Topics:
- Colbert writer’s comment clarification…48 hour rule satisfied?
- Kanye heading to the White House, meeting with POTUS and Jared
- North Korea prediction: Meeting will happen this year (December)
- 2 Chinese nationals producing Fentanyl have been identified
- Democrat concerns about the courts being too conservative
- Would any state be dumb enough to outlaw abortions?
- Clever persuasion play by Adam Schiff, 0+0=1
- Nuclear power plants, the only known solution for global warming
- President Trump’s comment about Taylor Swift
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This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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Have I become the Bob Ross of Periscope pretty sure I have wasn't my plan kind of worked out that way.
We will begin by talking about the writer, for the Cole Bear Show who wrote a tweet that got people jumping and in the tweet. The key part:
was that the writer said well
We didn't get what we wanted there with the Supreme Court, but it
Yes, we ruined Kavanaugh's life, at least we ruined Kavanaugh's life. Now people said my God,
add: did you really say that? Did you really say at least we ruined Kavanaghs live and
people said you're horrible, you're horrible, you writer for Colbert. You, you
Liberal lefty enemy.
What you all want to know is what is my ruling, and why am I
I to make a ruling on this at all. Well, I am a professional humorist and her excuse or explanation. I should say excuses is biasing the the jewelry her explanation, her clarification.
Was that it was sarcasm and that the real meaning of at least we ruined Kavanaugh's life is that obviously we had not
meaning that he would go on to actually an excellent life being on the Supreme Court to dream job a better life than ninety nine point. Nine percent of the world
So that was her explanation of what it meant, but when people read it, they said at least we ruin Kavanaugh's life, my God, his family and every
So what is the ruling? Was it a joke that was just poorly written.
Or was it a serious thing that she's lying about now and trying to get away with her bad taste comment:
I give you now my ruling. She says
I did the forty eight hour rule for clarification. That is correct
This is my invention, but I suggested as a great social
new social norm that she said something that was provocative and ambiguous according to,
people within forty eight hours. She clarified it in a way that I as a professional,
professional humorist say, is plausible plausible.
Now the only the only reason I would dismiss a forty eight hour, clarification as if it was just ridiculous. You know just something that just was impossible to believe
rare. Instead in forty eight hours she gave an explanation which, when I look at it, I go. Ok, if you are predisposed to thinking the Kavanaugh, had not been injured and was going on to a very good life. This would be sarcasm and she is a professional humorous sarcasm. You know joke rider.
So then she clarified it in a way that is satisfying to Maine. I rule free Bass, free pass,
if you disagree with that, I would just you know it's fine to disagree, but I would ask you to check your thinking and ask yourself if you two would like
the benefit of the forty eight hour rule. Should this come your way someday remind
every time you give somebody the courtesy of
Forty eight hours to clarify- and you don't
try to read their mind. Don't try to read into their soul just let them say what their opinion is. Other people get to tell you their opinion. You don't get to read their mind and tell them their opinion. That's not a good way to run some.
Because, if we're blaming people for what we imagine our their opinions,
we're in really bad territory. But if we give everybody
forty eight hours just to be clear what they think we're all better off. That's my ruling
As you know, Connie is going to the White House going to meet with Jerrod Kushner and President
Apparently one of the issues is there might be more than one issue, but one of them is training for
or at least getting jobs for Ex cons, very good issue. I think it works very well for
cardies portfolio. If you will, I would say it went
I'm a problem that we was easier to ignore two.
On this now vital, because the economy is working so so hard that if we don't have a better pool of workers on every level for everything we're gonna be
short, so we have the added economic advantage on top of what was already a social.
And you could argue about whether
Do we owe anything to these people but
but certainly there were a dragged on society if they did not have, and the Connie approach seems productive
it I'm going to be very amused. Watch
Carly a and watching you know, Kim Kardashian continue to do things which are useful, while other people are criticizing them you're. Just a celebrity, you don't know about the details, but just watch what happens so I I was so you do you go there's a good chance, you're going to be surprised because they're just things that come on you can do that route ordinary people just
I do know, partly because it is cut me a you know and he's got the the frame and the brand and the the recognition and all that the power of persuasion that comes with that, but just I'd, say I'd say, keep an open, mind and watch what happens. Live me put this in.
Context. I've said where there were open we're entering a golden age and the way I've have it. This is my own definition of a golden age.
Is when you reach a point where you're you're restraints or your constraints are not so much physical anymore? Is not the you don't have money is not there, you don't have the the know. How the thing that's missing is the creativity, because in this will surprise most of you but smart people tell me this is true. We don't lack money for solving these problems.
We don't lack money for training convex. We don't lack money for fixing urban areas
Not really let lack money for even fixing the blighted areas within the cities
and we don't really like money for you
handling some of the opioid things you know money is it's it's good that money has been passed by Congress recently, president was talking about that and I think that's a huge good step, but most of are all
the goals are not money, because there are enough billionaires. The government is big enough that if you
have the right idea it will get funded.
I used to do budgets in my corporate days, so I would be in charge of the budget and department
heads would come to me and they'd say I need more money for X or y and I'd say well, just put it in the form of a business case explaining what the benefit is and what you want to spend before and I'll bring it to the boss. And if it's a good idea, you'll get some more money, and
they had a hard time, believing the money wasn't the problem that if they had a good explanation of why they needed it, I could I could make it happen that that we didn't have a budget top in any meaningful way.
We simply had a lack of good ideas. We actually had more money. I was working for the phone company at the time we were awash with capital at the time
I actually had more money than we had good ideas now. That's
the usual situation for a corporation but uh
it is. It is becoming a normal situation in the country that we have more money than good ideas for how to solve the problems with that money. What does Connie bring to the situation.
Think about it name, somebody who is more creative, more creative
in more ways than Connie, so he's not just creative he's creative across fields, in other words, he's mastered, creating which is almost as separate skill, Frumusica, separate skill from design separate skill from making sneakers a snapper, separate skill from designing home.
He's. He knows how to create and if you're entering the golden age, where you have
People really know how to do stuff. You know things that are other things you do to run. Society
people who have the money, the biggest gap we're having, and this will increase overtime. So
the value of somebody like Kanye, starts
a big right now, but is actually even going to get bigger, does not mean you need ideas and he's he's an idea person. You need to check the box who shakes the box better than Khan yay. Well, one person
drop. You can only think of one person in the world right now. I think, can you think of anybody else who would who would be like a candidate for number two, the top box shaker in the world as President Trump Right, Nikki Haley resigned. Somebody saying here that's interesting:
will follow that story, but I don't have the details anyway. So Connie is actually the right person at exactly the right time
having a meeting with the two most right people in the world, because Jared
and the president are exactly the right people in the whole frickin world that are the perfect pro people for Connie. Who is the perfect creator? You know he has. He has the right intentions. He has our attention. He has
kill set, that's a really good team, so I'm pretty optimistic about at least the possibilities is what they can come up with together,
Let's talk about North Korea, there's an expert who says my take ten years to fully work out the details of the nuclear rising North Korea. Let's say he's right, but what do you think about the timing of when the north korean summit with the in the United States will happen? And I'm gonna make my guess? Here's a prediction of full
full disclosure. Yesterday I went to predict it and I placed a bet. So what I'm going to say now is consistent with a bat I've placed so
disclosure right! I have money riding on this bet, not a lot of money. It's a small band, but.
My bed is that the meeting with Kim will happen this year before the end of the
even though it's going to take a
on time to work out the details. Here's why see? If you follow this my best, my best predictions are the ones that have a a persuasion cover on them. You know that there's something about the persuasion element that is predictive all right on, I'm no good. I would not be good as say predicting the outcome of the House race in the mid term. That's why I've avoided it because they're too many other variables about who's incumbent. What's the you know how how how are they do?
stricter than you know, just all kinds of stuff that you can't you can't see. I don't have visibility on that stuff in in the the questions that are sort of a a one off you know, do you have a summit? Yes, sir? Now and with North Korea,
and then when do you do it? I feel like I have a little bit more visibility now. The common thinking is that these things take a long time, so there's no way that it would happen before the end of the year. Here's my take on it and this was a persuasion in flu.
Prediction, the President United States,
Billy really understands the news cycle and the importance of dominating it. What happens in December of every year? Well I'll tell you, in December of every year very much like August of every year or two months when the news stops happening.
You know we can always be surprised, but as a general pattern, the news stops happening in December
So if you know that the news is just going to slow down around Christmas, what would you do if your president Trump and you're the the
best the best manager of
suasion and brand we've ever seen. You would make sure that you got Kim in in December,
because if you bring North Korea into the headlines in December, you at you get something good and I imagine that what would come out of it would be something like,
A a formal end of hostilities: there are no hostilities for the moment, but a formal end of the of the legal declaration of war, whatever that, whatever that, the actual terms for that, you know what I'm talking about, so we're still technically
the state of war with N Korea and it might take ten years to workout all the details of Denuclearisation and December is a slow news month.
And N Korea and the United States have already said as soon as possible about meeting with Kim and Trump in the United States. That looks like December to me, because December would just dominate the news coverage. 'cause they're just wouldn't be enough competing news and it's just a big win for N Korea. It's a big win for the world. It's a big win for the president and, I think a formal declaration of the end of hostilities.
With some kind of a declaration that yeah we've already agreed to. Let inspectors and- and you know, we're working on the details, but denuclearization is going at. You know. It'll, take us a long time to get that done, but we can start so I place my bat. Let me say this is carefully as possible. Don't ever bat based on my predictions, it just doesn't make me feel comfortable. I I've met. I've personally talked to and met a number of people who one huge amounts of money: betting on President Trump's election. Because of what I said, I had no idea that was going on by the way so it and I will try to stop it if I'd known, but there are people who bet hundred thousand dollars. You know fifty thousand dollars or people who made huge profits, betting on trumpet, because I made the prediction: I don't like you do in that. I don't like
you doing that. But I'll tell you. I placed a bet on December or at least by the end of the year Kim and to Trump meeting. Let's talk about something else on twitter
I saw a I was pointed to a story about the apparently the government must be Jeff sessions.
Etc have identified to chinese citizens. People who live in
who are at the head of some drug labs that have been sending drugs over here fentanyl,
and one known person is dead at least from a batch of that drug. So we're asking for practicing for them to be, I don't know indicted or whatever happens when somebody's overseas, and you name them. I don't know
Process works with China, but I've called for China, assuming that the charges check out right. I don't want anybody punished if they're not actually guilty.
But assuming that China is satisfied that these two people are culpable, I've called for China to execute them or to deal with it. As harshly as they like to,
Does the the names in the families of those people should be well known within China and I'd like to see China execute them if they don't or if they,
Assist of. I don't know what the other options. I guess I is there any chance that China would ever give up their citizens for american justice. I don't even know if that's the thing, I don't know the details, but if they don't cooperate whatever that looks like in this case, I don't think we should do a trade deal with them. I I
It's important enough. If there, the president said that fifty thousand people a year or dating from opioids, and we know that China is the major source, other sources being India and Mexico. But if, if it's true then say thirty thousand people a year are dying because of chinese friends at all. I think that's a big enough issue to hold off on a trade deal until we can get some justice,
now I I've seen some people on twitter who were pushing back on my suggestion that China kill their drug dealers on our behalf to improve their reputation and no longer be called Fentanyl China, which, by the way, is the top hashtag. I'm very proud of the fact that if you, if you search for Fenton all on Twitter, the first suggestion that comes up is functional China. That was me. So I've created a hashtag, and many of you have been kind enough to amplify it. And now it's
if you search for Fentanyl Fentanyl China's the first, the first search term, remember China doesn't like a bad face, they don't like a bad reputation and they are fentanyl China unless they do something about it. Now on twitter people have,
I'll, say quite a fairly said: wait a minute wait a minute. You can't blame the supplier and it's not a case of blaming them. It's a case of putting friction on it and people have said. But what about
abolition, abolition, didn't work in the United States when we tried to make it illegal to have alcohol 'cause. It just became an illegal trade, and people had all the alcohol they wanted. I say that friction almost always works and I'll give you a counterexample. It is difficult to get a fully automatic rifle in the United States. Why? Because it's illegal.
And there's a lot of friction to it. I don't know that. We've seen a mass shooting with a fully automatic weapon. I can't remember one in ten twenty years. You know, I am sure so there may be. There has been one but
I think, one and the semi automatics are deadly, of course, and the handguns are deadly, of course, but it's
here- are the semi automatic weapons in the crowd or a fully automatic weapon in any kind of a crowd situation would be the ultimate killing machine and people can't get them very easily. So it's somebody says it's not illegal you're correct. Let me
I mean modify that it's been by law. It is very difficult to get one. You can only get one that's made before. One thousand nine hundred and eighty six or something, but you gotta- do some paperwork. You get a pop up on. I assume you're going to pop up on the government's radar. Just
as it's changed, hands etcetera. So there is friction on fully automatics and we we note that they're much less used in the kinds of crimes where you would expect to use that very tool. So I think friction does work is the reason we
laws about anything. The reason we have laws about anything is because friction works. You get less of it when you make it illegal
but at the same time people are saying: wouldn't it be better to make fentanyl an opioid's legal
so that people who are using them anyway, 'cause you can't really stop at an addict from getting 'em. Somebody is going to make it if you close '
that all the labs in China? They would just be new labs in Pakistan or some other damn place right. So at that point is that point is fair, that the fentanyl labs, because there's money to be made would just pop up somewhere else, but I think you work both both ways. You could certainly test
And here's here's the key point I'm going to make you don't have to say to yourself: let's either make
drugs legal or, let's execute Chinese,
is drug dealers or at least go after them hard. You don't have to show it. You have to choose, you can clearly,
both of those things and within the case of testing a legal source of the same drugs while you're trying to treat people it's a big trump announcement about Haley in three minutes old, my God does she have a new job. There might be some of them have any others really interesting. We'll get back to that. But my point is you could test the from the concept of free opioids in the city? You can test it locally and you can get a pretty good idea what's happening. After maybe a year
so yeah, I'm not sure. If fentanyl and here's here's my question that only an extra class, I am aware that, let's say Portugal in places that have made it easier to get
safe and legal needles and and one and it's actually been a plus, so we know that it's been tested and it worked out well for
I don't know if that's the same for friends at all, because one of the problems is that yeah you've got a you've, got different sized margins between dying on a drug and have
a good time and with fentanyl is a very narrow band. So if you gave, if you gave somebody to legal fentanyl pill,
and they were dumb enough to take both of them. They'd still die right.
So I'm not sure you've been entirely you. You can make a good analogy between her when and sentinel and say that what work with Heroin also makes sense with frontal constructional is like a nuclear bomb. Compare
to a hand grenade, so you wouldn't say well the way
handle a hand grenade should be the same as the way you handle a a nuclear bomb right. There's such a difference in the leaf illness of of this that I would want to see some experts weigh in
on weather in this special case, making illegal, safe supply is even a thing. I don't even know if it's a thing all right
let's keep going you're going to want to watch the Nikki Haley thing I'll. Tell you what I'll do I'm going to turn on? I
turn on my streaming service year and I'll. Keep an eye on it now we can, I think, there's a lot to be told about what's going on here and maybe there's already an announcement of replacement all right, so we'll just keep watching this keep an eye on it and when the news goes, live to the president of it or break it. Okay,
Here's a question for you, the folks on the left are very concerned about the court in about of being too conservative, and especially about Kavanaugh
We'll do altered on CNN moments, I've I'm what I'm watching it now and and until the president goes live I'll. Keep it off, but Cavanaugh is a special kind of judge right because he's very strong on precedent and we're also in a very special time of history in which is seems to me they're, pretty much all of the social issues of unsettled. Am I wrong? If you said to me fifty years ago, let's have a conservative core
who who is very serious about president? Well, then you wouldn't get any of the,
changes that we we mostly find are popular for
Fifty years ago, you'd said, let's stick with the
tuition and young never never get creative with it.
You wouldn't have gay marriage, which is, I believe, it's quite popular right popular in terms of public support.
I believe there would be lots of things that would that you wouldn't have
Now, I'm not going to argue whether these things are good or bad. That's not the conversation today, personal
I think most things have moved in the right direction, but that's not the argument. The argument is us if you like what the what has happened so far, if you like where society is, has brought us to this at this moment, and I think it's pretty likeable you're in terms of social justice, if I can use that word, not in a negative way for once in terms
how we treat each other in terms of fairness in terms of trying to you, know, identify and eliminate little pockets of of abuse and unfairness.
We've really come a long way, and so today, if you get constitutionalists an people who, like president they're sort of get a lock that in so there's it seems like there's a point, there's a point at which it actually makes sense to switch from creative judges who
the less a more liberal and they say well the constitution. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave the exact constitution and do what I think is right. It might be that that was a good thing until roughly now
a roughly now in our history. We may have enough social justice built into our system through precedent that the Supreme Court has already decided on,
that. If you were to sort a lock that in and and and stay with president I'm not sure.
Yeah, I'm not sure that anything's going to change now, here's
Another thing I want you to look for the people
who are telling you that the whole Kavanaugh situation is about ROE versus Wade, there's something missing. There's another dog that isn't barking problem with us, because if the, if the top court threw out ROE versus Wade- and this is Jeffrey Toobin's estimate- there would be twelve states roughly because of the polling in those days about twelve states- would very quickly make it.
Legal in their states, I'd like to check that assumption and that and I'm wondering why you haven't seen any reporting on the about the states. You know what: where are the people on the left who have said? Okay, we we didn't get what we wanted for the Supreme Court. Let's take the fight to where it makes the most difference, which is these twelve states is California, is not going to make abortion illegal New York state. Doesn't none of the blue states are going to do it?
it's really a question of the twelve ish states, so why haven't they moved all of their fundraising all of their efforts? Why haven't they move that to the states? Let me tell you why
'cause, it's probably not about abortion. I think it might be the biggest fake, because we've ever seen
I think the people might even be internalising it. That way and say this is a fight for abortion. What is really
art of a continuation of the twenty sixteen election. You know
feels to me that abortion is starting to feel more like what I call the fake it, because a fake because
is, is the reason you give and you
even talk to yourself into it. That that's the reason
not the real reason.
The real reason is probably tribalism. It's probably revenges, probably just wanting to win it's about power.
Now for me to be wrong about that and that it.
Videos about ROE versus Wade. All you have to do
Show me look they've moved their attention from the Supreme Court, where you're not going to be able to change that that's kind of locked in they should have moved their attention to the states and we should be seeing stories about the states. We should be
seeing stories about the governor about some of the some of the legislation. Let legislators in the states. We should see interviews with them and have them say yeah tomorrow. I would I'm totally voting. We should see polls of those politicians to no actually that those twelve would actually make it illegal. Then we should see
stories about what would happen, what would happen if a state made it illegally? What are the names of the major corporations in those states and would those major corporations? Can
then you operating in those states would apple computer, for example. Given that it would Google, for example, two good examples. Would any of that act
have a headquarters or a major presence in the state that they found that objectionable by their standards. I don't know that they would
but there are smart people, and I won't tell you where this came from, but somebody who really knows the spring court once one said that changing
at the federal level would have no impact at the state level and here's? Why? And I've said this before on periscope that the moment a state made it illegal, that state would become a pariah with the other states and the other major corporations. It would lose tourism, it would lose manufacturing, it would lose investment, it would be enormously expensive and here's the here's the next part after all, that sacrifice
that one of these hypothetical states would make to make it illegal. The people in that state could still get an abortion,
because you know that the women who care about this issue will organize.
If there's anything, we know they're going to organize and they'll
organized to make sure that the people who need the abortion in that state, where it's illegal,
as the means, the funding that it's going to be a go fund me situation to simply take a take, an uber across the board
Now might be with somebody who can guide them. You know there may be caveats to it:
but you know there's going to be an underground railroad right, because states are not so big that you can't drive to the other one right. If it's just a drive, if it's a half a day drive to get over the state,
order abortions legal everywhere. Even if your state doesn't like it, you know the citizens just drive across the border, so you would have changed nothing in your state except to greatly handicap it financially, but there would still be the abortions. So is any state going to be so dumb as to be the one who
as well for religious for personal for moral reasons, we're going to make it illegal in my state, but the only net effect of that will be to be very bad for the citizens of the state, economically 'cause. Nobody wants to deal with you or or they'll, be enough people who don't want to deal with you that it's a big hit.
And those people will still get abortions, we'll just get in the car and they'll drive for hours. All you did is make it less safe. That's all you did. She
how much of that's going to happen? I'm guessing not a lot so
that's how you know the whole conversation that's been court is illegitimate because, if they're not talking intensely about these individual states, where that, where the decision will pop down to if it gets overturned at the
we're not really serious about the issue. You were we're just using it as a fake because
Alright, we're still awaiting remarks from the president.
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Let me ask you a question: we're waiting for Nikki Haley are waiting for the president to say something about it.
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context of of persuading you to use my cut. My start up sap now here's why I'm asking your opinion of it as I've taught you over time. Even if you understand the technique of persuasion, even if you understand the technique is still works. So if I do this, I would I would warn people that I'm trying to persuade them. I'm also teaching them persuasion. So I would use the technique. Then I would pause and say here's the technique. I just used on you and I'll explain it, and then I would use another technique, but it would be in the context of talking about my company's app and I would be trying to. I would be trying to persuade you at the same time, I'm teaching you how to how to pitch something like that.
I'm seeing lots of guesses, so I'm going to schedule that will come soon right. I wasn't sure people would like this idea. This is a much better. This is a much better response than I was expecting.
Alright, it looks like we don't know how long we're going to be waiting for the president's remarks, so I don't want to keep you waiting here. Much longer. Does anybody have I've got the sound off? I don't know how long it's going to take. I don't want you to just wait here. While I do that, let me
check my notes. Oh yeah, we didn't even talk about Rick Gates and the israeli bots. Let's talk about that, while we're waiting for the president
so the story in a New York Times. I guess that a senior campaign aide, I think it was gates it had some.
Things with some israeli companies that offer to make fake social media accounts and try to influence the election.
The net of it is that the Trump campaign said no thank you. I walked away so
it's not really a crime 'cause, they listen to the bench and they said no, that's not for us. Then they walked away. Um
but I saw some tweets and which of see Adam Schiff, I think started off saying. Isn't it a coincidence that the the Trump campaign asked the Israelis about a deal?
that they turned down and then the Russians co, incidentally, provided those same services with the russian bots to try to influence election. Isn't that a coincidence- and I thought
on a persuasion level. That's actually pretty good like if you're not trying to deal with the facts or logic or anything, but if you just trying to persuade it was pretty clever to tie that israeli the story which does have some meat to it.
It was an actual meeting, but nothing happened right, but, as a little bit of me to do is at least the conversation happened right. The
The story so far has no meat on it all so she was shifted was he took two zeros? The
The russian collusion thing is just a zero, as you know, as no stickiness whatsoever, it's a zero
and he added it to the israeli story that you know the campaign listened to and rejected. So that's a zero, so he took twenty.
Close and he added the zeros, they said, look what I got it's a one. I added two zeros and I got a one:
no persuasion wise, that's exactly what he did in terms of how it feels to people who are mostly he's mostly talking
to his base. Right he's he's not really trying to persuade Republicans with something like that. He's tried to persuade his base that they still have something to worry.
With this president, so he literally took two zeros added the.
Added them together in public.
I came out with a one and I gotta say it totally work for his limited purpose, which was to keep his base feeling like there's something to be said,
issues of zero plus zero equals. One shift actually pulled that off, so I'm trying to be
the was separating my admiration for technique from weather
Or something is moral or ethically good. I trust you all to make your own moral and ethical decisions and they're, probably not going to be substantially different from my own right, but technique wise. You could,
learn something from that. He added zero zero and got a one. It was
I'm bad! I'm going to give him credit for that.
Another interesting thing. While waiting for the president to talk, you saw that the IP pc
a map with new warnings about climate change that the whole world.
Go to hell and ten years or twenty years or whatever
there's nothing. We can do we're already, probably passed the tipping point and blah blah, but I think it was Steven pinker who first pointed this out that in all the stories about this, nobody mentions nuclear power and think about
It's a story about the world is going to the world is going to end. Yeah exaggerate,
but the world will have horrible horrible problems and hurricanes and flooding and people dying from drought and everything. So it's like cataclysmic worst problem in literally
well actually literally the worst problem in the world. According to the people who who are accepting these projections and if it really is the worst problem in the world- and we know this- the the most effective solution, which is to relax your fear about nuclear power plants and just build more them, because one nuclear power plant melting down as horrible as it is, is not even close. It's not even close to being as bad
add as climate change, so the climate change people if they were honest and if they meant anything they were saying they would say in practically the same paragraph the world is, is going to go to hell because of climate change. The only solution is nuclear power.
Because it's true now we should certainly be working as fast as we can on the solar and all the other things, but I don't believe
any expert anywhere. Who believes that we can get those things ramped up in time. So even if.
You prefer solar and and wind power, even if you prefer them. If you believe climate changes as dire as the I p p c year to year, however, says
if you believe it, and you also believe every expert who says that, no matter what you do- you're not going to get there fast enough with solar and green power,
Then you should be saying in the same sentence: you need nuclear power and you need a lot of it and you need it fast.
'cause, otherwise, you're not talking about risk you're, not talking about risk. If you're only talking about half of the equation, you gotta throw in the solution and say is the solution better or worse than the risk, and there's only one salute
on the table? As far as I know, right? There are a million things you buy Wanna to do,
there's only one thing that will make a map that will make a difference. The only thing that could make a difference fast enough is probably nuclear. Now that the fast enough part assumes that it doesn't take twenty years to a,
so, you need to speed up the approval. You might need to build different kinds of plants that are safer in the same week that this happens there's a news report. I hope you all saw this. This was this was great that they've discovered a nuclear waste eating bacteria. Think about that. What's the biggest problem with nuclear power produces waste nuclear waste, or in my spell and then the nuclear stuff it's all over. If this is true, and of course, you have to have a little skepticism or a lot of it for stories like this, but if we've actually discovered we society a waste eating our nuclear waste eating bacteria.
Suddenly, the the risk of a power plants, nuclear power plants may have gone from, you know on a scale of one to ten. They might, it might have been an eight. I don't know how you measure that maybe it's a town, but
may have gone down to a a to or three. So you can't. You can't have the same conversation, because it's possible that the risk of nuclear power has gone from a pretty high too, not much yeah, I'm not sure, that's the case, but we might be on the the virgin. That being true all right, I think I've run out of topics us sure. I guess that's all. I got today
And what is the bacteria mutate to somebody else? Yeah? Maybe we do need to worry about bacteria, the becomes nuclear nuclear bacteria. I assume that that big bacteria would have spider powers. What else could
Oh the Taylor, swift thing. Thank you. So you saw the president. I think he was on his way to his helicopter or something I forget where he was, but they asked him about Taylor Swift's comments. I don't even know what the comment was about. It doesn't matter. We definitely have the funniest president. So the president looks at the camera and he says with that twinkle in his eye, because Taylor Swift said something that would that was Anti administration in some way. I forget what the topic was, but he goes now. I like Taylor's music, twenty five
Alas. Okay, if you'd said I like your music last, it wouldn't be funny. If he had said
she's entitled to her opinion that wouldn't be funny if he said he disagreed with her vigorously that wouldn't be funny if he said that substantially lowers my appreciation for music,
that wouldn't be funny, but when he looked at the camera- and he said with a twinkle in his eye that he enjoyed her music, twenty five percent less now- that is some funny stuff. That is funny because
what's funny about? It? Is the the wrongness of the specificity, this vessel, the specificity of it registers, as so immediately ridiculous, the
just falling animation to think about it more than you would normally think about it because the ridiculous stuff so, but he also said, but he allowed that she was still seventy five percent tell him to so he's he. He is sort of you for the term nagging where, where you sort of insults, somebody is used in the pick up artist world you, you sort of insult a woman, but you give her a chance to work our way back into your into your good opinion,
so you sort of sort of just gave her a little ding, but you know you sort of left room. Well, you know you're only twenty five percent less enjoyable now but hey, maybe in the future. You could work your way back, so that was one of the funniest things. That's happened all week check me if I'm wrong, but yeah check me if I'm wrong on this but uh. Well, let me put this in a different context. We have watched president Trump be the dark horse.
Come from behind to candidates, he is the ultimate come from behind. Guy he's been he's been literally bankrupt and he came back right. His his show on it. You know his apprentice show probably was under some pressure. I think it might have been close to being canceled or some
thing, and then he leaves- and he turns that into a presidential run. That looks like he's going to lose and then it comes back and then
collected and everything is well. You got elected, but you're definitely going to be a bad president, and so he comes back and now everything is good. So we've watched we watched the president.
Go through this phase, where we've seen him be a come from behind sort of personality, and that's
we know him. We know him as sort of a come from behind personalities, always been
kind of in that mode. He's always been under attack, but lately he's had such a good week and as we come toward the end of the year, you're going to hear all of the year end summaries and they're going to.
Sounds really good for this president, when they do the end of the year December, summary stuff where they say well, let's look at how the president did over the past year and then they're going to say the past two years.
It's gonna look really good. Okay,
What we have never seen, but we're just seeing now, is president Trump as a front runner. We've never seen that before right, yeah he's a front runner
so that is a front runner for his reelection and he certainly uh he's totally in a good place in terms of managing the country right now, things are going his way and it feels like his
his more fun personality is emerging 'cause. All of these rallies all of these
latest are are really just stand up, stand up, humor and he's just having a really good time. It's obvious! When you see them, he is just enjoying himself on stage and when he said the comment about Taylor. Swift
you can see the twinkle in his eye. He looked really relaxed like like, he knows he's in charge and things are going well now. So, if feels as though the come from behind president is now becoming the front runner president, you know kind of the man on top and you're gonna see a slightly different version of him because he gets the modifier right yeah. He modifies his personality for every situation. That's one of his strengths and you're gonna see the front runner trump, which is going to be whole areas. I think it's gonna be whole areas in a in a in a positive way.
It'll just be funny waiting remarks from President Trump? I wonder what it was. I'm very curious about. Nikki Haley is resignation. I wonder if there's something specific behind there's, I don't see any speculation on Nikki Haley wrote the OP ed somebody saying I don't think so,
Alright, I think it's going to be too long. We're going to wait so I'm going to let you watch it on your own.
If there's something about it, that's world breaking news: I might come back on, but I'm gonna, let you get back to it right now. I will talk to you later.
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