1 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:38,069 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANKS 2 00:00:38,070 --> 00:00:39,070 FOR JOINING US! 3 00:00:39,071 --> 00:00:40,571 IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK! 4 00:00:40,572 --> 00:00:41,105 KAMALA HARRIS RELEASED HER 5 00:00:41,106 --> 00:00:42,073 HEALTH RECORDS, WE LEARNED TRUMP 6 00:00:42,074 --> 00:00:42,707 SENT COVID TESTS TO PUTIN EARLY 7 00:00:42,708 --> 00:00:44,642 IN THE PANDEMIC, AND FLORIDA 8 00:00:44,643 --> 00:00:46,277 SPENT THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK 9 00:00:46,278 --> 00:00:46,878 BRACING FOR HURRICANE MILTON, 10 00:00:46,879 --> 00:00:47,812 WHICH-- AMONG OTHER THINGS-- 11 00:00:47,813 --> 00:00:50,815 THREW AN AWKWARD WRENCH INTO 12 00:00:50,816 --> 00:00:51,382 TUESDAY'S "DANCING WITH THE 13 00:00:51,383 --> 00:00:52,650 STARS." 14 00:00:52,651 --> 00:00:53,251 FOR THE FINAL DANCE OF THE 15 00:00:53,252 --> 00:00:56,421 NIGHT, OUR BACHELOR STAR WILL 16 00:00:56,422 --> 00:00:57,155 TANGO TO THE HAIR METAL CLASSIC 17 00:00:57,156 --> 00:00:59,223 "ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE." 18 00:00:59,224 --> 00:01:00,324 NOW, WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT 19 00:01:00,325 --> 00:01:01,926 THESE SONGS WERE CHOSEN WEEKS IN 20 00:01:01,927 --> 00:01:02,794 ADVANCE OF THE DEVASTATING 21 00:01:02,795 --> 00:01:05,596 WEATHER EVENTS." 22 00:01:05,597 --> 00:01:06,397 YEAH, NOT GREAT! 23 00:01:06,398 --> 00:01:07,031 AND WHILE I'M SURE THE SONG WAS 24 00:01:07,032 --> 00:01:09,400 DECIDED WEEKS AGO, IT'S ALSO THE 25 00:01:09,401 --> 00:01:15,473 MIDDLE OF HURRICANE SEASON! 26 00:01:15,474 --> 00:01:16,207 THIS WASN'T SOME FREAK, 27 00:01:16,208 --> 00:01:17,175 UNFORESEEABLE THING LIKE IF 28 00:01:17,176 --> 00:01:17,975 YOU'D HAD TO COME OUT AND SAY, 29 00:01:17,976 --> 00:01:19,377 "BEFORE OUR CONTESTANTS CHA-CHA 30 00:01:19,378 --> 00:01:19,977 TO THE THONG SONG, WE WANT YOU 31 00:01:19,978 --> 00:01:22,847 TO KNOW, IT WAS CHOSEN WEEKS 32 00:01:22,848 --> 00:01:23,448 BEFORE THIS MORNING'S TRAGIC 33 00:01:23,449 --> 00:01:25,083 MASS THONG-STRANGLING. 34 00:01:25,084 --> 00:01:26,851 PLEASE STAY STRONG. 35 00:01:26,852 --> 00:01:28,019 STRONG, STA-STRONG STRONG 36 00:01:28,020 --> 00:01:29,787 STRONG." 37 00:01:29,788 --> 00:01:31,589 MILTON'S DAMAGE WAS EXTENSIVE, 38 00:01:31,590 --> 00:01:32,357 AND AWFUL. 39 00:01:32,358 --> 00:01:35,560 THOUGH, THANKFULLY, IT WASN'T AS 40 00:01:35,561 --> 00:01:40,698 DIRE AS MANY HAD PREDICTED. 41 00:01:40,699 --> 00:01:41,265 THE RUN-UP TO THE STORM DID 42 00:01:41,266 --> 00:01:42,433 PROVIDE A REMINDER OF A WEIRDLY 43 00:01:42,434 --> 00:01:43,101 WIDELY-USED METRIC FOR STORM 44 00:01:43,102 --> 00:01:44,435 SEVERITY. 45 00:01:44,436 --> 00:01:45,036 WAFFLE HOUSE IS STILL 46 00:01:45,037 --> 00:01:46,637 MONITORING THE STORM'S IMPACTS. 47 00:01:46,638 --> 00:01:47,438 FEMA OFFICIALS USED THE WAFFLE 48 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:48,339 HOUSE INDEX AS AN UNOFFICIAL 49 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:51,509 METRIC DURING DISASTERS. 50 00:01:51,510 --> 00:01:52,944 WE CALL IT THE WAFFLE HOUSE 51 00:01:52,945 --> 00:01:55,646 INDEX, AND IT'S VERY RELIABLE 52 00:01:55,647 --> 00:01:56,681 THE INDEX WORKS AS AN 53 00:01:56,682 --> 00:01:58,016 UNOFFICIAL INDICATOR TO LOCALS 54 00:01:58,017 --> 00:02:01,352 OF THE SEVERITY OF AN IMPENDING 55 00:02:01,353 --> 00:02:02,720 STORM, BASED ON IF THEIR NEAREST 56 00:02:02,721 --> 00:02:05,423 WAFFLE HOUSE IS CLOSED OR NOT. 57 00:02:05,424 --> 00:02:06,424 IT'S TRUE-- THERE'S 58 00:02:06,425 --> 00:02:07,425 SOMETHING CALLED A "WAFFLE HOUSE 59 00:02:07,426 --> 00:02:08,593 INDEX." 60 00:02:08,594 --> 00:02:10,294 AND IT'S JARRING TO HAVE 61 00:02:10,295 --> 00:02:10,928 SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT CONVEYED 62 00:02:10,929 --> 00:02:11,662 IN TERMS OF WAFFLE HOUSE. 63 00:02:11,663 --> 00:02:12,697 IT'S LIKE FINDING OUT NORAD 64 00:02:12,698 --> 00:02:13,531 RELIES ON THE "OSHKOSH B'GOSH 65 00:02:13,532 --> 00:02:19,437 NUCLEAR THREAT LEVEL." 66 00:02:19,438 --> 00:02:21,939 WE ARE AT RED OVERALLS, 67 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:23,307 EVERYONE, GET UNDERGROUND. 68 00:02:23,308 --> 00:02:24,475 THE WAFFLE HOUSE INDEX ACTUALLY 69 00:02:24,476 --> 00:02:25,109 ORIGINATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT. 70 00:02:25,110 --> 00:02:25,743 AROUND 20 YEARS AGO, THIS FEMA 71 00:02:25,744 --> 00:02:27,278 ADMINISTRATOR REALIZED THAT, 72 00:02:27,279 --> 00:02:28,780 WHEN GOING INTO A DISASTER ZONE, 73 00:02:28,781 --> 00:02:29,414 "IF YOU GET THERE AND THE WAFFLE 74 00:02:29,415 --> 00:02:30,782 HOUSE IS CLOSED?" 75 00:02:30,783 --> 00:02:31,215 "THAT'S REALLY BAD. 76 00:02:31,216 --> 00:02:32,183 THAT'S WHERE YOU GO TO WORK." 77 00:02:32,184 --> 00:02:32,784 AND THAT'S PARTLY BECAUSE THE 78 00:02:32,785 --> 00:02:34,952 COMPANY'S HAD A FANATICAL 79 00:02:34,953 --> 00:02:36,688 DEVOTION TO STAYING OPEN. 80 00:02:36,689 --> 00:02:37,221 OVER THE YEARS, IT'S SEEN 81 00:02:37,222 --> 00:02:40,425 BUSINESS SKYROCKET AT 82 00:02:40,426 --> 00:02:40,958 RESTAURANTS THAT REOPENED 83 00:02:40,959 --> 00:02:43,061 QUICKLY AFTER HURRICANES, SO 84 00:02:43,062 --> 00:02:43,561 THEY EMBRACED A BUSINESS 85 00:02:43,562 --> 00:02:47,899 STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND KEEPING 86 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:48,433 THEIR RESTAURANTS OPERABLE 87 00:02:48,434 --> 00:02:50,968 DURING AND AFTER A DISASTER. 88 00:02:50,969 --> 00:02:51,569 AND THEY KNOW PEOPLE TAKE THIS 89 00:02:51,570 --> 00:02:53,438 SERIOUSLY, BECAUSE WAFFLE 90 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:54,172 HOUSE'S TWITTER FEED FEATURES 91 00:02:54,173 --> 00:02:55,540 SOBER POSTS LIKE THIS ONE, WITH 92 00:02:55,541 --> 00:02:56,374 MAPS OF WHICH RESTAURANTS ARE 93 00:02:56,375 --> 00:02:57,575 CLOSED, JUST ABOVE NORMAL 94 00:02:57,576 --> 00:02:59,477 WAFFLE-PUSHING ADS LIKE THIS, 95 00:02:59,478 --> 00:03:00,078 READING, "I HAVE A LOT ON MY 96 00:03:00,079 --> 00:03:03,181 PLATE RIGHT NOW." 97 00:03:03,182 --> 00:03:04,349 THAT'S THE MOST JARRING 98 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:05,283 JUXTAPOSITION OF CONTENT SINCE 99 00:03:05,284 --> 00:03:05,917 SUNNY D ONCE SEEMED TO THREATEN 100 00:03:05,918 --> 00:03:08,252 TO COMMIT SUICIDE. 101 00:03:08,253 --> 00:03:10,188 BY THE WAY, THE TWITTER ACCOUNT 102 00:03:10,189 --> 00:03:13,758 FOR SATAN REPLIED TO THAT, "I 103 00:03:13,759 --> 00:03:20,834 FEEL YOU SUNNY D MY FRIEND," TO 104 00:03:20,934 --> 00:03:21,499 WHICH-- AND THIS TRUE-- SUNNY 105 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:24,335 D REPLIED "THANK U SATAN." 106 00:03:24,336 --> 00:03:25,103 TWITTER USED TO BE GOOD. 107 00:03:25,104 --> 00:03:25,737 AND LOOK, I COULD TALK ABOUT THE 108 00:03:25,738 --> 00:03:27,438 GRIM SUBTEXT HERE, FROM THE IDEA 109 00:03:27,439 --> 00:03:28,072 THAT AMERICANS PLACE MORE TRUST 110 00:03:28,073 --> 00:03:29,440 IN RESTAURANT CHAINS THAN THEIR 111 00:03:29,441 --> 00:03:30,074 OWN GOVERNMENT, TO THE FACT THAT 112 00:03:30,075 --> 00:03:30,708 SAME CHAIN HAS SOMEHOW MADE "WE 113 00:03:30,709 --> 00:03:32,577 MAKE OUR EMPLOYEES WORK DURING 114 00:03:32,578 --> 00:03:33,277 NATURAL DISASTERS" INTO A 115 00:03:33,278 --> 00:03:35,313 BRANDING OPPORTUNITY. 116 00:03:35,314 --> 00:03:38,750 BUT I'M GOING TO CHOOSE TO FOCUS 117 00:03:38,751 --> 00:03:39,784 ON THE FACT WAFFLE HOUSES HAVE 118 00:03:39,785 --> 00:03:40,885 SOMEHOW BECOME A LIGHT IN THE 119 00:03:40,886 --> 00:03:41,786 STORM-- 11 SCRABBLE TILES OF 120 00:03:41,787 --> 00:03:44,956 BACKLIT HOPE. 121 00:03:44,957 --> 00:03:45,723 WHICH IS WILD COMING FROM A 122 00:03:45,724 --> 00:03:48,760 PLACE THAT OTHERWISE EMBODIES 123 00:03:48,761 --> 00:03:49,394 TOTAL CHAOS, FROM THE FREQUENT 124 00:03:49,395 --> 00:03:50,862 BRAWLS, TO THE STAGGERING 125 00:03:50,863 --> 00:03:53,331 VARIATIONS OF HASH BROWN BOWLS 126 00:03:53,332 --> 00:03:54,132 - DESCRIBED BY WAFFLE HOUSE AS 127 00:03:54,133 --> 00:03:56,868 "THE JAZZ MUSIC OF THE BREAKFAST 128 00:03:56,869 --> 00:04:00,071 SCENE," WHICH I GUESS MAKES 129 00:04:00,072 --> 00:04:00,672 SENSE, BECAUSE, LIKE JAZZ, THE 130 00:04:00,673 --> 00:04:02,407 IDEA OF A HASH BROWN BOWL SOUNDS 131 00:04:02,408 --> 00:04:02,940 FUN, BUT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY 132 00:04:02,941 --> 00:04:03,608 EXPERIENCE IT, YOU THINK TO 133 00:04:03,609 --> 00:04:04,709 YOURSELF, "THERE'S TOO MUCH 134 00:04:04,710 --> 00:04:06,244 GOING ON HERE, AND I'M NOT SURE 135 00:04:06,245 --> 00:04:11,616 I'M ENJOYING ANY OF IT." 136 00:04:11,617 --> 00:04:12,250 THERE'S ALSO THEIR CHAOTIC 137 00:04:12,251 --> 00:04:13,685 DECISION TO STOCK THEIR 138 00:04:13,686 --> 00:04:14,452 JUKEBOXES WITH 139 00:04:14,453 --> 00:04:15,186 BREAKFAST-SPECIFIC KNOCKOFF 140 00:04:15,187 --> 00:04:17,855 SONGS, LIKE THIS. 141 00:04:17,856 --> 00:04:18,356 ♪ RAISIN ♪ 142 00:04:18,357 --> 00:04:19,857 ♪ (RAISIN TOAST) RAISIN TOAST ♪ 143 00:04:19,858 --> 00:04:21,426 ♪ RAISIN ♪ 144 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:26,964 ♪ (RAISIN TOAST) RAISIN TOAST ♪ 145 00:04:26,965 --> 00:04:27,498 ♪ THERE ARE RAISINS IN MY 146 00:04:27,499 --> 00:04:29,901 TOAST ♪ 147 00:04:29,902 --> 00:04:33,338 ♪ RAISIN TOAST ♪ 148 00:04:33,339 --> 00:04:34,672 YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE. 149 00:04:34,673 --> 00:04:35,273 "SHERRY, BABY" IS A SONG ABOUT 150 00:04:35,274 --> 00:04:37,975 FRANKIE VALLI BEING HORNY FOR A 151 00:04:37,976 --> 00:04:38,676 GIRL, AND THIS IS BASICALLY 152 00:04:38,677 --> 00:04:40,578 THAT, BUT RAISINS. 153 00:04:40,579 --> 00:04:41,646 HORNY FOR RAISINS. 154 00:04:41,647 --> 00:04:43,348 WHICH, NOT FOR NOTHING, SOUNDS 155 00:04:43,349 --> 00:04:43,948 LIKE IT COULD BE A BELIEVABLE 156 00:04:43,949 --> 00:04:45,917 TITLE OF A JOE BIDEN MEMOIR. 157 00:04:45,918 --> 00:04:48,219 THE POINT IS, WAFFLE HOUSE 158 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:49,554 COMBINES CHAOS WITH ORDER, AND 159 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:51,489 NOTHING EXEMPLIFIES THAT MORE 160 00:04:51,490 --> 00:04:52,790 THAN THE BONKERS METHOD THEY'VE 161 00:04:52,791 --> 00:04:53,958 DEVISED FOR LINE COOKS TO KEEP 162 00:04:53,959 --> 00:04:55,593 TRACK OF ORDERS. 163 00:04:55,594 --> 00:04:56,728 BECAUSE THEY DON'T USE SIMPLE 164 00:04:56,729 --> 00:04:58,396 METHODS LIKE "SERVERS WRITING IT 165 00:04:58,397 --> 00:04:59,797 DOWN," OR "PUTTING IT IN A 166 00:04:59,798 --> 00:05:00,765 COMPUTER SYSTEM." 167 00:05:00,766 --> 00:05:02,000 THEY DO SOMETHING FAR MORE 168 00:05:02,001 --> 00:05:03,468 COMPLEX, AS THIS EMPLOYEE SHOWED 169 00:05:03,469 --> 00:05:04,402 ON TIKTOK. 170 00:05:04,403 --> 00:05:05,236 ALL OF OUR ORDERS START ON A 171 00:05:05,237 --> 00:05:07,572 PLATE, RIGHT? 172 00:05:07,573 --> 00:05:08,139 WE USE JELLY PACKETS TO MARK 173 00:05:08,140 --> 00:05:10,074 MOST OF EVERYTHING. 174 00:05:10,075 --> 00:05:11,943 SO THIS IS A QUICK RUNDOWN. 175 00:05:11,944 --> 00:05:12,243 OVER LIGHT? 176 00:05:12,244 --> 00:05:13,378 ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT. 177 00:05:13,379 --> 00:05:14,178 OVER MEDIUM? 178 00:05:14,179 --> 00:05:15,813 IN THE MIDDLE. 179 00:05:15,814 --> 00:05:16,914 OVER WELL? 180 00:05:16,915 --> 00:05:17,482 ALL THE WAY ON THIS WAY OVER 181 00:05:17,483 --> 00:05:18,750 HERE. 182 00:05:18,751 --> 00:05:19,417 SCRAMBLED ON THIS BOTTOM DOWN TO 183 00:05:19,418 --> 00:05:20,284 THE SOUTH. 184 00:05:20,285 --> 00:05:23,154 ORDER UP ON TOP. 185 00:05:23,155 --> 00:05:23,755 IF THE JELLY PACKET IS FLIPPED 186 00:05:23,756 --> 00:05:24,989 UP LIKE THIS, THIS IS WHITE 187 00:05:24,990 --> 00:05:26,791 TOAST. 188 00:05:26,792 --> 00:05:28,259 WHEAT TOAST. 189 00:05:28,260 --> 00:05:28,860 USING APPLE BUTTER FOR RAISIN 190 00:05:28,861 --> 00:05:29,627 TOAST. 191 00:05:29,628 --> 00:05:31,229 IF YOU THROW A BUTTER JUST ON 192 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:32,463 THE GRILL LINE, THAT'S A WAFFLE. 193 00:05:32,464 --> 00:05:33,931 FLIP IT OVER? 194 00:05:33,932 --> 00:05:35,933 THAT'S A PECAN WAFFLE. 195 00:05:35,934 --> 00:05:36,501 SOMETIMES, PEOPLE PUT A BLUE 196 00:05:36,502 --> 00:05:38,636 JELLY PACKET ON TOP. 197 00:05:38,637 --> 00:05:40,872 THAT'S A BLUEBERRY WAFFLE. 198 00:05:40,873 --> 00:05:44,042 OH, FUCK OFF. 199 00:05:44,043 --> 00:05:45,777 NOT YOU, MAN IN THIS VIDEO. 200 00:05:45,778 --> 00:05:47,345 YOU SEEM LIKE A GREAT HANG, IT'D 201 00:05:47,346 --> 00:05:49,881 BE AN HONOR TO VAPE WITH YOU. 202 00:05:49,882 --> 00:05:51,382 BUT THAT SYSTEM'S LUDICROUS. 203 00:05:51,383 --> 00:05:53,317 WHEN HE OPENED WITH "ALL OUR 204 00:05:53,318 --> 00:05:54,318 ORDERS START ON A PLATE," I 205 00:05:54,319 --> 00:05:56,120 THOUGHT "MAKES SENSE. 206 00:05:56,121 --> 00:05:57,088 FOOD GOES ON PLATE, TAKE ME ON 207 00:05:57,089 --> 00:05:58,156 YOUR JOURNEY." 208 00:05:58,157 --> 00:05:58,790 BUT AS SOON AS HE SAID, "WE USE 209 00:05:58,791 --> 00:05:59,624 JELLY PACKETS TO MARK MOST OF 210 00:05:59,625 --> 00:06:01,259 EVERYTHING"-- I'M OUT. 211 00:06:01,260 --> 00:06:02,527 I DON'T HAVE SPACE IN MY LIFE 212 00:06:02,528 --> 00:06:04,228 FOR JELLY CHOREOGRAPHY. 213 00:06:04,229 --> 00:06:04,862 I CAN'T LEARN THAT CODE, I HAVE 214 00:06:04,863 --> 00:06:06,864 A FAMILY. 215 00:06:06,865 --> 00:06:07,498 "JELLY PACKET DOWN TO THE SOUTH 216 00:06:07,499 --> 00:06:08,333 SCRAMBLED?" 217 00:06:08,334 --> 00:06:13,237 WHAT? 218 00:06:13,238 --> 00:06:13,871 AND THEN "IF YOU FLIP THE JELLY 219 00:06:13,872 --> 00:06:15,540 UP, IT'S WHITE, NO FLIP IT'S 220 00:06:15,541 --> 00:06:16,374 WHEAT?" 221 00:06:16,375 --> 00:06:17,475 ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? 222 00:06:17,476 --> 00:06:18,910 ARE YOU FUCKING ME? 223 00:06:18,911 --> 00:06:20,078 I CONSIDER MYSELF A SMART MAN-- 224 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:21,813 THE GLASSES-- BUT THE ONLY 225 00:06:21,814 --> 00:06:23,381 THING HE SAID THAT "KIND" OF 226 00:06:23,382 --> 00:06:24,449 MADE SENSE IS THAT BLUE JELLY 227 00:06:24,450 --> 00:06:25,383 EQUALS BLUEBERRY. 228 00:06:25,384 --> 00:06:26,150 NOW, WOULD I HAVE KNOWN THAT TO 229 00:06:26,151 --> 00:06:29,554 ORDER A BLUEBERRY WAFFLE, YOU 230 00:06:29,555 --> 00:06:30,188 HAVE TO PUT BUTTER ON THE GRILL 231 00:06:30,189 --> 00:06:31,789 LINE RIGHT SIDE UP, BLUE JELLY 232 00:06:31,790 --> 00:06:34,926 ON TOP? 233 00:06:34,927 --> 00:06:36,127 NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. 234 00:06:36,128 --> 00:06:37,795 NOT AFTER SEVERAL HINTS! 235 00:06:37,796 --> 00:06:39,130 I FEEL LIKE I'M HAVING A 236 00:06:39,131 --> 00:06:40,531 15-YEAR-OLD EXPLAIN EMOJIS TO 237 00:06:40,532 --> 00:06:44,102 ME. 238 00:06:44,103 --> 00:06:47,238 "LIPSTICK MEANS THURSDAY, BLONDE 239 00:06:47,239 --> 00:06:50,808 HAIRCUT MEANS IBUPROFEN, 240 00:06:50,809 --> 00:06:52,744 BRUNETTE HAIRCUT MEANS PHYSICS 241 00:06:52,745 --> 00:06:53,478 HOMEWORK, AND SHRIMP MEANS 242 00:06:53,479 --> 00:06:54,779 HAIRCUT. 243 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:55,847 WHY ARE YOU NOT GETTING THIS?" 244 00:06:55,848 --> 00:06:56,714 AND IT GETS WORSE, BECAUSE 245 00:06:56,715 --> 00:06:58,249 HERE'S AN OFFICIAL TRAINING 246 00:06:58,250 --> 00:06:58,883 VIDEO EXPLAINING HOW TO CONVEY A 247 00:06:58,884 --> 00:06:59,984 SANDWICH ORDER. 248 00:06:59,985 --> 00:07:00,985 HERE, YOU CAN SEE I PUT TWO 249 00:07:00,986 --> 00:07:03,488 PICKLE SLICES IN THE NUMBER 250 00:07:03,489 --> 00:07:04,288 THREE POSITION, WHICH TELLS ME 251 00:07:04,289 --> 00:07:05,890 THIS IS A BACON SANDWICH. 252 00:07:05,891 --> 00:07:07,525 IF I ADD A SLICE OF CHEESE TO 253 00:07:07,526 --> 00:07:08,693 THE PLATE, I KNOW THIS IS A 254 00:07:08,694 --> 00:07:11,362 BACON CHEESE SANDWICH. 255 00:07:11,363 --> 00:07:11,929 TO MAKE THIS A BACON EGG AND 256 00:07:11,930 --> 00:07:14,232 CHEESE SANDWICH, I'LL ADD THIS 257 00:07:14,233 --> 00:07:15,433 RIGHT SIDE UP MAYO PACKET TO THE 258 00:07:15,434 --> 00:07:18,436 RIGHT SIDE OF THE PLATE. 259 00:07:18,437 --> 00:07:19,504 DON'T LET THIS MAYO PACK CONFUSE 260 00:07:19,505 --> 00:07:21,406 YOU. 261 00:07:21,407 --> 00:07:22,473 AS LONG AS YOU SEE TWO PICKLES 262 00:07:22,474 --> 00:07:23,875 ON THE PLATE, YOU KNOW THIS IS A 263 00:07:23,876 --> 00:07:25,309 SANDWICH. 264 00:07:25,310 --> 00:07:29,647 SORRY, BUT IF IT'S COOL 265 00:07:29,648 --> 00:07:30,281 WITH YOU, I AM GOING TO LET THAT 266 00:07:30,282 --> 00:07:34,385 MAYO PACKET CONFUSE ME. 267 00:07:34,386 --> 00:07:36,788 BECAUSE I FEEL INSANE RIGHT NOW. 268 00:07:36,789 --> 00:07:37,388 I WAS CONFUSED WHEN YOU SAID 269 00:07:37,389 --> 00:07:38,222 "TWO PICKLE SLICES IN THE NUMBER 270 00:07:38,223 --> 00:07:39,290 THREE POSITION MEANS BACON 271 00:07:39,291 --> 00:07:40,324 SANDWICH." 272 00:07:40,325 --> 00:07:40,892 YOU COULD HAVE SAID, "VINCE 273 00:07:40,893 --> 00:07:42,360 VAUGHN AT A CHRISTENING ON 274 00:07:42,361 --> 00:07:43,394 FOURTH OF JULY MEANS CHEESE 275 00:07:43,395 --> 00:07:44,028 OMELET" AND IT WOULD'VE HAD THE 276 00:07:44,029 --> 00:07:45,396 SAME EFFECT ON ME. 277 00:07:45,397 --> 00:07:46,030 BECAUSE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK AM 278 00:07:46,031 --> 00:07:47,498 I LOOKING AT? 279 00:07:47,499 --> 00:07:48,099 THAT'S A PLATE WITH TWO LOOSE 280 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:49,267 PICKLE SLICES, A KRAFT SINGLE, 281 00:07:49,268 --> 00:07:50,568 AND AN UNOPENED MAYO PACKET. 282 00:07:50,569 --> 00:07:51,803 THAT'S NOT A FORM OF 283 00:07:51,804 --> 00:07:52,136 COMMUNICATION. 284 00:07:52,137 --> 00:07:52,804 IT LOOKS LIKE DINNER AT THE FYRE 285 00:07:52,805 --> 00:07:58,176 FESTIVAL. 286 00:07:58,177 --> 00:08:00,278 IF YOU WORK AT WAFFLE HOUSE, YOU 287 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:03,448 MIGHT BE A GENIUS! 288 00:08:03,449 --> 00:08:04,550 I THINK A YOUTUBE COMMENTER 289 00:08:05,151 --> 00:08:06,084 "I'M A 911 DISPATCHER. 290 00:08:06,085 --> 00:08:07,785 I DEAL WITH GENUINE LIFE OR 291 00:08:07,786 --> 00:08:08,353 DEATH SITUATIONS. 292 00:08:08,354 --> 00:08:09,554 I WOULD RATHER TAKE A SHOTS 293 00:08:09,555 --> 00:08:11,022 FIRED CALL THAN ATTEMPT TO 294 00:08:11,023 --> 00:08:11,656 UNDERSTAND WHATEVER THE FUCK IS 295 00:08:11,657 --> 00:08:12,790 HAPPENING HERE." 296 00:08:12,791 --> 00:08:14,359 THE POINT IS, IN A WORLD THAT 297 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,761 SEEMS TO BE SPIRALING OUT OF 298 00:08:16,762 --> 00:08:17,695 CONTROL, IT SEEMS THERE ARE AT 299 00:08:17,696 --> 00:08:19,097 LEAST A FEW THINGS WE CAN STILL 300 00:08:19,098 --> 00:08:21,366 WAFFLE HOUSE WILL STAY 301 00:08:21,367 --> 00:08:24,369 OPEN TO A GENUINELY 302 00:08:24,370 --> 00:08:25,069 IRRESPONSIBLE EXTENT. 303 00:08:25,070 --> 00:08:31,476 JELLY MEANS EGGS. 304 00:08:31,477 --> 00:08:32,343 IF YOU PUT A BUTTER CONTAINER 305 00:08:32,344 --> 00:08:33,044 DOWN RIGHT-SIDE UP, YOU'RE 306 00:08:33,045 --> 00:08:35,246 GETTING A WAFFLE. 307 00:08:35,247 --> 00:08:35,914 AND THIS SONG. 308 00:08:36,483 --> 00:08:37,081 IS NEVER GOING TO LEAVE YOUR 309 00:08:37,082 --> 00:08:37,615 FUCKING HEAD. 310 00:08:37,616 --> 00:08:42,520 AND, NOW THIS. 311 00:08:42,521 --> 00:08:44,922 AND NOW, LOCAL NEWS TRIES TO 312 00:08:44,923 --> 00:08:47,325 MAKE SENSE OF VANDERBILT FANS 313 00:08:47,326 --> 00:08:48,226 THROWING THEIR GOALPOST INTO A 314 00:08:48,227 --> 00:08:48,626 RIVER. 315 00:08:48,627 --> 00:08:50,528 THESE FOOTBALL FANS WERE 316 00:08:50,529 --> 00:08:52,263 ACTUALLY HAPPY AS THEY THREW 317 00:08:52,264 --> 00:08:54,666 THEIR OWN FOOTBALL STADIUM'S 318 00:08:54,667 --> 00:08:56,167 GOLD POST INTO THE 319 00:08:56,168 --> 00:08:57,068 CUMBERLAND RIVER. 320 00:08:57,069 --> 00:08:58,503 THEY WERE CELEBRATED VANDERBILT 321 00:08:58,504 --> 00:08:59,203 UNIVERSITY'S WOULD MAKE OVER 322 00:08:59,204 --> 00:09:00,371 ALABAMA. 323 00:09:00,372 --> 00:09:01,673 SPEAK OF THE STUDENTS MARCHED 324 00:09:01,674 --> 00:09:03,341 SEVERAL MILES AND THEN TOSSED 325 00:09:03,342 --> 00:09:04,776 THE GOALPOST INTO THE CUMBERLAND RIVER. 326 00:09:04,777 --> 00:09:05,243 WHAT'S? 327 00:09:05,244 --> 00:09:07,478 I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DID 328 00:09:07,479 --> 00:09:09,080 THAT, BUT OKAY. 329 00:09:09,081 --> 00:09:10,882 GOALPOST BEING PARADED DOWN 330 00:09:10,883 --> 00:09:11,649 BROADWAY. 331 00:09:11,650 --> 00:09:12,216 HMM. 332 00:09:12,217 --> 00:09:14,519 YOU KNOW YOU DO? 333 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:15,420 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THROWING 334 00:09:15,421 --> 00:09:18,523 IT IN THE RIVER, BUT OKAY, GOOD 335 00:09:18,524 --> 00:09:18,890 FOR THEM. 336 00:09:18,891 --> 00:09:21,859 THAT'S CRAZY, OH, MY 337 00:09:21,860 --> 00:09:22,126 GOODNESS. 338 00:09:22,127 --> 00:09:23,327 GOOD TIMES FOR THEM. 339 00:09:23,328 --> 00:09:24,362 RIGHT. 340 00:09:24,363 --> 00:09:26,631 THIS IS THEFT, DESTRUCTION OF 341 00:09:26,632 --> 00:09:27,298 PROPERTY. 342 00:09:27,299 --> 00:09:27,865 ... 343 00:09:27,866 --> 00:09:29,033 RIGHT? 344 00:09:29,034 --> 00:09:31,302 I DON'T KNOW. 345 00:09:31,303 --> 00:09:31,869 YOU ARE RIGHT. 346 00:09:31,870 --> 00:09:32,737 PARADED AROUND IN THE STREET 347 00:09:32,738 --> 00:09:34,505 AND THROW IT IN THE WATERWAY? 348 00:09:34,506 --> 00:09:35,440 HOW MANY LAWS ARE WE BREAKING 349 00:09:35,441 --> 00:09:36,274 HERE? 350 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:37,675 HAVE YOU BEEN TO BROADWAY 351 00:09:37,676 --> 00:09:37,909 BEFORE? 352 00:09:37,910 --> 00:09:40,211 IF YOU GO DOWN THERE AND PEOPLE 353 00:09:40,212 --> 00:09:41,512 ARE EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING, 354 00:09:41,513 --> 00:09:42,480 IT'S NEVER-- 355 00:09:42,481 --> 00:09:43,381 A FREE-FOR-ALL, JUST DO WHAT 356 00:09:43,382 --> 00:09:46,317 I WANT ON BROADWAY? 357 00:09:46,318 --> 00:09:46,918 YES. 358 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:47,652 PEOPLE THROW STUFF IN THE 359 00:09:47,653 --> 00:09:50,054 CUMBERLAND ALL THE TIME. 360 00:09:50,055 --> 00:09:51,289 CHEESEBURGERS, FURNITURE. 361 00:09:51,290 --> 00:09:53,291 I CAN'T. 362 00:09:53,292 --> 00:09:55,526 MOVING ON. 363 00:09:55,527 --> 00:09:56,160 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT IS ABOUT 364 00:09:56,161 --> 00:09:57,261 VOTING. 365 00:09:57,262 --> 00:09:58,830 THE ONLY ADULT ENDEAVOR THAT 366 00:09:58,831 --> 00:09:59,263 GIVES OUT STICKERS. 367 00:09:59,264 --> 00:09:59,664 WHICH IS A SHAME. 368 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:02,033 THERE SHOULD BE MORE OF THEM. 369 00:10:02,034 --> 00:10:02,667 "I VOTED" IS NICE, BUT I'D ALSO 370 00:10:02,668 --> 00:10:03,534 LIKE "I WENT TO THE DENTIST," OR 371 00:10:03,535 --> 00:10:04,469 "I DID MY TAXES," OR "I JOGGED," 372 00:10:04,470 --> 00:10:06,537 OR "FULL DISCLOSURE, I DIDN'T GO 373 00:10:06,538 --> 00:10:07,872 TO THE DENTIST" I MADE AN 374 00:10:07,873 --> 00:10:08,806 APPOINTMENT FOR THE DENTIST, BUT 375 00:10:08,807 --> 00:10:11,843 THAT ISN'T NOTHING." 376 00:10:11,844 --> 00:10:12,477 THAT SAID, GETTING A STICKER FOR 377 00:10:12,478 --> 00:10:13,378 VOTING IS CERTAINLY WELCOME, AND 378 00:10:13,379 --> 00:10:15,380 AS WE'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, IF 379 00:10:15,381 --> 00:10:16,014 YOU LIVE IN MICHIGAN, YOU MIGHT 380 00:10:16,015 --> 00:10:23,089 GET A REALLY GOOD ONE THIS YEAR. 381 00:10:24,557 --> 00:10:25,089 12 YEAR OLD JANE HYNOUS IS 382 00:10:25,090 --> 00:10:26,524 THE ARTIST BEHIND THIS CREATION. 383 00:10:26,525 --> 00:10:27,458 IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF NINE 384 00:10:27,459 --> 00:10:28,292 STICKERS THAT MICHIGAN VOTERS 385 00:10:28,293 --> 00:10:28,926 WILL RECEIVE AFTER CASTING THEIR 386 00:10:28,927 --> 00:10:29,594 BALLOTS. 387 00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:30,194 I WANT IT TO BE A SYMBOL OF 388 00:10:30,195 --> 00:10:31,929 POWERFULNESS. 389 00:10:31,930 --> 00:10:32,463 I WANT PEOPLE TO BE 390 00:10:32,464 --> 00:10:34,899 PROUD OF IT WHEN THEY'RE VOTING. 391 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:35,433 WHEN THEY ACTUALLY GET THE 392 00:10:35,434 --> 00:10:36,501 STICKER, IT'S LIKE "HEY, I JUST 393 00:10:36,502 --> 00:10:37,335 VOTED," AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S 394 00:10:37,336 --> 00:10:39,270 PRETTY ENCOURAGING, I THINK. 395 00:10:39,271 --> 00:10:40,605 YEAH, IT IS! 396 00:10:40,606 --> 00:10:47,545 AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS SHOULD 397 00:10:47,546 --> 00:10:48,146 FRANKLY BE ASHAMED THEY DIDN'T 398 00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:49,847 COMPLIMENTARY WEREWOLF SWAG. 399 00:10:49,848 --> 00:10:50,448 I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK NEARLY 400 00:10:50,449 --> 00:10:51,783 250 YEARS FOR A YOUNG MICHIGAN 401 00:10:51,784 --> 00:10:52,450 GENIUS TO SOLVE THAT OBVIOUS 402 00:10:52,451 --> 00:10:53,885 FLAW IN OUR DEMOCRACY. 403 00:10:53,886 --> 00:10:54,485 THIS ELECTION IS INEXPLICABLY 404 00:10:54,486 --> 00:10:55,653 CLOSE. 405 00:10:55,654 --> 00:10:56,220 THE AVERAGE OF POLLS IN THE 406 00:10:56,221 --> 00:10:58,089 SEVEN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES 407 00:10:58,090 --> 00:10:59,057 ALL SHOW THE CANDIDATES WITHIN 408 00:10:59,058 --> 00:11:00,792 ONE OR TWO POINTS. 409 00:11:00,793 --> 00:11:01,426 AND IF YOU HEARD THAT AND DIDN'T 410 00:11:01,427 --> 00:11:02,560 SHIT YOURSELF, CONGRATULATIONS, 411 00:11:02,561 --> 00:11:04,262 YOU JUST EARNED A STICKER FOR 412 00:11:04,263 --> 00:11:08,700 THAT. 413 00:11:08,701 --> 00:11:11,402 CLEARLY WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S 414 00:11:11,403 --> 00:11:12,203 AHEAD ON ELECTION NIGHT, THOUGH 415 00:11:12,204 --> 00:11:12,837 I CAN CONFIDENTLY PREDICT A FEW 416 00:11:12,838 --> 00:11:15,273 THINGS. 417 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:16,307 A LITTLE KHAKI NERD ARMED 418 00:11:16,308 --> 00:11:17,208 WITH A TOUCHSCREEN WILL INSPIRE 419 00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:17,842 SOME OF THE MOST DEPRAVED THIRST 420 00:11:17,843 --> 00:11:19,977 TWEETS THE INTERNET'S EVER SEEN. 421 00:11:19,978 --> 00:11:20,511 SECOND, REGARDLESS OF THE 422 00:11:20,512 --> 00:11:22,280 RESULTS, NATE SILVER WILL TWEET 423 00:11:22,281 --> 00:11:23,481 "ACTUALLY, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT 424 00:11:23,482 --> 00:11:24,115 I SAID COULD HAPPEN" IN A HEATED 425 00:11:24,116 --> 00:11:26,150 ARGUMENT WITH A 14-YEAR-OLD WITH 426 00:11:26,151 --> 00:11:27,652 A SPONGEBOB AVATAR WHO ONLY 427 00:11:27,653 --> 00:11:28,853 TWEETS "NATE SILVER PEES UPSIDE 428 00:11:28,854 --> 00:11:30,588 DOWN." 429 00:11:30,589 --> 00:11:31,222 IF TRUMP LOSES, HE 430 00:11:31,223 --> 00:11:33,691 WILL NOT CONCEDE GRACEFULLY. 431 00:11:33,692 --> 00:11:34,292 HE'S ALREADY SAID HE'LL ONLY 432 00:11:34,293 --> 00:11:35,560 ACCEPT THE RESULTS "IF IT'S A 433 00:11:35,561 --> 00:11:36,060 FAIR AND LEGAL AND GOOD 434 00:11:36,061 --> 00:11:38,162 ELECTION." 435 00:11:38,163 --> 00:11:38,696 AND HE'S BEEN LAYING THE 436 00:11:38,697 --> 00:11:40,531 GROUNDWORK TO CRY FOUL IF HE 437 00:11:40,532 --> 00:11:42,834 LOSES. 438 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:43,468 THE ONLY THING THEY DO WELL, 439 00:11:43,469 --> 00:11:43,901 THEY CHEAT. 440 00:11:43,902 --> 00:11:45,169 THEIR POLICIES ARE NO GOOD. 441 00:11:45,170 --> 00:11:46,571 THEIR GOVERNMENT IS NO GOOD. 442 00:11:46,572 --> 00:11:47,205 THEIR MANAGEMENT IS NO GOOD, BUT 443 00:11:47,206 --> 00:11:48,239 THEY CHEAT LIKE NOBODY CAN 444 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,173 CHEAT. 445 00:11:49,174 --> 00:11:49,974 THEY CHEAT. 446 00:11:49,975 --> 00:11:50,908 THEY CHEATED IN THE LAST 447 00:11:50,909 --> 00:11:52,510 ELECTION AND THEY'RE GONNA CHEAT 448 00:11:52,511 --> 00:11:55,246 IN THIS ELECTION. 449 00:11:55,247 --> 00:11:55,747 IF WE CAN KEEP THE 450 00:11:55,748 --> 00:11:58,316 CHEATING DOWN TO A MINIMUM, 451 00:11:58,317 --> 00:11:59,417 BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE CHEAT - 452 00:11:59,418 --> 00:12:02,020 THEY CHEAT LIKE HELL. 453 00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:03,421 IF WE CAN KEEP IT DOWN TO A 454 00:12:03,422 --> 00:12:08,292 MINIMUM, WE WIN EASILY. 455 00:12:08,293 --> 00:12:08,926 WE HAVE TO VOTE, AND WE HAVE TO 456 00:12:08,927 --> 00:12:10,361 MAKE SURE THAT WE STOP THEM FROM 457 00:12:10,362 --> 00:12:10,928 CHEATING, BECAUSE THEY CHEAT 458 00:12:10,929 --> 00:12:13,531 LIKE DOGS. 459 00:12:13,532 --> 00:12:14,132 LOOK: I GET HE'S JUST 460 00:12:14,133 --> 00:12:14,766 TRYING TO RILE UP HIS BASE, BUT 461 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:15,366 I WON'T SIT IDLY BY WHILE HE 462 00:12:15,367 --> 00:12:17,268 SLANDERS DOGS. 463 00:12:17,269 --> 00:12:18,903 HEY, DOGS: LOOK AT ME. 464 00:12:18,904 --> 00:12:19,337 YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. 465 00:12:19,338 --> 00:12:19,737 YOU ARE SPECIAL. 466 00:12:19,738 --> 00:12:20,338 YOU MATTER. 467 00:12:20,339 --> 00:12:21,105 AS FOR CATS? 468 00:12:21,106 --> 00:12:23,441 YOU DON'T NEED MY VALIDATION, 469 00:12:23,442 --> 00:12:30,517 AND YOU KNOW IT. 470 00:12:35,689 --> 00:12:36,187 TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN HAVE 471 00:12:36,188 --> 00:12:37,722 CO-OPTED THE PHRASE "ELECTION 472 00:12:37,723 --> 00:12:38,356 INTERFERENCE" TO REFER TO PRETTY 473 00:12:38,357 --> 00:12:39,257 FROM THE MULTIPLE 474 00:12:39,258 --> 00:12:39,891 INDICTMENTS AGAINST HIM, TO THE 475 00:12:39,892 --> 00:12:41,392 FED'S RECENT DECISION TO CUT 476 00:12:41,393 --> 00:12:41,993 INTEREST RATES, WITH TRUMP AT 477 00:12:41,994 --> 00:12:44,262 ONE POINT EVEN POSTING "ELECTION 478 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:45,963 INTERFERENCE, NEVER SURRENDER!" 479 00:12:45,964 --> 00:12:46,431 WITH HIS OWN MUGSHOT. 480 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:47,031 AND FOR THE RECORD, THAT'S A 481 00:12:47,032 --> 00:12:47,598 TERRIBLE MUGSHOT. 482 00:12:47,599 --> 00:12:48,366 JOHNNY CASH? 483 00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:49,000 LAID-BACK, 484 00:12:49,001 --> 00:12:49,667 COOL. 485 00:12:49,668 --> 00:12:50,134 FRANK SINATRA? 486 00:12:50,135 --> 00:12:50,735 MY MY MY, THAT GUY FUCKS, AM I 487 00:12:50,736 --> 00:12:52,470 RIGHT, RONAN? 488 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:53,037 TRUMP'S, ON THE OTHER HAND, 489 00:12:53,038 --> 00:12:54,305 LOOKS LIKE THE PHOTOGRAPHER 490 00:12:54,306 --> 00:12:54,939 ASKED HIM IF HE COULD SHIT FROM 491 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:55,573 STANDING. 492 00:12:55,574 --> 00:12:56,274 THE POINT IS, WE NEED BE READY 493 00:12:56,275 --> 00:12:57,742 FOR THE POSSIBILITY THE MESS 494 00:12:57,743 --> 00:12:59,143 THAT HAPPENED LAST TIME COULD 495 00:12:59,144 --> 00:13:00,478 HAPPEN AGAIN. 496 00:13:00,479 --> 00:13:01,112 ESPECIALLY BECAUSE TRUMP HASN'T 497 00:13:01,113 --> 00:13:02,914 FACED ANY REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR 498 00:13:02,915 --> 00:13:05,450 IT, EVEN BRAGGING HE'S BECOME 499 00:13:05,451 --> 00:13:06,184 MORE POPULAR IN THE WAKE OF HIS 500 00:13:06,185 --> 00:13:07,585 INDICTMENT. 501 00:13:07,586 --> 00:13:10,988 IT'S SO CRAZY THAT MY POLL 502 00:13:10,989 --> 00:13:12,590 NUMBERS GO UP. 503 00:13:12,591 --> 00:13:15,426 WHOEVER HEARD, YOU GET INDICTED 504 00:13:15,427 --> 00:13:17,862 FOR INTERFERING WITH A 505 00:13:17,863 --> 00:13:19,364 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WHERE 506 00:13:19,365 --> 00:13:21,399 YOU'RE-- HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO 507 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,601 IT, YOU GET INDICTED, AND YOUR 508 00:13:23,602 --> 00:13:24,535 POLL NUMBERS GO UP. 509 00:13:24,536 --> 00:13:25,436 YEAH, IT IS FUCKING 510 00:13:25,437 --> 00:13:27,238 CRAZY! 511 00:13:27,239 --> 00:13:28,006 WHEN THE WATERGATE TAPES CAME 512 00:13:28,007 --> 00:13:29,507 OUT, NIXON HAD TO RESIGN IN 513 00:13:29,508 --> 00:13:32,210 DISGRACE. 514 00:13:32,211 --> 00:13:32,744 IF IT HAPPENED TODAY, HE'D 515 00:13:32,745 --> 00:13:33,578 PROBABLY BE ABLE TO RELEASE THEM 516 00:13:33,579 --> 00:13:39,050 ALL AS AN AUDIOBOOK AND WIN A 517 00:13:39,051 --> 00:13:39,584 GRAMMY. 518 00:13:39,585 --> 00:13:43,955 BUT IT'S MORE THAN JUST TALK. 519 00:13:43,956 --> 00:13:44,789 TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS HAVE 520 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:45,423 TAKEN ACTIVE STEPS TO UNDERMINE 521 00:13:45,424 --> 00:13:46,758 THE UPCOMING ELECTION. 522 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:47,458 AND GIVEN IT'S NOW JUST OVER 523 00:13:47,459 --> 00:13:48,726 THREE WEEKS AWAY, LET'S TALK 524 00:13:48,727 --> 00:13:49,360 ABOUT SOME OF THE ATTEMPTS 525 00:13:49,361 --> 00:13:50,928 THEY'VE MADE TO SUBVERT THIS 526 00:13:50,929 --> 00:13:51,829 ELECTION. 527 00:13:51,830 --> 00:13:52,864 AND WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON A 528 00:13:52,865 --> 00:13:53,831 THE LIES THEY'VE TOLD 529 00:13:53,832 --> 00:13:55,667 TO UNDERMINE CONFIDENCE IN THE 530 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:56,300 PROCESS, THE STEPS THEY'VE TAKEN 531 00:13:56,301 --> 00:13:58,836 TO SOW CHAOS IN THE VOTER ROLLS, 532 00:13:58,837 --> 00:13:59,604 AND THE GROUNDWORK THEY'VE LAID 533 00:13:59,605 --> 00:14:00,772 TO TURN THE POST-ELECTION PERIOD 534 00:14:00,773 --> 00:14:01,572 INTO A NIGHTMARE. 535 00:14:01,573 --> 00:14:02,140 AND LET'S START BY BRIEFLY 536 00:14:02,141 --> 00:14:03,574 REVISITING WHAT HAPPENED LAST 537 00:14:03,575 --> 00:14:04,909 TIME. 538 00:14:04,910 --> 00:14:05,677 BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER 539 00:14:05,678 --> 00:14:07,478 THE BIGGEST HEADLINES-- TRUMP 540 00:14:07,479 --> 00:14:08,012 REFUSING TO CONCEDE WHICH 541 00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:08,646 ULTIMATELY LED TO JANUARY 6th-- 542 00:14:08,647 --> 00:14:11,282 BUT SO MUCH OTHER WEIRD SHIT 543 00:14:11,283 --> 00:14:14,052 HAPPENED YOU MAY'VE BLOCKED OUT. 544 00:14:14,053 --> 00:14:14,686 LIKE WHEN GIULIANI INSISTED WILL 545 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:17,488 SMITH'S LATE FATHER HAD VOTED, 546 00:14:17,489 --> 00:14:18,089 OR WHEN THE THEORY SPREAD THAT 547 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:20,458 AN ITALIAN DEFENSE CONTRACTOR 548 00:14:20,459 --> 00:14:21,492 WORKED WITH U.S. INTELLIGENCE TO 549 00:14:21,493 --> 00:14:22,326 RIG THE ELECTION, OR WHEN A 550 00:14:22,327 --> 00:14:23,661 GROUP CALLED "CYBER NINJAS," 551 00:14:23,662 --> 00:14:25,463 AUDITED THE BALLOTS IN ARIZONA 552 00:14:25,464 --> 00:14:26,998 - AND AS THIS OUTSIDE OBSERVER 553 00:14:26,999 --> 00:14:27,799 NOTED, THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE 554 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,136 WEIRDEST POSSIBLE SMOKING GUN. 555 00:14:32,137 --> 00:14:32,704 THERE'S ACCUSATIONS THAT 556 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:36,274 40,000 BALLOTS WERE FLOWN IN. 557 00:14:36,275 --> 00:14:36,607 TO ARIZONA? 558 00:14:36,608 --> 00:14:38,276 TO ARIZONA, AND IT WAS 559 00:14:38,277 --> 00:14:41,212 STUFFED INTO THE BOX. 560 00:14:41,213 --> 00:14:41,412 OKAY? 561 00:14:41,413 --> 00:14:42,647 AND IT CAME FROM THE SOUTHEAST 562 00:14:42,648 --> 00:14:44,282 PART OF THE WORLD, ASIA. 563 00:14:44,283 --> 00:14:45,350 OKAY? 564 00:14:45,351 --> 00:14:45,983 AND - AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS 565 00:14:45,984 --> 00:14:47,685 TO FIND OUT IF THERE'S BAMBOO IN 566 00:14:47,686 --> 00:14:50,388 THE PAPER. 567 00:14:50,389 --> 00:14:52,290 YEAH-- "CYBER NINJAS" 568 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:56,027 TRIED TO PROVE FOREIGN 569 00:14:56,028 --> 00:14:57,028 INTERFERENCE BY LOOKING FOR 570 00:14:57,029 --> 00:14:58,963 BAMBOO IN THE BALLOT PAPER, 571 00:14:58,964 --> 00:14:59,597 WHICH FEELS LIKE THE PLOT OF A 572 00:14:59,598 --> 00:15:01,099 RACIST STRAIGHT-TO-STREAMING 573 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:01,733 POLITICAL THRILLER WHERE STEVEN 574 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:02,600 SEAGAL SAVES PRESIDENT JAMES 575 00:15:02,601 --> 00:15:05,136 WOODS FROM WOKENESS. 576 00:15:05,137 --> 00:15:06,738 THE LAST ELECTION WAS INCREDIBLY 577 00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:07,372 DUMB, BUT LET'S NOT FORGET: IT 578 00:15:07,373 --> 00:15:09,674 WAS ALSO INCREDIBLY STUPID. 579 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:10,641 AND ALL THIS HAPPENED DESPITE A 580 00:15:10,642 --> 00:15:13,277 JOINT STATEMENT FROM FEDERAL 581 00:15:13,278 --> 00:15:13,778 ELECTION INFRASTRUCTURE 582 00:15:13,779 --> 00:15:15,013 OFFICIALS, CALLING IT THE MOST 583 00:15:15,014 --> 00:15:15,580 SECURE ELECTION IN AMERICAN 584 00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:16,948 HISTORY. 585 00:15:16,949 --> 00:15:19,017 NOW, THE GOOD NEWS IS, THERE'VE 586 00:15:19,018 --> 00:15:19,851 BEEN SOME POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS 587 00:15:19,852 --> 00:15:21,386 SINCE THEN. 588 00:15:21,387 --> 00:15:23,388 CONGRESS PASSED THIS ACT WHICH, 589 00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:24,555 AMONG OTHER THINGS, EXPLICITLY 590 00:15:24,556 --> 00:15:25,656 PREVENTS A VICE PRESIDENT FROM 591 00:15:25,657 --> 00:15:27,358 JUST THROWING OUT VOTES THEY 592 00:15:27,359 --> 00:15:27,959 DON'T LIKE, AS TRUMP FAMOUSLY 593 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:29,627 URGED PENCE TO DO. 594 00:15:29,628 --> 00:15:31,996 ALSO, TRUMP'S NOT AN INCUMBENT 595 00:15:31,997 --> 00:15:32,663 THIS TIME, SO HE CAN'T DO THINGS 596 00:15:32,664 --> 00:15:35,400 LIKE PRESSURE THE DOJ TO 597 00:15:35,401 --> 00:15:36,467 LEGITIMIZE CLAIMS OF FRAUD. 598 00:15:36,468 --> 00:15:37,835 AND FINALLY, THE ELECTION 599 00:15:37,836 --> 00:15:39,103 DENIERS WHO RAN TO BE THE CHIEF 600 00:15:39,104 --> 00:15:40,672 ELECTION OFFICERS IN SWING 601 00:15:40,673 --> 00:15:43,408 STATES IN 2022 ALL LOST. 602 00:15:43,409 --> 00:15:46,177 THAT'S GREAT! 603 00:15:46,178 --> 00:15:48,012 UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S ALSO 604 00:15:48,013 --> 00:15:48,613 BASICALLY THE END OF THE GOOD 605 00:15:48,614 --> 00:15:50,915 NEWS HERE. 606 00:15:50,916 --> 00:15:51,482 BECAUSE THE FALSE CLAIMS OF 607 00:15:51,483 --> 00:15:52,450 ELECTION FRAUD HAVE STUCK. 608 00:15:52,451 --> 00:15:54,118 A POLL IN JANUARY FOUND MORE 609 00:15:54,119 --> 00:15:55,386 THAN ONE-THIRD OF AMERICANS 610 00:15:55,387 --> 00:15:55,953 STILL DO NOT ACCEPT BIDEN'S 611 00:15:55,954 --> 00:15:59,791 VICTORY AS LEGITIMATE. 612 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:00,858 AND TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES HAVE 613 00:16:00,859 --> 00:16:02,193 BEEN RAMPING UP THEIR LIES AS 614 00:16:02,194 --> 00:16:03,061 ELECTION DAY APPROACHES. 615 00:16:03,062 --> 00:16:04,362 AND I WANT TO FOCUS ON ONE IN 616 00:16:04,363 --> 00:16:05,563 THE CLAIM THAT A LOT 617 00:16:05,564 --> 00:16:06,197 OF NON-CITIZENS ARE GOING TO BE 618 00:16:06,198 --> 00:16:08,700 VOTING. 619 00:16:08,701 --> 00:16:10,702 THAT CLAIM'S NOTHING NEW FOR 620 00:16:10,703 --> 00:16:11,302 TRUMP, OR INDEED REPUBLICANS, 621 00:16:11,303 --> 00:16:11,903 BUT HE'S NOW PUSHING IT LIKE 622 00:16:11,904 --> 00:16:18,978 NEVER BEFORE. 623 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:21,212 RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE ILLEGAL 624 00:16:21,213 --> 00:16:22,280 ALIENS COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY, 625 00:16:22,281 --> 00:16:23,147 MANY FROM PRISONS AND MANY FROM 626 00:16:23,148 --> 00:16:24,716 MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, AND THEY 627 00:16:24,717 --> 00:16:25,950 WANT TO GIVE THEM VOTES. 628 00:16:25,951 --> 00:16:27,385 A LOT OF THESE ILLEGAL 629 00:16:27,386 --> 00:16:27,985 IMMIGRANTS COMING IN, THEY'RE 630 00:16:27,986 --> 00:16:28,553 TRYING TO GET THEM TO VOTE. 631 00:16:28,554 --> 00:16:30,054 THEY CAN'T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH, 632 00:16:30,055 --> 00:16:34,292 THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT 633 00:16:34,293 --> 00:16:35,059 COUNTRY THEY'RE IN, PRACTICALLY, 634 00:16:35,060 --> 00:16:35,927 AND THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO 635 00:16:35,928 --> 00:16:37,295 GET THEM TO VOTE. 636 00:16:37,296 --> 00:16:37,895 THEY ARE WORKING FULL TIME TO 637 00:16:37,896 --> 00:16:38,996 SIGN THESE PEOPLE-- MANY OF 638 00:16:38,997 --> 00:16:39,564 THEM MURDERERS-- TO VOTE SO 639 00:16:39,565 --> 00:16:42,333 THEY CAN CHEAT ON THE ELECTION. 640 00:16:42,334 --> 00:16:42,967 SKIPPING THE FACT THAT 641 00:16:42,968 --> 00:16:44,936 THIS THEORY'S CAKED IN RACISM; 642 00:16:44,937 --> 00:16:48,339 HOW DOES IT EVEN MAKE SENSE? 643 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:49,474 YOU REALLY THINK PEOPLE WOULD 644 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:50,341 FLEE THEIR HOMES, TRAVEL UNDER 645 00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:52,543 DANGEROUS CONDITIONS TO ENTER 646 00:16:52,544 --> 00:16:54,879 THIS COUNTRY, JUST TO VOTE? 647 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,546 IT'S LIKE ASSUMING SOMEONE WOULD 648 00:16:55,547 --> 00:16:56,547 BREAK INTO A BANK JUST SO THEY 649 00:16:56,548 --> 00:16:57,582 COULD FREE THE PENS FROM THEIR 650 00:16:57,583 --> 00:16:59,083 CHAINS. 651 00:16:59,084 --> 00:17:01,686 WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? 652 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:04,155 IT'S NOT WORTH THE RISK! 653 00:17:04,156 --> 00:17:06,491 BUT TRUMP'S NOT ALONE IN PUSHING 654 00:17:06,492 --> 00:17:07,658 THIS CLAIM. 655 00:17:07,659 --> 00:17:08,326 HE HAS SUPPORT FROM CONSERVATIVE 656 00:17:08,327 --> 00:17:09,293 THINK TANKS LIKE THE HERITAGE 657 00:17:09,294 --> 00:17:10,128 THE SAME GROUP THAT 658 00:17:10,129 --> 00:17:11,763 BROUGHT YOU "PROJECT 2025," 659 00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:12,363 WHICH STARTED SOMETHING CALLED 660 00:17:12,364 --> 00:17:15,633 "THE OVERSIGHT PROJECT." 661 00:17:15,634 --> 00:17:16,267 THIS SUMMER, THEY RELEASED THIS 662 00:17:16,268 --> 00:17:16,868 VIDEO, WHICH GOT A LOT OF PLAY 663 00:17:16,869 --> 00:17:19,737 IN RIGHT-WING CIRCLES. 664 00:17:19,738 --> 00:17:20,371 THE APARTMENT COMPLEX "ELIOT 665 00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:24,842 NORCROSS" IN NORCROSS, GEORGIA 666 00:17:24,843 --> 00:17:25,443 IS OCCUPIED PRIMARILY BY 667 00:17:25,444 --> 00:17:27,645 NONCITIZENS. 668 00:17:27,646 --> 00:17:28,246 WE VISITED THE COMPLEX TO ASK 669 00:17:28,247 --> 00:17:29,347 "ARE 670 00:17:29,348 --> 00:17:31,349 YOU A CITIZEN?" 671 00:17:31,350 --> 00:17:31,883 AND "ARE YOU REGISTERED TO 672 00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:33,351 VOTE?" 673 00:17:33,352 --> 00:17:33,951 SHOCKINGLY, 14% OF RESPONDENTS 674 00:17:33,952 --> 00:17:36,754 ADMITTED TO BEING NONCITIZENS 675 00:17:36,755 --> 00:17:38,523 REGISTERED TO VOTE. 676 00:17:38,524 --> 00:17:39,123 WE COME FROM A COMPANY THAT 677 00:17:39,124 --> 00:17:40,725 IS DEDICATED TO REGISTERING 678 00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:41,359 HISPANIC PEOPLE SO THEY CAN VOTE 679 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,661 IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS. 680 00:17:43,662 --> 00:17:44,262 ARE YOU ALREADY REGISTERED? 681 00:17:44,263 --> 00:17:45,129 WE ALREADY VOTED. 682 00:17:45,130 --> 00:17:46,664 YOU ALREADY VOTED? 683 00:17:46,665 --> 00:17:46,898 YES. 684 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:49,167 ARE YOU A CITIZEN OR• 685 00:17:49,168 --> 00:17:49,934 UH, NO. 686 00:17:49,935 --> 00:17:51,202 NO? 687 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:51,703 HAVE YOU ALREADY BEEN 688 00:17:51,704 --> 00:17:52,804 REGISTERED OR• 689 00:17:52,805 --> 00:17:53,204 YEAH. 690 00:17:53,205 --> 00:17:54,605 YEAH? 691 00:17:54,606 --> 00:17:55,807 ARE YOU A CITIZEN OR• 692 00:17:55,808 --> 00:17:58,609 NO. 693 00:17:58,610 --> 00:17:58,810 NO? 694 00:17:58,811 --> 00:17:59,444 THAT VIDEO GOT BOOSTED 695 00:17:59,445 --> 00:18:00,712 BY ELON MUSK, WHO CALLED IT 696 00:18:00,713 --> 00:18:02,480 "EXTREMELY DISTURBING," AND IT 697 00:18:02,481 --> 00:18:04,549 WENT VIRAL, DESPITE THE FACT THE 698 00:18:04,550 --> 00:18:05,850 OVERSIGHT PROJECT ITSELF 699 00:18:05,851 --> 00:18:07,418 ADMITTED IT WAS UNABLE TO FIND 700 00:18:07,419 --> 00:18:08,586 THE PEOPLE THEY TALKED TO ON THE 701 00:18:08,587 --> 00:18:11,189 STATE VOTER ROLLS. 702 00:18:11,190 --> 00:18:12,223 AND STATE INVESTIGATORS FOUND NO 703 00:18:12,224 --> 00:18:13,091 EVIDENCE THAT ANY OF THE SEVEN 704 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:15,126 PEOPLE ON THAT TAPE HAD EVER 705 00:18:15,127 --> 00:18:16,494 REGISTERED TO VOTE. 706 00:18:16,495 --> 00:18:17,628 MEANWHILE, ONE OF THE WOMEN 707 00:18:17,629 --> 00:18:19,397 FEATURED CONFIRMED SHE WASN'T 708 00:18:19,398 --> 00:18:20,698 REGISTERED TO VOTE, AND ONLY 709 00:18:20,699 --> 00:18:21,299 SAID SHE WAS BECAUSE SHE JUST 710 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:23,735 WANTED THEM TO GO AWAY. 711 00:18:23,736 --> 00:18:25,237 AND NO SHIT. 712 00:18:26,473 --> 00:18:29,140 I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU. 713 00:18:29,141 --> 00:18:30,141 IT COULD BE ME COMING FROM THE 714 00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:31,809 FUTURE WITH A DIRE NECESSARY 715 00:18:31,810 --> 00:18:33,378 I'M NOT LISTENING, I'M 716 00:18:33,379 --> 00:18:35,179 JUST NODDING, AND I'M SLOWLY 717 00:18:35,180 --> 00:18:36,514 CLOSING THE DOOR AS WE'RE 718 00:18:36,515 --> 00:18:37,982 TALKING. 719 00:18:37,983 --> 00:18:39,384 AND YET THEY CLAIMED THAT, IF 720 00:18:39,385 --> 00:18:41,119 THE 14% HIT RATE THEY'D FOUND 721 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,022 HELD TRUE STATE WIDE, IT'D 722 00:18:44,023 --> 00:18:44,489 EQUATE TO OVER 47,000 723 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:46,958 NON-CITIZENS REGISTERED TO VOTE 724 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:53,598 IN GEORGIA. 725 00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:54,866 AND LOOK, OBVIOUSLY THE IDEA 726 00:18:54,867 --> 00:18:55,333 THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF 727 00:18:55,334 --> 00:18:55,800 NON-CITIZENS VOTING IS 728 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,803 RIDICULOUS. 729 00:18:58,804 --> 00:18:59,370 FOR ONE THING, WHEN GEORGIA 730 00:18:59,371 --> 00:19:00,104 LOOKED BACK OVER 25 YEARS OF ITS 731 00:19:00,105 --> 00:19:01,606 ELECTIONS, IT FOUND THAT OF THE 732 00:19:01,607 --> 00:19:02,173 1,600 PEOPLE WHO'D TRIED TO 733 00:19:02,174 --> 00:19:03,374 REGISTER TO VOTE, AND WHOSE 734 00:19:03,375 --> 00:19:03,875 CITIZENSHIP COULD NOT BE 735 00:19:03,876 --> 00:19:04,676 VERIFIED, NONE OF THEM HAD CAST 736 00:19:04,677 --> 00:19:05,710 BALLOTS. 737 00:19:05,711 --> 00:19:06,210 PLUS, AN ANALYSIS OF THE 738 00:19:06,211 --> 00:19:07,712 HERITAGE FOUNDATION'S OWN 739 00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:08,913 NATIONWIDE DATABASE OF 1,500 740 00:19:08,914 --> 00:19:10,048 "PROVEN INSTANCES OF VOTER 741 00:19:10,049 --> 00:19:12,750 FRAUD" FOUND JUST 68 DOCUMENTED 742 00:19:12,751 --> 00:19:14,185 CASES OF NONCITIZENS' VOTING, 743 00:19:14,186 --> 00:19:15,787 GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 744 00:19:15,788 --> 00:19:18,189 1980S, WITH JUST 10 INVOLVING 745 00:19:18,190 --> 00:19:19,624 PEOPLE LIVING IN THE COUNTRY 746 00:19:19,625 --> 00:19:21,926 ILLEGALLY. 747 00:19:21,927 --> 00:19:22,493 10 PEOPLE IN THE LAST FOUR 748 00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:24,095 DECADES. 749 00:19:24,096 --> 00:19:26,464 THAT'S STATISTICALLY NOTHING. 750 00:19:26,465 --> 00:19:27,165 MORE PEOPLE DIE FROM HIPPO 751 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:30,268 ATTACKS EVERY YEAR. 752 00:19:30,269 --> 00:19:31,736 JUST SOMETHING FUN TO THINK 753 00:19:31,737 --> 00:19:32,337 ABOUT NEXT TIME YOU'RE FAWNING 754 00:19:32,338 --> 00:19:33,538 OVER PICTURES OF MOO DENG. 755 00:19:33,539 --> 00:19:36,307 SHE COULD KILL YOU. 756 00:19:36,308 --> 00:19:36,874 SHE WOULD KILL YOU. 757 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:39,010 AND HAPPILY. 758 00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:40,211 AND THAT VIDEO ISN'T EVEN THE 759 00:19:40,212 --> 00:19:41,713 WEIRDEST LIE ABOUT NON-CITIZENS 760 00:19:41,714 --> 00:19:43,715 THAT'S BEEN PASSED AROUND. 761 00:19:43,716 --> 00:19:44,282 MARIA BARTIROMO SPREAD THIS 762 00:19:44,283 --> 00:19:45,516 DOOZY. 763 00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:46,584 WHAT ABOUT ALL THESE 764 00:19:46,585 --> 00:19:49,454 IMMIGRANTS AT THESE DMV OFFICES 765 00:19:49,455 --> 00:19:51,356 WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TRY TO 766 00:19:51,357 --> 00:19:52,990 GO GET A LICENSE? 767 00:19:52,991 --> 00:19:53,624 THEY CAN'T GET AN APPOINTMENT AT 768 00:19:53,625 --> 00:19:55,660 THE DMV, BECAUSE IT'S JAM PACKED 769 00:19:55,661 --> 00:19:56,928 WITH ILLEGALS. 770 00:19:56,929 --> 00:19:59,297 THE PERSON THAT SPOKE TO ME 771 00:19:59,298 --> 00:20:00,665 ABOUT THIS THIS WEEKEND 772 00:20:00,666 --> 00:20:02,967 IDENTIFIED SEVERAL PLACES IN 773 00:20:02,968 --> 00:20:04,202 TEXAS WHERE HE COULDN'T GET IN. 774 00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,570 THE FIRST ONE WAS IN 775 00:20:05,571 --> 00:20:07,638 A MASSIVE LINE OF 776 00:20:07,639 --> 00:20:09,340 IMMIGRANTS GETTING LICENSES. 777 00:20:09,341 --> 00:20:10,441 THEY HAD A TENT AND A TABLE 778 00:20:10,442 --> 00:20:11,142 OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR OF THE 779 00:20:11,143 --> 00:20:13,978 DMV REGISTERING THEM TO VOTE. 780 00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:14,612 IT WAS ALL-- THE SIGNS WERE IN 781 00:20:14,613 --> 00:20:15,913 SPANISH. 782 00:20:15,914 --> 00:20:16,647 IT WAS AN OBVIOUS DEMOCRAT 783 00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:18,549 OPERATION ON THIS VOTING, HE 784 00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:19,650 SAID. 785 00:20:19,651 --> 00:20:20,251 OKAY, WE'LL GET INTO 786 00:20:20,252 --> 00:20:21,619 WHY THAT'S NONSENSE IN A SECOND, 787 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:23,354 BUT I'M GENUINELY CURIOUS ABOUT 788 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:24,522 THE PERSON WHO SAW A MASSIVE 789 00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:27,058 LINE AT THE DMV AND THEIR 790 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:28,526 INSTINCT WAS "THIS MUST BE 791 00:20:28,527 --> 00:20:29,594 'ILLEGALS' REGISTERING TO VOTE" 792 00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:31,429 AND NOT "THE DMV FUNCTIONING 793 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:32,030 LIKE IT HAS SINCE THE DAWN OF 794 00:20:32,031 --> 00:20:33,231 TIME." 795 00:20:33,232 --> 00:20:33,898 DO THEY BLAME ALL COMMON 796 00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,634 INCONVENIENCES ON IMMIGRATION? 797 00:20:36,635 --> 00:20:37,235 "SHIT, BURNED MY MOUTH ON THIS 798 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:38,302 COFFEE. 799 00:20:38,303 --> 00:20:40,304 THE ILLEGALS MUST BE BREWING IT 800 00:20:40,305 --> 00:20:41,673 EXTRA HOT TO BURN OUR TONGUES 801 00:20:41,674 --> 00:20:45,076 INTO SILENCE!" 802 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:46,978 AND WHILE YOU MIGHT 803 00:20:46,979 --> 00:20:47,612 INSTINCTIVELY KNOW THAT CLAIM IS 804 00:20:47,613 --> 00:20:48,613 BULLSHIT, IT'S EVEN DUMBER THAN 805 00:20:48,614 --> 00:20:49,781 YOU THINK, AS BARTIROMO 806 00:20:49,782 --> 00:20:51,349 EXPLAINED HER SOURCE WAS "A 807 00:20:51,350 --> 00:20:54,519 FRIEND OF A FRIEND'S WIFE." 808 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:55,486 SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T STOP HER 809 00:20:55,487 --> 00:20:57,488 HAPPILY REGURGITATING IT ON THE 810 00:20:57,489 --> 00:20:58,623 NEWS. 811 00:20:58,624 --> 00:20:59,223 AND IF YOU LIKE THAT, YOU CAN 812 00:20:59,224 --> 00:21:02,627 FIND WELL-SOURCED STORIES LIKE 813 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:03,227 IT ON "FORWARD FORWARD FORWARD 814 00:21:03,228 --> 00:21:04,595 FORWARD WITH YOUR DRUNKEST 815 00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:07,098 AUNT," SUNDAYS AT 10:00 ON FOX 816 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:07,465 BUSINESS. 817 00:21:07,466 --> 00:21:08,066 UNSURPRISINGLY, THOSE CLAIMS 818 00:21:08,067 --> 00:21:09,167 WERE QUICKLY DEBUNKED. 819 00:21:09,168 --> 00:21:11,302 FOR ONE THING, WEATHERFORD, 820 00:21:11,303 --> 00:21:12,036 TEXAS, DOESN'T HAVE A DMV. 821 00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:12,637 AND IN THE PLACE YOU CAN GET A 822 00:21:12,638 --> 00:21:14,372 DRIVERS' LICENSE-- THE 823 00:21:14,373 --> 00:21:16,607 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY-- 824 00:21:16,608 --> 00:21:17,275 NO SUCH TENTS OR TABLES WERE SET 825 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:18,543 UP OUTSIDE THE OFFICE ALL THAT 826 00:21:18,544 --> 00:21:20,211 WEEK. 827 00:21:20,212 --> 00:21:21,412 AND, EVEN IF THIS HAD HAPPENED 828 00:21:21,413 --> 00:21:22,914 - WHICH IT DIDN'T-- AS THE 829 00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:23,915 LOCAL GOP CHAIR EXPLAINED, ALL 830 00:21:23,916 --> 00:21:26,317 VOTER REGISTRATIONS ARE UPLOADED 831 00:21:26,318 --> 00:21:27,251 TO THE TEXAS SECRETARY OF 832 00:21:27,252 --> 00:21:29,053 STATE'S DATABASE TO VERIFY 833 00:21:29,054 --> 00:21:31,189 APPLICANTS' ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE, 834 00:21:31,190 --> 00:21:32,623 INCLUDING CITIZENSHIP, AND NOT 835 00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:34,158 ONLY HAD THERE BEEN NO RECENT 836 00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:36,461 INSTANCES OF INELIGIBLE 837 00:21:36,462 --> 00:21:36,994 INDIVIDUALS ATTEMPTING TO 838 00:21:36,995 --> 00:21:39,130 THERE 839 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:39,897 HAD ONLY BEEN TWO IN THE LAST 15 840 00:21:39,898 --> 00:21:43,001 YEARS. 841 00:21:43,002 --> 00:21:44,302 AND YET, JUST TWO DAYS AFTER 842 00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:46,504 BARTIROMO SPEWED THAT ON 843 00:21:46,505 --> 00:21:47,305 NATIONAL TV, TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON 844 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:49,474 ANNOUNCED AN INVESTIGATION INTO 845 00:21:49,475 --> 00:21:50,708 "REPORTS THAT ORGANIZATIONS MAY 846 00:21:50,709 --> 00:21:52,510 BE ILLEGALLY REGISTERING 847 00:21:52,511 --> 00:21:53,978 NONCITIZENS TO VOTE." 848 00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:55,079 AND THAT'S ACTUALLY A PATTERN 849 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,016 FOR PAXTON. 850 00:21:58,017 --> 00:21:58,616 HE'LL LOUDLY START VOTER FRAUD 851 00:21:58,617 --> 00:22:00,885 INVESTIGATIONS, AND EVEN WHEN 852 00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:03,187 THEY AMOUNT TO NOTHING, HE'LL 853 00:22:03,188 --> 00:22:04,489 HAVE CREATED THE IMPRESSION 854 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:05,890 SOMETHING'S THERE. 855 00:22:05,891 --> 00:22:06,524 IN FACT, THE SAME DAY HE 856 00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:13,600 ANNOUNCED HE WAS LOOKING INTO 857 00:22:16,903 --> 00:22:18,569 BARTIROMO'S CLAIMS, HIS OFFICE 858 00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:19,704 ANNOUNCED A SEPARATE 859 00:22:19,705 --> 00:22:20,805 INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS 860 00:22:20,806 --> 00:22:21,873 OF ELECTION FRAUD AND VOTE 861 00:22:21,874 --> 00:22:23,374 HARVESTING TARGETING MEMBERS OF 862 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:24,008 LULAC-- THE NATION'S OLDEST AND 863 00:22:24,009 --> 00:22:25,009 LARGEST LATINO CIVIL RIGHTS 864 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:25,643 ORGANIZATION. 865 00:22:25,644 --> 00:22:27,245 SOME OF ITS MEMBERS-- LIKE THIS 866 00:22:27,246 --> 00:22:28,146 WOMAN-- WERE EVEN SUBJECTS OF 867 00:22:28,147 --> 00:22:29,113 AN EARLY-MORNING RAID. 868 00:22:29,114 --> 00:22:29,714 THEY SCARED THE HELL OUT OF 869 00:22:29,715 --> 00:22:30,915 ME. 870 00:22:30,916 --> 00:22:31,983 87-YEAR-OLD LIDIA MARTINEZ, 871 00:22:31,984 --> 00:22:32,483 WHO SAYS SHE IS LULAC'S 872 00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:33,718 LONGEST-SERVING VOLUNTEER, HAD 873 00:22:33,719 --> 00:22:34,719 HER HOME RAIDED AS PART OF A 874 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,687 VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATION BY THE 875 00:22:35,688 --> 00:22:38,389 TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL. 876 00:22:38,390 --> 00:22:39,123 MARTINEZ SAYS UP TO EIGHT 877 00:22:39,124 --> 00:22:40,158 OFFICERS SHOWED UP AT HER HOME 878 00:22:40,159 --> 00:22:41,659 LAST TUESDAY MORNING. 879 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:43,027 THEY TOOK HER PHONE, HER LAPTOP, 880 00:22:43,028 --> 00:22:44,762 QUESTIONED HER FOR HOURS, AND 881 00:22:44,763 --> 00:22:47,432 MADE HER WAIT OUTSIDE. 882 00:22:47,433 --> 00:22:48,366 I SAID, "LET ME GET DRESSED," 883 00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:50,201 AND SHE SAYS, "NO, GO OUTSIDE." 884 00:22:50,202 --> 00:22:52,136 WHAT WERE YOU WEARING? 885 00:22:52,137 --> 00:22:53,571 MY NIGHTGOWN, AND I HAD ALL 886 00:22:53,572 --> 00:22:55,973 THESE POLICEMEN AROUND ME. 887 00:22:55,974 --> 00:22:56,874 IT WAS EMBARRASSING, 888 00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:59,243 HUMILIATING. 889 00:22:59,244 --> 00:23:00,545 I WAS SO ANGRY. 890 00:23:00,546 --> 00:23:02,146 IT WAS HORRIBLE. 891 00:23:02,147 --> 00:23:03,581 YEAH, THEY HAULED AN 892 00:23:03,582 --> 00:23:05,116 87-YEAR-OLD GREAT-GRANDMOTHER 893 00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:06,084 OUT OF HER HOME IN HER 894 00:23:06,085 --> 00:23:12,657 NIGHTGOWN, WHICH IS APPALLING. 895 00:23:12,658 --> 00:23:13,358 PAXTON SHOULD KNOW, AS WE ALL 896 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:14,592 DO, A NIGHTGOWN IS ONE OF THE 897 00:23:14,593 --> 00:23:15,727 WORST THINGS TO HAUL A GRANDMA 898 00:23:15,728 --> 00:23:20,231 OUT IN, RIGHT AFTER, WELL 899 00:23:20,232 --> 00:23:20,865 OBVIOUSLY, COFFIN-- DUH-- BUT 900 00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:22,433 THEN THERE'S A UHAUL, AN 901 00:23:22,434 --> 00:23:23,368 ANACONDA, AND FINALLY A NOVELTY 902 00:23:23,369 --> 00:23:24,702 T-SHIRT READING "I SHAVED MY 903 00:23:24,703 --> 00:23:29,073 BALLS FOR THIS." 904 00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:31,609 I THINK THAT'S THE WORST ONE. 905 00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:32,744 AND WHILE, THANKFULLY, A FEDERAL 906 00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:33,544 JUDGE RECENTLY SHUT DOWN THAT 907 00:23:33,545 --> 00:23:35,113 INVESTIGATION, SAYING IT WAS 908 00:23:35,114 --> 00:23:36,347 UNCONSTITUTIONAL, THE FACT IS 909 00:23:36,348 --> 00:23:36,981 LIES AND BULLSHIT INVESTIGATIONS 910 00:23:36,982 --> 00:23:38,983 HAVE REAL CONSEQUENCES. 911 00:23:38,984 --> 00:23:40,685 51% OF ADULTS ARE APPARENTLY 912 00:23:40,686 --> 00:23:41,285 CONCERNED ABOUT NON-CITIZENS 913 00:23:41,286 --> 00:23:42,286 VOTING IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION, 914 00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:45,456 INCLUDING 83% OF REPUBLICANS. 915 00:23:45,457 --> 00:23:47,625 AND SOME AREN'T WAITING FOR THE 916 00:23:47,626 --> 00:23:48,760 KEN PAXTONS OF THE WORLD TO TAKE 917 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:50,228 ACTION. 918 00:23:50,229 --> 00:23:52,130 WHICH BRINGS US TO THE FACT 919 00:23:52,131 --> 00:23:52,930 THERE ARE NOW WELL-FUNDED GROUPS 920 00:23:52,931 --> 00:23:53,765 ACTIVELY TRYING TO, IN THEIR 921 00:23:53,766 --> 00:23:54,832 WORDS, "CLEAN UP" THE VOTER 922 00:23:54,833 --> 00:23:57,001 ROLLS. 923 00:23:57,002 --> 00:23:57,635 HERE'S THE HEAD OF ONE OF THEM, 924 00:23:57,636 --> 00:24:01,639 "THE ELECTION INTEGRITY 925 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,273 NETWORK," EXPLAINING THE GENERAL 926 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:03,141 IDEA 927 00:24:03,142 --> 00:24:03,775 I REALIZED THAT WE NEEDED TO 928 00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:05,476 FOCUS ON THIS THREAT OF ILLEGALS 929 00:24:05,477 --> 00:24:07,745 VOTING IN NOVEMBER, BECAUSE I 930 00:24:07,746 --> 00:24:08,980 ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE THAT THAT IS 931 00:24:08,981 --> 00:24:10,214 HOW THEY ARE PLANNING TO TRY TO 932 00:24:10,215 --> 00:24:12,750 STEAL THE ELECTION THIS YEAR. 933 00:24:12,751 --> 00:24:14,085 THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO-- 934 00:24:14,086 --> 00:24:16,988 WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO STOP 935 00:24:16,989 --> 00:24:17,922 THIS IS BY HAVING CITIZEN 936 00:24:17,923 --> 00:24:18,489 ACTION, LOOKING AT THE DMVS, 937 00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:21,259 LOOKING AT THE VOTER ROLLS IN 938 00:24:21,260 --> 00:24:21,826 YOUR COUNTY, LOOKING AT THE 939 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:23,728 VOTER ROLLS, WATCHING AND 940 00:24:23,729 --> 00:24:24,729 BASICALLY CREATING A NATIONAL 941 00:24:24,730 --> 00:24:25,296 NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH TO TRY TO 942 00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:27,298 FIND THESE POCKETS OF 943 00:24:27,299 --> 00:24:31,936 NONCITIZENS THAT ARE GETTING 944 00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:32,470 ADDED TO THE ROLLS. 945 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:33,604 OKAY. 946 00:24:33,605 --> 00:24:35,073 FIRST, LET'S AGREE, EVERY 947 00:24:35,074 --> 00:24:35,707 "RUMBLE" SHOW LOOKS LIKE A HIGH 948 00:24:35,708 --> 00:24:37,075 SCHOOL A/V CLUB MEMBER 949 00:24:37,076 --> 00:24:38,343 INTERVIEWING THE ASSISTANT 950 00:24:38,344 --> 00:24:39,844 PRINCIPAL AFTER A SCHOOL-WIDE 951 00:24:39,845 --> 00:24:40,845 HEELIES BAN. 952 00:24:40,846 --> 00:24:41,512 BUT ALSO-- "A NATIONAL 953 00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:42,647 NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH?" 954 00:24:42,648 --> 00:24:43,247 IT'S NOT GREAT THE MODEL THEY 955 00:24:43,248 --> 00:24:44,349 WANT TO EMULATE IS BASICALLY 956 00:24:44,350 --> 00:24:45,183 "WHAT IF RACIAL PROFILING WAS 957 00:24:45,184 --> 00:24:47,352 SOMEONE'S HOBBY?" 958 00:24:47,353 --> 00:24:48,319 THAT WOMAN IS A CONSERVATIVE 959 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,087 ACTIVIST NAMED CLETA MITCHELL, 960 00:24:49,088 --> 00:24:50,054 AND FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, 961 00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:51,155 MEMBERS OF HER GROUP HAVE, AMONG 962 00:24:51,156 --> 00:24:52,590 OTHER THINGS, BEEN SCRUTINIZING 963 00:24:52,591 --> 00:24:53,424 VOTER ROLLS, LOOKING FOR ANYONE 964 00:24:53,425 --> 00:24:55,093 THEY THINK SHOULDN'T BE ON 965 00:24:55,094 --> 00:24:55,560 THERE. 966 00:24:55,561 --> 00:24:56,294 AND THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SHY 967 00:24:56,295 --> 00:24:57,962 ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR. 968 00:24:57,963 --> 00:24:58,996 IN ONE ZOOM SESSION, AN ACTIVIST 969 00:24:58,997 --> 00:25:00,798 FROM THE DETROIT AREA SUGGESTED 970 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:02,000 SEARCHING ROLLS FOR CERTAIN 971 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:03,735 TYPES OF SURNAMES, SAYING THAT 972 00:25:03,736 --> 00:25:04,736 "I THINK IT'S UNFORTUNATE, BUT 973 00:25:04,737 --> 00:25:06,070 SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN 974 00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:06,904 FIND OUT IS TO LOOK FOR ETHNIC 975 00:25:06,905 --> 00:25:09,173 NAMES." 976 00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:09,941 AND THANK GOODNESS THEY PREFACED 977 00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:11,476 THAT WITH "I THINK IT'S 978 00:25:11,477 --> 00:25:13,611 UNFORTUNATE." 979 00:25:13,612 --> 00:25:15,513 FOR A MINUTE, I THOUGHT THAT 980 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:16,347 INSTRUCTION TO DO RACISM WAS 981 00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:18,983 COMING FROM A BAD PERSON. 982 00:25:18,984 --> 00:25:22,720 BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE. 983 00:25:22,721 --> 00:25:23,421 GROUPS LIKE MITCHELL'S ARE NOW 984 00:25:23,422 --> 00:25:24,756 WORKING WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS 985 00:25:24,757 --> 00:25:26,057 LIKE THESE, THAT AUTOMATE THE 986 00:25:26,058 --> 00:25:27,558 PROCESS OF FINDING VOTERS TO 987 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:27,825 CHALLENGE. 988 00:25:27,826 --> 00:25:28,893 FOR INSTANCE, THIS ONE TRAWLS 989 00:25:28,894 --> 00:25:30,528 THROUGH EVERYTHING FROM PUBLIC 990 00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:31,596 VOTER REGISTRATION DATA, TO 991 00:25:31,597 --> 00:25:32,430 BUSINESS RECORDS, TO 992 00:25:32,431 --> 00:25:35,299 CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS DATABASES, TO 993 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:36,567 OBITUARIES TO FIND PEOPLE TO 994 00:25:36,568 --> 00:25:37,435 CHALLENGE, BECAUSE THEY MAY'VE 995 00:25:37,436 --> 00:25:38,369 DIED, MOVED, OR BE OTHERWISE 996 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,438 INELIGIBLE. 997 00:25:40,439 --> 00:25:41,072 USERS CAN THEN MAKE POTENTIALLY 998 00:25:41,073 --> 00:25:43,775 THOUSANDS OF CHALLENGES TO VOTER 999 00:25:43,776 --> 00:25:45,176 ELIGIBILITY WITH A FEW CLICKS, 1000 00:25:45,177 --> 00:25:47,478 AND SEND THEM TO LOCAL ELECTION 1001 00:25:47,479 --> 00:25:48,181 OFFICIALS. 1002 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:54,485 AND WHILE THEY OFTEN CLAIM 1003 00:25:54,486 --> 00:25:55,920 THEY'RE "HELPING" ELECTION 1004 00:25:55,921 --> 00:25:56,554 BOARDS DO THEIR JOBS, OFFICIALS 1005 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,089 BEING ON THE 1006 00:25:58,090 --> 00:25:58,723 RECEIVING END OF AN AVALANCHE OF 1007 00:25:58,724 --> 00:26:00,324 CHALLENGES IS EXHAUSTING-- 1008 00:26:00,325 --> 00:26:00,925 ESPECIALLY AS THEY'RE USUALLY 1009 00:26:00,926 --> 00:26:01,759 JUST REPLICATING WORK THAT'S 1010 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:02,894 ALREADY HAPPENING. 1011 00:26:02,895 --> 00:26:03,594 THERE HAVE BEEN DAYS WHERE 1012 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:04,796 I'VE RECEIVED A COUPLE THOUSAND 1013 00:26:04,797 --> 00:26:06,664 NAMES. 1014 00:26:06,665 --> 00:26:07,265 I'VE HAD TO LOOK EACH OF THOSE 1015 00:26:07,266 --> 00:26:09,534 VOTERS UP ONE BY ONE. 1016 00:26:09,535 --> 00:26:11,302 ROUGHLY 75-80% OF THE NAMES THEY 1017 00:26:11,303 --> 00:26:12,470 GIVE ME WE HAVE ALREADY DEALT 1018 00:26:12,471 --> 00:26:13,938 WITH. 1019 00:26:13,939 --> 00:26:15,907 AND THE REST OF THE NAMES? 1020 00:26:15,908 --> 00:26:17,141 WELL, YOU WOULD CATCH THEM 1021 00:26:17,142 --> 00:26:19,744 ANYWAY. 1022 00:26:19,745 --> 00:26:20,345 THERE'S SAFEGUARDS BUILT INTO 1023 00:26:20,346 --> 00:26:21,846 THE WHOLE SYSTEM FOR ANY ISSUE 1024 00:26:21,847 --> 00:26:28,820 YOU CAN DREAM OF. 1025 00:26:28,821 --> 00:26:29,721 EXACTLY. 1026 00:26:29,722 --> 00:26:30,355 THEY'RE BASICALLY JUST CREATING 1027 00:26:30,356 --> 00:26:31,422 BUSY WORK FOR THAT MAN, WHO 1028 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:31,823 DOESN'T NEED THAT. 1029 00:26:31,824 --> 00:26:32,990 HE WORKS IN A GIANT WAREHOUSE 1030 00:26:32,991 --> 00:26:33,958 FULL OF SUITCASES THAT GETS SO 1031 00:26:33,959 --> 00:26:34,892 LITTLE NATURAL LIGHT, THE ONLY 1032 00:26:34,893 --> 00:26:36,527 PLACE HE CAN GO ON VACATION IS 1033 00:26:36,528 --> 00:26:38,262 ON HIS SHIRT. 1034 00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:39,597 THAT MAN NEEDS A BEACH, A MAI 1035 00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:41,165 TAI, AND FOR ALL THE VIGILANTE 1036 00:26:41,166 --> 00:26:42,633 VOTE POLICE TO LEAVE HIM THE 1037 00:26:42,634 --> 00:26:44,068 FUCK ALONE. 1038 00:26:44,069 --> 00:26:45,136 MOST OF THESE CITIZEN-LED 1039 00:26:45,137 --> 00:26:46,637 CHALLENGES ARE EITHER REDUNDANT 1040 00:26:46,638 --> 00:26:47,772 - LIKE HE SAID-- OR FLAWED, 1041 00:26:47,773 --> 00:26:49,741 BECAUSE THEY'RE COMPLETELY 1042 00:26:49,742 --> 00:26:52,243 RELIANT ON PUBLIC DATABASES THAT 1043 00:26:52,244 --> 00:26:53,878 MAY CONTAIN ERRORS, WITHOUT 1044 00:26:53,879 --> 00:26:55,380 HAVING ACCESS TO THE PROTECTED 1045 00:26:55,381 --> 00:26:57,115 PERSONAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE 1046 00:26:57,116 --> 00:26:59,283 TO ELECTION OFFICIALS. 1047 00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:00,885 THAT'S WHY PROGRAMS LIKE THESE 1048 00:27:00,886 --> 00:27:01,953 CAN OFTEN GENERATE FALSE 1049 00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:04,756 POSITIVES LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, 1050 00:27:04,757 --> 00:27:05,990 FLAGGING VOTERS WHO SHARED THE 1051 00:27:05,991 --> 00:27:06,624 SAME NAME AND BIRTHDATE, BUT ARE 1052 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:11,062 ACTUALLY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 1053 00:27:11,063 --> 00:27:12,630 AND GETTING FLAGGED CAN BE 1054 00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:13,464 INTENSELY FRUSTRATING. 1055 00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:14,399 JUST LISTEN TO THIS MAN WHO 1056 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,133 LIVES IN THE SAME COUNTY WHERE 1057 00:27:15,134 --> 00:27:16,534 OUR EXHAUSTED OFFICIAL WORKS. 1058 00:27:16,535 --> 00:27:17,135 I HAVE BEEN VOTING HERE FOR 1059 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:18,836 TWO DECADES. 1060 00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,805 AS WE CAN SEE, I AM REAL. 1061 00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:22,540 I AM HERE. 1062 00:27:22,541 --> 00:27:22,974 I AM TALKING TO YOU. 1063 00:27:22,975 --> 00:27:23,508 IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY 1064 00:27:23,509 --> 00:27:24,676 DANIEL MOSS IS DEFENDING HIS 1065 00:27:24,677 --> 00:27:25,877 EXISTENCE, IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS 1066 00:27:25,878 --> 00:27:27,812 LIST. 1067 00:27:27,813 --> 00:27:28,746 THAT'S MY FIRST NAME. 1068 00:27:28,747 --> 00:27:31,349 THAT'S MY LAST NAME. 1069 00:27:31,350 --> 00:27:32,784 OF THOUSANDS OF VOTER 1070 00:27:32,785 --> 00:27:34,118 REGISTRATIONS IN DENTON COUNTY 1071 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,120 BEING CHALLENGED AS INELIGIBLE. 1072 00:27:36,121 --> 00:27:37,855 FINDING OUT THAT I'M ON SOME 1073 00:27:37,856 --> 00:27:38,756 SORT OF HIT LIST OF PEOPLE WHO 1074 00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:40,892 SHOULDN'T BE VOTING. 1075 00:27:40,893 --> 00:27:41,492 I WAS-- I WAS PRETTY PISSED 1076 00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:43,728 OFF. 1077 00:27:43,729 --> 00:27:44,362 DANIEL MOSS'S CHALLENGE CAME 1078 00:27:44,363 --> 00:27:46,698 FROM SOMEONE HE DOESN'T EVEN 1079 00:27:46,699 --> 00:27:46,898 KNOW. 1080 00:27:46,899 --> 00:27:48,399 I WANT TO SAY IT WAS NANCY? 1081 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,600 NANCY LIVES IN THE SAME 1082 00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:53,938 COUNTY, AND SINGLE HANDEDLY SENT 1083 00:27:53,939 --> 00:27:55,673 IN THOUSANDS OF CHALLENGES THIS 1084 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,375 YEAR. 1085 00:27:57,376 --> 00:27:57,942 NANCY SENDS ME SOMETHING 1086 00:27:57,943 --> 00:28:02,513 EVERY DAY. 1087 00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,582 I BET SHE DOES. 1088 00:28:04,583 --> 00:28:06,250 YOU CAN HEAR THE EXHAUSTION IN 1089 00:28:06,251 --> 00:28:08,152 HIS VOICE THERE. 1090 00:28:08,153 --> 00:28:08,786 "NANCY SENDS ME SOMETHING EVERY 1091 00:28:08,787 --> 00:28:09,921 DAY. 1092 00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:10,488 AND SHE'LL KEEP SENDING ME 1093 00:28:10,489 --> 00:28:12,290 THINGS UNTIL I'M A HUSK OF THE 1094 00:28:12,291 --> 00:28:13,391 HUSK I AM NOW, AND A GENTLE 1095 00:28:13,392 --> 00:28:14,459 BREEZE CARRIES ME AWAY TO SOME 1096 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:18,062 BEAUTIFUL PLACE WHERE THERE ARE 1097 00:28:18,063 --> 00:28:23,701 NO MORE NANCYS." 1098 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:24,335 THE POINT IS, JUST A HANDFUL OF 1099 00:28:24,336 --> 00:28:31,411 PEOPLE CAN CAUSE A HUGE AMOUNT 1100 00:28:32,912 --> 00:28:33,144 OF PROBLEMS. 1101 00:28:33,145 --> 00:28:34,345 LAST YEAR, IN WATERFORD, 1102 00:28:34,346 --> 00:28:35,646 MICHIGAN, A COUNTY CLERK 1103 00:28:35,647 --> 00:28:36,247 IMPROPERLY CUT MORE THAN 1,000 1104 00:28:36,248 --> 00:28:37,515 VOTERS FROM THEIR ROLLS IN 1105 00:28:37,516 --> 00:28:38,149 RESPONSE TO CHALLENGES FROM ONE 1106 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:39,283 79-YEAR-OLD RESIDENT WHO 1107 00:28:39,284 --> 00:28:40,218 BELIEVED THE LAST ELECTION WAS 1108 00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:40,451 STOLEN. 1109 00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:41,285 AND CHALLENGES HAVE BEEN 1110 00:28:41,286 --> 00:28:42,653 PARTICULARLY INTENSE IN THE 1111 00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:43,287 SWING STATE OF GEORGIA, WHERE-- 1112 00:28:43,288 --> 00:28:43,888 BECAUSE OF A NEW STATE LAW-- 1113 00:28:43,889 --> 00:28:44,655 ANYONE CAN NOW BRING AN 1114 00:28:44,656 --> 00:28:46,157 UNLIMITED NUMBER OF CHALLENGES 1115 00:28:46,158 --> 00:28:46,791 AGAINST ANYONE IN THEIR COUNTY, 1116 00:28:46,792 --> 00:28:47,458 WHICH HAVE TO BE HEARD WITHIN 10 1117 00:28:47,459 --> 00:28:49,227 BUSINESS DAYS. 1118 00:28:49,228 --> 00:28:50,228 SINCE THAT BILL WAS PASSED, MORE 1119 00:28:50,229 --> 00:28:52,797 THAN 180,000 CITIZEN CHALLENGES 1120 00:28:52,798 --> 00:28:54,666 HAVE BEEN FILED, WITH THE VAST 1121 00:28:54,667 --> 00:28:56,834 MAJORITY BY JUST SIX PEOPLE. 1122 00:28:56,835 --> 00:28:58,936 WHICH IS RIDICULOUS! 1123 00:28:58,937 --> 00:29:00,138 A GROUP SOWING THAT MUCH CHAOS 1124 00:29:00,139 --> 00:29:01,172 SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FIT INSIDE 1125 00:29:01,173 --> 00:29:04,142 THE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE. 1126 00:29:04,143 --> 00:29:05,610 ALTHOUGH, SINCE THEY CAN, I'D BE 1127 00:29:05,611 --> 00:29:08,246 HAPPY TO PAY FOR THEIR TRIP. 1128 00:29:08,247 --> 00:29:11,082 I HEAR IT'S BEAUTIFUL DOWN 1129 00:29:11,083 --> 00:29:12,517 THERE! 1130 00:29:12,518 --> 00:29:13,251 GEORGIA VOTERS HAVE BEEN 1131 00:29:13,252 --> 00:29:14,686 CHALLENGED FOR STUPID REASONS, 1132 00:29:14,687 --> 00:29:16,354 LIKE TINY MISMATCHES BETWEEN 1133 00:29:16,355 --> 00:29:18,122 THEIR MAILING ADDRESS AND WHERE 1134 00:29:18,123 --> 00:29:18,990 THEY'RE REGISTERED. 1135 00:29:18,991 --> 00:29:19,724 THIS MAN SHOWED UP AT A MEETING 1136 00:29:19,725 --> 00:29:20,992 LAST SPRING AFTER HE WAS 1137 00:29:20,993 --> 00:29:22,360 CHALLENGED, BECAUSE HIS ADDRESS 1138 00:29:22,361 --> 00:29:23,861 WAS MISTAKENLY RECORDED AS 1139 00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:24,862 "NORTH PINE DRIVE DRIVE" INSTEAD 1140 00:29:24,863 --> 00:29:26,564 OF JUST "NORTH PINE DRIVE." 1141 00:29:26,565 --> 00:29:27,732 AND THIS WOMAN HAD AN EVEN MORE 1142 00:29:27,733 --> 00:29:29,901 INFURIATING STORY. 1143 00:29:29,902 --> 00:29:32,303 MY RIGHTS WAS CHALLENGED. 1144 00:29:32,304 --> 00:29:34,238 I'VE BEEN STAYING AT THIS SAME 1145 00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:36,474 ADDRESS FOR-- SINCE 2011. 1146 00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:37,508 VOTERS LIKE LAKENDRA GRAHAM. 1147 00:29:37,509 --> 00:29:38,543 SHE SAID SHE LIVED ON 1148 00:29:38,544 --> 00:29:40,978 CONFEDERATE AVENUE IN ATLANTA, 1149 00:29:40,979 --> 00:29:43,381 THE NAME OF WHICH THE CITY 1150 00:29:43,382 --> 00:29:44,615 CHANGED WITH GREAT FANFARE TO 1151 00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:47,685 UNITED AVENUE IN 2019. 1152 00:29:47,686 --> 00:29:49,721 NOT HER FAULT, SHE TOLD THE 1153 00:29:49,722 --> 00:29:51,155 BOARD IN MARCH. 1154 00:29:51,156 --> 00:29:52,657 IT'S A WASTE OF MY TIME, 1155 00:29:52,658 --> 00:29:53,224 BECAUSE I'M HERE WHEN I HAVE 1156 00:29:53,225 --> 00:29:54,158 OTHER THINGS TO DO. 1157 00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:55,460 I HAVE A JOB. 1158 00:29:55,461 --> 00:29:56,928 YEAH, IT'S A WASTE OF 1159 00:29:56,929 --> 00:29:58,763 HER TIME, WHICH COULD BE BETTER 1160 00:29:58,764 --> 00:30:00,465 SPENT ON WORKING OR SHOPPING OR 1161 00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:02,734 FIGURING OUT WHY THE FUCK THAT 1162 00:30:02,735 --> 00:30:03,801 STREET NAME WASN'T CHANGED ANY 1163 00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:08,172 EARLIER THAN 2019. 1164 00:30:08,173 --> 00:30:08,773 AND WHILE THE VAST MAJORITY OF 1165 00:30:08,774 --> 00:30:10,441 THESE CHALLENGES FAIL, THEY CAN 1166 00:30:10,442 --> 00:30:10,942 HAVE A CHILLING EFFECT. 1167 00:30:10,943 --> 00:30:12,710 IN THE WORDS OF ONE ATTORNEY, 1168 00:30:12,711 --> 00:30:13,211 THEY'RE "MORE LIKELY TO 1169 00:30:13,212 --> 00:30:14,645 DISENFRANCHISE OR INTIMIDATE OR 1170 00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:15,980 CONFUSE VOTERS THAN THEY ARE TO 1171 00:30:15,981 --> 00:30:17,482 ACTUALLY TURN UP PEOPLE 1172 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:19,784 INELIGIBLE TO VOTE." 1173 00:30:19,785 --> 00:30:20,385 WHICH IS BOTH INFURIATING AND, 1174 00:30:20,386 --> 00:30:21,252 ONE MIGHT SUSPECT, KIND OF THE 1175 00:30:21,253 --> 00:30:23,688 POINT. 1176 00:30:23,689 --> 00:30:24,255 AND WHILE SO FAR, WE'VE BEEN 1177 00:30:24,256 --> 00:30:26,824 LOOKING AT PREEMPTIVE STRIKES 1178 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:27,592 AHEAD OF THE ELECTION, THERE'S 1179 00:30:27,593 --> 00:30:29,060 WANT TO MENTION, WHOSE MAIN 1180 00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:34,467 EFFECTS WILL ONLY BE SEEN IN THE 1181 00:30:37,904 --> 00:30:43,207 1 FINAL STRING OF FUCKERY I 1182 00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:43,775 WANT TO MENTION, WHOSE MAIN 1183 00:30:43,776 --> 00:30:47,945 EFFECTS WILL ONLY BE SEEN IN THE 1184 00:30:47,946 --> 00:30:48,546 DAYS FOLLOWING NOVEMBER 5th-- 1185 00:30:48,547 --> 00:30:49,714 AND THAT'S SOME OF THE CHANGES 1186 00:30:49,715 --> 00:30:50,281 MADE TO BOARDS THAT CERTIFY 1187 00:30:50,282 --> 00:30:50,782 ELECTIONS. 1188 00:30:50,783 --> 00:30:51,582 BECAUSE WHILE I MENTIONED THAT 1189 00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:52,583 DENIERS WHO RAN FOR CHIEF 1190 00:30:52,584 --> 00:30:53,217 ELECTION OFFICER IN SWING STATES 1191 00:30:53,218 --> 00:30:54,185 LOST, THERE ARE STILL A 1192 00:30:54,186 --> 00:30:55,486 SIGNIFICANT NUMBER ON THE STATE 1193 00:30:55,487 --> 00:30:55,853 AND LOCAL LEVEL. 1194 00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:56,821 ONE ANALYSIS FOUND THAT IN THESE 1195 00:30:56,822 --> 00:30:58,556 SIX KEY SWING STATES, THERE ARE 1196 00:30:58,557 --> 00:30:59,123 NEARLY 70 PRO-TRUMP ELECTION 1197 00:30:59,124 --> 00:30:59,891 CONSPIRACISTS, WHO ARE CURRENTLY 1198 00:30:59,892 --> 00:31:00,425 WORKING AS COUNTY ELECTION 1199 00:31:00,426 --> 00:31:00,892 OFFICIALS. 1200 00:31:00,893 --> 00:31:01,793 AND MAYBE THE MOST STRIKING 1201 00:31:01,794 --> 00:31:02,627 SHIFT HAS BEEN IN GEORGIA, WHERE 1202 00:31:02,628 --> 00:31:04,095 - UNIQUELY AMONG SWING STATES 1203 00:31:04,096 --> 00:31:04,729 - REPUBLICANS ARE IN CHARGE OF 1204 00:31:04,730 --> 00:31:06,964 THE GOVERNORSHIP, HOUSE, AND 1205 00:31:06,965 --> 00:31:07,198 SENATE. 1206 00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:07,999 AND THEY'VE USED THAT POWER 1207 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000 DECISIVELY TO, AMONG OTHER 1208 00:31:09,001 --> 00:31:11,202 THINGS, RESHAPE THE FIVE-MEMBER 1209 00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:11,669 STATE ELECTIONS BOARD. 1210 00:31:11,670 --> 00:31:12,503 THESE THREE TRUMP-FRIENDLY 1211 00:31:12,504 --> 00:31:13,137 MEMBERS HAVE NOW BEEN INSTALLED, 1212 00:31:13,138 --> 00:31:14,572 ALL OF WHOM HAVE QUESTIONED THE 1213 00:31:14,573 --> 00:31:16,708 RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION, 1214 00:31:16,709 --> 00:31:18,476 AND TRUMP LOVES THEM SO MUCH, HE 1215 00:31:18,477 --> 00:31:19,577 EVEN CALLED THEM OUT BY NAME AT 1216 00:31:19,578 --> 00:31:21,646 A RALLY. 1217 00:31:21,647 --> 00:31:24,649 THREE MEMBERS, JANICE 1218 00:31:24,650 --> 00:31:28,653 JOHNSTON, RICK JEFFARES, AND 1219 00:31:28,654 --> 00:31:30,455 JANELLE KING. 1220 00:31:30,456 --> 00:31:32,690 THREE PEOPLE ARE ALL PIT BULLS 1221 00:31:32,691 --> 00:31:35,259 FIGHTING FOR HONESTY, 1222 00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:36,527 TRANSPARENCY, AND VICTORY. 1223 00:31:36,528 --> 00:31:37,595 THEY'RE FIGHTING. 1224 00:31:37,596 --> 00:31:38,229 ARE THEY HERE? 1225 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:42,500 WHERE ARE THEY? 1226 00:31:42,501 --> 00:31:43,534 THANK YOU. 1227 00:31:43,535 --> 00:31:44,702 WHAT A JOB. 1228 00:31:44,703 --> 00:31:46,004 THANK YOU. 1229 00:31:46,005 --> 00:31:48,239 WOW. 1230 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:48,840 THE FACT TRUMP'S SHOUTING THEM 1231 00:31:48,841 --> 00:31:50,475 OUT LIKE THEY'RE EACH THE 1232 00:31:50,476 --> 00:31:51,109 BIRTHDAY BOY OR GIRL AT CHUCK E. 1233 00:31:51,110 --> 00:31:53,211 CHEESE ISN'T A GREAT SIGN. 1234 00:31:53,212 --> 00:31:54,645 NOR IS IT GREAT THAT ONE OF THEM 1235 00:31:54,646 --> 00:31:55,313 RICK JEFFARES, EVEN TOLD A TRUMP 1236 00:31:55,314 --> 00:31:57,281 CAMPAIGN ADVISER THAT, IF THEY 1237 00:31:57,282 --> 00:31:59,083 WIN IN NOVEMBER, HE WANTS TO 1238 00:31:59,084 --> 00:31:59,617 JOIN THEIR ADMINISTRATION, 1239 00:31:59,618 --> 00:32:01,285 SAYING "IF Y'ALL CAN'T FIGURE 1240 00:32:01,286 --> 00:32:02,987 OUT WHO YOU WANT TO BE THE EPA 1241 00:32:02,988 --> 00:32:03,621 DIRECTOR FOR THE SOUTH-EAST, I'D 1242 00:32:03,622 --> 00:32:05,123 LIKE TO HAVE IT." 1243 00:32:05,124 --> 00:32:05,723 WHICH MIGHT BE THE FIRST TIME 1244 00:32:05,724 --> 00:32:06,924 I'VE HEARD OF POLITICAL 1245 00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:07,525 CORRUPTION HAVING A VIBE THAT 1246 00:32:07,526 --> 00:32:12,063 SCREAMS "NO WORRIES IF NOT." 1247 00:32:12,064 --> 00:32:12,930 NOW, I HAVE TO TELL YOU: ALL 1248 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,265 THREE HAVE PUSHED BACK ON THE 1249 00:32:14,266 --> 00:32:15,433 INSINUATION THEY'RE WORKING FOR 1250 00:32:15,434 --> 00:32:18,269 TRUMP, WITH ONE SAYING SHE'S 1251 00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:19,303 FACED "CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, 1252 00:32:19,304 --> 00:32:20,672 MEDIA MURDER, AND 'LAWFARE 1253 00:32:20,673 --> 00:32:22,106 LYNCHING'" AND, TO GET AHEAD OF 1254 00:32:22,107 --> 00:32:22,707 YOUR QUESTION, YES IT WAS THE 1255 00:32:22,708 --> 00:32:27,545 OLD WHITE LADY WHO SAID THAT. 1256 00:32:27,546 --> 00:32:28,146 BUT IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER-- 1257 00:32:28,147 --> 00:32:29,514 INCREDIBLY LATE IN THE ELECTION 1258 00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:31,649 CYCLE-- THE BOARD PASSED A 1259 00:32:31,650 --> 00:32:32,283 BUNCH OF NEW RULES THAT'LL MAKE 1260 00:32:32,284 --> 00:32:32,884 IT MUCH EASIER TO SOW DOUBT IN 1261 00:32:32,885 --> 00:32:36,487 THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS. 1262 00:32:36,488 --> 00:32:37,121 ONE OF THEM REQUIRES A FULL HAND 1263 00:32:37,122 --> 00:32:40,058 COUNT OF BALLOTS IN EACH 1264 00:32:40,059 --> 00:32:41,125 PRECINCT TO TAKE PLACE EITHER 1265 00:32:41,126 --> 00:32:43,528 THE NIGHT OF THE ELECTION OR THE 1266 00:32:43,529 --> 00:32:44,162 NEXT DAY, AND WHICH MUST BE DONE 1267 00:32:44,163 --> 00:32:44,762 BY JUST THREE INDIVIDUALS PER 1268 00:32:44,763 --> 00:32:48,433 PRECINCT. 1269 00:32:48,434 --> 00:32:49,033 WHICH MIGHT SOUND REASONABLE, 1270 00:32:49,034 --> 00:32:50,134 BUT AS EXPERTS HAVE EXPLAINED, 1271 00:32:50,135 --> 00:32:51,436 THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE 1272 00:32:51,437 --> 00:32:54,105 CHAOS. 1273 00:32:54,106 --> 00:32:55,273 I BROUGHT WITH ME 1,872 PAGES 1274 00:32:55,274 --> 00:32:57,809 OF PAPER REPRESENTING WHAT A 1275 00:32:57,810 --> 00:32:59,477 STACK OF BALLOTS COULD LOOK LIKE 1276 00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:02,513 ON A BUSY COUNTING DAY. 1277 00:33:02,514 --> 00:33:04,148 AND BUSIER, LARGER PRECINCTS MAY 1278 00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:05,416 HAVE EVEN MORE THAN THIS NUMBER. 1279 00:33:05,417 --> 00:33:07,118 IF I WERE TO HAND THIS STACK OF 1280 00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:10,355 PAPER TO THREE RANDOM PEOPLE IN 1281 00:33:10,356 --> 00:33:10,988 THIS ROOM, ESPECIALLY AT THE END 1282 00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:12,423 OF A LONG VOTING DAY, AND ASK 1283 00:33:12,424 --> 00:33:13,057 THEM TO ARRIVE AT THE SAME TOTAL 1284 00:33:13,058 --> 00:33:14,525 NUMBER, DO WE THINK THAT'S 1285 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:15,860 FEASIBLE? 1286 00:33:15,861 --> 00:33:16,394 COUNTING LARGE NUMBERS OF 1287 00:33:16,395 --> 00:33:17,662 ANYTHING ONE BY ONE IS AN 1288 00:33:17,663 --> 00:33:19,364 INCREDIBLY TEDIOUS PROCESS, AND 1289 00:33:19,365 --> 00:33:20,331 NOT ONE HUMANS ARE WELL EQUIPPED 1290 00:33:20,332 --> 00:33:21,899 FOR. 1291 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:22,500 PEOPLE DOING A HAND COUNT ARE 1292 00:33:22,501 --> 00:33:23,568 GOING TO MAKE MISTAKES, WHICH 1293 00:33:23,569 --> 00:33:25,069 CAN THEN BE EXPLOITED TO SPREAD 1294 00:33:25,070 --> 00:33:26,304 LIES AND SOW FURTHER DISTRUST IN 1295 00:33:26,305 --> 00:33:27,472 OUR ELECTIONS AND OUR ELECTION 1296 00:33:27,473 --> 00:33:28,740 OFFICIALS. 1297 00:33:28,741 --> 00:33:29,440 YEAH, OF COURSE. 1298 00:33:29,441 --> 00:33:31,309 IF YOU HANDED THREE EXHAUSTED 1299 00:33:31,310 --> 00:33:32,243 PEOPLE THAT STACK OF PAPER AND 1300 00:33:32,244 --> 00:33:34,712 TOLD THEM TO HAVE THE SAME 1301 00:33:34,713 --> 00:33:35,747 NUMBER BY MORNING, YOU'RE NOT 1302 00:33:35,748 --> 00:33:38,249 GUARANTEED THE SAME ANSWER. 1303 00:33:38,250 --> 00:33:38,816 AT BEST, YOU GET A SCENARIO 1304 00:33:38,817 --> 00:33:39,851 THAT'D GIVE MOST PEOPLE A PANIC 1305 00:33:39,852 --> 00:33:41,352 ATTACK AND THE COUNT AN INSTANT 1306 00:33:41,353 --> 00:33:44,555 ORGASM. 1307 00:33:44,556 --> 00:33:46,557 DOZENS OF ELECTION OFFICIALS 1308 00:33:46,558 --> 00:33:47,525 HAVE SAID A HAND COUNT OF ALL 1309 00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:48,526 THE BALLOTS WOULD BE PHYSICALLY 1310 00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:49,894 IMPOSSIBLE IN ALL BUT THE 1311 00:33:49,895 --> 00:33:50,928 SMALLEST COUNTIES. 1312 00:33:50,929 --> 00:33:52,530 BUT THE THING IS, THAT RULE 1313 00:33:52,531 --> 00:33:55,299 MIGHT TRIGGER ANOTHER NEW ONE 1314 00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:56,034 THAT BARS COUNTIES FROM 1315 00:33:56,035 --> 00:33:57,735 CERTIFYING THE ELECTION UNTIL 1316 00:33:57,736 --> 00:33:59,037 OFFICIALS CAN REVIEW AN 1317 00:33:59,038 --> 00:34:00,805 INVESTIGATION OF EVERY PRECINCT 1318 00:34:00,806 --> 00:34:02,740 WITH INCONSISTENT TOTALS, AND 1319 00:34:02,741 --> 00:34:04,676 GIVES COUNTY BOARDS THE POWER TO 1320 00:34:04,677 --> 00:34:05,677 EXCLUDE ENTIRE PRECINCTS FROM 1321 00:34:05,678 --> 00:34:07,245 THE VOTE TOTALS IF THEY THINK 1322 00:34:07,246 --> 00:34:09,047 THEY'RE FRAUDULENT. 1323 00:34:09,048 --> 00:34:12,450 WHICH IS WILD. 1324 00:34:12,451 --> 00:34:13,951 AND MIGHT BE A PROBLEM, GIVEN 1325 00:34:13,952 --> 00:34:14,552 SOME LOCAL ELECTION OFFICIALS 1326 00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:16,788 ARE FUCKING NUTS. 1327 00:34:16,789 --> 00:34:18,423 FOR INSTANCE, THIS ELECTION 1328 00:34:18,424 --> 00:34:18,990 CHAIR IN GEORGIA'S SPALDING 1329 00:34:18,991 --> 00:34:21,359 COUNTY TWEETED, JUST THREE DAYS 1330 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:27,965 AFTER JANUARY 6, THIS MESS OF 1331 00:34:27,966 --> 00:34:28,566 OFFENSIVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES 1332 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:29,500 INCLUDING THE HASHTAG 1333 00:34:29,501 --> 00:34:31,035 #BidenWillNeverBePresident AND 1334 00:34:31,036 --> 00:34:33,237 #BidenIsAPedo. 1335 00:34:33,238 --> 00:34:35,106 THAT'S NOT SOMEBODY YOU WANT 1336 00:34:35,107 --> 00:34:35,707 EMPOWERED TO THROW OUT VOTES. 1337 00:34:35,708 --> 00:34:36,341 AND ON TOP OF THAT, YET ANOTHER 1338 00:34:36,342 --> 00:34:37,275 NEW RULE EMPOWERS COUNTY 1339 00:34:37,276 --> 00:34:38,409 ELECTION BOARD MEMBERS TO 1340 00:34:38,410 --> 00:34:40,411 CONDUCT "REASONABLE INQUIRY" 1341 00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:40,945 INTO ALLEGATIONS OF VOTING 1342 00:34:40,946 --> 00:34:43,514 IRREGULARITIES, WITHOUT SETTING 1343 00:34:43,515 --> 00:34:49,687 DEADLINES FOR HOW LONG THEY 1344 00:34:49,688 --> 00:34:50,288 MIGHT LAST, OR-- CRUCIALLY-- 1345 00:34:50,289 --> 00:34:52,023 DEFINE WHAT A "REASONABLE 1346 00:34:52,024 --> 00:34:52,890 INQUIRY" EVEN MEANS. 1347 00:34:52,891 --> 00:34:53,458 AND THAT'S SOMETHING ONE OF 1348 00:34:53,459 --> 00:34:54,926 THOSE NEW TRUMP-FRIENDLY 1349 00:34:54,927 --> 00:34:55,793 APPOINTEES SEEMED WEIRDLY 1350 00:34:55,794 --> 00:34:56,661 UNCONCERNED ABOUT. 1351 00:34:56,662 --> 00:34:57,261 WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS DEFINE 1352 00:34:57,262 --> 00:34:58,262 "REASONABLE INQUIRY?" 1353 00:34:58,263 --> 00:35:01,499 I MEAN, YOU GUYS MADE THE RULE. 1354 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:02,066 HOW-- HOW BEST SHOULD WE 1355 00:35:02,067 --> 00:35:03,501 DEFINE "REASONABLE?" 1356 00:35:03,502 --> 00:35:04,435 I THOUGHT-- WE THOUGHT THAT 1357 00:35:04,436 --> 00:35:06,137 MOST PEOPLE KNEW WHAT REASONABLE 1358 00:35:06,138 --> 00:35:10,441 IS. 1359 00:35:10,442 --> 00:35:12,510 IT'S MORE OF A RHETORICAL 1360 00:35:12,511 --> 00:35:13,177 QUESTION. 1361 00:35:13,178 --> 00:35:13,845 SO, I-- I DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD 1362 00:35:13,846 --> 00:35:15,713 HAVE TO WRITE THE DEFINITION OF 1363 00:35:15,714 --> 00:35:16,314 "REASONABLE" WITHIN THE-- THE 1364 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:17,315 RULE. 1365 00:35:17,316 --> 00:35:17,915 BUT IF THAT'S THE CASE, WE'LL 1366 00:35:17,916 --> 00:35:19,050 POST WHAT THE DEFINITION OF 1367 00:35:19,051 --> 00:35:20,118 REASONABLE MEANS. 1368 00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:20,752 BUT THEY STILL HAVEN'T 1369 00:35:20,753 --> 00:35:21,686 DONE THAT YET-- EVEN THOUGH 1370 00:35:21,687 --> 00:35:23,121 EARLY IN-PERSON VOTING IN 1371 00:35:23,122 --> 00:35:24,222 GEORGIA STARTS THIS WEEK. 1372 00:35:24,223 --> 00:35:25,256 AND THAT'S A PROBLEM, BECAUSE 1373 00:35:25,257 --> 00:35:25,857 YOU DO NEED TO DEFINE THE WORD 1374 00:35:25,858 --> 00:35:26,924 "REASONABLE." 1375 00:35:26,925 --> 00:35:27,492 IT'S A SUBJECTIVE TERM, LIKE 1376 00:35:27,493 --> 00:35:30,061 "FUNNY" OR "INTERESTING." 1377 00:35:30,062 --> 00:35:31,462 THOSE WORDS MEAN SOMETHING 1378 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:34,065 DIFFERENT TO EVERYONE. 1379 00:35:34,066 --> 00:35:35,099 I PERSONALLY PROVE THAT EVERY 1380 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:36,234 SUNDAY NIGHT. 1381 00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:38,670 I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW! 1382 00:35:38,671 --> 00:35:41,072 EXPERTS SAY THAT "REASONABLE 1383 00:35:41,073 --> 00:35:42,206 INQUIRY" RULE COULD ALLOW ROGUE 1384 00:35:42,207 --> 00:35:44,275 ELECTION OFFICIALS TO DRAG 1385 00:35:44,276 --> 00:35:45,576 INQUIRIES PAST CERTIFICATION 1386 00:35:45,577 --> 00:35:47,245 DEADLINES. 1387 00:35:47,246 --> 00:35:47,845 AND WHILE COURTS ARE CURRENTLY 1388 00:35:47,846 --> 00:35:49,280 HEARING CHALLENGES TO THESE 1389 00:35:49,281 --> 00:35:49,881 RULES, IF THEY ALLOW THEM, ONE 1390 00:35:49,882 --> 00:35:50,581 POTENTIAL END RESULT IS LOCAL 1391 00:35:50,582 --> 00:35:53,151 OFFICIALS IN JUST A HANDFUL OF 1392 00:35:53,152 --> 00:35:54,686 RURAL COUNTIES COULD EXCLUDE 1393 00:35:54,687 --> 00:35:56,554 ENOUGH VOTES IN GEORGIA TO 1394 00:35:56,555 --> 00:35:57,088 AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF THE 1395 00:35:57,089 --> 00:35:58,456 PRESIDENTIAL RACE. 1396 00:35:58,457 --> 00:35:58,990 AND WHEN YOU TAKE ALL THIS 1397 00:35:58,991 --> 00:36:00,124 TOGETHER-- THE LIES ABOUT 1398 00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:02,360 IMMIGRANTS VOTING, THE MASS 1399 00:36:02,361 --> 00:36:03,528 VOTER CHALLENGES, AND THE 1400 00:36:03,529 --> 00:36:05,329 INTRODUCTION OF NEW PROCESSES TO 1401 00:36:05,330 --> 00:36:07,398 SLOW DOWN AND QUESTION VOTE 1402 00:36:07,399 --> 00:36:08,032 COUNTS-- IT SEEMS DEPRESSINGLY 1403 00:36:08,033 --> 00:36:09,300 LIKELY WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE A 1404 00:36:09,301 --> 00:36:10,601 STORM OF BULLSHIT JUST LIKE LAST 1405 00:36:10,602 --> 00:36:11,969 TIME. 1406 00:36:11,970 --> 00:36:12,570 AND THERE ARE A FEW THINGS WE 1407 00:36:12,571 --> 00:36:15,206 SHOULD BE READY FOR. 1408 00:36:15,207 --> 00:36:16,441 UNLESS THERE IS AN 1409 00:36:16,442 --> 00:36:18,242 ABSOLUTE LANDSLIDE, WE'RE 1410 00:36:18,243 --> 00:36:18,876 UNLIKELY TO KNOW THE OUTCOME OF 1411 00:36:18,877 --> 00:36:22,747 THE ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 5TH. 1412 00:36:22,748 --> 00:36:23,381 AND WHEN IT COMES TO GEORGIA, IF 1413 00:36:23,382 --> 00:36:24,716 HARRIS WINS NARROWLY, WE'LL 1414 00:36:24,717 --> 00:36:27,118 ALMOST CERTAINLY SEE LEGAL 1415 00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:28,386 BATTLES STRETCHING INTO DECEMBER 1416 00:36:28,387 --> 00:36:29,854 OR BEYOND, AND WHICH COULD 1417 00:36:29,855 --> 00:36:31,389 EVENTUALLY END UP IN FRONT OF 1418 00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:32,457 THESE GUYS, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY 1419 00:36:32,458 --> 00:36:35,326 REASSURING. 1420 00:36:35,327 --> 00:36:36,761 AND ALL THE WHILE, TRUMP'LL TRY 1421 00:36:36,762 --> 00:36:37,962 AND EXPLOIT ANY DELAY OR 1422 00:36:37,963 --> 00:36:38,863 UNCERTAINTY. 1423 00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:39,964 UNLESS, THAT IS, HE WINS 1424 00:36:39,965 --> 00:36:41,699 OUTRIGHT, IN WHICH CASE, HE'LL 1425 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:42,800 INSIST HE TRIUMPHED OVER A 1426 00:36:42,801 --> 00:36:44,702 RIGGED SYSTEM. 1427 00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:47,205 SO THAT'S WHAT WE CAN EXPECT. 1428 00:36:47,206 --> 00:36:48,239 WHAT CAN WE DO? 1429 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:49,140 WELL, YOU CAN-- AND I HATE 1430 00:36:49,141 --> 00:36:50,074 SAYING THIS AS MUCH AS YOU 1431 00:36:50,075 --> 00:36:51,309 PROBABLY HATE HEARING IT-- MAKE 1432 00:36:51,310 --> 00:36:52,677 A PLAN TO VOTE AND HELP OTHERS 1433 00:36:52,678 --> 00:36:55,413 DO THE SAME, SINCE THE CLOSER 1434 00:36:55,414 --> 00:36:57,048 THE RACE IS, THE EASIER IT'LL BE 1435 00:36:57,049 --> 00:37:00,184 FOR TRUMP TO SOW BULLSHIT. 1436 00:37:00,185 --> 00:37:00,785 YOU SHOULD CHECK TO MAKE SURE 1437 00:37:00,786 --> 00:37:01,586 YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION IS 1438 00:37:01,587 --> 00:37:02,387 CURRENT. 1439 00:37:02,388 --> 00:37:03,955 YOU CAN USE THIS WEBSITE TO FIND 1440 00:37:03,956 --> 00:37:05,256 LINKS TO YOUR STATE'S VOTER 1441 00:37:05,257 --> 00:37:07,158 REGISTRATION VERIFICATION TOOLS. 1442 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:08,828 AT THIS WEBSITE BELOW. 1443 00:37:12,332 --> 00:37:14,232 VOTE EARLY IF YOU CAN TO ENSURE 1444 00:37:14,233 --> 00:37:15,099 IF THERE'S ANY ISSUE WITH YOUR 1445 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,369 REGISTRATION, YOU CAN CLEAR IT 1446 00:37:18,370 --> 00:37:18,803 UP BY ELECTION DAY. 1447 00:37:18,804 --> 00:37:22,707 IF YOU VOTE BY MAIL, YOU CAN 1448 00:37:22,708 --> 00:37:24,942 FIND INFORMATION AT THIS WEBSITE 1449 00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:26,277 BELOW. 1450 00:37:26,278 --> 00:37:27,245 BUT BEYOND THAT, IT'S GOING TO 1451 00:37:27,246 --> 00:37:27,879 BE VITAL TO BE RESILIENT AGAINST 1452 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,013 THE STORM OF TOXIC NONSENSE 1453 00:37:29,014 --> 00:37:31,049 TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES WILL TRY 1454 00:37:31,050 --> 00:37:31,349 AND STIR UP. 1455 00:37:31,350 --> 00:37:32,083 IT COULD GO ON FOR MONTHS, AND 1456 00:37:32,084 --> 00:37:32,684 BE STUPIDER THAN YOU CAN EVEN 1457 00:37:32,685 --> 00:37:34,352 IMAGINE RIGHT NOW. 1458 00:37:34,353 --> 00:37:35,386 SO STUPID THAT SOMEONE YOU KNOW, 1459 00:37:35,387 --> 00:37:37,155 LOVE OR ARE RELATED TO-- AND 1460 00:37:37,156 --> 00:37:39,157 THOSE ARE THREE DIFFERENT THINGS 1461 00:37:39,158 --> 00:37:40,224 - MIGHT EVEN THINK THERE'S 1462 00:37:40,225 --> 00:37:41,626 SOMETHING TO IT. 1463 00:37:41,627 --> 00:37:42,627 BUT THE KEY THING TO REMEMBER 1464 00:37:42,628 --> 00:37:43,594 HERE IS THAT, AS CHAOTIC AS THE 1465 00:37:43,595 --> 00:37:44,962 LAST ELECTION WAS, IN THE END, 1466 00:37:44,963 --> 00:37:47,465 OUR GUARDRAILS DID HOLD. 1467 00:37:47,466 --> 00:37:48,099 AND WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE 1468 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:51,436 SURE THEY HOLD UP AGAIN. 1469 00:37:51,437 --> 00:37:52,537 AND IF WE CAN DO THAT, THEN, AND 1470 00:37:52,538 --> 00:37:55,506 ONLY THEN, WE WILL ALL DESERVE 1471 00:37:55,507 --> 00:37:56,507 THE SINGLE GREATEST STICKER EVER 1472 00:37:56,508 --> 00:38:03,583 DESIGNED. 1473 00:38:07,654 --> 00:38:09,354 THAT'S OUR SHOW! 1474 00:38:09,355 --> 00:38:13,591 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1475 00:38:13,592 --> 00:38:14,292 WE'RE OFF NEXT WEEK, BACK 1476 00:38:14,293 --> 00:38:15,093 OCTOBER 27th, SEE YOU THEN, GOOD 1477 00:38:15,094 --> 00:38:17,662 NIGHT! 1478 00:38:17,663 --> 00:38:18,629 WOW. 1479 00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:21,066 WANT ME TO FEED IT TO YOU?