01:00 NYT: A Volatile Election Is Intensifying Conspiracy Theories Online, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/election-conspiracy-social-media.html
06:00 Conspiracies & Hero Systems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156613
16:00 Analysis of Joe Biden’s speech explaining why he wasn’t running for reelection
20:00 Liberals Were Blinded To Biden’s Senility By Their Own Speech Codes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156125
41:00 WP: Trump allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/14/trump-allies-disarm-misinformation-researchers-ahead-election/
46:45 VDARE destroyed
50:00 Michael Kochin: Israel’s Year of Dangerous Living, Part 3: On Ballots and Bullets, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZLx9mK2r8
57:33: Trump Assassination Attempt Aftermath with Bill O’Reilly & Jon Stewart, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZjyRKy6QSM
58:30 JD Vance Is An Opportunist & That’s A Good Thing! (7-19-24), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28NmcMm6bhw
1:02:50 Subordinate individual autonomy to state purposes
1:05:00 The ballot or the bullet
1:09:00 Violence is a male thing
1:10:00 The word “hysterical” comes from “uterus”
1:10:45 People who talked about killing Trump were not sufficiently afraid of what Trump’s supporters would do in response
1:12:00 The lesson of October 7 is that you have to be ready to defend your own
1:13:20 Kim Cheatle steps down as Secret Service head, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHfGMxsa6R8
1:14:30 Elliott Blatt joins – he doesn’t think Kamala Harris will be elected as president
1:25:00 Elliott goes to the beach and notices that hot chicks with no tats stick to their own kind while fat tatted up chicks stuck together
1:28:30 Biden Stays on the Job, and Harris’ Accountability, https://www.youtube.com/live/MjiGQblbuz0
1:30:30 Kip joins
1:31:00 Luke Ford | 12-Step Programs for Sex Addiction, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW2-BWD-YtE
1:33:00 As a realist, I don’t believe in progress
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