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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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And while that's happening right now, exactly right now, not even in the same month but the same day, that's happening. Joe Lockhart is saying that President Trump should be removed from office. And that when he's puzzled the newspapers aren't calling for it. Are you kidding me? Today of all days, this would be the day the newspapers would call for Trump to be removed? After he's been basically cleared of all Russia collusion stuff? That's when you want to remove him from office? After he's been cleared of all charges and you know that the other side was running a coup? This is the craziest, dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. It's I don't even know how to react to it. It's almost just entertaining. I mean that's what it feels like.
Does anybody have any questions they want to ask me? I did oversleep a little bit today and the news is boring today. It's all just repeat news. So repeat news.
What if I told you people who don't agree with your view, evidence or not, will avoid your content? People who don't agree with me will avoid my content? Well that's how it works. Yeah, I know somebody's mentioning Don Lemon a lot as being the dumbest pundit. First of all, I would call him a host, not a pundit. But I have no reason to believe that Don Lemon is dumb. What we see is taking a team side, but we don't see dumbness. I mean he's had pretty high-level jobs that he does well. I doubt he's dumb.
How do you say Sink's last name? Iger? I don't think he's dumb either. I don't see anything that would suggest that any of these people are dumb. Or Mika. Mika's not dumb, are you kidding me? Did you see her interview with Biden? It was very sharp, I thought.
Well enough of that. Does anybody have any questions that you would like to ask me? Because I feel as if the news is hitting sort of a rut. It just feels like the news is going to be the same every day for a while. We shouldn't have opened up. Look at the number of deaths and it's worse than the flu. Here's our death count. I just feel like it's gonna be the same thing for a while.
Let's see who we've got questions from. I think Flip. Let's see if you have a question, Flip. Do you have a question for me?
People who think in binaries, because it's either all or nothing. It's we want grandma to die or I mean and I feel like you can't even have a conversation with the average person because it's so polarized.
Well I do find that just pointing out what you just pointed out usually works in person. So if you're actually having a real conversation with somebody who's thinking in a binary, the high ground maneuver as I call it is to take th
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e adult position. Because if you say to them, well you know it's not either or. It could be somewhere in between. Could be a little bit of this. Most people will agree with you that it's somewhere in between. They will immediately go to the adult position because it's embarrassing to stay at the kids' table when you've already moved to the adult table and said something as adult as, well you know…
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