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nal sacrifice, something you don't want to do, it's a personal sacrifice and you do it for the purpose of protecting other Americans, what would you call that? What do you call it when somebody personally sacrifices for the benefit of other Americans? Patriotic. It's patriotic. I completely agree with Joe Biden. Now if you disagree with that, let me reiterate, I'm not saying that you're wrong to…

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e know so far is that he tweeted it and now we're starting to learn how practical or impractical that is because people who are smarter than I am are doing some googling and they're saying things like, somebody says wearing burkas is patriotic. Does that analogy, I think I have to respond to your bad analogies. Does that analogy make sense? You think of a burka and a medically required face mask that might last a few months. Those are kind of similar to you?

Somebody says control. I said you could not wear a mask. What control am I putting on you? No control. Somebody says I'd call this stupid. You're welcome to. Master, a sign of slavery. Something says fine, no argument. You can have any opinion of it you want. But you must wear one because experts are wrong 90 percent of the time. Perfectly acceptable. It is perfectly acceptable for you to say the experts have been so wrong, I'm not gonna do this. Now I would have a different opinion but I'm not going to tell you that's an unacceptable opinion.

Somebody says they wear a mask to protect themselves. Okay, fair enough. All right, so none of you had good comments but there were lots of them. I'm sure I missed some of them. Were I probably missed all the good ones.

All right, he did not say he'd run in 2020. Well his tweet did because it said Kanye 2020. All right, so Kanye says he's running. Does he mean it? Let's get to the questions. Does he mean it? I doubt it. I doubt he means it in the sense that he's going to do anything about it. You know, I doubt he's gonna campaign. I doubt he's gonna do the paperwork. I doubt it.

But just for fun, what if he did? What if Kanye did win? It looks like there are enough states that he can't win in that he probably couldn't just win in a straight-up way. But if you could write in, let's say, can you write in anybody you want? I have some questions about that but I think you can write in anybody, right? Those are a law against writings. So is it technically possible? Now even if you won in the voting booth, apparently there's another problem that's a little more technical. You're supposed to have Electoral College people who are basically backing up your vote. I'll give it to you in the non-technical way.

So if you're running for office and you don't have electors already set up in each state, then even if you win the state there's nobody to cast your vote. Because just winning the popular vote or winning the state doesn't get you elected. It's the Electoral College. So if you don't have your own Electoral College, there's no humans who have that job for you to cast that vote for you, then maybe there's no way to do it because the system requires those Electoral College people to exist. Now could all that be put in place? Probably. I mean nothing is impossible.

Now the big question is if Kanye actually ran, who would he take votes away from? I think he would take them away from the Democrats. Would you agree? Would you agree that Kanye would just completely wipe out Biden's vote? You know, not completely, but he would take enough of it so it would make the difference.

But let's ask this more interesting question. What if Biden just sort of dropped out? What if Kanye took so many votes away from Biden that Biden looked at the polls and he went from a commanding lead over Trump to 20 points behind? Let's say that happened and then those polls showed that for a few weeks in a row that Kanye didn't have a majority. He had a solid chunk but it took Biden down to say 20 points below Trump a few months before the election. What would Biden do? Ask yourself what would Biden do? Well of course everybody would say Kanye, Kanye get out of the race, you gotta let Biden win. But would he? I don't think he would have announced if he wanted Biden to win. Would you really announce that you're gonna run for president if you think the other guy that's already in it is the guy?

And again my guess is that Kanye is not completely serious about running. Maybe he's seeing what's gonna happen and then maybe he'll decide after he sees what the reaction is. I don't know. Yeah, anything's possible. The thing we love about Kanye among other things is that he's not predictable. If he were predictable, would you like him as much? No, no. He's an artist all the time. Part of being an artist all the time, you know, not just when you're making music or making some fashion or something. He's an artist all the time so he's always interesting. He's always surprising and it's always fresh. You're like, okay, I haven't seen that before. So predicting what Kanye would do is always a tricky business.

But imagine if Joe Biden said, all right, under these conditions I don't ever have a chance to win. Good luck, Kanye. You can just imagine that happening. It's not impossible. If Biden were 20 points down a month before the election and the only way you could get rid of Trump was Kanye being elected. Right, you see it, don't you? If you think he doesn't have a play, he kind of does. Kinda does. Which was brilliant because if he doesn't win, nobody's really gonna hold it against him, right? Nobody's gonna say, hey Kanye, you ran for president and you didn't make it, you loser. No, because the way he's doing it, if he's doing it at all, doesn't look like a regular campaign. It would never be held against him to not be elected president in 2020. But suppose it worked. He could. Is it impossible? Not really. It's not really impossible.

And if you saw a straight-up election between Kanye and Trump, I actually don't know who would win then. Actually I take it back. Kanye would win. I think Kanye would win straight up. I think he would.

Now here's the other thing that might come to this. I've said before that I didn't think Kanye would run for president in a serious way and we still don't know how serious. But I said I didn't think it because it would be a demotion. There's nobody else who could run for president, win, and you'd look at it and say that's kind of a demotion. And I don't mean because Kanye is famous. You know, I don't mean a demotion in that sense. I mean that what he's been doing for the last couple years, if you haven't been paying attention, is

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he's been doing sort of that, I guess a Christian revival or I don't know what you call it, but he's going very heavily into a spiritual direction. In my opinion the country needs that more than they need a new president, right? Because there's sort of a spiritual void or something. You know, I'm not a religious person but I even I can feel that people are drifting. They need some kind of a connec…

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