Episode 623 Scott Adams: Biden Campaign Admits its Central Theme is a Lie

Date: 2019-08-09 | Duration: 40:55

Topics

Is Joe Biden aware that he’s misquoting President Trump? Charlottesville transcript CLEARLY shows Joe is wrong Joel Pollack asks Joe if he’s aware of his mistake “Fine People” HOAX, is the alpha HOAX pushed by Dems and MSM How did the MSM cover Joel’s question and the topic? USA Today said… Today Show said… Des Moines Register said… Yahoo News said… Politico said… Biden campaign Communications Director… Well…he just changed the topic Free campaign advise for Kamala Harris 1. Drop the nervous giggle 2. Learn to smile confidently Question for Andrew Yang You support UBI, what’s your position on open borders?

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## Transcript

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[Music] bum-bum-bum-bum-bum hey everybody come on in here we've got an interesting periscope today it's gonna be good it's gonna be off the hook that's how good it's gonna be but you know you can't fully enjoy it without the simultaneous up but it's luck would have it too you're gonna have that grab your copy Margaret glass your chalice your tanker your stein your thermos your flask your vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I'm liking the coffee join me now for the simultaneous sip oh
yeah fill the dopamine oh good stuff all right thank you write that compliment so I'm a little less prepared than normal

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I'm a little less prepared than normal not that I'm ever terribly prepared for these but I was just finishing up a blog post so you can see my actual text or writing over at I moved my blog by the way so the blogs on a new location it's Santa Scott Adams says comm same as my Twitter handle so it's got Adam says calm I moved all the blog posts over there because I wanted to separate it from Dilbert comm to keep the political stuff away from the comic stuff but I just hate Pleasanton I just I'm glad you got to see the front row I anyway so I just posted and it's on my Twitter feed and it's it should be the biggest story in the country but the story I'm gonna tell you is why it's not the biggest story in the country all

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the biggest story in the country all right here's the deal so yesterday Joe Pollak of Breitbart confronted Joe Biden at an iOS stop campaign stop and Joel got to ask the following question he basically said you know did you know you're misquoting the president about the fine people stuff the charlottesville stuff I'm paraphrasing Joel but essentially he was he was asking Biden if he was aware that his main campaign theme wasn't true it was based on a lie I misquote now the essential part of Biden's campaign is that Trump is a bad character a bad person specifically a racist and it specifically you know he focuses on the Charlottesville thing as the most up you know I guess that's the

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the most up you know I guess that's the evidence that I call it the the alpha hoax because a lot of the other things that people think about the president all come off of this one thing they think to be true and they think that's definitely true so all of the other stuff that maybe doesn't have you know any any hard evidence they say well the other stuff doesn't have hard evidence but I'm pretty sure it's true because there's one thing I know to be true and it would make sense with all the other stuff unfortunately the Alpha hoax isn't true you know here's the interesting thing about it Joe Pollock confronts Biden and says the president in effect I'm paraphrasing never called the neo-nazis fine people Joe Biden pushes back and you know says something about you know being right all along and then he moves on through the crowd now this becomes a big story just because he was confronted on something

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because he was confronted on something how did the news cover a dispute about the most well-documented quote in all humankind it's one of those quotes that's on you know infinite blah post news stories it was covered by every news source the transcript is available how would you how would you cover a story that is the most well-documented quote of all time maybe you know maybe not the most but it could be if somebody disputes what the court actually said how would you do it if you were a news person and two people had a high profile disagreement about it what a specific quote said would you in your news story show the actual transcript that's not what happened so it turns out

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that's not what happened so it turns out that the Biden people must have gotten to their pet people and asked them to cover the story for their side but the news couldn't show the transcript because the transcript very clearly shows that Joel Pollock's interpretation is correct very clearly so that's why I wrote about but I'm gonna I want to talk about this a little bit because it's a easy it's actually amazing when you see it in real time there are things you imagine about the fake news but when you see it unfolding in real time it's just jaw-dropping so first let me tell you the two sentences that matter from what the president originally said you've heard this before but I'm going to give it to you in a neater form so what I did was I took the first sentence he said which is the one they report and then he says some other clarifying things and then he says the second sentence which modifies it all which is the part they

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modifies it all which is the part they always leave out and it reverses the meaning if you leave it out so I just put them together and I say I'm putting them together so I'm not trying to trick you so the first sentence was from the president about Charlottesville but you also had people who were verifying people on both sides dot-dot-dot gives some clarifications and then he says I'm not talking about the neo-nazis in the white because they should be condemned totally that's pretty clear right now I also printed my blog post the full transcript and a length to the full video so you can check that my interpretation those two sentences are in there and that I'm not misleading by putting them together because they are part of that obviously it's very obvious that part of the same thought he didn't change the topic in between those two sentences so that's how I covered it let's let's see how some other news sources covered it

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some other news sources covered it here's not a USA Today covered it alright they wrote quote about Trump let's say you USA Today wrote about Trump that he claims that there were some verified people on both sides so they're saying that from claim there were very fine people on both sides true okay that's the fact he claims they were very fine people on both sides all right so so far USA Today is giving you a true fact now watch what they do later and then they go on to say in the same speech though the president said he had condemned white supremacy and neo-nazis so the way they say is they say it's in the same speech now when they say it's in the same speech is that is the interpretation that you get from that that it's the same topic that it's the

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that it's the same topic that it's the same thought as the fine people know you don't so they weasel word it so it looks like they're separate points if they shared the transcript they wouldn't need to tell you if it's a separate point at the same point they wouldn't need to say it they could just show the transcript and you could see it's all the same point but instead they say and this is technically accurate that's is that it's another part of the speech but how far away is it it's literally this far and the transcript maybe 30 seconds and the 30 seconds or so or I was still on the same topic it's all it's all one thing all right well it wasn't exactly the next sentence because he did digress into saying that there were protesters there about the statue which was the whole point so the point never changed all right so that is just shocking shockingly

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so that is just shocking shockingly unethical reporting I in the same speech and then here listen to this wording this is also USA Today so here's their exact quote in the same speech though the president said he had condemned white supremacy and neo-nazis no he did not say he had condemned them he condemned them in the speech he said they should be condemned totally white nationalist and neo-nazis should be condemned totally would you say he said they should be that he said they should be condemned yes well USA Today words it as said he had condemned that actually didn't happen that actually didn't happen he didn't say he had condemned he condemned at exactly the same

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condemned at exactly the same you know point where he said there were some fine people doing other things there so they actually slip in with just a word the word had and they then they claimed they turned it into a claim so instead of stating the fact and then the president said he condemned white supremacist and white nationalists they said he had condemned they turned it into a claim now when you say the president this president claimed something what's the first thing you think because he's the one who's failed fact-checking ten thousand times if you say the president claimed something you automatically think it's not true right but if you say he said something and here you can check it yourself here's the transcript president said this here's the transcript is true that's very different from saying said he had condemned they turned it into a

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he had condemned they turned it into a claim that he said it some other time that's not what happened all right how about the Today Show The Today Show covered it and they just said the Joel Pollak was incorrect that's that they didn't show the transcript they didn't explain the quote they just said he was incorrect that's not even anything that's that's not even fake news that's barely anything that is just supporting Democrats how about the Des Moines Register an important paper of course because it's it's Iowa and I was gonna be early in the process all that they covered the story without showing the transcript again how do you not show the transcript that's the only point the point is what that damn transcript says alright so here's what they reported they reported just they reported Biden

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they reported just they reported Biden inside saying let's get this straight he said they were verifying people in both groups by and said they were chanting anti-semitic slogans burning flags and that was who a Biden Dennis he conflates the very fine people in both groups and that he talks about they were chanting into it now that's exactly not what the president was talking about in clear language he said I'm not talking about them then Biden says well it's very clear he's talking about them that's literally the opposite of what the transcript says how about Yahoo News do they show the transcript Yahoo News exists on the Internet how hard is it to show a link to the transcript or a link to the video on the internet on the Internet it's pretty easy but they don't do it so here's how yeah whoo news reported oh this is even worse they say quote in the wake of the

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they say quote in the wake of the Charlottesville altercation there has been an effort among Trump supporters in right-wing media to claim that the president didn't actually call neo-nazis and white nationalists very fine people claim it's not a claim it's the transcript again you don't have to talk about this story in terms of claims there are no claims it's right there you could just read it say Trump they claim was talking about those who supported preserving the statues again it's not a claim Trump said that in the clearest possible words look at the transcript and then they say but there is little evidence the former group attended Bulova blah now here's the next sleight of hand does it matter who actually

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of hand does it matter who actually attended the press that wants to you know sliding the president for this they act as though it matters if the president's details were correct it doesn't because remember the issue is was he complimenting neo-nazis now he could but he could have been wrong that there were no non racists in attendance but he spoke to his own assumptions and he said what his assumption was I believe that there were people who are non racist I call them fine people I believe there were people who are clearly racists the white nationalist and the neo-nazis I condemn them totally perfectly clear all right and so so when the news tries to change the topic - is he right about who was there they've already accepted that the primary reporting on this topic is fake news because they're reporting that he was intentionally complementing

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was intentionally complementing the neo-nazis once they've changed the topic - was he correct that there were other people there they've already accepted that he was not intentionally trying to compliment any neo-nazis he was complimenting people who were a different group who were either there or they were not there but in both cases whether they were there or whether they were none of them there it doesn't change the fact that he clearly stated his assumption if they were there he didn't say yes but he thought they were there they'd be good people people were racist condemned totally so by changing the subject - who was there they're trying to find a way to be right while being unambiguously wrong how about Politico Clinic oh no friend - Trump did they do you think Politico showed the transcript no no Politico which exists on the

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no no Politico which exists on the Internet where there's this thing called hyperlinks and you can link to stories you can link to videos you could link to a transcript but they don't do you know why they don't because they would show that their report is fake news this is a this is mind-boggling isn't it will you see this come together like as a whole it's just absolutely mind-boggling here's how they reported it in Politico quote Joe boy Joe Biden on Thursday adamantly defended his assertions that President Donald Trump embraced a white supremacist after a deadly demonstration Charles ville engaging in an animated exchange after his public remarks here okay he adamantly defended his assertions wouldn't you like to know if he was right wouldn't you like to see the transcript Politico is not going to show it to you by about here's the best

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show it to you by about here's the best part what about the Biden campaign itself you know they always have a communications person would the communications director say up but you got us I guess our entire campaign theme is based on a lie or what would he do well turns out there's this guy Bill Russell who's the columns guy for the Biden campaign and you'll see in my in the blog you should go look at it and see the exchange so first he comes out you know with the lie and then Breitbart news replies to him by showing the full transcript now if you're the comms director for Biden and you're addressing the fact that your central theme really it is the central theme of the Biden campaign that Trump called white supremacists find people once that's been questioned the comms director Bill Russell goes out and you know makes the claim again Breitbart news comes in behind him and says here's the

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behind him and says here's the transcript it's obviously not true now once you've showed the transcript what are you gonna do in public when the transcript is connected to your tweet this says it doesn't exist what are you gonna do you already know the answer don't you do you apologize and drop out of the campaign no no they go down the hoax funnel and what do they do same thing everybody else does when they're they're caught in this cognitive dissonance they say we'll tell me who was there they couldn't have been fine people so in other words the comms director for the Biden campaign accepted that the president did not call the neo-nazis and white supremacist or white nationalist I guess fine people he actually changed the subject

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actually changed the subject so when confronted with the fact in the transcript on Twitter the shows their central campaign theme simply is a lie he changed the topic to was the president accurate about who was attending completely different top related but a different topic because it's already accepted that the president said clearly wasn't talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalist so the fact that he went to he had to change the topic is an acknowledgment that he couldn't defend the central point it's clear what the president's intentions were even if he got a fact wrong about the attendees but here's the here's the putting a cap on this I have personally sought out and interviewed attendees from the Charlottesville event I personally have had one-to-one personal conversations

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had one-to-one personal conversations with several people who attended the Charlottesville event to protest they tell me in completely clear language they are not racists they disavow racism of every form and then the next question is what the hell were they doing at an event organized by Nazis that's the first question right so of course I asked that question what the hell were you doing there if you're not one of the tiki torch Nazis and they all say the same thing the promotional materials were unclear it looked like it was a unite the right they said well I'm on the right I like the unite the right eye I want to keep these statues I'm in favor of free speech it's a short distance away why David la is so dumb they can't follow this he's on cancelable so Dave in LA read my blog post and it's going to blow

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read my blog post and it's going to blow your mind how wrong you were that on this whole topic and and again Dave and LA just read the transcript you don't have to believe anything I said just read the transcript and you'll see that you've been lied to by your own side the entire time so what I was saying is that I've personally interviewed the people who went who said there were free speech people they disavow racists I asked them why would you attend an event organized by neo-nazis and they said look at the materials and one of them actually sent me some of the promotional materials and I looked at and I said well you know I would know this was a neo-nazi event because I would recognize some of the iconography graphic treatment was meant to be sort of subtly suggestive so if you didn't if you're not sort of tuned into this you wouldn't have noticed so you wouldn't have noticed just by the graphic treatment unless you were sort of tuned

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treatment unless you were sort of tuned into it I noticed but I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't that would be completely understandable once I looked at I was like yeah I can see how you wouldn't necessarily think the graphic treatment was telling you anything the only other signal that it was organised by neo-nazis was the names of the speakers who were not household names now I recognize several of them because I studied this thing you know etc so I sort of deeply immersed but the people I talked to said I didn't recognize any of the names so in other words not only were they not neo-nazis they didn't even recognize the names of the most well-known well David Duke wasn't there but there were other well-known people like Spencer I guess they didn't even recognize the names of people in that organization so when you

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people in that organization so when you say why did they attend it they gave me an explanation and by and the explanation came from different people who didn't know each other so they had the same they have the same explanation which was you know I I thought was credible because they said the same thing even though there were different people in different times they said I didn't know there were other people who were locals who simply said that they heard there was an event and it was about the statues and they were local and they liked the statutes so they said well we're local we'll walk over there and we'll will we'll put in our word they never saw the organizing materials they just heard there was a thing and they went so when the when the the Democrats desperately tried to preserve their hoax like David in LA he's still trying to cling to it the the only way you can do it is you have to never hear any reporting about

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have to never hear any reporting about who attended because even the New York Times had the same reporting as I did so the New York Times actually found some free speech people who traveled there they disavow racist they didn't want to be even seen with the racists they were there for free speech purposes that's exactly who the president was talking about so it's confirmed by the New York Times if you don't want like my reporting if you don't think I'm credible and why would you really yeah so the president was right on the facts as I've confirmed and the New York Times confirmed but it wouldn't matter it's a Dodge to talk about whether he was right about the facts because he stated his assumptions and he spoke to his assumptions that there were some non racists there doesn't matter if there were because we're talking about what the president intended and what he intended was to condemn neo-nazis and white nationalists and he intended to

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white nationalists and he intended to say that people who like free speech and that's their whole deal or good people that's it now so I ask you this having you know now that this is sort of not sort of it's a national story wouldn't you say that should end the Biden campaign what is the only way the Biden campaign can go on after having their central theme debunked in front of the world what's the only way they can go on fake news so the fake news is now going to coalesce around them to either ignore the story so it goes away or to simply say that Breitbart is not dependable or insult Joel or something like that so they're going to go on a full core to fake news-press they're going to get their version of fake news out there and then they're going to want to change the new cycle as quickly as possible so it should have ended the campaign it should be done that should be the end of it but

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be done that should be the end of it but it won't because of the way things work all right
somebody says I sent you the video of the good people explaining themselves you have buried it's I don't know where that video is I've yeah you can you can explain this to people and they won't change their opinion even after they read it so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to send out well I was thinking of sending out my tweet where I just take the two sentences and put them together I think I will do that after this all right anybody have any questions about what's going on I'm gonna stick with my Kamala Harris prediction of getting the nomination but then losing in the general and here's why if Biden gets taken out you've got Bernie and Warren in second

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you've got Bernie and Warren in second and third place and I think the Democrats are gonna realize that they're too radical and can't get elected they're gonna try to find someone who is the the better version of a Biden someone who you could depend on to be a little bit closer to the middle I think it's gonna be Warren I'm sorry I think it's gonna be Harris but that said she's doing a terrible job so Komal Eris is doing a terrible job of campaigning and it would be so easy to do a good one she has to get rid of the nervous giggle and she has to learn how to smile confidently which is under smiling let me show you two smiles tell me which one is the confident one this one or this one
which one do you want for your president this one or this one she's got to lose

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this one or this one she's got to lose the face she's got to lose the nervous giggle and she's got to learn to smile confidently when a smile is called for
here's a question everybody talks about yang and ubi but nobody talks about Yang and immigration to the point where I mean I'm sure somebody's talked about it but it's it's not rising up to our to the point where we're all noticing how does yang respond to the challenge that you can't have ubi if you also have open borders because everybody would come here for the free money why wouldn't they I mean I would it's the first thing I do now maybe he limits it by you have to be a citizen but if everybody comes here eventually they get citizenship too that's that works or they have children and the children are citizens so either

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and the children are citizens so either way if you don't have border security how can you give away free money border security is sort of necessary for that plan to work I would think has anybody asked him that doesn't that feel like it's the it's the main question if you're if you bi is your primary thing how is the the second question not what do you think of immigration so there's the dog that's not barking right there
oh if somebody's talking about in your voice let me tell you what drives me crazy when I watch so-called leaders and want to be leaders people running for office and even pundits and talking about things when they argue their case have you ever noticed that people will argue their case with a voice style that makes it seem like they don't believe their own points let me give you see if

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their own points let me give you see if I can give you an example let's say I wanted to argue about climate change and I wanted to say that you know the earth is being destroyed by climate change so let's just say I was a scientist who was or no politician let's say I'm a politician I'm arguing that climate change is bad if I do it this way you know and climate change is so bad it's gonna destroy everything and you know you you really have to do something you know bula I sound like I'm sort of begging or pleading it's almost like I don't have confidence in my own thought that I think I have to say it with a certain voice or it's not gonna work but suppose I said it this way 97% of scientists tell us we've got a big problem and I've looked into it and their science is quite solid so we better start soon as sooner the better which one of those sounds like a leader

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which one of those sounds like a leader the the person who's pleading just sounds weak and I'm confident and yeah it sounds like that law yeah the up talking etc and I don't see this I'm not sure I would say there's a gender issue with this I haven't really noticed one both the men and the women seem to have the same good and bad habits there that's been my observation yes Cory Booker thank you that would be the perfect example Cory Booker brilliant guy well academically just brilliant very capable you know just talented like crazy but when he talks he opens his eyes real wide and he talks in that way that doesn't sound like he is confident it sounds like he's trying to convince you with the tone of his voice or something yeah

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Spartacus all right I was deeply unprepared like I said because I only had time to write that blog post which I'm gonna go post in a moment let me just look at the CNN headlines that I swear it August is so bad so we're still talking about Trump's trip to El Paso and I don't know did he go to Dayton I don't remember but they're criticizing the quality of his his trip and I'm thinking okay I suppose that's worthy of news so there's not much else not much else happening UK economy shrinks for the first time since 2012 as brexit

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first time since 2012 as brexit uncertainties melt Wow so but I don't know much about that or enough to comment did Ben Shapiro ever get back to you was he supposed to get back to me people keep telling me that Ben Shapiro disagrees with me on the fine people hoax story and then they show me links of him talking and I don't hear any disagreement so I don't know I don't know what to say I can't respond to a disagreement when I don't we hear any disagreement so it must be time for another simultaneous sip if you're ready grab your cup your mug you can do it here it comes yeah there's another compilation clip of bituminous speaking I'm never a giant fan of the compilation clips of people miss speaking can you

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clips of people miss speaking can you imagine how easily you could make a compilation clip of me miss speaking pretty easily it wouldn't be hard at the same time that I'm I'm bothered by his miss speaking because I do think it it is signaling something I think that it's also something you could do to everybody so you could do it to Trump you could do it to everybody so you're saying that ben shapiro says that there's some difference in the facts between the two nights there was a Friday and there's a Saturday and I acknowledge that he says something about those things well I don't say the opposite so the details that Shapiro adds are not relevant to the primary claim the primary claim is just any that the primary claim is that the president intentionally called

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the president intentionally called neo-nazis find people and the transcript disproves that so clearly that there's nothing else to say if he got any facts wrong about who's doing what and what day it's just not relevant to the main point so when people think that Shapiro and I are disagreeing they're they are wrong because we agree on the central point that the transcript says clearly I'm not talking about the white supremacist if Ben Shapiro is talking is saying that Trump was confused about who was doing what on what night I say what's the difference that's not the issue we're not fact-checking his accuracy of who attended I don't have any interest in that question now I happen to do my own research and find out that there were some fine people on the same night as the tiki torch people so I mean it might be something happened on a Friday something happened to Saturday none of us relevant

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us relevant central claim somebody say that's the whole point well if the whole point is that Trump was confused about who attended that's opposite of their points that would be acknowledging that everything they've said about him was wrong at worst he got a detail wrong but he didn't because I've researched it personally and talked to the attendees and I know he didn't get that detail wrong yeah here's somebody Eddie meme is saying Trump supporters are delusional and ignorant what you know one of the things we keep noting I'm not sure if it's true or not but it seems like Democrats go after people have you noticed that I think you know the the Republicans do the same they go after you you see people go after a OC it

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you you see people go after a OC it cetera and you see them just go after them personally but I've never seen so many people come after like a fellow citizen and and just the the do you know how many names I've been called in the past two weeks I mean do you have any idea the names I have personally been called and they're all personal it doesn't involve what I've done or what I believe or my opinions my work it's none of that it's all personal and I say to myself is Twitter you know Twitter is a lot of things it's a way to get your news and connect and everything I'm I'm a big fan of the platform but more than anything it allows people who have been bullied in their life to be awful to people without a price if you think about it the you know a lot of people have been bullied for every kind of thing it's obvious to me that the people who come after me personally some

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people who come after me personally some of them I suppose they're just trolls and it's just part of the fun but it feels like they're broken people who have been bullied in their life I'm not saying I'm not supporting the bullies that's that's terrible I'm sorry they got broken but because they're broken they need some kind of revenge I guess and to the extent that they think Trump represents every bully they have ever seen and Trump represents every bully and since I say good things about Trump I'm like supportive of the bully in their minds I think that attacking me has nothing to do with politics it feels like it has mostly to do and say let's see if I can we'll get rid of Dave in LA
so anyway those those who make and I think I'll just start saying that those who make personal attacks are broken

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who make personal attacks are broken people they've been broken by bullies in their life and they're lashing out they are just broken people so David and Leigh had to go away he's a broken person he needs some help yeah they become the bully and that's typical you know people who are abused as children are more likely to become abusers so they are broken people and I I don't feel yeah i feel sympathy for them sometimes all right I don't have much else to say I'm gonna go that's all for now I will talk to you tomorrow