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Nov. 2, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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When We Play Detective and Prosecutor

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There is this case, this thing called the double blind test.
Do you know why?
Do you know why that is?
Do you know why there is this procedure whereby those individuals who are trying to We do it inadvertently.
We do it sometimes unconsciously.
It's a natural thing.
I have been through.
In my life, professionally, both as a lawyer, prosecutor, cases, stories, historical events, news depictions, where I thought it said this, but it didn't.
Or, there was a popular version of this.
That was repeated.
That didn't happen.
You remember going through lyrics and songs of, excuse me, while I kissed this guy, was not said.
It was misunderstood.
We've heard folklore.
We've heard stories.
We've heard things that never, ever occurred.
There was no evidence of it ever.
But we keep repeating the event.
Keep repeating the event.
If you ever want to see something which has been an absolute, one of the most important lessons of my life, it is the movie by John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
And there is an expression in there.
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
We do things.
We say things.
I remember one time there was this thing that we used to say, this trope and tropism that Einstein never spoke and he was a terrible student and it just got better and better.
It wasn't even remotely the truth.
He was a brilliant student.
But the legend became fact.
And it happens all the time.
Whether it's history.
Tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
We think these things.
I remember one time, there was a story, and I do not know why, but a friend of mine who was a dentist said, well, you know, we do have this, or there is the fact that the highest rate of suicide in a profession is with dentists.
I said, you sure about that?
He said, I'm a dentist.
I said, I know you're a dentist, but where did you get there?
And we looked.
This is before the internet.
There was no such evidence of that.
But it was a trope.
It was a meme.
It was an idea.
That was said.
And as you try to review facts of a case, whether it was Paul Pelosi, whether it was anything, whether it was Tiger Woods' accident, or OJ, or Manson, Anything.
You have to be scrupulously in charge of the facts.
This is about epistemology.
Let me ask you a question.
How do you know what you know?
This isn't just about Pelosi.
This is about life in general.
How do you know what you know?
Why are you saying these things?
Is it anecdotal?
Is it...
As somebody who is plant-based, you have no idea.
What I go through and have gone through by people who are not only, they don't know what they're talking about, but are self-appointed experts in biochemistry, phytonutrients.
You have no idea.
We're going to be talking about that right now.
First, I want to say something very, very clear.
Number one.
January 14th.
I was saying the other day, wow, January, isn't that far off?
It's two months!
A little bit over two months.
I don't know where the year's gone.
I don't know where any of this has gone.
But I'm going to be at the cutting room.
And tickets are available here.
Let me explain to you what this is.
Very quickly.
Very quickly.
This is audience participation.
You ask me questions.
I ask you questions.
There's nothing like it.
Nobody does this.
Nobody would dare do this.
Nobody would dare do this.
You know what stand-up comics call it?
Heckling.
They don't want to talk to you.
They've got a set, with all due respect, it's like Broadway.
They don't want to talk to you in the middle of a show.
That's interruption.
It's rehearsed.
Stand-up comedy is rehearsed.
They might do the whole, you know, where are you from?
This isn't stand-up comedy.
This is you and me.
There's nobody else like it.
It doesn't happen.
So that's the part.
This is the cutting room.
The beautiful, famed cutting room.
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Join us and meet your fellow.
Friends, you're members of the family.
Tickets are available right now.
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The cutting room.
Also, there's a newsletter.
Hope you're signed up for that.
So that's January the 14th.
Okay?
That's number one.
Number two.
I just did, and I think I'm going to do it tomorrow here, one of the most, the most important Cases is what the Supreme Court did yesterday regarding the issue of affirmative action.
It is the biggest case!
Oh my God!
In the realm of juridical history, to have in one year Dobbs, and now this is with Roe, which we've talked about, and then with affirmative action, perhaps, maybe...
And again, this is an overstatement written by some.
Being supplanted or reversed?
This is just huge!
But it's not being talked about.
So I might do that tomorrow.
But on my private channel, my private channel, or I could go into far greater, shall I say, detail and depth in a way that I think is more, Amenable to,
I don't want to say a, certainly not a pedestrian, but where I can speak in a vernacular and in a style that is, well, anyway, that's there for you.
I go into great, great detail about why that case is important and how, from those of us who remember Bakke in 1979, this is so huge.
They had like this marathon session yesterday.
It was an oral argument.
It was the biggest story.
Clarence Thomas, who never said anything, he's on fire.
It's another world in terms of Supreme Court.
And nobody's talking about it.
We're talking about Paul Pelosi, which we'll discuss right now.
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Now let me start with something, first and foremost.
You must understand this.
As a prosecutor, as a lawyer, I have had cases before where I thought something and then they just dissolved.
And say, oh my god, I had no idea.
It seems so good!
And then something happens.
How do I explain this?
Witnesses find out, well, they don't exactly know what they said, or the stories change, and when the stories change, oh my God, you have no earthly idea.
There is nothing worse.
That's why depositions are so important.
As a prosecutor, we had a very liberal discovery process, and they were wonderful.
Oh my God, because oftentimes...
They were from the prosecutor's point of view because he didn't even talk to the cop.
He didn't even know his case.
They just handed him a file.
And you think, well, I don't know this.
I didn't know that.
Well, that's not what he told me.
Because when what clients tell you...
It's not that it's not true.
It's not going to be...
That's not the fact.
Or those aren't the facts that are coming out.
I'm going to give you two things.
The epistemology.
The epistemology.
The study of knowledge.
How do you know what you know?
It's the greatest question in the world.
How do you know what you know?
How do you know that?
Being from Florida, years ago, in the Tamil area, not Tampa Bay, but in the Tamil area, They used to say without hesitation, and they still do, that Tampa is the lightning capital of the world.
And they said this repeatedly.
This was before the internet.
The internet was very good.
And a lot of it is very, very true.
Tampa is the lightning capital of the world.
The lightning capital of the world.
Well, it turns out it's not even close to being the lightning capital.
I think Java is the lightning capital.
I mean, it's a lot, but not.
But they just say this.
How do you know what you know?
Always question it.
How do you know what you know?
Let me tell you what most of what you know is.
You ready for this?
It's what you heard somebody say.
And it becomes your fact.
How many times have you, you must have known this, you're in a family.
Your brother, your sister, your cousin, your mom, your dad, your grandparents will say something to you.
And they will have repeated a story that you know never happened.
But they repeat the story.
What they're repeating is not what happened, but they're repeating their version of the story that they keep repeating.
Are you following this?
They keep repeating the story that everybody has been saying since day one, whether it's George Washington's Wooden teeth to Abraham Lincoln this to Uncle Dave and the time the fruitcake he dropped at Aunt Phyllis' birthday and it never happened.
How do you know what you know?
Number one.
This is everything.
This is life.
This is religion.
This is faith.
This is everything.
Every single day.
I'm on the phone.
You have no idea.
From the time I get up all day long, I'm telling somebody, that's not true.
That's not true.
By the way, there is a word.
There is a word.
This is something I don't understand.
Maybe you can help me with this.
I hate to mispronounce words.
You have no idea.
It kills me.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
It kills me.
When Victor Davis Hanson says nuclear, my heart dies for this man.
Please, dear God, no.
Somebody get to him.
Please stop saying that.
Don't tell me that Jimmy Carter says it.
It's a cacoa bee, but it's...
Stop it.
On one particular show, on one particular program that's very, very famous, very, very popular, very, very, very, probably the most popular cable news show of them all, the host decided to refer to a word, stochastic, and called it stochastic.
I died in my heart!
Somebody call him!
And he even referred to the fact that it's a word nobody knew.
He referred to the fact that it's a word that nobody knew and mispronounced it.
Never looked it up!
Never looked it up!
Even though he's been using it in the context of a word that nobody uses.
If you're not sure, look it up.
How do you know what you know?
That's number one.
Number two, you love to hear Occam's Razor.
Oh, you love Occam's Razor.
You love Occam's Razor.
People talk about Occam's Razor all the time.
And I'm sure Ockham is probably pronounced differently, but that's what we call it, perhaps, through agreed-to mispronunciation.
Except the simplest explanation for something.
It's kind of a way of thinking, but there's another one, too, that I love.
I think it was Pennsylvania.
There was a doctor, a neurologist, I believe.
I'm not really sure.
But he said, when you hear hoof beats, think horse, not zebra.
Don't Think zebra.
Don't be exotic.
Don't go too far.
Don't.
My friend also from medical school said that when he was a student, he said he thought he had every disease other than pregnancy.
Because he said every single thing, everything in my gut, rashes and pain and, you know, blurred vision.
Oh my God, that's mean.
Well, don't go to the always, maybe a rash like Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Now, right now, what I am hearing, I have completely given up entirely on the Paul Pelosi story.
I have completely given up on the Paul Pelosi story.
May I tell you why?
Let me tell you why.
Number one.
Does anybody know what a week from today is?
Anybody?
Anybody watching?
We're doing this live, of course.
Later it is portrayed as a...
As a video.
Does anybody know specifically what is it?
What is it?
What is it?
Does anybody know what is it?
What is a week from today?
Any event?
Anything of note?
Anything that anybody can...
Oh, I don't know.
The other day, by the way, I went to...
I have my constitution here.
My prized constitution.
How I love this has been with me for...
It was given to me by a very dear friend.
And on the back...
I have all of my stickers.
And I have one here that says, I'm a future voter.
Can you see this?
I'm a future voter.
I love that one.
I don't know what that means.
Maybe I'm a child, perhaps.
But it's election day.
One week from today.
And I've got news for you.
Call me a bit daft, but I kind of would like to talk about the issues regarding, I think, this most important day.
That's me.
But other people don't, so I digress.
So I was doing some various interviews and shows and people had me on, and I am the worst guest there is regarding this.
Why?
Because I don't want to be wrong.
What do I know about the Paul Pelosi case?
Wouldn't I play detective?
Wouldn't I play prosecutor?
What do I know?
What do I know?
Every time somebody says something, the next day, either that particular fact or some other story will come and clarify, well, that's not true.
Well, that's not true.
That's been disputed.
Well, how do you know it was disputed?
I don't know, but it's been disputed.
Well, I don't believe the dispute.
Excuse me.
You deny this disputatious statement?
Who are you?
I don't believe that.
And it goes back to what I want to say.
Some people want there to be something.
They want...
Something to be.
They want the story to go in a particular way that suits them.
Either based on enmity or likability or whatever it is.
This is the problem.
This is why you can never ever represent yourself in traffic court or anything.
Because your frame of reference is not biased incorrectly.
It's biased because you see it in a way that nobody...
Plus nobody is going to want to listen to you.
If somebody else says it, sometimes it makes more sense.
People who represent themselves have a fool for a client.
Not really that you're a fool, but it's different than when somebody else says it.
Now, right now, we are still, again, going through this.
And I understand there is the prism of politics, and I recognize this fact, but as a prosecutor, as a former prosecutor, as a lawyer, I'm saying, what?
Are you ready to go before a jury with this one?
Go ahead.
Because there's nothing worse than your witness being impeached.
Excuse me.
Yes.
Did you, Mr. Somersault, did you state that when the police arrived at the Pelosi house that they were met by somebody other than Mr. DePape and Mr. Pelosi?
Is that what you said?
And you know your heart drops.
Are you saying that?
Are you saying that?
Is that your testimony?
Please, if it is.
And by the way, that's terrible cross-examination.
Don't do that.
Always cross-examine using leading questions.
Isn't it a fact you say today that when the police arrive, somebody else other than Mr. DePay and Mr. Pelosi enter the door?
Correct?
Isn't that true?
That's a leading question.
Yes.
Anything that answers.
Yes.
And the worst part is to stop.
And just wait.
And then maybe have somebody else say, I'm handing you what's been marked as a defense exhibit number one for identification.
What is this?
It's a book covered with stickers, yes, but open it up, please.
Oh, it's a police report.
It's a police report.
And who authored that?
I did.
How do you know that?
Sign my name right here.
May we publish this to the jury?
You're not supposed to do that, but sometimes it's always good if you slip that in.
Ooh, look at this.
Police report.
Wow.
And this is signed under oath, is it not?
And that says, don't you?
Yes.
And I'm referring you to this particular line right here, where it says on line 12, and Mr. Pelosi answered the door or so.
Yes.
Okay.
Was there anybody else there?
No.
Okay.
Let's assume that to be true.
Because there are people who say that was true, that there were two people.
My point is, you know what that's like when you're in court and you think, oh no.
And the jury looks at you like, well, what about that?
You told us this.
And then later on during summation, and do you remember when Mr. Marmaduke told you that the evidence would show?
Well, the evidence didn't show that.
He let you down.
He said it would show this, but three witnesses didn't know.
I didn't know that.
That's because you're listening to somebody.
That's because you're listening to somebody.
That's because there's so many good questions.
And unless and until I get everybody.
This is granted during time.
Bring everybody in.
Everybody.
Mr. DePay, Mr. Pelosi, police officers, anybody.
DePay's not going to testify.
What about his competence?
How does that work?
How about his competence?
Now, let's assume, you might ask yourself, whom would you love to represent?
If you could be a lawyer, who?
Want to be the prosecutor?
Remember, you're prosecuting Mr. DePape.
DePape.
Him?
Do you want to defend him?
I want to defend him.
I love that.
That's the most fun.
Everything else is easy.
Because what's interesting, Is everybody saying, he's crazy!
He what?
He's crazy!
You sure about that?
You sure you want that?
You sure about that?
Yeah.
Oh, he's crazy.
Okay, wow.
He's a nudist!
So they say, how do you know he was a nudist?
How do you know he was a nudist?
Or, how do you know that?
Well, his girlfriend says, excuse me, what?
What was that again?
Ah, objection hearsay.
What?
How do you know that?
How do you know what you know?
Well, the girlfriend told me, objection.
Is it hearsay?
Is it an out-of-court statement?
Yes.
Why do we hate out-of-court statements?
Because they're not under oath.
Plus, we don't have demeanor evidence.
We don't know how it was said.
It's an out-of-court statement.
And is it being offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted?
What?
The truth of the matter.
What are you talking about?
Why are you introducing it?
Why?
Do you care whether it's true?
I think so.
It could be hearsay.
Oh, we could go crazy with it.
Hearsay?
The whole case is hearsay.
Where did that come from?
How did we know this?
Well, the neighbor said...
Officer, when you arrived at the scene, did you notice anybody was a nudist?
No, I didn't.
No, I didn't know anything about that.
Okay, so where's that coming in?
Also, it's...
Oh my God, if this one's a trial, the motions in limine, we're not going to talk about that, we're not going to talk about that, we're not going to talk about this.
What is it?
We live in a home, we're not going to talk about that.
Well, he's from, he may or may not be from Canada, I'm not going to talk about that.
Let's talk about this.
And then this one.
This is my, this is my, this is the most interesting.
And let me see if I can explain this to you.
Let me see if I can tell you why this is the most important.
If he were to say, we'd like to go to trial, I have to go to trial.
I have to go to trial.
And by the way, this is a federal matter.
State?
Federal?
Whatever.
It's going to be interesting, the federal question there, but that's okay.
That's okay.
We want to call on the defense.
Whom would you have to call?
Mr. DePaype.
I'm saying it incorrectly, I'm sure, but that's kind of what it looks like to me.
That's what it seems like.
Do you want to call him?
Oh, yes.
Do you want to talk to him?
Yes.
Notice he also said, Pelosi's attacker could spend 50 years in prison on assault and kidnapping charges.
Very interesting.
Now, why is it interesting?
Assault?
Well, certainly there.
What about kidnapping?
Is there kidnapping?
When you think kidnapping, don't you normally think?
Well, when you take them someplace, right?
When you pick somebody up, you throw them in the back of a car, throw them in a trunk.
No.
It's also called false imprisonment.
When you can't leave, when you can't leave, that's really kidnapping.
It's the false imprisonment statute.
It's not necessarily what people think.
Remember, always read the statute.
Always read the charge.
But imagine this one.
We want to take the stand.
You want to what?
We want him to take the stand.
Wait a minute.
Are you...
Now we get into the notion of competence, legal, sanity.
This is one of those things, by the way.
There is a word that they use all the time, competence.
Did you ever watch a Perry Mason and they always say, Objection!
Incompetent, no.
Incompetent, no.
Irrelevant, no.
Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.
Wow!
Really?
All three?
Incompetent.
Well, witnesses are competent.
Witness competencies.
By the way, you know what you've got to be to be a competent witness?
Very simple.
Did you see, hear, smell, touch?
Were you there?
Did you observe or feel something experientially by virtue of your being there?
Did you?
Yes.
Can you say, yeah, I was there.
I smelled it.
It smelled like onions.
That's an exception to the opinion rule.
You can't give opinions.
I think he was going 80 miles an hour.
Can't, eh, objection is an opinion.
The only people who give opinions are who?
Expert witnesses, not lay testimony.
Except if it's a collective fact exception.
Smell like onions.
That's okay.
Smell like oranges.
That's okay.
It seemed like it was dark.
You know, okay, it's an opinion, what dark means, you know, that sort of thing.
But competence is you saw something, you recall it, You're able to communicate it, and you're under oath.
That's it.
And how much do you have to?
If I took a thermometer and said, well, how much did you have to see or smell or taste?
How much do you be able to remember?
How much?
How much can you be able to speak back?
How much?
It's any amount.
Once the judge says threshold competence, you're on the stand.
The jury gives it weight.
The jury says, that guy didn't see anything.
He can't even see.
Fine.
But you're competent.
Except for the oath part.
That part is.
Now, what's the minimum age for competence?
While we're on this subject, this is one of my favorites.
People will give you a number.
They'll never say, I don't know.
They always give you an answer.
Twelve?
They just give you an answer.
I don't know why.
They just give answers.
What's the minimum age to be a witness?
None.
None.
You could be a blastocyst.
If you saw something, remember something, you can communicate it.
If you were under oath, fine.
What if you don't want to swear unto God?
Fine.
You swear or affirm.
Do you put your hand on a Bible?
I've never seen a Bible yet.
No problem.
What about a kid?
Can a kid testify?
You betcha.
What's the standard?
Do they know what it means to tell the truth?
Tell the truth.
The best one ever.
I didn't see this, but we heard about this.
It was in a transcript.
A kid said one time, the judge said, Jimmy, do you know what a promise is?
He goes, yes, it's like glass.
We can't break it.
Oh!
Boom, you're in.
Kids give testimony all the time.
One time there was a kid as an expert witness for scuba diving.
He knew more about whatever it was.
He was an expert because he had a particular talent for this subject matter and the like.
So, competence is one thing.
Legals are different.
What do you put the paper on the stand?
And you're saying...
How about this question?
Do you know Mr. Pelosi?
Objection!
Wait a minute.
Isn't that relevant?
I think it's relevant.
Does it have the tendency in fact to prove or disprove the material issue?
Yes!
I think so.
So you're waiving legal competency?
Yeah!
I'm not saying...
He knew the difference between right and wrong.
He's not going to...
He's not going to...
Pass the McNaughton Rule?
Take the stand!
Oh!
You think they're going to be saying, can we talk about...
Maybe we should dismiss this.
No, no, no!
Tell us your story.
Why did you pick this house?
What happened?
We don't know.
So that's why the other day when I was doing a particular interview, the host of this particular enterprise was getting upset with me because I'm saying, I don't know!
Could be this.
I'm not sure.
I want to know about things like, what's the difference between a welfare call and a 911 call?
That was interesting to me.
To me, it's interesting.
What evidence is interesting?
Because they were saying, well, we don't necessarily have this.
There were reports in the news of somebody not having either the microphone or the camera.
And I heard, or someone suggested that maybe in a welfare check, That has a different public information standard as, let's say, a 911 call.
So that's worth pursuing.
I don't know the answer.
That needs to be researched.
That's another thing, too, is research, research.
What do I tell you all the time?
Read the statute.
Read the statute.
Read what it is.
No matter how many times you think you know what it is, read it.
Read it again.
What does that mean?
I don't know about that.
So this case is just...
It is fascinating.
However...
I wish we could talk about it next Wednesday.
Maybe after midterm elections.
I think that probably would behoove people, I think, on this particular time to perhaps maybe talk about this.
I can't speak to the timing.
It's very, very interesting.
It has a lot of this...
We're natural Columbo-type investigators and the like.
The case involving affirmative action for the Supreme Court is beyond fascinating.
Beyond fascinating.
I mean, you're seeing this one is so interesting.
So I think we're going to talk about that tomorrow, at least at this time.
Unless more of this comes about.
Let me stop right there.
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And my friends, I'm going to go back to something, and I'm telling you because I hope that our little visits are important, not just for the subject matter involved, but for life in general.
Remember, epistemology, how do you know what you know?
How do you know what you know?
This is something that I am telling you.
It is one of the most important, one of the most important, Lessons of life is to be able to know what it is that you know.
And this goes to, this has anything to do with family problems, romantic problems, problems with your kids, your neighbor, politics, medicine.
How do you know?
How does one know anything?
And not only that, this is the most important.
It's not just the internets.
A series of tubes, but it's everything.
And it's when somebody's bias, one way or the other, lends itself to a series of perceptions.
When you like somebody or don't like something.
When you want to see things from a viewpoint, from a frame of reference, that emboldens your belief system.
It's normal.
It's not a bad thing.
It is just normal.
And consequently, one can use the term that you speak of something from misinformation, disinformation, data information, lie, distortion, all of those words and phrases can be used.
But the thing that I want to do is, when I form an opinion, my opinion has to be based on what happened.
And I want you to say something.
I want you to be able to say something with a sense of pride.
I don't know.
Not because I don't understand, not because I'm stupid, but because there's not enough information.
Or they keep changing their mind every...
I keep thinking this is not important.
That's irrelevant.
Remember, relevancy, materiality, these are terms that mean a lot to me.
You can see this, and people are talking about stuff that doesn't matter.
That's not...
Germain is not critical to the issue that we're talking here.
So, consequently, I back off and say, you know what?
Let's wait a little bit.
And I can assure you, unless you're in a room at a grand jury hearing, unless you have all the witnesses, and you can cross-examine everybody there, the first officer, the first responder, the 911 operator to hear the tape, to hear the evidence, to hear...
Maybe Mr. DePape himself to find out what was said.
Who heard what?
What available?
Is there CCTV?
Was there anything that we can avail ourselves of?
And by the way, who has access to that?
If one were to subpoena those, do you have a citizen say, I don't want you to see this.
This is my personal...
This is my personal...
You know, recording.
Well, you have to as a matter of public record.
No, it's not.
Well, yes it is because now it's a criminal matter.
Yeah, but I'm the victim.
It doesn't matter.
You're not the victim.
Remember something.
In a criminal case, the victim is not the complaining witness.
The person who has been assaulted or burglarized, they are the complaining witness.
The victim in a criminal case is the state, the county.
The federal government, whoever is bringing the case, it's the United States of America versus David DePay.
It's the state of California versus, not Paul Pelosi versus David DePay.
That is a civil matter.
That's not the case here.
And most of the time when you talk about this, people, they have no, no understanding of it.
And I blame Very frankly, not only our collective education, but I think the legal profession has been woefully, woefully bereft, not bereft, negligent and derelict, I should say, in letting the people know this is your system that you're charged with knowing.
You have to know this.
Give me an example.
Yes or no?
Is it against the law to take a picture of your ballot?
If you go to vote, can you take out your phone, take a picture of your ballot with your stylus or your pen signing in the selection for your vote?
Is it?
Is that against the law?
Now, watch what happens.
If you ask a layman, they'll answer it.
They'll say, oh yeah, well it's your vote, it's your...
It's yours.
It's the truth.
Freedom of speech.
Yeah, it's legal.
They'll just say this.
I know better.
I don't know.
It depends.
It depends, of course, is the greatest answer.
I don't know.
Let me check the statute.
I have no idea.
In some states, it's against the law.
Some states, you can't bring in any kind of recording device.
Read it.
Even though when I went to our precinct, I see a police officer who's on his phone, you know, Playing games or whatever.
He has a recording device.
He's not recording anything, but he has a device.
It doesn't say, not to record, it says don't bring this in.
And everybody's got that.
So, because it's ignored, does that mean we waive it?
Don't know.
What does it say?
Other states have been absolutely clear.
You cannot take a picture.
And to post it?
To post it on public, on social media?
Here's my vote.
I don't know.
It depends.
Look it up.
Research this.
Don't answer the question.
Because remember, how do we start off today's suggestion?
How do you know what you know?
I don't know this.
Let me see.
Let me look this up.
I don't know.
I am constantly dictating into phone questions about this.
How do you spell this?
How do you pronounce this?
What's this?
Where's this?
I don't.
Because I hate not knowing the truth.
And when everybody is unsure about, well, some people say this, some people say that, be advised before one opines.
That's all.
Because you always must consider the epistemological question of life, how do you know?
What you know.
And don't forget, when your hoof beats, don't think zebra, think horse.
Don't jump.
Don't imagine something that may or not be evidence of such.
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New York is cooking.
It is.
It is.
We were out last night.
Kids were in the street.
I've got to tell you, some people, I think, take unnecessary glee in trying to present this dour statement of what New York is like.
Who don't even live here?
It's not.
I'm telling you.
It's like any city.
Be careful.
But it is alive, it is cooking, and people are happening.
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