n't diagnose his mental health. We're not doing that. So this is not a diagnosis. I'm telling you my impression. If I saw that somebody like him owned a firearm I would start to think red flag. Seriously. That's not a joke. When he talks he looks mentally disturbed to me. To me he looks mentally disturbed. Now that could be a result of his service, right? I can't imagine that you could go through — did he go through combat? I think he did. I can't imagine that you could go through combat and come out okay. I mean I'm sure — I feel I'm pretty mentally strong you know compared to say the average but I don't think I could go through combat. Like I know myself well enough that I wouldn't be the same person on the other side of that. So why do we assume other people do?

Add the small man complex. You mean Kinzinger or me? Who are you talking about? All right. Are you sure you're not looking in the mirror? No I'm not. I'm not sure that that's always the larger context for everything I do is when you ask me if I'm sure I'm not the one who's suffering confirmation bias. My answer should always be no I'm not sure. And when people say to me Scott you're accusing somebody of cognitive dissonance how do you know you're not the one with cognitive dissonance? And my answer should be if I'm being honest I don't. The only thing I know for sure sometimes is that one person has a trigger and the other one doesn't. You know a trigger might tell you who has the cognitive dissonance but it's hard to tell otherwise. Eugene Sledge said anyone that's over 100 yards away from the front can't understand combat. That sounds right. Combat messes you up unless you're a psychopath. Yeah I guess that would be a plus wouldn't it.

All right. Let's see what else is happening. Oh apparently nothing. So we've gotten to the end here. And so Joe Biden has COVID. I don't know that there's much to say about that. Yeah I think we should quit the Pete Buttigieg is gay jokes. I'm not sure that's worth a meme. Now we're free speech over on the Locals platform so you're not gonna get booted off for a distasteful joke. But can't we find something else to make fun of? I mean do we really have to make fun of Pete Buttigieg for being rear-ended and you know ha ha he's gay he got rear-ended? I mean if it were funny maybe I'd be a little more in favor of it just because it's funny but it isn't really funny. I mean it's not really — I mean it's sort of an interesting simulation thing that his last name can be turned into something funny but it's not really funny that he's gay. You're trying to make his gayness a punchline. That's not a punchline. I did chuckle. Yeah I did chuckle at it but really I think we could do better than that.

All right. Used a spiked handheld metal weapon. Not exactly a knife. More like a small spiked knuckle weapon. Okay. Yeah it looked like the guy on the stage was just mentally incompetent, right? I think that's what was going on.

So who do we — what happens if Joe leaves office early? Let's play this through. Let's say Biden leaves office and Kamala takes the top spot. Who is vice president then? Does she get to appoint one? How does that work? Do you get to appoint a vice president? Because that feels like the very least democratic thing you could possibly do. And who would she appoint? So I don't think it's — so it's a problem if she appointed Newsom. The trouble is that Newsom wants to be president and I'll bet she does too. Imagine if she served for two years. You don't think she'd run? So she can't really have a vice president who is stronger than she is for president, right? So Kamala Harris would have to find somebody who's weaker than her in case two years of her being president works out and she wants to run. She probably does. I don't think she can bring in somebody stronger than her. I don't think she can bring in you know Pelosi or Clinton. They're just — they'll just draw too much fire. I think you want your vice president to be not