Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 23, 2020


Episode 829 Scott Adams： Why Bernie Can't Beat Trump, California Homeless Solutions, Biden Hallucinations


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

147.08847

Word Count

6,565

Sentence Count

397

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Sen. Bernie Sanders is getting a lot of young people to vote for him. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And what does it tell us about the future of the Democratic Party if so many young people are voting for him?


Transcript

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00:01:23.480 How bad is it for the Democrats when one of the biggest conversations is which candidate Trump would destroy the most?
00:01:35.280 Have we stopped even talking about Democrats winning the presidency?
00:01:39.960 Honestly, I feel as if the conversation is shifting to how badly Trump will destroy whoever gets nominated, probably Bernie.
00:01:50.420 Speaking of Bernie, what does it mean that Bernie has so much support from young people?
00:01:57.900 What's that tell you?
00:01:59.620 Well, it could tell you he's bribing them with the money of old people.
00:02:03.420 I mean, that's basically what he's doing.
00:02:05.880 He's transferring money from the old to the young.
00:02:08.940 So that'll get some young people.
00:02:10.960 But the problem is, aren't young people the dumbest among us?
00:02:15.980 And I say this with love because everybody was young.
00:02:19.960 And if they're lucky, they get older.
00:02:21.740 And I tried this following experiment with a teenager in my social world.
00:02:29.640 So recently, a teenager was noting that, you know, she seemed to be as smart as an adult.
00:02:37.540 It doesn't matter the topic.
00:02:40.140 And I said this.
00:02:41.380 Have you ever noticed that you know more than you did when you were six years old?
00:02:46.520 Try this with a person in their 20s.
00:02:48.920 A person in their 20s says, Bernie, it's Bernie, it's Bernie all the way.
00:02:53.720 And say this.
00:02:54.500 You know, do you think you know as much as you did when you were six years old?
00:03:00.740 Or do you know more?
00:03:02.140 Are you smarter than when you were six years old?
00:03:04.760 Now, anybody in their 20s is going to say, yeah, obviously.
00:03:10.000 Then you say, are you smarter than when you were, let's say, 14?
00:03:14.100 You know, now you're 25.
00:03:15.620 Are you smarter than when you were 14 years old?
00:03:18.060 Most people in their 20s will say, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot smarter.
00:03:24.300 And here's the punchline.
00:03:26.860 Do you think that stops?
00:03:30.220 Do you think that you're not going to be smarter at 40 than you are at 25?
00:03:36.220 Do you think there's any chance of that?
00:03:38.280 Now, you could argue that when you're 85, you might slow down.
00:03:42.040 And maybe a 25-year-old is smarter than an 85-year-old on average, could be.
00:03:48.480 But you ask a 25-year-old, do you think you're going to stop growing and you're not going to get any smarter?
00:03:55.340 Or do you think it will be like every other year of your life where you get more experienced and smarter?
00:04:01.400 Because if the people who are twice as experienced are generally thinking that the person you're voting for is a really bad idea, but you don't see it, what is the problem here?
00:04:16.460 Now, you can't really change people's minds with this argument, but it's a lot of fun.
00:04:23.020 Get people to first agree that youth is associated with lack of experience and that we know that because all of us are smarter than we used to be.
00:04:32.440 There's no exception.
00:04:33.760 You can't find anybody who believes they were smarter at 14 than they were at 25.
00:04:39.480 Nobody's going to say that.
00:04:40.580 So we have to look at the fact that there's a candidate who's getting a lot of the young vote, and it's not a compliment, if you know what I mean.
00:04:54.620 All right, I wonder if there's anybody who will take this position in voting.
00:04:59.100 Let's say Sanders gets nominated.
00:05:01.040 Will there be anybody who says, I really, really don't want Trump, but on the other hand, I don't want Bernie to destroy the world with his socialism?
00:05:11.440 So what would you do?
00:05:14.020 Because you don't want Bernie to destroy the world, but you desperately don't want President Trump anymore.
00:05:19.660 How would you vote?
00:05:21.460 I'm wondering if some people will do this.
00:05:24.100 Vote for Bernie, and then vote for all Republicans in Congress.
00:05:31.840 Just try to flip the House Republican.
00:05:34.780 Why?
00:05:35.760 Because Bernie, if he's elected president, means you don't have President Trump.
00:05:40.900 So that mission might be accomplished for somebody for whom that's the biggest mission.
00:05:45.960 But if you get Republicans in Congress, Bernie can't do anything.
00:05:51.640 He doesn't have any power.
00:05:52.760 So you can get rid of Trump without worrying about Bernie if you also flip the House.
00:06:00.300 By the way, I'm not suggesting anybody take this path.
00:06:05.240 I'm wondering.
00:06:06.080 It's just a question.
00:06:07.460 Is there anybody out there who says, you know, I just can't take Trump one more year, but I can't take a risk on Bernie, so I'm going to vote in Republicans to keep him at bay.
00:06:17.700 I mean, it could happen.
00:06:19.320 You can imagine somebody voting that way.
00:06:21.040 All right.
00:06:26.000 Does Bernie have persuasion skills the way Trump does?
00:06:35.540 And here's a filter I'm going to put on this to let you see the whole race a little more clearly.
00:06:43.380 Generally speaking, money will predict outcomes.
00:06:48.480 If you follow the money, you're generally going to be closer to a good prediction than if you don't.
00:06:54.400 You know, ignoring the effect of money is just always the worst predicting mistake you can make.
00:07:01.160 And right now you have a situation.
00:07:02.580 Let's see if you agree with the way I'm going to frame this.
00:07:06.500 Politicians generally try to bribe voters somehow.
00:07:13.280 I mean, it's all bribes one way or the other.
00:07:16.500 The way Trump tried to do it is he tried to bribe the American voters with money from other countries.
00:07:25.300 Right.
00:07:25.940 Because Trump was saying, let's close down immigration, which would be bad for the other countries.
00:07:32.240 But his argument was that it would be good for especially low income voters.
00:07:37.540 So he was explicitly trying to take money out of the hands of other countries and put it into the pockets of Americans.
00:07:46.640 In other words, bribing Americans to vote for him.
00:07:49.740 Look, I'll give you money.
00:07:51.440 It's going to come from these other countries.
00:07:53.420 And I'll even make Mexico pay for the wall.
00:07:56.080 You could argue whether that happened or whether Mexico paying for their forces on their southern border to keep the caravans out is sort of like paying for the wall.
00:08:05.260 But the point is, Trump said, I'm going to make other people pay our bills.
00:08:10.200 What did he say about NATO?
00:08:12.320 I'm going to make other countries for more of the bill.
00:08:16.580 Looks like free money.
00:08:18.140 What did Trump say about spending?
00:08:23.420 Instead of being a deficit hawk, he ran up the deficit.
00:08:28.840 Basically, Trump said, I'm going to give you money today.
00:08:33.140 And it's going to come out of people in the future.
00:08:36.240 I'm going to take money from the future and give it to you today.
00:08:39.480 Right?
00:08:40.000 That's what a debt is.
00:08:41.260 Somebody in the future has to pay for it.
00:08:42.900 But today we give free money.
00:08:45.500 The other way Trump gave us free money or tried to bribe us is by cutting regulations and cutting taxes to goose the economy.
00:08:53.460 If the economy is better, it creates money where it didn't exist before.
00:08:59.080 And then Trump says, hey, we can all share on this money.
00:09:01.480 So Trump was bribing the public, but bribing us with money that didn't yet exist and money from other countries and money that maybe was even imaginary.
00:09:16.240 That's a pretty good package because nobody who is a voter had to say, oh, I'm going to give my money to somebody else.
00:09:25.420 It was all somebody else's money coming to us.
00:09:27.320 That's good persuasion.
00:09:28.220 Now let's look at Bernie.
00:09:34.480 I don't know if you'll be able to see this too clearly, but maybe you will.
00:09:38.160 So here's my little chart.
00:09:40.980 Let's say Bernie gets the nomination.
00:09:43.720 Well, you can expect that Republicans are still going to vote for Trump because Republicans are pretty unified right now.
00:09:51.820 So whether you are an older and richer or younger and poorer citizen, if you're a Republican or even an independent who usually votes Republican,
00:10:03.820 you're still going to be happy with your choice.
00:10:05.640 So you can expect that Trump will get pretty much all of the Republican vote.
00:10:12.400 Then what about Bernie?
00:10:15.940 Remember, follow the money.
00:10:18.340 Bernie's plan is to take money from the older and or richer part of the public.
00:10:24.780 It usually tends to be the same, right?
00:10:26.860 It's not completely overlapping, but it's the older people who have more money.
00:10:31.020 And he plans to take a lot of that away and give it to younger people.
00:10:36.880 So you should expect the younger people would say, hey, free money.
00:10:40.760 Yeah, sign me up.
00:10:41.960 So if you're a Democrat and you're younger and or poorer, tends to be the same, but doesn't have to be.
00:10:48.500 You're probably going to say, you know, that looks pretty good to me.
00:10:51.280 So I think Bernie could be expected to get all of the younger, poorer Democrats.
00:10:57.440 But what about the people who've got some money or they're a little richer?
00:11:00.740 Let's say you are Chris Matthews.
00:11:04.920 Let's say Chris Matthews is up in this top left quadrant and he's getting ready for retirement.
00:11:11.840 One assumes, you know, he's at age where you start thinking about how much do I have I earned and what's my retirement look like and all that.
00:11:20.840 And he's looking at working all of his life, working really hard, amassing a certain amount of money, getting ready to retire.
00:11:28.620 And then Bernie is saying, I'm going to take that money that you earned fair and square.
00:11:32.660 And I'm going to give it to people who ran up big debts who really shouldn't have, let's say student loans and did not work as hard as you do for their money.
00:11:43.540 Is Chris Matthews, even though he's a Democrat, going to vote to give his money that he worked all of his life and now is looking for his retirement?
00:11:53.600 And suddenly, Bernie says, I want to take the comfort of your retirement away and give it to people who did not do the hard work you did and did not do the right things.
00:12:04.960 What is Chris Matthews going to do?
00:12:08.740 Is Chris Matthews going to say, yes, it's good for other people that I have a less secure retirement and that I worked hard and then just sort of gave it to people who didn't?
00:12:19.980 Is that going to be okay with Chris Matthews?
00:12:21.880 I'm going to say no.
00:12:24.240 So I don't see any scenario in which Bernie can get the older, richer debts on his side.
00:12:35.020 If you take the filter, the money is determinant.
00:12:38.840 So here's the basic problem.
00:12:40.920 Trump will be bribing the public with money that is imaginary, is future money, is potential money, is money from other countries.
00:12:49.280 So no voters are out of pocket for that stuff.
00:12:53.980 And then Bernie is doing the opposite.
00:12:56.940 He's saying I'm going to take money from the people who are above average in terms of their living conditions and I'm going to transfer it to people who are below average.
00:13:05.760 All the people above average should not vote for Bernie if they're going to vote for their own self-interest.
00:13:12.840 Now you assume some people are going to do it anyway because they want a better world or they're not doing the math good.
00:13:19.080 So people will still take the suboptimal path.
00:13:24.700 But I think money is really predictive.
00:13:27.880 And Bernie has a proposition which is half of the people who should be voting for him should be able to look at it and say,
00:13:35.040 you know, I'm in the half that's doing okay.
00:13:37.520 It's just all bad for me.
00:13:40.520 It's just good for the people at the bottom.
00:13:42.800 Why would I vote for that, say the people who were in the top half?
00:13:47.040 All right.
00:13:47.380 Does it seem to you that nobody is taking Pete Buttigieg seriously at the moment?
00:13:55.780 I feel as if, you know, if you look at the last three contests, Buttigieg either came in first or second, right?
00:14:05.620 Or he was near the top in all three contests.
00:14:10.000 Shouldn't we be talking really, really seriously about Pete Buttigieg?
00:14:14.280 But we're not, right?
00:14:16.060 Even the Democrats are not really taking him seriously.
00:14:19.320 And I think that the whole PowerPoint attack on him just being sort of an empty, jargon-filled suit, I think it took a toll.
00:14:32.360 I think Pete went from exciting and new and, you know, he's the shiny new thing and he's smart and he's fun and he's good-looking and, you know, he has a lot of cool things about him.
00:14:43.760 But then you listen to him and it just sounds like empty jargon talk.
00:14:50.080 And I think as soon as the word PowerPoint was mentioned, I think that was the end of his political run this time.
00:14:58.820 So I may be overstating how much difference that made, but, you know, you just don't see any enthusiasm for him anymore.
00:15:05.660 So, let's see, who would you say is dividing the country if Sanders and Trump run?
00:15:19.060 If you listen to Trump talk, Trump will be saying and doing things like this.
00:15:26.680 Here's me in a room full of young black voters cheering me on because they're Republicans.
00:15:33.840 Here's me, this is Trump talking, here's me praising black leaders, here's me bragging about lowering black unemployment, here's me bringing us, basically bringing everybody together.
00:15:50.100 Not insulting Americans, insulting other people, but, and his critics, but not insulting voters who are minding their own business.
00:15:58.300 And then there's Sanders.
00:16:00.440 Do you know what Sanders is saying?
00:16:02.080 Have you heard him recently?
00:16:03.840 He's decided that he's going to go full racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic.
00:16:11.920 And first of all, none of that even really lands.
00:16:15.180 Calling Trump a homophobic?
00:16:17.940 That is so not even close to what I'm observing.
00:16:22.960 Are you?
00:16:24.420 I mean, what would you even look at to claim that Trump is homophobic?
00:16:28.800 It's ridiculous.
00:16:29.400 And the other claims are just warmed up, you know, the Charlottesville fine people hoax and ridiculousness.
00:16:37.780 So you've got Bernie who's ripping apart the Democratic Party.
00:16:42.660 Wouldn't you agree?
00:16:43.940 I mean, there's a lot of division with the Democrats.
00:16:46.820 That didn't exist before.
00:16:48.220 And it's not something that Trump made.
00:16:50.280 Trump is out there every day saying, let's get together, we Americans.
00:16:56.300 And that does not include people who came here illegally.
00:16:59.600 That's his message.
00:17:00.460 Like it or not, that's his message.
00:17:03.120 It's all about coming together.
00:17:04.660 But Bernie is all about separating the rich and the poor, making the rich and the poor enemies,
00:17:13.280 making the Republicans look like a bunch of racists and sexists.
00:17:17.880 And it looks to me like Bernie is just ripping the fabric of the country apart to get elected.
00:17:23.280 Am I wrong?
00:17:25.360 Would that look like a biased statement today?
00:17:30.380 Now, if you were looking at candidate Trump in 2015 and comparing him to candidate Sanders in 2020,
00:17:38.920 you'd probably say, oh, you know, there's two candidates who look like they're trying to divide the country.
00:17:46.480 That was candidate Trump.
00:17:48.440 But President Trump is funding the historically black colleges.
00:17:53.440 He's doing prison reform.
00:17:55.420 He's bragging about black unemployment being low.
00:17:58.000 So he doesn't look like he's dividing the country to me.
00:18:02.440 He looks like everything he's doing is to bring it together.
00:18:05.880 And Bernie is working as hard as he can to divide it because that's his path to victory, I imagine he thinks.
00:18:13.700 So certainly we cannot accept that Trump is the one dividing the country.
00:18:20.120 It's just not happening now.
00:18:21.320 Now, if you said he used to be that way and his rhetoric used to be more more dividing, I would say, yeah, that's probably true.
00:18:29.340 I would say that's probably true.
00:18:31.320 It's just not true now.
00:18:34.080 So.
00:18:35.980 Is anybody taking Joe Biden seriously?
00:18:38.180 Did you hear the two things he said this week?
00:18:44.560 I guess he told audiences three times in the last two weeks that he was arrested 40 years ago in South Africa while trying to meet Nelson Mandela.
00:18:55.400 Except there is no evidence independent of him saying it recently that that ever happened.
00:19:03.520 Joe Biden seems to have hallucinated some some history of his own in which he tried to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa and got arrested.
00:19:16.480 But it's better than that.
00:19:17.760 He also told audiences that his deceased son had been the attorney general of the United States, which he hadn't been.
00:19:27.780 Had he been an attorney general of a state or something?
00:19:34.620 That's probably what he was thinking.
00:19:36.180 I don't know the resume of his deceased son, but those are some pretty big departures from reality.
00:19:44.520 And at this point, I don't think anybody takes Biden seriously, much less his own team.
00:19:49.100 All right.
00:19:49.400 I'm fascinated by how the media moguls are going to handle Bernie Sanders.
00:19:58.360 Let's say you're Jeff Zucker.
00:20:01.520 Jeff Zucker makes a lot of money.
00:20:04.940 Does Jeff Zucker want to live in a world where Bernie Sanders takes Jeff Zucker's money away and gives it to other people?
00:20:13.420 I'm going to say no.
00:20:15.460 I mean, I'm not going to read his mind.
00:20:17.260 I can't read Jeff Zucker's mind.
00:20:18.660 He might be the greatest guy in the world, and he just thinks, you know, other people should take my money.
00:20:24.640 But I suspect that anybody who wanted to have less money so that poor people could have more, they certainly have ways to do that.
00:20:32.400 It's called charity.
00:20:34.080 You can give away as much of your money as you want.
00:20:37.040 So if Jeff Zucker wanted to give away all his money, he could do that without Bernie Sanders.
00:20:43.360 And I'm guessing that he doesn't want to do that.
00:20:45.280 So what does CNN do when they've got Trump, who is their nemesis?
00:20:51.380 They, of course, have to say bad things about him.
00:20:53.740 That's their business model.
00:20:54.780 But they can't really promote Sanders because he's going to be really expensive for the talent and the owners of CNN, you know, the managers.
00:21:04.600 It would be a disaster for them the same as it would be a disaster for me.
00:21:09.760 You know, I would suffer greatly financially under a Bernie Sanders regime.
00:21:16.100 So I think we're starting to get the answer to that because on CNN, they recently hired Joe Lockhart.
00:21:25.660 And Joe Lockhart writes this article on CNN, their website, saying that Bloomberg needs to take out Bernie and quickly.
00:21:34.340 Can you imagine, that's sort of shocking, isn't it, that they would hire a very anti-Trumper guy, Joe Lockhart, and he's super, you know, super partisan anti-Trumper.
00:21:50.120 And they let him write an opinion piece on CNN, basically anti-Bernie.
00:21:55.460 It's pretty much anti-Bernie.
00:21:59.560 So I think CNN doesn't want to take sides with Bernie.
00:22:04.680 What would that look like?
00:22:06.120 Like, what is their business model even going to look like?
00:22:09.000 Because they had a really clean model, which was Democrats of the world united against this evil Trump guy.
00:22:16.020 And that worked really well.
00:22:17.840 But what if they don't like either one?
00:22:20.100 What do they do?
00:22:21.420 What do they do with that?
00:22:22.620 So I think CNN is going to have to try pretty hard to take Bernie out.
00:22:27.780 And we have this weird enemy of my enemy situation in which CNN and Republicans are going to be on the same side.
00:22:37.780 So look for that.
00:22:41.380 How wonderful is it that the two top candidates to run against Trump, you know, the Democrats had, you know, years to prepare.
00:22:51.120 They knew exactly what they were up against.
00:22:53.920 You know, President Trump is a really well-known quantity.
00:22:57.200 So they knew exactly what kind of candidate would match up well.
00:23:02.420 And what they picked were one billionaire who's got accusations of sexism, racism, and foreign entanglements.
00:23:11.780 Okay, that's one of the choices that they came up with after years of thinking about what would be a good matchup with Trump.
00:23:19.380 And the other one is literally a con man.
00:23:24.520 I mean, there's no other way to say what Bernie is doing.
00:23:28.660 Because I don't think Bernie believes his math works, right?
00:23:34.100 I mean, I hate to be a mind reader because I can't tell what's in his head.
00:23:38.160 But do you get any indication that Bernie Sanders believes that despite what every economist and anybody who can do math tells him,
00:23:48.140 that he alone knows how to make the math work and it'll all work out?
00:23:52.080 So, I don't know.
00:23:56.380 If I had to guess, and again, I'm not a mind reader,
00:24:00.440 but I don't think there's any chance that Bernie thinks that the proposals he's pushing are actually practical.
00:24:07.600 Do you?
00:24:08.940 I mean, he does seem like he acts like a true believer.
00:24:11.120 But my guess is that he wants to push things in that direction, at least as far as they'll go.
00:24:18.880 So, I don't think, and again, this is just speculation because I'm not a mind reader,
00:24:24.520 but I would guess that Bernie wants to push it in that direction as far as it'll go,
00:24:30.500 and he doesn't know how far that is,
00:24:31.920 but probably doesn't think it would go all the way to the extremes that he's promoting.
00:24:37.480 So, I don't know.
00:24:41.520 It looks to me like Bernie is essentially a con artist who's saying,
00:24:46.000 I'm going to take money from other citizens and give it to you if you vote for me.
00:24:50.660 And it just doesn't look like leadership.
00:24:53.900 It just looks like a con.
00:24:55.500 He's just taking money from one pocket and putting it in another,
00:24:58.500 and he's the one who benefits.
00:24:59.720 How in the world will President Trump compete against Bernie saying he would forgive student debt?
00:25:12.760 Because if you're a student, or you have some debt,
00:25:15.480 or even if you have a family member who has a lot of student debt,
00:25:19.320 that's a really attractive thing, right?
00:25:22.500 So, let me suggest one way that President Trump could take the issue of student debt completely off the table.
00:25:31.080 Are you ready for it?
00:25:32.840 Here it is.
00:25:34.520 President Trump could say, and by the way, I don't think he will do this,
00:25:39.140 so I just like thinking through the persuasive techniques.
00:25:43.320 So, this is just a thought experiment.
00:25:44.760 But President Trump could say, you know, Bernie wants to forgive all student debt.
00:25:52.940 I'll tell you what.
00:25:54.800 If the Congress passes such a law, I'll sign it.
00:26:00.960 Now, your first reaction to that is, what the hell?
00:26:04.920 That would put President Trump in the same place as Bernie,
00:26:08.560 just, you know, just wiping off debt of the people who made what looked like the wrong choices,
00:26:16.300 and the people who were hard workers and paid off their debt, they get nothing?
00:26:21.000 They get nothing?
00:26:23.300 You know, and you're suggesting, Scott, that the President should say he would sign such a bill?
00:26:28.380 Here's the thing.
00:26:30.320 If Congress passed it, it would mean that both Democrats and Republicans
00:26:35.320 and the representatives of the people wanted it to happen by majority.
00:26:41.060 If you're the President of the United States,
00:26:44.080 and if you're the President of the United States,
00:26:47.700 and both houses of Congress, or at least the majority,
00:26:51.620 and the people closest to the people say by majority,
00:26:55.600 yeah, we want this law,
00:26:57.260 I kind of think the President ought to sign it, just in general.
00:27:01.280 Now, if it had a, let's say, you know, a national defense element to it,
00:27:07.300 or if it were discriminatory against some disadvantaged group,
00:27:11.720 well, then the President should step in and say,
00:27:14.300 yeah, I get that the will of the people want to do this,
00:27:17.200 but this is mob law, and that's why you have me.
00:27:20.480 You have me to stop mob law.
00:27:22.920 But there's nothing like mob law in this.
00:27:25.080 This would be rational people who look at the choices,
00:27:28.040 and hypothetically, Republicans and Democrats
00:27:31.840 got together in sufficient number to say,
00:27:34.320 yeah, we're going to vote away all of the student debt.
00:27:38.300 Now, I think there's no chance that it would ever happen.
00:27:40.560 So that's the first part.
00:27:41.720 There's no chance it would happen.
00:27:43.240 But what if it did?
00:27:44.940 What if it did?
00:27:47.180 I would say the President should sign it,
00:27:49.860 even if you don't like it,
00:27:52.060 because it would be actually a pretty fair representation
00:27:55.060 of the will of the people.
00:27:56.940 Their representatives would say,
00:27:58.340 you know, my people kind of want this,
00:28:00.560 so I'm going to be for it.
00:28:02.240 I think the President could completely take the issue off the table
00:28:05.580 by saying, you know, Bernie's just saying
00:28:08.300 that if Congress gives him that bill, he'll sign it.
00:28:11.600 Well, guess what?
00:28:12.960 If the public wants it that much
00:28:14.820 that it can get through Congress,
00:28:16.840 I'll sign it too.
00:28:19.180 Takes it completely off the table, right?
00:28:21.320 Because I don't think it would ever get through Congress,
00:28:24.880 but it has to get through Congress,
00:28:26.760 whether it's Bernie or Trump,
00:28:28.720 in order for a president even to be part of the decision.
00:28:33.220 All right.
00:28:36.620 There's a, in no particular order,
00:28:41.500 oh, Tom Cotton was tweeting
00:28:43.820 because apparently China has determined,
00:28:46.580 or at least their current opinion,
00:28:48.520 is that the Wuhan market
00:28:52.740 was not the cause of the coronavirus outbreak.
00:28:56.480 So the current thinking,
00:28:58.220 which I'm sure is subject to revision,
00:29:01.280 but the current thinking
00:29:02.220 is that China doesn't know where it came from,
00:29:04.840 or at least they're not saying
00:29:06.280 they know where it came from.
00:29:08.740 So Tom Cotton got,
00:29:09.900 Senator Tom Cotton got in a little trouble
00:29:11.640 because he had suggested
00:29:13.860 that we can't rule out
00:29:15.660 the Wuhan weapons plant
00:29:18.700 because wouldn't that be a big coincidence
00:29:21.360 that a bioweapon plant
00:29:22.780 was right near where a serious coronavirus broke out.
00:29:29.720 But he wasn't saying,
00:29:31.560 I think that's what it was.
00:29:33.980 He was simply saying,
00:29:35.180 you got to keep that option open.
00:29:36.860 And then the only other option
00:29:38.340 just got eliminated, right?
00:29:40.980 There were only two options on the table
00:29:42.960 that I know of.
00:29:44.460 One was that it came from animals
00:29:46.360 that were not prepared
00:29:48.980 in the safest way, I guess.
00:29:50.860 And the other is it came from a biolab.
00:29:54.560 And we just eliminated animals.
00:29:57.260 Now that doesn't mean it's the biolab, right?
00:29:59.780 It probably means that we don't know
00:30:01.800 where it came from.
00:30:03.120 And there are probably a thousand ways
00:30:05.660 it could have gotten there
00:30:06.440 that I can't think of.
00:30:08.540 But Tom Cotton,
00:30:10.000 you might be closer to the truth
00:30:11.780 than you thought.
00:30:12.960 All right, so there's some leaked pages
00:30:17.580 from Twitter,
00:30:19.440 meaning because it's a leak,
00:30:21.160 we don't know if Twitter
00:30:21.960 is really planning to do this
00:30:23.660 or if these are just tests and demos.
00:30:27.600 But there are some leaked pages
00:30:29.020 showing at least indicating
00:30:30.700 that Twitter is considering
00:30:32.340 marking untrue things as lies.
00:30:36.560 In other words, highlighting them
00:30:38.960 with, let's say, an orange color
00:30:40.540 and a little tag
00:30:42.280 that says this tweet is not true.
00:30:47.340 Now, my first reaction to that was,
00:30:50.740 huh, that could be kind of helpful.
00:30:53.820 Yeah, I would like to have something flagged.
00:30:56.860 I mean, I'll use my own judgment on it
00:30:58.860 after the fact,
00:30:59.900 but it would help me
00:31:01.140 if they flagged things
00:31:02.500 that at least some other people say
00:31:04.340 are not true.
00:31:05.280 I think that would be useful.
00:31:06.660 I could make up my own mind.
00:31:07.960 I could still see it.
00:31:09.480 You know, I can check links, etc.
00:31:11.280 And then I thought,
00:31:12.780 wait a minute,
00:31:13.720 who gets flagged by whom?
00:31:16.600 So somebody's saying in the comments,
00:31:18.360 then my second thought was,
00:31:20.000 wait a minute.
00:31:21.240 Yeah, who gets to decide?
00:31:23.180 We watch every day
00:31:25.640 as people who are well-meaning
00:31:28.540 can't decide what's true
00:31:29.860 looking at the same information.
00:31:32.220 So I just don't know
00:31:34.020 there's any way to get there.
00:31:35.740 Now, what I wouldn't mind
00:31:36.920 is if there was a point
00:31:39.740 and a counterpoint.
00:31:41.440 You know, if they flagged it in orange
00:31:43.400 and said this is a disputed fact,
00:31:46.340 I would be completely happy
00:31:47.920 with disputed.
00:31:49.800 If at the same time
00:31:51.140 there was a link
00:31:53.240 to the dispute on either side.
00:31:56.260 So if something was flagged
00:31:58.300 as potentially not true
00:32:00.040 and that I could see
00:32:01.400 the people who say it's not true
00:32:02.720 and I could see the argument
00:32:03.820 that says it is true
00:32:04.720 right next to each other,
00:32:06.500 I'd like that.
00:32:07.920 And then I don't have to worry
00:32:09.040 about whether it's true or false.
00:32:10.860 I can simply note
00:32:12.040 that people disagree with it.
00:32:13.400 And I can look.
00:32:15.320 All right.
00:32:16.360 So there might be
00:32:17.060 something good coming.
00:32:17.820 We'll see.
00:32:24.320 Lawrence O'Donnell
00:32:25.360 over at MSNBC,
00:32:27.420 I can't tell if he's lying
00:32:30.480 or crazy
00:32:31.360 or acting.
00:32:33.660 And I'm fascinated by it.
00:32:35.940 I couldn't look away.
00:32:37.680 But he did this big thing
00:32:39.380 saying the president
00:32:40.300 is a Russian operative.
00:32:42.260 This is yesterday.
00:32:44.320 Right?
00:32:44.760 This is not even during
00:32:46.180 the Russia collusion hoax,
00:32:47.740 but as recently as yesterday,
00:32:49.400 I think it was,
00:32:50.040 or the day before.
00:32:51.220 The president is a Russian operative.
00:32:53.340 That sounds like the description
00:32:55.140 of a bad Hollywood screenplay,
00:32:57.340 but it is real
00:32:58.580 and it is Vladimir Putin's
00:33:00.960 greatest achievement.
00:33:03.680 Lawrence O'Donnell
00:33:04.480 actually said that sentence
00:33:05.780 on TV.
00:33:07.740 And then he goes on
00:33:09.860 about how,
00:33:11.000 you know,
00:33:12.420 Putin owns Trump.
00:33:14.580 And I think to myself,
00:33:16.420 does he even believe
00:33:17.720 any of that?
00:33:19.440 I don't,
00:33:19.980 I can't tell.
00:33:21.420 Can you?
00:33:23.060 Does he,
00:33:23.880 because he looks crazy.
00:33:24.780 Like to my eyes,
00:33:28.700 he looks,
00:33:29.360 he looks crazy.
00:33:31.660 Like he,
00:33:32.200 like he's in a cognitive
00:33:33.500 dissonance bubble
00:33:34.620 or,
00:33:35.120 or TDS or something.
00:33:38.000 But it looks
00:33:39.280 actually crazy.
00:33:41.840 So,
00:33:42.280 but who knows?
00:33:43.980 Maybe he's just faking it.
00:33:47.900 James Carville
00:33:49.120 said something
00:33:50.140 that made me pause.
00:33:55.440 No matter what you want
00:33:56.480 to say about James Carville,
00:33:58.160 he is a smart guy
00:34:00.200 and a straight talker.
00:34:01.580 And every now and then
00:34:02.320 he'll just say something
00:34:03.340 that will just knock you
00:34:04.760 off your chair
00:34:05.360 and make you rethink.
00:34:07.220 He's good at that.
00:34:08.720 And here's one of the things
00:34:09.920 he said,
00:34:10.860 that why I didn't think of this,
00:34:12.280 I don't,
00:34:12.680 I don't know.
00:34:13.960 But he said that,
00:34:14.920 that if Russians
00:34:17.200 are trying to help Bernie,
00:34:19.360 it's not because
00:34:20.460 they want him
00:34:21.020 to be president.
00:34:22.020 It's because they know
00:34:22.820 he's so weak,
00:34:23.620 he'll lose to Trump.
00:34:25.440 So in other words,
00:34:26.320 Carville is saying
00:34:27.160 that Russia
00:34:28.680 only wants to help Trump
00:34:30.440 and they either
00:34:31.560 do it directly
00:34:32.300 through their,
00:34:34.140 you know,
00:34:34.520 hacking and social media
00:34:35.860 or they do it indirectly
00:34:37.580 by promoting Sanders
00:34:39.340 as the competitor
00:34:40.280 because he doesn't have
00:34:41.140 a chance of winning.
00:34:41.800 And I thought to myself,
00:34:45.540 I had never really thought
00:34:47.880 of that interpretation.
00:34:49.900 And yet it's kind of obvious.
00:34:51.820 It's sitting right there.
00:34:53.420 Why in the world
00:34:54.160 did that not occur to me?
00:34:56.640 And I'm not sure it's true,
00:35:00.580 but I'm shocked
00:35:02.940 that it wasn't obvious to me
00:35:04.780 that Russia,
00:35:06.180 you know,
00:35:06.700 could play
00:35:07.460 the pro-Trump
00:35:08.560 card
00:35:09.580 two different ways
00:35:11.000 by supporting him
00:35:12.020 directly
00:35:12.420 or by
00:35:13.780 supporting
00:35:14.720 Sanders.
00:35:16.640 But here's the thing.
00:35:18.580 National Security Advisor
00:35:20.160 Robert O'Brien,
00:35:22.080 who has access
00:35:24.080 to all the intelligence,
00:35:26.520 says that
00:35:27.280 he's not,
00:35:28.760 he's seen no intelligence
00:35:29.840 to support the claim
00:35:31.180 that
00:35:31.580 that Trump
00:35:34.220 is being helped
00:35:34.960 by Russia.
00:35:36.820 There's no,
00:35:38.080 so one of the guys
00:35:39.040 who has access
00:35:39.800 to all the information
00:35:40.940 says there's nothing there
00:35:43.020 that would suggest
00:35:43.760 Russia
00:35:44.200 is helping Trump.
00:35:46.040 Now,
00:35:46.700 here's what
00:35:47.680 I'm going to add
00:35:48.660 to it
00:35:49.640 that
00:35:50.380 James Carville
00:35:51.420 needs to listen to me.
00:35:53.940 All right,
00:35:54.200 James Carville,
00:35:55.340 I don't think
00:35:56.320 you'll ever see this,
00:35:57.320 but
00:35:57.480 let me give you
00:35:58.900 a twist on this
00:36:00.340 because you
00:36:00.880 sort of blew me away
00:36:01.980 with that
00:36:02.380 fairly obvious insight
00:36:03.860 that for whatever reason
00:36:05.400 escaped
00:36:06.060 my
00:36:06.660 filter.
00:36:09.940 But here's one for you,
00:36:11.080 James Carville.
00:36:13.080 If
00:36:13.480 Russia
00:36:15.200 wanted
00:36:15.820 Trump
00:36:16.580 to get elected,
00:36:18.280 isn't the best
00:36:19.340 thing they could do
00:36:20.200 stay completely
00:36:21.040 out of it?
00:36:22.680 I mean,
00:36:23.060 seriously?
00:36:23.880 Because they're watching
00:36:24.700 the same stuff
00:36:25.360 we're watching
00:36:25.900 and they know
00:36:26.800 who's likely
00:36:27.400 to run against them.
00:36:28.840 I don't think
00:36:29.500 at this point
00:36:30.240 they see anybody
00:36:30.940 who could beat them.
00:36:32.680 So,
00:36:33.100 wouldn't the
00:36:33.800 dumbest,
00:36:34.560 worst,
00:36:35.120 stupidest thing
00:36:36.120 that Russia
00:36:36.580 could do
00:36:37.120 is clumsily
00:36:38.700 do the same
00:36:39.400 things they did
00:36:40.060 before and
00:36:40.860 easily got caught?
00:36:42.620 In other words,
00:36:43.260 make some memes
00:36:44.080 and try to hack stuff.
00:36:45.780 Apparently,
00:36:46.300 we can catch them
00:36:47.120 when they do that.
00:36:48.740 Why would they
00:36:49.320 do that again?
00:36:50.280 Of all the things
00:36:52.400 that would not
00:36:54.260 help Trump,
00:36:55.080 the worst thing
00:36:56.800 that Russia
00:36:57.220 could do
00:36:57.780 by far,
00:36:59.300 by 100 to 1,
00:37:00.740 the worst thing
00:37:01.260 they could do
00:37:01.800 is try to help
00:37:03.540 Trump.
00:37:04.580 There's nothing
00:37:05.140 they could do
00:37:05.620 that would be
00:37:05.980 worse than that
00:37:06.640 if they wanted
00:37:07.680 him to get elected.
00:37:09.520 Right?
00:37:10.520 Now,
00:37:11.020 James Carville,
00:37:11.740 what do you say
00:37:12.160 to that?
00:37:12.820 Do you think
00:37:13.260 Russia is
00:37:14.280 simultaneously
00:37:14.820 so brilliant
00:37:15.900 that they could
00:37:17.040 do all these
00:37:17.520 clever schemes
00:37:18.340 because they're
00:37:19.200 so smart,
00:37:19.980 but at the same
00:37:21.140 time,
00:37:21.520 they're so stupid
00:37:22.440 that the schemes
00:37:24.060 they tried last
00:37:24.840 time were weak
00:37:25.580 and pathetic
00:37:26.080 and had no
00:37:26.660 effect whatsoever
00:37:27.480 and they got
00:37:28.260 caught.
00:37:29.040 Oh,
00:37:29.500 so they're going
00:37:30.020 to do some
00:37:30.460 more of that
00:37:30.900 stuff.
00:37:32.160 The stuff that's
00:37:32.840 weak and pathetic
00:37:33.540 and they're
00:37:34.020 definitely going
00:37:34.520 to get caught
00:37:35.100 because they're
00:37:36.480 such geniuses,
00:37:37.320 that's their
00:37:37.680 plan.
00:37:38.920 None of it
00:37:39.340 makes sense.
00:37:40.420 All right?
00:37:40.620 So you know
00:37:40.980 you're being lied
00:37:41.560 to,
00:37:41.900 we just don't
00:37:42.480 know what the
00:37:42.820 truth is.
00:37:47.420 Let's see
00:37:47.960 what else we
00:37:48.460 got going on.
00:37:52.440 So California
00:37:56.000 might be heading
00:37:58.360 in the right
00:37:58.860 direction on
00:37:59.500 this homelessness
00:38:00.120 stuff.
00:38:00.800 So Gavin Newsom
00:38:01.680 seems to be
00:38:05.620 learning because
00:38:08.300 he's made the
00:38:10.140 homelessness thing
00:38:11.000 a high priority,
00:38:12.060 so that's good.
00:38:13.660 And he's also
00:38:14.640 made some
00:38:15.360 mobile,
00:38:16.520 I guess some
00:38:17.480 mobile trailer
00:38:18.740 homes available
00:38:19.700 for homeless
00:38:20.800 in the short
00:38:21.980 term.
00:38:22.440 And that's
00:38:23.080 good-ish.
00:38:24.760 But remember,
00:38:25.560 it's not really
00:38:26.200 a problem of
00:38:26.900 people finding
00:38:27.540 homes.
00:38:28.700 It's a problem
00:38:29.500 of addiction
00:38:30.080 and mental
00:38:30.860 illness.
00:38:31.760 But it seems
00:38:32.220 that,
00:38:33.160 according to
00:38:34.000 an article by
00:38:34.920 Joel Pollack
00:38:35.760 in Breitbart,
00:38:37.380 it seems that
00:38:38.120 Newsom is
00:38:40.260 looking hard
00:38:42.980 at legislation
00:38:43.920 that would
00:38:44.420 allow a doctor
00:38:45.300 to basically
00:38:46.480 take somebody
00:38:47.220 off the street.
00:38:48.740 Now, I don't
00:38:49.320 know what that
00:38:49.820 would look like,
00:38:50.840 but you know
00:38:51.540 that I think
00:38:53.800 he's getting
00:38:54.220 close to what
00:38:54.920 I would call
00:38:55.320 the Dr.
00:38:56.200 Drew insight
00:38:57.760 about homelessness.
00:38:59.720 And I'm
00:38:59.980 guessing that
00:39:00.760 probably Dr.
00:39:01.540 Drew broke
00:39:02.180 through.
00:39:03.160 I think probably
00:39:04.080 he was the
00:39:04.640 one whose
00:39:06.020 influence on
00:39:07.140 this topic is
00:39:08.320 probably the
00:39:09.100 one that broke
00:39:09.600 through.
00:39:10.520 And that was
00:39:11.620 the idea that
00:39:12.420 you have to
00:39:13.100 deal with the
00:39:13.900 homelessness
00:39:14.280 problem as
00:39:15.140 an addiction
00:39:16.400 and mental
00:39:16.920 health problem.
00:39:17.520 And now
00:39:18.320 Newsom is
00:39:18.840 starting to
00:39:19.340 talk in
00:39:19.760 those terms
00:39:20.460 and talking
00:39:21.560 about needing
00:39:22.100 legislation to
00:39:23.200 effectively force
00:39:24.680 people into
00:39:25.620 treatment.
00:39:26.860 Because if you
00:39:27.620 take away the
00:39:28.560 involuntary part,
00:39:30.320 there's nothing
00:39:30.800 there.
00:39:31.880 There's nothing
00:39:32.400 you can do.
00:39:32.960 You can build
00:39:33.400 houses all day
00:39:34.140 long and people
00:39:35.420 will still have
00:39:36.000 mental health and
00:39:37.000 addiction problems
00:39:37.780 and they won't
00:39:38.260 want to be in
00:39:38.660 those houses or
00:39:39.940 they will ruin
00:39:40.460 them.
00:39:41.640 So, and then
00:39:42.800 the other thing
00:39:43.260 that California is
00:39:43.980 doing is looking
00:39:44.620 to make some
00:39:46.160 state land
00:39:47.060 available for
00:39:48.140 resettling the
00:39:49.960 homeless, but
00:39:51.380 also for some
00:39:52.180 experimenting and
00:39:53.920 also to reduce
00:39:55.740 some of the
00:39:56.240 permitting, make
00:39:57.700 it easier to
00:39:58.420 build a low-cost
00:39:59.720 place just for
00:40:00.740 the homeless.
00:40:02.380 That's all good.
00:40:04.160 That's all pretty
00:40:04.900 good stuff.
00:40:06.240 So, I would
00:40:07.920 say congratulations
00:40:09.460 to Dr. Drew
00:40:10.980 because I think
00:40:11.860 probably Dr. Drew
00:40:13.040 you're the one
00:40:13.620 who broke
00:40:15.100 through and
00:40:15.880 got everybody
00:40:16.660 at least thinking
00:40:17.340 in the right
00:40:17.880 productive line.
00:40:19.620 Still a lot of
00:40:20.240 work to do, but
00:40:20.860 at least the
00:40:21.540 thinking seems to
00:40:22.560 be right.
00:40:23.320 So, that's
00:40:23.700 pretty positive.
00:40:26.840 All right.
00:40:29.540 So, you got
00:40:30.220 that and I
00:40:31.100 think that's
00:40:31.540 about all I
00:40:32.220 was going to
00:40:32.540 talk about
00:40:32.980 today.
00:40:34.840 Anything else
00:40:35.540 happening for
00:40:36.060 you?
00:40:38.640 I'm just
00:40:39.220 looking at
00:40:39.680 your comments
00:40:41.340 now.
00:40:43.620 yeah, providing
00:40:45.440 100 trailers
00:40:46.260 for the
00:40:46.940 10,000 homeless
00:40:49.380 or whatever
00:40:49.960 it is.
00:40:50.600 It's just a
00:40:51.580 small thing, but
00:40:53.260 at least maybe
00:40:53.980 they'll learn
00:40:54.420 something from
00:40:54.960 it.
00:41:01.340 What did
00:41:04.500 Houston do?
00:41:06.240 Somebody says
00:41:06.960 that Houston
00:41:07.420 reduced their
00:41:08.120 homeless, but I
00:41:09.040 don't know
00:41:09.480 about that.
00:41:10.040 talk about
00:41:12.460 AOC.
00:41:14.260 I saw AOC
00:41:15.360 was getting
00:41:15.920 some heat
00:41:17.940 because she
00:41:18.680 wore an
00:41:19.180 expensive-ish
00:41:20.500 dress on the
00:41:21.880 view, but
00:41:23.580 you know,
00:41:24.480 really, you
00:41:25.680 know, if
00:41:25.920 we're mocking
00:41:27.000 women for the
00:41:28.040 dress they
00:41:28.740 wear, we're
00:41:29.760 just not, I
00:41:31.260 mean, you're
00:41:31.560 just not being
00:41:32.080 productive.
00:41:33.960 So, and by
00:41:34.800 the way, it
00:41:35.240 was a really
00:41:35.680 good dress.
00:41:36.980 So, in
00:41:38.500 terms of
00:41:38.860 fashion, I
00:41:39.660 would say A
00:41:40.220 plus, but
00:41:41.680 otherwise, I
00:41:42.340 don't think we
00:41:42.800 should care about
00:41:43.400 how women
00:41:44.040 dress.
00:41:46.840 Naval disagrees
00:41:47.840 with me on
00:41:48.500 the slippery
00:41:49.000 slope.
00:41:50.120 Well, I
00:41:50.920 think if we
00:41:51.360 were in the
00:41:51.680 same room, we
00:41:52.440 probably would
00:41:53.040 not disagree.
00:41:53.940 Some of it is
00:41:54.580 just your
00:41:55.160 choice of
00:41:55.800 words.
00:41:56.600 It is true
00:41:57.140 that things
00:41:57.660 sometimes go in
00:41:58.740 one direction,
00:41:59.980 but it's not
00:42:00.960 because there's
00:42:01.900 something called
00:42:02.460 a slippery
00:42:02.940 slope.
00:42:03.380 It's just
00:42:04.020 true that
00:42:04.520 some things
00:42:04.960 will go in
00:42:05.400 one direction
00:42:05.940 until something
00:42:07.160 stops them.
00:42:08.400 It's just a
00:42:08.880 better way to
00:42:09.240 think of it.
00:42:10.540 Yeah, the
00:42:11.000 Phil Haney
00:42:11.700 apparent suicide.
00:42:13.060 I'm kind of
00:42:13.440 watching that
00:42:14.240 story, but
00:42:15.600 you know,
00:42:16.920 people do
00:42:18.560 kill themselves,
00:42:20.520 so I'm not
00:42:22.240 going to
00:42:22.520 immediately jump
00:42:23.660 into the
00:42:24.260 there's something
00:42:24.940 fishy here.
00:42:25.860 He was a
00:42:26.300 whistleblower,
00:42:27.560 so you
00:42:28.360 definitely have
00:42:29.780 to question
00:42:31.120 that one.
00:42:33.380 Scott, have
00:42:39.220 you ever
00:42:39.480 thought of
00:42:39.900 moving out
00:42:40.480 of California?
00:42:41.420 Yes, I
00:42:42.160 think about it
00:42:42.760 almost every
00:42:43.460 day.
00:42:44.660 You know, if
00:42:45.080 you live in
00:42:45.680 either California
00:42:46.600 or New York
00:42:47.440 and you have a
00:42:48.200 high income, it
00:42:48.900 doesn't make sense
00:42:49.600 anymore because
00:42:51.100 tax-wise, it's a
00:42:52.860 disaster to be in
00:42:54.380 the state.
00:42:55.400 So some of my
00:42:56.180 smartest friends
00:42:57.080 have recently
00:42:58.340 moved out of
00:42:59.100 California to
00:42:59.860 Florida and
00:43:01.520 to Texas.
00:43:03.380 for the
00:43:03.660 better tax
00:43:04.200 treatment.
00:43:07.500 And if I
00:43:08.580 did not have
00:43:09.400 ties locally,
00:43:11.420 I would
00:43:11.780 definitely move.
00:43:13.660 But I have
00:43:14.280 a lot of
00:43:14.980 ties locally.
00:43:20.500 Health care
00:43:21.340 is still a
00:43:21.840 GOP blind
00:43:22.760 spot.
00:43:23.160 Absolutely.
00:43:24.100 You know,
00:43:24.480 if the GOP
00:43:25.700 doesn't offer
00:43:27.260 a good argument
00:43:28.540 for health care,
00:43:29.460 better, a
00:43:31.200 good plan for
00:43:32.220 making it
00:43:32.880 better, Bernie
00:43:34.940 deserves to
00:43:35.540 win, you
00:43:36.640 know, if
00:43:36.960 it's Bernie.
00:43:38.080 So, you
00:43:40.920 know, if the
00:43:41.420 president loses
00:43:42.200 and he doesn't
00:43:44.880 have a good
00:43:45.320 health care
00:43:45.880 argument or
00:43:47.280 plan or
00:43:47.960 persuasion, he's
00:43:48.900 just sort of,
00:43:49.580 you know,
00:43:50.560 abandoning that
00:43:51.480 argument, if that
00:43:52.440 happens, then he
00:43:53.620 deserves to lose
00:43:54.440 because that's a
00:43:56.480 high priority and
00:43:57.340 it's not being
00:43:57.860 addressed.
00:43:58.280 And if the
00:43:58.820 president doesn't
00:43:59.480 address it, well,
00:44:01.320 maybe, maybe
00:44:02.200 Bernie can take a
00:44:02.960 shot at it.
00:44:07.940 Yeah, Clint
00:44:08.860 Eastwood is
00:44:10.140 saying good
00:44:10.940 things about
00:44:11.460 Bloomberg.
00:44:12.040 I don't think
00:44:12.500 Clint Eastwood's
00:44:13.360 opinion matters
00:44:14.100 or any one
00:44:16.200 person's opinion.
00:44:21.520 Yeah, you know,
00:44:22.400 the only thing I
00:44:22.920 don't like about
00:44:23.420 Florida is the
00:44:24.060 bugs and the
00:44:24.740 humidity.
00:44:25.520 So, if you
00:44:26.100 could get rid of
00:44:26.660 those, maybe
00:44:27.860 you'd have
00:44:28.160 something.
00:44:28.660 And, of
00:44:29.080 course, you've
00:44:31.400 got the
00:44:31.820 hurricanes.
00:44:33.540 All right,
00:44:34.080 that's all for
00:44:36.080 now.
00:44:36.400 I will talk to
00:44:36.900 you all later.
00:44:37.940 here.