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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…
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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 also not be spotted. Is it possible?
Because I'm talking to at least one smart person who says, "Scott, Scott, Scott, don't you know that the system is designed with way too much transparency? There's people watching at every step. You've got witnesses, you've got cameras in the ceiling, you've got signatures, you've got verification." I mean they've removed the ability to cheat at least cheating in a big enough scale to change an election. What do you think?
Now when the Democrats, and I'm talking to one in particular, it was very smart, very worldly in terms of would not be some kind of a virgin about the fact that crime exists in the world, somebody who's seen enough of the dirty side of life who should know where fraud can and cannot live, believes that the election system is sufficiently free of it that you could conclude this was a fair election just because the way it's designed. What do you think?
Let's go through it. Number one, do you believe that the Kennedy-Nixon election was rigged? Now if it was rigged, and I believe historians now agree on this, right? Give me a fact check but I think the historians agree that the Kennedy-Nixon election was rigged. Now did it have to be widespread? Apparently not. I think it could have been done in maybe one city that was Democrat controlled for example Chicago or whatever. The claim is Ohio. I forget. But it didn't need to be widespread and it was not detected at the time.
Now have things changed since the early 60s in terms of have we gone from an election that could be rigged to an election that can't be? Well I wonder if you went back in time and said to the people who had created the election process, "Hey you guys created this process. Is there any way anybody could cheat enough to change a national election?" What would they have said in 1960? Somebody says Scott's going full Q and on you. You have fallen. I'm going to block you for saying that. You have fallen for the narrative. You won't find anything that I say here that you disagree with. I'll bet you. I bet you there's not a single thing that I say that you will disagree with.
So don't you think that during the Kennedy-Nixon time the people who designed it thought that they had a system that couldn't be cheated? They probably thought they had it but they didn't apparently. So just put that in the back of your mind and we'll continue.
So have you seen the special on CNN? I hope you all saw this special on CNN where they went through the entire voting process from beginning to end and they showed you all the controls and the way that they monitor it so that you could see with your own eyes from beginning to end there's a trail of custody that's watched the whole time. You have multiple observers. You've got cameras. You all saw that special, right? That showed that election cheating is so difficult it basically couldn't happen. Did you all see the special? Oh no you didn't because it doesn't exist. Yeah there's no special like that.
But why not? Isn't that the most obvious news content you can imagine? What would be a more obvious thing to put on television if you were CNN than a little segment that says look people think this election was stolen. Let us show you how that's impossible. All right let us just walk you through it you stupid Republican rubes. Let us just show you how the process works and then you idiots you won't be thinking it was fraud because we'll just show you you couldn't have a fraud in this situation. We'll just lay it out for you. Look at it yourself. You can see there's no opportunity for fraud in this process. Yeah you didn't see that special did you? And you're not gonna see that special. Do you know why? Yeah you know why. You know exactly why. Nobody wants to put that on the air.
All right. So I asked that question why are no experts saying that it can't be done and an election law expert weighed in. David Becker, UC Berkeley grad so we know he's smart. UC Berkeley, very smart. So what do you think an election law expert said when I asked the question why haven't we seen somebody saying that these are secure elections? And he says I'd really hope you'd listen to experts on this because experts are really believable. So he says I really hope you listen to experts on this. More paper ballots, more identity validation, more audits, more bipartisan observation and transparency than ever before. Widespread fraud is not possible and didn't happen.
See what he did there? You see how he inserted the word "widespread"? Did I say widespread? Nope. If he had not put the word "widespread" in there would he be so confident? Nope. It was the Kennedy-Nixon election that was allegedly rigged. Was it widespread? No, no it was very targeted. So he had to change the argument to debunk it. And you see this very consistently. And then when I pointed out that he changed the argument he changed it to some other argument.
So basically nobody is going to touch this question of whether these elections are cheatable. Who would be a good expert to tell you whether a city election was rigged? Would you want to hear from an election law professional or would you want to hear from Rudy Giuliani? Now say what you will about Rudy Giuliani but don't you think he's kind of an expert on municipal fraud? I would think he would know more about that than just about anybody in the world. If you've been a mayor of a major city and you've been a prosecutor and you've prosecuted the mafia and you lived in this world of fraud and crime and it's part of your experience, I think Rudy Giuliani is an expert. And Rudy Giuliani says if Philadelphia had a fair election this time it's the first time in 60 years.
Why don't you listen to him? Because listen to the experts. The listen to the experts thing is purely stupidity because you can't tell which expert to listen to. If you could, you know, that's a different conversation but you can't. You can't tell. Is it Rudy or is it this election professional? They have different opinions.
All right. So let's talk about whether you had the motive and the opportunity for fraud in this election. Now move this whiteboard over here so you can see it. Let's talk about the motivation first. The fake news has told Democrats that they were dealing with some kind of an orange Hitler. If you thought that you could stop orange Hitler from a second term would you break the law to do it? Well some of you would, some of you would not. If only one person was involved in elections well maybe that person would never break the law. But that's not the case. Millions of people are involved in elections. Y
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ou only need enough of them to be willing to break the law for the law to get broken. You don't need everybody to break the law. You just need enough. And if you have millions of people who believe that orange Hitler might be taking a second term, are there enough people who would be willing to break the law? Yes. Clearly and unambiguously yes. So there would be enough people willing. But willing…
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