The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q Now I think we're about to hit a moment where the country's gonna pay a trillion dollars a year or more just in the interest payment on debt, which is, I think, close to a fifth of all U.S. government spending. So, can you talk about this, this brand new consensus, I think, that is emerging in the business world about why all this deficit spending might not be wise?

A Well, first thing I'm going to say is buy Bitcoin. That's the first thing I'm going to say. And a lot of people that really analyze and study this understand why. But the second thing I'm, the second thing I'm going to say to you is that, um, this is a fixable thing. But we have a disease now in the system, and the disease is one born from complacency. And so, I, I want to articulate this for your listeners that can understand it, because if they're actionable, they can help fix it. And so, what basically happened is Ross Perot ran for office in 1992. He won 19.9% of the vote. Bill Clinton became the president, but they, he scared the living daylights out of the two parties. So the two parties got together and created this bone-crushing duopoly. They strengthened themselves in a way that has prevented for 33 years a third party to come on the scene to try to liquidate the extremists of the two parties. And so what ended up happening is they allowed each other to gerrymander, They gave each other breaks on each other's situations. The fat tails of the extremists of the two parties started to run things, and now they've stayed in perpetual power. So Chuck Grassley, I think he was like George Washington's great-grandfather, maybe. He's like, 900 years old. He's in the Congress, so he'll be there for another hundred years, I guess. Uh, uh, Nancy Pelosi's 85. Uh, Schumer's 75. Trump…

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