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y rigged it the first time at a national level, which means rigging it at the necessary state levels, why wouldn't they do it again? What possible thing would stop them if it worked? 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 b…
← Previous segment →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. There's two parts of the philosophy. If you can solve it with money, I've taken this from my friend Jason, if you can solve a problem with money it's not that big a problem because there's usually a way to find money. You know, there are ways to make money.
Somebody says, come on man, somebody says Jesus defeated death, you're wrong Scott. I don't know what that means. Souls are more important than virus. Would your soul be damaged if your church is tented for termites? Would your soul be damaged or would you just say I think I'll pray at home today and hit the church next week when it's safe? I don't know.
So again, nothing about my opinion on this should be important. I'm not part of the question. But there you go.
Let's talk about the Flynn pardon. Everybody saw that coming. I think you all expected that, right? You all expected Flynn to get pardoned. I did. And here's the funny part. I was listening to MSNBC and flipping back and forth to Fox, and it is really shocking. I don't know how many times you've had the experience yourself, so this is not a new thought. But listening to MSNBC talk about the same news you're watching on another network is a really freaky experience.
According to them, a case in which the prosecutor himself wants to drop the charges, they think, they act like they're watching a murder, that this pardon was so over the line that the president has now destroyed all our norms. And what did I tell you? That the prosecutor himself doesn't want to prosecute the case because there's not enough of a case there. The prosecutor wants to drop the charges. If the prosecutor wants to drop the charges, that's not really watching a murder happen. That's more like nothing happening here, right?
So it's really freaky watching the MSNBC people think that it's just the worst problem in the world.
So what about Snowden? So Snowden's name came up. I think the president said he doesn't know a whole bunch about the case, but he'll be looking into it. So he was neither a yes nor no on that. I feel as though every time the president noodles about a pardon it ends up happening. Is there any exception to that? Have we seen yet any case where the president has talked in public like, well, you know, I'm thinking about that or I'm looking into it, where it didn't happen? Because I feel as if he wouldn't say that unless he knew he was going to do it, right? I mean, he could always change his mind, but I've got a feeling his preliminary thinking, and here I'm doing a little mind reading so don't take this too seriously, I feel as if he doesn't bring it up unless he is favorably disposed already.
If I feel that way, now of course he was responding to a question, but if he were not favorably disposed I feel he would have said, well that's a tough one. You know, that was a very serious crime. I think that would be a tough pardon. I think if he said that then I'd expect maybe it wouldn't happen. But if he just says, well I haven't looked into it, that feels like he's already decided. But we'll see.
Apparently Barr is violently opposed to it and a lot of well-meaning patriotic people are also opposed to it. I'm not also real steeped in the details. I understand that the accusation is that he hurt our national security and may have even gotten people killed. That's the allegation, right?
But here's my take on this. So I just watched an interview with him, a fresh interview, in which Snowden was saying that his only condition for returning to the U.S., and I guess this has been consistent from the start, is that he wants a guarantee that h
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e can tell his story at trial. Did you know that's all he's asking for? Snowden would come back and go to trial. He's not saying I need a pardon to return. He's not even asking for that, apparently. Not once. He's asked for a fair trial in which he gets to tell his story. And apparently that's not guaranteed. Now I don't know what it means to guarantee it. I suppose you could put that in writing.…
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