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for beta users. So Trump's network will be open for beta users. There is some suggestion that later conservatives will also be able to use it, but for now apparently you have to be a beta to use it. So I said it was just all mostly Democrats. I don't know. Am I reading too much into this? Oh, oh, oh, a beta. I'm sorry, I misinterpreted this. It's the technology is the beta. It's the technology tha…
← Previous segment →s bringing something that nobody ever brought before, which is himself. And if people just sign up just so they can see what he's saying — imagine if he runs for president, which seems likely, and the only place you can see the good stuff is on his platform. You have to sign up, right? If the only place you can see his extra good stuff is on his own platform, every reporter has to sign up. Basically every pundit, everybody who watches. You all have to sign up. So he does have kind of a perfect setup, which doesn't mean it's going to succeed, but the setup is kind of perfect.
I've already put in my name. So there's a site where you can go to to sign up to be invited or not. So I put in my name.
I was looking at the Michael Shellenberger tweet talking about Greta Thunberg, who was quoted in the past as saying, quote, "I want you to panic." So Greta and of course other people literally wanted people to panic about the climate change stuff. And unfortunately I think they succeeded. It looks like they succeeded in getting people to panic. So sort of a be-careful-what-you-wish-for situation. Because I've said the best situation, if climate change is really as dangerous as people say or any version of it, is you need a little bit of panic, don't you? Like there's some productive amount of fear that gets you to do the right things so you're not in trouble in the future. But maybe we overshot the mark. We may have over-panicked. It's hard to know what is the
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exact right amount of panic. Well, I think it's time to fire Pete Buttigieg. And I'm reasonably pro-Buttigieg, and I'm also reasonably — not reasonably, I'm pro-paternal leave, right? Wouldn't want to threaten, you know, the idea that people can have parental leave. But at the same time, it is maybe the biggest problem in the country. And I don't think anybody's in charge, are they? Is anybody in…
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