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Back to episode — Episode 2358 CWSA 01/19/24

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ought experiment for you. Try this with your Democrat friends. Goes like this. I posted this so if you want to send it to them in my words you can. It's on my X feed. So thought experiment. All right imagine one American state that implements nothing but mainstream Republican policies and they don't even have to argue about it right. There's nobody on the other side. They just go full Republican i…

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t of flow state. If you're young that coffee maker sounds like the best freaking idea. Seriously one button I love that. But if you're my age and as soon as you saw how many features this thing had you said to yourself oh I know how this is going to go. I still like it. I still recommend it by the way. It's a good machine. The Miele makes way better coffee than a Mr. Coffee and Mr. Coffee is a fine device as well but there's no comparison of the taste because the coffee machine has this crema like this aerated thing that's like a replacement for cream and sugar. It's amazing.

So anyway young people I think listen to Democrat ideas and they say I like that idea because I like pushing my coffee maker one button and having everything I want. Older people say that coffee maker has got more features than you need you're just going to be fixing that. And that's the difference. So the difference is purely on being able to project what's happening today into the future and being good at math. That's it. There's no such thing as Democrat or Republican. There's just people who are better at math and can imagine the future better.

They, science, did an experiment once in which they took people who were having trouble saving for the future and they made a like an AI CGI, it was CGI in those days, an image of the person older so you could see yourself looking older and then people would save more because they were saving for themselves. They saw a picture of themselves as an old person they wanted to protect that person because it's them. So they basically helped people who couldn't imagine the future on their own.

Now my career has had some success but I also imagined it perfectly from the age of six. Every part of my entire life I imagined pretty much exactly the way it unfolded which is not an accident you know because I caused it to go in the direction that I wanted it to unfold. So here's my hypothesis. If you gave this thought experiment to a Democrat and a Republican the Republicans would l

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augh and say that's an easy one. The Republican state's doing great the Democrat state becomes a socialist hellhole. And would be right. You say this to a Democrat what do you think they would say? Would they say you know the Democrat one's going to be like a utopia and the Republican one is going to have no abortion no rights everybody has to be like some religious fanatic or something? Would th…

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