Episode 1130 Scott Adams： Supreme Court Gender Discrimination, How to Escape a BLM Mob, Beta Storms Aplenty, Schumer Threats
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In this episode of the podcast, Alex talks about the strange things happening in the world at the same time, and how to deal with it. Plus, the dopamine hit of the day: a new kind of coffee that makes everything better.
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Hey everybody. Come on in. Come on in. It's time. You came to the right place at the right time.
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Yes, we're going to have a great start to the day.
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And all you need to get it off to the right start is a cup or a mug or a glass,
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a tank or chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now.
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It's called coffee with about half of it filled with hot water.
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So it's like a weak coffee that gives you the suggestion of coffee without all the jitters.
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And the name of the tropical storm is Tropical Storm Beta.
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At the same time, beta males are riding all over the country.
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So I have this theory that one of the ways that you can tell if you are a simulation is if there's something happening somewhere in the world that would take a great deal of processing power,
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that there might be other things that there might be other things that slow down, or they have to reuse code to compensate for the fact that all the energy is going into one part of the program.
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And does it seem to you like there's a tremendous amount of activity and complexity going on just because of politics, but at the same time, we have these weird coincidences going on,
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where it seems like the same names are getting reused for stuff, and we're seeing these familiar patterns.
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It just seems like there's a lot of repeats going on.
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I went to the emergency room the other day, and what was really interesting about it is that it wasn't busy.
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I'm at the emergency room of a major emergency room, and there are only two other people here.
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Normally, we could have people filling the hallways.
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And I keep running into these situations where I see fewer and fewer people at the same time.
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So suddenly, the complexity of my personal life has, like, shrunk way down.
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It's way less complicated because I don't have a social life, as most of you are experiencing some version of that, too.
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So the world is way more complicated in politics, but there is other areas of life that suddenly, coincidentally, became way less complicated.
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Probably yes, but it's fun to talk about the simulation.
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I have a suggestion for all of you who think you're clever, but maybe other people don't.
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If you have ever tweeted that actor Rob Reiner is a, quote, meathead, you may not be a creative person because you're the same people who tweet at me, or actually it's people on the other side tweeted me, saying that they've just discovered that I'm not actually the cartoonist, but I'm really the pointy-haired boss in my comic strip.
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Please, if I can beg of you one thing, you can insult me all you want, that's cool, I'm used to that.
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You can insult Rob Reiner all you want, I've done it myself, I enjoy it.
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Honestly, insulting Rob Reiner is one of the things I enjoy.
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And if other people enjoy insulting me, well, okay, good for you.
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But can you be a little more creative, a little more creative than accusing them of being a character they played on TV?
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Only because there's a certain level of lack of creativity that hurts my eyes, sort of in the back.
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You know, when I read this, if I read one more tweet calling Rob Reiner a meathead, there's like this shooting pain behind my eyes and I go, ah, ah, ah, ah, it's so uncreative, ah, ah.
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Of a couple of guys who got stopped in their car by protesters.
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And the protesters, at least the ones in the video, looked mostly like white men.
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And they were insisting that the men in the car, who may have been Hispanic, I don't know if it matters to the story.
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But they were being forced to declare Black Lives Matter.
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Now, one of the guys in the car was like a little iffy on it.
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He's like, okay, I'll put the fist up a little bit.
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And then they insisted that he wasn't enthusiastic enough.
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If they had resisted more than they did, it looked like their vehicle would be destroyed.
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So here's my suggestion of how to handle that situation if you find yourself in it.
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Now, you're going to say to yourself, Scott, that won't work because they will immediately know you're joking.
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They will not know you're joking if you say the following.
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And I would say it really loudly, and I would repeat it as many times as I needed to, to make sure everybody heard it.
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Because, you know, you don't want to be a tropical storm beta, if you know what I mean.
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And just say, Black Lives Matter more than white people.
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Now, again, you think to yourself, Scott, they're going to know you're joking.
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In fact, they might nominate you to be the leader of their group.
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You could end up, you know, they might give you snacks from the snack van.
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If you wanted free snacks from the Antifa snack van, I think all you have to do is say that.
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By the way, if anybody gets killed using any of my recommendations, what the hell were you thinking?
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If you're getting self-defense tips from a cartoonist, well, you kind of deserve what you get.
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One of my methods for predicting the future, I've talked about this before,
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but there's an actual theory behind it, and the technique is this.
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If there's a situation in the world in which you can anticipate, well, things could go this way,
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or they could go that way, or they could go that way, but it's fairly well-defined.
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The things are either going to go one of these defined ways.
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You can usually bet that the way it will go is whichever way makes the most interesting story.
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Now, you say to me, there's no reason that would be true, right?
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Why would it be that if there are three possibilities and you don't have any way to know which one is more likely,
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why would it be that the one that's the best story ends up being more likely?
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In other words, if there are no human beings making decisions,
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well, then it's just news and it was going to happen.
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You know, the cliff collapsed, the earthquake happened, whatever happened.
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But when there's a situation in which human beings are involved,
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humans are very affected by the fact that we live in a world of stories.
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We learn by stories, we're entertained by stories, we tell stories, we listen to stories.
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And stories have sort of a form that you recognize.
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Movies in particular have a three-act form, books are a little different,
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There was no conclusion, there was no third act.
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That people are drawn to the thing that they can conceive the most easily.
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And you can conceive a story, one that looks like a story, more readily
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than you can conceive of something that's random.
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And that we're drawn toward the story to the point of making it happen.
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This is the part of the hypothesis that has the most question to it, I would say.
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If you think about an accident all the time, you're more likely to have one.
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If you think about a particular bad thing happening, have you noticed it's more likely to happen?
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Have you noticed that if one spouse dies, let's say the two people have been married for 60 years,
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if one of them dies, the other one's usually going to be gone in a year.
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And it's because that person is following the story.
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But you know if your partner dies, you kind of want to follow them and you don't want to wait too long.
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So the odds of you dying pretty quickly go way up.
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So with this situation of, let's say, Trump running for president,
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one of the filters I saw was that the most amazing story would be if he came from behind and won.
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If you were going to make a movie of 2016, it had to end that way, didn't it?
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It had to end with Trump winning because that was just the best story.
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You might not enjoy it if you're a Democrat, but you can't ignore the fact it's the best story.
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Likewise, one year ago, when people were talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health,
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I said to myself, all right, what would be the best story?
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The best story is not that she died a year before an election.
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No, the best story would not be that she died a month after the election.
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The best story to make it like a regular plot of a movie is that she dies 45 days before the election.
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But the exact timing of her death feels entirely like a movie plot.
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I don't like to publicly predict somebody's death.
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But privately, I was saying, you know, it's going to happen a month before the election because that's the story.
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And if you were to take that concept to, let's say, Durham.
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The best story would be Durham comes out before the election.
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Would it be as interesting no matter what it is?
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But before the election, I've got a feeling you're going to see something about Brennan and Clapper.
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So, there's going to be something, I think, interesting because that would be the best story.
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The best story would be that Durham not only found something, but found something that just makes your whole head come off.
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I was talking yesterday about the strategy that Trump might want to look at.
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One strategy would be what apparently he's going to do, which is try to get his nominee for the Supreme Court pushed through before Election Day.
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I did say that it would be interesting and maybe clever as a strategy to not do that.
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And then just use it as a means of getting your voters to show up.
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Do you think that, you know, if you had heard that Trump said, you know, maybe you're right.
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If he ever said that, you'd say to yourself, what happened to Trump?
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You'd think, we elected the guy who doesn't know how to do anything but fight.
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We intentionally elected the guy who doesn't quit.
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We very specifically elected the guy who would be the pirate who, if he needs to kill somebody to get something done, he's going to kill somebody to get something done, legally, we hope.
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So, if Trump did not do exactly what Trump did, which is say, oh, yeah, we're going to try to get this through before the election, if he hadn't done that, who is he, really?
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So, I think that, you know, politicians do have some responsibility for being the person that got elected and not baiting and switching.
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So, independent of whether it was a good strategy or a bad strategy to push it through versus waiting, you still want Trump to be Trump, don't you?
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Don't you still want him to be the fighter who never even, probably never even considered holding off?
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But if I had to guess, I'll bet there was never a time when Trump said, yeah, let's hold back.
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I just don't think he, I don't think his brain works that way.
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You know, he sees some potential money on the table.
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We don't know if this is money on the table because there's going to be a fight.
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But if there might be money on the table, you want your president to pick it up.
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He didn't get elected to leave money on the table.
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So, um, I, I would say that I respect and I appreciate this, uh, this method.
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And also, because I don't know if it'll succeed, I don't know if it's the best strategy, but
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it could be, it could be, um, here's, here's what's good about it.
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Number one thing that's good about it is that by actually having the nomination, it forces
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Kamala Harris to come back to Washington so he can take Kamala Harris off the, uh, off
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Taking Harris off the board might help just because she'll be bogged down.
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But at the same time, she'll also get a, a stage in front of the world to say her thing.
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So it could work either way, a little dangerous there.
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Um, the other thing it does is, did you look at the headlines today?
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There's nothing else that anybody wants to talk about.
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If Trump can keep this going, I would say that that's an advantage because he just took
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And if the only question is Supreme Court, and let's say, let's say, let's say that, uh,
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Trump actually got the nomination through and actually got it completed right before election
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Well, if you're a Democrat, maybe you would be demoralized as in, uh, you know, we're so
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far behind, uh, or do you decide that you have to have a revolution and do an armed revolution
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But I do like the fact that Trump took everything else out of the headlines and it is going to
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concentrate in an area that I think is stronger for him.
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I do believe that Trump has an advantage if this is the option, if this is the topic everybody's
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Now, about some more about this, uh, if you're watching the news, you know that Senator Lindsey
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Graham was in a ticklish situation because he's on record in two different times on camera
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saying that, uh, in this exact situation that he would delay the, delay the nomination, that
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And then he came out and said, oh, I'm totally not going to delay the nomination.
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Now, if any of you thought that he was going to rely on principle or that he would, you know,
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I, I, I got to throw you an LOL because we're not in a world where people keep their promises
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That, that was just so obvious that he was going to, uh, he was going to find a workaround,
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And he gave his reasons that were so ridiculous that I forgot them already.
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So I read his reasons about why he's changing his mind, but does it matter?
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If he didn't have those reasons, he would have made up another reason because one thing
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he's not going to do is go against the president while he's running for his own reelection.
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It is not, uh, this is just my personal opinion, but to me, it is not unethical to do legal things
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that get you elected, even if it means changing your mind.
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If that's what it takes to get him elected and he's doing it transparently, there's not
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You know, you know what he said before, you know what he says now, you know, it's the opposite.
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Um, so the Democrats, the leadership has decided to threaten the public.
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So, uh, Schumer said that, quote, uh, everything's, uh, nothing is off the table.
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If, if the president pushes through this nomination, nothing is off the table.
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And Richard Blumenthal, Democrat Senator said, similarly, he tweeted, if Republicans recklessly
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and reprehensibly force a, a SCOTUS vote before the election, nothing is off the table.
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Now, if this were normal times and a politician said nothing is off the table, what would you
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You would think it meant, oh, parliamentary procedures.
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It might meant, might mean that they're trying hard to raise money.
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They're going to, they're going to push all the envelopes.
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You'd probably think it was something peaceful and clever and strategic.
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As you're watching the riots and you're watching people say in public, you've seen the number of,
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um, you know, blue check people say in public that if they don't get their way, it's going
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Now, given that violence and revolution are literally on the table, um, these Democrat senators
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saying that nothing is off the table basically have threatened violence against, here's the
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Our politicians have actually threatened the public.
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And I'm not saying it's because you're a Trump supporter necessarily.
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I'm saying that they've threatened the public, the public, because this is not exactly a limited
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It's not a, uh, we'll do anything to stop president Trump.
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They literally said nothing is off the table in the context of violence and, and people making
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So, um, I think that this is a tremendous advantage for Republicans because they're creating a situation
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where Democrats feel like they want to win, you know, and they, they have their concerns
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and they're quite worked up, but they've, they've, they framed it as Republicans are really in
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trouble, like, like, like physically in trouble.
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If that doesn't get you to the voting booth or to mail in your vote, I don't know what will,
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but it feels like a gigantic error on the part of the Democrats.
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Um, here, listen to the sort of things that people are saying.
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It's a, I think she's, uh, I don't want to judge people's ethnicity from their profile
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picture, but, uh, not a white woman, let's say, uh, I, I won't say what she is, but probably
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does not identify as a white woman would be fair to say.
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And she tweeted this respectfully, white men got us into this.
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I don't know what this is, and it frustrates me, uh, uh, endlessly that white men voted
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Trump in and somehow get away scot-free as if because the racism and selfishness is a
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given, we don't, we don't have to drag them, drag the 53% and the 62%.
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Mean actually like tie them to the back of the car and drag them?
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If you could tweet in public specifically against an entire ethnicity and gender, white
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men, and your, your tweet doesn't get taken down, you don't lose your job.
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Um, that's, that's a pretty dangerous situation.
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There was a Marshall university professor who said on video the other day, yesterday or something,
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that she wishes every Trump supporter would die before the election.
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You have, you have, you're a semi-public person because you teach at a college and you say
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in public with no, with no reservations at all, because apparently you've been only dealing
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with people who agree with you for a long time and didn't realize that it wasn't okay
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to say in public that you hope half of the country dies and actually mean it.
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She sort of, I mean, she wasn't being literal, but she was certainly being, um, it looked like
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she was being accurate to her own, her own feeling about Trump supporters.
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Um, so it's just crazy that these things can be said out loud.
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This is the sort of stuff that should predict a Trump landslide because I think Republicans
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Uh, they're ordering their ballots if they don't have them and they're stocking up on ammo
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So, um, this is, this is a pretty dangerous situation.
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Um, I continue to believe that the Republic can handle this quite easily.
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So, uh, every now and then I feel it's, it's my role to, uh, to put things in context to
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If it's so easy to get caught up on these, you know, each topic is the end of the world.
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We'll all kill each other if we don't get our way.
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It feels like every story is going to be the end of the world.
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But how many of them have been the end of the world?
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As problems go, if you were to look at the history of the United States, it's easy to
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forget how many things this country has survived.
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So if you were to rank where the Supreme Court thing is in terms of ripping the country apart,
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If you're trying to say, how worried should I be about the future because of this Supreme
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But it will be treated like it's a ten out of ten because that's what we do now.
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We're all going to treat it like it's ten out of ten.
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But no matter how it goes, we'll still be the United States.
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We'll still be fixing things and solving things.
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And we're a lot closer to solving our more recent big problems than we are to not solving them.
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I thought it was politically brilliant for Trump to, what did he, he approved $90 billion
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Now, the people who are critics of the president will say, and I think it's a completely fair
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statement, they'll say, why did it take so long?
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Now, remember, I always kid, I always mock people for saying that if somebody did something
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Because that's just the easy, cheap thing to say, well, why did you take so long?
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I will criticize you for doing the wrong thing, but I'll also criticize you for doing the right
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But with the Puerto Rico thing, I think there's a better argument for why not sooner?
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If you ask me the reason why not sooner is, you know, number one, it was probably helpful
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But there are a couple of reasons why maybe not sooner made sense.
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One is there's a tremendous corruption problem there.
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It might have taken them a while to figure out how to pump money into Puerto Rico and not
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Because stolen or wasted is exactly what would have happened if you had put $90 billion into
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Do we all agree that if you just said, let's throw money at this place a month after the
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Because they're just, they don't have the systems, the controls.
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They just didn't have a way to watch that money and keep track of it and get it to the right
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It could be, it could be, I don't know this, that it probably takes a while to get some
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confidence that you've got a structure in place that you can now put money into it and
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Probably a whole lot of planning, a whole lot of figuring out what really needs to be
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Obviously the, you know, it's not a coincidence that there's an election coming up and it's
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not a coincidence that the president would like to shore up, you know, his, his Hispanic
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That's counterfactual to whatever the claims are about him.
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So the claims about Trump are, Hey, he's a big old racist.
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So what's one thing you can do if people are accusing you of being a racist?
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How about putting a world record amount of money into Puerto Rico?
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It's a pretty good idea because it's hard to, it's hard to argue that that's some big
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racist thing, even though it's obviously a politically motivated.
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And then of course the TikTok looks like the sale is going to go through to Oracle and Walmart.
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If you, if you ever, if you told me two companies that I thought should never be in a business
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What do they have in common other than, I guess they had the cash and the willingness to
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But there's some, there's some word that what, uh, what China might do is, is keep the algorithm,
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but sell the company to which I say, how hard would it be for the United States to build
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What if we took everything from TikTok, you know, the assets, the customer base, but the
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We just delete it and replace one that just says something simple, such as you'll see more
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things from your friends, the people you follow, and maybe you'll see more things from, you
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But couldn't you put, given that it's mostly for children, it's young people who use it
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mostly, don't you think we should have an open algorithm that we can all see?
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I feel as if, I feel as if the, uh, uh, the oracles of the world and the Walmarts too, they should
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guarantee the government that the algorithm will be public so everybody can see what it does.
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Maybe they can't make money that way, but given that it's directed at children, well, how about
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How about a law that says if children use your platform, you have to reveal your algorithm?
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You know, the big, the big platforms from your Facebooks to your Snapchats to your Instagrams,
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et cetera, Twitter's a little different because the kids don't follow politics and stuff.
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Um, so I'm not sure how many kids use Twitter compared to other platforms, but less, I guess.
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Wouldn't it be reasonable that given that we want to protect children more than we might
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want to protect adults who know what they're getting into?
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Shouldn't we require that any platform that has children on it has to reveal their algorithm
00:35:35.740
Now it would be hard to understand it, but at least be public for people who do know how
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to read, read the code and look at the algorithm.
00:35:44.980
All right, um, here's a little, uh, mind effort for you.
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So there's increasingly news and of Europe that they're having another wave and that, uh,
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And here was a statistic I saw that was useful because, because it's simplified things.
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Just hold these in your head that, uh, the Europe has 750 million people.
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So we've got a little less than half as many people in the United States as there is in all
00:36:33.280
But although Europe has more than twice as many people, they have almost the same amount of
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So about the same amount of deaths, but Europe has a little bit more than twice as many people.
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That's one of those things where you can say, oh, okay, now I see how the United States is
00:36:58.000
really doing poorly because we've got twice as many deaths, you know, that they do are relative to
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Is there something about the United States that's different from Europe on average?
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Um, how many, what's the black population of the United States?
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Because as we know, the black population has something like four to five times the problem
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It's a, it's something like four or five times worse.
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If you're African American, let's say black, because we're talking about Europe, it's about
00:37:47.620
So wouldn't you expect that the country that has the biggest population of black residents
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should, all things being equal, would have way more deaths?
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Because unfortunately it does not, the coronavirus is not an equal opportunity virus.
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It's just slamming the black populations, just slamming them, right?
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So I said to myself, well, if it were true that the black, uh, the percentage of black population
00:38:16.540
is skewing our coronavirus death count, you would be able to see that easily.
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For example, you'd go to Europe and you'd say, well, if there's anything to this hypothesis,
00:38:27.460
if you looked at Europe, you shouldn't, you see that whatever country in Europe has the
00:38:33.600
most black population would have the highest, you know, death rate.
00:38:42.680
So France not only has a close to 9%, I think, uh, black population, but it is not too far behind
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So don't, don't make too much out of one data point, right?
00:39:01.020
So the United States is doing poorly and also has a 13% black population who are doing far
00:39:09.680
France, within Europe, France is one of the bad ones, right?
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It's one of the worst countries in Europe and also has the highest percentage of black
00:39:21.460
Now, is there any other country that you could look at that would be maybe confirming or disconfirming
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Now, Brazil's a tough one because, uh, Brazil is like super racially mixed.
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So they've got a whole bunch of, you know, wonderful stuff all mixed up.
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You know, I mean, the people are just, um, like almost every person in Brazil seems to
00:39:51.020
be some mixture of interesting stuff, but we can glean a few things.
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I think they have 9% black population, but somewhere between 9% and 30%, at least partly black.
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So Brazil has an enormous percentage of black population and is one of the worst in terms
00:40:17.340
Now, what about those countries in Europe that have almost no black population, below 2%?
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Turns out that having almost no black population really gets your death count down.
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Shouldn't be, because this is, it's well known on the thing.
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So, let's say that's one, one, uh, you know, normal, one calculation that needs to be done,
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which is you have to, uh, normalize it for ethnic differences in terms of mortality.
00:40:53.760
And what about, um, what about differences in incentive for coding something, a coronavirus death?
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Can you compare the United States where people get the, the hospitals anyway,
00:41:07.000
would get a large, large dollar amount profit if they code something coronavirus, whereas
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Do you, do you think that you get the same count?
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In no world do you get the same count if somebody is, is monetized in one case and not monetized
00:41:32.360
We don't live in a world where people are immune to monetary incentive.
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Now, it might be a 5% difference, not a 100% difference, but still, that's something pretty
00:41:47.220
And then, of course, you've got the, the number of, uh, obese Americans, which is greater than
00:41:57.220
Is it fair to treat the United States as one big ball, given that we have lots of states
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Shouldn't we be comparing each state to Europe?
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How many of the individual states in the United States are doing as, as well or comparable to
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And I think the answer is a lot of them, right?
00:42:34.920
Anyway, there's a million ways to look at it, and I don't believe we've looked at it all
00:42:42.520
You are noticing that the, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg stuff has just kicked everything off the news.
00:42:49.120
It makes everything a little bit boring for a while, because there's just really one story,
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and it's all we're going to talk about for a while.
00:43:04.640
There's a 15% plus payment differential for coding COVID on medical bills.
00:43:22.940
Oh, somebody's talking about putting, oh, let me, let me bring up this idea.
00:43:27.900
So, President Trump has said publicly that he's probably going to pick a woman, and I think
00:43:40.160
And let me say, before I start, I am completely in favor of a diverse, you know, very diverse
00:43:50.500
I think we're all better off if we've got all the voices, you know, accounted for.
00:43:55.640
So long as everybody's capable to do the job, that's all great.
00:43:59.860
And, obviously, there are plenty of capable people.
00:44:03.760
I'm just saying, as long as you have capable people, it would also be good to have them diverse.
00:44:10.500
But, we have this thing called the Constitution.
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And we have this thing called the Supreme Court, whose job it is to uphold it.
00:44:18.780
But, how is it constitutional for the President of the United States to say that he can't pick
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I personally, this is, there's no exaggeration here.
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I personally have been told by the President of the United States that I would not be eligible,
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not that there was much risk I was going to get picked.
00:44:43.280
But, let's say, Ted Cruz, you know, somebody who actually would be in the top 20 or whatever,
00:44:56.840
Do you think that if somebody sued the President of the United States for job discrimination
00:45:01.660
and said, hey, you're saying right out loud that you're not going to even consider a man,
00:45:08.560
And, what about, what about your genders that are not either male or female entirely?
00:45:19.240
You know, your shades and your, you know, various, what would be the best way to say it?
00:45:39.280
If you're transsexual, can you be on the Supreme Court?
00:45:44.520
Maybe that's okay as long as you've transitioned in the right direction.
00:45:53.440
If somebody sued the President of the United States, which I actually think would be a good idea,
00:45:58.560
if somebody sued the President of the United States and said that is job discrimination,
00:46:05.280
you're saying that men can't have this job, where is that in the Constitution?
00:46:11.120
I would like a constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court about whether the President can limit his choices to one gender.
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I don't think that's going to pass constitutional muster.
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Can somebody who's smarter than I am about the law tell me, am I just off in outer space here?
00:46:32.240
Or is it completely obvious that what the President is doing by limiting his choice to a woman,
00:46:39.920
or even just saying it, you know, we don't have the actual choice yet,
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but even just saying it in public and saying this is what I'm looking for,
00:46:48.060
is there anybody who could argue that that is constitutional?
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It looks to me as illegal as anything could ever be.
00:47:03.320
Now, I do not have this feeling about somebody running for office.
00:47:09.120
If somebody says, hey, I'm running to be a senator or a president,
00:47:14.440
and I think we need more women in this job, you know, give us more representation or whatever,
00:47:21.520
that doesn't seem illegal to me, because that's a case of the public gets to vote.
00:47:28.380
It's like, oh, I care about that variable or I don't, but I get to vote.
00:47:34.580
But the Supreme Court is picked like a job interview.
00:47:40.420
It's, you know, I don't get to vote on the Supreme Court.
00:47:45.320
If I got to vote on the Supreme Court, along with all of you,
00:47:48.960
you know, if all the voters got to vote on the Supreme Court,
00:47:52.140
and somebody was saying, yeah, we should have a woman replace RGB, no problem at all.
00:48:01.180
So, somebody says, I think you're off, but what would be the reason?
00:48:16.320
See, you can't tell a parody from reality anymore.
00:48:19.240
So, people are making comments with little laughy faces,
00:48:22.220
and I don't even know if you're agreeing with me or disagreeing with me.
00:48:26.780
Somebody says, this is playing the lefty's game.
00:48:32.280
Well, saying in advance that you're going to pick a woman is definitely playing the lefty's game.
00:48:46.280
I mean, maybe that would be a defense, but I don't think that's what's happening necessarily.
00:48:51.380
Because there are, apparently there are two women who have risen to the top of the likely list.
00:49:03.600
Well, it is his choice, but if you say to the public that you're limiting it by gender, is it still legal?
00:49:14.280
You know, I would be willing to believe that it's not, it wouldn't be treated like regular employment.
00:49:21.200
And if the president has complete power to do what the president wants, well, maybe it doesn't matter.
00:49:27.220
Maybe he can be, maybe he could be completely discriminatory and, and sexist.
00:49:37.480
President picks and he disclosed and you vote for the president.
00:49:44.280
Read my comments and you will see the reason, somebody says, although I don't see where your comment is.
00:49:53.200
As long as he gives the opportunity to all, he can say anything.
00:50:19.160
You know, one of the reasons you don't want to elect me for president is that I would, I would lock up the Supreme Court if I could.
00:50:32.260
So if there were more conservatives than liberals, I would add a liberal.
00:50:36.900
If it was the other way, I'd add a conservative.
00:50:39.360
And if I were president, I would make the Supreme Court eight people, four and four.
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I wouldn't even replace, I wouldn't even replace a ninth, ninth person.
00:50:53.260
If the Supreme Court can't make a decision that breaks out of the liberal and or conservative silos, hell with it.
00:51:06.560
If the only reason that a decision goes one way is you have more liberal or you have more conservative judges,
00:51:13.660
if that's the reason the decision went the way it went, that's not legitimate.
00:51:22.260
It's legitimate in terms of that is the system that we've all bought into.
00:51:29.220
I only want things that somebody is willing to...
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Whoever said boring and stayed on here, you're blocked.
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But don't be bored and then tell me you're bored.
00:51:53.720
Somebody says tie goes to the lower court decision.
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So it doesn't get to the Supreme Court until the lower court is ruled.
00:52:01.980
If the Supreme Court is tie, somebody is saying, and it sounds right,
00:52:06.240
that that means there's no decision at the Supreme Court,
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That's all for now, and I will talk to you later.