Episode 2104 Scott Adams: Biden Criminal Enterprise Outed, Trump Proves Justice System Isn't, More
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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138.0143
Summary
Governor Gavin Newsom weighs in on Black People's Reparations, and it's a doosey. Scott Adams explains why Reparations are not about cash payments, they're about the ongoing struggle against systemic racism.
Transcript
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We're going to be talking about all the big stories, yes, Biden, etc.
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But my favorite story is that the up-till-now quiet Governor Newsom has weighed in on reparations.
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And, uh, ouch, ouch, patting myself on the back too hard.
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And what did Governor Newsom say about the reparations?
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Talk about calling your shot before you hit it.
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I think I called this one pretty far in advance.
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I guess, you know, I'm kind of complimenting him and insulting him at the same time.
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So he comes up with this bullshit, uh, explanation that this is my favorite line.
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Well, you know, reparations is about more than cash payments.
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So the entire conversation that's almost exclusively about cash payments,
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It's about the ongoing struggle against systemic racism.
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It's about their continuous striving for equity,
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And so, oh, do we need to talk about the cash payments?
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When reparations is about so much more, so much more.
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We don't want to get all caught up in the cash payments part.
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When it's such a big topic, and we're doing so well on it.
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Do you think Newsom won over the black community?
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I think the best way for Trump to play this topic is to say that Newsom was always pranking them.
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And he was lying to black Americans like all Democrats.
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Has anybody mentioned that it's the Democrats that are fucking lying to the black people all the time?
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And it's only the Republicans, or in my case, I'm a recent Democrat.
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I joined them when they accused me of being a racist.
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I said to myself, ah, it's only the Democrats who accused me of being a racist.
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Because I think they need more racists in their ranks.
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But am I wrong that Republicans, and in my own little way, are just a few people telling the truth to black Americans?
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The truth was, there was never going to be any reparations.
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All right, well, I heard some of the most interesting arguments, which is...
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Honestly, it angers me to see how abused black Americans have been in this process.
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So, separate from, you know, whatever abuses historically have been heaped on black Americans,
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on top of that, we're just lying to them and treating them like idiots at this point.
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Black Americans were denied, you know, various rights.
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And so there were many bad things that happened to black people in the past.
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Because this is the argument that was presented to me.
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There are a various number of bad things that the country did to black Americans throughout history.
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And they were somewhat sanctioned by government or at least not stopped.
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I substituted the word should where you expected an argument.
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It's just a word that you inserted so that people don't understand that there wasn't any reason there.
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Do you understand that bad things have happened to people all through history, right?
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We're not talking about giving them reparations.
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The fact that the country did bad things to people in the past is more like a set of facts.
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So this is not the argument, but it's what it would look like.
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Let's say we have a standard in this country that we like, because it defines who we are,
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in which we try to compensate for bad things that happened.
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And this is so much like other bad things that have happened.
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And we think that if we correct it, society will function better.
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And our national disgrace, you know, the, what do they call it, the original sin of slavery,
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will be not taken away, but at least you can do a little bit about it.
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Now, that would be close to an argument, right?
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I'm not saying you would agree with it or disagree with it, but that's what an argument would look like.
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You'd say what you want, and then you would connect what you want with how that makes the system stronger,
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But the word should doesn't do any of those things.
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Bad things happen, therefore you should give me money.
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You don't think women were abused also for 100,000 years?
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But to vote, and how long ago was it that women got the right to vote?
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Didn't we have a lot of history where women couldn't even, literally couldn't even own anything?
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So let me give you an example from my own lifetime, right?
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So my grandfather owned a farm, and when he died, he left the farm to his oldest son, and that was it.
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He had two daughters, nothing, you know, except odds and ends.
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But one of them got his entire farm, which was worth a fortune, because he was the oldest son.
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He didn't leave his fortune, his farm, to his wife.
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He left it to his oldest son, because that's just the way it was done.
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Now, you don't think women have an argument for reparations?
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If the argument is, bad things happen, therefore you should, with the word should, you know, standing in for an actual argument, give me money.
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Is there anybody else who could make that argument?
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How about the white Northerners who fought in the Civil War to end slavery, among other things?
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Do you think the white Northerners who never had any slaves didn't get any money from it, and then lost their lives, are they better off or worse off than the descendants of slaves?
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Let's see, one is dead, fighting for the freedom of other people.
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And one lived, but had a, you know, real bad situation, but now their children are in a better situation.
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You can put the word should between any two set of facts and act like you made an argument.
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But the world is full of people who have been abused by the government.
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The government has been abusing people forever.
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If you got drafted for the Vietnam War, which was bullshit, do you have reason for reparations?
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People were drafted into the military and then were killed or wounded, so therefore they should get reparations.
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If should is requirement, you don't have any argument.
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Well, I know you want to talk about the Biden crime family.
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So, I guess that the press conference is probably still going live.
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I was expecting that Comer and the Republicans did not have the goods.
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I was expecting it would be a weak case that maybe sounded good at first, but as soon as you got under the hood, you'd find out it was vaporware and there was nothing there.
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It was kind of like the, you know, the walls are closing in on Trump kind of thing.
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Oh, the walls are closing in on Hunter, finally.
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Now, I'll give you my first impression, which is subject to change, because what's definitely going to happen is that the Democrats are going to mount a defense.
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So, there'll be a, like the news will, the news will form ranks around Biden and they'll create this cushion of information and misinformation, of course, which will try to protect him.
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So, we haven't seen the protective field form yet.
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But, we've seen one indication of it, which reminds me of Tucker Carlson.
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I think it might have been related to this, that one of the Biden people said that Republicans must be working for China.
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Yeah, they're working for the benefit of China.
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As Tucker has pointed out, the Democrats always accuse you of specifically what they're guilty of.
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Not even generally, but specifically what they're guilty of, which is taking money from China.
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And apparently, that's one of the accusations that got surfaced today by Comer and his Republican buddies.
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So, now we've got that Tucker confirmation, which is not a legal standard, but it's so predictable that you can't not see it anymore.
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As soon as they come up with a wild accusation like, you're colluding with Russia, they were colluding with Russia.
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The people, yeah, they accused Trump of colluding with Russia while they colluded with Russia to come up with the fake charges that he was colluding with Russia.
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I just saw a real dumbass NPC comment that was sort of a classic.
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So, here's what we know, according to Comer and his buddies.
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There were, let's see, the accusations were just coming out when I signed on.
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There were 16 to 20 companies, entities that the Bidens were shuffling money through.
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And the experts are saying that given the velocity of money that went through these companies and the complexity of the setup of who's paying who and where's it going.
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And money went to nine different Biden members.
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I didn't think the Republicans would have a kill shot.
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I thought they would have a bunch of accusations that would be sort of cloudy and, you know, there'd be a defense.
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The way the business was set up, the complexity of it, there is no legitimate business that would ever be set up that way.
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But here's the real kill shot at the bottom of that.
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It's just a bunch of old companies where money is going around.
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Now, whether or not that could ever be proven is independent from the fact that we're going to think it's corruption.
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I mean, it's so obvious at this point that it was set up for only that purpose, for corruption, to hide the payments.
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And, you know, I guess Trump is also being blamed for whatever overseas.
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But as Comer pointed out, Trump had real businesses, right?
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So the Saudis, I think, were investors in one of his funds that he started after he left.
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You hope the fund invests and makes you some more money than you put in.
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Now, you definitely have to wonder about any political business involvement.
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But at least that's a real business and it's fairly transparent.
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The fact that we know that Saudi put money in there is all I wanted to know.
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And, you know, Jared has an actual track record that suggests he can turn your money into more money.
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So if I had a chance to invest in his companies, I probably would.
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Apparently, our government already was flagging 170 suspicious financial activities related to Hunter Biden and these Biden shell companies.
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FBI has been knowing that it looks sketchy for a while.
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And Comer says there are two whistleblowers that will come forward.
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So now they've got whistleblowers, they've got bank records, and they've got experts who know how corruption works who say, oh, yeah, this is classic.
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A substantial amount of it happened while Biden was vice president.
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And they seem to be able to connect some activities around the money flowing and some policies that directly or indirectly were good for the company that paid the money.
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And it looks like the Biden business model is that they get 30 percent, or the Hunter does, that he gives to his family members, 30 percent of whatever deals they were working out there.
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So, and a significant part of the money was coming from Chinese controlled companies.
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So one of the things that Biden had specifically denied is that money was coming from Chinese companies.
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But now they have the documentation that it was.
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He lied about, well, he lied about knowing, we assume.
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Because the scope of the operation was so substantial, there isn't really any realistic way that Joe Biden didn't know.
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He was the one meeting the Romanians or having dinner with a business partner or whatever.
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I think you could also say for sure it was an influence selling operation.
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Do you think there's any doubt about that at this point?
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Do you have any doubt that it was an influence selling operation?
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And that it apparently involved China, Romania, Serbia, lots of different companies, nine different family members?
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The Biden crime family is actually a literal thing.
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Now, I'm going to say the Republicans are doing a good job on this.
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I mean, even when I'm, you know, leaning pro-Republican on some specific policy or something,
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I don't usually say the Republicans are doing a great job.
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That's not something that comes out of my lips too often.
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I still think we live in a country that is sufficiently corrupt that everybody can know the Biden family is a criminal enterprise.
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So I do not predict that there will be consequences.
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I do predict that it's now obvious that it was a crime family situation.
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I just don't think we live in a world where things operate that way.
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You know, all indications are that something sketchy will happen and they'll all escape for one reason or another.
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It could be Biden pardons everybody and then resigns.
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Could Biden just pardon his whole family and then resign?
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So you can forget about any of them going to jail.
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The only way Hunter could go to jail that I can imagine is if Joe Biden died suddenly.
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Well, even Kamala would probably give the pardon then.
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There's probably no way that any of them will ever be in trouble.
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But I cannot wait until Trump gets his teeth into this.
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However Trump decides to spin this thing is going to be art.
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Because usually Trump doesn't have that much to work with, right?
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He's working with rumors and innuendos and hyperbole.
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Maybe he's exaggerating DeSantis' record a little bit, that sort of thing.
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So he usually has pretty thin things to work with.
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You know, even Crooked Hillary was more like rumors than facts.
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But now the Biden stuff is going to be pretty well documented.
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That's like you put the biggest steak in the world on his plate and said,
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I also think that the odds of RFK Jr. being the next president just went way up.
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You don't think there's some Democrats who are pretty sick of this shit?
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Just as there are many Republicans who are sick of defending Trump,
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like even if you liked his policies, aren't you sick of defending him?
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Probably is the reason I got canceled more than anything else.
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So there's nothing good in it, defending any of the people,
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I've got a feeling that the Democrats are going to feel a little bit of
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that defending your guy fatigue that Trump supporters feel.
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I've got to stop defending the same person all the time.
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Although, you could call it not defending, but you know what I mean.
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Then I did see that it looks like a number of people are going to enter the race,
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So I've got a feeling that RFK Jr. is the thing that got out of the,
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He might have positioned himself at exactly the right place at exactly the
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right time that the Democrats are going to say, oh,
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we better act fast to get somebody who has some chance of winning,
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Name me, name me any Democrat who could be RFK Jr.
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If Biden, if Biden isn't in it, name anybody who could beat him.
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Yeah, I will, I will give you, I will grant you this, this truth.
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Yeah, he's got the politician gene where he can just do the politician stuff
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Now, I don't think he's been a good operator for the state.
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I don't think he's made good decisions for the state.
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So, yeah, Newsom could put a dent in the RFK Jr. machine.
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But I think RFK Jr. has more gears and less baggage, weirdly.
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I mean, he has baggage, but it's baggage that he can turn into a positive.
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He hasn't quite done it, but he's very close to it.
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Number one big hit, he used to be a wild, drug-taking philanderer.
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You would think that maybe he wasn't genetically related
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That's so baked into your Kennedy understanding
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maybe he was not genetically related or something.
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is that the pro-vaccination people think he's a nut.
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what seems like anti-science against kids vaccinations,
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and that the way they're tested is insufficient
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because they didn't do randomized controlled trials.
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So I think that they should have to do the work.
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You know, I'd never really paid much attention to him before
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when he was talking about childhood vaccinations
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Now I know that pretty much all of our medical data
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when you hear the guy who knew it from the start,
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to the only logical person in the conversation.
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I've never thought that was a possibility before.