ignorant in the sense that we're all ignorant about something. You know that everybody has something they don't know. I mean that's just normal texture in the world. So I'm not calling Chris Cuomo dumb. I'm saying that his question is a legitimate question meaning he doesn't know. So the fact that he doesn't know the answer to a question doesn't tell you anything about what happened. It just tells you Chris Cuomo didn't know the answer to the question.

Can we imagine any way to explain Chris Cuomo's question? Why would fine people show up and not immediately leave? How about this answer Chris Cuomo? How do you know they didn't immediately leave? How do you know they didn't show up see what was happening and turn and leave? That's not in evidence. We have no idea how long people stayed.

I've also suggested that if I were a fine person and I showed up there and once I was there I realized that there was going to be a fight between Antifa who I hate with a passion because they're literally masked armed people who would like to hurt me personally. If I saw that they were about to get in a fight with neo-Nazis who I hate with a passion as much as I hate Antifa, I'm making a moral equivalence yes I am. I'm making a moral equivalence. They're both completely bad. If you're saying if anybody's saying one of them is a little worse than the other well I don't think you should show your face in society if you're gonna make a fine differentiation between the masked and armed Antifa thugs who want to overthrow the government and beat me to death. If you say well they're not so bad. I mean that's not so bad. You know they're at least they're against racism. I mean they got that goal in mind so they're not completely bad. They want to beat you to death with clubs but you know they have these good parts too. If you're saying that don't talk in public. Seriously you you're just embarrassing yourself if you're defending one of those sides as being a little more moral than the other.

Anyway if I showed up there as a fine person and I saw that these two groups that I hate the most were gonna fight each other with sticks and beating each other you couldn't get me to leave. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? You think I would leave? No. If I ever felt physically in danger I would of course but apparently the police were protecting the people who were fighting and letting the people fight who wanted to fight and there weren't guns they were just beating each other. So you could kind of watch the show. Would I have left that? No frickin' way. I don't hate anybody more than I hate Antifa and neo-Nazis. To me they're tens and tens right? The most hated most worthy of you know kind of condemnation of any group. If you can show me a picture of them beating each other with clubs I'm all in on that. I want to see that.

All right so anyway if you read the blog post and if you would be nice enough to tweet that around it's pinned to the top of my Twitter feed so you can find it easily.

All right. Mike Sorensen had an interesting tweet in which he was talking about how the stress in the world is worse than ever at the same time that the world is better than ever. The stress that people are feeling about the world is the worst at the same time the world has never been better. I mean not even close. We are at levels humanity has never never seen. This is the best the world has ever been by a pretty good measure right? And he pointed out that he was nice enough to point out that I had predicted that we were entering now, I called it the golden age, when all of the real problems were solved or on the way to being solved. The real problems being you know poverty, war, crime, you know the real problems. And that they would be replaced by psychological problems. In other words the way we were thinking about our world was getting worse at the same time the world itself was getting way better. And so we're seeing that start to develop. So Mike was nice enough to call that out as a prediction that looks like it's heading toward fruition.

Now apparently Trump is considering designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. And now the pushback to that is that the Muslim Brotherhood is not just one organization that's doing some bad stuff. There are people in the Muslim Brotherhood who were terrorists. That seems to be just a fact. Nobody's questioning except maybe the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't call themselves terrorists but as I understand it it's sort of an umbrella term and there are lots of people who say they are Muslim Brotherhood and especially in some countries where it just doesn't mean that. So there are people in other countries who are just innocent Muslim Brotherhood people who abhor violence. They're against violence. They're against terrorism but they still like being whatever you know that label. They like to be part of the Muslim Brotherhood for whatever the other benefits the organization presents.

And so the idea was that it would be bad to designate the organization as a terrorist group because it would have a bad effect on these people who really are on our side you know in the sense that they're peaceful and they don't want terrorism so they're marginally on our side. The same interests. To which I say that's our problem. If you can't tell me that if a nice person, I mean the Democrats have just finished telling us that if somebody who thinks they're a nice person marches with neo-Nazis well they're sort of neo-Nazis and I agree with that which is why that wasn't relevant in Charlottesville because nobody is making the case that they were actually marching with the neo-Nazis the people who were fine people.

But I think it must be said that if you identify yourself as a member of a group with known terrorists I don't think it matters that you personally are not in favor of terrorism does it? Because you can just change your membership. You can just say oh shoot now that you've designated them a terrorist group I denounce my membership. I'll join another group. I don't think we should see that as our problem. I think that we should very much encourage the good people who are nonviolent to maybe disavow the group. That's not asking a lot.

So without knowing the details of this it would be dangerous to have a strong opinion on this because I don't think any of us know all the nuance of the situation. But if the only problem is that there are a bunch of people that we really genuinely like and they're basically on our side but they call themselves Muslim Brotherhood for you know nonviolent reasons I think that's just something they need to work out. I don't think for a second that should influence what we do. Somebody else's decision to join a despicable group should not be determining our foreign national interests at all. Now I know I'm oversimplifying but just on that one point I have a pretty strong opinion but there may still be good reasons not to do it. I'm sure that'll get worked out in the conversations.

All right. Oh so I have a challenge question. I'm gonna ask this question as if I know the answer but I really don't because there might actually be an answer to this question that I can't imagine. So I'm going to open it up to the public and see if you can come up with an answer. President Trump has been blamed for or credited with racking up ten thousand lies. Ten thousand lies. Now I'm assuming that since he started office now I'm assuming that lie in this context is anything that doesn't pass the fact-checking and I'm assuming that ten thousand means repeating the same thing that they don't think is true more than once. So I think there would, it's not ten thousand individual lies I assume. I assume right? Check me on that. I think it's 10,000 things he said that they say aren't true but that would include a lot of repeats of the same thing tha