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umber of successes that every day or every few days he's going to be able to say, well, we got another amazing trade deal with another major country. Well this is one of those. So how many major trade deals is he going to get with how many countries? And then of course there's the surprising amount of tariff revenue coming into the government. Trump is winning pretty hard on trade. The stock marke…
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So yes, I like it when they say they're capturing a bunch of drugs. I like it when they say the investments are big. And I like it when we get new trade deals. Now are there exaggerations involved in all these accomplishments? Perhaps. Doesn't bother me a bit because I want a salesman in chief who is telling us everything's working out great because that's exactly what makes things work out great. You need the optimism to drive the economy. Nobody does it better. Trump's the best optimist we've ever had as president. Although Reagan was pretty good.
There's an article by David Harsanyi in the Washington Examiner titled "Why Climate Change Alarmism Failed" and he notes that there's a poll that CNN's Harry Enten is talking about that shows that only 40% of Americans are greatly worried about climate change which is the same as in 2000. So in 25 years of trying to scare people, 25 years of trying to scare the public, the number of people who say they're scared is exactly the same as it was before they tried to scare the public.
Now do you ever just read a story and you sort of uncritically accept the elements of the story? All right, I'm going to give you one right now. All right, this will blow your mind if it has the same effect on you that it does on me. It's going to blow your mind. All right, I live in California, as you know, so it's a very blue state presumably. Most of my friends in my adult life have been probably more Democrats than Republicans. Obviously I lost most of my friends when I started backing Trump, so I'm talking about a little bit in the past, but I realize today that not once in my life have I met anybody who was worried about climate change, like ever in my whole life. Not one person.
Now are you really telling me that 40% of Americans are quote greatly worried about climate change? That sounds to me like something that people say to pollsters but is completely disconnected with reality. How many times in your life have you been at, let's say, I don't know, a party or a barbecue or a family get-together and somebody brought up
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climate change as an existential threat? Has it ever happened? Because it's never happened where I've been. I've never even seen anybody interested in climate change, much less afraid of it. No interest whatsoever. So is that different than your experience? Because I'm very skeptical that 40% of the public thinks it's like our biggest problem. And yet nobody's ever, not once, 40% of the public an…
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