ed it.

And then what happens next when people realize that, oh it is kind of obvious that she didn't mean this literally? What do people do? Do they say, "Oh God I took that literally. You got me. I completely thought she meant that literally. But now that she's explained it was not literal and now Scott that you've explained that you took it that way the whole time and we'll see it in context. Yes, yes it's on me. Why did I ever take that literally? What was I thinking?" Did anybody do that? No, nobody did that. They all mocked me for not understanding that she must be serious. And then they start asking questions. Well if she didn't mean it why did other people repeat it? Because I guess Beto and other people started using that 12 year thing. Well I don't know why other people repeated it. It's probably a combination. Some probably believed it. Some were probably using it as hyperbole. Some maybe didn't care. They just thought it was a convenient thing to say.

And then she said the GOP is basically, this is AOC's tweet, GOP is basically Dwight from The Office. So who knows. Okay that was pretty good. All right because we all know Dwight from The Office and it's a pretty good tweet. So again I think AOC is a racist. I don't support her policies. But when she said the world is going to end in 12 years you should have interpreted that as we'd better get really, really serious in the next decade or so, super serious, or else we're in big trouble. If you interpreted it any other way that's sort of on you. But in our political world we'll make news out of it and turn this nothing into news.

All right this gets worse. If you hated that you're gonna really hate this. Yeah I expect to see my numbers just drop to zero on this next one. So there's reporting that what's-her-name, Representative, where did I put that? Okay, Representative Rashida Tlaib. I don't know how to pronounce it. So it was reported that she said that she feels a calming feeling when she thinks about the Holocaust. She has a calming feeling when she thinks about the Holocaust. Now given that she's pro-Islam, I don't know if that's the greatest way to describe her, but she has been accused of being anti-Israel. That's the accusation. I won't read her mind but that's the accusation against her.

Now do you think that she said that she has a calming feeling about the Holocaust because it makes her feel good? Do you think that's what she meant? That she intended to say it? Doesn't your smart part of your brain tell you maybe this is out of context? Nobody would say that in public. Don't you automatically see something wrong with it even before I tell you what's wrong with it? Don't you know this can't possibly be true? And of course it's not true because exactly like the fine people quote where the clarification was left out when he said I'm not talking about the racists, when this is reported they report the clarification but they bury it. So the headline will be she said this terrible thing which if you take a little bit out of context you just can't figure out how in the world this could mean anything except something terrible. Your imagination can't get you there. You hear it and you say okay even if I'm being charitable I can think of no way to interpret this other than the worst possible thing. That she somehow felt good about the Holocaust.

Well here's the rest of what she said without any prompting. All right so this is her statement with no prompting. The other thing she said was she talked about it being the Holocaust being tragedy, horrific persecution of Jews across the world, etc. So she says in direct language that the Holocaust was a tragedy and horrific persecution. So she's not soft-pedaling it. This is her own statement with no, nobody asked for a clarification. She was just continuing to talk. So is there any doubt about what she thinks about the Holocaust? I think that's very clear. It's a tragedy, right? And then she gives us some context and it's clear that what she meant was that, here's my interpretation, that the Holocaust was this horrible tragedy. Everybody agrees. She agrees. You agree. We're all on the same page. Nobody's questioning that. But when she remembers it she understands a time when the Palestinians, and it hurt in her telling of the story, I know this is not my telling of the story but in her telling of history the Palestinians and the Jews essentially worked together to find some way that the Jews could be safe with their own land. And she said well this was bad for the Palestinians but she feels some calmness that some good came out of it which is that the Jews were safe after the Holocaust.

Now that's how I interpret it. To me that's what