Episode 3015 CWSA 11⧸11⧸25
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1 hour and 15 minutes
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144.34651
Summary
On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott talks about how to deal with stress and anxiety in your life, and why you don t have to worry about the things you care about on your deathbed. He also talks about the Dilber Calendar, and the best thing he's ever had.
Transcript
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Hey everybody. I'm going to fix my lighting. I look like a head that's just sort of drifting.
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By the way, if anybody can tell me how on my Apple laptop to turn off the screen saver so it doesn't
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turn off in the middle of my live stream, boy would I appreciate it. I can search for screen,
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I can look for display, I can look for power, I can look for auto off. I can search all over that
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damn computer, but I will not find the simplest command. How do I turn the screen saver off?
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So if anybody knows how to do that, please let me know. All right, we've got a show to do.
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And let's see. Let me jump in here and look at what you're looking at.
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Well, apparently that's not an option either. I think everything in my computer world failed
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today at the same time. My printer wasn't connected. My computer was random.
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Really? No, this isn't working either. The simplest thing. There we go.
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The simplest thing is working now. All right, that's enough of me complaining. You want a show
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and you shall not lock screen? So you think lock. I'll search for lock next time.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called
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Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance
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of elevating this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with our tiny, shiny human
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brains. All you need for that is a copper mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a kentine
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jug or flask, a professional and everything kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here of the day that I think
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makes everything better. Sculpt the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go.
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Fantastic. Best sip I've ever had. Well, we'll get back to that. Would you like to start with a reframe
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from my book, Reframe Your Brain? Full of over 200 frames, reframes. Any one of them could change
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your life. You never know. All right. Here's one. Oh, here's the deathbed reframe. This one's kind
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of useful. Do you ever have this big old problem? You're like, oh, this problem is plaguing me. I can't
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get it out of my mind. All you do, if you've got a problem you can't get in your head, is instead of
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saying that my stress and anxiety are being caused by the things in my life, ask yourself how many of
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those things you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. And the answer is none of them. Once
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you realize that you won't care about any of them on your deathbed, it turns out it makes it easier to
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not worry about them today. So this is one you just have to try. You literally just imagine yourself
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at the end of your life. And your loved ones are around and they're like, hey, Scott, what about
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that printer that wasn't working that day? I think it was November 11th in 2025. Do you remember? Do
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remember how mad you were the printer wasn't working? How do you feel about it now? I'm dying. I can't
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even think about the printer. Exactly. Exactly. It wasn't important then and it's not important now.
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The deathbed reframe. If it's not going to matter on your deathbed, it probably doesn't matter that
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much. I mean, you might have to fix it, whatever the problem is. You might still have to fix it.
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But you don't have to worry about it so much. All right, let's get to the big stories of the day.
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The big story of the day is that the Dilber calendar is available. Okay, you already know
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that. You can only get it at Amazon and it's available to Americans or Americans who can buy
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from Amazon.com or anybody who can buy from Amazon.com. It's available to you and it's got comics on both
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sides. Ooh, got the spicy stuff. Well, are you supposed to say happy Veterans Day? I've never known how to
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navigate this. Instead of saying happy Veterans Day, may I just take a moment to show my undying
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respect for all veterans and to thank you in case you don't get thanked enough today. How many of you
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are vets? How many watching this are veterans? You're the special people today. So if you happen to be a
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vet, just know that I am thinking highly respectful thoughts about you right now, because we wouldn't
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get any of this stuff without you. I am quite aware that the quality of my life is directly, directly
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springs from the fact that there are brave people who go to war when it needs to be done. Sometimes
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even when it doesn't need to be done, but that's another story. So all respect to you, veterans.
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Well, in other news, you won't even believe this, but the TPUSA group was trying to do an event yesterday
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at UC Berkeley. How do you think that went? Do you think any of the UC Berkeley Democrats complained about having
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TPUSA there? Of course they did. A fight broke out. There was bloodshed. There were police. I don't know how bad it
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got. It might have been just a few people fighting. But remember how I tell you that I, you know, I used to be,
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well, honestly, there was a long period in my life where the thing I was most proud of, most proud of, of my own
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performance in life, per se, is that I got my MBA at Berkeley, the Haas School of Business, and that I did it while I was
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working full time. Now, if you've never tried that, let me tell you, it's a little bit challenging to get an MBA at night
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while you've already worked full time during the day. It's hard, in case you're wondering. It's hard. And it lasts three years
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instead of two because the full-time MBA class would be compressed. But wow, was it hard. So hard. I may have told
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you this story before, but on day one, not literally day one, but the very first test I took in my MBA
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courses, they wrote the distribution, the professor did, he wrote the distribution of the grades on the
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board so we could all see where we stood. And then he told us, I have to tell you, I forget the
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percentage, but it was something like half, maybe half or one third. He said half or one third of you,
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whatever the number was, it was horrifying, will not make it through the course. And I'm sitting there
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thinking, really? Half of us? Because you don't even get into Berkeley unless you've got something going
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on. You know what I mean? Like they don't even let you in unless you've already proven you can
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handle things at a pretty high level. So I thought, it can't be true. It can't possibly be true that the
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bottom, I don't know, let's say it was one third. That sounds about right. It couldn't possibly be true
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that one third drop out in the first semester. And then we took a test and the test came back
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back. And we saw the distribution. Now the distribution did not have names on it.
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But I could still tell which grade was mine. Do you know how I could tell which grade was mine
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without a name on it? Before I'd seen my test, it was the lowest one in the class.
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It was the lowest grade in the class. It wasn't second. It wasn't third lowest. It was the lowest
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grade in the class. Right after he told me that one third of the people aren't going to make it at
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all. Do you know how mad that made me? That I'd put all that work into getting in, first of all,
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getting into the MBA class. It wasn't easy. All that work. And he's basically saying it's not going to work
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for you. And here's proof. Well, then another, another test came up and I managed to be not the
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worst grade. So on the second test, not the worst, definitely not the worst, but toward the bottom.
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By the third test, somewhat respectable, somewhere in the, I don't know, somewhere in the middle.
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So by the fourth test, I had decided. I ever tell you the difference between wanting and deciding?
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Wanting means that you can allow yourself to quit if you want it. You can just change what you want.
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Deciding is different. I had decided that nothing was going to stop me from getting that freaking MBA.
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Nothing. And so by the end of, by the end of the course, I was getting reasonable grades and managed
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to graduate with my degree. It was worth as much as everybody else's. It was the hardest thing I've
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ever done. I had to give up every weekend, my entire social life, and it hurt for three years.
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But when I was done and I got that degree for years, that was the greatest pride of my life.
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And now Berkeley turned into a garbage bet. I take no pride in it whatsoever. I'm still happy I did
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the work, but I don't care about the degree. I mean, hell with that. Anyway, sorry, Berkeley.
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So according to the University of Zurich, Natalie Huber is writing that AI is pretty unbiased, relatively speaking.
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They did a test to see how unbiased it is with its answers. But it turns out that it does become instantly biased
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if you tell it the source of the data. So if you say, hey, this data came from the Washington Post or the New York Times,
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the AIs, and this is all the AIs, not just one, will say, oh, that looks pretty good.
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It comes from one of those good sources. But if it comes from, let's say, a right-leaning source
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that might actually be very credible, it will say, well, I'm not so sure.
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We're not so sure about those. So yes, AI does have bias. And apparently even the Chinese AI, DeepSeek,
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allegedly has an anti-China bias because it got trained on so much data that had an anti-China bias
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that even the Chinese, even the Chinese AI has an anti-China bias.
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Anyway, I'd like to give a call out to Dana Perino, Fox News, who from the beginning of the government shutdown drama
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would say calmly at the beginning of most of the episodes of The Five,
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and we know how it's going to end, the Democrats will cave.
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And a day goes by, The Five comes back on, and Dana says, and we know how this will end,
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the Democrats are going to cave. They always do.
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Or there was some rule about why you could always predict why it would happen.
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And what I loved was she was so confident about the outcome.
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And I thought, yeah, you're putting yourself out there a little bit.
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But I agreed with her, by the way. I thought that she was probably right.
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But I thought, that's pretty confident to put that out there.
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So good for you. She wasn't the only one. I think Greg was predicting the same.
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And, you know, she has the experience to know what she's talking about.
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of enjoying the Democrats' bad reaction to the shutdown negotiations being over.
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If you haven't seen yet Jon Stewart's Monday night show,
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He's not happy with Chuck Schumer getting a nothing.
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So we've got this life-or-death situation, they told us,
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that, you know, babies are starving and planes are falling out of the air.
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And yet, they just, after telling us for weeks that babies will die
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and planes will fall out of the sky if they agree with the Republicans on anything,
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Now, what's funny about it is he really doesn't look like he's taking sides.
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He's hitting his own team harder than he's hitting the Republicans, by far.
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Because when his own side has a bad day, he goes after his own side.
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But you have to have that, or nobody's going to really take you too seriously.
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Because John Stewart says, where in the art of war does it say, you know,
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And this is the funniest line, that Chuck Schumer sold out, he sold out on what he wanted
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in return for a promise to negotiate later and then later not get what he wanted.
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He traded what he wanted for a promise to not get what he wanted later.
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So even Jon Stewart, here's how I interpret this.
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By mocking Schumer by taking out the art of war, he took out the actual book,
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu, I think what he's trying to tell them is that they're not
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That the Republicans, and Trump in particular, they seem to deal entirely on a strategic level.
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I mean, there's a moral and ethical frame to it, but they're very strategic.
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Their whole approach to the shutdown was fight, fight, fight.
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The right context is you just got your ear shot.
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The wrong context is the way they were using it,
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like just being tougher in the way they talk is going to make it all work.
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They were just trying to blame Republicans and see if something would work.
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Anyway, you really have to see the Jon Stewart video.
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Van Jones tries to save as much as he can from this situation,
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but only because he doesn't have much to work with in this particular case.
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Am I biased for people that I just personally kind of like?
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I'm a little bit biased for people I like, and I like him.
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I've talked to him, and he was very, very generous to me.
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But he didn't have anything to work with there.
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So he comes out, and he goes, look, this was on CNN, of course.
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He says, look, right now Democrats are going to kick each other
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and tear each other up and be mad at each other.
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He says, Republicans are just not that into Americans right now.
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The best you have is reading the minds of Republicans,
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You think the Republicans are just turned into demons or something?
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All Republicans just are not into Americans right now?
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that literally is America First, are not that into Americans?
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And then he said, and this looks like this will be the approach
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Quote, how much pain were the Republicans willing to let Americans suffer
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How much pain were the Republicans willing to let you suffer?
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The Democrats could have voted to open it at any moment.
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They just lie to their base and act like they didn't have the power to open it
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That doesn't change the fact that they have the votes.
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Or in this case, they could have voted past the 60 people limit.
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And they says, Van says, Donald Trump and Republicans were willing to let planes fall out of the sky.
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And children starve before they came to the table.
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Have you seen any anecdotal stories of, you know, even the reason you can't do this story?
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If the press did a story about the family, oh, it's terrible that I'm laughing at this.
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If the press, let's say they found a family where little Billy was starving,
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and they did a story from, let's say, the family's living room,
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and they're like, there's little Billy over on the couch.
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And then it would be the fault of the reporter for not feeding little Billy,
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because, you know, you probably have a few extra bucks.
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Maybe you could spare a little bit for Billy before he falls over on the couch during your life.
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that you can't do a story about it, because the moment you do a story about a starving anything in the United States,
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people send them food, and they stop starving immediately.
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Well, we do have a good country in the sense that nobody's going to look at somebody starving and let them starve.
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If you see somebody starving, we're going to feed them.
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Let me, if I have any neighbors within walking distance who are starving, just knock on my door.
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But if any of my walking distance neighbors are literally unable to eat, I'll give you a sandwich.
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So what I liked about Van Jones' approach is, in some ways, he's sort of an indicator of, you know, testing some of the narratives,
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So I think he, you know, they let him go first sometimes, just to see how it works.
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How many times have I told you that Democrats, they pretend they can read the minds of Republicans,
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but what they see in there is not America first and we like the Constitution and we like our God and we like families.
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They don't see the things that they're actually thinking.
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What they see is things that are created by the squirrels running around in their skulls,
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and then they imagine that they could read minds.
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They're imagining that they're looking into Republican minds and that they don't mind if planes fall out of the sky and children starve.
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Now, obviously, Trump does character attacks, but he's a special case.
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But in terms of Republicans versus Democrats in general,
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I think Republicans are a little more likely to talk about the policy,
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whereas Democrats are a little more likely to talk about, oh, bad character.
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Did he treat the Republicans as if they have bad character?
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He treated them like they don't care if babies die.
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Have you heard me talk about that a million times?
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That Democrats come up with imaginary problems?
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and it was an imaginary problem in the sense that they could solve it without doing any real work.
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Watch me solve the starving children and planes falling out of the air.
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that's me voting in favor of passing a short-term continuing resolution.
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but they blame the Republicans for doing the very bad thing that they're doing?
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The whole shutdown was acting like the Republicans had some power over it,
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Have any of you had any experience with a narcissist?
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that's the same as the projection and the imaginary problems
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Is this one of those things you can't really measure?
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I haven't heard any numbers for children dying.
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I don't know the number of planes that fell out of the air.
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So the entire shutdown was about what might happen
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people are going to have more trouble getting food.
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But could you see how stunningly consistent it is