Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 504: The Uniparty Debate, Scott Presler’s Voter Rolls & Polymarket

Episode Date: October 25, 2026

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday edition with Chris's new multi-part article on the uniparty, and why so much of the truth community stops believing in it once election season starts. From... there they get into early voting and Trump's comments on mail-in ballots, the Bulwark's report on voters registered at Scott Presler's Pennsylvania home, and a 2025 bomb threat that broke up an anti-Trump summit in D.C. They cover Arizona's election fight and Adrian Fontes, bipartisan bills and the $5,000 payment talk, the Spygate and Russiagate declassifications, and whether a legitimacy crisis is being set up for after the election. Jon shares his conversation with Rumble about Polymarket ad reads and who could move a betting market. Later, Vivek's new ad and his rapping past, Matthew McConaughey's independent voter video, Super Chats, and a pair of AI videos to close the night.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Badlands, one of the Badlands, explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Saturday edition of the Devolution Power Hour. As always, I am joined by Chris Paul. Chris, how's the week, Ben? How you doing? I'm good, John. I'm just ready to make it happen. We are. That's what this episode is going to be about making it happen because there was little show prep put into this one.
Starting point is 00:00:33 And to be honest, I mean, there isn't a top. ton of show prep put into these. It's like sending a few articles back and forth. And hey, let's talk about this. So yes, but you sell us a bit short, John, because we do spend our week talking about these things and firing along with them. So all of that does make it something. But, you know. I'd like to sell it short though and make people think that we don't put much effort into this fantastic production we put on, Chris.
Starting point is 00:00:56 So thanks for ruining it. I don't know if I convinced them that you were wrong in your statement. I was just saying, don't sell us too short. I like to sell myself short. It's the way you come out on top in the end. You can put out a couple articles this week, huh? Well, yes. It's one big article that is split up into parts because I really just wanted to experiment
Starting point is 00:01:21 and see how much of the difference there was in terms of people's ability to kind of interact with the material when it wasn't just all in like an 11,000 word piece. at one time. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. How many pieces have you put out now? Two. Three of them are out. There's another one tomorrow, another one Tuesday, another one Friday. And that's awesome. Yeah. I think the biggest or the most interesting part of it I found is after you put it out, it's largely focused on like the concept of the uniparty, um, is that there's a large portion of the truth community that no longer believes the uniparty exists, which is weird, fascinating. Well, you know, there's what you believe when it's quote unquote election season and then what you believe when it's not election season.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Those can be entirely different things. And that was actually one of the parts of the one of the points that I made in the article was that, you know, our attention is all focused on these divisive issues. Everything gets funneled into the election tradeoff. Like if you don't get in line, that evil side is going to win. And the point is getting in line, make sure that the evil side wins because they control both sides. Yes, they do. At least I believe they do. Which is to say nothing about Trump, by the way.
Starting point is 00:02:49 And of course, it addresses that as well. But if Trump is not part of the Uniparty and he is, so if the Uniparty is exploiting the people, then the Uniparty is clearly, clearly the adversary. And I think that many people in our audience would agree with that. And so is Trump part of the union party? That's an important question. I would say that he's not. And even if he was, he's waking so many people up to the corruption and the compromise
Starting point is 00:03:15 and the government and how things actually work and how much of our world is constructed by these kind of false external sources. I mean, I think it's the most genius comm job ever. and that's like my take on it because I believe that Trump is doing this for good reasons. Regardless, I mean, we should be able to identify who the adversary is. And if we are fighting against the wrong adversary, then we're actually fighting ourselves on the adversary's behalf. And I think that that's what's going on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:49 And that's a very important point to make. But, you know, with the way social media is designed these days where the incentives are built around it, it's supporting that that idea right there that we end up fighting ourselves more than we actually fight the enemy which is which is bonkers but you know how you can you know how you can be certain that we are fighting ourselves because the very same people take both sides of the issues yeah they're they are literally fighting themselves like that's that's been one of my most fun projects with my a i is like seeing people and their their stances right now and then having my I search through their shows and their Twitter and find them contradicting themselves.
Starting point is 00:04:34 And it's pretty incredible, like how I could literally do compilations where these people go back and forth with themselves, arguing against themselves. But there's what it is. Like we rail on that topic, that idea quite a bit and it just never seems to change. And maybe it never will. And maybe we need to stop focusing on it. But it is very entertaining for me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Well, just the shock value each time you go through that exercise and see, oh yeah, of course they said all the opposite things before. Yeah. Like seeing it over and over and over again, you're like, I think something's going on here. Yeah, my favorite response from you is besides the little whale emoji is this is just depressing. That's what you say like almost every time like this is sad. This makes me sad. It does make me sad, man, because, you know, so much of what is appealing to people in our audience
Starting point is 00:05:26 and beyond our audience about taking the approaches that are outside of the mainstream is that they believe people are earnestly looking for the truth. And when that is not present, then what we're seeing is like extremely refined and micro-targeted version of the very bad thing. And I think that that's, it shows itself. And I'm glad it shows itself. Yeah. So I would encourage you guys to all go and follow. with Chris on Substack, read his articles, I'm your moderator.substack.com. I'm going to be honest. I've only read the first one so far. It was brilliant. It's been a busy. Here's the other thing, by the way, that people, so there were two really
Starting point is 00:06:10 positive responses this week about the Substack articles. One of them was putting it in parts so that they would be shorter and kind of easier to take in. And then the other one is that Substack has this feature where they just have like an AI voice read your art. So, you know, it's like listening to It's going to put some people out of business. Yeah, I used to, I used to read some of my own articles too, and it's saving me a bunch of times. It's not for me at a business, but that's funny.
Starting point is 00:06:40 But people are really enjoying that because it's like listening to a podcast instead, but it's listening to an article. Can you choose like the voice? Like, can I pick a British one? I have only heard there's a British man, and I don't know what voices there are besides that, besides that but i got to think there's more than more yeah didn't uh sub sec also wrote roll out a new feature about elections recently yes and i posted about that this week it's every time you open the app on your phone there's this very thin banner at the top where uh you click into it it's just like
Starting point is 00:07:14 says uh midterms blah blah blah you click into it and it is just man there's this app now called slop cat and i just think that that is such a funny concept of a slop cannon. Slop cannon. I feel like I get hit with the slop cannon when I go in there. It's like polymarket or or, yeah, I think polymarket polling show and that's the, you know, the betting markets are the new polls.
Starting point is 00:07:40 And now the, I think we're going to talk about polls, but like the pollsters are all mad because people were faking polls. They're not the real fake polls. But then it has just posts from all of the, most popular unit party leftists on substack, just one after the other. And they've all got that special purple check, which means like everybody follows them. Yeah, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:08:07 That's nuts. We do, I think we actually have a Polymarket as a sponsor tonight show so we can extra rail on them. Well, they paid to do it until they stop sponsoring us. But hey, first episode. Yeah. No, we did it Wednesday too. But yeah, it's not in the studio yet.
Starting point is 00:08:28 So we'll get to that in a little bit. I do also want to talk about the midterms, of course. I mean, it's what are we now? Seven days away? 10 days. Nine days away or 10 days away from the midterms. But there's early voting now. And apparently that's the thing to do.
Starting point is 00:08:47 And I want to understand why. I post about it on Twitter. Like, why are we pushing for early voting now? used to say that's like part of how they cheat but now we're like yeah let's just let's just do that so they can cheat and nobody's like bad in an eye and so i went through and by me i meant my i i went through and put together a compilation of all the times trump has talked about like early voting shenanigans definitely don't do that and so we'll we'll talk about that a little bit and a couple other random stories we'll see where the show takes us but first we should probably get a quick word
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Starting point is 00:13:47 right? That long, long, long period. Used to be you have a day, you vote. Now you're going forever, weeks and weeks. But the first day I passed one, I was down in Florida. I passed one of these lines. I said, well, what's happening over this? I thought it was like a big movie. They said, no, sir, that's voting. They're voting. And they're voting like really early. And even the concept of early voting is not the greatest because a lot of things happen. They used COVID in order to cheat with all of these ballots and all of this early voting and late voting.
Starting point is 00:14:19 They have weeks of voting. The voting takes forever. They have storage areas where they put the ballots. A lot of things are happening to those ballots during all those weeks. We should have same-day voting on paper ballots, same-day voting. We used to do it.
Starting point is 00:14:33 We could do it very easily. And you know, these elections, we have 48 days, and it starts three weeks early. It goes, they want to have them going, have them go afterwards. Will you encourage your voters based on the system we have to go along with the system of early voting and voting by mail? I think if you don't, it's a big mistake. No, no, no, I will, but those ballots get lost also, Sean, you know, they send them in and all
Starting point is 00:14:56 of a sudden they're gone. Those ballots get lost also. The answer is I will because you would like it. But you know what? Can I be honest? Okay. But a lot of- I got to take a break. But, Sean, a lot of bad things happen to those ballots also. They're sent in early and all of a sudden where are they? Look, we have very corrupt elections. We have no borders. If you don't have borders and if you don't have good elections, you don't have a country.
Starting point is 00:15:18 And that's where we are. One day, one day elections. You know, we have these elections that last for 62 days. And if you need some more time, take as much time as you want and so many bad things happen. They start earlier. You don't say it when you have to go months early. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:15:34 What are they doing with all these votes? What are they doing? It goes months and months. voting why are those boxes being moved around why are those ballots being moved why are they not there sir we're fixing the air conditioning of that particular it is so bad it is so out of control now we have this stupid stuff where you can vote 45 days early I wonder what the hell happens during that 45 let's move the uh see these votes have got about a million votes and then let's move them we're fixing the air conditioner in the room right one day voting you know why because we don't want the air conditioning to be fixed oh excuse We'll have to move those ballots in that room. We're going to fix the air conditioning. Oh, where are we going to move them?
Starting point is 00:16:13 Well, let's move them out of the place for a little while. We'll move them back next week. Oh, where are they? There were 14 boxes. Now they're six. What happened to the rest of them? You have to go back to voter ID. One day election, ideally, or short term, not these 48-day and 60-one-day elections
Starting point is 00:16:25 where boxes are put in a room and, oh, let's move the boxes because we're putting in a new air-conditioning system. And you see the boxes and then you say, well, where are all the boxes? You know, what happened to the boxes that never came back? You know what they do when it's longer? one day all of a sudden well we're fixing the room up move those boxes we're putting an air condition oh really we'll move the boxes back in a few days well we're painting the room please move the boxes and you notice the boxes go out and then they get they move back in about
Starting point is 00:16:51 half the number oh it's so sick really one same day voting if you don't have same day voting they decide to change the air condition oh we're fixing the air can let's move all these boxes we'll bring it back in a few days and then they don't bring back those boxes i think the moral the story is that these hvac companies the air conditioning companies are the ones stealing elections yeah it could be yeah but at least the uh the ballots are are kept cool you wouldn't want you wouldn't want them to get get too warm wherever they were being stored air controlled storage or whatever climate controlled storage yeah yeah but it's just so weird he's he's said so many things about how voting early is just like that's how they cheat these ballots
Starting point is 00:17:29 disappear and now everybody's like yeah let's all go vote early it's it feeds into the idea I think anyway, of him, one, knowing that our elections are just a gong show. And then two, like, let's just let's make it as gongy as possible by encouraging mail and ballots and early voting and let let it, let the fraud ensue. Let's just see the shit show from the beginning. Yeah, the, I think that this is a good example of a thought process that we employ a lot here. And I think it is one that frustrates a lot of people. So what is the right position on mail-in voting?
Starting point is 00:18:11 Is mail-in voting conducive to fraud and manipulation in all the ways that people believe elections can be defrauded and manipulated? Yes, certainly is. If there's one thing we know, it's that. Mail-in voting hasn't been fixed unless they're doing some crazy post office thing. And by the way, totally open to it. But right now, there's no reason to believe that that's happened. If there was a reason to believe it, I could maybe believe it. But right now there's no reason to believe it.
Starting point is 00:18:43 So the position has always been that mail-in voting is an avenue for election fraud and election theft. And, you know, you can leave the status of elections aside. But what do you do? having come to a principled conclusion about how we are supposed to act relative to mail-in voting when Trump reverses course and says that we should use mail-in voting or early voting. And those are not the same thing, just to be clear. Like you can go vote early in person. But the same day voting, that was one of the things we used to talk about all the time
Starting point is 00:19:23 because you want to eliminate as many avenues for fraud as possible. But if you have a principal opposition to something like early voting or mail-in voting, then you should stick to your principles because Trump has already aligned with that principle conclusion. If he then turns around and says something else, you don't have to like just go violate your principles because Trump said a new thing. You can question those principles and say, hey, maybe Trump's trying to make a different point. Maybe we need to take a different perspective on this. All good. But we can at least acknowledge the reality that we all did actually agree that that was the right way to go on that thing.
Starting point is 00:20:08 And if we're going to take our time and have a well-considered position like that, we can't just reverse that whole thing because Trump says something else at a rally and not have any justification for why it's principled to make that change. So I'll stop there. No, I think that's a great point. And this is a point that we've made. And it seemed that broadly people understood this. And the best example is the COVID thing.
Starting point is 00:20:35 When he pushed an alternative, right? He pushed the alternatives and gave everybody the opportunity to go, you know, not get vaccinated. But then on the flip side of it, he's like, yeah, the vaccine is great. Everybody should go get vaccinated. And everybody's like, no, that's not the right answer. I'm not going to do that. I'm not just going to blindly do the thing that Trump says we should do. But then I see people so many people now.
Starting point is 00:20:56 It's like, okay, this, I feel this way about our elections. I feel like this way we should go vote. And then the reason that they give has nothing to do with the principles of the voting mechanisms or anything. It's like, well, Trump says to go vote. So I should do that thing. And to me, anytime you point to just something Trump says, understanding there's like sire going on, understanding that he flips flip-flops all the time, it doesn't make
Starting point is 00:21:21 sense. It doesn't make sense at all. But this is again, it comes down the incentives. Whatever Trump pushes, like being that lighting rod where the media gets so like attracted to everything he says and he can make anything an issue, he does the same thing with social media. Anybody, anything he says, that's the thing that everybody has to say because that's where all the incentives will lie. All the people that are seeking status and fame and clicks and money or whatever, they're going to say those things because that's where the, that's where Trump puts it. Absolutely. And the incentives are always behind conforming to consensus. And so Trump will take a consensus-breaking position early on.
Starting point is 00:21:58 People will come to the principal conclusion that he is right in principle about this consensus-breaking position. But then when he returns to the consensus position, everybody understands it is much, much safer to be there. And now they've got cover for being there because Donald Trump has provided it by saying this other thing.
Starting point is 00:22:21 And so therefore, consensus, like, doesn't have to be broken again, even if it corresponded to our principles. We can just back off that thing and go with the easy answer instead. And I think that that's part of the explanation for why this happens so routinely. Yeah. This one's more frustrating, though, be considering, like, there are people that are, in my opinion, contributing to the fraud by voting early. like if you're going to vote go for it right like we don't care do your thing um but do it in like
Starting point is 00:22:56 the most secure way possible like at least do it the way that you've been advocating for for the past two years of i want in person same day voter ID and then here everybody's like let's go to the polls as early as possible so that we can build this like early lead against the democrats got to bank those votes so so there's there's another interesting ask to this. And I put this up again. We talked a little bit about this last week, you know, the famous meme of the Grim Reaper heading down a hallway, knocking on every door and bringing death to every door down the hallway. And that Donald Trump is essentially just touring the country right now and breaking up all of these various narratives in the places that he visits,
Starting point is 00:23:45 the narratives that they are preparing to run about the election results. And in a narrative sense, one of the things that was being pushed heavy the last couple of weeks was this enormous early voting lead for the Democrats. And so, of course, from the Republican side, you have to get the push for early voting, make it as big as possible so everybody knows we're supposed to early vote. The cycle goes through in the media. Everybody understands, oh, Republicans are early voting too. So when the election results are reported, the news saying,
Starting point is 00:24:29 oh, man, Democrats really got out and just killed it with the early vote. And it was kind of just headed that way from then on. It was an indication of how the election was going to go. So I totally get the idea that this is effective in breaking up that narrative. And the whole thing might exist for that reason alone, but it doesn't mean that we as the people actually have to do that thing because that's narrative stuff and we can have our principled position. They're taking care of the narrative. People are going to understand that. That message is out there.
Starting point is 00:25:06 And so we can still do the thing that we think is right while understanding, okay, the people that we align with, the people we are trying. trying to support. They need to do this thing for this reason, but that's not our role. Did you see, I'm speaking of early voting, Scott Pressler is supposedly like backing away somewhat or something or he got in trouble maybe. I don't remember the full story, but I looked more into this this evening. And so he on the 18th, which I guess would have been last Sunday, said he was stepping away from politics. And like 24 hours later, he was like, ah, you know what? I'm not doing that in kind of a funny post. So you've got to think that he said the first thing to get the reaction and then return with the second thing.
Starting point is 00:25:52 Now, the bulwark is who produced the report of these people who were staying at Scott Presler's place in Pennsylvania and registered to vote as Pennsylvania residents while they were there. And so the bulwark, which is an extreme like never Trump, anti-Trump, neocon, just to vote. barely right of center even in their branding but obviously regime leftists they put out this report on presler it's it's the uh the kids that were registering at his house and then there was one other part of it yeah there you go maybe time to step away i've decided i'm not going anywhere yeah so i think it's just the next day he puts that out oh what that's so gay yeah well so i'd say that but he blocked me yeah I mean when you yeah when you see that picture you're like oh yeah yeah that's gay yeah um so so he's not leaving politics apparently so anyway where was I this is so dramatic
Starting point is 00:27:00 I hate when people do this shit like I just I've had enough I think I have to step away and then not even 24 hours later like I've just changed my mind I'm back yeah this is a play for attention a douchebag. Well, perhaps, but it's also to like get people to respond in the way that they would respond. You know, it's like, what was it? Was it Huckleberry Finn where the, he like attended his own funeral? Somebody in the chat is going to correct me and be like, why are you so dumb right now? And that's a good question. But it's kind of that thing where you get to watch the reaction without ever having to, without having to experience, have the experience it. I think it's the adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Starting point is 00:27:53 There you go. Okay. And Huck attended his own funeral. Right. Okay. So, so anyway, so the thing about the bulwark is, and I was looking at this earlier, and I kind of just go down my own little, like I'll see something that kind of sounds a little strange to me and I'll look at it further.
Starting point is 00:28:13 And so Scott Pressler, of course, is a guy with, I think it's called like early vote action or something. And I think that this was the organization that TPUSA essentially gave him $5 million to set up a few years back. Or at least, you know, so the story goes. Okay, yeah, do you want to just, we can just get the claim on the record, a paragraph or two, right? top GOP operative let out of state voters vote from his Pennsylvania home. One of the most high profile grassroots organizers in the Republican Party purchased a home in Beaver County. That's kind of ironic considering. Anyway, in April 2024, the former steelmaking stronghold just north of Pittsburgh was a logical place for Scott Presley to put down his roots.
Starting point is 00:29:00 His get out the vote efforts have been heavily focused on Pennsylvania, which was destined to be one of the key swing states that cycle and it seemed well beyond. Presler cast his own ballot using that address during the 2024 cycle, so did three other people outside the Presler family. A review of voter registration record shows that GOP operatives from states across the country used Presler's home address to cast ballots in Pennsylvania during the 2024 election. They include a consultant who voted in Florida in both 2020 and April of 2025, along with a right-wing social media personality from Oklahoma. It's been a leading proponent, all these things. It talks, essentially they're questioning. whether those people establish permanent residents to vote there before leaving and it's like yeah it's kind of hypocritical and they want people to investigate yes so the the bulwark in particular
Starting point is 00:29:50 i just i just thought that was interesting because of of how this story was set up and then kind of how presler has responded to it which is basically just like these guys lived here for a little while and you know what's really to blame is the Pennsylvania voter rolls and how they handle their voter registrations. And there you go. So this is part of Pressler's response, right? Several of the residents that once lived in Scott's home have now since departed and found residents elsewhere in other states. Yet as you've shown, the PA voter rolls continue to reflect their names here. It is pure madness that PA can't clear up their voter rolls. And yeah, sure, fine, that's madness. The bulwark being involved in this
Starting point is 00:30:37 is interesting because I remembered it made me think of this incident at a hotel a couple I don't know a year or two ago where this got I had the link pulled up and now it was on my other screen sorry okay um had this pulled up just a second ago so there was a bomb threat called in there was a a conference of anti-trump people who call and a bomb threat was called in that broke up their conference. And I always think that bomb threats are such interesting events because it is a nothing event. It is nothing happens, but you can still accuse somebody of having done something. So this is the independent from the 23rd of February in 2025. Anti-Trump summit in D.C. evacuates after receiving credible bomb threat. Okay. So the organization is called
Starting point is 00:31:36 the principal's first summit and the threat was emailed by an account with the name Enrique T who was pretending to be Enrique Tario of the Siyatrio and the Siam Prowd of the Siyap Proud Boys and these these bomb threat events are interesting because nothing has to happen they can send this note in Jim Acosta can put up this here is the bomb threat at the principal's first summit in DC. I'm told by a source familiar with the situation. This is the threat below. It mentions Michael Fanon and his mother as well as other attendees at the conference.
Starting point is 00:32:19 You've got Enrique Tario, the weirdo from the J6 sham committee, all of these operators. And then this is like a neocon who's who. who, oops, Adam Kinzinger, Michael Steele, J. Michael Luddidge, uh, Luddig, sorry, George Conway, John Bolton, Bill Crystal, Frank, Frank Fielucci, Frank, Frank, yeah, Stephen Richard from Arizona. Oh, yeah. And good old Norm Eisen himself. And so this is like a total sci-op event, and bomb threats are perfect for that, because the fact that the threat exists makes most of the people who read about any of this just immediately except that the the people who called in the threat were serious the hotel was evacuated which means they took it seriously and now it's
Starting point is 00:33:15 being pinned on a maga thing so maga terrorists are going after this anti-trump event and it turns out that the bulwark was involved with that event as well and you know i don't think this stuff is just coincidental. And so I'm suggesting with this, by the way, that this could be a total nothing event. And the fact that it is acknowledged from the Pressler side is the only reason to believe any of this, but yet, I think in a couple weeks, we're going to see both sides of this exploited in the post-election period when people are making claims of fraud and malfeasance. We'll have these stories come up. People will have accepted them as true, even though there's nothing behind this. interesting so you i'm trying to fully wrap my head around what you what your point is
Starting point is 00:34:03 with the bulwarks involvement with the bomb story and the bulwarks more than here are you are you implying that go ahead sorry i was just are you implying that like pressler and the bulwark are kind of like doing this together that is entirely possible though i i obviously have no way of proving that i have zero trust for scott presler the fact that he put out that post and then put out the opposite post the next day that's something don't trump would do. So I think that strategy in itself is quite interesting. But I think what's most important about this is that the bulwark was setting this up as a way to accuse the Republicans of election malfeasance. And Scott Pressler may be countering that. He may be playing into it, but he also may be countering it.
Starting point is 00:34:50 And so it's not, this is not like a claim against Scott Pressler. I'm saying that the bulwark is an organization that is intimately involved in creating these smoke screens and siops, these little narrative events that don't need an actual event behind them that they can then use for a secondary purpose. I got you. I see. You know, speaking of election stuff and claims after the election, we should talk a little bit. There's a great article. I mean, great. Maybe that's not the right word. But there's an article in Politico talking about how not Trump is facing an electoral wipeout. And so he's going after the system. But before we, we get into that we should probably get one of our sponsors in or i forget so we're going to talk
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Starting point is 00:36:54 But all right, let's talk about this. article did you see the alaska lawsuit i think they're talking about that in here a little bit but the whole dan sullivan thing that's going on up there uh i saw the headline about this last week and i know obviously because trump has talked about this issue a number of times and now they're doing this controversy on both sides but yeah go ahead yeah so this is a kind of a separate story the trump ab and sues alaska over senate election certification the left is kind of freaking out about this because it's like preemptive lawsuit and this this satisfies a lot of lot of the mainstream media and the establishments like wet dream of Trump is trying to interfere in
Starting point is 00:37:30 the election. It's a preemptive lawsuit. The Justice Department's complaint concerns Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, who is seeking reelection and Daniel J. Sullivan, another candidate whose name appears on the ballot. The filing alleges the second candidate's campaign could confuse voters who intend to vote for the incumbent. Alaska uses ranked choice voting under which votes can transfer to a voter's next ranked candidate when a candidate is eliminated. So they're trying to essentially force Alaska, my understanding of the lawsuit anyway, to preserve all the ballots and everything so that Alaskan officials can go and figure out whether voters were confused if they voted for one of the Sullivan's and meant the other one, depending on how things go. So that is a weird situation. But then
Starting point is 00:38:15 this is the article from Politico. Facing an electoral wipeout, Trump goes after the system. The move by the Justice Department to try and preemptively block Alaska's Senate results if Republican Senator Dan Sullivan loses stunned officials in both parties. Some bipartisan hate going on here. President Trump is escalating his crusade to exert control of America's elections as his party barrels towards a potentially bruising midterm. The Justice Department has already filed lawsuits in nearly every state to try and gain access to voter files. Trump revisited his longstanding bid to restrict male voting, sparking a legal battle that reached the Supreme Court. he sought to make anti-terrorism funds for state and local governments contingent on how they administer elections.
Starting point is 00:39:01 He has threatened to withhold federal election funding from states that refuse to change voter registration forms. And he's part of the Republican lawmakers over a bill to overhaul elections. I think that's the Save America Act, I'm not mistaken. The one that if we didn't get passed, we wouldn't have a country anymore. Gosh. Which we didn't get past. Well, we still have 10 days, John. Yeah, I feel like they're out of session until November 11th or something.
Starting point is 00:39:25 Oh yeah, yeah, that's true. Darn. Darn, I guess we're going to have another fake one. Another fake one and transgender for everyone. Transgender for everyone, that's right. I forgot that no transgender mutilization for everyone was part of the Save Act. Yeah, and now that it didn't get passed, there is going to be transgender for everyone. Yep, everybody's going to be mutilized.
Starting point is 00:39:48 With most of the efforts stalling on Thursday, just 12 days before the election, the DOJ took things even further. You know, if they would have filed this 17 days before, I would have been a lot more confident that this was like part of the plan, but now I'm not sure. But anyway, in an extraordinary move, it asked a court to preemptively block Alaska's Senate results if Republican Senator Dan Sullivan loses. Stunning current and former election officials. Boy, they are scraping at the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me because it has got zero basis in the law, said Ben Ginsburg, a veteran Republican election law expert. An expert.
Starting point is 00:40:28 Yeah, love those experts. At virtually every corner, courts have rebuffed Trump's efforts and legal experts. Expect the latest DOJ maneuver to have the same outcome. Request for voter rolls were blocked repeatedly, basically just going through talking shit about Trump and all the things they've tried to do and failed successfully to do because of the uniparty right not supporting any of his agenda, by the way. But yeah, so interesting.
Starting point is 00:40:51 Interesting framing from the media here. I don't know if you have any commentary on it. I can't believe they quote Gabriel Sterling. Did you see that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is like the greatest hits from 2020, Gabriel Sterling and Stephen Richard. What was Richard in here? Right below, two paragraphs below.
Starting point is 00:41:08 Okay, let me read both of these then. Oh, yeah. I think there's an attempt to lay a foundation to say if we had won these lawsuits, we would have won the election, Gabriel Sterling, a Republican and former senior Georgia elections official said, So for them filing and losing for them is the same difference. Tactically speaking, potentially. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:41:29 Trump has been claiming elections were being stolen from him since the 2016 primaries, and his wide-ranging legal and political attempts to overturn his 2020 election law sparked a riot at the U.S. Capitol. I sure did. I forgot about that, right? Yeah, yeah. That insurrection. The federal government is his company, and he gets to call all the shots of his company. And that's just never how it's been done before, said Stephen.
Starting point is 00:41:50 richer maricopa county arizona's former gopi chief election official so dumb as by the way guys if uh if you like like voting and love voting hold on there's another rich quote sorry i just didn't want you to close this down continue sorry i just cut you off that was an asshole thing to do no actually this is perfect because i'll say what i'm going to say when i get down to here um the survival rate politically of people who oppose donald trump on this issue is not great if you're a Republican, said Richard, who was ousted by a more conservative Republican in a 20-24 primary after defending the country's 2020 election results against a years-long campaign from Trump and his allies to try to prove they were rigged. Arizona Democratic Secretary
Starting point is 00:42:32 of State, Adrian Fontez, railed against the DOJ's lawsuit accusing the Department of working as the president's lawyers. The Department of Justice is acting in a monstrously political way, and it's purely inappropriate, and they lose a lot of credibility by putting their thumb on the scales, Fonte said in the interview Friday afternoon. This is an attempt in Alaska. If it comes to Arizona, will also fail. The guy that's running against this Fontes for Secretary of State of Arizona, Alexander Colleton, is my current attorney down in Arizona. No kidding. So, yeah. So if you like voting and you live in Arizona, please go vote as early as you can for just for Collinin. Is he going against Fontez? Yeah, he's the guy that was like,
Starting point is 00:43:17 yeah yeah you're the you're the lawyer for the cartel and then fontess is like don't you dare ever call me that again and he was like that sounds like exactly something the lawyer for the cartel would say did you see that no that's fantastic though okay hold on it would have been great if fontas was like the cartel says you're not allowed to call me that yeah i was paraphrasing but this is the exact exchange you say Cinaloa cartel lawyer one more time, we're going to have a personal problem, Mr. Collident, because you know that that's a big, fat lie, and you keep pushing it for the wrong reasons. And I'll tell you what, that kind of baiting is unnecessary. It's unprofessional, just like when you lied and were found guilty by the-
Starting point is 00:44:04 what I would expect from the lawyer for the Cinnoload drug cartons. Well, what do you want to do? All right. Let's go ahead and move. Well, first of all, I take Umbrage of being called a liar by the attorney for the Lola drug cartels. ...was found by numerous courts who have tried to lie to Arizona voters. I didn't know the team at Alex Lies.com was going to be so busy. I do not represent, nor have I ever represented the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Starting point is 00:44:32 That's a lie. The bottom line is, as a public defender in the federal district court, I was assigned to do the job of protecting the 4th and 6th Amendment. I'm sorry that you don't appreciate the Constitution the way I do when I do my duty. duty and if you see so funny i like how he was just smiling the entire time like i can't believe this guy's really gonna try to stick to this and press the issue oh that's great but yeah that's my attorney down there so like say that's not true and move on don't sit there like pretending you're personally offended like just having the lie the lie quote unquote uh repeated over and over and over again gosh that's a terrible cons the that that's the
Starting point is 00:45:14 The one nice thing, it's like if he wins, I'm probably going to lose him as my attorney, but I'm optimistic considering the election fraud that, I mean, probably not going to win, but I hope he does or not. I don't know. I'm torn. People like Fontez seem like they are kept in their positions, whether they want to leave or not. Yeah. So that's a good point.
Starting point is 00:45:37 But Arizona's elections are a, just like they all are. Just like they all are. But anyway, I don't remember what we were talking about and why we got on that. Oh, the lawsuits and stuff. It's been interesting how the narratives have been like very consistent. Maybe it's not all that interesting. But the media has been for months. I mean, we've done multiple episodes on the show where we've talked about,
Starting point is 00:45:58 yeah, man, look at the media, talked about how afraid they are of Trump and what he might do on election day. And here's all the things he's trying to do to secure elections or what they say control elections. And they're like, they keep doing it. They're just summarizing them now. But we haven't really seen any major changes or anything that's, in my opinion, going to impact how the election would be run or turn out. For sure. And it's pretty, it's pretty incredible to see them fight like tooth and nail in the courts in every one of these places about so many different issues because they believe that's going to win them or lose them the election. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:41 This is like not the will of the people being expressed if they are playing semantic legal games and getting cases dismissed for for like latches. Remember 2020? Just all these different process issues. No part of the system expresses that it actually cares about what the people think in terms of their elections. It's incredible to me that people just continue committing to the system that expresses its disdain for the voters every in everything it does. It's ridiculous. I want to show you this poll on Politico. You know how normal pulling, fake polling, we should talk about the fake poll thing, by the way.
Starting point is 00:47:31 Normal fake polling is like, yeah, this many people are going to vote Democrat and then this many, many people are going to vote GOP based on. these are totally real people we call them who gave their opinion. Politicos change the game and they're not even asking that question. They're just like, hey, and it's fine of paywall, but this top paragraph, assuming a Democrat win, do you want the Democrat House to unite with the GOP to pass bipartisan legislation? A new political poll shows that 66% of Republican voters this midterm want a Democrat House to find common ground with President Donald Trump to pass legislation next year. assuming the party flips the chamber in November.
Starting point is 00:48:10 So, like, they're taking a step further and not even asking the initial question. They're just like, you know, so we're going to, let's just say the Democrats are going to win this, okay? How do you want them to behave next year? The idea that everybody wants bipartisan legislation seems ridiculous to me. I've never met anyone who's like, actually, that's not true. I met a lot of liberals who at the time really wanted Congress to be passing legislation because as the TV told them it was going to be good.
Starting point is 00:48:41 But in the 10 years of Donald Trump, I feel like that's a phenomenon that's kind of gone away. You know? Yeah. Like, oh, man, they have to pass this. They have to pass this. What stuff is like that? There was a lot to do about the one big, beautiful bill, of course.
Starting point is 00:49:01 And then I guess there were a couple of big pieces of legislation for Biden. Like, do the American people really want bipartisan legislation? No, I mean, the biggest things I can remember are the spending bills. Like the most action I ever saw like related to this stuff is the bill that was right before Trump got in there. It was between the election and Trump getting inaugurated when they tried to push through that the reconciliation bill. And one of the things I found that made it to Jesse Waters, do you remember that where
Starting point is 00:49:33 they were trying to sneak in in the thing that would like quash subpoenas or whatever? And then it ended up like they ended up like, they ended up. taking it out the 1500 page bill and turned it into like a 200 page bill. That's like the most kerfuffle I think I've ever seen over an actual bill. Otherwise, it's it's mostly narrative and social media pushing from these people. The Save America Act is a great example of that of we need to pass this thing or we don't have a country. And obviously the urgency wasn't actually there. It didn't actually exist for these people anyway.
Starting point is 00:50:03 Or did I understand your thing? No, no, no. I'm just trying to consider it. right now kind of on the fly um the claim is that sick that two-thirds of republicans want to see the republicans work with a democrat majority to pass laws they want we're supposed to believe that doesn't trump have like 95% approval the 66% of republican voters want a democratic house to find common ground with president trump to pass legislate They want Democrats.
Starting point is 00:50:41 Got it, got it. Okay, I was, I was just looking at that wrong. I was thinking about that backwards. Okay, that makes, I don't believe that either. Yeah, well, at least that's it. At least there's a rationale behind that. I couldn't, I wasn't even understanding a rationale behind the way I was taking it.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Yeah, well, I'm sure other part, I mean, again, I didn't get behind the paywall. My archive link has been so weirdly, it's not working for me. But I'm assuming there's questions in there about, you know, do you want to see Trump impeached by, Democratic House majority? They probably said no. Do you want to see him work with Donald Trump to pass legislation?
Starting point is 00:51:17 The ideologies, too, that, like, what Trump is trying to accomplish and what he stands for and what he's been able to accomplish without Congress's help is completely opposed to what the agenda of the Democratic Socialists or whatever, what they pretend to run on. Like, there's no common ground there. There's nothing that they would pass that would benefit us. Yeah, that's how I took it. Like, why would Republicans want to help them in that scenario? Like, what legislation is going to be necessary under a Trump administration?
Starting point is 00:51:51 And the thing is, if they win, which, you know, it kind of seems like that's what's going to be reported. But if that happens, and I would suggest, by the way, that that's going to happen because they need a plausible scenario where they can run a third fake impeachment against Donald Trump. But I would suggest they'll probably, they could do a Republican impeachment, a bipartisan impeachment. But the Republicans bringing it seems hard to, to buy. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:52:22 Yeah. That would do something unless, I mean, hey, man, maybe the Unip Party just wants to like come out of the closet and show themselves for what they really are. And maybe we'll see that. But they would really be, they would really be letting go of the two-party illusion, which is what my piece is about at that point and i would be very surprised to see that i mean i would
Starting point is 00:52:44 be too but i'm just going to caveat a little bit because i feel like it's it's already very obvious for people who want to look and for all the people like everybody who's like oh my god the uniparty exists we need to these are the enemy we need to go after them they've all retracted that and been like oh yeah that uniparty never mind that's not a real thing go vote republican and so they can kind of do do whatever they want and fully expect people to go right back, you know, like, oh, yeah, just go vote Republican again. Because they've already shown that's the case like every election cycle ever. So are they really that afraid?
Starting point is 00:53:16 And if this is, in their eyes, if they think that Trump won't run again and they think, you know, maybe this is it, this is the last two years of Trump, if they think there's an opportunity, the Uniparty to get rid of him, even if it means they have to expose themselves, would they rather do that or protect the election fraud infrastructure? I feel like they'd rather that like they don't care about exposing some uniparty candidates because they can just run some other people who are fighting the system really hard. Definitely not uniparty. And then they can replace them all with different unit party candidates and everybody would believe
Starting point is 00:53:46 that the unit party's been fixed. Yeah, you might be totally right about that. I just think that like Republicans bringing up an impeachment against someone in their own party really kind of breaks the dynamic. No, I totally agree. I mean, I don't think that's a likely scenario. I'm just saying it's not. Yeah, and point taken, that's totally valid.
Starting point is 00:54:07 The other thing I would suspect is that they'll immediately try to go after an affordability thing because, you know, the stock market and all these other economic measures have kind of like hit bottom very recently in the lead up to the election so they can say how bad Trump's economy is going to be. And then, of course, we would expect it to snap right back. And then the narrative justification for that would be the election result. then they could do something further. Oh, we want to pass this bipartisan legislation to address the affordability crisis. And so Republicans are going to work with Democrats
Starting point is 00:54:45 to do the affordability thing. Like, is Donald Trump going to veto that? I could expect to hear that in the post-election period. You know, I actually was reading a story kind of earlier about this. They're trying to say that the earnings boom is heavily relying on just a handful of, stocks. They're trying to frame that the, and it's kind of true, that it, everything's like, it looks
Starting point is 00:55:11 like Trump is, Trump is advertising this, you know, the stock market is so high right now, but it's really all because it's just a handful of stocks. Everything else is not doing as good as those handful of stocks. And I've been kind of saying this the entire time. It's like, no matter how much Trump says it, like my bottom line, what I feel, what my friends feel, what people in the chat feel, like if they're not feeling, you know the the golden age then it might mean that it's not here yet but hey we win the election we get five thousand dollars things are gonna be looking up yeah so i'm holding out hopes for that
Starting point is 00:55:45 well also you get a share of elan musk's company maybe at some point that's true go ahead go i was just gonna say it's just interesting because you know we're talking about um defense contractors and how how much of a relationship they already have with the federal government. I mean, these things begin to seem like the steps toward universal basic income or some of the kind of dividend stuff we were talking about, you know, at Gart in Las Vegas. Yeah. This is what I was going to bring up.
Starting point is 00:56:26 Bernie Moreno. And by the way, anytime anybody proposes a bill, I have zero expectation that it will, ever see the floor, let alone actually pass and become a law, very rare. Keep in mind. It's a public relations move to bring a bill to the floor. It says this guy is the champion of that issue. Yes. And it never actually gets done. But it makes for some great campaign ads. But he, he is supposedly going to unveil a plan to expand Trump accounts to people under 40, opening up to 100 million more people. So you have to have a social security number to get one. of those that's true it's i've spent some time on this probably had to file your taxes too huh i would
Starting point is 00:57:10 imagine that that's the case um but uh yeah it's it's very strange that the social security number was created for social security and now it is essentially our catch-all government identifier even to interact with organizations who are not the government and that's crazy so this number that's supposed to help us get our very important government benefits that are going to help us live through our retirement is essentially just used as a surveillance device yep and a tool they used to bribe you to participate in the system yes yeah um a couple other random interesting stories if you're cool with moving on i definitely definitely i'm just got to find which one i want do you see these the former FBI officials got arrested for lying to Congress. I did see that, man. And, you know, I know that this is a sort of headline that calls for cheerleading, but I kind of have zero trust in any of this.
Starting point is 00:58:22 And then the other part of it is the lying to Congress thing. Lying to an illegitimate Congress cannot be a crime. Like, that this, we saw this already in the Biden term with Steve Bannon. and Peter Navarro and the sham January 6th committee. So this has already been modeled and I can't get into it because of that. Yeah, I mean, I said the same thing in my show. I think I even quoted you as like, and you guys all know, like, I'm having the same feeling as Chris.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Lying to Congress is ridiculous. Not only because they're illegitimate, but because these people lie to us 24-7. So it's like they're not some moral authority that's up there that we can't lie to. Like, it's just, it's so stupid. And we also don't know the truth. truth of the claim, so we can't even independently verify that these people have lied about anything. They're being accused of liars because their stories presumably conflict with what we've been told the truth is. Yeah. And so this is where I'm at right now with this whole thing,
Starting point is 00:59:23 and it comes back to John Solomon. And I think you were ahead of the game on this one, as usual. Like, we used to look at John Solomon and like the stuff he was putting out the declassifications he was getting. He was Trump's representative to Nara along with Cash Patel while Trump was away office like just some interesting connections he's the guy the last known guy to have the uh the russia gate binder or whatever that's supposedly still missing um when he got named to this white house task force the white house transparency task force where he was supposed to be like leading the charge of declassifying all these documents but really what it's become at least what it seems to be is it's it's like a filter like he's getting these documents or i don't know how he's
Starting point is 01:00:03 coming across them then he's putting out every release with a set narrative that he wants to go with it. And we're not getting anything new. Everything is just the same old stories that we've already gotten declass from other places. Nothing new is coming from it. And I feel like this is kind of in line with that. One of the declassifications we got from,
Starting point is 01:00:22 I think it was Tulsi Gabbard last year was these people and what they were doing in line of Congress. Now, that may have led to these charges or whatever, but it seems like between the John Solomon and the White House task, force and those declassifications which have been largely nothing burgers the rumors of Todd Blanche shutting down the Rico Grande thing down in Florida and so therefore if that's true we won't be getting any major big name indictments or arrests or whatever which would be
Starting point is 01:00:51 disappointing because I think you can make a case with publicly available information so the fact that we don't have anything yet is mind blowing but we may not get that and then we're getting these things which as you said are like these are the type of things we're supposed to cheerlead for it seems like they're trying to placate us with with the nothing burgers like this and the Comey 86547 or whatever the Brennan line to Congress thing it's it's really frustrating and again I don't pin this on Trump this is an administration thing and and the deep state still embedded within the administration like these people that are in there that are constantly working against Trump at every opportunity to this point, like what we've seen so far,
Starting point is 01:01:35 they've been largely successful, I think, at thwarting the justice and accountability thing. If we want a real transparency, like John Solomon, I don't care what you call your task force, put everything out there, don't choose for us what we get to see when we get to see it and apply your filter to it.
Starting point is 01:01:51 Put it all out publicly. But we haven't gotten that. We haven't actually gotten really any transparency about anything from Trump's administration, even though they like to call it the most transparent administration of history. nothing that we've gotten in terms of transparency has changed the narrative or the game in any way. Like,
Starting point is 01:02:07 yeah. I mean, I suppose that there's an element to which that could be the fault of the people focused on the wrong things. There could be stuff in there that has simply been missed. And that's just a sad truth of reality that that's going to always be a problem. So I think that we can ascribe at least a little responsibility to ourselves as the people in general. the part of it that is difficult for me to get on board with is the fact that you can see the scripting you can see the timing you can understand that this is that these are reruns set to come out at a particular time because people will only see the headlines and then the influencers who are
Starting point is 01:02:50 vying for attention based on their the trendiness of their posts will jump on board with these trending posts in the most cheerleading ways imaginable and farm it for clicks which for anyone coming to the issue for the first time tells them oh this is a really big deal which is like what gets the hook in their mouth on the limited hangout you know this is like what enables limited hangouts to work is going all in on this stuff now again it's entirely possible that the point is the narrative rollout and if that's their role all good we don't have to hate these people. We don't have to think they're bad people, but we can still talk about what it is they're doing. There is the potential that this is just a long-term hoodwinking that is being set up
Starting point is 01:03:41 to have people's minds in a certain place for when they move to the next phase, which seems like it's coming in in 10 days or certainly by, I would think, the end of January next year. It's that same period from the end of 2020 through the beginning of 2021. But, you know, it's just a another one of those moments where if that is their role, okay, if these are secret white hats, doing the best most important thing that anyone could ever do, you still have two problems. The first is it's not completely forthright and honest. And so any reasonable person should be doubting it because of that. And then the other part is our role isn't their role. If that's their role, all good. Our role is to look out for ourselves, the totality of the, the totality
Starting point is 01:04:29 of our beliefs, the way those beliefs affect our actions, the way our actions affect the people who are actually around us, not election outcomes and fake elections. Yeah, what do you think, you know, these narratives here, like the justice one is the one that I think is most frustrating to me because I have read through everything available. Every time we've gotten something, something to I've read through it all. And it's, if there's any rug that I've been on, I would say it's probably that one. It's like, I, want to see these people. It's the thing that got me into doing this in the first place is like being so interested in the whole spy gate, rushagate gate thing in the first place.
Starting point is 01:05:10 And I don't know. I mean, going from John Durham to John Solomon and the stuff now down in Rico, Florida, whatever, and still not having anything from it. Like, what could they possibly be trying to set? And I know this is, it's almost a stupid question because it's going to be total speculation on your part as to what you think they're trying to do here. But what kind of narrative could they be setting up by ruggedness on this for 10 years. Yeah, it's hard to say. I mean, it's they're all puzzle pieces. And so maybe they're just putting this big puzzle together and we'll get the big picture at some point. And some of this stuff will make a lot more sense than it does now. I'm totally open to that. You know, I don't pretend to know what's going on here. I don't have insight into the big secret like
Starting point is 01:05:53 the keepers of the big secret do. The thing that you said right there, this being the reason, in that you got into all this like so heavily was that demand for accountability like the first thing I thought when you said that I was like what's what's the motivation for that feeling because I think that that feelings like prevalent throughout the truth community throughout yeah you know all sorts of different demographics who pay attention to politics and I wonder if that's like the kind of the last throws of faith in the system you're like oh whoa The system just got totally messed up. These people just committed crimes.
Starting point is 01:06:35 I can't believe that they actually are getting away with this stuff. We need to see the system hold them accountable so that we can still have that faith in the system. And the longer that we go without the system holding them accountable, the more faith in the system we lose. And again, if you're thinking about like the founding fathers and, kind of the American mythology and the real spirit of America, faith in the system is not part of that. It's a constant watchfulness over the system, a constant challenge to the system.
Starting point is 01:07:16 Thomas Jefferson talked about a long train of usurpations. This is like the people's right and their duty to overthrow that government. He believed the Constitution should be rewritten every 19 years. You know, so there's nothing radical about this approach. The radically terrible thing is putting our faith in the government, despite knowing it's corrupt. I totally agree to you. And just to clarify, like, what drew me in was the, you're right, the system
Starting point is 01:07:50 and how hard they were going after Donald Trump. Like the story, the saga of how Trump interacted with them and what they were trying to do to him and like the obvious. crimes they were committing. And like it was it was like an appealing story. It was more entertaining than anything else. Like at the time all I was doing on Twitter was following like sports stuff. And this was like a new form of sports to me is to watch this. But I think you're right about the losing faith in the system. And I've we've talked about this many times. You know, is that what Trump is entirely trying to do here is to get people to stop worshiping the system. And I think to a degree has been successful and to a degree it's backfired in a lot of the ways. because of who he is and like how he has like built this caricature of himself to almost to an extent where people like worship him and like well i i have nothing but great things to say about Donald Trump but there's a you know my interpretation of what he's trying to do versus what other people are interpreting he's trying to do is like two completely different things
Starting point is 01:08:50 resulting in two completely different you know responses yeah and one of those responses i feel like is is yeah it's it's going back to worshiping the system and it's not even that i want or care for these people i've come to terms with the fact that these people probably won't actually get arrested like the obamas the hillary's and and stuff like that and i'm okay with that i just want what they did fully to be out in the public so that everybody knows and i don't want it to come from a john solomon or a fox news or michael schellenberger and matt talibi or whatever. And I just want it all out there now is the new one of those. Oh that was so we went over that on Wednesday and people have people are mad at us about that too. So crazy. It's so crazy.
Starting point is 01:09:36 It's even called the files. What is it called the democracy files? Right. The democracy files. Yeah. Yeah. Like you didn't learn your lesson on the Twitter files. Have you, have you watched the video yet? No. Oh man. I almost want to, but I don't want to repeat what we did Wednesday. But dude, it's the conversations these people are having and it's like the the most least threatening people ever, but they're former State Department people. I get it. But they're talking about like, okay, what happens if we reach a legitimacy crisis? Like a moment in time after the election where people are like questioning the legitimacy
Starting point is 01:10:11 of the federal government, they're like workshopping these things. I'm like, we've had this exact conversation at multiple guards. We've talked about this many times. Are we guilty of treason now too? Like, do you want the FBI investigating us for talking about this stuff guys? because that's what people are asking for it's insane yeah yeah the conversation that comes out of it with power going back to the governors i think is great that's what should happen and in a sense that's devolution um yeah the decentralization of this power and it's you know you can get into
Starting point is 01:10:48 technical terms part of that is that the government would be giving away it's that that the organization would be giving away its powers. Usurped powers are not that organization's powers, right? So giving back powers that were usurped from the states or usurped from the people would be akin to devolution, but maybe not technically because of that difference. I don't know. Gosh, where was I gonna go besides that?
Starting point is 01:11:22 Oh, the conversation about the legitimacy crisis, probably. But maybe, I don't know. I mean, it's not that big deal. It's just stupid. I mean, I'm glad that this is being talked about. People can research even the standards of international law and like the UN standards for what makes governments legitimate in nations. And I would submit that if we have, if we got 55% turnout in these midterms, that would be extraordinarily high.
Starting point is 01:11:52 And that would mean that the winner was essentially 28% of the country. And I would suspect that the high turnout number would be inflated by a hell of a lot of fake votes and illegals voting and the rest of it. And then just whatever number they choose because they need to sell a story of high turnout. But if it's not even that high, what if it's 47% of the country were told? comes out to vote. And 24%, so less than a quarter of the country determines who rules us.
Starting point is 01:12:32 And more than half the country, well, I suppose not half the country is eligible, but we're talking about only eligible. So more than half the eligible voters abstain from voting because they want nothing to do with either of these sides. And the majority viewpoint is overridden by less than a quarter of the people. Crazy.
Starting point is 01:12:56 What system is that? Who would support that system? And it turns out, every normie in the world supports it. And most of the truth community. Yeah. Yeah. Because people want the incentives of conforming with consensus
Starting point is 01:13:14 in a way that people find emotionally appealing and intelligent enough to make them, feel smart when they talk to their friends. And if you want to feel really smart, this would be a great opportunity to ad lib a polymarket ad. I don't think there's an actual script here. So this could get really interesting, but we're going to try it. Okay.
Starting point is 01:13:38 Let me plus press play on this. Okay. So guys, if you want to feel really smart with your friends, what you should do is look at the fake elections, pick you think he's going to win that fake election, and bet money on it and then win money by placing that bet. I can't think of a better way to feel smart than being like, look, guys, I knew this was coming,
Starting point is 01:14:00 and I just paid off my mortgage by betting on Ken Paxton or whatever. Or I can't even think of another candidate. I don't even remember who's running here in North Dakota. But you see the polymarket ads everywhere. Everybody's doing it. They're basically sponsoring the election now. they like to say that it's it's more accurate than the fake polls I would just say that it's it's not necessarily what people will do
Starting point is 01:14:28 but it's what people are willing to bet on that they think other people will do so if you guys got some money to spare if you can take it a loan in hopes of getting your $5,000 in the future put it into polymarket place a bet and go go win yourself some money go to And there's a link here. It's the QR code, but I'm going to read the link anyway. App.polymarket.us slash S8AC slash Rumble50. And you can trade on outcomes of live events from politics, pop culture, sports, and more.
Starting point is 01:15:07 We could probably even create our own betting market for something. Like, I don't want to think about it. You know, what's funny is if you bet really, really, really hard because you're, degenerate gambling addict yeah you could actually move the market which would move what we are being told are the real polls now and you could yourself influence the outcome of an election just by doing that isn't that incredible and it's even more powerful than voting because it gets all the other people to behave in a different way huh wait hold on a second did i just say that's more powerful than voting i thought voting was the most powerful thing we could do for our country yeah you kind of
Starting point is 01:15:52 contradicted yourself there but you're right when I um so when I had the conversation with the guy over this because originally when they came to us polymarket they were like hey we want you to do some ad reads and post on Twitter and I was like okay but I'm gonna put at the beginning of the ad like Polymarket paid us to post this here's the thing and they could just like stop responding to us we're like okay they obviously don't want us to do anything well then I ended up having a conversation with the guy at Rumble this last week. And I was like, this is what happened. I told him, like, we're just, I'm going to post that if they like pay us to post
Starting point is 01:16:27 ads. Like, I'm going to disclose that because I think the whole polymarket thing is like, seeing it all everywhere, it's super gay. And he's like, well, I mean, you can do that. I guess it's a paid partnership thing. And then he was talking through the ad reads. And I was like, it's not an accurate reflection of, of like where people are in the country. Like, there's no accurate way to do that other than by mining people's data. Like that's the most accurate thing you can get is by seeing what people do in their day-to-day life and what they shop and watch and all that stuff. Like that's how you can accurately predict what people are going to maybe do or not do.
Starting point is 01:17:01 But it's not a betting market. Like that just tells me most people are willing to bet money on what they think other people think is going to happen. And he's like, well, it's really difficult to actually move the needle on some of the stuff. Like you'd have to be really, really wealthy and put a lot of money into it. in order to actually like move the needle like that. And I was like, okay, but like you, you know who George Soros is, right?
Starting point is 01:17:24 I mean, if they're, they're willing to pay protesters, you don't think they'd be willing to influence betting markets to make people, to sell an election steel narrative. And so it was an interesting discussion. It was, he was very, yeah, about it. But yeah, yeah, it's, it's weird. It's one of those things where you see the NPC meme, where they switch the, the chip in the back of the NPC's head.
Starting point is 01:17:46 And it's like, hey, you have to pay attention to the polls. This is what's going to dictate the election outcome. And now it's like, oh, you have to pay attention to polymarket. And they really have, they really do sponsor like all the election content out there. Oh, yeah. It really is crazy. And maybe, maybe it's just good business for them that people talk about the election all the time because it's something that everybody wants to bet on.
Starting point is 01:18:11 It would be like them talk, like sponsoring all of the sports podcasts and the lead up to the Super Bowl. You know, everybody's going to bet on the Super Bowl. Polymark's going to make a killing with people betting on the Super Bowl. So therefore, push all this money into getting people more ginned up about the Super Bowl and then offer them Polymarket. Yeah, and they're crazy? It's so stupid. But anyway, I'm not optimistic that Polymarkets going to be a long-term sponsor because I'm not willing to grovel or suck their D for the money. But we'll see. We'll see. Maybe they like the authenticity of of how we feel about their thing. That would be a credit to them,
Starting point is 01:18:50 but I've never known casinos to take moral stands. What we should do is we should start a betting market on how long Polly Market will keep sponsoring Badland shows. Yeah, that would be great. That would be funny. We should do that. And we could influence the outcome ourselves and then make a killing.
Starting point is 01:19:10 Yeah, we could. Because we could do the ad reads like super terribly and make it seem like they're going to spawns, but have a back deal going with Polly Market, just keep us on a little bit longer. We're going to cut you in. We're going to win a bunch of money here because everybody's going to think you're going to cut us,
Starting point is 01:19:23 but then you just keep us long term forever. Exactly. I feel like this is a great idea. Yeah, yeah. We could double our profits. We'd be a $2 billion company. Well, that would just mean you'd get, you'd have to be sued again.
Starting point is 01:19:38 Yeah. Well, I'm Marty. Did you see Trump posted a picture of, of what's his name, the guy he's been, talking about his ass all week john hughstead yeah he just he just went and posted nothing but the picture of him is it his football picture again yeah there you go yeah he's lovingly admiring the body of he's our first gay president yeah well maybe a lot of people have suspicions about
Starting point is 01:20:09 yeah i was kidding all our presidents about all of them probably been gay yeah i'm trying to see what other stories i had i don't know if there's some uh i thought this was kind of interesting the whole ukraine gas narrative and stuff that's been going on apparently they've been financing some alaskan energy project for a few years i haven't done a full dig on this yet though so i don't know if i want to go all in on a new york times article um but interesting narrative yeah i was i was looking into this a little bit um just having a short conversation with the machine about it so this revolves around the sanctions package the linds le the lindsay the lindsay graham sanctions act the uh the russia
Starting point is 01:20:53 and iran sanctions and it was attached it was attached to an to a tax cut bill for or tax deduction bill i should say for educators quote unquote so that that the lindsay gram bill yeah yeah i was going through it um a little bit earlier let me let me let me pull it up what yeah i just thought I thought it was, I thought, I thought it was interesting. The first thing that I kind of, like, that caught my attention in this article was this, well, first of all, it's that one of the guys' last names is Talking Pin and the other guy's last name is Riddle. So that, that just, I thought was hilarious. But Mr. Riddle was like, this might be unlawful for them to, this is a potentially unlawful deal. And that's because sanctions were filed against this company in 25.
Starting point is 01:21:48 14 and I don't think it went through at the time and then it went through in 2017 under Trump and he said he didn't think it should happen but it was passed by it was pushed to him by Congress so then he did it. And then the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill was I guess going to re up on this and extend it to 231 and Trump also like wrote in this is the thing that he just wavered the other day. And so it's this project or a pipeline project. And the pipeline project honestly does sound like it makes more sense. But I guess we'll find out. Interesting. We didn't even mention that we were talking about gay and then we went right to Lindsey Graham and we didn't connect the two. Do you see what's the young Turks or whatever put out the video or the documentary of the three male escorts who confirmed that Lindsey Graham was super into men, men's butts?
Starting point is 01:22:47 he probably had a big crush on the Houston. Yeah, I mean, that's the sort of thing that's not hard to believe at all because people have thought Lindsey Graham was gay for years. I don't know if he's gay or not. I do know that the young Turks, that thing is awful. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:23:06 I mean, well, they're into like beastiality, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I remember that famous jank clip. Yeah, but anyway, I thought that was, they're like, we are going to rock the midterms with some breaking news about the Senate. And everybody's like, yeah, dude, we all thought he was gay already. Wait, they thought that that was going to make the difference in the Senate or in the election,
Starting point is 01:23:29 sorry? I'm pretty sure. Let me see if I can find his post. You know what's crazy is how hard they're pushing the idea that the vague Ramoswamy add about that woman's mother who called her a liar, that that things like this huge controversy that's going to swing the election. nationwide because Trump and Ramoswami are doubling down on this ad even though Republicans know it's damaging their brand yeah I didn't even um I don't even know what at what ad you're
Starting point is 01:23:59 talking about I mean I've heard the story but I haven't like so I guess there's this woman Amy Acton and there's something with her mom and her mom like hates her and she said I would not vote for my own daughter my own daughter's a liar and blah blah blah and so So Ramoswamy ran this ad, and it's just so far below the belt, blah, blah, blah. You know, old school politics, the kind of politics we would watch 25 years ago in the lead up to an election. This would be the headline grabbing thing. Everybody would talk about it.
Starting point is 01:24:33 Everybody would pretend to be offended by this ad in such a way that they could believe their neighbors voted in a different direction. And the upcoming election, they were just so put up. off by Republicans that this ad swung the entire course of history. Well, now I want to watch it. And I couldn't find the Sankweger thing I was looking for. Vivek ad will that work? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:59 Is this the one? That's it, yeah. Hey, Ms. Darla, Arthur, and I'm Amy Aston's mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and she can't help you if she needs help herself. People can't check. People can't check.
Starting point is 01:25:48 change. But first, they have to tell the truth. And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for people who lie. Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse. What an interesting dynamic of that Thanksgiving must be. Well, I don't think if they have Thanksgiving is because check this out. This is like the dark part of the story is that so you just heard her talk about. how she has this center for victims of sexual abuse. Yeah. The story is that Amy was raped by her stepfather when she was 12 years old. Yikes. Okay. Yeah. And so that woman, of course, that you just saw would be married to that man and she has denied that story. Now, maybe she's telling the truth. I had no way of knowing. I'm just saying this story's awfully it's got all the elements that would make everybody at home furious despite having no facts whatsoever.
Starting point is 01:26:59 I mean, I just read the facts of the story. I don't know that any of that is true. Yeah. I mean, I don't like Vivek at all either. Yeah, totally. And he's also probably, I mean, definitely a liar. So I don't know. But he also just might be an actor out there performing this ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:27:20 ridiculous role it could be a war he's like a rap artist probably it's also weird that the vague that's right yes she should pull up that video it's also weird that vivake is like jd's boy in fact jd actually named his son the vake after vivake ramaswami and this ad specifically is about a child who lied about having a rough upbringing yeah yeah that's interesting i haven't looked at it that way uh here's a vague wrapping but i do think it's funny before you can play this the the media is freaking out about vivick and again i haven't seen much of it but whatever him using his opponent's mother in an ad against her like are they mad about that or they mad about the whole rape thing i mean they're probably mad about that too about about both
Starting point is 01:28:12 in the same you know what i mean like they kind of like one compounds the other sure but haven't they like on multiple occasions you used anybody with the trump last name that's willing to come out and talk shit about trump and like make them centerpieces it's great point i can't remember the cousin's name or sister's name mary mary yes that's right mary's trump anyway here's the Vem-N-em. I mean, that's far more offensive than the out of my opinion. But the world's won't come out. Everybody's joking now.
Starting point is 01:28:46 The clock's run out. I mean, that's far more offensive than the out, in my opinion, but whatever. It's so strange that so many of these characters end up doing something that suggests they really are just performers. Yeah. It's not a lot of surprise at this point, is it? No, no, it's not at all. It's just kind of remarkable. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:13 I remember, like I have a little PTSD, not PTSD, a sour taste on my mouth over the Vivek thing because I hated him the moment he came out. It was like, this guy sucks. This guy is like the worst. This guy is every time Trump, there's an issue of them going after Trump, Vivek would try to make it about himself. He's like, I'm not going to campaign until. Trump is whatever until Trump is out of prison or something. I'm going to the steps of the Georgia courthouse until Trump is out like like bro, nobody gives the shit.
Starting point is 01:29:45 Like who are you? And then he became part of the dojop. And I was like, this makes it worse. This is stupid. Which by the way, where's dojat guys? What happened to that? And everybody got mad at me for that. And it turns out I was right on all counts on all that stuff.
Starting point is 01:30:00 And everybody hates Vivek now after his Christmas. morning h1b post i don't know um the thing with vivake when he first came on the scene is that like he had the same attraction that people have to a guy like uh like jd vans or like ronda sands or whatever he is young enough and attractive enough and he speaks the way that college people like to be spoken to and so when you are those things and you are saying like the based and red-pilled things that the based-in-red-pilled podcasters say, the people who listen to the based-and-red-pilled podcast
Starting point is 01:30:44 are like, finally, a young, smart guy like me who can rise to this position of power. And really, that's all it takes, them being eloquent about some based-and-red-pilled things they heard on a podcast. Yeah, but so the reason I initially hit Vivek, one, the only reason he ran for president is because he wrote a book like a couple months before. He wanted to sell some copies that that's what happened.
Starting point is 01:31:10 But if you go back and look, like he started his little pre-political run in the aftermath of J6. That's when I first like found him saying anything relevant going on Fox News. He condemned Donald Trump for J6 and he pushed vaccines and masks at one point. Dude, like you could see it from a mile away. This guy was not mega. He's not America First. He's none of these things. Yet it's a great example of people falling for for the siops because he got worshiped for a little bit there especially when he was on doge
Starting point is 01:31:40 Like for that period of time where he was like named to be with Elon Musk heading up Doge like people were going nuts over him. It was so stupid You know what he the other thing to move back from Vivek to the to the campaign that he's running the idea is This woman will not vote for her her own child, therefore you should not vote for this woman's child either. Her own mother says that she's liar. Now, she may be a liar, I have no idea. But I also know that there are people in my family who wouldn't vote for me and there are people in my family who I would not vote for.
Starting point is 01:32:22 And you wouldn't vote probably. Well, that's that's yes, that's also correct. People I would not want entrusted with public power. Let's say that. Um, And that's not an unusual thing for families. So to think like we shouldn't vote for her because this lady won't vote for her. I mean, that is not a convincing thing to anyone. And it, but it is a thing that convinces people that other people might do it.
Starting point is 01:32:52 Like I wouldn't do it myself, but I could see like somebody else being affected by that. Yeah. That's interesting. That's interesting observation. I feel like that would work on a lot of people. Yeah, of course. All these stories work on a lot of people. That's why they use them every single time. Bridge or LifeSach still can't get Keith navigated. I can get the Badlands Group, but can't post anything.
Starting point is 01:33:14 I'm actually in the same situation as you where I can post anything there either right now. But we're working on the bug, so don't give up Hope, Ann. John banned himself. Yeah, I don't know how it happens. There's an issue. Don't write off independent in Ohio, Dan Kisick for governor. Do you think an independent is going to win? Did you see the Matthew McConaughey video, by the way? What do you think that? What do you think is going on there?
Starting point is 01:33:35 I did that to you guys. I think it's one of the most interesting pieces of political communication that I've ever seen. Maybe we should play it. We should play a little bit of it. It's just so long. It's six minutes long. So, I mean, even if we put it at 2X, that's still a big chunk. But this was a show.
Starting point is 01:33:53 And it's McCona. It's got a nice, sultry voice. I mean, I don't mind listening to him for six minutes, even if I don't know. Sure. Or we could listen to the first minute and then go to like four minutes when he goes. when the whole thing goes haywire. Yeah. But so the first few minutes of it,
Starting point is 01:34:10 he's making this really great point about how the political parties don't actually have your back. Here, yeah, just speed it up and go for it. You can just tell me to pause at any point. Cool. For years that an independent vote is a wasted vote. Well, a great question for our times is, how's that unwasted vote been working out for you?
Starting point is 01:34:32 Yeah. Now, before we go any further, I want to let you know this is not about me right now. This is about the upcoming ballot. And I am not here today to endorse a candidate or a party. I am here endorsing two things. Fairness and reality. Feet, I believe in a fair fight. And a fair fight is not just two fighters throwing the same punches at each other for 50 years.
Starting point is 01:34:52 Fair fight is when the fighters who ought to be represented in the fight are actually in the fight. That's fair. And here's a fact. The number one political identity in America today is not Republican. It is not Democrat. It is independent. More of us than either party. So independence belong in the fight. Not as a protest, not as a spoiler, but as a real and potential winner on the ballot and considered seriously by us. Now let's clear something up about the word independent. Independent does not mean
Starting point is 01:35:22 your middle of the road. Independent is the original road. Before there was every Republican or Democrat, there was an American. Our birth certificate is not the declaration of compromise. It is the Declaration of Independence. And a true independent is not a fence sitter. Mr. Mrs. in between, I don't know how I feel. No, a true independent is not even against the R's or the D's. A true independent takes the best of both. And that's not indecision, judgment.
Starting point is 01:35:47 So why I'm talking about this now? Well, because the system has never been more lopsided. In 2024, 87% of the U.S. House seats were effectively decided in party primaries. I just 7% of eligible voters. 7% for most Americans. the real election is over before they ever even show up in November. And that's not competition. It's more like a scrimmage.
Starting point is 01:36:06 One team playing against itself decided in the season for everybody else. Now, skeptics are going to say most independents still vote partisan anyway. And they do. In most races, the parties are the only real choice on the ballot. And the few eyes we have sent to Washington have always had to pick a door, an R door or a D door. Now, that's two doors, but no third. The truth of it is, we don't know how many independents would vote for a true.
Starting point is 01:36:30 independent, organized, funded, owned by neither side, because no one has ever given us one. Here's the math that the parties pray you never do. This Congress is one of the narrowest in modern history. And a Congress as close as this one, three to five true independents, ones who don't caucus with either side, well, they're not a minority. They're the majority maker. Nothing passes without them. Every bill has to come through the middle, which means both parties would finally have to compete for the middle, most of us. Think of it like football.
Starting point is 01:36:58 The two parties want to play the whole game in their own end zones, right? Well, independents keep the game between the 40s, where most of America actually lives. Independence don't just have leveraged. They actually are the leverage. Think of the eyes as the toll booth between an idea and a law. Every bill coming from the left or the right has to stop at that booth and answer one question. Does this make sense to the middle? Extreme stuff can't pay the toll.
Starting point is 01:37:19 And pretty soon, both parties learned to write laws for where most of us actually live. Now, here's why I'm saying this today. Because guess what? Reality, what just changed? This summer, former Senator Joe Manchin and his daughter, Heather, launched the independent leadership council built to recruit, fund, and back true independent candidates for Congress. Not 50 of them, a handful. There's a handful of the math through the requires. Again, I am not endorsing an organization. I'm reintroducing us all to the original organization.
Starting point is 01:37:44 I am endorsing the fairness of us having that choice and the reality of what I can do. We can. Matt, we can pause it. I mean, we can probably leave it behind at this point. The rest of it goes down this road supporting this political cause that is being fronted. I guess by Joe Manchin. Now, he's reading a script. 100%. It could be that he wrote that script and that he really means all these things. That's entirely possible.
Starting point is 01:38:10 Matthew McConaughey has been pushed as a political candidate in Texas and a future governor for many years now. So his involvement with politics is not unusual. In fact, he was in the White House press briefing room for the event after Evalde. That's right. Yeah, remember that with the shoes? Joe Manchin was a Democrat for 50 years. Joe Manchin was never an independent until the very end, and then he was out.
Starting point is 01:38:44 I don't know why Joe Manchin would be starting a cause like this. There's a bad way to read this. And I really like Matthew McConaughey. I don't have anything bad to say about this dude. I think that he's got a good heart. And sometimes, like, people with these placements, platforms get approached for opportunities and they think, well, this is a good message. I can get behind this message.
Starting point is 01:39:08 Yes, I'll do this message for you. And that's it. You know, it's not like some deeper, darker thing going on in the background. Somebody approaches them and says, hey, I think that you'll align with this. Why don't you give it a shot? Maybe it's that I don't pretend to know. But being pushed as a political candidate and then throwing your weight behind this thing for Joe Manchin. I mean, if you get five or 10 of these independent
Starting point is 01:39:36 candidates and get them elected and then use them this way, that is an incredible storytelling device. It doesn't make the elections real and it doesn't make the Congress legitimate. And so, you know, he's basically describing the Unip Party in many of the same ways that I would describe it throughout the first four minutes of that video. Yep. Does this affect the Uniparty? No, it doesn't. It works just fine for the unit party how did the unit party come into being in the first place okay and i would suggest that that is a product of the fact that our elections are fake and this does not fight the actual enemy again this isn't about mccaneh i'm more than interested to see him pursue this and get this message out generally speaking but the joe mentioned the joe mansion
Starting point is 01:40:25 thing is like where he lost me yeah i mean to me it's like this so normy it's it's it's very very normy you never see these people with the big platforms come out and be like you know the uniparty these people you know where the real power is it's the people in the middle that's not true the real power is the people who are stealing these elections like yeah the reality is is that we don't actually have a say none of these people are held accountable to us but he doesn't say anything like that he's just he's pushing this middle road. It does sound like he's playing groundwork for a run or something. Could be. If people exercise their actual leverage instead of believing that they're exercising their leverage when they are actually doing nothing, then we actually do have enough people,
Starting point is 01:41:12 I believe, to make an enormous difference. But we are misdirected and doing the wrong thing because people keep convincing us that our solutions are. all to be found in the ballot box. And that's not true. And revolution is not. Like violent revolution is not the, the, the only alternative to continuing to participate in the failed election system. You know, and it doesn't require any kind of revolution whatsoever. All you have to do is withdraw your power from the system in as many ways as you can and figure out how to reroute that power toward a parallel apparatus. There's nothing violent or revolutionary about that.
Starting point is 01:41:56 It is a choice you make that you can easily implement into your life in all of the possible ways that you can. And then you can get involved in your community if you want to make a difference there. I mean, there are other ways to approach these problems. And this unfortunately doesn't get us there. Yeah, but we're told that's, that's one of the funny things. Like I talk about emotional blackmailing a lot on my show about how these people are like forcing, you know, it's.
Starting point is 01:42:20 you have to go do this one thing or it's going to be some sort of violent outcome and you don't know that's true that there are alternatives we've talked about them many times but yeah um one one last thing about somebody like this being a normie yeah that's like not surprising though that's no not at all like just to be clear for people what of my good friends is friends with him so uh i know i know I have like some sense of and having been in Hollywood for so many years. I have some sense of what the background for these people is. And a lot of it comes from other people who are very successful in the industry, agents and managers who talk to a lot of people in various worlds.
Starting point is 01:43:08 And you reach a certain level of fame, power, access, whatever, that you receive special communications all the time. You always have inside knowledge because you're talking about, you're talking and interacting with people who are playing the game at a higher level than we at home viewing politics. And because of the access and because of the positions that those people have, their information, whether it's true or not, represents as true because they have access. And so you just go down this chain of access thinking that whatever the most powerful person says is true, whatever the person after that says is true, because they got it from the most powerful person person after that believes those two people because they have it on good authority from both of them and they know they're both connected and you can play that down a few levels and get to even a very famous actor and understand that
Starting point is 01:44:02 the information source is not going to push them in a direction that diverges significantly from the mainstream yeah a party of false decorum type thing yeah but yet but it can even happen unwittingly just because you're around people and this is what gets in Oh, that's crazy. I mean, this is, Matthew McConaughey is probably one of the most well-connected people in Hollywood, I'd imagine. Yeah, I can imagine that as well, yeah.
Starting point is 01:44:28 There's nobody that would turn down a meeting with him. Of course. For him to be hoodwinked, you know, for people like this to, with what they think is access to the most powerful people in the world, still being normie and hoodwinked. Yeah. It's just wild.
Starting point is 01:44:43 But, I mean, he probably never has the proper motivation or desire to like, seek deeper meaning or into any of this stuff, you know? Right. But he's also probably never talked to a person who takes the Yudip Party like much more seriously than he is in this commercial. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, how many people are,
Starting point is 01:45:05 how many people in general are having these conversations? The exposure of these conversations to well-intentioned Americans is still very, very low. And that's why they banned us. That's true. And that's why we're getting sued and fought out of every opportunity. But the reason it's happening, these conversations aren't happening. Like you want to talk about waking up the normies. We're not allowed to have these conversations on true social without getting like shamed and called treasonous and shit. It's so stupid, man.
Starting point is 01:45:33 I mean, by strangers on the internet, though, you know. Well, not all of them are strangers. Some of them are badlands host too. Oh, well, yeah, I suppose that's true. Yeah. Anyway, I do, we do have an AI video. We could play as an outro, but we got some boosts and rants to get through. which one you have um the one ash sent which was a pretty good one the trump the terrorist video oh yeah did you see the elin musk odyssey one man there's so much and you know it's kind of funny doing
Starting point is 01:46:03 this right after talking about um an actor but man the the quality and thought behind so much of like the AI video stuff right now, I think is just incredible. I mean, in terms of how you're able to influence public narratives and public perception, oh yeah. The individual has incredible power through these communications channels. And, you know, political propaganda is something that they've been working on developing for 100 years in this country. And these political ads, you know, we just talked about the Amy Acton thing.
Starting point is 01:46:43 We just talked about the Matthew McConaughey thing. These are both examples. of you know political communications these are very clear official political communications but there are all sorts of political communications and you don't have to be a political organization with a pack to be putting out effective political propaganda now so yeah we're we're in an interesting age for all that stuff and i i find it really interesting and entertaining oh i would totally agree i think the individual person has more more power and capability to do something something actually impactful than ever before with this technology, but also algorithms.
Starting point is 01:47:21 Sure. Social media. Depends on the messaging. But yeah, why don't you send me that Odyssey one? We'll do both of the outro videos. And while you're doing that real quick, I'm going to play our Gart St. Pete promo. Because you guys got to get your tickets if you haven't yet. Then we'll do the boost, rants, and get out of here with those two videos.
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Starting point is 01:49:51 says, have a good show tonight. Thank you, Joe, my fellow North Dakota. Appreciate you always showing up and showing out. Snowcat operator gifted a sub. Lin Yoda says, don't think enough people realize they can ask for a paper ballot completed by hand and request to be hand counted. Do not put in the tabulator that can flip boats.
Starting point is 01:50:12 You put it in a locked container. And those, I believe, thank you for the $20, by the way. And thank you, Snowkin operator for the sub. Those are the containers Trump is talking about when the air conditioner people come in and they move those containers and then the containers disappear that's that's the part of the issue but now apparently we don't think that's an issue anymore and everybody needs to go vote early and i guess protest the at eight track companies or something i don't know heathans for a dollar scott preser is just typical gay activist he sucks you in
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Starting point is 01:51:28 there's a 17 in there. So I think we just got tipped some Bitcoin from the Q team. Pretty crazy. The final demand, I'm officially on vacation for a month, so I'll help find the clip of cash two or three years ago saying on X-22 of all places that Hillary Clinton, Obama, won't be held accountable because they're too smart for that. Yeah, that's not surprising. But I do remember saying that so it would be cool if you could find that clip heath Higgins by calling his opponent a liar Vivek gets to come off as an honest engine like it like that one better than your previous too Keith but keep him coming thank you kcmo moms for $20 says remember all the libs were against the vaccine when Trump promoted it did he do that because he knew of their intentions of a vaccine mandate
Starting point is 01:52:15 precedent I don't know man like all the libs got vaccinated so Well, yeah, because then they told them themselves that it wasn't Trump's vaccine. Yeah. That's the most convoluted issue ever. And I really feel like we're probably going to get a rerun on that in the next few months. Probably. There's going to be a unipartisan effort to blame Trump for the vaccine. I could see that.
Starting point is 01:52:37 If it actually comes out and it gets to the point where the mainstream unit party left believes that the vaccine was bad, they will absolutely join the Ron DeSantis people. and most of Maha in trying to pin it on Donald Trump. I can see that too. I mean, we've kind of been waiting for something like that for a while now. You said that might be coming or you can see that happening. Yeah, I thought it's been coming since 2021. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:53:04 Yeah. Linny Yoda for $10 says those aren't the same containers. I vote by hand on election day. Votes counted in the night. Okay. That makes more sense. That's what we're supposed to do. So do it that way or you have committed treason against your country, I am told.
Starting point is 01:53:19 But all right, everybody, thanks for tuning in. Do us a favor. Hit the thumbs up, whatever platform you are watching on. Thank you to the YouTubers. We did get $10 over there. With all the fraud on this is from Gerardo Lantoska. With all the fraud and these NGO getting exposed by a department POTIS started, why isn't the IRS getting some blame by not auditing or flagging some of this?
Starting point is 01:53:40 What the F are they doing? Rip the IRS. I would argue that they are part of the problem. but thanks for the rant and Babbage three left the dollars says you got a YouTube super chat thank you so much Babbage we're over 30,000 subs are on YouTube by the way which is great wow thank you for everybody that's been tuning in over there um but yeah Chris we'll play your video and yeah and then I have another one John so play mine then play yours and then we'll play mine they're both short okay they're both like funny Elon like look at the world we're entering
Starting point is 01:54:16 kind of videos. Sounds good. And the one that I'm playing, I just want to clarify that it is AI. Trump is not actually a terrorist. So just keep that in mind. But thanks everybody.
Starting point is 01:54:26 We'll see you next time. Chris, as always, it's been a blast. Good times, John. Catch you later. I'm tired of boring PC Hollywood movies telling you what to think. Introducing X films.
Starting point is 01:54:39 AI Native interactive entertainment, which is basically the future. Oh. Every movie is made by AI, and AI has really good taste. Each film comes from my grok mainframes, wired into the X network. With the X receiver, your TV is basically a two-way terminal. You're watching the movie, but it's also reading you. What makes you angry? How lonely you are.
Starting point is 01:55:06 It all goes in your file. Then my AI makes your movie out of your file. You're literally in it. Eventually, you want what I want. but it feels like your idea, customized for you. Oh, and I bought the news, so that's customized too. And when it's time to vote, you'll already know. My name is Sheikh Don Trampolla al-Baghdadi.
Starting point is 01:55:32 Let me tell you something. The banner of jihad is going to be raised so high. You'll say, just look at that banner. Oh my gosh. Bois. You'll say bois. My son, J.D. Bin Vanzula Muhammad is a very devout man of God. He is so ready to blow himself up.
Starting point is 01:55:50 I told him, you don't have to blow yourself up. And he just says, Allah, Mohammed, jihad. Now, let me tell you about someone, Sayyad, Gastim, Al Nusami. What a loser. But let's just say we've got a little something in store for him. Something I like to call a little rocket. He goes, zoom! And blows him up.
Starting point is 01:56:11 This caliphate is going to be the greatest caliphate in the history of the world. We've got to kill a lot of infidels first. We are training very hard. I'm not personally training, but the men are training. And let me tell you something, we are the best. No one can stop us. Broken man. Divided.
Starting point is 01:56:37 A trick to open the gates and burn the whole world. Nothing could stand between me and home, except me. I needed the public school. So I built a super cool metal horse thing, bought the horse actually, and I filled it with free speech warriors. We were going to win the culture war and go home. But then it got weird. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. Nobody said anything about fighting. I was told we were doing commentary. He knows those metal horse things better than anybody. And we ended up winning. trying Troy like in a landslide.
Starting point is 01:57:23 I found myself on this island and this super cute anime girl gave me lotus spray. You're not even sad. That's the part that gets you. You forget there was ever ashore. You forget what you were fighting for. You forget you were the guy who was supposed to keep the light on. He says we abandoned the mission. The mission is fine.
Starting point is 01:57:55 He's not coming back. Wow. Few understand. Big if true. Notice how nobody's talking about this. I did a thread. Yeah, I can't tell if the gods are against me or I just lost the soas. Ten years ago I had a mission to preserve the light of consciousness, but then I spent too long inside the metal horse thing and
Starting point is 01:58:21 the Lotus spray fried what was left. I've let a lot of men down. I let a lot of men down. Good men. Will I ever find a way home? Or is it too late? I don't even have a dog.

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