elected if their team wants to show nonstop violence as the alternative to Trump? Basically, I mean, you could say they're happening at the same time so it's not the alternative, but it's gonna feel like it. It's gonna feel like two teams. One is setting your business on fire and the other team is trying to make America great again or whatever it's gonna be. A tough one.

And it makes me wonder if the networks are going to have to not cover it. How are you gonna cover this? Because if they show it, it's just gonna be all bad. Visually it'll be just devastating. And I think that the public's flexibility or understanding in terms of protests and violence started out very flexible because everybody was shocked about George Floyd. And if you saw somebody acting out because of that, you would say to yourself, well, I wish they wouldn't, but I kind of get it. You sort of understood it at least. Even if you wouldn't have done it, you could say, yeah, I can see how that could happen.

But the longer it goes, the less credible the protesters are, especially since there were lots of suggestions that have been floated and everybody seems to be taking them seriously. So that should be good news, but it won't stop the protests in Tulsa. I would expect a good deal of violence when that happens, unfortunately.

So I put up a little poll on Twitter just before I got on, but there were still hundreds of responses. And I asked this question, knowing that all digital trails are discoverable and that you can lose your job and your family for supporting Trump: Would you tell a pollster if you plan to vote for Trump?

Now of course these are highly unscientific polls, but the only thing you can really tell with a Twitter poll is does there exist a lot of people who have a certain opinion. You can't even really know if it's more or less because it's that unscientific. But you could tell if there are a lot of them. I mean that would come across pretty clearly. By a ratio of about two to one last I checked, two people said they would not talk to the pollster for everyone that would. Two people said they would either lie to the pollster or not give them an answer for everyone that would.

Now you might say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, there's been polling forever, blah blah blah, we had the same problem in 2016. Trump was unpopular then. Oh no, it's not the same. It's not even close to the same as 2016. In 2016, did you think you would lose your job for being a Trump supporter? I mean I'm sure people did, but it probably wasn't the top thing you were worrying about right at the moment. In 2020 it might be the top thing you're worrying about. There may be people all over the country who are saying, oh God, I hope somebody didn't see that tweet I did two years ago. I could get fired.

So at the moment the fear is real. What have I told you is the most motivating persuasion bar none? Nothing is more persuasive than this one thing: fear. Fear is always the most persuasive because you have to protect yourself first before you can do anything else. You can't eat if you think you're gonna get killed right away.

So given that a real fear, this is not hypothetical, there