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im. He does what he needs to do to get the job done in his mind. Some of us would disagree about the method but he's clearly doing what he can do in the face of a hostile media. And so to ask him to tone down while the media is staying at DEFCON 10, I'm not sure that's fair. Would it be fair to say Trump should change and the anti-Trump media should just do what they've been doing? I don't think…
← Previous segment →et's say they were offended, deeply offended. Most people say yes. If a hundred percent of the people disliked it. Suppose it was just one person in the whole world. Just one person. Should you remove the statue? No it's just one person. You got the whole public wants it to stay.
What if it's 40 percent of the public is deeply offended? Yes. Yes if 40 percent of the public is offended by a public statue you move that statue. Now how many people are deeply offended by the Confederate statues? I don't know but it's probably somewhere in the 20 to 50 percent range. Somewhere in there. Is that enough to say we should get rid of it? Yes in my opinion. A public statue that offends nearly all African Americans and a lot of other folks too is absolutely inappropriate. It has nothing to do with history. You can put it in a museum as people say. Take a picture of it.
All right. The reason they are offended is because of the slavery you know. It's one thing to be offended by a piece of art because you don't like it. It's another thing to be reminded of slavery. That's a different situation. Going on for decades. Yeah I wouldn't make any, I wouldn't compare Christmas decorations to slavery if you don't mind. I think I'm gonna keep those separate topics.
What if it was 1% of people? I think if it was 1% there would be an argument to not get rid of it but it would also depend on their argument. If the 1% had a pretty compelling argument I'd listen to it. That doesn't mean I'll agree but I would certainly listen to an argument. 1% is actually a lot of people. You know it's not a high percentage but it's a lot of people. I would certainly listen to what they had to say.
All right. I believe I've said what I need to say.
So I didn't realize this but apparently I get I guess some small amount of money when people send me these super hearts or hearts or something. So if anybody's inclined to do that please do. I'm not sure exactly how it works but somehow you if you tap the side of your screen hearts appear and some of them are super hearts and I don't know what any of that means. But for some reason Periscope will give me some small amount of money if you do that which you don't need to do. It's optional.
What about 0.01? Again it would depend on the argument. Let's say there was a statue of, well I don't know I can't think of an example but it's unlikely that 0.01% would be good enough to remove a statue.
You changed my mind on this subject. I changed somebody's mind. Look at me being all persuasive and everything. So whoever said that that I changed their mind, props to you. Because you really rarely see anybody change their mind based on argument or data. It's a very rare thing. And to whoever it was who just went by, I forgot to look at your name, whoever said that they changed their mind I have a lot of respect for that because it's just so rare. It's just a great quality just to be able to change your mind. It's really terrific.
All right. This is my TV shirt. Somebody asked me about my TV shirt. This is my TV shirt. So tomorrow I'll be on Fox and Friends. I'm scheduled to show up which doesn't mean I'll be on the air but I'll be showing up for the 8:30 Eastern Time. So West Coast people have got to wake up early. It's 5:30 Western. So sometime after the 8:30 Eastern Time I'll be on there for a few minutes and I will explode some more minds.
You changed my mind about Trump. Well let me ask you this question because this could be interesting. How many of you have ever changed your mind about let's say a political topic because of me? Just shout it in the comments. How many of you have changed your mind on anything? Doesn't matter what it is. You could mention what it is or if you just say yes whichever you're comfortable with. You've changed mine but not this time. I'm just looking at your comments.
Open your mind to Trump. Time to support Gab. Let's talk about Gab. So I find myself in a very awkward situation with Gab. So I'll just completely, I'll be full disclosure all right because there's no right answer here. So I'll just fully disclose and then you can do with it what you will.
I of course like free speech. I of course don't like any suggestion that Twitter would be shadow banning any conservative voices. But here's the problem with Gab. In theory Gab would be a competitor to Twitter but because of their business model of allowing people who would not be allowed on Twi
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tter it becomes a magnet for all the people that are sort of too misbehaved if I can use that word. Right? Yeah it's all subjective but in Twitter context they're the misbehavers are most drawn to Gab. The people who are not misbehaving in a way that Twitter cares about, in other words people who are not conservative, why would they leave? It would be crazy to leave Twitter if you're a liberal or…
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