filter tests. Remember I've given you lots of ways to find out if something is real. What would you expect to see if this were real? Meaning that i…

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e lawyer made the case. It doesn't mean it's true. It doesn't mean it's false. But this is not credible as presented.

Do you remember when Dinesh D'Souza made some claims about the people dropping things off in dropboxes? And you remember what I said about that? If you can't show me at least a video or two of the same person dropping multiple things in these boxes, I don't think you really have anything because that's the only thing that would have convinced me. And then I think in the end we did not get those videos. So this is sort of reminding me of that. There's one thing that matters. Show me the video. It's the one thing we don't have. Sketchy. So it could be true. It could be true. So let me say that as clearly as possible. It could be true. It's just not hitting the credibility level that I would expect. Anyway, but we'll wait to hear more about that. Some of it just might be I'm not as up to date on it as I should be. But the people involved are all credible as far as I know.

Would you be surprised to know that some people are questioning some of the election results from last week, the special election, the three governors? Well, it turns out according to PJ Media and Matt Margolis who's writing about this, there's a pollster who's looking at the numbers and apparently one of them, it was the New Jersey race. The winner won by a surprising margin. A margin that nobody predicted. Just suddenly the polls stopped working for that one race. They worked for the other races but the polls just didn't work for that New Jersey one. Do you know why the polls didn't work for the New Jersey race? Well, the claim, and again who knows, is a claim. The claim is that 500,000 Democrats suddenl

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y materialized after not voting in the last three gubernatorial elections. Is there anything else you need to know that half a million people suddenly were Democrats and suddenly voted whereas they hadn't voted in the last three elections and there was nothing really that. But then you say, "But Scott, maybe they just registered a lot of Democrats." No. No, that didn't happen. Just half a million…

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