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Who Is America's Billy Wayne Ruddick and the 1% Math Bit
from The Middle Of The End · #109
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3 minTim and Ray discuss Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America, focusing on the Billy Wayne Ruddick character's interview with Bernie Sanders, and they play the clip of Ruddick's nonsensical math argument about moving everyone into the 1%.
- 1:07:00Tim brings up Billy Wayne Ruddick's Bernie Sanders interview as an example of how easily politicians fall for absurd premises.
- 1:07:32Bernie Sanders makes his standard pitch about the top 0.1% owning as much as the bottom 90%.
- 1:07:46Ruddick proposes moving the entire population into the 1% instead of complaining about wealth inequality.
- 1:07:56Bernie attempts to explain basic math—that if everyone is in the 1%, it no longer exists by definition.
- 1:08:20Ruddick insists it's simple math: if you have 1% and move the 9s around, you get 19%, then 100%.
- 1:08:31Ruddick cites the International Institute of Scientific Truth and Knowledge as proof his equality proposal works.
- 1:08:49Ruddick's final pitch: keep the 1% wealthy, but move the 99% into that same 1% category.
- 1:09:03Bernie admits he has no idea what Ruddick is talking about.