Episode 2328 CWSA 12⧸20⧸23 How About That Colorado Decision Barring Trump？ That And Lots More
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In this episode of the podcast, Alex Blumbergbergberg talks about a new kind of AI: the kind that can talk to other animals and understand our thoughts and ideas, and that can do so much more than we can think of right now.
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little bit ungovernable. I always feel that way. Well, let's talk about all of the news. Of course,
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we'll talk about Trump in Colorado and Kamala's word salad and all kinds of bad stuff.
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But we're going to have fun with it all because I don't feel too serious today. And I don't feel
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like there's too much risk today, actually. But first of all, we've got talking to the animals.
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There's some scientists who figured out how to talk to a whale, sort of. Dr. Brenda McCowan,
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UC Davis, lauded the breakthrough. So they recorded some whales and then they played some whale talk
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and it attracted a whale. And whenever they played the whale talk, the whale responded.
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Now, they don't know exactly what the whale is saying. But if you've seen any of those viral
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videos of the husky dogs using the little buttons you put on the ground so they can say words,
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like, food, take me out. And then they get more and more buttons. And then the buttons form like a
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language. And then you see the videos of the dog saying things like, I don't like my life. Give me
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some treats. Let's go to the store. And you think, can that dog always do that? Or is that just like
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the weird got lucky and that's why it's a viral video? Well, I see a world in which animals not only
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can speak to us through AI, translating their thoughts. But here's the fun part. I feel like
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the part of the animal that's missing is the, you know, the language function. I assume animals don't
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have a language function. But what happens if AI becomes the language function? Would they actually
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learn language? You know, their own version, not English. But would they learn their own version of
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more words and start putting thoughts to certain words? At which point that at least internally they
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would have a language. Now, if they have a language, does that make them smarter? Because I have a theory
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that the reason the large language model AI works is because the combination of words is basically
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what we think is intelligence. Just word combinations. So if you can get the equivalent of word combinations
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into an animal, a whale or a dog, would the animals start acting like they're smarter? Just because the
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words gives them a little extra intellectual framework or something? I think maybe. I don't know the
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answer to the question, but I think maybe. If you see those husky dogs, they look like they actually got
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smarter, not that they just learned to use these buttons. It looks like they're actually gaining
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language skills. So planet of the apes, I know. Brian Romelli is taking a victory lap for his prediction
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a while ago that soon all the music would be AI. So Microsoft is integrating this music creation app
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that just makes up AI music, any kind you want, into its co-pilot AI. So now all the music, the lyrics,
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the instruments, the instruments, and it's all going to be done by AI, Brian tells us. So you could have
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infinite songs just by telling it sort of what the topic is. So you could say songs about the economy
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and then do you do the economy and then you'd be listening to the song. Now I listened to the first
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example of it. No interest whatsoever. So this will be a good test. So Brian Romelli, whose predictions
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on technology you should really pay attention to because he's way ahead of the curve. But just for
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fun, I'm going to be the opposing prediction. The opposing prediction is that AI generated art
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of any kind, be it movie or music or visual art, will have a very limited and niche appeal and it will never
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get out of it. And it's because I believe that what we're responding to with art is the understanding
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that a human made it. And that's the only activating part. As soon as you know a computer made it, no interest
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at all. Just noise. So that's my prediction. It's the opposite of Brian's. Let's see. Just to make it fun.
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All right. I saw a crazy, crazy idea. Jordan Peterson was tweeting this or posting it. There's some researchers
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who took the concept of Moore's Law. You know that one. It says your microchip power will double every
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whatever years. And sure enough, for many years in a row, Moore's Law, his prediction that, you know,
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the doubling would happen at a very predictable rate, pretty much right on point. So somebody said,
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hey, what if we took that concept about life on the planet? Because life on the planet keeps getting
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more complicated, just like a microchip. So somebody said, what if we took the complexity
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of life as we know it, and then we did a reverse Moore's Law to find out when life must have
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started? Because if you can find a predictable law with human complexity that somehow mimics Moore's
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Law as sort of an analogy or a model, you might be able to figure out when life started.
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And so they worked that calculation, and they decided that it started, like, way before we think
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you did. How far before? Well, maybe life, maybe before Earth. So using this method, they find
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that life that life began before Earth was a planet, which would suggest that life started
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in a simpler form somewhere else, and had a few billion years to become complicated enough
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that by the time we got our first taste of it, it was already complex, a little bit. I don't
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know. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I wouldn't say that the Moore's Law analogy is any kind of science.
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So I wouldn't call this science. It's just sort of an interesting mental experience, let's call it.
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New York Post says more people are leaving New York. They're fleeing New York, and Texas is the one
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one that's had the biggest population gain. I don't know if that's biggest population gain
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by numbers or by percentage. Probably just numbers. But that would be actually, in this
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case, numbers is better than a percentage. So that's valid. Now, why do you think people
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are fleeing New York and going to Texas? Taxes? Freedom? Less craziness? Better public relations?
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Well, one thing Texas is doing better than New York is doing way better on public relations.
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You know, if you looked at Texas as a product with marketing, Texas is marketing. My God.
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Florida and Texas, they've done a really good job of just sort of marketing their product
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to a certain kind of buyer, and the buyers are responding. So no surprise.
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I'm doing a good job. But imagine being New York, and your biggest problem at the moment
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is immigration, and people think that Texas is handling it so much better that they're
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moving closer to the border. That's right. Their biggest problem in New York is probably
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immigration. New York City, anyway. And to get away from the immigration, they're going to
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move closer to the border. That's a pretty good endorsement for Texas. If moving closer
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to the border makes you feel safer. But of course, immigration would be one of many variables.
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I think taxes are probably closer to the top of the list. When I think about moving, I primarily
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think about taxes. Let me test that on you. If anybody's not in one of those state tax, low
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states, when you consider moving, because probably everybody noodles about it, do you think taxes
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mostly, or is it some kind of freedom thing? Mostly taxes. Yeah. Yeah, so the New York City
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taxes are just crazy, because you've got the city taxes on top of the state taxes. Yeah.
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Right now, if I move to Texas, let me just give you an idea how bad this is. So I live in California.
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If I were to move to Texas and just kept doing my same job, because I'm independent of location,
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I would save enough on state taxes in Texas to buy a substantial mansion for free. For free.
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The amount I would save on taxes would more than pay for a mansion. A multi-million dollar mansion.
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It'd be free. How do you not move for a free mansion? Right? I'm doing okay. And, you know,
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I don't want to move out of my house, and I like the weather and everything. So honestly, it's mostly
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the weather. I live in one of the few places that you can live year-round and be okay with it.
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By late February, I'm going to be a little complainy, because it's been too cold and rainy
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for too long. But I'm in the middle of the December rainy season, and when I heard there
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was going to be raining all day today, my first impression was, yay, rainy day, because
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we don't get that many. It's like a whole rainy day where you can just hunker down and get
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some stuff done and, you know, make sure you do your indoor exercise and stuff. Eh. I'm
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still binge-watching The Crown on Netflix. Good rainy day. Yeah. So you can't really beat
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California for the weather. If I move to Florida, I have to either move in the summer or never
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I think Mike Cernovich said it best. I would pay a lot of taxes to be able to live in one
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state all year without dying because I went outdoors. So yeah, there's still an advantage
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in California, but it's decreasing. All right. The National Archives is going to release all
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those Biden emails that are under the alias. So all of Joe Biden's pseudonymous, I like
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saying pseudonymous. Yeah. So he used fake names on his emails to talk with Hunter and
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I guess anybody else he didn't want to be identified with. So now 1,800 emails will be released to
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James Comer and the House Oversight Committee. Is there any chance at all that we're not going
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to learn something really, really embarrassing about Joe Biden from 1,800 emails that he thought
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were sensitive enough that he didn't want his real name on them? How in the world does that
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not end up with some juicy stuff? I mean, it might not be change the world stuff, but it's
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going to be juicy. It's definitely going to be tantalizing. So look for that. You would
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be surprised to know that Kamala Harris said in public something that didn't make sense.
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She actually said this, quote, you know, every election cycle, we talk about this is the most
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election of our lifetime. And then Lawrence O'Donnell said, this one is, this one is.
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Oh no, then she said, Lawrence, this one is. Yes, this one is the most election of our, in fact,
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of all the other elections, this is the most. Yeah, very, very much the most. And with any luck,
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our next election will be even more of the most of this, whatever there is that's now more of it.
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But there's a lot more of it, whatever it is, the election or something. All right, so get that
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straight. And she says, quote, we are literally talking about people who are attempting to divide
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our country in the most crude, frankly, and profound way. Never say this, in the most crude,
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frankly, and profound way. She really needs to be sent back to talking school. We're going to send
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you back to the school to learn how to put words together and a thing we call sentences, because
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you're not too good at it. We are talking about those who are intent and purposeful. What? We are
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talking about those who are intent and purposeful to attack fundamental freedoms.
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What the hell is she babbling about, Lawrence O'Donnell?
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Well, and then she continues, the freedom to be free. The freedom to be free. Could we ever have the
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freedom to be free? The freedom to be free from fear, actually, that's the rest of the sentence. The
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freedom to be free from fear of violence and hate. The freedom to just be. The freedom to just
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be. I like adding the Kamala Harris accents, like, you know, where she punches some words. And she'll
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pick the most ridiculous words to emphasize. So I'd like to do that again. The freedom to be free
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from fear of violence and hate. The freedom just be. The freedom to just be. The freedom to just be.
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Now, was somebody threatening your freedom to just be? I don't recall your freedom to just be,
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to be threatened at all. Now, does that mean you could be any way you want to be? Can you murder
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people and commit crimes? Because that's how I want to be. I just want to be me. Sometimes I want to
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murder people. Sometimes I want to cross the border illegally. I just want to be me. And Kamala
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backs me up 100%. If I want to murder somebody, she's in favor of freedom. Yeah. No, we're not
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going to talk about the fact that, obviously, we're always a mix of freedom and non-freedom
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in this country. Well, John Fetterman continues to be semi-awesome. Semi-not-awesome, but semi-awesome.
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In which he says, TikTok is creating warped perceptions of Israel and Hamas' war. Yes, it is.
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So Fetterman continues to say things that make sense. Not all of it. I mean, let's say there are
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policy things that I'm not going to agree with. But he correctly identifies TikTok as a risk,
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which should not be a political statement. And so he doesn't make it one, just fact.
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And immigration is a big problem, no matter what your policies are. And he's willing to say that.
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So I do like that Fetterman is not a slave to the party. He's not a puppet. He's definitely not a
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puppet to the party. Now, I'm not endorsing him for president or anything crazy. But I just love it
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when somebody can be honest. It's kind of unexpected. So credit to him. Also credit to
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Thomas Massey. And one of the things he did was vote for this idea. He voted for a debt limit deal
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the last time. The last time we went through this. He voted for a debt limit deal in exchange for caps
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and a 1% cut in the event that they have to do a long continuing resolution. Now, this is all technical
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Congress bullshit. But what he's basically saying is that because they couldn't agree on a budget
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that would cut certain things and increase certain things, and you can never agree on that if it's
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Republicans and Democrats. But they, because it was an emergency, you know, you had to do something,
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they managed to get through some kind of a cap with an automatic 1% cut, which is exactly right.
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So if you think this is the bad default, oh no, we couldn't make good decisions, and now we have to default
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to 1% cut across the board. That is the right decision. If it were up to me, I would have said,
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you know, nobody knows what works. Why don't you just cut everything 1% and then do it again next year
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until you have a balanced budget? If you just cut 1% a year for, what, 10 years?
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Wouldn't you be way back into the, we can make this work category?
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I think you would. So that's a Massey win, I would say, as well as anybody who voted on the
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same side with Edith. But having worked in the corporate world as a budget guy, it was my job
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to pull together all the budgets from the different groups. And one thing I learned that I'll never
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forget is you can look at all their details of you should increase my budget, and everybody wants
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an increased budget because they like more power. And then the big boss just says, yeah,
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all right, that's a bunch of bullshit. Just cut everybody by 10%. And that was my job to tell
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everybody who had done all this work to know exactly how much they need next year. Say, yeah,
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that's not going to happen. Just cut it 10%. But I can't. It's impossible. I could never cut it 10%.
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Yeah, but you're gonna, because you get fired if you don't. It's impossible. I could never do it.
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There is no way I could possibly do it. And then you check again at the end of the year,
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under budget. Yeah, at the end of the year, under budget. Now, you say to yourself, but Scott,
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what about all the things that came up during the year where they did legitimately need extra money?
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What happens then? You know what happens then? The big boss says, yeah, I guess in this case,
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you do need legitimately more money. So I'm going to take it out of this group and give it to you.
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And that other group will just have to figure it out. And then they did. Then they did. Yeah.
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There's nothing that a manager can do more easily than cut the budget. Because people will figure it
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out. They'll make do with less. They'll just figure it out.
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All right. As you know, Colorado, their higher court said that Trump's a big old insurrectionist and
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therefore cannot even be on the ballot for the primaries. It's for the primary, right?
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Give me a fact check of this. Are we only talking about the primary? He can't be on the ballot,
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right? Now, you know that that's not going to make any difference. No difference. Here's why.
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First of all, nobody in the world thinks that the Supreme Court will withhold it. Am I right?
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Nobody thinks the Supreme Court is going to approve this. So it'll be reversed. But apparently,
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the Republican Party cleverly said, we don't need you for a primary. We will just change our process to,
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what do they call it? What's the other thing? Not a primary. A
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caucus. A caucus system. So the caucus system, I guess the Republicans can just say,
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well, screw you. We're still going to pick a candidate, just the way we always did. But
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we're going to call it a caucus. It'll look different. And we'll just do it that way.
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So there's no chance that Trump is going to be frozen out of the system by this. But I'm very much
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liking Jonathan Turley's post on this on the X platform in which he says that this is so bad
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that in the unlikely event that this stayed and Trump was denied the ability to run, that the country
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would become, quote, ungovernable. Don't you love that word?
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Because you and I might have been tempted to use, like, more provocative words. You know, like,
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oh, it's going to be Boston Tea Party time, or, you know, it's a Second Amendment time. Or we'd say
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something scary sounding like that. And then somebody would say, are you talking about an insurrection?
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Why are you threatening to violence? And then we'd say, well, well, I like him. I like Turley
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saying the country would become ungovernable. Because I love what that includes. That includes
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everything. Like, nothing is ruled out by ungovernable. But importantly, it includes totally
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legal processes. Right? So I much prefer saying that we will become, or even are, ungovernable.
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In fact, it feels like a compliment, doesn't it? Don't you feel that if somebody calls you
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ungovernable, isn't your first sense of that? I kind of am. Oh, is it RFK Jr. said it?
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Oh, I'm being corrected. RFK Jr. said we would become ungovernable. Oh, you're right. You're
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right. Yeah. That was RFK Jr. Yeah, I reposted that. You're right. Thank you for that correction.
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But it's a great word, ungovernable. It stays away from the violence, but it does capture all
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that. All right. Everybody, I think everybody who observes this thinks Trump's poll numbers
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will go up. Would you agree? Trump's poll numbers will go up, probably, because of this.
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But here's what I like about it the best. I really love my overreaches. When the Democrats
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have a good argument, then I think to myself, oh, they've got a good argument there. But when
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they overreach and they do things just so crazy, I kind of like that, because it's a signal
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that something good is going to happen. So what I like about this overreach is it gives
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all of us permission to assume that the 2020 election was rigged, even if there's no proof
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whatsoever. Because this overreach is so egregious, so obvious, so in your face, and it's really
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obviously driven by the stop Trump at any cost mentality. Right? Because I don't think there's
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any legal observer who thinks it's going to hold. It looks like TDS, and it looks like stop
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Trump at any, you know, there's nothing you would stop at to do it. If that's the case
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today, what would make you think it wasn't the case in 2020? Because I think they were
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more afraid of them in 2020 than they are even now. I mean, or at least it's a tie. So I think
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that they've now showed their hand. So people who are, you know, legitimately known to be part
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of the Democrat Party, have now quite publicly shown us that they will stop at nothing. So
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you think 2020 was a fair election? When you know that the party as a mentality has enough
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of a common mentality that will stop at nothing, because they think he's iller. We also know,
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thanks to Mike Benn's reporting, that there was this thing called the Election Integrity Partnership,
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that was censoring millions of pro-Trump tweets ahead of 2020, and that a team of high-level DC
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operatives were plotting a color revolution if Trump won fair and square. That the Democrats,
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some notable ones, and it's in writing, the actual documents, in which they were planning
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some kind of a coup if he won the election. Now, based on what I can see from the outside,
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it kind of looks like the Democrats believed their own propaganda.
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Because the documents that exist don't give a hint that it's purely political. I mean,
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the outcome is purely political. But their thinking, as it seems to be, you know, maybe
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suggested by their writings, is that they actually thought it was a risk to the world.
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I think many of them had actually convinced themselves that their own propaganda was real,
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and that Trump was literally a potential iller. I think they actually believed it. I don't know
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what's worse, that they didn't believe it and tried to get away with it, or that they actually
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believed what they were saying. But apparently the mental illness part of this is way bigger than I
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thought. Because I always assumed it was pretending to be mad, you know, so that their team could
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win. But I think they actually believed what they were saying. I mean, that's kind of a mind bender
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to me. All right. So it's the first time that that amendment has been used. I think Glenn Greenwald
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pointed out that even Jack Smith, who is the federal prosecutor going after Trump, even he's not charging
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Trump with insurrection. But this little state has decided that it was insurrection, even though the
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guy who has the most information and the most mission to charge him for insurrection is not charging
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Trump with insurrection. So the people who know the most about it and have the most incentive to
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charge him with it, the federal, there's not even enough to take a run at it. Now keep in mind
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that they're not, that Jack Smith's not doing insurrection in the context of all the legal system
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making the most absurd claims about Trump. Like all of the legal claims are just such a stretch.
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But they couldn't even stretch. In the context of everything stretched, like all of their legal
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arguments being a little bit ridiculous, they couldn't stretch that one enough. And still Colorado
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said, oh yeah, insurrection. Pretty obvious. So this is exactly what it looks like. One team trying to
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game the system, break the system, abuse the system until they get their way. So yeah,
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you can absolutely hold your head up high if with no proof whatsoever you claim 2020 was probably
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obviously rigged with no evidence. That's now allowed. Because so many things are so obviously
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corrupt and their thinking was so obviously along those lines, it would be ridiculous to assume that
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they didn't act. And by the way, there does seem to be a lot of stuff missing in Georgia. Now, I'm a little
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lost in the details of this story. But follow the Rasmussen account, because they're on all of the details.
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But apparently, things have been asked for in Georgia that are just missing. That would be the only way you could know if
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the election was fair. So there's no way that the Georgia election was fair. If they can't produce the basic audit
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materials, you should assume it's unfair. I don't have any evidence of that or proof, let's say. I don't
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want any proof of it. But your working assumption, when the audit materials disappear, they disappeared.
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I don't know where they are. Can't find those machines. Can't find those ballots. Can't open the door and let
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you look. Yeah, just assume it's rigged. You have every right as a citizen to say, oh, that's good
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enough. That is enough. That is enough evidence to operate on a working assumption that 2020 was rigged
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with no proof. No proof at all. I don't have any. But you're trying pretty hard to make sure you don't
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get any. That's good enough for me. Vivek Ramaswamy said of the Colorado decision that he would withdraw
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from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is allowed back in. I think Chris Christie railed against
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it. I think Nikki Haley railed against it. I haven't heard from DeSantis yet, but I assume
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he's not going to be happy about it. I'm actually quite, quite pleased, quite pleased that the Republicans
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seem to have joined forces in saying, I'm running against Trump, but you can't do this.
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You just can't do this. So good work. Good work, Republicans. All the way to Chris Christie.
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Chris Christie is running primarily to take Trump out of the race. And even Chris Christie
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says, nope, nope, no, that's too far. Hashtag too far. All right. Turley, this is what Turley
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said. I confused RFK Jr. who said ungovernable. But Turley had a good post as well, as he always
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does. He said, it's a hands, hands down, the most anti-democratic opinion I've seen in my lifetime.
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And it's a slippery slope because it sort of does allow the Republicans to do the same thing.
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And by the same thing, I mean, a Republican state could say, hey, you guys are insurrectionists.
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And then people, they would say, what are you talking about? What did we do that was insurrectionists?
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And then the Republicans in some other state can say, well, just look at the Colorado decision.
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That was just a coup. Because their decision was so unmoored from any kind of legal precedent
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or argument that that's an insurrection. And then they say, what? That was our court system.
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We're just using the court system. And then the red state says, yeah, you know, it's not up to you.
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It's not up to you. It's not up to you. Yeah, we hear you. When you say that wasn't an insurrection,
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not up to you. We say it was. So we're not going to let your candidate on. And then they say,
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but, but, you're calling something an insurrection that wasn't really an insurrection. And then the
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Republican state say, fuck you. That's it. Yeah. So there's no way this can stand.
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The Supreme Court's not going to let it stand. Would you agree? If the Supreme Court let
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this stand, and let's say the Republicans didn't immediately turn it into a caucus, if it actually
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ended up making a difference, I'm going to be pretty fucking ungovernable. You don't know
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what ungovernable looks like. And I think that it's very important for both sides to read
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the mood of the other side. If Republicans were doing something to Democrats that was
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driving them to violence, I'd sure want to know about it. And I'm pretty sure I would
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try to, you know, modify a little bit. Hey, hey, hey, you've gone too far. They're actually
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loading their guns. Too far. Let's see if we can, you know, take this down a notch. Right?
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If they take Trump off the ballot with lawfare or ridiculous court decisions, we're going
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to be pretty fucking ungovernable. Now, I don't call for violence. I never call for violence.
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But you don't know what ungovernable looks like until Republicans do it. You do not want to
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be in a country where Republicans have decided to be ungovernable. You don't want to be there.
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So let me just make sure that everybody knows, you know, where the line is. Oh, there's a
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line. There's a line. Keeping Trump off the ballot for bullshit. That's a line. That's a line.
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Yeah. And I remind you that I'm backing Vivek Ramaswamy for president. But you don't do that
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in America. You don't take the guy who's leading in the polls off the ballot. You just don't do that.
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Senator Tom Tillis, Republican, is going to introduce a bill barring federal funds for election
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people who misused the 14th Amendment. So Colorado, allegedly, was misusing that 14th Amendment,
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the insurrection part. So the federal government may, if this got passed, get their funding cut. But I
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don't think this will get passed. And I don't think the ruling will stand. It's more like something to
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talk about. The amuse account on X. Great account to follow. Just amuse. Look for that.
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Says, flashback, 10 Democrat-controlled states. This is back in Lincoln's day.
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Refused to put Lincoln on their ballots. Despite that, Lincoln won anyway. So I guess these were
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states that were lesser populated. But a lot of them, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia,
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Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. All of those states
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refused to put Lincoln on the ballot. Yeah, this Trump equals Lincoln thing is very bothersome,
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isn't it? For the obvious reason. Let me just say that Trump needs this comparison.
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Like he needs a hole in the head. Stop it. Stop it. All right. Well, I think this is a good
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point. Because we forget. It's very easy to think that the politics has reached its worst level.
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Not even close. Not even close. The worst level was in our past. Like way worse. Yeah. Maybe you
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could argue, oh, I thought it was better in the 80s or something. I don't know. Maybe
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it was. But in the further past, it was way worse. I think even the fake news was way worse
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in the past. You know, when a few rich people controlled all the newspapers, like Hearst,
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I got a feeling that was worse. We just didn't know it. Because we didn't know what fake news
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was in those days. All right. So yeah, as Mike Benz was talking about, we have documents
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showing that part of our government wanted to do some kind of a color revolution or even
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potentially a military insurrection if Trump won fair and square. That was actually being
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talked about. So yes, everything they accuse you of is what they're doing. Molly Hemingway
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asked this question. Have any Democrats spoken against their party's authoritarianism? Meaning
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the Colorado decision. Absolutely terrifying Soviet-style campaign strategy they're employing
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of destroying democracy and trying to imprison their political opponents. Have you seen any Democrats
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speak out against this? I'm kind of waiting for Fetterman? Has Fetterman said anything? See,
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now this will be a good test. Because if Fetterman is who I think he is, which is somebody I might
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disagree with on some topics, but with somebody who actually thinks it through and is not going
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to just take the team play, if he doesn't come out against this, then fuck him. Like, his value
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is zero. Because this one's easy. So far, Fetterman's been pretty good on the topics that we never
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should have politicized in the first place, right? TikTok is not a political question. It shouldn't
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be. So he gets the right decision. The border security shouldn't be a political decision. It
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became that way, but it shouldn't be. So he gets to decide that one based on just what makes sense.
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But likewise, this Colorado thing, even though the context is politics, your opinion on it should
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not be based on politics. It should be based on, do you want to live in a stable country? Or do you
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want to do shit like this? So Fetterman, we call upon you to see if you can at least be consistent
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in saying that if there's a topic that should be above or outside of politics, that you will judge
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that individually. If you can do that, I'm going to keep my respect for Fetterman, even when I might
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violently disagree on some policies. But what I think is that people can't tell the difference
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between demons and angels. And I think that the Democrats believe they are the angels, and they're
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fighting against the demons. And they think the demons are Trump and the mega people, because
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they've been told that. But I think the big problem here is that people don't know the difference
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between a demon and an angel. We can't even tell the difference between UFOs and angels, because
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some people think they're angels, right? So I think that's what it is. They think they're angels
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fighting demons, but they're actually demons fighting angels. Or everyone thinks they're
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the angel and everybody else is the demon, which I think would be a more fair way to describe
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it. Mike Servage points out that California voted to end illegal immigration handouts with
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Prop 187, but judges overruled it. So the people wanted to stop giving the immigrants so many
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handouts. But the judge said, nope. And same with gay marriage. Mike points out Proposition
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8. Public voted for it. Judges said no. I don't remember that, but I'll take his word
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for it. And so Mike says, we haven't been anything close to a democracy or a republic for decades.
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We live under judicial supremacy. I hadn't really heard that phrase before, judicial supremacy.
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But of course, the judges get picked by the political system. So it's all corruption as
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it is expressed throughout the system. But let me ask you this. Pick any time in American
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history. Just see the timeline in your mind. Put on the blindfold and throw a dart. And it
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hits any time in the past. You really think the courts were better in the past? Really?
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Yeah. You don't think the courts were just like wildly putting black people in jail for
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being black? You don't think the courts were just as, you know, corrupt and bribed and, you
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know, crony capitalism and all that? Of course they were. Yeah. I don't know that it's worse.
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But Mike's point is fair. The courts have had this unnatural control and maybe even more
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than ever. But I do think the Colorado thing will not stand. Well, Nikki Hilley is in the
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news, of course. Some say she's drawing even with DeSantis for one of the primaries. It
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doesn't matter because it's boring. She's not going to win, so it doesn't matter. But according
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to the Hill, Nikki Hilley is facing a barrage of sexist attacks. Nikki Hilley is getting a
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barrage of sexist attacks. Have you seen any? I haven't seen any sexist attacks. Where are
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they coming from? I'll tell you what I've seen. I've seen a whole bunch of people say,
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you know what? I like the fact that she's female. In fact, I would argue that her entire
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appeal is based on being female. Because I don't mind that if you are a woman and you
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think you're underrepresented and you say, you know, maybe not my first choice, but she
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is a woman. I'd like to get some representation that's closer to me. I'm okay with that. I
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mean, that's a reasonable take in a democracy. But I feel like that's her big advantage.
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You know, it's like her biggest advantage. And she thinks so too. Because she said in public
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during a debate that if you want a job done right, call a woman. If you want somebody
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to talk about it, call a man. If you want a job done right, call a woman. That's what
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she said. Now, if you say something that's so overtly bigoted and sexist against one gender,
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you know what you should expect? If you're an overt, public, misandrist, sexist, as she
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is. Hillary Clinton was as well. Because Hillary Clinton also said that being a woman was an
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advantage. You can't run for president and tell us your gender is an advantage. Nope.
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If Trump did it, he should be disqualified too. If Trump ever said, you know what, you
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need a man as president, I would instantly say, nope, nope, sorry. You cannot, you cannot
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be the president and say that there's a gender or a sexual preference or a ethnicity or religion.
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That's the bad one. You can't. There aren't that many things that are that disqualifying.
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But that's number one. That's number one. That's the most disqualifying. Oh, I'm going to be your
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president, but I think some of you are fucking assholes. No. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Disqualifying.
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That was the moment that turned me against Hillary Clinton hard when she said women are just better
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as presidents because they listen better, she said. So Hillary says women listen better and Nikki
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Haley says that women will do the job right, call a woman. Now, if you say stuff like that, you should
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expect to be called a lot of things. And many of those things will rhyme with bunt. Many of them will.
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All right, Trump, let's do an update on the Trump is Hitler persuasion game. As you know, the Democrats
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are selling their Trump is Hitler. But do you think that that's a good play? There's one thing
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that the Democrats did not count on when deciding that their big play was going to be Trump is
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Hitler. And you're going to laugh when I say it. And you should have seen it coming because
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of the Hamas situation. Have you noticed that young people don't seem to think that Hitler
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was much of a big deal? Have you noticed that? The young people kind of don't know who Hitler
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was and what he was up to. If you ask young people how many people died in World War II,
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they might guess something like, I don't know, 10, 20,000? Yep. So just hold in mind that the
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primary campaign, the primary, the biggest thing the Democrats are claiming about Trump
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is that he's like Hitler. Also, at the same time, the Democrats are trying to be the party of young
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people, you know, make sure they get those young people because Biden could not have won without the
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under 30 vote. Am I right? That's a guarantee. If Biden had not just crushed the young people
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vote, he had no chance. So now their approach is to tell the young people that Trump is like
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Hitler. How's that working? Well, here's an update. Turns out that young people have moved
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to Trump. So in 2020, Biden got, he beat Trump by 24 points among people under 30. Do you know how hard
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it is to win by 24, you know, 24 percentage basis points? It's really hard. So Biden didn't just beat
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Trump in the under 30s. He just annihilated him. What's it look like today? NBC News says
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a similar pattern of 46% to 42%. So there's been a big shift. Anyway, so the numbers are messed up
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here on what I wrote down. But there's been a big shift toward Trump. Now just just hold that in your
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mind. So the entire approach of the Democrats is completely useless for the under 30s. Because
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it just doesn't mean that much. You know, imagine here's a mental experiment. Imagine you're not the
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age you are with the education you have. And you just didn't know who Hitler was. It was like somebody
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says, you know, on the planet Glark, there was a terrible leader. His name was Hupka. So what you
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don't want is you don't want Trump to be like the evil leader Hupka from the planet Glark. And the
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people under 30 say, okay, grandpa. Okay. It just doesn't hit. It doesn't hit. If you don't, if you
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can't feel Hitler in your bones, as everybody my age can, right? Hitler is something you feel. Hitler
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isn't just like a historical reference. You feel Hitler, but not if you're under 30. If you're under 30,
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it's just a name. It's just something people keep mentioning. They don't feel it. And you can't
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really feel it unless you've done what people like me have done. How many of you sat in your living
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room when you were young, and usually your father had the History Channel on, and it was nonstop
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Hitler footage? How many of you have that experience? Yeah, a lot of yeses. Yeah, I'd be sitting
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in the living room at home, and it'd be like, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, and here's a video of
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Hitler, and here's some World War II, and look at all these dead people. Hitler, Hitler, here's a
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picture of the death camp. Here's all the starving people in the death camp. I'd be like, ah, ah. I mean,
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I had such childhood PTSD from all things World War II. I mean, seriously, I had PTSD. I was damaged,
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and I didn't live through the war at all. You know, I was born after the war, of course.
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But I totally got PTSD, because it was just rammed down my throat from birth. But you're under 30.
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It's just a story in a book. Just a story in a book. All right, so there's an update on Epstein.
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Apparently, there's a bunch of people will be named from some recent, or not recent, but a court case
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about Epstein. They're going to unseal the names of the people involved. But I agree with Sticks and
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Hammer, who posted, it's going to be a nothing burger. All right, this is not Epstein's list of
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clients. It's not that. There was a court case. It's over. The names of the people involved were
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unsealed. They're going to be unsealed. People were involved with the one case. You might get
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some surprises. You might get some news stories. But probably, it's going to be a big nothing.
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Columbia, the country, we learned from also the Amuse account, is allowing visa-free travel from
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Iran, Yemen, and 41 countries, including African nations. So all you have to do is get to
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Columbia. Columbia won't even check your documents, apparently. You just walk into Columbia, and from
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there, you travel up through the southern border of the United States. So we now have an unlimited
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open door to all of Iran, all of their terrorists. Now, is there any chance that Iran has not sent their
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terrorists to set up a camp in America? There's no real chance of that, because it's the most obvious
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thing you do. I wrote a book called The Religion War. It was the sequel to God's Debris a number of years
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years ago. And although it was like 20 years ago or whatever, I speculated that the Middle East terrorists
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would put agents in all the major cities in America and activate them at the same time.
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Because one terrorist in one city can do a hell of a lot of damage. Just one? You know, fires and
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drones and fentanyl. You know, you could do the math. It doesn't take much to shut down a city.
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So I feel like that's the big risk in the future, is the people who snuck in and are just sort of
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waiting for the order. That's the thing. I fear that a lot more than nuclear war. Anyway.
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It's really unbelievable that our border is open.
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Yeah, it went from, well, this is weird and unproductive and suboptimal to, are you fucking
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kidding me? Are you kidding me? The border is still wide open? In the sense that all you have
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to do is say you have one asylum and you can come right in. My God. Well, I think there's a
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guarantee of a Republican president primarily because of that. We learned that President
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Xi told Biden when he was here that Xi's stance is he wants a peaceful reunification of Taiwan
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and he rejected the idea that he's going to do something militarily, you know, in the next
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few years. Does that sound true? Do you believe it? That he's not going to do something
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militarily and that he wants a peaceful reunification and doesn't have a specific timeline that's
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at least within two years. I actually believe it. I 100% believe it and always have. Do you
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know why? China is the most predictable country in the world. There's no more predictable country
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than China. I think they told you exactly what makes sense for China and then they're going
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to do it. Do you know why? Because that makes the most sense for China. Do you think China
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thinks that a war with Taiwan could go well? They're not going to end up with any microchips.
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They're going to end up with a smoldering island and a degraded economy that won't be able to do
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trade with the rest of the world. There isn't the slightest chance that the current government of
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China, which looks like it's pretty stable, wants a war about Taiwan. Not any. They don't have any,
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there's no urgent need. They're, as Kyle Bass points out, the real estate segment is in freefall
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and their banking system might be in freefall. China is in a lot of trouble. Literally the last
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thing they need is a war, especially an optional war. There's no way China starts an optional war
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for a bunch of assets that will clearly be destroyed during the war, right? If it looked like China was
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going to take control of Taiwan, I hate to tell you Taiwan, but all your microchip businesses are
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going to get bombed by us. Am I wrong? We would never let China take control of the actual factories
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because it's so hard, apparently it's really hard to make a factory that makes microchips.
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We're not going to let them get that. There's not the slightest chance. So microchips will become
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like, you know, unusable. So given that a hundred percent of the arguments suggest that they should
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wait as long as they want. So here's the thing that China has going for them. They already say it's part
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of China and they got the United States to say the same thing, even though we act like it's not,
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we say it. So it's sort of not a problem they need to solve. And I agree with Xi that a peaceful
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reunification with Taiwan is basically inevitable. I don't know about the peaceful part, but the
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reunification is inevitable because geography. I just don't see any... In 200 years, you think Taiwan
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and China are going to be separate countries in 200 years? I doubt it. You know, maybe add another
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hundred years, but basically, basically I think they end up unified one way or another.
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Yemen is being such a pain in the ass around the Red Sea, they keep sending rockets and things,
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that a bunch of ships are now rerouting. They have to go the long way. And the energy prices are going
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up, but not that much. So it turns out that a current hot threat in the Red Sea did not spike energy
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prices nearly as much as you think, you know, under two percent. That's strange. Now, what are we going to do
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about that? Given that Iran is backing the people who are sending the missiles from Yemen?
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We don't want a third war, but don't you think Saudi Arabia should just take over Yemen?
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What do you think? I don't think we should go in, and I don't think they need any military help,
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but I feel like Saudi Arabia has the power, and Yemen is looking to ruin commerce in the entire
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Middle East. If you're going to ruin commerce in the entire Middle East, you get conquered.
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Yeah, I mean, I think Saudi Arabia has that argument.
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Let's talk about France. Parliament approved an immigration bill that boosts the ability to
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deport foreigners, and it limits access to some of their benefits. So is that a turning point?
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Is France starting to, you know, right the ship? I feel like France is lost. I don't think France
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can recover from their immigration. What do you think? I'm not there, so it's hard to tell,
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but just based on what we see, it doesn't look like they can recover. I think France will just turn
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Islamic. We'll see. Over in Poland, they've got a new prime minister, and the prime minister's
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last name is, wait a minute, is this true? He's named Donald Tusk. Can you give me a fact check
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on that? The new prime minister of Poland? His first name is Donald, and his last name is Tusk?
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What do you get if you combine Musk with Trump, or Trump with Musk? It's Tusk, isn't it?
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It looks like it's just a combination of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Donald Tusk. What the hell?
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What? How is that possible? How do we live in a world where this can happen?
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Honestly, it feels like we are part of a simulation, and we're part of a game, and whatever life force
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caused this simulation wants us to know, but wants to do it in a funny way, like it's dropping every
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hint in the world that we're a simulation, and none of it's real. It's like, how many hints do I have
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to give you? Do you need another hint? How about we'll name the prime minister of Poland, Donald Tusk?
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Anything? Anything? You're still not getting this? That's what it feels like.
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Well, anyway, this new prime minister in Poland immediately went and shut down a news station
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because they didn't like the propaganda coming out of it. To which I say the following.
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Uh-oh. Yeah. We thought Poland was one of the good guys, right? But they turned off a source
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a source of free speech because they didn't like the speech, said it wasn't true.
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Now, here's my problem. I feel like our brains are stuck in the past.
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And here's what I mean by that. If I asked you, do you believe in free speech?
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I believe every one of you would say, yes, free speech, yes. Now, free speech became a concept
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with the Constitution, right, hundreds of years ago. And hundreds of years ago, what did free speech
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look like? Well, it was individuals who didn't have much reach. They couldn't be influencers like
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on social media. So people like me would just be complaining to my neighbors. All the free speech
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I want. And if I wanted to, I could get a little box and go to the town square and I could get maybe
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a dozen people to listen to me. Free speech, yes. Free speech is only legal because at one time it
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wasn't dangerous. At least dangerous the way it is now. But now it's really dangerous. Now you can
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say stuff that people will believe, not only because the bad people have reach, they can get to
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everybody, but also the bad people have technique that they never had before. They have actual
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hypnosis, brainwashing, propaganda skill that didn't exist 200 years ago. So here's a thought
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experiment for you. If the founders of this country were designing the Constitution under our current
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situation where free speech can destroy a country pretty easily, would it be free? I think not.
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I think not. I think not. Yeah. Yeah. Believe it or not, I think not. Because it would be an
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existential risk. When speech was made free initially, it wasn't an existential risk or much
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of one. It would take a lot of work. Yeah. And I think back then they knew the newspapers were fake
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news, but they didn't believe them anyway and it didn't matter. So it wasn't a big deal. But now let's
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say, for example, that the biggest Polish TV station was running news that they knew was fake and
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they were just trying to control the country or something. Do you think you should let that
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operate and just let free speech take care of it? Or is it too big of a threat? It could actually
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take down the country. I think you have to rethink free speech. I hate to say it. I think you have to
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rethink it. It doesn't mean that you get rid of it. When I say rethink it, I mean, start from scratch.
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Start from, you know, just take away all your assumptions and then see if you would rebuild it
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the same way. I don't know if you would. Don't know if you would. Because at the moment, an individual
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can use free speech to take down a country. Do you think that's possible? Do you think a bad actor,
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an individual, say somebody like me, do you think I could take down a country? I could.
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I hate to tell you, but I could take down a country. Some say I'm already doing it.
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Because I did tell you I was going to take down the Chinese economy back in 2018. And here we are.
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Now, you could say, but that's not because of you. No. But it didn't hurt. Didn't hurt.
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So could I save a country? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Somebody, you know, influence is a formula. And I've told you
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this before. Influence is how much skill you have in communicating, influentially, how much skill
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you have, multiplied by your reach. So if you're very skillful, but you live in a cave, it doesn't
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matter. If you have millions of people who watch you like Taylor Swift, but you don't have much to say,
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it doesn't matter that much either. But if you have actual skill in persuasion, and you have a huge
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platform, that would be Trump, for example, you're the leader of the, you know, easily become the
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president of the United States, and you have the nuclear arsenal. So don't forget that formula.
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The formula is persuasiveness time to reach. The reach never existed before.
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Reach is new. Reach is new. But also, persuasion is new. We didn't know how to do it 200 years
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ago. The technique that I can employ today is a whole level, you know, maybe several levels
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above what it was 200 years ago. 200 years ago, they would just lie and compare you to somebody
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bad. That's about it. That's all they had. All right.
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So if I were going to rethink free speech, it might be something like this. I'm just going
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to brainstorm for a minute. You can say anything you want, anywhere you want. So that's a good
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start, right? You can say anything you want, anywhere you want. But there would need to be some
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kind of counter force to make sure that the other message got matched with it. So you could imagine
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some kind of situation where you can say anything you want, but there's some kind of freedom for
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other people to put the opposing view with it. So let's call it a matching rule. So the rule is you
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can say anything you want, anywhere you want, free speech. But the alternative fact check
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has to be at least technically allowed. Maybe nobody wants to use it. Maybe they don't disagree
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with you. But it has to be technically matchable with the opposing view. If it's on social media,
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not in person, right? In person, you still say anything you want. But if you're going to be on a
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digital broadcast medium, then you should be required to be on a medium that has something
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like community notes. So you can say to yourself, yeah, you've got all the free speech you want,
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but the X platform doesn't have the ability to not have a community notes. They've got to do
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something like that to match the opposing opinions. And if you can't match the opposing opinion,
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it's too dangerous to have free speech. What do you think? Because the individual would still
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have 100% free speech. The platforms that could boost that speech would have a little extra
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restriction, but it would be more like add a feature that everybody wants. Everybody wants that
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feature. Everybody wants the feature that shows both sides. Everybody wants it. So make it available.
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So I think that you could say we don't have free speech the way we used to. It's too dangerous now.
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So add a little guardrail. But don't put the guardrail on the person. Put the guardrail on the
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transmission mediums. What do you think? Because the X platform would stay exactly the same.
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Because Musk already solved. He solved for competing opinions because that's kind of what X does.
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It's basically a competing opinion forum. So the government should say, all right, you're good.
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Well, let's look at Facebook. That's what I don't want to see.
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All right. But still, individuals would have free speech. All right. There's a big trend for single
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parents and not having families. You're all aware of that. I'm just going to make the prediction.
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Eventually, we will, as humans, no longer be masters of the planet.
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Eventually, we will apparently willingly become sort of a niche species. And robots, I think, will rule the Earth.
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With the exception of Mars, which will be a Musk colony with its prime minister, Donald Tusk, possibly.
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And what's that? All right. So yeah, I think that we will either merge with the robots or temporarily
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merge with them until we just decide, ah, let's just be robots. So suppose you don't want to be a planet
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full of robots. But suppose you also agree that the traditional family, while it's the best of all
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solutions, isn't really practical for maybe at least half of all people. So what do you do?
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I believe that you're going to see a new system evolve. And it will be more of a tribal community
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system. Very much like it takes a village, you know, sort of Hillary's thing. And I'm starting to
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organize my life around that. A tribal model. And by that, I mean, rather than saying, all right,
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I'm going to have a, you know, I'm going to marry a mate. And the two of us will be all there is.
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We won't let other people in too much, you know, unless we're both there in a party or something.
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We're not going to go off and do our own thing with other people too much. And, you know, and our
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kids are going to be under our control and all that. It's great if you can pull it off. But suppose
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you had to take all the functions that you need to be a good person, and you just didn't have the
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option of having that little cool family unit where everybody loves each other and everything's
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working well. But you need those things. I think what we're going to do is because there'll be so
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many people who are unfamilied, that they will find ways to coordinate, but not in every way.
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So for example, I think you're going to see people who say, you know what, if you would be my handyman
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sometimes, I would cook for you sometimes. And then you'd say, hey, we could do this once a week.
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And even if I haven't done any handymaning, you'll cook for me once a week. We're not married.
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Maybe some friends come over. If you need something fixed in your house, call me. I'd love to do it.
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I'll go over and spend the afternoon fixing your thing. Now, that's just one small example.
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But imagine, if you will, somebody says, you know what, I'll add you to my health care
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because that's easy for me. I've got a good health care program. So I'll add you.
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You'll be my dependent. And maybe I just like giving you some advice for college and that's it.
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just because I want to. And I can. So, no, I'm not high. Why are you even asking? You're the third
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person who's asked this morning if I'm high. Do I look high? I don't do the show high. Have I ever? Oh, yeah.
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During the pandemic, I did. But no, not in... I don't think I've done the show high in a year or so.
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I have. And by the way, you couldn't tell the difference. The days that I did it, it stoned down
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in my mind. You couldn't tell because I'm a chronic user. It's just not that different.
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But if you're guessing that I'm high now, nope, not even a little bit.
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So if all you're saying is it's a danger, you haven't told me anything.
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if you say that some people get medicinal benefits
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Here's where marriage doesn't make sense to me.
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Have any of you come to grips with your own mortality?
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oh, you know, I want to do a thing or, you know,
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So maybe aging won't affect me the same way as other people.
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I plan my own mortality five to 10 years from now.
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is I'm only going to be alive for about five years.
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So 20% of what I'm counting as my remaining life
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if you told me that traveling extensively in your 20s
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Because everything you learn about these other places,
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if I travel for the next five years and then die,
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All I had was some dopamine in a different town.
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when I realized I might only have like five left