Episode 695 Scott Adams - Losers of the Democrat Debate, The Hypnosis Coup

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there's an active coup attempt happening but it's not using weapons it's using actually the most modern and powerful methods of hypnosis to convince the country that nothing like that is happening so the hypnosis is convincing at least half of the country there's no coup there's nothing to see here no there's there's just terrible crimes by President we can't really enumerate them and by the way you might be confused by the fact that the president is not already in handcuffs and in jail how do you explain that have you explained the fact that he not already being arrested and taken to jail with all those crimes well it's because they're not real it's a hypnosis coup and it's working really well I mattered often we'll succeed in the long run but they have definitely set their sights on the brainwashing the public into changing the form of government amazingly and then actually they actually have a good chance of pulling it off I don't think they will I think Trump will prevail but you gotta say it's a heck of a try I don't know that we've ever seen anything like this before we have certainly seen politics and persuasion and lies and hyperbole and all the the usual stuff but but at this point at this point it's more obvious that it's a legitimate attempt by some combination of unhappy Democrats who may or may not be called the deep state and the media you know we saw the project Veritas undercover recordings about CNN and it's pretty clear that Jeff Zucker just cares about impeachment and maybe not about not much else so I don't think we can call this anything else at this point it's a coup by hypnosis and it's it's moving along pretty well if you like coos president Trump's comment about the Democrats debate last night this is such a great tweet so his entire summary of the Democrats is in this tweet our record economy would crash just like in 1929 if any of those clowns became president you know he's probably not wrong said one of the reasons that it works is because you're first your first impression is well that's that's not true the economy is not gonna crash just because you elected Elizabeth wart oh oh yeah I guess it would crash if you're elected Elizabeth Warren but she's just one of the candidates I mean things would be fine if you elected purty well okay if you elected Bernie the economy would crash but she always have Biden no that would crash the economy damn he's right if any of those clowns get elected we can't even the economy might actually just crash that's not funny but it's just funny that he summarizes things so succinctly I've noticed a trend and it looks like this Republicans hate bad systems such as socialism it's a bad system Democrats seem to hate people have you noticed that go after people they go after personalities they go after individuals it seems entirely hatred of people whereas the Republicans don't do a little bit of going after people the - of course yeah the president is his own thing but it doesn't seem generally true that Republicans talk about systems and and Democrats seem to just hate people if I go onto Twitter and the the anti-trump errs come after me they almost never come after me for anything that I've said or any point they almost never criticize my opinion they almost always criticize me personally and that's what it's what the Democrats have started to do with Trump so it seemed to me as I was watching the Democrat debate that they all looked small because their focus was just on one guy's personality and here's the kicker they couldn't say much about what he's doing wrong they can only talk about how they hate him did you notice that because it was conspicuously missing so here's why you would have expected to hear the president has all these bad character flaws according to them and therefore what we've observed are all these problems because remember he's had three years to create problems they must have plenty of things to talk about where's the problem sure they don't like him I get it message received you don't like him you don't like his character his personality you don't like his ethics so you don't like his style I get it now now finish the picture and because of that character and because of those problems what what would be an example of something that we wanted to do but we couldn't do because of his personality what was something that went all wrong because of his character can you think of anything economy is roaring you know what whatever you want to say about Syria let's take Syria for example the closest that anybody got to an actual complaint meaning that the things about the president's personality translated into the real world was Budaj I think he was the only one who actually even took a stab at it and booted judge spoke entirely speculatively even he didn't have an actual problem to talk about his best point which I consider invalid but his best point just argumentatively is that he said that the soldiers were demoralized by having to pull out of Syria and leave their their allies to to destruction here's the thing here's the thing can you think of any situation in which our we have a volunteer military so this is important to the story so the volunteer military so everybody who who is in the real fighting forces you know the the Berean the Marines and said are the ones who are actually seeing combat they they joined voluntarily and probably had a pretty good idea where they were going to be deployed and who they were gonna be fighting because you know the al-qaeda things been going on for a long time or some version of al Qaeda Isis etc so what would you expect would be the attitude of the military the professional military volunteers when they're asked to withdraw what what would their under any condition you asked this set of the bravest people in the world who volunteered to put on uniforms train hard and go over there and fight fighting not only against the enemy but fighting for their comrades fighting for their allies fighting for their people what do you expect them to say when the civilian leadership asks them to withdraw only one thing we're not done if if the military said anything except no we don't want to withdraw we will because we respect the you know the chain of command we'll do what you order but no we are not happy about leaving a fight if we had soldiers who under any conditions were happy about leaving the fight we didn't do a good job of training them or selecting them or they're the wrong people our soldiers should want to stay in the fight and finish it no matter what the civilian leadership says the better idea as long as they go ahead with the civilian leadership if they if they were bucking orders I would say that would be a big problem but I would say that as a class of people I think the military is always going to say let us finish the job let us protect our allies let us finish the job so that doesn't change the fact that there may be situations in which a somebody's asking me if I serve the answer is no so I'm open to correction if there's somebody who served who has a more clarity on this but I think it's fair to say that the the the hero type personality who volunteers to go over there and fight they mean it they're not just punching a clock they went there to fight and I think if you pull them off the fight I don't see how they could ever be happy about that because it's just too much baked into who they are so what's your perfect situation let me describe a perfect military / civilian situation the perfect situation is when the president cares more about the troops than the troops care about their own safety that's the perfect situation do you want it the other way around would you want the president to care less about the troops then they cared about their own safety I mean obviously they care about their safety but these are people who are not like regular people these are unusually brave people these are people who signed up to do this so they're not like us right not like me anyway it might be like you but it's the perfect situation a civilian leader who cares about the soldiers enough to pull a man of harm's way if there's not an overriding you know national interest and what you would want is that those soldiers obey number one yes they are obeying number two don't want to leave that's your perfect situation you can't get better than that you can't describe a situation that's more perfect than what you just saw now there's it's not perfect in terms of impact because one of the bet the downsides is that the curds are at the mercy of the Turks and of course the way the Democrats explain that as they say we've abandoned our allies well did we or were there two sets of allies and we had to choose there were two sets of allies that Turks and the Kurds we didn't have a choice of abandoning an ally you get that right there were two choices and both of them involved abandoning an ally you could either abandon Turkey NATO ally or abandon Kurds ally in our fight against Isis those are the only choices you couldn't back both of them and if you just got out of there you left one of them to the mercy of the other I saw an interesting video yesterday that I would not say as credible so take this with a grain of salt but I'll put this in the form of a question we haven't seen that much damage or military fighting coming out of the area some of it might be that just the lack of reporters maybe it's just too dangerous but I have a sneaky suspicion that there is poor Kurds that were left to be slaughtered number one the most effective fighting force in the region everybody agrees right that's it that's a fairly standard opinion from everybody that the Kurds are the most effective fighting force in the region and they're tactically strong as well as just brave and willing they're tactically very good do you know what else they have do you know what else the Kurds have I'm just gay now this is speculation my guess is that the Kurds have some really good weapons do you think we left them without weapons do you think we took all our good and just loaded in trucks and took it away probably not how long do you think a Turkish tank with lasts in Kurdish territory about 10 seconds I don't think the Turks can control the ground I think they can bomb forever but we know that bombing bombing doesn't get you to controlling the ground you know it's it's good stuff if it's in support of ground troops but bombing doesn't get you to control the ground you got to do that on the ground and I don't know if the Turks even with their full military can beat the Kurds who are dug in really good fighters and they might have some really good weapons right now like I'm talking about the really good stuff things maybe you don't even know we have I'm just guessing I don't think we left them unarmed that's that's my guess now that's pure speculation but wouldn't you expect by now there would be a lot more reporting about how Turkey over in a Kurdish unit Turkey has captured 300 Kurds turkey has slaughtered these curves it's kind of missing isn't it isn't isn't sort of today the day we're supposed to be hearing about how turkeys crushing the Kurd military I might not be going the way the the way the Turks expected might not be going that way there is some chance that the Kurds are kicking the Turks ass right now on the ground now you know in terms of the air I guess the Turks probably control the air I don't know that's just speculation that maybe that fight is not going the way everybody thought it would go because Kurds curds seem to just defy the the military calculation because they just tend to be good all right here's let's talk about the Democrat to me I thought that the biggest story of the debates is the stuff they didn't talk about which includes Russia collusion wasn't much about Russia collusion was there how would you feel if you were a Democrat and a voter and you've been watching your team push Russia collusion for her two and a half years and then just stop talking about it yeah it just doesn't come up would you say to yourself wow my team was really wrong for two and a half years maybe I shouldn't trust the next thing they bring up what about the fact there for three years or more the primary attack from the Democrats is calling this president a racist where'd that go did you notice that that was just missing last night it used to be their primary problem if the Democrats believed that this president was an actual racist which is the things that they claim or they used to claim all the time wouldn't that be grounds for impeachment I mean really if the if the Democrats had in fact anything like the obvious evidence that they claim is all over the place that the President of the United States is an actual racist and doing racist things and obviously signaling to people know that if any of that were true isn't that grounds for impeachment because impeachment is full political act it doesn't require a crime impeachment requires that the politicians just decide you know you're being all racist we got to get rid of you so if you're democrat what do you make of the fact that the biggest complaint from your team racism just sort of they stop talking about it wouldn't it make you wonder if it were ever real in the first place now to his credit President Trump has been chipping away at that let me talk to you there's something about funding the historically black colleges there's the first step program prison reform he's always bragging about unemployment being great for the african-american community so an easy sell defense with just you know scads of of black people who seem very happy about the president then there's Kanye West who's saying he still loves the president even if he doesn't like his policies in some cases so I've got a feeling that the whole racist complaint wasn't getting traction they must test this stuff the Democrats so they must have figured out that the public was over it it was the biggest thing and then they just let it go moving on what about they don't really talk about President Trump destroying the economy do they where's that that used to be a big problem right he's destroying the economy don't have that anymore what about climate change now I realized that climate change they had CNN had a whole seven hours of just climate change topic with these these candidates but wasn't it conspicuously missing from the questions I think some of the candidates mentioned it but it wasn't even part of the question I don't think that climate change works anymore as a as a topic why do you think it doesn't work as a topic anymore yeah and Biden didn't mention the Charlottesville hoax why do you think the Charlottesville hoax and climate change stopped being good targets for the Democrats I don't know but I'll give you some speculation I think the racist thing wasn't working and I think that the that the fine people hoax being consistently debunked by by people like me and others Steve Cortez and Joe Pollak doing a lot of the heavy lifting on that I think that maybe we made that look like it wasn't valid anymore now how about climate change I think the fact that there are at least two no there are three Democrats running who are pro nuclear it makes the topic not work anymore because if you start asking about it you kind of raise the question of nuclear and this administration is pro-nuclear so it kind of makes it kind of makes climate change look like not the wind topic because the best thing to do about it is what the administration is already doing or trying to do which is promote nuclear as one of the many things that you do it's not the only thing I think the the Bill Gates brain special on Netflix may have actually moved the dial because if you think about it how many people in the let's say the the press are likely had to have seen a Netflix special about Bill Gates and you know there's big things he's doing for Africa and the fresh water and sanitation and and nuclear all of them I mean that's the sort of special that you would expect in due time that nearly a hundred percent of the people who work in the press would have seen so what happens when a hundred percent of the press gets informed for the first time that there's something called generation four nuclear and that people as smart as Bill Gates and some of the smartest people in the world say yeah we just we just need a place to do this we already know how to build it we already know how to solve some of the biggest problems in the world just let us build it just figure out how to get past the red tape so I think maybe the combination of of people like Mark Snyder and Michael Shellenberger and all of you and talking about nuclear and Bill Gates I think it's just making climate change look a little bit solved now not solved as in we already know how to do it but there seem to be so many good approaches to handling it that it went from this big problem that we don't know what to do about it - oh okay I guess we sort of know what to do about it but we we kind of do and then there wasn't much about China so with all those Democrats on stage they mostly were focused on the coup by hypnosis and the coup by hypnosis says that you just keep saying things about Trump personally until people think it's must be true so how many people just said well he's obviously corrupt president Trump how many times was he was the president called corrupt okay a lot right now give me the best example of that what is it what's the best example that would support the claim that he's corrupt was it a phone call that he did in front of witnesses that happened to be perfectly the top priority of his actual job description which is to make sure there's no foreign interference or influence on the Biden family because they were leading in the polls that was his top priority so I know it to me the the the slaughter meters at the about a thousand percent right now I don't see I I can't imagine the president losing to anybody who was on that stage and I don't see anybody else joining the fight let's go down some of the individual performers I thought Warren looked weak in the vases Buddha judge sort of nailed her down on health care and he totally won that extreme because by pointing out that she didn't really she couldn't even speak to her own plan well and her own plan was actually Bernie's plan so first of all it's not even her own plan and second of all she was unwilling obviously I'm calling Buddha judge really brought that out she was unwilling to even talk honestly about her own plan which is actually Bernie's plan it means she died a thousand I mean I thought that was a dagger I I thought that she can't possibly win by having you know that being her signature I would say that's probably her signature policy and she's not even willing to describe it in public yeah that's that was a hard fail let's say Buddha judge talked about him he was the closest thing to the adult in the room and it seemed to be that's the the channel he's trying to carve out is the one who doesn't say crazy stuff so he was saying that for health Claire health care since we already know the public will never go for a solution where they lose their private health care that they like Buddha judge is saying exactly what I said a few months ago what I did a whiteboard thing which is what's wrong with keeping the private ones for people who want it well making a public option short of the Medicare for all or the Medicare for the ones who want to sign up for it let's say as the most practical way to get to something like full coverage that's maybe hard maybe we can't get there but it's a reasonable thing to say so Buddha judge is carving out this this reasonable sound and he's carving now in guns and health care so I'm guns he looks at Beto and he says you're not going to go to people's homes and get all their guns the best we can do and this is best meaning if you're of this political persuasion not not my personal opinion best but the best you can do is to stop the sale of new ARS you know the new assault rifles as they would call them and I thought to myself you know that might be a good idea or it might be a bad idea but it's an adult idea so Buddha judge took the role of the adult by saying it's great that you love candy before dinner but you can't have candy before dinner right so he's that he does that on both guns and healthcare I thought it was very effective so I'm seeing some people saying that there was no clear winner last night and there was nobody who who stood out and I disagree I would say the Buddha judge if that didn't move him into the top three and I doubt it moved him that much you should put him in a solid fourth place if he's not already there maybe he's already there as the top three started to falter so somebody says when pet repeat echo Scott's got things highly of him well of course that's exactly what I'm doing when he agrees with me I think he's smart that's not that's how it works that's how it works for all of us so I think Buddha judge had a great night I would be surprised if he doesn't at some point get into the top three and it depends which of the top three falters first I think let's talk about burning burning once again impressed Bernie looked healthy and vigorous damn it Bernie you're impressing the hell out of me with your your vigor and your fight and I thought he had a good debate too now I don't think it matters and I don't think it matters that a OSE and three of the four squad endorsed him that that's the other news because I think the hard problem and the fact that he is so completely unelectable in a general election I just I don't think Bernie can get to the across the finish line but his performance was great health look great yeah he had a good debate be enough let's talk about Biden Biden is being chided by both sides so even the liberal pundits are mocking him for his word salad so whoever used the phrase first it might have been Bret Baier who said that Biden was talking in word salad now that's especially word salad about somebody who has a cognitive decline in their old age now I don't know that Bret Baier was intentionally trying to make that connection but in my brain that's automatic if you hear the somebody of a certain age is talking in a word salad your brain automatically goes to a cognitive decline and it looked like cognitive to decline to me have you noticed that brought the Biden smile is upside down have you noticed that here's what a smile should look like here's Biden's smile I know I can't even do it but he somehow looks like he's smiling while his smile is actually inverted I I don't know how to do it like I somehow he makes it look like a smile while he's frowning it's that it's the freakiest thing I don't know if that's because of all the facelifts or what no but Biden still looks like they get off my lawn guy did it seem to you that he looked at too angry for the situation especially when he um there was a moment when Biden turned to Warren and he got angry and he was sort of gesturing and there were two camera angles on that one camera angle was straight on and with a straight on angle you could tell that there was enough distance physical distance between Biden and Orrin that when he was gesturing toward her with his hand it wasn't getting right in her face he was gesturing toward her but he wasn't really in her personal space or anything but instantly changed from that point of that camera angle which was fairly you know innocent looking to one in which it was over the shoulder of Warren as she's looking at Biden and from that camera angle you see Biden's hand coming right toward the camera which is toward Biden and it looked like he was right in her face so from that camera angle he looked like a yelling old man getting in the face of a woman and it looked it looked too much but if you saw that exact same camera angle from the front and you could notice the distance between them it doesn't look like that at all it just looks like he's making his point so beware of camera angles I would say that maybe CNN's choice of that camera angle could have been just a producer's choice on the fly I'm not going to say that there was any intention and that but it certainly made him look bad he had no answer for the hunter Biden thing that made him look like he's already given up his dentures were slipping he was fumbling his words he was rambling there is not the slightest chance he will be the nominee there isn't any chance now I was wondering how Biden would get out of the race in a graceful way why what would he claimed there was a health issue would he say you know maybe he would just fall in the in the polling and that would be enough because if he if he were no longer polling a solid number one then his argument that he's the only one who could be Trump but just doesn't have the same power so the I think what's gonna happen is you saw the reporting about his fundraising so Biden has less than ten million dollars the other candidates are like 2030 million so there are three candidates who were just way outperforming him in fundraising I think that's the answer to how Biden gets out I think Biden will be starved of money and that's all it will take so in other words Biden will not choose to leave the race and he might even be a leading in the polls when it happens which would be the weirdest thing he might run out of money at number one in the polls that actually happened it could easily happen because he's number one in the polls for name recognition among the general public who is not really even paying attention at the same time that the people who are paying attention and want to win the general election know that he's not the guy to do it so I think the funding since it's mostly big donor funding I think the funding will shrink to nothing and then Biden will just have to quit he just won't have any money so I think the big donors are gonna starve him out of the race what do you think it looks like that's where it's at it right they're just gonna start them out of the race all right here's the other thing that Biden said I was just shaking my head because he does these old timey references there sometimes don't make sense like the record player he mentioned last time and he said why should someone who's clipping coupons in the stock market blah blah blah something about tax rates it doesn't matter but you don't really clip coupons in the stock market that's not a thing if you have bonds there's something called you know clipping coupons when it comes to bonds but there's no such thing as clipping coupons and the stock market that's not actually a thing but he doesn't know now I have a guilty pleasure watching the Biden campaign have problems and I probably shouldn't even admit how much I enjoyed this but prior to Biden running CNN had an analyst who was one of their most frequent guests Symone Sanders who is now I think the senior advisor from the Biden campaign so she's either the top or among the top of his advisors and I was watching her be interviewed after Biden's performance oh my god it's fun she is in such pain because she's watching her candidate just die right in front of us I'm he's literally just lying on the floor decomposing and she's on television trying to trying to put up appearances that maybe everything's fine and watching him decompose wall she's trying to defend him and you could see in her face that she wishes she were doing anything else in the world now I may be reading too much into it I'm not a mind reader but she looks like she's really uncomfortable supporting a guy who can't put two sentences together it must be a terrible place to be because she can't really leave you know that would be bad for him but you can't win so I confess to a guilty pleasure because she was my least favorite pundit on CNN she was the angry one who just thought that President Trump was the the devil and anything he did was bad all right why is it that we care if Russia has more influence in Syria oh I let me talk about some of the other candidates just to rounded up I thought yang was interesting got a lot of attention but I just don't think he's not he's not gonna catch on with the general voters so I don't think that mattered I thought that tulsi gabbard has her fans and if we're being honest a lot of her fans are just sort of in love with her I mean I think that's a real thing tulsi gabbard has male fans ooh just sort of want to see more tulsi gabbard I'm not I'm not I'm not promoting that and I'm not giving you my own opinions on the situation I'm just stating as a fact that I hear from a lot of men including Republicans who say I wouldn't mind seeing some more tulsi gabbard on my TV screens now I don't think she's gonna win but it's interesting that she has almost a cult-like following of people but I think we're in love oh that's not my Harris so my biggest complaints about Harris's performance were that she laughed at her own jokes and she had unpresidential body language did you notice that during the campaign she did not laugh at her own jokes and there was a moment where she smiled like like she could have laughed but she she kept it down and her body language was pretty good I thought she fixed her body language she fixed her presidential let's say mannerisms and she didn't laugh at her own jokes now remember what I've been telling you from from the beginning that what's different about Camilla Harris is that as big as their flaws have been they're the easiest ones to fix how hard is it to fix your body language you just watched her do it you just watched her do it she fixed it now I don't know if she'll be able to do it consistently but in the context of the debate she fixed it how hard is it for her to remember not to laugh too hard at her own jokes not hard right that's not hard she did it last night now I don't know if there was really a trigger for laughing at her own joke but I thought she had enough of a trigger and it looked like she had learned to hold back now let's talk about her main topic she got attention for saying that the president should be kicked off of Twitter my first my first impression was oh god going you know you don't run for president arguing against freedom of speech I couldn't think of a worse way to run for president you know I think freedom of speech is overrated maybe my political opponent should not have freedom of speech and I'm thinking that might be the worst attack anybody ever thought of and then I watched it get a lot of attention and it's the second time she's done it because she did it online and then she brought it to the debate and I thought she's actually getting attention for this and then I thought I wonder if this could work I don't feel like it's a good idea you know my first impression but then she got attention and what do I always say half of persuasion is just getting attention and I think she was four through fifth and how much time she got to talk you saw her push Elizabeth Warren on the question of whether Elizabeth would join her and ask you for Trump to be banned from Twitter and Elizabeth Warren simply was avoiding the question which allowed convolute to sort of press her and make her look weak because she wasn't even answering the question no could be that both of them lost in that exchange Kamla may have lost because the the issue is so weak and there's literally there's nobody in the country who thinks the president should lose freedom of speech there may be nobody it might literally be nobody in the world who thinks a president should lose the ability to use a major communication platform I just don't think that's the thing but but Elizabeth Warren looked weak as well so I think they made each other look weak that said if Connell Harris can figure out how to have some policies that people care about she may have fixed her two biggest problems the laughs and the body language those are big deals that don't seem like big deals but they really are so I'm not going to change my prediction somebody's asking me about her little catch for his dudes gotta go so that's the second time she's used that in public dudes got to go I think every one of us who heard it were almost said some form of that's not presidential that's that's just that's just not presidential and you know of course we watch president Trump do non-presidential things all the time but he seems to do them in a way that makes you laugh where you can tell what he's up to who or there's some hyperbole involved or something or he's just punching back you know as he does so somehow it's it just feels different when the president when President Trump acts non-presidential he makes it work when Camilla did it because that's not her brand her brand is not I can do anything and be done presidential if I feel like it her brand is more prosecutor straight-laced on the senator so when she uses that phrase it feels a little not genuine to us I think that's how you're feeling it's like didn't feel genuine but what are we talking about it made news right it made news so both times she said dude's got to go she got attention for it and if there's one thing you can learn from me is that never underestimate getting attention it's not nothing so it's not enough but it's not nothing all right next question on Syria why do we care that Russia has more influence in Syria I would care if Assad were in charge in Syria but I don't know that he is right doesn't it seem like Putin just sort of owned Syria because Putin's military is the dominant military and if you have the dominant military you're sort of in control you know even if you're not the one doing the garbage pickup and stuff you're sort of in control here's the thing are we worse off with the United States or even the Middle East worse off because Russia has more control over Syria are we worse off because it doesn't feel like it to me does Russia want the Syrian army to use chemical weapons again probably not probably not because that can't be good for Russia does Russia want Syria to get a nuclear weapon of their own probably not probably not to Syria want Isis to get in a fold in Syria probably not probably not so and then does does Russia want Iran to have a greater role or more power in the Middle East well their allies ish sort of sometimes but probably not so if you if you look at you know the United States objectives and Russian objectives you'd say oh they're all these places where our objectives conflict but in the Middle East and in Syria do they conflict do they is there anything we want out of that area that is incompatible with what Russia wants there might be I mean I'm speaking kind of ignorance because there might be something we care about now I've heard of said that Russia is big play is about a pipeline and warm water ports and all that and access to you know through through Syria to which I say do we care do we care if Russia has a good pipeline do we care if Russia has a reliable warm weather report really I mean do we care I just don't know that we care so do we care if Russia or turkey is controlling the safe zones on the border with Turkey not really don't care now I think we do care a lot that Russia doesn't invade turkey because then it activates NATO we don't want that but does it look like Russia is going to invade Turkey no this last thing they'd want so the idea that Russia has more influence in that area it looks to me like their their interests are pretty compatible with ours and at the same time it's gonna be their expense not ours the best situation is to have somebody else pay the tab and do the same things that you would have done destroy Isis keep Syria from getting a nuclear weapon it looks like it's all the same stuff but maybe I just have a gap in my knowledge there all right in the debates and then asked directly and then they kept at it about age and health if CNN along with the New York Times who co-hosted if they're focusing because remember they didn't ask anything about climate change I don't know if they asked anything about China I don't remember maybe they did but CNN gets to influence how the public is thinking by what questions they ask and one of the questions was about age what does that tell you what it tells me is CNN is not too excited about the three leading candidates because they're all too old because I don't think they would ask the question unless they thought that it mattered and that their own team would be better off wrestling with the question so it seemed to me that they were that they were painting a little laser target on the top three candidates because they're the older ones so what happens if the top three go away who's left if the top three fail what do you got got your booty judge you got your comp lares you got your clove char but she doesn't seem to be catching on there's something about clove Achara that just I know it's not connecting with people even though I would say objectively she's the other adult in the room with Pete Buddha judge good a judge now let me ask you this if you had a choice let's say you're the demo that you're a kingmaker on the Democrat side so you're a big-money person in your big let's say your Pelosi you're somebody who wants the Democrats to win and you're given this choice you only have two choices hypothetically and your choices are calmly Harris or Peter Budaj and you can have one of them as your candidate which do you pick and don't don't tell me about vice presidents because nobody votes for Vice President which of those two if you're a Democrat which of those two do you say is the better choice Buddha judge or Connell Harris go into comments tell me stop saying Tulsi we're not going to talk about her all right let me just say I don't have any interest in Tulsi Gabbard because she doesn't have a chance of winning and there's just no point in talking about her okay so just forget about commenting about her for a while so I'm looking at your comments I'm seeing Pete Kamla Pete Camilla Harris Pete Harris neither stay home Pete Pete Pete Stu young something homophobic mayor Pete hard pass comma comma somebody says Harris you persuaded me Harris Harris Harris Harris Harris Harris booed a judge so it's pretty split and so I'm looking at your answers and from and most of you are probably Trump supporters and Republicans so you're not really the voice of the Democrats you'd be guessing what they would want yeah it looks like it's pretty split between Harris and Buda judge all right let me let me give you this you ready for it Kamala Harris for president Pete Buda judge for vice president huh think about it butI judge president we might not be ready for and when I say we I don't mean to me I would love a gay president honestly it would be it would make me happy every day if I woke up with a gay president I honestly it would just make my day better because I'd be thinking I can't wait till he meets with Saudi Arabia I can't you know I can't wait till he you know meets with foreign leaders just just see what happens what do they do what does Saudi Arabia do with our gay president so I would love a gay president I'm the most Pro gay guy you'll ever meet Pro LGBTQ in general but just in the same way that I thought that it was good for the country to elect Obama just to get us over the hump you know just to say this is who we are you know you can you can be anybody in this country if you have the qualities will elect your president so I think Obama's election was way bigger than just the administration that he presided over way more than whatever the performance was it was just historically it was important and we had to we had to get to that point I'm glad we did same thing with Pete Buddha judge I love to get to that point where we had a gay president if not him someday I'd be all be all in favor of that but are we ready in 2020 are we ready for a gay president because we're still largely a homophobic country right there's there's way too much of it and especially if the question is leadership because the people who are most homophobic are probably also gonna have a bias it's like wow is that the brand we want to lead with will other countries take us seriously and other homophobic thoughts I don't think any of them really matter so I think people a judge would be a great president if the public elected him you would do a great job I don't think any of that would be an England and it would be great to you know crack that ceiling and finally just get past that but I think the public doesn't believe we're quite ready now let's let me ask you this suppose you seasoned mayor Pete with four or eight years as the vice president after being seasoned he's older he's experienced in the executive branch of the government because right now he's a mayor and we have eight more years to just grow as a as a society is he ready then yeah yeah Peabody judge plus four years or plus eight years is a whole different people to judge remember he's just practicing right now he's really young and he's already gotten a whole lot better on the campaign trail he's getting better he's got some serious game and he would have a lot of rich backers some of them would be gay which helps you know it's good to have a like an enthusiastic base that has money so here's what I'm suggesting the strongest package for the Democrats which they might come to believe on their own is it's a top three in the polls Warren Biden and Bernie are too old and too extreme once you've gotten rid of them and I think that the people with money and influence will work on doing that should they be successful in getting the top three end of the mix Oh Kamala Harris Buddha judge team wouldn't look bad that would not look bad and if you were trying to attract women people of color LGBTQ can you beat that seriously could you beat Harris and Buddha judge as just a package that describes the democrat party in the way that the democrats say oh yeah that is us that you know that combination gets everything like we've got we've got some straights and gays and males and females some person to call it or some white it's at all and they're young enough so I don't think I've convinced you that my prediction of camel Harris as the nominee I don't think she'll win against Trump but as the nominee doesn't sound so bad now doesn't sound so bad does it again look he got pretty quiet when I said that didn't you because it's the first time you could imagine somebody who would be competitive with Trump Harris Plus Buddha judge would be pretty competitive compared to the others who would be not competitive at all alright that's about all I got for now I would like to remind you that my book lose I think which is already screaming up the best the bestseller charts is number one in its category and it's not even on sale yet that's just pre-orders its category being business and political humor and also most most anticipated I think I'm number one on Amazon so yesterday I did some some personal signings of my book if you're wondering how I did it I just had people call me on my app let's see if you can see this I can't see it but on my whiteboard I had a drawing and I would just add people's name to it and let them take a screenshot there so they were using the interface by when Hub app contacted me personally and I would just write their name on the whiteboard and hold up my selfie phone and they would have a selfie of me with their autograph and they can just print that out and stick it in a book now here's why this is great you could get my autograph for the book without actually having it on the book and then you can read the book keep the 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all right let's talk about the Democrat

or democratic debate I never know what's

the correct way to say that is it the

Democrat debate because there are all

whole Democrats or is it a democratic

debate because it's the Democratic Party

I never know which one is right

so the coup by hypnosis continues to go

strong if if you don't know what that

means there's a there's an active coup

attempt happening but it's not using

weapons it's using actually the most

modern and powerful methods of hypnosis

to convince the country that nothing

like that is happening so the hypnosis

is convincing at least half of the

country

there's no coup there's nothing to see

here

no there's there's just terrible crimes

by President we can't really enumerate

them and by the way you might be

confused by the fact that the president

is not already in handcuffs and in jail

how do you explain that have you

explained the fact that he

not already being arrested and taken to

jail with all those crimes well it's

because they're not real it's a hypnosis

coup and it's working really well I

mattered often we'll succeed in the long

run but they have definitely set their

sights on the brainwashing the public

into changing the form of government

amazingly and then actually they

actually have a good chance of pulling

it off I don't think they will I think

Trump will prevail but you gotta say

it's a heck of a try I don't know that

we've ever seen anything like this

before we have certainly seen politics

and persuasion and lies and hyperbole

and all the the usual stuff but but at

this point at this point it's more

obvious that it's a legitimate attempt

by some combination of unhappy Democrats

who may or may not be called the deep

state and the media you know we saw the

project Veritas undercover recordings

about CNN and it's pretty clear that

Jeff Zucker just cares about impeachment

and maybe not about not much else so I

don't think we can call this anything

else at this point

it's a coup by hypnosis and it's it's

moving along pretty well if you like

coos president Trump's comment about the

Democrats debate last night this is such

a great tweet so his entire summary of

the Democrats is in this tweet our

record economy would crash just like in

1929 if any of those clowns became

president you know he's probably not

wrong said one of the reasons that it

works is because you're first

your first impression is well that's

that's not true the economy is not gonna

crash just because you elected Elizabeth

wart

oh oh yeah I guess it would crash if

you're elected Elizabeth Warren but

she's just one of the candidates I mean

things would be fine if you elected

purty

well okay if you elected Bernie the

economy would crash but she always have

Biden

no that would crash the economy damn

he's right if any of those clowns get

elected we can't even the economy might

actually just crash

that's not funny but it's just funny

that he summarizes things so succinctly

I've noticed a trend

and it looks like this Republicans hate

bad systems such as socialism it's a bad

system Democrats seem to hate people

have you noticed that go after people

they go after personalities they go

after individuals it seems entirely

hatred of people whereas the Republicans

don't do a little bit of going after

people the - of course yeah the

president is his own thing but it

doesn't seem generally true that

Republicans talk about systems and and

Democrats seem to just hate people if I

go onto Twitter and the the anti-trump

errs come after me they almost never

come after me for anything that I've

said or any point they almost never

criticize my opinion they almost always

criticize me personally and that's what

it's what the Democrats have started to

do with Trump so it seemed to me as I

was watching the Democrat debate that

they all looked small because their

focus was just on one guy's personality

and here's the kicker they couldn't say

much about what he's doing wrong they

can only talk about how they hate him

did you notice that because it was

conspicuously missing so here's why you

would have expected to hear the

president has all these bad character

flaws according to them and therefore

what we've observed are all these

problems because remember he's had three

years to create problems they must have

plenty of things to talk about where's

the problem sure they don't like him I

get it

message received you don't like him you

don't like his character his personality

you don't like his ethics so you don't

like his style I get it now

now finish the picture and because of

that character and because of those

problems what what would be an example

of something that we wanted to do but we

couldn't do because of his personality

what was something that went all wrong

because of his character can you think

of anything economy is roaring you know

what whatever you want to say about

Syria let's take Syria for example the

closest that anybody got to an actual

complaint meaning that the things about

the president's personality translated

into the real world was Budaj I think he

was the only one who actually even took

a stab at it and booted judge spoke

entirely speculatively even he didn't

have an actual problem to talk about his

best point which I consider invalid but

his best point just argumentatively is

that he said that the soldiers were

demoralized by having to pull out of

Syria and leave their their allies to to

destruction

here's the thing here's the thing can

you think of any situation in which our

we have a volunteer military so this is

important to the story so the volunteer

military so everybody who who is in the

real fighting forces you know the the

Berean the Marines and said are the ones

who are actually seeing combat they they

joined voluntarily and probably had a

pretty good idea where they were going

to be deployed and who they were gonna

be fighting because you know the

al-qaeda things been going on for a long

time or some version of al Qaeda Isis

etc so what would you expect would be

the attitude of the military the

professional military volunteers when

they're asked to withdraw what what

would their under any condition you

asked this set of the bravest people in

the world who volunteered to put on

uniforms train hard and go over there

and fight fighting not only against the

enemy but fighting for their comrades

fighting for their allies fighting for

their people what do you expect them to

say when the civilian leadership asks

them to withdraw only one thing we're

not done if if the military said

anything except no we don't want to

withdraw we will because we respect the

you know the chain of command we'll do

what you order but no we are not happy

about leaving a fight if we had soldiers

who under any conditions were happy

about leaving the fight we didn't do a

good job of training them or selecting

them or they're the wrong people

our soldiers should want to stay in the

fight and finish it no matter what the

civilian leadership says

the better idea as long as they go ahead

with the civilian leadership if they if

they were bucking orders I would say

that would be a big problem but I would

say that as a class of people I think

the military is always going to say let

us finish the job let us protect our

allies let us finish the job

so that doesn't change the fact that

there may be situations in which a

somebody's asking me if I serve the

answer is no so I'm open to correction

if there's somebody who served who has a

more clarity on this but I think it's

fair to say that the the the hero type

personality who volunteers to go over

there and fight they mean it they're not

just punching a clock

they went there to fight and I think if

you pull them off the fight I don't see

how they could ever be happy about that

because it's just too much baked into

who they are

so what's your perfect situation let me

describe a perfect military / civilian

situation the perfect situation is when

the president cares more about the

troops than the troops care about their

own safety that's the perfect situation

do you want it the other way around

would you want the president to care

less about the troops then they cared

about their own safety I mean obviously

they care about their safety but these

are people who are not like regular

people

these are unusually brave people these

are people who signed up to do this so

they're not like us right not like me

anyway it might be like you but it's the

perfect situation a civilian leader who

cares about the soldiers enough to pull

a man of harm's way if there's not an

overriding you know national interest

and what you would want is that those

soldiers obey number one yes they are

obeying

number two don't want to leave that's

your perfect situation you can't get

better than that

you can't describe a situation that's

more perfect than what you just saw now

there's it's not perfect in terms of

impact because one of the bet the

downsides is that the curds are at the

mercy of the Turks and of course the way

the Democrats explain that as they say

we've abandoned our allies well did we

or were there two sets of allies and we

had to choose there were two sets of

allies that Turks and the Kurds we

didn't have a choice of abandoning an

ally you get that right there were two

choices and both of them involved

abandoning an ally you could either

abandon Turkey NATO ally or abandon

Kurds ally in our fight against Isis

those are the only choices you couldn't

back both of them and if you just got

out of there you left one of them to the

mercy of the other I saw an interesting

video yesterday that I would not say as

credible so take this with a grain of

salt but I'll put this in the form of a

question we haven't seen that much

damage or military fighting coming out

of the area some of it might be that

just the lack of reporters maybe it's

just too dangerous but I have a sneaky

suspicion that there is poor Kurds that

were left to be slaughtered number one

the most effective fighting force in the

region everybody agrees right that's it

that's a fairly standard opinion from

everybody that the Kurds are the most

effective fighting force in the region

and they're tactically strong as well as

just brave and willing they're

tactically very good do you know what

else they have do you know what else the

Kurds have I'm just gay

now this is speculation my guess is that

the Kurds have some really good weapons

do you think we left them without

weapons do you think we took all our

good and just loaded in trucks and

took it away probably not how long do

you think a Turkish tank with lasts in

Kurdish territory about 10 seconds I

don't think the Turks can control the

ground I think they can bomb forever but

we know that bombing bombing doesn't get

you to controlling the ground you know

it's it's good stuff if it's in support

of ground troops but bombing doesn't get

you to control the ground you got to do

that on the ground and I don't know if

the Turks even with their full military

can beat the Kurds who are dug in really

good fighters and they might have some

really good weapons right now like I'm

talking about the really good stuff

things maybe you don't even know we have

I'm just guessing I don't think we left

them unarmed that's that's my guess now

that's pure speculation but wouldn't you

expect by now there would be a lot more

reporting about how Turkey over in a

Kurdish unit Turkey has captured 300

Kurds turkey has slaughtered these

curves it's kind of missing isn't it

isn't isn't sort of today the day we're

supposed to be hearing about how turkeys

crushing the Kurd military I might not

be going the way the the way the Turks

expected might not be going that way

there is some chance that the Kurds are

kicking the Turks ass right now on the

ground now you know in terms of the air

I guess the Turks probably control the

air I don't know that's just speculation

that maybe that fight is not going the

way everybody thought it would go

because Kurds

curds seem to just defy the the military

calculation because they just tend to be

good all right here's let's talk about

the Democrat to me I thought that the

biggest story of the debates is the

stuff they didn't talk about which

includes Russia collusion wasn't much

about Russia collusion was there how

would you feel if you were a Democrat

and a voter and you've been watching

your team push Russia collusion for her

two and a half years and then just stop

talking about it

yeah it just doesn't come up would you

say to yourself wow my team was really

wrong for two and a half years maybe I

shouldn't trust the next thing they

bring up what about the fact there for

three years or more the primary attack

from the Democrats is calling this

president a racist

where'd that go did you notice that that

was just missing last night

it used to be their primary problem if

the Democrats believed that this

president was an actual racist which is

the things that they claim or they used

to claim all the time

wouldn't that be grounds for impeachment

I mean really if the if the Democrats

had in fact anything like the obvious

evidence that they claim is all over the

place that the President of the United

States is an actual racist and doing

racist things and obviously signaling to

people know that if any of that were

true isn't that grounds for impeachment

because impeachment is full political

act it doesn't require a crime

impeachment requires that the

politicians just decide you know you're

being all racist we got to get rid of

you so if you're democrat what do you

make of the fact that the biggest

complaint from your team racism just

sort of they

stop talking about it wouldn't it make

you wonder if it were ever real in the

first place now to his credit President

Trump has been chipping away at that let

me talk to you there's something about

funding the historically black colleges

there's the first step program prison

reform he's always bragging about

unemployment being great for the

african-american community so an easy

sell defense with just you know scads of

of black people who seem very happy

about the president then there's Kanye

West who's saying he still loves the

president even if he doesn't like his

policies in some cases so I've got a

feeling that the whole racist complaint

wasn't getting traction they must test

this stuff the Democrats so they must

have figured out that the public was

over it

it was the biggest thing and then they

just let it go moving on

what about they don't really talk about

President Trump destroying the economy

do they where's that that used to be a

big problem right he's destroying the

economy don't have that anymore

what about climate change now I realized

that climate change they had CNN had a

whole seven hours of just climate change

topic with these these candidates but

wasn't it conspicuously missing from the

questions I think some of the candidates

mentioned it but it wasn't even part of

the question I don't think that climate

change works anymore as a as a topic why

do you think it doesn't work as a topic

anymore

yeah and Biden didn't mention the

Charlottesville hoax why do you think

the Charlottesville hoax and climate

change stopped being good targets for

the Democrats I don't know but I'll give

you some speculation I think the racist

thing wasn't working and I think that

the that the fine people hoax being

consistently debunked by

by people like me and others

Steve Cortez and Joe Pollak doing a lot

of the heavy lifting on that I think

that maybe we made that look like it

wasn't valid anymore

now how about climate change I think the

fact that there are at least two no

there are three Democrats running who

are pro nuclear it makes the topic not

work anymore because if you start asking

about it you kind of raise the question

of nuclear and this administration is

pro-nuclear so it kind of makes it kind

of makes climate change look like not

the wind topic because the best thing to

do about it

is what the administration is already

doing or trying to do which is promote

nuclear as one of the many things that

you do it's not the only thing I think

the the Bill Gates brain special on

Netflix may have actually moved the dial

because if you think about it how many

people in the let's say the the press

are likely had to have seen a Netflix

special about Bill Gates and you know

there's big things he's doing for Africa

and the fresh water and sanitation and

and nuclear all of them I mean that's

the sort of special that you would

expect in due time that nearly a hundred

percent of the people who work in the

press would have seen so what happens

when a hundred percent of the press gets

informed for the first time that there's

something called generation four nuclear

and that people as smart as Bill Gates

and some of the smartest people in the

world say yeah we just we just need a

place to do this we already know how to

build it we already know how to solve

some of the biggest problems in the

world just let us build it just figure

out how to get past the red tape so I

think maybe the combination of

of people like Mark Snyder and Michael

Shellenberger and all of you and talking

about nuclear and Bill Gates I think

it's just making climate change look a

little bit solved now not solved as in

we already know how to do it but there

seem to be so many good approaches to

handling it that it went from this big

problem that we don't know what to do

about it

- oh okay I guess we sort of know what

to do about it but we we kind of do and

then there wasn't much about China so

with all those Democrats on stage they

mostly were focused on the coup by

hypnosis and the coup by hypnosis says

that you just keep saying things about

Trump personally until people think it's

must be true so how many people just

said well he's obviously corrupt

president Trump how many times was he

was the president called corrupt okay a

lot right now give me the best example

of that what is it what's the best

example that would support the claim

that he's corrupt

was it a phone call that he did in front

of witnesses that happened to be

perfectly the top priority of his actual

job description which is to make sure

there's no foreign interference or

influence on the Biden family because

they were leading in the polls that was

his top priority so I know it to me the

the the slaughter meters at the about a

thousand percent right now I don't see I

I can't imagine the president losing to

anybody who was on that stage and I

don't see anybody else joining the fight

let's go down some of the individual

performers

I thought Warren looked weak in the

vases Buddha judge sort of nailed her

down on health care and he totally won

that extreme

because by pointing out that she didn't

really she couldn't even speak to her

own plan well and her own plan was

actually Bernie's plan so first of all

it's not even her own plan and second of

all she was unwilling obviously I'm

calling Buddha judge really brought that

out she was unwilling to even talk

honestly about her own plan which is

actually Bernie's plan it means she died

a thousand I mean I thought that was a

dagger I I thought that she can't

possibly win by having you know that

being her signature I would say that's

probably her signature policy and she's

not even willing to describe it in

public

yeah that's that was a hard fail let's

say Buddha judge talked about him he was

the closest thing to the adult in the

room and it seemed to be that's the the

channel he's trying to carve out is the

one who doesn't say crazy stuff so he

was saying that for health Claire health

care since we already know the public

will never go for a solution where they

lose their private health care that they

like Buddha judge is saying exactly what

I said a few months ago what I did a

whiteboard thing which is what's wrong

with keeping the private ones for people

who want it well making a public option

short of the Medicare for all or the

Medicare for the ones who want to sign

up for it let's say as the most

practical way to get to something like

full coverage that's maybe hard maybe we

can't get there but it's a reasonable

thing to say so Buddha judge is carving

out this this reasonable sound and he's

carving now in guns and health care so

I'm guns he looks at Beto and he says

you're not going to go to people's homes

and get all their guns the best we can

do and this is best meaning if you're of

this political persuasion not not my

personal opinion best but the best you

can do

is to stop the sale of new ARS

you know the new assault rifles as they

would call them and I thought to myself

you know that might be a good idea or it

might be a bad idea but it's an adult

idea so Buddha judge took the role of

the adult by saying it's great that you

love candy before dinner but you can't

have candy before dinner right so he's

that he does that on both guns and

healthcare I thought it was very

effective so I'm seeing some people

saying that there was no clear winner

last night and there was nobody who who

stood out and I disagree I would say the

Buddha judge if that didn't move him

into the top three and I doubt it moved

him that much you should put him in a

solid fourth place if he's not already

there maybe he's already there as the

top three started to falter so somebody

says when pet repeat echo Scott's got

things highly of him well of course

that's exactly what I'm doing when he

agrees with me I think he's smart that's

not that's how it works that's how it

works for all of us so I think Buddha

judge had a great night I would be

surprised if he doesn't at some point

get into the top three and it depends

which of the top three falters first I

think let's talk about burning burning

once again impressed

Bernie looked healthy and vigorous damn

it Bernie you're impressing the hell out

of me with your your vigor and your

fight and I thought he had a good debate

too

now I don't think it matters and I don't

think it matters that a OSE and three of

the four squad endorsed him that that's

the other news because I think the hard

problem and the fact that he is so

completely unelectable in a general

election I just I don't think Bernie can

get to the across the finish line but

his performance was great health look

great yeah he had a good debate

be enough let's talk about Biden Biden

is being chided by both sides so even

the liberal pundits are mocking him for

his word salad so whoever used the

phrase first it might have been Bret

Baier who said that Biden was talking in

word salad

now that's especially word salad about

somebody who has a cognitive decline in

their old age now I don't know that Bret

Baier was intentionally trying to make

that connection but in my brain that's

automatic if you hear the somebody of a

certain age is talking in a word salad

your brain automatically goes to a

cognitive decline and it looked like

cognitive to decline to me have you

noticed that brought the Biden smile is

upside down have you noticed that here's

what a smile should look like

here's Biden's smile I know I can't even

do it but he somehow looks like he's

smiling

while his smile is actually inverted I I

don't know how to do it like I somehow

he makes it look like a smile while he's

frowning it's that it's the freakiest

thing I don't know if that's because of

all the facelifts or what no but Biden

still looks like they get off my lawn

guy did it seem to you that he looked at

too angry for the situation especially

when he um there was a moment when Biden

turned to Warren and he got angry and he

was sort of gesturing and there were two

camera angles on that one camera angle

was straight on and with a straight on

angle you could tell that there was

enough distance physical distance

between Biden and Orrin that when he was

gesturing toward her with his hand it

wasn't getting right in her face he was

gesturing toward her but he wasn't

really in her personal space or anything

but

instantly changed from that point of

that camera angle which was fairly you

know innocent looking to one in which it

was over the shoulder of Warren as she's

looking at Biden and from that camera

angle you see Biden's hand coming right

toward the camera which is toward Biden

and it looked like he was right in her

face so from that camera angle he looked

like a yelling old man getting in the

face of a woman and it looked it looked

too much but if you saw that exact same

camera angle from the front and you

could notice the distance between them

it doesn't look like that at all it just

looks like he's making his point so

beware of camera angles I would say that

maybe CNN's choice of that camera angle

could have been just a producer's choice

on the fly I'm not going to say that

there was any intention and that but it

certainly made him look bad he had no

answer for the hunter Biden thing that

made him look like he's already given up

his dentures were slipping he was

fumbling his words he was rambling there

is not the slightest chance he will be

the nominee there isn't any chance now I

was wondering how Biden would get out of

the race in a graceful way why what

would he claimed there was a health

issue would he say you know maybe he

would just fall in the in the polling

and that would be enough because if he

if he were no longer polling a solid

number one then his argument that he's

the only one who could be Trump but just

doesn't have the same power so the I

think what's gonna happen is you saw the

reporting about his fundraising so Biden

has less than ten million dollars the

other candidates are like 2030 million

so there are three candidates who were

just way outperforming him in

fundraising I think that's the answer to

how Biden gets out

I think Biden will be starved of money

and that's all it will take so in other

words Biden will not choose to leave the

race and he might even be a

leading in the polls when it happens

which would be the weirdest thing he

might run out of money at number one in

the polls that actually happened it

could easily happen because he's number

one in the polls for name recognition

among the general public who is not

really even paying attention

at the same time that the people who are

paying attention and want to win the

general election know that he's not the

guy to do it so I think the funding

since it's mostly big donor funding I

think the funding will shrink to nothing

and then Biden will just have to quit he

just won't have any money so I think the

big donors are gonna starve him out of

the race

what do you think it looks like that's

where it's at it right they're just

gonna start them out of the race all

right here's the other thing that Biden

said I was just shaking my head because

he does these old timey references there

sometimes don't make sense like the

record player he mentioned last time and

he said why should someone who's

clipping coupons in the stock market

blah blah blah something about tax rates

it doesn't matter but you don't really

clip coupons in the stock market that's

not a thing if you have bonds there's

something called you know clipping

coupons when it comes to bonds but

there's no such thing as clipping

coupons and the stock market that's not

actually a thing but he doesn't know now

I have a guilty pleasure watching the

Biden campaign have problems and I

probably shouldn't even admit how much I

enjoyed this but prior to Biden running

CNN had an analyst who was one of their

most frequent guests Symone Sanders who

is now I think the senior advisor from

the Biden campaign so she's either the

top or among the top of his advisors and

I was watching her be interviewed after

Biden's performance oh my god it's fun

she is in such pain because she's

watching her candidate just die right in

front of us I'm he's literally just

lying on the floor decomposing and she's

on television trying to trying to put up

appearances that maybe everything's fine

and watching him decompose wall she's

trying to defend him and you could see

in her face that she wishes she were

doing anything else in the world now I

may be reading too much into it I'm not

a mind reader but she looks like she's

really uncomfortable supporting a guy

who can't put two sentences together it

must be a terrible place to be because

she can't really leave you know that

would be bad for him but you can't win

so I confess to a guilty pleasure

because she was my least favorite pundit

on CNN she was the angry one who just

thought that President Trump was the the

devil and anything he did was bad all

right why is it that we care if Russia

has more influence in Syria oh I let me

talk about some of the other candidates

just to rounded up

I thought yang was interesting got a lot

of attention but I just don't think he's

not he's not gonna catch on with the

general voters so I don't think that

mattered I thought that tulsi gabbard

has her fans and if we're being honest a

lot of her fans are just sort of in love

with her I mean I think that's a real

thing tulsi gabbard has male fans ooh

just sort of want to see more tulsi

gabbard

I'm not I'm not I'm not promoting that

and I'm not giving you my own opinions

on the situation I'm just stating as a

fact that I hear from a lot of men

including Republicans who say I wouldn't

mind seeing some more tulsi gabbard on

my TV screens

now I don't think she's gonna win but

it's interesting that she has almost a

cult-like following of people but I

think we're in love oh that's not my

Harris so my biggest complaints about

Harris's performance were that she

laughed at her own jokes and she had

unpresidential body language did you

notice that during the campaign she did

not laugh at her own jokes and there was

a moment where she smiled like like she

could have laughed but she she kept it

down and her body language was pretty

good I thought she fixed her body

language she fixed her presidential

let's say mannerisms and she didn't

laugh at her own jokes

now remember what I've been telling you

from from the beginning that what's

different about Camilla Harris is that

as big as their flaws have been they're

the easiest ones to fix how hard is it

to fix your body language you just

watched her do it you just watched her

do it she fixed it now I don't know if

she'll be able to do it consistently but

in the context of the debate she fixed

it how hard is it for her to remember

not to laugh too hard at her own jokes

not hard right that's not hard she did

it last night now I don't know if there

was really a trigger for laughing at her

own joke but I thought she had enough of

a trigger and it looked like she had

learned to hold back now let's talk

about her main topic she got attention

for saying that the president should be

kicked off of Twitter my first my first

impression was oh god going you know you

don't run for president arguing against

freedom of speech I couldn't think of a

worse way to run for president you know

I think freedom of speech is overrated

maybe my political opponent should not

have freedom of speech and I'm thinking

that might be the worst attack anybody

ever thought of and then I watched it

get a lot of attention and it's the

second time she's done it because she

did it online and then she brought it to

the debate and I thought she's actually

getting attention for this and then I

thought I wonder if this could work I

don't feel like it's a good idea you

know my first impression but then she

got attention and what do I always say

half of persuasion is just getting

attention and I think she was four

through fifth and how much time she got

to talk

you saw her push Elizabeth Warren on the

question of whether Elizabeth would join

her and ask you for Trump to be banned

from Twitter and Elizabeth Warren simply

was avoiding the question which allowed

convolute to sort of press her and make

her look weak because she wasn't even

answering the question no could be that

both of them lost in that exchange Kamla

may have lost because the the issue is

so weak and there's literally there's

nobody in the country who thinks the

president should lose freedom of speech

there may be nobody it might literally

be nobody in the world who thinks a

president should lose the ability to use

a major communication platform I just

don't think that's the thing but but

Elizabeth Warren looked weak as well so

I think they made each other look weak

that said if Connell Harris can figure

out how to have some policies that

people care about she may have fixed her

two biggest problems the laughs and the

body language

those are big deals that don't seem like

big deals but they really are so I'm not

going to change my prediction somebody's

asking me about her little catch for his

dudes gotta go so that's the second time

she's used that in public

dudes got to go I think every one of us

who heard it were almost said some form

of

that's not presidential that's that's

just that's just not presidential and

you know of course we watch president

Trump do non-presidential things all the

time

but he seems to do them in a way that

makes you laugh where you can tell what

he's up to who or there's some hyperbole

involved or something or he's just

punching back you know as he does so

somehow it's it just feels different

when the president when President Trump

acts non-presidential he makes it work

when Camilla did it because that's not

her brand her brand is not I can do

anything and be done presidential if I

feel like it

her brand is more prosecutor

straight-laced on the senator so when

she uses that phrase it feels a little

not genuine to us I think that's how

you're feeling it's like didn't feel

genuine but what are we talking about it

made news right it made news so both

times she said dude's got to go she got

attention for it and if there's one

thing you can learn from me is that

never underestimate getting attention

it's not nothing so it's not enough but

it's not nothing all right next question

on Syria why do we care that Russia has

more influence in Syria I would care if

Assad were in charge in Syria but I

don't know that he is right doesn't it

seem like Putin just sort of owned Syria

because Putin's military is the dominant

military and if you have the dominant

military you're sort of in control you

know even if you're not the one doing

the garbage pickup and stuff you're sort

of in control here's the thing are we

worse off with the United States or even

the Middle East worse off because Russia

has more control over Syria are we worse

off because it doesn't feel like it to

me does Russia want the Syrian army

to use chemical weapons again probably

not probably not because that can't be

good for Russia does Russia want Syria

to get a nuclear weapon of their own

probably not probably not to Syria want

Isis to get in a fold in Syria probably

not probably not so and then does does

Russia want Iran to have a greater role

or more power in the Middle East well

their allies ish sort of sometimes but

probably not so if you if you look at

you know the United States objectives

and Russian objectives you'd say oh

they're all these places where our

objectives conflict but in the Middle

East and in Syria do they conflict do

they is there anything we want out of

that area that is incompatible with what

Russia wants there might be I mean I'm

speaking kind of ignorance because there

might be something we care about now

I've heard of said that Russia is big

play is about a pipeline and warm water

ports and all that and access to you

know through through Syria to which I

say do we care do we care if Russia has

a good pipeline do we care if Russia has

a reliable warm weather report really I

mean do we care I just don't know that

we care so do we care if Russia or

turkey is controlling the safe zones on

the border with Turkey not really don't

care now I think we do care a lot that

Russia doesn't invade turkey because

then it activates NATO we don't want

that but does it look like Russia is

going to invade Turkey no this last

thing they'd want so the idea that

Russia has more influence in that area

it looks to me like their their

interests are pretty compatible with

ours and at the same time it's gonna be

their expense not ours the best

situation is to have somebody else pay

the tab and do the same things that you

would have done destroy Isis keep Syria

from getting a nuclear weapon it looks

like it's all the same stuff but maybe I

just have a gap in my knowledge there

all right

in the debates and then asked directly

and then they kept at it about age and

health if CNN along with the New York

Times who co-hosted if they're focusing

because remember they didn't ask

anything about climate change I don't

know if they asked anything about China

I don't remember maybe they did but CNN

gets to influence how the public is

thinking by what questions they ask and

one of the questions was about age what

does that tell you what it tells me is

CNN is not too excited about the three

leading candidates because they're all

too old because I don't think they would

ask the question unless they thought

that it mattered and that their own team

would be better off wrestling with the

question so it seemed to me that they

were that they were painting a little

laser target on the top three candidates

because they're the older ones so what

happens if the top three go away who's

left

if the top three fail what do you got

got your booty judge you got your comp

lares you got your clove char but she

doesn't seem to be catching on there's

something about clove Achara that just I

know it's not connecting with people

even though I would say objectively

she's the other adult in the room with

Pete Buddha judge good a judge now let

me ask you this if you had a choice

let's say you're the demo

that you're a kingmaker on the Democrat

side so you're a big-money person in

your big let's say your Pelosi you're

somebody who wants the Democrats to win

and you're given this choice you only

have two choices hypothetically and your

choices are calmly Harris or Peter Budaj

and you can have one of them as your

candidate which do you pick and don't

don't tell me about vice presidents

because nobody votes for Vice President

which of those two if you're a Democrat

which of those two do you say is the

better choice Buddha judge or Connell

Harris go into comments tell me stop

saying Tulsi we're not going to talk

about her all right let me just say I

don't have any interest in Tulsi Gabbard

because she doesn't have a chance of

winning and there's just no point in

talking about her okay so just forget

about commenting about her for a while

so I'm looking at your comments I'm

seeing Pete Kamla Pete Camilla Harris

Pete Harris neither stay home Pete Pete

Pete Stu young something homophobic

mayor Pete hard pass comma comma

somebody says Harris you persuaded me

Harris Harris Harris Harris Harris

Harris booed a judge so it's pretty

split and so I'm looking at your answers

and from and most of you are probably

Trump supporters and Republicans so

you're not really the voice of the

Democrats you'd be guessing what they

would want yeah it looks like it's

pretty split between Harris and Buda

judge all right let me let me give you

this you ready for it

Kamala Harris for president Pete Buda

judge for vice president huh think about

it butI judge

president we might not be ready for and

when I say we I don't mean to me I would

love a gay president honestly it would

be it would make me happy every day if I

woke up with a gay president I honestly

it would just make my day better because

I'd be thinking I can't wait till he

meets with Saudi Arabia I can't you know

I can't wait till he you know meets with

foreign leaders just just see what

happens what do they do

what does Saudi Arabia do with our gay

president so I would love a gay

president I'm the most Pro gay guy

you'll ever meet

Pro LGBTQ in general but just in the

same way that I thought that it was good

for the country to elect Obama just to

get us over the hump you know just to

say this is who we are

you know you can you can be anybody in

this country if you have the qualities

will elect your president so I think

Obama's election was way bigger than

just the administration that he presided

over way more than whatever the

performance was it was just historically

it was important and we had to we had to

get to that point I'm glad we did same

thing with Pete Buddha judge I love to

get to that point where we had a gay

president if not him someday I'd be all

be all in favor of that but are we ready

in 2020 are we ready for a gay president

because we're still largely a homophobic

country right there's there's way too

much of it and especially if the

question is leadership because the

people who are most homophobic are

probably also gonna have a bias it's

like wow is that the brand we want to

lead with will other countries take us

seriously and other homophobic thoughts

I don't think any of them really matter

so I think people a judge would be a

great president if the public elected

him you would do a great job I don't

think any of that would be an England

and it would be great to you know crack

that ceiling and finally just get past

that but I think the public doesn't

believe we're quite ready now let's let

me ask you this

suppose you seasoned mayor Pete with

four or eight years as the vice

president after being seasoned he's

older he's experienced in the executive

branch of the government because right

now he's a mayor and we have eight more

years to just grow as a as a society is

he ready then yeah yeah Peabody judge

plus four years or plus eight years is a

whole different people to judge remember

he's just practicing right now he's

really young and he's already gotten a

whole lot better on the campaign trail

he's getting better he's got some

serious game and he would have a lot of

rich backers some of them would be gay

which helps you know it's good to have a

like an enthusiastic base that has money

so here's what I'm suggesting the

strongest package for the Democrats

which they might come to believe on

their own is it's a top three in the

polls Warren Biden and Bernie are too

old and too extreme once you've gotten

rid of them and I think that the people

with money and influence will work on

doing that

should they be successful in getting the

top three end of the mix Oh

Kamala Harris Buddha judge team wouldn't

look bad that would not look bad and if

you were trying to attract women people

of color LGBTQ can you beat that

seriously could you beat Harris and

Buddha judge as just a package that

describes the democrat party in the way

that the democrats say oh yeah that is

us that you know that combination gets

everything like we've got we've got some

straights and gays and males and females

some person to call it or some white

it's at all and they're young enough so

I don't think I've convinced you that my

prediction of camel Harris as the

nominee I don't think she'll win against

Trump but as the nominee doesn't sound

so bad now doesn't sound so bad does it

again look he got pretty quiet when I

said that didn't you because it's the

first time you could imagine somebody

who would be competitive with Trump

Harris Plus Buddha judge would be pretty

competitive compared to the others who

would be not competitive at all alright

that's about all I got for now I would

like to remind you that my book lose I

think which is already screaming up the

best the bestseller charts is number one

in its category and it's not even on

sale yet that's just pre-orders its

category being business and political

humor and also most most anticipated I

think I'm number one on Amazon so

yesterday I did some some personal

signings of my book if you're wondering

how I did it I just had people call me

on my app let's see if you can see this

I can't see it but on my whiteboard I

had a drawing and I would just add

people's name to it and let them take a

screenshot there so they were using the

interface by when Hub app contacted me

personally and I would just write their

name on the whiteboard and hold up my

selfie phone and they would have a

selfie of me with their autograph and

they can just print that out and stick

it in a book now here's why this is

great you could get my autograph for the

book without actually having it on the

book and then you can read the book keep

the autograph and give the book as a

gift yeah

yeah best of everything I think of it

all alright thank you for pre-ordering

all of you who pre-ordered that makes a

big difference and I appreciate that the

most because the pre-orders are what

give it its buzz when it starts and and

what buzz it has when it starts tends to

be very predictive of how it's going to

do you just said the vice-president's

don't matter nobody votes for the

vice-president but as a package it gives

people a reason to show up and what's

different about Budaj

as a vice president candidate is that I

think people would understand that he

needs to get seasoned in that kind of a

job he's the only thing that Pete is

lacking is seasoning and I feel like

everybody sees that so you seasoned him

you get you get him as an eventual

president later it's a strong play

that's the way I'd do it if I were a

Democrat all right that's all for now

I'll talk to you later