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t side – he's like the only person who seems to understand how incentives work. Have you noticed that? Now you could argue that with the UBI he's giving incentives wrong because hey why would you pay people to not work? But I think he's just ahead of the curve on that meaning that we're not going to have an option about paying people directly once the robots take the jobs. So it's not so much that…
← Previous segment →American, because the MAGA people, the Republicans were going hard at China the country and some of that might spill back onto Americans who have some kind of Chinese connection, Chinese background. Now he's not wrong that that's a risk but that too feels – somebody says be a freakin' man Scott. Well that's a block. If you had a point instead of saying be a freakin' man Scott I would listen to that point but if you have nothing but personal insults you are not welcome here. Goodbye.
So you're saying that basically the conservatives and the Republicans might be coming for the Chinese-Americans because they would get all whipped up about China the country and maybe some of that would spill over. I took that as a little bit racist because not against me but it was a little bit racist because it kind of assumed there was something about the group, presumably the mostly white Republican types who are Trump supporters, and that they were somehow a little extra dangerous to the group he would identify with. I feel like that's a little unfair. It's a little unfair. Now again Andrew Yang's not a racist. None of the Democrats are. Trump is not in their heads. They're not. But you can say and do things that people go and to me that was a little flag that I said mm that doesn't sound quite as open-minded as I would like.
So that's my little advice to Andrew Yang. He's you know I'm in favor of jokes and I'm in favor of being accurate and his description of the risk I think was accurate but it doesn't sound right. You know maybe word that a little bit differently
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somehow. Anyway the net of this is I think that was very productive. So thank you to Andrew Yang for being a leader in a similar way that President Trump is with his railing against political correctness. And of course the way Trump does it is completely different than the way Andrew Yang is doing it but they're doing the same thing. I mean Trump's message is let's not get caught up in the little…
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