Episode 2788 CWSA 03⧸24⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the latest in science, entertainment, politics, and other things that will make you happy. Today's episode features: Science De Niro's new movie opens under $3 million California voters are now open to voting for a Republican governor in 2026
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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You know, science is important because there are many things we don't understand about the world.
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And thanks to our intrepid scientists, they can fill in the gaps for us.
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physical attractiveness far outweighs other traits in online dating success.
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So, it's a good thing they studied that because I was thinking that physical attractiveness
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was way down on the list of things that people cared about in dating.
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They could have saved a lot of money if they just asked me,
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Scott, what do you think about physical attractiveness on the list of things that people care about in online dating?
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Let me confer with every sentient being in the entire universe.
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But there's a whole bunch of stuff that will make you happy.
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Some of it may be happy for entirely wrong reasons.
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It'll make you happy that the anti-Trump people are not doing well.
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De Niro has a new movie out called The Alto Knights.
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Meanwhile, Rachel Zegler, who is no fan of President Trump,
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And it looks like Snow White is going to make...
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It's the worst opening of a live-action Disney movie ever.
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Somebody sent me a picture of Disney's board of directors.
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And I'm going to say a good thing about Disney.
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You know, usually, lately, I've been piling on.
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But I've got to say, they're nailing the DEI stuff.
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Now, this is good news, bad news for me in California especially.
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Because I really, really, really, really, really want Hollywood and movies and TV to work.
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And it used to be a big part of my entertainment.
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But it looks like they're doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't.
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But, how would you like some more good news about California?
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I don't know if I can even believe this next thing.
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So, Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit, is reporting.
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There's a statewide poll in California that says that in 2026...
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And it says that a staggering 48% of likely California voters are now open to voting for a Republican governor in 2026.
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Only 25% of Californians are registered Republican.
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And yet, 48% are looking at, you know, if it's the right candidate, we might go for a Republican this time.
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So, these are some figures also from the polling, I guess.
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83% of voters say gas prices are too high in California.
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Because our gas prices are well over $5 a gallon.
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But I understand that the nation is closer to three.
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69% think California's political leaders have not done enough to bring down energy utility costs.
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We noticed you're doing a terrible job in California on energy costs.
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71% believe the governor and legislative leaders have not addressed California's high cost of living.
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73% support fully funding anti-crime Prop 36, which has not occurred.
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How about 72% feel homelessness still is a big problem?
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60% oppose free health care to undocumented illegal immigrants.
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62% support a fully independent investigation of the recent L.A. wildfires.
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And only 24% of Californians think that biological male transgenders should compete in female sports.
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So the Republican policies have completely run the table.
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You know, they're sort of caught in their little inertia.
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But this really does suggest that the right candidate, and it would take a special candidate.
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You know, it would take a, you know, Reagan, Trump, DeSantis, kind of a quality person.
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And I don't want to see another weak Republican candidate for governor, because I've usually not even known their names.
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Are you telling me that in all of California, we can't find one legitimate political superstar?
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Or somebody who can walk and talk and just agree with these things that the public agrees with?
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You can just look at the polls and say, all right, I'm running for governor, and I'm going to lower your gas prices.
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Well, meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that they've created a Tesla Terrorism Task Force,
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specifically to look into the domestic terrorism against Tesla assets.
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I don't want to hear, oh, the biggest problem in the United States is white supremacist terrorism.
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However, according to Zero Edge, Tesla has added a new threat detected mode, maybe just to the truck.
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I don't know if this is for all the vehicles or maybe just the Cybertruck.
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But it's going to be a louder than normal alarm, and it could be music, I think, if it detects some foul play.
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So if it looks like somebody is going to vandalize it or it does get vandalized, it's going to get really loud.
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Now, the question that's unanswered, is there any AI involved?
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Because wouldn't you rather catch it before it happened?
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Do you think that Tesla's AI could not detect who's going to vandalize it just by seeing them coming?
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I feel like you could detect a vandal about at least 10 seconds before they vandalize.
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Because the videos I've seen, they all have that look, right?
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They've got a mask on or they've got that classic lefty look.
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You know, it seems like they've got a backpack too often.
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And then there's always some preparation, and there's always something in their hand, like a key.
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I feel like the AI could detect that before the vandalism.
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And it would be kind of funny if it started yelling before it happened.
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Anyway, according to the Babylon Bee, they've got a headline that says,
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Democrats say fire at Tesla facility likely caused by climate change.
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So the Babylon Bee is a satirical publication, if you didn't know.
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So it's not true that Democrats think fire at Tesla facility is caused by climate change.
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They believe it's caused by DEI being improperly implemented.
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Does it seem to you that it's extra obvious that our opinions are assigned to us?
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Now, you might say, okay, but not the Republicans.
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But you can see on the Democrat side that they immediately snap the grid on whatever the new message is.
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And they just go, oh, it's going to be a scalpel.
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And they just immediately embrace whatever the assigned opinion is.
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And, you know, you could argue maybe that happens on both sides.
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I wish I could remember the author, so I feel bad talking about it.
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But I saw an expose about, maybe that's too strong, about David Axelrod and his wizardry with the Democratic Party and Obama.
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And apparently he pioneered the persuasion that would get you to do something you weren't inclined to do.
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So instead of just, you know, giving you the usual, we're great, the other side's bad, you know, the normal political stuff.
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He figured out how to get people to vote for black candidates.
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And it was sort of this weird permission thing where he would give them a reason to do the opposite of what they would normally do.
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Now, in the Obama case, the reason was if you were being blamed of being a racist or you're worried about being a racist or you just wanted to make sure everybody knew you weren't,
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the easiest way to do that would be to say that you supported Obama.
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That's sort of the reason that I was pro-Obama back in those days.
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I'm aware that it was a social signaling thing.
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You know, the argument I would use mostly when I talked about it is that it wouldn't be good to get past never having a black president.
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I didn't have a big problem with it at the time.
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But I also didn't know how much destruction would be, you know, coming out of it.
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The fake because is giving you a reason that just allows you to do the thing you wanted to do.
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And so the fake because was, oh, he's very capable, speaks well, he's inspiring, makes people feel good.
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I'm supporting a black candidate for president.
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So I was a little shocked that I might have been dragged into that persuasion net that was very intentional.
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And it turns out that Axelrod has, you know, some family background in advertising.
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And I think he comes by his persuasion skills legitimately, meaning he was exposed to it early and, you know, he marinated in it for a long time.
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So a lot of what we see is a sort of an Axelrod driven situation.
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Now, you could argue that the that the Obama term, you know, lasted longer than Obama and that he was still kind of in charge, even though he wasn't president.
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It feels like Trump, you know, just ripped that up by the roots.
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Anyway, according to Breitbart, Rosie O'Donnell has given an interview in her new home in Ireland.
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So, as you know, Rosie moved to Ireland to get away from all the horribleness that is Trump.
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And she thinks that somehow Elon Musk stole the 2024 election because he owns the Internet.
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She actually said that, that he kind of owns the Internet, so he fixed the election.
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I love how crazy she is because it just puts everything in perspective.
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So I decided to go to Perplexity, my favorite AI.
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And I asked her this question, huh, you know, she moved to Ireland of all places.
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And I said, what are the percentage of white versus black residents or even just non-white residents of Ireland?
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If Perplexity is right, there's only 1% of Ireland that's non-white.
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Did Rosie move to the least diverse place on the entire planet?
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Is there any place that's less diverse than that?
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Now, I don't know if, you know, maybe the data is wrong.
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But it does seem that she went to a place that would be the opposite of her own philosophy, wouldn't it?
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Maybe she'll have a president, a new president soon.
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Anyway, according to the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra is writing,
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the Pentagon is well on its way on this plan to create a buffer zone on our southern border.
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Now, when I read that, I thought, hmm, buffer zone.
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And then I saw that the buffer zone is only going to be, let's see,
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Now, how many of you, if you haven't seen the story,
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how many of you know why we want to create a buffer zone that's only 20 yards?
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Because if you make the buffer zone a military base,
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so you can just, you know, designate it a military base,
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then the military can hold people until the authorities get there to process them.
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And so at the moment, because of the current laws of the land,
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you can't be doing domestic law and order stuff.
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They're not allowed to do, you know, just arrest somebody.
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Unless, unless that person was trespassing on a military base.
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So apparently this is some kind of clever end run
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So if the military catches somebody on that 20 yard swath,
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but they wouldn't have any reason that they have to release them.
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for the border control to come and process them.
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So that is so clever that I have to give some props to that.
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but it looks like they're well on their way to,
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There's some kind of rule that says they can only do,
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Canada is seeing this huge crush of illegals fleeing the U.S.
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because of Trump's border policies and his immigration policies.
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you were high on the list of people to be deported,
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you would immediately escape to Canada where the rules are maybe a little
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And even actually a member of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel,
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a smuggler confirmed that business is booming in the opposite direction of the
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So a lot of them are self-deporting to the great white North.
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I guess the 60 minutes overtime segment had that news.
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what would cause that not to happen if you were a state?
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the immigration laws would be the same above the border as now,
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but because you're not a state and because you're not controlling your border,
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the argument for it may continue to strengthen.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners.
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I started wondering is every fabulous item I see from winners.
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those
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they're writing about a morning console poll that,
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36% of Democrat voters still favor Kamala Harris for the 2028 presidential nominee.
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36% of Democrats are still looking for Kamala Harris,
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which would be way more than whoever is in second place?
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I'm pretty sure that a stronger candidate will emerge,
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So Senator Rand Paul did a great job of explaining something that I'd wondered
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He was on face the nation and Rand Paul is really good at this.
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He's really good at explaining things so you can understand them.
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whatever you want to call them that are in conflict.
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One of them is that if you're in the United States,
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you don't have to be a citizen to be eligible for a,
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You would get the same rights as anybody else would,
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anybody gets caught into our legal system should have the same protections as
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that might less than bad guys get away with stuff,
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that's in conflict with the fact that the president,
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according to the alien enemies act can deport people who he thinks are alien
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So it can't be true that everybody gets their day in court and proper
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As long as we think they're gang members or bad guys,
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Senator Paul says he predicts the Supreme court will uphold the Trump
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limit the district judges from having nationwide rulings.
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So I need somebody who's smart about the Supreme court and process to tell
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if the question of a fair trial and due process versus the alien enemies
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does that at the same time automatically decide that the district judges from
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all over the country can't do these nationwide rulings or does that have to
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be a separate case that's more specific to district judges and,
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Senator Paul thinks that maybe both things could go true.
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they're going to move some of their manufacturing to the U S and why is that
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the ones that they're moving to the U S might be things that they're making
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they don't want to be a Chinese good because if it's made in China and then
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So they're going to move some of their manufacturing and of the countries that
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are getting tariffed and into the United States,
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not telling us what was happening and acting like monopoly and hoarding the,
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So apparently China didn't bother to show up to defend themselves.
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China owes Missouri $24 billion for just COVID related damage.
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China is just ignoring it and they have no intention of paying.
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But now it turns out that Missouri is moving to seize Chinese owned farmland and other assets that are in their state.
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Are they owned by individual Chinese investors?
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And can you take from individual Chinese investors assets because you want a case against the government of China?
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JD Vance made about Denmark and his choice of words is what is terrific.
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So I don't know yet that he's got the full persuasion stack.
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he doesn't have a Trump level persuasion stack,
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If that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland,
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but territorial interest makes something that could sound scary,
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which would include not being a good ally to Greenland,
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do you think that Denmark is doing a good job of protecting Greenland?
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Do you think Denmark is doing a good job for its allies in America,
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the U S of protecting us by making sure that Greenland is,
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So maybe those are not a good enough reason to take over or to buy or to
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and there's sort of plainly obvious facts that Greenland is not
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I'm going to say provocatively about Greenland.
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Usha Vance is going to visit with one of the kids going to Greenland.
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Cause you remember when Charlie Kirk and Don Jr.
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It feels like showing respect because she's going there and she doesn't have a
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landmarks in Greenland essentially just paying respect.
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to have the president's son track all the way up to Greenland,
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where it's not like he was going to be there anyway.
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And they just sort of impress the locals as just,
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now JD Vance's wife and kid are going to go up there and just show the
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how would you like to be treated if you're in Greenland?
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And I like that the Trump administration understands that.
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you know about AOC and Bernie Sanders anti-oligarch tour,
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Cause a lot of you don't know that's being played by the same character.
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So there's one character who's playing both Bernie and AOC.
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The only difference is they wear the same shirt.
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So the quick change when they go from the Bernie to the AOC really is just,
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So you just take off the jacket and then you slather on some makeup.
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Now I think most of you know that you could turn a bowling ball into a living human if you had the right makeup.
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But they do kind of remind me of the same person.
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nobody thinks illegal immigration is appropriate.
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So he seems to be happy with Trump's pressure on fentanyl,
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Democrats saying we should do more on the border.
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but apparently the top 10 FBI's most wanted during the entire Biden era,
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How many of them do you think that Kash Patel has already caught?
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Are you telling me that wasn't possible before?
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How is this even remotely possible that Biden's administration got zero and
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Here's the other story that's got me wondering.
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the FBI's flagship New York field office has reportedly shifted his focus to a
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and civilian employees who are sometimes working 12 hour shifts overnight,
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To getting this done because they could have said the only way to get this done
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is it's going to take us a thousand employees and we're going to have to let
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but if it got done in five months and then it was actually really released,
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but why would they instead given that cash is very,
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And why would he put so much resources into doing this as fast as possible?
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cash Patel and probably Trump know what kind of impact this is going to have.
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They know how bad it is and they know how it will be received by the public.
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And at the same time that they know what the impact would be and they know what the names are,
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There's nothing in there about Trump that's damaging.
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So he's not being influenced by the government,
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I don't know if you assume that by now they know exactly what the,
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It suggests that this would completely destroy the Democrat party.
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It must be way worse for Democrats than it is for any Republicans.
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And I think that the reason that they're working so fast is to make sure
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they want to make sure that there's as little time as possible for the,
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but it sort of suggests that this would be the end of the Democrat party,
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how many Democrats and how many Republicans are there?
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the people who reliably vote one way versus the other.
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There would be 49% Democrats in the country and 48% Republicans.
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Now that doesn't mean they're registered that way.
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It just means they reliably vote in one direction or the other.
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So if you've got 49% Democrats in the country or Democrat,
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that would suggest that 40% of the people don't like their own party.
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even the Republicans have 30% who don't like their party.
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so there's a lot of people who don't like each party,
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but the difference between 30 and 40% does seem pretty big to me.
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29% favorability when 49% of the country votes that way,
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And California is looking at a Republican being competitive for governor.
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I've got a feeling that reality is starting to make a dent.
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Because a lot of politics is not based on reality.
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And once people realize that the Democrats are,
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and always have been since the days of John Wilkes Booth,
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once they realize that the Democrats are a theater group who pretend what's
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that book abundance that we keep talking about as recline and Derek Thompson's
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it's talking about how the Democrats have to stop being the ones who brag about
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getting stuff funded when nothing happens like charging stations and,
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high speed rail in California and internet to remote areas.
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by whatever reason are absolutely firmly entrenched,
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the thing that Trump has that they don't quite understand is he has a full
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So he can go full theater and run a rally and entertain people and say things
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that don't pass the fact checking full theater,
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but it's sitting on top of real accomplishments,
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especially in his first term and clearly in the second term,
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Nobody's ever been better at theater than you are,
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but you're also really good at making things happen in the real world.
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they've only been involved with the theater only,
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It's going to be hard for them to keep any kind of a ruling majority for
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General Flynn has made an appeal to Elon Musk on X.
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pull the thread on one of these all the way to the end.
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the doge discoveries about bad funding behavior.
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pull the thread on these all the way to the end to show who is actually receiving the money.
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and millions of other Americans would like to know.
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We deserve to see who the hell is ripping us off.
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We the people sincerely appreciate you and the entire doge team exposing them.
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But the more important question that is clearly bubbling up across our beautiful country is,
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I would bet that the recipients don't have any crime to answer to.
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I feel like the system was just built so that they could easily satisfy the,
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the letter of the law while still being completely criminal in intent.
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if somebody hired a million dollar a year consultant who happened to be their own spouse,
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It would be criminal in intent and criminal in outcome,
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But I don't think it would be technically illegal.
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there's a lot of administrative overhead to get money to Africa.
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and it would just look like normal incompetence and normal bad behavior,
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But I'm in 100% agreement with General Flynn that we should,
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we should know who it is because if it turns out that 80% of it is going
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to spouses of Democrat leaders or something like that,
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I'm not assuming that that's going to be the actual outcome,
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I don't think that Doge is necessarily tasked with that.
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You don't want Doge to be like a legal arm of the government.
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You want them to be cost cutting fraud and abuse.
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wouldn't you like to know who's spending on your money?
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I don't pay much attention to British politics,
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to be a peacekeeping force in Ukraine if necessary.
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on the idea of putting boots on the ground in Ukraine.
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the military is not in charge of that decision.