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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…

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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 say well no I just said ABC and I reject XYZ and then within five seconds somebody will say but why do you love XYZ and I'll say I don't. I know what's happening. What's happening to my view on Kamala Harris is that she's likely to be the vice president. I don't think she is my first choice for anything but there you have it. She's got some sub skills and she's got lots of issues that she needs to improve. Well why can't I say that? What's wrong with that?

Let me say so I'm seeing somebody in the comments use, I think it was James Woods who tried to nickname Kamala Harris as Heels Up because she has some history of a relationship with Willie Brown, politician in California, that helped her career. Both Willie Brown and she admit that's true. And for me that's the end of the story. You know once all the people who are involved said yeah that's kind of true, that's true, aren't we done? I mean once you get people to say yeah that's totally true, yeah my relationship, yeah that helped, they helped my campaign, aren't we done? What else is there to say about that? Blaming people for things that they acknowledge is a true statement of fact should be the end of the story. Should be the end of the conversation.

I think I'm gonna start blocking people who say this guy has a crush on AOC. That's, I saw that go by in the comments. I'll give you one day of amnesty okay but after today you will be blocked for dumbness for accusing me of being in love with some female politician just because they're part of the conversation. Okay we can be a little better than that. So we'll just block you going forward.

Bitcoin just fell off the cliff this morning right? But that you have to check it every five minutes. Good lord. Holy hell the stock market's really taking a dump huh? Bitcoin is down to, I'm sorry it's not down to seven. I'm looking at a fund so that has a different pricing but it's down 19 percent today. So it looks like it's down to a new low. Twitter down 9 percent. Amazon down 4 percent. Well now all that I would refer you back to Naval's comment. This is no time for panic selling but it looks like a lot of people are doing panic selling. Somebody's testing me by saying Scott has a crush on AOC and your test was successful. You got blocked. You love her. A lot of people want to get blocked. And why did I, somebody says you said you'd never mention the racist AOC but that was a lie. Did I ever say that? If I did I didn't mean it.

Did you see Pence's presser? I did not. Dow's down. Yeah you know I just don't want to worry about the stock market honestly because it's gonna do what it's gonna do and your share of stuff will be the same.

All right slaughter meter. Well the slaughter meter is in a state of flux right now. You know if the election were held today it would be a total slaughter and the president would win gigantically. But there's so much happening with the coronavirus and you know this is going to be a frothy year. Whatever problems we have we're gonna have new ones in the summer. It's just that kind of year. So nothing is predictable anymore. But if the election were held today President Trump would win in a slaughter.

Somebody says hope you took your money out. I don't do that. So market timing is not something I do. So if you're doing market timing good luck. Some of you win some of you will get wiped out. It's just not my thing. Somebody says you need to go to my interface. That one huh? But profile. Yeah blocker's gonna block.

All right we're just looking at your comments. You know if you don't follow Mark Snyder on Twitter you really should because there's all kinds of stuff happening in the nuclear energy field and you could argue it's the biggest news in the world that doesn't get covered because what could be more important to the future of civilization? What could be more important than developing these new miniature nuclear power plants? And you know we've got free, safe, clean energy that solves any risks that you might imagine from climate change and etc. It's like the biggest story and almost every day there's a new story about something got funded, something's going into a test site, the government approved something. There's a ton of stuff happening in the nuclear energy field but I think all of it is in the getting ready for stuff you know kind of domain so that when stuff starts getting online it's gonna happen really quickly. So in other words there's a point where you're not going to see anything tangible but there's just a ton of activity and that's what we're in right now for nuclear power. But you're not gonna see the plants for I don't know maybe in five years people will start showing you pictures of the nearly completed plant and stuff but it's gonna happen quickly when it happens. It's just not happening yet.

One of the weird things about this economy is that not everybody is going to be affected. There will be businesses that just do better. I've been trying to game it out in my head like what's likely to happen because we've never seen a situation where everybody's stopped traveling for three months. All right like I don't think we've seen that situation. So we're all just guessing what happens now. One thing that happens is a bunch of people save their money. So for everybody who loses a paycheck and I hope we can figure out something to do about that because that's a pretty big problem, a real big problem. But for everybody who loses a paycheck, for every small business that loses customers and there will be a lot of them, I feel as though there may be an equal number of people who still get their paycheck just like always even if their employer is not doing so well. You know they're not losing money yet so let's look at their paycheck and they won't be spending as much. So you have this weird situation where there's a whole bunch of people who are just by luck were not affected. They get the paycheck and they don't spend as much so they're building up their little savings account. All the other people are suffering.

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y things, you know let's say when things go back to normal, what happens with the people who have extra money? Do they spend it extra fast or does it become part of their permanent savings? If the people who actually gained money during this, and I might be one of them by the way so I'm a perfect example. As far as I know at least in the short run my income will be roughly the same because you kno…

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