Why Last Night's "Debate" Was Choreographed and Rehearsed Meaningless Insanity
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I spent today doing something which I have not done in a long time.
I took and devoted the entire day, the entire day, to being saturated in and ensconced in the world of News, not TV, but everything involving the internet and the like.
Social media, X, websites, Fox, everything you can imagine.
Every reaction, every interview, every show, every take, every poll, every expert, every language expert, every body language expert.
Everybody who has ever existed.
Ever.
Ever.
Everybody.
I went through specifically and my head is about to explode.
I had to.
I was overwhelmed.
I'm serious.
I've never done this before.
I swear to you.
I spent like the entire day just going through and just...
Getting a feel for everything that was out there.
And don't ever do this.
You will lose your mind.
I can't put it into perspective.
I can't tell you how and what it will do to you.
The level of corruption and lying, the lying, the misrepresentation, the open, And notorious, fraudulent, reporting and the like.
This, this, I've never seen a debate and an event.
And this on top of 9-11 and everything.
I have never seen anything like this.
There is no way that the average person could possibly ever figure out what was going on, ever find themselves in the position.
Of being able to sort through what we saw and what I saw today.
None.
This is the biggest joke anybody has ever seen.
Why this man does it, I have no idea.
They propped up a woman who double, triple teamed him and nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
The lies.
I don't even know where to go.
I don't.
And then this ridiculous, these quizlings, the people that I despise the most, these individuals from the world of the, oh, I don't know what they're called, the conservative TV and the like.
Well, I thought he was a bit weak at first.
Well, everybody had to weigh in.
To see if they could figure a new way to trash this man.
That's exactly what they were doing.
To trash him.
The way he didn't react right.
He seemed old.
He seemed tired.
He seemed this.
This is not the election.
Let me say this again.
This is not the election.
This was a debate.
But because everybody had something to do.
Because there were debate parties and debate references and debate everything.
Because everybody had to say something.
Everybody had to weigh in.
It was a joke.
And in my mind, I am telling you.
And I promise you.
And I want you to listen and listen like you've never listened to me before.
And believe me, this man is going to win.
He is going to beat, not her, them.
He is going to beat them.
Today was the first state, I believe it was, was it Alabama I just read?
I just read this, and this made me think, uh-oh.
That's right, it was today was the first 2024 general election ballots, or in...
The mail today.
And I believe it was, yes, Alabama officials began mailing them.
And just as I had told you, just as I had explained, just as I had put out for you or explained to you, there are these white little postal boxes where they're just lining all of the ballots up, putting them out for you to see, lining them up to be To be mailed.
And once they go out, and by the way, we don't know anything about them, whether they've been checked, cross-checked, double-checked.
We have no earthly idea.
But what we are seeing is something which is so incredible, so mind-boggling, I don't even know how to put it into words.
I don't know how to put it into words.
What this man did yesterday, anybody who was listening, anybody who listened would have realized right away he is the only person of the two who knows what the hell he's talking about, who actually has something to say.
Now that was here.
The next aspect of today, which was just a day I hate, is September the 11th.
23 years ago.
23 years ago, kids in high school, kids in college, they don't remember this.
How could they even know?
How can you put this into perspective?
It's kind of like an expression.
It's an expression of what happened.
It was so horrible.
And I got to tell you something.
Please don't go down that, I hate to use this term, rabbit hole.
Don't.
35 Duluth says, I watched it all.
Don't care.
I already know who I'm voting for.
It's not her.
Absolutely.
And you just spoke to Duluth.
You just spoke the ideas of more people.
I don't know what these people are talking about.
They're talking about niceties.
They're talking about how she appeared.
Her look.
Her posture, her account.
What does this have to do with the plan?
What does this have to do with leadership, with governance?
Nothing.
Nothing.
The plan, anytime she even remotely articulated her housing plan, is absurd.
It doesn't even make any sense.
It doesn't make any sense.
Did you hear what I said?
So it says bias against Donald J. Trump is so bad.
And it's going to backfire.
American public is going to see through this and how the machine is openly working to sink Donald J. Trump.
Could not have said it better myself.
This is an individual who came across as nasty, mean, snotty, impolite, unprofessional, vague.
I'll see it.
Fanciful.
Imaginary.
Talking about things.
When they asked her a story, it was like right off the bat.
Are we better off?
When I was a young girl, she got hurt.
I don't even know why she's doing it.
People were actually saying, well, she didn't do any word salad.
No, she just didn't say anything.
She didn't say it in terms of words.
She just didn't say anything.
There was no leadership.
There was no guidance.
There was no nothing.
She never said anything.
She lied and flip-flopped.
I don't know what to tell you.
Do you think that they think that these stories, and you may not think it's a big deal.
You might think that cats and pets being eaten and consumed.
Do you think that's a big deal?
If you were listening to this for the first time, and you had no idea of what was going on in the world, and you found out, and you found out that this is going on, Mio Dell says, Me too, Lionel.
I feel your pain.
I am sick at heart.
Oh, there's a part of me that thinks, how can this happen?
And how can this...
How do we say this?
How does this happen?
I just want to go through this.
Do you think, though...
This is the most important thing.
Do you think the stories of these cats and kittens...
And thank you, Kevin, a member for a month.
Do you think these stories are phony?
Do you think?
OA says, why do I have a feeling that Trump respects Kamala more than John?
Is it Trump respects, oh Joe maybe?
Joe?
Is that what you mean?
I don't know.
I think that for the first time, and thank you by the way.
I think for the first time, what we saw was somebody who was not this blubbering idiot, this fool, this gedrool.
That was important.
So maybe that was some form of respect, if you will.
Maybe that's it.
Maybe that's the subject.
Maybe that's it.
And this is the part which is the most important.
This is, maybe that's it.
Maybe there was a thing where they realized, you know what, she's not as bad as we thought.
She's not laughing.
But all she did was she took away the cackling and the word salad and the nonsense about the yellow buses and community banks or the banks of the community and all that kind of jazz.
That's the only thing.
What I'm trying to tell the rest of the people and the folks of this beloved and beautiful country of ours is that you have to recognize something which is really critical.
This is a woman who has no business doing this.
She was plucked out of obscurity to do this for reasons nobody can understand.
Nancy Pelosi knows it.
Now let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
If you think...
The word that I'm hearing in others are the people in the...
Listen carefully.
The Democratic big shots are the first thing they're saying is this.
Let's have another debate.
Why do you think citizens, patriots, why do you think they want another debate?
Why would they possibly want...
Another debate.
Why?
If she did great, if she nailed him, if she destroyed him, if she was the victor, if she absolutely put the lid on him and scotched any plans of his, why do you think she would say or they would say, we want another debate?
Why?
Because They know she lost.
She lost.
She's reading the internals.
She's looking around and they're saying, we're not going to make it, boys.
This isn't our girls.
It's not going to work.
All we did tonight, all we did was people realized, hey, she's not a complete idiot.
That is not enough to get you elected.
If they think...
That all of this talk, ladies in particular, did you find all of this abortion stuff, what was this about?
Do you think abortion is the number one consideration of this country?
Do you think that?
Irrespective of what you think with your pro-choice, do you think this, she showed more passion, more interest, more stories?
About abortion.
This was so arranged.
She knew every question.
She knew everything.
Do you think this resonated with anybody?
These stories about we have to go next door and you're inside the car and you're bleeding.
And I'm not trying to make fun of this.
I'm not trying.
But you're hemorrhaging.
You're hemorrhaging in a car and you're falling apart and you don't know what's going on and you're unable to.
Do you think this is what people say?
Yes!
Finally, we're going to get to the bus because Donald Trump is going to rid this country of abortion?
Do you think anybody thinks this?
Do you think anywhere somebody's saying, I can't wait to hear what she says about abortion?
Freedom says in Pennsylvania today, Biden speaking in front of a room of MAGA supporters, a photo of pops wearing a Trump hat, Kamala lost it big time.
Joe looked kind of happy wearing it.
I saw the same thing.
I could not, my friends, go through clips tonight.
I can't.
I can't.
I just, pardon me, I just, I can't go through it.
I can't go through this again.
I see him and I get sick to my stomach.
I can't, I can't take it.
Do you...
Joe was at a...
Somebody said to him, put on a MAGA hat.
You can see it.
Go on there.
Are you watching X?
Have you signed up for X?
Have you done it?
Have you done it?
Have you followed me?
Are you following yours truly, Uncle Lenny, on X or Twitter, as we call it?
Are you?
Are you doing it?
Please.
I'm telling you right now, it is the best version of this.
Because there he was today.
And he was, somebody said, put on this hat instead.
And he was kind of laughing.
And he was just kind of doddering around with some supporters, I guess.
And he had a hat on.
And he put the MAGA hat on top of, I guess it was during the 9-11.
By the way, it was extremely disrespectful.
But he put a MAGA hat on on top of his cap.
Just for a moment.
That big of a story?
No.
But people are going crazy because it's this artificial momentum of stories that occur.
It's this artificial idea that somehow this is a big story because everybody's talking about it.
Because if everybody's talking about it, well, it must be worthwhile.
And that's that false creation of importance by virtue of how people do that.
Now, they know she didn't win.
And they want to do another one.
And that's why he said, I'm not so sure.
A person who did poorly would say, of course I want to do it.
Is this a mind game?
Perhaps.
Is this some type of a psycho?
Perhaps.
I don't know.
But the word is, she didn't do, it was a great debate, if that's what you want to call it.
It was okay if you're trying to score.
The lead in some kind of, I don't know, whatever you want to call it, to score the lead in this, whatever you want to call it, a play, a movie.
Have you ever done an audition?
It was an audition.
Okay, I want you to act like a...
Ladies, let me ask you something.
Please, gentlemen, do not think that I am being...
Dismissive of you.
I'm not.
Ladies, what was your reaction to the smirks, the looks, the dismissive, the eye rolls, the stink eye?
What do you think?
Always says, Joe hates her for sure.
Trump was right.
Oh, absolutely.
Oh, wait, I agree.
Well, look what they did to him.
Look what they did to him.
See, this is the part.
That nobody is going to say on Fox or sort of ABC or anybody.
Nobody's going to tell you this.
He despises her.
The Democratic Party is saying, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Why did we have this debate before the convention?
Why?
Trump's asking, why did I have the debate before the convention?
It would have been great.
He's the nominee.
Then we have the debate.
Oh, my God.
What did you think, ladies, when you saw her?
Is this somebody you like?
Is this somebody you're going to vote for?
Is this somebody, is this a woman who connects with you?
Do you feel her, not her pain, but do you feel her presence?
Bobby Dowd says, at least...
Canalita stuck with one accent this time.
That's true.
The sound of her voice curdles the milk in my fridge.
Literally, bro.
When I hear Esti Palti, this impersonator, when she sat looking and just doing this, it was disrespectful.
It was...
It was almost like playground.
It was petulant.
It was rude.
It was discourteous.
It was improper.
It was exaggerated.
It wasn't presidential.
We never saw that.
We never really saw that with her.
We saw her in these stupid, silly things with Tampon Timmy, but we didn't really see her when she's left to her own devices.
Is this a woman that you thought was in any way representative of the office of president?
Can you imagine her standing next to Putin or Xi Jinping or Erdogan or whoever it is?
Or Macron or just at a G7.
Is she going to do this?
What would be more embarrassing to have her...
Do you remember years ago?
When Ivanka Trump, I think it was a G7, and she walked up.
She walked up to these ladies.
I think it was, oh God, it was the old head of the EU, and I forget her name.
And they look at her, talk about stink eye, and they give her the once over like, you're not even in our league, honey.
This is the way they acted regarding Ivanka Trump.
How do you think they're going to act with her?
How do you think they're going to act with her?
How do you think she's going to come across?
Now, the other story.
They are laughing wholeheartedly at the idea of Haitians, or immigrants, or illegals, eating, stealing, consuming, whatever you want to call it, pets, ducks, cats, dogs.
Whatever.
It sounds horrific.
Because it's true.
You can hear how prolific a problem it is.
We can argue about that all day long.
You can hear.
The Federalist has even suggested this.
They're playing recordings.
Police reports.
People going before.
Unless you think it's just...
One big conspiracy theory.
Bunch of people down the rabbit hole.
There they were.
Absolutely, positively, one after another, reciting this horror.
And they're laughing at it.
They call it a conspiracy theory because when they fact-checked Trump for like 9,000 times, they never fact-checked anything with her.
They called, I think, one person.
He said, no, there's no.
Do you think a city manager, a city official is going to pick up the phone and say, oh, yeah, it's awful.
Yes, I'm in charge of public safety.
Yes, yes, I'm in charge of public safety.
And it is atrocious.
It is one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life.
It is so horrible, so terrible, so awful, so ungodly.
It is worse than anything you've ever seen in your life.
They don't do that.
Trump was absolutely correct.
There are people from other parts of the world who do this stuff.
And I'm sorry to tell you this.
And it may bother people.
But instead of saying, let's get to the bottom, they're laughing at it.
And they're laughing at you because they know that all they have to do, all they have to do, To shut you up.
The only thing is just say it's a conspiracy theory.
And that's it.
They called it a conspiracy theory.
That's all that is.
And when they say this, you're supposed to back down.
You're supposed to back down and go away because you're crazy.
You're crazy.
And that's what you do.
Don't you understand this?
This is what you do.
And this is how you're trained.
This is a conspiracy theory.
Somebody was suggesting, did you see that the earrings, and they're arguing back and forth, I don't know, but somebody suggested, they say, hey, you know, these earrings look a lot like these earrings that were used.
As either headphones or whatever that could perhaps be used to transmit and to pick up sounds or whatever.
Okay?
That's the story.
And what was interesting about it was I found it absolutely fascinating.
They said, no, that's another, you got it, conspiracy theory.
Oasis Kamala would sell her soul for fame.
Her soul?
Her everything.
You're right.
Her soul, her heart.
It's Kafkaesque.
Kelly McGinnis said, Lionel, she reminded me of a snobby, mean mom at the school PTA meeting.
Yes, like Harper Valley PTA.
Like a real mean girl.
A mean girl.
This is the part that gets me.
So there was this story about this and they immediately said, you know, these earrings.
And now, I don't know the first thing about it.
They're saying, no, they were actually Tiffany or whatever.
But I'll be damned if they didn't look exactly, exactly like, what was it?
I'm going to say something to you, and I want you to listen to me.
Do you think, have you ever seen Get Smart?
Have you ever seen Naked Gun?
Have you ever seen any cop show?
Where they're able to go and they've got a guy in the lab.
Do you think it possible that maybe somebody from the FBI, CIA, whatever military, somebody may say, you know, I got something you might be interested in.
Well, we're...
It's not really operational.
Everybody knows this.
But we make sure that it looks like something that you see.
It's got to look like something.
If we're going to have a watch that is recording voices, it's got to look like a Rolex or whatever.
It can't look like a non-watch.
Clapton says, the fist on her chin was so artificial and nauseating.
You're right.
It was this weird...
It was this...
How did they miss this?
How did somebody just go to her?
She looked at it.
She showed contempt.
She showed that she couldn't be a big girl.
You don't know what the internals are.
You don't know what the internals are.
You don't know what this is.
See, what you saw was you have, oh, have you seen these graphs?
Don't you love that?
They have that different graph.
Oh, here's a blue graph.
Oh, this one.
And they're trying to give you the idea, these valid or these worthwhile metrics that supposedly mean something.
Are you kidding me?
They want you to completely and totally forget everything in your ken, your worldview.
They want you to forget it.
And I'm telling you right now, the internals that they got, Are different.
You will never see them.
You will never, ever be a part of it.
You will never see what they're thinking.
You do not know.
Now, here's the bottom line.
What nobody is saying.
Nobody cares.
Ladies and gentlemen, would you like to hear a little bit of history?
Great.
I'm glad because you're going to hear it.
Do you remember Trump's first debate with Hillary?
Do you remember it?
Anybody?
Who remembers it?
Anybody?
Who remembers the first debate with Hillary?
It was a disaster.
He was either sniffing or drinking water, something.
He was doing, I forget what the hell it was.
And people were saying, what are you doing?
Do you remember that?
Remember that one?
Who remembers that?
Yep.
It was the worst.
It was the worst.
It was terrible.
They said, what are you doing?
I don't know what they did, but the next time, and they won another one, you won another one.
You won another debate because you lost.
Let me tell you another one for you, years ago.
Ronald Reagan did a first debate against Walter Mondale.
And it was horrible.
It was horrible.
Horrible.
And they didn't know what happened.
Until somebody by the name of Roger Ailes came along.
And Roger Ailes, I think he also worked with Nixon at one point, but he looked at him and he said, what are you doing?
And Roger Ailes worked with the Mike Douglas show, he learned about TV.
And they asked him, they said, How would you answer this question?
I answer it like this.
That's not what they're doing.
They speak to you like you're an idiot.
They give you note cards and you're thinking, first of all, who is this person giving you note cards?
That's not the way you do it.
That's not the way you do it.
You don't want to give people.
I told you this before.
You give people feelings.
And if you have 15 subjects, whether it's the economy, this is something which is you have to teach people something about it.
And you have somebody say, you know, this guy's good.
Let me ask you something.
I hate to do this, but if you're a doctor and somebody you're going in, you're talking to the family of somebody who's sick, not, you know, it's not the end of the world, but it's serious.
How would you like that doctor to be?
How would you like that doctor to be?
Doctors have to speak to people in a way that conveys the idea of hope and understanding.
Let me explain this to you.
I'm going to spend some time with you.
We're going to explain this spot on your lung.
And this is what it is.
I'm going to dispel your fear.
And when I get done and I walk out, you're going to say, I love this guy.
I feel glad.
I feel so much better.
I want to come to him again.
He knows exactly what to tell me.
He's so smart.
He learns.
That's the way.
And the way I would do is I would sit there with Trump for the longest time and I'm saying, I want to convey to you feelings.
I don't want to give you facts.
You know the facts.
I want to talk to you about we're going to be an actor.
Not actor that you don't mean this.
Actor that you're conveying something.
You're conveying an idea.
And I want people to be riveted.
And I want you to...
You can look at her sometime.
Whatever you feel comfortable with.
This has got to be vintage you.
If it's not you, it comes across staid and stodgy and manufactured.
You've got to talk about something.
You've got to say things in a way...
That makes people say, oh my God.
If you told somebody, you have no idea the people that are in our country.
And I don't blame this current administration for looking the other way.
See, I would have done something differently.
I told you this before.
I want her to freak out.
And I want people to say, remember I told you the other day, I said, my goal is simply this.
I want the world to say, did you see that?
I don't think people are saying it.
There was not a moment where people said, I talked to people today, friends, I got these calls.
Did you see that?
I said, can you think of one moment where you thought, oh my God, it's over.
He goes, no.
I said, of course not.
What are you talking about?
Can you think of one reason, one time, one moment where Trump completely blew it to such an extent you think that's it, that's the end of it, we're done, we're finished, we're through?
No.
Did you see any moment where she absolutely established herself as some kind of a wow?
Was there a wow moment with her?
Not one.
Never.
You heard this before.
When you heard her speak, Be honest.
Wasn't there a part of you that turned off?
You say, oh, I've heard this.
I've heard this.
It's when she does that.
And I feel.
Didn't your sincerity light kind of turn off?
Johnny Lye says this wasn't a debate.
It was a debut performance for an intellectual or ineffectual simpleton.
But it failed because she had all the cue cards.
Yes, Johnny!
She knew ahead of time.
So if he wants to do it again, I want you to go there and I want you to sit there and I want you to talk about this.
What is the thing you want to tell people about crime?
What is the thing?
What is the thing?
Think about it.
And you can have all the...
We'll have a group.
It's worse than you think and easier than you can to fix it.
Do you know how easy it is to fix this?
It's simple.
I don't know why they don't want to do it.
I don't want to read it.
I don't know.
But I don't understand it.
Something I can't figure out.
Can you?
I don't understand it.
You don't shut down the border.
This is not the border.
See, I hate that word.
I'm thinking Texas, Mexico, crossing the river.
No.
These are airports.
Buses, planes, taxis, trains, people being moved in in swarms.
Don't say border.
It's not our border.
Get rid of that word border.
Why?
Because you've habituated to it.
You've heard the border to such an extent you just turn off everything.
You just turn off Everything.
Everything turns off.
You see, border, border.
It's like the word inflation, inflation.
Don't say inflation anymore.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is the thing which is important.
One of the things which I've always loved to tell people, always, mothers, women, If you can appeal, if you have a strong women base, I'm sorry to say this, I know this may sound like you are so much better off because they're mothers, sometimes they're smarter, and sometimes they're able to convey differently.
If that's the person you're talking to, men will understand as well.
I've always loved to tell people this.
Why do you think bacon all of a sudden is more expensive?
Do you think there are fewer pigs?
Do you think there's fewer processing?
Do you think there's fewer pork?
No!
Why do you think gas is all of a sudden so expensive?
Why?
Why does it happen?
Because we don't have any gas?
Because they've shut down?
No.
It's called inflation.
These are commodities.
These are futures.
Every little thing that affects bacon, drinks, medicine, it starts with Inflation, but it starts to affect everything.
From the amount of transportation, production costs, and a little bit here, a little bit there.
And when you have a thousand incremental steps, this is what happens.
Nelson A says, the tides are changing.
This reminds me of the 2016 election.
The down will prevail.
I'm telling you!
I'm telling you!
What do you need for me to tell you?
He's doing better than anybody.
Do not listen to this crap.
Do not listen to this.
There are people whose jobs, it seems, just to want to come along and keep telling you how terrible everything, because I guess they feel that, I don't know, does it make them feel that they're doing a great job?
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35 Duluth says, you missed my comment.
It's all right.
No, no, no.
Please stop it.
Don't ever say it's all right.
How dare you even intimate that.
35 Duluth says, actions speak louder than words.
I will trust someone who has proven themselves over someone just talking.
Absolutely.
And that's a very good point.
I'm sorry for having skipped over.
What he needs to do is he needs to say the following.
I've done this before.
I know what I'm doing.
I wish he'd say, when I was president, gas was what?
A dollar?
Whatever the hell it is.
Now it's six dollars.
What do you think happened?
What do you think happened?
Why do you think that is?
I know what I'm doing.
Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, my fellow Americans, that when the FBI came up with their crime statistics that Madam Vice President mentioned, you know they did not include New York, I believe, and California in it.
Did you know that?
It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
They actually excluded them from the calculations.
Why?
I haven't.
The foggiest idea why.
I have no idea.
It blows my mind.
I mean, literally.
I literally broke.
And that's that.
Now, you can also talk about, you have to get a little mean.
And you have to explain something.
And you have to say something which matters.
Donald Ellsworth says, Uncle Lenny, her Here's the big question.
She can't answer, why did you lie to the American people about Sleepy Joe?
Absolutely.
So many.
Why didn't she say this?
She didn't answer that.
She also didn't say, you did.
You can't go before the American people and say, no, no, I never said anything about fracking when you did.
Clifford Cleavy said, Mr. L., we love you in Canada.
Oh, and I love the Canadians.
God bless you.
You can't go before the public.
And you can't all of a sudden say something that you said you did that you didn't do.
But she told you that she and Tim have the own firearms, but she has it in a safe place?
Madam, you don't need firearms.
You have the Secret Service.
You see those people out there?
There's nobody in the end of you.
The actual hall, but the people here in Pennsylvania, especially in Kensington.
Have you been to Kensington?
Don't.
With all due respect to the great people of Philadelphia, this is where our country started.
There are people out there who need weapons, not because they're going to knock over a liquor store, not because they're going to commit a crime, but because they need to protect themselves, their home, their heart, their families.
They need this.
They need this.
Like you cannot believe.
And you said repeatedly, you talked about buyback programs.
You said people don't need an assault weapon.
Do you know what you call a weapon that's not an assault weapon?
A stick.
It doesn't make any sense.
Now you said that.
And now you've changed your mind.
And you expect the world to just say, oh well, maybe she changed your mind.
No.
These are fundamental beliefs that you just can't abandon.
Veto says, people say Trump should have said this or that.
He can be more articulate, but they discount the scowl of a tepid biatch that makes her so unlikable.
Oh, absolutely!
Cryptodominy says, Uncle Danny, please read aloud my previous sentence.
I will do that.
I'm so sorry.
Carla, the cooking CEO, says, why did we, did he not answer yes or no to abortion ban question?
I don't know this.
There was a couple of things.
I do not know that.
I do not know.
Is it critical?
No.
But I'm with you.
Do you understand this fixation with abortion?
Do you understand how...
I don't like the word...
Listen, I can tell you.
He says, saw a shop owner of Springfield.
He says they gave licenses to drive with no restrictions or implications of laws to be broken.
Two...
Thank you, Crypto.
Two Haitians.
I'm sorry, but it's true.
Two Haitians.
Now listen.
Unless you've been there.
Unless you've been there.
He didn't answer this question.
So what?
So what?
I'm going to tell you one little trick, which is the most important.
I've said this before.
Especially if you ever go on TV.
Never, ever let them ask you questions.
You're going to say what you want to say.
Period.
Now, when it comes to, if they say, Mr. President, what is it that you want to say about abortion?
It's coming up.
Mr. President, this is in my pre-interview.
She is going to say that you were somehow behind a move to ban abortion, to make it illegal.
Mr. President, what do you say about that?
What do you say about that?
And let him just talk to me.
This is in the preparation, and I'm going like this.
Great.
Here's how you answer that.
I am telling you, right now, I will...
Now, here's the problem.
If, if...
There is a house, if the majority of the country were to actually want a federal ban against abortion, which I cannot believe this.
And he can also say, I will never tell you what legislation I will and will not sign because I don't know how much frame, but he could say it.
I will tell you that if I'm your president, I promise you.
I'm telling you right now, I will never, this is true, ever sign anything that permanently bans reproductive rights or would result in a woman going to prison for having an abortion because that's what this is.
You're making it unlawful, illegal.
And if a woman were to do this, you've now made her a felon and perhaps a murderer and she's going to go to prison.
No.
Not in my country.
Uh-uh.
Now, let me ask you something.
How do you like that?
If I said it like that, if I said it like that, you know, we talk about right to life, and that's wonderful.
Do you want to be in a world where women are going to go, if a woman wants to terminate a pregnancy, which, by the way, I am not for, but do you think that I would be a part of something, I would sign a ban that would make her, no.
That's it.
Be done with it.
Move on.
And you've got to say it in a way that the people will say, damn, I never thought about this.
Because nobody ever thinks about what it means to prohibit abortion.
They don't know what it means.
They don't really understand it.
They don't get it.
Now I want to say something too before I forget and we'll come back to this, which is important.
Did you hear them talk about the Central Park Five?
It wasn't that big of a deal.
Last night.
In New York, it was.
If you want to go down, not a rabbit hole, I hate that phrase, but it is very complicated stuff.
Larry Elder, my good friend Larry Elder, did a wonderful interview.
I think it was an epic TV or I don't know, but he interviewed.
The case detective at the time.
There were like 30 young men involved in this thing called wilding.
They were just crazy.
They would just swarm through.
And they came upon this woman.
Her name was May Lee.
She's the Central Park jogger.
They beat her so mercilessly.
How She lived.
Why she was jogging at that, I don't know, but I'm not going to blame the victim.
But anyway, there was a fellow they got before her who they said it looked like they dipped his head in blood.
He couldn't identify his assailants, this group, 30 or so, it's hard to say who was doing what, but they were moving like in a swarm.
He couldn't see because his Orbis were fractured.
He was.
I mean, it's one thing when you're involved in, you know, but you've seen these TikTok or these videos of fights where they crush people's heads.
I mean, it's not just a fight.
It's this brutality.
People that they don't know why, and nobody knows why they did this.
Why did they turn on these people?
Why did they all of a sudden go after these poor people and beat them mercilessly?
Okay, you've got me.
This was a series called The Central Park Five.
When they were interviewing and interrogating these young men, they didn't even know.
In fact, when we first got them, they didn't even know about the woman who was in the ravine or whatever it was.
They found out later.
Listen to their...
I'm not going to say it now.
I can't say it because of sensibilities and algorithms.
But listen to the detailed explanation of what they did.
And they were claiming that Linda Fairstein or the prosecutor and others deprived them of water, didn't let them go to the bathroom, didn't let them talk to their parents.
I mean, it was just...
Now, there was another fellow, another fellow who was involved, By the way, Crypto says Alice through the looking glass.
Indeed.
There was a full page ad.
Full page.
That Donald Trump took out in the New York Times.
He said something about bring back the death penalty for people for either cop killers or people who commit murder.
He never mentioned these people.
You think that matters?
Now, if he stops too much and clarifies her accusations, which are false, he loses track of what he's doing.
If he stops what he's doing to answer her questions, to clarify something, to clear something up, then he's lost control of the narrative, so to speak.
So that's that problem.
But he never did this.
Ken Burns, Ken Burns and his daughter, I think, wanted to make this documentary so they would get the money.
I mean, these cops could not believe what they did in terms of this documentary.
I don't want to go into it, but it came up.
It came up.
And it had nothing to do.
With anything.
And again, she said it incorrectly.
Charlottesville never happened.
Even ABC debunked it.
Even Snopes, whatever the hell Snopes is, even they debunked it.
They did it.
They were the ones who said, that didn't happen.
You've got it all wrong.
Absolutely all wrong.
They say these things repeatedly, how he makes fun of the veterans.
You've heard this.
He never did.
She just repeats this stuff over and over.
And what are you supposed to do?
Well, you could do a couple of things.
Number one, you could, I guess, maybe, I don't know, let it go.
Do you correct it?
I don't know exactly what the proper way to handle it is.
There may be something that he needs to do perhaps to throw her off.
Because that's what I'm saying.
This is not a debate.
It's a gotcha.
Can you do this?
How did you look?
How did you answer the question?
What is he supposed to do?
What is he supposed to do?
What do you do?
Does he say, I'm not going to answer that because I want to ask you a question instead.
Does he say, look, I know your routine.
And I know what you're doing.
What you're trying to do.
And what's important, and I understand what you're trying to do, is you're trying to put me in the position where I'm going to stop and I'm going to lose my train of thought or lose my focus so that I can address each one of your spurious claims and lies.
I'm not going to do it.
And Mr. Muir and Lindsay, whatever, I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to do that.
I know this routine.
It's the oldest trick in the book.
I throw this out.
And I say something.
If I said, for example, I know for a fact you don't own a gun.
Then what are you supposed to do?
Stop and answer my question about the gun?
I know for a fact that you didn't.
You weren't born in Oakland, but you were born.
You're going to stop and clarify this?
Do you see how this works?
And Americans watching this knows this trick too.
It's to divert the attention away from a debater.
To answer a deliberately falsified and misleading statement.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to dignify the situation because I want to make sure that I speak to the American people.
Because as you know, this is not a debate.
We don't have a proposition in which we're debating.
This is not a debate.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm not interested in doing that.
See, I wish she could say that, but that's a lot of talking.
And, you know, by the way, there was a great, great, wonderful, wonderful joke from the Babylon Bee that says about the Taylor Swift endorsement.
She said, Let me go through this another thing to us.
9-11.
How old were you during 9-11?
Teresa Skinner.
Thank you, Teresa.
23 years ago.
23 years ago.
I was 43. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
And it started off so benign.
So didn't know what was happening.
I was watching Channel 4. I don't know why.
I don't really have it on.
But it was something.
It was our local NBC affiliate.
And a plane flew into one of the towers.
I thought it was a plane.
It was a Piper Cub or something.
I don't know why.
I just did.
And I said, this is the weirdest thing in the world.
And I called my father and said, are you watching this?
Because he's in Florida.
Do you have TV?
Of course you have TV.
Are you watching this?
Are you seeing what this is?
This is the damnedest thing I've seen.
Have you seen this?
No, I didn't.
This is really weird.
Have you seen?
No, I haven't seen it.
A plane flew into the...
And then at one point, I don't know what it was.
I don't know if that...
Happened first.
But Janice Huff, who is our weather person, said to someone, in fact, Freedom says, I have no freedom of speech on YouTube, so this will be my last, Mr. Lionel.
It's disgusting and criminally to the core.
You are a great man.
Well, thank you for that.
Remember, you can always say everything if you code it accordingly.
But thank you for that.
They said, oh, there's a fire.
That's right.
There was a fire.
And she said, play that back.
Rerack the tape.
Watch it.
And all of a sudden you see this thing.
It's like a dark...
I didn't know what it was.
It was just this...
Whatever.
I think a plane flew into the World Trade Center.
Oh my gosh.
That's unfortunate.
Nobody thought anything of it.
Nobody thought that it would bring a building down.
Nothing.
Nothing.
It never came up.
It never was a...
A part of anybody's actual concern.
Then later on, it was the second plane.
And we're thinking, wait a minute.
Now, I don't know about you.
And I will tell you this right now.
Everybody...
People say, I knew it was terrorism right away.
I wasn't paying attention.
I didn't put the two together.
I thought maybe it was a debris.
I don't know.
I just thought, oh, there's two...
The Pentagon, now we're talking about something is this.
We are under attack.
And it was a holy...
What is this?
Nobody knows anything.
There's a plane.
I went to I immediately went to or tried to go to Times Square.
David Mewdry says, artificial gravity is strictly a force from the feet up.
How do these powers of a head down if gravity is from the feet up?
Well, and I'm being very, very careful not to.
That's a very, very good one.
I have a lot of questions.
Benign indeed.
I saw both as well on TV.
I don't mean to be rude, but I've got to be very careful the way things are, because on my private channel, I can ask anything I want.
Observations, things that are just one of these, what?
If you like questions, this is the one.
See, I've always been like that all my life.
When I was a kid, I loved Bible classes.
Vito, by the way, says, I was 28. I lived in New Jersey at the time.
I grew up in New York.
I was at my job in New Jersey.
20 minutes away, they turned the TV on.
Friend couldn't get home.
That's the one, too.
When I went to Times Square, everything was shut.
People were walking around.
I saw people who normally wouldn't be talking to each other.
Let's say, like, white dudes and young black hipsters and whatever, turning to each other and saying, what the...
What is going on here?
And people were just...
And it's this sense of you don't know what's happening.
There's no, I gotta do something!
Do you understand?
We're under attack!
It's this stare.
It's this...
Movie set kind of thing.
It's bizarre.
It's bizarre.
We went, we had a local Irish pub.
For those of you who don't know what that is, in New York.
Your Irish pub, this was your...
This is where everybody went in the neighborhood, or folks who went.
When there were funerals, or weddings, or graduations, it normally was a restaurant and a pub, and you went there, and it wasn't a bar, it wasn't where people got drunk, but it was different.
But you always converged there.
And I walked in, and people were just, it was in the morning, obviously, people were just throwing them back, because, well, it's a bar.
And one of my friends came in, who's now since deceased, and she was downtown.
She was covered in, I don't know what it was, that pyroclastic kind of this powder, this lava-like powder, this pyroclastic dust.
And we're just, what's happening?
And we're watching this.
And I remember looking at people, and they looked at me, and that's something which I, just to say, what is going on here?
What's going on right now here?
Here!
I want you to imagine what it sounds like in New York, in Manhattan, obviously, for every siren, on every police car, on every ambulance, on every first responder, everything there is, everybody, every siren is on.
And horns and loud and...
All at the same time, just in this mad rush, there was one fire department right around where the Letterman office is.
By the way, later on, unbeknownst to people, he bought them a new fire truck.
The city you think would be insured, but he did this.
He did this without anybody knowing anything.
But this entire...
This entire shift, I guess this entire, none of them came back.
None.
And we go by it all the time.
It's right here.
And it just was...
TV took on a new...
This is no internet.
No nothing.
TV.
TV and radio.
TV and radio were so important.
And I'll never forget there was...
People were saying, I want to do something.
Everybody was the best.
After the sirens, it was so polite.
People were not honking at each other.
People that, you know, there's a joke that says the definition of a New York second is the time that elapses between the light turns green and somebody behind you honks.
None of that.
In an uptown A train, nobody's pushing, but nothing.
Quiet.
Quiet.
American flags everywhere.
People at corners, people.
Thank you, Spiro.
Thank you, sir.
People at corners, people at corners, people who are normally selling vendors.
All American flags.
There was a Sikh, the guy driving a cab, who had a poster he made.
He said, I am a Sikh.
I said, what is this for?
He says, I don't want them to think that I'm a Muslim.
I said, you should have a sign that says I'm not a Muslim.
Not that we weren't at that stage yet, but he was afraid because he got turbid and a lot of people don't know.
The smell, I've told you about the smell a million times.
Like the smell of a burning motor in a vacuum cleaner or something.
Metallic smells everywhere.
All of the greatest restaurateurs from 40th Street down, from, you know, the village down, or maybe, who knows.
They shut down service and they fed all the first responders.
I mean, you've got the best Boulay, Boulou, Tribeca Grill.
De Niro's place.
I mean, they really, they really did something.
Nelson says, you are blessed, Uncle Lenny.
We love you.
Thank you, my friend.
We are blessed that we're okay.
But everybody was...
And then people said, what can we bring?
And I remember, I think it was Chuck Scarborough on Channel 4. I don't know, but I'll never forget this.
He said, we need batteries for phones.
Batteries were important.
There was no place to put...
Charged batteries.
There was no place to plug them in.
And there weren't batteries that were kind of universal.
You know, the flip-top.
Just bring batteries for phones.
Batteries were critical.
Phones were going out.
There was no place to charge them.
Batteries.
Water.
Don't bring cash.
And this is the one that killed me.
I don't know why.
Why would they ask for this?
Booties.
For dogs.
For like the cadaver dogs and the dogs.
Booties.
I guess he would wrap them.
I don't know why.
But I heard this.
This is wild.
Who would have thought?
And this was the worst part.
This is the worst part.
Oh, let me say something.
This was not meant to be funny.
There was nothing funny that day.
But this was most interesting.
There was a fellow who was...
Stepping out on his wife.
Kind of like a Dave Grohl.
By the way, what a judge rule that guy is, huh?
Carla, the cooking CEO, says, driving into the city, the saddest thing was the photos at bus stops.
I saw the smoke from my home in New Jersey at the time.
I'll never forget 9-11.
My firm did pro bono work for the victims.
Oh.
Do you remember, Carla?
And thank you.
Do you remember when Rudy Giuliani green-lighted?
And he was magnificent.
He green-lighted all the declarations of death, death certificates, excuse me.
People were finding themselves, sometimes they've been inscrupulous people, some people were claiming to be dead and they weren't.
They didn't show up to court, they...
Left their family.
You know, who knows?
Because when people left in the morning, you don't know where they're going.
These were too massive.
You could have gone to downtown.
You could have done, you know, whatever.
You don't know.
When somebody doesn't come home, they didn't check and register where you could have been on the 50th floor.
Anyway.
But there was a guy who was fooling around on his wife.
And she calls him up.
Oh, and he happened to be.
A security guard.
This was in the Daily News.
You can read this.
He was a security guard or something downtown at the towers.
And his wife calls him and says, How are you doing?
And she's watching it.
He goes, Fine.
He knew.
He had a place somewhere in Brighton Beach or something.
I don't know.
He was with his girlfriend.
So the story goes.
She says, So, you near a TV?
Yeah.
He goes, Turn it on.
What channel?
Any channel.
Now he looked and there was the site of the building that he was supposed to be the security guard at.
Wow.
You mentioned the pictures.
You mentioned the saddest thing.
This is the one that killed me.
As you know, whenever there's...
They take a building down or they're doing construction.
They'll have a chain-link fence around this, kind of like an empty little lot.
It's amazing, these little tiny lots and how they put a building up.
It's just amazing.
Anyway, there'll be a little chain-link fence, you know.
And everywhere, everybody put pictures that said, have you seen my uncle or brother or husband or son?
And the pictures, they were kind of...
Second, third, they kind of went to like, you know, photocopy Kinko's or whatever the version is.
And you couldn't really make out.
I'm thinking to myself, do you think they're lost?
Do you think I'm going to run into this guy?
I'm going to say, hey, are you that fellow?
Do you live in Parsippany?
Well, you know what?
Your family's looking for you.
I mean, I'm not trying to mock it.
They were so desperate.
They thought, I've got to do something.
And there were these pictures all over the planet.
And I was going to keep on that.
No, I can't keep it.
It's ghoulish.
No, I thought for a second, you know, this would be something for it.
No, leave it.
It was unbelievable.
But here's the best part.
I keep saying the best part.
Don't take it the wrong way.
I don't mean best at all.
If you know the geography of Manhattan, There are a few streets that go east to west all the way across.
57th, 42nd, 34th, 14th, 23rd, 77th.
They go all the way across.
And 57th is huge.
It goes from the East River all the way to the Hudson.
Straight down.
And at the time I was in Hell's Kitchen, kind of near 10th, 11th, something like that.
About 10th.
CBS is there, 60 Minutes, you know that kind of thing.
And that night, as I walked out on 57 and looked down, everybody, and I mean everybody, I don't know where they came from.
They took candles, the paper plate, they put a hole in the candle, they lit the candle, they held the candle in front of stores, in front of doorsteps, from the Hudson to the East River, all the way down.
It was eerie.
There was this little, these little parks they have.
These little parks.
One's called Ballsley.
It's like 57th and 9th, you know.
And it's, somebody came up and just handed me this candle.
And nobody's saying anything.
Nobody's doing anything.
They're just, David Moodrie says, New York Times, October the 2nd.
Scarred Steel Holds Clues.
A very interesting read.
Oh, yes, indeed.
Johnny Mass says, I remember seeing a fire truck from Detroit there.
Yes.
In fact, when you also go to West Orange, New Jersey, there is a 9-11 kind of a lookout, or not lookout, but a part where you look out and overlook, so to speak.
And it had people from all over everywhere watching this movie.
This movie.
And you just can't believe it.
And when you would meet people, by the way, if somebody had a lanyard or somebody was a fireman, Anybody cops, too.
Cops, but firemen could not buy a drink anywhere.
Anywhere.
Meal, drink, nothing.
They were gold.
They were just...
And I'm not saying this.
The NYPD, who always was the subject of TV shows, always was the masculine purveyors of daring do.
They...
We're second to the firemen.
Firemen were just, oh my God.
They were, women wanted their daughters to marry firemen.
It changed everything.
The whole, it was considered, you know, in the old days, kind of like they were, you know, laborers and not anymore.
And it went on and people just, it was these, And at that time, everybody felt so, so, not proud of being American, that's the wrong term, but so committed to this idea that we're in on this one.
We're in this.
We're all in this together, brother.
There's a great Cam Fong as Chin Ho.
We're in this.
It was something that I wish we could feel that again without having to go through this.
This is before any of the theories, any of the questions.
Nobody knew.
We just...
Remember, there's no internet.
I mean, 1996 started, but it was so...
Nothing.
Nothing like now.
Nothing like now.
And yet we knew more of what was going on at the time than we do now, which is one of the paradoxes.
And I don't know what we're supposed to do when we say never forget.
Okay, never forget.
Okay.
Now, I was listening to people who have made an absolute a cottage industry in dissecting, going through, and I was listening to one fellow today, just for a while, and he was so snotty as to how he knew.
He knew what was going on.
He knew.
Nobody else knew.
Because he's the smartest one and yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I always believe that if people want to pursue it, whatever the story it is, that's fine.
A lot of folks don't want to go there.
And I understand why.
Listen to this.
The first time It was the first anniversary.
And they had this area.
There's this part where the building was.
And it was like a reflecting pool.
But all the names are there.
And it's very beautiful.
And they were pretty much dedicating it for the first time.
It was the first time anybody ever really saw it.
And they were reading out the names of all.
And they still do it.
They ring the bell.
And they read the names of these people.
All of a sudden.
All of a sudden, like something from Central Casting, there was a wind.
There was this breeze.
There was this gust.
A zephyr.
Call it what you want.
It came out of nowhere.
And it just...
Right at the...
And you're thinking, where did this...
All the buildings around it keep wind out.
I don't know what it was.
You can imagine whether it was the souls, the spirits, kind of a Sullivan Blue thing.
I don't know.
But it was.
And when you go to this area, and if you believe that souls and people who are removed in an untimely way, by virtue of catastrophe or whatever, people who don't die naturally, but people who die, Suddenly, dangerously, incorrectly, that their souls, that this becomes haunted.
This place, and you can see it right now, this new Freedom Tower, I can't even get near it.
Just this whole area, there's this big apple, kind of a complex apple.
There's something, it's weird.
I don't know what I believe.
I don't say I really believe in anything regarding this.
I feel it.
And Mrs. L feels the same way.
We feel this sense of this is not right.
This is the energy.
I don't want to read into it because I don't know.
I'm not an expert.
All I know is what I feel.
And I hate it.
I don't feel good.
I don't care how far away it is.
There's something about that area that is so psychically unsettling.
Kendra Setlo, Norwegian citizens in Oslo, were stopping Americans on the street and giving us condolences.
They brought hundreds of bouquets to the U.S. Embassy.
Isn't that something?
Do you know that Vladimir Putin spoke very kindly towards American citizens?
I remember I saw this today.
In Tehran, They had a candlelight vigil.
I mean, it was incredible.
People really felt for us.
And before you know it, we squandered it all, which is another story altogether.
But it was something that was...
So that's what today was.
Now, what did we learn from it?
Good luck with that.
Good luck trying to figure out what that is.
But it was something I shan't forget ever.
It was just incredible.
So that is that, my friends.
In any event, I thank you.
I want to say one more thing.
Tomorrow, it's official.
Nobody's going to talk about this debate.
I mean, there might be a few people here or there, but it's over.
It's done.
It's finished.
Whatever happens, I already forgot.
Not everybody saw it.
Not everybody cares.
Not everybody's paying attention.
Trump is going to be victorious in this.
All of the signs are there.
Things can go wrong.
I'm not going to mention ballots anymore, but you know where my mind is regarding that.
Keep an eye on that.
But if this is allowed to proceed, unfettered, unaffected, uncontaminated, I promise you, he's going to win.
And people will never remember or talk about this debate because it has nothing to do, the debate is not an election.
So Kendra, thank you.
Johnny Mazz, thank you so much.
David Mewdry.
Carla, the cooking CEO.
Nelson A. Spiro.
Thank you.
Vito.
Crypto.
Domini.
Freedom.
Teresa Skinner.
Thank you.
Clifford.
Donald Ellsworth.
35 Duluth.
Thank you.
John Lies.
Freedom.
Clapton.
Kelly McKinnon.
Thank you.
OA.
Thank you for your kindness.
Bobby Dowd.
Let me see who else is here.
Kevin, thank you.
Mio Dell, I think.
Soul76, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Immensely.
Thank you.
And Laurie says, by the way, I'm very sorry, Elle.
I know you lost loved ones.
I knew some, we had some friends, and I knew we had, there was a few firefighters, and I think there was one, I think, I think there was one cop who was there at the time, but we were very lucky.
And that in no way even remotely compares to what people went through, what they lost.
Not at all.
I don't even begin to suggest that.
In any event, dear friends, thank you.
Tomorrow, with a later start, it's 11 a.m. in the morning.
Not 8 o 'clock, 11 a.m.
So we'll see you then.
All right, dear friends, have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change in me that sincerely.
And until then, remember, this is your new best friend, Lionel, reminding you.