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h you. I'm just saying that as president you wouldn't always get your way. You just wouldn't. But that's true of every president right? Name a president who gives everybody what they want. You're not going to get that president. I would just be consistent and say look if it's ever a question of the system versus the specific output I'm just going to go with the system because this is more importan…

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have a real good case if they lost you know the Congress entirely that they would have to say well you can't lose the presidency too. That's too far. That would be pretty motivating for their base. So I think it's going to be tough for a Republican to get through that wall.

There is a new kind of doctor that I was exposed to twice today. I'll call them the LOL doctors. Where you say something that you think seems perfectly reasonable and a doctor chimes in on Twitter with LOL no. To which I say oh okay. You know I grant the superior expertise of the LOL doctors and I thank you for your service.

Because what I said was that if you could quickly test, if there were some available over-the-counter tests for vitamin D and you just tested everybody for vitamin D then the pandemic would be over. And a medical doctor came in and said LOL no. Like oh okay well now I see why my idea wouldn't work. Because at first I was saying well this is perfectly reasonable because the high correlation between vitamin D and bad outcomes. If you knew who was susceptible not only could you try to give them vitamin D that might help a little bit but more importantly you would know who was at greatest risk so they could take greater care. And I thought that made sense given the data that I'd seen. But the counter argument to that is LOL no. So I bow to their expertise.

Well here's a gigantic surprise. The U.S. decided to give Russia absolutely nothing to ask for despite asking for totally reasonable things. Why? Well why is it? Oh I'm sorry I didn't talk about Kamala Harris being potentially a Supreme Court pick. Jack Posobiec has some reporting that says has not even been discussed and he has pretty good sources so I don't think there's any chance that Kamala Harris will be the Supreme Court pick. But it would be funny to imagine her running into Brett Kavanaugh in the break room if you know what I mean. Hey Brett no hard feelings. That's how I imagined it would go anyway.

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and Ukraine. So why do you think that the U.S. offered basically nothing except a willingness for open dialogue? Why would they not be willing to have Russia completely stand down which is what I imagine we would ask in return and stop hacking? Why would we not take that deal unless there's something we don't know? Or here's the other possibility. So I'm going to give Biden the benefit of the dou…

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