Episode 1042 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About All the Bad People and Funny People
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1 hour and 2 minutes
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152.08543
Summary
On today's show, Scott Adams talks about why the reason you're not trending on social media is because Black people don't think you deserved your success. And why you should be trending because you don't have the white privilege that Lena Dunham did.
Transcript
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That you can use your digital assistant should you have one.
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I will not use the name of the digital assistant but it's A-L-E-X-A.
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But apparently you can just tell it to play the podcast by the name of this,
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this, Coffee with Scott Adams, and it just starts playing.
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I'm just standing in my kitchen and somebody sent me a message saying that worked.
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So I said, A-L-E-X-A, play Coffee with Scott Adams on Apple Podcast.
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And boom, I started playing the latest episode.
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But we're going to do something that will get this morning going just right.
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And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.
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So I keep telling you how weird it is to be me.
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You know, the thing that specifically makes it weird to be me is that I deal with the news.
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And then I wake up and then the news is about me.
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And I'm like, oh crap, the news is about me again.
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So I wake up this morning to, I think, Omar was telling me,
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Now, the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning,
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look, if the first thing you see is that Dilbert is trending or your own name is trending,
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So you don't automatically say, hey, this is terrific.
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I'm either canceled, COVID or dead, as I like to play.
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Whenever I see anybody else trending, I say, are they canceled?
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And what happened is one of the traps that I had set had sprung.
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Now, if you're not me, you don't think in terms of setting traps on Twitter.
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That's probably just my own sick hobby, I guess,
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is that sometimes I like to just put a tweet out there that just sits there,
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often in the comments, not even a tweet, just a comment.
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I'll put it out there and I'll just think, well, this one could come back to me.
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So what I did was, I had seen yesterday that Lena Dunham was trending.
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And Lena Dunham was trending because, in our world of 2020,
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She, she's a little too white and a little too connected to rich people,
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it turns out, especially Hollywood connections,
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that she was trending for not deserving her success.
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How would you like to, how would you like to trend on Twitter
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and find out that the reason you're trending is that black people
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And it's because nobody thinks I deserve my success.
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and this will dovetail into why I'm trending today,
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is there was an African American gentleman who is based on his profile,
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assuming that he really is the person in his profile.
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And he tweeted about, essentially about Lena Dunham's white privilege.
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And his point was that black people don't have the white privilege she did,
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because apparently she got her TV deal with nothing but, I don't know,
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Now, so black people were weighing in and saying things such as,
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I studied film, written many scripts, I have much, I have lots of experience,
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because I wrote something on the back of a napkin, basically,
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and I was connected in Hollywood and my relatives were rich.
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Now, is it fair to black people that they have to work hard to get jobs in Hollywood,
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but Lena Dunham, with all of her whiteness, gets to just walk right into a job?
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Now, she had actually done some other things in the business,
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so it wasn't like she'd never worked in the business.
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The point is very clear that her white privilege made her more likely,
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but more likely to be related to, connected to,
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networked to somebody who could help her with a career,
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This would be a good time to cover your ears of your kids.
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Kids, this would be a time to find something else to do.
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maybe a little bit of cursing that comes out in the next, oh, 60 seconds or so.
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As the African-American folks were criticizing Lena Dunham
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she was statistically far more likely to have a connection
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that would help her get something that other people couldn't get.
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Because Lena Dunham's connection didn't help any one of you, did it?
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How about the people who are not connected to billionaires?
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who think that some other random white person shouldn't get a leg up
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That's not a white fucking advantage, except statistically.
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Because I don't think anybody wants to talk statistically.
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An individual doesn't necessarily have a billionaire for a fucking father.
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An individual has a fucking problem that is their own fucking problem.
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and I'd use it on my character account just with fucking.
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that I had personally lost two jobs in corporate America,
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I can't promote you because you're white and you're male.
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and by the way, the trap is that I know people don't believe it.
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My experience has shown that people don't think it's true.
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If you're black, you just don't think that's ever happened.
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Honestly, you have no idea that reverse discrimination was pretty much universally true.
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I don't know how much is true today in corporate America, but certainly to some degree.
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And so here's what I threw in that I knew was going to be the red meat.
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Because it was a conversation of film people and writers, who are my natural enemies, as you know.
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I always joke that when somebody comes in and says something rational to me, I just check their profile.
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It's the artists that never have the good arguments.
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They're just really worked up and they never have any kind of analytical structure to anything they say.
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So I threw in the fact that the Dilbert TV show got canceled because it was a white TV show,
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and UPN had decided to become an African-American-centric network the second season that I was on.
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I knew that they would say, Scott, there's no such thing as discrimination against white people.
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They were just trying to let you down easily by telling you it was because of your race.
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Now, remember, I always kid that the artists and writers, people in the TV business, people in the arts,
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they don't have even the slightest bit of analytical ability to the point where it's just funny to watch them try to think.
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They decided that in three separate times in my life that somebody thought the easy way to break me down,
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the easy way to let me down, and their belief is that I'm actually just incompetent at all those things,
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so that I was incompetent at the TV show, I was incompetent at my corporate jobs,
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and that the way the bosses decide to let me down easily was by being racists.
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In what world do you let somebody down easily by telling them their ethnicity and their gender is the problem?
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You know, Scott, you don't have the training for this job.
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Or how about you've made some mistakes, maybe you would be more suited in some other job.
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Maybe we could move you to a function where your skills and your interests are better matched.
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There are quite a few ways to let somebody down easily.
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One of the ways that's not on the list, to tell them that their gender and their ethnicity is the problem.
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So that's what artists think when they hear my story.
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Now the other thing they think is that I'm lying.
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And so I was just very curious, like, can you develop your theory a little bit better about how I'm lying about it?
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Was it your theory that my theory was that by saying I'd lost three separate jobs because of my ethnicity and or gender, that I was going to come out ahead on that?
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Does anybody think we live in a world in which saying that in public is in any possible way good for me?
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The reason I'm trending is because I'm being attacked by people calling me a liar.
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I literally put the tweet there because I thought it would be funny to watch all these artists attack me for lying and making it up.
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And I thought, well, that will just draw attention to me.
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And the more attention it draws to me, the more I can say, let's have a full discussion, because I think we should just consider all the elements.
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And you've watched me long enough to know that I will go deep in listening to and taking seriously the claims of black Americans because they're all legitimate.
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You know, they're all based on legitimate stuff, right?
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So, you know, I'm anti-statute because I listen, because I listened.
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And I said, well, you know, why does this bother you?
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I can see why people might want the historical advantage, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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But I think I'd side with the people who say, why would you have offensive statues?
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I've talked about how to do reparations when most of you were just mad at me.
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I've talked to Black Lives Matter, tried to work out.
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I've offered help to Colin Kaepernick, literally and publicly, to try to see, hey, you got problems?
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So I think that I've done everything I can do to understand as deeply as much, you know, the black situation in America.
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And if there's anything else that I need to know, open to that too.
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You've seen me put the work in to take it seriously.
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I've worked on the, with Bill Pulte, we worked on the blight removal stuff, which is primarily for the benefit of the black community.
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I have some other projects that you don't know about that are entirely for the benefit of the black community.
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But it is also true that white people are widely discriminated against.
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I'm not saying that it wasn't even a greater good to have some discrimination in the 80s that helped to balance things out.
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I don't, I don't even have an argument about it.
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Now, I read on CNN that apparently there's some, there's a little bit of pushback against Indian Americans.
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And the pushback is that this is CNN's opinion piece today.
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It's CNN's opinion, one person on CNN, that the so-called brown people from India should be siding more with the black people who are protesting.
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But the problem is that the brown people are being considered the ethnicity that are succeeding.
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The brown people from India in particular, their demographic group tends to do really well.
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And apparently they're not exactly siding with the people whose skin color matches them the most.
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They're not strongly identifying with Black Lives Matter.
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Shouldn't you be on the same side to which I say?
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That is the most loserish opinion I've ever heard in my life.
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The most loserish opinion in the world is that Indians from India in America should be siding with Black Lives Matter because they have similar skin color.
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And that's just like an opinion piece on CNN that people just read, oh, that looks good.
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And I read it and I think, this is literally the most racist thing I've seen ever.
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The most racist thing I've seen ever is that you should be on somebody's side because of their skin color.
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Now, I've said this before, and it's the sort of thing you can't say until you're so deep into the argument that you've given yourself a little space.
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So part of what I'm doing is being provocative intentionally in this space where most of you would get canceled for doing half of what I'm doing.
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Because if I can make my freedom of speech big enough, then I can actually say useful things.
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At the moment, the field for free speech on this topic of Black Lives Matter, etc., is so small that the things you need to talk about to make it better, you can't talk about.
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So this is like job one. Job one is to expand the ability to have an actual conversation.
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Now, there are things that you could say to any black person in person that they would not be offended in as long as, you know, you were polite and your intentions were good, etc.
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But I find that there are things you just can't say in public that you can totally say to anybody individually, and it's not even slightly offensive, which is where the danger is.
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Because if you lose that difference and say, well, I can say this easily to my, you know, my coworker or somebody I know in person, it wouldn't be a problem at all.
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It's just when it goes large that, you know, the problem happens.
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And here's the thing that needs to be said, and I've teased it a little bit, but I'm going to start pushing it harder.
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Why is it that Indian Americans are far more successful than black Americans?
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But the biggest difference among people is not skin color.
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And if we don't recognize that that's the big difference, then I think we can't really fix anything.
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Because we're not dealing with a true enough picture of the world to know where the buttons are.
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You're dealing with this artificial picture of the world.
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If you were to take the people who had the same strategy as the people who came from India, and as a demographic group, it has been reported they're unusually successful compared to, say, other groups in the same situation.
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Now, I don't like to use the word work ethic, because that feels a little racist, honestly.
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When you say, oh, there's a difference in work ethic, to my brain, that's just racist, I think.
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As soon as you get into, oh, it's your nature to be a certain way, first of all, that doesn't apply to any individual.
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Because the individual differences are all over the place.
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But I just don't think that's where you should focus.
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It just feels like there's nothing productive if you're starting to think like that.
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But, if you said to yourself, the Indian Americans came, had this simple strategy.
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Now, I think that you should only compare the people who have the same strategy to each other.
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Because if you compare strategy to strategy, and then there's still a big difference, I would say, oh, I think you found some racism.
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Because your brains are pattern recognition machines.
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Confirmation bias and reality look the same to us.
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So, I feel like where the conversation needs to go is to stop talking about statistical differences between people with something in common with their skin color and say,
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how about the difference between people who used a strategy we know to succeed versus the people who used a strategy we know never works?
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Why are we comparing strategies that don't work to strategies that do work and concluding that racism is the problem?
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So, I think the fact that we're focusing so much on race tells you that nobody wants a solution.
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Because individuals, of course, want solutions.
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If you're just a citizen minding your own business, yeah, you want a solution.
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I think that there needs to be two models and we only have one.
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The one model that conservatives sort of approve of, if you will, is it's got to be a nuclear family, you know, a strong mother and father and then everything goes well.
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If you're lucky enough to have two good parents, you know, who love you and they can give you a good strategy in life, that's great.
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Nothing would be better than that, in my opinion.
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You know, what's the point of having a strategy that you know can't work?
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Do you think you can take all the people in the world and say, all right, we've solved it.
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It's because we're not good at picking somebody who's good for us that's going to last forever.
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So there needs to be some kind of other model where a kid can thrive despite having one parent.
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Now, which of these three things can you not do if you only have one parent?
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Can you not study because you only have one parent?
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Do you have no choice but to get into crime because you only have one parent?
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Do you have a choice about doing drugs in high school because you only have one parent?
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So there's something that tells me that while I completely accept that everything's easier if you had two loving, qualified parents, it's just not real.
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So it's a fairytale to imagine that's some kind of a solution.
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If you want to push it as, I'd like more of this, that makes sense because it does seem to be a model that works, I would say objectively speaking.
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All right, so just to follow up on the Dilbert TV show story.
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So then the artists who were bad at analyzing things went all CNN on me.
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And when I say they went all CNN, they found some information that was not the complete story, and they made some fake news, and that's how I got trending.
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And the fake news is that they discovered that when the show was canceled, the ratings were really, really low.
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It's not because UPN decided to become an African-American-focused network, which, by the way, that part nobody questions because that's in the record.
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They say, no, even though it is true that UPN was becoming an African-American-focused network at the time you were canceled, the reason you were canceled is because your ratings were low.
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The ratings were low, and I did say that's why I was canceled.
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I also didn't tell the truth about any of this stuff for a long time.
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This is the part that the geniuses who are doing their little internet sleuthing don't get.
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The reason the ratings were low is that I lost my time slot from the season before where ratings were good.
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Now, in the TV business, that's sort of binary.
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You're either good enough to get renewed or you're not.
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If you can get renewed, then you can build an audience.
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Because even Seinfeld had a small audience in the first season.
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The Seinfeld audience was actually very small in the first season.
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But because they got renewed, they found their feet and their voice and they became big.
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Dilber too, had actually better, probably better than Seinfeld in terms of the first season.
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Because it was, it did well in its time slot on UPN.
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And I think it was to, do you remember a young teen black star named Mandy?
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And I may have this wrong, but I think she was the one who took that time slot.
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But anyway, because her show did well, at about that time they also decided,
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hey, let's build something around this and make it the African-American network.
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So, losing the time slot to an African-American product,
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which turned their focus to, hey, let's do more of this because this seems to work.
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So, while the problem, the proximate problem was losing the time slot to another property,
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the kill shot is that it no longer made sense to try to move it or promote it or make it work
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because it wasn't going to be there next year no matter what.
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And that's the part that the geniuses who got Dilbert trending today don't know.
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Did you all see the video of the St. Louis gun-toting homeowners?
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They're standing in front of some high-end home.
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And it looks like Black Lives Matter and maybe Antifa were starting to gather.
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And before the crowd got big, you see the guy out there with his big-ass gun.
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And the wife's got a pistol, and she's got her finger on the trigger,
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which is not exactly ideal gun safety situation because she probably had the –
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I'll bet she had the safety off, and she had her hand on the trigger,
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And apparently it was enough to make them decide that this wasn't the house they were going to vandalize.
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Yeah, poor trigger discipline is what somebody called it.
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So the fact that anything works, what does that tell you about it?
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When something works, people do more of it, right?
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Somebody says it's AR-style, and that's what I was wondering.
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If it's technically an AR, or are there other things that look like it?
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Do you think that this is going to stop before some homeowner guns down somebody from Black Lives Matter or Antifa?
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I feel like there's going to have to be some pretty serious gunfire before it's over.
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It's a prediction that if, you know, you always worry about the slippery slope.
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Well, I think the slippery slope will slip until the suburbs.
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Because the suburbs are well-armed in the ways the cities are not.
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And there's no homeowner under that situation who won't take out a gun.
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So you should see Black Lives Matter and Antifa meeting armed resistance.
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If your neighbor is being threatened and you've got a gun, you might come out with your gun.
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So I think guns are going to be the solution to what we're seeing.
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And it won't be, it looks like it's not going to be government guns because the government has been neutered by excellent psychological warfare.
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Psychological warfare meaning that if a government gun kills a black person during any of this, then the violence will increase instead of decrease.
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If a black, let's say, a Black Lives Matter person or Antifa gets killed by a homeowner in the act of some kind of vandalism, America is going to be kind of happy about that.
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When I say America, I don't mean Black Lives Matter.
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I mean that all the people who have homes that don't want them vandalized, all the people who want the protesters to be reined in are going to be pretty happy the first time some of them get gunned down on somebody's lawn.
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Now, it looks like there's nothing that would stop that from happening at this point.
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Now, the story of the St. Louis people who were well armed, they had good control.
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They had relatively good self-control because I think I might have fired off at least a warning shot.
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I think I would have put a couple of rounds into my own lawn just to tell them it was loaded.
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And I think that would have hastened their retreat.
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But that probably would have been illegal to do.
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Sooner or later, there's going to be a homeowner who technically breaks the law by exacting some violence on some protesters.
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There will be a homeowner who kills or wounds a protester.
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Should I ever be chosen for a jury in which a homeowner is being charged with overreacting, and it would be the overreacting that would make it illegal.
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So, something that is not clearly self-defense.
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But it's charged as something more like murder because the person wasn't threatening them but was on their lawn with a big crowd of people behind them shouting, we're going to kill you.
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You know, it's like it wasn't immediate harm, but on the other hand, it was an angry crowd that have killed other people and beaten other people to death, and they're on your lawn, and you've got children inside, and so you shot them.
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So, you shot somebody dead on your lawn, for whatever reason, you thought you didn't have a choice.
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Now, let's say that it is technically completely illegal and that homeowner, under normal circumstances, should go to jail.
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If you put me on the jury, I'm not going to convict them.
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I'm not going to convict any property owner for any violence against any protester, regardless of the specifics.
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While this situation is ongoing, this is not a permanent thing, because if things calm down, you want the letter of the law to be followed.
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But at the moment, I'm just declaring that for the benefit of the United States, and as a patriot, that I would not be involved in any jury in which I would even consider a guilty verdict for anybody who defended their property with violence during this situation.
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Don't hurt anybody, unless it's self-defense and you just have no choice.
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I'm just saying that's the way it's going to go.
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But, should it happen, and I assume it will, anybody who is on that jury and is willing to convict a property owner for being a little overzealous in protecting their property, it's not going to happen with me on the jury.
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I don't care if this person opened up and just started spraying the crowd.
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I will not convict anybody for protecting their property.
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And, by the way, it doesn't matter what nationality they are.
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I'm not saying I'm going to let all white people off.
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If you're protecting your property, if you put me on the jury, it's at least a hung jury.
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Actually, if you put me on the jury, it's going to be whatever I want it to be.
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Because you really shouldn't put a hypnotist on a jury.
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Do you know one of the questions that lawyers should ask but never do?
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If you're a trained hypnotist, you shouldn't be on a jury.
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Because the rest of the jury is going to just agree with you.
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Oh, you might as well just have one person on the jury.
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Now, I know you don't believe that, but trust me.
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I saw on Twitter today that Twitter has suspended the account of Sidney Powell,
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it takes a while to find out what their reason was.
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Somebody says that the St. Louis people were lawyers.
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So if your vehicle is in your driveway, that's not part of your home.
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No, I would also say that if that's your property,
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I don't care where your property is, even if it's just your car.
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If somebody in a car runs over a protester while other protesters are threatening the car,
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I don't even, I'm not even going to listen to the details.
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So let's find out why Sidney Powell got, you know, which is weird,
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because if an attorney is getting kicked off of Twitter,
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don't you think the attorney would know what she was tweeting and what was risky and what the rules are?
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There's something weird about this story, and I can't wait to find out what it is.
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The Daily Beast decided to do a hit piece on Van Jones.
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He helped advise the executive order that the president signed about police.
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And you think to yourself, well, wait a minute.
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Van Jones, working with the administration, already has a track record of successfully working with him on prison reform,
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something very popular on both the left and the right, and it got passed.
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So isn't Van Jones a rare, free-thinking, a rare, non-partisan, well, I won't say non-partisan, everybody's partisan,
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say a non-extremist, most useful guy in the country?
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Like actually somebody who can make something happen that matters, that helps people?
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Here's why they don't like Van Jones, or at least the Daily Beast attacks him.
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It's because he helped advise, now we don't know how much of the final output was from Van Jones and how much wasn't.
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But when he went on CNN, he said that the deal was, you know, a step in the right direction, essentially.
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He did not say it's all good and we got everything that's worth getting.
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He said that it's a good, preliminary, solid step that people on both sides should like, basically, paraphrasing.
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He did not say, when he was talking about it publicly, while he was saying it was good,
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he did not say that he was one of the people who advised on it.
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And so Daily Beast thinks that this is worth an attack piece to ruin his reputation in public,
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But attempting to, because he advised on something very important, vital to the country,
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tearing the country apart, one of the few people who is both credible and useful and just wants,
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based on everything I've seen, just wants good results.
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One of the most helpful, self-sacrificing people in the entire frickin' United States,
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So he did not, he did not fully disclose that the executive order he was saying has good parts,
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wish it could be more, but it has some good parts.
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He did not disclose that he was one of many people that Jared Kushner got advice from.
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Do you think everybody who advises the White House brags about it in public?
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Do you think everybody who advises the White House wants you to know that in public,
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I say it is completely fair to not disclose that.
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Do you know anybody who has advised the White House and did not disclose it?
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It is very routine to advise the White House and not disclose it.
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Because disclosing, hey, I advised the White House yesterday, is just sort of a dick thing
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You should let the White House present their case any way they want to.
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If you want to help, if you want to help the White House, how about you keep your own
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You don't take credit for something the president's doing because you gave advice for 10 minutes
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The White House and the administration, if you consider the entire administration, they
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A lot of the blue check conservatives who have something to say have been asked for advice
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You don't advise somebody in the White House and then go talk about it on TV.
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Now, if the story was that you were invited to the White House, the Oval Office, they took
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a picture, then of course you say that you were there and you talked to the president.
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And when they say, what did you say to the president, what do you say?
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So here is Van Jones, not trying to claim credit for anything, not talking at a school
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about who he may have advised, exactly like you'd want him to, exactly the way you'd wish
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The only guy who's trying to fucking do something useful?
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Now, it made it very clear that at least the Daily Beast doesn't want a solution.
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I mean, you don't have to read too hard between the lines to realize that they wanted to fight
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more than they wanted any kind of movement forward.
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There's a story about a company named Perform Path, a Lake Mary's, Florida company.
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I guess you can just replace your light fixtures or your bulbs.
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I don't know if it's a bulb or the light fixture.
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But you can basically put in lighting with ultraviolet, and they're aiming at team and venues, you
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know, places where you have team sports and spectators.
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And they're looking to basically use this UV light to disinfect the entire area all the
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But I'm just telling you that that's out there.
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I'm just going to give you the most positive potential.
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And I would think they need a little more science to know for sure.
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They do know that the UV has an effect on viruses.
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What they don't know is if you put it in a lot of ceiling lights in a lot of places, do
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I mean, common sense tells you it's worth trying.
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Could it be that we will develop technology that makes it safer against all viruses forever?
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Yeah, it's a specific type of UV light, not generic UV light.
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This could be one of the biggest things in human development.
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Because think about all the damn viruses from the regular cold to every other kind of flu
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If the UV light can kill those things without hurting people, and it can basically flush
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it out of indoor spaces, if you can get rid of viruses indoors with just light bulbs,
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just make sure you have a couple of those lights in each room.
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If that does it, this is one of the greatest, I mean, this would be as big as when humanity
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We've talked about the Yanni and Laurel audios.
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So there are audio illusions in which you can imagine you hear something one way, and then
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you can just imagine it another way, and you hear it the other way.
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So given that audio illusions are established as a thing, we know we can make people hear
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Now imagine a bad character, a bad, let's say a country, that wants to start a revolution
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or a riot in another country, and they want to do it with misinformation.
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One of the technologies that apparently is available is to send a message that half the
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people will listen to, and they'll say, I don't hear anything wrong with that.
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And the other half will say, oh my God, are you listening to the same thing I am?
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What I hear is that they're Nazis who want to take over the world, or whatever it is.
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So if somebody created an intentional audio illusion, let's say it had somebody you thought
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was a good politician, but the audio illusion made it sound like they were using the N-word.
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Now I think of this because there's a video of Joe Biden using the N-word, that I heard
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So as soon as I heard it, I was like, okay, that's a picture of Joe Biden, his lips are
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moving, and I clearly hear that N-word coming out of his mouth.
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But as soon as you hear it, you go, no, that didn't happen.
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Now it turns out that the nature of the fakery is that it was just out of context, and he
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was quoting someone else while condemning them.
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So if you know he's quoting someone else and condemning them, that changes the context.
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Now, should he have used the word in its natural form while condemning them?
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Well, remember, it was pretty far back in time when it wasn't as obvious that that would
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He was obviously, his intentions were right, and the times were different.
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But it reminded me that how easy it would be to have a piece of misinformation in which
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people could clearly, half of the people would say, no, it's not on the video.
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And then the other half would say, ah, it's right there.
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Open your ears, you must be lying to us, because we hear those bad words clearly.
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So there is a potential for really bad mischief, the kind that would actually destroy a country
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What are the odds that a pandemic would make masks mandatory at the same time that the protests
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Now, the conspiracy theorists would say that everything from the coronavirus through the
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statue stuff is all planned by some cabal of Marxists somewhere in the sky.
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I think it is an actual, just legitimate coincidence, but a really bad one.
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Because if people couldn't wear masks, how large would the protests be?
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Now, as many people said, the looters weren't wearing masks.
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You know, a lot of those people weren't wearing masks.
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To which I say, they only could do what they were doing because there were so many people.
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And there were only so many people because so many of them could wear masks.
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If you took the masks away from the non-looters, there would be no looters, because there wouldn't
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And then the police would have numbers, and they would just stop the looters.
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It's the number of people that gives them their power.
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And the only way they can get the number of people, even if a third of them are not wearing
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masks, the only way you can get that big number is with masks.
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And I would say that you can't solve this problem as long as they're wearing masks.
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You can't solve it as long as it's mandatory to wear masks.
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And I don't know, you could test this and see if it makes things worse or better.
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Suppose the police could very calmly just detain a member of Antifa, not even necessarily somebody
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And let's say there's an anti-mask law, which is the anti-mask law, of course, would be overridden
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But the pandemic one is sort of a particular one for a particular purpose.
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Could the police stop somebody and say, just for the purposes of identification, we have
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But since I don't want you to be in danger, we'll stand six feet away.
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I'd like you to drop your mask and we'll just take a picture.
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Then you can put your mask back on and you're free to go.
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But it does seem to me that if the rumor started catching on, that the police were asking people
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to pull their mask down to take a picture, and if they refused, they would be arrested
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because there's, let's say, there's an anti-mask law, which not everybody has.
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So it seems to me that you could at least have a shot at taking a lot of the energy out of the
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protests by allowing the police to take a photo of somebody with their mask down just
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temporarily in the safest possible way so that you're not putting them at risk for the
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But it also could just be a reason for a fight and cause problems.
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Biden says shoot the looters in the legs and then remove their masks.
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Yeah, going inside a bank with masks is kind of scary.
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And let me tell you, if I were a bank teller and all of my customers were wearing masks,
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I would not be a happy camper because I got robbed twice when I was a teller.
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Barr said all 14 terrorist task forces have been activated, meaning that they're going
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Somebody says it's a brilliant idea, but it will reveal that the politicians are in the
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So one of the things I'm hearing from smart people is this, that the reason there doesn't
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seem to be as much focus on solutions is that the organizers don't want them.
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And I think that that's closer to true than not true.
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While it is definitely true that there are plenty of protesters who want a solution to
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police violence, it's certainly not true that that's what's driving the protests.
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What's driving the protests is the organizers, the TV, the social media, and it's a small
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group of people who are manipulating the larger group to do what they do.
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They need infinite conflict to take this to its broader conclusion, which is power, of course.
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And I think the, as I said earlier, the only way that's going to stop, ah, somebody says
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in the comments, a new Rasmussen poll says nearly 40% of voters believe Biden has dementia.
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Now, you don't have to look at the details to know that that's divided by largely along
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So, you know, obviously there are more Republicans who think Biden is, has dementia than there
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Well, I think you're going to see the numbers somewhere in the 20% range of Democrats who
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Somebody's saying that 20% of Democrats think Biden should be checked for dementia.
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Now, I think technically it's probably more about he should be checked for it as opposed
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to he hasn't, because we're not doctors, right?
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It's more about maybe we should check this out.
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I think that's always the underlying assumption.
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Now, if 20% of Democrats think Biden has dementia, and 100% of the people watching this
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periscope probably think it, what's up with the other 80% of Democrats?
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So there are 80% of Democrats who can look at Biden, and according to them, according to
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What would explain the gigantic difference in people seeing a problem, obviously, and people
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Don't you think some of them are lying because they just hate Trump more than they care about
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I don't know if it's most of them or just a few of them, but some of us lying.
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But I'd like to suggest that this is the ideal setup for cognitive dissonance.
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Now, if you've ever had trouble understanding what cognitive dissonance is, and you just
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wanted like a really clean example, this is it.
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This is the cleanest example of a setup that is guaranteed to create cognitive dissonance.
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The setup that you're seeing with Biden getting this far, but yet clearly having signs of dementia,
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is the perfect setup to generate cognitive dissonance.
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In fact, you could run an experiment with just, if you could find some way to do an experiment
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with a sample of people and give them this setup, you would see cognitive dissonance half
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of the time at least, at least half, maybe 100%.
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People wanted to beat Trump, and it's their number one most important thing.
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They've gone through this entire primary process in which the Democrats were looking for the
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finest, most effective leader that they could pick out of all Democrats.
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And now, in order to get that thing they want most, they have to back Biden as their champion.
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What would happen to your brain if you found yourself in a situation in which you had to
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back a guy who obviously had dementia because to do otherwise violates everything you think
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about yourself, which is, I'm pretty good at picking politicians and voting, and I'm a
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member of the Democratic group, and we're the reasonable ones.
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So, obviously, we're going to pick somebody who understands science and, very importantly,
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Because a big problem we have is that Trump guy keeps lying and saying things that are
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wrong and some facts are wrong, and we can't have that.
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So, we need a person who's famous for telling the truth.
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Because what are all these clips about Biden lying and lying and lying about his own resume?
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Like, he's on tape saying he had three degrees when he has one, and he said, oh, I forgot.
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I forgot I only have one college degree, not three.
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So, you're a Democrat, and you get caught in this trap.
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The only way you can get rid of Trump is to accept somehow that Biden is a functional person.
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It's the perfect setup for cognitive dissonance.
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So, my guess is, based on my experience, that most of those people who say, no, I don't see it,
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That most of the people, I don't know if it's 51% or 90%, but my experience says that by far most of the people
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actually are perceiving a world in which Biden is perfectly fine.
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It's wild to know that the perceptions can be modified in real time.
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I mean, you and they, you could stand right next to them.
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They could be standing right next to you and watching one of those compilation clips of Biden just mentally falling apart.
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And you could say, all right, well, you see it now, right?
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People of a certain age maybe will reach for a word a little bit longer.
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We're looking at the same video at the same time.
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And you'll say, I don't know if you're telling me the truth.
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Now this is very different than when the anti-Trumpers say to any Trump supporter,
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but you see he's not passing the fact-checking, right?
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they seem to be completely aware of what they voted for and what they got,
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But you don't see too many Democrats, if any, say,
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but I'd like a mentally incompetent president because I think it's a step up.