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need a license for, from manicurist to doctor. You need a license. And the idea is that the licensing requirements are racist because it's preventing Black people from getting these jobs. So I don't know if you've noticed, but my state is totally racist against me. Are you aware that California is the most racist state? Meaning that DEI is everything and reparations and equity are the thing. So b…

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eir mouth shut about the COVID thing for years. So if somebody says something is an acceptable source, doesn't that really mean that they don't want to say it's not acceptable? Meaning they don't want to be the one who says I'm not sure that's a good source.

And then it says in order to ensure that synthesized products are valid. What do you think would be a synthesized product? Well, I think in this case product is used for the measurement itself. So the product is the data they're producing. The data as a product that then other people can put into their models and make decisions on. It's a product. And they're saying it's a synthesized product, which means they're taking sources from various places and combining them.

If you heard that somebody took data from several different sources and combined them and synthesized them, what would you think about the quality of the data if you didn't know anything else? Came from different places and then we synthesized it. Well, I'll tell you one thing. You wouldn't believe that it's accurate within one degree.

Let me give you an example of some synthesized data. You ready? One day when I was in college I got my grade for the year, I think maybe for the year, and it was much lower than I knew it should have been. So I went to my professor and I said I'm looking at all my test scores and I'm looking at my biggest one. The biggest test score was the one that counted the most and I totally nailed it. And so I said, you know, given these test scores, the average that you gave me for the class doesn't make sense. It's literally not the average of these scores. And here's what the alcoholic professor told me — yes, he was literally an alcoholic. He said, well, I lost your test. I said what? Yeah, he said the big one that you got, you say you got the good grade on, I don't have it. I lost it. You mean I didn't turn it in? No, you turned it in. I lost it. And so I said how did you give me a grade when my biggest most important test was not in the mix? And he said I synthesized it from the other grades that I did have. He averaged my poorer grades together and gave me a grade because he lost the most important score that I had nailed completely. That is synthesized data right there, ladies and gentlemen. That's what synthesized data is. You took it from different sources and you talked yourself into it being accurate because you hoped nobody would ask you a detailed question. And I asked him a detailed question and the whole thing fell apart because it was synthesized. My entire life depends on these grades and stuff. He's just synthesizing them.

So I would say that Google does not support the temperature data as being accurate. They only support it as being of a known quality from sources that are acceptable. If the internet won't tell you the data is accurate and Google won't tell you it's accurate, do you really think it's accurate? Do you really think that Google, probably one of the most valiant supporters of all climate change alarm, you think they wouldn't tell you it was accurate if they knew it was accurate? They can't do it. I'll be damned.

Well, meanwhile Arizona passed a law to ban almost all abortions except the life or the health of the mother. Even Trump disagrees. He says they think that'll get walked back a little bit. Probably, he says it'll definitely change. So he thinks that they'll add a few more exceptions or maybe add a little timing thing. So we don't know.

Now this led people to say to me, Scott, why do you say that Trump is playing this perfectly by saying it's a state's issue and there's some kind of middle ground that makes sense for the country? And the question I was asked is, can you name one independent who changed their vote to Trump because he found this middle ground state thing? Is that the right question, Scott? Can you name me even one independent who was not going to vote for Trump but now is just because he had this sort of middle ground non-committal thing?

That's the wrong question. The question is energy. Remember Trump is an energy monster. He's not about the fact check. He's about the energy. And what he did was he tried to take the energy out of the abortion

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question. Because every time you bring it up, he's not going to say something that causes a fight. He's going to say, well, thanks to me you get to work that out with your state. So you're in much better shape to get a law that your state likes by majority than if the federal government did it. So I actually made it easier for you to get what you want in your state. Now if your state doesn't want…

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