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← Previous segment →ht? They're the chief fake news people in politics right now. Both of them are saying Biden lied. They're both saying Biden lied about something that kind of matters, doesn't it? And then also we saw on what was it, Face the Nation or what was it? No, Meet the Press. Which was it? Could be a fact check. Who was... Representative Dean Phillips went on and he was encouraging people to get into the Democratic primary. It was NBC, wasn't it? Give me a fact check on that. I think it was NBC. The reason I say that is NBC would be another signal for a good news watcher. What would it tell you if NBC... well actually it was one person but they probably knew what he was going to say. It was Meet the Press.
All right. Well, I think I got that story right. So if it was NBC, there are people like Glenn Greenwald for example who say that they're an intelligence, CIA news outlet. So if that's true, that would suggest that the intelligence people might be okay with getting rid of Biden. And if CNN and Washington Post's coverage of Biden being the liar is suggesting that they're very done with him but they don't know what to do with the Kamala Harris problem. So I think all indications are basically a hundred percent of the evidence suggests Democrats are trying to get rid of Biden. Would you agree? A hundred percent of available evidence suggests they want to get rid of him. And it's obvious that Kamala Harris is the problem. Would you agree? I feel like this is opinion but its opinion is so close to obvious there's like just one degree away from fact. You know, anything could be wrong. I suppose I could be wrong. But I mean this looks as clear as anything ever has ever looked. If we're wrong about this, I'd be amazed.
All right. Have you noticed... do you remember when DeSantis was just being a governor before he was running for president and I kept being amazed at how he would find one thing after another to make news that was like a useful thing for his base? You know, the other side would scream but like lots of little useful news-making little things. And he was just always in the news doing one smart thing after another. Smart defined as doing things his base once. Now have you noticed that that same pattern exists in another Floridian, Matt Gaetz? Have you noticed how many times Matt Gaetz finds a topic or an issue that you didn't even know was one, but as soon as he says it's an issue you say, oh yeah, that is kind of an issue. And then he says what he wants to do about it. Not always successful, but he'll say I'm using this tool of government to try to kill this thing. And every time I hear it I think, oh yeah, that is a thing that needs to get killed.
Well, he's at it again. He's calling on Congress to investigate the judge who's going to be judging Trump in one of the cases, Judge Tanya. And apparently she is somewhat infamous for giving extra hard sentences to the January 6 people. Now my head just exploded. I just told you that Trump will have the same judge who is well known for unusually hard sentences for the January 6 people. Is that who you want? And then it goes further. Matt Gaetz also accuses her of supporting the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, some of which were violent, while at the same time openly criticizing the Capitol riot. So he thinks this rises to the level where the judge should be called before Congress. And I agree. And I agree that's absolutely what he should do. And by the way, who even thought of this? Who else thought of it?
Now you might say to yourself, but Scott, this would be a bad precedent. It'd be a terrible precedent to have the Congress interfering in this. But not in this case. In this case this is a purely political situation and that's Congress's job. The political stuff, right? If I thought this was only about the law and the crime, then I'd say oh, Matt Gaetz, stay the hell away from the judges. You know, good or bad, you don't want your Congress messing with the judges, right? This is about the law or about a crime. You know, you're about to make in the laws. You stay over there. But this is not anything like a criminal case. This is only a political thing in the opinion of at least 50 to 60 percent of the public. It's purely political. In that case, this is exactly the right move. And he just keeps doing it. Why is it that Matt Gaetz keeps doing productive for his base, productive, interesting, news-making things?
All right. When was the last time DeSantis did that? When was the last time DeSantis did one of those signature like good governor things? It's been a while, hasn't it? It's been a while. You know what it feels like? It feels like that for a while they had the same advisor but now DeSantis doesn't. Feels to me like DeSantis lost a key advisor who is maybe friends with Matt Gaetz or Matt Gaetz was the key advisor for DeSantis. And that maybe they were a little closer when it was about Florida. But now that it's about the presidency, Matt Gaetz peels off pro-Trump and just keeps doing his thing. So at the moment that Matt Gaetz peels off from Florida business to national business, that's the same moment that DeSantis stops his string of great political acts that are good for the base. But Matt Gaetz keeps doing them. There's something there.
I'm going to give you the optimism which is unwarranted but you like it anyway. Can I have your permission to give you unwarranted optimism with the understanding that you're going to say that's not... Scott, you're no, no, I'm not seeing it yet? All right. So I want you to enjoy this as recreational optimism. Right? The real optimism would be based on facts and stuff like that. This is recreational optimism. Our long national brainwashing nightmare looks like it's starting to end. And what I mean by that, the national brainwashing nightmare, is that the country was having a divide that was primarily based on race and gender stuff and that the real problem with the country is that the races are hurting each other and competing. And then Oliver Anthony or whatever his real name is does the song and you see it affects people in an economic group exactly the same no matter who they are. Do you think that that song had less impact on... I know anybody on the left probably not. It seemed to be impactful for people there.
Now as Chappelle and other smart people, comedians, have been saying it forever, it has never been a race question. The race thing is brainwashing. In the past it was the realest thing there could be. You know, during slavery the race issue was the realest thing it could be. During all of the years after that including up till today, still lots of real stuff, real systemic racism, real racism of every kind, less and less and less, but still a serious issue. However, we should be smart enough now to know that if we switch from a race versus race, which we've been talked into by obviously people who don't want us to know that it's about money because we would take their money... I feel like people have figured out that it's the age of the individual. We are starting to enjoy what I would call, if I could give it a label, the big reframe.
The big reframe is when we realize that if we treat each other as individuals, everything works. If we treat each other as part of the average of some conceptual group that somebody in charge wants us to get all worked up about, then we fight each other. And that was never the point. We're all on the same side except the people who have the most power and money. Now I'm sort of in a weird hybrid situation where I came from not much money to be well off, but I'm definitely not in the BlackRock military industrial complex. Like I don't have any connection to the intelligencia or whoever it is who's running everything. I don't have any WEF Soros connections. Like I don't have any of that, right? So I'm an observer just like everybody else who's not an elite, I guess.
So I'm an observer from this observer perspective. Not only is the word reframe having a renaissance, but once the word and the idea of reframing things becomes more popularized, which is what my book is doing at the moment, "Reframe Your Brain," once you see that reframing is sort of a go-to thing that everybody has access to... oh, I can look at that differently and if I did, would that give me more tools? Just looking at it differently, does that open up some opportunities? And this is the ultimate. This is the big reframe. Everything that's wrong with the country is because we were hypnotized and brainwashed into a frame that black people and white people are fighting each other and LGBTQ against the world and stuff like that. And the moment we get out of that frame and say what about everybody is infinitely and uniquely different from everybody else, because that's the truth. Do you think there's such a thing as a black guy? We act like there is. Of course there's not. There's infinite variety in Black Americans as there is infinite variety in Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, white Americans. We all do eat cheese and wear khakis. I mean there's nothing I can
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do about that. So white people, we are all exactly the same. And when we dance it's a little like this. No, that's not true either, is it? But did you notice that I can just laugh about it? I can laugh. It's just funny. Yeah, I do eat a lot of cheese and I am not a good dancer. True. Right now if we get to the point where everybody can laugh about their thing, like and I'm not even going to say w…
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