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 countries we would have to be like them. In other words the thing that killed two hundred thousand people in this country this is going to sound really ugly but I think you'll understand what I'm saying. The thing that killed over two hundred thousand Americans to an extent is a feature not a bug. That's cruel. It's horrible. It's a terror. It's an ugly thought. But there is something that makes America a little bit special and it's this. It's the fact that we don't believe authority. It's the fact that we don't trust the experts all the time. It's the fact that if you give us a choice between living like a slave and being healthy or living like a free person and maybe killing your own grandmother you'll kill your own grandmother. You will kill your grandmother for freedom. You kill yourself too. You kill anybody for freedom. It's a feature. It's a feature not a bug.

So did President Trump preside over a country that got a worse outcome than other countries? Maybe. Again I think you really have to dig into the difference in the variables to know that for sure. But let's say it's true. Was it a mistake? It's being couched as a mistake. I would say it's a choice. I would say that the country made a conscious choice. Now did President Trump influence by his own behavior let's say not wear a mask let's say downplaying the virus did he influence anybody's opinion by his own actions? Perhaps so. Perhaps so. Is that wrong? Well if the way he's persuading Americans is to be more American it's a hard argument to make that it was wrong unless you think being more American in other words preferring freedom over life itself unless you think that's a bug. He was persuading toward a feature not a bug. So that's just one way I'd frame it.

All right there was a sign I saw at a protest at Yorba Linda. So it looked like there were some protesters and some counter-protesters and one of the signs held up by it looked like a white counter-protester to BLM said Black behavior matters. So the response to Black Lives Matter from this counter-protester was Black behavior matters. Pretty offensive isn't it? It is. It's offensive. Now of course he made it to be provocative so you can't again that was a feature not a bug. This is somebody who's trying to get your blood boiling and it worked.