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true. If you can't even get things done that we want to be done how in the world could you overthrow the country just because you thought it was a good idea? Yeah. And here's an even better one. You want one that nobody would ever stop talking about? He he'll never say this but it would be awesome. Let me explain something to you. Imagine Trump saying this. If I tried to become a dictator Don Jr.…

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So the word thinking is just two people having an argument but trying to win by changing the definition of words. What's happening with the Zion stuff is it's being used to identify people that can be boosters of your message basically. So similar but different.

All right. So the other thing you need to know about persuasion is although you can't hypnotize one person to murder you can very easily hypnotize a group of people to see somebody as someone who is deserving of murder and then you wait and then you wait. So look for that. You should look for more evidence that they're looking for a what would be the right term for it something that's outside of the political process. Would you call that an extra political to mean it's outside of the political process or extrajudicial? Extrajudicial means you're doing something illegal right. Um yeah.

All right ladies and gentlemen that is more than enough. I think we've done our job here.

Do you believe in strategic incompetence? Yes I mean all the lost documents and lost files. I don't believe any of that. I believe that they are strategically deleting things and claiming incompetence. Yeah it's called lying.

Yep. Here's a question for you. Do you think that Trump this time would be able to assemble a high quality team or will he be once again locked out from the strong traditional players who normally would want to be part of an administration? I have a suspicion that he might be able to get high quality people. I'm not positive. It could work the other way but part of the reason is this. The Republicans have a lot of high quality people who could use jobs. Yeah no I'm not one of them. I'm definitely not a high quality person in terms of a government job. But I don't even have to give you names but just imagine all of the Republicans who would make a good spokesperson for the administration. They had communications. Just think of all the insanely good choices that you can make right. Just insanely good.

I'm going to throw one out for you. Okay a head of communications in a Trump administration. Greg Gutfeld. Yes or no? Now I don't think he'd ever do it. It would be a suicide mission but would Trump be smart enough to know that if you made those stupid press events interesting and you had somebody with a real personality not somebody who's just going to say no I don't know and I'll look into that and you've asked a question already you know all the things. What if you had somebody who actually engaged with the audience had fun with the audience. The audience may even like you know maybe they just like him and he just has fun with it because it's not a useful process that the press events are just not useful and that's why didn't Trump just get rid of them after a while he just stopped them didn't he because they're so. But somebody like you know let's say somebody of his capabilities if you put somebody in who can make a joke of stuff the joke gets on TV right. A boring answer maybe gets on TV but you forget it anyway but a real good funny answer becomes news. So Trump could actually create news by making sure that his spokesperson was funny and said things that were supportive of the president but also you couldn't forget right now.

Yeah I don't think Greg's going to be the head of communications but you could come up with I'll bet you on your own you could come up with ten Republican names that would be just fascinating in that job. Just fascinating right. Tyrus. Tyrus would be great. I'm seeing Tyrus being suggested as head of communications in a Republican. He'd be great. He has the full talent stack. So yeah I can get behind that. I'd watch it too. I'd far more likely watch if Tyrus was giving it because he's a big personality. He's funny. You don't remember Tony Snow who would mock stupid questions? Yeah I don't actually.

All right that's all for now. I'm going to go do something else. I'll get to talk a little bit to the good people in Locals and I'll say goodbye now to YouTube. Thanks for joining. You're awesome.