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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…

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is an actual real fear that you can lose everything, your friends, your job, etc., so I don't think we've ever had a polling situation that was this rife with possible mischief. I don't know if it's mischief so much as an assault on self-preservation.

But here's the other thing that changed. Four years ago, were you as aware as you are now? Of course you were aware, but there's a difference between knowing something is true sort of intellectually and having it just forced to the front of your brain where your brain can't see anything else. That's really different. In both cases you knew it was the case. There's no new information, and I'll tell you what I'm talking about in the moment. But there's a difference between just knowing it's true and just having it overwhelm your brain. You'll act differently in those two cases.

And what we've watched for the last four years, especially with the Russia collusion stuff, is that absolutely no digital trail is safe. No database can't be hacked. No server can't be hacked. And we've seen a complete willingness of people to dox people. So the things that are really different: you always knew the government could find out anything, right? You knew they could track your phone. You knew that on some level they might be collecting all of your digital data, etc. But it wasn't front of mind.

But if you turn on the TV and every single day there's a new story of somebody's email, text message, data got hacked, every freaking day, that knowledge that used to be just something you knew is now lighting up your whole brain like your brain is on fire with the idea that there's no privacy for digital communication. And it's true. There is no privacy. The only privacy that we'll have in the future is being boring. If you're boring, nobody wants to look at your stuff anyway. So being boring is literally the only protection you'll have that you can feel confident about. That as long as nobody cares about you they won't look at your stuff. But even then of course they would.

I've got a question for you. Has the Supreme Court just turned into a popularity poll? And I'll ask you this question because I don't really follow the Supreme Court. I just follow the headlines when they're in it. But can somebody who knows something answer this question: When was the last time the Supreme Court had a ruling that went against popular opinion? And let's say popular opinion had to be at least 55% in favor of whatever position, whatever the topic is, doesn't matter. But when was the last time the Supreme Court voted against the public majority?

Somebody says Roe versus Wade. I doubt that's true. Could be Brown versus Board of Education. Yeah, you have to go back pretty far. Somebody says the travel ban. I don't know about that. All right, well there are some questions. There might be some that were lesser issues that people were too worked up about, and then maybe in those cases the court feels safe to go against it. But I feel like there's some kind of weird self-preservation happening with the Supreme Court.

Well, all of our institutions have lost their credibility. I feel like the Supreme Court might be trying to, and again this is mind reading so remember I always warn you, you can't know what people are thinking. You just can't. They can tell you and they may or may not be telling you the truth, but you can't know what strangers are thinking. It's just not a thing. But we can speculate. There's something that's making you scratch your head and say, you know what, I've got some questions.

Somebody says Obamacare. I've seen lots of examples go by. But let me just put this proposition out there. The Supreme Court might need to maintain its credibility even more importantly than getting a decision right. What do you think? Is that true? Yeah, you know, if you're a Chief Justice or any of the members of the Supreme Court, would your priority be that the most important thing is to maintain the credibility of the c

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ourt itself, independent of what the actual decision is? Because I feel like that is the priority. Meaning that if I heard that was their priority, I would say, oh yeah, when you think about it, it probably does need to be the priority. Because the way that the court can maintain its credibility is of course going with the majority. That's probably better than going with the minority, right? If t…

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