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use and step back. And that when we go back, we will effectively have rebooted civilization along with our understanding of our place in it. It's exactly what I said like half an hour before, except I'd left out the Christianity part. Now the beauty of the simulation is that it works as an overlay on any religion. You can put it on reincarnation, works for that. You can put it on Islam. Any relig…

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ady? Because you would have a little better looking second choice, right? I mean, obviously Warren is super capable. I'm not talking about that. But in terms of her fit and whether she could win and all that, it's just an obvious losing proposition.

If that comes in, that will be my finest prediction. But we'll see.

The dumbest pundit. Does anybody have a nomination for the dumbest political pundit working today? I want to see your opinions. Now when you say dumbest or when I say dumbest, I don't mean that they lie the most. Because you're probably going to say, oh, you know, that's Jim Acosta. He's the dumbest one. A lot of people watching this would say that. But I don't have any evidence of that. You have evidence that he's a member of one side, but you don't know what he really thinks, right? Because a lot of people in the public eye say ridiculous things but you think to yourself, well they don't believe them. That's just their job. You say ridiculous things about the other side. You say your side is magic and awesome. So you don't really know that they're dumb. You just know that they've taken a side.

But there is one pundit that I gotta say, no matter what he's talking about, all he registers is stupid. Do you know who it is? Give me some of your guesses about a pundit

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who registers as actually just stupid, not just disagreeing with you. All right, I'll wait to see your answers. My nomination is Joe Lockhart. Joe Lockhart even looks like the dumbest guy on TV, doesn't he? All right, now I'm gonna be laughing because I'm looking at your choices now. Who would say Rachel Maddow? Now you could disagree with everything Rachel Maddow says, but how in the world do yo…

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