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U.s. economy in the pandemic, jobs inflation, growth, they've been way off and terrible on it. the other thing that's happened, it's difficult for the bean counters to get out and do their bean counting in a way that's made difficult by the pandemic. so i think that's one of the reasons why you have some of the revisions. >> i want to make all of you economists feel a little bit better, you're not alone. pollsters have clearly been getting elections wrong the last few years as well. the white house, this number is less than we thought. but this is a very strong labor market, this is a good tim...

We don't waste space warehousing goods, don't make more than we need. but all of a sudden, it has come back to bite us. should we be changing the underlying system, or is this supply chain matter something we'll catch up to and it will be okay in the end? >> when you talk about "we," you have to understand, this is really a decision that's been made by a lot of companies separately. they figured out the cheapest way to manufacture their goods and to get them to market was to create these supply chains in countries often where wages are fairly low. they make this part here and that part there a...

So if you lost by 15%, why wouldn't you throw that into doubt, too? because some of the allegations that are being made about 200,000 ballots being brought in from china, that would swing not just a close race but a race that had a wide margin of victory. so, no. it is very frustrating. you're right. we are glorified bean counters but we are bean counters who care about this democratic process and we just want to go about doing that. and i'm really worried about our ability to recruit sufficient poll workers for the 2022 election. because, yes, we are still going to have a 2022 election even t...

What is to stop this from just being the future now that every election, partsans, you know, if republicans win, you know, folks out on the far fringes of the left, what is to stop them from doing this? >> you don't even have to have a close election. i mean, there is no good reason for doing this. if you lost by 15% why wouldn't you throw that into doubt, too? because some of the allegations that are being made about 200,000 ballots being brought in from china, that would swing not just the close race but a race that had a wide margin of victory. so, no. it is very frustrating. you're right. ...

Election. >> i'm all for glorifying bean counters because bean counters are essential. it is not an easy job to do. you know, your team deserves kudos for -- by the way, putting together and running the most successful election of just in terms of turnout, in terms of involvement, i mean, that is the -- one of the crimes of this. it is not that the election was stolen. it's that the reality of the election was stolen. the reality being this was an election in which more americans cast ballots. and it was no widespread voter fraud and this was a successful election and a model. i mean, for both...