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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 wa…
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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 arguing that the indirect way we're getting money from Mexico is not the same as a direct way, well they will be technically correct but they will be dealing with trivialities. If that's all they have left that's not a strong play.
So every time I see somebody say oh yeah but what about he said Mexico would pay for it, once you've gotten to the point where everyone agrees that the dollar amounts are trivial it kind of doesn't matter who pays for it at that point does it? Yeah because nobody's saying 5.7 billion will break the bank. No, nobody is saying that the United States can't afford 5.7 billion dollars. Nobody's saying that.
So if you've already admitted that money isn't really a problem, taking that to the next level and saying okay there are two things we know for sure. The amount of money is totally trivial and you said Mexico would pay for it. What about Mexico paying for it? That is the weakest attack you'll ever see. So the more they're talking about Mexico not paying for it the more you should celebrate if you want a wall.
All right. Yeah there was a story about Iran admitting that they were cheating on their enriching uranium. You see that? I'm not sure that that's a confirmed story but so I think I'm not going to talk about it because I don't think that's sufficiently confirmed.
So I did go and watch the video clip of Joe Rogan and Jack Dorsey. They were talking about Coffee with Scott Adams and the simultaneous sip. And that brings up an interesting point.
If you take a startup to venture capitalists or any kind of people who are experienced funders and you say here's my startup and here's what I want to do, the experts will always say the same thing. They'll say who is your specific customer? And if you say everybody's my customer, I'm marketing this to basically everybody, you can't get funded. So that's one of those universal truths in startups that if you say your customer is everyone you can't get funding because they need a specific customer so they can judge whether you can go get that specific customer.
But look at Facebook. What is Facebook's specific customer? It's everybody, right? And they didn't even start out with that thought. They started out trying to meet some girls in college. So they started with a specific customer but it didn't make any difference because it ended up with their customer was everyone.
And then speaking of the Joe Rogan broadcast with interviewing Jack Dorsey, the history of Twitter is that it started as something completely different. It was some kind of limited message service but the public decided they liked it in some form that evolved to what you're seeing now, modern Twitter. And so Twitter didn't have a specific customer that lasted. They had a specific use case but it had nothing to do with or very little to do with what Twitter became. And who is Twitter for? Who's the customer for Twitter? Well kind of everyone, right?
And then on the broadcast they're talking about Periscope. Periscope was originally imagined as its original format where you just turn it on and it's a live bro
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adcast from wherever you are. But as Jack was describing on Joe Rogan, that people like me started using it for podcasts which was not an original application that was originally assumed. And because people started using it for that, so the way I'm using it is more like a podcast. And so because people started using it like that they started adding features to satisfy that market. So in other wor…
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