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s, there's a gay advocacy group, they just stripped Anheuser-Busch of their good rating because they didn't like Anheuser-Busch basically caved to the pressure about Dylan Mulvaney. So now you can't make the right happy because they didn't like how that was treated. But now the left is unhappy because they changed their minds because of the pressure from the right. Do you think that big companies…

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s in trouble, right? That's so embarrassing.

No that doesn't work the other way, does it? It probably does but I just don't know examples. I'm probably being biased about this. Does it work the other way that Republicans try to turn into Democrats when they're running for election? Maybe they do. Maybe they do a little bit. Maybe they soften. They probably soften on abortion a little bit in some cases. Yeah, some do. So I guess I'm going to modify my statement and say it works both ways.

All right, well here's a little wild card. Remember the best way to predict the future, as Elon Musk reminded us even yesterday, is that the most entertaining outcome is the most likely as determined by an external observer. And I told you if that rule is true then one thing we should see before 2024 is evidence that the 2020 election was in fact rigged. Now I'm not predicting it based on evidence, right? And I'm not saying it was rigged. I'm not saying it's rigged. And there's no evidence that I'm aware of. But wouldn't it be the most entertaining? What would be more entertaining than that, to find out it actually was rigged? Because it would be the cherry on the cake of all the other rigging and impropriety that we've seen.

Because every time I make this joke people get quiet. Do you know the joke I make about the election? Well we know that the following entities are thoroughly corrupt: the FBI, the CIA, Congress, the FDA, the CDC, all big pharma. We know they're all corrupt. But aren't we lucky that all 50 states' separate voting systems worked perfectly? Everything else in the country was rigged. Everything that could be rigged was rigged. But boy are we lucky that the elections were not. And when I say that, Democrats just run away because it's the one argument that you can't say anything about that. Because the rejoinder is but there's no evidence, to which I say absolutely you're so right about that. There is no evidence. You were right. No argument there. And again, aren't we lucky that everything in the country is corrupted and we found out for sure but that one good on you for calling it right and calling the only thing that's not rigged. It's the only thing.

All right, so that's why the most amusing outcome would be to find out that it was. Now Kerry Lake has apparently argued her case. We don't know what the conclusion is yet. But the question was whether or not they had done real signature verification or fake signature verification. Which one do you think they proved? That real signature verification was done or that fake verification was done? Well it turns out according to Kerry Lake's side that they did. I don't know, tens of thousands, seventy thousand signatures that were verified in two seconds. Two seconds. So one of the things that Kerry Lake proved is that the people doing the signature verification were way faster than you think. It's just sort of common sense. I think seventy thousand, how long would that take human beings to look at each one? And I think to myself about two seconds. That sounds about right. Yeah, about two seconds.

So in order for Kerry Lake to lose — and I don't mean legally but let's say lose logically, you know, lose the logical argument. The legal argument might have some legal loophole that I don't know about. But in terms of making her case that there was in fact not really any signature verification, I feel like she's going to land that because the logs themselves apparently are undisputed and they say they were checked in two seconds. Now obviously there's some pushback to that and I haven't heard it so don't assume just because you've heard one side of it that there's not another side. Because so far every time we've heard there's an election story there is another side and it takes away al

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l the fun, right? So don't assume that this is a slam dunk. But boy the simulation is just screaming for it, isn't it? The simulation seriously wants this to happen. So we'll see. We'll see. If I were to predict it's going to happen it would be based entirely on the most entertaining outcome, not on any evidence. Not on any evidence. Because I don't believe anything on the internet. All right, he…

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