Back to episode — Episode 2426 CWSA 03/27/24
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a, Donald Trump had some things to say. Nobody makes politics as fun as Trump does. I don't know why even his enemies haven't at least appreciated the fun of it. Like even if you don't want him to be president, I get that. I get that. We all understand. But you can't enjoy the good parts, like the pure entertainment of it all? All right, watch the show that Trump puts on. So this is, he says, tal…
← Previous segment →y and energy go together. So when you see how much energy was put into the DJT stock, that's the story. It's not even a dollar thing. It's the energy. That energy is unmistakable and growing.
Meanwhile Trump got hit with a gag order in New York over his Stormy Daniels quote hush money case because he said some things in public slamming the judge. Thank you. Thank you for the gag order. What do you think happens every time Trump gets a new gag order that tells him he can't say what he thinks is true in public? His numbers go up. His fundraising goes up. Yeah, that's what happens. So yeah, more gag orders please. Every time you take away his freedom of speech you take ours away. That's how I feel.
Trump is just sort of the canary in the coal mine. Whatever they do to him it is going to come back to you, right? It's going to get you. Now you saw it got me, right? It's the same energy that got me and I'm way down below Trump in the effectiveness category. So yeah it will just keep going down until they get everybody.
Meanwhile Trump is selling Bibles and Axios says it's not for the campaign. But he's selling Trump Bibles for 60 bucks. Now if it's not going toward his campaign what is it going toward? The legal bills I assume. So you could actually pay Trump's legal bills and get yourself a nice Bible too. How smart is that? I don't think I've ever seen anybody read a room better than that guy. Talk about how to read a room.
If you said to me Scott, donate some money to Trump's legal fund, I'm not too happy about that, right? Because I feel like everybody's got a legal fund they want me to contribute to. But if you tell me that he's selling a Bible to his fans and followers who love Bibles, then you know you're always in the market for a new one if Bible's your thing. It's sort of perfect. It's exactly correct. Who's going to complain about the Bible? I mean somebody will but it looks silly, right? Lawyers. Yeah lawyers will I guess. Lawyers will anyway. It's another perfect reading of the room. It's a perfect business model for paying off his legal bills if that's what he's doing. I assume so. I like it. Well done.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. picked his running mate who is Sergey Brin's ex-wife Nicole Shanahan. Now she's an attorney and a tech entrepreneur and seems to have tons of qualifications etc. She's in her 30s so she's young. And there are some rumors that I'm not going to share but I heard it in the comments earlier. But that didn't seem credible enough that I want to share any of those.
But let me say that in general everything you hear about public figures is fake, right? So you're going to hear a whole bunch of things about Nicole Shanahan. Some of it might be true in terms of she was once married to Sergey Brin and now she's not. That would be true. But I would look out for anything that's more interesting than that. Probably not true. So the rule with public figures is that the stuff that's public such as a marriage or divorce probably is true. If somebody died, probably true. Somebody got a new job, probably true. But once you get past name, salary, and social security number, everything about why anything happened, that's all, it's always the why of anything, the context, never reliable.
So just remember that when you're evaluating her. But I was looking at her background and apparently she highlights that she has worked on racial equality. Wow. So that's a hard no for me in our current environment. That's just a hard no, unfortunately. I wanted to say yes. I wanted to be pro whoever you picked. But that, unless she comes out and says the way I was doing it was a mistake, which would be fine by the way. If she came out and
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said you know what I worked on this equality but the more I think about it maybe we should take a different approach. If she said that I'd be fine with it. Because somebody in their 30s who changes their mind about what works because they tried the other thing and it didn't work, that would be a strong signal. Very strong signal. I like people who can change their minds and do it publicly and show…
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