Episode 1331 Scott Adams： How I Become President, Mind Readers Send People to Jail, Infrastructure and More
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Summary
In this episode of The Left Eats itself, we have a new entry in the "The Left eats itself" contest, and we have three new entries in my ongoing series called The Left Eats itself. The first entry is an entry about how the left eats itself, and the other two are about the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos.
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um hey everybody come on in come on in all of you uh periscope refugees hey jeff come on in
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it's time for coffee with scott adams now exclusively at least today on youtube
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periscope is no more i'll be looking at my options for increasing my platform uh potential
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so i'll be looking at rumble and i'll i'm gonna look at something called haps h-a-p-p-s dot tv
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and uh look at some other stuff and i'll let you know if i get on any other platforms but for now
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it's youtube alone uh at some point the locals platform will have streaming don't know exactly
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when but it shouldn't be too long but if you'd like to enjoy this live stream to the maximum and
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let me tell you this one's going to be a good one i mean i say that all the time and it's true every
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time this one's going to be a good one but all you need is a cup or mug or a glass a tank or chalice or
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a canteen junk or flowers confess a little of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like
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coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing
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that makes everything better it's the simultaneous sip and it happens now go
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well i hate to do a commercial for youtube but i'm going to because i saw a question there that
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suggests it you don't have to see advertisements if you're a you know a paid subscriber to youtube
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now why would you want to be a paid subscriber to youtube to get rid of the ads now i don't know
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if anybody has discovered this yet but i find that i can't watch a movie anymore it's just impossible
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because it's just people i don't know it's way too long it makes me sad intentionally it's meant to
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make you sad before it makes you happy sometimes it just leaves you sad so movies don't really make any
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sense as an entertainment medium anymore to me same with tv shows they just don't have the scripted tv
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shows they just don't have any pop and you don't often have an hour or even a half an hour to just
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sit there and do one thing but the thing that youtube has is that you can get exactly what you want
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and just watch a bunch of it so i i think i've told you that i'm hooked on watching uh norm mcdonald
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clips there are lots of them and you can just line them up and there's one norm mcdonald clip after
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another where he's on some you know shower or other and uh saying something funny and i could watch that
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all day long but there's no movie right there's no movie of individual norm mcdonald funny clips
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you can only get that on youtube so given your attention span changes if it's like me your attention
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span has shrunk to the point where if something's more than two to ten minutes long it just isn't interesting
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anymore it's just too long so um so youtube is absolutely worth the subscription i hate to do a commercial
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for him but it's one of it's one of the few things i can say with complete confidence that it is the best
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entertainment option in the world if you get rid of the commercials there's there's nothing even close
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at this point um so april fools everybody i hope you see my pinned tweet i won't say anything else about
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that but i've got a pinned tweet you want to see today so in my ongoing series called the left eats itself
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uh the first entry is my favorite uh as you know the washington post seems to lean left as in pro
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biden washington post of course owned by jeff bezos so thanks to the good work of jeff bezos and the
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washington post in part uh biden is president and he's just announced that one of his top priorities
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is to raise taxes on amazon.com by name he calls them out specifically to massively increase their taxes
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so do you think jeff bezos is a little bit closer to being a republican today just just a little bit
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closer to being a republican because uh somebody do the math for me if biden gets his way with a
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what is it 21 percent of minimum corporate tax take amazon's uh profits i don't know what they are
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probably a big number take their profits and multiply by 0.21 and tell me how much uh uh jeff bezos gave
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away by supporting by so that's the first example of the left eats itself number two uh georgia passed some
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voting laws which the left says are restrictive the right says are just ordinary common sense such as
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requiring id and so hollywood is is being pressured to boycott them except hollywood really likes georgia
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because they have a really good environment they have the right kind of weather i mean they're really
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optimized for making movies and if you take that away hollywood spends a lot more money and has a lot
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you know less of maybe a weather situation it could be worse so the left cancels georgia which turns out
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to be really bad for hollywood is it bad for georgia well we'll find out could be but uh the left is eating itself
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uh did i check out decentraland i did not yet just looking at your comments um
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um now here's here's my latest one and the left eats itself one of the biggest issues of left and
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right is whether id is required for voting right so let's just take that fact should id be required
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for voting and the left says no that's racist because there's so many black americans the group
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i identify with i've told you that i've i identify black now because as an affinity i have more in
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common with that group so i just identify black now with respect no joke no joke at all with respect
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complete respect i identify black now that's not a joke by the way everybody everybody who's going to
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be laughing and say you're playing a prank it's not april fools i just identify with the group and i
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have that right and i i'm going to express that right because if it were not an option we wouldn't
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be talking about it but it is an option so i take it um but anyway voter id uh say the left uh is racist
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because it would leave a lot of black people unable to vote which sounds pretty bad but then there's this
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other question in the news about vaccine passports and here's the thing how could you have a vaccine
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passport without id because wouldn't you have the same racist problem all the folks who don't have
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identification it wouldn't matter if they got a vaccination or not because later they wouldn't be
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able to prove it because they could prove that somebody by a certain name got a vaccination but they can't
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prove that that that's them they have no id so it doesn't matter if you're on the list that says
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scott adams got a vaccination when i show up at the wherever it is that i need to show id they say
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prove you're that person i can't i can't prove i'm the person who got the vaccination i don't have id
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so again the left is eating itself because it's created this uh this sort of weird belief that
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black people should not be uh let's say compelled to get id or go without the benefits of id now
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they have their argument and i won't even say it's a good or bad argument because that's not necessary
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for my point my point is you do need a little consistency right you can be right you can be
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wrong that's just normal we're not all we're not all so smart that we're right all the time but we kind
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of there is an expectation of consistency right so if you're going to say that it's racist to require id
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for voting it's definitely racist to require a vaccine passport because all the people with no id
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are still left town now you might say to yourself scott how many people are we talking about
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how many people who don't have an id but let's say they do get vaccinated somehow i'm sure the homeless
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people without ids are getting vaccinated somehow you know not in the same places but somehow
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are there a lot of people who did get vaccinated and they they need to go somewhere where where that
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vaccination passport matters but they probably would have needed id anyway so it's not many people
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but that doesn't change the point it doesn't matter how many are involved right nobody nobody said
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nobody said that racism doesn't count if it's not a large number of people it's still racism same stuff
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so there's that uh lester holt nbc news recently said that i think has become clear that fairness is
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overrated the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect
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the world we find ourselves in now here's the funny part about that i agree with him totally not only do
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i agree with lester holt totally but so do you now you might say you don't but you do you do you know
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that in order to be in the news business you have to decide what's worth being on tv or in the news
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you can't you can't uh abdicate that responsibility so if uh if somebody says a volcano happened and
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you know it's the natural forces and somebody else says no it's an alien volcano ray and we're under
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attacked by an alien force from outer space does lester holt need to show the other side of the
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argument oh some people say it's natural for a volcano but the other side says it's a space alien
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volcano ray that caused it no there's not a single person in the world who says that lester holt needs
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to report about the alien space ray nobody right so his statement is 100 true and i think he's talking
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about stuff like q right but here's the problem how good is lester holt or let's say the news anchors
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how good are they how good are they at knowing what's true or what's even worthy to report because
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they reported every hoax that we've ever talked about they you know the charlottesville hoax the
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drinking bleach hoax so the people who can't tell a hoax from reality and we don't that's not a
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that's not a claim that's really an opinion is it is that even an opinion when i state that the the
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people who are the the major news people we know for sure that they can't tell the difference between
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an obvious hoax a really obvious one like the drinking bleach hoax and the charlottesville thing those
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are really obvious they couldn't tell the difference so while i do accept the concept
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that they do need to make these judgments it can't be ignored that they don't have the ability to
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do it right it's still their job they have to try but let's be honest they can't possibly do it
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because yeah the russia hoax russia collusion hoax so so rather than fairness and by the way i've
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often railed against the idea of fairness because fairness is just a subjective thing right what you
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think is fair is not what i think is fair fairness is not some law of physics where we can all just
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observe it and say oh yeah that's fair it's just an opinion so so managing anything based on fairness
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is a bad idea because it's just opinions all right so lester holt is right that it doesn't make sense
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to use fairness as your standard but he's wrong to think that they can tell the difference between
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what's true and what isn't they don't have any ability to do that indeed i would say they might
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be among the worst um even worse than the public maybe at telling what's real and what's not and and
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again that's demonstrated by facts that anybody can check in the news it's all checkable they don't know
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the difference between hoaxes and reality they just don't all right so let me tell you how i become
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president without trying now this would assume that i decided to run for president um i'm going to tell
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you how i would do it and how i would win with 80 of the popular vote are you ready number one i would
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run as a democrat all right that's the first part because if the democrats you know let's say i got
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nominated and actually was the nominee uh the democrats if you believe that they cheat in elections
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they wouldn't cheat against me so i'd have that going for me um i identify as black so i've got that
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going for me and again you still think that's a joke but it's not it's not a joke at all um and
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here's how i'd win i would make the following commitments that i would be the first systems president
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systems are better than goals have i ever told you that before what's wrong with our uh with our
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government is that the systems are designed wrong so i would go in and redesign our key systems all
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right and here's here's some examples of how i would do it i would commit that i would never sign any
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bill i would veto every bill that had more than one topic on it if it's a single topic i'll decide
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if i like it or not right but if it's a bunch of things put together i will reject it and it doesn't
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matter what else i don't care what the things are i don't care how important they are you either have
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to send them to me as a single topic and i don't even care if my own party sends it to me
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like let's say i'm a democrat and the democrats are the majority they send me something boom veto pop
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i don't care about the policy i care about the system as long as you have a system where you can't
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tell what's in a bill you don't have a functional government that's what we have now we have a
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dysfunctional government go to uh so the biggest news in the country i would argue that has the most
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impact is biden's 2.5 trillion dollar infrastructure plan go to the front page of fox news and the
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front page of cnn and look for any link that's on the front page all right i'm not saying it doesn't
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exist in the world or that they haven't talked about it but it's the biggest news in the world
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look on their front page and see if there's anything that tells you the details in the bill
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it's not there the two biggest news entities don't even have a link on the front page to
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something that says what's in that bill 2.5 trillion dollars now is that because the bill is good or the
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bill is bad no no it's none of that the system is broken the system doesn't even let you know what's in
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the bill right that's a broken system so i just wouldn't allow that to happen i just veto everything
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now they might override some vetoes they might override them if they had enough votes but uh but
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i would certainly promise that to the public and then on top of that i'd make the following promise uh any
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bill that is over two pages long i will veto that's it if it's over two pages i will veto it
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the third rule and the reason is that anything over two pages is deliberately confusing right if you can't
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put it on two pages ideally one you shouldn't have it right if it can't fit on two pages it shouldn't
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be a law now i would allow that other pages could be like exhibits or you know estimates or something
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like that but in terms of describing it two pages how many pages is the uh is an omnibus bill 500
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nobody could read it thirdly i would veto any bill with a misleading name so you know how the government
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likes to put a name on a bill that's the opposite of what the bill is like if it's a bill to kill people
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it will be the saving lives bill you know right so if if the name on it because the public kind of
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doesn't go much past the name right they know what the name of the bill is that's how the infrastructure
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scam works so biden calls it an infrastructure bill and then they go to the public and say what
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do you think about improving our infrastructure and the public says infrastructure i like roads and bridges
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i'm all for it but of course the name is intentionally misleading because it includes all kinds of things
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which you and i might not call infrastructure could be good things could be bad things but it's
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certainly you wouldn't call it infrastructure so those are the three things i do and keep in mind
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that none of that is politics right so nothing i've said so far has any political implication it has
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only a system implication the next thing i do is try to fix the other thing that's broken which is the
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fake news and the way i do it i've told you this before is that for every national issue i would do
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exactly what i'm doing right now i would take an ipad i would sit it on the desk in the oval office
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literally yeah this is literal i'd set it on the desk in the oval office and i would invite in the
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two experts to argue and maybe with some subsidiary helping experts and i would make them debate with
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me the pro and the con of whatever the decision is in public on live stream while you watch and i would
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i would just fire it up for any meeting in the in the oval office that wasn't you know some secret
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military thing right if it's a public policy discussion and it's happening in the oval office
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i'm just gonna say hey you're gonna be on camera and i just turn on the ipad and say let's talk
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transparency you would finally get transparency because the news business can't be counted on to tell anybody
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the straight facts it's it's too opiniony right but if i were to make people argue in front of the
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country and then i act as the uh let's say uh much like uh trump on the apprentice where you're asking
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probing questions of both sides you're not taking a side you're challenging both sides and then once i
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challenge them i would look at the public opinion and i would look at the opinions of people
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only who had watched the show right so the first question would be did you watch the entire
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live stream in which the topic was discussed in which the president had the live stream on if yes
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what is your opinion leaving out all the people who decided to be uninformed or just weren't interested
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because the only people i care about are the people who are heard both sides do you care about an
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opinion or the opinion of someone who doesn't even know what the topic is or somebody who heard one
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side or read a headline on cnn that's all no we don't even care about their opinions so i would only
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poll opinions of american citizens got to be a citizen you don't have to be a voter just a citizen and did you
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watch it which is sort of your proxy for being educated enough about the topic and then what's your
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opinion and then i would look at the public and i would say all right the public the public is informed
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um it's really a judgment call it's about priorities it's not it's not hard and fast one is better than
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the other it's about judgment and the public has judged that by a majority they like this i'll back the
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public democrat or republicans doesn't matter i would ignore the party affiliation and say all the all the
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people who got informed if you got informed i'll go with majority now of course there has to be a
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safety valve right that one of the best parts about our government system and this is the part you don't
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want to break is that there will be times that the leader has to overrule the masses because the masses
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can be looking for blood the masses might vote to discriminate against the minority so you have to
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protect against you know the majority getting evil so i would do that right if if the situation just calls
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for you know an override of the public's opinion i would do that but i would make that really rare it
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would have to be a real obvious case um so with those changes and a few more i would work for home
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work from home i'd pick a let's say an experienced senator or politician to do all the boring work
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back in washington and i wouldn't even you know i wouldn't even travel there except maybe just to
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live stream some meetings from the oval office but otherwise i just work from home because you don't you
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don't need much more than that all right um so biden got four pinocchios from the washington post
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you know or a publication you would expect to be friendly to biden but even they gave him four
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pinocchios for lying about some element to the georgia voting law basically he's claiming that it shortens
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the hours you can vote but it actually does the opposite so it's not even close to the truth
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is literally the opposite of the truth they they they created an opportunity for the hours to be
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expanded optionally but they didn't do anything to reduce the hours and he's actually going in public
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and saying the opposite the opposite that they reduced hours which would be a pretty big deal if it were true
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so biden ran for office because trump was a big liar that was his sales pitch
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biden had two main sales pitches three i guess um you know i suppose you could you could differ on that
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but one was uh he was going to fix the soul of the country uh as the fine people hoax informed him
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now of course so the first the first of his three reasons for running for office was that he believed the
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fine people hoax okay that's not good he literally became president one third of his main reason was
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a hoax and there's no question it was a hoax two uh he said that trump was a big old liar well
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now now we know for sure that biden is a big old liar now i suppose you could say you could count out the
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number of you know lies but that's never never make sense because usually they just repeat the same
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lies right it's usually just the same ones they repeat so it's not like they're coming up with new
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ones every day so i don't think you could make the claim that he came through with the honesty thing
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or anything like it really would anybody say that biden is uh telling the truth yet routinely
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doesn't look like it so the second leg of his reason for running is clearly debunked even here
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by the washington post now the third reason and again you could you could differ on what these reasons
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are but to bring respect back to the united states because his proposition was that other countries were
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just laughing at trump they were just laughing at us we lost respect but what do you think the other
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countries are saying about biden do you think the other countries are saying well america's back
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because look at that vibrant leader they've gotten they've got there biden's biden's got to control
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the stuff i don't think so so i think we could conclude and i don't and and i would say that i feel
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that this is just objectively true is there any democrat who would disagree with the following
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three statements you know maybe if they were uninformed but let's say an informed democrat
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somebody actually had the right information they would know about the fine people hoax
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they would certainly think he's not being respected overseas i mean they see what we see right
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he can barely walk upstairs um and of course the lying is is now confirmed so uh so there's that all
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right let's talk about this uh matt gates story that just gets weirder and weirder we are told to believe
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uh you know what this story there's so much in this story i don't even know where to start but
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um apparently there's some indication that this uh bob levinson who was maybe with the cia who got
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captured by iran uh so many years ago and some say he's dead and some say he's alive but for 25 million
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dollars or something in that neighborhood maybe you know uh maybe he could be gotten out of iran if he's
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alive and and that the only people who could do this were a couple of lawyers
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what what if if there's an american citizen who is associated with our intelligence agencies who is
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a captive in iran isn't that kind of a government job to get him back why would some lawyer be trying to
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make this happen by getting money from uh from matt gates's rich father to bribe somebody privately
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without working through the government to get these people out
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how in the world am i supposed to believe that some lawyers in the united states can get this guy out
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but our government can't because our government has 25 million dollars here's what i think is happening
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now i don't know this for sure but this is what i think is happening if you're just gonna
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if you're gonna play the odds what would you think is happening well allow me to play the odds
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this has nigerian prince written all over it am i right am i right this just says nigerian prince
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all over it i don't believe there's a guy anybody i don't believe anybody can get this guy out of
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sorry i mean i would love him to be alive but i doubt it so it looks to me like what was going on is
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some kind of a financial scam now matt gates has characterized this as extortion i don't know the
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exact line where extortion is and and where is somebody doing a financial scam but i certainly
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wouldn't be giving 25 million dollars or any millions of dollars to a lawyer in the united states
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who said he could get somebody out of iran if our government couldn't you know what i mean
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there looks like it looks like something is um a scam now i have no reason to believe that the
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lawyers are scanning right so i don't have any reason to believe that any americans
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are involved in any any kind of a bad thing but whoever told them that they could get this guy out
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of iran i feel like that guy might be scamming us you know what i mean might be a little scamming going
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on there so i don't believe anything about this story i don't believe that uh levinson is necessarily
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alive i don't believe anybody had any chance of getting him out and i think that uh probably profit
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was the motive at the bottom of all this and profit specifically for whoever it was who said he could
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get him out um but we're going to find out a lot more about that i guess so biden uh just allowed
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changed the rules to allow transgender in the military and uh that coincides with international
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transgender day of visibility and you know you have to ask this question um
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is wokeness and killing compatible it feels like you have to do one or the other right if the military
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is supposed to be a killing machine i think you want it to uh err on the side of being a good killing
00:32:49.880
machine even if it's a little unfair to some groups in america i feel like that's kind of important but
00:32:58.680
here's the real question is there any reason to believe that transgender in the military would have
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any negative effect on killing potential well i don't have any information that would suggest that
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i've heard people say that there's a difference in readiness because of a higher propensity for
00:33:20.040
medical treatments ongoing if you're if you've transitioned now i don't know if that's true
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but i would also think that would be highly individual right for every person who might have
00:33:32.280
ongoing medical stuff well you could i would think you could keep them out of the military just for
00:33:37.800
medical reasons but there have to be plenty of transgenders who don't have any particular medical
00:33:43.000
problems so you know i think i think this was always going to happen in other words the if you look at
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sort of the the arc of history this was always going to happen um i haven't heard that we are a less
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lethal killing force because gays are in the military have you did anybody tell you our military is worse
00:34:05.800
because gays are in the military i i've seen no indication of that i don't expect you'll see
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any difference with transgenders as long as they still make a distinction between somebody who
00:34:18.760
has some medical risk that you don't want in the military versus people who don't
00:34:25.400
so um i know that much of my audience disagrees me on with me on this issue so we'll just we'll just
00:34:32.280
let that disagreement hang all right we we seem to have these continuing situations uh mind reading
00:34:42.760
uh instead of a legal system wouldn't you like your legal system to be based on what you did
00:34:49.800
as opposed to what you thought you'd all agree with that right that you shouldn't be prosecuted for
00:34:57.080
thoughts especially if they can't be demonstrated to be true so here are a couple of examples i'm
00:35:05.880
looking at the george floyd trial and the uh the potential charges are really hard for the you know
00:35:13.960
regular person non-lawyer to understand so let me see do the best i can to run through what the charges are
00:35:20.840
and see if we understand how they would fit like even if they make sense so you've got uh and by the
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way i'm open to lots of fact checking on this i'm so far out of my realm of uh of competence that it's
00:35:36.040
it's uh irresponsible but i'll do it anyway because i have no shame uh so there are three potential
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charges that uh shaven could be convicted of in the george floyd thing we've got second degree
00:35:52.200
manslaughter so apparently manslaughter at least in minnesota uh manslaughter could have different
00:35:58.840
degrees so what would second degree manslaughter be and the other ones are second degree murder and
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third degree murder which is a thing in minnesota but not necessarily a thing in other states
00:36:12.120
so here's what second degree manslaughter is and this is according to the minnesota statutes this
00:36:18.440
is specific to minnesota when someone quote creates an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of
00:36:26.680
causing death or great bodily harm to another is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree so did shaven
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do this did he create an unreasonable risk and consciously take chances of causing death
00:36:42.280
now consciously so the word consciously is right in the definition meaning he had to know he was doing
00:36:48.760
it now given that the hold he was using was in the police training book i understand would he have
00:36:58.600
been expected to know that standard police procedure would kill this guy that's a pretty hard case to
00:37:06.360
bake isn't it secondly if you were trying to uh know the state of mind of the police officer which is
00:37:14.520
essential to this to this uh second degree manslaughter because you have to conclude that he's consciously
00:37:21.480
taking these chances and he knows that he's taking these chances now how does that square with the fact he did
00:37:28.120
it in front of an audience do you believe that shaven took a wild risk with his own life and his own career
00:37:38.840
by doing something that if if floyd were to be killed or badly hurt obviously this would be devastating
00:37:50.840
for officer shaven so how could you say that a guy who is operating knowingly right in front of a crowd
00:37:59.960
and it didn't happen that that quickly right i mean events were kind of quick but
00:38:04.440
minutes and minutes passed so he was making a conscious decision that what he was doing presumably if you put me
00:38:13.640
on the jury i would assume this the shaven was doing what was good for shaven would you agree would you
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agree that everything we we witnessed was shaven doing something that was good for shaven
00:38:27.320
right he was trying to protect himself from you know letting this guy get up and hurt anybody he was
00:38:35.160
trying to do his job which is good for shaven he was trying to you know make sure that they got the
00:38:41.080
arrest which is good for shaven at what point do you think shaven said to himself you know uh i'll just
00:38:50.680
be a little reckless right in front of all these witnesses especially with cameras and i don't think
00:38:56.280
that'll be bad for me i don't think you could make the case that he believed he was hurting floyd
00:39:03.480
because if he believed he was doing it his own self-interest would have made him stop
00:39:10.280
because we don't see anything there that would suggest he was out of control
00:39:15.480
right if he if if shaven wasn't out of control he was you know making you know his high stress
00:39:22.200
situation but they're trained for that wasn't so far out of his realm of training that we assume his
00:39:27.960
mind stopped working so how would he in what world would shaven think it would be a good idea for himself
00:39:35.320
to put this guy in great danger it couldn't have been there's no way shaven could have imagined
00:39:43.160
it would be good for shaven to do something bad to this guy right in front of all these people
00:39:48.840
no way he could have thought that all right so i don't think second degree manslaughter fits because
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of the conscious part that he did in front of an audience how about second degree murder
00:40:01.640
it's a non-premeditated killing so everybody would agree he didn't premeditate it
00:40:06.920
but it's resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility do you think
00:40:14.200
that what shaven was doing he believed created a distinct possibility of death well here's the
00:40:22.520
problem it's police work isn't a lot of your police work creating a distinct possibility of of death it
00:40:34.040
feels like half of police work is that right now they're trying to avoid it but police are creating
00:40:41.160
situations where there's a high possibility of death all the time that feels like you know oh
00:40:48.040
it's resulting from an assault somebody somebody is correcting me in the comments correcting me
00:40:53.240
correctly that it should be resulting from an assault was that an assault or was that an arrest
00:41:02.520
i think if you said to the jury hey jury was this an arrest or was it an assault
00:41:08.120
the jury would just say define assault for me well if it wasn't his intention to do anything but arrest
00:41:16.280
him again don't you have to be a mind reader you would have to read shaven's mind and think that
00:41:24.440
he knew there was a distinct possibility and that he was assaulting him as opposed to arresting him
00:41:30.040
what i saw was an arrest so i don't think this one even applies how about minnesota third degree murder so
00:41:40.200
some states or most actually don't even have this category so but minnesota does um it was originally
00:41:47.400
defined as depraved uh depraved heart murder and the definition of that would be without intent so we
00:41:55.960
agree without intent to affect the death of any person the death of another by perpetrating an act
00:42:03.640
eminently dangerous to others and not caring about it so was officer shaving shaven doing something that
00:42:12.200
was eminently dangerous to floyd and he had no regard for his life
00:42:18.440
again you would have to read his mind how do we know what shaven was thinking because where's at what
00:42:28.200
part did we see on the video that he had no regard for human life because i'll tell you what regard he
00:42:34.760
did have his own life you would have to argue that shaven didn't care about his own life
00:42:42.840
because what he was doing was putting his own life in a lot of danger right i mean even if he gets
00:42:49.800
acquitted and he goes into public he's in a lot of danger so any police officer would have known
00:42:57.720
that that putting you know killing a guy right in front of a crowd is going to be really bad for the
00:43:04.360
police officer so again what what is obvious about the situation is that the police officer
00:43:11.880
couldn't possibly have known that things would have gone this way because if he knew it or suspected it
00:43:19.880
or worried about it he would have acted differently right he wouldn't have acted that way to put himself
00:43:28.600
in that much danger nobody does that i mean just that defense alone should get him off
00:43:35.400
that nobody would put themselves in that kind of danger because when the when the crowd is watching
00:43:42.040
shaven's life and floyd's life became connected there was no situation where one could die
00:43:50.040
and the other one would be have a good day it couldn't happen there's no way i mean even if there were no legal
00:43:55.480
problems even if there were no legal problems would you want to be the police officer who killed a guy
00:44:03.320
accidentally no way so i would say just on common sense alone none of these apply
00:44:14.280
and the reason is shaven was in his right mind as far as we can tell nothing nothing showed he was
00:44:20.600
crazy and he had an audience as soon as you had the audience you have to assume he didn't know what
00:44:27.400
was going on he didn't know it was that dangerous all right uh according to rasmussen 44 of likely u.s
00:44:35.720
voters say requiring proof of covid uh vaccination is a good idea and 41 percent say it's a bad idea
00:44:46.440
so how do you think this breaks out in terms of people well uh i've been saying for a long time that
00:44:53.160
black americans are natural republicans but they just haven't realized it because here's another
00:45:02.040
case and i think there are a lot of these cases in which the republican opinion and the black majority
00:45:07.720
opinion are kind of similar which is a distrust of government and a distrust of authority
00:45:15.240
if you think about it what what is like the major theme of black um i don't want to say complaints
00:45:23.560
because when you say complaints it makes it sound like maybe they're not valid let's say what would
00:45:29.080
be a better word um black criticisms of of of the system i would say black criticisms of our system are
00:45:38.440
entirely valid because they say we don't trust police part of the system you know we don't trust
00:45:46.440
anything that that the system is is so racist that the whole thing is untrustworthy what is the
00:45:54.360
dominant feeling of republicans don't give the government any more money don't let the government
00:46:00.520
do any more more plans don't let the don't let the government have any more power so if you think
00:46:07.400
about it the republican distrust of the government and black americans distrust of the government
00:46:15.320
are weirdly similar and you can see in a in a topic like this where vaccines are not traditionally a
00:46:22.440
political thing and when people just get to decide without without really thinking it's a left or right
00:46:30.440
thing it's just do i want a vaccination or not do i want a passport or not you end up with black america
00:46:38.040
and republican america largely similar largely similar and i don't think that's unusual and i and i think
00:46:46.120
that the those two opinions are so close to being the same opinion that you you can't you can't give
00:46:54.920
the government too much power you know the people need to be you know free there's probably some common
00:47:01.560
ground there it's not it's not exactly common but it's closer than you think
00:47:08.520
all right so the cnn is uh priming the public to riot uh they've got a an article on there an opinion
00:47:16.200
piece by somebody named uh pineal joseph it's an interesting name that i think the first name is
00:47:24.120
pineal p-e-n-i-e-l i like people with interesting names pineal um i'm sure he was teased in high school
00:47:36.200
if your name has most of the letters of penis in it you're gonna get teased so i feel sorry for him
00:47:43.320
but here's what he wrote among other things on a on cnn now ask yourself if this opinion piece is
00:47:52.520
designed to create a riot because it looks like it i mean i don't think that necessarily he was
00:47:58.680
thinking that but when cnn decided to run it was cnn thinking to themselves well this is just a
00:48:05.560
harmless opinion or did cnn say this will get us the riots we need this will get us that riot
00:48:13.880
here's what he said and you decide if cnn thought this was just an opinion
00:48:19.320
or perfectly what they needed to spark a riot so peniel or peniel says
00:48:26.600
collectively the harrowing accounts of witnesses and he's talking about the george floyd trial he
00:48:32.920
says the harrowing accounts of witnesses and bystanders who watched floyd die offer tragically
00:48:39.640
compelling evidence of state-sanctioned violence against black bodies
00:48:44.440
what happened to him resembled a public execution one that echoes for many anti-black for many the
00:48:53.560
anti-black lynchings that mark the jim crow era now does that opinion sound like
00:49:03.160
just an opinion that doesn't sound like just an opinion this sounds like somebody who's trying to
00:49:09.720
start a riot a race war now i'm not going to say that's what they're thinking but i'm going to say
00:49:16.360
it reads like it which is different than knowing what somebody's thinking right it reads exactly like
00:49:21.960
somebody's trying to start a riot why would you do that why wouldn't you instead if you wanted to
00:49:28.280
prevent a riot uh remind people that the legal system is very important and that if the legal system
00:49:37.560
shows that uh shaven is not guilty of let's say these three murder related things um that we should
00:49:45.640
accept it because the system is doing what the system does they could do that that would be an opinion
00:49:52.280
too where's the opinion on cnn that says you know you should get ready for the fact that shaven might
00:49:58.680
not be found guilty and there might be a good reason he's not found guilty there might be they don't
00:50:04.440
even have to say there will be they just say you should be ready just be prepared that he's not actually
00:50:11.480
guilty not that he would get off but that he's not actually guilty just be prepared that's a possibility
00:50:19.080
where's that well you're not going to see that on cnn will you and i don't even think you'll see that
00:50:25.400
on fox news because fox news too would benefit by a riot now again i don't believe there's any person
00:50:33.240
who's sitting there saying i want a riot that'll be good for profitability all i'm saying is that when
00:50:39.640
money's involved people act in a way coincidentally coincidentally my opinion happens to align
00:50:49.960
for completely moral and ethical reasons just doing my job yes by coincidence that would really help
00:50:57.160
me i suppose i would get richer if i work for the news business and there's a riot but that's not why
00:51:04.360
i'm making the decisions and in their mind they're not even lying to themselves they believe that
00:51:12.360
they're not being influenced but of course they are we're humans humans are not free of the impact of
00:51:21.720
gigantic financial incentive if we're the opposite or whatever that is all right so um
00:51:28.600
um i hope enough of you see how many oh we've got uh really 4 100 people are watching this
00:51:36.840
holy cow and so i guess the periscopers uh you must have you must have come over it looks like almost
00:51:43.720
everybody from periscope i don't think we could get to that number unless almost everybody came
00:51:48.040
over uh larry wait what'd you say yes larry we will be safe in pleasanton that's true all right um
00:52:01.800
um so that's all for today and i'll let you know if i uh open up any more platforms but uh for now
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let us enjoy our april 1st and uh see if we can get back to normal as soon as possible all right bye for