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t work together. Whatever it is that we're doing, you know this democracy capitalism, you know as much transparency as you can, it just doesn't fit with the "we'll get away with anything we can and we're gonna hide as much as we can." Those two systems don't work. Now if they were both the same system I don't know, would that work? Who knows. Maybe you would both be okay with it because you're bo…
← Previous segment →den that it made me think there was no organic enthusiasm. Did he pick up on that? It was like Obama sat down to write an essay and the topic he didn't care about. All right, please write an essay: the advantages of Joe Biden over the evil orange menace President Trump. And Obama sat down with a big old pencil and he's like, all right, oh he has character. It is not the type of fiber we need to be leadership in the country. Oh I'm not just talking about mayors. I can fill up this page. Not just talking about governors. Need to fill up the page. I'm not just talking about Congress. Okay that'll be odd to me if I do another sentence like that.
And I'm just listening to this thing and it looked like the most uninspired essay that was written by somebody who really didn't want to write the essay. And the best thing he could come up with is this guy's got a good personality. I swear to God. Yeah, damn my favorites. I swear to God the biggest advantage Joe Biden has as a Democratic candidate is that nobody dislikes him. Think about that.
Have you during this whole process — Joe Biden has been criticized and insulted and just every way, every accusation from corruption to senility, just everything. He's had every charge at him. But let me ask you this. To his credit have you heard even one person say that he's not a nice guy? Right? Even President Trump said in public the other day he's a really nice guy. And everybody who's on the other side can't even find anything that they don't like about him.
But I think the Democrats have mistaken Biden having no reason to dislike him with having the qualities to be president. Now one of the characteristics of human beings is we're always fighting the last war. You've heard that phrase, right? So and I think it was a Duval who was saying, I don't know if he quoted somebody or this was his own observation, that you are the result of your traumas. That who you are is mostly defined by the biggest problems you had and how you got past them.
And since the country, the Democrats specifically, have been undergoing this three and a half year trauma of being in a country in which their most hated nemesis President Trump is the president, you got to figure that they're gonna fight the war of the personality. It's the one that lost because they tried to beat him on personality and character and it didn't work. Yeah that's what the whole grab him by the whatever tape was about. Your character is bad. We can't have that character. So they're coming around again with the old character attack and it feels like Joe Biden was the antidote to the mental anguish of Trump.
I just hold this thought in your head for a moment and you'll see how profound it is or not. If you're thinking about Trump what is literally the opposite of him? It's Biden. Biden is almost the literal opposite of Trump. I believe that the Democrats wanted the most opposite person because they had such a high level of hatred for Trump and then whoever ran against him just had to be the most different. And when somebody like Mike Bloomberg gets on the stage, well it doesn't matter that Mike Bloomberg is considered highly capable and honest. I mean he was considered highly capable and honest. That should have been good enough, right?
And probably Mike Bloomberg said to himself, look if we're running against President Trump and I think I have all these billionaire credentials and I've been a mayor, I mean I've got the resume. Clearly I have the skills. I have the money. I'm a reasonable guy. I'm nice to people. I have all the right policies. Why wouldn't I win? And here's what I think he missed. I think he missed that he's a bi
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llionaire from New York and he's not different enough. He's just not different enough. It's not good enough that even if he thought Mike Bloomberg had more skill and was nicer it's just not different enough. And the most different person was Joe Biden. So you could take almost any of the other candidates. Amy Klobuchar, very capable, one of the top politicians, could still be the vice presidentia…
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