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What’s the old joke? Oh, yes. “How can you tell when a politician is lying?”
Answer: “His lips are moving.”
Boris Johnson promised is quickly becoming a joke of its own. The problem is, no one is laughing. Especially Mr. Delingpole. After a contentious discussion about Mr. Young’s latest Spectator column and “The Great Reset,” they tackle Boris and his Tier 4 Christmas plans.
After that James reveals he is on a diet, Toby talks turkey and – if you promise not to tell – they talk about what they’re getting their wives for Christmas.
This week’s opening sound is from the PM’s press conference announcing the Christmas lockdown, and our closing sound is Christmas Greetings from the PM in 1941.
And so, in God’s mercy, a Happy Christmas to you all!
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Please, Toby. Check it out. Each of the following is verifiable.
Election results – like anything else that is reported by the media – must make sense to our own experiences to be believed. The real problem is that they don’t. Here is why I don’t believe the election results:
It made no military sense for Japan to attack the US in 1941. But they did it. As James said, once you’re a centi billionaire like Bill Gates, power is a much greater motivator than money.
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I wonder if there is any political hay in pushing for election reform? Outlaw electronic voting, outlaw banning witnesses and outlaw mail in voting as much as possible (oversees troops are ok, etc). It will be opposed of course and then hit them over the head with “why on earth would they oppose this? Is it because they need to cheat to win?”
Whatever happens in the States peculates out to the rest of the world (the left wing parties got the wins in some areas only through mail in here as well). That dirty trick will be used all over in a few years. The idea that ones political leaning affects the medium you prefer to votes with (mail vs in person) is so mathematically absurd. The mail in are majority lefty though true random samples? BS, its obvious.
This is the 3rd or 4th week that Dellers has hijacked the first 15 minutes of the podcast with the same boring fillibuster. Change the record chaps, this is getting pointless.
@markalexander —
#11 — Of the 19 “bellwether” counties that voted for the winner in ten Presidential elections in a row, from 1980 through 2016, 18 voted for Trump in 2020.
#12 — Trump’s coattails swept in a dozen Congressmen and hundreds of state legislators. Since when does the loser have coattails?
#13 — Incumbent presidents who increase their vote totals are almost always reelected. I think the only exception was sometime in the 19th century, but I haven’t checked this out yet.
I describe the 2020 election as “red wave plus blue fountains”; that is, fountains of Democratic votes, highly localized in machine districts, which appeared miraculously exactly where Democrats needed them. It’s possible that those “fountains” did not involve election fraud, but so far I’ve not heard a convincing explanation.