A British publication owned by an Australian, Rupert Murdoch. Yeah, Rupert Murdoch has to break the news because it's basically just locked down from most of the American outlets. Now, of course the right-leaning outlets are covering it.

And so once you know that Joe Biden was the big guy, once you know that the emails are real and that there's a real witness, and here's the funniest part of the story. The reason that Joe Biden's business partner was willing to come forward and throw the Bidens under the bus was because they screwed him. He felt like they screwed him, and they were making deals with the Chinese behind his back, and he wasn't part of the money stream. So note to future schemers: if there's anybody who you're scheming with, you should cut them in on your deals. If you don't give your business partner a little bit of that sweet, sweet Chinese money, he might turn on you. And looks like that's what happened.

And of course this is an ex-military guy, so it gives it a little more weight, right? Lieutenant Tony Bobulinski.

Now, in any kind of a normal world in which things work the way they used to, or things work the way they should, or things work the way you would like them to work, wouldn't the Biden campaign announce either one of two things? Either he's withdrawing from the race, right? Wouldn't you expect that Joe Biden would just drop out of the race? Because I think he's going to jail. Well, no, I guess it probably isn't illegal, or at least people that rich tend not to go to jail even if they do things illegal. But it's so obviously, verifiably sketchy that you can't really have that guy as your president. That's just not a thing.

And if Trump had ever done or the Trump family had ever done anything, anything in that universe of badness, I feel like we'd know about it by now. I mean, it's the most vetted family in the history of families, so we'd kind of know about that.

So given that the reason that Joe Biden was selected to run against Trump — and I think you would agree this is true — the primary reason he was selected is that he seemed like he was the honest guy who could run against Trump, right? It seemed like it was the honest guy. But now we have absolute — I would say this is very credible. You can't trust anything absolutely in this day and age, but it looks pretty credible to me that Joe Biden is criminally — I would say criminally. I'll say that with a caveat that it doesn't mean literally criminal. I don't know about that part. But in terms of how bad it feels, it's criminally bad, if I could use the word figuratively.

And we know that he's a habitual liar, which was the other thing that he was running against Trump for. Now, I'm not going to defend Trump's fact-checking. I'm not suicidal. That would be crazy. Yeah, Trump has some fact-checking irregularities, let's say, maybe 20,000 of them. But Biden was running against that. And now he's demonstrated to have lied about the laptop. He lied about Trump calling service people losers and suckers. That never happened. He lied about the fine people hoax. He's lied about what Trump's going to do with health care. Basically he is the most thorough liar since, I don't know, Hillary Clinton.

So does his team see this or not? Because I feel like they don't see it. It's still hidden from them because they're not going to read a British publication for the most part. They're just going to read CNN and whatever they were reading before, and they just won't know. And we could actually get to election day with most of the public, or most of the Democrats, most of them not knowing the biggest story in the country. They won't know it because that's how thoroughly the news and social media is managed by the gatekeepers. And that's mind-blowing. It's even hard for me to hold it in my head.

And I've speculated this, that the way we're acting as a country doesn't seem related to what we're observing. Because I think we're all observing, especially with the Clapper and Brennan stuff trying to say there was Russian disinformation on the laptop, we're observing with no ambiguity whatsoever, in my opinion, the leaders and important people who have run our government acting so illegitimately that they should be run off the stage, and if not jailed in some cases. And yet what will happen to these people who are actively trying to overthrow the government, actively running a disinformation campaign against the American people from the experience of being the heads of intel agencies? Is anything worse than that? Like if you were to make a list of the worst things anybody could do, I suppose you'd have like genocide up at the top, but somewhere in the top five would be ex-intel heads running a disinformation campaign in their own country. That's really close to the top of bad behavior.

And what will happen because of it? In my prediction, nothing. My prediction is that Brennan and Clapper will just go on with their life. There'll be no penalty, no nothing. And it's mind-boggling. And I try to think to myself — thinking to myself is the way I do it a lot. A lot of people think to other people, I guess. But what I think, I can't reconcile what we're clearly observing with the complete lack of activity or action to be the response to it. The response is completely disconnected from the observation now.

And here's the best way I can explain it. Our brain can't accept what we're seeing, and so we're rejecting it as actually happening. Your brain can't really process that the ex-heads of intel are running a disinformation campaign, and it's the second time they've done it. And the Russia collusion thing is completely transparent now, completely discovered to have been an illegal or at least illegitimate disinformation campaign in the effort to overthrow the legally elected government of the United States. And what will you do about it tomorrow? Nothing. What will I do about that? Nothing. What will the government do about it? As far as I can tell, nothing. And what will the public do about it in terms of how it changes their votes? It won't. It won't even change a vote, because the people who didn't like the Democrats still don't like them, and vice versa.

So my best guess in terms of the psychology of what's happening is that because the thing we're observing can't exist — it does exist, it absolutely 100% exists, and we're looking right at it — but it can't exist in our minds. Our mind can't say that that's real even while we're looking at it. And so we go on with our lives as if it were not real, because we can't reconcile it. It just can't be part of my mental model because it doesn't fit anywhere. I think that's what's happening. That's my best understanding of why we could be observing this and our actions have nothing to do with the observation. We just can't handle it.

John Ratcliffe, I guess. His last name is Ratcliffe. Let me say this. If you wanted to have a high public official, let's say the head of intel, and you wanted to give him a last name that would make you feel that he's telling you the truth and you can trust this guy, you would not want his last name to be Ratcliffe, because I don't like rats and I don't like cliffs and I don't like rats standing on cliffs, because none of that's good. So he needs to change his name to something I can feel better about. Ratcliffe, come on, simulation.

So he says that there's no evidence of Russian disinformation, which of course the news on the right turns into there's proof of no Russian disinformation, which is not what happened, because you can't prove something didn't happen. We can only say there's no evidence of it, which is close to being the same, but it's not the same. Could it be that the Russians had found a way to do it without being discovered? Well, hypothetically I suppose. But I believe the Russians were not involved with this laptop.

But we do have news now that Russia and Iran are interfering with the elections. I don't know what the Russian examples were, but the Iranian example was hilarious. I think that we give the foreign intelligence groups a little bit too much credit, because I don't have the exact text here, but apparently Iran is being blamed for making up some fake social media posts that blame the Proud Boys for the, I guess the allegation is that the Proud Boys would be at election places and threatening to beat people up who didn't vote for Trump, and therefore the Proud Boys are part of