Episode 2188 Scott Adams: Now You Can See The Machinery Behind The Politics & It Changes Everything
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1 hour and 25 minutes
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149.2042
Summary
A new poll finds that people in the finance and sales industries are more likely to think their jobs are "socially useless" than those in business and finance. Fox News has taken a hit in public trust, and I think there's a good reason why.
Transcript
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Well, I hear there's some news today. We'll be talking about that.
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But while you're streaming in to watch this wonderful broadcast, here's some interesting things.
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There was a new survey that found out that people think their jobs are bullshit.
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I don't know if you knew that, but apparently those working in business and finance and sales
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were more than twice as likely to say their jobs were socially useless.
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They think they go to work and their job has no point whatsoever to the world.
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That is exactly what created the Dilbert comic.
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It was my experience of going to work in corporations
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and seeing that there was nothing I ever did that made a difference to anybody's life.
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By the time I was done, all of my work would be diluted into, you know, just nonsense.
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So it's nice to know that there's some scientific basis to that.
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Well, of course we're going to be talking about the Trump indictment and the Biden crime family.
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And I'm going to cheer you up by the end of this broadcast.
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You're going to start out feeling, oh my God, my country has fallen apart.
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I'll tell you why and I'll make you feel good by the end of this.
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But first, Rasmussen has a poll about trust in media.
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Tucker Carlson was more credible than the network itself.
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So when they lost Tucker Carlson, their credibility went down a little bit.
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So only 23% of likely U.S. voters trust Fox News the most,
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It's going to sound like everything I tell you today is bad news.
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But when you see it all together, it's going to reverse.
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It's going to be like an optical illusion where, you know, from one angle everything looks bad.
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And you just move a little bit and it changes what it looks like.
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All right, so I've suggested that a good TV show would be a show in which people learn the real news for the first time about politics.
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Now, I jokingly said it would be funny to see Democrats being exposed to actually real news in context for the first time.
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Watching people being explained or having it explained to them what they've missed on the news.
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Now, to be fair, to be fair, you can do it with Republicans as well.
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There are things that Republicans have a blind spot for.
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And they just don't see if you don't watch certain kinds of media.
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But I think you would all agree with the following assessment.
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But Republicans tend to know what the argument is on the other side.
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They disagree with it, but they hear it because that's the dominant news is the other side.
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Maybe not dominant, but there are more outlets covering the other news.
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So they hear the other side, and then they hear what you might call their side, and then they make a decision.
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Usually they side with their side, like everybody.
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I know it's a big generalization, but at least they've heard the other side.
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It would be fascinating to see people find out for the first time that they never knew what the news was.
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And so I introduced to you my theme for today's live stream.
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It appears that we're starting to see the machinery.
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This week, the hood was lifted, and you no longer just heard that there was an engine under there.
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Everything about the Biden crime family, maybe it's all legal.
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It's entirely possible that everything that they did is completely legal.
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Does the Trump indictment look like a completely ordinary legal process?
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Now that it's a pattern, that whenever there's bad news for Biden, there's a new indictment for Trump,
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You know the entire machinery of the Biden crime family, which, again, it might not even be a crime.
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I mean, maybe there's a fair violation or something.
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But it's entirely possible the whole thing is legal.
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It's also entirely possible that we're going to see in real detail that the moves against Trump are only political,
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and they're not really part of the real justice system as you know it.
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And in the next few months, you're going to watch something that will be glorious.
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You're going to watch the Internet dads, as I call them, the sort of responsible, believable, credible people on the Internet,
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are just going to take the hood off of this fucking thing.
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You are going to learn how to drive a stick shift from dad.
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And, again, I don't mean they don't all have to be male.
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You know, I would throw Molly Hemingway in with the dads, and that's a compliment,
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meaning that anybody who can just see the whole system.
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You know, I'm talking about anybody who can open the hood and tell you how to change the oil.
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So if that's men and women, you know, let's not be sexist.
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But you're watching the emergence of the people who know what's happening, trying to explain it to you.
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So there's something really, really good happening that's disguised as something really, really bad happening.
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I don't think I've ever been quite this optimistic about the country in several years.
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I know it looks like it's the darkest before the dawn situation, doesn't it?
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I mean, it looks like they're going to lock Trump up.
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And it might be because the Democrats didn't see it.
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And you know how, you know, Republicans can't quite fully understand what it's like to be a Democrat.
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And I think, for example, the Republicans didn't fully understand how Democrats would react to Trump.
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But likewise, I would say that the Democrats have gotten away with so much right in front of you that they didn't know what too far looked like.
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The latest round of Trump indictments are not the regular game.
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You're actually standing with the spectators now.
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If you get off the playing field and you start hanging out with the spectators, the spectators are now part of the game.
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And you're going to get it explained to you by the Internet dads in a way that the media never allowed before.
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Because before you just saw the news as it was packaged and presented to you.
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But now there's an entire industry of people telling you what fuckery they're bringing.
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And the industry of people telling you how they're lying to you is now as strong as the media itself.
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Before the media could overwhelm any voice that was a critic.
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You're seeing the rise of people who are done and people who will risk anything to fix it.
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But when serious business happens, dad comes home.
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So I'd love to see that TV show where essentially it would almost be a campaign ad.
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Now it could be a live stream show with a regular time.
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But wouldn't you love, I mean honestly, wouldn't you love ordinary voters brought in and just say,
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just want you to listen to some context that you'd never heard before.
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Do you know how our reaction videos are big on the internet now, on YouTube?
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You'll see, for example, a popular form of it is a, let's say a young black man,
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maybe with a friend, who's listening to some 70s classic music that's, you know, outrageously good.
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And you hear a young person listening to a genre of music they're not familiar with.
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And, you know, they're hearing it for the first time.
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Are you telling me that, you know, my grandfather had amazing music?
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You know, like they're learning it for the first time.
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Imagine you're 19 or something, and you've never heard Led Zeppelin.
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And somebody says, hey, put on the headphones, see what you think.
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That would be like watching a voter, just an ordinary citizen,
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being told the actual news, the real news in context, for the first time.
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Can you imagine what their face would look like?
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Let's say, just for fun, that it's a Democrat who's the subject.
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And at the end of the episode, you've completely changed their understanding of the news.
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But then the last minute of the show, there's a little cap off.
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And the cap off would be that prior to the beginning of the show, they had to give a DNA sample.
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And at the end of the show, the host tells them that they're related, they're descendants of slave owners.
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It's the best show you've ever seen in your life.
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Bob, that would be the best show you ever saw in your life.
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Oh, and Bob, we have a little extra news for you.
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While we were doing the show, we did a little research.
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We found out that your great, great, great-grandfather, his name was Rooster Kornmeyer, and he owned 300 slaves.
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The timing of the DNA thing might be hard, but...
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That would be a case of entertainment solving for the news.
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And let me give you an example of how bad things are.
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So listen to the tweet, and then I'm going to tell you how many views it got, which is a measure of its popularity.
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My condolences to the half of the country that doesn't know the biggest story in American politics by far broke today, which was the other day.
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When I say prepped you for, I mean the news has been getting you ready for something.
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And so the biggest news in, I would say, in my entire lifetime of politics is by far the biggest news.
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It's the Biden crime family being completely exposed in terms of the machinery.
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But how many people do you think viewed that, which would be a proxy for how many times it was retweeted?
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A really solid tweet, if I really, like I hit a nerve, I can get, you know, 50,000 people to view it, which is a lot.
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If I really hit it out of the park, and it's happened a few times, I can get a million people to view a tweet.
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10 million people agreed with the fact that it was the biggest news in the country, and that half of the country wouldn't even see it.
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Now, that's an indication of something that they don't agree with just with their brain.
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Most of my tweets, if I get, you know, 20,000, 50,000 people agree with it, or even see it, then I would say, oh, intellectually.
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Like, on an intellectual level, they said, okay, one plus one is two.
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This is something that people are feeling in every part of their body.
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They feel that the biggest thing in the country happened, and that the bad guys are actually so good at hiding the news that they're going to hide it from half of the country.
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The theme is watching the, you know, opening the hood and actually seeing the machinery.
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That's 11.5 million people who saw the machinery.
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They can see that we've developed a news business whose job it is to prevent half of the country from seeing the news.
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The news industry, the biggest part of it, their purpose now is to prevent you from seeing the news.
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You maybe didn't know that before, but the hood just lifted.
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Dad is standing next to you, and Dad is showing you where the oil goes.
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I'm not sure if it was always that way, but we were not looking under the hood before.
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Before, I could hear the engine, and I could get in my car, and I could drive.
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So I was pretty sure there was an engine in there.
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This is Dad standing next to you and lifting the hood and pointing to where the oil goes.
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And he just pointed and told you, the news business is the opposite of what you thought it was.
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It may have been at one point, but it's definitely not that now.
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And you can see it in a way that your own observation confirms it.
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You don't have to listen to me explain it to you.
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You just have to look up, lift the hood, and have somebody point to it.
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There is a lot of good news disguised as bad news.
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And I would say the way to explain this is that because the Democrats didn't understand and can't understand, really, the opposite side of the political world, just as they don't understand Democrats fully, right?
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The problem is that the left didn't know where the line was.
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Because you know when things go too far, all the rules change.
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If we're in a normal game, we're going to play normal rules.
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You might try cheating a little bit, but somebody will catch you, get you back on there.
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But once you go beyond the game, and you've gone beyond the rules of the game, and you're trying to put, let's say, for example, trying to jail your political opponent for free speech.
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Once you reach the too far stage, all the rules change.
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And I can't even imagine it would be different than what we can see at this point.
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Answer this from your feelings, not from your brain.
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Do you feel that the latest indictments against Trump are too far?
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Now, I felt a little bit like that when, you know, in prior indictments, etc.
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I thought that went too far with the fake impeachments and stuff.
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The current polling, the current polling for Trump shows he has a dominant, really probably
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Likewise, this week we also saw the Biden crime family completely exposed.
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And while I don't think that means anybody's going to jail, because it just doesn't work
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that way, can you imagine getting into the general election with Trump having that in
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He would just describe the Biden crime family thing until you couldn't think about anything
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In my opinion, Biden has no chance of re-election, and for all practical purposes, he's off the
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And the reason is that as soon as this news came out of this new set of indictments, Vivek
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Ramaswamy, and I'm not positive of this, I could use a fact check on this.
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This is my impression, so I'll take a fact check on this.
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It looked to me like he turned on a camera, stood in front of it, and for 10 minutes spoke
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perfectly about how he would pardon Trump for this and other things, and that it's purely
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political, and that, you know, this is too far, this is the end.
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Now, when you see somebody who can just turn on a camera and give you 10 minutes of the
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best perfectly engineered and composed speech that's right on target, it hits the moment
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He's been nailing his campaign for a week after a week.
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Do you remember the awesome things he's done during that time?
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Going on CNN, he's fought against the enemies, he's ripping up the podcasting world.
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And even Trump had to say, you know, he's doing a great job.
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Because he created a moment of contrast like you've never seen so far.
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If Trump goes down for this, or he's taken off the field, the Republicans are not going
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DeSantis also responded with a text message that looked like a corporate memo.
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He's not just going to free the people who are being, as many of us believe, unfairly targeted.
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He's going to take a sword and pull up from the roots every corrupt entity in the United States
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from the, you know, what is it, the Education Department or whatever it is, to Department of Justice, FBI.
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Because the news is not in the business of telling you what's true or useful.
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They're in the business of concealing the news from you.
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So they're not going to tell you that yesterday both Biden and DeSantis became unviable candidates.
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I mean, if Newsom comes in, he'll be a competitor.
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Because there isn't any way the Republicans are going to lose this one.
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If they take Trump out, they're taking his voters out.
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But they might be ready to lose a political campaign.
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But they're not ready to be targeted themselves.
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And when they look at the January 6th people, they say,
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You know, I wasn't inclined to go to that January 6th,
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And I easily could have been walking through the rotunda.
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for expressing my political preferences in a physical form.
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You might get 100% voting from Republicans this year.
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Well, what would be a normal, like a good year?
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65% of registered voters, or adults maybe, voting?
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You might see something like you've never seen before.
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I'd like you all to disagree with me really solidly
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and here's what I'm going to do for everybody else.
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I don't believe this system could be working for you.
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they could, if you imagine he's the vice president,