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a hilarious shortstop and then the others just sort of play to him it's the best show in the world. How much would you like watching a baseball game where most of the time you're just waiting for something to happen even if you love baseball? Let's admit it you're waiting for stuff to happen. But while you're waiting you're hearing the funniest shortstop in the world just ripping apart the other…
← Previous segment →old Trump did some more crazy stuff because he's so impulsive and he can't control himself, right? And then their ratings go up and everybody has a good time. So it's like everybody wins. You know the reason that wrestling and sports and all that work is that everybody gets a chance to win. Maybe your team loses today but you know you're gonna win later so you win too.
Anyway I thought Trump's show was maybe the finest ever just for like a one out of one moment. What's his best? I'm gonna say let's talk about the fake controversy of whether Trump is trying to be a dictator and overrule the governors despite the constitutional limitations. And the press tried to bait Trump back into that conversation and he wisely decided that he just didn't want to have that conversation. He doesn't need to. He doesn't have to answer it. Here's why. There's no real question about what would happen in the real world.
So talking to the governors and talking to, well what would you do in this situation and what if this and who is really in charge? Are you in charge? You say you're in charge but are you in charge? Maybe you should talk to him. Maybe you should fight it. Now maybe we got a little fight going. That's all artificial because neither the governors nor the president have any question in their mind how this will play out. There's no question. There's no ambiguity whatsoever among the governors and the president. When you say because here's how it's going to work out. Whatever is the smartest thing that's what they'll agree to do.
Because remember the visibility on this is extraordinary. Everything that every governor decides, everything the president does, the task force does, we've got 325 million eyes looking at it. So if there is such a thing as a good plan and let's say a governor brings it to the president, he doesn't have to bring it to the president but let's just say they publicize their plans and let's say the president says oh that one's a problem. What's going to happen? Well the president isn't going to send the FBI and kill them. The president's going to call them and say look this could be a big problem why are you doing this? They'll talk it out. The president might use some pressure by saying look you know the federal government's giving you a lot of help. You got to give us a little. So we'll give you a little. Might be a little pressure.
In the end how's it going to work out? Well in the end the state will give something that's pretty close to what they wanted. The president might influence a little bit and that's what you would want. It's exactly the way you would want it to go. So as long as we're all watching nobody's gonna do something crazy that the public and the observers would say why are you doing that? We're watching. We're watching you do that. Don't do that. There's just too many people watching. So I don't think there's any risk whatsoever that there's any problem between the governors and the federal government. And Trump when it comes right down to it, you know when the phone call is made, when the legislation has to be, when the check has
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to be written, it's not going to be a problem. And you've already seen them all work together well enough that I think you believe that. Let's see. So here's a real sign of something. So in the news AOC and Senator Schumer got together and they're calling on FEMA to supply funeral funding to families who have lost loved ones to the virus. And they say quote "disaster funeral assistance would help…
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