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1: On names of Black women outspoken on the right- in academia; ask Candice Owens.

2: On Dr. Carol Swain and Islam, I hate censorship. Bronze-age rules of ancient past and corresponding etiquette by today’s standards are relevant to us Muslims. Unless Swain is Muslim, there are no such rules that apply to her. This means she and all other non-Muslims are entitled to 20th and 21st century freedom standards. That includes freedom to draw cartoons, speak words and write words. I want to thank all non-Muslims who do free work to enforce my religion’s sharia to non-Muslims. And no, I will not be returning the favor by enforcing rules of non-Muslim religions. So, maybe you should recalculate cost/benefit ratio. My knowledge base comes from experience with Islam as a convert, random interaction with other Muslims and random luck in encountering information. Non-Muslims are not non-informed but lack the privilege I have as Muslim to confirm the story from an inside view. Too many Swains are unfairly criticized for alleged “Islamophobia”.

3: On voting- I am a data guy and a computer guy who really wants us to get the voting thing right. I am waiting for Amazon to deliver book and Amazon emails me every time a minor change or status update occurs. Why can’t voters have an “atm receipt” with tracking number per vote?

5: On voting and Covid, I wanted Covid experts to hold a video recorded panel to discuss Covid risks of indoor voter precinct exposure and to explore outdoor make-shift precinct possibilities. I wanted competition and prizes for best and cheapest design. I was frustrated that such an obvious discussion was avoided and that CDC, State and local authorities told us nothing about in-person voting risk level.

6: I hope Brooks is right about failure to tamper with elections. I wanted a fix after hanging chads, mis-aligned checkbox to name and untrue “Jews for Buchanan” in Miami.

7: On federal vs. state: Yes federal to abolish Jim Crow. No federal to fix “voting” problem that is fake.

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insurrection - a violent uprising against an authority or government

Not exactly a stretch. It's actually kind of mild.

cult - a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing

I guess we can't use that word either.

Context: In 2016 this nation elected Donald Trump. We gave a man like that the Gold Codes.

For this reason alone I maintain that the die was cast long ago. I have held onto very little hope about America since that night. (In other words, if that made sense to us, all bets were off.)

If you're a loyal Republican, I don't care how many legitimate criticisms/condemnations/etc. you can harp on about "the left"/"the Dems"/etc., you will never--caveat: never say never--get that albatross off your neck. You might as well just accessorize around it. There was/is something fundamentally ____--I don't wanna say "crazy", since we're having so many issues with words these days--about giving a man like Trump that kind of power. But we did.

Was there ever a reason to think Donald Trump would gracefully concede defeat after an official loss? No. Floyd or no Floyd, Russiagate or no Russiagate.

Side thoughts: The George Floyd protesters/rioters/arsonists--again, whichever word works for you--were like nothing I had ever seen. (I don't think I'm alone in that.) But it's interesting how *few* people died (11 Americans, if I Googled correctly? The overwhelming majority on the BLM side.)

The Rodney King riots/protests/uprisings/hell-raising saw 60+ deaths straight-up, and they were nowhere near as populated or sustained.

Of course I don't recall seeing even one Biden placard/sticker/button on display during the unrest, but whatever.

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Carol Swain, amazing person. Maybe she is just to sweet? Tough to criticize and tough to popularize?

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Those wondering what a potential future conflict might look like should read the excellent book "Unanticipated Consequences" By John Ross.

You can download the PDF for free now because the original physical book is pretty hard to get.

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/129/Media/Unintended_Consequences.pdf

Basically targeting of government officials by citizens. Good marksmen can easily make shots off 500+ yards, with many hitting 1000 yards+

This type of targeting could be effective even if just one by a handful of individuals. Moreover, as we've seen from school shootings, there are copy cat effects. So once this thing got started it could quickly spread.

Anyway, I can't recommend the book enough. It starts off a bit slow, but really gets going, and it has a strong historical aspect to it with some of the history of guns and gun control.

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Danger of future elections-- the outcome will not be objectively clear because the process for vote-counting is clouded in so many ways by Democrats. This must change. I don't like the outcome of the Biden election. My objection is NOT that Trump lost because he was Trump. My objection is that voting process did not treat all candidates fairly. Had Biden won, I would hate the outcome (for reasons that are all too clear now), but I would have supported the simple idea: Biden Victory --- if the process was clear and without dispute in each state. It was not.

Unfortunately, my objection is that Trump may not have lost...and Biden may not have won. The vote count and the voting process were compromised in several states. Thus, certifying a Biden Victory was a lie, or at best, a confirmation that vote-counting process in several key states tipped the election to Biden, while so much empirical evidence remains in doubt. .

Integrity of each vote must be sustained..

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Dear Glenn, off topic here: I’d love to see a deep dive on the “John Lewis Voting Rights Act” now before Congress, maybe with an invited guest or two. The politicization of the legislation, and of the history of voting rights, is neglected by current media, IMO. It’s complicated. We need help.

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Dr. Loury, you may see this too late, but I'll try anyway.

Next week's guest has a new piece out including this:

"But while quantitatively less destructive, the January 6 riot is qualitatively different from much of the race riots and from sometimes racially motivated street crime. Attacking the processes and symbols of democratic government has the potential to crater all of American society. If the juvenile vandalism of January 6 was far from realizing that potential, it nevertheless represents a dangerous impulse. It is not inconceivable that that impulse will play out again, especially given the persistent belief of many Republican voters that the 2020 election was stolen. It is also not inconceivable that Democrats will be next to use force in the hope of reversing an election. They have already threatened elected officials in their homes and used mob tactics to protest unwanted Supreme Court confirmations."

Aren't the Democrats/leftists also already using violence and the threat of violence to influence juries, judges, prosecutors, and city officials? And didn't the stores board up their windows in November 2020 in case *Trump* prevailed? Where does the primary threat of violence truly reside?

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Some random thoughts. Politics ain’t beanbag said Mr Dooley back in the 1870’s I believe. I almost sure that 45 out of 47 European countries , the same ones that progressives hold up as examples of the type of social welfare state they want , require foto ID to vote and have limited mail in ballot access. Florida , after the 2000 hanging chad fiasco , changed it laws and procedures so that ballots are secure and results are known before midnight. Remember, it is one of the few states in two time zones. I thought Glenn was going to suggest we have 24\7 365 voting. Sort of like all news all the time.

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The events of Jan 6 were not a coup or an insurrection but they were an effort to overturn the results of a lawful election via violence.

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Enjoyed the conversation. I had some thoughts regarding the Civil War comments.

I originally learned about Prof. John McWhorter through the Great Courses regarding Language Families. I had also listened to Prof. Gary Gallagher with UVA who taught Civil War history on Great Courses. I remember Prof. Gallagher making a statement that no one in the 1850s was expecting a war to be right around the corner. Yet, there were a series of events leading up to it. Examples include Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, caning of Senator Charles Sumner, and John Brown's Raid. Everything was moving slowly up until the election of Lincoln, and then things moved very quickly.

The craziest part about the Civil War audiobook were a few interesting comments made regarding the election of 1860. I believe this audiobook was several years old when I was listening to it. Prof. Gallagher makes a comment that the election of 1860 was very different than "today." Stating that in "today's" elections, it doesn't really seem like there is that much difference at all between the two candidates. "This was not the case in 1860." If that audiobook was recreated today, would Prof. Gallagher make those same comments?

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Great convo. A couple thoughts:

-Actual election integrity is achievable if we do what virtually everyone else in the world is doing: voter ID, and VERY limited mail-in voting with strict signature matching. Paper ballots w/ sequenced water marks would be nice too. It’s ridiculous, offensive, and way more than a little disingenuous to suggest that those who favor election integrity are seeking to suppress minority votes, but it’s par for the course for the techno-oligarchy who are holding the strings for this puppet show.

-At this point it’s a little absurd to talk about “Insurrection Day” without demanding greater transparency from federal authorities about the role played by the FBI and/or other alphabet agencies in fomenting, directing, and executing the riot that took place at the Capitol. Darren Beattie at Revolver News and Julie Kelly of American Greatness have done a particularly noteworthy job of raising questions that demand answers.

-The common thread in all of this is the reality that those powerful elites who would transform global society and undermine national sovereignty in favor of “stakeholder capitalism” as imagined for decades by the World Economic Forum and their ilk MUST actively promote the balkanization and fragmentation of the American electorate by demonizing the half of the country that clings to old notions of patriotism, liberty, capitalism, and personal agency. All of these core tenets of Americanism are persistent impediments to the “Great Reset” agenda to exert total control over humanity and usher in authoritarian rule by stateless corporate monopolies (please do your own research if that sounds as wacky to you as it does to me writing it).

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by Nikita Petrov

Mr. Loury, I think either you or Mr. McWhorter, or both of you together, should try and go on Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman. I really think you guys would benefit a lot but more importantly I think the world would benefit a lot from that.

I understand the desire to not go on them as well. Joe Rogan is actually very politically non-aligned, like you guys, on his last podcast with Jim Gaffigan he said he is a huge fan of Barack Obama, and has said the same thing many times (although you may not like Obama, my point is, he is actually non-aligned even though you may not consider him smart or intelligent) and has expressed support for Bernie Sanders before.

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"And there would be nothing anyone could say to convince them otherwise, nothing anyone could say to convince them that Democrats had won the election next time." True ... and False

Good but not great notes by Glenn about voting process issues, especially signature verification & mail-in ballot receipt. Previous talk has included the good and important point that every voter can get valid ID - and oppose the Dem insistence that Blacks are too... (implicitly stupid? lazy? disabled?) obstructed by White racism to get valid ID.

Still it's missing the key issue - how to stop fraud?

Election fraud is possible, and terrible. We need rules to stop it.

Whatever rules we have to stop fraud will, sometimes, stop legal voters from having their votes count, when those voters violate the rules. Voting without ID, without matching signatures, sending in a ballot after the deadline.

Following the rules means the votes that don't follow the rules are NOT counted.

Dems call this voter suppression - but it's actually only suppression of illegal voting. Stopping Mickey Mouse from voting. "Count all votes" means that Mickey Mouse can vote as often as he wants, and they all count.

NOT FAIR.

Best solution: Paper ballots only, by legal voters with valid ID, all votes on Election day. Very limited mail-in ballots, must be received on or before Election day, with signature verification. Precinct based voter rolls.

If this honest election rules were followed, John would find the vast majority of Reps who don't trust 2020 election results would accept the results. But not following reasonable rules against fraud means fraud IS more likely, and will be suspected.

Nobody knows how many fraudulent ballots were in 2020 - but the media has strongly avoiding answering the questions about how many questionable ballots were cast in each state

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How many votes in AZ were counted that did NOT follow all the rules? In GA, PA, other states?

See this CBS story of "no fraud" Biden wins AZ by more than 45,000. Yet with questions on: "the signature verification process, voter roll maintenance, cybersecurity procedures and preservation of evidence."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-election-review-maricopa-county-results-report/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

It notes a problem: "The report said the firm used a commercial public database to try to match information about voters."

Why should either side accept the other side winning if there is NOT a gov't public database about who the voters are, and where they live?

Here's the Maricopa county response to the audit report, essentially saying the audit claims of problems are wrong.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21080894-maricopa-county-analysis-of-senate-review-cyber-ninja-report

On p.2 of the pdf, they rebut the claims about EMS database of images being deleted, they note at the bottom that the security log automatically logs all actions, and factory settings set the storage limit of 20 megabytes.

Their last sentence is "No logs were intentionally deleted".

It's not so easy (in Slovakia) to get the Cyber Ninja report, but there is huge media obfuscation. Here's the Cyber Ninja rebuttal to the official's claim that the report is bad:

https://www.independentsentinel.com/cyber-ninjas-debunk-maricopa-countys-audit-response/

"Intentional execution of scripts to ensure that log entries were not retained

Maricopa blames factory settings for the deletion of security log files. In fact, the County had full control and authority to modify default parameters and the retention period should have been set for 22 months.

Furthermore, “the response by Maricopa County does not address the fact that a user leveraging the ems admin account deliberately and purposely executed a script that checked the accounts for duplicate passwords 38,478 times. This deliberate execution of the script occurred over three days, specifically on 2/11/21 there were 462 log entries overwritten, on 3/3/21 there were 37,686 log entries overwritten, and on 4/12/21 there were 330 log entries overwritten. Given that Maricopa County knew that the setting on the log retention was limited to 20MB, the act of executing these scripts had the effect of deliberated ensuring that the Windows security logs covering the dates of the General Election would not be available for review.”

I'm sure you, like me, can't go deep enough to get the truth. But this looks, to me, like officials covering up their own NOT following the rules. Any time you have rules and a situation that LOOKS like the officials are not following the rules, will, and SHOULD, make the losing side suspect fraud.

America needs a fraud free election. Ain't getting there by supporting Mickey Mouse voting. like the Dems demand.

America also needs an FBI that know who Roy Epps is, and what he was doing Jan 5 & Jan 6.

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Jan 12, 2022·edited Jan 12, 2022Liked by Glenn Loury

This is part of a longer video that posted 22 hours ago.

Wish you two were running the USA.

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I think you greatly underestimate the significance of the Dems' Russiagate hoax and what it says about the Dem party and its allies, i.e., elements of the so-called deep state, virtually all of the legacy media, and the social media giants. Russiagate wasn't just another political "dirty trick." Besides destroying Donald Trump's presidency, Russiagate caused half of the electorate to suspend reason and glorify liars, and it put us on a collision course with a nuclear armed power. Now virtually the whole world (except the remaining, thoroughly propagandized members of the Dem cult) knows the US is run by dishonest, power-hungry people who are out of control. What reason would you offer voters, i.e., the little people, to regain faith in our institutions?

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