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ntanyl overdose. So I guess that would make me an angel stepdad because my stepson died of a fentanyl overdose. But she was in Congress talking to Dan Goldman who was doing his best to try to get her to support his point of view which is that the Democrats say they want extra funding for border patrol. And Dan Goldman is trying to get her to say but so you would agree, you know I'm paraphrasing, y…

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the accidental connections that exist in your brain that are never activated because they're only accidental connections. It doesn't occur to you to even activate them. They're just an accident of geography. You know there's something in your brain that's like physically next to or connected to something else and you can do everything from change your preferences to change your mindset if you can find those weird accidental connections like love and pain.

Now love and pain like I said you couldn't work with that because you can't optionally fall in love. But there's a whole bunch of stuff that you can do that would hack your brain in different ways to make yourself more effective. So it's a larger thing which once you learn how to do it it really does change everything. If you don't realize you can change your own brain not just by education but fundamentally reprogramming what connects to what so it's just a different machine then you really lose. Now because your brain is very very programmable. Not just learning, not just learning but to become a different machine. Like you can actually change the structure of the machine through your behavior.

Well Trump is arguing that presidents should have total immunity. And if you haven't heard this argument the argument is that no matter what the president did the other team would say it's illegal and then they would always just be prosecuting the president and there wouldn't be anything else.

Now let's do the real world versus the concept. Concept: nobody's above the law. That even if the president breaks a law like murdering somebody, right? I mean it's more important that the president is held to the standard of law just like wouldn't it be great to get a cup of coffee just by pushing one button? Yeah let's just hold everybody to the standard that nobody's above the law then people will not want to break the law and we're all better off, right? Yeah delicious coffee.

But in the real world, that place where Trump resides, that place that connects Trump to every working class person, is that the real world has no connection to your concept. In the real world the day somebody took office they would already be under attack by the other team to try to put him in jail. It's all they would do. Now if you don't think that's all they would do you haven't been paying attention because they have the power to impeach. So what did the Democrats do all day? They tried to impeach him all day and to the point of not even doing the people's work. They were doing that while the pandemic was unfolding and they weren't paying attention, right?

So the real world, if you give somebody a hammer they start hitting. That's it. You give somebody a hammer they're going to hit something. You think it's just going to be nails don't you? Well maybe if you're lucky. No but if you have a hammer you're going to probably hit more than a nail.

All right so Trump is right about that. And then one of the, I guess some judge asked this dumb question which is are you saying that if on the last day of office the president ordered SEAL Team Six to kill his political opponent that that should be completely okay? Right so you're saying now I think we need to get better judges. Can I explain how the real world works? Let me explain how the real world works. The president gets SEAL Team Six together and says I want you to kill my opponent. SEAL Team Six then tells their bosses and that guy goes to jail forever. That's how the real world works. SEAL Team Six isn't going to go kill your political opponent in the real world.

Now suppose they did. Suppose that actually happened and then suppose we knew. All right if nobody knows that's a whole different story but suppose we knew and he said yeah I did it I got immunity too bad. Do you think that that president could then just go out in the world having murdered somebody in front of all of us and just live their life? No somebody would kill them. Somebody would try and their family could never go out in public again. You know their entire life would be basically never leaving the house. And yeah no nobody's going to kill their opponent on the last day of the presidency because nobody thinks that works. It's ridiculous, right?

So in the real world Trump is 100% right. You can't have presidents being charged with crimes for what they do in office. You just can't. He's 100% right and their counterexamples are just stupid.

Peter Navarro it looks like he's going to jail or the Department of Justice is seeki

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ng six months in prison because he defied subpoena over the January 6 thing. His claim was that he was covered under executive privilege and immunity but that claim is sketchy according to the courts. But let's add Peter Navarro to the pardon list because we see more and more examples of Republicans being hunted and we don't believe that this would have happened to a Democrat necessarily. And this…

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