Episode 2851 CWSA 05⧸26⧸25
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Summary
On today's show, Scott Adams is joined by President Trump and the rest of the White House to celebrate Memorial Day. He also talks about Tesla's new robot, the Air Force's new rocket, and a new invention that could solve some of our most pressing problems.
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Do you say happy Memorial Day, or do you just say...
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Looks like we got more people on locals than anything else today.
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Hey, YouTube's just frozen out for four people.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with
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their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank
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or gels or sign a kinteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day,
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's going to happen right now.
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Fox and friends in the morning, they're very honorable people.
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From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.
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Well, did you know that the Tesla Optimus robot is going to use the same battery as the car?
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I don't believe it's going to be the same size, though.
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But apparently, your Optimus robot will be able to work all day long.
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I was kind of wondering how much you could get out of your robot before it had to charge itself.
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Because not only is Austin getting ready for full self-driving, so Musk has to focus on that.
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I saw somebody say that X might be gaining the ability to send money and the ability to chat.
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Which I guess would be different than DMing, I guess.
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And so he's working on that and Starship launch and AI.
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Did you know, according to the new Atlas, that the Air Force is planning a rocket that can bring
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some enormous amount, 100 tons of cargo, to anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes?
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Now, I assume that's just for either military or emergency response.
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You wouldn't really want to spend that much money to bring 100 tons of cargo anywhere.
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Because I don't think the U.S. Air Force knows how to make that reusable.
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I don't believe you could just, the Air Force could land a giant rocket anywhere they want in 90 minutes.
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But apparently, the University of Pennsylvania has found yet another material that can collect water and then release it without any energy.
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So you'd be able to just, I don't know, hang it up on a clothesline and have it make water out of the air.
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So the whole problem of running out of water might not be a problem.
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It makes me wonder if you could put like a little bit of it on a plant.
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They just took the water out of the air and just dropped it on the plant.
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Well, according to PJ Media, the New York Times has a big story about the Democratic Party being in a death spiral.
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If your political party is ever referred to as being in a death spiral, that's bad.
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But I guess the evidence includes the fact that, let's see, in the 2024 election, six times as many counties shifted toward the GOP as toward the Democrats.
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So they say that Trump has built an unstoppable coalition of working class people.
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And the only people left who are representative of the Democrats would be basically wine-drinking college moms.
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According to the Epoch Times, Doge says it completed the major cleanup of Social Security records.
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So, you know, all those records of, there were like 12 million people on the data who were over the age of 120.
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12.3 million records that were apparently people who now have been marked as deceased.
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So they didn't used to be marked as deceased, which means probably fraud.
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Probably 12 million people fraudulently collecting Social Security.
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Well, you know how Trump had threatened the European Union with a 50% tariff?
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Well, they called him Sunday night and said, please don't do that.
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And I guess it was a good phone call and Trump agreed to push it in a month.
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You know, once again, that whole threatening of a tariff, it seems to work every time.
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Because the main thing he wanted is for them to just get serious about negotiating.
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And if they weren't serious or they weren't doing it fast enough, he's just all 50% tariff.
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And then he says, all right, if you're just going to try much harder to get this done.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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So I saw a long post on X yesterday by Stephen Miller.
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Now, as you know, Stephen Miller is an important part of the administration,
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And he wanted to explain that people had it wrong about the big, beautiful bill, the budget bill.
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And he went into great detail saying how it would lower taxes and lower the deficit, too.
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And I couldn't understand the damn sentence in there.
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Now, it doesn't mean he's wrong, because he seemed to have a good grasp of the topic.
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He had a much greater detail than I've seen before.
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But meanwhile, Ron Johnson, Republican, who is very much on the side of the president
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and the side of Stephen Miller, he says the opposite.
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He says that the budget's going to exacerbate the national deficit.
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So could it be true that Stephen Miller is right that it will decrease the deficit,
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while Ron Johnson is right that it will increase it?
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And the other thing that you need to know, and I wonder how many of you knew this,
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there's essentially the budget is cut in two parts.
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The so-called Big Beautiful Bill is actually the smallest part of the budget.
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So that works for the Republicans, because they have a slight majority.
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So they can get this budget reconciliation process, as they call it,
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through with a narrow vote if it comes to that.
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But the biggest part of the budget, they would need 61 votes to presumably beat a,
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what do you call it, the, what's it called when the other side just talks forever?
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It's called a, you'll tell me in the comments in a second, filibuster.
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So the biggest part of the budget is not even part of the Big Beautiful budget.
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This is just the little stuff that we can change.
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And the big stuff probably won't be able to change it at all,
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because we won't be able to overcome the filibuster, I'm thinking.
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And then there's a question about, are we cutting Medicaid or not cutting Medicaid?
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So Speaker Johnson has settled on this weird messaging
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where we're totally cutting Medicaid, but we're not cutting Medicaid.
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So he's literally saying both things at the same time and selling it.
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So he says, quote, we are not cutting Medicaid in this package, Johnson said Sunday,
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There's a lot of misinformation out there about this.
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And then later he says that the goal is to protect Medicaid for vulnerable Americans.
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By removing those who should not be receiving the benefits,
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such as illegal immigrants and able-bodied adults who are not working.
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So he's not cutting Medicaid, and the way that he's going to do that
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is by cutting all these people who are getting Medicaid and taking them off.
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He's just cutting it for a certain two classes of people.
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Illegal immigrants, most of you would agree with that.
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So apparently, and then the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that nearly 200,000 people
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in Louisiana alone, that's Mike Johnson's own state, could lose Medicaid coverage
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So 200,000 people just in Louisiana alone will lose their coverage.
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And then Mike Johnson says, oh, we're totally not going to cut Medicaid.
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No, I'm not disagreeing with anything they're doing.
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I'm just talking about the messaging, that they're getting away with saying they're not cutting it.
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At the same time, they're massively cutting it.
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But they're massively cutting it from able-bodied men who should get jobs
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And Johnson says the focus is on fraud, waste, and abuse.
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And specifically, these young, able-bodied workers who are taking advantage of the system.
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Apparently, Mike Johnson says they tucked into this big, beautiful bill,
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he told Face the Nationals, a provision that would restrict federal courts' ability
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So you know how every time Trump orders something,
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there's always some federal judge who says, not so fast.
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And then I ask to go to the Supreme Court, and Trump usually wins.
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As long as the Senate doesn't try to take it out, I guess.
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So here's a thing that I'm going to agree with Trump on quite a bit.
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So I think there's something like 31% of Harvard's students were foreign students.
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Now, on one hand, you might say to yourself, there are plenty of good reasons why a foreign student
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But Harvard was not allowing white men and Asian Americans to get into Harvard.
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And the slots were being filled up by people from other countries.
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Now, the problem is that if you get a degree from Harvard, and maybe this is changing quickly,
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but if you have a degree from Harvard, isn't that like an amazing thing for the rest of your life?
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Why were we giving 30% of them to people from foreign countries?
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When there were people who were absolutely qualified, you know, the Asian Americans who were being turned down for Harvard,
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totally qualified, probably lots of white guys too, and they just couldn't get in because of their ethnicity.
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But they're letting the foreign workers, 30% of their students.
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And you wouldn't be surprised that just the news is reporting that a judge has halted Trump's order to get rid of the foreign students.
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And that's why Speaker Johnson is trying to stick into the Big Beautiful Bill something to prevent these judges from doing exactly this.
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I would imagine that Supreme Court would say you can't do that.
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And then it would be legal for Trump to say, we're going to ignore you, U.S. District Court judge.
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Newsmax is reporting that one of the big problems with student loans is that there are so many people who are behind on their student loans,
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And the credit scores are plunging so much that if you wanted to do something like rent an apartment, you couldn't do it.
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Now, you're probably not able to buy a house, you know, even if you had the cash.
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Well, I mean, you wouldn't have the cash because you're close to being a student.
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So if you can't buy a house and you can't rent one, what's going to happen to you?
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Are you going to have to hope that your parents take you in?
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Somebody's calling it a grift that I had cancer.
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Some of the worst people in the world woke up early to watch my show.
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How many of you think that my cancer is a grift and I just made it up?
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Anyway, so I know somebody who once got on the list of squatters.
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Now, it was a special case situation with her boyfriend and they were breaking up and he tried to get her out of the house.
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And she squatted very successfully for a very long time.
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But once you squatted, you can never rent a place again.
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Because literally nobody in the world is going to rent a place to you if you've ever even squatted once.
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So we've got this big problem of people who made genuine mistakes.
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I feel like there's something that needs to be adjusted or fixed or, you know, there needs to be a special place you can go or something.
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But there's going to be a ton of young people who could never find a place on their own.
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And they're never going to have kids or never getting married just because their credit score is low.
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And in some cases, the story is that they didn't know that they'd missed a payment.
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You know, they didn't get the mail and stuff like that.
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But your life could be just absolutely savaged by your student loan.
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Well, according to that original sin book, that's that Jake Tapper book and Alex Thompson, when we're learning more every day.
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So apparently, the people who are really running the country when Biden was in office was a group that called themselves the Politburo.
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Now, Politburo is sort of a reference to communism where there's a group of people in charge.
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But here are the names of the people that, according to the book, were actually in charge.
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So if you want to know who is running the country, well, we've got some pretty extensive reporting on that.
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And I've said this before, but the scariest part about this is that we've never heard of most of these people, at least half of them.
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So these are the people who were running the country when Biden was in office.
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Mike Donilon, Steve Reschetti, Bruce Reed, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, and sometimes Ron Klain,
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sometimes Annie Tomasino, and sometimes Anthony Bernal.
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I feel like there's some group of people who have just taken charge of my government,
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and I don't even know their names or who they are.
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There was a small group of people you'd never heard of, half of them,
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Biden himself was usually involved in decisions,
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but I feel like this group might have been a little bit more involved.
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Let's get rid of that troll with the all-capital letters.
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that makes me feel good because it was the same thing I would have said.
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So whenever I agree with Alan Dershowitz, I think,
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I didn't even have to be a lawyer, and I got that one right.
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And he points out that if you want to use that Alien Enemies Act
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to get rid of, you know, the worst of the immigrants,
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and that's been kind of blocked because they need due process.
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He says this, you just have to give them due process.
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But it's up to you to decide what the due process is
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Now, due process for a citizen is pretty well defined.
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But the courts just say there has to be due process
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And that process could be as simple as you have 72 hours
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and maybe the ability to place phone calls or whatever,
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And I thought to myself, before Alan Dershowitz said it,
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and just make the process friendlier to the country
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than it is to the people that we want to deport.
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And Dershowitz just says, that's all you got to do.
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Just make up a process because that's the due process
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about 25% of corporate sponsors have scaled back
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whatever they were going to do for the Pride Parade.
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They're afraid of overdoing it and getting in trouble.
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how much money do you need for a gay pride parade?
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Do you have to dress in a wildly provocative way?
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Couldn't you just walk down the street whistling
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but does it really have to spend a lot of money?
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So they didn't build their solar plant too wisely.
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It's part of an international trip they're making.
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but you see Macron standing still inside the airplane,