I learned: that there's a whole new level to engaging people with strongly differing viewpoints. Vivek showed you that it is actually possible to talk to people with wildly different viewpoints. And as small as that sounds it's everything. It's everything. It's the part that was missing. And it's because the news has made it almost impossible to just tell the truth and get away with it. But he showed you how to do it. This is just really, even losing is one of the best things that's happened to America. It's kind of a weird irony.

All right, let's talk about Nikki Haley. So she came in third place, a little bit after DeSantis. And then so her summary is, "Tonight Iowa made the Republican primary a two-person race." Hold on. So this is Trump, DeSantis, there's Nikki Haley. So I don't know, you know what, who could help her with the math? Vivek. Yeah, Vivek. He's pretty good at math. He could help her with that. Yeah, no. You came in third. You came in third.

All right, but kidding aside, joking aside, her point if I understand it correctly, let's see if I understand her point, would be that DeSantis is too much of a Trump light. So DeSantis and Trump you could almost think of as like one person. So she's the alternative. And now she's a strong second, which is not a bad point. I mean maybe she could have said it better. But I see Mike Cernovich who had been backing DeSantis early but then switched to Vivek is wondering why DeSantis has not announced. But in DeSantis's favor I don't know that you could finish second and drop out, can you, in a four-person race? Because you know where do Vivek's votes go? I guess you wait till you find out, right? I mean if he picked up something from Vivek maybe gets a little closer in New Hampshire. Maybe Nikki Haley is going to take New Hampshire and then that makes DeSantis seem a little less relevant.

But I agree with Mike Cernovich that why DeSantis hangs on needs to be explained because it looks suspicious right now. There could be a legitimate reason that he's just staying around to make sure that there's a backup plan. He thinks he's the backup plan. America would be better off if there is a backup plan because I think we can all just say it directly. There has to be a backup plan, right? We could just say that out loud now, right? There has to be a backup plan because the Democrats have made it very clear that the level of threat they're putting on candidate Trump is something we've never seen before. This won't be like other things.

So yeah, and having Vivek inside the Trump tent, who I call the sword of truth, I'm hoping that catches on, Vivek Ramaswamy the sword of truth. I don't think the Democrats want to have a strong DeSantis, a strong Vivek just waiting around for the word in case it comes. The scimitar of truth. Damn you, that's better. Sorry, we're redoing it. It's now the scimitar of truth. Although that is, is scimitar more of an Arabian word? Yeah, scimitar maybe we go back to sword. We'll Americanize it. Yeah we better. We'll go back to sword. Sword of truth. Although to be fair a scimitar is an excellent word. Just doesn't fit here.

All right. Anyway, Nikki Haley saying that her third place finish makes it a two-person race probably works for young people because they can't do math either. So she's got that working for her.

Glenn Greenwald says this: the massive and historic size of Trump's victory should lead to some self-reflection about what caused the complete collapse of faith in the legitimacy of US institutions of authority and justice whereby voters so easily disregard four felony cases as irrelevant if not an asset.

Well Glenn, so I almost always agree with Glenn Greenwald's takes but not this time, Glenn. There isn't going to be any self-reflection. Where have you been? Now I know it's more of a hopeful thing. He's not predicting there'll be self-reflection which would be crazy. It was more of a gosh I hope we get some. But we're not going to get any self-reflection because the problem was never that the data or the arguments were wrong. It was never that. This is a medical problem. You can't fix a medical problem by self-reflection. "Oh I've got some cancer but a little self-reflection ought to take care of it." No, it's the wrong tool. Self-reflection will not help you with TDS. This is full-blown mass hysteria. A mass hysteria is a mental health problem like really, you know, no hyperbole. It's a mental health emergency I would say. And you can't fix it with better data. Better data doesn't help. Doesn't help anybody. You'd have to literally deprogram. And the funny thing is that the people who are most worried don't realize that they are the problem. They're actually the ones creating the mental health problem but they don't know it. They think that they're victims of something and not the perpetrators. So if you can't tell the difference between the victim and the perpetrator it's very unlikely that you're going to be working on some kind of a solution.

Now how crazy are things? Well let me tell you how crazy things are. So crazy in the full-out mass hysteria. The Joy Reid, MSNBC's one of her one of the biggest anti-Trumpers, is literally wearing a Trump wig to say that Trump is a bad person, right? She's literally dressing like him now. I was thinking I would like to get one of these Trump wigs so that every time Trump wins another primary you could wear it the next day. Like the next morning I'll just be wearing my Trump wig to talk about New Hampshire. I'm not wrong. You tell me that's a coincidence. You tell me that that's a coincidence. That is not a coincidence.

Now did she plan it? No. Did whoever did her hair, were they thinking I'm going to make you look like Trump? No, no. But it's not a coincidence, right? That this is a picture of the sort of the mass hysteria going physical. This is somebody who's so Trump is so in her head that he's on her head. God I like that so much I'm going to say it twice.