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y there's probably some groups that are all bad but we don't talk about them too much. So you know try to improve your game so that you can accept that people could be good at things and bad at other things. It's the thing. It really is. NBA got cancelled. All the rallies are canceled. Remember I told you yesterday that the president should have gone first because whoever goes first just looks l…
← Previous segment →rom Europe all the time it's never too late. It can't be too late if new virus is coming into the country and it's not already here in the same amount or worse. So using an analogy of a coffee is so non-rational, non-thinking craziness. Now what are the odds, I didn't look at his biography but what are the odds that Kumail Nanjiani who's an actor by profession, what are the odds that he also has a background in science or STEM or economics? Probably low. Yeah unless he just thought it was funny I suppose and he knew it wasn't logical but it was funny. Can't rule that out.
Here's another one. Another opinion and the funny part is who it comes from. So I'll tell you the opinion first and then I'll tell you who it comes from. Okay so that's the fun part. All right so this is from a tweet. It says we're weeks past the point when suspending travel from Europe could have even remotely been seen as a strong, major measure to prevent coronavirus spread. And then the tweet goes on, this is Steven Miller orchestrated xenophobic sleight of hand so that the real clever plan here is xenophobia. And the tweet goes on, we need solutions for the crisis we're facing at home right now. All right so this is somebody who thinks we're weeks past the point when suspending travel from Europe would have been seen as a strong measure. What I'm pretty sure everybody who was surprised by it last night thought it was a pretty strong measure. What would be a stronger measure than closing flight and closing travel from Europe which by the way a lot of Europeans are white just I'm just saying doesn't seem so racist. So this is one of the dumbest, if I'm being honest this is one of the dumbest lowest level of thinking and awareness I could ever see. You've got this ongoing flow of problems and the president stopped it before anybody even thought it was on the table and this guy says they should have happened sooner which is literally a chapter in my book Loserthink. If you look back a bit, shelf no maybe it's not there anymore. Oh there it is. It's this one. It's called Loserthink. You can't see it because of the light but there's actually a section in there where I'm talking about exactly this. All right we're talking about exactly the fact that you can always say that something should have been sooner. So that's actually a chapter in the book called Loserthink about bad ways of thinking is that no matter what you do and how good it is somebody's gonna say you should have done this sooner. Right because you could always do it sooner. There's no exception to you should have done it sooner in the real world. I mean hypothetically there could be you know in a technical sense but in the real world there's never an exception. Yep always could have done this sooner. So that's the dumbest complaint because it's just universally true.
So who is this guy who makes the dumbest point in public without knowing it's so dumb you should not say this sort of thing in public? What kind of job would this guy have in which he's so dumb? And so I checked his profile and he was the communication and strategy for campaigns and candidates and he was the former national press secretary for Kamala Harris. That's right. The guy who was part of the campaign that I had identified months ago as the worst, really the worst campaign I've ever seen. He was on that campaign and sure enough I had identified him as extra stupid from his tweet and then I looked to see where he works and I find that
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I had already identified that campaign as extra incompetent. Coincidence? I don't know. Yeah his name is Ian Sams. Nothing that matters. All right I think that's about what's going on. I don't know what's happening with this Kamala Harris thing. It's sort of weird because I feel like I'll say ABC and then I'll watch right in front of me and people will say Scott why are you saying XYZ and I'll s…
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