Episode 2340 CWSA 01⧸01⧸24 2024 Starts With Stories Of Brainwashing, Corruption, Humorous Stupidity
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 9 minutes
Summary
In this episode of the show, we talk about the 7.6 earthquake that hit Japan, the new Mickey Mouse movie, and a new car with a sodium-ion battery that could replace lithium-ion batteries in the future.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to 2024, and also the show.
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This is the most amazing thing you're going to see today, because most of the other people
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And if you'd like to take this experience up to a level that you can barely understand,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a canteen jug or a flask
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or a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
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And join me now, the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine to the day, the thing that makes
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Or as Jill Biden likes to say about Joe, and ice cream.
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Mickey Mouse is officially, well, only the 1928 version of Mickey Mouse, is officially
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So, if you want to use Mickey Mouse, only the black and white original, don't use the
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It took approximately 7.6 seconds for somebody to use AI to make themselves their own Mickey
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You can see Brian Ramelli is already tweeting about that.
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They had a 7.6 earthquake with some minor tsunamis.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that bigger than any earthquake in America ever?
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Or at least since we've been keeping track of them?
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We've never had anything like that in America, have we?
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Well, I saw the videos and I didn't see, did not see damage that looked like 7.6 damage,
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But I'm going to scratch that off my list of places to move to.
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Do you know what scares me more than just about anything?
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Being on any kind of an island nation that has natural disasters, that's the problem with Hawaii.
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Because you've got your tsunami risk, and you've got your volcano risk, and you've got your North Korea is going to nuke you risk.
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Well, I know it's more psychological than real, but the thought of being on the island of Japan, when there's a tsunami and a 7.6 earthquake, it just feels uncomfortable.
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There's apparently a new car, Chinese car company, backed by Volkswagen.
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There's a new car coming out this month that will not have a lithium-ion battery.
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So there's now going to be a real electric car that has a different technology for the battery,
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It's lower density, so fewer miles, but apparently it operates better in the cold.
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There are few things that would be more positive going into 2024 than competing battery technology,
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especially if one of them does not require lithium.
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So that's a small story that might be a big story.
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A science that we might have the causation backwards.
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I have made the mistake of reversing my causation.
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I'm going to give myself partial credit, because I think the causation works both ways, but here's
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Do you think the smartphone use makes teenagers more depressed and more anxious?
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Does smartphone use make teenagers more depressed and more anxious?
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Well, I've been saying it's obvious that it does.
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But I saw a note on X from a doctor, Val Zudans, who says there's a sleight of hand in the
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And the doctor thinks that it's just as likely that the causation goes the other way, that
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if you are anxious and depressed, you might reach for your phone as part of your relief
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How many of you would accept that that is likely true, that being depressed and anxious makes
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you reach for your phone as opposed to reaching out to human beings to spend time with?
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So I'm going to accept this causation direction, but I think it's got to be both.
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But once you hear this, you say to yourself, yeah, that's probably right.
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But it's a little bit backward science, so I'll take that criticism.
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I saw one commenter called The Jiggler, just a person on the X platform.
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And I won't use his language, but he's suggesting that young men are less attracted to young women
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and they have less to work for, and therefore they're not happy because there's nothing to work for.
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Do you think that young men are saying to themselves, well, I don't really have the goal?
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Well, when I was a young man, it seemed obvious that everybody needed to grow up and find themselves a good woman and get married.
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And we were all sort of brainwashed into thinking that was the model.
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I felt that as a male in America, I had a clear purpose.
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You are supposed to get married and be a productive part of the society, et cetera.
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But all of those good intentions, how did I compress those good intentions into my teenager mind?
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All that stuff about being a good citizen and getting a job, how did I think about it as a teenager?
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Well, what I thought about was I sure would like to be worthy of having a really good mate.
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I probably used more coarse language in my teenage mind, but you know what I talk about.
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Like I thought that I had to make myself into a creature that could be worthy of having a family or a spouse.
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I'd wake up and I'd be like, okay, am I learning something today because I'm going to need to learn something?
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Did I, you know, work on the things I need to work on?
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So I always felt like I knew exactly what I needed to do.
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But just to explore this point made by the jiggler, he calls himself.
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Do you think there's something to the point that if you remove the incentive, it changes the behavior of the people?
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Do you think that the incentive for teenagers is less?
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Because when they look at the real world, they're not seeing much that they like compared to what we did as, you know, when I was a kid.
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And when they look at porn, they like it a lot.
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And they look at their phone, they like it a lot.
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But human beings are worth less because they made themselves worth less.
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You know, you see a lot of the people on social media.
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I'm not sure I agree with this, but it's becoming a common theme.
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That the men are saying, and again, this is not my opinion.
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I'm describing what men on social media are saying.
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So the people who propose that they are experts in relationships, or they act like they are,
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that they say that the women are degrading their value by having lots of what they call body count.
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How many of the men watching this would agree with the somewhat sexist view that the value of a woman goes down the more sexual partners she has had before you meet with her?
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Now, I'm not going to agree with that or disagree with that.
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I'm just going to tell you what the comments are.
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So if it's a wall of yes, I'm going to separate from the question of whether that's a valid or fair or, you know, woke opinion.
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I'm not going to deal with whether it's true or false.
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It did not exist because it didn't need to when I was a kid.
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So if you take the female population and you remove its value to the young men,
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what would be the effect on the mental health of the young men who basically wake up every day with one purpose in life,
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What would be the point of exercising and being healthy and making a lot of money?
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I don't want to get into the question of whether having a lot of sex partners makes you less valuable.
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I feel that's a little creepy and maybe none of my business.
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Now, if men, if men see the value of the potential women they would be chasing as much lower,
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they see that the value they can add to the woman is much lower than it used to be.
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This woman can get a job and buy a gun and protect herself.
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And if you see that porn went from being kind of interesting to all men to really addictive,
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because now they can give you exactly what you want.
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You know, it's not this generic stuff of the old days.
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These two dumpy people humping it down on a black and white film.
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So it makes sense that mating and our entire social structure is being ripped apart by these modern forces.
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He was Biden's, he used to be the top nuclear expert in the administration.
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But he was accused of stealing luggage from three different airport carousels.
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But the news was that apparently he's still free.
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So stealing luggage three separate times does not put you in jail, at least right away.
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Sam Britton is going to have trouble forming personal relationships in the future.
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Well, there's a fake news story about Bill Clinton being unmasked as Doe36.
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And he's mentioned more than 50 times in the new Jeffrey Epstein document dump.
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Because he's named 50 times in the new Epstein document dump.
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Most of the references are people talking about him.
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It makes it sound like he did 50 things that have to do with Epstein.
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There were simply people who mentioned him 50 times in various contexts.
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So, do I think that Bill Clinton is totally innocent from all suspicious activity on Epstein
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But I will tell you that the news is designed to make you think there's more there than
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But this document dump added absolutely nothing to our knowledge of Bill Clinton and Epstein.
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If you've looked at the article, is my take correct that there was literally nothing added
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to our knowledge of Bill Clinton about anything?
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Would you like to feel better about the future?
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You know, we always tell all these stories about the children of this generation are all
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Here's something I heard from a young person yesterday.
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And I want you to just feel how encouraging this is.
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Your first reaction might be, well, that's not very encouraging, Scott.
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This is from a young person I overheard yesterday.
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Quote, that whole Helen Keller story sounds suspicious.
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How much do you love the fact that we finally got to the point where a young person who maybe
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is not completely steeped in what's new in the news, but even a young person is completely
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aware that just because 100% of the media told you that Helen Keller did these things
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which sound miraculous and almost impossible, it doesn't mean it happened.
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That's your key to the best future you could live.
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I want to hear a young person say without any prompting, without hearing a story in the media,
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listen to a story that sounds a little bit incredible, and say out loud, I'm not so sure that's even true.
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Now, I have no idea whether the Helen Keller story is 100% true, but I don't care.
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What I love is that there's a young person who heard it and said, you know what?
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Wall Street Journal was giving some scores to Joe Biden for his promises and how he kept them,
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and they rated him on the economy, immigration, foreign policy, climate, and criminal justice.
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Which of those five things do you think he got the highest score on?
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So he only got two out of five for economy, immigration, foreign policy, and criminal justice.
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But on climate, he got three stars out of five.
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The topics, which we're pretty sure are completely real, didn't do much at all.
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So there seems to be a pattern that he does really well, well, really, really well,
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Here's a little context from Michael Schellenberger on Harvard's president, President Gay.
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So she said some inelegant things about Hamas and Israel, and people asked her to resign.
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And, of course, she's hanging on, trying not to lose her job.
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And then, separately, she came in under fire for what people said was plagiarism,
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but other people said was maybe a little bit too much duplicative work.
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But a little bit, maybe a little bit too duplicative, sort of thing.
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Harvard's president, this is from Michael Schellenberger, Harvard's president rose to power
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after attempting to force a black economist, Roland Fryer, out of the university on the
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basis of weak and poorly substantiated sexual harassment charges, when her real motivation
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appeared to be Fryer's research finding on racial inequality and policing, which were
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Now, there's a little bit of mind-reading of this, to be fair, because we don't know
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But the interpretation, based on her actions, is that her real problem with this black economist,
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Roland Fryer, was that his work was not supporting her opinion of racial situation in the country.
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So she forced him out and took the job and made diversity hiring look like a really bad
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But I didn't know about that background, that she'd been one of the factors in forcing
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But I do believe that he was forced out because his work was not popular.
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So, you know, I'm saying Michael Schellenberger's doing some mind-reading, but so am I, because
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You don't know what people are thinking for sure.
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Laura Loomer had a fascinating post about something called contingent elections, which
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So listen to this, and I will ask you if I've got this wrong.
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So there might be something I have wrong about this.
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Now, the trigger for even talking about this is RFK Jr.'s campaign, which could have the
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effect, if he does well, of at the end of the election, nobody has 270 electoral votes.
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So what do you do if you have an election in the United States and nobody, after a few rounds,
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can get enough to be president according to the Constitution?
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Well, it turns out that triggers a different process called a contingent election.
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And apparently, whoever is in control of the House can just sort of pick whoever they want
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So if the Republicans have a majority, they could, as long as they all agree, they could
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I'm not entirely sure the president has to be running for office.
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Can the Congress pick somebody who was not even in the election?
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Just randomly pick somebody from among their own ranks?
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But it's going to depend who controls the party as well.
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So I don't know if I understand the constitutional ins and outs of this completely, but there
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does seem to be some non-zero chance that the election won't be what picks the president.
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And why are we hearing about it for the first time under Laura Loomer's account?
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I feel like this would be an article in The Hill or something.
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And just assume you don't know exactly the details of this thing.
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But there's something out there floating around about maybe our process could be thwarted
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Anyway, here's Bruce Bain, who's on the X platform, who gives us a lesson in what he
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This might be stuff you already know, but every now and then I like to remind you how it's
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All right, so then the CIA and the U.S. create a proxy war with Russia.
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Then the U.S. sends a huge amount of money to Zelensky.
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And then this next part, I need a fact check on this.
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That Zelensky then donated, well, not donated, but invested in FTX, the big crypto scamming
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Did Zelensky take American money and put it into FTX as an investment?
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But if there's a credible report that Zelensky put money into FTX, can you send me that link
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I'm just saying I haven't seen that credibly reported.
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Anyway, so then FTX gives a bunch of money to politicians.
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And then the U.S. dropped at least some of the charges against SPF.
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Like it was all connected and part of the plan?
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Or does it look like just a bunch of things that happened?
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It looks like an opportunistic situation that was corrupt.
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Anyway, some time ago, we believed that the Tesla robot called Optimus would be launched
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in December that just passed, which means it could be imminent.
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I looked for it, of when Tesla will launch its robot.
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If they were planning at the end of this last year, probably we're looking at the middle
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I don't think we can understand how much that might change the world.
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How quickly, let me do a poll of the viewers here.
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How many of you would buy, I'm going to put a price on it.
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Does anybody know what the price of Optimus will be?
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It's going to be crazy expensive, the first ones, right?
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But I don't think you can sell many if it's over $100,000.
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Did I literally just guess the price that Elon said?
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Because I don't think the first ones will be priced based on their cost.
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The first ones will have to be priced based on what people will buy.
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And then if they can make enough of them, maybe they can lower their cost structure.
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But the first ones will just be money losers for, I don't know, a few years.
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Let's say you could get a Optimus for $20,000, a robot.
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You could use it at home for whatever you want.
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And you could teach it things like doing your ironing and emptying the dishwasher.
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Knowing that the software will keep improving, so it'll keep getting better.
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I would definitely want a robot walking around my house for $20,000.
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You know, the other thing I would want it to do is make notes for me.
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If I could just have my robot hanging around and make notes, here's what I'd love to do.
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Hey, robot, here's like three things I need to do today.
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And it'd be nice if you just send it to the printer.
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And I walk over and I take from my printer a perfectly formatted list just because I talked to my robot.
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Did you see Joe Biden's New Year's Eve interview with Ryan Seacrest?
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So that means that they made Biden stay up till midnight.
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The first question was something about what he's eating.
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Because that's why you ask the president of the United States, hey, how about the food?
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And it appeared that he had to read the answer from the teleprompter.
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I believe that the president of the United States had to read notes to tell us what food he likes and what he eats.
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And then Jill had to lean over after he said he likes pasta.
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Oh, you're so friendly and just like regular people.
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One of the things he said, though, was that he's brought a lot of jobs back from China.
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As we said, our manufacturing over to China and lost our jobs.
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Have you seen any indication that anything like that has happened?
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Full credit for certainly making some movement about, you know, reshoring some of the companies and moving them to other countries.
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I do think he's done a non-trivial job in that direction.
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But I feel like all of that has turned into maybe they're trying to build a factory.
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I don't believe he's brought back even one manufacturing job to America.
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Now, I know that Vietnam is spinning up and Mexico is spinning up.
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And I know that some chip companies are, you know, in advanced planning and even construction to, you know, build a plant.
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Isn't the number of manufacturing jobs he took back to America zero?
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He seems to be putting the right amount of energy into making sure that we can reclaim some of that, you know, manufacturing.
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I think he might be getting ahead of his good work.
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It's going to look like everything's going well.
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Because it's an election year and because the news wants things to look good when Biden's president, there will be a narrative forming.
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But 2024 is going to look like the year everything went right.
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Unless it happens in another country, which they can't control.
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But it's going to look like everything went right in 2024.
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You're going to see customer optimism because the news will tell them to be optimistic.
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You're going to see employment will probably stay good enough.
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You're going to see us winding down two wars, probably, or at least, you know, we won't be getting more involved in the Middle East.
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You're probably going to see some manufacturing, as Joe said.
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You're probably going to see just a whole bunch of things that look like good news.
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I also believe that immigration will start to substantially decrease as we get close to the election.
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It won't be real, but it will be a story they can tell that they're on the way to solving it.
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So they'll tell the story that it's working, even if it's not.
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So the thing you should watch out for is if you feel all confident that the Republicans have, you know, good polling, substantial lead.
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They've graded 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I've taken office.
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The figure is 175 higher than the federal peak.
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It's more accurate to say 589 jobs were recovered.
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Okay, so he's exaggerating about the number of jobs recovered, which is the same thing all the presidents do.
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You should assume that no matter how badly Trump is beating Biden in the polls for the next several months,
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that by spring it's going to tighten up and Biden should pull ahead.
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That doesn't mean it's true, but the news is going to tell you everything is trending well.
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So, and people will be completely brainwashed by the news, as they always are,
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why should we take a risk on this provocative Trump guy when everything's going in the right direction?
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If you don't see the size of that risk, it's enormous.
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The biggest risk for 2024 is that everything looks like it's going well.
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Because that's how you get another four years of Biden.
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And the news is absolutely going to tell you it's going well.
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Now, at the moment, it seems that the news is trying to push Joe out of the job.
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But at some point, if they start to think that's not going to happen around the spring,
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they're going to completely line up behind him because it's their best shot.
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And they're going to say he got everything right and everything's going well.
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So, do not assume that Trump becomes president or Vivek or anybody else
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if everything looks like it's going well, according to the news.
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And by the way, I think actually 2024 will be a good year.
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Because we do have a cyclical economy and always have.
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It's never going to, I hope, never going to go straight down to nothing.
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It's just going to always be this bumpy ride that we hope goes up on average.
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So, we've been, you know, we got our teeth kicked in with the pandemic.
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And so, it was just sort of time, given the natural energy of economics in the country.
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And this is totally, this is obnoxious sounding if you're not an American.
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So, I'm going to apologize to all the non-Americans listening.
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Because you could probably say the same thing about your own country.
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But I'm going to speak just as sort of a proud American for a moment.
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And so, I think 2024 is going to look like a correcting year in a lot of ways.
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Climate-wise, information-wise, free speech-wise.
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I think that America has done what it always does, which is it found a way.
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Here's a few things you should know about the publication called The Atlantic.
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Now, you know the Steve Jobs widow took that Apple money and bought The Atlantic and turned
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it into a largely, I'd say it's, let's say it's power in the world is political.
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So, the political stories tend to be the ones you talk about from it.
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But you've seen a bunch of stories from The Atlantic, right?
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You know, you read social media and there'll be, oh, The Atlantic says this about Trump,
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and The Atlantic says that about Trump, and The Atlantic says this about MAGA.
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And they're always doing, you know, a hit job on either some friendly Republican or Trump or someone.
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Here's some background you should know about The Atlantic.
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Their entire readership is about 80% as large as the audience for any one of my posts on X.
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So, I have a million followers on the X platform.
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And The Atlantic's entire readership is a little over 800,000.
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So, just so you know, its size is a little bit smaller than my account on X.
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And so, the first thing I'm going to check, what's the first thing I'm going to check?
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Because if there's one thing I know about The Atlantic, they very much want to have a diverse staff.
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They do a report on their own efforts for diversity.
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Now, I assume they're mostly white supremacists.
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Because I've been told that you put that many white people in one place.
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72% of new hires this past year identified as women.
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Now, if I were trying to get a job as The Atlantic, I'd probably identify as a woman.
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But, if I knew that 72% of the new hires were women, I don't think I would go in there and lead with my penis.
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Does anybody think they don't have enough diversity?
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Because what they didn't say is what percentage of men work there already.
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It seems like they left out the most important thing.
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Which is how many of the staff are men, especially in senior management.
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So, I found a new way to destroy all the publications that do hit pieces on me.
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I'm going to insist that they improve their diversity until they're out of business.
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Why do I say that increasing diversity will put them out of business?
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Is it because I think the diverse people would do a worse job?
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If everybody is chasing the same small pool of qualified people, because every big company
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wants to be diverse, the math suggests there won't be enough.
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Will they hire white people and make things worse?
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Or will they hire lesser qualified, diverse folks so that they can improve their diversity?
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Well, I think they're quite committed to diversity, more so than competence and capability.
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They want diversity, but if you're in a hurry, you can't have both.
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If you're willing to take your time, well, you've got a good shot at it because then you
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don't have to rush and hire people that maybe you wouldn't have hired under normal circumstances.
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Make sure if you've got a black candidate really qualified, good.
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And then eventually, maybe you could reach some kind of situation that looks like the
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I don't know if you really believe it, but it's true.
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I do think companies are better off, all things being equal, if you can get the same level of
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capability, if the company roughly resembles the public.
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As long as you're not giving something up to get that, if you have to give something up,
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And the problem is just the pool of candidates.
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So that's how I'm going to put my critics out of business in 2024.
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I'm just going to highlight their lack of diversity and insist that they fix it.
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I'd like to see this taken care of by the end of the year.
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Maybe you'll be on a business in two years, but I'd like to plan for the long run.
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Tucker is saying out loud the thing that is so scary that Trump might be assassinated.
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And let me give you his reasoning, which is, I hate to say it, rock solid, but it is.
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Here's in Tucker's words, quote, I mean, just chart it out.
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In the case of Trump, they started with protests.
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If you felt and you really believed, and a lot of them do,
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that the worst thing that could happen to the country,
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and more specifically to you and the professional class,
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And they've been accelerating and what's left in their quiver.
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And he said, and I think you should be prepared,
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at least psychologically, for them to do anything.
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And I don't think I've ever agreed with Tucker this much.
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You need to be mentally prepared that they could take him out.
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because I think talking about it makes it more likely.
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something that, you know, trolls will talk about
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to something that seems like the most likely case.
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So unless the news can destroy him before election day,
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I've said this before, but let me say it again.
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we're going to shove Vivek down their fucking throats,
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But just imagine your point of view, all right?
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Let's say something terrible happens that takes Trump out of the race.
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Just something that you recognize as a dirty trick.
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And they take your candidate out if your candidate was Trump.
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Let's say they take him out on the last hour before the election.
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long enough that the Republicans would have to scramble.
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See, if Vivek is not in the race at all by that point,
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But in the unlikely event that Vivek said he would accept a VP running mate
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position in the unlikely event, because he's running for president.
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And of respect for Vivek and the job that he's doing, he's running for president.
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And I think he has a legitimate chance at first place.
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So, but in this situation that he had Trump at a strong vice president,
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He's just the, he would be the scariest to the other side.
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He would be the scariest because he's the most capable of getting
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if you're trying to persuade yourself into a winning position.
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so that you don't spend your entire time saying,