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an it's not nearly as bad as totally evil I guess. But I don't have even the slightest belief that we're not guilty of some bad, meaning provoking and creating this situation. To me that looks like it's on the United States. Anybody disagree? Is there anybody now, not excusing Putin. You know Putin is definitely, he's got some evil going on there. But that doesn't mean that the other side is the g…

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n. But 52% said no, electric cars are not practical for most drivers.

And I would guess that that 52% are not totally up to date because I don't know if you have an electric car but there are charging stations and there is a convenience factor of not going to a regular gas station. I mean if you charge it at home you're probably doing all the driving you need without a charging station. And so I wonder if Elon Musk needs to do a little more work. You know he can't immediately change the fact that electric cars, at least a Tesla, comes with a price premium. But I think the public is behind the technology. Would you agree with that? If more than half of the public thinks electric cars are not practical, now forget about climate change or anything else, that's a separate conversation. Just the car itself as a tool. Half the people think it's impractical. That feels like they're just behind in knowledge, wouldn't you say?

All right, I'm getting a lot of disagreement so people are not. So I guess a lot of you think that electric cars are inconvenient based on what? What would make them impractical besides cost? Yeah, okay. If you're saying stuff like lithium or you can't recycle the batteries and stuff like that that's not exactly on point because you don't worry about recycling any of your cars. You just drive them and then sell them to somebody else. Somebody says no charging stations. Well it depends where you are, right? So if you're in California there are plenty of charging stations. If you're in somewhere else maybe not.

Yeah, do you think 52% of the country lives somewhere where they don't have easy access to charging stations? Actually that's probably true, isn't it? Even more than that maybe. So I'm going to say if access to charging stations was your main thing and you answered the question that would be a good answer. Yeah, I think depending on where you live I can see half of the country living where they don't have many charging stations. Would you buy that? Would you buy that half of the country lives where there aren't enough charging stations yet because they're probably just in metropolitan areas? Yeah, okay.

Kid Rock had some interesting things to say. I guess Tucker Carlson interviewed him and he claims that when he was hanging out with Trump that Trump said, quote, "What do you think we should do about North Korea?" And Kid Rock said, allegedly he said, "Unlike what? I don't think I'm qualified to answer this." And then there's the story says some people online are questioning whether that conversation even happened.

Let me give you some insight because I spent some time with Trump in the White House just sort of chatting. That's definitely something Trump would do. If you ask me to bet on whether Kid Rock is telling this accurately, oh yeah, I'd bet on Kid Rock. I'd bet totally. Because I had the same experience, not about North Korea, but Trump actually asked my opinion about something. And I think you don't understand how gifted Trump is with his interpersonal skills. You have to understand how gifted he is. He's really gifted one on one just working people and stuff.

So if you're meeting the President of the United States and the President of the United States says to you, regular citizen, "What do you think I should do about North Korea?" What's it do to you? You fall in love with him. That's what happens. Trump doesn't just make you like him. He makes you fall in love with him. Male or female, older, young, Black or white. He makes you fall in love with him when he stands in the Oval Office, the most important person in the world, and says to Kid Rock, "What do you think we should do about North Korea?" Do you think he was looking for a strategy? No, he wasn't looking for a strategy, I don't think so. I think he was doing something that was insanely cool for Kid Rock. He was giving Kid Rock an experience and it was cool. Do you think Kid Rock didn't love that?

I mean you know it's funny that he said, "I don't think I'm qualified." In fact it makes me want to elect Kid Rock for president next. The fact that Kid Rock knows he's not qualified to answer the question on North Korea just makes me like him more. I was like, okay, I like that. Because I'm not sure I would have answered the same way. I probably would have given an opinion. So I say Kid Rock's credibility went way up with me. And if I had to bet on it I would say 99.99% this conversation happened just the way he recounted it. That would be so exactly what Trump would do.

All right. That is by far my favorite story of the day. How many of you believe that there is a New World Order? I guess Biden used that term New World Order in a speech. And how many of you even know what that refers to? Because there's a current, what Wikipedia calls a conspiracy theory about the New World Order. In the comments, how many of you believe that there's a New World Order? And I'll give you the definition from Wikipedia. Let's see. A New World Order is a conspiracy theory about a New World Order that is a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda.

So do you believe that there's a power elite, secretive, you might know where they are but they're secretive, with a globalist agenda? And some of you say it's not a secret, it's code Scott, it's code. Well here's what I think. Hasn't there always been a global elite trying to move the world in their favor? That's always been the case, hasn't it? What changed? Does something change now?

Let me ask you this. I've told you that I've spent some time behind the curtain and by that I mean seeing how things actually work in politics and how the news is generated from absolutely nothing. So I've spent enough time behind the curtain that I have a very strong opinion about whether there's a global elite like an Illuminati or something running the world. And the answer is no. There are lots of them. There's not one global elite. There are bunches of them and they all have their own agenda. They all have their own opinions and they're all maximizing their own life basically.

And I would say that it's more accurate to say that there are elite rich elites for each topic. It's not as if there's one group of elite people who is trying to affect all the topics. That definitely doesn't happen. There's nothing like that. But there definitely are secret billionaire collections of people working behind the scenes to get what they want. That's very true. I can confirm that for sure. So I'm not sure that you need to add the concept of a New World Order. Meaning that I don't know if it adds anything to what you already knew. You already knew that the elites tried to make things work out in their favor.

Let me ask you this. Is your assumption about the New World Order that it would be better for the power elites or are they tr

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ying to do something altruistically that they think would be better for the world? What do you think? If you believe the conspiracy theory, I'll call it a conspiracy theory because Wikipedia does, if you follow the New World Order idea, what are they doing? Is it good for the elites or is it good for the public and they're just trying to do us a favor? Somebody says they're trying to consolidate p…

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