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bigger news or something, but I only saw it in one outlet. So this would be, if it's true, and that's a real big if in this story, I would say that it's another example that you have to become Trump to run against them. You have to become Trump to run against them. That's a problem. You basically have to adopt his policies after saying they were bad policies forever because once you're in the nati…
← Previous segment →s that would affect things like kidneys and heart, etc., and that people having kidney problems, it would be a weird virus that killed you with your kidneys. But Remdesivir according to RFK Jr. might have a side effect that would be sort of right on the nose for that side effect. So how bad is it?
Now isn't there also a rumor — maybe it's confirmed, you'll have to fact check this — was Anthony Fauci, did he have a financial interest in Remdesivir at the time of the pandemic? Financial interest, because I've read that he did, but I don't know that you can depend on any reporting on this domain. Yeah, I'm going to say I've seen reports of it, but I don't know that I would not personally resort that as fact. But maybe it's reported well. I'll just say it's reported that way. I'm going to stop short of saying fact because it's the sort of thing I'm not sure anybody knows. For example, would anybody know if he had sold the stock before the pandemic? Would we know that? I just worry that we don't know because it's not exactly public information.
All right, so again I'm going to call out the incredible benefit we're seeing from the campaign. Imagine if people have just said well it looks like it's going to be Biden versus Trump, you know we'll just live with it. But that's not what happened. Several candidates decided that they not only had a chance — Vivek has a real chance — but that they had something to say. Vivek is as much about what he's saying as the fact that he's running. He's saying stuff that is reorienting how you feel about stuff, how you think about it. He's reframing the hell out of us. He's really modifying and improving, I would say, the philosophical opinions on the right.
Because have I ever told you the good writing? I refer to it as saying what you were thinking but saying it better than you were thinking it. That's what Vivek does all day long. He says what you're already thinking, sort of, but you had not thought of it that well. And then when he puts it in a sentence you say that's it. That's the sentence I wish had been in my head. Now I've taught you in my book *Reframe Your Brain*, just out on Kindle, I've taught you that putting words in somebody's head is how you reprogram people. We think in terms of words. That's why the LLMs produce something that looks like intelligence, because our internal thought process depends on words and how they fit together. And we imagine that that's our thinking, but really it's just word patterns that we've seen before and what we've been exposed to.
So when Vivek puts a different word pattern into your head and he reframes a topic, you're being reprogrammed. He's actually upgrading your software. Because if you used to say whatever DeSantis said about a topic, then maybe you had sort of a corporate version of saying it. But if you replace that with a Vivek sentence, especially if you remember the actual sentence, you're reprogramming yourself to a higher level of argument. You know, you could debate better using Vivek's words than someone else's words. True story.
So you know Larry Elder is doing great things promoting his beliefs that the family unit has to be strengthened to fix just about everything. And you're seeing RFK Jr. just ripping the lid off of the lies from every part of society. Love that. Those are three candidates who are really making the difference no matter what happens. I don't think I could have more respect for those three candidates than I do. I mean I have maximum respect because they're doing the — I hate to say doing the work — they're doing productive things even if they don't win. And certainly a few of them don't expect to win.
So and I just want to say something about Larry Elder's take. You know the family unit and keeping the father there is important. I would agree with everything he says about that. But I would argue that maybe things have changed, and not just in how we financially reward people for not having a father, but I thin
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k we're in a situation where I don't think we can go back. So it's not that having a family unit doesn't produce better results. It seems to very clearly. But if you can't go back to it, in other words if we're on a one-way journey and you just can't go back because for whatever reason — and I don't think it's just financial — well I'm just going to say it. All right, I didn't want to say it but I…
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