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rd somebody who wasn't obviously a Trump supporter say yeah if you test more you're going to find more infection. It seems sort of obvious. And now Nate Silver is saying it and I'm wondering what am I missing? What am I not understanding about this situation that it could ever not be true that more testing wouldn't find more things? Isn't the reason you test to find more stuff? I'm really confused…

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f persuasion. So in order to take the power out of that you could simply refer to them as the ironically named Antifa. Now you could feel it right? If you said that often enough and say the domestic terrorist organization ironically named Antifa it would completely take the power out of Antifa. So that's my suggestion.

Somebody found a video from 1991 in which Joe Biden said he was talking about a justice that I think that was being considered at the time and talking about how old people would be in 2020. And Biden said in the year 2020 I'll be dead and gone in all probability. Now what are the odds that there would be an actual video of Joe Biden predicting his own death by 2020 at the exact same time that we're all wondering if he'll live to election day in 2020?

Did he say that about lots of other years? You know is there also a video of Joe Biden saying he might not live to 2025 or maybe it's something he says a lot and you know they just found the one that had the 2020 year in it. But that is very simulationy. A very very simulationy. All right.

And there's another video of Biden doing a gaffe that doesn't make any sense at all. And the gaffe is he suddenly injects somebody named John into his answer and there is nobody named John involved in any way with the question or the answer. You have to hear that to know what's going on but I've now learned what Biden does when he loses his train of thought and it might be a trick I'll use myself because I often lose my train of thought when I'm doing these Periscopes. Probably I'm losing my mind. What he does is if he starts into a point and he loses his train of thought he doesn't even know what the topic is anymore he reverts to this generic statement which is we can't let Trump keep doing what he's doing because that fits everything. So he'll be like we've got to change the economy and change the taxes and then he forgets completely what he's talking about. He's like well here's the thing we just can't let Trump keep getting away with what he's getting away with. So whenever he does that that means he completely forgot what he was talking about. So look for that all right.

Some of you are thinking that it's Trump's middle name Donald John Trump or that he was thinking his name was Donald Trump. I don't know who he was talking about.

There's another tape that surfaced of Biden. This is the trouble with being in politics for so long there are infinite number of old Biden tapes of him saying bizarre things. But Jonathan Turley was writing about this today. He said that a tape has surfaced of Biden claiming back at some point wasn't too long ago that he quote started at a historically Black college. He actually claimed, Biden did in front of a it looked like a crowd of mostly Black voters, he claimed that he had started out at a historically Black college which it turns out never happened as far as anybody can tell. And they don't even know what he meant. You know they can't even figure out well when he says he started out does he mean he went to school there or did he have some involvement with them? It's just sort of bizarre and unstated. But the fact that you could have a presidential candidate claim that he or at least apparently claim this could be misinterpreted but apparently claimed that he went to a historically Black college and nobody and people just let that go. Nothing to see here. Yeah he went to a historically Black college. Why not? Why not?

I tell you all the time and it's always good to remember this that the human brain is tuned toward change. We get used to whatever our situation is. So even if something is really really bad if we do it long enough we stop complaining about it so much because we just get used to it. But if something is moving in the wrong direction even a little bit our hair will be on fire and we wow it's moving in the wrong direction. So we're far more affected by the direction of things than where things are. That's just a good thing to understand about human beings because that dynamic you'll see it all the time.

And one of the ways that it's really really important at the moment is that apparently the COVID deaths in the United States are kind of flat. And as long as they stay about the same even though it's way too high, a thousand people a day or something in that neighborhood are dying. Even at a thousand deaths a day as long as it just sort of stays there and even if the 200,000 deaths are now I don't know 200,4 or 5,000 deaths as long as that stays around a few hundred thousand you know it might creep up to I don't know 230,000 by election day or something whatever it is. As long as it's in that 200,000-ish range it's going to feel like it didn't change much. And the fact that it seems stable-ish is really really going to work for the president because we can't stay interested in things that are the same even when they're bad. We get way more interested in what's on fire today and what somebody said today. So I think the president's biggest problem is that what people think of coronavirus is becoming smaller and smaller in people's minds even though the problem isn't going away.

I would say this about how to interpret that. The United States has such a bad outcome with coronavirus according to the experts. I'm not convinced that if you looked at all the variables it would look so bad. In other words if you considered our obesity you considered a higher percentage of African-American citizens if you considered everything probably wouldn't look so bad but we don't. And I would say that one factor that we don't count enough is that Americans just like freedom and Americans like freedom more than they like life itself. That's built into us. We're actually designed that way to like freedom more than life itself. We're literally trained from childhood at least my generation was. I don't think it happens anymore but my generation was trained from childhood that if you had a choice of you know you can't get freedom unless you die trying to get it we'll die. So this coronavirus is no different than every other challenge the United States has faced since its inception. What's my trade-off? Yes you could be much much safer if you do the following things or maybe you know I don't you could be

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skeptical but the experts are telling you you could be much safer if you do these things but to do these things you're gonna have to give up this other thing called freedom. Do Americans say sure sure let's give up some freedom I'm in I'll save some lives? No we don't do that and we don't want to be those people. That's the bigger part. In order for us to have had the same success as other countr…

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