Episode 1321 Scott Adams： Kids in Cubicles at the Border, Musk Robs the Poor to Colonize Mars According to Bernie, and More
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Elon Musk is getting heat from some people on social media for his plans to colonize Mars, but what about all the people here on earth who need help? Shouldn t they be helping the people right here on Earth, instead of using all these resources to go to Mars?
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well i had a hypothesis uh not too long ago that a very attractive woman
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could go in public without a mask and would not be asked to put one on
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just because it's an attractive woman and uh christine and i went to safeway to buy some
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groceries last night and didn't notice until we got to the cashier that i had worn my mask the entire
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time but she had never worn her mask the entire time she was in the grocery store nobody asked her
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to put a mask on she gets up to the the cashier and the cashier is the first person who who notices
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she's not wearing a mask and says something and the the cashier the cashier says uh oh you're not
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wearing a mask you'll you'll need to put a mask on and we didn't have an extra one with them and i said
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do you have one i thought they might have spares or something and they didn't so christina of course
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says oh you know i'm sorry i'll i'll go get my mask from the car or i'll go wait in the car because i was just
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checking out anyway and the the cashier looks at her and he goes ah don't bother
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have you ever seen that in your entire life he just looks at her he goes yeah don't bother
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but at the same time the uh the six foot distance thing apparently has been removed from my grocery
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store it looks like they're going to the the three foot kind of situation which you sort of do
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automatically because your cart's in the way so that i suppose that was a humble brag uh and
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transparently so but i it was so funny to see that hypothesis tested do you know how long i would
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have gotten gotten away maskless i i wouldn't have gotten past the the entry i would have walked past
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the uh the chips and somebody said oh hold on you need to you need to cover up a lot of that
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and uh not just for covid either all right elon musk is uh getting some heat from bernie sanders and
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others because he uh tweeted about collecting resources to get humanity to the the stars and
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and people said whoa what about all the people here on earth who need help what about them bernie
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sanders says shouldn't you be helping the people right here on earth instead of using all these
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resources to go to mars and so i was prompted to do a little uh informal survey the non-scientific
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type on on twitter ask people where do billionaires get their money do they choice a steal it from the
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poor because you know if you want money the poor is where you go or did they create it out of nothing
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well nothing gets created out of nothing as far as we know but it's closer to that right why is it
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that bernie uh deserves some of that money that elon musk created out of nothing i don't know what
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that argument is but i would make the following argument uh colonizing space is the only way that we
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stay non-chinese because china is going to colonize space if we don't get there first and have a
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controlling presence in space whoever owns space owns owns earth because if you have the high ground
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you you militarily basically control earth and i don't know if that's a hundred years from now
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but why would you let that happen if the united states could keep technical
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supremacy and make sure that we don't lose space that might be the most important thing that's
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happening right now i i would guess that what elon is doing in terms of the value to humanity you know
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for the next 10 million years what elon is doing is a million times more important than everything
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bernie has ever done it's not even close in terms of service to humanity these two are not on the same
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plane bernie's service to humanity is pretty good actually i would rank him as a productive member of society
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certainly in terms of moving the arguments and you know changing how we think about things but in
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terms of doing actual stuff that got done i think musk is the big winner there the other the andres
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beckhouse uh tweeted that uh colonizing mars might be the best way to protect earth in case somebody like
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bernie sanders ever becomes president and andres uh cleverly says as long as we get all the uh
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keep all the ships the colonization ships on mars that an earth run by people like bernie sanders will
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never be able to build one so they'll never be able to get to mars and cause any trouble because their
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their technology will never be able to get to mars and the reason that's funny is because it sort of
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makes sense that if we don't escape to mars we will be doomed by anything that happens on earth
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so it turns out that trump uh at least reportedly is planning to come back in two or three months with
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his own media platform yay how much fun are we going to have when trump comes back with his own
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media platform now i don't know what that will look like but i have to think it's a video based
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something maybe you can post things maybe you can tweet on it or whatever is the equivalent of tweeting
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so we'll all be waiting for that that'll be fun kind of makes you wonder who would be
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part of that platform doesn't it because i don't know if it can happen in two or three months
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because i haven't heard of anybody who's been approached have you uh if you've been approached
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by this whatever this new platform is to be part of it unless it's just trump himself which is entirely
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possible but if anybody's been approached to be part of any kind of a trump media thing i mean let me
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know tweet at me or dm me or something um here's an idea that will sound crazy until you think about
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it are you ready this will sound like the worst idea and then it's just going to sort of sit there
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for a while until it sounds good to you you know how in business when you sign a contract
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it's fairly common snickers quiet over there it's fairly common in business to sign a contract with
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a clause in it that says if you have a dispute it will be solved by mediation now mediation
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all right wake up yeah there we go now mediation means that you're going to get a result from a
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mediator somebody does that for a living that will not make either side happy in all likelihood right
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it might make one of them happy and the other unhappy but it's probably going to be some
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some middle ground compromise sort of thing no i didn't throw the kleenex box at her i just wanted
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her to hear it um so here's my crazy idea we're watching the democrats and republicans be unable to
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govern because now they have um yeah arbitration so it's called arbitration yes and so the democrats
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and the republicans can't get anything done because they don't want to vote for the other side
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and therefore not much can get done what would happen if we had a mediator or an arbitrator
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somebody who would say all right this is an important issue i'll take one that we haven't dealt
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with as much let's say um transportation some kind of a infrastructure bill all right just to pick
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something that's maybe upcoming what would happen if the democrats and republicans just couldn't decide
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they just couldn't decide so what do you do just have no bill that doesn't work because that's where
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we're now we are now right just nothing happens but what would happen if the democrats and republicans
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under some trigger say all right we can't work this out and just give it to the arbitrator and say this
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is what we think the other side says this is what we think but here's the key the democrats and
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republicans would have to agree in advance to accept the decision and then suddenly somebody says
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basically joe manchin that basically he's he's the arbitrator right joe manchin gets to decide because
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he's the only one who will cross cross lines um now okay here's here's the question i'm anticipating
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who elects the mediators or the arbitrators because then you'd have a situation where all of our elected
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representatives would be neutered and an unelected person would make the decision but wait it's not a
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problem because the elected people would be selecting they would have selected the arbitrator
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so it's a process by which the elected people decide in advance that this is how they'll make
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a decision but it would still be the elected people who had created the system that created the
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the the outcome it would just be a reasonable person making the decision who is neither democrat nor
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republican in terms of bias um watch how that idea sounds batshit crazy when you first hear it
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and it's gonna sort of gnaw you over time because as long as the democrats and republicans both agree
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to let the arbitrator arbitrate it would work and i'm seeing in the comments there's like a real
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hesitation because somebody says it's not constitutional i disagree you could make it
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constitutional simply by having the republic the republicans and democrats agree to abide by it
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because they could simply change their mind and that gives them full control you know so they don't
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have to they would just agree to it now how is that different than you know stuff getting worked
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down in committee it's not a lot different right um so watch how that one gets better over time
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so on my ongoing series of trump will look uh better every day that he's gone um did you know
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that the trump administration did allow photojournalists into the juvenile migrant detention centers
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but biden does not think about that the trump administration with their so-called kids in cages
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allowed the journalists to come in and take pictures and interview people and stuff and biden's not doing
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that that's basically the uyghur concentration camp situation right do we have more photos of uyghur
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concentration camps or of these migrant detention facilities for children yeah i saw the project
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veritas video and there's some other photographs that came out today and it seems that they're being
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kept in these uh clear plastic sided containers but they're not boxes because they have an open top
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they're kind of cubicles if you look at them they're cubicles with a door and i thought to myself wait a
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minute if we're keeping kids in cubicles at the same time that remote office work is becoming a big
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thing aren't there hundreds of thousands of empty cubicles just sitting there in rented space with
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nobody in them why can't we put those kids in cubicles do you feel me in all seriousness is there any
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reason we can't use office space that's been abandoned they got bathrooms they've got containers
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called cubicles and what would be funniest about that is we can all complain about kids in cages
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justifiably we can all complain about kids in boxes kids in any kind of custody we can all complain
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about that but what would happen if those kids were put in a modern uh in a modern office building
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right now you don't need a door on every cubicle as long as you're guarding the exterior exits
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i feel as if you could put kids in cubicles and it would end the problem because we wouldn't be
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able to complain that living in cubicles was inhumane you could give each kid their own cubicle
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we probably have plenty of them now i'm just you know i don't think anything like this will happen
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but putting kids in hotels doesn't seem like the right answer does it because that's what they're doing
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now they're putting them in hotels but i suppose a hotel has a shower so that's an advantage
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rasmussen poll says two-thirds of the public say we have a border crisis
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two-thirds of the public now i i don't think i've ever seen a president fail harder than this have you
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do we have any history of a president coming into office implementing a policy that the the immigration
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policy in this case and failing spectacularly in the first 30 to 60 days has that ever happened
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what would be the another example of a worst start for a president can you think of one because
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presidents usually start off pretty well right usually the first honeymoon period somebody says bush
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but what did bush do in the first 30 to 60 days i don't think anybody's had a worse start this might
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be the oh 9 11 was 9 11 in the first two months of bush yeah i don't know all right here's a question
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that you think we ought to know the answer to but according to social media the the final final word on
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everything uh we don't so uh i saw these uh tweets going around this morning about israel's outcomes
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and if you look at the israeli data of vaccinations versus outcomes it seems pretty clear that the
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vaccinations started and then the the hospitalizations and deaths plunged as soon as they started getting
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enough people vaccinated so you say to yourself well it obviously works because the vaccinations came
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the deaths and hospitalizations plunged what else do you need to know well i thought that that sounded
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pretty good um and especially because the the rate of vaccinations within different age groups seems to map
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perfectly to show that the more vaccinated you are the faster the curve falls just like you'd expect
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but but but it didn't take long for people to say well here's my chart of other countries
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who have exactly the same curve and they're not vaccinating much at all to which i say damn it
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damn it again we actually is it true that we can't tell us the vaccinations are working
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and that we'll never know when i say we'll never know i don't mean that science won't decide that
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they know but i feel the public has already made a move and said it doesn't matter what data you show
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us we're just not going to believe those vaccinations made any difference
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yeah i think i would agree with the commenter who's saying it's a little too soon
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i feel as if we should know for sure in two months right but as somebody pointed out
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the spanish flu went away and they didn't have the vaccine so why did it go away apparently it was not
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because of herd immunity we don't know why the spanish flu went away and here's the kicker
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we don't know why any virus goes away which was the most amazing thing i learned early on in the
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pandemic that we don't know why the seasonal flu goes away it just does now the only thing that
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makes sense is that some people have some natural immunity for one reason or another i can't think of
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any other reason that a virus would go away without immunity and without a vaccination but
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um do you believe that we don't have data yet to know the vaccinations work
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we're we were able to apparently we can measure the amount of antibodies i mean it certainly looks
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like we can measure it but a number of people showed me graphs where other countries that are not
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doing much actually the united states is not doing as well on vaccinations but our curve looks the same
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so how do you explain that how do you explain the country is not vaccinating are also having a big
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drop at about the same time the amount of stuff we don't know about this is just stunning
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um i heard somebody who knew what they're talking about a doctor told me that one of the problems
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with counting the regular seasonal flu influenza deaths are that we count them as an influenza death
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if it's sort of the last thing that happened before they died so if somebody gets influenza
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and then the influenza you know is taken care of but a few days later they die of let's say something
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related maybe it's pneumonia or something that that would get counted as a influenza death
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even if they died with no influenza in them the thought is that they were weakened to the point where
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it's the proximate cause but does that make sense because here's another way to look at it
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it seems to me that anybody who dies i'll take an average 80 year old person aren't they dying for all the
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reasons they're dying for all the reasons one of the reasons is they didn't eat well during their
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entire life didn't have a good diet another reason is they didn't exercise enough another reason is that
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they were born with a certain genetic you know uh genetic propensity for things and then there were all
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the decisions they made during their life did they smoke cigarettes did they do this or did they do that
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don't you need every one of those things to happen on top of the influenza in order to kill a person
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but because the the last thing you saw was the influenza we say that's the thing that killed you
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but if you would say removed any of the other major parts i mentioned let's say you had always eaten
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well if you you went back in time and changed that variable and now you're you're thin but you're older
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do you still die when you still die if you wouldn't then it wasn't the influenza that killed you right
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it was your bad diet over years and years or your lack of exercise or you know you didn't take your
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vitamin d or whatever right so it seems to me illogical to say that the last thing that happened sort of the
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final straw is the one that broke the camel's back it's just the one that happened last it's not like a car
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accident where the car accident definitely killed you right and it's not like cancer necessarily
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because the cancer kills you i suppose you could argue that your lifestyle might have contributed to
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that too um and then there's a question of whether you can count this stuff i i saw a tweet this morning
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that somebody claiming we already know that the half a million extra people died in 2020 but i don't
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think we know that i feel like we don't know the death count for 2020 but if anybody has that link
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send it to me i think that's estimated so here's the other factor have you ever noticed that uh if
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you're if you can't find your phone or your keys where are they always the thing you can't find where is
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it always it's always in the last place you look right if you can't find your keys it's in the last
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place you would look in the last place you do look now of course i'm being silly because if you find
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your keys that is the last place you look you don't need to look anymore you found your keys and so
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how many people who are let's say within a year of dying get the influenza and then because
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just the order of things death comes after do you know it's harder to die first
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and then get the influenza after you're dead i'm no doctor but i think that's a safe sentence so suppose
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it's flu season and people are going to get the flu
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old people some of them get the flu within a few weeks of a death but maybe they were going to die
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anyway and the flu maybe pushed it up a few days or a few weeks i don't know but is that really the
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cause of death if you were only a few weeks away from death because it seems to me that just the
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the coincidental timing of people getting the flu and then they were going to die anyway i feel like
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that would get a little over counting going on but i'm not sure so the quality of our data on
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everything from influenza to mass to distancing to vaccinations we're at a point where we don't
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believe anything and maybe we don't yeah and i don't think influenza the regular influenza is even
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based on uh death certificates i think it's some kind of weird estimate um
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all right apparently uh biden's department homeland
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uh department of homeland security secretary insists that the border is closed and it's under control
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except for lone children so that's the biden administration says that the it's closed except
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for lone children so the question i ask you is why
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why why does the biden administration not want adults to come in is it because he's racist
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because it seems pretty racist to close your border and not let one brown person in who's an adult
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come on are there any white people you're keeping out from crossing the southern border
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well a few maybe who came from europe and tried to get in that way but mostly biden is keeping the brown
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people from crossing the border and i don't think we can ignore that of course that's what would be sad if
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it were trump um yeah it's ageism it's ageism exactly that's exactly what it is now
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how would you how would you regard um the joe biden kids in cubicles problem if the press had been able to
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uh report on it and if biden had been completely transparent about how bad it was i feel as if i
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would have taken that completely differently imagine if you will that biden had said exactly the opposite
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of what he said which is yeah you know uh because i said we were going to be kind to children it totally
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causes more children to come here unaccompanied i that's that's all on me but the alternative
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is worse and i'm going to show you what we're doing we're not prepared i wish we were it's going
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to get ugly down there but we're going to prepare as fast as we can so we're going to let the photo
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journalists and the journalists talk to everybody you see how bad it is it's as bad as you think it
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is take a picture we're working as hard as we can to fix it i feel like that would have that would
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have felt different to me that would have felt like we've got a bad problem and nobody has a good
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idea or the the immediate resources for solving it and then i would say okay at least that's honest
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maybe maybe i wouldn't have played it that way but at least it's honest right i'll take that
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but it feels like biden has given us a bad situation and then on top of it
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made it non-transparent oh that's not good that's not good all right
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southern states should form a sanctuary coalition somebody's saying
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to fix this themselves i don't know how they do that somebody says boy you are easy
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well don't get me wrong um i think that trump's policy on the border was the smart one and it feels
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like we're going to end up back there eventually so um i i do think well let me say it right out loud
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i'll say out loud what people don't want to say if we don't make it really hard for children
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too many of them will come and that won't be good for them either so um i'll say what most adults don't
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want to say is we have to probably make it really really bad for kids otherwise the situation gets
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out of control unfortunately we live in a cruel world and having having uh you know boundaries and
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borders and rules and laws and stuff like that we don't really have an option for that stuff it's not
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like you can just accept them or not accept them we need to be able to say out loud and by the way if
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i were president i would say that out loud i would say it just the way i'm saying now i would say look
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we want to be good to kids but we need to make it hard on them otherwise we'll have a worse situation
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now one of the things that i wonder about is whether this uh migrant crisis is going to hurt us or help
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us um don't you assume that tens of thousands of uh unaccompanied miners crossing the border you
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kind of assume it's bad don't you for the economy but i don't know i actually don't know it might not be
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because um and i would need i think i would need a little help on the economics decision here
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let's say let's say that humans have different economic values if a an 80 year old immigrant
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coming came across the border i would say uh that's going to be expensive because the 80 year old is not
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going to work probably but might have health problems might be a burden um but what happens
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if a if a 14 year old comes across the border a 14 year old probably has a good chance of learning
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english well enough by the time they're an adult they're probably going to get you know an upgrade in
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education and the odds of them becoming productive citizens is pretty good you know most countries need
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an influx of young people no matter how they get them or else your economy stalls out so we don't
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have a choice of having lots of young people and you can either give birth to them or or bring
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them in from immigration but young people are like gold as humans go as human beings go
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i think that's the truth you know trump is famous for saying they're not sending their best
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that's the adults right because the adults include cartel members and stuff like that now i disagree
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with trump that they're not sending their best i very much disagree with that he's certainly true that
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their criminal elements are coming across the border but i think actually mexico is sending their best
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in this one sense that the adults who are coming don't count the cartel members and the ms13 but the
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adults who are coming to work are the boldest healthiest they're the ones who can make it they're
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the risk takers the entrepreneurs we might accidentally be siphoning off mexico's most valuable asset which
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is their best people now not best in terms of uh educational attainment but that's maybe you know one
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generation away so i'm just going to ask the question is there an economist out there who's looked at the
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question specifically if you were to take the the children and they were the only migrants would you
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come out ahead or behind now keep in mind that each of these migrants will go stay with somebody
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so they're not going to be homeless for the most part they'll they'll be taken care of by some kind of
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entity and we'll see uh they're from central america not mexico for the most part yeah i should add that
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i should add that uh correction they're more from central america than mexico that is correct thank you for
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that um thank you for that upgrade um who pays the schools for them so here's where you need the the
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economist so certainly the children will create some costs there'll be some extra health care costs
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there'll be school costs there'll be you know a burden in a number way so the question is not that they
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present costs it's obvious that they do the question is will they create more benefit than they've added in
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costs and i would say it should be no different than our own children right we send our own children to
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school it costs money um i'm paying for your children to go to school right why why is it fair that i'm
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paying for your children to go to school so maybe you might pay for somebody else's children to go to
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school too and as will i um i just don't know if this is economic plus or minus if you think you know
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the answer to this i'll bet you don't i'll bet you don't remember we don't know if masks work i mean
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i think they do but you know the the state of our data is just terrible that we're arguing about
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masks and social distancing and lockdowns and schools we're arguing about vaccines now for of all things
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we're arguing about everything so do you think that you know that uh migrant children are economically
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negative because i will take that bet without seeing what the economists say you know sight unseen i will
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take the bet that the children are almost always on an average are almost always positive economically
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i don't know now i do know that it's terrible for the south american or the central american countries
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because the central american countries i was watching uh was it the uh leader of i forget one of the
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central american countries was saying that their their product is exporting people they don't have a
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they don't have a functioning economy because if you're exporting your people that's your worst situation
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so their their best brightest healthiest youngest people are all leaving that's bad that's really
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bad so how could it be true i suppose it could be true but you've got a situation where if it's bad
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for where they're leaving that they're leaving isn't that because they have an economic value that's the
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whole point right they have a future economic value that's quite substantial so i think we should make a
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big distinction between taking the central american kids which might be like free money it might be
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free money it just doesn't feel like it taking adults well they're going to start taking jobs and such
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right that's a different situation and some of them are criminals and some of them are older blah blah
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now i suppose the chain migration is still an issue so i don't know how how you calculate that
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because the young kids will eventually be able to do some chain migration of their relatives i guess
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all right my dog's snoring too loudly and that's
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that's uh somebody says legal only yeah so legal would be the first choice right but in effect the
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biden administration has legalized on a um unattended migrant children so in effect it's legal it's just
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not technically legal um somebody's saying that fauci says trump people don't like educated people
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uh i think that's kind of true that's kind of true i do think that trump supporters uh don't trust
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experts and academics and elites and harvard graduates etc you know it's not a it's not a universal thing
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but i think i think there's something to that um
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okay i saw the i saw an insensitive joke that i can't decide if it's racist so i'm gonna i'm going
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to recount it and then this will be your test case is the following joke funny and actually supports the
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the migrants or is it making fun of the migrants and therefore is racist and here's the joke and i won't
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tell you who said it because in case you think it's racist he doesn't need any more trouble right so
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somebody you know from social media said that the the kids in cages because they they all have this uh
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foil aluminum foil looking blankets and he said that uh it was making all the kids look like uh gas
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station burritos i just don't know how to respond to that one because i laughed as soon as i realized
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oh yeah a burrito is wrapped in that you know that tin foil thing and there's pictures of all these kids
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wrapped in tin foil and they're from south america or they're from central america so you think to yourself
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burrito but is that racist tell me is it racist or is it just offensive like where where's that line
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between offensive and racist because i will tell you that i'm pretty sure the person who said it
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was not in favor of any children of any kind suffering in any way so certainly you know nobody
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had any bad feelings about the children and i don't think anybody had any racial animosity but it's
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right on the line there isn't it it's sort of right on the line of you hear it you go i don't know if i
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would have said that in public the only reason i can say it in public is that i'm talking about it
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if i just said it as a joke i think i'd have to pay for that probably
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um somebody says gas stations sell burritos i i think the ones with um yeah i think they do
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all right well at least people are laughing at it
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you know you don't want to laugh at any group who are suffering so but i don't know if the children
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are all that suffering what one of the questions that's never asked is are the the migrant children
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who are in these containers um let's say it even lasts for a week however long it lasts it's only
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supposed to be 72 hours but let's say it lasts a week what was their life like before they got in
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that cage how many of them are actually happier in the cage i mean nobody wants to stay in the cage
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forever but how many of them are actually physically better fed warmer safer from crime than they were
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every day of their life until they got in the cage again i'm not pro cage right i'm just saying
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that if you're using your um your elite uh let's say you're using your elite american filter to say my
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god uh if i went if i left my current life and had to be wrapped in tin foil and laying on a mattress
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in a container next to the border that would be the worst day ever for me but that's not them i think
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they're going from a horrible situation which is why they came here to a situation which looks horrible
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by our standards but might not be that bad compared to where they were a week ago right so i'm not saying
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that the the cages are humane or that they're good i think we should all just have a general feeling
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that you don't want to put kids in containers and you don't want you don't want to put kids in jail of
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any kind right if you could avoid it but maybe you can't avoid it if you can't avoid it you can't
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avoid it somebody says the conditions for those kids might be better than boot camp might be
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i'd say definitely don't you think that a typical of volunteer military person who goes through boot
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boot camp has a worse time in boot camp in terms of physical comfort than any of the migrants who are
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kept in cages for three days again don't want anybody in a cage it's just we got to put it in perspective
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um so the perfect situation would be that we treated everybody humanely but somehow everybody believed we
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didn't so the ideal situation is to let reality and uh and persuasion decouple treat the kids humanely
00:42:52.100
but tell everybody it's a living hell and they better not come all right
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somebody's making a bad pun instead of quesadillas kids ideas all right let's not be offensive
00:43:17.300
you're you're right on the edge uh of being you know racist by modern standards you know so far
00:43:24.500
you're just being offensive and and by the way um i i always i make this uh i try to make this distinction
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i don't know if you're right on the edge of the world and i'm not going to be a bad pun
00:43:39.940
even the ones that people are getting canceled etc we've we've come to believe that offensive
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that's something that bothers somebody is also racist but i would argue they're rarely the same
00:43:53.220
i would say that most times most of the things that people say that they get canceled for
00:43:58.340
are meant to be offensive slash funny they're not meant to change the law to racism it's not meant
00:44:06.420
to discriminate it's not it's even not meant to uh it's not meant to make anybody's life worse
00:44:13.780
it's just offensive like a lot of humor is all right uh somebody said what happened to the
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dill burrito so the dill burrito uh was a burrito i made years ago and tried to market because it had
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all the vitamins and minerals you needed for the day but there were a few problems number one the food
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industry is crooked and so when we would go on a shelf there was a certain company who shall remain
00:44:43.780
nameless who would send their people in to put their products in front of it so we would actually sell
00:44:49.300
zero zero zero zero units because nobody would even know it was in the store so we got into you know
00:44:55.540
big so we got into 7-eleven and costco and walmart and we got into all the big stores but nobody ever saw
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it and uh yeah you you're making a good guess in the uh in the comments and the other problem is that the
00:45:15.460
the product uh didn't have the repeat customers that we hoped because the product itself made you repeat
00:45:30.820
you know this is sort of a classic thing of course we we tested them all and i think everybody who tested
00:45:38.420
the prototypes said oh these are tasty and then we would go off and have you know intestinal distress
00:45:45.220
but you kind of think it's just you right like you don't think it's the product you think oh
00:45:50.340
maybe my body doesn't respond to the spicy food or something but the the feedback for the customers was
00:46:09.860
the feedback from the customers said apparently this product made you fart more than more than any product of all time
00:46:22.500
somehow this product got all the way through the testing you know we we all ate it and tested it we
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and we all had the same experience like privately and individually we all had like
00:46:40.900
the worst heart attack you've ever had in your life but i think i think all of us individually didn't talk about it
00:46:47.060
and we just figured well it's just my body like you know it's it's just you know one of those things
00:46:52.660
didn't really think didn't really think it was a quality of the product so much just thought it was something about me
00:47:02.100
they put it out there basically you could eat that thing once
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that's one of that's one of my best failures of all my failures i think i like that one the best
00:47:31.220
that's all that's all i've got uh we could probably just feed those dill burritos to uh
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to pigs to make methane i think we could fuel a major city with you know two with two two dill
00:47:45.460
burritos and a couple of pigs and you'd have all the methane you ever need all right that's all for
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now i'll talk to you later all right i don't miss that's all for now i'll talk to you tomorrow