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the problems with the Trump administration and with President Trump in particular. Now in the old days, when you talked about a president who had problems, you would often see a photograph of that problem. For example, if you had a president that started a war with Iraq, let's say, you might see pictures of burning buildings and cars and dead people. Now that's a problem. A problem is something you can take a picture of.

But this president seems to have a lot of problems. They have one quality in particular. Have you noticed all of President Trump's flaws, his problems, his mistakes, the horrible things he's done have one quality in common? They're all invisible. Let me give you an example.

Number one, there's Russian collusion, which no matter how hard we look for it we can't seem to find it. Oh, we know it's there, but it's sort of invisible. And by saying when I say we know it's there, I mean his critics. And then there's of course the obstruction of justice, which is obstructing but maybe he didn't. Some stuff that probably didn't happen because we can't see it. So take a picture of some obstruction. What's it look like? There's nothing on the photograph.

How about all of his inner thoughts that we know are racist and misogynist and awful? Well, I can't get a picture of his inner thoughts. I'd like to have a photograph of that, but for some reason I can't get hard evidence that his inner thoughts are bad, because when we ask him what he's thinking he keeps saying good things that we like. It's only that we can imagine his inner thoughts that there's a problem there.

And you've got the various many, many financial crimes that he's committed, as far as we know. I mean we don't have any evidence. There's nothing we can look at. There's no document, no photograph, no witness. But I'm sure if only we had his taxes. Yes, yes, that's it. If only we had his taxes it would all come apart. But for now it's all kind of invisible. We can't see it.

Then there are things in the next category of Trump flaws: all the stuff that he hasn't done yet but you know he's gonna do, right? He hasn't done these things but we know he's that kind of guy who might do things. So you've got things in the future and you can't really get a photograph of the future. So that's unfortunate because all those bad things, would you like to know about them in the future?

Then they're looking at my list. Oh yes, then there's the category of things that we imagined he said that he didn't say, because we can't get a video or an audio of those things. So we don't have the physical evidence but we're sure we heard it. For example, we're sure we heard him call neo-Nazis fine people. But when we go to the video or the transcript it says the opposite. If you read the whole transcript, if you read only part of it, it does look like that. But if you read the whole transcript it isn't there.

So you have this other category of things that we're sure he said but we can't find the video of it, can't find the transcript. But here's my favorite one. So all of those things, I think you would agree that all those things you can't hold in your hand, you can't take a photograph of, can't find a document. But man, there must be a lot of stuff. It's just all invisible.

But here's my new favorite thing. He's changing the environmental restrictions on, I guess, a variety of different ways and that will create invisible pollutants that will kill people that we can't identify by name. Now let me say first of all it might be entirely true and if it is maybe we should, you know, maybe we should do something different. But is it a coincidence that all of the problems that this president is being accused of, they all have the same quality that they're invisible?

Sure, there might be more people dying in a statistical sense. But why is it that you can never get it? You can't get a name for the person who died who wouldn't have died otherwise. It's a statistical thing. I can't get a picture of it. You can't show me the driver's license of somebody who died because of it. You can't.

Now I'm not saying that CO2 and the pollutants that may be increased because of various relaxation of rules, I can't say that it's good to relax those rules. How the heck would I know? But the first thing I just think it's interesting that all of the president's flaws are invisible, including the ones that science supports. Even science says trust us, we can see this stuff because we're scientists. Yeah, we got models and we got statistics and we got microscopes and we've got machines and ways to measure things. We got chemistry. You can't see it. Sure you can't see it but trust us.

There are other people who can totally see the problem. But again I don't mean to make light of any. If there are problems with the environment I would say if it turned out there were real problems with the environment and real people who know how to measure this stuff say that there's more bad than good in it, well I'll listen to that argument. But at the moment it's hard to trust anybody.

So the press. This next thing is just as funny. So the president, as you know, famously was planning an attack on Iran in retaliation for the drone being taken out and then he changed his mind before the attack was executed. And then people said, well you know it's a good thing you did that because we didn't want to do something disproportionate. And now there are reports that the president authorized cyberattacks against the Iranian spy group that was associated with taking down the drone.

Now what's funny about that? Have you seen a picture of our cyberattack? Nope. You can't get a picture of a cyberattack. Have you seen interviews with the Iranians who were saying darn they attacked our stuff, our computers aren't working? No, I haven't seen that. Have you seen the documents that demonstrate there was a cyberattack? No.

So was there a cyberattack? Was there really a cyberattack? Maybe. But we've reache

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d, I'm not saying there wasn't, I'm just saying that now instead of all these invisible problems that the president has, there's this new category of invisible solutions. And one of these invisible solutions that apparently we may have done something like a cyberattack against a group that may or may not actually exist. And that cyberattack may or may not have actually changed so

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