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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 i…
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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 actually that looked like a sincere person who's just probably elderly and yells in all caps. But the ones who just come in with the insult and leave I think they're gone. That one actually looked like a real person who was just a Democrat who didn't like Trump I think. That's all it was.
Do I favor eliminating the electoral college? You know I always talk about fairness and how fairness is an illusion meaning that it's completely subjective. What is fair to you is not fair to me. The thing with the electoral college is that there's no place to get to fair. Fair doesn't exist. You could get to this solution or this solution but half of the people would say it's not fair because the people who thought it worked against them whatever the change was would say well that's not fair. And other people would say well what's more fair than a popular vote? And then other people would say well there's a reason there's an electoral college.
So there is no objective standard by which to say fair. And so therefore it's more of a power play. So when you're talking about the electoral college versus the popular vote where that ends up will be wherever the power pushes it. It won't be because it's fair or it's simpler. It won't be any of those things. And right now the weight of power is that it's hard to change things. You know I think you need a two-thirds majority or something to change the Constitution or two thirds of the states. Whatever the process is it's hard. So that's why you don't get a lot of constitutional changes.
So I don't think you'll see one because it's too hard
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and half the country likes it just the way it is because it went that way. Yeah the founders wanted a balance of the states versus federal. Yeah the reasons are all good but I don't know that anybody cares about the reasons. It's just whether it's good for their team. I'm just looking at some of your comments. Somebody says that must watch the thousands of your Periscopes. Well you know if they'r…
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