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don't know the exact process but I guess the House says that they confirm it or they validate it or whatever. Let's say it goes all the way through the system and Biden is ready to be inaugurated or even he gets inaugurated. My understanding is that the actual inauguration is unnecessary. It's more of a ceremony. But let's say he goes through the process that he's absolutely the president of the U…
← Previous segment →reality, the mail-in ballots which is a process change which probably changed the outcome, just the fact that there was a coronavirus and they had to do mail-in ballots probably could change the outcome. And then what about the fraud? We'll talk about that in a minute.
So how much of what I just mentioned, that's my cat talking to you, how much of what I just mentioned is the people's will? None of it. It's the opposite of the people's will. Nothing like democracy happened. There was nothing like democracy that just happened in the United States. But we probably will get over it. We probably will get past it without a civil war, which is a credit to the country I think.
Now I don't recommend this and let me emphasize this. The next thing I'm going to say I do not recommend. Do not recommend it. But if it happened it'd be funny. Which is Republicans rigging the Senate race in Georgia using the same tricks that they believe the Democrats used that the Democrats say are impossible. It would just be hilarious because if the Republicans used their same techniques and the Democrats knew it, what would they do? Because they couldn't really call them out for the technique because their entire argument is that these techniques can't work. Not that they didn't work. That they can't. It just isn't possible.
So again I'm not recommending it because it's breaking the law. I never recommend breaking the law. But it would be funny. I'm just saying it would be funny. I don't recommend it.
All right. So I tweeted this. At the Milwaukee recount is going slowly because Trump's attorneys have been constantly interrupting and challenging tens of thousands of ballots. What is it that you would challenge on these ballots? If an attorney challenges a ballot what would be the basis? Well I would think the basis would be a technical problem like an address wasn't complete or a signature didn't match. Aren't those supposed to be rejected? Now I know there's a process for curing them, going back to the voter, but that process has passed I believe. There's a time limit that's probably passed in which you can cure a ballot.
So what happens if the attorneys find a whole bunch of ballots that maybe could have been cured, some of them if you were in the right time frame, but that time frame is passed? What happens? This is really untested territory. I don't know what the legal result is. Do they throw them out and then they can never be cured? Because I've got a feeling if you put a lawyer in a room with a bunch of ballots that lawyer's gonna have a lot of arguments. It's like well that doesn't look like the letter E to me. That looks like the letter C. You got the address wrong. Throw that one out.
All right. So then another tweet. And again I don't believe anything that's data in 2020. It doesn't matter what the topic is. It's voting, it's coronavirus, doesn't matter. If you believe any public data regardless of the source, if you believe any data you see in public in 2020 you haven't been paying attention. It's pretty much all unreliable. Some of it is true but it's all unreliable. Okay. And here's one of them. 59 counties in Georgia rejected zero ballots this year. Not zero rounded to the nearest decimal says the tweet but actually zero.
What are the odds that you know and of course typically it's only going to be in the zero to 2.2 range. National average is one and it was 1.4 in 2016 and 2018. Is that a big difference? I mean maybe the difference between zero and one percent. Maybe there are lots of counties that had zero rejected ballots. What do you think? I think the odds of that are pretty close to zero. Meaning that they probably just turned off the controls. Isn't it far more likely that what happened is nobody was rejecting ballots in those counties? I can't say it's impossible but I also don't know if the data is even correct.
So don't let me make you think past the sale because I think I did that accidentally. The sale is whether the data is even real, right? Don't get past that and then thinking that if it is real it shows that there's fraud. You got to back up. I don't know if this data is real and if it is real I don't even know if it's unusual. So you got to figure that out fir
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st. Don't think past the sale. Let's talk about whether election cheating is possible. Okay, here's the big payoff for this live stream. How many of you think that it's possible to do enough cheating that you would change the result of a national election and not be spotted? How many think that's a thing that could be done? Change a national election so it's got to be enough fraud to do that but…
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