An update on the Eddie Gallagher photo scandal, and my thoughts on why someone should go to jail for taking a picture of a dead soldier. Also, I try a new technology, but it's not so good.
00:00:06.860Hey, everybody, come on in here. You're all still alive. Coronavirus hasn't gotten you yet. Stay strong. Stay with me. We will get through this.
00:00:20.800All right. Before we begin, shall we begin on a good note, a positive note, the best note there ever was?
00:00:28.400Yes, it's called the Simultaneous Sip, and all you need, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.
00:01:50.580So, I spent $9,000 on this gear to solve one problem, which is that I could not reliably have two people up and hear them and see them and do an interview.
00:02:03.200So, $9,000 and three months later, I have determined through trial and error and documentation and working with tech support that none of the at least three different methods for doing that work every time.
00:02:18.140So, you can't really set up and schedule it with anybody who's notable if you have a technology that doesn't work every time, and we can't really say why.
00:02:32.540Maybe it's because the version change or Skype upgraded.
00:02:36.300It used to be compatible, but now it's not.
00:02:49.080But, let's talk about some other things.
00:02:51.040There's a little update on the Eddie Gallagher story.
00:02:55.040He's the SEAL who was convicted for taking a picture with a dead soldier and posing with it, which is a big no-no in terms of military professionalism.
00:03:08.460But, independent of the events in the story, which are less interesting to me, I would like to make the following, let's say, philosophical line in the sand.
00:24:24.560Oh, we told you orange man bad, and we meant it.
00:24:28.820But what we meant was not the first four years.
00:24:31.760Because if the Democrats were running against Trump's record, they would run against his record, wouldn't they?
00:24:44.660If that's the purpose of trying to get elected, is to help you and run against his record and run against the things he's broken and fix them,
00:24:53.580I believe they would say those things, if they thought the public was ready to accept them.
00:24:59.700But instead, and this is the hypnotist trick, they say over and over again, as clearly as possible,
00:26:24.980Now, if you didn't see the speech, that doesn't mean, that's pretty confusing.
00:26:28.680But according to Chastain, I believe it, that part of the reason he encouraged Pete to run for president was because of what it would say.
00:26:41.720You know, what it would show the world.
00:26:43.820And so the two of them, and I think Chastain was a pretty big part of this, was showing the world that, you know, Pete could be an out, proud, married gay man, could run for president, and that the public would support him, and that it would change the world.
00:27:02.360But, did it, I think it did, I think it did.
00:27:09.680I watched Chastain go up on stage and kiss Pete on the lips in front of the public on national TV, and I actually clapped.
00:29:04.100Just Alfred E. Newman cannot become president of the United States.
00:29:09.960It's hard to understand how beautiful that sentence is until you try to imagine how you would have said it.
00:29:16.720Now, I would have said something like, he looks like Alfred E. Newman, which would have been kind of powerful because it would make you think of him for a while.
00:29:24.400So, he could have started calling him Alfred, which he didn't, interestingly.
00:29:31.880He never really gave a nickname to Mayor Pete.
00:29:34.980He sometimes played with his last name, as it's hard to pronounce, but never really gave him a nickname beyond that one sentence.
00:29:43.360But try to think of a better sentence structure than this one.
00:29:47.500Alfred E. Newman cannot become president of the United States.
00:29:54.400And I don't think the president ever gets credit for his simple, perfect statements, because, you know, all the concentration is on whatever he says wrong.
00:30:07.940In Selma, at a black church, Bloomberg appeared.
00:30:12.180And I guess there were some protesters who were standing up front, or nine of them, who turned their backs to him, because they're not happy about his, probably about stop and frisk, I think, is what they're,
00:30:24.700And I thought, well, that's probably the end of Bloomberg, because that's so visual.
00:30:33.400And if you were, let's say you're a black citizen of this country, and you're thinking about voting, and you're just starting to get serious about figuring out who's left to vote for.
00:30:43.740Or you don't know much about Bloomberg because you didn't grow up in New York City, so you're finding out about him for the first time through the news.
00:30:50.960And you find the news that black churchgoers turned their back on him.