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So, so good.
Well, I'd like to tell you a little bit about human minds before we get into all the politics of it.
Last night I was doing a live stream with my subscribers on the Locals platform that you can only see if you're a subscriber at scottadams.locals.com and I needed my remote control For my TV, because I was going to show them something really cool that was on my TV behind me.
But I could not find my remote control, which is very, very unusual because I have strict rules for remote controls.
Number one, this particular remote control was touched by nobody but me, because it was the man cave, so there's nobody there but me.
Number two, when I put a remote control down, I only put it on an exposed, clear surface.
That's like the rule for all of my life.
You cannot put a remote control on a couch because then it might fall in between the cushions and stuff.
You cannot lay it on, let's say, a pile of blankets because then it might get covered up.
So what I knew about myself is that that remote control was in a roughly 10 by 10 area.
Roughly the room around my desk right now.
So I knew for sure that it was on an exposed surface on the top of something.
It was in full view and that it was within 10 feet.
And 300 people watched me look for it for 40 minutes and not find it.
Finally, I did find it.
You know how I did it?
I went and found a separate remote control from a different Apple TV, one I don't use as much.
And I said to myself, well, if I can't find the real one, I'll at least reprogram this one to replace it.
And so the process of reprogramming means that you have to get close to the TV box.
So it says you have to be within three inches and you push certain buttons and stuff.
So I walk over there and I lean on the top of my speaker.
And I looked down and there it was.
It was the original remote.
It was on a flat surface, within 10 feet of me, in full view.
Now here's the interesting part.
I predicted to the people that were watching me unable to find it that it would be on a flat surface within 10 feet in full view and that I wouldn't be able to find it.
It was only because I was doing something that wasn't involved in finding it that I accidentally encountered it.
Now, here's what you learn from this.
Your perceptions are are guided entirely by your expectations.
Your perception is guided entirely by your expectations.
I have never once, did I remember, ever put my remote control on top of that speaker that's next to the TV. Because I've never put it there before, my brain couldn't see it.
It was in full view.
It was never even a little bit covered up.
It was not the same color as the speaker.
It had perfect contrast.
And it was actually within five feet of where I was sitting most of the time.
Now, this should not be a lesson about how dumb I am.
I mean, you could take it that way.
What this should be a lesson about is how everything works.
This is how brains work.
In fact, I predicted that it was in full view and that it was where it shouldn't be and therefore it would be invisible to me.
And that's what happened.
It was invisible because I didn't expect it to be there.
That is every perception you have your whole life.
Everything you see is based on what you expect.
It's not based on what's there.
Sometimes your brain cracks, but not often.
Usually you see what you expect to see.
So remember that.
When you get all cocky about how your politics are right and everybody else is wrong and all your opinions about everything are right and your perceptions are good and everybody else has bad ones.
Nope.
Nope.
We're all saying what we expect.
And that's pretty much 80% of the story.
All right.
Here's some good news.
The golden age is upon us, says President Trump.
And I say, so say we all.
Here are some things.
Science Daily says that...
They're getting close to being able to figure out how to grow food without sunlight.
Now, also without light, so it's not an artificial light, but rather they're very close to being able to send some kind of electrical impulse, various light, into the plants and essentially mimicking photosynthesis, but doing it with just a tiny, tiny little bit of energy.
If you could actually master that and use just a few solar panels on top of an indoor garden, you're going to reduce your energy costs and most of your problems by 99%.
So if this works, It would revolutionize gardening to the point where you'd probably just everybody would have a garden.
It would be so much more efficient to just pack the plants in a little closet and send them a little electricity in the dark and then go pick your tomatoes when you're ready.
So there could be a gigantic A gigantic potential change in farming.
A civilization-altering technology.
Or not.
Maybe they'll never get it to work.
But I'm going to go full golden age today.
Do you need some optimism today?
Anybody want any optimism?
Full golden age.
I told you before that there's some work being done on electric motors to create what they call an electrostatic motor, something that Ben Franklin had been playing with years ago.
If they make this work, and it's looking promising, it would make electric motors 80% more efficient.
Do you see where we're going with all this?
80% more efficient.
Electric engines.
They'll be the drivers of the robots, the drivers of the electric cars, the drivers of most things.
Could go down to 80%.
So if our food goes down to maybe 10% of the production cost and our motors go down to 20% of the production cost, what else could be happening in the golden age?
According to Matty Chapman in IFL Science, there's some new material they've created.
I don't know what it's called, but just some physical material that if it comes in contact with CO2, it just absorbs the hell out of it, like nothing's ever absorbed before.
So they don't have to suck the CO2 out of the air if they wanted to reduce it.
They could just put it in contact at the point of production, let's say in a smokestack wherever the CO2 is being produced.
They could just put some of this material and it just sucks it out of the air without any work whatsoever.
It just has to come in contact with it.
And it does it so well, it's not like anything that's ever happened before.
Now, may I call upon the NPCs?
I would like to give you some time.
As tradition requires, when the topic of removing CO2 from the atmosphere is raised, you must, if you are an NPC, say, but that's my plant food.
You can't take my plant food out of the air.
Stop taking my plant food.
So I'd like to give you a moment.
I know you can't resist.
Plant food, anybody?
NPCs?
Okay, good.
We all know that that would destroy the planet if you remove too much CO2 from the air.
Now, I'm not in favor of or opposed to removing CO2 from the air.
I don't really know if it makes any difference at all.
I have no idea.
So I don't have an opinion on it.
I do know it's expensive.
So suppose the only thing that happened was they decided that if you needed to remove it from the air, they could do it 100 times cheaper.
Well, that would be good.
You don't need to be throwing all this money at crazy climate change things, and then you can decide later if you remove too much CO2 and the plants are dying.
Because I'm pretty sure that adding CO2 would not be nearly the problem as removing it.
So I'm not really too worried we'll remove too much.
It seems far more likely that it won't make any difference.
My best guess is that CO2 is not making much of a difference.
In other science, Popular Mechanics says that fungi, you know, mushroom-type things, They have some kind of an intelligence and that they communicate across their broad network of fungi, fungi, fungi, whatever they are.
And they tested it and apparently they communicate.
So your fungi acts like a big brain.
It's got some kind of intelligence and can communicate with other things in its network to tell it what to do to avoid trouble, etc.
Now, the interesting thing about this is that not only can the fungi think, but 25% of them have already signed up to support Kamala Harris.
75% of them pro-Trump.
But 25% of the fungi very solidly supporting Kamala Harris.
Well, I'd like to give an update on what I call the pathetic campaign of Kamala Harris.
Now, in my opinion, she is the worst candidate for any office of any time in my life.
I've never seen anything like it.
It's really extraordinary how bad she is.
And an account on X called Bad Hombre has a good summary.
You probably are aware that a whole bunch of October surprise hoaxes dropped yesterday.
They were all sort of anti-Trump hoaxes.
But it didn't go as I hoped.
Apparently, the public is now on.
We've wised up to October surprises so that everybody just shrugs and goes, oh, that's not true.
Here's a summary by Bad Hombre.
Total meltdown tonight at the Harris-Waltz campaign.
Here are the bullet points.
The Hitler hoax didn't gain any traction.
They've already overplayed that hand.
We'll talk about that.
That's the John Kelly Hitler hoax.
The effin' Mexican hoax.
That's where Trump is allegedly offered to pay for the funeral.
I forget who was somebody who was murdered, of a murdered soldier.
And that when the price tag came back too much, I think this was in the propaganda network called the Atlantic.
It's a propaganda publication.
And allegedly Trump said that that was too much to spend burying a effing Mexican.
Now, obviously he didn't say that.
The hoaxes are just so insanely, absurdly stupid that we're just ignoring them.
Then there was somebody has a 32-year-old claim that Trump grabbed her butt.
Nobody cares.
The Wall Street Journal, because we don't believe it, of course.
A new Wall Street Journal poll says Harris is losing the popular vote.
Now, if you're losing the popular vote and you're Democrat, you're going to get smashed in the electoral college.
So that's a landslide.
So the polling is strongly suggesting a Trump landslide at this point.
And then Harris completely bombed the CNN town hall, which should have been a friendly, but she couldn't even handle the friendly.
She just fell apart.
So we'll talk about a little bit those things in general.
But here's the big picture.
I feel like the public has matured in their understanding of the media landscape.
In 2015, if these hoaxes had landed, the media would treat them all like they're true.
And then voters would wonder and all that.
But at this point, I think zero Republicans think these are true.
Is that fair?
Would you say that there's not a single Republican who thinks any one of these is true?
I think that's fair to say.
But also, Democrats don't even think it's true, which is what's different.
We'll talk about that in more detail.
All right, so Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic, he's the most famous, maybe the most famous propagandist.
So if you see his name or you see The Atlantic, that's not news, people.
That's not bias.
That is just purely made-up stuff.
So once you know what's purely made-up, allegedly, allegedly, it's allegedly purely made-up.
All right.
So most of those rumors came from that or from General Kelly, who we have many questions about.
So I don't really think it's worth talking about the rumors because they're so absurd and stupid and people are onto it, so they're discounting it.
But let's talk about ActBlue.
ActBlue.
Here's something fun.
So Speaker Johnson is pointing out that there's now a website where you can go to to find out if ActBlue, which is this big money laundering organization that supports Democrats, so they pretend that it's a place where individuals are making small contributions and then they get summed up and You know, used for Democrat purposes.
But indeed, it seems like it's more likely that it's a place where rich people give large amounts and then they artificially pretend it came from individuals.
Which means there's lists of people who are allegedly donating to Active Blue who don't have any idea that they've donated because they didn't.
But there's a website called checkmydonations.org It looks like it's a denial of service attack.
So what would you do if you were the Democrats and you got caught red-handed and there's a website where everybody who's been taken by the same scam can go look up their name and presumably thousands of people will say, hey, you used my name and this isn't me.
Well, the only way you could protect yourself if you're part of this Democrat scam is to attack that website and take it out of service.
And that's what's happening.
Now, I'm speculating.
Because I've never seen a website that blinked.
Have you ever seen that?
A website that blinked?
I've seen them when they don't work, or they give you an error, but it's literally blinking.
Like you can't even enter anything.
So I think it's the denial of service attack.
Is that the most likely explanation?
Because it's very unlikely that it was just, you know, too many people went to use it and the traffic was too much.
Probably a denial of service.
So I think that might be exactly what it looks like.
ActBlue is caught red-handed.
Ha ha ha!
Or blue-handed in this case.
I think we should change it to Being caught blue-handed.
You okay with that?
We're going to change the saying from being caught red-handed, which might have been racist, by the way.
Is that a racist thing?
We're going to change it to being caught blue-handed.
So, that's happening.
According to Zero Hedge, Wisconsin Election Agency is confirming that they had a bunch of outages in their voting systems on the first day of early voting.
How could that be?
I thought that all the machines were tested thoroughly.
But they seem to be having some unexpected problems.
Huh.
But it's a good thing we're using the machines because they're more reliable.
Okay, no, they're not more reliable.
That's right.
But at least using machines, you can get the election results more quick.
Okay.
Well, no, you don't get the election results more quickly.
But at least...
At least they're more credible, and the public at least...
Okay, the public doesn't trust them.
I'm sure there's a reason for them.
I'm positive there's a reason we have election machines.
I just don't know what the reason is.
Anybody?
Anybody?
I'm watching in the comments there.
There's always somebody who thinks there's no audio, but I can never tell if they're trolls.
But the other commenters are slapping them down.
No, the audio's fine.
Anyway.
So Harris gave her a town hall, and I think that even CNN said that she failed completely.
This is what even Dana Bash said.
Now, as you know, Dana Bash is considered a very pro-Democrat, pro-Harris commentator.
Now, CNN, as I've been saying lately, seems to be legitimately trying to find something closer to the middle of But if they're still biased toward the Democrats, I think that's fine, as long as it's transparent.
Same as Fox News, right?
Fox News is going to like the Republicans, but it's very transparent.
So as long as it's transparent, I'm okay.
I just don't like things like the Atlantic or MSNBC, because those are pure propaganda.
Those are not in the same category with news.
You need to update your thinking about some of those sites.
Those are not biased news reports.
Those are propaganda sites.
Let's do a check on CNN's independence here.
So this is from CNN anchor Dan Abash after the Harris complete destruction at the town hall.
Quote, what I'm hearing from people who I've been talking to, if her goal was to close the deal, they're not sure she did that.
And this is Dana Bash immediately after the event.
And quote, having said that, anytime that she can be in front of an audience and interacting with voters is a win as far as her campaign goes.
And they're very happy about that.
Really?
So let me see if I understand this.
She did so poorly that even CNN says it was a failure.
But then they quote her campaign as saying that whenever she's in front of people, it's a win.
This is the campaign that kept her away from people for two weeks before the election day.
Clearly, every time she talks to the public, it's a disaster.
It's a disaster.
And this one was maybe the worst one yet.
So she was asked about the wall.
She couldn't answer the question of whether she'd be in favor of the wall.
She refused to answer it because even Anderson Cooper was pushing her.
You used to say the wall was stupid.
You used to say the wall was bad.
What do you say now?
Oh, word salad.
Oh, we need good security at the border.
Right, right, right.
But are you in favor of building wall?
Oh, well, I was born in a middle class family.
Right, right, right.
Do you favor building the wall?
Well, let me tell you about some things that have nothing to do with walls.
It was the most embarrassing, ridiculous, complete destruction of a candidate you've ever seen.
It was by far the worst thing you've ever seen.
What am I looking at?
I'm looking at the list of people named Scott Adams who have donated to ActBlue.
So somebody put my name in.
And do you want to see how many times I've donated to ActBlue?
That's my name next to all the donations I've made to ActBlue.
Now, I have a common name, so it's probably not me.
But it might be.
It might be.
Because I have been famous as a non-voter.
So if somebody was going to try to pick up all the non-voters, And make it seem as though they were supporting her, I would be an obvious one that you would pick up as a non-voter.
Not this year, though, suckers.
I'm voting this year.
Anyway, so, yes, she was terrible.
Anderson Cooper also asked her if she thought that Trump was a fascist.
And of course she gave a speech saying that he was a fascist and she repeated all the John Kelly hoaxes and the Atlantic hoaxes.
If there are two things you shouldn't believe, it's anything that one of Trump's old generals ever said, because all of his generals were morons and maybe not even patriots.
So everything Trump said about his generals looks obviously true.
They don't even seem like they're on the side of America the way they act.
So yeah, they're morons, mostly.
And the funny thing is that they act like morons on TV. It's not like, okay, they look pretty good in public, but probably behind closed doors, maybe they're not as smart.
No, they look dumb in public.
The generals look dumb in public.
And I've always been puzzled by that, because I thought, how can they look so dumb in public if they're actually very smart?
How else do you become a general?
Well, it turns out that being a general is a political appointment.
You can't become a general unless the politicians like you.
It's not even about kind of your job as a military person.
So that explains a lot.
I believe that the...
I don't know what the reason for John Kelly being the way he is, but I don't think there's any chance he's telling the truth.
So that's just my opinion.
I would say there's zero chance that anything he said was true.
But the girl who cried Hitler was crying Hitler again, and the world finally caught on.
Wait a minute.
When they're behind in the polls, all they do is say Hitler stuff.
It's pathetic, it's weak, and it could get both candidates killed.
Let me say that again.
The, he's a fascist, he's Hitler stuff, is pathetic, because we know the whole trick now.
Like, we know the whole play.
There was a time when it worked, so you could say, oh, that's evil, but I have to admit, it's clever because it's working.
No, it's not working, and it's not clever.
It's pathetic.
It's just pathetic.
And watching it is just incredible that that's all they have.
It's pathetic, it's weak, and it could get both candidates killed.
Now, it could get Trump killed, as we've seen, because painting him as a danger to the Republic is how you get somebody killed.
But I would go further and say it almost looks like they're trying to get Harris killed.
Because, you know, nobody thinks that Harris comes up with their own ideas.
So if she's pushing the Hitler button hard in the last two weeks, it's because somebody else told her to do that.
Whoever told her to push the Hitler button hard is putting her in real danger.
Because if Trump gets taken out, I'm not going to finish the rest of the sentence.
I don't have to, do I? Whoever is telling Harris to say this is putting her in mortal danger like she's never been in.
This is the highest level of physical risk that Kamala Harris has ever experienced.
I don't think she knows it.
I think she thinks that if Trump gets taken out, that they can just sell it.
It's like, well, crazy guy, isn't that terrible?
Thanks for electing me.
I don't think it's going to go that way.
I think that the reaction is unpredictable.
I certainly recommend against any violence.
Do not do anything violent, please.
But I live in the real world.
If you shoot somebody in my family, I'm going to kill you.
Right?
And most of you would say the same thing.
I'm going to kill you if you come after me or somebody in my family.
There are people who feel that way about their politicians.
If people think that the Democrats planned and executed a plan to take on Trump, I don't know what's going to happen.
You get into really unpredictable territory, but I'll tell you the main thing that's going to happen is that if Kamala Harris has not boosted her security details, she needs to think about that right away.
Because the level of security risk she would be under if anything happened to Trump would be beyond anything we've ever seen.
It would be unparalleled.
So we don't want that to happen.
So the thing I'm most worried about is that Harris doesn't know how much trouble her own side just put her in.
They put her in a life and death situation.
And that's not cool.
She's so dumb that she can't even take good advice.
This is advice that's really putting her in danger.
Anyway, I'd love to see her define what fascist means in a way that doesn't include everything she supports.
Because the Democrats are doing lawfare against an opponent, fascist.
They're involved in foreign wars for reasons that the public's having trouble understanding.
Sounds a little fascist.
They control the media, fascist.
They're punishing their political enemies, fascist.
And, you know, we live in a full propaganda brainwashing the Atlantic MSNBC world.
Every part of that looks fascist to me.
So what Harris did is the most divisive thing that I think I've ever seen a politician do.
But the fact that she can't identify a real fascist should be disqualifying.
Should be disqualifying.
Now here's my provocative question I would like to ask all of you.
But mostly this is a curiosity about Democrats.
How do Democrats explain the existence of smart, well-informed Trump supporters?
Do you ever think about that?
Now, during 2015, 2016, if you're a Democrat, you could say, well, look who's supporting him.
There's this guy named Sternevich we never heard of.
There's this cartoonist, who cares what a cartoonist thinks of.
There's Bannon, oh, he's a wild man.
There's Alex Jones, well, you know, we've heard about him.
So it seemed as though when Trump ran the first time, and maybe even to some extent the second time, That if you were a Democrat, you could explain your own opinion in the context of everybody else's opinion.
Because you could say, huh, all my smart friends agree with me.
It looks like most of the news agrees with me, except that Fox News and that Breitbart, you know, nobody pays attention to them, of course.
So yes, my opinion against Trump makes perfect sense.
My friends agree, the media agrees, and the people on Trump's side are all weirdos.
Time passes.
Trump has what Republicans would call a very successful first term.
And now his supporters include Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, David Sachs, Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard.
I could go on.
But what do all those people have in common?
What do they all have in common?
They're very well informed.
They're clearly very patriotic Americans.
And they're very, very smart.
So now what do you do?
Because if you're a Democrat, you have to explain these people.
It's one thing to explain Trump.
You just say, well, he's a terrible monster and, you know, all the racists support him.
But what about these guys?
Not all guys, but what about the group of this list?
And, you know, it's a much longer list, but how do you explain them?
What exactly are you telling yourself to make it okay that you're on the other side of the smartest people in the world who are looking at the same stuff you're looking at?
How do you explain that?
Do Democrats just imagine that these people that most people would say are brilliant and successful and well-informed, do they tell themselves that these people are actually dumb?
Are there Democrats who say, it's a good thing I'm smarter than Elon Musk?
Are they saying that?
Are there some people who are doing their own investing and they're saying, that's a good thing I'm smarter than Bill Ackman?
Really?
Is anybody saying that?
So, as a hypnotist, I understand why people don't like, let's say, the policies of the other side.
We all get that, right?
If somebody says, I don't like those policies on the other side, I get that.
That's not like anything strange or unusual.
But how do you explain that the most transparent politician in the world, Trump, the person we know the most about, served an entire term recently?
How do you explain that all these smart people that I just mentioned Can't see what heresies that really, he's a secret Hitler.
He's a secret Hitler.
They can't see it?
Is that what the Democrats think?
They just can't see it.
These smart people, they were so smart, but now they can't see this.
Well, here's the hypnotist's take, my take.
It's pretty obvious that some number of Democrats are under a brainwashing effect.
The brainwashing has caused them to be completely irrational.
But here's the thing.
If you ask people...
How to explain the smart people who are well-informed and clearly patriotic?
If you said, how do you explain that they exist and that they're public and they're really trying to make sure that you understand what's going on?
How do you explain it?
Now, here's my prediction.
If they're coming from some reasonable place that I just don't understand, then the response to how do you explain all these smart people supporting Trump would be something smart, but maybe something that you didn't hear before.
Do you think that's what would happen?
No.
I don't think so.
The psychologists would predict that under this situation, where there's a clear absurdity, that voters are putting themselves as smarter than Musk, Ackman, Sachs, Ramaswamy, RFK Jr., and Gabbard?
I mean, really?
How many of you are smarter than that group?
But Democrats, in order to accept this clearly absurd point of view, would have to employ cognitive dissonance to make the absurdity fit.
So they'd have to say something like, well, they're really all, I don't know, what, co-opted by Russia or something?
It would be something stupid.
So the question would be hilarious, and you should ask your friends, if you have a Democrat friend or co-worker, just say, I'm not judging, I'm just curious.
How exactly would you explain this?
The existence of all these smart, well-informed people who think that Trump is clearly the right answer.
How do you explain it?
And watch what happens.
It would just be word salad, anger and changing the subject.
Well, but you're bad.
Okay, sure, I'm bad.
But how do you explain all these smart people?
And then they say, but Trump did.
I go, I know, I know.
I hear what you're saying.
But how do you explain all these smart people who don't know that?
But Trump's a fascist.
I hear you.
I hear you.
But how do you explain how none of these people can see it?
Now, here's something I tell you all the time.
That I've never seen anybody agree with me yet.
So I'll keep working on you.
If you have two people who go into a room, and the room has no other entrance or exits except for the one door they go through.
Let's say it's a big door.
It's like a garage door.
It needs to be for this example.
And then when they come out, one of them says, I can't believe there was an elephant in that room.
And then the other one says, there was no elephant in the room.
It was a 20 by 20 unfurnished room, and just the two of us were in there.
And then the other one says, are you kidding?
There was an elephant in the room.
There was an elephant in the room.
I talked to the elephant.
I pet the elephant.
And the other one says, there was not an elephant in the room.
Now, which one of them is lying and which one of them is hallucinating?
Here's the rule.
People don't hallucinate nothing, they hallucinate something.
A hallucination adds something to the atmosphere.
It doesn't subtract it.
The person who says there's no elephant is the one that's right, unless they were telling some weird, crazy lie.
But if you're just trying to figure out who's got better perception, the one who didn't see the elephant wins every time.
Lying would be a different situation.
But if you knew they weren't lying, the one who says there was an elephant is having a mental problem.
Every time.
It's very, very reliable.
If you've added something to the environment, it's a hallucination.
The person who doesn't see it and is looking in the same place, they're having the accurate impression.
So the people who see the C. Hiller are having the hallucination.
All right, even Governor Sununu.
Well, he's a Republican, but he says that what the claims about Trump are all sort of baked in and they're ridiculous and he dismisses them.
What do you say?
He says, quote, do you think half of America is voting for a fascist?
Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is the right question.
Do you really think that half of America was standing in that room and they say they didn't see the elephant?
Are they all hallucinating that there's no elephant in there?
Because you could have half America hallucinate there is an elephant.
That's actually something that could happen.
But half of them not seeing an elephant?
It means there's no elephant if half of them can't see it.
That's what it means.
So given all that, if you would like to end the race today and make it no doubt who's going to win, all you need is one person in the news business to ask the following question.
Are you ready for it?
This is the question that would end the Harris campaign.
Now, does that sound like a big claim?
You're probably saying, okay, that's a little hyperbole, a little bit of an exaggeration.
Nope.
No, if anybody asks her this question and gets it on video, it's the end of her campaign.
Here it comes.
Ms. Harris, if you believe that Trump is a fascist in the Hitler mold, do you have a responsibility, and do Democrats have a responsibility, do you have a responsibility, and do Democrats have a responsibility, to rig the election to make sure he doesn't And that's the end of the election.
That's it.
There is no answer to that question that isn't the end of the election.
She would have to change the subject, which is the end of the election.
Because if you bring back and say, oh no, but seriously, if I were in your shoes, Ms.
Harris, and I believed I could stop Hitler from rising, I would do everything I could.
So if you really believe that he's operating in the mold of Hitler or he's close enough so that you think that description makes sense in a national race, you think that's a fair description of him, wouldn't that mean that your patriotic duty is to get him killed, arrested, or rig the election?
Now, if she says, no, we need just fair elections, I'd say, hold on, hold on.
You said...
He's so dangerous, he's like Hitler.
Do you mean that?
Because if you mean it, you've got to act like it.
If you mean it, you better be getting ready to rig this election as hard as you can.
Or if you don't mean it, shut the fuck up, cunt, because you're going to get somebody killed.
Don't add that second part.
That's the end of the race.
Just ask her if she's willing to act on her own beliefs.
Are you willing to act in a rational, patriotic way for your beliefs?
Let me raise my hand and say, if I ever find myself in that position where I genuinely believe a Hitler-like character is rising to power, I will, if I can, help rig the election.
I promise.
I promise if I really believe a Hitler-like character is coming, I will rig the hell out of that election.
I'm stepping up.
Do you know why?
Because I love the country.
Because I'm a patriot.
Because I'm not going to let Hitler come to power.
If you think he's Hitler and you're going to let him come to power because you're behind in the polls, and if you don't rig it, you're not going to win.
So you tell me, do you believe what you're fucking saying?
Or are you not a patriot and we can't depend on you when things get tough?
It's the end of the election.
There's no way she can handle that question.
I mean, even someone who is really good at answering questions would have no hope of answering that one.
Now, I don't think Hillary was ever asked.
And I don't think that Harris will ever be asked because she's only going to do friendlies between now and the election day.
But it is the question that ends the race.
I'd love to see Scott Jennings ask the question on the CNN panel.
I'd love to see somebody else force the question so that the voters have to struggle with it themselves.
I want the Democrats to struggle with how she can answer that question.
Because either she's just starting the biggest problem in the world by saying our president is going to be Hitler.
Well, I don't have to finish that.
Anyway, so CNN fact-checker, I told you this, that Tim Walsh got fact-checked hard for saying that Trump lost the most manufacturing jobs, which wasn't even close to true.
Daniel Dale slapped him down hard.
So again, I'm going to compliment CNN because Dana Bash, at least she got halfway to being realistic about her opinion of how Harris did.
She failed.
And I think that she essentially admitted that.
And then their fact checker slaps down Walls As hard as you can slap somebody.
So, you know, not everything CNN does is going to meet my difficult criteria for success.
But I appreciate what they've done on this.
Let's see, what else?
So, Tucker Carlson was giving a speech at Turning Point Action.
And he says Americans have reached their boiling point with all of this.
And he is worried, of course, that Trump will win on votes, but then the election will be rigged or stolen.
And he said, quote, when they tell you they've won, you can look them straight in the face and say, I'm sorry, dad's home and he's pissed.
Dad's home.
Now that would be Trump.
However, I would like to suggest the following.
I don't believe the Republicans have anything whatsoever to stop the Democrats from rigging the race, telling the media that it was fair, and then arresting people who complain.
There's no counterforce, is there?
Because nobody's organizing Republican street demonstrations, and if they did, they would just get locked up and be in jail.
There's nobody you could assassinate even if you wanted to, which is a bad idea.
It wouldn't change any outcomes, right?
There's nobody you could kill.
What are you going to do?
Shoe your neighbor?
That's not going to work.
What are you going to do?
March?
Get a sign?
That's not going to work.
Complain on social media?
That's not going to work.
What are you going to do?
The thing I worry about, I saw Mike Cernovich say something along the same lines.
What Harris has dropped in the last two weeks, especially yesterday, where she's going full Hitler, you know, full Hitler messaging on Trump, it looks like she's trying to get him murdered because she doesn't know how she could win fair and square.
And then Jamie Raskin is waiting in the wings to not certify Trump if he wins.
And then, of course, the courts are waiting in the wings to put him in jail if he wins.
So their plan is clearly that they don't have the policies or the person to win, so they're looking to ramp up the odds of assassination, odds of jailing people, etc.
Can anybody explain to me anything that Anything that Republicans could do if the election is obviously stolen, but the media insists that it wasn't, and the legal system just does what they're told.
And they lock up people who appear to be breaking the law.
What are you going to do about it?
What's the military going to do?
Nothing.
It seems like they're trying to neuter the military with this whole fascist General Kelly thing.
Because if you hear that a general said that this guy's a bad guy, then if something happens to the bad guy that a general said is bad, well, that tells the military to stand down, right?
So it looks to me that they're setting up a condition for rigging the race if Trump survives.
It looks like they're creating a situation to rig the election.
I believe it's going to be right in front of us.
And I believe that it will be obvious.
And I believe that the news will say it's fine.
And that there's no recourse.
And if you could think of a recourse...
That's like a real-world thing you could actually do?
Let me know.
I don't know about it.
I mean, I can't even think of one in sort of a hypothetical, speculative sense.
We're not going to take to the streets.
People are not going to take their guns out of the closet.
They're not going to shoot their neighbor.
What are you going to do?
There's nothing.
You know, you hear all the time that the CIA has run all these coups and rigged elections in other countries.
Do you know why it's happened so many times?
I guess there are 80 examples of it or something.
Do you know why it's happened so many times?
Because it works.
You can overthrow a country.
All you need is the media on your side.
That's it.
If the media says it was fair, then they can apply as much muscle as they want behind the scenes, and the media will say, yeah, it's all working out.
Everything's fine.
Relax.
Go back to work.
I'm not aware of anything you could do if they steal the election, no matter how obvious it is.
You could take it to courts, and the courts will say, well, we don't have time.
You don't have a standing.
Even if this is true, this specific case is not enough.
What are you going to do?
The courts can't sort it out.
There's no street muscle that's going to sort it out.
If you can come up with anything, anything that's non-violent and could right or wrong like that should happen, let me know.
I can't think of anything.
This country is so neutered that we, just like the 80 other countries that got taken over, allegedly, They don't complain.
Right?
Even Ukraine was taken over, what, twice?
And it just went on like, well, I guess that's who's in charge now.
Anyway.
CNN's...
Oh, according to Rasmussen, half of the country thinks there will be violence after the election, no matter who gets elected.
But don't worry, 23% say violence is very likely to fall.
Oh, okay.
So the point is that half of the country, and it's both Democrats and Republicans, think that if the wrong person wins, or no matter who wins, really, there's going to be violence.
Oh, look who it is, the head of the ADL. What's he being blamed for?
Ah, so somebody is saying that the ADL, the Washington Post, is saying that ADL data on right-wing extremist violence is a fraud?
Really?
It says the Washington Post, but I don't believe that.
I don't believe the Washington Post is throwing the ADL under the bus, are they?
I'll have to look into that.
The ADL, as you know, is just a corrupt organization, in my opinion.
Anyway, so people are certainly primed to think violence is happening, but since there's no violence that anybody could think of that anybody could do, I don't know.
I suppose if...
Well, let me ask you this.
I'm seeing some things going by in the comments that look important, but I'm not sure yet.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Oh, it was dated 2022.
Okay, it was an old article.
Got it.
So, Harry Enten at CNN says Trump is up one in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Is that the blue wall?
And Biden was up five in the last election, so that's bad for Democrats.
Independents were plus 11 for Biden at this time, but now they're only plus 2 for Harris.
Basically, every poll that's moving is moving toward Trump, even if slightly.
So all movement is toward Trump everywhere.
So Democrats are obviously prepping Plan B, assassination, Raskin, plan of not certifying or jailing Trump.
Even the LA Times didn't endorse Harris.
So the editorial's editor resigned.
Because the LA Times refused to endorse Harris, and I guess she thought they should.
And then it was on social media, and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, he tried to be helpful, and so he posted that he was going to cancel his subscription to the LA Times.
And then the editorial editor who resigned over it I had to remind him, no, we still want the employees to have jobs, so you're not really helping me, Mark Hamill?
Mark Hamill is not helping.
My favorite comment on the internet, by the way, the LA Times used to run Dilbert, and the LA Times censored Dilbert But when it was rated totally G, Dilbert got censored in the LA Times more than any other newspaper in the world.
They were the most censorious, woke entity.
Just complete editorial garbage.
But they shouldn't last that long.
So James Carville...
Wrote an article with the three reasons that Harris will win.
The first reason was some dumb, drunk, stupid shit.
Second reason was some idiotic, word-solid garbage.
And the third reason was the average of the two.
It was ridiculous.
But here is the reason I'm mentioning James Carville.
Somebody named Marco Rizzolo on X referred to him as Fire Marshal Bill.
And once you see it, Fire Marshal Bill.
Now, if you don't know that reference, that's a Jim Carrey character from a million years ago where he was a burn victim.
And there is something about Carville that looks like Fire Marshal Bill.
Oh, they're sending their best.
Meanwhile, Microsoft, this one is hilarious.
Microsoft believes that they've discovered that Russia is trying to influence our elections, of course, and they're doing their world-class memes to do it.
So here's a description of one of the world-class memes World-changing memes that are coming out of the alleged Russian attempt to sway our elections.
They put out a deepfake, or basically just a fake meme, that suggested that Kamala Harris had been illegally poaching in Zambia.
So according to Microsoft, and we're supposed to believe this is true, the nation of Russia put its best people together and they said, you've got to influence that election in America.
How are we going to do it, boss?
Well, you're going to do some memes that are so strong, it's going to change everything.
Yeah, yeah.
And then they come back and they say, we've got this meme.
We made a video that accuses Kamala Harris of illegally poaching in Zambia.
And then Putin says, I'm going to have to execute you and your entire family because That's not even really, let's put it this way.
If you can imagine the best meme maker in the world, let's say like a 10 and a 10, and then you can imagine that there are other people who are just pretty good at it, their 8s and 9s, and then there are people like me who are just, you know, playing with it, and we can hit a 7 or 8 on a good day.
If you're in college and you're just playing around with these things, you could hit a six or seven.
If you're in high school and you're doing a high school project, you could probably do a four or five and a ten.
Powerful mean.
This one's like a point two.
Point two and a ten.
How in the world does Microsoft think we're going to believe that the mighty nation of Russia couldn't come up with a better way to control our election than making a fake-looking video that nobody saw accusing Kamala Harris of poaching in Zambia?
Do you remember what I said when the news quite illegitimately told you that I'm looking at some memes that are going by that are pretty funny.
Do you remember when the news told you that Russia influenced the election with all their meme work from the troll farm?
And then if you looked at the actual memes, they looked like children had made them.
They couldn't have possibly influenced any election anywhere.
And they just don't show you the memes so that you don't know that the claim is so obviously wrong.
I don't know if they came from Russia, but if they did, they weren't really trying very hard.
Anyway, so that's what's happening.
So that, ladies and gentlemen...
is the end of my prepared comments.
I should tell you that I've accepted an invitation by Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks to discuss why I think Trump is a good idea for election and he'll have the opposite opinion.
That's not tonight though.
Tonight I believe he's having a show with some other people he's talking to and that was his original idea to do it tonight.
I couldn't make that a schedule.
But he did agree to have me on his show on Monday.
That will be 8 p.m.
Eastern Time on The Young Turks.
And you'll get to see me talking to Cenk, who I appreciate a lot for his flexibility and openness and willing to have that conversation.
We probably don't agree on too much, but you might be surprised.
I'm saying that all hope is lost?
Probably not.
I do think the election is going to be too big to rig.
I think it will be very obvious it was rigged.
And we may be very close to what I'll call the best case scenario.
The best case scenario would be that the election is rigged massively and we uncover it right away.
That would be the ultimate.
The ultimate would be they do cheat and we catch them.
And it's just so obvious that even the media can't cover it up anymore.
That's what we need.
And then the golden age is completely unleashed.
Because if we don't get past this idea that our elections...
We have to trust our elections.
We're not there.
We've got to get past that.
And we've got to get the pirate ship of highly qualified people in that can make a difference.
I saw it was at...
I think Bill Ackman was talking about this.
That Trump's the only one talking about growth.
Harris is talking about an opportunity economy.
Which sounds more like equity, which doesn't sound like growth.
Trump is saying we've got to grow our way out of it, and I've got the smartest entrepreneur in the world, Elon Musk, who's going to cut our costs.
If you do those two things, we might survive.
Cut costs by re-engineering government.
It won't be just cuts.
It's got to be re-engineered, the whole rethought from ground up.
And you've got to grow like crazy.
You've got to get rid of your regulations.
You've got to make the animal spirits zoom.
You've got to have better relationships with other countries, access to all the resources we need, etc.
The golden age is upon us.
We're going to have some robots.
We're going to have cheap electricity.
The nuclear energy field is exploding.
Not in the bad way.
It's just there's more of it.
Not exploding.
Not exploding.
And if you were to take the temperature right now, Of what it looks like.
I do believe that the Democrats are preparing a set of the worst case scenario plan B. By the way, I mean this literally.
This is not hyperbole.
I do think they're trying to kill Trump.
They're trying to kill Trump, in my opinion.
Because I don't see any other explanation for what they're doing.
None.
So, that's real, but he's going to have good protection.
I think he will survive any attempts.
Next, they're going to try to lawfare him.
I think the courts will be too reluctant to do that.
I think he can survive the lawfare.
And then there's the Raskin plan to declare him, I don't know, an insurrectionist or something.
But he's not going to be able to do that because the public isn't going to let it happen.
Now, he could try, but at that point, I think complete civil obedience kicks in.
Now, when I said there's nothing you can do, Yeah, you can shut down the whole country if Raskin tries to take Trump out of it.
We can shut down the whole country.
We can shut down all the trucking.
We can shut down the...
We'll starve the whole country.
So if you ask me what will Republicans do that they can actually do, they will starve the country.
They will starve you.
You're not going to get food if you fuck with this election.
And I believe that will really happen.
Now, that doesn't require everybody to be in on it.
You don't need a lot of people to stop all transportation in the United States.
And if you stop all transportation, largely Republican domain, nobody gets anything.
So yes, Raskin, if you try to fuck with this election, with your little shenanigans, the Republicans are going to starve this country.
And good luck getting food.
So if I were you, I would stock up.
Because the odds of a disruption in the supply chain are really high.
So I've already put in some supplies.
I think a few weeks would be fine.
You should have at least enough to eat for two weeks.
So make sure you got water.
If you can get an electrical backup generator, that'd be good.
We will be fine.
Of this, I'm sure.
I'm sure we'll be fine.
We will work it out.
But you should get ready.
If Raskin tries something, it's got to be massive and immediate, complete civil disobedience.
We've got to just shut down the roads, basically.
I'm hoping nothing like that happens.
I'm hoping everything just goes nice and smoothly.
But we'll see.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's go check the stock market and see how we're doing today.
And I will see the locals people in the man cave tonight.
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