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I don't like to brag yoke as I live in California, and there is a lot to brag about, for example, today the air is actually breathable.
And I don't like to brag but I'll, be able to walk outside my home today. Open up my mouth,
and breathe in the air without risking a serious medical problem. Yeah in my town. The smoke has actually subsided to the point where I can go outside. So look at me
Try to hold your jealousy,
There's a new turn in the year and the president's trumps
Nicole situation. I don't know for this buddy
exhibiting a new side effect,
Now, if this is a side effect from the the meds or it's something that the krona virus does,
But apparently he can only tweet in all caps.
I don't know exactly what the treatment for that is. Your son,
as people will send one to me.
in all caps, Canada, away to emphasise a specific tweet and that's ok, that's not necessarily a sign of any kind of illness or side effect.
But if you tweet a whole series of tweets the same morning- and there
all in all caps, that's.
that's time for some serious medical intervention, and so
think President Trump needs a little more
more attention. Otherwise we are going to be treated to all caps tweets from now on and it's worse than that is worse than that because, as you know, the president took a little DR. Yes,
yet you wanted to just wave to these supporters were gathered around Walter Reed Hospital, but because he is still in fact it.
He was in the car with two secret service agents are now. People are concerned that those secret service agents could,
in worst case scenario? They might start. We do you know,
perhaps as well,
We don't know what it is about, the president Ex causing them to tweet in all caps, but I don't think it's a sort of thing. You want to expose other people too, because the secret service people just trying to do their jobs and what, if what if they have to go through life tweeting in all caps, does this exposure to wherever this is? That's not fair, isn't now it's not fair at all. So I think we should be.
Sorry about that now some people are saying it's very, very ass, inappropriate for the president to put the secret service at risk. I did hear an x y house. Physician talking about does need to be determined that the risk was
very, very small, tiny, tiny, tiny little risk.
And apparently the doctors, I want to read the ones that are treating the president cleared him to do this, so they to join.
That the risk to the secret service agents and everybody else was very, very, very small, very, very rose, but it wasn't zero. It wasn't zero. So was it worth it.
Was it a good risk management decision by the present? Well, one of the things it does is it reminds the public that the president is relatively
good shape and probably recovering on schedule and the country
we'll go ahead and probably the stock market will will open a little bit higher today or not. It has been.
There's a good she has a well because the president's looking robust
So I would say the trade offers us
the tiny tiny little chance that the secret service could be infected
versus the benefit of showing the public that he is alive,
Somebody just asked me was city. Should I move too to be successful? Not San Francisco? Don't come here not
Angeles, I would rule out Baltimore Chicago New York, City Austin, maybe you're a good things about asked him, maybe someplace in Texas here good things about national ass. I was just a question about where the move for success,
I know you're a question: if the secret service agents who drove the president around in this alone, one block drive there
If they were put a risk, one about the doctors, why why do we ignore the fact that there are apparently there's an army of doctors? I don't know how many of them looks like a lot of em, but there must
be probably fifty and people who have daily access to the president.
Now there are also wearing protective gear, but so are the soul of the secret service agents shouldn't each of those medical people have to go into a fourteen day, quarantine everytime, I talked to the present. I mean I suppose you have to treat the medical community differently
but I only point this out to say there were really bad it estimating risk, because we ve got this team of people.
Going in and out and deal with, probably other drought. A virus patients
I'm going in and out in dealing with other
diseases and I'm going in and out of the president's room. There is a lot of leakage
I also would like to point out that the average person the average person doesn't do that good job with social distancing.
at mass squaring yeah. If people are watching, if people are why
Joe, you probably pretty good with your mask. Is there
people around here, probably good with your social distancing. Why?
happens when your home is area
come in your home without a mask is ready
but he comes in your home. The baby,
it was a man of other homes. I've got a feeling,
A few drill down and found out what was happening behind closed doors, that the social distancing is not nearly as good as you know, not merely is good, but doesn't have to be perfect, just ass to be pretty good. I understand that there are some kind of basketball players,
happening. I have reached a new all time, low and caring about sports for all the right reasons.
Sports never really needed to be important, that they were one hole. Was it the sports were filling. I think the whole that sports fills other than taken,
Some time is that it allows you to have a team that you can route for, but I feel as if.
We're all already on teams because of politics. It feels like you're on the team. Then some people are joining Antifa and black lives matter, I feel, is just the purpose of sports.
is much less because sports in a way you can argue, is like this symbolic candid of fight, this big symbolic battle, so that
your need for real battle is somewhat siphoned off by your enjoyment of entertainment in these fake battle, sculled sports, but if he sees fake battles every day and you feel like you're on one of those team aroun for maybe it only in sports as much maybe it out
Did you notice how little news there is today that the biggest news is the infant Isomil Infant Assembly, small risk, the two secret service agents who sign up to risk their lives for the president and for the for the nation, I would say even more than the present that are slight sleigh rested these to be
because the president drove around the block that that all the other news in the world you sort of stopped. What does that tell you about these subjectivity of your news consuming experience, because this happens on holidays and weekends? What, whenever the people who make the news take some time off?
there's no news, so if you think that your understanding of the world and what's important is driven by was actually happening, it's not a lull.
it's it's really entirely, because people make up the news. They
they decide was important. They transmitted
here than aside your opinions, and then you get worked up,
over the opinion there somebody else's aside you and if you don't think, that's what's happening, just pay attention and you'll notice is little. These all suggestions that that's what's happening and you see right now as soon as President Trump can't be attacked as easily because he's sick. So you don't want to attack sick people as much. It just makes all the news go away inside. Nothing is important suddenly, but does that
the guy's dead did the world change now the world then change at all, but the way you process the world completely changed,
The people were assigning you, opinions stop dirtier for a couple days. They just stopped assigning you opinions
Let me give you dumb ones like you, the president driving around in a car, and the answer is a real thing, but in terms of the.
global things that you're worry about small.
Today I got a little back and forth with a twitter troll who tells me that the present tromp has no empathy. He has no empathy to which I quite naturally responded that mind. Reading is not a thing. Can you really tell if in the street,
Your has actively well the troll got back to me and said quite reasonably quite reasonably said you can tell empathy by people's actions. Now that's not a hundred percent true, because our actions don't always correspond to our inner thoughts. We might be concealing her in her thoughts for any variety reasons, either to look strong or whatever, but you can conceal you're you're your true in her thoughts, but I thought
well, but let me consider this accusation accusation the President Trump has not acted in a way. They were demonstrate empathy. What do you think it do? You think that the president has
so far in and his was a campaign for and then first term as he demonstrated through his actions, not just words with actions. Empathy and well, I would say he based his entire campaign on it. Didn't he correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the central message of his campaign. Empathy for the middle class Americans would benefit,
That was not just an add on that. Wasn't some of these are you now I got my campaign platform and
it probably sounds good I'll, throw in some stuff about the middle class. Now is started there. The entire heart of his entire movement started with an empathy core and then built on top of that. It's all built around the middle class and the empathy for them, because if you get that far right
everything else works. It is a general truism that if the middle classes healthy, you have a much better chance of helping everybody else right, the other than the wretched you'll be fine.
middle class are good and the poorer much better shape is the middle class her or healthy. They don't need help. They can provide up so.
And of course the president has been very direct, more direct them anybody's everybody
The saying that use empathy is for Americans and he's gonna keep it that way, because he cares the most about the people were closest, which is the most human thing you could do because empathy, you can think of it as something. That's like the centre of a balls. I a person's primary empathy, is to themselves even if you think, you're a good person
designed to take care of ourselves first, but then there's your family, your loved ones. Here you know extended family, your coworkers, you, your local town than your state, your country in the world
and the embassy there. You have it,
a normal human is the greatest
the closer you are to the Centre of Europe or more empathy for your family them for strangers. In several, so the president has said his empathy stake in the ground is the middle class. It's pretty big big room for people, so I've noticed that. Maybe this is an exaggeration, but it seems like I can tell us,
these political affiliation online by whether they criticise systems were people. Where do you see
conservatives criticizing stuff. You know, of course, full size criticize people. So I'm not I'm not saying that's exclusive to the left,
but you will more often see conservatives talking about free markets and the system. Capitalism system, socialism, the system, how many people and the Supreme Court
System on the other, the separation of powers, the system so mostly mostly systems, they do also talk about people like as its unanimous the game, wherein
but if I feel as though conserve those, I have a feeling about people
and then they all throwing a little bit about systems if they may do seems like a big difference. I'm I'm watching
I also somebody in the comments referred to the present as a con man.
I have often thought that that's the lowest level of analysis because the law-
What level of analysis is simply a subsidy?
in a word for other words, because there's no actual analysis there are, you did, is put a ceiling on an observation which is sorted. Nothing
there's nothing? So what would be the difference between a sales person and a con man? What would be the difference or lefferts would be whether they're doing something for good or for that is the president trying to help the middle class trying to help the United States trying to make this the other economies good yeah? Obviously he can't do you can't do anything good for himself unless he's doing things that are good for the country, his job so transparent, there would be impossible to bear to be a bad precedent and then have a good outcome for himself. That's not even the thing. Nobody will even think that way, students to obviously your connected.
So seems to be. The president is so hard to read all these comments and think at the same time also to say that I was up three hundred, so that would suggest that the country likes what the president, because his health is probably was driving the market right now. So it looks like the stock market thinks they want more President Trump, so I made a list of ass. I made a list of the attacks that I get on twitter and I think I'll just
They're just paste this list to my trolls from now on. So here's the list of every criticism I get on twitter, you recognize is right,
that's what I'm saying about a con man versus the sales person cuz. I forgot my train of thought they're going back to it the differences. What do you think is the intention and if you're going to.
I imply an intention on a stranger and you can
red mines is just sort of useless crazy talk,
you can likewise somebody's doing, but you can't then
go back into their head and find out that they're really doing it for bad reasons. The other that's kind of not a thing. You can't read minds.
and then there, the people's eyes, is aggressor or he's our success stories. Whatever you want to call the this is what I call the word thinking,
so instead of saying what is it we want to be done and then does he do those things.
which a sort of all the matters right from the present one
One of the things you want accomplished is that at present
Who can do those things? Have they demonstrated?
the ability or a track record to do those things, that's what matters. But if you just.
want to put a different word on it. I would like to refer to his salesmanship as cod man. What, if you added what what was you're was your contribution to the conversation. You just change the word: that's it.
So we're thinking is now useful? I so here the list of the six things that capture almost every criticism I get in
Later number one a personal attack, instead of any kind of argument
I'd reading failures, where they imagine unthinking something I'm not
movie, hallucinations of my opinions, were they just imagine some straw man opinion attacker, you ve
that sarcasm unconnected to reality, just a pure sarcastic tweet,
with no would know, complained about the facts or the reasoning. Just sarcasm, strong opinions,
son, fake news, you'll get our lot somebody.
As a real, strong opinion, because I think that the president once suggested injecting bleach into your arm never happened, but there were strong opinion on that.
Failure to compare the right things, which would be comparing the United States to other countries in the crowd of viruses
one example and the illusion of understanding science who all guilty of that
I think every one of us is guilty of this flaw.
Imagining that we understand science and the person we're talking to doesn't understand science, probably not the case.
What were all pretty sure that we ve got the right move your science. The way I like to look at it is trusting. Science makes
What sense is there? Anybody here doesn't think you should trust science. Now what I say science I mean that the process of science spread a girl right. The process for funding through the process is pretty good. Here's what I dont trust scientists.
because scientists are people. I don't totally trust people,
people lie, people are buyers. People have got dissonance, there's nothing, you can trust less than a person. People are terrible, but science described as the process of science
things that scientists do that's great, I'm all in on science, but scientists, sometimes good someday.
His bed, but there no more reliable than people in general and people in general are terribly unreliable for a variety of reasons.
I'm gonna start pasting this list of six things and displaying a number on it. Oh shit, I just realized that have yet to number five in my list, then I have to go to rewrite that and I actually can't remember the last time. Somebody disagreed with me in public who also understood what my point was.
And understood what say, economics so so years, a here's, a bold statement,
Not aware of any time in my adult life that anyone is
Agreed with me who understood,
annex on any level. You don't have to be an expert were a Nobel Prize winner, Canvas but just understand economics and how
things are made and also understood my opinion.
Lots of people imagine their disagreeing with me, but they're always disagree with some phantom opinion. That's there just their imagination. Somebody says I'll. Take that challenge. Gay usually skip number two on purpose
All right, so what do you all agree that there's not much news happening today? That's not my imagination visit Greg gas. Do I think that Trump would do as well if the media was fair to him.
The question. One of the things that Europe has going for them for him is that the media sores set up, as is granted number
and there's something useful about that.
having a real clean nemesis that other people can get behind heading back, actually help you out. So I'm gonna feeling that transfer set up of being against Leah. Liberia is really helping them.
somebody says Scott Things, tariffs are good and therefore I dont understand economics. Well, whoever said that obviously doesn't understand economics. Terrorists are bad unless you using
as part of a trade war? If what you're doing is trying to punish another country as part of the negotiations and its part of the trade war, then a tariff can be a good thing, meaning that it creates pain in a way that can get you to the end of your negotiations, permanence.
tariffs, probably be better off without them, countries use them to protect their their local industries. And yes, I do understand that the terrorists are not paid by the other country. So nice try, but it didn't work here
When there's no news buckle your seatbelts, somebody says I will look at some of your comments here and see what what you guys are thinking, because there really isn't much happening, and you know there's something coming though there is something coming
but it could be that the all the news is gonna send around the president getting
end of the year and of Walter Reed early.
now. I think you know what's going on with these the mixed messages, the other was a guess. Mark meadows said something about. There was great concern about the president, but then the price
I was trying to paint a picture where he's in good shape so which is, it was so great concern for the presidents of vital signs. Was it touch and go? Was it dangerous?
or was it no problem? I'm gonna get over this everything's going fine, we're all recovered, which one would help the president more
which of those two versions of reality is better
The one where everything's, fine and he's gone through this great.
or the one where it really was pretty bad but looks like you make it
I would argue that the sun, the Sun man mash up of the two is best because it does help the president to think he was a real trouble, because that gives them the maximum empathy, but at the same time,
It helps the country to think that the president is unusually good at recovery because it makes them feel
you look like a little bit of a super super mankind. The situations like, while he sure, got over that pretty quickly. So I think the president's best case scenario is that when he's talking, he minimizes
but when other people are talking you, they dont minimize it as much suicide
scary when you hearing other people, but when the present in talks them himself you just as you do great got through it boom. I think that's the perfect place
day. This is why those cases were being on the same page is not nearly as good as
I'm in a variety of opinions that I think that's gonna surgeon best.
Simone Sanders was acting squarely on Jake or on the topic of Binding de exposed law has been tested enough. I think we now at this point
on the other, there is the question of whether try
knowingly spread the virus. My guess is that that didn't happen and that if we ever figure out.
What really happened when we would find out when it didn't. So that's the sort of thing were unless your proof that there happened. I wouldn't worry about the rumour that it might have stage graft us. The new state graft wild always has been,
stagecraft a super important. How would you like to be a job? I didn't right now and know that nothing, you say matters as long as the president is, and Walter Reed and really even after it comes back and study, would be the story, nothing nothing. The Joe Biden, Sesar does makes any difference as long as tromp is absorbed in all of the energy and remember that one of the questions that people are asking,
Whether he's having any kind of side effects from the man's, it was my understanding that the things get bad values steroids right, but
Somebody who knows more than I do tell me, is there anything the president's getting that would be a steroids work,
anything these getting there would have any chance of changing its decision. Making
those are viewed in watching the unfair scope for a while. You know that in the past year I went through several bouts of taking predecessor and, as I described to you during the past
ass, the tissue Prendick Zone changes your personality and is really obvious. You know went when you're on a year. You began your sort of the super person in Europe.
her enthusiasm and your optimism and your energy, your eye, but
outside you can get pretty aggressive,
Four people were already aggressive. You don't want
here somebody was already aggressive- the little extra yeah chemical aggression,
so I would worry about that. If trump add anything in that family, but I don't know, sir, I think he is. If it were me, I'd worry about
Oh yeah, others story, those sixty minutes, TED crews was calling the sound sixty minutes. I guess
in a story about terror, read the accuser of Joe Biden, accuser of sexual assault and
I being asked to tell cruises: asking sixty minutes bubble,
why they would run their story in Australia,
but they don't run into the United States. It sixty minutes- and
the: U S story, it's not like some australian, specific story, it's a! U S! Business
story. So why is a? U S specific story, that's bad for by them.
Lee showing or Australia. That's a good question isn't.
So I hear these on the deck sir Mothers zone. Somebody says it's a powerful steroids. I just looked it up and I didn't say steroids Missis.
question. If you were present how'd, you handle the three thousand refugees being sent to the. U S. For added cares. Yes, sir. I guess I guess the refugee situation is being handled by just asking the mexican government to take care of it. That I guess I do say, my. U. I'm access gonna handle that.
Somebody says that steroids make you aggressive. If your mail, maybe I would think it would make anybody aggressive, but maybe we knows.
Yes, I'm sorry, you say Australia sixty minutes, there's nobody will lag. You will
will jump out uncovered, help him or hurt him. It's a little bit
hard to do now. If I had, if I had to put money on it, I would say it will help him, because it's it's gonna Creek the it will create the impression that he understands it like
you could only understand. If you ve been through it is. It is simply true that you'd rather have somebody who has experience in the very thing that you're trying to manage in every category it's gonna be. This can be an advantage to have some experience so.
Tromp just learned a whole lot about corona viruses, probably that you didn't know before,
and he also as a servant, appreciation for how it feels like you know that the actual mental psychological part of it and even with his superior healthcare, you probably has.
Some good idea. What's what the what anybody would feel going to that situation, especially if the older, so I feel like it's gonna help em
but you could certainly make an argument to go. The other way
What is your upload you to have so many ads?
Well, you should. I think I changed the ad setting on Youtube, so you should not see the interstitial adds anymore unless ice said Iraq. I heard a complaint on that and I change they yesterday, so they should be changed.
Somebody says that back some of the sun is stronger than Brenda Zone
You know when I looked it up
they did say that there was a rare, a rare possibility of mood change, but look like it s. Pretty rare. My mother took present zone and she became an aggressive house, cleaner yeah. You can get a lot done. It's really dangerous drugs away. Yet if you, if you don't pay,
For the prime version of Youtube and guess what the ads you really Otto, I personally I found the Youtube is probably by favoured form of entertainment. Now, because you can get these little ashore had such things. If I try to watch a movie on regular tv like on cable the time it takes me to search for a movie,
Am I slow, slow interface on my tv and find a movie, and then I've got away from the opening credits, I'm sort of fifteen minutes into up
object that I only wanted to spend ten minutes on. But if I gotta you to back, I just click some interesting ten minute video unhappy.
what percentage of your followers of had to re follow you at least once I don't know percentage, but it's certainly thousands see that comment. I missed.
Listen opinions are assigned doable
The EU also sign opinion steer viewers to a certain extent. That's a good question. Somebody asked do. I think they're I assigned that. I personally have signed opinions to my viewers. Yes, yes, I would say so
Based on feedback, so there are quite a few. People are right to be on a regular basis and said
The way they see the world is changed because of something I said,
So I was ended, the feedback is yes. Now.
I try to do is not assign opinions so much as a sign technique so
what I'm trying to do is tell you, the waiter frame, something in the way they think of it. The way the two
change the way you frame it. The way you compared to the right things, I'm trying to give you tools which would allow you to not have to have no opinions assigned to you, but in the process that I'm sure I assigned opinions whether I want to or not.
There's people claiming somebody send the comments that the Trump is only hoaxing having created a virus. I thank you just ass, the Likud. The number of people involved in northern is another hoax,
nobody would plan a hoax?
There would end your political career and you'd have this many witnesses, I'm under a lot of doctors and nurses, spouses of doctors and nurses- way too many witnesses, so what they, I feel confident in science, not Alex. I I've seen people,
I agree that I have changed their opinions. Somebody says: has a little life soak Christie there is taking aerobatic flying lessons
She might actually be in here right now.
so, while under these periscopes and during the day somewhere
somewhere up in the up they're, not directly above the populated parts.
Christine is doing barrel roles under she's doing
any number hammerheads and things that I don't have words for so she says she's, doing very scary, stuff,
Imagine being this is what she does every day so every day, she'll be in a airplane, she's, very close to getting her or pilot lesson, but she's pilot license, but she's taking lessons and aerobic flying
Aerobatic like and imagine doing this in an airplane going straight up stalling it alone in the plane, just freefall down to earth and then try to recover it, because that's what you do that this part of the fun? Let's try to recover the plane when it's free falling with the engine off she does that every day, it's crazy!
Vice presidential debates you now
say this along about my pants. My pants is just gotta, be one of the most solid, dependable vice presidents,
time now I dont wooden shoes and for president, but I love how complimentary is to the president- and I love that he's so dependable. He just doesn't make mistakes and if they do their their trivial ones right. So the fact that the pants was just the most
solid politician is gonna. Go out there against Tumblr is pretty interesting. I have to it
This will be the most interesting vice presidential debate saved a guy who doesn't make mistakes.
against somebody. Who's needs to mix it up a little bit. I feel like calmly
Europe needs to do more than play for a draw. Attention is the place for a win, and you know labour play for
I guess, if he gets a tie, you wins go, spend just needs to make it not about him. He just wants, don't don't work based on me just now just play for a time.
Cause, any trouble make sure the news about about the boss and I think, ll pull that off. So, if I had to guess
no matter who they say, one. The debate as long as pence is solid and I am sure you will be.
as long as these solid. He wins. That's all he I salute.
he doesn't have to win win. He just ass did not lose heart and he's fine.
Common, whenever fixed her laugh well
we'll see she hasn't fixed. Her laugh
and some videos that we have seen some some interviews, but I would expect that, in the context of a debate.
she'll, probably feel a little more controlled on her on her mannerisms. So I would not expect to see the the weird Cackle learned and debate that at the time
Turn up his microphone here and I also wonder if there be any in interrupting: do you think a cobbler will be interrupting tents or the pencil interactive interrupter gamblers? I would expect her to do a little more interrupting. Maybe maybe there won't be the other way they might just both played straight. I got nothing else for your son got. It called the game now so I'll talk to you tomorrow, periscope is off.
now with you were you tubers alone. All those Paris coffers are gone so as to have any other questions for me here and now you do you like us, better, obviously, you're, all my favorites, I read the super chats why I've tried to read them all. I cannot respond to the ball, but I do try to read them all, and I appreciate that very much itself. Around I'll talk to you
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