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hen try something that's worked before. See if you can figure out what it was about that that worked and then duplicate it. But if you're not doing that, if you're not testing, you're not doing anything right. If the government, if our government can't tell us oh we've got three trials going on and we're testing various variables and seeing what works and what doesn't, if they're not telling you t…
← Previous segment →t know you're completely different than me and if you do it wrong it might not turn out well for you. Now in my case I have an actual legitimate, believe it or not, medical benefit and it's extreme in my case. The benefit is fairly extreme. So luckily it's an easy peasy thing.
And I don't do it as a party drug. I've never enjoyed it as something to do with friends you know except in college but it's not a party drug. It's something that has to do with you know your larger health situation. That said I will do, I think I should commit to this in 2020. I'll do a demo of how to do the basics so if your doctor says you know maybe this would work for whatever condition you have that you'll have a place to start that your doctor isn't gonna tell you because your doctor won't tell you how to do it. Your doctor will probably just say do it or don't.
I will give you this one piece of advice. Don't use edibles. Don't use edibles. Every bad story I've ever heard about marijuana was from edibles. Edibles you can't control how much you're getting or you can't know. And so that's the dangerous part. But if you're smoking it's almost impossible to smoke too much because you just feel it as it happens and you say well that's enough.
Now somebody says if Trump has super persuasion why did he lose the popular vote? Yeah that's a good question and let me answer it. So the question is if Trump is the best persuader in the history of the world which I claim how can he lose the popular vote? It means he did not persuade most people. And that's to do with the context.
So the question you're asking is if the best baseball player could hit a homerun and it would go along as a homerun 100 yards I have no idea why isn't why can't some people hit a ball 5 miles? And the answer is nobody can hit a ball 5 miles. So when you say why doesn't Trump convince you know the half of the country that is already sort of aligned with Republican stuff you know can he also persuade the people who were vehemently against all of that stuff? The answer is no. The best persuader in the world cannot persuade people who are that entrenched. That's not a thing.
So you shouldn't ask why he can't do it because it's not a doable thing right? It's not within the, it's not even on the sporting field. It's outside. It's a hundred miles down the road somewhere. So the summary of that is that the only persuasion that matters these days is persuading your own base to get up and do something and to think and act the way you want. So everybody's only persuading their persuadable. That's what the game is. There's no such thing as persuading the other team.
There's this thin slice of people who call themselves independents usually but even they are not real independents if you looked at their voting patterns. There's some segments of them. They say oh I'm independent I would vote for anybody but they always vote Republican and they will again. And same you know some that say yeah I'm totally independent but I always vote Democrat and I'm gonna do it again. So there really are not many people who even you know in play to be persuaded.
But if you've got a president who has a 95 percent support within his own party and you can see that he's changed every part of the political process. Think about how many things we think about differently and act differently because of this president. From North Korea to China to trade to the economy to ISIS to everything. I mean immigration. There's no topic that he hasn't changed or moved the needle on. Everything. He's just changed everything. He's changed how we see the media. He's changed well just everything.
So sometimes his influence is directed such as getting Republicans on the same page. Other times it's just his effect. He's a walking box shaker so everything around him is all getting shaken up even if he's not focusing on it because he just has that effect. So your question is actually an excellent one but it is not in play to persuade all the people on the other team. Best you can do is your own team. And if there's a strategic element to that meaning winning certain states in the electoral process Trump did it better. You won the ones that mattered.
And keep in mind that when you talk about losing the popular vote you're really talking about losing California. And he didn't really try for California. California has such a big population as does New York state that as long as those are solid blue
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Republicans have to win by getting fewer votes and just winning in the electoral process. Those are the things that I thought I want to. Somebody says Scott has made Dilbert toxic. Well thank you for coming all the way over here to scream that in all capital letters. So we'll delete you so you don't have to ever experience it again. It's funny that's exactly the kind of troll that, no that actual…
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