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at the Republicans will sweep and it would be because of immigration. So immigration is this really aggressive play for the Democrats to take over everything except that in the short run it's such an overreach and it's so alarming to the public it might cause the Republicans to win everything. So we've got this weird all or nothing that's been set up by both teams. And the Democrat Party will eith…

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ws and so you're wrong. And then you say but you know the news is all made up and then they'll tell you another thing they heard in the news to prove why it's not all made up. And I think okay you're not hearing me. It's all made up. The important stuff right. If they say a hurricane is coming it's probably true but if they say so and so did something because of something that's never true. That's never true.

All right so I don't know what's true. I don't know which data is true but I'll tell you if scientists are my source to know that I should be alarmed about the climate and they also claim that they can measure the temperature of the Earth really really precisely over decades and if not hundreds of years that's so obviously not true. Like anybody who's lived in the real world you know you can't measure the temperature of the earth and get a consistent reading. There are way too many things to go wrong that you wouldn't know or you wouldn't admit because you don't want anybody to know you did it wrong. So no there's no practical way to measure the temperature of the freaking Earth and you'd have to be very inexperienced or very young to imagine that's even a doable thing.

Now people often say but Scott doesn't that make you a science denier? No I'm not talking about any science. I'm talking about there's somebody whose job it is to sell a thermometer. There's somebody's job it is to put it somewhere and there's somebody's job to read it and somebody's job to add it up and find out the averages and stuff. That's not science. That's just a job. And the guy who created the Dilbert comic strip I know what people do when they have jobs. They cover up their mistakes. They fudge things. They falsify documents. They don't mention that it's near an airport. You know a million things. So it's a purely human endeavor to go read these measurements and decide whether the machine is accurate and then you decide oh this one seems whack because it's too close to some concrete so maybe I'll change it but I don't have the budget to change it so I'll just write down the number. That's the real world. Oh this looks wrong to me because it's giving me an anomalous reading but it's not my job to replace thermometers. I'm just the reader. My job is just go out there and write down that number. And I think to myself all right if I report this it's going to be a whole bunch of paperwork and I'm not really paid for all that extra. I'm paid to just write down this number that doesn't look right but I can make my day a lot easier if I just write it down and go to the next one. Now of course I'm making up an imaginary situation. I don't know if anybody's writing down anything but the point is there's a whole human process that has nothing to do with science when you're just measuring the temperature in a thousand different places.

Peter Navarro is in prison and I was watching CNN do a show about it and I asked you this. Would Peter Navarro be in prison if we had a legitimate news entity? If the news industry were not completely fake would Peter Navarro be in prison? That's not a real question. I'm going to give you the answer. No. There's not a chance. It requires the illegitimate press to give cover to the illegitimate Department of Justice. So you've got something that very clearly and unambiguously is inappropriate for the Department of Justice. If you don't believe me you should believe Alan Dershowitz who will tell you that a lot of the stuff against Trump is just crazy town. The lawfare. By the way Dershowitz is the one who invented the word lawfare. Did you know that? Alan Dershowitz. He invented that word lawfare. And he certainly sees it happening to Trump. But whatever is happening to Navarro is just an extension of the lawfare against Trump. And I believe that there is no way that Navarro would be in jail if both the left and the right leaning media called, what do you think? If both the left and the right said this is illegitimate he would not be in jail because I don't think that the system can survive doing things that both the left and the right say well this is obviously wrong. It requires at least the left because they control most of the media to bless it which they did. And they blessed it.

Imagine being part of the media that allowed him to go to jail knowing that that wouldn't have happened except for your actions. It would only take one entity. Let's say CNN or MSNBC. It would only take one of them to say okay this is too far. This is too far. We can't be putting Peter Navarro in jail for what he did. It would only take one. So every person who's on CNN and MSNBC you lying. You're putting a man in jail for no good reason. And how do you feel about that when you go home? Seriously how do you feel about that when you go home? Do you say to yourself oh it's not me. It's not me because I'm just one person. No it's you. It's you. If you're on the air on a news entity and you let Peter Navarro go to jail right in front of you when you know it's wrong and you're not saying anything about it you're putting him in jail. That's on you. So go sleep with that.

New York Times. Steve McIntyre was posting about this. The New York Times in what you can only imagine is once again the ridiculous merging with reality. They did a story extolling the virtues of the deep state. When we hear dee

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p state instead of recoiling we should rally because it's the deep state that's protecting you from Trump. That's actually in the news. The New York Times is telling you that the deep state is really important and valuable because it can protect you from people like Trump. How in the world, I mean how do you not be embarrassed working for that company? Anyway on another topic this is changing qui…

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