Back to episode — Episode 2356 CWSA 01/17/24
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the DEI group is a high-paid executive that that company can say yes we're doing so well with diversity. We've hired 10 new executive level black employees and we're pretty happy about it. And all 10 will be in the worthless DEI group that doesn't do anything useful but they have inflated salaries. And as long as they exist and you can keep adding to them you can say that your DEI hiring is on fir…
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All right now by itself I've told you that one of the things that people don't understand about Trump is he really really likes smart people. And if he's going to get along with anybody it will be because they're smart even if they disagree. I mean Trump is just addicted to smart. I mean it's practically his theme in life. Yeah and loyalty. Smart and loyal and effective. He loves it. So on the intellectual level Vivek is very much Trump's catnip and vice versa right? So they are each other's catnip. That I think.
But I'm going to give Vivek a little advice and I'm going to give you maybe a little education on persuasion. Did you see the back slapping and the you know the arm on the shoulder? All right you cannot dominate Trump in public. Do not physically dominate him in public. You can't do that. Don't do that anymore. Did you all see it right? Yeah Trump does it and he can get away with it. He physically dominates people you know. He'll be the one who pats you on the back so hard that your body moves like boom boom boom. He'll be the one who does the handshake first and pulls your arm in and makes you look like you're you know. You don't have to shake hands. Trump is the king of physical persuasion.
Vivek actually turned around while he was talking, turned around to Trump and put his hand on his shoulder on the top of his shoulder. You don't do that. You don't do that first of all. You don't do it to your running partner never. But you don't do it to the guy who used to be president and probably will be. That's just a flat out mistake. And by the way Trump did not look comfortable when it happened. I mean you can't read minds but that was the impression I got.
I also noticed, did anybody else notice that while Vivek was talking when he was saying things that Trump liked Trump was visibly smiling? Did you notice the smile go away? You saw it didn't you? Trump literally stopped smiling. I forget what the topic was. That's less important. Yeah he visibly stopped smiling at one point. Do you see it?
I'm not so sure that vice president is the right play because that's going to put them at odds a little too often and they're both too strong. You know there's a long tradition of making sure your vice president is weaker than you. And like I said Gore was the one exception that worked that well. I don't know that Trump is designed to be that kind of a leader. I think he's designed to be number one. But the problem is so is Vivek. Vivek is designed to be number one. Two number ones is a problem.
Now what Vivek does have working for him is that he doesn't ever have to run against Trump again. You know Trump will be done after this so they're not competitors. And Vivek seems like a natural error parent so that's good. I also worry that Vivek would get destroyed in the process of just being that close to Trump. Sort of a Mike Pence destruction kind of thing. So I worry that it's unrecoverable partly because of the way the news would treat it you know.
So I would not necessarily recommend to Vivek that he take that job. I definitely want to see him in the administration. Do we all agree on that? I mean if there's any job in the administration he wants and he wants him more than vice president I feel like you know what what is it he couldn't do? I was thinking about all the jobs in government you know the top jobs the cabinet positions and the secretaries of this and that. I thought name one he couldn't do. I couldn't come up with one. Yeah I mean they put the secretary of agriculture as just you know usually a donor or something so they don't really need you know the top people in the world. I mean what does Pete Buttigieg know about transportation right? So you could put Vivek in almost any of those cabinet positions. He would learn their entire function in a week maybe a day and then he would improve it. Almost anything would work.
So you better clamp down on the body language because it's just not that doesn't work.
Actually Sinclair was saying that therapy is overrated. Elon Musk said the same thing. I say the same thing. What's your ratio of how often therapy helps? I'm going to say 20%. I think there are and even Sinclair said that you know she used i
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t successfully with some postpartum depression stuff and there are emergency kind of situations where you just need somebody else. Somebody's got to help you. I think 20%. Now 20% is high enough that I'd try it you know like if I thought I needed something and I didn't know what else to do 20% is definitely high enough to try it if you could afford it. But just be aware they really don't make mone…
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