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riminals, you know, and maybe they shouldn't. And the workaround that Greg Abbott is proposing is to have a chief state prosecutor that would go after those people that the regular prosecutors had decided to release. Is that a good idea? What do you think? I'll take a sip of water here. I think one of my meds is making me dry-mouthed. Well, it feels like a good idea to me. All right. So you kn…

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e they would moderate their opinion because I would have a positive influence on them. What I don't believe would ever happen, and maybe this is just my own arrogance, I don't believe that if I took a selfie with or spend time with or tolerated someone who had a wholly inappropriate opinion that somehow that would rub off on me. I think it only works in one direction in my case.

So in my case being an influential type person you know by practice and by nature I guess I feel that young people would sort of drift on their own without me being heavy-handed about it to eventually be like an older man's opinion and you start being less impressed by the turd in the punch bowl and more interested in being part of the solution, you know, sort of the Palmer Luckey thing, be p

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art of the solution. So that's my reframe is you can certainly ask a person their own opinion, but it would be a bad system to start with. What do you think about that stranger's shirt? Bad way to start. All right. Now, I'm trying desperately, not desperately, but I don't want to get dragged into the actual debate. You know, I think there's plenty of room for people to have different opinions, b…

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