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You are listening to Radio Looks Lucid. I'm your host, Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for the great big election night live stream here.

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Yeah, so we're... You know, I wasn't sure whether I was going to do this or not.

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In fact, this is kind of spur of the moment. I have no idea how this is going to work out. Maybe it'll be great. Maybe it'll be a total bomb.

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I don't know. Yeah, I hadn't planned on doing this at all. And I got to thinking to myself today, you know, it's like everybody and his brother has a live stream going tonight.

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I thought, oh, why shouldn't I do a live stream? Why not? I like talking about this stuff. So yeah, maybe we can do a live stream, have a little bit of fun with it and see how it goes.

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So anyway, yeah, it's great to have everybody here tonight. I hope you all had a chance to go out and vote today.

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I was a really good boy today. I got up extra early. I got up an hour early to go to the polls to vote this morning.

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Let me just turn that fan on a little bit, get a little air going in here. It's kind of stuffy. You know, it's actually amazingly warm out right now.

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It's in the upper 70s here today for a high, which in the Cincinnati area, well, that's a little bit on the warm side.

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You know, and I'm not complaining because I actually kind of like that. I'll take that any day in November, especially when

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I know all the garbage that's coming in the not too distant future. So I'm going to enjoy a nice, unseasonably warm day.

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But anyway, I got up an hour early today and I went in to vote.

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Actually, I got there before the polls opened, got there about 6 .20 in the morning. Polls open here in Ohio at 6 .30

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in the morning. And, you know, it actually worked out pretty well. And the reason I did that is because I remember eight years ago, and this was in 2016,

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I was working at an office and I, you know, I left earlier than I normally would have and I drove past the poll and I was going to go in.

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And there was this huge line, you know, it seemed like it went forever and ever. I thought, there's no way possible that I'm going to get in that line and get to work anywhere remotely on time.

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So I actually ended up not voting that year and I felt bad about it. And in 2020,

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I did a mail -in ballot, which I decided not, I didn't fool around with it this year. I guess I probably should have done a mail -in ballot,

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I guess. But, you know, I came down to, well, I'm just going to vote on election day.

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Now, I could have gone and done early voting. They have that here in Ohio too, but I had to drive all the way downtown. That's kind of a hassle.

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So I didn't feel like doing that. So I just did it the old -fashioned way. I went in and actually went to the polling place on election day, believe it or not.

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Yes, I actually did that. And I went in there and, you know, there were maybe 20 or 25 people ahead of me in line, but they opened the doors at 6 .30

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right away and got us through. And I was done. I was in my car. I think, look at my watch,

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I think it said it was 6 .53. So it was 23 minutes from the time they opened the door to the time

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I got back in my car. So I think that's pretty efficient. And I had a chance to vote.

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I was going to take a picture of my ballot. And I don't know, somehow I just didn't decide not to do it.

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I was flipping through on X tonight, and somebody said, and I don't know if this is true or not,

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I didn't look it up, but somebody said, in Ohio, it's a felony if you take a picture of your ballot. I don't know, that seems a little out of hand.

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Maybe it is. I don't know. But anyway, I did that this morning, got voted, and let's see, oh, didn't

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I? I thought, oh, yeah, here's my proof. Here's my proof, okay? See that? See that?

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Ohio voted. There we go. So I got my button. So I was a good citizen today.

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And, you know, I think voting is important. There's a lot of people who get very negative about it. There's a lot of people that I follow in politics.

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And, you know, they say, you know, I gave up voting in 1992 or something like that.

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And, you know, in a sense, I get why they say some things like that. Sometimes they get disgusted with the candidates and the parties and that type of thing.

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But, you know, I mean, voting is a biblical way of selecting, of filling offices.

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I mean, you find that in the New Testament, you know, where there were churches that voted to fill the offices of elder and deacon.

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So it's approved by God. And, you know, we have a republic here that's designed to...it's

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a democratic republic. You know, some people like to say, oh, it's our democracy. Well, it's not really a democracy.

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It's a republic, fundamentally. In a republic, you know, there's an element of democracy to it where you have people choose the officeholders.

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You know, we have a written constitution that sets forth our laws, but we choose our officeholders, the people who actually will affect those laws, put them into practice, put policies into practice.

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But those elected officials, they're actually chained down by what our constitution says. And when they take an oath of office, you know, they put their hand on a

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Bible and they take an oath to uphold and defend and protect the constitution of the

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United States of America. And, you know, voting to elect people into these offices, good people, sound people, that is a great privilege.

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That's an obligation that we have. You know, and I'm perfectly fine with going out and voting. Now, there are some people that say, well,

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I don't like either candidate, you know, and so, okay, so I'm not gonna vote. I'm not gonna give my consent.

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And, you know, that's actually a legitimate thing to do. I mean, if you honestly believe that neither...none

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of the candidates for a particular office are qualified for that office, it doesn't have to be president either.

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It could be either about mayor or senator or a state representative or a judge or something like this.

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If you don't believe that somebody is actually qualified, yeah, it's perfectly legitimate to say, I withhold my consent.

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There's nothing wrong with doing that. And I respect that if that's the reason somebody, you know, doesn't vote, at least for a particular office.

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Now, my thought is probably, you know, I mean, we had a pretty big ballot this time. There were like three pages worth of stuff we had to vote on.

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And I don't think that you could object that way to maybe necessarily every race.

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So, yeah, I think it's a mistake to say, yeah, I'm not gonna vote. I really think it's sort of shirking our duties as Americans.

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Now, it was kind of interesting when I was voting this morning, I went and, you know, they gave us this ballot.

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I had talked about this the other day on my Saturday podcast. But the

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Hamilton County ballot that we were given, it's funny, Hamilton County, Ohio, it lists

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Kamala Harris. She was the first person listed for president. Then you had to go down like four spaces.

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And the fifth space down, that was Donald Trump. Now, I don't think that that was an accident. I suspect that that was arranged that way intentionally by the

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Hamilton County Board of Elections, which seems a little bit weird to me because there are all these people in between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump that probably most people hadn't even heard of.

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And I don't think that was an accident. You know, they put him down near the bottom. He was second to last.

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I think there were six, I think, total candidates on the ballot, and he was seventh, or rather he was fifth.

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So, yeah, you know, it's a little bit of political gamesmanship. You know, Hamilton County used to be a very Republican county.

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And of course, I'm Republican, yes, have been all my voting life. But Hamilton County, when

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I was growing up, and this goes back, you don't have to go like back 150 years either. I mean, even going back 20 years.

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But I mean, especially, I remember when I was in high school, when I first started voting, they were talking about, well, Hamilton County is a

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Republican stronghold, and it really was. But it has since become

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Democrat. In fact, shortly before I came on the live stream,

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I was looking at Fox News' live stream, and they announced

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Ohio, they declared Ohio had gone for Donald Trump. But they showed a breakdown by county, you know, and the counties that voted for Trump were in red, and the counties that voted for Harris were in blue.

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And Hamilton County was blue. Columbus, Franklin County was blue. Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Franklin County was blue as well.

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Cuyahoga County, that's Cleveland, that was blue. Montgomery County, that's Dayton, that was blue. All the major urban centers were blue, but the rest of the state was red.

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But I mean, it used to be when, again, you know, when I was growing up, and even I'd say as recently as maybe 20 or 25 years ago, you could reliably count on Hamilton County to go

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Republican. But there are very few Republican county -wide office holders left in Hamilton County.

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Now, greater Cincinnati, you know, the surrounding counties are still very conservative, still very Republican.

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But Hamilton County itself, that's become a blue Democrat stronghold.

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So anyway, that's just some local election stuff. I had a few things

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I wanted to talk about here, too. Maybe just a few articles I picked up. I don't know about you, but I find myself,

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I think more and more, I get my news from X. In fact, it's kind of amazing, actually, how much news

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I do get from X. I'd say I get the bulk of it from X. Before I go and start going through some of the stuff

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I got from X, I had to show this to you here. This is a sentence for me from my good friend, Brian.

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He sent me this thing here today. It's a picture. It says, every day is election day when you're a

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Calvinist. That's a picture of John Calvin, if you're not familiar. And of course, you know, what a

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Calvinist always talking, always talking about the doctrine of election, right, that God chooses whom

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He will save. And so it's a little bit of a play on that. But yeah, that's true. Every day is election day if you're a

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Calvinist. So hat tip there to Brian for that one. But let's take a look here at X and see what we got going here.

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All right. So here's just a few of these articles that I've clipped out of X the last few days

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I thought were pretty interesting. Now, here's one that really jumped out at me. This is from, okay, yeah, this is a poll of,

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I guess it was in Europe. And it says, you know, who do Europeans want to win the 2024 presidential election?

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And it shows in blue, it's Kamala Harris and red is Donald Trump. And it just has this in bar graph form if you're just listening here.

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But it shows different countries here. For instance, it has Scotland. I know Scotland's part of the

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UK, but they split it out as its own thing. But the first one is Scotland, 56 % for Kamala Harris, 25 % for Donald Trump.

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Italy, 46 % for Kamala Harris, 24 % for Donald Trump. Spain, 65 % for Kamala Harris.

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Sweden, 73 % for Kamala Harris. Denmark, a whopping 81 % want Kamala Harris to win, but only 7 % want

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Donald Trump to win. Deutschland or Germany, they're at 71%. France, 62%.

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Britain, 61%. Like what on earth? Yeah, it's very interesting to see the votes that skewed.

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I guess I don't have a European mind. That's really something.

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Let's see. Yeah, here's one. This is from a guy I think he's connected with the

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Babylon Bee, Joel Berry. And he says this. He says, when someone asks you about election irregularities and potential election fraud, give them this.

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This is just in Michigan alone. And here's the stat that he throws out here.

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It says, Michigan has at least 1 .2 million ineligible inactive voters still on the voter rolls.

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Ballots can still be requested in these names. 53 counties with greater than 100 % voter registration rate because moves out of the state, non -citizens and dead people have not been removed.

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There's currently no system to prevent someone from requesting a ballot in these names. Poll watchers.

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In spite of law requiring an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, 202 precincts in Wayne County, that's

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Detroit, hired no Republican election inspectors. In Detroit overall, they hired 310

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Republicans to 2 ,337 Democrats, 7 to 1 ratio. Over 200 precincts in Detroit will have zero

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Republican oversight. Michigan Secretary of State illegally deleted security footage of Dropbox locations this year and is currently being sued.

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That won't undo the damage done. A Chinese non -citizen student was indicted for voting in the election.

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His vote will still count. How much more of this is going on? And it continues down.

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He actually cites quite a few things here. And he concludes, and this again, this is Joel Berry. He says, they will steal this election if they're not stopped.

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We need to have cameras rolling, lawyers standing by and do our part to vote in numbers these evil thieves can't overcome.

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Yeah, I really think that that is the thing. I had a good friend of mine, he likes to ping me and ask my opinion on who

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I think is going to win. And what I told him was, I mean, my base case for the last four years since the last election is that, well,

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I had said Joe Biden was going to win, but that was before, of course, he dropped out. And my stance is whoever the

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Democrats run really is going to win. And I still say, I still think there's a good chance Kamala Harris could end up winning, not because I really think she actually is winning.

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I think Donald Trump is a much better candidate. To me, it's not even close.

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But I just think that the corruption in the election system is such that you can't ignore this.

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And some people, I've talked to some people and they're critical of saying anything, ever questioning the election.

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You can't say that because you're just going to discourage people from going out and voting. Well, I don't know,

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I don't take that stance. I mean, it seems to me we have to be realistic. And when you look at the things that went on last year on election night, and not just election night, but in the things leading up to the election, and then the things subsequent to the election, that entire thing looked to me very, very suspicious.

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I mean, just take one example. Think back, remember the Hunter Biden laptop. That story broke,

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I don't remember exactly when, it was maybe, what, mid -October of 2020, a few weeks before the election.

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It wasn't that far before the election. It was broken by the New York Post, which is a major mainstream news outlet, okay?

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So it's not like some crazy guy sitting in his study doing podcasts or live streams or whatever.

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This is what we consider a legitimate news source, okay? And this thing broke, and yet, you know, there was this letter put out, you know, it was 51 former intelligence agencies, you know, former intelligence professionals or whatever the word they used, you know, say that this has all the earmarks of Russian disinformation.

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Well, based upon that, all of these major social media platforms, whether it was

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Twitter at the time, of course, this was the pre -Elon Musk Twitter, in Facebook, in YouTube, and in all of these different outlets, they all squashed any reporting of this laptop,

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Hunter Biden laptop story. You know, it was fake news, blah, blah, blah. And I think that the New York Post may have had, if I'm remembering correctly, they may have had their

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Twitter account suspended, if I'm recalling right. But the entire affair was designed to just squash that story.

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The entirety really of official opinion was that it was fake news, move along, there's nothing to see here.

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Well, it turned out, yeah, it was actually a real story. And the thing is, and they knew it at the time.

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I mean, this was known. It wasn't like something that they didn't know. I read, you know, a year and a half later or so, the

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New York Times finally fessed up and said, yeah, it was a legitimate story. And I have read that the FBI knew full well that it was a legitimate story at the time when it broke, but they ran this disinformation campaign.

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And that's just one example of the kind of shenanigans that went on. So, yeah,

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I think that there is a lot of nonsense that went on in 2020.

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And I strongly suspect you're going to see something like that this year.

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We don't know, it probably won't be exactly the same type of thing. But yes, I think that you have to be very aware of this thing.

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And I think just talking about this, you know, as Americans, if we just talk about this thing, I think to some extent, that makes it harder to carry out monkey business.

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You know, just talking about it, just being aware of it. We can't be naive. And I think sometimes good -hearted

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Americans, they want to just think well of other people and they think, well, I wouldn't do this stuff, so the other guy wouldn't do this stuff.

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Well, you know, they call that projection, right? You know, a lot of times you hear people say things like, well, you know,

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Hillary Clinton's just projecting her evil ideas on others. You know, she'd say, well, you know, this is the kind of thing that I would do, so these other people are going to do it.

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You know, they always accuse you of what they're doing, right? You know, they accuse you of spreading misinformation at the same time they're spreading misinformation.

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Well, you know, that can work in reverse too, you know. And if you are, you know, a

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Christian and you want to love your neighbor as yourself, and you believe in speaking truth, you think, well, you know,

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I wouldn't lie about that stuff, so these other people wouldn't lie about it. Well, these other people will lie about it, you know, and some of them.

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You know, I think back about, you know, what Jesus said. He told his followers to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

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So, I mean, you know, we're not commanded to be naive. We have to be able to realize that there is evil in this world and people are capable of carrying out evil designs.

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We ourselves are not to do those things, but we have to be aware that these types of things can go on. So, anyway, that's a few things here.

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Here's something else that I found that was really interesting. There's been a lot of talk about this in, you know, a lot of chatter, different people on Twitter.

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I was listening to a live stream tonight before I came on and he was talking about this, but this thing called polymarket, it's like this betting website.

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And they, essentially, there are odds about, I guess you can bet on pretty much anything on this polymarket.

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Well, the thing that gets a lot of attention is the odds for the presidential race.

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And according to the polymarket, and this is current, this is the presidential election, winter 2024, it gives

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Donald Trump has a 74 % chance of winning, Kamala Harris has a 26 % chance of winning.

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Let's see if we can blow that up a little bit. Yeah, there we go. Okay. So, maybe you can see this. Again, this is straight from the polymarket website and this is current.

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And you can see here, if you look, if you're on the video here, you can see there's two lines. You've got a red line that represents

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Donald Trump and then you've got a blue line there that represents Kamala Harris. And you can see, well,

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Kamala Harris is kind of flat lined up through July, of course, because she wasn't the candidate. But you can see there in July, Kamala Harris started to pop up a little bit and somewhere, and I think this is probably right around where the

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Democrat convention was, it looks like maybe a week or two into August, maybe about mid -August, you can see she actually took a lead over Donald Trump.

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And then the lines came back together and they kind of went back and forth for a while. But then right around the 1st of October, you got a divergence here.

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You had Kamala Harris's odds kind of kept going down consistently. Donald Trump's went up consistently.

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They came together a little bit. But now, and I take it this is probably from, let's see if this gives us a timeline here.

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Yeah, November 5th. So that's today at 9 .48 PM. So this is absolutely current.

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This is like two minutes ago. It's showing, you can see Donald Trump's percent chance keeps going up and up and up.

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Kamala Harris keeps going down and down and down. In fact, even just as we've been watching this, Donald Trump's up to 79 .7%.

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So wow. And this is a betting market. So if people have money on the line on this, you might say, well, maybe this is a little better gauge of who might win than maybe even just some polls that they call people up and say, who are you gonna vote for?

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So anyway, that's kind of interesting there. Let's take a look here. Let's get this together.

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Let's see. This is Fox News. Let's see what they're saying here on Fox News. Let's see if I can get this sound going here.

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Kerry, look what happened. You see Donald Trump in 2016, it's just by a nose he was able to win.

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And then when it went back to Biden in 2020, again, it was super tight. Okay. All those races, four out of six over the past 20 years have been decided by less than a point.

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And it might well be the case again tonight in the land of cheeseheads. Go ahead and clear this right now.

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Okay. Bill, can we go to Wisconsin? Yeah, we sure can. Because... Go ahead. You want to see how this is shaping up?

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I mentioned Dane a moment ago and also mentioned Milwaukee. Sean Duffy, one of our colleagues, former congressman for the state of Wisconsin, when he ran for Congress, all this area here was blue.

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Okay. Well, anyway, so that's a little bit there on Fox News.

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It looked like they had... Pennsylvania was pretty well in the corner of Kamala Harris, right?

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At least that little blip that I saw here. Let's see if we can find something on one of these sites here.

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What does it say here? It's interesting here. Oh, here we were in Pennsylvania. This is back on Polly Market. Well, you know,

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Polly Market is still giving Donald Trump a very strong chance of winning Pennsylvania.

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You know, there are a lot of people that will tell you, you know, that do... that have, you know, if you paid any attention really to maybe the last few weeks just in the run -up to the election, you know, there's a lot of commentators have talked about the importance of Pennsylvania.

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Obviously, it's a key battleground state. It's got a lot of... I don't remember exactly how many electoral votes, but it's a large state from an electoral vote population standpoint.

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And it's a swing state. It's a battleground state. So, I mean, it's the kind of state that potentially could go either way when

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Trump won in 2016, I believe he won Pennsylvania. And well,

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I think he won Pennsylvania in 2020 as well, but the actual results didn't reflect that.

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That was one of those states where they shut down counting. And then somehow this huge, you know,

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Trump's in the lead. And then somehow when they reopen, you know, amazingly, there are all these, this huge pop in votes for Joe Biden.

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It was one of those states, you know, like you used to see those graphs, you know, and it would show like Trump's up here and Biden's up here, and they kind of go up and up and up like this.

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And all of a sudden Biden goes, and he pops way up. So, yeah, that was a little bit suspicious.

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And apparently, you know, Philadelphia is pretty scammy.

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You know, there's a lot of shady stuff that goes on in Philadelphia, or filthy

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Delphia. I call it filthy Delphia. I have relatives who live in Philadelphia area, so I'll call it filthy

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Delphia. Anyway, I mean, there are some beautiful parts of Philadelphia, there really are. But I'll still call it filthy

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Delphia. But yeah, it looks like they've got, you know, they've got a lot of just your typical sort of big city corruption, it would seem, in a lot of the precincts there in that area.

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All right. So, let's take a look here. Let's go back to, yeah, let's go back to some stuff here from my clip

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Twitter articles here. Oh, yeah, this is kind of interesting. You might remember a few weeks ago when

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Donald Trump, when he did that little stint there when he was cooking up fries at a

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McDonald's, you know, it's got that picture of him leaning out the drive -thru window and he's waving to people and all that. It was like the very next day or maybe a couple days later, there's this news story comes out.

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It says, CDC links McDonald's to E. coli outbreak. McDonald's shares just crashed 10 % after hours.

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And so, yeah, this came out, you know, just right after Trump, within a day or two of Trump having gone and worked at McDonald's.

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And this fellow, Edward Dowd, I follow him a lot. He does a lot really good work on COVID and sort of exposing some of the fraud with the vaccines there.

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But he says, you got to love the timing. That was his comment on X. Yeah, you do got to love that timing.

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And that was my first thought too. It's like all of a sudden out of the blue, McDonald's gets hit with this

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E. coli thing right after Donald Trump worked there. Yeah, it's just, yeah, that seems a little bit fishy to me.

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I was talking to you about those graphs, you know, and here's a couple of examples. It shows what they did in 2020, you know,

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Trump's ahead, Trump's ahead, Trump's ahead. All of a sudden, boop, you get a big pop there for Biden, what they're trying to pull off in 2024.

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And it shows here that Trump has a much bigger lead, and they've got to even rig the thing more.

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Yeah, it's interesting. There was a guy I was listening to recently, he used a term, he called it the, it was

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Mark Dice. He does a lot of, he's a popular podcaster or YouTuber.

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And he made some comment about, he used the term, what is it, the margin of fraud.

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You know, usually we use that term, you know, margin of error or margin for error. They use the term margin for fraud.

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You know, they got to overcome the margin for fraud. And this is one of the things, you know, that I have talked about as well, you know, when it comes to, you know, any kind of potential monkey business, let's just call it that.

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I'm actually live streaming on YouTube, so I have to be kind of careful with what I say here. But let's say any kind of potential election monkey business, maybe we'll just call it monkey business.

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And I was thinking about this, and I mean, we called a verse, and I even had to look it up where it is in the

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Bible. It's actually in Isaiah, I think it's chapter 29. But it says there, it says, now the

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Egyptians are men and not God, and the horses are flesh and not spirit.

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Yeah, and the is, you know, I mean, the Egyptians, I mean, back in Isaiah's time and for a long time prior to that,

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Egypt was one of the great superpowers of the world. You know, it was kind of like, you know, the United States or, you know,

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China or Russia, you know, just a large militarily powerful country.

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And, you know, this idea that, you know, oh, you know, they can, you know, the Egyptian, you know,

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Pharaoh can do anything he wants. Well, not really. And that's really one of the points of that particular passage is, yeah, you know,

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Pharaoh, he's a powerful guy, but he's still, in the end, he's a guy, okay? He's like you and me.

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He puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us. He may have a lot of money, may have a lot of power, but he's still a man.

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He's not God. And that's one of the things that I think we need to keep in mind when we talk about election monkey business.

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You know, sometimes, you know, and I could probably be guilty of this a bit myself, and that is, you know, it's easy to assign, oh, you know, all these people that want to do things they shouldn't do, do illegal and dishonest things with an election.

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Yeah. You know, they're just so powerful, and they're so smart, and they've got all the money, and they've got the influence and all this.

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And you say, well, how could we possibly stand up against this? How do we have any chance against this?

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Well, you know, these guys, again, they got a lot of money, they got a lot of power, maybe they're smart, they're influential, blah, blah, blah, all of this stuff.

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But in the end, they're still men, okay? You know, they're not God, and, you know, they may want to achieve a particular end.

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That doesn't mean they're going to succeed. And I think that's something that I know

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I need to keep in mind, and I think it's something that all of us need to keep in mind. You know, it can be, sometimes, you know, it's easy to kind of talk ourselves into kind of a defeatist attitude or an idea that, oh, you know, they just can't be beaten.

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Well, yeah, actually, they can. My own take on it, this is my interpretation of it, you know, from back in 2016,

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I think Donald Trump really stole a march on the establishment. I don't think they took him seriously.

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I remember, you know, when he, you know, there's that famous, of course, thing where he and Melania, they came down the escalator at Trump Tower, and I think that was in, what, summer of 2015 or so.

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And I remember some, there was a story, I think it was in the Huffington Post, where they said, well, going forward, we're going to put any stories about Donald Trump in the entertainment section because this just simply isn't serious politics.

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I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but that was basically the thrust, the gist of the story, you know, that Donald Trump, he was just a goofball, and he was entertainment, you know, and we're just not going to take him very seriously.

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And, you know, and I think that that was really the case for a lot of people in the establishment. Jeb Bush, I mean,

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I remember when Jeb Bush, and I think it was a little bit before Trump announced, but when Jeb Bush threw his hat in the ring to run, oh, the media were just all over him, oh, it's

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Jeb, oh, Jeb, you know, Jeb, you know, you're a king, you know, you're the man, you're going to take the nomination.

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And it was pretty much a foregone conclusion among the media types that, yeah, Jeb Bush, he's going to just go out and just crush the field.

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It was basically a Jeb Bush coronation. And, you know, Trump came out and just knocked him out.

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You know, it kind of reminded me a little bit of Mike Tyson. You know, when

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Mike Tyson first came up, you know, when he was a boxer, he's about, he and Mike Tyson are almost exactly the same age.

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And I remember when he first broke onto the scene, and this was maybe 83, 84, you know, early to mid 80s.

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And he was very young, he was still in his teens. And when he first came up, I mean, that guy was like a one -man wrecking ball.

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I mean, he would just, he didn't just beat his opponents, he would just annihilate guys, you know, in like the first 30 seconds of the fight, you know, and he knocked them through the ropes.

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I mean, I'd never seen anything like it. I don't know much about boxing, I'm not like a huge boxing fan, but, you know,

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Mike Tyson was such a phenomenon when he first came up that even people like me, maybe who didn't pay a lot of attention, that sort of thing, you kind of watch it and you go, wow, that's really something.

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And Donald Trump was a little bit like that in 2016. He was like this just force of nature that came and just knocking guys out left and right.

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And he really knocked out Jeb Bush. I remember there was one debate, and this is actually one of my favorite moments in 2016.

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I had more fun watching the 2016 campaign than I ever had watching politics.

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It was just a, it was really just an amazing thing. But there was this one debate, and Jeb Bush is going on about, oh, you have to be a tough guy, you know, this is a tough business and blah, blah, blah.

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And Trump was right next to him, and Trump makes some comment, he says, oh, yeah, Jeb, you're a tough guy. And Jeb Bush turns and faces

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Donald Trump and he says, Donald, you can't insult your way to the White House. And Trump's retort to all that, he said, well,

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I'm a 43 % and you're a 4 % or something like that. Yeah.

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And all Jeb Bush could do was just stand there with this goofy grin on his face. I mean, it was absolutely devastating.

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I mean, you want to talk about knockout punch. I mean, he just absolutely just laid

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Jeb Bush, laid him waste. And that was one of the things I think that made the Republican establishment hate

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Donald Trump. I mean, really, really hate him, not just a little bit, but I mean, really hate him. And the

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Republican Convention that year in 2016 was held in Cleveland, Ohio. And the governor of the state was

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Republican Governor John Kasich. And John Kasich refused to go to the convention, which is just extraordinary.

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And it showed you, you know, that Kasich's loyalties were with the Bush family, with the, you know, sort of the mainstream old guard

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Republican. And then they did not like Donald Trump. And I mean, the Bush family to this day despises

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Donald Trump. And I think in part, it was just because he was so effectively demolished, demolished

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Jeb Bush. Here's a comment. Now, this is something from, she's an investigative reporter.

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She's an independent reporter. She might even be more negative on Donald Trump winning than I am.

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There aren't too many people I'd say that about. But to Emerald Robinson, she says this, allow me to tell you exactly what's happening right now.

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This is from October 31st, so just last week. So she writes, allow me to tell you exactly what's happening right now.

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They're getting ready to install Kamala Harris. Why? Because you're in the fourth year of the communist overthrow of America.

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Get ready, get serious, prepare to defend your life and liberty. So that was her take.

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Now, here's a post on X. This is one from Chris Rossini. Chris Rossini, he's one of Ron Paul's lieutenants.

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He usually is on at least once a week on Ron Paul's Liberty Report. And if you've never watched the

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Ron Paul Liberty Report, sign up for it. You can go subscribe to that on YouTube. It's always, I think, a very interesting political show.

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There's a good chance you're going to come away from it if you've never watched before. You're going to learn something. And, you know,

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I think Ron Paul is really, he's always been one of my heroes, politically speaking.

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And I don't have a lot of people, a lot of politicians who I'd say are heroes, but Ron Paul really is a hero.

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He has been one of the best friends the American, the ordinary American people have had in the last 50 years in Congress.

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And it's really he's been at least as effective as a YouTuber as he ever was as a congressman, in some ways, maybe more so, because he has a chance every day to get out and educate the

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American people. It's about a 20 -minute or a half -hour show, and they talk about foreign policy and the

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Federal Reserve. Yes, I know. And those are the kinds of things people make their eyes roll and say, I don't want to hear about that stuff.

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But, you know, the points that he makes are very much pro -Constitution, pro -liberty.

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You know, if you love the Constitution, if you love individual liberty, I really think you need to check out

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Ron Paul if you haven't, because his work, I think, is really exceptional.

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But anyway, Chris Rossini here, he's one of Ron Paul's associates. And he says, one controlled media under different rappers.

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And he cites, he's just citing these headlines. So, he has

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CNN. Here's a CNN headline. Kamala Harris spars with Fox News anchor in testy interview.

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So, business insider. Kamala Harris defends economic plan in testy Fox News interview.

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Then you've got the news press. Harris interview with Fox News is marked by testy exchanges over immigration and more.

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Then Newsmax, Vice President Harris gets testy in a Fox News interview. Then you've got the

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AP. Harris interview with Fox News is marked by testy exchanges over immigration and more.

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So, yeah, they have, you know, almost, they're not exactly the same, largely the same headline from all these different news outlets.

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And Chris Rossini's comment there was one controlled media under different rappers. Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

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Here's one. This is a report from James O 'Keefe.

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You might remember James O 'Keefe. He used to do with Project Veritas.

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And I guess he got booted out by the board from Project Veritas. So, he's formed a new media company.

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But he reports here, he says, Philadelphia City Commissioner's Office clerk claims non -citizens can vote if they're

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Philly residents. You know, that's kind of an extraordinary thing. Let's see if we can take a little closer look at that story.

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So, Milton Jamerson, an election and voter registration clerk from the Philadelphia City Commission's Office told an undercover

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OMG, that's O 'Keefe Media Group is what OMG stands for, journalists the day before the election non -citizens can vote as long as they're residents of Philadelphia.

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So, non -citizens of the U .S. are being told they can vote in Philadelphia as long as they're residents of the city. I guess, does that include voting in federal elections or does that just local elections?

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My guess is it probably includes federal elections. So, as long as they have an individual identification number, they can vote, according to this person who talked to O 'Keefe

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Media. So, yeah, you know, this is something that a lot of people have brought up. You know, they've been very concerned about the idea that you could end up with illegal aliens or non -citizens voting in American elections, which,

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I mean, to me, you know, I think very obviously that that should be something that everybody agrees on, right?

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We should all be able to agree that people who aren't citizens of the United States should not be voting in American elections.

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I mean, I can't for the life of me even understand why that's even an issue. Well, actually,

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I can understand why. It's because the Democrats want to cheat.

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That's why they're pushing this. And of course, and we've seen this time and again out of the Democrats here in the lead -up to this election.

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You know, there are these states that want to remove non -citizen voters from their voter rolls, and they end up getting sued and blocked and stopped by the

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Department of Justice. In fact, I was reading an article here today. This is

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Paul Craig Roberts. And he talks some here about this very phenomenon about how hard the

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Democrats are working to make sure that non -citizens can vote in American elections. I mean, that is just an absolute outrage.

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I'll read a little bit of this here. So this is Roberts writing. He says, the Daily Caller reports that several states say that the

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Biden -Harris administration has not cooperated in their efforts to prevent non -citizens from voting.

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The states have filed lawsuits against the corrupt Biden -Harris regime, the most corrupt regime in American history.

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That's Paul Craig Roberts' opinion there. And, you know, I share that, by the way. I think he's right about that.

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Let's see. And so, yeah, the Department of Justice was concerned about the closeness of the election in the attempt of these states to remove these voters.

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Well, you know, they're more concerned about the closeness to the election than they are about the fact that you've got large numbers of illegal aliens on voter rolls.

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I mean, that should trump everything. But in the corrupt Justice Department that we have, apparently, that doesn't really count very much.

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And Roberts goes on here. He says, the Department of Homeland Security, a criminal agency in the hands of Democrats, has a systematic alien verification for entitlements program.

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It prevents states from identifying illegals on their voter rolls because it uses a unique immigration identifier unavailable to the states.

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The Biden -Harris regime refuses to provide the information necessary for states to remove illegals from their voter rolls.

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So, again, you know, if you ask me, why do I think the Democrats are trying to cheat? This kind of stuff.

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This is the kind of, these are reasons why. I mean, if somebody challenges you and say, well, why do you think that there's cheating going on in the election?

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These are some things that you can point to. Said, let's see, on October 24th,

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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said, quote, while the administration is blocking access to these records, the

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Department of Justice is suing or threatening to sue multiple states, including Ohio, who are trying to enforce their citizenship voting requirements, end quote.

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Let's see here. The Daily Caller goes on and says, the Department of Justice sued

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Virginia in October and Alabama in September over their efforts to remove non -citizens.

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Texas, Ohio, and Florida filed their own lawsuits against the administration this month for allegedly hampering their efforts, while other states told the

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Daily Caller News Foundation the federal government has not supported attempts to identify non -citizen voters.

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And Roberts, this is his comment here. He says, dear readers, the Biden -Harris regime and the

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U .S. Department of Justice, SEEC, are involved in an attempted coup to turn America into a one -party dictatorship.

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Well, I mean, when you see stuff like this going on from the Justice Department, yeah, yeah,

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I mean, I think that that's a fair conclusion. Roberts continues, he says, the

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United States of America in the entirety, the remains of the Western world are on the verge of total collapse.

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Only 13 % of Americans believe the media. Even the editor -in -chief of the Wall Street Journal and the owner of the

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Washington Post have publicly stated that no one any longer believes what the Wall Street Journal and the

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Washington Post report. Roberts continues, he says, those Americans who give the Democrats enough votes to steal the election will have elected tyranny in America.

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According to numerous reports, those with sufficient resources are already fleeing America. So some people are trying to get out of here.

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Well, you know, I think most of us, that's probably not a great option. I mean, I know for myself,

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I'm not going anywhere. And I don't want to go anywhere. You know,

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I mean, my family has been here 300 years. My family, interestingly enough, they were

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Virginians. They came over to Virginia from Wiltshire, England, which is actually very close to Wales.

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Matthews is a Welsh name and that's where my family came from, the

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Matthews family anyway, that branch of it. And they were Virginians and they lived there for a long time. And that, so I mean, yeah, when

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I see these kinds of things going on, yeah, I've got a lot of skin in the game, okay?

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I'm an American and I'm honored to be an American. I'm honored to have that heritage.

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And that's the heritage that millions of my fellow Americans have. And, you know, it's something I think it's worth standing up for and fighting for, our

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God -given liberties. So Paul Craig Roberts says,

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November the 5th is the last chance of redeeming America. You know, that's quite a statement to make.

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But, you know, again, you know, I think that he's right about that. You know, there was an appearance,

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I know Elon Musk, he was on, oh, I think Joe Rogan recently, just within the last week or so, you know, and he said, you know, this could be the last election,

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America's last election. Now, some people poo -poo that. In fact, there's a guy that I follow, an ex, Michael Tracy, who is,

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I think, a pretty sharp guy. I think he's, you know, he's a liberal, but I, you know, he's a bit of,

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I'd say he's something of an iconoclast. I mean, he doesn't put up with garbage off of people.

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And he kind of dismissed, you know, Musk's statement. He says, well, this is just ridiculous or something to that effect.

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But I think that Musk actually was onto something here. Now, you know, if Kamala Harris wins, and wins this election, she's put in as president, is that going to be the last

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American or the last election that we have? Well, probably not. I mean, my guess is probably in four years, there'll probably be another election.

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There'll probably be elections prior to that. But I think the question, I really think this is probably the thought that was behind Musk's statement, that is that it's going to be the last potentially fairly contested election.

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Because if Kamala Harris does get into office, she's going to continue the policies that the

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Biden administration has over the last four years. She's going to continue to flood the United States with millions upon millions upon millions of illegal aliens.

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She's going to put them on the dole. A lot of them, they're going to legalize, and these people are going to end up being citizens.

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And they have a legal right to vote, and they are going to vote for the Democrats. They're not going to vote

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Republican. They're going to vote for the people who've showered them with fabulous cash and prizes. And that's just going to happen.

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And that's why I really do think, you know, as corny as it sounds, this is a very important election, or some people say it's the most important election in our lifetimes.

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I think there's a lot at stake. You know, I talked earlier, you know, about how some people, you know, they refuse to vote.

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In fact, one guy I follow, this is really itching right now for some reason, but a guy that I like to follow, he's a really smart financial commentator.

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I agree with him on the vast majority of things. But I do disagree with him on this, and that is he says he doesn't vote because, you know, in his words, he says, well, you know, voting is a

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Hobson's choice. So what on earth is a Hobson's choice? Well, a Hobson's choice is really where you're given a choice that, you know, you can take

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A or you can take B, but A and B really are pretty much the same thing. And so while it appears that you have a choice of A or B, you know, you really don't because A and B are basically the same.

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That's in essence what a Hobson's choice is. And what he would argue and what he was arguing is that, well, you vote for the

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Republicans, you vote for the Democrats, you get the same thing. Well, and to some extent, that is true.

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I mean, there is some truth to that. For instance, you know, neither the Republicans nor the

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Democrats will question the Federal Reserve. Although there may be some change in that because I saw where J .D.

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Vance actually has come out and said, you know, Ron Paul, maybe you're right about the whole Federal Reserve thing.

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So, you know, maybe there is a little bit of difference there. Maybe there is at least a dime's worth of difference.

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You know, things like deficit spending, things like foreign wars and these types of things. But, you know, these are things that the ruling elite of both parties tend to agree on.

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Support for Israel is another one. So, I mean, yeah, there's kind of a broad base of agreement, but there are some significant disagreements.

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Donald Trump is a guy, you know, when he talks about putting America first, I do believe him on that.

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Now, you may disagree with some of the things he does. I disagree with some things that he does. I don't agree with Donald Trump on everything.

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But I do think that the United States would be much better off under a Trump administration than under a

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Harris administration. I don't think that those are the same thing. And I think it's a mistake to say, well, you know, whether you vote for one or you vote for the other, it's the same.

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I think if Kamala Harris is elected, she will be an accelerationist. She's going to accelerate the decline of America to the downside quite a bit.

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I think if Donald Trump is in there, I think you have the hope of at least getting some good things done.

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So, yeah, I don't think that they are the same thing. Let's take a look here.

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I wanted to go back and there was a story I wanted to talk about here.

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See if I can find it. I know that I saved that, at least I thought that I did. You know, sometimes I find that I think

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I save things on X and then I get in here and I find out I can't. Oh, yeah, here it is.

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Here it is. So, this is a guy by the name of Ben Zeisloft. And if you go on his bio on X, he identifies himself.

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He says, you know, he's an evangelical. In fact, he even says that right here in this particular post. This is from November 4th, so this is just yesterday.

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And he says, I'm an evangelical voter in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump could have had my vote had he not started to support most kinds of abortion and vowed to fund

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IVF with my tax dollars. I'm casting my vote for Dusty Devers as president and for Bradley W.

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Pierce as vice president. And he continues here and he says, I voted for some

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Republicans in state and local races and third -party candidates like John Thomas. None of this was necessary.

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I would have voted for Donald Trump or any other Republican candidate who vowed to protect the pre -born and end mass child sacrifice in our nation.

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Okay. So, Ben Zeisloft, he's one of these evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals.

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I mean, I consider myself a pro -life evangelical. But he is all kinds of upset with Donald Trump because Donald Trump's taken some stances that he doesn't like.

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And I think that he's certainly have some legitimate grounds for criticizing Donald Trump. But I think the thing that a lot of these evangelicals are upset about is the fact that Donald Trump won't sign a nationwide abortion ban.

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And what he did... I mean, what Donald Trump did is one of the most extraordinary things that I think that I have witnessed myself in politics.

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I remember growing up and what was the kind of the Holy Grail, if you want to use that term, of the pro -life movement?

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Well, it was to get rid Roe v. Wade. We got to overturn Roe v. Wade. We need to overturn Roe v. Wade. I mean, that was the constant thing that they said for decades.

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I mean, Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 that threw the door open for basically abortion on demand in the

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United States. And there was all this work, all this money raised, all these demonstrations, all these speeches given, got to overturn

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Roe v. Wade. Well, you finally get a president in who appoints the justices who do what? Overturn Roe v.

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Wade. And you would think that these pro -life folks would be jumping for joy.

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I mean, I never in my life thought that I would see that. And yet, what happened?

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You've got a whole bunch of people like Ben Zeislop that are not going to vote for Donald Trump because even though he did some amazing things, he doesn't follow exactly what they think he should follow.

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Well, here's where I would really disagree with Ben Zeislop and others of that particular mindset.

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There's really a fairly limited amount that you can do as a politician. What we as Christians have to do, you know, he calls himself an evangelical.

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Well, his job is to go out and evangelize. You know, politics can only do so much.

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You know, and right now, I think very obviously, we have a lot of people in the United States of America who are still very much interested in having as many abortions as possible.

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And the only way that you're going to change things, I mean, you could get a law passed, but if you got a law passed,

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I can almost guarantee you that the next presidential administration comes along, that's going to get overturned.

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It's not going to be a lasting victory. What has to happen is people's hearts have to change. And that's only going to change when people, you know, through the preaching of and belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ, that's the only way that's going to happen.

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And I think Ben Zeislop seems to want to do through political means what can only really be done through the

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Christian work of evangelism, in my opinion. And I think that these people who have decided to die on that hill,

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I think they're making a mistake. Because if they withhold their votes from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris is going to get in there and you're going to have abortion like you've never seen before,

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I think. So, that's my editorial comment on those things.

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Why don't we do this here? Let's go and take a look at Fox News. Let's see what they're saying here. Let's get the sound on.

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Or sex change operations for, you know, illegal immigrants. What will this say,

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Bob Britt, about legacy media in America? It's dead.

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Well, the decline of its influence has been evident for years. That's interesting. You're talking about the decline of mainstream media.

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Of course, Fox News is part of mainstream media, and that's true. I mean, this is one of the things why

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I think why a lot of these legacy media companies have fought so hard to suppress some of these independent news outlets.

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I remember back in 2016, that was when the social media really came of age.

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I mean, that was amazing to watch, all of these independent journalists.

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You know, Alex Jones is probably the best known of those, but he was by no means the only one.

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There were all of these people that were, you know, just, you know, podcasters or bloggers or YouTubers, you know, people that, you know, ordinary people, you know, like you or like me, you know, all of a sudden had a microphone and the means and the technology to go out and to express opinions.

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And I mean, there's some really brilliant commentary out there from people who, you know, are not and never have been part of the legacy media.

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And of course, that's the kind of thing that they, you know, the legacy media wants to shut down. But I mean, their power has been going, has been eroding now for some time.

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I think it was George W. Bush, I think he even said, and this was sometime, maybe it was back in 2016, he says, you know, you guys, he's talking about the mainstream media, he says, you know, you guys, you don't have as much power as you used to.

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And that's true. And, you know, and I mean, you've got some of these podcasters, take a guy like Joe Rogan, for example.

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I mean, Joe Rogan, his audience is way bigger, I think, than probably any of the cable stations, including

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Fox News. And yeah, I don't know exactly all of his numbers, but I mean, he gets a crazy amount of traffic.

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And I mean, he breaks news. You look at, say, like X, you look at all of the information available.

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I get most of my news from X. Look at Tucker Carlson, you know, they booted him off of Fox News. Well, Tucker Carlson's having a tremendous run as an independent journalist, which doesn't surprise me.

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I mean, he's going around even to city to city, and he's having these, well, I guess they're not concerts, it's not music, but it's kind of like a concert, you know, where the, you know, he comes out and speaks, and he has guests come in, and they do interviews, and he's doing this to packed houses all over the

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United States. You know, getting canned for Fox News has not hurt Tucker Carlson, not at all.

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So, I mean, yeah, it's a real challenge to the mainstream media, and I think that's one of the most exciting things to me, developments here over the past several years.

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You know, sometimes we can get caught up in technology and, oh, you know, technology's bad, you know, technology bad.

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You know, you got, you know, people out there, you know, walking around, looking at their phones, and that's all they look at, or they spend their whole lives playing video games or, you know, watching things they shouldn't watch on the internet.

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And yeah, I mean, that does happen. I mean, there's definitely a downside to technology, but there's some really wonderful things that have happened with technology.

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And one of those is just the ability to communicate, just people like, you know, you're watching this live stream right now.

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You know, I've got this, you know, just set up here in my study. I can hop on the internet, and I can give my, and I can voice my opinion.

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You never used to be able to do that before. And I'm old enough to remember when that wasn't possible.

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So yeah, it's actually really exciting what has happened in that regard, you know, how much, in some ways, technology has really liberated people to be able to speak.

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And that's one of the reasons why we really need to have a First Amendment. That's one of the other reasons. You want to vote for, a reason to vote for Donald Trump?

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Donald Trump will defend the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. You know, this is one of the things, you know, you've probably maybe have seen some videos.

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I wish I had one queued up here. I don't. But both

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Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, within the last, oh,

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I guess of the last month or so, they both came out and attacked the First Amendment Constitution.

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You know, they said, oh, we have a problem, you know, with free speech. You know, free speech doesn't let us do the things that we want to do.

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Yeah, and that's exactly right. Tim Walz, you know, he made some comment. He says, you know, the

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First Amendment doesn't cover misinformation. Or you think about, there was a comment from that Biden justice appointee,

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Katonji Brown -Jackson. She said, and she was complaining about this. She meant this as a bad thing.

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I think she said, you know, the First Amendment, I think the word she used was hamstrings the government. You know, it keeps the government from doing what the government wants to do.

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That's exactly right. That is a good thing. That's a feature. That's not a bug. It's a feature. Okay.

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That's a good thing. You know, and we always have to fight for the First Amendment.

01:00:03

There's a reason why the First Amendment is first. We don't have a First Amendment to talk about the weather or to talk about the

01:00:12

World Series. I mean, there's nothing wrong with talking about the weather. The World Series is a perfectly good thing. You know, I'm a baseball fan.

01:00:17

I like that stuff. Or talk about college football or whatever else it is you like to talk about.

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I mean, there are a lot of good things like that, but it's not really the reason we have the First Amendment.

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The reason we have the First Amendment is to protect unpopular political speech, to protect unpopular opinions, to protect people who criticize the government.

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You know, we don't want a ministry of truth. And sometimes it can be very appealing to your arguments against the

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First Amendment, you know, because people say, I'm for free speech, but not hate speech.

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Or I'm for free speech, but not for, it doesn't, you know, free speech doesn't cover misinformation and disinformation.

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And sometimes when people hear that, they say, well, yeah, I mean, you know, we really shouldn't be out saying hateful things about people.

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And I agree, we shouldn't be doing that. I mean, it's not a good thing. But, you know, yeah, there's no such thing as hate speech.

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There's no category of that in the First Amendment. You know, and part of the problem when you start coming up with these ideas about hate speech is who defines what hate speech is.

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You know, who defines what hate speech is? I mean, hate speech, you know, I mean, can be said any criticism of a favored group.

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You know, so this particular group, I'll just say, whoever, you know, a particular group is put on this pedestal and you can't criticize this group because if you do that, you know, that's sexism or racism or some other kinds of ism, or you're an ist or something like that, and you need to be canceled, you need to be shut down.

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Or misinformation and disinformation, you know, the question is, of course, who decides what's misinformation? Who decides what's disinformation?

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Disinformation is where you're telling things that are intentionally wrong. Misinformation is where maybe you're just mistaken about something.

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But who is it that's going to make this decision? You know, that's where you get into that whole ministry of truth thing.

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That's where you get back to 1984. We don't want to go there. You know, and that's why the

01:02:27

First Amendment protects speech. And it's, you know, it's something that's constantly under assault.

01:02:36

And, you know, if Kamala does get in there, I mean, you're going to see continued attacks on the

01:02:42

First Amendment, probably successful attacks. They will find some ways to curb things.

01:02:48

I wouldn't, you know, some people have said, you know, well, they're going to force Elon Musk out of Twitter. And I think that's probably true.

01:02:54

I wouldn't be surprised if that did happen. They try to put him in jail or something like that, bankrupt him or, you know, bring some kind of antitrust lawsuit against him where they make him disgorge

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Twitter, you know, and put it back into the hands of the commies that had it in the past. So, yeah, it's, you know, you want a reason to vote for Donald Trump?

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Well, he'll stand up for the Constitution. He'll stand up for the First Amendment. Let's see.

01:03:25

Well, look at there's a report. Donald Trump's up 52 .6 percent to Harris at 46 .4

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percent, 75 percent of the vote total in North Carolina. North Carolina is really considered one of the key battleground states.

01:03:40

There was some commentators that I've seen, they say, well, if Trump wins North Carolina and Pennsylvania, it's over.

01:03:46

So it looks like he's doing pretty well there in North Carolina.

01:03:52

Now, they're saying here it's too close to call in Pennsylvania. Let's see if they give us a percentage here.

01:04:00

It looks like Trump's, Harris is up a little bit in Maine. There's Maine Senate.

01:04:05

Let's go back to the Polly market here. Let's see what's Polly market telling us. Okay, so Donald Trump's down to 49 percent chance of winning in Pennsylvania, or 74 percent.

01:04:14

I think he had been up to 79 percent. It's still showing here that Donald Trump has a 79 percent chance of winning the election.

01:04:22

This is very interesting. Let's see how current this is. So it says it's current as of 10 .34

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p .m. So that's, it's 10 .34 p .m. right now. So this is his current right to this very moment.

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And it's giving, oh, it's giving him here, it says an 88 .3 percent chance of winning.

01:04:41

That's, that is huge. Very interesting. Hmm. So, yeah, things are actually looking stronger here for Donald Trump, an 88 .5

01:05:00

percent chance of winning. Yeah, of course, yeah, I remember back in 2016, they had that, oh,

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I think there were some polls in that leading up to the elections that Hillary Clinton has a 90 percent chance of winning. Well, how'd that pan out?

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So yeah, we, you don't want to get too comfortable with these sorts of things, especially when we know the kinds of shenanigans that potentially can go on in voting.

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You know, I would say this, I mean, if you wanted to kind of hang your hat on something and be positive, okay, you know, you want to find, you know, what are some reasons why we think

01:05:34

Donald Trump might win? Well, I think one of those things is, is that he actually has gotten some support from some key, pretty major players.

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Like, for instance, I talked a little bit before about, you know, talked about the Washington Post and how, you know,

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Jeff Bezos has admitted, you know, that people don't believe the Washington Post. I mean, they, you know, the journalists, mainstream news outlets have a lower approval rating than Congress does.

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I mean, it's like 80 some percent of people disapprove or disbelieve the mainstream press, which it ought to be 100 percent as far as I'm concerned, but, you know, 87 percent,

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I guess that's a pretty good start. But what

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Bezos did is, of course, he owns the Washington Post, as you may know.

01:06:26

He bought them, it's probably been maybe 10 years or so, something like that. Well, the Washington Post, for the first time,

01:06:32

I think in a very long time, refused to endorse a candidate. Now, the Washington Post has historically been considered a

01:06:38

Democrat mouthpiece. So you would expect the Washington Post to, you know, to endorse

01:06:46

Kamala Harris. They didn't do it. And not only that, but Bezos came out and he said, well, we need to hire more conservative reporters or columnists at the

01:06:56

Washington Post. That's very interesting. You know, and it's almost like, you know, Jeff Bezos is almost saying, especially by the non -endorsement of Kamala Harris, that's almost like an endorsement of Donald Trump.

01:07:08

And it's almost like Jeff Bezos saying, you know, okay, you know, maybe I'm not gonna don a MAGA hat or something, but, you know, if Trump wins,

01:07:16

I'm okay with that. And, you know, you've seen some other large organizations that you would typically expect to endorse a

01:07:25

Democrat have not endorsed Kamala Harris. I know some of the major labor unions, I don't know if it was the

01:07:36

United Auto Workers or maybe one of the other unions, but there were some major labor unions that refused to endorse a candidate.

01:07:43

I think it was the Teamsters. Yeah, I think it was the Teamsters that did not endorse a candidate. Again, typically, they will endorse a

01:07:50

Democrat, especially as a union organization, you would expect that.

01:07:56

I mean, historically, organized labor has endorsed Democrats, but they did not endorse any candidate.

01:08:02

So, I mean, again, you know, that's a large and powerful organization that typically you would expect to line up with the

01:08:09

Democrats. They didn't line up with them this time. So, that's a hopeful sign.

01:08:15

You've got Elon Musk and you have Twitter out there. I mean, you know, Twitter is not perfect. You know, it's not a completely free speech platform, but it's pretty good.

01:08:24

It's way better than what it was a couple of years ago. It's certainly way better than what I thought it would be.

01:08:30

You know, I remember when Elon Musk was talking about buying Twitter. I thought, well, first of all, I wasn't really sure that he'd actually do it.

01:08:37

And then when he did do it, I didn't really think necessarily that it would amount to much. But, you know, if I had a hat on, you know,

01:08:43

I'd tip my hat to Elon Musk. I think he's done some good work there. And he has created a platform where you can get a lot of good information and get it very, very quickly.

01:08:55

It's sort of crowdsourcing. I mean, there's some really good writers and commentators on Twitter, and I'm constantly impressed with some of the things that I see there.

01:09:08

Let's see. Let's go back out to my notifications here and, yeah, let's just see if we get anything that kind of jumps out at us here.

01:09:19

Oh, there's one story that's talking about all of these, I guess there's these big migrant caravans down there in Mexico ready to storm the border, as it were.

01:09:31

Yeah, let's see here. It doesn't look like there's anything too new or interesting there. Let's take a look here at Fox News.

01:09:39

Let's see. They're still too early to call. Let's see. What's Polly Market have to say about Pennsylvania?

01:09:45

Let's take a look here. Wow. It's giving Donald Trump an 89 % chance of winning Pennsylvania. Wow. Look at that.

01:09:51

He's up to 89 % to win the election too. Well, that's pretty exciting.

01:09:57

Well, you know what? I think I'm going to have to go ahead and cut things off here tonight. Like I say, this was kind of a spur of the moment thing, and this is a lot of fun.

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I enjoy doing this. I have to do stuff like this more often. But anyway, I thank everybody for watching.

01:10:14

I hope you've enjoyed this live stream and hang in there. I have to get up for work in the morning, so I kind of got to get to bed.

01:10:23

I got up extra early to vote today, so hey, sometimes I got to get my beauty rest or something like that anyway.

01:10:30

Anyway, thanks so much for listening. It's been great to have everybody here. As I like to sign off, this is a

01:10:39

Christian podcast. As I like to sign off, may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study