Episode 1213 Scott Adams： Biden's Coronavirus Plan, Swalwell's Chinese Spy, Pelosi Still a Steaming Pile of Feces
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about how to get people to do something they don't want to do by telling them what they would like to do, and how to make them do it anyway. I also talk about the dangers of drones, and why we need them.
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well there it was the best part of your day what uh would you like to hear a little persuasion
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trick i'm gonna give you one i like to leave you with at least one little nugget every day
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some tiny little thing that you didn't know before or or reinforce something you did know
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and here's one so every day when i do the uh simultaneous sip i tell you that it's the best
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part of your day now what do you think that does for most of you let's say 80 you say to yourself oh
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that's just something he says it's not it's sort of a branding thing doesn't have any real value but i
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can tell you as a trained hypnotist and a skilled persuader that approximately 20 percent of the
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people listening to this minimum it could be a lot more but a minimum of 20 percent
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will actually take that suggestion and it will become true how many of you would already admit
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that this is your favorite favorite part of the day now if you don't think that simply telling
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somebody how to feel or how they will feel works then you haven't studied persuasion 80 of the
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time it doesn't work but if you're dealing with a big crowd you can simply say this is the best time
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of the day and if you say it often enough and you repeat it and you mean it because it is the best
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part of the day for me it actually becomes true so repetition simplicity and the fact that a big
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crowd will always have 20 that can be persuaded of anything makes it very powerful now here's the
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trick there there's there's an important trick to this it had to be something that you wanted to do
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anyway so if i had been trying to convince 20 of the public to do something they didn't want to do
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it was unpleasant in some way well i'm not going to have that much luck i'd have to be an amazing
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persuader and have lots of time and really working on it to move anything but getting people to do
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something that they would enjoy is actually pretty easy so if i told you to you know eat a cookie
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20 of you would say i'm kind of hungry for a cookie i was thinking about a cookie just five minutes
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ago i would happily eat a cookie and 80 would say i don't want a cookie so those are your uh that's
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your persuasion tip for the day simply tell people what to feel and it'll work just not everybody
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uh there's a suicide drone now so-called suicide drone uh which the military can launch uh like a
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rocket and apparently it its wings flap out after it gets launched and that it will sort of fly over
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its target and the military can see it on their ipad and they can see that the target is below it
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and it's now at a point where the military can just point to the ipad and circle the target and the drone
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goes and dive bombs and explodes and it's a suicide thing now if you're saying to yourself isn't that
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kind of like what we've always had we we've had for a long time the ability to have a drone just
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destroy something we've had for a long time yeah cruise missiles basically it would just be a little
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cruise missile but here's what i think is different and something we'll have to look out for
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uh i don't believe it's purely kinetic i believe the suicide drone actually does explode but here's
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what's different it doesn't need to be controlled its entire path which is the really scary part
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and this is part i predicted in my book uh the religion war back in i don't know 2003 or whatever it
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was and i predicted that as soon as drones could be operated not by an operator but simply by a gps
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coordinate that we're in big trouble and the time the moment that a terrorist anywhere in the city
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can just toss a uh you know toss a drone in the air and just take out their ipad and go boop
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and that and that drone will find its way there and you know weave through the buildings because
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maybe it's got some some sensors on it ah what do you do about that what do you do about that
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we'll figure it out but it's a good uh good challenge or a big challenge um yesterday i tried out some
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new software called streamyard so streamyard allows you to just use your browser to have a guest in a
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in a podcast but what's different about it is it can broadcast to both periscope and youtube so i
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tried that out yesterday with author joel pollock he's got a new book out and uh look in my feed for
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that so the book is uh about our elections whether they were fair and free so it's joel pollock it got
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a hundred and i think it's nearly 180 000 views just on periscope which is uh gigantic numbers so i'm
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wondering um thank you some people are saying they enjoyed it i'm wondering if i should do more
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interviews because that one did spectacular it it don't performed anything i've done by myself
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so i think i'll experiment with that maybe do a few more interviews i'll probably do them not in the
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morning hour but i might do them at a different time and then they'll become permanent so all right
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i'll do that elon musk is moving to texas moving down to california moving to texas
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um i don't have much to say about that except it looks like texas is winning
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and california is losing and honestly the only thing that doesn't the only reason i haven't already
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moved to texas is you know you get a certain amount of uh roots and other other things so it makes it
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hard to move but all things being equal i would leave tomorrow i believe i believe california is
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just not the place to be anymore i don't know what texas thinks about legalizing marijuana so that
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would be a problem too for me so that might might keep me away um keely mackinney tweeted i think
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yesterday that uh and i believe this was part of their uh lawsuit that i think has already been
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rejected by the supreme court we'll talk about that but there was a part of it where some calculations
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were done and here's how she explained it so this she's paraphrasing from some statistician who
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looked at the election and claimed this the chances of biden winning pennsylvania michigan georgia
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wisconsin uh independently after uh trump had an early lead is less than one in a quadrillion
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one in a quadrillion so the odds that the election was free and fair i'm using joel's term but he doesn't
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use it so much in the fraud sense uh when joel's talking about fraud uh whether the election is free
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and fair he's talking about everything from the social media influence to the bullying to the fake
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news etc um but the odds that it wasn't fixed like literally just rigged according to one expert is
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one in a quadrillion now do you believe that do you believe any statistician who says the odds of
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something are one in a quadrillion i don't i think i think this is easily exaggerated by at least a hundred
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percent so if we're being fair i think the odds that the election was stolen is not one in a quadrillion
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maybe one and a half a quadrillion tops that's as high as i'm gonna go because i'm not gonna buy into
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this hyperbole one in a quadrillion if it's over one and a half quadrillion i will eat my hat seriously
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i feel like they exaggerated that it can't be more than one and a half one and a half a half a
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quadrillion maximum one and of a quarter quadrillion is the most it could be okay i'll go one in a
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billion that's that's as low as i'm gonna go one in a billion chance that the election was not rigged
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all right one in a million i'll go i'll go one in a million because i don't like hyperbole
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so i'll i'll reduce that all the way to there's a one in a million chance it was perfectly good
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election now i'll say one in a thousand one in a thousand because you know it's just so easy to
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exaggerate online and uh i feel that's you know maybe a little exaggeration so one in a thousand
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there's a one in a thousand chance that we got a real election so you got to feel pretty good about
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that a lot of you were thinking i don't think there's any chance that this election was rigged
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no there is a chance statistician has shown you with all the math and stuff that there is a chance this
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so as i have been foreshadowing now for weeks and you didn't like it one bit and i was telling you
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the following the supreme court won't care about the law when they decide on any of these election
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things that's right if you didn't know this was going to happen it might have surprised you
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because the pennsylvania lawsuit about the pennsylvania rules changes that didn't follow their
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own process etc was kind of a slam dunk on the law right the law was as clear as it could be it was
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the wrong entity that made a change clear as day here here's what the constitution of the state said
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could happen and then here's what happened and it wasn't according to the constitution
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so it'd be pretty easy right for the supreme court to say oh here's your rule here's what
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you did it doesn't didn't follow the rule boom but as i told you the supreme court doesn't care
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about the law they care about the law most of the time but when it comes to a situation where
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the larger objective is to keep society together and i don't object to that being a valid thing that
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they do all right that's why it's humans that's why it's our most trusted uh unbiased to the point
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you know as much as you can be unbiased the reason that we put so much importance in the supreme court
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is so they can do this all right it's not just so they can tell you what the law is and interpret it
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it's also this this is really important they are the most i would say probably the most trusted
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institution maybe the military but that doesn't count for this um and they needed to do the thing
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that would help unify the country and hold us together and they decided to hold us together as
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not a republic so a republic would be you know you know what that is there's the will of the people
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and there's voting and transparency and all that but they did the supreme court decided it was more
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important to you know to uh avoid social trouble than it was to be technically accurate and and perfect
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in on these legal stuff so if you didn't see that coming i'm sorry but you should have been able to
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see that coming from a mile away they were just going to ignore it and they and they uh decided to not
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even entertain the uh the pennsylvania lawsuit so the cnn is reporting it's over it's over there is no
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there's no doubt about it now you've got president-elect biden now unlike many of you i congratulate
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him the first day that the press had a consensus in which they said he's the president-elect um which
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does so in terms of tradition i decided to call him president-elect too because of tradition but uh i did
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think there was still some reasonable possibility that it would get overthrown now i will say that the odds
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of historians being positive it was a rigged election are close to 100 percent pretty close
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to 100 percent i don't think there's really any serious possibility that five or ten years from now
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you'll be reading about this election and everybody will say you know despite all of those claims
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all this time has gone by and it looked like it was a pretty solid good election you're not going to
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find that out you're going to find out that uh it was it was fixed i think you'll find out at the same
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time that they've all been fixed but you can't fix them as accurately as you want to so i think trump
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slipped through last time i think that's all it was my guess is that that's all it was now i was
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watching uh robert barnes and uh uh people's pundit talking about what evidence there is of fraud
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and uh barnes uh who does a great job of communicating on all this stuff by the way he probably is your best
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voice for something that's real without the hyperbole so i would recommend him uh barnes b-a-r-n-e-s so
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uh one of his points is that the strongest evidence of fraud is the the way it's always been detected
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so there is a way that historically we've looked for fraud and when you see these signals historically
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it means it's there and do we have those signals now and the answer is according to the people who
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looked into it which would not include me yes the signals are unambiguous and the signals are this
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uh and i'll see if i can explain it as as well as as uh barnes did but uh the signal is that if you
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have two areas uh let's say within a state that are kindred in terms of their politics let's say
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they're all republicans or they're all democrats there and they're kindred in terms of their uh demo
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demographics so the the mix of of ethnicities and ages or whatever are kind of similar and you've
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got two of them sitting next to each other or within the same state and let's say one of them
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has an election turnout of i don't know 65 percent whatever is sort of ordinary or good and the other
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one has a turnout of 85 percent that's fraud now could it be could it be that statistical aberrations
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happen all the time and it was just a weird year and 85 percent of this one group literally voted
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very unusual but they just had a big turnout is that possible sure totally possible if there were
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only one of them what would be your conclusion it's sketchy but there's only one of them
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and statistics do cluster for just coincidental reasons so it could be just a coincidence but
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what if there are a whole bunch of them where you've got kindred places where there's just a
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massive difference in the turnout well then you've discovered fraud you haven't discovered it in a
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way you could necessarily prove it in court that's a different thing but you would know it's there
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so apparently that's the the strongest bit of evidence right now and uh there's also i'm seeing
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some reports that in georgia there were over 60 000 underage people who voted how in the world could
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that claim be out there without us in 24 hours knowing if it's debunked because that's pretty
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specific isn't it if somebody makes a claim that 60 000 whatever people too young to vote voted that
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means they have the names you know they have the list how hard would it be for the media to say all
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right we're just gonna spot check some names spot check 20 names and if you spot check 20 names and
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indeed they're all real people and they're all underage and they shouldn't have voted well then you're
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gonna have something right but it's been a day and i think that claim has been out there for a while
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have you seen it debunked and or confirmed the the we're we're at a point where there can be these
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amazingly sensational claims that just sort of get ignored either because i guess the news knows it's
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bs or they don't care i don't know why but that's a really big story right now there were other
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categories of uh illegal votes that are alleged but that one is so big that you just need to check
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that one you don't need to check dead people you don't need to check people who moved down the state
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just check that one thing because it's such a big number if if you pick 20 things on people on that
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list and they really were underage voters and you picked them somewhat randomly i feel like we're done
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here right i mean in terms of understanding that the election was stolen but not done in terms of
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it changing the result i don't see anything changing the result yeah and as somebody's uh prompting me in
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the comments we don't really have a media that does that sort of thing anymore so you know maybe there
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could be a model where you just crowdfund somebody to do it you just say all right uh if we reach if
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we get five thousand dollars or whatever the number is in the crowdfund uh i as a reporter will take this
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list from the person who produced it and i'll call some of these people and i'll check 20 names
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would you put ten dollars into that i would i would because i want to know i want to know if that
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60 000 thing is real or a bs and i want to know pretty quickly right i want somebody to check that
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for me and i don't want to know that at the end of today nobody checked that by the end of today
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that would be the biggest news in the world if it were true so do you think that the mainstream news
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will ignore what could be the biggest news in the world that there were 67 000 fake names
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or fake votes i think they're just going to ignore it that's my guess i feel like it'll just
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sort of not be in the news and nobody will double check it and it'll just stop being a thing
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all right um apparently uh ali alexander caused caused some trouble on social media as as he uh sometimes
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does with this quote in a tweet i am willing to give my life for this fight talking about the
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stop the steal movement and arizona republicans then followed up i guess they have their own twitter
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account by quoting it and saying he is are you and then critics said whoa whoa are you advocating violence
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and if you say you're willing to give your life for the fight that doesn't say you're willing to kill
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somebody that's sort of the opposite of indicating violence it's indicating that if violence happens to
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you or there's a risk of violence it's not going to stop you from doing what you need to do but
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there's no indication that uh that ali alexander is saying that you should be violent he's just saying
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that if he has to sacrifice he will he will sacrifice whatever it takes so of course fake news
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um so here's a tweet that got the most retweets i think i've ever had including ones that the president
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has retweeted so that's how much people agree with the following thought and the thought was this
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that i tweeted trump got impeached for allegedly withholding ukraine aid for political reasons
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nancy pelosi withheld coronavirus aid from americans for political reasons
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so she tried to impeach trump for allegedly withholding aid from ukraine
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in the process of trying to get something done get some research about biden's work there to try to
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get some work done that would have been good for the president's uh re-election but also would have
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been good for the united states because as a citizen of the united states i very much
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wanted to know if there was any biden problem in the ukraine so if the president was willing to
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look into that it was good for his re-election but it was also good for the country that's the way
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it's supposed to work you want your president doing things that are good for his re-election
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wait for it because it's fucking good for the country that's how you get re-elected i don't know if
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you knew that but one of the ways you get re-elected is doing things that are good for your re-election
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that have this additional quality they're good for the country you know like helping the economy
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creating peace in the middle east i think that president trump should be impeached there's very
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little time left but i think we should do it he should be impeached for trying to get peace in the
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middle east because the real reason he's doing it is not because he cares about people right because
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the democrats have told us that he doesn't care about people he's trying to get re-elected that's
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the whole motive doesn't care about peace just trying to get re-elected and i think he should be
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impeached for that take the economy and that's just one example trump has tried to make the economy in
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this country strong imagine that selfish narcissistic bastard who's trying to make the economy in the
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country wrong why for re-election selfish re-election that's the only reason he wants to make the economy
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good and make everybody happy he doesn't care about your happiness no he just wants to get re-elected
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and i think he should be impeached for that anybody who tries to do something for this country
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that's also good for re-election you have to stop that shit you don't want people doing stuff that's
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good for the country just because they think it's going to get them votes what kind of a fucking system
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is that working for votes so naturally nancy pelosi biggest pile of stinking shit in america
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she decided that she would try to impeach the president for doing the job of the president
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that just happens to be good for the president too so she never saw the irony that she is now doing
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exactly the same fucking thing uh and yes you know mitch mcconnell is part of the process of negotiating
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to blah blah blah but even bernie sanders threw her under the bus on this even bernie sanders said
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yeah that was a mistake you shouldn't have held out you should have taken the deal there was a bigger
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deal that was offered earlier and she did it and she admitted it in public that it was a political move
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so if she is withholding aid from suffering americans for naked political reasons
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how do we not impeach her despicable bony ass this is the worst thing i've seen in america
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it's the worst thing i've seen in america now let me say for sure i've seen people make mistakes
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so if you're going to say scott scott scott you know the president did whatever and it killed all
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these people in coronavirus i would say that may or may not be a mistake meaning that it was either
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preventable or it wasn't based on what the leadership did that's hard to know but at worst
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it wasn't fucking intentional there was no point where the president of the united states said
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i think i'll just fuck this whole country i think i'll just kill a hundred thousand two hundred thousand
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people for what to get re-elected because it would be it wouldn't hurt the economy so maybe he'd get
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re-elected the president never fucking intended anybody to die and i don't think he's too happy
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about it pelosi intended to fuck the country or at least the people who are not getting a direct
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payment and desperately need it she deliberately and in public and right in front of your fucking face
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screwed the the the most vulnerable people in this country for naked political reasons and then
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fucking told you right to your face fucking told you right to your face i've never seen anything worse
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than this have you honestly can you think of anything worse now even if you say something like well scott
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you know what about the gulf of tonkin that was pretty bad and that caused you know the vietnam war
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and fifty thousand americans died that's much worse no it wasn't no it wasn't the people who did
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the gulf of tonkin thought they were doing something good it turned down terrible but their intention
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was clearly good how about the iraq war scott scott scott the iraq war was the biggest mistake
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maybe this country's ever made so that's worse no it isn't no it isn't it might be worse in terms of
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people who died but it was a fucking mistake there was no point when george bush said you know i think
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i'll kill a bunch of fucking iraqis because it's good for re-election never happened he thought it was
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the right thing to do he was wrong biggest mistake we've ever had and if you do a list of the biggest
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mistakes i'd put that near the top but if you do a list of the most evil fucking thing that ever has
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happened in this country what could you offer to top this in in the comments top it try to top it with
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something that's not obviously just a mistake somebody who screwed the public just for re-election
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purposes that's it somebody says slavery slavery was intentional and slavery was worse
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yeah the trouble with slavery though is you've got that um you have to adjust for the times
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because it's not entirely clear that even people who owned slaves were entirely sure that they were
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bad people you know what i mean like by our current our current view looking backwards we can say well
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they were the worst people in the world the slave owners but maybe they didn't think so
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the difference is pelosi knows what she's doing she knows she's a bad person and she's doing it right
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in front of you anyway all right so but i'll i'll take your uh i'll take slavery as a good exception to
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my rule but you have to adjust it for the times um which is not an excuse for slavery that that's the
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next thing will happen right there'll be a tweet in five minutes uh cartoonist think slavery was fine
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no no cartoonist does not think slavery was fine um here's the biden plan for beating the coronavirus
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and finally because i don't know about you but i am getting sick and tired of ignoring science
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when it comes to beating the coronavirus if you don't follow the science well you're not even trying
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so follow the science and here's the biden plan finally for beating the coronavirus there are three
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parts and i think they're all strong and i'm glad that we finally have some leadership on this
00:31:28.640
coronavirus so step number one uh biden will use trump's plan for vaccinations okay well that's one
00:31:35.560
number two um biden will use trump's plan for reopening schools and number three biden will add some
00:31:44.800
non-binding yammering about masks no laws except for the minor minor federal buildings but that won't
00:31:52.920
change anything um but he's adding some non-binding yammering about masks now what do these three things
00:32:01.680
collectively collectively if you put them together let me read them again so you can get this you know
00:32:07.880
as a whole what does it tell you we finally figured out how to do all right trump's plans for vaccination
00:32:15.400
trump's plans for opening schools and some non-binding yammering about masks put them together and what do you
00:32:22.200
have what do you have that's right finally science finally we are not a bunch of clowns walking around
00:32:32.880
bumping in the buildings you know knocking our heads on stuff because we're so darn stupid and we don't
00:32:38.420
follow the science finally some serious adult leadership where they're going to follow the science
00:32:44.380
and take us out of this out of this horrible pandemic that trump caused in some way probably by a tweet
00:32:50.940
so that's all good news those of you following my very small problem with adobe photoshop where it
00:33:00.960
stopped being able to draw a straight line which is kind of important if you're a cartoonist because
00:33:07.620
the only kinds of lines that i draw are curvy lines and straight ones and straight lines just stop
00:33:15.740
working so what do you think happened when i tweeted about it and adobe was right on it they've got a
00:33:22.760
rapid response team and so they immediately tweeted back and said how can we help and in the process of
00:33:29.940
the back and forth with them as well as lots of other people weighing in and complimenting or commenting
00:33:35.200
i learned that you can you can draw a line still with photoshop and let me explain the process
00:33:44.120
so here's the old way the old way was you would select the line tool put your cursor somewhere and
00:33:50.760
then just draw it across and then there would be a line and that sounded like that was a good way but
00:33:56.220
they've upgraded so the process of just putting your pen down and drawing a line has changed to something
00:34:03.200
by analogy if i were to compare to something it'd be like say the manhattan project in terms of
00:34:11.120
complexity i believe there are 25 different variables that need to be set just right but also in the right
00:34:18.480
order in other words if you don't do this before that that won't work and you won't know and there
00:34:25.940
won't be any way to know but you know you got to clear these things and reset them but maybe if you go to
00:34:31.780
this menu and clear it and reset it and why don't you use a different tool and if you use a different
00:34:36.900
tool there are 25 things you need to set to make that work and make sure you hit escape before you hit
00:34:42.860
enter and before you do this so the bottom line is i'm pretty sure that photoshop just doesn't have
00:34:53.380
that capability anymore yeah they changed it to some kind of vector or layers sort of thing so they
00:35:00.420
just don't draw a line anymore but rather than simply admitting it oh it's half of what you need
00:35:07.200
to do your job but we just took it out of there we got rid of it instead of telling me that i've been
00:35:14.440
trying all these weird combinations of things and i'm pretty sure that i've determined that it just
00:35:20.440
doesn't it can't do any of those things so i'll use a different tool and oh or a different software
00:35:25.960
and i'll work through it but uh it's amazing how bad uh software is in this day and age it's just
00:35:36.440
amazing all right uh day whatever how long has it been since was it the remind me which state i get the
00:35:46.640
states mixed up was that the georgia uh ballot counting where they had the video camera that
00:35:52.520
appeared to make it look as though there was some mischief going on and then there was the woman who
00:35:58.160
gave the announcement and said hey everybody go home at least that's what they reported she said
00:36:04.380
and we still haven't heard from her have we so the only person who matters in the story
00:36:10.180
a gigantic story the only person who matters she hasn't talked yet now to be fair um you have lots
00:36:20.980
of accounts of what this person said but we all know that if you ask a hundred people what the boss
00:36:28.040
just said they're not all going to have the same story some will say he said stop working on
00:36:34.300
everything some will say well you have to understand the context he meant stop working on just
00:36:39.680
these things because obviously you're not going to start stop working on the other stuff
00:36:43.280
so what you need to get to any better certainty about what happened in that room you need to hear
00:36:51.500
the woman who made the announcement say these are the words i used as close as i can remember
00:36:57.920
and this was my intention and this is who i thought i was directing it to now she could be lying
00:37:05.380
right because humans lie she could be mistaken she may misremember but then you take her account and
00:37:12.900
you go back to all the witnesses and the witnesses say she told us to stop counting ballots that's their
00:37:19.360
story but what if she says i told this group to stop working and go home because you know the four of
00:37:27.300
us were going to stay and i didn't need to tell them that but i just told the envelope openers to go home
00:37:32.440
what if she says that then what do the witnesses say next the ones who said she told us the ballot
00:37:38.900
counting was over here's what i think will happen just a speculation i think the witnesses will say well
00:37:45.500
yeah she may have said that i don't remember what she said i only remember one of the envelope
00:37:53.180
openers told me the ballot counting is done because she said it so it's probably a somebody interpreting
00:37:59.480
and told somebody and somebody didn't hear it and they told somebody else that's probably what's
00:38:03.720
going on but until you hear it from the person who originally made the announcement about who should
00:38:10.580
go home you don't know anything you don't know anything yeah abc news and other other reports have said
00:38:18.600
that they heard x what's that worth to you in terms of uh evidence if abc news and even other
00:38:28.500
news organizations people that you imagine would tell you the truth if they told you that she said
00:38:34.560
a certain thing should you believe that not unless it's unrecorded and not until you've heard the other
00:38:42.320
story if you had heard her story and you had heard their story maybe you'd have something to judge
00:38:47.800
but until you hear her story the the credibility you should put on anybody else saying what she said
00:38:57.140
is zero not one percent not ten percent it should be exactly zero it has no no evidentiary value
00:39:07.600
whatsoever that's why uh that's why courts don't allow hearsay hearsay is somebody saying what somebody
00:39:16.140
else said that's hearsay it's more than that but that's the quick definition all right um
00:39:23.820
so my local representative eric swalwell is one of the people who was believed to be targeted by
00:39:32.000
a chinese spy an attractive young woman whose name uh original name is fang fang so her last name and
00:39:41.200
her first name are the same fang fang she called herself christine fang when she came to the united states
00:39:46.620
but she's fang fang now when the story first came out it was just that she was trying to get close to
00:39:54.120
swalwell when he was a a local uh councilman in my neighboring town and that she was part of a chinese
00:40:02.440
spy uh system where they try to get close to people who might become big in the future just to sort of
00:40:10.760
work with them now according to fox news and so here's another thing that you should put low
00:40:18.100
credibility in all right keeping in mind that eric swalwell is not my favorite politician
00:40:24.520
all right so you know where my bias is eric swalwell not my favorite politician i have met him a few
00:40:31.680
times by the way so in terms of uh full disclosure he's friends with some of my friends because you
00:40:38.980
small area in some ways and uh you know i've been to places where he is and chatted with him briefly
00:40:46.060
and stuff but he's not my favorite politician so when i say something to defend him now you'll know
00:40:53.160
it's not because of bias because my bias is in the other direction and on um on the fox news site but i
00:41:02.580
didn't see it on any other news site it said that uh that there was some uh the u.s intelligence
00:41:10.780
officials not named so this is anonymous sources okay anonymous sources allegedly in the u.s intelligence
00:41:19.040
agencies believe that fang had a sexual relationship with eric swalwell here's where i'm going to draw the
00:41:26.540
line i don't know if they had a sexual relationship or not neither do you and if the only source that
00:41:37.160
says this are anonymous sources let's be consistent right let's be consistent consistency says that if
00:41:47.120
you heard that anonymous sources said something about this about trump would you believe it would you
00:41:53.800
believe it even a little bit no you wouldn't so let's use the same standard um i don't know what
00:42:00.940
swalwell did or did not do but the suggestion that a fox news site was no friend of swalwell
00:42:07.780
uh says that somebody who is not named believes that they had a relationship you should give that zero
00:42:16.420
credibility now if on your own you say to yourself i'm just use my own my own judgment and life
00:42:23.760
i think that maybe something was there that's just you but don't pretend there's any evidence
00:42:29.500
there's no evidence of that okay you can't rule out anything but there's no evidence of it and i think
00:42:36.980
you have to be fair to swalwell that that's to me that's going too far honestly i don't think that
00:42:44.520
should have been reported with such uh low low credibility but there it is it's out there um
00:42:51.720
and here's my advice if you're thinking of having a sexual relationship with somebody named
00:43:00.320
fang fang leave out the oral sex that's all because you don't want to be twice bitten
00:43:09.500
by fang fang that's all i'm going to say about that now there is some question about how could
00:43:16.160
swalwell be on uh still on any important committees because isn't he on some important committees i think
00:43:24.900
you have to take him off all the committees but you have to do that regardless of whether there was a
00:43:31.720
sexual relationship of which there's no evidence there's no evidence of that i'll say that a hundred
00:43:37.960
times but the fact that there was a chinese spy that might have been a little too close to him i think
00:43:46.540
that's reason enough to take somebody off of any kind of a committee that would have confidential
00:43:52.000
anything but we'll see um i saw on cnn some uh some propaganda that was fun uh here's here's the
00:44:03.280
headline on cnn's page so it's the top left headline which means it's the one they consider
00:44:09.540
most important that's where they put it in the top left and this these are the exact words trump's
00:44:15.020
attempt to overthrow election reaches point of no return is that sentence true and accurate
00:44:22.900
yeah i'd say so i mean in in terms of the odds that he doesn't have a good chance of overthrowing it
00:44:31.060
but would you call this an attempt to overthrow the election is that the way you would have described
00:44:39.620
it because that's an opinion isn't it here's what here's how i would imagine it would be worded
00:44:46.120
if you were not trying to to turn the news into an opinion which news sites should not do if you take
00:44:53.840
the opinion out of it you would say that trump's team has lots of data that suggests that there's
00:45:01.040
a problem with the election and he's using his legal rights to challenge it doesn't that sound a
00:45:09.260
little bit different than he's attempting to overthrow an election attempting to overthrow an election
00:45:15.820
no i think he's trying to reverse a stolen election now
00:45:21.900
i don't mind the cnn believes it wasn't stolen because lots of people believe that
00:45:29.380
but to say that he's attempting to overthrow an election is really an opinion
00:45:36.100
right we only know what he's doing but making it well you know i made my point uh here's another one
00:45:44.460
to show you the the propaganda uh so i think it was aaron burnett was talking about the president
00:45:51.740
and she referred to president trump's made up allegations made up allegations have you ever heard
00:46:00.320
has anybody ever had to add made up to the word allegations do you know do you know why she had to
00:46:07.800
add made up to add made up to allegations because even though allegations mean nothing is confirmed
00:46:15.640
it's just a charge that was too strong for cnn so they didn't want that word allegation even to exist
00:46:24.060
so they had to turn it into made up allegations i mean this is just such uh over-the-top propaganda
00:46:32.500
it's incredible i think allegations would have done all the work that it needed to do you didn't need
00:46:39.160
the made up part we're hearing a little bit about the mrna vaccine so they're not all the mrna type
00:46:46.880
but apparently it hurts for a while after you get it so one person described it as like uh you know a few
00:46:55.360
minutes after you get it i guess it doesn't hurt while you're getting it so it's not the it's not the
00:47:00.400
needle that hurts so that's no worse than any other inoculation i believe but afterwards it starts
00:47:06.040
hurting like you got a punch in the arm and then you could have shaking and fevers and chills and
00:47:12.240
you could have kind of a bad night and you would have to do that twice i don't know if the second
00:47:18.120
one's as bad as the first guessing maybe not or maybe worse i don't know um but when you're looking
00:47:26.060
at a vaccination program that needs a lot of people to get it and 40 percent or something say
00:47:31.260
they're they're not too thrilled of it if it hurts a lot less people are going to get that
00:47:37.940
vaccination if it hurts and then there's also word that uh some other vaccination you can't take it if
00:47:46.080
you're highly allergic to stuff like me i'm pretty allergic to stuff all right i worry that the fact
00:47:53.220
that it hurts will be the biggest factor about whether people get it because i think you'd have
00:48:00.180
to take a day off of work right i feel like you'd have to schedule a day off after you got a shot
00:48:05.620
because you couldn't go to work all shaking and feverish um there's uh some studies that say that
00:48:12.920
if you have a little bit of neanderthal dna it might protect you from just a little bit it's not a
00:48:19.220
gigantic effect but it might protect you a little bit from the worst coronavirus covid infections
00:48:26.260
and that makes sense because it turns out that the people who have the most neanderthal dna are east
00:48:34.660
asians and east asia is doing the best in terms of controlling the coronavirus uh next down the list
00:48:43.580
would be europeans they've got some uh neanderthal but not nearly as much as asians and they're doing
00:48:49.960
worse in terms of infections and then the very worst would be uh africans so africans have close
00:48:59.020
to zero neanderthal uh but we've seen that uh black citizens of the united states at least are having the
00:49:06.660
worst outcomes so could it be that there's a bigger effect than we think because is it just a
00:49:13.680
coincidence that this neanderthal dna has some statistical effect it's not a gigantic effect they
00:49:20.940
say and yet it cleanly predicts each population's outcomes is that a is that a coincidence could be
00:49:30.100
right now i told you the other day that there's a uh a website i'll talk more about this i think i might
00:49:35.720
do an interview with with uh with the owners of that website which will uh take your dna you can
00:49:42.880
actually download your dna from 23andme or from a genealogy site just upload upload your dna data
00:49:50.160
into this website and they'll tell you what your relative risk is now of course it's not guaranteed
00:49:56.080
it's just a risk calculation but what they use is primarily these uh genetic uh lung differences so
00:50:04.780
there's some allele or something on your lungs that are different for some people and gives you more
00:50:09.500
risk so maybe they will be adding this neanderthal element to it to refine their model and that would
00:50:18.360
be interesting um have you ever noticed that biden acts mad about normal things it's it bugs me a lot
00:50:29.020
when you know president trump would act aggressive about lots of things he didn't like but he didn't
00:50:36.180
act mad joe biden looks like he's really mad about stuff that you don't need to be mad about like if he's
00:50:44.100
just describing something so this would be joe biden describing his breakfast i put cheerios in the bowl
00:50:53.460
i put the milk you got to put the milk on the cheerios
00:50:58.900
and you mix them you got to mix the milk in the cheerios
00:51:06.140
and then i put it on a spoon and you've got you've got to eat it you got to eat it
00:51:13.560
and i'm thinking why are you so mad you're just describing ordinary things
00:51:19.000
can you describe it in not mad dementia way how about just you know we should all wear masks i think
00:51:26.420
it's important not we must wear masks i'm so mad
00:51:39.640
i guess it's the gel man amnesia theory but uh broadened a little bit
00:51:46.540
so i was just watching some exchange between two people debating about trump online this morning
00:51:52.720
and i watched as there was some troll critic would make a claim and then some trump supporter who
00:51:59.980
was well aware of all the hoaxes would come in behind and say ah that's a hoax the fine people hoax
00:52:06.500
for example then there was another one and the trump supporters said no that's a hoax
00:52:10.400
here's what here's what happened and then he mentions a third one and then it gets debunked
00:52:16.660
so within this little span of i don't know an hour or something this uh anti-trumper learned
00:52:24.900
that the first three things that he was willing to mention as the biggest you know concerns about
00:52:31.240
trump were all hoaxes all three of them and it was easy to debunk them you just you know the debunk
00:52:39.840
is pretty easy but do you think that this person having three three of his main beliefs debunked
00:52:47.800
within an hour do you think that the next thing he believes he has any doubt about no no the very
00:52:56.900
next thing whatever it is whatever is the next thing he thinks is true about trump he'll think that
00:53:03.220
one's probably pretty solid after three in a row get debunked has no impact on his confidence for
00:53:11.420
the fourth thing so it's just funny there's nothing to say about it except that it's funny
00:53:16.340
um so the house of representatives voted on the big defense authorization bill that um the president
00:53:27.100
said he would veto if it didn't uh get rid of section 230 which protects social media platforms
00:53:34.560
from being sued as publishers but i guess the house of representatives put a veto proof uh vote on it so
00:53:42.720
in other words the president won't have the option of vetoing it because they got too many votes and i think
00:53:49.380
to myself social media won why do you think politicians voted against doing this thing that would uh damage
00:54:00.060
the social media companies according to social media companies why do you think they voted against it in
00:54:05.480
like a big majority it's because the social media companies have so much freaking money that i don't know
00:54:13.620
if you could run for office if you had crossed them imagine imagine telling the social media companies
00:54:21.540
that you're going to be creating a law that would virtually put them out of business or they would
00:54:27.040
think so how would your uh algorithm behave after that if you were if you were a gop politician and you
00:54:36.320
came out strong against the social media platforms what would they do to your tweets
00:54:42.220
well uh i think you'd have the same concern that chuck schumer talked about when he said the president was
00:54:52.000
crossing the the intelligence community and they had uh what what do you say a thousand ways from
00:54:59.020
sunday to get back at you and you and we thought what an intelligence agency is going to get back at the
00:55:07.040
president that's a little concerning but don't you think that if you were a uh in congress and you
00:55:14.880
were promoting things that were bad for social media companies they would shut you down wouldn't they
00:55:20.400
now you could say to yourself no no no it'd be too obvious or whatever but when did obvious make
00:55:26.560
any difference all pretty much everything they do in terms of suppressing things is obvious
00:55:32.660
you always see it so i would think that politicians know they would not get the funding they needed to
00:55:39.980
get re-elected and their social media traffic would just go to hell and that would take them out of the
00:55:46.660
race too so the social media companies are so strong that congress can't fuck with them i think that's what
00:55:56.300
we just saw right now you could say that it was a principled vote and even the republicans who voted
00:56:02.540
not to do get rid of section 230 had economic reasons or maybe it was imperfect or maybe they
00:56:08.920
wanted to deal with it in a different way there could be reasons there might be reasons but i don't
00:56:14.300
think we can anymore think we live in a world where if these social media giants wanted the vote to go
00:56:21.860
this way that they couldn't just make it happen i think they could just make it happen i don't know
00:56:27.900
that congress is stronger than them and so uh there you go you don't live in a republic anymore
00:56:35.200
the republic is well dead congress seems to be you know captured by industry so so congress is
00:56:45.100
basically uh you know what would you call it uh an oligarchy oligarchy so the people in congress are
00:56:53.900
just voting whatever the big corporations tell them to vote so it's not really any kind of a
00:56:58.720
representative you know democracy situation certainly not a republic and we don't have uh confidence that
00:57:06.560
the vote was an actual vote meaning half of the country doesn't even think a vote happened they think
00:57:12.060
some kind of fraud happened not a vote so we are so far from living in the system that was
00:57:17.680
drawn up by the founders but so far the coffee tastes the same so i don't know why this isn't
00:57:26.160
causing a problem yeah i think there won't be social unrest as long as the uh the victims are
00:57:33.640
the conservatives because they just don't march in the street so much uh plutocracy yeah maybe
00:57:41.420
maybe maybe that's a good word for it um how does the simulation respond to the election
00:57:48.300
well i don't think we could have uh we could not have had an outcome that was more perfect to ai
00:57:58.540
meaning we got we ended up with the most contentious situation short of uh bloodshed now ahead of the vote
00:58:08.460
what did i tell you would be the the signal for ai meaning the algorithms of the social media
00:58:15.280
companies what would be the signal that they had already taken over control of civilization the signal
00:58:22.900
would be that you would have a an election that had the weird characteristics of maximum conflict
00:58:30.020
about who won just short of violence and that's what we got we got the maximum amount of clickbait
00:58:40.100
news and and drama and at the outcome not really any violence to speak of it's the perfect ai solution
00:58:51.080
now here's the interesting part have you noticed that the news has just turned so boring
00:58:58.220
that it's hard to read if you go to cnn there's basically no news anymore all they have is they're
00:59:06.440
they're mopping up you know little uh complaints about trump because you know he's still in the news
00:59:11.760
so they still have bad things to say about trump every day but they don't really have news anymore
00:59:18.980
it feels like it just turned into a couple of descriptions of unimportant things followed by
00:59:25.020
some extra insults of trump and that's all there is now that's about it um yeah i think the news
00:59:31.900
industry so here's here's the point of that if the news stays boring then ai didn't get what it wanted
00:59:39.600
ai if if you speculate and say that ai is already in control of civilization we just haven't realized it
00:59:46.740
yet what you should see is some new drama being inserted into the news business that kind of came
00:59:54.780
out of nowhere and it should be some drama that maybe isn't real so i'm not talking about an actual
01:00:00.840
crisis in the world that becomes the new story although of course there'll be some of those
01:00:05.740
i'm talking about a a here's my prediction i'll make this a prediction i predict that there will be
01:00:13.800
some issues that emerge after biden takes office and after trump is no longer important to the news
01:00:21.460
cycle at least in the way he was that there will be a new issue that is completely artificial
01:00:28.620
meaning that you can't hold it in your hand there's no video of it it's a concept and it's going
01:00:36.960
to get us all crazy arguing about the concept and it won't be real it just won't be real now no i'm not
01:00:46.020
talking about something like aliens i'm talking about a completely artificial psychological problem
01:00:51.760
that doesn't yet exist that will be designed and brought into life by the ai so that the news gets lots
01:00:59.780
of clicks the social media gets lots of clicks and the ai can reproduce so the way the ai reproduces
01:01:06.860
the way ai reproduces is by drama short of violence
01:01:13.700
somebody says scott adams denial what the fuck am i denying what the fuck i swear i don't have any
01:01:25.480
critics who criticize me for my actual fucking opinions i don't remember the last time somebody
01:01:31.800
disagreed with me what i actually fucking think what am i in denial of
01:01:43.360
um when trump said he was being sarcastic i started to vote for him let me tell you why i think trump said
01:01:52.060
he was being sarcastic about that uh injecting disinfectant thing i think that he first got the idea
01:02:00.280
probably by watching twitter because i i had tweeted about it lots of people had retweeted it so it
01:02:07.460
was a thing at the very time he was talking about that injecting disinfectant it was being trialed
01:02:13.520
at cedars-sinai it was a news story it was in the news now suppose he had seen that story
01:02:19.740
didn't remember where it came from or where he saw it it was just something he saw like many of us do
01:02:25.700
now he saw the story and then he gets in public and he repeats the story he goes you know hey maybe
01:02:32.040
there's some way to inject light uv light he wasn't as specific as i was but some way to use you know
01:02:39.240
light to disinfect within the body and that he's called on it by all the experts who say you crazy
01:02:45.480
person you can't inject disinfectant even though he was talking about light you can't do that now
01:02:52.700
what would you do if you were the president you kind of think you have remember seeing that as a story
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but you don't know where you saw it and you can't find it again because it's actually kind of hard to
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find you have to google you know the right the right things to get it so he's being asked why did
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you bring this up and the and the defense would be well just look at this tweet i was talking about
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this but you can't find it it's just sort of not practical to figure out where you saw it because it
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wasn't in a big publication it wasn't in the new york times it wasn't in the washington post wasn't on
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cnn but it was in the news smaller news so probably just speculating if you're trying to understand
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why he would say he was being sarcastic when it should be obvious to every observer he wasn't
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being sarcastic i think he just wanted it to go away and so he was trying to like just brush it away
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i was being sarcastic don't take it too seriously so i don't think that he believed he was being
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sarcastic i think he was just trying to make it go away because it was too hard to fight it and there
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was no point to it that's my guess don't know um yes so this is why i call it speculation
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if i had said that's what happened that would be mind reading and that would be you know dumb
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but you can certainly speculate and say well you know i can i can think of three different
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explanations and that's one of them all right uh you should put your books in the middle shelf so
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there's my books all right that's all i got for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow
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uh if it's just your guess it's not a hoax what guess are you talking about youtube is banning me
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says see jack pasavik's tweet you are about to be censored by youtube really so let's see what that's
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all about bear with me let's see if uh let's see what jack said jack p-o-s-o
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do do do bear with me least interesting thing you've
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oh starting today they will remove content about election fraud even though there are court cases
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oh and also uh jack pasavik is reporting that the the swalwell report is far far worse
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uh if you knew the whole report so there's some there's some uh talk that uh we have more
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information about swalwell than has been released so maybe i just like the fact that they're using his
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own trick against them to say yeah we've got lots of secret information this could be this could be released any moment
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flagged on youtube there there are two ways to talk about
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but when you're looking at the individual claims
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i've debunked more of them than anybody probably
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so i would think that that kind of discussion would be the good kind