Ep. 1125 - Democrats Finally Found Enough Votes To Win!
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Over the weekend, on day five of counting the ballots, Democrats claimed victory in both the Nevada and Arizona Senate races, giving them control of the Senate no matter what happens in the upcoming Georgia runoff.
There's lots to be said about those races and all the things that could have been done differently.
But before we get into any of that, in the spirit of bipartisanship, I would just like to congratulate the Democrats on I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show, my My favorite comment on Friday is from Leo Liovich, who says, Arizona, 7 million people, takes three weeks to count the ballots.
Florida, 21 million people, takes one day to count the ballots.
They better start teaching them to count.
Over 100 in the Arizona schools.
The problem is, I think they do teach them how to count in Arizona.
I think that those Arizona Democrats know how to count real well.
And that actually is the reason why it took so long for them to count.
And until Republicans get serious about those issues, they can expect more of those same results in the purple states, in the states that don't take care of the election integrity measures.
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Pretty weird stuff out there in Nevada.
Really disappointing and kind of really makes you scratch your head because the race went from plus 2% for the Republican Adam Laxalt with only 20% of the vote left to count all the way to plus 0.5% for Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democrat.
So that means that every single precinct, just about, that was counted later, where all those ballots came in later, pretty much all of them broke very, very heavily for the Democrat.
Incredibly heavily, you might say.
Now, it's a little weird, too, when you look at the breakdown between the Senate race there in Nevada and the governor's race in Nevada, because...
What you see there is that more people voted in the Senate race than in the governor's race.
It's kind of weird to think that someone would walk into a ballot box.
Well, I guess we don't do that anymore.
But that someone would fill out a mail-in ballot and then only vote in the Senate race and not vote in the governor's race.
That would be kind of weird.
It's also kind of weird that 16,000 people might vote for Catherine Cortez Mastro, the Senate candidate, that would not vote for Sisolak, the governor.
Governor candidate.
That's kind of weird.
It's also kind of weird that the live stream cameras covering the vote counting areas in Washoe County in Nevada just went down in the middle of the night.
They went completely dark from 11.24 p.m.
on the night of November 9th all the way until 7.53 a.m.
on the morning of November 10th.
Just coincidentally right there in the middle of the night, right while they're in the heat of counting all of those votes.
It's kind of weird, don't you think?
Don't you think that's just a little bit weird?
But you're not allowed to say that, you see.
Because if you raise any questions whatsoever about these votes that take a long, long time to count with all these kinds of weird irregularities and the voting machines break in Arizona and then the security cameras break in Nevada and then the numbers are kind of implausible, actually.
If you raise any of those questions, you are, of course...
An election denier.
Ooh, spooky.
So I made this point.
On Twitter, I said, the longer it takes to tally the votes, the less inclined you ought to be to believe the results.
This is pretty basic stuff, folks.
This is the kind of stuff that Barack Obama said 10 years ago.
This is the kind of stuff that both parties used to agree on.
And the tweet went viral because it's true and people know that it's true.
And then once these results came in, it's just amazing how whenever it's a real nail biter, takes a long time to count.
For some reason, it seems almost always to go to the Democrat in those cases.
And so I joked, as I joked in my monologue, I said, you know, congratulations to the Democrats on finding the number of votes they needed in a shorter period of time this time.
and And a lot of people thought this was kind of funny.
It's either laugh or cry, I guess.
There's a man, Ian Bremmer, who is...
Basically the voice of the liberal establishment.
He's one of the great exemplars of the liberal establishment.
Especially on foreign policy, but on domestic policy as well.
And Ian Bremmer...
I retweeted my post and said, thankfully, hard to find active election deniers post-midterms, but still a few out there, like me, I guess, because I'm pointing out that it's a little weird how the election was conducted in Nevada and Arizona.
I'm not raising questions, by the way, about Pennsylvania.
I wish we didn't have the mail-in ballots.
I mean, there are certain things we still need to do to tighten up election integrity.
But I'm not raising questions about a whole bunch of states.
I'm raising questions about the states where they seem to have those malfunctions, and it seems to take a really long time to count all the votes.
The sort of states where, if they were foreign countries, the U.S. State Department would be now running an investigation into the subversion of democracy.
If it took Argentina or Iraq, the amount of time to tally the votes that it's taking Nevada and Arizona, there would be calls from the UN, from the US State Department for an investigation because of a subversion of democracy.
But because it's happening in our own country, we just turn a blind eye because it benefits the Democrats.
So anyway, I point this out and Ian Bremmer calls me an election denier.
Nobody who uses the phrase election denier in earnest is to be taken seriously.
It's one of those phrases that is simply used as a cudgel to club people over the head, to club your political opponents over the head.
The Democrats are very good at this kind of rhetoric, and this is one of those phrases.
The phrase election denier It was established and is propagated to call to mind Holocaust deniers.
It's kind of a weird phrase to call someone a denier of anything.
That's the point.
That's why they also say climate denier now.
If you don't think that the sun monster is going to kill all of mankind in 10 years, well, Ocasio-Cortez made that prediction like four years ago.
So now we're down to what?
Six years?
Eight years?
I don't know.
But if you question that thesis, you're not called a skeptic.
You're not called a rational person, as you should be.
You're called an election denier.
And the whole point is to draw a comparison to Holocaust deniers.
So I think this is very silly.
It's also especially silly because the Democrats are the ones who have been rejecting the results of elections much longer than Republicans, with much less of a reason to do so, and in many more cases than the Republicans are doing that.
Nobody has faith in the electoral system that we currently have.
Nobody has faith in it.
The Democrats don't have faith in it because they accuse Republicans of suppressing the vote.
And furthermore, because the Democrats don't believe that we are legitimate participants in our sacred democracy.
They say that we're fascists and terrorists and a domestic threat, and we're threatening the whole country by our very existence.
That's why the Democrats don't accept the election results when we win.
We don't accept some of the election results when they win, sometimes because they rig the elections and brag about it in Time magazine.
And they're allowed to say that, and that's really good, and they're allowed to brag about it in their magazines.
The moment that we bring it up, though, with any kind of criticism, that, of course, is unacceptable, and we're election deniers and we're threat to our democracy.
So what's going on in the House?
The House right now is still up in the air.
The Senate, the Democrats took it.
Took them four days, but they figured out how to keep the Senate.
Now the House of Representatives is up in the air.
It's going to come down to some races, probably in California.
There is some maybe good news, which is that Lauren Boebert's district in Colorado, I like Lauren a lot.
She's a friend of mine.
She's a conservative.
Lauren is up a little bit over her Democrat challenger, Adam Frisch.
This very likely will come down to a recount.
The recount could take weeks, so...
Don't hold your breath.
And then the control of the House will very likely come down to some California races.
We're looking in Orange County at Katie Porter, Democrat.
Michael Levin, Democrat.
They're holding on to slim leads there in Orange County.
Ventura County's 26th District, Representative Julia Brownlee was reelected.
The Republican, Matt Jacobs, had made kind of a move, might have threatened her, but that went to her.
Then we've got, well, we've got California's 13th congressional district.
That's going to be a tight one.
There's the 22nd.
That's a tight one.
So anyway, there's just a lot of races.
And if we're waiting for California to give us a great hope of a Republican country, then probably we're going to be waiting a very, very long time.
I can't help but notice, can't help but notice that when we talk about the red wave and why didn't the red wave materialize?
The red wave did materialize in some states.
Materialized in Florida, that's for sure.
Now, a lot of people are saying, well, it materialized in Florida because of the leadership of Ron De Santis.
No doubt there's a lot of truth to that.
But it didn't only materialize in Florida.
It materialized in Texas.
It materialized in Ohio.
It materialized, I can't help but notice, in the places that after the last election took election integrity seriously.
So yeah, you can give a lot of credit to Ron De Santis for that.
Forget about all the other things DeSantis has done.
He took election integrity seriously.
He tightened up the election rules.
They did the same thing in Texas.
They did the same thing in Ohio.
You've got to wonder, had they tightened up the election rules, made it a little less prone to fraud in places like Arizona, like Nevada, would we have seen that red wave trickle out in the way that we did?
Is it really, the consensus narrative right now is, the right-wing conservative candidates are just not playing very well.
We need to go very squishy and moderate.
And Trump is really bad, and we need to just become the party of Mitt Romney again.
That's the consensus narrative, certainly on the left, but in certain quarters of the right as well.
I don't think that is really borne out by the facts.
Look what happened in Florida.
Look what happened in Texas.
Look at Ohio.
For goodness sakes, J.D. Vance was running as an extraordinarily Trumpian candidate in Ohio.
I don't think that was necessarily the takeaway.
I think the takeaway is probably the advice that FDR gave to LBJ when LBJ lost one of his first political races.
FDR said, you did a great job campaigning, but you forgot to sit on the ballot box.
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The establishment line on the midterm elections is that it's totally Trump's fault and Trump needs to go.
Here you have it from longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz.
When he's attacking the next generation of Republican leadership, mark my words, the party's going to turn against him.
And the angrier he gets at other conservative Republicans, the more that they're going to punish him with a loss of support and a loss of faith and confidence in his message and what he brings to the I would tell him to take a very long vacation,
simply disappear for the next 30 days because he's destroying himself every single day by attacking Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin, people who other Republicans respect and appreciate and voted for in big numbers in the previous elections.
you might agree with that advice.
You might disagree with that advice.
Regardless, though, the problem is that Frank Luntz, having been around for a very long time in GOP politics, having close associations with the more establishment leadership in the House of Representatives especially, but in the whole GOP, he doesn't have a ton of credibility having close associations with the more establishment leadership in the House When people like Frank Luntz attack Donald Trump or even sort of concern troll and say, listen, I'm really worried about you, sir.
You need to stop doing what you're doing.
You need to stop attacking your primary rivals.
You need to just kind of go away for a little while.
When people like Frank Luntz do that, it doesn't carry any weight because Frank Luntz has not liked Donald Trump from the beginning and represents a part of the GOP that Donald Trump came in to destroy.
When Donald Trump came in in 2015, that was a hostile takeover of the GOP.
When people said Donald Trump's not a real Republican, Trump's answer and the answer of his supporters was you're damn right.
That's the point.
I'm not a regular Republican.
That's why I'm doing so well.
You're seeing similar attacks from the lieutenant governor in Virginia.
It's Winsome Sears, the lieutenant governor to Glenn Youngkin, is going out on TV now, especially after Donald Trump came out and attacked her boss and ticket mate, Glenn Youngkin.
And Winsome Sears says, it's time for the party to move past Donald Trump.
When we look at the mission and as a Marine we're looking at the mission and you know the voters have spoken and they have said that they want a different leader and a true leader understands when they have become a liability a true leader understands that it's time to step off the stage and the voters have given us that very clear message.
So does that apply within the Republican Party, Lieutenant Governor, to Donald Trump, that it's time to step off the stage?
Yes, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
And indeed, that's where we are today.
And as I said before, America is the prize.
Why do we want to win elections?
It's because we've got to learn to love each other, live together, govern together, and the voters are saying enough is enough.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Why do we want to win elections so we can all sort of just kumbaya together?
That's not why I want to win elections.
Yes, I do want to love one another.
Yes, I do want to take care of our fellow citizens.
And the way we're going to do that is not by getting together in a drum circle and passing the peace pipe and just coming together.
That will be a consequence of conservative government.
We want to win elections so that we can have conservative government and we can suppress the bad stuff that the libs are doing and we can enact the good stuff and we can suppress falsehood and we can promote truth and we can suppress ugliness and promote beauty.
I don't want to win just so we can all just kind of get along, man.
I want to win so that we can win, so that we can do stuff.
The purpose of winning is not just so that we can have some R's in office and they can get invited to the cocktail parties.
The purpose of winning is not to say, okay, that's the end of the fight, but that's the beginning of the fight.
To wield government power with justice, within proper limits, in a very moral way, to do good, to actually do stuff, okay?
And not to just maintain this desiccated liberal status quo.
This is why when people hear this kind of stuff from Winsome Sears, and Winsome Sears has an impressive record in many ways.
Not saying she's the number one star in the GOP, she's going to be running for president in 2024, but she's got an impressive background.
And winning that race with Glenn Youngkin in Virginia was a very important thing, especially because it's a purple commonwealth.
But I think when voters hear from kind of regular run-of-the-mill politicians, which compared to Donald Trump, everybody is a regular run-of-the-mill politician.
When they hear the stuff of, we just need to come together, you know, we just need to kumbaya, they reject that.
They recoil from that.
Because I think, no, I don't want it.
We kumbaya'd for a long time.
We kumbaya'd with Romney.
We kumbaya'd with John McCain.
We kumbaya'd with John Boehner.
We kumbaya'd with all these people who sold our country out and basically just conceded on every major fight to the Democrats.
It's not that there are no legitimate criticisms of Donald Trump.
It's not that there are no legitimate arguments for Trump even in 2024, arguments against his running.
But attacks from people who are viewed as opposed to him from the very beginning are going to do nothing other than boost support for Trump.
Case in point, Larry Hogan, Larry Hogan, governor of Maryland, says Donald Trump lost us the midterms and so he's got to go away.
Look, this should have been a huge red wave.
It should have been one of the biggest red waves we've ever had because President Biden's approval rating was so low, one of the lowest historically.
More than 70% of the people thought the country was going in the wrong direction.
And yet we still didn't perform.
And I think common sense conservatives that focused on talking about issues people cared about, like the economy and crime and education, they did win.
But people who tried to re-litigate the 2020 election and focused on conspiracy theories and talked about things the voters didn't care about, they were almost universally rejected.
And I think it's basically the third election in a row that Donald Trump has cost us the race.
And it's like, you know, three strikes, you're out.
Okay, that's an argument.
That's an argument that you're going to hear repeated a lot.
The problem for that argument is the people who are making it.
Because no conservative in America cares what Larry Hogan thinks about anything.
Larry Hogan is a big lib.
So no one cares.
He comes from the Romney wing of the party.
And so anyone that you're trying to persuade with that argument is not going to be persuaded by Larry Hogan.
Very, very few people are.
This is why...
The 2022 midterms are going to be fought over for a very long time.
Democrats are fighting over it right now by counting all those ballots, but the Republicans are going to fight over it too, and they're going to be fighting over who to blame.
Right now, the sort of consensus mainstream narrative is it's all Trump's fault, and the Trump candidates lost, and the non-Trump candidates won.
Now, I don't think this is really borne out by the data.
The The way that you can make that argument is by disregarding the 100 plus, well over 100 candidates that Trump endorsed who won.
His record was pretty good, but then what the people who blame Trump will say is, no, no, no, but in the crucial races, in the ones that were kind of tight and questionable, Trump's endorsements were really, really bad.
And Trump did make some questionable endorsements in 2022.
There's no doubt about that.
But then you're going to see a question of, what exactly is at fault here?
Is it election integrity?
Is it the mail-in ballots?
Is it the week-long vote counts?
Is it all the rest of it?
Donald Trump, is it?
And there's good arguments for both of those things.
Texas, Florida, and Ohio, that's a good argument for the election integrity side of it.
Dr.
Oz was not a great candidate.
That's a good argument for blaming Trump.
Okay.
Or were there larger factors in play as well?
Was abortion an issue?
Abortion very well did play a disproportionate role.
I think it was totally worth it if we can overrule Roe v.
Wade, but that's a question that's going to factor in here.
There are all sorts of issues.
But people are not just going to move on.
They're not going to say, okay, the election's over, we're going to move on.
One, we can't move on because there's still a runoff and the Democrats are still finding ballots in Washoe County.
Or at least they were a couple days ago.
But the reason we can't move on is that, as has been the case from the beginning, the 2022 midterms are little more than a facade for a kind of puppet match for the 2024 presidential primary, which has already the 2022 midterms are little more than a facade for a And we're going to need energy for that primary.
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And specifically in favor of DeSantis, though I guess you could make this argument about other GOP candidates, but right now DeSantis would be the guy to benefit from it, is that Donald Trump's poll numbers are strong.
That's the argument.
It seems like it's not an argument for DeSantis, and it is an argument, but Donald Trump's poll numbers are strong and steady, and they don't really move up all that much.
Whereas...
Other candidates, and specifically DeSantis, they've got a lot of runway in front of them.
So Morning Consul just did this poll.
Donald Trump's support has dipped in recent months.
That's the headline that you see in the media.
However, if you look at the poll numbers and you take out some of the kind of jumps and falls, the consistent numbers you see, it's about 48% of potential GOP voters supporting him.
Now, in August, he reached a high of 57%, but then he dipped right back down to 48% in November.
Now, Ron DeSantis, his numbers are quite different.
Back in May of 2021, Ron DeSantis was polling at 8%.
Now, 26% say that they would support him in a 2024 Republican GOP primary, which is very impressive considering that Ron DeSantis has not publicly stated that he intends to run.
I think most people expect him to run.
He's clearly building a national campaign.
He's clearly talking to donors.
But that's very impressive numbers.
And so, if you're looking at these two numbers, then you've got to think, okay, 48% is very, very impressive.
But if that's the wall...
Then it doesn't matter.
48% and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee.
You have to be able to grow in the campaign, depending on who runs and how the numbers shake out.
Whereas, if DeSantis is jumping 8% to 26%, wow, sky's the limit.
How far can he go?
Now, there's another little wrinkle here, though.
That's the argument you're going to be hearing from the DeSantis stands.
But then there's another wrinkle here, which is, what about that little blip?
Hold on, wait, what's going on?
In August?
DeSantis' number, or Trump's numbers rather, jumped to 57% among potential GOP voters.
Whoa, how do you go from 48% to 57%?
What happened around August that would have done that?
Oh, right.
Joe Biden targeted Donald Trump and sicked his federal agents to kick down the door at Mar-a-Lago and steal his stuff.
Oh, right.
The New York Attorney General was talking about indicting Donald Trump.
Oh, right, you hear the entire political establishment moving to attack Trump.
And this is very likely going to determine how Trump rises or falls.
It has, I think, little to do with what Ron DeSantis does.
He's already doing everything he can do.
He's a great governor of Florida.
And he's putting himself in the national news cycle.
And he's playing his cards perfectly.
I don't think there's anything more DeSantis can do.
So what's going to determine it?
I think what's going to determine it is how hard the liberal establishment goes after Trump.
One of the reasons that some people are still preferring Trump over DeSantis, I think probably the main reason, is that the establishment just freaking hates Donald Trump.
And they clearly want to kill this man, and they're doing everything they can.
In some cases, it seems illegally...
Or certainly unprecedentedly as a legal matter to stop this guy from running in 2024.
And the fact that the liberal establishment is going after him so hard is for many people a strong argument to support him.
Because it tells many people, man, this guy is still the one who's right over the target.
This guy is still this agent of chaos.
This guy is still a completely unpredictable, uncontrollable man.
for all of his flaws, and he has myriad flaws, this guy is still something kind of special.
If Joe Biden and the DOJ and the whole establishment keeps coming after Donald Trump, expect that 48% number to go up again.
Expect it to spike to 57%.
Expect Trump to do well in the primary.
Expect him to take the nomination.
If the establishment ignores Trump with these kinds of numbers, and if Donald Trump keeps irritating some of his supporters, then maybe you could see a big opening, especially for someone like Ron DeSantis, who's playing his cards totally right and who is very, very popular with who's playing his cards totally right and who is very, very popular
Now, there's another argument against Trump, which is on this exact same point, and I haven't heard other people talking about it, which is, if you believe that the establishment is very corrupt and they rig elections and they're doing things to Donald Trump that are unprecedented and probably illegal, Then you've got to ask yourself this.
Okay, so you're going to nominate Trump because of that.
But then don't you think they're just not going to let him win?
If you're really saying that things are as bad as you say that they are, then they're not going to let him win, right?
But then, of course, the answer to that kind of musing is, well, sure, but I'm not just going to go along and play their game.
If the establishment says, pick anybody other than Trump, I'm not going to play along with that, because then I've already lost, because then I'm allowing them to control who the GOP nominee is.
These are the forces that are at play.
I think where most of the conversation is right now is about why did Trump send out that tweet or fake tweet?
Why did he send out that truth social comment?
Why did he send it?
Why is he talking about Glenn Youngkin?
Well, come on.
Why is he doing that?
Hey, look at these great policies in Florida and Virginia.
And sure, that...
Right, that all plays.
But the crucial factors here, the things that actually move the numbers, are going to be coming from different sources.
And a lot of it is going to depend on how the ruling class treats the Donald, treats the former president.
There's kind of a relation to Twitter.
You know, Twitter now is...
In absolute chaos, and Elon Musk is another agent of chaos and agent of change.
Elon Musk comes in, and he just democratized the blue checkmark.
The tyranny of the blue checks is over.
Because now, if you pay eight bucks, you too can have your own blue checkmark.
Now, why would you do that?
I don't know, because now, if everyone can have a blue checkmark, then the blue checkmark doesn't mean anything.
But think about what that means.
The blue checkmark The blue checkmark means that this person is who he says he is.
And the reason it developed in the first place is because if you had public figures, then you would have lots of accounts come in to impersonate those public figures.
So you needed a checkmark to say, who is the actual public figure?
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
Now, the meaning of the checkmark started to change long before Elon Musk showed an interest in Twitter.
It was when Richard Spencer, the white identitarian activist, aroused the ire of everybody and all the people in Silicon Valley.
And so they took his checkmark away.
It was very strange.
They took his checkmark away, why?
Because he was no longer Richard Spencer?
Did he cease to be Richard Spencer?
No, it's because they recognized that the blue checkmark connoted not just A sort of identity, not just a verification, but a certain prestige.
If you had a blue checkmark, you were very, very fancy.
It was the sort of lords and serfs model of Twitter.
And now Elon has totally changed that, and the blue checkmark just means you paid $8.
It's the same sort of thing that happens with our republic or our sacred democracy.
You hear that phrase.
When Ian Bremmer or somebody calls me an election denier because I raise basic questions about why the security cameras went out for eight hours or why it's taking five days to count the votes.
Stuff that any normal person would have been able to ask five years ago, but we're not allowed to ask it anymore.
And when the Democrats refer to our sacred democracy...
They don't say our republic because they want to tie our form of government to their own party, which is the Democrat Party.
And it's ironic because when the word democracy pops up, it doesn't pop up in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
It does crop up in the Federalist Papers, always negatively, always disapproval.
But anyway, they refer to our democracy.
But one has to recognize that our democracy or our republic or just our system of government is not the same one that it used to be.
The way that our government works today is not the way that it worked in 1796.
The way that our government works today is not the way that it worked in 1885 or 1955.
It has changed dramatically over time.
So we use the same terms to refer to our government.
Our democracy, our republic, our whatever.
But we're not referring to the same thing.
We have the same symbol, just like the blue checkmark.
It's the same symbol, but it means something totally different than it used to mean even just a few years ago.
And whereas it may not have been proper or right to raise questions about the elections 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 50 years ago.
The system has changed.
The system of elections has changed.
And the conservatives are a little bit slow on this.
But it's the liberals' main trick.
I mean, this is the thesis of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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Is that the Democrats are just much more adept at using language.
And that they pervert language as the primary means of achieving their political ends.
So when they refer to these things, when they refer to men as women, or when they refer to foreign nationals as undocumented dreaming future Americans, or when they refer to rigged elections that they admitted or rigged in Time Magazine or when they refer to rigged elections that they admitted or rigged in Time Magazine as the persistent and enduring symbol of our sacred They're deceiving you.
And then they gaslight you whenever you raise the question, whenever you point out that the way that they're describing things does not correspond to reality.
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Things are not always what they seem.
You especially see this in the case of FTX. And Sam Bankman Freed.
Have you seen this guy?
I have no idea what this was.
Because you know me, I'm a boomer.
You know, I'm older than a boomer.
I'm whatever Joe Biden is.
That's what I am, at least in my mind.
That's at least how I identify.
So I'm not really into crypto or, you know, computers or, I don't know, Donkey Kong or whatever you kids are playing out there.
So I didn't know who this guy was or what his exchange was.
FTX was a crypto exchange headquartered in the Bahamas.
It was launched in 2019.
It had accrued 1 million users by this year.
And all of a sudden, users demanded their money.
So there was a run on this exchange.
They demanded $6 billion in withdrawals.
And the exchange collapsed.
Why did they demand the $6 billion in withdrawals?
They demanded it because of an article published by Coindesk which revealed that the two arms of this guy's empire, Sam Bankman Freed, were sharing a lot of assets, were doing lots of dodgy stuff.
So he had the exchange and he had sort of like a hedge fund.
And there was a back door that was allowing the money to go between the two.
And so their balance sheets were totally bogus and the thing was pretty much a Ponzi scheme.
This comes out...
Bankman Freed goes broke.
And I'm not sure that people even know where he is right now.
It's just he's either the Madoff of our generation or it's the Enron of our generation.
It's a major, major financial scandal and crime and collapse.
Now, why does that matter?
I always thought the crypto thing was weird, so I never got all that into it.
But people have got, you know, people, I mean, major institutions invested in crypto.
And so why does it matter Why is it interesting to us?
Well, it has nothing to do with crypto or the Bahamas or anything like that.
It has everything to do with Sam Bankman-Fried's extracurricular activities, his hobbies.
Bankman-Fried was the number two donor to the Democratic Party this cycle.
Number one is George Soros.
You're not allowed to say that, though.
It's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to mention who the largest donor to the Democrat Party is.
George Soros, who...
I don't think he's exactly a practicing Jew, last I checked.
But anyway, the libs tell me it's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, and I'm not allowed to mention that he's the number one donor.
Well, the number two donor is this guy, Sam Bankman, Freed.
Sam Bankman-Fried gave at least $38 million to left-wing causes and political action committees and candidates.
This is what they do.
This is what the Libs do.
They...
They use their clout, they use their social prestige, they use their money to puff up even more their semblance of virtue, they make it seem like they're the most altruistic, wonderful, caring people in the world, and yet the point is always to give them breathing room and to give them an opportunity to fill their pockets more and more.
You see this on some of the Great Reset.
When we talk about the Great Reset, the fact that the Libs are trying to make people eat bugs, and the Libs are trying to make people live in these gigantic, awful skyscrapers in these tiny little pods, and that the Great Reset, which is this project of the World Economic Forum, which involves some of the most powerful people on Earth, who say explicitly, you will own nothing and be happy.
You will not have any possessions...
The flowery arguments that they make at their conference in Davos...
This is for the good of humanity.
This will allow the human collective to grow and progress.
And the funny thing about all of their schemes and their plans, a lot of which revolve around climate change, but they have all sorts of other doomsday prophecies, overpopulation, all the rest of it.
The funny thing about all their schemes to address all of these Armageddon scenarios is It's that all the schemes always seem to make those people richer.
Isn't that kind of weird?
It's not just simple enough to say, well, this is a movement from the radical leftists who are trying to push their utopian vision on the world.
Yeah, sure, that's part of it.
It's also capital.
It's also deeply entrenched, moneyed interests who use all this woke nonsense as a smokescreen to fill their pockets more and more.
It's also that.
And that's what you saw from Sam Bankman Freed.
But it was all an illusion.
Speaking of left-wing, Democrat illusions and delusions, an MSNBC panelist is floating a ticket for 2024.
Of all that I've heard, you know, we've heard about We need DeSantis.
Oh yeah, DeSantis is great.
We need Trump.
I still like Trump.
A lot of people don't like him anymore.
I still like Trump.
We need, I don't know, Ted Cruz.
I love Ted Cruz.
That'd be great.
We need this guy.
We need that guy.
We need this guy.
I've now heard, this is my favorite ticket.
MSNBC, take it away.
Let me throw out a couple of other names if I can.
So you've got Val Demings, right?
You've got Liz Cheney.
Sherry Beasley, Tim Ryan, a top Democrat suggested to me, watch for Tim Ryan in years in the future to run for president.
I mean, I don't know.
Do you count these folks out?
Are many of them maybe the right candidate in the wrong state?
Well, what about if we pair up Liz Cheney and Stacey Abrams and actually start talking about universal voting and election reform?
I could see them doing kind of a czar thing with the administration that's completely bipartisan.
That would be exciting.
I mean, it does turn over.
It does.
But there's commissions that the president can create.
And there is definitely an appetite for this kind of movement.
There's not one American who has not experienced an election day and said, this is flawed.
There has to be a better way.
Before I get to her point on elections, yes, I endorse this ticket.
I will campaign for Cheney Abrams in the Democrat primary.
Yes, this is what we need.
If Cheney Abrams run in 2024 some of the biggest losers in the United States, even with The power going out and the water pipes bursting and the cameras turning off and the machines malfunctioning.
Even with that, Republicans will win 57 states.
So, let's do it, baby.
I'm in.
All of the 57 states that Barack Obama remembered, that's what the Republicans are going to win if they get it.
On her point, though, she makes a very important point here.
She says they should run on election reform.
Election reform is very important to people.
Now, she is describing election reform as make it even easier to cheat, rig it even more for the Democrats.
She calls it universal voting.
What does that mean?
Everybody has the legal right to vote in America.
Everybody's had the legal right to vote for a century and a half.
Everybody has had the federal government enforcing the legal right to vote for, what, 60 years now, at least.
So, what is she possibly talking about?
She's saying basically...
Make sure that every single person casts a ballot.
That means more ballot harvesting.
It means fewer idea requirements.
It means a lot more dead people voting.
It means we're going to be counting until the Democrats win.
So what she means by election reform is really bad.
But when she says there at the end, she says, there's not one person in America who's gone to vote recently who has thought this is a functioning system.
And she's totally right about that.
Where's Ian Bremmer to call her an election denier?
Let's go.
Come on, Ian.
Come on, liberal establishment.
She's an election denier.
She's saying that there are serious problems with our voting system.
Oh, right.
Everybody says that.
Every single person says and thinks that.
It's just that when inconvenient people, when enemies of the established regime and ruling class, when the conservatives, the actual conservatives come out and say that, that's the problem.
We're not allowed to point it out.
MSNBC can talk about it all day.
It is a big issue.
And I think conservatives and Republicans should take her advice seriously to heart.
Because if we want to get results like Florida and Texas and Ohio, we need really good, strong, conservative government in those states.
Yeah, we need the DeSantis model in those states.
That would be awesome.
But, you know, Ohio, I don't know, you wouldn't say that Ohio is kind of leading the charge for the conservative revolution in America in the way that Florida is, right?
Or even Texas is not doing quite the same thing.
What was the big factor there, especially in Ohio, which is kind of a purple state?
Now some people are trying to say, no, it's a firmly red state, but that's not quite true.
Ohio is very much in play.
If anyone turned it into a red state, it is Donald Trump, actually.
Certainly before Trump, it was a very purple state, leaning to a blue state sometimes.
So, what's the big determining factor here?
I think it's probably this election issue.
And the liberals don't want to talk about it because they're winning now because they were able to rig the elections using the excuse of COVID.
The conservatives do want to talk about it, but there's that squishy block, the kind of squishy establishment conservatives who want to be liked by the New York Times, who want to get invited on CNN, who want to seem really posh, especially look Thanksgiving and Christmas are around the corner.
They don't want to be called a crazy, kooky, wacky person by their lesbian, purple-haired niece.
I was going to say nephew, maybe nephew, who knows these days, at the dinner table and And so they want to seem like the really respectable sort of establishment conservatives.
And they don't want to raise this question of election integrity either.
It's important.
And a lot of the conservatives that everyone's looking up to right now, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, They took election integrity seriously, especially knowing that they and their friends would be on the ballots.
They took it seriously, and every other Republican should, too.
Today's Music Monday.
We've got a T-Swift video.
Again, I don't think I've ever intentionally listened to an entire Taylor Swift song in my whole life.
I don't really know anything about the girl.
But her last song...
Seemed to me fairly conservative, which was jarring to me because I was told she was a huge lib.
So anyway, the producers have teed up a T-Swift song.
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