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Biden be the finisher? It's possible. It's not impossible. And if any of you are saying, Scott, don't be such a naive, gullible fool, as long as the leadership of Iran is in place they will only lie to you, they will never make peace. Maybe. Could be. But they're also in a nearly impossible situation, so that can make you flexible. Who knows? So I'm not going to predict that will happen, but I'll…
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So I don't know that we'll get a Republican Senate. But let's say we do. That means that maybe Biden doesn't overtax me and maybe we get a little relief from the social unrest. Maybe Trump's voice is just as strong but it's external to government. Could be just as strong. Might not be bad. Stock market's up, right? I feel like we'll survive this one way or the other.
All right. I also think that if you're a Republican, the current situation of let's say Biden takes office and he does a reasonably moderate job without too many super lefty things because the Congress won't let him get away with it, what happens in 2022? We're on a path that almost guarantees Republican control of Congress by 2022. And then what happens in 2024? Well, Biden won't be running, so you don't have an incumbent. And if you don't have an incumbent and the last election looks like it was stolen, I like the Republicans' chances, whoever that is, whether it's Trump or somebody else.
So don't assume that bad news has happened.
Let's talk about the churches. I guess the Supreme Court backed some church in New York. The local government, Cuomo, wanted the churches to close, I guess. I don't know all the details, but the Supreme Court, five to four, said you are treating the churches unfairly compared to other groups and businesses and organizations, so they reversed it.
Now I'm not a believer or religious, so I've been kind of staying out of this topic. But I want to just throw this notion into the mix. What would Jesus do? Let's say Jesus came back and he just became the pastor of your local church and you got lucky. So you go to your local church and there's actually Jesus came back to life. What would Jesus do in the pandemic?
Okay, don't be a wise guy. I know he would just heal his people. That's too clever. Yes, he would just go out and he would touch the people who had COVID and heal them. That's not what I'm talking about. What would he do in terms of keeping the church open? Would he say, hey, let's just wait it out and we'll be fine? Or would he say no, the religious impulse is too important, too important to your souls, and even taking one year off is unacceptable because you have rights, you know, you have a constitutional right, plus God wants you to worship, right?
But what would Jesus do literally? Literally, Jesus, what would he do? Would Jesus say, yeah, some of you are gonna die, but it's very important that you worship in the same building at the same time? Does that sound like Jesus? Does that sound like something Jesus would say? Yeah, some of you will die, but it's very important that you don't worship alone for this one year where we have this medical problem, but rather you should do it in person. I don't feel like he would say that.
But again, I'm not religious and my opinion on this is completely irrelevant. Let me tell you what I would do if I were the church who had won this court case. I would say we have won our court case. Now we're going to close the church. That's what I'd do if I were Jesus. I would fight the government trying to close my church because I would say, hey, I think this is unfair. I might fight the case because of the unfairness of it, the way it's being implemented. But once I won and it was no longer the government's choice whether this church is open or not, and now it's more of a Jesus question, right, what would Jesus do? I feel like Jesus would win the court case because he's Jesus. How does Jesus lose a court case? I think he'd be pretty good defending his side.
But I think he might say, let me give you a parable. Suppose your local church had a termite problem and your pastor said we're gonna miss a week of church because we've got to attend to it and we're gonna do a termite eradication thing. So you're just gonna l
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ose one week, can't use the building, just one week because it wouldn't be healthy. Would you be okay with that or would you take it to the Supreme Court? Well, I think you'd be okay with it. So it's really sort of a timing thing, right? The reason you'd be okay with the termite tent is that it's not permanent. Things that aren't permanent aren't really problems. That's sort of my philosophy. The…
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