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out politics and maybe has some influence, that's some scary. Somebody says Jesse Watters mentioned me last night on Gutfeld. I have that recorded and I will watch that today. Well here's some good news. Are you ready for the good good news? Really good news. Great news. I'm going to give you the best news today that you've ever heard. You ready? Now some of you don't think it was a problem, cl…
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And how about Fukushima? And how about the problem of safety because you don't want something like a Fukushima melting down or something, right? Were you aware that no modern designed nuclear energy plant has ever had a death or a meltdown? Fukushima's old design. You wouldn't build that today. And even the new designs have been around so long. What we call the newer generation three has never had a problem. Those are the only ones you would build. You wouldn't build a generation two. You wouldn't build a Chernobyl generation one, right?
But zero problems with generation three. So if you think that there's a safety problem you'd have to answer the fact that zero people have ever died and there's never been a meltdown in a generation three. So waste, your storage solved. Safety solved. We're really good at generation three. And by the way generation four won't even have a risk of melting down. In generation four some of the designs actually eat nuclear waste as their own fuel.
So you know everything that we were worried about. And then of course we've had some breakthroughs in fusion which is even a bigger deal.
So if you're looking at climate change the two biggest things that could possibly ever happen are happening. The debate on nuclear power is over. I've never seen this happen before. I've never seen a debate won. It's really remarkable. Can you think of any other example? I can't.
All right so that's good news.
Rasmussen has a new poll out asking if you believe that the folks who are now in jail because of the January 6th protests at the Capitol, are they, do you believe that they are political prisoners? I'll ask this in the comments and I'll tell you what the Rasmussen poll said.
Do you think that the people in jail for the January 6 protest are political prisoners? Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm seeing lots of yeses. Almost all yeses.
Yeah. Now let me ask you this. Let me start by agreeing with you, okay? So I'm agreeing with you. We're on the same side. I would say that they're political prisoners too.
Now let me let's go do a mental experiment. Suppose we picked one of them to look at. So you randomly picked one of the people who's in jail for the January 6 stuff and you say what's this one in jail for? And they'd probably say something like well we have him on video beating a cop with a blunt object. Should that person be in jail? Yeah of course. Of course it doesn't matter what you think of politics. If somebody beat a police officer with a blunt object, yeah, jail. No doubt about it.
So let's pick somebody else because that one's obvious. So you pick the next person. Next person, why is this one here? Well we also have them on video bear spraying a police officer. Okay well that one goes, yeah that one needs to be in jail.
I feel like it's all going to be that, right? If you ask me do I think they're political prisoners? Yes. But if you actually went down to each one and said well what about this one, you know this one injured a cop? No, not that one.
But I'm not entirely sure they're not all that. Are you sure that the people in jail are just trespassed? Because I don't have that information. Do you think that the people still in jail, I'm only talking about ones still in jail, do you think that their only crime was trespassing?
Now the Viking horn guy is an interesting case because I don't know that he did anything. Did the Viking horn guy do anything but trespass? So let's put it this way. If there are people who are in jail for just trespassing then clearly they're political prisoners. But I would imagine they would all be out on bail by now, wouldn't they?
So I feel like I'd need to know a little bit more about that. But emotionally, emotionally and at the high level, yeah, political prisoners. And you know what, even if they're not, even if you dug down and found there were specific charges that even you would say okay that's a specific charge, it still feels like political prisoners.
I swear to God even if you told me the story for every one of those people, he said all right look at it, here's every one of these people, look at their story, you tell me that they should not be in jail
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and I'd say well maybe they should be, this one. And yet still I think it's political prisoners. Like I have two opinions that don't even fit together. Yeah they might be actually violent people and they're also just political prisoners. I can't help it. I'd love to tell you that I have a consistent opinion but I don't. Those two things don't fit together and yet I hold them both as truths. So I…
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