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Well, as you might have noticed, I'm wearing my Halloween costume.
It's part Casper the Ghost, part Trump supporter bag of garbage.
Really, it's the same costume.
You put a couple of eye holes in a white garbage bag, and you're either a ghost or possibly a Trump supporter.
That's right.
I hope you've got your garbage costumes ready.
I can't wear this, though.
It's going to be a little uncomfortable.
Maybe less garbage.
There we go.
There we go.
All right, well, did you know that studies have suggested that drinking coffee may lower your risk of liver disease?
That's right.
How's your risk of liver disease?
Would you like to lower it?
Watch this.
Liver disease be gone.
Got it.
Thank you.
Okay, took care of that.
There's a study in the SciPost.
You'll never believe this.
This is going to take a little bit of preparation because science has a shocker for you.
High fluid intelligence boosts your ability to accept corrected misinformation.
That's right.
Now, when I take this new study about how smart people can take in new information and potentially improve their opinions, I say to myself, wait a minute.
When you look at the entire context, it's starting to look...
Almost like being intelligent has advantages.
It's almost like being smart makes you smart.
I don't know.
We'll have to look into that a little bit more.
But it's shocking to find out that smart people can do things that, quote, that smart people can do.
Yes.
Well, here's your fake story of the day.
I like fake stories that have been fake since I was a child, and nobody's caught on to them yet.
Here's a fake story that is updated all the time, but it's the same fake story since I was a little kid.
We used to talk about it at the dinner table, and my parents thought it was real.
And so do your parents.
And so do most of you.
You all think this is real.
The story is that Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers.
Popular science.
Now, what is fake about that?
Does anybody know?
The answer is, that's what it cost.
If you make an airplane with lots of the same stuff, you can lower the cost by having a permanent assembly line and making those things every day, and then the cost per unit goes down and down and down.
But if you've got just a few airplanes, and they need a new part, and even if that new part should cost $1, it's still going to cost them $100,000 To rebuild the assembly line.
They might even have to hire somebody.
They probably have to contract that out.
They've got to redesign it.
They've got to fit it.
They've got to test it.
So that's actually just what it costs.
So the fake news is they're not charging you $8,000 or whatever the number is.
They're not charging you $8,000 for something that costs a dollar.
They're charging $8,000 for something that costs them $8,000.
Now you could argue Well, they should have kept up their assembly line the whole time so that it would cost a dollar.
To which I'd say, to do what?
To sit there doing nothing all the time?
Why would anybody have an assembly line just in case somebody needed to replace their airplane soap dispenser?
You wouldn't.
So it's just one of those situations where there isn't any economical way to have plenteous spare parts of the unimportant stuff for a very expensive item that there aren't many of them.
So that's been fake news since I was a little bit of a kid.
The things we used to get excited about when I was a kid is we'd watch...
You turn on TV and you see wrestling.
And I'd be a little kid and I'd say, that's obviously fake wrestling.
That wrestling's all fake.
Why do people believe that's real?
And then we'd watch a fashion show.
You know, and you see all the fashion show and it'd be like, and now the most beautiful woman in the world will show you that she can wear a piece of garbage.
And then she'll walk out in like her garbage outfit with, you know, yellow sticky tags and license plates glued to her.
And then we'd sit at home because we were like unintelligent people.
You know, we didn't know much in our little town of Wyndham.
And we'd sit there watching.
And do you know what we would say?
We'd say, nobody's going to buy that dress.
Nobody's going to buy a garbage hat, a license plate dress.
What are they thinking?
And boy, are we at home so much smarter than the people who thought that a license plate dress would make a good idea.
I mean, come on.
And then later you grow up and you find out that they don't plan to sell a license plate dress.
No, they just wanted you to watch the show and do things like say, who would ever want a license plate dress from that company whose name I totally remember now?
And then you figure out, ah, wrestling's not real.
All of it.
And maybe those fashion shows are...
Just so you'll pay attention.
Ah!
And maybe that soap dispenser actually cost $1,000 to make.
Maybe.
There's some research from phys.org showing that out-of-home activities have declined since the pandemic.
That would match my own experience.
I have something on me here.
My own experience is that I barely leave the house.
In my case, a different situation.
But what do you think is left out of this story?
If you saw some research that said people are spending less time out of their home, what would you conclude?
Well, one possibility is people have less money.
I don't know if you thought of that.
They're working their jobs and they're coming home tired.
Working two jobs and coming home tired.
And they don't have money to go to a restaurant.
And they don't have money to go to the movies.
And they don't have money to go to the lake.
So I think it's just money.
I don't know.
My guess is if everybody had twice as much money tomorrow, a lot more people would eat at restaurants.
So I'm going to go with money being the Main thing here.
But I think we also got trained to do less.
So there could be more than one reason.
Well, Trump reportedly told Netanyahu, this is according to the Daily Caller, that Israel needs to finish the Gaza war by the time he takes office.
So that would be, you know, late January.
Do you think that really happened?
Well, we don't know.
But the Daily Caller, they might have some good sources, maybe.
Do you think it would make sense for Trump to tell Netanyahu that he needs to finish the war before he gets into place?
Yes, it does.
So I don't know that the source is good, but I can tell you it feels like something he'd say.
Here's why it's something he'd say, and I'm going to teach you a persuasion trick right now.
Looking at your comments.
Something happening in the comments?
Okay.
Here's what you need to know.
The fake deadline is one of the best persuasion tricks you could ever use.
I've used it quite a few times.
And the way it works is you say, you have to be done by this date because there's a thing.
Now, it doesn't matter what the thing is, and it doesn't matter who you're talking to.
For reasons that are completely irrational, humans are trained to do things by deadlines.
So if you need something to get done, you just have to give a deadline, even if it's just made up.
Now, Trump taking office is sort of a made up deadline, meaning that there's no logical reason that a war across the world should end when he takes office.
But if you can sell it as a reason, Because it's a deadline.
What's the reason?
It's a deadline.
I'm taking office.
Yeah, I know, but, like, why?
But why do we have to do it by then?
Because it's the deadline.
You see, I'm taking office.
So you want to get it done by the deadline.
It doesn't make any sense.
But you can actually get things done That really, really need to get done.
And this would be one of them.
Simply by treating it as a deadline when it's not.
That's a real trick.
I've used it a number of times.
And you can use it with...
I shouldn't tell you this.
Because you're all going to use this trick now.
Have you ever had a contractor or a builder who's doing a project at your house and it looks like there's no end to it?
Come up with a fake deadline.
You tell them, in nine days, I'm going to have a party here, and this place can't be torn apart.
And then they'll say, oh, oh, oh, and then they'll finish in nine days.
You know, like 8.9 days.
But if you don't give them a deadline, nothing happens.
People manage to deadlines.
We're just automatically built to do that.
So if Trump gave them a deadline, that would be smart because then he could say, just the fear of me was enough to make them stop the war.
Do you think Israel would like Trump to look powerful enough that just the threat of him being back in office is enough to stop a war?
And the answer is yes.
I think Netanyahu would be perfectly happy to send the message that Trump has the power to stop a war in the Middle East.
Now, even if it's not true, Since they're allies, it sort of empowers his ally.
That's always good.
So everything about this is smart.
If it's true, it's fog of war, so we don't know if reports like this are true.
But if it is, it was the right play.
The artificial deadline.
Also a fake because.
Same kind of thing.
Well, Martha Stewart, apparently there's a Netflix documentary that she approved before she saw it, and then she saw it, and now she doesn't like it.
But that's everything we like about Martha Stewart.
I like that she approved a documentary.
And then I like that she panned it when it was ready.
Those are the two things I like about her.
She's not afraid of anything, apparently.
Not afraid of anything.
But she's also not afraid to tell you her opinion.
Okay.
So I will definitely be watching that.
Apparently one of the conversations was there's some kind of classical music playing at one point, and she thought it would have been better as hip-hop music.
And I'm thinking to myself, I'll bet she's right.
I'll bet the filmmaker was wrong and I'll bet she was right that that would have been better with hip-hop.
I'll bet she's right.
She's not wrong that often.
Well, have you seen the pictures of Joe Biden eating a baby's foot?
I'm not making this up.
There's a picture of Joe Biden who's having fun with somebody's baby.
They're holding their baby.
And the baby has socks on.
And he takes the baby's foot and he puts it fully in his mouth, you know, to make a joke to the baby.
And I'm sure the baby remembered it.
Or maybe the baby became a Trump supporter from that day on.
Or maybe Biden just likes baby feet.
We don't know.
But what I like best about it is, you know, I love the idea that Biden is the force working against Harris because he's all mad that he got pushed out.
And I like him waking up in the morning and say, oh, What can I do today to totally destroy the chances of Kamala Harris becoming president?
Well, Mr.
President, you'll be meeting with a number of mothers with young babies.
Hello?
Young babies, you say?
Yes, they'll be holding the babies, and we're not going to prevent you from being too close to them.
Really?
So, I'm so done with my term that I can get close to children now?
Yep, we don't even care.
And you can make Kamala Harris look bad because she pushed you out.
All right, I'm gonna go put some baby feet in my mouth and get your cameras ready.
Baby feet, bring them on!
That's right.
I like to think that Joe Biden is really not a mentally diminished man, but a genius.
A genius.
All right, well, so Biden's eating babies, and the Haitians are eating pets, but he did not eat a pet, and the Haitians didn't really eat any pets either.
That's just something that people said.
That's not something that happened, as far as I know.
The RCP average in polling has Trump up in eight out of nine states.
I guess Harris is slightly up in Michigan, but too close to call.
Eight out of nine states are the important ones.
So that would suggest that Trump is about to have the biggest election we've seen in a long time and would absolutely annihilate the competitor.
But we'll see because we don't believe polls and we don't believe elections.
So anything could happen.
Meanwhile, we've got some new economic numbers.
Let's see.
New economic numbers just came in.
And it's a week before the election, and the numbers are coming from the government that is under the control of one party, which is running in the election that is this week.
I wonder if the numbers will look good.
Hey, they do!
Good news, people!
Good news and a totally credible dump of economic news.
The GDP is at 2.8 or something like that that's good.
And let's see, the economic activity has picked up at 3.7% growth pace in the third quarter.
We've got jobless claims.
They're not as high as they could have been.
It's the lowest since 2024.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Does anybody believe any economic news a week before the election?
You should not.
If you wanted to place your bet on economic news that is most likely to be revised in the bad direction later, I would say this would be right at the top of your list.
It might be true.
It might be that every one of these numbers is true.
The odds of it are really low.
Because this is the lying season times 10.
Everything you hear in this week should be a lie, because the lies should be too powerful to be ignored, and the truth will be weak.
The truth will be sort of weak and repetitive, and we've already heard the truth a few times.
So anything that's a lie is just going to be like a screaming, giant, spotlighted You know, meteor of volcanic sun-like stupid analogies.
So everything you see this week, just put a question mark next to it and wait.
Just wait.
Doesn't matter what it is.
Well, Joe Rogan, his interview with the president, Looks like it may have crossed 100 million views if you add together all the different platforms that it's on.
And it does look like the evidence would suggest that YouTube tried to hide it.
Now, I wasn't in the room when YouTube made their decisions, and I suppose...
I suppose there could be an innocent reason why you couldn't search for it without finding anything but clips taken out of context.
You couldn't find the whole video.
And it was their biggest video, like, ever.
Or second biggest, I guess.
But that looks like that got fixed, and Spotify let Elon Musk put the whole thing on X. And so Joe's YouTube channel got 41 million views.
His X channel got 18 million views.
And on Elon's, it has a staggering 39 million views.
And they're guessing that Spotify might have at least 5 million.
So that would put it at over 100 million views.
But not to be undone, Kamala Harris had almost a million on her podcast.
Almost one million.
Now, we're supposed to believe that this election is going to be close.
Trump beat Harris on a, let's say, a free competitive field, meaning that both of them could have done any podcast they wanted.
Trump picked the number one podcast in the world, went on it for three hours in exactly the way the podcast host wanted it to go, at his place, as long as he wanted to talk about anything.
Got 100 million views so far.
Kamala Harris acted like Kamala Harris, chose the second biggest podcast, apparently, and managed to get fewer than 1% of the views of Trump.
Now, this was a direct competition.
This was two people in the same game playing at the same time with all the same tools.
Trump beat her 100 to 1.
Just think about that.
This was a direct competition.
Who can get the most people to watch me on a podcast that's available widely and easily and for free?
It's free.
Remember, there's not even any kind of paywall.
It's free.
And everybody has access.
Everybody knew that Harris was doing hers.
Everybody knew that Trump did his.
That's as close as you can get to a direct competition.
He beat her 100 to 1.
100 to 1.
People.
In a direct, fair competition where you just had to be smart and capable as a politician, he beat her 100 to 1!
Oh my God!
We've never seen anything like this.
Nothing like this.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is giving a speech and she says, unlike Donald Trump, I don't believe people who disagree with me are the enemy of the people.
He wants to put them in jail.
I'll give them a seat at my table.
Well, none of that's true, and you all know it, because as Sean Davis points out, quote, you are at this very moment trying to put Donald Trump in jail.
That is a fact.
We all believe that the law fair is coordinated by the Democrats.
So connecting them, I think, is a completely fair connection.
If the Biden administration did not want Trump to be law-fared.
He wouldn't be.
We all know that.
It's a Soros prosecutor situation.
So yes, Kamala Harris is doing the worst thing you could ever do in this country, which is jailing people who are political enemies.
And then the second worst thing is blaming the people that she's trying to jail as being the people who are trying to jail people.
So not only do you murder somebody, but you accuse them of being a murderer.
I'm going to rape you and accuse you of raping me.
That's what she's doing.
She might be one of the worst people in the world, in the whole world.
Now, I wasn't really following the whole thing about Trump saying that he would use the military to jail his enemies.
And the reason I didn't pay attention to it, because as soon as I heard it, I said, oh, he didn't say that.
That's just something out of context.
So I finally listened to it.
Because I've been hearing about it, but I haven't heard it recently.
And sure enough, it's obviously out of context.
It's just some shit they made up, like the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax and every other, the suckers and losers hoax.
It's just one more of their hoaxes.
No, he never suggested...
Bringing in the military against his personal political enemies.
The military was in case there was like a riot, like January 6th.
So that's exactly what everybody wants him to do, make sure there's no riots.
But no, he was not going to have the military arrest Nancy Pelosi.
That's not the plan.
And no Republican would be in favor of that, unless there were crimes.
If there are crimes, and there's really, really good evidence of the crimes, Yes.
Yes.
Crimes have to be handled.
So, of course, then we have the story of the comedian who made the garbage comments about Puerto Rico, but then Joe Biden made the mistake of calling all Trump supporters garbage.
Now you might say to me, Scott, are you saying that he meant that?
Or was he misspeaking and talking about the things they were saying were garbage?
Well, since the Democrat leadership are all lying, racist pieces of shit, I choose the interpretation that makes them look the worst.
And so, oh yeah, they totally called everybody garbage.
And whether they call this that or not, I believe they think that.
So it doesn't matter whether she's Senate or not.
She thinks it.
And so what does President Trump do, ex-President Trump?
Somehow, within hours, they had a brand new, clean-looking dump truck with a Trump Vance sign on it, a political sign.
Trump shows up with a garbage man's outfit and then gets on the truck.
It becomes the greatest visual of the campaign.
And then he wears his People.
People.
We've now seen Trump go into a black barber shop, totally comfortable, ruled.
We've watched him work at McDonald's.
Not only did he pull it off, it was one of the greatest political stunts of all time.
And now we've watched him dress as a garbage man and do a rally and dance to YMCA. I submit to you that there is no situation you can put Trump in where he doesn't win.
He seems to be able to command every room in every situation.
Remember when he was on Saturday Night Live back in 2016, and I said he did amazing?
Every situation.
There is nothing that makes that man feel awkward, and there's nothing that can make him not look cool.
Do you remember the Rat Pack?
I mean, they were before my time, but the Rat Pack had lots of problems.
You know, there were drinkers and smokers and God knows what.
But they always seemed cool no matter what they were doing, even when it wasn't cool.
Like, how do they do that?
Everything you do is cool.
And Trump has that.
He's got that Rat Pack thing where it just doesn't matter what he does.
Somehow, he can make every setup make him look good.
How does he do that?
How does anybody do that?
The level of media mastery that we're seeing is completely, let's say, underappreciated.
But in 20 years, when people look back at Trump's campaigning, they're going to say that was the standard and it can never be beaten.
He will be held out as a thing that nobody can touch.
And that's guaranteed.
And it doesn't even matter how the election goes.
He's already just set the standard.
Do you remember when...
Who was the guy who got taken out by being the tank?
Who was the one who rode around in the tank?
What was his name?
The Massachusetts politician whose name we can't even remember, which is really getting to my point.
I can't even remember his name.
Dukakis, thank you.
So Dukakis gets in a tank, puts on an army helmet, and drives the tank around.
All right, let me ask you this.
Could Trump pull that off?
Could Trump pull that off?
Get in the tank and ride around with the...
No.
Nobody could pull that off.
So he doesn't do it.
Nobody could pull that off.
So Trump doesn't do things like that.
There are certainly things that you can't pull off.
You couldn't have Trump show up in a Donald Duck outfit.
Because remember they were calling him Donald Duck for ducking some stuff?
No, he can't show up in a Donald Duck outfit.
He can't literally do anything.
But his ability to choose what he can do, even of difficult-seeming things and make them work, is almost just supernatural.
Anyway, Rasmussen says that 49% of likely voters believe there are election workers and officials who are enabling fraud in elections.
How many people don't think That the people who work for the election systems are allowing fraud.
Well, it's just what you think, 27%.
And 24%, not sure at all.
So just think about the fact that the biggest issue in the country is whether or not Trump was aware that the election was real in 2020, that he knew it was real, And that he anyway tried to overthrow it.
But now we know that half of the voters also think the election is not real.
So how do you hold in your head That the one person who was most likely to think it was real because he's the one who was most affected and the numbers all looked like it was going to be him until the last minute, anybody in that situation would have thought the election went their way and they got stolen.
They got stolen.
Anybody would.
So if you have half of the entire country who sees it and feels it the same way, to imagine that the one person who should have most seen it and felt it That that's the one person who didn't agree with the 49% of the entire country who were looking at the same stuff at the same time.
It still blows my mind that the brainwashers have allowed us to think past the sale.
The sale is was the election clean?
The entire media has trained us that we can't say that.
We can only talk about the bad behavior of Trump with his certain knowledge that it was a fair election.
None of that is true.
He did not have a certain knowledge that the election was fair because nobody could have that knowledge.
We do not have an election system which you could know who won.
If a state actor gets into a machine, you're not going to know.
And if you do, it'll be too late.
Somebody will already be in office by then.
So the number of times that they've made a think past the sale is pretty impressive, actually.
So they have some good persuaders on the Democrat side.
And I'm amazed that the Carville idea of just saying that all the Trump supporters are Nazis.
I'm kind of surprised that Carville got that far with that.
There was no way that was going to be a good idea.
But they didn't have any other good ideas, so they went with the 80-year-old drunk, I'm just guessing, who just thought, ah, how about yelling Nazi louder?
How about we'll say that Madison Square Garden is a clear Nazi...
I mean, that was just crazy shit.
But they did convince a lot of people.
You saw people on the street acting like they had been convinced that it was a Nazi gathering.
Well, here's some good news.
Hezbollah has a new leader.
Now, you may remember I always tell you that killing the leader of some terrorist organization doesn't always fix things.
Because it's quite often that the number two person and even the number three person Maybe we're even better than the number one person.
You know, they probably worked together and known each other for a while.
And maybe the number two person even got the number one person in the position because they knew they'd be a better number one.
But the number two would be pretty good, too.
You know, like Zawahawi in Al-Qaeda.
So you got to kill at least the top three before you can get to a less qualified leader.
I think now Hezbollah has had the long mode, as they say, three times now by the IDF.
So I think they're down to their fourth best leader this month.
And you just have to see his video introducing himself because they're already all the way down to the Joe Biden level of Hezbollah leadership.
ship.
The new leader looks like he's either...
He's either got dementia or maybe he's drunk or he's on some serious kind of pills because he knows he's going to be dead in about a day and a half.
You have to see the video.
He's hilariously non-charismatic.
So you basically went from peak charisma to All right, he's pretty charismatic.
Well, okay.
Number three, he's got a little bit of charisma, but oh, okay.
Number four, no charisma.
Nope, he's the Joe Biden of Hezbollah.
So that should go great.
More good news.
Allegedly, Trump has asked RFK Jr.
to reorganize the CDC, NIH, FDA, and several other parts of the USDA. Such that the government process of keeping us healthy with our food supplies and whatnot, and I think that's mostly food, but maybe that might include the vaccination schedules too.
And that's just some of the best things I've ever seen come out of my government.
You know, I'll tell you, when my government says, well, we reduced our increase in expense by 2%, and then I say, but you're still spending more?
Oh yeah, we're spending a lot more, but it could have been even more than that.
So we're taking a victory run because we decreased what we could have spent.
Well, that's actually like nothing.
You didn't actually do anything.
You just increased the cost of things you're doing.
Yes, but it could have been worse.
So, elect us.
No, that's what I don't like.
Here's what I do like.
These gigantic organizations that control our life are out of control, and we're going to send our most dangerous and capable man in to completely destroy them With the aim of using the pieces to build something much, much better.
So while Biden's biting babies, we're going to build back better.
Biden bites babies.
I like saying that.
So I don't think that there are very few things that have inspired me at this level.
I love the fact that RFK Jr.
has taken the extreme sacrifice to get to where he is.
Extreme.
You know, family sacrifice, reputation, had to affect him financially.
I mean, he put everything out there, and here he is.
He's knocking on the door to have the power to fix the biggest things that need fixing in the country.
Trump makes that possible.
Do you remember when you thought, oh, I sure would hate to have an older president because they might be set in their ways?
You don't get that with Trump.
I'll tell you what you don't get with Trump is, we're going to do it this way because that's the way it used to be done.
Never.
I have to tell you that my own experience, and again, it was just 30 minutes talking to Trump once in the Oval Office, he will give you the impression that he intensely cares about everything that comes out of your mouth.
And he's listening to it, and he's comparing it to all the other things he knows.
Here's an example.
At no time did he ever have the idea, oh, we'll find somebody who can reorganize these things and fix all these problems.
But it was brought to him, the most radical thing you could imagine, having RFK Jr., somebody from the other party, totally reorganize these major things.
That is a really, really smart, aggressive, provocative in all the right ways.
Everything about this I like.
I like everything about this.
Even if this doesn't work, I like everything about it.
So that's the thing you have to understand.
If you do the right process, you might have to redo it.
You know, maybe it doesn't hit 100% on the first try.
So maybe the first try doesn't get it, so you do it again.
But if you have the process right, you're in good shape.
And the process should be, don't give them 10% more money every year.
Decide whether they should exist every year.
We should decide, should you even exist, every year.
This whole everybody gets 10% more money because of inflation.
No, that's not how you run a country if you want to succeed.
Or a company.
Meanwhile, there's a report from the Senate Commerce Committee and Senator Ted Cruz that Kamala Harris is funding domestic terrorism.
Now, when I say something like that, you should say, Not like actually literally domestic terrorism.
You don't mean that, right?
Like she's not actually behind a plan to give our actual tax money to literally domestic terrorists.
Is she?
Well, here's the claims.
That the Inflation Reduction Act had so much money in it that you couldn't tell where all the money was going.
But some of it went, allegedly, to climate justice.
$100 million.
And part of what they do is they help Hamas.
That's right.
Part of our budget was pro-Hamas.
Did you know that?
Now, it was, of course, couched in humanitarian terms, but part of your money, $100 million, which would have made a big difference in North Carolina, was pro-Hamas.
Like, that's a real thing.
No, nobody hit it.
It was, you know, it was described.
It was right in the bill.
And again, if you put it in, if you saw it pre-October, pre-October surprise, I guess, you would say to yourself, well, it's not that big a deal if we do some humanitarian things.
But it doesn't look the same now, does it?
How about the MDN Collective?
They got $100 million to help defund law enforcement and obliterate the United States military.
So that would be some kind of lobbying internal entity that wants us to be less safe internally and externally.
Would you call them terrorists?
I would call them at least terrorist adjacent.
Terrorist is too strong, but they would seem to be on the same team.
Whether they mean to be or not, it would be very compatible.
Let's see, there's another New York Immigration Coalition, New Jersey Alliance for Immigration Justice.
That name is too long.
$50 million to aid them with the open borders and to annihilate a citizenship.
Okay, these are, of course, words chosen by somebody who's biased.
And social and environmental entrepreneurs, $50 million to abolish police and abolish prisons.
Now, I suppose if you looked at all of these details of the funding, you might say, those descriptions are hyperbole, Scott.
You've gone too far.
But is it true that there's over a quarter of a billion dollars that's being used for something that almost none of us would think is a good idea?
Looks like it is.
Looks like it is.
Meanwhile, here's a good idea.
New York Post reports that Oklahoma School's chief sent a bill to Kamala Harris for $474 million for what the extra cost of education will be because of all the illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden sent to them.
Now, I don't think that they expect to get a check.
It's more of a political note.
But putting numbers on things makes a big difference.
Here's why.
One of the things I try to teach you all the time is that if you can't measure a thing, you can't manage it.
As long as we don't know the number of people coming in, we don't know the number of crimes that are committed, We don't know the number of, let's say, jobs lost to the black citizens of the country, just to pick another number.
And we don't know what it costs to send them to school and what it costs for healthcare.
Then you can do whatever you want.
That would be an unmanaged process.
So you couldn't complain to the government because you really wouldn't have anything to say.
Hey, you should do less of the thing.
And they would say, we're doing the right amount of the thing.
And you'd say, I don't know, it feels like you're doing too much of that thing.
And they'd say, but we care, we have empathy, you're a Nazi, we're doing the right amount of the thing.
So you're not going to win that way.
But if you say, Oklahoma, you're going to have to send us half a billion dollars to pay for this.
And then the other states start sending in the bills.
And then the news adds them up and says, all right, 10 states have submitted their bills.
And that's $25 billion so far have been billed to the Biden administration.
Again, it would just be for show.
And then you could start managing it.
Because then people would have a sense of the scale.
It's not until you know the numbers that you can manage anything.
So getting the Biden administration out of the hypothetical and into the, here's what you cost us, is the game.
It's the whole game.
Because if people knew what the actual dollar amounts were, I think the support would drop to practically nothing.
All right.
What else?
So that...
I'm going to give a compliment to Kamala Harris for her communication.
Obviously, she was coached on this, but the first time she got asked about Joe Biden's comments about Trump supporters being garbage, she said this.
First of all, he clarified his comments talking about Biden, but let me be clear.
That part is stupid.
That should be gone.
But I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.
And she said she's running to be everybody's president.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
Now, what she needs to do is crave some distance between Biden and her, but not some distance that's too far.
I think she nailed it.
I think she gave Biden some pain, and the entire country thought, yeah, that was a little pain you should give him.
You should give him a little pain for that, even if you're on his team.
You'd probably say, you know, you could at least kick him under the table for that.
Like, you don't need to kill him.
You don't need to ruin his legacy.
But if you give him a sharp kick in the shin, that feels right to all of us.
Both sides.
Both sides.
We go kick in the shin.
Right on point.
So yes, kick in the shin, right on point.
And it set her aside.
It set her some space that I think was just what she needed.
So it's still going to hurt her, as pollster Frank Luntz said.
He thinks it could hurt as much as Hillary Clinton's deplorables come in.
We shall see.
It could make a difference.
It's very visual.
And I believe that even regular Democrats are not comfortable with demonizing half of the country.
I know I'm not.
I'm not comfortable demonizing the other half of the country.
So I would think that people would be on the same page on this, that even if somebody important on your team isn't you, it's somebody pretty important to you, your boss.
That was a pretty damaging comment.
Well, I talked about this the other day, but it just keeps getting better.
So on MSNBC, one of their hosts, Mehdi Hassan, Got into an on-air disagreement with this Ryan Gerdusky, who's a right-leaning person.
And what triggered it was Mehdi talking about, I guess, how the Madison Square Garden thing looked sort of...
...Hitlerian.
And that Trump kept saying things that sound like the Third Reich.
So Hassan said, quote, if you don't want to be called a Nazi, don't say Nazi-sounding things like at the Trump rally.
Well, now that would be an opinion that they're Nazi-sounding things.
I didn't hear any Nazi-sounding things myself.
I heard things that I wouldn't have said.
I heard things that could definitely offend people.
But Nazi-sounding?
No.
There were no Nazi-sounding things there.
But if you say that somebody is at a rally that you support and that they're acting like a Nazi, it is quite reasonable to assume that they're calling you a Nazi too, or at the very least, a Nazi supporter.
Would you agree with that?
If somebody says to your face, the person you support is acting like a Nazi, and that's why we're calling them a Nazi, are they not calling you a Nazi supporter?
I feel they are.
And I feel that that's too far for American politics.
And I guess Ryan Gurdusky said, he said, I hope your beeper doesn't go off.
Now, that would be an accusation that maybe instead of being just somebody with a Palestinian background and some empathy for the Palestinians, which we all should have, that...
Maybe he was a terrorist.
Now, does that sound fair?
So you've got Mehdi Hassan saying that people supporting Trump are supporting a Nazi, which would essentially make them Nazis.
And then the response, which was equally hyperbolic, is that I hope your beeper doesn't go off, suggesting that somebody who was pro-Palestinian might be pro-Hamas, which of course would be too far.
Now, while I do not embrace the thought that if you're a Palestinian, you're a terrorist, so I'll disavow that.
However, I'm backing Ryan Gurdusky completely because self-defense has no limits.
So if you go on a show and somebody accuses you of being a Nazi, you can call them a pedophile, even if it's not true.
You could call them a terrorist.
You could call them a piece of shit.
You could call them a flaming turd.
A flaming turd, pedophile, Nazi piece of shit.
Anything you want.
So I think Ryan Gruduski will not be invited back.
And I don't support his message.
I support his self-defense.
Does that make sense?
So I'm not on board with his message at all, but I'm on board with him meeting the insult with one that I would say would be equivalent.
Both of them are way on the line.
But if you give me something way on the line on national TV, you should expect it back.
And I'm not going to apologize for it.
Because self-defense doesn't have a rule.
There are laws.
If he punched him, he'd go to jail.
And I agree with that law.
But there's no ethical or moral boundary to self-defense.
You can do whatever you want.
You'll just get, you'll have to pay for it, as he is.
All right, Harry Enten on CNN. He's great, by the way.
Every time Harry Enten does his big magic board of all the things and gets all excited about the messaging, I'm really entertained.
So he's one of the best hires that CNN's ever had, and he doesn't ever strike me as being biased.
I've never seen him biased, and I've never seen him not entertaining.
The whole time he's on, I'm like glued to it.
He's great.
And I turned on...
There was another network where there was like a fake Harry Enten.
They also had one of these big, you know, video screens and they were doing the same thing with the country and the votes.
But he was trying to act like that same character.
Like a weatherman, you know, who's a little wackier than the news.
Wasn't quite pulling it off.
But Harry Enten looks like he's always like that.
So he pulls it off naturally.
It looks like if you went to Thanksgiving at his house, it would look exactly the same.
So anyway, I love that guy.
He's saying that if Trump wins next week, all the signs were there.
You can't say you weren't warned.
Uh-oh.
Wait a minute.
Did CNN just tell us that if Trump doesn't win, that it was rigged?
He didn't say that.
But you can imagine people hearing it, right?
Because he's saying that the indications are that Trump will win, and they're pretty strong.
What if he doesn't?
Yeah.
The level of risk in this is 10.
10 out of 10.
If you get it this close that even CNN, even CNN, and this is the guy who knows, this is not just a pundit.
This is somebody who's their guy who's in the numbers.
If CNN says all the numbers are looking Trump, and then a few days from now it goes the other way, that's the highest risk.
You can't get a higher risk than that.
Now, are there any problems with the voting?
That we should know about well.
Virginia removed...
They finally got permission, I guess, from the Supreme Court to remove a bunch of voters that they said were non-citizens.
But then some people argue, but some of them are real citizens.
They're just wrongly on the list.
But apparently they will be removed.
And that's a step in the right direction.
But it asks an important question.
How many states...
Knowingly have long lists of people that they don't think are eligible to vote.
And I think the answer is, it wasn't just Virginia.
So this is like a little foreshadowing or a little hint that there are other problems out there.
Then, according to Just the News over in Illinois, a number of their voting machines malfunctioned.
So in McLean County, 34 ballots were placed in what they call the emergency bin.
Now that's not much, 34 ballots.
So it's not a big deal.
It's just there was a machine that wasn't doing its thing.
So instead they throw it in a box and they count it later as if it were a mail-in.
Is there any problem with that?
Because the mail-ins are looked at by people and then they decide, is this valid or not?
So these will also just be looked at by people.
Because the machine didn't accept them.
Well, here's my question.
If there is such a thing as one of the machines that can't read some of the ballots, if the machine was all certified and the ballots were all certified, but the machine can't read the ballots, Does that raise any issues with you?
Does that make you say, hmm, why do we have machines?
What's the point of the machines?
Was it to finish faster in Illinois?
No.
Was it because the machines were free?
No.
Was it because they're more accurate?
No.
Is it because they're more credible to the public?
No.
How many days in a row do I get to go in public and tell you that nobody makes an argument for any reason that machines should exist unless the entire purpose for them is cheating?
Nobody.
How many times can I do this in a row where there won't be a single person On the other side, not a Democrat, not an expert who says, oh no, Scott, here's our cost-benefit analysis for why you want machines.
Nobody?
And by the way, before I started saying every single day, can you give me any reasons we use machines?
How many of you knew there were no reasons to use the machines?
That was making you think past the sale.
Right?
You're thinking past the sale to, you know, did this or that machine function correctly?
If you're at that level of thinking about it, then the people who are running the machines, they say, well, okay, you caught us in this one place they didn't work, so we put those ballots in a box, and we made sure that both people looked at them and the problem solved.
That's making you think past the sale.
The sale is, why do you have machines?
Why do you have machines?
Yeah.
So as long as you're arguing about whether a particular machine worked or did not work in a particular place, you're already past the sale.
The sale is, why is it there?
That's a big clue, by the way.
Meanwhile, thousands of Las Vegas area voters found out their signatures didn't match.
Well, actually, they haven't found out.
But there's 6,000 signatures that don't match so far.
So Nevada will put those aside and look at them more closely.
Again, that doesn't indicate the election is rigged.
It's pretty normal to have a bunch of ballots that are irregular and you set them aside and you look at them.
Then we've got, let's see, Pennsylvania Democratic Party is suing Erie County over 10,000 to 20,000 missing mail-in ballots, according to the Washington Times.
Now, this is coming from Democrats.
So, I don't know.
Are they missing?
The lawsuit says that they're unable to account for about 1,800 ballots and 300 duplicate ballots that were incorrectly sent out to voters, blah, blah, blah.
Then Patrick Byrne is talking about in Colorado, Jenna Griswold, she's involved with the election process somehow.
Apparently the election people accidentally, accidentally, Sent out a spreadsheet that had the BIOS passwords in it, which would allow you to change the machine's count and get away with it.
Now, was that an accident?
And whether it was an accident or not, did anybody take advantage of seeing those passwords and getting into them?
The answer is we don't know.
And if you don't know, how do you certify the election?
That's what Patrick Byrne says.
He says, basically, this is already non-certifiable.
If you knew that your state had published all the passwords to the machines at the root level, BIOS level, if you knew that about your state, would you say, yeah, but probably it's fine.
Or would you say, oh, this is such a big security problem that we can't know who voted?
It's unknowable what the result is.
Well, if you're an engineer, what would you say?
I got a lot of engineers here.
So those of you who are programmers or engineers, if you knew that the passwords had been sent out and you didn't know if anybody looked at them, you had no information if anybody looked at them, But would you say that that election happened, or would you say, as an engineer, the election did not occur?
Because we would have no confidence in knowing that we got a number, therefore it didn't happen.
What would the engineer say?
I mean, it's a rhetorical question.
The engineer would say there was no election.
Let me say that again.
An engineer who looked at a system where all the passwords had been published ahead of time, Would not say, oh, the election was, you know, mostly good.
They wouldn't say we didn't find any problems.
They would say there was no election.
Because that design doesn't give you one.
That design doesn't give you an election.
It gives you a thing that in some ways reminds you of an election, but it's not an election.
Because at the very least, you should have confidence that you would know what the vote was.
And we don't have that.
We very much don't have that.
So...
I don't think there's really any chance that the...
That we'll have confidence in the election.
But my understanding is that the new rule is the vice president has to certify the election as long as the states send it to him.
So basically, there's no such thing as certifying anymore.
It's automatic.
So no matter how broken it is, the person whose job it was to be the last final check Doesn't have that option anymore.
It's just going to be certified.
Well, January 20 is going to be interesting.
According to the Daily Wire, Biden-Harris' numbers on illegal migrants are 25% higher than they say.
And that's because they don't include the gotaways.
Well, doesn't that make sense?
Didn't you always know?
Border Patrol, can you tell us how many people crossed the border?
Yes, we caught one million of them.
Great, so you're saying one million people tried to cross the border and you caught them.
Well, no, more than that tried.
Oh, okay, so you caught one million out of how many?
What?
How many out of a million?
So you got a million, but out of how many?
Like a million point one?
What?
Speak up.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What?
You don't know?
You don't know how many got away?
I don't know.
Why don't you know?
Well, the reason they got away is because we weren't there when they crossed the border.
So how would we know how many got through?
To which I say, if you don't know how many got away, why are you even reporting these numbers?
And how do you assume it's 25%?
Like, where would that number come from?
If you don't know, then you certainly can't put a percentage on it.
It could be 500%.
It could be 1%.
If you don't know, don't put a 25% on it.
That seems kind of specific.
Anyway, so the border's open and everything's wrong and...
All the economic numbers look good, but it's fake because we've got a debt problem that will crush us.
We have one candidate who's willing to fix and has an actual plan to do it.
Our chronic illness from our food supply, maybe something about our meds.
We have only one candidate who has an Elon Musk willing to figure out how to re-engineer our government to make it efficient and useful and a weapon for the future.
Let me tell you this.
The biggest competitive factor in the future is which of the big countries, you know, the industrialized countries, which of them can fix their government faster?
Because they're all broken.
Everybody's government is broken.
The dictators are broken.
The Democrats are broken.
Democratic systems.
And we're broken.
We are nowhere near a good government.
And I'm not just talking left or right.
I'm talking just pure efficiency, just being able to do things.
And Elon Musk may be one of the only people in the world who could look at all of that Absorb that level of complexity, boil it down to what needs to be done, and then do the risk management correctly.
Because you're going to have to take some big freaking risks when you consolidate and eliminate and get rid of the experts and all the other things that are going to have to happen to downsize.
But downsizing shouldn't be the goal.
If Musk is thinking about it correctly, and I guarantee you he is, the answer is not to make the government smaller and save money.
Does that make sense?
If Musk is thinking from first principles, like if nothing existed, what would you do?
It's possible that the best thing we could do is spend more money.
I don't think so.
But if you started from scratch, you might come up with the idea, oh God, if we don't run faster than everybody with AI, it wouldn't matter what else we do.
Because if China gets to the super AI and quantum computing before we do, It doesn't matter what else you've done.
It takes away all of your possibilities for the future.
So, it's possible, very unlikely, that the end process would be we're going to have to spend a lot more money and real fast.
Maybe.
I doubt it.
I don't think that's going to happen.
But my point is that if you re-engineer as opposed to just cut costs, you don't know where you end up.
Because re-engineering could be really radical.
For example, if Elon Musk says in five years, I'll pick something within the frame.
If he said within three years, I will replace 80% of the government with AI, but there'll be a backup so you can get a human if you need it.
And it will reduce, you know, 40% of the expense for that kind of stuff.
And I'm going to do it in three years.
He might be able to do that.
That might actually be something you could do.
So there's only one person in the world, I think, could really take the right kind of swing at the re-engineering of the government.
And he's the only one I would trust, honestly.
Only one I would trust.
So we've got some great things happening.
The golden age is maybe a week away from kicking off.
Trump will probably have his third act success.
And the third act wouldn't be just winning the election.
He needs to find a massive nest of attempted theft.
We need to find how they're trying to steal this election because I feel like somebody's trying to steal it.
And somebody's got to go to jail.
This time somebody's got to go to jail.
Now, do I want Trump to jail all of his political enemies?
Let me say this as clearly as I can.
I do not want Trump to be rounding up any political enemies.
And as I told Cenk the other day when I was talking to him, if I saw the team I backed collecting up political enemies that literally had committed no crime, I'm switching teams.
Same day, 100%.
I'm going to the other team.
And I'll try to stop it.
Because there's no way I want to be backing anybody who's using lawfare on the other team.
That said, it does seem to me that things like the Russia collusion hoax and some of the other hoaxes, they appear criminal.
To me, they appear criminal.
And I would certainly expect some of those people should go to jail.
But that would not be anything about political enemies.
That would be clear examples of crimes.
Alright.
Scott mispronounced.
What did I mispronounce?
It doesn't matter.
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