ink it's not, but it's exactly what's going on. And a lot of it has to do with who you call illegal. If you're here on amnesty, is it illegal? And then there's a question of if the hospitals are going to treat you either way, what's different? The hospital's still going to treat you. But I guess you just wouldn't have the emergency room would still treat you, but you wouldn't have regular health care, which of course would be way better. So messaging wise, I'd have to give the win so far to Trump.

All right, here's a story about Galman amnesia. Do all of you know that now? I talk about it so much that most of my audience should recognize that. Galman amnesia. Quickly, Galman was a physicist who realized that when he read the paper and saw a story on his expertise, physics, he always knew the story was fake news. But as soon as he turned the page to let's say politics, he would read it like it was probably true. And one day he thought, I feel like I might be noticing a pattern here that whenever I know the truth of the story, the news is fake. But whenever I don't know the truth behind the story, I just uncritically assume they got that one right. And so he concluded that probably all the news is fake.

Would you like to see a real world example of Galman amnesia? Now, one of the benefits I think Bill Maher said exactly the same thing. I'm going to say paraphrasing that if you're a public figure, you live Galman amnesia all day long, which is when you read stories about yourself or about something you're an expert on, you know it's fake news. So if you're a celebrity, you've seen the fake news about yourself over and over and over and over and over again to the point where if you saw news about at least another celebrity, you would say probably not. Probably there's context missing, etc.

So there was a story about me yesterday. So there's an entity called The Bulwark. The Bulwark. So that's a publication. I didn't realize that it wasn't just a Democrat publication. Apparently, they're anti-Trumpers. And one of the principles there is Tim Miller, who I did not realize that before he was an anti-Trumper, he was Jeb Bush's communication director for Jeb Bush. So imagine if your prior job was Jeb Bush's communications director. Oh, poor guy. Let me summarize Jeb Bush's communication. I'm going to do a fast forward of Jeb Bush's speeches and things. He said blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah fast forward blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and then that would go on for you know hundreds of hours. Now let me quote Donald Trump totally ending the career of Jeb Bush with these words. Jeb Bush is so low energy. And we're done.

Imagine being the communication director and having your entire campaign taken out with one sentence. Anyway, now I'm making fun of Tim Miller only because of the unfortunate career arc he has, but I have to admit I like him. And I'd wondered why when he was on MSNBC and the shows I'm all primed to dislike. I wondered why he always seemed like a reasonable guy. Even though he'd be a little anti-Trump, I'd think, well, he's not crazy like a lot of the people that MSNBC has on are just bad crazy. But he didn't seem crazy. And I kept wondering how could this rational person who has a different opinion, but he's a rational person. How is he part of the Democrats? And now I learned that I think he's maybe a recent independent, maybe. I don't know what he is, but he's no longer a Republican. He's an anti-Trumper.

So he was on with Bill Kristol and they were showing a video of me. So when they showed a video of me, let's see if you can guess. Do you think it included the full context so you can really see what I had to say? How many people think that they showed the full context of my comments? Of course not. Do you think that taking it out of context completely reversed or at least maximally changed what I was saying? Of course. Of course. And do you think that you would have necessarily noticed if you had not also had the pleasure of listening to me say it originally and then seeing what they did to it? Would you have noticed? Was there any way you could tell that context had been removed? No. But I could tell. I could tell. So this is Galman amnesia. I knew what they left out. But you didn't. Unless you watched me. A lot of you watch me.

So here's what they included. They included me talking about how Trump was in my opinion he was authoritarian and a strong man. And what I meant by that is that he pushes every envelope. He kicks every door. He does everything that he can get done. Executive orders, he pushes around Israel if he can. He's a bully. And my argument was if you know your perfect form of government would be exactly that guy. Now here's the parts they left out. Then I would never support him for a third term because the system would break down. So if you don't leave the part where it's completely impractical to have any kind of a policy of trying to have or supporting an authoritarian strongman, you're completely missing the philosophical brilliance of my point. The point is not that we should try to get that or that the next one should be that or that we should be glad we have it. I'm just saying we do have it and it works great. So I'm not going to complain about something we do have and it works great. But Trump is such a unique character that you're not going to, there's no hope you're going to get a second one, right? It's not like you say, "Oh, let's try to get another one who's that ballsy and that strong." Well, good luck. Good luck with that. You know, sort of a one-off.

So I reposted it and said, you know, I'd never support it. But what's funny is I don't know a single person who seriously thinks Trump should or would do a third term. Do any of you? I'm curious. There'll always be some troll who says yes. But seriously, how many of you, you're probably one of the most Trump-supporting audiences in the whole world. How many of you think it would be a good idea for the United States, no matter how much you love Trump? How many think it would be a good idea at his age, especially to break the entire system by running again? All right, look at the comments. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no.

So why does Trump keep teasing it? Is he just testing the water? It feels like it sometimes, but far more obvious than that is that he's trolling them. So every minute that Tim and Bill spend showing videos of me talking about Trump maybe being a dictator. Oh, they conflated it. They conflated my saying that having the strong man might be actually good for you. They conflated that with me wanting him to have a third term, which is the opposite of my opinion. All right? So when you conflate something with its opposite, you're not doing anything useful for anybody. You're just making some content. So all of the time that they spent making that video and talking about it, followed by all the time that maybe they have to deal with the fact that now they're getting some blowback is all wasted anti-Trump time because we don't care. We don't care that these two guys honestly believe that Trump might want to serve a third term when there's no way that's ever going to happen.

And then somebody tried to challenge me online and they said, "All right, all right." This is paraphrasing too. I go, "All right, so Scott, if you don't think he should have a third term, are you going to agree that if he tries to have a third term, you're going to fight it?" And I guess I thought that was a gotcha. To which I said, "Yes, yes, that's exactly what I would do if he tried to have a third term." Seriously. And there's nothing like that happening. There's nothing like that happening. But if it did happen, oh yeah. Yeah. I'd be standing on top of a building screaming, "Do not let this happen." Because that would be the end of the Constitution, the end of the whole American experiment. No. No way. But do I like it that he trolls them and makes them suck up all their time not talking about anything useful? Okay. I kind of love that. Kind of love it.

Alan Walton, who's one of the commenters in the comment thread on that topic, and he said talking about me, he said that I said 10 seconds after the clip ended that they would hav