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Back to episode — Episode 2374 CWSA 02/04/24

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he best persuasion. The best persuasion is you don't sit in a room by yourself and say what can I say that will make a difference with whatever group you're trying to persuade. That could work but it would be very difficult to think, see into their minds. But when you see black people being interviewed on the media and they're asked about Trump versus Biden, what's the one thing that they always s…

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yourself, well Scott, there's still that one place that's going to do it anyway. That's probably true. But that conversation is largely tabled in my opinion because the money we're spending on the migrant population now — you could say to yourself but Scott, didn't you tell us that money is fungible and that's not how it works and just because you're spending money on one thing that doesn't mean you couldn't spend money on the other thing if you wanted to. You know you could always run up your debt, whatever. That's true. But we don't treat it that way in the real world. In the real world we treat it like it's a limit even though it's not. So if I were black and I thought the country owed me more, be it better education, some kind of change in urban laws or policing or something, if I thought I wanted something and I saw that 100% of the attention of all the authorities in the government is to the migrant class, which is what it feels like — it's not the case but it feels like that — I'd be voting Trump so fast. But I can't put myself in the heads of other people so I guess we'll just have to find out how that goes.

Here's some updates. Nikki Haley was on Saturday Night Live. I guess she played to somebody in the audience who just asked a question of the person who is playing a Trump person. And the thing that caught me was that her thing on Saturday Night Live was to mock Trump of course. And then she tweeted that Trump probably doesn't stay up that late but he'll be tweeting angry things at her when he sees Saturday Night Live. And I thought, do you not know anything ab

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out Trump? The one thing we know about him for sure is he does stay up late. Like that's like saying he doesn't golf. Did you not notice he kind of golfs and he also stays up late? So that was a kind of a weird thing to say about him. But here's what I got out of that. Nikki Haley only exists because Trump exists, doesn't it feel like that? Now you could imagine if there was never a Trump that she…

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