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Well, welcome to my screen porch.

I'm playing around with this tripod.

I guess they call it a tripod.

It's a telescoping tripod.

It's got three little feet on it.

Actually, I guess it works pretty good.

The only problem with it is there's really no way to lock it,

so there's some possibility that...

Well,

I mean,

there is a way to lock it.

It just doesn't work very well.

So there's some possibility that while I'm recording this,

the camera will drop two feet and you'll be looking at a wall.

But that's the way it goes.

I tried an experiment with audio.

And I,

which basically meant buying what the internet said was a good mic for this kind of

camera and the internet lied.

It doesn't work.

It turns out I have to have a Bluetooth with this version of the GoPro.

It's a GoPro 12,

even though,

you know,

the internet said,

oh,

it works for all these models,

but what are you going to do?

So $30 down the drain, although it might work with something else.

I think it has a plug,

so it'll plug into my Google,

my Android,

or I guess whatever else I might be using.

I guess it would work on my tablet, perhaps.

I don't know.

I can't think of a reason why I would need a mic for my tablet or my Android, but who knows.

You never know.

I have a whole box full of crap like that that I've bought or bought for something

else and that something else has gone away and I held on to it because I thought,

you know,

who knows.

When I moved, I found three boxes that were labeled computer parts.

And there was a lot of stuff.

I mean, there's some stuff that went back a long way.

I kept it because you never know.

About 10 years ago, I ran into a problem with an antique server that was 20 years old.

And I had to recover data off of it.

And no one could do it.

And I had old parts for an antique Unix server.

And when I'm putting it back together, I managed to actually get the disk up and get the data off.

So that lesson has carried me for 20 years of collecting crap that I put in a box called computer parts.

Well, anyway, I figured I should have a hot take on the whole debate business.

I mean, I posted some stuff up on Twitter.

I don't know.

I mean, I think it...

I think everybody has probably said everything that needs to be said about the debate itself.

The one thing that I think I should elaborate on is that people took me to task in

the comments of my site and on Twitter for saying I felt it was sad.

I found it depressing to see this husk of an old man stuck out there and really just,

I don't know,

I mean,

it was grotesque.

I mean, that's really what it was.

I mean, he's a guy who should be at home.

waiting for the icy hand of death.

That's really what he should be doing.

And it's not that I feel sorry for him, Joe Biden, the man.

Joe Biden, the man, for the most part, is gone now.

That's just the husk that's left over.

And he doesn't have any agency now.

He doesn't have control of himself.

He's not the guy making decisions.

You can see that.

It's plainly obvious.

And so that makes me sad.

I don't want to see that.

I think

Old people should have,

I think,

dignity at that stage of your life where you really only got months maybe or a year left.

It should be in private.

I mean, I think that's the way it should be.

And maybe I think this way because those years are a lot closer for me now than

they were when I was a young man.

Maybe if I was 20 years younger, I'd think different.

I don't know.

But anyway, my thinking is,

They're going to have to replace them.

At some point, they're going to go to the White House or have some sort of conversation.

Apparently, there's some sort of fundraiser over Fourth of July week.

This week coming up in Washington, all the Pauls will be out shaking down rich people for money.

That's how it works.

They'll be getting their instructions.

Usually,

staffers get sent off to re-education camps so that they get the latest thing and

get prepared for

The late summer, you know, this will run through July into August.

And then, you know, they're all ready for their talking points and the media is all prepared.

You know, it's just the way Washington works in the summer.

But, you know, there's going to be rich people, powerful people who will sit down with the Bidens.

And I think because it's what,

October,

not October,

August something or other is when the Democratic Convention is.

So they've got a month, let's say.

I think it's like the first or second week of August.

So they've got a month.

And,

you know,

if they can convince him to step aside or convince his family mostly,

I think it's his wife that's really the driving force here,

that,

you know,

look,

step aside and they'll make sure that the Bidens don't get prosecuted by whoever

fills the spot.

You know, presumably it'd be Trump, but who knows?

You know, they might get lucky and find someone who catches fire with the public.

But the truth is, is that there were so many shenanigans in the 2020 election.

There's a non-trivial chance that this shenanigans machine just rolls along.

You know, there's no one can stop this damn thing.

And Biden gets 90 million votes.

I mean, that would just be devastating to the regime because no one would assume it's fixed.

I mean,

even people who actually hate Trump would say,

yeah,

I mean,

there's no way that this vegetable,

this man who can barely stand up,

got 90 million votes.

But it's possible.

So if they push him aside and they put somebody in like Gavin McGinnis,

not Gavin McGinnis,

I always say that,

Gavin Newsom,

and then the shenanigans machine gives him 90 million votes,

well,

they can come up with a story and maybe people will believe it.

Enough people would believe it that it would probably work.

Probably.

And look, they could bring in Newsom and find some younger woman.

There's got to be some senator or a congressman.

I forgot all about her.

I thought first about that senator from Minnesota who actually did better than they

expected in the 2020 primary.

I forget what her name is.

Kovachar, that's it.

Or they could get Gretchen Whitmer.

I mean, she's in her 40s, so you could have, I think, is she in her 40s?

Maybe 50s, something like that.

Either way, I mean, they're a generation younger than Trump.

And so they could put those two together and say, we're going with the youth movement.

We learned our lesson.

We pushed aside the old people.

And it's time for you,

Mr.

and Mrs.

America,

or Mr.

and Mr.

America,

given it's the Democrats,

you need to vote for this youth ticket.

And it would probably work.

I mean, it would work enough so that the shenanigans machine wouldn't be so obvious.

You know, I mean, that's the real trick.

You know, pulling shenanigans in an election, it happens all the time.

Democrats have been doing this since forever,

since the old Democratic machines in New York City and Chicago and Boston and Philadelphia.

But it can't be so much that people say, wait a second, this is unbelievable.

I mean, that's where you get into trouble.

That's where people get out into the streets.

And I think that was the problem in 2020.

They just went overboard.

You know,

if they had figured out,

you know,

some way or another to,

you know,

I don't know,

have Biden squeak by,

it might be believable,

you know,

especially if it would have been the reverse where Biden was leading all night and

then Trump got close but just fell short.

but have those midnight pallets of ballots showing up.

It was just too obvious.

So they could run Newsom and Whitmer,

let's say,

and there's probably some other females out there they could put on the ticket just

to have a younger female on.

I don't think there's any black females around they'd want to run,

although they could run that,

what's her name,

Cocker or Crockett,

that crazy black woman from Houston.

That would be hilarious.

But, you know, I think she's too young.

But anyway, you get the idea.

And that would probably work.

I mean,

it would be close enough where they could lie their way through it and they,

you know,

keep the party going.

Or on the other hand,

they just very well may say,

you know what,

we're just going to cut a deal with Trump.

He's amenable to a deal.

And I think, you know, Trump at this point just wants to win.

I think he just wants vindication.

That's about it.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm not as sour on Trump as a lot of people.

I couldn't help but laugh at the anti-Semites who were growling and moaning and

groaning that Trump didn't stand up there and praise Hitler and tell the world how

much he hates Jews.

I mean,

even if Trump did that,

even if he showed up in a Nazi outfit with a little mustache and gave Hitler speeches,

these people would still complain.

I mean, it really is nuts.

But anyway,

speaking of which,

that was the one thing I didn't – no one seemed to notice is that Trump clearly was

very prepared for the debate in the first 15 minutes.

And then he realized that the whole next day and the weekend was going to be about

Biden's terrible mental condition.

And so he changed gears.

It was pretty obvious.

He shifted gears and said he was just going to repeat a couple of things.

The veterans business, the stuff about Israel, the Ukraine business and immigration.

He kept saying immigration over and over and over again.

And I think he did that on purpose.

I think he decided that,

hey,

no one's going to remember anything he has to say other than those few things he repeats.

All the talk is going to be about Biden.

So just, you know, shoehorn a couple of points in there and forget about all the prepared stuff.

That's what it looked like to me because his first couple of answers were really good.

I mean, better than usual, which I was surprised by.

But then he just kind of got into this weird habit of just kind of circling back.

Every question was about something else.

And he talked about immigration or how veterans are sleeping on the streets and

immigrants are in big hotels,

that kind of stuff.

So I don't know.

Maybe he just lost his train of thought.

I mean, think about how hard it would be to be debating a man like Biden.

I mean, first of all, how would you not start laughing?

But, you know, you can't respond to anything he says.

I mean, you would also probably feel bad saying mean things to him.

I mean, at some point you'd feel like you're just, you know, beating up a kitten or something.

I don't know.

Anyway, there's my hot takes on the debate.

I'll post this up.

I'm recording this on Friday.

So you will see this, well, whenever I feel like posting it up.