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Glenn and Stu talk about the Chipotle controversy, the Democratic presidential candidates, and whether or not blacks should be served at Chipotle. They also talk about why they don't think Chipotle should be serving black people.
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Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu in for Glenn today, who's on Thanksgiving break.
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We'll be here all week. By the way, I want to remind you after that to when we come back next week,
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Today on the podcast, we we did a bunch of things.
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We talked about the Chipotle controversy where a group of African-Americans came in,
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said that they were being they were victims of racism.
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and the real story behind that one is a little more complicated.
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And Chipotle is now fighting off a major controversy as it relates to that.
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We went on as well to talk about the presidential candidates for 2020.
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Who is exciting the base? Who's exciting the left as far as the Democratic primary goes?
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I'm ready for this primary, aren't you? I'm excited about it.
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They're just going to be beating the hell out of each other every day.
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I think they're going to have more than 17 candidates like the Republicans did in 2016.
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I think you're right. I think they're going to go for it because this is your time.
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They all are convinced that Trump is easy to beat.
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And they're all convinced that Hillary just blew it.
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So it'll be interesting to see how many you get because I think you will get in the area of that.
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And we went through all their odds, the betting odds of who's going to win.
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Also, the Obamas, though, are becoming billionaires, Pat.
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Yeah, they're well on the way with massive book deals and the Netflix deal that they have,
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And then they've got their speeches where they're making hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece at each event.
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So there's a viral video in which a fine group of African-American gentlemen decided to go into Chipotle.
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And they tagged their video with a – with this quote.
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Can a group of young, well-established African-Americans get a bite to eat after a long workout session, Chipotle?
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Fairly common, I would say, for people of every race to go to Chipotle.
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I've seen African-Americans in a Chipotle being served as I was there.
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Now, Chipotle, or as Al Sharpton calls it, Chipotle, is a restaurant that serves everybody.
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Because, you know, pretty much every restaurant in America will do this.
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The idea that they would not serve African-Americans would be a questionable policy choice.
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Yeah, we're not going to serve 14% of the population.
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So, what they said, and it's on the video, several black people saying to the white manager,
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And she says, look, if you guys want your food, you're going to have to pay first.
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Because you know how when you go through a Chipotle line, you order the food,
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and you go through the whole process, and then at the end, you usually pay.
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And in the video, she says something like, look, we've seen you guys here before.
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Or is she talking about these specific people she's actually seen?
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That's an interesting question you ask there, Pat.
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It's one you'd think almost everyone would ask immediately, right?
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But no, it was all about because she didn't like black people.
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So, this goes through the process where it goes viral, and Chipotle picks it up.
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They tweet, oh, we would like to say that this is not the way we should treat people.
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They call the, they get in touch with the African-American customers, and they say, hey, you know, what happened?
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You just accept the story at face value, right?
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Because every single time, we believe survivors, and they're obviously survivors of intense discrimination.
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Well, they did have a statement that came out, Pat.
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Regarding what happened at the St. Paul restaurant, the manager thought these gentlemen were the same customers from Tuesday night who weren't able to pay for their meal.
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So, they asked the manager, and the manager said, those guys were here before and didn't pay last time.
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Listen to, regardless, this is not how we treat our customers.
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And as a result, the manager at the restaurant has been fired.
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Wait, that's how they, they don't treat their customers as customers?
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Oh, that's interesting information for everybody going to Chipotle today.
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It's an easy way to get a free meal, apparently.
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They did say, because the Daily Caller said, you know, we should look at this guy's social media feed.
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We're just borrowing the food for a couple of hours.
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However, the quotes from the Twitter feed of, oh, God.
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They're all over the fact, in fact, several, three, four times they tweeted about going, one time even, going to the restaurant, saying they are going to dine and dash, and then saying on social media, if they didn't allow it, they would say it was racism.
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They said they had no choice but to take his word for it.
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Because now they've gone through one wave of negativity on social media.
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Now, the reverse, of course, has happened, where everyone's saying, hey, what the hell?
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Because she was obviously doing something that was protecting the company, not trashing it by any means.
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Um, she, uh, she has now been re- or she was offered her job back.
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But, unless I, you know, deeply needed a job and didn't have confidence, I could get another one somewhere.
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I guess, you know, and I wonder, because people will Google her name, and what will they see?
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Her as a racist stopping black people from eating at Chipotle.
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Another tweet from, uh, from the person here who, uh, who did this scam.
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Um, I, man, I think Chipotle is catching up to us.
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He actually was publicly admitting that they were going there to steal food, and they still fired the manager.
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You know, Pat, we've been through this for so long, and, you know, conservative media, I think, was the first in this firing line, right?
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Where, uh, where three or four activists would come up with a little scam to email a company a couple hundred times and act like different people.
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And then the company would freak out because they don't get complaint calls, typically.
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You know, it's just an invention of the social media email world where all of a sudden it was a lot easier to do that.
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People didn't want to take the time to write 500 letters.
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But when you can just kind of change wording and, you know, get some interns to send stuff out, it was easy.
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And these companies would get intimidated, and they'd freak out, and they'd pull off of their advertising.
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It would, you know, theoretically hurt these companies.
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This is, and I remember when it first started, look, it sucks right now because these companies, it's something new to them.
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And eventually they're going to figure out that this is the same 12 people.
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It's not new anymore, and they still haven't figured it out.
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These companies never enter these things with a skeptical eye.
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Every single time there's someone who writes, uh, I don't like being waited on by a Croatian on their receipt.
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Like, oh, well, we do not stand for anti-Croatian bias here at a Bob's Diner and sausage pig in a blanket factory.
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That place will fire everybody on staff until, like, three days later they realize that the person wasn't Croatian, or the guy wrote it on his own receipt, or whatever the heck the situation is.
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People don't write negative messages on receipts.
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And they know, I mean, even if they were, even if they had the propensity to do that, they probably wouldn't, because you know you're going to be seen.
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You've got, they've got information of your, of your, uh, of your credit card.
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For one thing, and I, I don't want them screwing with that.
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Uh, you're going to have negative publicity about you.
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You're probably going to get fired from your job if you actually do it.
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And it doesn't, it doesn't work out for anybody.
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Like, oh, I'm not going to give you a tip because you're a person of color.
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And we've seen that over and over and over and over again where these are hoaxes.
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I think we talked about it when, when Glenn was here and I was, uh, you know, doing my little, um, promotion thing.
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Like, that, uh, there was a, there was a person at a university who wrote a hate message on their door.
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Like, hey, there, this is where a black person lives.
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And, uh, it happened at the same university where just a few months ago, somebody spray painted the N word all over their car.
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In both cases, it was the person, uh, who claimed to be the victim that wrote the note.
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This is something, I mean, we, we can be helpful here, Pat.
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When you're trying to do a hate crime hoax on yourself, writing it on a, uh, a receipt is not a good way to go.
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Because the person knows that you have their information with a credit card.
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They might, they might be, like, there are people who are racist, right?
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He, what, he's not showing up at restaurants being like, by the way, I was not appreciative of the African-American server.
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Many times, in case you didn't hear it, they just keep repeating it.
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Well, that's, and don't pretend like that's not something you're worried about, too.
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How many times have you said that Jews will not replace you here?
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I'm very concerned about Jews replacing us, Pat.
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I like what Jews are probably like, well, we see you marching with torches.
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So, no, we will not replace you in the racist march.
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The Obamas, you'll be pleased to know, I think, that the Obamas are well on their way to becoming a billionaire brand.
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It's so gratifying that their public service can lead to massive, untold wealth.
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That is so great that they've parlayed a senator role and a presidential role into a billion-dollar business.
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The launch of Michelle Obama's cross-country book tour for her memoir, Becoming.
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Now, you've been to one of these rallies, right, for Michelle?
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I've flown to several locations where she's been just so I could be there in person.
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So, wherever she goes, I will fly into the city.
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Or sometimes I rent a bus and just follow around the country.
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If you've never experienced it, folks, it's worth the front row ticket.
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I mean, yeah, you're going to pay $35,000 to sit in that front row.
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In addition to, get this, she got a $65 million book advance.
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Now, how many books would you have to sell in order for the company to even break even on that?
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I mean, you're probably in the area of 10 to 15 million books.
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But books just don't sell that well anymore, which is why you don't see books a million anymore or...
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I thought they went completely out of business.
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So, in addition to the $65 million advance and an estimated $50 million deal with Netflix,
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which I actually read a few weeks ago was more like $100 million.
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Why on earth would you want Michelle Obama designing content for Netflix?
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Because they'll probably be able to pull on all their celebrity friends.
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But, I mean, this is a great example of exactly what the founders didn't see public service as.
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It's one thing to, like, be able to go and raise money for something that you've worked on or you have expertise in.
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They have no expertise in programming content for Netflix.
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And plus, you know, that's not even to mention the amount of money they're getting for their appearances.
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Barack Obama is getting $400,000 per appearance.
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I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
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I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
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It's going to be interesting to see if he ever decides they are at that point.
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Where I've made enough money and every dollar I receive now will go directly to charities.
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Because, you know, he doesn't pay enough in taxes.
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Well, it's the only charity that does any good, as far as I'm concerned, is the U.S.
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Let them deal with it because they do a great job.
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They're already worth, estimated by Forbes, over $135 million since they left office.
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And they're on the way to becoming a billion-dollar brand.
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I mean, the hypocrisy of this income inequality, which they clearly don't believe in.
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They don't care how much more money they make than anybody else.
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And they're not, do you think they're going to turn over the proceeds of their fabulous
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Well, you know, they'll give their, they'll give a certain amount out to Democratic candidates.
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It's not, it's not, it's not a non-zero situation.
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I think there's a possibility because, and I think if she ran, I think she'd have a great chance
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I want to make a case to the left that they should stop worrying about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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She could have saved you a lot of hassle by naming, you know, getting someone named who you actually liked.
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You could have had your Merrick Garland if Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have stepped down all those years ago.
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Sonia Sotomayor is, by most measures, slightly more liberal than Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which shows you how awful she is as a Supreme Court justice.
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And by the way, there's several Republicans voted for her to get her in.
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And there were some abstentions of people who weren't there at the time.
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You know, we keep thinking about, like, oh, these things are so contentious.
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You know, really, it only happens to Republicans.
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Bork, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh being the three you'd think of right off the top of your head.
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Not to mention, you know, Harriet Meyers didn't even get to that point.
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Bush had, like, a month of Harriet Meyers talk, and then it was gone.
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You know, with Democrats, typically what happens is a bunch of Republicans cross the aisle, and they get through pretty easily.
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You know, now Merrick Garland they keep bringing up as an exception to that, which is, you know, I can understand them being frustrated about that process.
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But it's not the norm where this is usually going to be as contentious as Kavanaugh.
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But Sotomayor came out in an interview this weekend talking about Brett Kavanaugh.
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And actually, it kind of gives you, I don't know, a little bit of hope.
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I mean, Sotomayor has not been a disappointment when it comes to liberals.
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But listen to this as far as her relationship and acceptance of Brett Kavanaugh.
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I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes on the moment that you think the court is in now.
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I know you guys are sort of cloistered, but you're not cocooned.
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We came through this sort of acrimonious process of confirmation.
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What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open.
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I mean, how does the court and family, community adjust to those moments?
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I'm going to steal a line from one of my colleagues.
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And it was Justice Thomas who tells me that when he first came to the court,
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And I repeated that story to Justice Kavanaugh when I first greeted him here.
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But when you're charged with working together for most of the remainder of your life,
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And we're a family with each of us, our own burdens and our own obligations to others.
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And it's just as important as our personal family.
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We probably spend more time with each other than most justices spend who have spouses with their spouses.
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There's this Harvard professor, archaeologist and historian who just did a study on what was the worst year in human history.
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Now, many people would probably think, that's 2018.
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It's the year, it's any year in which Trump had anything to say about what goes on in a country or the world.
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It was actually the year 536 AD, where he found bubonic plague, widespread famine, war, flu pandemics,
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and a year and a half long fog that they couldn't explain that kept the northern hemisphere in darkness for 18 months.
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And that sun, they couldn't see the sun for a year and a half.
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And meanwhile, on the surface of the planet, people are dying from plagues, from famine, from drought.
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Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia plunged into that year and a half of solid darkness by this.
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And at the time, they didn't have any idea what was going on.
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And then you find out, first of all, they also had a continental-scale crop failure.
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So all of Europe had crop failure and so did Asia.
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And apparently, a lot of it was triggered by a cataclysmic Icelandic eruption.
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So there's your global warming that caused the volcano, and then the drought, and the severe famine,
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and the weird, mysterious weirding of the weather that included a dense fog that put them in darkness.
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The Earth didn't recover from this disaster for 100 years.
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But not until 636 A.D. did they start to get back to where they once were.
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And your life expectancy at this point is, what, 20?
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22, which is probably about 21 years more than you wanted it to be.
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I was very like, I get this, I get, who the, living through these times, can you imagine?
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And there was no help or hope for these people.
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And you're talking about, what, 10% of your life probably at this point.
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And we talk about this all the time because the left loves to say this.
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I will say the right likes to say it a lot, too, which is that wages have stagnated.
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And, you know, you look at this and there's a lot of reasons why it's not true.
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There are different things that have happened as far as, like, you know, more employers now spend more on health care.
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And so, like, the money coming to you has gone up quite a bit.
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It's just that progressives have pushed for policies in which your employer makes your decisions for what you spend your money on instead of you.
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You know, like, oh, well, you should have all these things covered because you're too dumb and might not buy those things if you're not forced to.
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And that's what progressives do on both sides because Republicans love that stat, too.
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They say, look, you know, it's a good way of saying when someone else is in control, well, look, yeah, things might seem like it's good now.
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Yeah, all the jobs that are being created are bad ones.
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Now, of course, it's not true for a bunch of reasons.
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Like, let's just say this world happens where all wages stagnate and you make the same amount of money for the rest of your life.
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So you have more money to spend on other things.
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So there's a new study out about consumption poverty.
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So income is how much money do you have and you start, you know, there's a scale of how much leads to poverty.
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But what about things that are actually important?
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All of these are down by 20% to 80%, between 20% and 80% since 1989.
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Now, where wages are relatively, you know, they go up and down a little bit.
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But they haven't gone up, per se, for people in the poverty regions, the poorest 20% of Americans.
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So the amount of people who don't have them has dropped.
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That has dropped between 20% and 80% if you don't have one.
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Again, this is among the 20% poorest families in America.
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Large section of peeling paint on their home has dropped.
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All of them, between 20% and 80%, again, since about 1990.
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So even poor, and we've gone through the stats before of air conditioning, TV, microwave.
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These are all things that now have 50, 60, 90, almost 100% of our poor.
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Things that will be luxury items to the rest of the world.
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Items that you couldn't even buy if you were the richest person in the world 30 years ago.
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A tablet, you couldn't buy it if you were Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates had to go through a whole thing of building an entire company, get that rich,
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and then even after that, he couldn't invent one better than somebody else.
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I think tomorrow night is an official holiday in the Bergeer family, is it not?
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Anytime a Rocky movie comes out, it's an official holiday in my family.
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In fact, the return of Ivan Drago to our lives.
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Unfortunately, as you remember, of course, Apollo Creed...
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There were rumors of steroid abuse in that particular story, but...
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That movie, if you remember, of course, ended the Cold War.
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They now give credit to Reagan and Thatcher, whatever.
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And so they're bringing this one back, which I'm pretty excited about.
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But maybe this is what happens that brings us and Russia back together.
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But Dolph Lundgren, the original Ivan Drago, is actually in this movie, right?
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I heard something the other day, and I thought, that can't be true.
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That's 140, I think, or 143 or something is genius.
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And it was weird because his role as Ivan Drago was obviously a big, strong guy who punches a lot and says very little.
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And, you know, it's interesting, too, because he was not...
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As you might have detected from the movie, he had not done a lot of acting previous to this role.
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But if you see in the movie, Rocky IV, when he comes out of the floor in Vegas and it's James Brown singing, living in America and all that, like, his reaction, he says, like, it was completely legitimate.
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He's just standing in the middle of the ring, not moving, because he was terrified.
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Is it just related, or is it part of the same story?
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So they went through this whole Harry Potter thing.
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And then she just started back over on the series.
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Well, she sold 450 to 500 million copies of the books.
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And then the movies did, I don't know, a billion and a half or two billion.
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So why would you stop that money printing machine?
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Do you think someone came to her and said, just so you're aware, this is dumb.
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First of all, one of the biggest weeks of movie viewing is coming up, right?
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Have you taken the kids to The Grinch, the new one?
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They went yesterday while I was watching the Eagles lose by 611 points.
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There's something interesting and unique about their music.
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Because, you know, people like me who grew up with it love it.
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Queen just seems like universally loved musically.
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And it's interesting that Bohemian Rhapsody continues to be so popular among virtually all age groups.
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And some potential Democrat candidates are being thrown out there to oppose Trump.
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And kind of gauging the audience reaction to each of them.
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You know, because you can look at it and you say a lot of people are passionate about this candidate or this candidate.
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FiveThirtyEight did a podcast in front of a live audience as a review of the election.
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And as you're listening to it, you find very...
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This is definitely a Democratic audience, which is not a huge surprise.
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And you could say someone so engaged in politics that they're thinking about this and wanting to go see a FiveThirtyEight podcast about the midterms.
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Like this is where the energy is probably in the Democratic Party.
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But I was fascinated at the reactions to the candidates.
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So these three experts, Claire Malone, Nate Silver, and Micah Cohen, do a draft where they...
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It's like a fantasy football draft where they draft candidates.
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You're trying to pick the one who actually gets the nomination.
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So they go through and they're doing their picks.
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The first pick overall in the draft, and just...
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The main thing here is just to listen to the crowd reactions as their names are said.
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First pick in the overall draft, by the way, was Claire Malone picking Elizabeth Warren.
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We're going to have this clip here in a second for you.
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Claire Malone should maybe be very smart, but you don't pick Elizabeth Warren first in the draft.
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But I wouldn't say it was out of the mainstream of thought, right?
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We have the odds on this percentage chance of winning.
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There are many who think she's definitely running in 2020.
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So, Claire, who is the number one overall choice in our 2020 Democratic primary draft?
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I am sticking with my last first round choice of Elizabeth Warren.
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Well, she was the big, you know, a cool, hip pick in 2016 to run.
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And what's interesting is, I think this whole Native American thing really backfired on her in a huge way.
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And I think it was very bad for Elizabeth Warren's future in politics, but very good for the Democratic Party that she did that.
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Because they saw how she handles these tough moments, and she can't handle these tough moments.
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I mean, if there was one candidate, if you wanted Donald Trump to win, and one of these top candidates to go against, I would pick Elizabeth Warren.
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There are certain people who can deal with the pressure of a Donald Trump.
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I keep saying Joe Biden would actually be a good counterweight to Trump.
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But he'd be a much tougher matchup for Trump than an Elizabeth Warren.
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I'm trying to figure out if I should be tactical or not here, but I'm going to be the honest pick, and I'm going to go with Joe Biden.
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Tactical would have been thinking that Biden is going to fall to the second round.
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That Mike, having said that he wouldn't pick Biden, I'd get him at five.
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I don't know the historical trends here, but you've been...
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There seems to be more kind of laughter than applause or cheering there.
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Like a little laughter, and it's kind of just acknowledging everyone knows he's one of the frontrunners.
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Now, the next one here is the third pick of the draft.
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It's a recording of their podcast, but very Democratic audience.
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Most people don't even know who Amy Klobuchar is.
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When we came out with 17 candidates at the beginning of the Republican convention, most
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We all knew who all of them were, and we'd already gone through all their policies and
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So those two there, Kamala Harris and Klobuchar, back-to-back, with really strong reactions
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A member newly elevated to the top tier is Beto O'Rourke.
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I mean, right there, you see another big reaction.
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They go back and forth and argue about that one a little bit.
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I mean, Warren was not just nothing, but really negative.
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So, I think there's only a couple people left at the top tier, and I'm going to go with
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Yeah, but better than Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, probably.
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Now, here's one I would have expected to have a huge reaction.
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I mean, you know, you would think Bernie Sanders, again, was the energy, not necessarily from
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the political class, right, where you'd say, this person can win, but the energy of the
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activist, the energy of, this is who I want to win, is this guy who's admitting he's
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It reminds me of the way I felt about Rick Santorum the first time compared to Rick Santorum
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I mean, maybe that's how they feel about Sanders.
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Because you can get the same policies from Kamala Harris.
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Beto O'Rourke, who's younger, you know, a good campaigner.
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You can get those things out of other candidates.
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And no longer do you need that first run to justify a second run.
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I mean, Donald Trump obviously had it, you know, kind of flirted with a run for a long time.
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But, you know, he didn't, you don't have to lose.
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Like, I would think the same thing would happen to Cruz in 2024.
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Like, if Cruz tries to run again in 2024, people are going to find somebody else who has a
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If Reagan had lost that election like he did back in 76, would he have been able to come back in 80?
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I think a lot of people would have been like, ah, we're bored with him.
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I think people get sick of things too fast now.
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Next up, and the rest of these are, there's a couple funny ones.
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It's the last of the top tier, which is Cory Booker.
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I don't know how much analysis we kept to that one, but their analysis was very much like
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trying to justify a way to think that he's in the top tier.
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It's not going to work for Cory, unfortunately.