Topics:
- President Trump hired an African American woman and trusted her too much
- CNN has less anti-Trump news items today…let’s review them
- China is effectively well managed, well run
- NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s inflammatory statement
- Suing pharmaceutical companies for the opioid epidemic
- Weed legalization discussion before midterms
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But a bump bump bump bump bump bump. Yes, I'm wearing an adult shirt yours he this often
coming to a little bit early today, I've got some stuff to do pretty soon. So this will be a short fifteen minute periscope
but if you ve got a beverage, I will join you for some water for the simultaneous I've already had my coffee, you, people sleeping in you, should wake up.
That's good. So, let's get to the news, so I tweeted yesterday that the
The anti drug media has spent a week,
criticising the president for
hiring an african american woman entrusting her too much. Now there
is different words for it
They say away this good. The irish people are Zebediah, hiring people what's up with that, but it can
I was down to he hired an african american woman and he trusted
for more than they should have that.
Really the story. Now you can put you can put.
Different words on it, but
I dont know that the public is reading this as the worst thing that this president never did.
In other news. I try to talk about the news
and then sometimes I become the news, so I tweeted
article on Fox NEWS online? That's about me
and it's about me talking about
Brennan and about President from saying that
Hey Russia, if you have those missing email pillars, email, let us have them
Now I said Breton: doesn't
as a joke when he sees it.
People come in and criticized before they could.
Besides me for not being an expert on the topic now
I've written
proximately,
in ten and eleven thousand jokes over the last three decades.
If you know somebody who is better in recognising a joke and there
Actually, in the business as I am
I'm open to I get a premium, but if there
one thing, I am actually good at its recognising a joke so that where was
funny? I also see that President Trump has cancelled the expensive military parade.
What did I say, was about
idea when I
pursuing this idea, I said to myself and expensive.
Military braid price,
only a bad idea, another calling it postponed because,
prices too high and if they can get the price down there be great.
But I don't know how much you can get the price down, because the fixes in another stuff to many fingers in the pies
I don't think we're going to see the military parade and I would be happy about that because it does seem like it would be. Just a critics paradise
if you spend a hundred dollars on it, if the entire brave caused a hundred dollars some credit,
I would say: well, there's a hundred dollars. It could have gone to veteran medical care and you know what that credit could be right, because the brave probably wouldn't help as much as giving a veteran a hundred dollars.
What else we get going on
notice that
the quality of the criticism on CNN against this president, one way down today, you know I always talk about
the top left of citizens website that were the important news is today.
There are no trump stories in the top left of sea. Then that's cool.
Let's see how long it takes us to find a Trump story where we ve
but the retired admiral who were saying
take away my security clearance. Next, he's a guess,
it was the admiral in charge of the Bin Laden project there together, and
Do what I say?
that guy is just another part. Is that right is just one more partisan. Do we care?
I assume that everybody in the military has
Opinion about this president, some like him some doubt
so here's one doesn't like him, a measure that has lose. I made because
it was said by somebody important, so it becomes news, but it really is.
Another versions of ending this. This one doesn't add anything to the conversation,
Who is it there's a headline? This is taking the shadow, Moroseness tapes.
I'm thinking that he may not be being kind. Amr, Rosa eyebrows and tough spot checks.
Marriage like a hundred percent of the world dislike her, but I think she can monetize that so as not all bad
The Vatican is broken. Its quote: silence on the abuse report.
You might be happy to hear this, but the the Pope has come.
Solidly on the side of the victims. I think some people suspected
spoke, my side with the abusers.
Was a really any question. What the
This opinion on this was gonna, be I'm
sure he's against child abuse. So let s
pope if he is in favour of or against war.
I think I do now
already knows answer in the future
it's a day to get back to me, I'm not gonna, call that the Pope's cure
silence about war,
The kind of already no worry is obvious
True pass regulators to consider getting rid of quarterly reports. I don't know about that. One who knows if that's good or bad
Then there's trump says he can
the military prayed over ridiculously high class
Remember this and CNN and
The worst thing that could come up with today is that the present,
cancel the military prayed because it was too expensive, which is
exactly what is critics
Would want him to do so:
it's hard to criticise it. He asked the question you gotta pricey, cancel that that's business Q predicted a prayed, be funny,
Then there's some reporter, whose detailing the marital strife in the Kelly.
I'm Conway House, here's my here's, my thoughts about detailing the political strife in somebody's personal life. What are you frickin given me? How dare you put this and I want to be one of those people, but how dare you? How dare you but seems to me that there's just craziness
it's crazy that we should where we should be listening to listen caring about it now. I also saw something in the news said that China.
Is not always something so people over to talk about trade, but
But they have toned down the rhetoric and
instead of saying that China, twenty
twenty five will be the dominant power in the world and will supplant the United States.
Apparently they have decided nationally to projector
little more humility and smart.
You're return. China does something I've ever noticed as Long
We ve been talking about China. There are plenty,
the times that we say to ourselves, man, China's do
something that we don't like, or I wish I knew, would do something differently
But does anybody ever say China made a bad decision for China.
China is really well managed they may given. If you look at the size of their their challenge that big country,
what they were trying to take your from end to end how well they ve done so far to China.
Really well wrong
I don't know how you could come to any other conclusion. Now
that doesn't mean they're doing stuff. We, like others here. The legal system
a more brutal.
We can handle these slave labor at last. I seek your love everything they do, but if you saying are they effectively managing something that really hard to manage kind of our
That doesn't mean we should let them walk all over us, but they're taking a new, smarter tact, which is their pro
they still trying to become the dominant power? Who wouldn't.
Why would they not try to do that? It will be silly for them not to try to be more important in the world.
But now talking differently and they're, getting a little
a flexible and there's word that there might be a lot of internal
Sent within China in the leadership, especially in the leadership especially and
they may be worried about these tariffs, so we might be working towards something productive here.
But what's the persuasion, Filter and China, will they supplant the? U S, there's dirty money
and predictable elements of something like that. So if you say
you know who's going to win in the long run, the? U dot S or China, the things you don't see coming or, let's say the creation of the next apple computer or the next Amazon.
Relax, Facebook, those things you narrowly predictable, weak wicked think
we're going to do more of that than they are so there.
There is good reason to believe will stay had, but they ve got know they've got size, so they got that go in for
let me see if there's anything else police.
Here's, the taser name, you seven year old woman, cutting down lines with a knife. Well that was sub optimal,
nobody is on the other side of the story.
And then the story about Democrats are weighing house leadership options. Talking about Nancy Policy.
Now, if CNN one of its biggest headlines and one of the ones as a picture is about Nancy Policy,
that's not exactly anti Trump visit. It feels like Syrians coverage. If I'm looking at today.
They may have taken China's example in and brought him here
What to the situation.
Did you see which Cuomo was? It was the first name of,
Governor Cuomo in New York, the care member Andrew.
Andrew Cuomo, so he said in his speech
America was never grades and,
Wouldn't be great until there was more equality, essentially
of course everybody said why why
Can you say America is not great
I applied my forty eight hour rule. Do you know the forty eight hour rule? Let me tell you, I invented this, I'm hoping that catches on
The idea is that if you say something provocative, they gets critics chattering. You ve got forty eight forty eight hours
clarify and the rule. Is that you take. You accept the clarification, not the original statement, and now some people say but wait a minute. The clarification is
because the critics pushed back. He really meant the other thing.
No mind. Reading no mind reading.
Maybe somebody meant the other thing
maybe under interior thoughts, there thinking things you don't like for you
here I have a society that is based on:
wishing other people
for what you think that
no way to organise a society. You can punish people for what they do
and what he did was clarified. The clarification stand,
I give him a full pass. Why? Because I want therefore pass for myself Sunday and I wonder for you someday. We should try this
see how far it gets us and by the way, there's some persuasive power.
Putting a label on something and giving it a name. Suicide simply talked about this concept.
And had not given a name, the forty eight hour rule
it wouldn't be nearly as persuasive. So if you talk about it, if you like it, if you want to mention that someone else call it the forty eight hour rule
Let's talk about opiates, so the president has apparently asked Jeff sessions to consider
pursuing the pharmaceutical suitable companies over obviate abuse, hello,
you see their common did not see their come
And I dont know if they ve gotta case, but
holy hell
ever seen anything that was more on the side of the people and against the corporations.
Who are they who are the anti far are the
the anti far the fascists in earth fascists, the ones who always side with the big corporations, and is
the head of our government, siding with corporations or asking the government to suit their asses for addicting the citizens
Well, we don't know where this is going yet, but it looks like that's about the least fascist
thing any government ever did. If you look into sue companies for irresponsibly addicting the masses, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say that that's looking,
Now, that's just one of the things that you could imagine is gonna happen between now and November people,
Don't ask me for a year. What do you think he's gonna happen in the mid terms?
I will try to give the same answer. At least this part of the same answer, which is
between now and November. So much is gonna happen
so much this the suing the pharmaceutical companies.
Is a real. In my mind, this is real game changer. Now, who knows how far it gets, but in turn
of setting the villain near the way ahead and the black add the villain and the bad guy. This is a
A clean contrast puts tromp right
the sight of I will put you in a business. If you keep doing us, I will put you out of here
and I don't think he's I don't think, he's bluffing. So that will be interesting
so they all seem to me was like those in the big stories I. Why is that the companies Walt Disney prescribers fault, I'm no expert on this topic, but I believe the people who are the experts can point to some specific rules and or things which the pharmaceutical companies have done, that make our current situation far more likely.
Yeah they pushed to the doctors for the doctors to push it there. Their science behind their own product may not be as good as we think so
they're probably are a number of avenues foregoing after the pharmaceutical companies. Now
The most productive one, I would think, is a modern science. Now agrees, no expert, but I think you can fact check this.
I believe modern science is now on the on the side of the opium. Lloyd's might be good in certain sectors.
Spot for long term pay management there. Actually worse,
Failure comments is Trump using. That is a hammer to get cooperation on health care. I think
between now and November. You
I see more coming from the administration on healthcare
or let me, let me put it in more start terms. If you don't see, the administration
doing something meaningful on healthcare
between now and the terms, I would say,
we criticise that because there are
things. They can do that. Don't require a wholesale changes that can at least
never on the edges, they could focus. For example, they my focus on technologies. I think this would be the best play
to focus on businesses and technologies and different systems that could get us to lower healthcare. I have to do is focused
you don't have to raise our taxes? You don't have to ask us to do anything, just put a little focus on those start. Ups,
and the ones that are working than the ones as something in the pipeline and say: hey,
If we did more of this,
we can really lower our cause legalizing Canada's. I think them. I wouldn't be surprised if he saw we get legalised before November. Would you would you be
prized if the administration got the federal government out of the weed business entirely before November wont. Let me say this also as starkly as I can: if they don't.
That would feel stupid. I dont know if there's any argument on the other side, you it's one of those few issues that the country is,
pretty much solidly on one side now you could still at the states, do what they're gonna do, but
whether the federal government should have
overlay of laws, in addition to what the states of agree to that very few people want that.
So to sit on that one past the mentors would just be terrible strategy. So if we don't will see something coming out from the administration before them in terms we'd, that would just be.
A serious this opportunity. I hope we also see something on prison reform. I hope we see something,
urban renewal? Those will be very impact for places to make a difference between the noun matter, especially
so if you can handle opium aids and weed and prison reform, do something about job training. That would be a heck of a strong way to go into them in terms,
Usa must build the wall to keep the heroin out.
I'm not on the side. This as the drug dealers will be much changed by walls
I'll bet. You know every little bit helps so if, if you could take down there,
I'd flow by ten percent or something
building a wall that would certainly be useful but
the drug dealers are a different economic model than the immigrants the immigrants might be stopped by a wall,
a drug dealer with billion.
Dollars. Backing is gonna tunnel under the wall, so
you're, not really stopping drug dealers when the wall but light
What will be the ones who ones were lazy? Why don't you like immigrants? I love immigrants, I'm pro immigrants, but like everything, I'm also pro water, but if I have too much
drought is James Woods, a master, persuade her not in the classic sense, he's persuasive in his own way, which immigrants.
I'm pro immigrants, but that doesn't mean we don't want to stop bad influences from coming into the country.
But there is no situation where our country care really survive without immigration, I think are: are just regular reproduction.
Levels will go to allow in the economy or the growing too fast.
So, some level of immigration is absolutely essential.
They said in my pro undocumented undocumented immigrants. I am pro undocumented immigrants meeting. I am pro the people and propane, but should they have the same rights
U S, citizens should they stay or not? We still have to have laws, so you can be pro undocumented immigrants and still think that under some situations they can stay in the country.
So you can be pro law and you can be pro people at the same time. You just have to find some balance where
the empathy and the law? You know maximum point
Nobody wants illegal anything nobody's in favour of illegal well, I am not in favour of illegal immigration, but I, like the people, tend to be in favour of the people.
Alright Manafort verdict this afternoon. I know it's pretty complicated case so we'll see I talked about the Manafort's saying out I gotta run. I got something going on and I'll talk to you later.
Transcript generated on 2020-04-02.