While the media fulminate about a supposed coup, the legal process moved forward,

media outlets push social media outlets to censor conservatives and COVID hospitalizations

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to transition in, but he doesn't actually have any power until January 20th, even if Trump

were to concede the election today. So basically, the media are now creating a crisis where none

exists, and they're steadfastly determined to have no sense of humor about this entire thing.

We have to see, the media has been ramped up to such an extent.

They've been, the media, I don't like language with regard to stealing elections or rigging

elections.

But I think it is fair to say that the media attempted to rig this election in advance.

That does not mean they changed the process.

It means that they used all the authority they could possibly wield in order to lie to

the American public about a variety of narratives ranging from Russian collusion to President Trump's sole responsibility for COVID. And now they're so ramped up. They've been ramped up since Trump was elected in 2016. And now they're so ramped up that they can't ramp back down. It's like after you spend 26 hours awake, you can't fall asleep, the media have been doing that. They're higher in their own farts and they can't get over it. And so everything at this point is about the crisis. Now, you might look around and say to yourself, wait a second, there is no crisis. It turns out the vast majority of Americans are already pretty sanguine about the election. If you look at the polling data right now, a lot of Republicans are mistrusting the

system. A lot of Republicans are upset about the system. But overall, eight and ten Americans believe that the election is over. Only 3% of Americans by polling data believe that Donald Trump will end up as president of the United States on January 20th. In other words, people are coming to the conclusions they want to come to. There's no violence in the streets. By the way, it would have been precisely the opposite of Trump had won. If Trump had openly and obviously won on election night,

they had. conclusions they want to come to. There's no violence in the streets. By the way, it would have been precisely the opposite of Trump had won. If Trump had openly and obviously won on election night, they'd boarded up all the stores in the major cities. There would have been actual street-level violence if Donald Trump had won the election on election night. So spare me the hysterics about how the United States is in the middle of an anti-democratic meltdown. It is not even close to that. But the media have decided that because they have to manufacture this narrative from whole cloth, that everything is in crisis, right? We're in crisis. I'm asking you, look around you today. Do you see crisis? Seriously, do you see crisis? Wherever you are living, do you see people in the streets burning things? Do you see people rioting and looting? That's more than you could say six months ago when Democrats were egging on people rioting and looting. Do you see violence in the streets? Do you see mayhem? Do you foresee a future in which Donald Trump, even after all the legal challenges go through? And let's say that all the legal challenges are rejected and the election is certified. Do you see Donald Trump holing up in the Oval Office and snorting blow and firing machine guns through the door and shouting, say hello to my little friend? Do you see that happening? Or do you see him leaving in an orderly transition of power just like every other president since the foundation of the Republic? Can we get over ourselves, in other words? But no, we cannot because the media have to here's the thing

the media their biggest meta narrative the biggest meta narrative of all was probably the biggest

lie which is that trump was an overt threat to american democracy trump was a fascist he was

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