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probably thinks they are. Oh Quid Pro Joe. That's the best. And by the way I think Quid Pro Joe is another example that bubbled up from just a Twitter user. I don't know who it was but I think some Twitter user or somebody said it first and it was good so it bubbled up. That's your new republic right there. It's amazing. Chris Cillizza has the funniest article that wasn't trying to be funny toda…

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like a superpower for persuasion.

So he said if he had said I believe it and the public believes that that's politics. That's weak. But when you look at the camera and you say you know it and I know it that's persuasion. All right. When you tell somebody what they know that's a gold-plated A-plus persuasion if it's true or you have to actually have something they actually know to be true or it doesn't work anyway.

So I got some questions about you know what is the truth of all the Joe Biden stuff but we don't have to wonder about the Hunter Biden stuff. That part looks crooked on just on the surface. You don't have to dig into any details to know that there's something wrong going on there.

All right as I've said before it looks to me — oh and then there was something that somebody on Twitter asked when I tweeted that around. Somebody said is there evidence Ukraine didn't know the funds were delayed? That's interesting right? Because how can it be a quid pro quo phone call the president's phone call with Ukraine if as it's being reported the Ukrainians didn't know that their funding was being held up. They weren't even aware of it. So if you're not even aware of the threat part even existing how could you possibly receive the phone call as quid pro quo? And I thought good point. So I'm not sure any of the facts really matter because we'll make our decisions without them. I guess that's what's going on.

All right Biden has a history blah blah blah. Biden's son is not crooked but not good optics either. Well it depends on your definition of crooked. If crooked means illegal then I would agree the Hunter Biden has not done anything that I've heard of that's illegal besides yeah besides his personal life perhaps that's another story. But wouldn't you call it crooked? I mean I would call it crooked on premise. Is this a legal term? I heard something a lawyer say it was — I forget who said it but prima facie. Prima facie or something. The oddest surface is obviously crooked. You don't really need to dig any deeper. You just look at it and say okay well that's crooked. Seems that way to me but legal probably. Perfectly legal but still crooked.

There was an article in Reason.com talking about Narcan I think it's called. There's a drug that you can take if somebody has a fentanyl overdose and apparently it works really well. So if somebody overdoses on fentanyl or in there during the process of overdosing and they're gonna die if you give them this Narcan drug apparently it revives them and works really well and there are lots of success stories that people have done that. And I guess it's not available over the counter except by asking the pharmacist. So you have to ask for it at the counter.

Now imagine just here's the situation. There are drug addicts who are likely to have a problem with fentanyl. Remember they're drug addicts and in order to get the thing that could save their life they have to talk to the pharmacist in their town. Probably do you want to do that if you're a drug addict? Do you want to talk to the pharmacist about your drug addiction? Maybe not. Maybe not. So the idea is that maybe this Narcan could be available from vending machines and some method that would allow you to avoid human contact to get it because if you're a drug addict you might want to keep that to yourself right?

And I thought to myself that is so common sensical and apparently there's some law that prevents that from happening. Yeah cops have it for example. They carry it with them I think in many cases but not every case but many cases they have it with them. It seems to me that's another simple tweak. Like why in the world if you can simply ask for it and a pharmacist can give it to you you know it's that safe it's not a regulated thing apparently why not get it from a vending machine? You know why not get it from Amazon? Of course in that case your name would be on the record. You might not want that but a vending machine is perfectly anonymous right? Assuming you can use cash in it I guess.

All right so there are plenty of good ideas out there to fixing the world. Remember I told you that the Golden Age which we are entering will be defined by simply having to design better systems. What's a better system for pharmaceutica

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ls? Transparency. And we've got a bipartisan bill to give us that. That would be a better system. What's the better system for the Republic? The president gets ideas as they bubble up from the public. That's happening now. Our system has evolved on its own. Nobody did it intentionally but we evolved to a fairly good system where the public and their president are quite connected and they communica…

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