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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 c…
← Previous segment →e major problems if Trump ran for a third term. Now, if I may defend Tim Miller and Bill, well, Tim Miller mostly, if I may defend him, probably somebody sent him the clip. Probably somebody sent him the clip. I doubt he watched the entire clip and then decided to leave out the most critical part. Why? Because he used to be a Republican. And like I said, he presents himself as a rational person. Even if I disagree with his views, they seem rational. And so I don't believe that if I'm a reasonably good judge of character, do I think that Bill Kristol would have intentionally left out the clarifier? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. I think Bill Kristol would have intentionally left out the clarifier so that he could do that creepy smile. You know, that creepy Bill Kristol smile. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's going to be Hitler and take over the movies. But do I think that Tim Miller, who used to be Jeb Bush's guy, Jeb Bush also a perfectly reasonable person, low energy? No, just kidding. I don't think he would have personally been okay with clipping off the most important part of the clip. I think somebody sent it to him and maybe somebody he trusted and he went with it. We all do that, by the way. How many times have I shown a clip and then somebody said, "That was from six years ago, Scott." And I go, you know, and then I slink away to delete it. So if you're in this business, you make that mistake a lot. And I don't really judge it. You know, I'm okay as long as it's done in a platform where the comments can add the context. It's not a perfect world, right? It's not a perfect world. So I'm not going to say Tim Miller should never make a mistake on a clip. I'm not going to say that. I make that same mistake twice a day for as long as it could be corrected. Thank you Elon Musk.
And then commenter Ozark Patrick Parish said also in that thread he said Trump is so authoritarian that he can't just open the government up on his authoritarian order, but he just he's just authoritarian enough to serve a third term. Got it right. He can't pass a budget by himself. He can't put the National Guard into a city by himself. He has to obey the courts and if you wanted to make the argument that he's not an authoritarian, you have a lot of argument.
I use the term authoritarian a little different maybe than most people. I think when some people say authoritarian, they say, "Oh, he's doing things for his own benefit, right?" But that's not really in the definition. The definition is that the authoritarian has a strong focus on authority. What's another word for authority? The Constitution. What's another word for authority? The law. The law. What's another word for authority? Head of the military, defending the border. So when I see an authoritarian, I see somebody who's willing to kick every door, push every envelope, but if the court says too far, he says, "All right, well, we'll try something else." That's exactly the kind of strong man authoritarian I want. I want obey the law, obey the constitution, you know, don't take away my second amendment. Is that authoritarian? Because he's certainly strongly backing authority. But unless he runs for a third term, it's not about
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him. It's really not about him. All right. I finally decided to follow a little bit this story about the eight senators whose phone records were monitored, not their conversations, but the actual who they called and when and how long they talked as part of Jack Smith's so-called Arctic Frost investigation. So I guess when January 6 was still buzzing, Jack Smith was trying to figure out if Trump h…
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