Episode 1104 Scott Adams： RNC Report Card, Wisconsin Trouble and More
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On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss the tragic shooting in Wisconsin, the "boogaloo boy" incident, and the recent rioting and looting in the streets of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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fill it with your favorite liquid i kind of like my coffee and join me now for the unparalleled
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pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the
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we took one sip well there's a lot of stuff going on let's jump right into it are you ready
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yeah we'll talk about wisconsin in a moment we'll let a few more people get in here one thing i didn't
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see coming is that the government the trump administration has declared the fentanyl dealer
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in china the big fentanyl dealer whose name we know weirdly we know who he is he's the big fentanyl
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dealer who sends the fentanyl to the united states and kills our citizens and they've designated it a
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foreign national what is the word a foreign national no foreign narcotics kingpin designation
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which allows them to sanction anything that this guy's attached to
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so this guy's other entities will be starting to get squeezed at this point good keep the pressure on
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so the big news of course uh there's a tragic shooting in kenosha wisconsin uh you've probably
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caught the news by now but a uh young man was he 18 years old was allegedly part of uh the boogaloo
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boys or maybe not or maybe he was just there as a local protecting businesses from looters
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it's all fog of war right now so i think we should hold off on who he was and why he was there
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but of course social media has decided he's a white supremacist is he a white supremacist
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uh so far those claims have come with no evidence of such a thing anything's possible but remember
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nick sandman if you're going to call this guy a white supremacist you better come with some evidence
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because i think nick sandman showed that it's a bad idea to start labeling people based on your
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first impression so uh i think i've been telling you for some time that the obvious way that these
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protests slash riots slash looting episodes were going to go is there was only one way this was going
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to go under the assumption that the police would not get more aggressive which seemed likely
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and that the local uh government would not let the federal government come in and
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uh take care of the uh the the violent stuff so given that there was going to be no adult
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supervision and that was intentional that the the local the local leadership decided to not have
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uh any kind of adult leadership during the protests slash riots slash looting
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so it was obvious that the locals would end up arming themselves because what else would happen
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i mean really can you think of any other outcome it's it's obvious that this had to happen
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but what's more obvious is that this is the beginning not the you know not the the one off
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it's pretty obvious that more militia are gonna and maybe just more citizens are going to bring
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heavier arms heavier meaning more than a pistol and they're going to start showing up
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now how often will this turn into an event like this more there will be more of it and unfortunately
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there's probably no other way it's going to stop now you could get the worst case scenario which is
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that the protesters also arm now if the protesters arm and obviously some of them or a lot of them
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actually are armed but so far they haven't they haven't uh you know started using it in terms of the
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as a protest so you might see a whole different level in coming nights of who's armed and who's willing
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to use those arms but ultimately this is the way it had to go so i feel bad for anybody who gets hurt
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i don't encourage any violence against anybody but as a prediction there's only one way this can go
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and it won't go forever it will end with more of this uh the only other way we could get an off ramp
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is if this or maybe there's some you know violence after this that's sort of a copycat
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usually you could count on the copycat stuff so the it's an easy prediction that there'll be more
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more that looks a lot like last night with the uh so there was a young white guy unfortunately it
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matters that he's white because that's the state of things uh shot three people i think two of them
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may have passed and he may have been there to protect against looting it looks like there's a
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video of the police being friendly with him and actually thanking him for his help so i think the
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police believed he was there just as an armed an armed i don't know citizen and as long as he wasn't
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pointing his gun at people i guess the police were okay with that uh i don't think they're okay now
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somebody says one died so remember it's fog of war everything you hear about this is going to be
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um unlikely to be true so wait you know wait at least 48 hours before you you're sure of anything
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that happened out of this event so i think that there is now uh a an exit meaning that uh you can now
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see where the end of it is which is it's going to be more of this and that will in turn cause people
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to get a little bit more serious about it and either the law enforcement or the federal government
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will come in and end it or or the the locals will end it it's possible the locals will just do more of
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this and it'll just become more of a tragedy all right uh let's talk about something else because
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that's that's pretty pretty dark so there's something that happened at cnn this week and
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mostly last night and if you didn't catch it it's the most mind-boggling thing you've ever seen in your
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life cnn has made some kind of an editorial decision to change the way they're framing things
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somewhat suddenly or it's a coincidence um or or it's temporary it might be temporary but last night
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cnn almost became republican and i didn't know what i was seeing that they completely left their
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their crazy frame of everything orange man does is bad and everything everything the left does is good
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they pretty much reversed it last night if you watched the coverage cnn was saying in fairly
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unambiguous language that the rnc night two was really good now a lot of it had to do with the fact
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that the rnc um very strategically let's say made sure that they hit all the right notes for identity
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politics so they really did a great job of featuring these successful women in the trump campaign which
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is actually a really it's it's a strong spot that they have not really emphasized until now so if you
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were if you were a cnn viewer or let's say a democrat you you were watching the rnc you probably didn't know
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what you were seeing because you'd see all these successful black republicans talking about things and
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you'd say i didn't know there were black republicans uh of course nobody says that exactly but you
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understand the hyperbole uh just turning it on and watching the republicans create a program
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that involved lots of republicans deciding what's the best thing to do for republicans and for the
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country presumably and they decided that the best thing to do was to show lots of support for every
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disadvantaged group every marginalized group and they put on quite a show and i would say that
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they basically took all the ammo away from cnn cnn would love to have criticized them for not doing
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enough for women not highlighting you know black issues but they hit them all and they hit them hard
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and uh so even even david axelrod was saying okay you got to give it to him that was a really good
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production in terms of a political production it was extraordinarily well done so i'd say the rnc
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has now nailed two in a row like really really well some of the highlights if you didn't watch it nick
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sandman did his little speech about his situation i thought he did really well i wasn't expecting much
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just because of his age you know if you see somebody that age and you say okay you're going
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to be on you know the biggest the biggest stage in the world and we're not going to give you any
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practice it's just your first day how about giving your first speech ever and it'll be to the entire world
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and he nailed it if if you didn't watch it he's an impressive kid meaning that uh he's got some game
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and he actually nailed it now of course the uh the uh the the i guess the punctuation to his little
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speech was when he put on his baggy hat which was quite a cool moment i gotta say it was a good moment
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before that uh and uh the president really hit the the uh all the right emotional feels a number of times
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uh i i caught the uh the show late so i had to catch up on his pardon of uh john ponder so i guess
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john ponder didn't know that he was there to get pardoned now he was all he's out of prison so the
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pardon i guess does what does it take away his record i don't know the details of it but he was uh
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john ponder had been convicted at one point and now he had he'd been active in the community helping
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people who were trying to transition back from prison to life to regular life and apparently he was very
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successful at it so uh watching him and being best friends with the police officer that is just a plus
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imagery i mean the there was a lot of genius in that production this is not normal if if you really
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studied how well the rnc pulled this together the first two nights it's extraordinary it's this is
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not normal work you're seeing the best of the best in very short time pull together something that's
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really impressive and uh to create that moment where john ponder found out on on film i don't know if
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it was live or it was on film probably live but uh but watching his expression as he found out that
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he was there to get pardoned was extraordinary uh you have to watch it it's totally worth watching
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the clip just to watch that moment i didn't think it would be as powerful as it was but it's really
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powerful um then uh some other stars i guess it's david cameron the african-american attorney general of
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kentucky uh as even i think even cnn called it his star turn and i'm thinking what am i watching
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they actually gave him a full just an a plus what he's a republican and cnn just said a plus and i'm
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waiting for the and and he killed the baby you know and he murdered a person nothing just a plus
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star turn he might be like a rising star black man in the uh and in the republican party and he
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wasn't the only one uh people were also talking about tim scott as being you know maybe auditioning
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for 2024 to run for president as republican another african-american man who's clearly in line for
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a good shot at the presidency as a republican pretty good uh so it would have been hard for
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cnn to criticize this thing but let me give you some other high points all right now obviously the this
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convention stuff is all uh it's all tricks right it's all staged theatrical um it's a little bit
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heavy-handed as in hey look at our you know black people who are doing well look at our women who
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are doing well and yeah excuse me i'll be right back
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i'll sign it for you but i'm i'm live to the world right now
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so i have to take a little take care of a little business
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and i'll get right back to you hold on a second here just hold on a second
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so anyway uh cnn loved this thing here's it was my favorite part now if you're looking for how well it
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was produced there are moments um i was talking about tim scott so the republican party showed
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legitimately at least two uh black men in the republican party who you would say you look at
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them for five minutes and you say yeah i could see them as president i could totally see them as president
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that's very powerful yeah bett middler somebody says bett middler she was freaking out and said bad
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things about melania all right let's talk about melania um cnn was
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praising her republicans are praising her uh one of the most successful speeches
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you're ever going to see um i think president trump is really happy about her today and if he's not
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he needs to he needs to he needs to be because she nailed it now there's something about melania that
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um is you know different different than any politician because she's mostly about bringing
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the empathy and the caring and stuff and because she did a good job on the empathy and caring part
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that does um that does sort of cross over to her husband in other words uh you have a hard time
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imagining that first of all melania seems totally genuine you know all of the the caring and the
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empathy for melania i think everybody agrees that's real you know nobody thinks that's not real
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and and then you say to yourself well she married this guy who we don't think is so empathetic right
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but maybe he is because it certainly it certainly confuses things doesn't it
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so i think that she did a great job of humanizing the president and showing that you know at least his
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his team has empathy and one assumes that he's got some of that too just by association but here's my
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favorite part uh if you saw the beginning part where she um did the long tracking walk
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uh on the way to the podium that was genius and here's why it's genius most people can't walk
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and by that i mean could you imagine anybody else who they would give a long tracking shot to so you
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see them walking toward the camera but for a long ways it wasn't just like you know here's a shot and then
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cut away they made a deal of showing her as a tiny you know a tiny distant figure and then walking toward
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the camera and what was genius about this is you could you could pick a thousand people who couldn't
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walk the way she walks because she's a trained model so when she walks it's literally professional
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walking i don't know if i don't know if you were like catching it at the time but whoever had the
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genius to catch the professional walking before she actually did the speech that's that's beyond
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good work that's like next level stuff because not only did it give you a sense of distance because
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this is the other thing you did if you're watching these televised things without audiences or without
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much of an audience they can look flat but think of the dimensionality you've got when they did this
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long shot down the the sidewalk you saw a tiny melania who let's be honest the audience was waiting
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for her right she was you knew she was going to be one of the highlights and people were interested
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because even if they didn't like the president they kind of never interested in melania she's just
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interesting in a lot of different ways so to to have that you know just beautiful walk-up introduction
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give give give some depth to the viewer uh it was just smart just smart
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yeah and of course you know everybody will talk about her outfit and uh all that so it gives them
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lots to talk about that's not not too serious and maybe we needed that uh so the the critics were
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completely out of ammo and they were they're starting to complain about the hatch act which says you can't
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use the white house or i don't know maybe it's maybe it's all federal property i'm not sure but
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she can't use the white house for political stuff unless you're the president now of course the
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president can do it which makes sense it's not like anybody knows he's not the president so why not do it
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there but are you going to apply that to melania i don't know if the hatch act applies to her as first
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lady she's not elected so maybe she's exempt but they tried to say i was watching joy reed i think
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say that uh chad wolf uh who is what is he he's he did the immigration uh ceremony thing they're saying
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that the hatch act was violated because he did his little thing swearing in citizens and i'm thinking
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oh my god trump did it again he lured them into criticizing the most unimportant thing there were
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that happened in the entire country there is nothing less important nothing if you made the
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longest list you could of the problems the united states you would be down to like problem number ten
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thousand before the problem of chad wolf talked for 60 seconds in a building he wasn't supposed to be
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in while he was standing next to the president who is completely allowed to do a political act
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now is it a political act that he swore in um five or six uh new citizens i don't know is that a
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political act would you consider it a political act per se to see somebody sworn in as a citizen
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i don't know if you're going to make a complaint about that that is the smallest smallest little
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pico problem in the united states yeah technically is is joy reed technically right i don't know do you
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care do you care no so trump once again tricked them into talking about the only thing no audience cares
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about that even even msnbc was probably saying uh seriously really you're completely out of ammo
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so your complaint was that chad wolf did his job because i think swearing in people's probably in in the
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domain of his job uh that's pretty small complaint so you're doing great but let's talk about the
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you swearing in as uh as anderson cooper noted and it was a great moment of cnn tv i i hope you saw it
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live because anderson cooper said that watching the president's wearing these uh these new citizens
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who had come from a variety of countries that anderson cooper actually went there and he said it looks like
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they were selected to be from the quote shithole countries and i thought to myself did you really
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say that did you really say that these people you know even though he's obviously trying to quote
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president trump from long ago are you really you really tying these these six people who just want to be
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citizens they just they just want to be good people be good to the kids have good families contribute to
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our country they just they just want to be citizens and anderson cooper drags them into this
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shithole country conversation you know i will admit that the president probably was trying to counter
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you know that story and that's that seems somewhat obvious but here's the fun part and then
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anderson cooper says it seemed i don't know what word to use jarring or discordant were two of the
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words that i heard last night it seemed jarring because on one hand the president had said a bad
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thing about the countries that i don't know if any of them were from those countries which is part of
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what's bad about what anderson said but he said it was jarring that the president would say bad things
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about it and then he would act so nice to people from you know at least countries in
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that class if you will of not the not the superpowers and i thought to myself anderson cooper why is this
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jarring to you was he unaware that the president is my microphone not good is is the president unaware
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or i'm sorry is anderson cooper unaware that the president has always been 100 percent in turn in
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favor of legal immigration is it the first time cnn is finding out that the president of the united
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states favors legal immigration because i don't think there was any discord there i don't think there was
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anything that was in conflict there and the fact that he thought so was just mind-blowing because
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only cnn and you know the fake news made a fake story out of this and so his own fake story wasn't
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matching with his own observation and he was trying to understand why his own fake news didn't match his
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observation on live tv it was a great moment you know it was a small movement but it was great
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all right um one of the best lines of the night that made me just go what was uh david cameron the ag
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from kentucky who referred to biden as a backwards thinker that's really good i don't know if anybody
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helps him with his speeches you assume that anybody who gives a speech at the at the at a big convention
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probably has professionals who are are helping with the uh with everything so it might have been
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a professional who helped him with that but that's a great great line against biden a backwards thinker
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as opposed to someone who's focused on the future that was good stuff um let me just say about the
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naturalization ceremony um i am very cynical and jaded and you know all those things as many of you are
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but there's one thing that gets me every time i cannot watch um people swearing in to become
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new members of the united states you know new citizens i can't watch that ceremony without just crying
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every time it doesn't matter last night yes but i've seen you know other videos i've seen videos of
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people i know who are going through that process and i gotta say if let me put it this way
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if a revolution happened tomorrow and you wanted to and let's say something happened that burned all
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of the books and something destroyed the internet so we lost all of our records of civilization we lost
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you know all of our structure the government was overthrown and we lost everything and you wanted to build it
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back what would be the the one thing you'd need to retain to be able to build it back the only thing
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that everything else could be built back if you just kept that one thing and that's what you saw with
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that naturalization um ceremony that that's the thing the fact that that could happen that those
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people those excellent citizens would come to this country and would buy into not just you know the real
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estate you know they weren't saying we came to the united states because it has good real estate they weren't
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saying that they were buying into the the idea so here's the thing no matter how bad things are
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no matter riots in the street no matter fake news no matter wars no matter coronavirus
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no matter unemployment no matter bad words on the internet as long as long as that one thing
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works as long as we keep that one thing we can get back everything else
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so um so i'm a big baby and i have to admit um that that touched me
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this one funny thing uh yesterday i was joking i have to say something funny because i have to get
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in a different mood here for a moment um i was i was uh telling you about all the weird coincidences
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between the biden campaign and satanism now i'm not a believer so i don't believe there's a real satan
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but it is humorous how many coincidences there are that you could find let's call it confirmation bias
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but there are lots of coincidences you can find once you're looking for them which is really
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the lesson in this is that once you're looking for them they're everywhere and after i did that
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somebody told me that kamala harris's middle name wait for this wait for this you you're going to be
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glad you heard this you ready kamala harris's middle name is devi d-e-v-i the only thing that's missing
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to turn her middle name into literally devil is an l and you know what's funny about that
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oh that's funny already but you know what's really funny about that kamala harris the only thing she
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needs is an l and trump's going to give it to her she's going to get the l she's not going to get the w
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so did the did the simulation just serve up to us her middle name is devi and all she needs is an l
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and trump's going to give her the l i mean come on is any of this real is this a real world it
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couldn't possibly be this is so obviously scripted at this point you couldn't possibly believe this
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is anything but a simulation all right here's my prediction are you ready i understand that uh trump
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not only or i'm sorry that uh when biden did his uh convention thing there biden got no bounce
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there was no biden bounce apparently if you live in the basement you don't get much of a bounce
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do you think there'll be a bounce from the rnc oh yeah oh yeah just just wait for the next poll
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now i don't want to say that i'm psychic because that's not what's happening in this particular case
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but you might get some laughs when you see the next poll
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all right somebody's telling me that kamala means different things uh that means horrible and finish
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and and somebody said that lucifer means uh the bringer of light which is literally what biden is
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claiming biden says he'll bring us light somebody said that that's what lucifer means actually the bringer
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of light i don't know if that's true but somebody said it all right come on man uh i'm gonna eat my
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breakfast that's all for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow