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← Previous segment →Well, I'd like to talk about all the problems in the world first. Okay, that was me talking about all the problems in the world, because it turns out there aren't any real problems in the world, at least if you take it from the news, because the news is talking about a tweet. That's right. The biggest news in the world is a tweet that was worded in such a way that people feel bad for other people. When I say feel bad for other people, what I'm talking about is Anderson Cooper feeling very, very, very bad that these tweets might make other people feel bad. That's your big problem of the day. That's your headline news. Somebody's tweet might make somebody else maybe feel bad.
We would ask those people to come on, but we couldn't find anybody who feels bad. And although we couldn't find anybody who actually feels bad, we could find hundreds of people who feel bad for the people who don't feel bad. Now it used to be that if you did something that would make somebody feel bad, that was the story. Somebody did something, somebody else feels bad. Well, there's something to talk about. But we don't have that anymore. Now we have somebody does something, let's say it's a tweet, a provocative tweet, and instead of people feeling bad, they really don't care one way or the other. But there are people who feel bad for the people who should feel bad but they don't seem to feel bad because they don't really care.
Do you know who I think was the least bothered by the "go back home" tweets from the president? I don't know this for sure, so I'm just going to put this out here. I think the group least bothered by the "go back home" was American black people. I don't know that to be true, and I'm certainly not going to put myself in their heads, and I'm not going to speak for any other group. I certainly can't do that. But it feels to me like they understood the point, which is it's not about race. It's about loving your country. And if you have a loyalty to some other country, blah blah blah. But moreover, it was just bull trash talk. It wasn't even factually on point. It was just trash talk that made real people really feel bad for other people who, if you ask them, would say, "You know what? I have to worry about a lot more things than that tweet, that's for sure."
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Now if I told you, yes I have many times, that's a way to evaluate your filter online. Let's say you're looking at the world one way and interpreting it one way. Somebody else is looking at it another way. Whether it's this presidential tweet, some people say, "My God, it's a racist outrage," and other people, "It's just trash talk." Two very different filters. One of the things that you can do to…
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