Whether you cared or didn't about the Super Bowl, it did produce some interesting things. Is it a coincidence that Trump keeps winning? What does it mean about the country and what does it say about the culture, and is it all a coincidence?
00:00:00.000wake up everybody wake up I know you had an excellent Super Bowl Sunday but now
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00:00:46.960one go mmm super bullish I must say so whether you cared or didn't about the
00:01:01.720Super Bowl it did produce some news failed some interesting things anyway let's
00:01:06.820talk about those number one is it a coincidence that Trump keeps winning and
00:01:13.420not only does Trump keep winning even things that are sort of loosely
00:01:20.600associated with him keep winning because if you've got a Super Bowl that's Kansas
00:01:26.100City middle of the country sort of you know Trump territory essentially against
00:01:32.920San Francisco Pelosi territory everything's really about politics now isn't
00:01:39.260it it it's sort of all about politics even if you don't want it to be even if
00:01:43.760it's not supposed to be it is now I missed the opening but correct me if I'm
00:01:49.760wrong I don't believe anybody was kneeling for the national anthem am I right
00:01:56.240fact check me on that I don't believe anybody was kneeling that's sort of a
00:02:01.420Trump victory took a while but there we are so Trump and Trumpism sort of gets
00:02:09.240the win over San Francisco I had I confessed having mixed loyalties there now I
00:02:16.080have to tell you I don't know anything about football you know I used to watch
00:02:22.320it I don't watch it anymore it's the only game I watched this year was the
00:02:26.340Super Bowl I didn't know the name of the quarterback for Kansas City until the
00:02:31.000game itself I wasn't sure about the name of San Francisco's quarterback until the
00:02:36.360playoffs recently so I came into this with no knowledge whatsoever turned it on a
00:02:42.080few minutes into the game and I watched Haram is that his name Haram who is it was
00:02:50.080the quarterback for the Kansas City I forget Haram Haram anyway I watched him throw one
00:02:58.200pass and from that one pass I just said to myself I don't think San Francisco is going to win because
00:03:08.600just watching that one pass I just thought to myself I don't think that looks normal I don't
00:03:13.920know that much about football but whoever threw that thing is not like the others so I did think San
00:03:21.860Francisco was going to win when they were ahead but when I saw that guy's arm I
00:03:27.040thought I don't know how you beat that he looked pretty good Mahomes thank you
00:03:31.760anyway everybody's jabbering about the halftime show and
00:03:36.680Jenny from lock JLo and Shakira did a little bit too sexy pole dancing crotch grabbing rendition
00:03:49.860of their act leaving many people with conflicting feelings I have to admit it's not exactly what
00:04:00.660you want to be watching with your kids you know I mean it doesn't bother me personally but I totally
00:04:07.200get how other people would be bothered by it so I acknowledge that and it was interesting in terms
00:04:15.780of what it says about the country and about where our heads are etc I think they got away with it
00:04:23.580meaning that you know Jennifer Lopez and Shakira are just so well-loved and popular and whatever
00:04:33.640they can kind of get away with what people other people couldn't get away with so I thought it was
00:04:41.080a great show I have to tell you I saw Jennifer Lopez live performing in Las Vegas within the past year
00:04:48.100and you watch her perform live for I don't know how long the show is an hour or whatever it is
00:04:54.600and for an hour she's doing intense physical activity dancing and singing and when you see her
00:05:02.140actually sort of in person meaning you're in the audience and you know there's there's no camera
00:05:07.520between you and her and the whole time you're thinking what does she do for her fitness that she
00:05:15.220can look like that and do that it's honestly the most watching her in person at her at her current age
00:05:23.940doing what she does looking the way she does it doesn't even seem real I do not know how she could
00:05:31.400because she doesn't look like she had a lot of plastic surgery you know one assumes that everybody at that
00:05:36.720levels getting a little bit of work but she doesn't show signs of it I would say that you almost have
00:05:44.680to see Jennifer Lopez as an athlete more as much as an entertainer as an athlete is really impressive
00:05:53.480what she's managed to you know do and get out of her her physicality is just really really impressive
00:06:00.020so I'm a big fan and maybe it was a little too sexy but we'll get over it all right let's talk about
00:06:06.280the Bloomberg box you may have noted already yesterday I did a Super Bowl commercial
00:06:13.500for my invention the Bloomberg box it's an actual box that you can stand on to even things up if you
00:06:21.960are not quite debate height now as luck would have it I think I'm almost exactly the same height as
00:06:29.700Bloomberg so I think I'm supposed to be I'm 5 foot 8 so I think I'm supposed to be insulted by all this
00:06:36.860talk of shortness I'm not it just seems funny to me so the whole thing is just a little bit silly
00:06:47.160certainly I don't think that Bloomberg's height stopped him from earning 56 billion dollars and
00:06:55.380becoming Bloomberg so obviously it's not real it's not a real issue but it is something that would
00:07:01.980probably matter if he stood on the stage now here's the funny part uh Trump is playing the he creates
00:07:10.720this rumor so that everybody has to fact check it and I want I want to read to you his exact quote on
00:07:16.720this I guess it was in his interview yesterday it's just so funny that he does this because you know
00:07:23.020it's intentional and remember when he would do this you know three years ago and I would be the only
00:07:30.180person who would say no this isn't what you think this is actually going to work and then it would work
00:07:36.700and people would say oh didn't didn't see that coming only that cartoonist said that but this time
00:07:43.100he does this play that he's done so many times where he puts this little little piece of fake news
00:07:48.960into the consciousness and he makes everybody fact check it so that we're only talking about that
00:07:53.900so Piers Morgan called this out in a tweet you know noting that it had to be considered genius at this
00:08:01.120point because he's just so good at it he's so good at this thing so here's his exact words
00:08:07.080he goes quote uh you know now he wants a box for that debates to stand on Trump said okay it's okay
00:08:15.620there's nothing wrong you can be short I love the fact that Trump says it's okay to be short
00:08:23.440there's nothing wrong with that you can be short thank you for that permission uh why should he get a box
00:08:29.620to stand on okay why should he get a box to stand on he wants a box he wants a box for the debates
00:08:39.580now it's even funnier when you put it into into his his mind like it's just something he wants
00:08:45.620you know not only does it not exist and it didn't happen but now it's something he wants so he's he's
00:08:51.600deepening the the rumor why should he be entitled to that why should he be entitled it's really bad
00:08:59.720entitlement now let's talk about entitlement why should he be entitled to that really does that mean
00:09:07.020everyone else gets a box I would love to run against Bloombergans why is he entitled to that
00:09:18.740does that mean everybody else gets a box
00:09:21.660it would be hilarious you know it would be hilarious
00:09:27.300is if Bloomberg didn't get a box no I don't know because I think they do that right if you have a
00:09:33.860shorter candidate I think that's a real thing hasn't that been done before for maybe
00:09:38.620Hillary Clinton maybe Klobuchar or somebody else but what would stop I'm just asking what would stop
00:09:47.880Trump from demanding his own box nothing right there's nothing that would stop Trump from saying
00:09:56.080well this should be a level playing field we're not trying to fool the audience the whole point of
00:10:01.800the debate is to show the audience who we are so if everything's supposed to be equal
00:10:07.360Trump gets a box now is there anything that would make you laugh harder than finding out
00:10:15.960that Bloomberg got a box and then Trump demanded his own box I don't know if I could ever stop
00:10:22.580laughing that would be the funniest thing I'd ever seen in my life and the funniest thing is that his
00:10:27.140argument would be pretty good all right the argument that everybody should be treated the same
00:10:32.100and it's their own fault if they have a look it's their own you know it's nobody else's fault if
00:10:37.280somebody's taller than someone else somebody's saying uh Julian Castro had a box so I would love to see
00:10:45.420uh Trump demand a box but here's the funny part now the all the networks everybody had to fact check
00:10:53.040him and of course they fact checked it and found out there was absolutely no rumor to it whatsoever
00:10:58.020now there's a new rumor that that Bloomberg is really angry about this
00:11:02.800I doubt it I mean it's possible but I kind of doubt that of all the things that Bloomberg has to
00:11:10.960worry about in a day I don't think he's really worried about the box thing but now there's this
00:11:15.820new rumor that he's furious about it I never believe any of those kinds of rumors because you hear these
00:11:21.900about Trump all the time Trump was furious about this or that or whatever and then you think to
00:11:28.180yourself probably not probably not he probably mentioned it so Bloomberg you know may not love it but I
00:11:35.180doubt he's furious about it or anything like that so I wouldn't trust that reporting now here's the funny
00:11:40.700thing as a prank I want to see if we can persuade this box into reality and by persuaded into reality I
00:11:51.120don't mean that there will be an actual real box I mean that we will use persuasion until
00:11:57.400everybody thinks there's a box just as an experiment now the experiment is based on trying to repeat the
00:12:05.080experiment that CNN and MSNBC do on a regular basis in which they ignore the facts that don't that don't
00:12:14.160agree with the reporting and just continue talking as though they had not been debunked now how many times
00:12:20.440have you seen this for example the you know the fine people hoax has been debunked a billion times
00:12:26.940but they still just act like it hasn't instead of addressing the debunking they just act like it
00:12:33.660didn't happen when uh-huh when Dershowitz corrected their reporting about what he said during the impeachment
00:12:43.580presentation Dershowitz goes on CNN and says no you're taking a word out of context I didn't say
00:12:51.580anything like that this is what I said and you can check the transcript yourself to see in the full
00:12:57.320context it's very clear what I said you are reporting it wrong what did Wolf Blitzer do when the guy who is
00:13:04.960the only person who knows for sure what Alan Dershowitz said and meant meaning Alan Dershowitz
00:13:10.620corrects them in the most unambiguous way what does CNN do they just acted like it didn't happen and
00:13:18.600then continue talking the way they were talking so I would like to give you a one-act play
00:13:23.900in which I will be talking to Dale the anti-Trumper and convincing him through my powers of persuasion
00:13:31.980that the box exists Dale you've heard the story that Bloomberg's going to stand on that box
00:13:40.740you know do you think that's fair Scott Scott Scott there is no box that is fake news something
00:13:48.240your president does he lies he lies like a lying liar he made it up there is no truth to it Bloomberg
00:13:54.960has confirmed there is no box every single network has confirmed there is no box Scott no box
00:14:02.560what color is the box what the hell are you talking about I just told you there's no box
00:14:11.640you can't have a color on a box that doesn't exist no box Bloomberg says there's no box every
00:14:17.460report it says no box no box no box it doesn't exist
00:14:21.060who's paying for this box what is happening now what is happening I keep telling you it's fake news
00:14:30.500there's no box there's no box the box does not exist
00:14:35.300Dale do you think it's fair that Bloomberg gets a box and Trump doesn't get a box what's fair about that
00:14:44.920scene so no matter what anybody says about the box just as a prank just as a prank look at them
00:15:04.240expressionlessly and ask a question about the box it'll be hilarious don't don't ever leave character
00:15:13.160no matter no matter who you're talking to when they tell you the box doesn't exist just look
00:15:19.420right at them and ask them about a detail about the box it will make them crazy funniest thing ever
00:15:25.800all right go forward so I created my Super Bowl commercial in which I was selling the Bloomberg box
00:15:33.380my product which you just saw which by the way it has more than one use it can be used as something to
00:15:41.900stand on but is also can be used by Antifa as kind of a kind of a mask so you can use the box if you're
00:15:51.800attending an Antifa rally and nobody will know who you are they might think you're Mike Bloomberg if
00:15:57.500they're not very observant but it has multiple uses I don't make products that are only good for one
00:16:03.500thing so I've got about 76,000 views on that looks like it's going semi-viral so that's good
00:16:10.120on other news I think this is fascinating I've talked about it before but according to a poll
00:16:18.280Warren supporters said they would all basically 90% of them would support whoever gets nominated if it's
00:16:27.160not Warren so in other words Warren has very soft support their supporters prefer her but if they have
00:16:35.440to go to second or third choice that's okay 90% of them would do it Yang supporters are at 42% would
00:16:42.820not support the Democrat if it's not Yang 42% of them now that's 42% of a small number but I wonder
00:16:51.120what those people say when they get polled you know I wonder if Yang supporters are just sort of
00:16:57.680breaking the polling because I don't know who they are are they people who have never voted before
00:17:03.880because there was never anybody who spoke to them are they people who won't vote you know are they young
00:17:09.820people who when it comes to election day they're like yeah it wasn't Yang I just don't care I'm not
00:17:14.480going to vote at all or is it is it Trump supporters who've lost faith and gone over to Yang for some
00:17:22.100reason I don't know who they are so I think we have to understand this a lot better than we do
00:17:30.260all right let's talk about so CNN and MSNBC are running this persuasion play in which they're having
00:17:39.440all their their dumbest pundits and really it's the dumb ones there's no way to be nice about this
00:17:46.020Philip Nance have you ever seen Philip Nance he I don't think he's dumb necessarily but he's
00:17:53.780he just goes on TV and he will say absolutely anything so he and others who are equally let's say
00:18:03.740non-credible are saying that we've just learned that President Trump wants to be a king
00:18:08.780and they're all using that word a king he thinks he's a king he's above the law he wants to be a
00:18:14.480king king king king and they're trying to sell this into existence and I'm thinking to myself
00:18:21.240you have really run out of material man have you run out of material if what you've got left
00:18:29.120is we're reading his mind and we think he wants to be a king
00:18:33.360you've got nothing left that is the most ridiculous complaint it doesn't ring true on any level
00:18:41.320and if Democrats are buying into this that says something about them that's not good
00:18:48.080all right here's a fun question for you for your Democrat friends who are opposed to Trump's wall
00:18:55.760I want I want somebody to report back to me after trying this experiment find find an anti-Trumper or
00:19:03.940Democrat who is very opposed to strong immigration and especially somebody and here's the key
00:19:11.960somebody who is opposed to the what was called the Muslim ban but was really a ban on countries that
00:19:17.560didn't have good systems for identification which ended up being a lot of Muslim countries now that's
00:19:24.540been expanded I don't know what percentage are Muslim countries now but most of your Democrats
00:19:31.080would say and still say that President Trump is only closing the borders because the people are
00:19:38.660Muslims so he's he's discriminating against Muslims now find a person like that somebody who holds that
00:19:47.600view and ask them how that's different from the travel ban on China to prevent the coronavirus because
00:19:56.660in both cases you are punishing a large segment of people who you know to be innocent you know you
00:20:04.560know that 99% of the Chinese travelers don't have any virus you know that so why are you punishing 99% of
00:20:13.200the Chinese travelers just to prevent the risk that the one percent might bring in now how is that
00:20:19.560different from the ban on countries many of them are Muslim majority or most or all I don't know what
00:20:26.420it is but how is that different because we also believe that the Muslims coming in are 99% or more
00:20:33.020completely innocent have every right to immigrate like everybody else does but the one percent or less
00:20:40.560whatever it is might be very dangerous how exactly are those two situations different now I always
00:20:49.080warn you not to do persuasion by analogy so yeah somebody says good analogy so analogies don't win
00:20:57.060arguments you're not going to change anybody's mind with this analogy trust me it's not going to
00:21:02.240change anybody's mind but it's an experiment see if you can get somebody to walk through the risk
00:21:08.500and management of it because those who do not think that the ban on countries is based on racism and I don't
00:21:19.280I don't believe it's based on racism I look at it as risk management so to me it looks exactly the same
00:21:27.300as the virus thing it's just a risk management it's based on not being able to identify the risk within a population
00:21:34.240all right so do that it'll be fun and let me know let me know what your democrat says when you
00:21:40.340when you try that did you see the there was a I think there might have been two trump ads
00:21:47.440on the super bowl uh one of them in particular uh mentioned that uh trump has made the country what
00:21:55.700stronger and safer he talks about the economy and he shows some military stuff I think the two words
00:22:02.640were stronger and safer those are really good strong and safe and he can back it up I don't believe
00:22:11.120there would be anybody who would disagree that our military got stronger everybody would agree with
00:22:16.780that and that our economy got stronger so when the president says we're stronger and safer those are
00:22:23.680really basic needs I mean that really goes down to you know your biological requirement now think of
00:22:33.980that this trump ad quite quite well done I'm not going to say it's the best ad they'll ever make but
00:22:41.620it's it's really it's in the top shelf right it's it's in the category of some of the great ones
00:22:47.140maybe not the greatest but the stronger and safer think how how basic and biological that is
00:22:54.120compare that to uh lesser lesser candidates uh offerings which I think you'll see such as
00:23:03.240uh we can't have that trump he is dividing us sort of a concept he's dividing us yeah okay well
00:23:11.900what's that mean to you like how does that change your life I don't know in fact the uh apparently
00:23:18.940the polls should show exactly the opposite the polls show that racism has gone way down since trump
00:23:25.400became president did you know that by the way uh fact check me on that but I believe the polls show
00:23:31.820that how we feel about race has improved substantially since trump became president you didn't see that coming
00:23:39.860did you uh I did because I think those things improved no matter what generally speaking Obama
00:23:47.160was kind of a blip because you know some people got excited because there was a you know we had a black
00:23:53.200president so that that uh inflamed things for a while but uh apparently the the arc is that we're
00:24:01.940just getting better on this stuff historically pretty much all the time and I think that will continue
00:24:07.480um so here's what I loved about the ad so first of all it was basic and biological got right to what
00:24:13.740matters to you it also works really well for women it works really well for anybody who feels
00:24:20.160vulnerable if you feel vulnerable in any way you want to know that we're stronger and safer
00:24:26.480and that we're looking out for you okay but here's the brilliant part that I don't know if anybody caught
00:24:34.000if you're trump you're trying to do something that's kind of a fine line
00:24:38.720you're trying to win black voters you're trying to win hispanic voters you're trying to win
00:24:43.620uh female voters right because those are the weaknesses for uh trump's supporters
00:24:49.960but it's not really a republican thing to just go out and pander so the republicans are not good at
00:24:58.640saying hey black people vote for me i will give you some stuff republicans don't like to sell that
00:25:05.540way right because that gets into identity politics it's it's it's opposite the brand so if you can't
00:25:12.600call out a group but you still want to appeal to them how do you do it and this ad is subtly
00:25:20.800subtly brilliant if you didn't catch this here's what they did at the end of the ad uh where there's
00:25:28.260some talk about employment being great somebody who says something employment for everybody is good
00:25:34.660and then the next voice you don't see who is talking but you can tell from the voice in all
00:25:40.760likelihood it's a white woman newscaster all right now i'm not don't get into the argument about whether
00:25:48.800you can always tell somebody's ethnicity from hearing their voice yes yes i know you can't always tell
00:25:54.540but remember an ad is just giving you a quick impression of things it's not about reality
00:25:59.980so the impression which probably is right but could not be right it's possible it's not
00:26:05.020was that the sound of a white woman talking a voiceover says that black unemployment is the best
00:26:13.640it's been in 49 years or whatever right so here's here's the clever part it was a white woman
00:26:19.540applauding black employment improving and then the very next voice is uh actually they showed
00:26:28.500showed it um was a black man newscaster on fox applauding hispanic employment so you see what they did
00:26:37.720there it was kind of subtle in both cases they had somebody who was not in the in group yeah it was
00:26:45.500charles payne so charles payne an african-american man he was talking his little clip is about hispanic
00:26:53.700employment being good now i'm sure that that if you saw the whole clip he probably talked about
00:26:58.620employment in general and black unemployment too but what was brilliant about this that i absolutely
00:27:05.420loved is that they had people celebrating the other group do you see how powerful that is
00:27:12.620so we had a white woman celebrating black employment improving and a black man a very successful black
00:27:21.020man applauding hispanic uh um employment do you see how powerful that is it's really really strong
00:27:30.020and it's invisible like you could watch that commercial and it would just it would just go past you
00:27:35.300it's super clever and you know it's intentional too i mean one assumes it's intentional because it's
00:27:42.520too good to be accidental in all likelihood all right uh here's a fun topic i save for the end
00:27:49.240um people ask me how can you tell if somebody is brainwashed let's say for a political party
00:27:55.680versus they're just lying how can you tell the brainwashed versus lying versus they're just ignorant
00:28:02.500versus they have a legitimate opinion and it just happens to disagree with yours how can you sort
00:28:09.300them out and i suggested the other day uh a way to do that now this is not a hundred percent defective
00:28:16.660you know there will be exceptions and overlap etc but these are good starting places for your suspicion
00:28:22.580all right if somebody is brainwashed meaning they literally believe something and don't have reasons
00:28:30.100that's what it means to be brainwashed they have a belief and it's a strong belief but it's not based
00:28:35.720on facts and reasons the way you can determine it is if you get into a conversation with them and you
00:28:41.040give them a counter argument that you think is good a brainwashed person's response will sound crazy
00:28:48.720it'll sound crazy now what is not crazy would be somebody has wrong facts it's not crazy to have wrong
00:28:56.860facts right somebody has bad logic well that's not crazy there are lots of people who are not
00:29:02.580good at logic right so there are lots of things that would disagree with you that you would not
00:29:07.720you would you would not process as just being crazy but cognitive dissonance which is what happens when a
00:29:15.380brainwashed person is challenged with the facts cognitive dissonance is literally where you're cobbling
00:29:21.480together your reality and patching it up with something that only makes sense to you so that
00:29:28.700when somebody is the observer and they see you in cognitive dissonance the things you say don't even
00:29:35.320make sense they they just sound like crazy talk so that's the tell for a brainwashed person who's been
00:29:42.440presented with a superior argument it's actually crazy talk now compare that to someone who's just a
00:29:49.120partisan somebody who's just a democrat or they're just a republican and it doesn't matter what you're
00:29:55.180going to say i'm going to support my team how can you tell that person because that person is actually
00:30:00.600aware when they're lying it's a big difference the brainwashed people can't tell when they're
00:30:06.860they're departing from reality they don't have the ability but a lying partisan well they know when
00:30:13.760they're lying they know when they're avoiding the topic and if you corner somebody who's a partisan
00:30:19.040and they're just a liar what do they do well most often they change the topic they say well your team
00:30:28.500did this too that's that's changing the topic or they say well what about the other thing that's
00:30:34.220changing the topic so liars who don't want to act like they're crazy because nobody wants to act crazy
00:30:41.960all right nobody does that intentionally it would be rare if they did i suppose somebody could but
00:30:47.920the the people the cognitive dissonance people the ones who are brainwashed they're not choosing to be
00:30:53.880crazy that's just what cognitive dissonance does to you it just makes you say things that are
00:31:00.020irrational the partisan liar is just going to change the subject so that's your big tell for a liar versus
00:31:05.460brainwashed what about ignorant people what about somebody who just didn't have the information that you
00:31:11.100have and therefore you disagree on some policy but once you fill in the gap they end up being
00:31:18.960converted to one of the other two things if somebody is only operating out of ignorance and you fill in
00:31:25.160the ignorance you know you tell them the facts that they're missing they usually don't change their
00:31:30.500mind because people don't like changing the mind you will end up converting them into either a brainwashed
00:31:37.160person who starts babbling crazy talk or a partisan liar they'll know they're wrong but they'll just support
00:31:43.460their team anyway so the ignorant can be fixed but it doesn't win the argument for you it just converts them
00:31:50.020into a liar or a brainwashed person so what does a legitimate disagreement look like what does it look like
00:31:57.900when somebody disagrees with you but you know maybe you don't like their argument but you say to yourself
00:32:03.580okay they're not brainwashed they're not lying this is actually their their actual belief it's reasonable
00:32:08.760i just disagree here's how you can tell a legitimate debater can describe your argument accurately
00:32:19.440in other words you can say to that person all right tell me what you think i'm saying can you can you
00:32:25.660restate my argument and if they can they're not brainwashed and they're not ignorant and they're not
00:32:34.700partisan liars they're probably legitimate people who just want to figure stuff out so that's a really
00:32:41.660good way to tell if you're talking to somebody who's legitimate can you describe my argument in your
00:32:47.900words and if you notice that in most public conversation people will mischaracterize your
00:32:55.760argument and argue against the the so-called straw man the argument you never made so just ask people
00:33:02.180directly instead of just having them debate you say can you just stop right here can you put in your
00:33:07.400own words describe my argument in a way that when i hear it i'll say yeah that's it you got it
00:33:13.260and most people can't do that because legitimate disagreements are actually kind of rare they're kind of
00:33:21.420rare all right um so those are the main um a lot of people are mentioning uh juan on the five
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00:34:04.940four members of the five had an opinion and Juan said, you know, in this case, I just
00:34:10.060agree with you. It's sort of his job. It's what he gets paid for to give the opposite
00:34:16.580opinion. So I don't know if you can make too much of the fact that he disagrees with people.
00:34:26.920There's just no conclusion you can make from that. Because, yeah, somebody says Juan does
00:34:31.780a good job. I would say that the reason that Juan has that very high level job is that
00:34:37.360he does a good job, meaning that his role in the five is exactly, he has exactly the
00:34:44.760right kind of energy, charisma, personality that just fits really well with those other
00:34:52.160people and the little, let's say, entertaining friction that they have. So he's a really
00:34:58.980good choice for the show. I will say that. All right. What about all this Biden versus
00:35:11.400Bernie stuff? I have a real question about the Bernie supporters and about Biden. Now we're
00:35:19.500hearing more people are imagining that Biden is going to fall off a shelf. And there's
00:35:26.120something that we get to check. So there's a theory of how the world works, which I happen
00:35:35.000to subscribe to, that we're going to get to check. It goes like this. I don't believe
00:35:41.620that the democratic convention and nomination process is legitimate. I don't believe that.
00:35:50.380I believe that there are powerful people in a variety of roles and jobs, probably loosely
00:35:59.160or maybe not loosely connected with the Clintons and the Obama world, etc. You know, sort of
00:36:05.040a world in which a lot of them know each other. And that in a variety of ways, they're going
00:36:13.500to get to decide who is the candidate. Now they can manipulate it by changing rules, by
00:36:20.020changing funding, I don't know, probably a whole bunch of variables that they have. Super
00:36:25.540delegates, as somebody said, a broker convention. So they have lots of tools. You know, let's
00:36:31.280say the, the, the, is it deep state, the sort of career Democrats, they have lots of tools
00:36:37.600to keep somebody like Bernie out of office. But it does seem that Bernie is doing the best
00:36:44.840in terms of getting voter support. So if Bernie is killing it in the polls, and he doesn't
00:36:55.140get the nomination, that should confirm to you that it's a rigged process. Now, the last time Bernie
00:37:02.200got sort of pushed out of the nomination process by Clinton supporters, we all said that's a rigged
00:37:10.620process. And we were right, right? I mean, it was clearly looked like a rigged process in 2016 to me
00:37:17.720for the Democrats. So if it happens again, I feel like that's a confirmation, don't you? That our
00:37:25.720system is completely broken, and that whatever you think were the Democrats are just a, some kind of a
00:37:33.700cartel or mob situation. So if the Democrats are more of a mob, mafia kind of situation where a few
00:37:43.820people are deciding what's happening, and we just find out about it later, don't expect Bernie to get
00:37:49.940the nomination. Now, I suppose it's possible he could have so much support, it would be impossible
00:37:55.700to rig the system. And I think that's what Trump did. I think what Trump did was he probably would
00:38:02.840have been shut out of the system if he'd been less popular, but he just made himself impossible to
00:38:07.860ignore and popular enough that the rigging, had there been any, just wouldn't work. He was still
00:38:14.540too popular. We'll see if Bernie can achieve that, but I think he can't. I would expect, so here's what
00:38:21.460I'm still predicting. I'm predicting that wobbly Biden will, you know, sort of stumble across the finish
00:38:30.700line because he'll have the support of the insiders. But the insiders will not really be supporting
00:38:36.700Biden. This is my hypothesis and prediction. They will really be supporting what power they will have
00:38:43.340in a Biden presidency. And one of the main levers that I would imagine that they would want is to have
00:38:50.040their own vice president, somebody stronger than the president, who can really be the power and maybe take
00:38:57.440over as soon as Biden fails completely. Because remember, Biden could just quit. Biden could win the
00:39:03.820presidency, serve for a month, and then tell us, you know, I don't feel so good. I think my vice
00:39:10.940president needs to take over. That's why I picked such a good one. Totally possible. Because, you know,
00:39:18.680we haven't seen somebody that age and that wobbly looking become president. So under those conditions,
00:39:25.640I would expect Bernie to lose, Biden to win, and Biden to fade either before election day or soon after,
00:39:32.580so that the vice president chosen by the machine, the real people in power, can get their power back.
00:39:40.740That's the plan, I would think. All right. Somebody says, please don't say Kamala. It makes me sick.
00:39:48.640Rah. Sorry about that. Now, it doesn't necessarily need to be Kamala Harris, who's the vice president pick.
00:39:57.120I think she's a good chance. It just needs to be somebody who's more connected with, let's say,
00:40:03.340the Clinton camp than somebody who isn't. That's all it would take.
00:40:08.680Watching Mike Bloomberg completely, let's say, pervert the system is kind of hilarious because he's
00:40:23.300violating just about every principle that Democrats have in order to be their leader.
00:40:28.780What does that do to the Democrats if the guy they choose as their leader is the guy who got there by
00:40:36.000violating everything they believe in? So they don't believe in, you know, rich guys buying elections,
00:40:41.880but he is. They don't believe in old white guys being the leader of the party that's all about
00:40:48.400diversity, but he might be. They seem to be leaning more toward climate change is the end of the world
00:40:56.920and we better get rid of all of our cars, but he's not. So it's starting to make me think
00:41:03.720that the rules change that allowed Bloomberg into the debates was probably about,
00:41:13.820you know, could be that maybe some, some people are trying to take some,
00:41:20.400maybe take some support from Biden. So that would work against the theory.
00:41:23.780Here you go. All right. So that's all I got for now. And I'm going to talk to you tomorrow.