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make you think it was really close. And then you don't need to know the details. So totally successful persuasion even though it's at least half. Well the CDC has updated their recommendation for vaccines so to speak. And they want kids to get the chickenpox vaccine separate from the big bunch of vaccines that they usually get that usually includes chickenpox. So apparently there's some new info…

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tland says no there's not too much crime. There's just the right amount. We'd like to keep it this way. Or something like that.

And one way that Trump could in theory overrule the local government and send in the National Guard would be if it's an emergency. And an emergency would include something like an insurrection. You know if there was a raging insurrection going on then it would be totally legal for the federal government to send in troops. But you would have to say it's an insurrection.

Now Trump says it's not an insurrection. It's not an emergency. It's just something that he'd like to do but he doesn't rule it out.

What do I tell you about the decisions that Trump makes? I told you that he's brilliant in persuasion and that one of the things he does right all the time, all the time, is that if there are two ways you

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could go and one of them would be described as strong as in maybe an authoritarian but the other way would be described as you know weak. He will always take strong even if weak is a better argument. Does that make sense? He will always pick strong even if you think going weak is a better argument. Here's why. Because the specific argument matters a little. You know does he or does he not go into…

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