Episode 735 Scott Adams: FISA Shenanigans, Tesla Truck Windows, Shampeachment

Date: 2019-11-23 | Duration: 1:14:55

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a CNN’s Oliver Darcey and Brian Stelter, recent reporting Should American voters WANT to know if Joe Biden is corrupt? My 2016 prediction that Trump will change how we view reality Two movies on one screen concept Seth Meyer’s brilliant Netflix comedy special President Trump welcomes the possibility of a Senate trial Do Democrats welcome a trial also? Helping Iranian people free themselves Kamala Harris patent-snatching plan to lower drug prices Kamala Harris and predictive value KEY Democrats FISA evidence tampering prediction Meme of Chris Cuomo’s call to his Mom, REALLY FUNNY President Trump retweets and pins it Tesla’s bulletproof truck windows Is China robbing Russia like they’re robbing America? Joe Biden’s lifetime struggle with stuttering, bullied childhood

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[Music] hey everybody come on in here Harry good to see you Kofi 2020 always a pleasure John Austin Maximus what a pleasure to see all of you in the morning to share the simultaneous up and if you're prepared if you're the kind of person who sees opportunities if you're the kind of person who seizes the day carpe diem then you're probably already prepared but the rest of you you still have a few seconds to grab your cup of your mug or your glasses mr. Stein cellist anchor thermos flask canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind so along with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoyed me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine to the day the thing makes everything better the simultaneous said feel connected to everybody in the world who is doing it even if it's asynchronous oh yeah yep I feel

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asynchronous oh yeah yep I feel connected to all people I believe I've attained a god-like quality in which I am one with the universe you probably feel it too hey you can be God - there's no reason - it needs to be just one let's talk about some fun things my book loser think is this week on Wall Street Journal's best-selling business book list yay of all the nonfiction business books in the entire world that are in the United States I guess this list is for the United States I've got one of the best-selling ones in the entire country so you should certainly check it out it's called loser think and it's the best Christmas present you ever got and the best one you ever gave because as I often say about my books if you read them carefully and you don't don't bend the pages after you read it it's something I call a gift

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you read it it's something I call a gift item that's right you can consume it and then you can give it as a gift you can have your cake and you can eat it too how many products have that quality where you can consume it and then give it as a gift not many but my books got that all over it all right this is amazing every once a while you see balanced news coverage and it makes you take a double take if you have that experience yet have you had the experience recently of watching the news and it doesn't matter if it's left leaning or right leaning news and thinking to yourself if they queue yourself what's going on here that's a balanced news report I confused and that happened to me I was reading all of her Darcy's so he's a CNN guy he was writing about Donald Trump juniors book that has

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about Donald Trump juniors book that has been a number one bestseller it might still be number one and I think it is actually and there was some controversy because the Republican National Committee bought a hundred thousand dollars worth of books and people are saying hey that's cheating because the Republicans bought a big bunch of books and then your number one book that's why there's a little asterisks like indicator a little dagger that they put next to it of the list so all over Darcy who works for CNN who is no fan of the Trump's writes an article in which he completely completely pees all over this report and it makes it very clear that Donald Jr absolutely deserved the number one spot and here's why math turns out that a hundred thousand dollars doesn't buy many books and if

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dollars doesn't buy many books and if you look at what a commanding lead Don juniors book ad I think he sold 70,000 the first week and the next best book was half that and a hundred thousand dollars buys you something like you know three to seven thousand books depending on discounts or whatever so CNN writing an article with no hesitation I don't think there's any word in this article that even tries to be like snarky about Trump yeah normally you'd expect to see this article say something like well despite his best efforts to cheat the cheating didn't make much difference in the end you know you'd expect that some kind of flavor of that but as none it's straight up reporting and it's straight up saying that the charges that you know Don juniors book was number one because of this by by the RNC is just false by math and so all of her Darcy I say good job

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and so all of her Darcy I say good job so I will give you an unqualified compliment for not only accurate reporting because I know enough about the business to know that the way he the way he explained it is accurate and the way it was originally reported was illegitimate so a good job all in for Darcy as CNN for clean reporting there however CNN's brian Stelter I saw a little clip in which he was talking about how Fox News he quote discards all the damaging information from the impeachment ceremony now that I think they did distinguish between the news portion of Fox News that they think covered it similar to the way they covered it but that the opinion people were in Brian's view discarding all the damaging information from the impeachment what does that make you do think past the sale he's making

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think past the sale he's making past the sale what's the sale the sale is that there was damaging information in the impeachment hearings if he makes if he makes you think about whether or not some members of Fox News have discarded it it makes you uncle' assume that it exists because you can't discard something that doesn't exist so he's talking past the sale I talked about it when Trump does this all the time and he doesn't a lot and here here you see the same technique and it works every time it works in the sense that it may not change opinions but it it it's a good persuasive strategy but if you want to apply the same standard let me ask you this question how many times have you seen on CNN them grapple with the following question so I'm not even

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following question so I'm not even saying which way they come down on this question I'm just saying have they even discussed it and they discussed it in any fashion and here's the question was it United in the United States interest that there would be an investigation in Ukraine about the Biden's activity given that Joe Biden was leading in the polls to be the next president has CNN asked that question I'm seeing yeses but I don't know if you're saying yes that you saw it or yes to by point that's the trouble with the comments sometimes are out of timing so I can't tell if you're agree with me or disagreeing but let me just say this I I know that I know that CNN has said and I've said it myself I've agreed with them a bunch of times that there's no there's no public information that would suggest that Joe

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information that would suggest that Joe Biden did anything illegal I think that's fair right there's no there's no evidence that Joe Biden today thing illegal there's certainly things which you'd like to know more about because they they suggest that it's worth looking into but it seems to me that CNN continually skips over the only question that mattered and this is why it's the only question that mattered if there was no legitimate reason to be looking into Joe Biden in other words legitimate in terms of the United States citizens well then that's a big problem because it means that that our foreign policy was you know hostage in some sense to a political question something it was just purely political for the president but suppose it's the opposite which I've been saying for the entire

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which I've been saying for the entire time that it is the opposite I'm a citizen and I can check I can check this fact with you we could do a fact check right now I'm a citizen of the United States I understand that not everybody in the United States agrees with everything the United States cares about we have different priorities and such but if there are a lot of people like me and I don't know what percentage is enough but yeah let's say let's say 30 percent of the voters have the same opinion as me would it be worth looking into so my opinion is that I would like to know more about Ukraine and Joe Biden in Hunter Biden to know if Ukraine has any kind of compromising information on them given that they Joe Biden might be the next president according to the polls so is there anybody out there if you saw in the comments just tell me as a citizen of the United States do you have an interest a legitimate interest

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have an interest a legitimate interest not just curious not just wanting Joe Biden to get in trouble but actual legitimate interest if you could just take your political hat off does it make sense especially given you know alleged and probably actual Russian interference yeah and you see all the yeses going by and and the thing now would it matter the Democrats disagree with you so that I would imagine if I were doing the same presentation to an audience that was mostly Democrats and I said is it legitimate to ask these questions about Joe Biden you would assume a lot of people say no it's not legitimate because there's not enough there you know it's not enough that we can see that would suggests there's a crime so therefore it's illegitimate but does that matter it actually doesn't matter because if you had and I'm just gonna pick a number for a conversation sake imagine 30 percent of the voters if if presented with this situation and you

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presented with this situation and you said should we look into it there's no there's no indication of an actual crime by Joe Biden but because hunters got some swampy things going on there and that could be enough to create a little let's say blackmail material and because it wouldn't take much if Joe Biden simply knew a little bit more about the situation than we know he knows that's already a problem right so if I'd say if thirty percent of the country or 25 percent of the country and legitimate need to know that information the president has every right thority responsibility fiduciary you know responsibility to look into it given that election interference is one of our top priorities and should be so CNN skips that question and here's the interesting part I think Fox News skips that question

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I think Fox News skips that question pretty often too don't they have you noticed that I know that some of the opinion people on Fox News have made the point that it's worth looking into I think I've seen that but I don't know if any of the news people have somebody fact check me on that have any of the news people not the opinion people on Fox News ever pointed out or even dealt with the question because there's news people we don't want their opinion but have they dealt with the question interviewed anybody had the story on it asking whether it's worth looking into is it a legitimate thing for anybody to do and then the question that all the inexperienced people are saying is you know why would the president have to do it himself and why would he have to send Rudy and only inexperienced people would ask that or somebody says for economists covered to Don CNN Smerconish would be opinion right but I'm wondering on Fox

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opinion right but I'm wondering on Fox News if any of the news people covered it anyway sure I was gonna say something else about that did you all see the there's a tweet a lot of people tweeted it it's a double screen in which it shares the I think it's the chyron or they what do you call it the little label that the news puts at the bottom of the screen that tells you what's happening on the screen and at the apparently at at the same time or or around the same time CNN said at the bottom of their screen when Sandlin was testifying sunlen confirms a quid pro quo and that he looked at the fox news screen and about the same time it said Sunland confirms Trump told him no quid pro quo and people are people are really waking up to the two movies on one screen do you remember the first time you heard for me and it was probably 2016 might

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for me and it was probably 2016 might have been 2015 I'm not sure but do you remember the first time you heard me say we're watching two movies on one screen and you and try to remember what you thought about that the first time you it's the first time you heard what was your first thought no not really right well isn't that your first thought well that's that's a little bit of a hyperbole Scott it's not like we're seeing different things maybe some people are just lying about it or maybe some people want to spin it a different way but no Scott we're not actually seeing different things at the same time that's not true that's probably what you thought the first time you heard it right I'll bet you don't think that now did I not tell you in 2016 in these exact words that president Trump would do more than change politics I like reminding you of this I predicted more

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reminding you of this I predicted more than once in 2016 that he would change more than politics that he would change he would rip a hole in the fabric of reality and change how you saw reality now the first time you heard me say that what was your reaction to it I'll bet you just flushed it out of your head here that when if you were then in 2016 you probably just said crazy talk you know he's not gonna change reality or change how we view reality he's just a politician that has you know his pluses and minuses he's not gonna change reality or the way we see it that's probably what you thought the first time I said that what do you think now is it not completely clear completely clear at this point that our our individual

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this point that our our individual subjective interpretations of our environment are insanely different now it's always been true yeah if the thing that you got out of this was suddenly we're seeing the world differently that's not what happened we always saw the world differently we just didn't know it and when we when we could realize we were seeing it differently we assumed wrongly that the other team was just lying right if you saw the world one way and the other team saw it the other way what did you think about them you thought they were stupid uninformed or lying right the thing you didn't think problem the thing you didn't think is that it was an honest perception in other words they were they were honestly trying to interpret their world and they came to a completely different you know different version of it than you did but they

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version of it than you did but they weren't lying to themselves and they weren't any more stupid than the average person they weren't any less informed than the average persons were pretty uninformed now you realize that it's an actual perception difference yeah Johnny and Laurel helped a little bit too we actually are seeing reality so fundamentally different that even debating it doesn't make sense because you're not even debating the same reality there's somebody yeah in the comments somebody's saying I used to think the other team was crazy because it looks like it right if you're in if you're in your little manufactured subjective world and you see somebody else's manufactured subjective world it can't be explained because you believe that people have a good perception in general you know at least we have enough perception to you know navigate our environment and get jobs and stuff so we are now waking up to the fully subjective reality fully subjective so

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subjective reality fully subjective so that's fun I would like to put in a good word for something that you think is bad but it's not all right so I'm did you hear I'm priming you notice how I primed you I'm pacing you now so I'm telling you what you're thinking before I change your mind so first I agree with you the thing I'm going to recommend next and an entertainment property I'm going to recommend it and your first reaction is played oh no no that's not funny and I don't like that guy because he says says things I don't like are you ready a Netflix Seth Meyers has a comedy special it's really really good and you should watch it I know I know what most of you just in your mind you just said Seth Meyers that's that guy who says bad things

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that's that guy who says bad things about President Trump and and I've watched his show on TV and it's now funny if I've watched him a million times on TV and it's not that funny to me and he says things about politics I don't like why in the world would i watch his comedy special well let me tell you why it's brilliant it's really brilliant so it's not just he's good at it it's about as good as you're ever gonna see it's really good it's clever it's not terribly political except one portion that he handles in a very clever way so he does talk about a little some politics and unlikely give it away but the way he frames it makes it go down okay so I watched a number of you know anti Trump jokes they were just in one little segment and he he walled off the segment in a way that I think you will appreciate it's kind of clever but he did it so artfully that I really thought

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did it so artfully that I really thought I wasn't gonna like it but not only didn't like it it was great it was really great so do yourself a favor because the holidays are coming so maybe this holiday season we could not hate on each other as much you know maybe we could dial down they hate they hate at least in terms of what team you're on just dial down the hate just appreciate Seth Seth Meyers for an insane ly good performance it's really well written all right now somebody says it's not funny but I remind you the humor is subjective right humor is subjective so there's that but don't punish yourself for that now along the same lines I'm not gonna give you the details on this because I don't want to draw attention to it but once again I'm getting some heat by just somebody on the internet nobody I know

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somebody on the internet nobody I know because I must have said something good about buddy and that's somebody I said something good with or associated with has an opinion which they should be executed for now when I say an opinion for which they should be executed I'm using hyperbole but it's been my it's been my experience that just about everybody I've ever associated with either personally or professionally has at least one opinion that I think they should be executed for including me right I probably have at least one opinion that if you heard if you heard all of my opinions you'd say oh most of those are pretty good but that one I think you should be executed for that one it doesn't matter if you are the left of the right doesn't matter if you're the if it seems like you're the worst person or the best person almost everybody has at least one opinion that

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everybody has at least one opinion that I personally think they should be executed for now because of that what do you do with that you know what do you do with the fact that almost everybody has at least one opinion that's so odious that you wish you know you wish it didn't exist in your world well you could not associate with those people and then you would be a hermit because I wouldn't be able to associate it with literally anyone literally anyone so here's what I recommend when people push me for any Association I've had this hasn't happened yet but I expect it's gonna happen sometime in my life sooner or later somebody's going to take a selfie with me and it's going to be somebody who has an opinion about something that I think they should be executed for or you think should I be in that picture let me let me put down my marker right now so because this is

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marker right now so because this is public I will I will appear with whoever I want for whatever I want anywhere I want and you know what I say to the people who tell me that they would like to remove that right from my freedom as an American you know what I say and it's two words one of them starts with F I won't use it today because it's weekend your kids are home but you know you know my reaction to this is almost violent nobody tells me who I can talk to nobody tells me who I can take a picture with who I can have lunch with where I can associate with nobody ever never and here's the first thing you should know about it associating with me is good for people I think I'm a good influence let me put it

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think I'm a good influence let me put it this way if I spend time with somebody who has let's say a terrible and wrong opinion about something important whatever it is is it likely that associated with me will make them more terrible or are they more likely to get talked out of it you know the answer to that for the most part I don't have you know I must have at least one opinion you would execute me for I just think that's universal but I'm not a bad influence let me just make this as clear as possible if you saw me having a lunch with David Duke why should you think about that should you think my god Scott's become you know a racist nope I mean that's what people would say of course because that's the world we live in
in well you should say is David Duke is becoming less of a racist because that's what's gonna happen all right he's not

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what's gonna happen all right he's not gonna make me more like him doesn't work that way if you spend lunch with me you're gonna be more like me when you leave that's how it works in my case it may be different for you all right and by the way anybody who's had lunch with me can confirm that I know it's a strange claim but it's true so now I don't have any plans to have lunch with David Duke I'm usually bad that's the extreme example my point is associating with people who disagree with you is first of all necessary you couldn't live in the world without associating with them in fact when you go to your holiday family greeting you're going to be associating with a lot of people you think should be executed for their opinions I mean you don't want them to be executed because they're your family most of the time but man we we have to drop that standard

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man we we have to drop that standard that people pick up the bad qualities of other people by being associated with them that there's a that's one of the most destructive standards I've ever heard in my life alright let's talk about Trump says he welcomes a Senate trial for the impeachment stuff so in other words Trump is saying yeah go ahead take your best shot you're gonna do you're gonna not like it and I guess if it goes into a trial situation the Senate is a lot more like a it's more like a judicial process but different but they'll be able to subpoena people such as hunch Biden and Joe Biden and they'll be able to subpoena Adam chef now be honest don't you want to see that show be honest I know most of you do not

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show be honest I know most of you do not want to see your president because most of your Trump supporters if you're watching this periscope I know you don't want to see your president impeached I know you don't want to see him accused of things that are even impeach a bulb I know you don't like any of that but you don't have a choice you don't have a choice about what happens there we the public don't have a lot of you know sway on this so if it's gonna happen anyway you know that I think the Senate trial is likely because yeah they're likely to vote for impeachment in the the house how much would you enjoy that I cannot I cannot contain my level of joy that I would have for that spectacle I don't know if there's anything I could enjoy more than that in fact there's no movie no television show no no special no play there's no poem no

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no no special no play there's no poem no book there is no YouTube video that I would like more than watching the Republicans be able to subpoena whoever they want come on you know that's gonna be a good show and I think it's heading that way and I would love I would love to to be in the heads of the top Democratic leadership you know Pelosi Schiff those guys what do you think they're thinking that's a serious question because I don't have a good theory on that is this one of those two reality situations in which you know a chef and Pelosi do they think they really have something and do they think that what they're doing is still a good strategy I don't know do you what would be your best guess I I always warn you that we can't do mind-reading so you know your guests and my guests are

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know your guests and my guests are completely useless I mean because if they're not accurate I mean we can't assume that any of us can guess anybody's minds and a distance but you still have to operate in the world in which you make those assumptions it's just we're bad at the assumptions but you still have to make them to sort of operate and understand your world I don't know what the Democratic leadership is thinking because if I put myself in their shoes I'm bringing my own brain over there and if it were my brain in Nancy Pelosi's or shifts body I would think I lost pretty hard but I think I'm just biased right I I consume more probably more news that's friendly to the president and the other kind so I'm probably biased but it does look to me like the Democrats just stuck a gun in their mouth and pulled the trigger I mean it looks like they committed political suicide but I could be wrong I

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political suicide but I could be wrong I mean I won't put that out as some kind of fact but I will say that I I would expect that the polls will continue to show that the independents are not on board you're clearly not going to see anything like Republicans you know jumping ship if anything you'll see some Democrats jump ship the other way it looks like a gigantic loss for the Democrats now does that mean it was a bad play probably not it was probably a good play because they didn't have a better play what are they gonna do try to win the presidency with whom with who or with whom I don't know which one that is
is wit what candidate for the Democrats do they really seriously and their quiet private moments think is going to be Trump in a fair election I don't think they do where at least they're pretty worried about it so did it make sense

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worried about it so did it make sense for them to try a Hail Mary pass and to get him a beached to try to create something out of nothing yeah probably you know from a purely naked political perspective it wasn't a bad plight and I'll even go further I'll say that their their persuasion game on this whole impeachment thing was extraordinary so if you would just look at their technique you know the the way they put it on the show the you know all the bad ways they spun everything I would say that their performance from just a persuasion perspective was really good I'm going to say a plus for the Democrats collectively for the show they put on in the persuasion because it did it did persuade their side it totally persuaded it now the persuasion was excellent they had mmm-hmm they just had one problem even though their persuasion game was on point

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point just one thing acting against them the evidence if they hadn't had the evidence working against them at least according to half the people in the country which you would need to persuade to get anything done unfortunately the evidence was not as friendly to them as it could have been let's talk about Iran so there's not much reporting out of Iran we're getting these sort of generic reports about massive protests about gas price increases and rouhani is blaming the US and and Iran is their internet is almost only offline so we don't really know what's going on over there doing but of course you know it's all the US and Israel's fault that according to her in which they've said of course now I've heard is that that our president is

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heard is that that our president is being blamed and some of our politicians are being blamed for not speaking out more forcefully in favor of the Iranian public and I think that's probably a good strategy I think Trump you know I'm not gonna say he's gonna stay quiet about this forever but if you're trying to play the the persuasion game here right as long as things are going the way we'd like them to go in Iran meaning that the citizens are rising up against the government the best thing the United States could do is stay as far away from that as possible because you don't want anything based on reality that the leadership can say look look yeah they sent these weapons to the resistance or they they sent this message is clearly they're behind it so so getting you know keeping some distance from that is probably the most sober and smart thing to do now

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most sober and smart thing to do now that calculation could change you let's say let's say our intelligence services reliably reported that the the public was organized they wanted a coup and all they needed was sort of a green light from the United States that you know the the coup would be recognized as the new leaders so you can imagine some future situation in which the the tipping point would be so close to tipping for a revolution that under those very specific situations you can imagine Trump coming out and saying yeah we're with the citizens of Iran get this done and we'll give you a great trade deal but I don't think we're there yet I would say the odds of Iran disappearing in the next few months at least the leadership probably low because I think they could they have the the military backing they could probably last a long time even if the citizens were

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time even if the citizens were complaining but yours here's a persuasion play that I'd like to see tell me if anybody has done this yeah WMDs the WMD thing is an interesting question because I think Iran has to pretend they're sort of heading toward WMDs without going too far because there is some point at which the US will get tougher and it's already pretty tough and I don't know if Iran can get to the point where they've got a nuclear weapon and therefore we say oh okay well we'll back off no sanctions or anything like that I think they could have nuclear weapons and just like North Korea they would still get sanctioned as much or more so I think there's a sort of a race against time in which Iran wants to pretend it's making some progress that might be actual progress without being

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might be actual progress without being so close to a bomb that we just have to do something so that's a weird little balance so we have to wait and see how that comes off but here's my suggestion if we wanted to aid the Iranian evolution without a heavy hand without looking like we're involved this is what I would suggest we should publish meaning social media or some friendly news organization New York Times or something should publish a best estimate of Iran's budget and here's the persuasion part the percentage of the budget that Iran is spending to support their proxies you know Hezbollah and in Yemen etc and wherever else Iraq I guess so now you say to yourself but wait Scott there's no way that the United States or anybody outside of Iran could

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States or anybody outside of Iran could have any idea what the budget of Iran is there's no way we could really know because they've got you know secret funds for their military and you know it's not going to be public and all that none of that matters none of that matters let me tell you something as someone who was once a professional who made financial projections there's no such thing as an accurate financial projection I mean sometimes by luck but financial estimates even for corporations even if your job is to analyze Apple Computer all right some companies are more you know predictable than others but even a financial analyst who's predicting what a company will do it's pretty close to just guessing now even though most of these financial predictions are closer to guessing in fact do they have an influence on people

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fact do they have an influence on people yeah people buy stocks based on financial estimates even though they're worthless because we can't not pay attention to them if you give somebody a spreadsheet they act as if it's true even if it doesn't so just putting things in numbers if it's the only estimate out there and there's nothing to compare it to people will accept the only estimate that's out there although it would be impossible for us to know the budget of Iran surely there's someone out there who's willing to take a guess somebody was an economist some organization some think-tank and they can say well the budget of Iran is X billion and there their public is 30% in poverty whatever it is and they're giving 20 percent of their entire budget to other countries how long does the leadership of Iran

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how long does the leadership of Iran last with just that just that data in the simplest form on one page just just one page no details just say total budget of ran percentage and dollar amount that's going outside of Iran so in other words just not the benefit of the people in Iran and then poverty rate in Iran three numbers four numbers if you count percentage plus dollar now imagine imagine that estimate and then you wanted to come from some authority looking organization maybe a think-tank produce that page one page make it look professional I don't want to look like you know a meme maker made it make it look like it came from a government from some think tank and just put it on social media will will tweet the living bejesus out of it

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bejesus out of it now even though the Iranian public is largely cut off from the rest of the world it's fair to say the things that are important to Iran are getting it right when you agree that even though the internet is effectively shut down something as important as as that not many things will get through but something that's that's central to what they care about well that would get through and we could certainly our intelligence agencies could easily make sure it got through so the Internet is no longer shut down so we have to fact-check that so here's here's why this works the the Iranian public if they're starving that they're not going to be willing to keep funding the revolution in other countries that they don't really care that much about there's no way that they're going to favor that and it would be a huge fuel and what would be good is that it would

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and what would be good is that it would be a simplification simplifications are one of the biggest parts of persuasion you know it's repetition simplification build the wall build the wall build the wall simplification and repetition so we could probably push Iran over the edge just by providing a real realistic if not totally accurate estimate of their financial situation and just giving it to the Republic that's all they need all right
Komal Harris is on video there's a little video clip I tweeted it around in which she was talking about lowering drug prices to which I said oh that's good lowering drug prices that's a popular thing what is her plan to lower drug prices I could be really in on this maybe maybe she's gonna make a run for the nomination after all because before I

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nomination after all because before I was thinking that the the Harris campaign was so bad there was like they weren't even trying but now she's got this idea from lowering pharmaceutical prices and I'm thinking okay now you got a good issue means something to just about everybody important let's hear it here's her plan if the pharmaceutical companies don't voluntarily lower their prices she's going to have the government quote snatch their patents
you probably think you heard that wrong the first time you hear that you say to yourself and now add the context because obviously nobody's running president in the United States and saying we'll take the patents away from private companies now her her reasoning is that many of these companies got to where they are because of government

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where they are because of government research and funding so she's saying well the the taxpayers made it possible for these companies to do what they're doing and earned so much money so if they don't lower their prices she'll have the government is she used this word snatch snatch their patents have you ever heard of a worse thing to say on the campaign trail no they're not going to patent their snatches they're gonna snatch their patents somebody says snatch your patents is my safe word I
think you all just noticed something which is that the word snatch and patents go together really well those are two words you don't hear together now I've often said that to make something funny and memorable you just have to replace the boring words with interesting words snatch is an

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interesting words snatch is an interesting word if she said we're going to reclaim them it wouldn't be interesting we're gonna let's say we'll use a what's eminent domain or something on their patents it just wouldn't be interesting but snatch their patents I might remember that phrase from the rest of my life I'm gonna snatch your patents in fact I'm gonna start saying that to people in my real life anybody who makes me mad if Christina does something I don't like I'm gonna say you do that again I'm gonna snatch your patent so fast your head will spin yep snatch their patents hashtag else let's go Pierre Kamala Harris is plan to snatch their patents with the Trump administration plan which they're also making some making some noise about so apparently the Trump administration

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so apparently the Trump administration wants to do two things that should make a difference one is price transparency and I think that involves pharmaceuticals as well and of course then market forces we know with lower prices and we know that that works and of course how can the big companies complain too much about better information you know market transparency they can but it's a hard argument for them to make now the other thing they're doing is apparently there's some kind of legislation going on where some states but maybe not all of them I think Florida is one will be allowed to buy cheaper pharmaceuticals from other countries maybe Canada and I don't know the details of that but but once again the Trump administration is reducing regulations that shouldn't have been there in the first place because they were put there obviously buying pharmaceutical lobbyists not by the public and price transparency so the

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public and price transparency so the Trump administration is using all the things that the entire public thinks is a good idea price transparency market competition there's literally nobody who thinks those are bad ideas and Komal Harris is running against that with her idea for snatchin patents tell me the truth you're sitting at home and you hear this phrase snatching patents did you say it out loud even if you're alone did you at least once say snatching patents you almost can't say it you almost can't afford saying it out loud it's such a term anyway I do think I don't know if you saw that it was Jeff Billington who was tweeting around I think it was a Nate Silver's website fivethirtyeight.com

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fivethirtyeight.com and I think they were tracking the number of democratic important people endorsements for each candidate and the interesting thing is that the person with the most endorsements I believe is Biden is he first I forget who's first but where I'm going with this is that number two is Kamala Harris Kamala Harris has the most people who are important in the democratic party backing air campaign and apparently that's very predictive so the candidate who has the most you know internal Democratic support from the the big player this is very likely to be the nominee so we've seen that Harris got rid of at least for now she got rid of her laughing at her own jokes for silly giggle she had a good debate and we're

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giggle she had a good debate and we're watching Biden Bernie and Warren go down who's going up who's going up Pete Buddha judge Peabody judge again I'm gonna I have to compliment him for persuasion and just being an all-around capable guy Pete Buddha judge has a really strong game for a mayor of a small town to be nipping at the buds of the the leaders in their Democratic Party you got to give that some props you I don't know he had some some minor like hiccups that the news was getting on him I was watching a clip where Jake Tapper was listing some of the things his campaign did you've heard him probably they used a stock photo they came from Africa to say that it was a mother talking to her kid and they use that in their things saying that they had a lot of African African American

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had a lot of African African American support that people said that's not even an American that's actually an African in your picture does that matter no that's like the least important thing then I guess they had this list of black leaders who were supporting Budaj edge but some of the people on the list were not black and some of them were not supporting so that was an embarrassment from the campaign and I think there might a better one another thing anyway so Jake Tapper mentions these things to put a judge on camera so that British judge can respond and I was really waiting to see how he handled it and man did he handle it well if you didn't see that I want to call attention to one of the best the best ways I've ever seen something like that handled so this is the question buddha judge gets as you know your campaign has made all these missteps and they seem to be in the same category the category of your black support you know what about

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your black support you know what about that and i'm paraphrasing but buddha jej you know doesn't react like visually so he doesn't look like he's bothered that's good so he's not reacting like he did something wrong and he looked straight in the camera and he says I take responsibility for any mistake my campaign makes that's on me and then he starts talking about the good stuff he's doing and I thought that was really good that was really good you look right in the camera and said I take all responsibility for everything my campaign does yeah any mistake they make that's on me and then he talks about the good stuff it was really really well done you know it's it's a small you know the the news doesn't focus on technique so much but technique wise that was as good as you can get that was about as good as you can get now I believe that Buddha judges support in the african-american community is too low to get him elected and I believe that

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get him elected and I believe that Democrats know that when Carla Harris was making noise about you need somebody who can bring the quote which he caught the Obama coalition together she is really saying Buddha judge can't do it she doesn't have to say Buddha judge because everybody fills in the blank it's like uh Elizabeth Warren into a judge they can't get it done but but maybe she could now I don't know what her support is in the african-american community either but if she became the nominee I think it would be pretty high so there's this news that there's something going to come out we only have leaks and you know anonymous reporting that I guess the Horowitz findings concerning the falsified Phi as a document were turned over to Durham and Durham's the the criminal investigation guy so so some X

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criminal investigation guy so so some X FBI lawyer allegedly changed something on a FISA document to try to get a court to approve their FISA requests and that that change is being reported as significant but I don't know if it's significant I would say we're in fog of war so here's what I would say about that everything you hear about this story you should assume is false somebody says hold your fire on this one yeah that's exactly what I was going to say so you gotta had to be a little bit this is fog of war stuff you're yeah you're you're early opinion on this should be that you don't know anything that nothing is happening my prediction is there's not going to be a bombshell I think probably it's just going to be a fizzle which doesn't mean there's

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fizzle which doesn't mean there's nothing in the future that will be a bombshell but every time you see a story that sort of feels like this it's like this kind of thing there's a little leaking and it might be a bombshell but other people are saying well probably not if you can bet on probably not if there's anybody saying it's a bombshell and there's anybody saying it's probably not bet on the probably not probably not wins a ten or ten times did you see that Trump Rita tweeted a meme about Chris Cuomo when he was testing that cellphone to see if you could hear a cell phone conversation coming out of the speaker when it's not on speakerphone and you probably all saw this you know it so Chris Cuomo did a little live demonstration of this with his cohort who's Dana Bash and he called his mother Chris Cuomo dead and then held it up you know away from Dana Bash to see if he

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know away from Dana Bash to see if he data could hear his mother on the cell phone without the speakerphone be on now he wanted to show I'm sure that you could hear it but it was sort of a fail because Dana Bash couldn't hear it now some me maker took that video and changed the the label on the bottom of CNN screen to - very funny versions and then instead of the blank space where the mom would have been talking on the phone if you could hear her they inserted clips from Trump's speeches you have to see this thing it's really funny so it's funny for two reasons one is that the the the little label on the bottom of the screen says that Trump is at Chris Cuomo's mother's house so he answered the phone if that's not funny you're dead on the inside the fact that Chris Cole was mom might have been with

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Chris Cole was mom might have been with Trump because you know your head goes to the funny place wait what's Trump doing with Chris Cuomo his mom okay so it's funny just by itself somebody saying that carpi dumped him did it I didn't see his watermark on that but it seems like his B his work so let's fact check that if it was carpe tantum then that's another homerun but I want to fact check that so so the first funny part is that Trump is this being reported at Chris Cole almost mom's house oh that can't get any funnier and then when you hear what the clips are that he's saying it's it's just solid gold but then oh somebody says he pinned it it's a pin
so the second funny part is just that the President of the United States tweeted it okay it's hilarious by itself

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tweeted it okay it's hilarious by itself and it's hilarious just that the other set up it's hilarious the way it was executed number that is triple hilarious because the President of the United States who's always being criticized for being on presidential tweets Africa thing and you practically cry when you see it because it's just so wrong that is perfect you know and and for the people who can't understand the humor in that you have to understand that the wrongness of it the fact that it's coming from the office of the president is what makes that funny yeah that that that adds the humor and of course the president knows that and he knows that is his supporters love it so we talked about the Tesla's cyber truck that Elon Musk introduced and of course he had the bad luck of they threw the ball bearing at the window that was supposed to be bulletproof and it broke the window and

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bulletproof and it broke the window and then they they said well let's try this other window and it broke that one too and of course I said maybe you shouldn't try that for the first time on live you know a live TV but I thought to myself also it's is it really possible that Elon Musk and all of these engineers the top engineers and smartest people in the world is it possible they wouldn't have tested that first and sure enough Elon is taking it with a good sense of humor because he has a good sense of humor and he's he tweeted out a behind the scenes picture where they showed the same guy with the same object testing it against the same car and he's throwing it against the window and it's just bouncing back and and so then the next question I asked myself is do you know what the next question is some of you are saying he did it on purpose I think that's unlikely but do you know what my

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that's unlikely but do you know what my second question just put your engineering hand on what's the second question they tested it and it worked but then apparently it didn't work in the real thing what's the second question you're an engineer now somebody says sabotage I mean that would be very clever somebody said two hits is not enough to test it yeah that's a fair engineering statement he threw I think some kind of a ball bearing that was maybe the size of a small baseball somebody says maybe it's only bulletproof once bingo whoever is the engineer or smart enough to be an engineer who said maybe it can only take two hits there you go hey I don't believe that a bulletproof window is designed to take infinite bullets I think it's sort of time to run away is all and when he threw the object against it it didn't actually I don't know that

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it it didn't actually I don't know that it actually penetrated through it just cracked it and depressed it you know what I would call it if you shot a bullet into a window and it cracked it and depressed it but it didn't didn't let the bullet through what do you call that bulletproof yeah I think his demonstration actually proved it was bulletproof now let me so obviously it was tested but I think there's some reason to believe that maybe the early tests weakened the structure of the other thing and so maybe there was a reason that it broke all right well let me tell you a funny story this is a true story when I was a bank teller I got robbed a couple of times at gunpoint now I was working in the branch so I was just a teller at the window and somebody came up and you know one case put a gun in my face and the other case did a did the simulated pocket gun thing but I got

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the simulated pocket gun thing but I got robbed twice at gunpoint when I was a teller and my boss told me this story about when he was the teller they put him on the the drive up window at the bank now if you've seen the drive up window you know got this bulletproof glass and and they hand things through the little the little you know pocket there so that you can't get robbed and my boss tells the story that his boss when he told them about the job he said if somebody pulls a gun out and tries to rob you don't give them any money because you're behind a bulletproof glass and so so my boss hears this training it's like alright bulletproof glass even if I see a gun I don't need to give them the money so one day he gets robbed guy drives up pulls out a magnum 44 now if you don't know your guns and I don't know I'm not like a gun guy but if you've ever seen the

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a gun guy but if you've ever seen the gun that Dirty Harry used it's a handgun but it's like this long it's like the most horrific looking handgun you've ever seen in your life it looks like it could shoot through yo titanium so he pulls out this handgun puts it up to the glass I have the guys on the other side of the glass looking at this handgun it's like the biggest handgun in the world and he started shoveling money through yeah there you go
go so the robbery is successful and then afterwards he's being debriefed and the and his boss says to him I told you it was bulletproof glass you know I told us bulletproof why did you give him the money and as my boss tells the story he turned to his boss and he said to him to find bulletproof
which is one of the all-time best lines because I think with those two words define bulletproof of course he was out

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define bulletproof of course he was out of trouble because bulletproof does need a definition doesn't it does bulletproof mean in every case it will stop every bullet doesn't mean as a good chance of stopping the first one does it mean it works great for lower caliber handguns does mean it'll stop a shotgun but not a machine gun define bulletproof so I think with the Tesla truck there's a similar situation in which it would have been a great demonstration as the yes the window had not cracked in any fashion like they did in the tests but the fact that this thing took a whole bunch of hits with a ball bearing in practice and then even though it cracked it didn't crack through it's pretty impressive I gotta say it's pretty impressive so it didn't give didn't give Tesla what they wanted on that but it looks like it's still still pretty good

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looks like it's still still pretty good glass all right here's my question this is the dog that didn't bark I'm gonna ask you why we don't know the answer to this we know that China is doing all kinds of bad stuff to the United States they're stealing our IP they're giving us bad trade deals or shipping fentanyl here so we know all that let me ask you this are they doing it to Russia and you just have a thought to yourself why don't I know that why don't I know the answer to that question is China screwing Russia as rigorously as they're screwing the United States yeah you just had you just had a reaction didn't you because you don't know the answer to that question may be you probably have some assumptions but here's the question if they're not shouldn't we learn why not and try that get it in them if they're not but here's where it gets

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they're not but here's where it gets more fun what if they are what if they are I keep telling you that we were negotiating with these big let's say frenemy you know rival countries we've negotiated with them as if there are shortages that if they get something we don't get it but we're not in the shortage world we're in the world of abundance we're in the world where if we get along we both make more money it's really that if we don't get along we both lose money if we do get along we both make money every time I don't think there's any exception to that you know in the past you could actually conquer another country hold their territory tax them you could make a profit you can actually make a profit from or not every time obviously the losing army didn't make any profit but at least she had a chance in today's world there's no way to profit for more and there's not even a way to profit by being at each other now

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way to profit by being at each other now obviously China thought it was getting away with something stealing our IP and getting away with good trade deals and stuff but it can't last because eventually you get a Trump and Trump says how about now and then China says well if we can't do what we've been doing to you for years we'll stop trading with you and then you get a trump who says okay okay if that's your other choice you know we're happy to just tariffs the hell out of your products and we can do it as long as you want we're just not going to do the old thing we used to do it where you just robbed us every day so here's my here's where I'm heading with this I think we should be making China and Russia compete for our affections and why is it the first time you ever heard that about it is we live in the world where we're like they're our enemy and we're poking them they're poking us and we're poking

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them they're poking us and we're poking in their Poconos we're trying to contain them and all that why don't we just say you know we're the big three countries and we'd like to be really good friends with both of you but yes that's not an option we'll take one of you who wants to go first because whoever goes first it's gonna make a ton of money and you will be militarily completely safe I mean we're pretty safe right now but but if we were to say hey Russia here's the deal you stop poking us we'll stop poking you you stay out of our elections and all that stuff we'll stop trying to overthrow your regime with our whatever we're doing because we probably are and the only thing we want from you besides not poking us anymore and we won't poke you is that you be our friend and how does trying to feel about that so I think we should be negotiating with

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so I think we should be negotiating with these countries from a a mindset of abundance I Trump use this with North Korea but he has not used it as let's say as cleanly as I'm stating it with Russia and China although he has expressly said these same things that they could make more money I think we can we could push on that harder I think well here's what's missing I think what's missing is the way I framed it the way I framed it is that were we have a an old mindset that we have to be enemies and that by being enemies we can maximize our own gain that's an old mindset it just doesn't match anything in the current world the new mindset should be abundance that if we can work together productively we just get richer and the way I just said it is almost it's almost indescribable effective because everybody likes more

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effective because everybody likes more money and there's nothing to argue with in that statement I think every every smart person would agree that if we can get along we both make more money and if we don't get along we both lose money it's really as simple as that all right I I saw a video and I heard a fact that I didn't know that might actually modify some of my opinions on Joe Biden were you aware that he had a lifetime struggle with stuttering did you know that I didn't know that until yesterday so apparently Joe Biden had quite a bad stutter when he was young which first of all would explain why he has such a negative reaction to Trump and who he see
see as a boolean somebody saying stammering I I don't know the technical difference between the two but something in that family stuttering or stammering and so he was the Biden was the subject of

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he was the Biden was the subject of intense bullying as a kid so you can imagine that he's pretty triggered by anybody who reminds him or acts like a bully so I could imagine that Trump is exactly the kind of person he would like the least so that that was like really interesting but it also gives you some let's say context for his gaffes so he has a lot of gaps and I'm gonna tell you something that you would never know if you didn't hear from somebody who also had a lot of experience with a voice problem so as most of you know for three and a half years I could not speak through because I had this exotic problem called a focal dysphonia now when I say I couldn't speak I could make noise but I couldn't form lots of vowel sounds and some vowels triggered me vowels consonants mostly some consonants triggered me so that I couldn't speak and others did not so for example the

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and others did not so for example the letter D or T would cause me not to be able to say the word and so if I tried to communicate I would be trying to think the thought I'm trying to say and I'd be trying to think what words to use and then I would have to also evaluate whether any of the words in the sentence had a consonant in them that I couldn't pronounce and so the first sentence I think before I would say it I'd have to read it in my mind and say is there a consonant in there I can't pronounce crap there is what can I substitute I'll substitute this different word it's not going to sound like it makes sense but I could try it no that won't make sense now you have to think of all those thoughts in real time while you're talking in public imagine being on camera and knowing that there are certain words especially in high-stress situations certain words they're gonna make you stutter and you don't want to do that so you're thinking of the right word and

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so you're thinking of the right word and then rejecting it because it has the wrong consonant and then trying to substitute it and you're doing all that thinking in public while you're trying to convey a difficult concept would that make you have a gaffe well it doesn't make you have the gaffes where you don't know what state you're in those sorts of things but it would make you stutter it would make you stammer to make sure that you're not dealing with one of the hard words so I'm just gonna say keep that in mind I everybody who all the people who talk about Biden have you ever heard this about any other politician in his situation have you ever heard a politician who even all the people on the other side say well but one thing's true he's a great guy I even do people who dislike him say he's a really great guy like one of the best guys ever and I think that maybe that's true oh you know somebody's talking

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true oh you know somebody's talking about exponentially yeah maybe maybe he is trying to avoid a word he can't pronounce maybe I don't know so I would say of Joe Biden that you should at least factor in his age factor in the fact that he's got some speech difficulties that no doubt linger so put that all in there and remember he's a nice guy so we don't have to aid him I don't think he's qualified to be President but we don't have to be mean about it all right that's all I got for now and I will I will talk to you all later