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it'll be hard for you to get an ID, right? Everybody agrees with that, right? So logically won't there be way more white people who can't vote if you do anything to reduce the amount of voting? Shouldn't you have fewer white votes than black? Now as a percentage, as a percentage maybe more black but we don't, elections are not based on percentages, based on how many votes you get. Well I mean ulti…

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ause fewer white people vote which means that the percentage of black people would be relatively better. No way am I doing the math right but it does seem to me that we don't even know if it's good or bad for any particular group. And yeah we're talking about like crazy.

Well the Taliban is bringing back public hangs and they're going to do amputations again. So if you steal something they'll cut off your hand. They're still not deciding whether they'll do the amputations in public because the Taliban are not the old Taliban, you know. The old ones they were really cruel. They would do your amputations right in public. But I think they're going to maybe considering doing them not in public. So oh yeah they're still doing the hangings in public. They just did a bunch of hangings. They killed some kidnappers and hung them from cranes in various cities as a lesson. Yeah they're still going to hang people in public. I mean they're still the Taliban.

Let me give you some advice that will serve you better in your life than anything you've ever heard in your whole life. It goes like this. Never trust what people say. Taliban said, "Hey we're not the old Taliban. We're the new Taliban. We're not going to do these horrible, horrible things. Yeah we're kinder. We're gentler." Never trust what anybody says. Not just the Taliban. Now here's the part that you probably said to yourself, "Scott I wasn't trusting the Taliban. You're not adding anything." No I'm saying don't trust the Taliban, don't trust their word anyway. But also don't trust somebody else you know at work and don't trust your best friend or your spouse. Don't trust any of your friends or any of your family. Did I leave anybody out? Don't trust the word of any humans. Humans don't trust any of their words. All right that's the first part of the advice. There's a second part that will redeem me. Now you say to yourself, "Scott I can't really live in a world where I don't trust anybody because I'm required to trust people." No. Don't trust what people say. Here's what you can trust. Here's the payoff. Here's the reason you watch me on livestream. This will change your life. This little reframe. Pay attention carefully. Never trust what anybody says. Always trust that people will be the same as they have been. It's different. Never trust what anybody says, friends or enemies, friends or enemies. Don't trust them. You only trust that they are the same people that they were yesterday. That's it. That's it.

If, let me take an example. If I were to ask either of my siblings to do something like hold some money or something and I would have to completely trust them because I wouldn't know if they stole any, I wouldn't care what they said about it. I wouldn't even, it wouldn't matter what. I would trust is that my siblings are the same people they've always been which means they're not going to steal my money because they never have, never will, right? They're the same people. The Taliban said they're going to do something different than what they used to do but it's still the Taliban. Now it's a little different because maybe the members of the Taliban have changed a little bit but I feel like the principle still stands. It's still the Taliban, right? At least in the short run it's still the Taliban. So watch how many times this rule works. You can absolutely trust somebody to be the same way they used to be. If they were a liar yesterday they're a liar tomorrow. If they were honest yesterday and always were, tomorrow's looking good too. Ignore what they say. The only thing you can know with any kind of certainty is that it's the same person it was yesterday. That's it. Don't trust anything else. Now watch how often this works for you. The first time you hear it you're thinking to

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yourself, let me see if I can guess what you're thinking. I don't know if that's such a difference, right? You're thinking I don't know, I see what you're saying but it feels like the same thing. Trust the person, trust what they say. It's not. It's not. And when you start making that distinction life gets a lot cleaner and suddenly all your surprises go away. Suddenly no surprises. Never be surpr…

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