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knows everything you need to know. It's him. Everybody else knows part of what they know. They might know what they did but they don't know the scope of the coup plot. Only one person. And there's no way that Putin is going to let that one person who knows everything that Putin needs to know, which is who my traitors are, there's no way that they let him go. He's being tortured beyond any recognit…
← Previous segment →e but is he pro teachers union? If he's pro teachers union there's no place to go with that. You know a Republican could say all right now that the Supreme Court has ruled let's fix K-12. That's a strong, it's stronger from a Republican who wants to get rid of a union. That would be a stronger message because then you have an actual plan. If you say let's fix schools. Cheryl you're using like a dumb piece of, so where you're gonna go away because I know that comment's coming back. Those old comments. All right Cheryl Jackson go away.
Will Joe leave for health reasons? That's my guess. Yeah if Biden drops out it will be because there's a quote new health reason and he'll act like you know I was perfectly good until I got this bunion but this bunion is going to take me out. I cannot be a president with a bunion like this. And it's going to be some health problem that you say no I think the bigger problem was your brain stopped working a while ago. That looks like the bigger problem. Yeah bone spurs. He's got a bone spur. I can't be president with this bone spur. My sleep. Do you think the sleep apnea is the cats on the roof? It might be. It could be that the sleep apnea is that as they're trying to ease you into. But now that story started because he still had the indentation on his chin so I don't think that guy started intentionally. It just might be coincidentally advantageous.
How did I choose what hairstyle for Dilbert's boss? It evolved over time. It started out with like Larry Fink's hairstyle. You know Larry Fink CEO of BlackRock. So he's got the pointy hair boss hair but without the pointy part. Yeah he's got the two sides. So that's how the boss in Dilbert was originally. But one day I gave it a little height I think accidentally. You know I was just penciling and it got a little higher on one side and I said oh I'll make the other side a little higher. And then when it started to remind me of horns I wasn't full horn. I was like oh I'm gonna just make them full horns.
How long before you had to copyright Dilbert? Let me tell you about copyrights. Can somebody answer the question how long did it take me to copyright the first Dilbert that I drew? What's the answer? Somebody says one minute. Oh damn it you know the answer. The answer is zero seconds. It took me zero seconds to copyright it. Do you know why? Because copyright is immediate. It's on creation. So what, should I create another copyrighted image here? We go. There we go. Copyrighted. Copyrighted right there. Okay technically you couldn't copyright that because it's a stick figure but if I drawn something that wasn't a universal piece of art it would be copyrighted the moment I drew it. People confuse registering the copyright with having the copyright. Registering the copyright is what you do as a legal precaution in case somebody claims they made it first and you can't prove it. Because if you've got a piece of paper you drew on and somebody else has a piece of paper they drew on five years later, well how do you know? I suppose there's some science but you know generally it's hard to know who did something first. But if one of those draws it and then submits it to the government's copyright office then they have the superior claim which doesn't mean that they'll win because the other person might have let's say a videotape that showed them in real time making the original drawing in which case they could go to court and they could take that copyright away from the lying person who said they did it first but copyrighted it first.
So now the other thing that people are getting terribly terribly wrong is the story about Ivanka Trump getting some trademarks in China. You know that story. And the people on the left who are artists they don't know the difference between a trademark and a patent so they're like oh China has given them these trademarks. Oh you know favorable attention. They got these trademarks. I have trademarks in China. Do you know how hard it is to get a trademark in China? You just ask for it. There's just an office that gives them to you and they don't tell you you can't have them. You just pay your little fee and you get it. The only thing that you have to make sure you've done, and maybe the Trademark Office does this for you, is to make sure somebody didn't already use it. If it's not already used it's yours. So Ivanka submitted some trademark requests for something that nobody else was using and some bureaucrat in a Chinese bureaucracy somewhere, you know some nameless bureaucrat looked at it and said yep that was it. That's the wh
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ole story. There's nothing left out. And but on social media you'll see all the drunk trolls. Wow Ivanka got trademarks from China so it must be Chinese collusion. Learn what a trademark is and then go back at it. I mean yeah Marcela can tell you trademark is just paperwork. Everybody can do it. Do you want a trademark in China? You could have one in a week. You just hire a lawyer who does that an…
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