personal attack. If somebody just says there's something wrong with you. I mean these are both personal attacks, but it doesn't have to be a comic reference. So if somebody says to Rob Reiner, let's say Rob Reiner doesn't tweet what is the most obvious thing that somebody's going to say if they disagree with his point of view? They're going to say, oh, I guess that's why they called it Meathead when he played that character years ago. It's the most obvious thing you would say. How many people say the most obvious thing every time he tweets? A lot. Every time he tweets people go into the comments and say, well I guess that's why they call him Meathead.

Now the people who tweet that, are you unaware that it's the most obvious thing to say? Because I don't know the answer to that. Or are you just trying to be first with the most obvious thing? I don't really know what's going through their minds. The other is if I say I have a technical problem as I did today, what's the most obvious thing to say? If I specifically, me, if I have a technical problem, what's the most obvious thing to say? Well, reboot. Yeah, boomer. Yeah, oh boomer. Boomer. Right now sometimes that might actually be the full explanation, but it's also just the most obvious thing to say.

The other thing is people will imagine that you're thinking something dumb or wrong. So if somebody says this policy is bad, somebody's going to say, well what you really mean. The most obvious thing is to doubt that they're thinking what they're saying. Or how about the hypocrisy one? If I say you Republicans did a bad thing, somebody will always come into the comments and say some completely unrelated thing. Well the other time the other team did that too. It's the most obvious thing. Now sometimes it's worth saying, oh your team did it too. So you know there's value in that. But it's also the most obvious thing you're gonna say. So don't always say the most obvious thing. It makes you look like an NPC even if you're not.

So I've been just tagging everybody who says the most obvious thing with the NPC hashtag, NPC. And let me tell you it changes the conversation immediately when you tell somebody, can you try to avoid saying the most obvious thing? They don't know what to say because they can't get beyond it. Most people don't know how to get beyond the most obvious thing, so it just shuts them down. Yeah. Now if you're doing a TV show to entertain people in politics, then you always do the hypocrisy thing, the both sides, the whataboutism, because that's part of the entertainment. But if you're making an honest argument and you think that what somebody did somewhere else at a different time in a different situation is relevant to this discussion, then you're just being political, right?

So I think that we've all become fake enemies. Do you think that I couldn't get along with the leftist lefty if they didn't know or if they'd never seen my social media? Easily. Easily. Not any problem at all. I mean I live in California, northern California. I'm surrounded by the lefties of the lefties and I have no problem with it at all. Now I'm not sure I get invited to as many places, so they might have a problem with me. But one-on-one I never have any difficulty. Do you ever have any difficulty one-on-one with any American citizen? I don't see it. And the news has convinced us that we're at each other's necks. The number of people I've seen suggest that we're close to an actual violent civil war just blows my mind. We could not be further from that.

Do you know how we're not at the cusp of the civil war? Do you want me to prove it to you? Just walk outside. Say hi to the first person you see. Do they want to kill you or do they want to say hi? There's no anger out there at all about each other. Not on an individual basis. Like we all have this generic anger about the other group, but we don't have individual anger and we don't have a reason for it. We are so far from being divided in reality. We're only divided mentally because the news has made us divided. Why does the news divide us? For money. They divide us for money. And we go along with it because we're entertained by it largely.

You have to turn the hunger up. I don't know what that means. Oh, you have to turn the hunger up to see the revolution. So you're saying if things went wrong it would turn violent. Now do you know what would happen if the United States got hungrier? We'd band together to feed each other. That's what we do. Do you know what Republicans would do if for some reason only Democrats were starving? They would immediately form some kind of help to feed them. And I hope it works the other way. I'm a little less confident about it, but I think it works the other way. Now when it comes right down to it, we're going to take care of each other. We always have, always will. That's just the way it works. And this whole division thing is entirely manufactured by the fake news. And we're buying into it. Don't buy into it. You do not have to dislike anybody. It's just not required. You can just break free.

All right, let's see if I forgot anything I was going to talk about. Oh yeah, this declassification. I believe I have the best question on this topic and I've not seen it addressed. And the best question on the topic of declassifying the Mar-a-Lago documents is, can a president declassify things by his actions? Meaning it's obvious that he meant it to be declassified. And I think the answer is yes. Now I'm not the constitutional expert, but this is what I read today that I didn't realize. That both George W. Bush and Obama had both signed executive orders which are still in force. And they gave the presidents, whoever the president is, sweeping authority to declassify secrets. And here's the important part: they do not have to follow the mandatory classification declassification procedures that all other government officials do.

And I'm sorry I took this off a website. I mean