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there is no welcome mat. Today

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is Thursday. The

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11th. January the 11th. I also

1:08

knew that without checking my watch and phone. And

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today we are doing a long-form discussion

1:14

of the summary of election

1:17

fraud and the 2020 presidential

1:19

election in the swing states as

1:21

delivered by Donald J.

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Trump and his crack team of crackpots. I'll

1:26

tell you what, man, this thing is the

1:28

cringiest thing I've ever seen in my entire

1:30

life. One of my favorite things is that

1:32

throughout there's just unattributed quotation marks. My favorite

1:35

thing. Like throughout the whole thing, we know

1:37

what we should do is we should read

1:39

all of the unattributed quotes to start out.

1:41

Let's just start out. Let's start out. Go

1:43

ahead. So what's on the first page here? So, out

1:46

of fraud, no action arises. Again,

1:49

guys, that is quoted without

1:52

attribution. Should we search for it?

1:55

Let's see who said it. Oh God, I hope

1:58

it was Trump. Don't

2:00

be quoted himself. Because

2:02

it looks like it's a translation of

2:05

a Latin phrase. And

2:07

it sounds like it's a legal principle that

2:09

the courts may refuse to enforce a

2:12

claim arising out of the claimants illegal

2:14

or immoral conduct. And I

2:16

think that it is ex terpi cause a non

2:18

order actio. Oh, you said they crushed it. You

2:20

said I fucking nailed that. You said it. You

2:23

said just like Caesar would have said. Here's the thing. I

2:25

also cast a Hogwarts spell. Outstanding. I know

2:27

you not the fucking glasses on. So

2:32

evidently not my nose on my face like

2:35

that bad guy in there. There's

2:38

a bunch of quotes in here and they're all

2:40

not attributed. You know, like, like, here's the

2:42

thing. If you look through here,

2:44

they went to great pains to footnote a

2:46

bunch of garbage. We got to talk. We're going to talk

2:49

about a bunch of that garbage, but they

2:51

didn't bother to footnote the quotes. Like,

2:53

why? Why not? Yeah. Why

2:56

don't you ever quote something and not

2:58

attribute who the fucking quote is from?

3:00

I automatically am like, you're damn. Yeah.

3:03

What you're fucking what you want to do is be like, all right,

3:05

so those are six mistakes. Right. Starting off

3:07

with a red pen. Six mistakes. Six mistakes in

3:09

and you didn't even do anything except for list

3:11

stuff that isn't irrelevant to

3:14

what you're talking about. So just to

3:16

give the listeners an idea structurally, what

3:18

this document does is it goes by state by

3:22

state. There's a little as an introduction.

3:24

But really, the introduction is I told you there

3:26

was fraud. I really, really did. Yeah.

3:29

Right. And then it goes state

3:31

by state. And then it's just pages and

3:33

pages of bullet points

3:36

with just like an endless supply

3:38

of there

3:41

was this many, this things and that many what's

3:43

those and there is a ballot here and a

3:45

ballot there and here a ballot there a ballot

3:47

everywhere a ballot ballot and like

3:50

and then all of the ballot was it. And

3:55

you read it and it's just it's

3:57

I wateringly like repetitious and mind numbing.

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What it is is gish gal, right? What

4:03

it is is they're throwing as much as they can at

4:05

you to confuse you, right? What

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this is is made to confuse

4:09

you because one, it's contextless

4:11

facts. So one of the major things that happens,

4:14

and I'll give you an example of what some of these facts are.

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I'll read a couple of these bullets. Georgia was

4:18

called by 17, by 11,779 votes. Another

4:23

one is the ballot images of these votes along

4:26

with the rest of the in-person ballots on election

4:28

day were destroyed. Then there's another one

4:30

down here that says at least 2,871 ballots were counted two or

4:32

three times in

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the second machine count, totaling 6,118

4:38

questionable votes. And

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so what it is is just a list of

4:45

things, right? Now, these

4:47

things are then footnoted, like Tom alluded

4:49

to. So each one has a footnote.

4:51

And each one that has something, some

4:53

of them just don't, they'll just say

4:55

something and you'll be like, okay, where's the footnote

4:57

for it? No, there isn't one. And so one

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of the major things that they're doing is this

5:03

gish gal. They're just dumping, it's a dump of

5:05

information, hoping it'll just wear you down, right? What

5:07

they're trying to do is wear the reader down.

5:09

If you were somebody who is maybe

5:11

gonna question some of this, you're like, I just don't wanna look

5:13

this all up. I just don't care. And

5:15

so for you, it's a loss. It's a loss because

5:18

you won't do the work that they went to all

5:20

the trouble of trying to create, right? They tried to

5:22

create a bunch of work for you. And if you're

5:24

not willing to do it, then you lost in

5:26

the eyes of all the other people who are presenting

5:28

this argument. The other thing that it is,

5:30

is a ton of correlation is not

5:33

causation. There's a ton of that. They'll

5:35

mention something. They'll be like this. And

5:37

you'd be like, so what? Right, right,

5:39

yeah. So what? There's a huge amount

5:42

of that. There's implied, it's constantly implied

5:44

that this is something. And I wanna

5:46

return to the gish gallop thing because

5:49

the reason that that is effective

5:51

in this strategy

5:53

in particular, that's a debate strategy, right?

5:55

So it's just to overwhelm your debate

5:57

opponent with like more things that they.

6:00

than they could possibly respond to. But

6:02

throwing this out online, the way this

6:04

is out, is now, if

6:06

you're a Trump, you know, if

6:09

you're like supportive of this like crackpot

6:11

theory of the 2020, you know, elections,

6:14

steel nonsense, like

6:16

you now have 32 pages worth of

6:18

stuff that you have to give to your

6:21

opponents, that they have to try to

6:23

debunk piece by piece by piece by piece. They got

6:25

a fact checker. But a lot of it is like

6:27

nothing, like you're saying, a lot of it is like,

6:29

well, those votes those vote ballot

6:31

things are gone. And you're like, okay, what

6:34

does that mean? So they're gone. I

6:36

get that they're gone. One

6:38

I don't know that I believe that they're gone. First

6:40

of all, because a lot of this, when you look

6:43

at it, most of this is just blatantly not true.

6:45

Like when you start digging into these things, a lot

6:47

of this stuff is just fucking flat out, not true

6:49

at all. But like, even

6:51

when you grant some of these positions,

6:54

they don't prove fraud. They don't prove

6:56

anything. There's like nothing behind most of

6:58

it. And I think I think the best one

7:00

here to talk about is this one

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here, because I actually searched for this one.

7:04

Right. So the ballot images

7:06

of these votes, along with the

7:09

rest of the in person ballots cast on election

7:11

day were destroyed. Right. So

7:13

I was like, okay, no footnote for that one.

7:15

There's no footnote, but I was curious. Yeah. I

7:18

looked it up. I was like, I typed that into a search engine. Yeah. I

7:21

was like, what does that mean? Tell me what that means. And

7:23

what I found was I found an AP article and

7:26

that AP article says, I'm going to, I'm

7:28

going to put it up on the big screen here and I'm

7:30

going to put the big screen up on the TV so we

7:32

can look at it together. But it says missing 2020 poll

7:35

tallies in Georgia don't prove 20,000 votes

7:37

never existed. Other

7:40

records are available. And so what

7:42

they do is they talk about these things

7:44

that they said were destroyed and they say,

7:47

look, that doesn't necessarily mean that that's the

7:49

case. I found another article that said,

7:51

look, just because one stream

7:54

isn't available doesn't mean there's

7:56

not multiple ways to verify

7:58

these votes. seats

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matter, the accounting from the machines matter, just

8:02

because the images of the ballots are gone

8:04

doesn't mean it's necessarily

8:06

fraud. There's other ways to tally

8:09

this stuff. What they're doing is

8:11

they're saying, this thing's gone, and

8:13

they're hoping you don't pull back the

8:15

tiny little curtain that says that doesn't

8:17

matter. That's okay. Well, it's

8:20

like all other conspiracy theories, right?

8:22

It's anomaly hunting, right? It's

8:24

like, well, these ballots images are gone.

8:26

You're like, okay, yeah. But like, there's

8:28

also the memory cards from the machines, and

8:30

then there's also a paper trail printout

8:32

from the machine. And so both of those

8:35

things actually match. And so you actually

8:37

have evidence in triplicate. So

8:39

I have evidence in triplicate that something happened,

8:41

I'm missing one of the items, I now

8:43

still have evidence in duplicate, that this has

8:45

happened. Just saying it and plus,

8:48

like, like, that is a statement

8:50

of fact, that again, has no footnote. So

8:52

this is both improperly and

8:55

like, incompletely documented.

8:58

It's both. And then like, we'll talk about this

9:00

too. But if you were to

9:03

believe, just

9:05

like the broad outline of how

9:07

these like, frauds are supposed to

9:09

have worked, what would be fascinating

9:11

is that you would have to

9:13

believe that each of these states

9:15

had an enormous infrastructure of fraudsters.

9:18

And they were all perpetrating a

9:20

different kind of fraud state by

9:22

state. Sure. The strategy in Arizona,

9:25

that supposedly the fraud was used

9:27

to, was used to

9:30

get Biden in is different than

9:32

Michigan, which is different than Pennsylvania,

9:34

which is different. Like, so if

9:36

there was some like nationwide conspiracy,

9:39

this thing would involve literally thousands

9:41

and thousands of people across like

9:43

all of these swing states. And

9:46

they didn't even coalesce around a

9:48

single strategy. The, you,

9:51

it boggles the mind to

9:53

imagine a conspiracy of that

9:55

size with no absolutely

9:57

hard evidence to support it.

10:00

That's just not how anything in the

10:02

world works and in places

10:04

that are Republican run

10:07

in a lot of places absolutely Republican

10:09

run These are places where the

10:11

people who are in the highest Offices

10:14

are Republicans who are overseeing

10:16

this process and saying no, it's none

10:18

of these people wanted Joe Biden to win They

10:21

didn't want Joe Biden to win There's a

10:23

day home on the January 6th guy is

10:25

sitting there saying I didn't want Joe Biden

10:27

to like he's looking the people in The

10:29

face in January 6th. I didn't want him

10:31

to win. These are life look look

10:33

at one point Fucking

10:35

former Attorney General Bill Barr

10:37

is in this document as being

10:40

a conspirator Yeah, like legitimately

10:42

as being one of the conspirators working

10:44

to get a four more years under

10:46

you right easily You loved him. This

10:48

is the guy who redacted the Mueller

10:50

report. Yeah, this is not like some

10:53

Democratic deep state operative. Yeah, so you

10:55

you the things you have to believe

10:58

Before you even launched into looking at this right

11:01

the things you have to believe just on the

11:03

face of this are just some fucking Mind-boggling

11:05

it's like oh, there's a democratic conspiracy

11:08

that includes Bill Barr Yeah, what like

11:10

he's a fucking Manchurian candidate that we

11:12

activated somehow like did somebody blink in

11:14

the right order and Bill

11:18

Barr has been activated like what the

11:21

fuck? Yeah, I I also to One

11:24

of the things that is very evident when you

11:26

read this is The same

11:29

arguments he had on election night

11:31

are coming out in this where

11:33

he's talking about how Certain

11:36

votes got kept going and other ones

11:38

didn't go far enough right and and

11:40

if you remember that night He was like stop

11:42

the count But he was only saying that stop

11:45

the count in one place where he was I

11:47

had he was not saying stop the count in

11:49

The place where he wasn't ahead right he wanted

11:51

to keep counting in Arizona. He don't want

11:53

to keep counting stop the counting Yeah, he wanted

11:55

you and and this literally reads like that.

11:57

There's a part of the hour. He's talking about

12:00

The votes came and the votes came in on the

12:02

evening and then they just kept counting like, well, that's

12:04

how votes work Yeah, that's literally yeah But if you're

12:06

an idiot and you see this and you think well

12:09

the votes just kept coming in and you're like, yeah,

12:11

man That's fucking how voting works. Yeah, they

12:13

just come in and we count them until

12:15

we're done Dude, it was like in

12:17

the in the portion about michigan He's

12:19

like beside himself that he was winning

12:21

and he's in the introduction the same

12:23

thing He's beside himself because at night

12:25

he was winning And then

12:27

as time went on and more votes were counted

12:30

He wasn't winning anymore and he's like but the

12:32

election was over So I

12:34

should be I should just like it's written

12:36

by the dumbest person on the planet like

12:38

what it takes time Yeah, and

12:40

different states have different rules about like

12:42

which votes Count so some states

12:44

it's got to be in by a certain

12:46

time some states, you know, it's got to

12:48

be postmarked by a certain time Etc. It's

12:50

like somebody is so dumbfounded with their own

12:52

refrigerated that the light could go off when

12:55

the door shut Where they're

12:57

just they're just staring at and they open it up the

12:59

how does it like how does it even know it's going

13:01

to open the fridge? You know that's

13:03

what seriously that's what it feels like man

13:05

when you hear what he has to say

13:08

and you think Dude, do you understand us

13:10

a lick of what you're talking about? No,

13:12

and the thing is I don't I don't think he

13:14

cares No, no, that's the thing. Yeah, I

13:16

don't think he cares whether or not he's right or

13:19

wrong What he wants is the result

13:21

and i'm going to tell you that it

13:23

doesn't matter if i'm right or wrong I'm just going

13:25

to keep saying things over and over and over again

13:27

It literally doesn't matter whether i'm right or wrong and

13:30

this this is common throughout the whole piece.

13:33

He keeps re-mentioning

13:36

Arguments in cases that have been

13:38

thrown out of court. Yeah, they've been they've

13:40

been dismissed. I'm going to read a Half

13:43

a dozen of these yeah where they're just

13:45

dismissed. Yeah, also Before we get

13:47

to those because we absolutely have to talk about that because I found the

13:49

same thing when I was just like Who said that

13:51

and then you look at it and you're like you

13:53

said that in court But like this

13:55

is also not a report this

13:58

is a book report. Yeah, right a bad

14:00

one. This is a bad book report. But like, this

14:03

is not a summary of findings. This

14:05

is not like some independent panel. This

14:07

is not a report from a committee.

14:09

This is like, he wrote a

14:11

bunch of shit down so that he can say,

14:13

cause what he wants to be able to do

14:15

is say, look, we released a 32 page report

14:17

with over 197, you know, or whatever the number

14:20

is, you know, items of fraud that

14:22

were listed in the 2020 election. The media

14:24

won't report on it. Right. But it's

14:26

like, yeah, man, like you wrote up

14:28

a report. That's like me

14:30

writing out like all the reasons

14:33

I'm awesome. And then using the

14:35

reasons I wrote down as like

14:37

independent evidence of my awesome. Now

14:39

I am awesome, but I

14:41

actually still want third party verification. Right. Like

14:44

I'm still, I'm looking for it guys. So

14:46

like, you know, send your email.

14:48

But like, if I just write down

14:50

a list of things that are great about me and then

14:52

I'm like, well, there's a report about how great I am.

14:54

It's like, well, you fucking wrote it yourself. Fucking wrote it.

14:57

I, I want to ask you

14:59

before we start getting into this, because we

15:01

know that this is a big long list

15:03

of basically

15:07

debunked voter fraud, right? It's his list

15:09

of debunked voter fraud. Some of it

15:12

we'll get to it, but some of

15:14

it is thrown out court cases. Some

15:16

of it is garbage news sites and

15:18

garbage news articles from fraud websites and

15:20

propaganda sites. Some of it is, I'm

15:24

going to read a couple of things to you

15:26

too, Tom, that where he's, he's actually footnoted

15:28

articles where when you read the second

15:30

half of the article, like I wouldn't,

15:32

I could not believe you footnoted this

15:34

counting on people. Not the way that

15:36

you footnoted this literally the second half

15:38

of the article makes you look like

15:40

an idiot. Why would you footnote this

15:42

for me? But this is a, this

15:44

is an absolute, what it is is

15:47

him trying to say there was voter

15:49

fraud, right? Is

15:51

this not a blueprint to

15:53

hand to the prosecutor in Georgia to say this

15:56

here's the RICO case right here. Here it is right

15:59

here. Here's Donald Trump. Trump trying to show

16:01

you time and time and time again throughout,

16:03

he's actually listed all the times that he

16:05

sent things to court. He's listed all the

16:07

places that keep on parroting the same things

16:09

he's saying over and over again. Can't you

16:11

just see that this is literally what

16:13

they're trying to prosecute him for? In fucking

16:15

Georgia, they're trying to prosecute him as a

16:17

Rico case. They're saying that he orchestrated this

16:20

whole thing. This feels like he made

16:22

a list of his breadcrumbs. It

16:24

does very much feel like that, but like

16:26

I think he's counting on. I think the

16:28

strategy is he releases this

16:31

report. He then gets to go out on

16:33

the campaign trail and say, there's a 32

16:35

page report with 200 and some things on it,

16:38

pointing at the election fraud. Now they're trying

16:40

to prosecute me despite that report. And if

16:42

he gets elected, he's fine. Like

16:44

I really think that he feels like if

16:46

I get elected, I'll be fine. They can't

16:48

throw the sitting president in jail. I'll

16:51

be fine if I can get elected. This

16:53

election is his Hail Mary stay out

16:55

of prison pass. So I think this

16:58

is strategically not that dumb. I

17:00

think the report is full of insane

17:03

gibberish. This feels cobbled together. This feels

17:05

also like something you put together, like

17:07

that you had to turn in, you

17:10

know, like the last minute in college. And

17:12

you're like, fuck, oh shit, okay. I'll get

17:14

my homework. Copy paste, yeah, for real. Copy

17:17

paste, what's your source? rumble.com, fucking love it.

17:19

Awesome. What's your source? YouTube video

17:21

I saw once, awesome. Put it on there, footnote

17:23

that fucker. So I wanna

17:25

talk a little bit about this. So

17:29

I'm gonna start with footnote 22.

17:32

So footnote 22 is Fulton County

17:35

Superior Court filing. And that specifically

17:37

is referred to up here. Thousands

17:40

of pristine unfolded absentee ballots were

17:42

counted during the hand count audit

17:44

in Fulton County, according to at

17:46

least six witnesses, which is a

17:48

subject of ongoing litigation. These

17:51

absentee ballots had no folds and went 98% to

17:54

Joe Biden had been

17:56

added in a fraudulent manner. Witnesses.

18:00

said. So I got

18:02

a Atlanta Journal Constitution article here says

18:04

that a judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday

18:06

by Donald Trump supporters who sought to

18:09

inspect absentee ballots from last year's presidential

18:11

election. A decision that came a day

18:13

after Georgia investigators told the court that

18:16

they were unable to find any counterfeit

18:18

ballots. Superior Court Judge

18:21

Brian Amaro's ruling ended

18:23

the last remaining

18:25

major lawsuit of the 2020

18:27

election and prevented an

18:29

outside review of Fulton County's 147

18:31

original absentee ballots. The judge's order

18:33

is the latest in a series

18:35

decisions against the former Republican president

18:38

who have asked the courts to

18:40

help him pursue suspicions of fraud

18:42

and reverse the result. The election

18:45

says there was no indication of pristine

18:47

ballots with filed with perfectly

18:49

filled in obl's increases as alleged

18:52

in the lawsuits. All ballots in

18:54

those batches appeared to be authentic.

18:57

And then it says, while no election is

18:59

perfect, there was no widespread fraud

19:01

or illegal voting large

19:05

enough to overturn the election. And there

19:07

was some discrepancies

19:09

in some of the counts. Right. Sure.

19:11

But there were hundreds of votes at

19:14

most. And in some cases, Trump got

19:16

those votes more than I'd write. Yep.

19:18

Well, it's like it's like when he

19:20

hired the fucking like cyber ninjas or

19:23

whatever in Maricopa County, Arizona to

19:25

do an audit or to do a recount and

19:27

they came up with more Biden votes. Here's

19:30

another one I want you to look at. So this is one

19:32

of the footnotes in here. I'm going to put this on the

19:35

big screen so people can look at it. Tom, I want you

19:37

to just look at this website. This is a website

19:39

that he linked to. I'm afraid I'm

19:41

going to get a virus from it. This is

19:43

a website that he linked to

19:45

inside of here. It's called

19:47

under, under, uncovered DC. And

19:50

this is an absolute trash site

19:52

that looks like it's fucking made

19:54

with like the worst web

19:57

browser that you could possibly imagine.

20:00

All it is is just a bunch of little

20:02

notes and like, with

20:05

seats, et cetera, that they claim are real.

20:07

And they're trying to say that there's a

20:09

bunch of ballots, right, that were

20:11

bought the day before. I seriously searched

20:13

for half an hour to see if I could

20:15

find, because as they say, there was a bunch of

20:17

these ballots that were bought the day before. One,

20:20

that doesn't necessarily mean that they were used

20:22

in that election. They're just saying that the

20:25

ballots were bought the day before, right? Even

20:27

if I, let's presume that I'm saying that

20:29

that's true, they were just bought the day

20:31

before. That doesn't mean that they were used in that election.

20:33

It doesn't mean that- It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean

20:35

anything, right? It doesn't mean anything. And they're saying that

20:37

they bought more ballots than there are people in

20:39

the district or whatever. Maybe that's

20:42

true, maybe that's not true. But when

20:44

you go to this website, I searched,

20:46

Tom, for an actual real news site

20:48

to talk about this. I searched for

20:50

one, I could not find a single

20:52

news site, not one news site. If

20:54

this was real, every single

20:56

news site would have this up. Everybody could,

20:59

the one would want to cover it. They

21:01

want those clips. They want it to be

21:03

real. They want this. Man, think of how

21:05

profitable this could be to any news corporation.

21:08

It doesn't matter, left or right news organization.

21:10

This story would sell. This story would sell, it

21:13

would click, it would pop. The

21:15

fact that it's like uncovered DC, you've never

21:17

heard of this. No, you've never heard of

21:19

this for a fucking reason. This could be

21:21

my site, dude. This is like a WordPress

21:23

plugin. It absolutely is. This is nothing. This

21:25

is nothing. This is nothing.

21:28

How much material is even here? Are there

21:30

years worth of material here? Is this some

21:32

shit that popped up in order

21:35

for us to create bullshit? You

21:37

can dismiss this kind of stuff, and

21:39

you should. We've talked about being media

21:41

literate, like being news literate. You

21:44

should look at this site and immediately dismiss it out of

21:46

hand. Out of hand. And there's a

21:49

bunch of links in this to

21:51

another site. And this site is called

21:53

the Georgia Star News. Tom,

21:56

can you just read the top part of this?

21:59

Yep. politics in Georgia closely,

22:01

or even if you do, you might be forgiven

22:03

for not knowing much about the Georgia Star News.

22:05

Founded just after the November election when President

22:07

Biden narrowly flipped the state by about 12,000

22:10

votes, it looks like a regular news website

22:12

with a lifestyle section, a widget for the

22:14

weather, and stories about local and national goings-on.

22:17

But the site is more than just

22:19

a local news outlet. It's part

22:22

of the Star News Network, an

22:24

expanding network of pro-Trump sites seeking

22:26

to influence local politics with conservative

22:28

opinion by mimicking the look and

22:30

feel of local newspapers. The group

22:32

operates eight state-focused news sites, including

22:36

in key electoral college states such as

22:38

Michigan, Arizona, Ohio, and Florida. Steve

22:40

Bannon, a former strategist for President Trump,

22:43

described the Georgia Star News in a radio

22:45

interview as content you can't get anywhere else.

22:48

We're not conservative, Inc. said. It's

22:50

very populist. It's very nationalist. It's

22:53

very MAGA. It's very America First.

22:55

This is part of a media

22:57

ecosystem that is being built in

23:00

order to amplify this kind of

23:02

bullshit messages. And I found a half

23:04

dozen of these, every single time I

23:07

took one of these headlines or one of these

23:09

footnotes where he has the name of something or when

23:11

he lists some sort of fraud, I would

23:13

take it and I'd put it in a search engine. And

23:16

inevitably, there would be seven

23:19

or eight of the same story that's recirculated

23:21

on these exact same sites. They all look

23:23

the same. They have different names. This is

23:25

like when you got that newspaper delivered to

23:27

you. That's exactly what I was

23:29

going to say, which is when over

23:32

the last last year, I had a newspaper that

23:34

was delivered, a print newspaper that was delivered here,

23:36

and we covered a whole episode on it. We

23:38

did a whole episode on this newspaper that was

23:41

delivered to me, which was fake news, literally fake

23:43

news, made up news. And it was all just

23:45

scaremongering about the new upcoming election. It was all

23:47

scaremongering to try to get us to vote differently

23:50

than we were planning on voting in the in

23:52

the governor election, because that's what it was mainly

23:54

focusing on. And so it

23:56

was a fake news paper,

23:59

physical paper. And if

24:01

you looked at it, there was all over the

24:03

state, they had it listed, it was the exact

24:05

same paper, but it had different names. So it would

24:07

be called something else. It would be called like the

24:09

DuPage Register. And then it would be called like the

24:12

St. Charles Times and the blah, blah, blah. None of

24:14

these things existed beforehand, but they just used the

24:16

names of the cities to make it seem like it's local

24:18

and then make you feel like, whoa, what the hell

24:20

is this? When I opened it, it literally had

24:22

a thing in there because Pritzker made them put

24:25

a thing in there that said, this is not

24:27

real news. He made them put something in there.

24:29

And they had to act, yes, but

24:31

they even did that in a shitty way. I

24:33

read that on the show. But this is a

24:35

big undertaking in this state to

24:39

get those papers on my driveway and

24:41

your driveway and everyone else's driveway. This

24:45

is easier. This is websites.

24:47

This is nothing. This is seconds

24:49

of work to register a new domain name and

24:51

to copy and paste and change the color scheme

24:54

in your WordPress site. That's all it is. It

24:56

takes no effort. And they did it all over

24:58

the place. And if you scroll through these, it's

25:00

not just, sometimes it'll be different sites, but sometimes

25:03

it'll be the same site that just happens to

25:05

post the same thing multiple times. And

25:07

so these are all just, and if

25:09

you try to find any of these

25:11

headlines that they seem to be building

25:13

out, you can't find them anywhere in

25:15

real news. There's not an ABC News

25:18

report. There's not an NPR, not a BBC, not anything. The

25:22

only time I found anything, anything, was one

25:24

time I think I found a Fox News

25:27

one. But I think it was just referring to

25:29

this thing. It wasn't even

25:31

breaking the news itself. This

25:33

is like a conservative manga, media,

25:35

or a Boris. Yeah, it's

25:37

off its own ass. And the whole

25:39

thing is intended to create the look

25:42

and feel of authenticity. And

25:44

they're good at it. I wanna give props.

25:46

They're good at it. They're people who would

25:49

go to this website are going to be

25:51

fooled by this website. If

25:53

you go to the Uncover DC site, you're

25:55

a conspiracy theorist. It is a site like

25:57

when you brought that last one up. is

26:00

a site where like the background images

26:03

is all stuff like expose, no spin

26:05

zone. Like all this sort of like

26:08

what they're doing is pandering to a specific

26:10

audience that they know how to reach. They

26:12

know how to reach in and touch exactly

26:14

what it is that they wanna see. Oh,

26:16

we need to create something that looks local

26:18

to you. Right. We'll create the

26:20

Georgia Staira Star News. And we'll have, like they

26:23

said, we'll have a little lifestyle section. We'll

26:25

have a little weather section. That stuff's cheap as free.

26:27

Who gives a shit? Like we'll have

26:29

all this stuff. It'll look as real as

26:31

it needs to look. But the bulk of

26:34

it will be copy paste bullshit that goes

26:36

to Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, et cetera. Here's

26:39

another site that they link to a bunch. And

26:43

this is true the vote. And this

26:45

is an actual old article, right? So this is from 2012, Tom.

26:49

So this true the vote's been around for a long time. Guess

26:51

where their roots are? The Tea Party.

26:54

What? So read just this

26:56

really quickly at the top. As

26:59

November 6th approaches the efforts of true the

27:01

vote, Texas anti-voter fraud group recently profiled by

27:03

the New York Times are gaining national attention.

27:05

Despite scant evidence of voter fraud, the group is

27:08

laser focused on weeding it out. It

27:10

is pushed for voter ID laws, voter

27:12

role purges, and other controversial voting related

27:14

measures in a host of states. True

27:17

the vote has also promised to deliver one

27:19

million volunteer poll watchers on election day, though

27:21

its resources appear to be quite modest. It's

27:24

like that million miles, it's like 12 miles. Given

27:27

its annual summits featuring conservative speakers and its hand

27:29

in spurring voter integrity projects around the country, we

27:31

thought we'd take a closer look at the activist

27:34

group. True the vote is

27:36

a grassroots initiative spun out of a Houston,

27:38

Texas based Tea Party organization called the King

27:40

Street Patriots. So this

27:42

is not like by any

27:44

stretch of the imagination, some

27:46

independent third party, like

27:49

fact checker. This is in here, this

27:51

is seven or eight of these footnotes. It's

27:53

like seven or eight of these footnotes. Is it true

27:55

the vote site? And I was like, who's true the

27:57

vote? Well, then I find this pro public article that's

27:59

literally. thing it's a it's a

28:02

conservative group made up during the Tea

28:04

Party when they were mad that a black

28:06

guy won the election. That's literally what it

28:08

is. It is and like all those efforts

28:10

like ProPublica was a lot nicer about it

28:12

than I would have been all those efforts

28:14

are efforts to disenfranchise black people being

28:17

able to vote. That's what voter

28:19

purges are. That's what voter ID

28:21

laws are man. Yeah like fucking

28:23

voter ID laws are there specifically

28:25

to screw with voters because people

28:28

who don't have a lot of money and

28:30

don't have a lot of time off of

28:33

work don't have time to go get a

28:35

fucking voter ID card man. This is another

28:37

way to have a Reconstruction era poll. Exactly

28:39

that's what it is. It's bullshit. It's a

28:42

joke and and the thing is that we've

28:44

proven especially in this last election that voter

28:46

fraud is few and far between if

28:48

it even happens ever right. It happens

28:51

we looked across the whole country with

28:53

a giant fucking microscope right. Huge magnifying

28:55

glasses on all these different places all

28:57

over the country and they found hundreds

28:59

of votes off which is normal which

29:01

is perfectly within the valve of the

29:03

error right. The error bar there's you

29:05

know your national votes aren't hundreds of

29:07

votes away from each other. And I

29:09

could be wrong about this but I

29:11

don't think that I am I think

29:13

all of the convictions for vote fraud

29:15

were Trump votes. Yeah there

29:17

are people voting for Trump. Yeah all the ones we

29:19

found and it's been a handful yeah because like it's

29:21

actually a giant pain in the ass to commit voter

29:24

fraud. Yeah it's not easy to do to

29:26

commit voter fraud. I want

29:28

to I want to also call your attention to

29:30

a couple of a couple of

29:32

times they reference Ruby Freeman. Oh

29:35

yeah. And I followed that

29:37

site and that site

29:39

leads you to the body cam discussions

29:42

with Ruby Freeman and what

29:44

you're seeing is the people who

29:46

are currently in a Rico case charge and

29:49

charged inside of Georgia with intimidation

29:51

of Ruby Freeman talking to her

29:53

intimidating that you

29:56

know this is a lady who is currently

29:58

being there they're currently prosecuting people

30:00

who tried to intimidate her,

30:03

right? And they're using it

30:05

as evidence. I know it's so gross

30:07

evidence. This is what they're saying. No,

30:09

look, look what happened. You're like, those

30:11

people tried to, they, Georgia thought it

30:13

was so egregious that they charged him

30:16

with a crime. Yeah. Well, and didn't

30:18

Ruby Freeman just win a giant civil

30:20

lawsuit like against, uh, against Rudy Giuliani.

30:22

Right. Yeah. For, for like, like this

30:24

is a victim of the right. Yeah.

30:26

Like for sure. Yeah. Like a proven

30:28

victim of the right. And how do

30:30

we know it's proven? Well, because like

30:32

some of them have already like pled

30:34

to it. So like this

30:37

is, yeah. And it's gross.

30:39

It's beyond gross and you're, and you're

30:41

blown. I was blown away. I was

30:43

like, hold on. You're showing me tape of

30:46

their crime. I know. As

30:48

if that's, that's evidence for your

30:51

report. And I read this and I was like, Ruby,

30:53

for room is not going to sue you. You got

30:55

a motherfucker. Good. I want

30:57

to link to this one. So I just

30:59

have a giant note here that says, this

31:01

is the article they used for,

31:04

for footnote 45. Okay.

31:08

So this comes from WJAC. This

31:10

appears to be a ABC affiliate.

31:13

DOS responds to Republican lawmakers

31:16

claim of election numbers discrepancy.

31:19

A group of Republican lawmakers say they've

31:21

performed an extensive analysis of election day

31:23

data and they found troubling discrepancies. According

31:26

to state representative Frank Ryan, a Republican from

31:29

Lebanon, 17 lawmakers sponsored

31:31

and participated in the analysis. Ryan, who's a

31:33

CPA says they discovered discrepancies between the numbers

31:35

of total votes counted in the total number

31:37

of voters who voted in 2020 general election.

31:40

And so, and so if we go down

31:42

here, I want

31:44

you to read now, this is, that's what

31:46

they were. That's what this, this article is

31:48

about. I want you to read the Pennsylvania

31:51

department of state release release statement. They

31:53

said in today's release representative Ryan and others

31:55

rehashed with the same lack of evidence and

31:57

the same absence of supporting documentation repeatedly deepened.

32:00

debunked conspiracy theories regarding the

32:02

November 3rd election. State

32:04

and federal judges have sifted through hundreds

32:06

of pages of unsubstantiated and false allegations

32:09

and found no evidence of fraud or

32:11

illegal voting. And this is his footnote.

32:13

This is his footnote, right? At the

32:15

bottom of his footnote, at the bottom

32:17

of this article, at the top, if you

32:19

read the top, you're like, oh, somebody submitted

32:21

something. And then you scroll down to the

32:24

bottom and like the guy who runs it

32:26

is like, this is conspiracy theory. He literally

32:28

quotes a conspiracy theory and then links it

32:30

in his footnote. And then

32:32

like, that's not uncommon in this document.

32:34

So in this document, there are many

32:36

times where it'll read something like, multiple

32:39

people said this thing happened. And

32:42

you're like, okay. And

32:44

then the footnote is multiple people said

32:47

something happened or the footnote to Cecil's

32:49

earlier point would be like a link

32:51

to a court case that like

32:53

got thrown the fuck out. So

32:55

it's like, yeah, like the plaintiff in this case

32:58

did in fact say that there was this

33:00

fraud, but then the court was like, but

33:03

also no, there wasn't case dismissed.

33:06

Again, Trump, Trump links to this, this

33:09

political article, right? And it says Pennsylvania's

33:11

top election official says 10,000

33:13

ballots were received after November 3rd. But

33:15

then the first paragraph says Pennsylvania

33:17

chief election officer announced on Tuesday

33:20

that around 10,000 ballots were received

33:22

between the close of

33:24

polls on election day and the evening

33:26

of November 6th, a number far too

33:28

small to undermine the president Joe election,

33:30

Biden's margin of victory in the critical

33:32

battleground state. So it's a number way

33:34

too small, right? So does it even

33:36

matter? The thing is, is like,

33:38

like in Pennsylvania, like, would

33:40

this matter in Georgia? Sure. This

33:42

would matter in Georgia. This would bring us

33:44

down to a 2000 votes instead of almost

33:47

12,000. Right? So

33:49

it would be, it would matter. And it's

33:51

nothing. It's literally a drop in the bucket

33:53

in Pennsylvania, which was over a hundred thousand

33:55

vote difference. So it's nothing. This

33:58

is a nothing that happened. You

34:00

know, people see this and they, and he'll

34:02

quote this and say, look at this crazy

34:04

thing that happened. And you're like, yeah, that

34:06

those totals were reported at the end and

34:08

it didn't change anything. And again, this is one of

34:11

his footnotes. It is. So let me

34:13

read paragraph two of his own footnote paragraph two,

34:16

the approximately 10,000 mail ballots are

34:18

at the center of a case in front of

34:20

the Supreme court that president Donald Trump and his

34:23

allies have pushed for as they advance a broader

34:25

strategy. That's, that's less about

34:27

actually making a cohesive legal argument

34:29

than it is about undermining trust

34:31

in the democratic process. This

34:33

is literally his quote. This is your

34:35

evidence, man. This is what he

34:37

linked to. Dude, this would be like if I

34:39

wrote a report again on how

34:41

Tom is awesome and I

34:44

linked places where it's like Tom

34:46

sucks.org. It's

34:48

like, it's like all your footnotes are your dick

34:50

pics. Right. And it's just like some

34:52

really small JPEGs and I'm just like, come on, man.

34:58

The following is a list of

35:00

unsatisfied women like footnotes 58.

35:03

Tom, let's go to footnote 58. I want to show you

35:05

this one. God, it's going to be rumble. This

35:08

is my favorite one. He

35:11

links to his own press conference

35:13

as a, as his own

35:15

press conference, his own press conference,

35:19

Trump campaign news conference on

35:21

Pennsylvania vote count. So he

35:23

links to his own press

35:26

conference as if that is

35:28

an aha. Are

35:31

you serious, dude? That's your own

35:33

press conference. This is

35:36

genuinely unhinged. This is

35:38

like, if you put this together, I'm not even

35:40

fucking around. Like if you put this together and

35:42

turn this in, you would get an F minus.

35:45

I actually think, I actually think if you

35:47

turn this in, your teachers will let us

35:49

throw you out a window. Like, you're like,

35:51

no, you have no value to society. You

35:53

are not. You're no value.

35:55

If I pass or fail you, it's

35:57

actually on me. I

35:59

need to. you is what I need

36:01

to do. You're expelled. You're expelled. I'm literally

36:03

going to expel you out. I'm going to

36:05

defenestrate you. I want to

36:07

say those little 58 Tom. Yeah. Read

36:10

what 58 says. It's here in

36:12

Philadelphia. All right. So his, he says

36:14

in Philadelphia, hundreds of thousands of mail-in

36:16

ballots were unlawfully counted in secret in

36:18

defiance of a court order while Republican

36:20

poll washers were thrown out of buildings

36:22

where voting took place. And his evidence

36:24

for that is a press conference. He

36:26

gives his own where he said it,

36:28

where he says it out loud. That's

36:30

the link inside of there. Yeah. This

36:33

is like you genuinely, you can't get

36:35

more up your own ass than that.

36:37

You said it was an oral Boris

36:39

before. It's even worse now. Did you

36:41

go to tautology.com for some of his

36:43

evidence as well? I

36:46

want to read. So a couple of these, I want

36:48

to just talk about the bias fact

36:50

check that I found. So I'm going to

36:53

call up. So this is one of

36:55

those, one of those places was this Ohio

36:57

star was listed multiple

36:59

times. The Ohio star is

37:01

a questionable source. And I want you to

37:03

read Tom, the detailed report. Just read what

37:05

it says down here. All right.

37:08

Questionable reasoning imposter site, lack

37:11

of transparency, propaganda bias

37:13

rating, right. Factual reporting

37:15

mixed M

37:18

B F C credibility

37:20

rating, low credibility, low

37:22

credibility. So literally he

37:24

linked to a propaganda

37:26

site as if it was

37:29

the thing, right? He's an imposter site. This

37:31

isn't like, this isn't like one, this is

37:33

multiples and this isn't the only one I found. I'm

37:35

not going to call them all up, but this isn't

37:37

the only one I found that literally listed

37:40

it as a propaganda site. It said in

37:43

this media fact check thing, it's like, it's a

37:45

propaganda site. It's not a real

37:47

site that gateway punted is a

37:49

propaganda propaganda. Actually has lower ratings

37:51

than this. It's embarrassing.

37:53

There are times in this where he just

37:55

straight up links to a YouTube page. Yeah.

37:58

Or rumble page or rumble. Here's

38:00

the thing about rumble rumble can't even be

38:03

on YouTube Rumble

38:07

out and it's so Embarrassingly

38:10

bad that YouTube is like nah, man. We won't

38:12

even have that out here not here We'll

38:14

have fucking Andrew Tate on Educating some

38:17

like fucking anti-vaxxer bullshit, but we won't

38:19

have this right God Joe,

38:21

okay Not

38:24

fucking this nonsense. We

38:27

just gotta dig through this website a little church.

38:29

Sure. So he he also quotes this guy Oh,

38:31

yes, and this is the

38:34

shop the Shiva Creating the

38:36

future and so this is a guy

38:38

who goes through a big long thing about how there's voter

38:40

fraud, right? So he's talking about it's like a whole 50

38:43

minute presentation that you link to right here But

38:45

I want you to read Tom. Can you just

38:47

read a few of these bullets at the top?

38:49

There's a bunch of things I want to read

38:51

the top bullet. Yeah, right. So this is for

38:53

Vashiva creating the future scientist

38:55

inventor fighter Solutions

38:57

events shop contact about you've got

39:00

to click on fighter for me.

39:02

Okay fighter If

39:05

he doesn't look cage ready Yeah,

39:08

and then it links it goes to a page

39:11

where he's just got this like crazy how we

39:13

create food for all locally a Systems

39:15

solution. This is not anybody who you

39:17

could take seriously how you allow yourself

39:19

to be to say this is nonsense

39:21

This is all this is this is

39:23

a guru guy who's literally just trying

39:25

to cash in on Trump Yeah, this

39:27

is a guy who knows, you

39:29

know, you look at this site, you know,

39:32

he's a grifter You know, he's trying to

39:34

grift, you know, look he's selling fucking Collaronic

39:38

acid for pet joint health. Yes I

39:40

mean and go go back to the front

39:42

page real quick too because like I

39:44

want to just I wanted to laugh about Something

39:46

I saw as well. So the the little like

39:48

bottom third or whatever on the what is it

39:51

called? It says truth

39:53

freedom health comm get educated

39:55

or be enslaved Look

39:58

man Lower third

40:00

is like terrified being slaved the

40:02

future will set you free the

40:04

truth is now truth health freedom

40:07

Orcom this is a guy all this stuff is

40:09

just like this is like QVC

40:12

this is like an ambulance

40:14

chasing chiropractor. Yeah, man. What it feels like

40:16

to me It doesn't feel like anything at all and

40:18

this is a site. This is a link. This is evidence

40:20

shit. This is his stuff This

40:23

is what he linked it because this

40:25

is how dumb he thinks his constituency is

40:27

though like truly What

40:30

does this say about the constituency? It

40:32

says like you guys are fucking stupid

40:34

man These are the sites you're already

40:36

at that already funny But the boner

40:38

pills for your dog or what I

40:40

found so many sites that Debunked all

40:43

of these points and any of

40:45

the points that they didn't debunk are ones

40:47

I couldn't find in a normal site So

40:49

there's some that I couldn't find debunking but

40:51

it's because nobody's heard of it before now

40:53

I'm sure in a couple weeks You

40:56

know we talked about this recently about you know people if

40:58

you tell them to go get their own information

41:00

They might believe this stuff because there's nothing

41:02

out there debunking it This is a great

41:04

example of that because somebody's gonna read this

41:06

and they're gonna they're gonna do a search

41:08

like I did Maybe they even with a

41:10

good faith They may do a search and

41:12

they'll come up with one of these gateway

41:14

pendant sites one of these other fake sites

41:16

That's made to fool you or this vision

41:18

a guy who's gonna tell him some weird

41:20

stuff about High-war on ik oils and stuff

41:22

right and then also that Donald Trump should

41:24

have been elected And then they're also gonna

41:26

find you know there's just gonna be a

41:28

cascade of misinformation That you can't get

41:30

in front of that that the debunkers the people

41:32

who are gonna have to read this and carefully

41:35

debunk it They can't get in front of it

41:37

fast. Yes mm-hmm and so there's gonna be a

41:39

bunch of people who are gonna be fooled by

41:41

this and This

41:43

is dangerous for the country for him to do

41:45

this and I hope they use it as a

41:47

blueprint to fucking prosecute it dude I do too

41:50

like what what I find really

41:52

distressing is that what is being implied here

41:54

with the use of these footnotes is the

41:58

public and the constituency are

42:01

so media and news and

42:03

digitally illiterate that they will

42:05

go to these sites and not see them for the

42:07

red flags you and I immediately see them for. These

42:10

are the types of sites that like, as soon as

42:12

you see it, as soon as you open it up,

42:14

you're like, oh, it's a bullshit site. Like it just

42:16

hits every alarm bell, right? You can

42:18

see it visually in seconds, but like

42:21

we're at a place where not everyone can,

42:24

70 million people or so can't see through this shit. And they're

42:26

gonna go to one of these sites and

42:29

they're gonna say, well, I don't know what to

42:31

think, but when I went to his report, I

42:33

typed it in and there was a news report

42:35

about it. Yeah, I saw it at Gateway Pond.

42:37

I saw it at Georgia Star News. I saw

42:39

it at this weird other site or I, you

42:41

know, I went there and he's right. This Ruby

42:43

Freeman was talking on camera. Yeah, it's taking completely

42:45

out of context while she's being intimidated, but you

42:47

know, they'll see it and you know, your eyes

42:49

don't see view, right, you see it and you think,

42:51

oh no, I saw it with my

42:53

own eyes. Saw it with my own eyes,

42:55

yeah. And this is super dangerous. I hope

42:57

what this is, is a bow that they

43:00

use to wrap him up and tie him

43:02

away forever. That's what I hope it is

43:04

because it genuinely feels like he basically signed

43:06

his own confession note with this. Yeah, this

43:08

is fucking crazy. And as I

43:10

was reading through this, I read through this just

43:12

this morning. And as I was reading it for

43:14

our patrons, I was like, it

43:17

becomes so exhausting to go

43:19

through. And I was really like aware

43:21

of just how much that

43:24

exhaustion is the strategy. It

43:26

is absolutely the strategy. Oh,

43:29

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

43:31

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, all

43:34

right, that's gonna wrap it up for this week. Thank you

43:36

for joining us on our Thursday show. We're gonna be back

43:38

on Monday with a brand new show and

43:41

we're gonna catch you then, but we're gonna leave you like

43:43

we always do with the Skip Thicks Creed. Crudulity

43:47

is not a virtue. It's

43:50

fortune cookie cutter mommy issue,

43:52

hypnobabble on bullshit. Couch

43:55

and scientist and double bubble

43:57

toil in trouble. Pseudo quasi

43:59

alternative acup- punctuating pressurized,

44:01

stereogram, pyramidal, free energy

44:03

healing, water downward spiral,

44:05

brain dead, pan sales

44:07

pitch, late night info-dacutainment.

44:11

Leo Pisces Cancer Cures

44:13

Detach, Reflex, Foot Massage,

44:15

Death and Towers, Tarot

44:17

Cards, Psychic Healing, Crystal

44:19

Balls, Bigfoot, Yeti, Aliens,

44:21

Churches, Mosques and Synagogues,

44:23

Temples, Dragons, Giant Worms,

44:26

Atlantis, Dolphins, Truthers, Berthers,

44:28

Witches, Wizards, Vaccine, Nuts,

44:31

Shaman Healers, Evangelists, Conspiracy,

44:33

Double Speak, Stigmata, Nonsense.

44:38

Dispose your signs. Thrust

44:40

your hands. Bloody, Evidential,

44:44

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44:46

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