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about anything new today? Well it's funny you should ask because I'll just, Emma, sorry I just blocked the wrong person. So the blocking on here, I just blocked some innocent person who's wondering why they got blocked. If you try to block them as they're moving sometimes you get the wrong person. So I'll see if I can unblock that person later. Book title is "Loserthink." It'll be out in October.…
← Previous segment →selectively edited, let's say, clip of Nancy Pelosi. And the clip was edited so that you can see all of her misspeaking. So everywhere where she struggled for a word or she paused to find the next word or she had to stop and correct herself, I saw it edited together. So if you saw it all together it looked like she had some kind of fairly serious mental problem and it was really convincing.
It was also fake news because if you had seen all of those mistakes spread over the course of a long public spontaneous public speaking event that lasted a long time, there were quite a few times where she had to go for a word and struggle and they wouldn't look nearly the same if you saw them in their original context spread out. But when you see them all put together they tell a troubling story. They do the same thing for Trump. Yeah it's just a good trick. All it does is put all your mistakes together.
Am I sticking with the Schultz prediction? Which part of the Schultz prediction is that he would not ultimately run for president? And the answer is yes. I was thinking too that if Schultz runs for president it will be a serious blow to Starbucks coffee business because we know the Democrats are not going to like Schultz and the Democrats are the party of boycotts. Now it could be that people are so addicted to coffee that there's nothing they can do to stop drinking it.
Atlanta spent 23 million on the footbridge for the Super Bowl but it won't open because of security. Now I don't know about that story. I'm just reading it here.
You think Schultz will win? Well winning as a third party would be an amazing thing but I don't see it.
Somebody says Republicans don't boycott. They do but not as effectively apparently.
Somebody says they wish they had my brain. Well that would be a bloody operation and probably the transplant would not work. Might have to wait a few years for that.
So I noticed NBC taking down Tulsi Gabbard. So there's an article, an anti-Tulsi Gabbard article from NBC News. And I thought to myself, isn't NBC News the one everybody says is owned by the CIA? You know, didn't we just find out that the CIA is backing Kamala Harris by the fact that NBC News just went after Tulsi Gabbard?
Our CBS salut says I saw it on the NBC.
So I still have an NBC article. RGB prediction. What would you like me to predict? Are you asking me to predict her death? That would not be cool.
Somebody's asking me to predict whether Ruth Bader Ginsburg is alive. Yes she's definitely alive. The odds of a Supreme Court justice dying without the news getting out is zero. Yeah it's zero. Now I'm guessing she's not in very good shape but we kind of knew that.
Somebody says her taxidermist says she's fine. That's pretty funny. It's cruel but it's funny.
So let me ask you this. Let's talk about the prediction for the wall and for the emergency situation. It seems to me that President Trump has set the table for an emergency declaration that would have seemed extreme a month ago but now it's going to look like he's taking action because the government is just not being useful.
So wouldn't you say, let me say this. I think the strongest play for the president is not to say, well here's the best way to frame it. If he goes for the emergency declaration for the wall, which I think is close to guaranteed at this point, if he had tried to do an emergency declaration a few months ago it would have been just a huge uproar and it would have been a big problem politically in every other way. I think the system would have taken some strain on that.
But now that the president has acted reasonably and he has allowed the Democrats to have their negotiations with the government open and now that they've clearly demonstrated that they're not credible players, this is a big deal. Because until we actually witnessed the Democrats trying to negotiate and not being even serious about it you could have imagined that maybe they could have. So until they failed right in front of us it was easy to imagine, well maybe if they did have some meetings they could work this out.
But now you don't have to wonder because the president gave them enough rope to hang themselves. He actually baited them or they baited themselves. I don't know if it was his clever plan or it just worked out this way. But because he gave them room to negotiate and he let them fail spectacularly in public and he let them die on the sword of "we're going to ignore the experts and the engineers," which is what he did, right?
So when the negotiations fail and it's obvious that there's no chance that they could succeed at this point, when they fail the president is going to say we talked to the experts, we talked to the engineers, and they said unequivocally and no doubt about it that in these specific areas you need some wall. The Democrats failed to listen to the experts, failed to listen to the engineers, and now because they are useless, I'm going to make a decision for the American people within my authority as commander-in-chief.
And at this point it's gonna go down. It'll always go down a little hard but at this point the country is primed to accept it. If you're a Democrat you cannot look at this situation and tell yourself your side played it fairly. You cannot look at the situation as a Democrat and say yeah the Democrats were really negotiating in good faith for this wall stuff. That never happened. Even their own side knows that they played it politically instead of playing it for the benefit of the country.
Well that is no longer in question or it won't be when they finally give up with this stupid committee stuff. And you could always say well that's always been the case, the Democrats have always been obstructionist. Well because of the way we got here, the closing of the government, Pelosi's demand that if we open the government everybody could play nice with each other and then it didn't happen. So we saw essentially Pelosi being not a credible participant in the effort to fix things.
So I think the president has total clearance now to do what he needs to do. You can always tell when the Democrats are losing. What is it the Democrats say whenever it looks like they're gonna lose hard? Yeah when it comes to border security. Because at this point you can kind of already project forward. You know that the committee won't work, that nothing will come out of that. You know that the president's not going to close the government again because that didn't work last time. And you know that he will do the emergency declaration because it's the
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only rational path that will be left to him. And of course he will do it. So those things we can predict with clarity. But if you hear the Democrats say, if they start talking about he said Mexico would pay for it, you know they've lost. If all they have left is the part of the campaign promise that was more really a joke and marketing than it was serious at least in a direct way, if they're argu…
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