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in the comments you damn smart people. My clever point was just coming up and you beat me to it in the comments. Would you ever assume that if they said I'd like you to come over for dinner that their real intention was to eat you and that they are cannibals? And if not, why not? Why would you not make the assumption that they're cannibals? Because the words fit both meanings, right? How do you no…
← Previous segment →ld assume that that was even something that the president would say out of his mouth and that it's even possible that that could have happened. You've got to assume that wasn't possible if you're going to understand how language works, right?
Language doesn't work if you make the dumbest assumption about what the person is thinking. It never works. Nothing would make sense if you made the dumbest assumption about what somebody's thinking. So let me do that with Joe Biden. Joe Biden, his highest priority is getting rid of racial inequality. Therefore he wants to kill all the white people. Why would I assume that? Wouldn't that be stupid? Does anybody think that Joe Biden wants to kill all white people? Well it's right there in what he said. He wants racial equality. How else are you going to get it? Logical.
So watching Democrats not know, especially a professional writer, I mean Aaron Rupar is a professional writer at a pretty big publication, Vox. He knows how language works. He knows how talking works. He knows how communication works. He's literally a high-end professional. And even he thought that Trump maybe suggested drinking bleach. That's how bad the fake news is. I mean that's bad. That's as bad as you can get.
All right. Anything else we need to cover? I don't think so. Somebody says it's intentional but you can't rule that out. But honestly I don't get that vibe. If you know because we had some back and forth and he did not defend himself like somebody who knew he was wrong. He defended himself exactly like somebody who thought he was right. Now I can't read his mind so if you're going to say to yourself but you don't know he might have been acting. Yeah I guess that's possible. I'm just giving you my best judgment is that it looked genuine.
Why did he say he was being sarcastic? Oh why did Trump say he was being sarcastic? Again we can't read his mind but my guess is that he got so much heat for that he just wanted it to go away. So he just said I was just playing around being sarcastic. I think that's the best explanation. But there's no chance that he sarcastically suggested drinking bleach. There's no chance that he sarcastically asked about injecting household disinfectants into a body. He did not sarcastically say that. But he did say that he was being sarcastic. And we know that he sometimes has a history of trying to make it an issue just go awa
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y. So I think he just tried to make it go away. What is up with Newsom? Well it looks like the number of signatures for the recall is getting up there. And somebody smart pointed out, I forget who it was so I can't give you credit, that if Newsom demands that the signatures be audited, the idea of auditing elections is gonna look good. All right. I think that's all I got for now and I'm gonna go…
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