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- Bourgie, bourgie, bourgie.

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America, you and me have seen
some shit this last year.

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And, you know what,

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I mean that both
figuratively and literally.

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Back in May you ate too
much at Chili's one time

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and you looked in the bowl afterwards,

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and there's never been
an election like this.

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There's never been a reason to think

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there would ever be an election like this.

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Is this an election, or is this dancer?

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Or is this an elaborate
simulation that none of us opted

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into and have no way of getting out of?

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Is this the Matrix?

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Is this Tron?

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Is this Sword Art Online,

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but without the weird incesty stuff?

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Oh, wait, there's weird
incesty stuff, sorry.

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I forgot.

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Why is it the time that
everybody understands

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that establishment in politics
are the mechanism by which

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the status quo, which is
not beneficial for anyone

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but the richest of the
rich, is perpetuated,

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is the election where we're presented

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with a significantly worse alternative?

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You know what?

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All these Transformers movies have sucked.

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I'm not gonna go see another one.

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This is the last straw.

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Well, what movie do you wanna go see, man?

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You know what, imaginary Tommy Chong,

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let's go see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Four minutes into the film.

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Fuck!

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So, here we are, Teenage Mutant Ninja,

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I mean, the worst election ever.

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Now, I'm not gonna tell you
you have a moral obligation

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to do the same thing that
I'm doing, because you don't,

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but I'm also the one who gets to be very

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smug when everything goes to hell,

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which, by the way, will be
of very little consolation.

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Anyhoo.

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In this corner, we have the challenger.

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Donald

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Justice

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Trump!

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(gagging)

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And, in this corner, we
have the defending champion

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by virtue of being an
incumbent political party,

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Hillary

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Dennis Rodman

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Clinton!

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(gagging)

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Don't blame me for this, I
voted for Bernie Sanders.

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He had a fucking bird land on him.

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Also, he talked about policy all

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the time and had good ideas.

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But he had a bird land on him.

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Oh well, I guess hindsight is 2020.

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(intense rock music)

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But that's anti-establishment
with both a brain and a heart.

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We aren't dealing with that.

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We are dealing, however,
with Donald J. Trump.

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He started his campaign at
the top of an escalator,

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rode it down in perhaps the
worst executed symbolism

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of all time, and said that
Mexicans need to be walled out

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of the country because they're rapists.

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That was essentially the main takeaway

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of his announcement speech.

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Over the following year,
he managed to say something

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bad about pretty much every group,

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except for straight, white cis men.

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Donald Trump has done
and said so many shitty

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things over the last
year that I'm not even

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worried about trying to list them.

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I'm more worried about trying
to even remember all of them.

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It's a fool's errand and that
was part of the strategy.

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Be a dizzying force of shittiness.

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But in all honesty, those
things are symptomatic

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of what Donald Trump actually is.

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Donald Trump is totalitarian.

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He's riding around on his big boy dictator

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bicycle with training wheels on it.

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Did you just say fascism?

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Well, no, but I'm definitely gonna.

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So there's an absolute
load of people who support

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fascism that also support Donald Trump.

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And I didn't just say load to be obscene.

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I actually meant there's
just a lot of people.

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But you have a dirty mind
and you thought it anyway.

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I actually meant it that way.

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Whether they're KKK leaders
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be legal to discriminate
against some citizens,

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denying them rights, and
indeed not treating them

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like people, to actual
out fascists and dictators

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from convicted neo-Nazi
terrorist Don Black

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to Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin

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to even North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un

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whom, contrary to popular belief,

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Seth Rogen has not actually killed.

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There's a swath of actual
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that endorse Donald Trump,
but those are endorsements.

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What about Trump himself?

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Does he endorse Donald Trump?

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(laughs)

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I'm sorry, I couldn't resist that one.

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Well, he's not only praised Saddam Hussein

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who was in charge of gassing
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of his own citizens, he
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from Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini,

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he picked a neo-Nazi white
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he said the following on torture.

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- We're gonna have to get
much tougher as a country.

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We're gonna have to be a lot sharper

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and we're gonna have to do
things that are unthinkable.

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- And I quote, "Even if it doesn't work,

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"they probably deserved
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He thinks the Geneva
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and needs to be changed, and hell,

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let's just go all the way back to 1989,

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back when Donald Trump
bought full page ads

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in all the most prominent
New York newspapers

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in an attempt to get four Black kids,

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age 13 to 16 sentenced
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because he watched the tapes
of police coercing them

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into confessions and just thought, uh,

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I can take this at face value,

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in fact, I'm gonna take this at face value

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despite the fact that DNA evidence came

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out and exonerated all of them.

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All of them.

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The actual rapist was
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as a few weeks ago, Donald
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thinks these people are
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been sentenced the death penalty.

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That's not on evidence.

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That's just on suspicion.

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If you watch the tapes of
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confessing to these crimes,
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I have, they were clearly coerced.

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But you know what?

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They're Black kids.

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And not, like, middle class Black kids.

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They had tough lives.

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They didn't have the ability to fight back

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either monetarily or quote
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And although he had no
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Donald Trump saw an opportunity
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For a real estate developer
who needs a reputation

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to be constantly allowed to
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and have officials look the
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undocumented immigrants
for labor, well, it helps.

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Look at this upstanding
member of the community.

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Look how little he tolerates rape.

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It's terrible when our
white women get raped.

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Did I say white women?

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I just meant women.

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(laughs) There's no racial element here.

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Stop implying there is.

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Well, I'm so sorry white ass bourgie,

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but racism and fascism go hand in hand.

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And so does yelling about keeping

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people safe with law and order.

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Hmm, Donald Trump would
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people that he thinks did
something that he doesn't like.

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It doesn't matter if there's
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he deems them guilty and he
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Tell me that's not fascist.

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Go ahead.

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And while Donald Trump
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Hillary Clinton is the white ass bourgie.

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♫ Bourgie, bourgie, bourgie can't you see

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♫ You white assholes elect Hillary

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Yeah, I know that's a
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and I am actually white myself.

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But it wasn't wrong, was it?

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Neoliberal capitalism is
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market, not only to economic constructs,

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but social constructs as well.

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I did an entire very important documentary

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on the marketplace of ideas
and how it's very literally

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applying neoliberal capitalism
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on what ideas are valid and what aren't.

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Here's the problem with that.

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We don't live in a situation
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equally, and in order for
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to reach consensus that actually
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that would have to be the case.

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Framing the determination
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and ideology through a free
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at it as a monetary
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and gamifies social interaction
and it creates a currency.

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That currency is not validity.

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It's attention.

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We pay attention and we gotta stop.

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But let's put aside the fact
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means whatever gets most
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valid and assume that it actually works

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the way it purports itself to.

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Even a legitimately reached
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efficient means of social
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Just because we all agreed it was time

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to finally give gay
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that was the right time
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I'm thinking maybe it
should have happened before.

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You know, because gay
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who have human rights, are human.

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Other humans that had to
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Black people who were awarded personhood,

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which, yeah, that's not absurd,
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and then for another century had

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to fight for their own human rights.

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Despite a supposed conclusion to that,

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they are still required
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because consensus hasn't been reached.

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If we societally decide
this shit via a marketplace

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of ideas, consensus is
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whether it's reached
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fairway, or the way we actually reach it,

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which is whoever gets the most attention.

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There's no process,
there's no methodology.

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Just a big ol' aggregate of all opinions.

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When the middle finally
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these people ought to have rights,

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gee golly gosh, then they have rights.

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And there is no more powerful politician

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at the moment who more deeply believes

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in these ideals right
now than Hillary Clinton.

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To bring up gay rights once again,

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Hillary Clinton waited until
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long after consensus had been reached.

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In 2011, a consensus believed
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should be the law of the land,
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maintained in every single year following.

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She had to make sure that
consensus was gonna stick.

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And that's probably one of
the easiest ones to point out,

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but there's more than a few others.

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There's the Trans-Pacific Partnership,

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the Keystone XL Pipeline,

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whether or not the Simpsons
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OK, that's not up to her.

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Various environment issues,

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yada yada, goes on and on.

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The specifics don't matter
as much as the ideology,

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which is that framing
everything monetarily,

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despite the fact that it
shouldn't be, is fine.

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In fact, it's not just fine.

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It's how everything is
and should never change.

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I'm not going to tread on
anything that could be construed

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as even vaguely conspiratorial
about Hillary Clinton.

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I'm just going to say that on
a deep philosophical level,

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I completely disagree with
Hillary Clinton's ideology.

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It may reach some of the same
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For instance, I believe
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are massively important and women

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should always have the right to choose.

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And if I said that around Hillary Clinton,

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I would not get in an argument.

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And I'm not going to question
that ideological conviction.

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I am going to say that a
large portion of the time

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these conclusions are
reached because it's mutually

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beneficial for people
as well as corporations,

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or at least non-controversial
to corporate donors.

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Now, we could get into
pinkwashing and probably talk

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about abortion for a very long time,

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but Hillary Clinton has been pretty

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consistent on that issue at very least.

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And while her conclusion
on reproductive rights

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has remained pretty steadfast
throughout the years,

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the conclusions that she's come
to on various other topics,

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from healthcare to fracking
to marriage equality,

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maybe you get where I'm going with this,

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but they don't always stick.

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See the originally had a
public option Obamacare.

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And if your convictions depend
on a marketplace of ideas

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which does not discount anybody's opinion,

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it just enters it into an aggregate,

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which is done if working as stated,

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averaged out to create
a societal consensus,

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well, then the worst parts
of that enable people

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like Donald Trump who know
how to exploit a system

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that is based entirely
on who gets attention.

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Who gets attention
better than Donald Trump?

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No one.

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My center belief that
gives me so much beef with

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neoliberal capitalism is that
I don't think money should

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be what drives society and
I don't think you do either.

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So obviously the solution is
to vote third-party, right?

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Gary Johnson, Jill Stein,
they're both against that stuff.

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Wait, Gary Johnson wants
to defund public schools

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and completely disband
all entitlement programs

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entirely dissolving even the
idea of a social safety net.

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If you have no money, fuck you.

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It's your fault.

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Go die in an alley.

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But Jill Stein's a progressive, right?

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She wouldn't do that.

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Oh, right, the way she
says that vaccines are good

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is in the vaguest possible
way as to leave the door open

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for anti-vaccers, which most
likely make up the majority

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of the California voters
that put the Green Party

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on school boards in California,

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which by the way are the
vast majority of the hundred

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offices that the Green
Party holds nationwide.

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School boards in California.

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At least you know there would
be a Congress completely

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filled with Green Party
electees that would be.

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Oh wait, no wait,
actually, all the electees

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would just be in California
on school boards.

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It'd just be Republicans
and Democrats in Congress

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who would likely determine
as their best interest

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to undermine any third-party president.

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Not that I want anybody
who is even vaguely vague

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on vaccinations in the oval office.

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But hey man, a vote for the third-party's

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a vote against the system.

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♫ Dee do dee do dee dee do dee do dee dee

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♫ Dee do dee do do do dee do do dee do

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♫ Do do do do do do

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Well,

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no.

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Third-party votes are not
votes against the system.

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They are votes that the
system is designed to devalue.

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To get a presidency, a
candidate has to get 270

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votes in the electoral college.

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In a two-way split,
that's essentially getting

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the majority of votes,
except you can't really have

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a two-way split in a three party race.

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The first time a third-party
reaches a majority of votes

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in the United States is going
to be a three-way split.

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And the second time and the third time

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and the fourth time and
probably as many times

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as it takes to realize that
simply having the popular vote

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doesn't mean getting the third-party in.

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But in a three-way
split, most likely nobody

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will get to 270 electoral votes.

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The only way that could
happen is if the third-party

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gets more votes than
the other two combined

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and that's not going to happen.

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There are way too may
registered GOP and DNC voters.

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And since nobody's getting to 270,

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our Constitution says that
the House of Representatives

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votes on who becomes president.

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And do you think the
Republican controlled house

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is going to vote for Jill
Stein or Gary Johnson?

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Oh yeah, I'm sure they're gonna shake up

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the political binary
they both benefit from.

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The fact of the matter is
they have been given the right

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not to elect those people
by our founding fathers.

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Do you want to know what
I think needs to happen

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in order for a third-party
vote not to be a waste?

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Well, I'm saying it anyway.

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We need to abolish the Electoral College

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and there's numerous organizations

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out there dedicated specifically to this.

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But I don't think an
organization is the answer.

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I think a progressive political
party with a main agenda

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of abolishing the electoral
college and implementing

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a new voting system, like
instant-runoff voting

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or ranked voting, both
of which have been proven

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to create more democratic
results, needs to run

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and be elected to congressional
seats in large numbers.

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Large enough to start
pushing Electoral College

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abolition amendments to the Constitution,

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which doesn't necessarily mean a majority,

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just enough people to create
a mandate that members

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of the other political
parties also have to follow.

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To just ram somebody into the Oval Office

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would essentially require a large,

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impossible majority of people to give up

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the way things have been
done their entire lives

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and if you went with the
current third-parties,

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either vote for a party that wants to slip

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the social safety net out from under you,

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or a party of ant-vacs
parents in California.

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No, I kind of think we
need a new third-party,

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and let's face it, that's not gonna

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happen before November 8th.

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In fact, this binary is going to be valid

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for at least this presidential election.

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And if you're watching
this after the election,

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hey, wasn't I right?

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Didn't we elect one of them?

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Look, if you're that
emotionally attached to

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the Electoral College, I
might still have an idea.

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But it still involves
amending the Constitution,

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so you're not getting out of that.

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But we could index the total
number of necessary votes

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based on how many candidates are viable.

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Like, just say there's three candidates

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and they're all within striking distance

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of each other in the polls consistently.

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There's 538 total electoral votes.

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And in a binary, you need 270 to win.

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What if we set that majority at 185?

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I mean, it'd have to be
based on scientific polling

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that consistently put us in a situation

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where this was a likely popular vote.

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But I'd accept that.

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Certainly it's not perfect,
but still it's something.

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I haven't really heard
a whole lot of ideas

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as to how to do this if I'm
gonna be completely honest.

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Whenever anybody says we
need a third-party in,

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all they do is just tell people
to vote for a third-party.

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It's been designed not
to work like that, OK?

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We literally can't have
a third-party president

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until we amend the
Constitution to make a system

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that accommodates a third-party candidate.

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That's what I want to do, OK?

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So just to be crystal clear

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I'm not advocating against
third-party candidates.

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I'm actually advocating that we do that.

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But let me say something that isn't nice.

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It's a hard truth and it sucks.

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We're not going to be able to do that

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before the 2016 presidential election.

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No, our choice, if we could
really call it a choice,

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is between Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton.

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People have been telling me to vote

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my conscience since early 2015.

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And in 2016, I did.

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I voted for Bernie Sanders because

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I think he was the best candidate.

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I think he gave a shit
about regular people.

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And when I say regular people,

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I don't mean straight, white, cis dudes.

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There's one major party
candidate that in 2016

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is associated with the
nation's first major party

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transgender candidate for the U.S. Senate,

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and it's not Hillary Clinton.

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And we know it's not Donald Trump.

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But Bernie Sanders'
post-campaign organization

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called Our Revolution is
spending time and money

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to get Misty K. Snow elected
in Utah of all states.

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No, at this point I'm not
going to vote my conscience.

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I'm voting pragmatically.

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Sorry.

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Between an orange fascist in training

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and the literal symbol for
the economic and social system

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that hasn't just destroyed
this country's economy,

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but also our trust in people.

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It's not that it's made folks
greedy or selfish or awful.

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It's not that we chose to make every

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conversation we have into a job interview.

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It's that if you don't act that
way, you can't get anywhere.

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And I hate that.

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But I still picked the
neoliberal capitalist.

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And it's not because I think
she's gonna do a great job.

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It's not because I think she's
going to pull a Pope Francis

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and end up being a stealth progressive

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like Michael Moore seems
to think that she might.

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I don't entertain that.

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I'm voting for Hillary
Clinton for the same reason

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scammers want old people to
continue using Windows 95.

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Because the status quo is exploitable.

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Donald Trump proved that.

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Progressives need to realize that

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neoliberal capitalism is Windows 95.

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And where Trump was the scammer,

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progressives could be the
kid that comes in and says,

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"Grandma, holy shit, we
really need to upgrade this.

461
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"This is not safe.

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"Like, how is this still running?

463
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"Seriously, I'm looking at this.

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"How is this running?

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"Nothing should be working.

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"This is terrible.

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"No, don't worry, I got some time.

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"I'll upgrade it for you."

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But what Donald Trump will become if he

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is given power is not exploitable.

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You don't Donald Trump totalitarianism.

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Whoever's in power already did.

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I'm not gonna tell you how to vote.

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I'm tired of being told
how to vote myself.

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But I am gonna say that this system

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compensates for any action that isn't

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for either Donald Trump
or Hillary Clinton.

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No matter what you do,
you're helping one of them.

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But what this system is not
set up to compensate for,

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I believe, is the kind of
person that Donald Trump is.

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I don't think checks and balances

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are going to work with him.

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He's too good at getting people

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to do what he wants them to do.

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And Hillary Clinton is not.

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If you think Hillary Clinton's
ideology or methodology

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are dangerous or destructive
or just not correct,

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wouldn't you rather have
the person who had trouble

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beating Donald Trump, ineffectively trying

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to apply that ideology and methodology?

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If you're a progressive,
wouldn't you rather have an in

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because you won't have
an in with Donald Trump.

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Instead, you'll get the best wall,

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a huge wall, an amazing wall,

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a luxurious wall.

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I mean, I hope you like walls.

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He does.

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