Pearl - October 16, 2026


“People Are Getting DUMBER… And Even Political Commentators Are FED UP” @NickJFuentes @JustPearlyThi

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Candace Owens Charlie Kirk Nick
Women Who Think They're Too Pretty to Be Rejected! “DEMOCRACY Is BROKEN？! The Case for a RADICAL Political Reset” @NickJFuentes @JustPearlyThings

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

179.56

Word count

390

Sentence count

39

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I don't like my job anymore. Really? No. Yeah. Why, Nick? Because people are getting really dumb
00:00:06.380 now. And I'm not trying to be like edgy when I say that, but I really feel it's noticeable 0.98
00:00:12.600 that the quality of the conversation is seriously declined. And I don't know what that is. I don't
00:00:17.480 know if it's that more people are participating. So the quality is going down, you know, because
00:00:23.260 it's like the average is getting lower. I don't know if it's because people are getting dumber 0.98
00:00:27.600 because of short-form video content and AI and attention span of suffering, 0.83
00:00:31.880 or if it's because of this, like, mass psychosis.
00:00:35.120 And now that everybody's red-pilled,
00:00:37.100 there's no legitimacy in terms of where people get their information.
00:00:41.460 In the old days, it's like there was a floor for maybe, like, what people would believe.
00:00:48.580 But now people believe in, like, flat earth and really out-there stuff.
00:00:53.600 It's like the basics people can't even agree on.
00:00:56.460 And so there's just so much ignorance now. And people don't even care. Like, they don't care about logic. They don't care about rationality. They don't care about facts. So lately, it feels like I'm just screaming into the void.
00:01:10.460 Right. Like people don't care about arguments. People don't care about facts. And, and especially in the age of Candace Owens in particular, people are willing to believe anything. She was talking about at the beginning of this year that Charlie Kirk was a, a psychic saying that when he passed under streetlight, the lights would flicker because he had this like electromagnetic field around him and he could astral project to different places. And people were eating this up.
00:01:38.800 And if you were to say like, yeah, I don't think he was like a psychic.
00:01:42.720 I don't think he was an alien.
00:01:43.860 He wasn't astral projecting.
00:01:45.160 People say, oh, you're like an Israeli shill and blah, blah.
00:01:48.400 So it's become very sad.
00:01:50.040 The only thing I still like about my job is that I still love politics.
00:01:55.420 So I got into this because I love politics.
00:01:57.900 I love the subject matter.
00:01:59.180 And there's always more to learn.
00:02:00.640 It's still interesting to me.
00:02:02.600 But it's getting less rewarding because it seems like people don't have the same appetite
00:02:07.480 for the truth like they used to.
00:02:10.040 So.