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ion will be horrible. It just won't be fun at all." Because most of the things that they want to say about the president don't work if he's running against Biden. Here are things that don't work. Hey we shouldn't have an old white guy as president. Well that doesn't work. Hey we can't have somebody who long ago said something that you know 32 years ago sounds terrible to our ears in 2019. Well tha…

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to its smallest level and then reconstitute and it becomes a perfectly new, good new product. So there's a new kind of plastic that could change forever the plastic that's floating in the ocean. It could change forever how much oil we need to use to turn into plastic. It could be at the molecular level yes. So it's something you can reconstitute at the molecular level. Thank you for those that work. Anyway who knows if that will be a big deal or not but when you see that kind of development you have to say to yourself, there we have a very resourceful world and maybe plastic is another one of those things we just solved or is on its way to being solved.

All right let's see. We have to talk about Alyssa Milano's sex strike. I told you that I gave Alyssa Milano an A++ for persuasion and getting our attention with the so-called sex strike. The idea is that she was suggesting that women stop having sex with their boyfriends and husbands until women have control of their bodies, meaning the abortion debate. And of course she's getting pushback even from her own side. So this is another example of how the Democrats are eating themselves. So even feminists are saying, "Alyssa Milano the way you frame this it's as if you're saying that sex is something that women give to men like a gift instead of saying we both like sex" which would be the more modern interpretation.

And I don't really have much opinion about the pushback of this. I think that I would say that Alyssa Milano is probably more woke than the people who were criticizing her for being under woke. And I think that you can't tell. When I say that she's more woke I think that she's beyond the old stereotype of sex is something that women give to men. I think she's beyond that to the scientific level. And at the scientific level men really like sex. They'll do a lot to get it.

So people are trying to treat Alyssa Milano as though she's somehow taking this backwards. It's like oh it's like the old days when it was like the thing that women have to offer is just making babies and giving you sex. You're taking this back to the past, Alyssa Milano. Now I'm no fan of her politics but I am a fan of her political activism because I think she's sincere. She is putting the work in. I always respect it when people work hard no matter what it is. And she's getting attention for a cause. Those are all very effective things. So you can disagree with her all you want but it's hard to disagree with the effectiveness of it. She got our attention anyway.

So my point is that I think Alyssa Milano was taking a scientific point of view in a more modern view than her critics. And the more modern view is yes obviously women have more to offer than just sex. We should already be past that question. But it's also true men really like sex and they'll do a lot to get it. So this might work from a political standpoint. It's not crazy. It's funny. It's funny but it's not crazy.

Somebody says LMFAO you tried to say she's smart. Now that's funny. Well I have not offered an opinion on her intelligence. I have said that she is working hard. I've said that she's sincere. Neither of those have anything to do with intelligence. And that the effect of what she's done is that we're talking about it. That's just the fact. We're talking about her. She's in the news. She's a headline. She got attention. None of those have anything to do with intelligence. I'm just saying that what she did was all what she wanted to do. If somebody says I'm going to do X and then right in front of you they work hard and they accomplish X, why can't we just say so? She's trying t

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o do X. It looks like she's succeeding at that. That's the beginning and the end of the story. I just don't think it's helpful to just automatically hate everything about the people that are on the other side. Yeah you can say they're doing some good stuff. You just don't like the other stuff. It's okay. You can do that. The book, there was a book I was recommending yesterday called Invisible Inf…

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