Episode 2616 CWSA 10⧸03⧸24
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Summary
On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams: Amazon won't let you buy a hardcover copy of Trump's new book, and some people are asking if it's a coincidence. Plus, a flood update from the aftermath of the devastating storm that devastated the southern United States.
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Did you know that you could buy only the hard copy of version of Win Bigly because Amazon is in charge
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of the Kindle and the soft cover. This one comes from a third party but you can only buy the hard
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cover of the new second edition. It's the second edition of Win Bigly. It's a custom minor updates
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similar to the first version with a few updates that you might like but do you know what you do
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when Amazon says we're not going to publish your book and we're not going to give you a reason?
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Nothing. So apparently Amazon can just decide that this book won't be published
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in two of its forms even though one of them they're publishing. Now, see if you can understand this.
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They've accepted the hard cover and you can buy it right now. The soft cover and the Kindle are rejected
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although they're identical to this. Same title, same content, everything. But one of them is
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accepted and the others are rejected and there is no way to find out why or to fix it. There's no
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mechanism. There's no way to reach anybody and you just get automated responses and say we rejected it
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if you try to follow up digitally. Now, here's the question. Is that political? Do you think it's a
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coincidence that one of the books that would give you the best impression of Trump, even though the
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book is about persuasion, it's not about politics per se, do you think it's a coincidence that that's
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not allowed to be published and that there's no explanation? Remember, the hard cover is published
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on the same platform. So it's not the content. And if it were something technical, it would be great
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if they told us, but I don't know what it would be. So we have big question marks on that. All right.
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I was going to have a guest this morning, but there's a technical level of complexity involved that I
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couldn't solve in time for the show. So I think I'll do that separately. We'll do a separate feed at
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some point real soon. Anyway, flood update. Some people are saying that FEMA is failing.
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You know, I don't think you can ever tell if FEMA is doing a good job or a bad job during the event
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because it would be quite normal that if you were one of the people in the actual flood disaster zone,
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whatever FEMA did wouldn't feel like enough. So I'm not going to defend FEMA. That's not my job.
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But I would say that we're not going to really know if they performed until the end.
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We do know there's a bunch of stuff that's not getting done. We know that there's lots of services
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that are not completed and people are stranded and there's all kinds of problems. But that doesn't
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mean that FEMA's failing necessarily or in some comprehensive way. The things we worry about
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are allegedly some of the equipment that we could have used to get the electricity working in those
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places has already been donated to Ukraine to get their electrical grid working. So if that's true,
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and I can't confirm that's true, that would be a big deal. We also hear that maybe FEMA's out of money
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because they gave a lot of money to the migrant processes, which are not really supposed to be
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their primary duty. If that's true, and I can't confirm it's true, that would be a big deal.
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But I can't really see the US government running out of money just for one thing, when in fact,
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we have no money for anything. How do you run out of money when there's no money in existence in the
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first place? You can't run out of something you don't have. So what we have is credit. I don't know
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why we have it. I mean, we shouldn't, but we do. So Brian Kemp said he was outraged. So governor of
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Georgia, he had to call the White House after only 11 of the 90 counties hit were included in the FEMA
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disaster declaration. Now, if that's true, and of course, all these stories you haven't heard the
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other side, you know, maybe FEMA says something like, well, we didn't declare them, but we still
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do all the work. So nothing really is different. So if you haven't heard the other side, you just
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don't know. Yeah. So it seems unlikely that they just gave their money all to, you know, illegal
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immigrants or legal immigrants. So keep an open mind about that. But it doesn't look good. If you're
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asking me, does it look good, I'd say no, it looks like there's some FEMA problems. But I would give
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them a little bit of a little bit of slack until we know what's what. It's still the fog of war in
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that situation, but it does seem pretty, pretty bad. U.S. jobless claims have risen a little bit more
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than estimated. And hiring fell to 3.3% in August, matching the lowest level since 2013, unless you
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include COVID. So employment looks sort of just tepid, not great, not terrible. No real story there. It's
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just not good. But I wonder if we're already seeing the effects of people assuming that robots are
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going to be doing more than the employees. Do you think anybody is saying, I better stop hiring
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because I know I'm going to have to do a lot of firing because I'm going to replace people with AI
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and robots? I just saw an estimate. There's somebody who knows a lot about AI who thinks that only 5%
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of jobs could ever be replaced by AI. Paperback and Kindle are there. Oh, somebody's saying that
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maybe Amazon has approved it since this morning. Well, that would be explained by me going public
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and torching them on X. I was just beginning to torch them. So I'll check on that and we'll see. But
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I'm getting a report in the comments that the Kindle version and the soft cover might be approved.
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I just don't know why. All right. So we'll keep an eye on that. So anyway, the expert thinks that
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only 5% of jobs might be ever replaced with AI based on the current kinds of AI. If we get some better
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kind of AI in the future, then more jobs can be replaced. But I've got a real question.
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I'm not so sure robots are going to work. Are you? You know, if only 5% of jobs can be replaced by AI,
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does it become more jobs as soon as you add the robot body to it? Because then the body can lift
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things and move things in the real world? Or does it stay 5%? Because here's my thing. I spend a lot
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of time with chat GPT, AI, and it's improving. You know, it's improving at an impressive rate. But
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it's nowhere near something I would trust in a robot body. And is there something I don't know
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about what's going on? Is there a whole different AI that's for robots? Because if I had to depend on
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the reliability of chat GPT to put in a robot that could lift me up and throw me across the room,
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I don't know if I'd want my robot to have that brain in there. You know, if it's bigger than me.
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I think the biggest robot I would allow in my home would be maybe five feet tall. I don't want any
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robot that could beat me in a fair fight. Like I want to think, oh, it's only five feet tall. I can
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like push it over and then outrun it. Because they still they still walk like Joe Biden.
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For some reason, nobody can fix that. 30 years of freaking robots in movies, and they still can't
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walk fast. Nobody can make a robot that can walk fast. I don't get that. Seems like that would be
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the easiest thing to fix. Well, here's my take on politics. In case you're wondering, would you like
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to hear my take on politics? Have you noticed that the things that Democrats are afraid of
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and the things that Republicans are afraid of are very different? Now, you're going to say to
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yourself, duh. Yes, that's the whole point of politics. One group is afraid of certain issues.
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The other is afraid of the other issues. And you tend to work on things you're most afraid of.
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Sometimes we work on things that are like investments in the future. But mostly, politics is
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about what's bothering you the most, what scares you the most. Then you put all your resources in
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that direction so you won't be scared. So you build up militaries and stuff like that. But have you
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noticed there's a qualitative difference between what Democrats and Republicans are afraid of that
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goes beyond policy? You would expect them to be afraid of different things just because they have
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different political views. But here are some things that Democrats are afraid of. They're afraid of
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Trump. They're afraid of Trump's chaos and his personality and all the things he'll do. And
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he'll be stealing your democracy. They say it could be the end of democracy. So the number one thing
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that Democrats are afraid of is Trump stealing their democracy. They're worried about white supremacy
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and the militias up in the mountains and all the white supremacy that's in everything.
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Oh, so Amazon separated the hardcover from the other two entities so that if you look at one,
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you won't necessarily find the other two. Perfect. It's always something. All right. So Democrats are
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afraid of Trump. They're afraid of all the white supremacy that they can't find any of it in the
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military. They're afraid of climate change and they're afraid of Russia. What do all those things have in
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common? Trump stealing your democracy, white supremacy and the militias up in the hill, climate change
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and Russia? What do they all have in common? Can you see the common element? None of them are real.
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They're literally things that if you had not been told that you should be afraid of them,
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you would never be afraid of them. There is really zero chance that Trump is going to steal your
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democracy in the context of the Democrats already stealing your democracy. Clearly the elections have
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become just a cheaters contest. Let's be honest. Our election system is a cheaters contest. I don't know
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where all the cheating is, but you see election interference in every fucking thing that happens
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everywhere from both sides in different ways. So it's a cheating contest. And to imagine that Trump
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is the one that steals your democracy that was probably been gone since 1963, literally, like
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literally no joke. It's not likely we have a democracy. We have something like the impression
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of a democracy that's enough of an illusion to keep the country together. But I'm pretty sure we don't
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have a lot to do with who gets power and what happens in the biggest decisions.
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So somehow the Democrats have managed to convince, or the press and the propagandists
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have managed to convince something like half the country that their biggest things they should be afraid
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of are all things that are good for the people in power. Let's see. Getting rid of Trump?
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Well, that would be good for the people in power because they want to be in charge. Saying white supremacy
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is a problem? Well, that would be good for the people in power because it keeps Trump out of office.
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What about climate change? Well, that would be good for the people in power because it means that a
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trillion dollars will be heading their direction and for all the services and the technologies and the
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companies that are pro-democrat. So that would be good for them. What about Russia is the biggest fear?
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Oh, the military industrial complex could make lots more money if Russia is our enemy than if we found a
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way to get along with them. So Democrats are living in a completely fake fear world. Now, here are some
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things that I would consider real things to be afraid of. Now, I'm not trying to make you afraid,
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but I want you to contrast the reality of these versus the complete fictional fear of what the
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Democrats are living under. So these would be things that Republicans would be concerned with.
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Government censorship of what they call disinformation, which is really the end of the
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First Amendment and the end of any kind of freedom. That's what Republicans are worried about. Is that real?
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It's completely real. I mean, it's documented in so many ways you can, you know, I can't even mention
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them all. But from the Twitter files on, we've seen that the government has colluded with
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the media and platforms to censor and censor the truth, not just misinformation, censor the truth
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and probably know they're doing it. So should you be afraid of the loss of free speech? Well,
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depends if you think you ever had it. What about the fact that our food supply is poison?
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That bothers me a lot. That's like, I don't know, it'd be hard to come up with a bigger problem than that,
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poisoning you with your food supply. But that's a big issue, especially with RFK Jr. part of the pirate ship.
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I'm worried about DEI. I think DEI is destroying the country. It's just destroying the fabric of the country,
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which was merit-based, and now it isn't. A non-merit-based system is guaranteed to fail.
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And I'm really worried about that. And that's very real. And we're seeing the mass incompetence
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problem everywhere, from the Secret Service to you name it. It's everywhere.
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I'm worried about the debt. I have no idea how to solve that. No idea how to solve it. And it's
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terminal, by the way. If we don't solve it, we're all dead. And I don't know how to solve it. And
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nobody has an idea. So that's a problem. How about nuclear war? Well, I don't think it's an imminent
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problem, but it's one that I worry about. How about the supply chain breaking down? That's a really big
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problem, especially if Iran gets into a fighting war more directly with Israel or the United States.
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They've already threatened to turn off the oil and maybe block the strata for more moves,
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or we think they would. I don't know if they've threatened that.
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So I worry about the supply chain. I worry about the next pandemic that
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may be coming along. I worry about the population decline, the birth rate problem in the United
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States. I worry about that. I worry about the energy shortage that's driven by having too many robots
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and too much AI and self-driving cars. And then we don't have enough energy to keep the lights on.
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I worry about that a lot. How about foreign countries hacking our infrastructure and being
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able to turn off our lights and our water anytime they want? I worry about that. I'm pretty sure
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that's real, according to the FBI. It looks like China has already hacked into everything and they
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can just turn us off when they want. That's a problem. And of course, I worry about the deep state
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controlling the world, the country. So I feel like those are pretty well documented,
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easily defended, obvious, real fears. Here's what I put zero fear into. Trump stealing my democracy,
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white supremacy, militias that nobody can find, climate change, and Russia wanting to attack us,
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unless we attack them. I mean, if we keep going after Russia enough, then it becomes a problem.
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But I don't think it's a problem if we're just waiting around.
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All right. I'm getting a confirmation that it's still just hardcover that's available on Amazon.
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So just think of that. So a bunch of you went to Amazon to check my claim and you came back with
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different stories about what is available and what's not. You can't even tell if you can buy my book.
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Just think about that. A number of you went to check just to see if my book is available for sale.
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And you can't tell. You can't tell. Some of you say it is, and some of you say it definitely isn't.
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is in trouble, but I don't think any Democrats will care or hear about it. Allegedly,
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he slapped his girlfriend for flirting at some party
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where they were all drunk. She allegedly hit him back.
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Some say, allegedly, he paid $80,000 to make the story go away. I don't know if that's confirmed.
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So the Daily Mail says they have three sources, I guess.
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Now, if you look at the way the media is handling it, so far, the biggest part of the media,
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Or if they do, they'll think it must be nothing from the past.
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completely different treatment because it's him.