In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the good, the bad, the ugly, and the just plain weird things going on in the world right now, including the recent decision by Greenpeace not to protest nuclear power in Finland, and a new technology that could solve our drinking problem.
00:02:43.160Anyway, it must be awkward to wake up one day and realize the thing you've been fighting for to fix for 20 years, you had made much, much worse.
00:03:03.980Wall Street Journal is reporting there are now a few different technologies for removing these so-called forever chemicals from our water supply.
00:03:13.160I guess it's really hard to filter out all the little microchemicals that last forever in our water supply.
00:03:19.520Usually stuff from pollution, dumping.
00:03:23.280But apparently they have at least two new technologies.
00:03:26.840One has to do with high pressure and one has to do with some electrical process.
00:03:31.560But neither of them are yet fully economical.
00:03:35.800However, when you're talking about safe water, well, you're probably willing to pay a little to get that.
00:03:44.380So I got a feeling that it will be economical because people would pay a very high price for clean water.
00:16:25.520So, since Democrats have decided that I'm a racist, I've decided to join their club so that all the racists are in the same place.
00:16:37.960And the next time they talk about me, and they do a big story, and they say, this damn racist, and look at his political opinions, oh, he's a Democrat.
00:16:48.320Every time they call me a racist, they'll have to publish that I'm a registered Democrat.
00:19:04.380The Democrat strategy for winning is to run a guy who's going to die in office.
00:19:09.600Now, if I'd said that on the first day of his, you know, first campaign, look, they got a long-term strategy that involves Joe Biden dying in office, you would have said, well, that's crazy, Scott.
00:19:25.340But we're actually, literally, no hyperbole, their strategy is to run a guy they expect to die in office.
00:19:33.880That's a real thing, and we're just, like, talking about it like it's ordinary.
00:19:41.400And let's see, the Democrat strategy is what I'll call the die in Biden strategy.
00:19:48.720So they went from the hide in Biden, because they needed to hide him because he was too embarrassing to be in public.
00:19:55.080So they went from hide in Biden to die in Biden.
00:19:58.360Do you know why we didn't care so much?
00:20:00.280We, again, collectively, the voters of the country, they didn't care so much that Biden couldn't put two words together because they didn't see him.
00:20:50.340So of all the 70, 80, 80, I guess 80 million Democratic voters, let's say 50 million of them were over the age that they could run for president.
00:21:03.160So they had 50 million choices and they picked a guy who's a notorious liar, has strange international connections that look sketchy through Hunter Biden, and he will probably die in office.
00:21:30.500You're going to get beaten by a dead guy.
00:21:32.680And probably, now, one advantage that Biden would have is that if you're somebody who's definitely going to die in office, or people think that's the likely case,
00:21:44.560there's one group that you're going to get a lot more support from, am I right?
00:23:55.620Disney is way more popular than DeSantis.
00:23:58.140So the only thing that people are going to hear is that DeSantis, who should be the serious governor, doing serious things, has picked a fight with Mickey Mouse.
00:24:52.760To me, it looks like he's running for president, and he's spending time in Israel, while Florida is sitting there marinating in lack of leadership, while he's gone.
00:25:04.520So, to me, I thought there was a huge political disadvantage for DeSantis.
00:25:12.860But almost all of you disagreed with me.
00:25:15.860However, backing my side is that in The Hill, I think it was The Hill, that, quote,
00:25:24.920Whispers are growing louder among Republicans, among Republicans, that DeSantis has miscalculated in his battle with Disney.
00:25:33.860There are real dangers, they say, of his fight with the corporation becoming a distraction from his likely presidential campaign, and one that could make him, wait for it, one that could make him seem petty and vindictive rather than strong and decisive.
00:25:52.060That's it. So, if it makes you feel any better, according to one report, the Republicans who know how things work are now completely agreeing with me that he's looking petty and vindictive rather than strong and decisive.
00:26:09.120Now, what's the reality? Well, the reality is he was probably strong and decisive. Would you agree?
00:26:17.360The reality is that he was strong and decisive. He pushed against somebody that people don't usually push against.
00:26:25.280He was very decisive, and it was strong because, you know, it was a very clear and strong reaction.
00:26:32.560So, those of you who are saying, but Scott, the truth is, it was strong and decisive. It was. I know that. That has nothing to do with my point.
00:26:45.940If you're fighting with Mickey Mouse, you're fucking losing. That's my whole argument. If you're fighting with Mickey Mouse, you're losing.
00:26:54.920Listen, don't give me your details. Don't tell me how strong he is. Don't tell me how right he is. Don't tell me how good it is for the system.
00:27:04.260I agree with all of that. I completely agree with that. It's just that fighting with Mickey Mouse cannot win. It cannot win.
00:27:12.920All right. Point eight. All right. As you know, I've been promoting the idea that I'd love to see a debate between RFK Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:27:28.520Now, the reason I want to see it is that neither of them at the moment look like they're going to be the nominee,
00:27:34.540but a lot of us think that they have the qualities we would look for in a president on either side
00:27:41.080and maybe more qualities than the two people who are likely to be the nominees.
00:27:47.640So, if you want to put a dent in the possibility that the likely nominees are the inevitable nominees,
00:27:55.640we need a debate of the two people who are the, I would say, the most impressive possibilities for both sides.