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but I don't see anything wrong with it. The people involved all seem credible, at least the ones who are named. There are some whistleblowers who are not named. So that's always a red flag, the unnamed whistleblowers. But let me just read what she says is reality. Okay? And pay attention to all this because it's just mind-blowing, but I don't know if it's real. So after I'm done, I'll ask you and…

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en Musk got on a plane to host a Trump rally in Pennsylvania. You remember that Trump rally in Pennsylvania? I believe that's the one where Trump's ear got shot. It was October 17th, 2024. Musk on stage and attacked Dominion. Dominion being the hardware, the maker of the election machine hardware.

According to Emerald Robinson, Elon Musk said at the rally, quote, "There's always the question of Dominion voting machines. It's weird that they're used in Philadelphia and Maricopa County, but not in a lot of other places." Doesn't that seem like a heck of a coincidence? So I guess that's what Elon said on stage. Musk was warning us the system was rigged.

All right, number six. How could this deal be stopped a few weeks before the election? Now imagine you were them and you believe that the system was rigged in the past, was also rigged for the future and an election is coming in a few weeks. How could this deal be stopped a few weeks before the election? The man who briefed Musk had a team, Patrick Byrne and Gary Berntsen. Now, you know Patrick Byrne because he's been talking about the election rigging for a long time. And he says he has all the receipts and has been deeply involved to the point that he wouldn't be guessing. So if the things that Patrick Byrne says in public are true, and he does seem very credible, I don't know if it's all real, but he seems credible. If that stuff is real, we're in a lot of trouble. Or we were.

All right. So the election is coming up in a few weeks and this group of people including Elon Musk and Patrick Byrne and Gary Berntsen believed that the system was riggable and probably would be rigged again in the coming election a few weeks away. They had worked for, let's say this team had recruited a dozen people who knew how the rigged system was built in Venezuela. They had worked for Smartmatic, that would be the software part of the election systems, and Maduro, the head of Venezuela. So allegedly there were a dozen people that they could find who had inside personal knowledge of how the machines were rigged. Now that's a hell of a claim.

This group of whistleblowers were hiding in a hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland before the 2024 election. That's where General Flynn flew to see them. Flynn asked, "How long has election fraud been going on?" They said, "Venezuela now rigs it in 72 countries for the last 20 years." All right. This is where it gets to the point where I say really, 72 countries, just Venezuela, and they've been getting away with it for 20 years? That's a hell of a claim and you can see why it's hard to just embrace this entire narrative completely because there are parts of it that could be true that could be. But boy, you'd really have to take a big bite on this to believe that Venezuela of all places was controlling the elections in 72 countries for 20 years. It's a big claim.

All right, we'll go on. The whistleblowers from Venezuela had video meetings with Musk's team and Trump's team to explain technical details of the election fraud. So do you believe that Trump's team and Elon Musk were briefed by the whistleblowers in the technical part of how it was done? That's the claim. The most important detail, the Dominion IP addresses had been located. So I don't know how that is connected to everything, but apparently if you have the IP addresses, that gives you a little bit of a backdoor into figuring out who did what. Beyond that, I don't know exactly how the IP address part fits into it, but apparently it gives you some visibility into something that they hadn't had before. And they bought these IP addresses for $15 in Bitcoin from an anonymous Japanese account. Okay. The relevant data and IP addresses were now verified. Okay.

That's when Senator Mullen came to the rescue again. A cyber security team got the data. Now I don't know who the cyber security team was but let's call them hackers. So once the understanding of how the hacking happens and the IP addresses were available, I guess that means the cyber security team could hack into the existing system and do their own damage that would be separate from whatever the alleged bad people were going to do with the system. Three days before the 2024 election, Dominion's office in Serbia, so that's where some servers were, was hit. Their computers were useless. So I interpret this as they hired a bunch of hackers who now had enough information with the IP addresses and with understanding of how the systems worked that they could hack in and basically take down the back operation that was going to do the rigging. So they were all ready to rig the 2024 election and unbeknownst to them, the good guys hacked in and crashed their systems and that would be why Trump won.

Allegedly on election day, nobody knew if the cyber security team had been successful knocking out the Serbian computers. Everybody in Mar-a-Lago had to wait for the results without certainty. The man who had briefed Musk flew to Oslo that day. His team would flee the USA if they failed. So the thinking was that these whistleblowers would literally be murdered if things went south. Emerald says, this is an Emerald Robinson long post that she posted today. Imagine the moment on election day Trump had no idea if he would win. So Patrick Byrne watched results from Qatar. So Patrick Byrne got out of the country because he must have been worried about what could happen to him. Gary Berntsen watched from Switzerland. So two people who knew the most about this left the country because they thought they would get killed basically if things went south. All of them would be hunted down if the 2024 election fraud was successful. Meaning that the bad guys got in charge again and all of them would and the USA would be finished.

Number 12, Trump was upset with his own staff after Elon Musk verified the fraud was real. So again, that's a big claim. Is it true that Elon Musk could and did verify that the fraud in the past election was real? It's a big claim. If Elon Musk says that's true, then I will believe that's true. It's not something he would lie about. But I haven't heard him say that. He'd been, now this is talking about Trump. Trump had been gaslit for four years by his team to drop the topic. In fact, his staff hired a Cuban intelligence asset in 2020 to quote investigate the fraud to lie to Trump that the elections were fair. Okay, that again, that's a big claim that his staff hired somebody to essentially lie to him. You'd have to show me some evidence of that one.

Number 13, that's the thing about Trump. He always hired the wrong people. This is Emerald Robinson's opinion. His own advisers had tried to keep him from meeting with the team that saved the 2024 election. People like Boris Epshteyn and Chris LaCivita had blocked the truth at every turn. Again, these are allegations. I don't know what's true.

Let's call the team that, and Emerald says number 14, let's call the team that saved the 2024 election the three musketeers. That's the man who briefed Musk and Gary Berntsen and Patrick Byrne. I've now interviewed them many times along with Smartmatic whistleblowers from Venezuela. I've confirmed key facts with the ODNI. So she's done the work. That doesn't mean it's all true, but she's definitely done the work.

Here's where the story gets really wild. It's wilder than that. Okay. The three musketeers were also the ones who warned Trump about election fraud after the 2020 election. Where do you think Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani got their information about Smartmatic and Judge Jeanine got them connected?

Number 16. So Trump had good intel about the fraud two days after the 2020 election. So you can see why he was so insistent that it was fraud, that it was rigged. But then Trump called in Kushner to quote gather a legal team to handle it all. Kushner's team was briefed next, but they dismissed the intel and did nothing. Again, these are allegations. I don't know what's true. Rudy and Sidney were hung out to dry with no help. Yeah, if this is true, then Rudy and Sidney were hung out to dry with no help.

Number 17. Let's return to 2024. Trump has won. It's Christmas. The whistleblowers from Venezuela are moved from Gstaad to Bahamas on tourist visas to protect them. They're being hunted by the cartel. They need to get into the USA to testify and bring down the rigged voting machines. It's February 2025. Time is now up. With their visas expired, the whistleblowers would be sent back to Venezuela and killed. So Patrick Byrne got a catamaran out of Florida and sailed in the worst storm possible to the Bahamas in order to smuggle them all into the USA. Jesus.

Number 19. Why is this happening? After all, Trump's now back in office. The most important whistleblowers in American history are stranded because Team Trump does not have his act together again. Finally, Tom Homan saves the day and sends two guys from DC to bring them all into USA.

Number 20, it's April. Trump authorizes task force on election fraud. The DOJ, CIA, DHS, DNI guys meet the whistleblowers. Then the agencies start a fight over who has control of the investigation. Of course none of those guys return for interviews or casework. They disappear. Team Trump fails again.

21. What's going on exactly? Says Emerald Robinson. Our intel agencies are so compromised that none of them really want to investigate election fraud because they're involved in rigging the elections too. And Trump didn't bother to fire all these people.

22. It's June. Two whistleblowers are so upset with the handling of the investigation, they leave the USA in secret. It's all about to fall apart. Tulsi Gabbard has to bring new guys from the three-letter agencies to start all over. Those guys are shocked beyond belief after the interviews. It's July. The investigation report is done. Tulsi prepares to bring the full report on 2020 and 2024 to Trump. Trump's own White House advisers tell Tulsi to not include the 2020 evidence. So she gives Trump a partial report. Trump is now angry with Tulsi because of leaving out the 2020 stuff. So Trump gets tired of waiting for these reports. He wants to know if Venezuela really runs America's election. So at this point, Trump is not yet convinced that this whole Venezuela thing, the narrative is correct. So he's still looking for confirmation. So who does he finally call to brief him? Who does Trump finally call to brief him? Well, the three musketeers, of course. Not the CIA or DNI. That's when Trump decides it's time to overthrow Maduro. Oh, does everything make sense now? That's when he decided he needed to overthrow Maduro. Maybe. Maybe.

How did the three musketeers do all of this? Well, Patrick Byrne spent $80 million of his own money to protect America. Houses, cars, Bitcoin, all gone now. Gary Berntsen mortgaged his house. They're all broke now. No one has been paid back by Trump or Trump at all. Not one cent. And that's the end of the thread.

Now, show me in the comments. Does that ring true? Because it does connect all the dots. It doesn't mean it's true, but it does a good job of wrapping everything up in a nice little package, doesn't it? I'm just looking at your comments to see if you believe. Is the Kraken real or is this just more Kraken? I don't know. And then I imagine if you were to look for another source or you tried it with AI, it probably would tell you that the credibility is low. That's my guess.

So let me say again as clearly as possible. I don't personally know if any of that's true. How would I know? I just know it's a hell of a complete story. And there's nothing there that's impossible. None of it's impossible. And we've just gone through how many years of, "Oh my god, I didn't think that was possible, but it happened." So I always go back to my question. And my question goes like this. What would be the purpose of electronic voting machines except to rig an election? What would be the other reason? They're not faster. They're not cheaper. They're not easier. So why? I only know one reason for machines. Given that paper would be more reliable and easier to audit and everything else. The only reason I can think of is that you intend to rig an election.

Now, I've been saying this for several years in public that there's no other reason that has even been presented for why there would be machines. I'm not even saying I would agree with it or don't agree with it. Nobody's even tried to make the argument that there's some legitimate reason. So if nobody's going to make the argument that there's any legitimate reason for them, what am I supposed to think? Well, I don't know if Emerald Robinson's narrative got all the details right, but I know it would be perfectly consistent with observations, and it would be consistent with essentially everything we know to be true. And it would be consistent all the way through to why is Trump so intent on overthrowing Maduro? And the reason might be that Maduro has been controlling our elections and Republicans will never be able to win again unless he's overthrown. So this could be as much about domestic elections as it is about narco votes. Because aren't you saying to yourself, "Huh? Is blowing up these boats really going to change the world?" But it makes a lot more sense if you believe that the real intention is to depose Maduro and maybe also get more information about whether the machines are rigged. 80 million votes alone. Yeah. I mean, just the fact that the total number of votes and the way they came in was non-standard, this would explain that.

So that's Emerald Robinson's take. I've been enjoying quite a bit reading her narrative, not knowing if it's true, but I'm enjoying it, and she's put a lot of work into it that looks like really good work. So I just wanted to make sure that you had at least some knowledge about that narrative and her work. Okay. Did you enjoy that? How many of you enjoyed the reading of Emerald's work? I want to make sure she gets the credit because I'm just reading her work. All right. Tell me in the comments if you enjoyed that or not.

Well, let's talk about the climate hoax. The LA Times has now gotten a big opinion piece about how the climate hoax is falling apart. There's an op-ed. Steve Milloy of Junk Science is calling this out. And I guess the point here is that it's not just the LA Times that's allowing an opinion piece to debunk the climate hysteria, but that there was that big paper that was recalled and a lot more people are willing to say, "Hey, this climate stuff looks sketchy." Now, if I tell you that if you believed all the Venezuelan election machine stuff, if you believed that, how hard would it be to believe that the climate stuff was always fake? It'd be pretty easy to believe, wouldn't it? If you'd never seen how wildly unlikely reality is, you probably wouldn't believe that it's even possible that the whole climate thing could be fake and fake for 20 years and all the scientists would be either lying or mistaken or covering their ass. But it's totally possible. It is totally possible that this has never been real and that a trillion dollars has been fraudulently moved around because people tried to make you think it was real.

Let's see what else. What about Minnesota's state disability numbers? Oh, well it looks like Eric Nordstrom is writing about this in that the new license applications soared 283%. Basically all the signals were there that there was some kind of massive state disability fraud going on and it was a Somali fraudulent thing. So let's see. The state disability is bad. SBA will probably look bad. Basically everything that's a big pile of money is money laundering.

In other news, Letitia James did not get indicted, which is weird because you've heard the old saying that you can indict a ham sandwich. So the grand jury looked at the evidence and said, "Ah, this is bullshit." And we don't know their reasoning, but probably it was because it's such small potatoes and probably because it looked like it was a political hit piece. That's my guess. But we don't have a way to know what the grand jury was thinking. We only know that they decided not to go forward with it, which is unusual. I don't think that's the worst thing in the world. And I also don't mind that the Department of Justice tried. They tried and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. I do think that justice would have been served if she had been treated the same way Trump was because correct me if I'm wrong but Trump had no victim at all. Right? In her case there was a victim but a very small one. You know it was a bank and it wasn't that much money for a bank but it was way more than Trump cost anybody. He didn't cost anybody anything. The banks were happy to work with him again if they had a chance. So I would have been more entertained if things had been harder for her. But I also don't mind if the grand jury process works the way it wanted to. So that would be fun.

All right. Inflation doesn't look so bad. Apparently, according to One American News, that if you look at the core index, it's only 2.8% this year, which wouldn't be that bad. I think people would disagree about whether inflation is bad or not, but it doesn't look too bad. And then also Jeffrey Snider, a partner at Retirement Income Source, is predicting that the Fed will not cut rates next week, but they might wait until January, but everybody expects them to cut rates. So inflation seems to be roughly under control. Interest rates look like they might be coming down and that's all good.

Here's some more good news. AT&T is scrapping its DEI policies, including worker training that called racism a uniquely white trait. New York Post is writing about this. Taylor Herzlich. Well, this is to me this completes a circuit because when I worked for the phone company it was right after the divestiture AT&T got broken up into these separate local phone companies and I worked for one of them, Pacific Bell, and Pacific Bell was just flat-out racist. Just absolutely flat-out not hiding it. Completely overt, flat-out racist against white men. And I had to live through that. It's the reason I'm a cartoonist is because I couldn't get promoted. They told me that directly. They said, "We can't promote you because you're white and male." And when I tell that story, I've been telling it for years. But when I used to tell the story, people didn't believe it. People, especially black Americans, they thought I was making it up because they couldn't process, whether you're white or black, you couldn't process the fact that the boss would tell me directly, you cannot be promoted because you're white and ma

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le. I was told that directly. And the reason I was working for the phone company is that I had been working for a bank and they too told me directly in San Francisco, we cannot promote you because you're white and you're male. Now it's 2025 and people have been exposed to how that whole world was working. Now you know it's true, right? Wouldn't you agree that that is no longer even a wild idea th…

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