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cans didn't turn out because they were confident of winning? I don't feel that. I don't feel it. Yeah it's possible. I could be persuaded but that wasn't the energy I was picking up. I was picking up Republicans vote for fun and for a principle. Republicans don't vote or not vote because it's convenient. Am I right? In fact you could define Republicans as people who are going to vote no matter how…

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se you would expect on election day would be the day you would have the most technicians and the most machines for just ordinary reasons, right? So they must have some way to protect against the obvious danger of having anybody in the machine. I don't know what it is but I'm hoping they have a process. So probably that wasn't a problem. Probably not. But does it raise any suspicion that they could tweak individual machines to a higher state of sensitivity and then they would work? Wait a minute. If all of the machines were made the same but only some of them needed to be tweaked doesn't that mean that they were not the same machines? That they had different settings? Because if the hardware is the same and the software is not the same and the only thing they changed was a setting that means they weren't using the same machines. And that means I'm very curious if the ones that didn't have the right setting were in one kind of district versus another or one precinct versus another.

Somebody says it's not the tabulators it was the printers not the tabulators but the printers. So is the system that when you vote it prints out your vote and then they take that printed vote and put it in a tabulator? Is that what's happening? Somebody says yes. However was it the printer they adjusted or the tabulators? What got adjusted the tabulators or the printers? The printers. So somebody changed the printer so they printed properly but it's the printer on the voting machine, right? If the vote gets printed out by the voting machine it's the voting machine itself that's the problem, right? Okay I guess we have a whole bunch of questions so I don't have enough detail to go much further but let me make the general point. So whether it was the printers or the printer on the voting machine or the election machine counter no matter what it was no matter what it was the intention was they were all the same, right? The intention was everybody had the same equipment. How can some of that equipment act differently? How is that possible? Well one way would be if somebody put bad ink or not enough ink in some of the printers. That would actually be a pretty normal reasonable thing. Some of them just had bad ink or bad printers but it could be the same printer just some of them weren't good.

Listen to the printer expert. Who's the printer expert? You have no standing to find out what happened. Yeah yeah maybe maybe there'll be no standing from a legal sense so there's no way to find out. All I'm saying is they have not eliminated the possibility of shenanigans. Would you agree with that? That what we know so far has not eliminated shenanigans from the possibilities set. But would you agree with the second part? If the problem is the printers were not printing let's say the same doesn't that sound like a normal problem? Like you know the whole thing is explained if all it is is that printers don't print the same everywhere. That's everything we already know. Every one of you has a printer problem. Yeah but then the question would be this. Why do we never have this problem before? Why do we never have this problem before? First time ever. We always use printers and printers suddenly went from functional to non-functional. And why did they only become non-functional in the most important county? All the other printers everywhere were fine. Just this one very important county had some bad printers in it. A lot of them. A lot of them. Got a lot of bad printers in there.

So here's what I believe. I believe we're still in the fog of war. So the one thing we can all say about Maricopa is we don't know what happened. Would you agree with that? We don't have enough information. So the first thing we know is we don't have enough information. The second thing we know is there is a perfectly normal explanation for what we're seeing. Doesn't mean it's true but it's perfectly normal. Yeah there was a problem with some printers in one area. I mean that feels like something they could explain with normal stuff. Again we have questions. Why just this one area? Why didn't we ever have this problem before? Good questions but I wouldn't be surprised if they could be answered. It could be as easy as let me just give you an example. It could be as easy as there's a procedure to put in a new ink cartridge before you start the election and in one place they didn't do it. They did some testing and they forgot to change the ink cartridges and then when it got toward the end the ink was light and then the reader didn't pick it up. But everyone else just followed the procedure so they just didn't have that problem. Maybe. Now I'm not saying that's the answer. I'm saying that it would be real easy to imagine a very normal human error situation, right? Well but here's the thing. You could also determine whether it was a mistake that would favor one side. But if the problem was simply that some machines didn't work could you know that would favor one side? Good. Could you be confident that your plan would work? I don't know. These are questions we must get to the bottom of. But I don't think the country is up in arms. I feel like Maricopa no matter what happens there maybe we learned something maybe we get smarter but it's not like the end of the democracy no matter what happens.

And let's see that ladies and gentlemen is I believe the most useful and best livestream you're going to see today about the election. Now if you would like to track my influence on the world watch how the election results are covered today. Now I have the advantage of being able to go early in the day so sometimes you know if I just say the obvious thing other people will also say the obvious thing but it's not because of me. People are everybody's going to say the obvious stuff so they're not copying me if they say obvious stuff. But if you hear people talking about the demographic difference the fear persuasion you're taking something away persuasion or those things then maybe that was my influence.

All right. All of the pundits and news people today are going to be struggling to say something new. I just achieved that. See if anybody else does. So there's your challenge for the day. So this is my pitch to you for why you should watch my livestream. It is my contention that I gave you a take which you won't hear anywhere else unless they were influenced by me and I think that's what I had. I had the take you haven't heard somewhere else which is not craz

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y by the way. How did you like my take? I guess I'll just ask you how you liked it. What do you think of my take? That I was blinded to the persuasion for all the obvious reasons. I'm not the target of it and because I'm not the target that's not a good excuse because I do know enough about persuasion I should have seen it. I should have picked that up honestly. But I think maybe I was picking it…

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