All right, so Elizabeth Warren has pulled ahead in the Iowa polls. She is distinctly leading but nominally she's a little bit ahead of Biden. That's a big deal. That is a big deal because psychologically it's telling people, hey maybe Warren is the one. And I did a little poll on Twitter just this morning. Some of you saw it. And I realized that I don't believe I know a Biden supporter. I just don't know that I know any Biden supporters. So I did a poll. It said do you know any? Because if something like 20 or 30 percent of all Democrats are favoring him you think I'd run into one like in a party, maybe a relative.

And so I did the survey and 89 percent said they don't know anyone who's a Biden supporter. And it makes me think that people are voting for Biden you know as that some way to beat Trump but there's absolutely nobody who would be willing to say it in person. I could, I would love to have a conversation with somebody who's actually following the news, not somebody who isn't paying attention, so he's actually current with the news, and have a private conversation where nobody else is watching and have them tell me that Biden is their guy. I don't think that's ever going to happen because I don't know that that person actually exists. You know obviously somewhere in the world those people exist but they might be so uncommon you'll never meet one. How weird is that?

Somebody was mocking me on Twitter just before I got on and saying, oh there you go again Scott, judging the world by what you personally can see on your worst side effect. And they were saying they were mocking me for saying that there's no such thing. Long time ago I said this, that there's no such thing as somebody who really is in favor of open borders. And their point being it's obvious now that there are lots of people in favor of that. To which I say I've never met one.

You would have to have me in a private conversation with nobody listening in so that we're not judged by anybody watching us. In a private conversation I want somebody to tell me that they're in favor of open borders. Now when I say that I don't believe it's a thing and some of you are saying I've met somebody or I've seen somebody in the news you know or this governor or this. So some of you believe that you've seen these people. Here's what I believe. I believe you've seen, you know of people, maybe even talked to people who have said things somewhat like that. They're definitely people who have said things which a reasonable person could interpret as meaning that they're in favor of open borders.

But I'll bet if you put them in the room with me and nobody is listening I'd say, do you approve of open borders? Let's say they said yes. What wouldn't my next question be? Do you also approve of universal health care? Probably they're gonna say yes. And then I say you do know you can't have both, right? Which would you prefer? Because if you have universal health care and open borders everybody at once, health care just walks over the border and guess it, then you can't afford it eventually. So it's guaranteed that it can't work together. You can have one or the other.

And so when I say I've never met anyone that as far as I can tell is in favor of open borders, unless you have that specific conversation in private I'm not willing to believe it yet. Just not willing to believe that such a person exists because I want somebody to look me in the eye and say yeah I think those both can work just fine. I don't know anybody could say that with a straight face. Because some of you have said you met them but maybe I feel I'm more persuasive than you and I could talk them out of it in about a minute and a half.

All right, that is, oh I had one more point. As I've often said fear is a great persuader. So it's always good for a politician, I won't say good let's say effective. I don't want to put a moral judgment on it. It's effective for a candidate to scare you that some bad thing will happen unless they're elected. Elect me or we'll be attacked or one thing or another will happen. So it's very common and we don't think too much about it because it's just part of the nature of it.

I'm sorry just read the comments this ruined, you know what was I talking about? Oh here. So it's very common that politicians use fear to persuade. But when I was watching the youth strike, there was a climate strike and the youth were out there very afraid about the future. And I thought to myself it's probably fair to frighten adults if you're trying to frighten them into action and you believe that the way you're frightening them is productive. A little bit of fear might be a good thing. I mean it might be an effective thing. I'm not gonna say it's a good thing. But when you intentionally scare children to get a political result that's just immoral in my view.

Now morality is sort of subjective but I can't see a scenario in which someone with an underdeveloped brain should be scared to the point of mental health issues, which is what's happening. Actual mental health issues. So adults are scaring children into mental health issues and probably not legitimately because if you add together the fact that nuclear energy plus carbon capturing scrubbing machines are coming online, we've got a lot going for us and I've got a pretty good feeling that we're not going to have a calamitous effect from climate change. So yeah, just everything about that was screaming of child abuse. It really did.

Somebody saying child abuse in the comments. I didn't want to use that phrase but when I read it I thought yeah that looks like child abuse. Scaring children to the point of mental illness for what? Children don't invent things you know. And then using them as a tool to convince other adults. Probably just about the worst thing you could ever do. You know torturing children for the benefit of a political outcome. How bad is that? Pretty bad, huh?

Anything else going on? I talked about Jordan Peterson earlier. I'm just reading your comments now. Wow. Who's in charge in Israel by the way? Is Netanyahu still there? Not paying attention too much. Probably matters. So I understand that Iran is perhaps going to suggest some kind of a peace deal or some kind of a deal in the upcoming UN meeting. Do you think that Iran is going to offer any kind of a deal that doesn't start with get rid of the sanctions? It feels like that's just their starting point. First give us everything we want, second we'll think about giving you something.

Somebody says teach you something from loser think. Well actually I just did. I just didn't label it when I was talking about how friction always works. It is loser think to say but there's that one hacker who could hack it or there's that criminal who could just steal a gun or that's the motivated drug dealer who climbed over the border wall. Every time you're talking about the exceptions you're just in the wrong conversation because everything has somebody who can beat the system. But we create laws and systems and standards and all that because it will stop a lot of people. You know we have laws against thousands of different things and it doesn't stop people from doing those crimes. Laws are not intended to stop people from doing crimes. Fences and walls are not intended to stop all people under all conditions. Any kind of a limit on 3D printed guns would never be intended to stop every person who could ever make a 3D printed gun. That's not a thing.

So every time you argue that and it involves a whole lot of different topics, every time you argue but what about the exception, you're not even in the conversation. That's loser think. Loser think is to treat the exception as if that's as important as the main thing. One is less important and if you don't weigh all the costs and all the benefits you're not being very productive.

Oh somebody's asking why Jake Tapper is doing my comic strip. So if you're joining late, Jake Tapper is going to be my guest artist for Dilbert for the coming week, this coming week. I actually asked him that. I asked him, I said hey do you think I could maybe read the news, you know you'd be a cartoonist. Now as soon as I asked I realized that that wasn't going to be practical so we're not going to do that. We've had that conversation just ended. But I might do it anyway because I could just read the news here on Periscope. So thinking about putting on a suit and tie and doing Jake's job on Periscope for one day. I'll just read the CNN news, just the headlines, and just be a newscaster for a day. But it wouldn't be, I don't know if it would be as fun as it sounds in my mind so maybe I won't.

But you know what, while Jake and I are doing this we're just gonna focus on helping the vets. Just try to do a good thing and raise some money for them, put some attention back on them. Might be good for them. And that's all we're trying to accomplish and politics can take a back seat for now.