Episode 1216 Scott Adams： Supreme Court Punts, Vaccines are Here, AOC Needs the Lincoln Project Like a Hole in the Head
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Summary
I accidentally went live on Periscope while I was getting ready to do a live chat, and it went live, so you get to see what I do minutes before I officially go live. I also talk about why I like wearing my pajamas.
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Hello. Good morning. Let me tell you what just happened. I was playing with my system
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set up here and accidentally went live. So there's a reason that nobody's watching this.
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And in a moment we're going to go live on Periscope. Actually, I think I'll go live
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a little early maybe. Give them a little bit of a thrill. Anybody have any questions before
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we go officially live? I'm accidentally live. All right. Let me get my notes here for a
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moment. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait.
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Hey, everybody. We will do the simultaneous sip at the usual time. No getting ahead. No,
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no getting ahead. That will not be allowed. Now you get to see what I do minutes before
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I officially go live. All right. It's actually eight minutes before I'm supposed to be live.
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Periscope will have to wait for a minute. Good morning. Somebody says, are artists typically
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left-leaning? That's a good question. I would think so. I would say most. I'm not sure. I
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wouldn't consider myself an artist. So somebody asked me if I'm wearing my PJ pants. Here's
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a, maybe I shouldn't admit this. Every one of my Periscopes I've done in my pajamas. Every
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one of them. So generally, generally what you see me wearing when I'm doing the Periscopes
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is whatever I woke up in. Usually a t-shirt pajamas. It's a kilt. No, just pajamas. Yeah,
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I don't even, when you see the Periscopes, I haven't, I haven't shaved or I haven't even
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brushed my teeth. So you get me fresh out of bed. Simplicity is good. That's right. I was
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going to do a micro lesson on simplicity for the locals platform. No bed hair to worry
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about. I tell you, the day that I decided to start cutting my hair short because I was
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obviously losing my hair, so it was just a better look. It made my life so much easier.
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I'm going to tell you something that I'm very proud of. When I was in college, or maybe high
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school, I found a steel comb on the ground. Just somebody had lost it outdoors. And it
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was the coolest little comb. And so I washed it up and I made it my own comb. And when I
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was in high school, it seems funny to even think about it. I would carry a comb with me,
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you know, just in case I needed to fix up my hair a little bit during the day. I would
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just have, always have this little steel comb. And occasionally I would misplace it. And then
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I would find it. And it became sort of a thing over the years that I would lose it. And then
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I would always find it. And for maybe, I don't know, 20 or 30 years, I had the same comb that
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I'd found on the ground as a teenager. And I still have it. I never lost it.
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40 years. I can't use the clock. You're right. So let me tell you what I was doing when I
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accidentally hit live. So I wasn't intending to be live streaming until the appointed time
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when we'll do the simultaneous step. There's a step where you make a profile, not a profile
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picture, a thumbnail. And I was just getting ready to make my thumbnail. And when it went
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live, I thought I'd hit the button to retake the thumbnail. So when it went live, I was posing
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like this. Because the photo I was going to put as my thumbnail was me giving myself a vaccination.
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So is this the live chat or not? It is. It is. So you're in the right place.
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Can I look at Andrew Saul's talk? I don't know who he is. Who is Andrew Saul?
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So how many of you are going to get the vaccination once it's available?
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What percentage of you will be first? I'm kind of glad that I'm not automatically going
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to be first so I don't have to make the decision. You know, aren't you kind of glad that you don't
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have to make the decision yet? You can sort of wait a little bit, you know, see how much
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it hurts. What are the odds that, well, let me ask you this. I know this is, these are different
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kinds of vaccinations, so it's not like we've had before. But what are the odds that the most
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important vaccination the world has ever had is also the one that hurts the most, and also the only
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one that takes two vaccinations that I know of? Like, really, what are the odds that only this one
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would hurt and you'd eat it twice? If you were going to create a situation that would guarantee
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people don't want to take it, it would be that. That plus the fact that it's new.
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All right, we got three minutes until the real show, so if you have any questions, I shall take them.
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Oh, HPV takes three vaccinations. Okay, well, so I guess there are more. Hepatitis B is three?
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Well, like I said, there are plenty of vaccinations that require multiple.
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Oh, shingles takes two? Yeah, just like I said, there are lots of different vaccinations
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that take multiple. I think you can tell I'm behind on my shots. Very behind.
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What brand of coffee do I drink? Starbucks. I'm not a big coffee guy. I'm going to tell you a little
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coffee trick. This might make you feel less good about me. But my coffee, at least lately,
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is half hot water and half coffee. So I actually water down the coffee until it's just a coffee-flavored
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hot water. Now, you might say to yourself, my God, how can I drink coffee-flavored hot water
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when I'm used to full-bodied real coffee? And the answer is you can get used to anything.
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You can actually train yourself to like things you don't like. By the way, did you know that?
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One of the things that hypnotists know and regular people don't is that you can change your preferences.
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That's weird, isn't it? You can actually change what flavors taste good to you. I've done it so
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many times that I can say this with, you know, complete certainty. You know, I don't need a
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scientific study because during my life I've set out to intentionally change my flavor
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preferences and succeeded easily. So I know it can be done. I've done it multiple times.
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And one of the things that I set out to do was to change my coffee flavor preference from strong
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coffee just because I was used to it to a weak watered down kind of thing because I could get
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more enjoyment of sipping without too much caffeine. And so I just add 50% of hot water.
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The first time you have coffee that's 50% of hot water, your first reaction is,
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how could I possibly drink this? But you probably had a similar reaction, if any of you had this
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experience, of going from regular soda, let's say a Coke, to a Diet Coke. The first time you make the
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transition, you're like, what is this awful thing? But then you get used to the new thing and you can't
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even imagine drinking the old thing anymore. It's very easy to rewire your preferences.
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So that's a real thing. All right. In one minute, I'm going to hit Periscope and then, ladies and
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gentlemen, we're going to be live and I'm going to tell you a great story about George Clooney. You're
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going to like it. All right. It's go time. Hold on. Pretend I just started. You didn't see this.
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Nothing happened here. Forget what you've seen. Boop.
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Well, good morning and welcome to the simultaneous sip. The best time of the whole day. If you've
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been wondering in that 24-hour period, which is the best part of it? Because, you know, you got 24
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different hours there. Which one's the good one? It's this. It's this one. Yeah. A lot of people
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think another time is good, but no. They're all inferior to this one. And all you need to make
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it the best of the best time is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or
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flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called
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the simultaneous sip. If you hear a motor, it's because I just put my motorized shades down. Go.
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Delightful. I believe it made everything better except the Supreme Court. Yeah. Supreme Court still
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needs a little work. My Photoshop problem is fixed. And it turns out the fix is that they just took
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that feature away. So I just had to do it. I had to learn a whole new way to do it, which was not a
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big deal. But the feature that I was trying to make work, it just, they just took it away. All right.
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Here's my favorite story of the day. And I present myself often on these periscopes as not just a
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cartoonist, but as a, uh, let's say someone who can help you filter the bullshit from the reality.
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And here's the, here's my favorite example. Now, if you fell for this one, you, you have only yourself
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to blame. Uh, I was just watching an interview with George Clooney and there was a headline I saw
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that said that George Clooney cuts his own hair, uh, during the pandemic, but also has been doing it for
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years using a flow bee. Now, if you're a certain age, you know, what a flow bee is, it's an attachment
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you put to your own, um, vacuum cleaner and it sucks your hair up if you have hair. And then it,
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it cuts, you know, cuts your hair, uh, perfectly because it sucked it up with the vacuum and then it
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cuts at the right height. And then you just go to a new place and you vacuum and cut. It's called the
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flow bee. And so George Clooney, uh, is asked about his hair and he says that he uses a flow bee to cut
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his hair. And he describes how he got it years ago and he still cuts his hair every day with the flow bee.
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Now, there's a little bit of context that was left out of the story. Let me add some context.
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George Clooney is literally famous as a prankster. It's one of his, you know, most famous characteristics
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when he was working on movie sets. He's famous for playing pranks on his coworkers. Now, George
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Clooney has a good haircut. It's such a good haircut that I'm just going to guess there might've been a
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professional haircutter involved. Now in a pandemic, especially if you're a celebrity, do you go on
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camera and say, yes, I violate the pandemic and I just have somebody come over and cut my hair at
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close quarters. Do you think he says that? No, no, no. He says, I use a flow bee. And then he tells a
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detailed story about how he got his flow bee and how he still cuts his hair every day. And then the,
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the credulous reporter said, is your current haircut from the flow bee? And he's like, yeah, yeah, right
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here. And I'm watching this fricking thing. And it's just the funniest, it's just the funniest damn
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thing that it became a national story and it could not be more obviously a prank. It was one of my best
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stories of the week. All right. Rapper Lil Wayne is in trouble. Uh, you may know he faces up to 10
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years in federal prison, uh, after pleading guilty on, uh, federal or illegal gun possession. Now it's
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worse for him. I guess he has a prior felony. So if you have a illegal gun on top of a prior felony,
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it doesn't matter if you're trying to commit a crime with it because that is the crime just having a gun.
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So here's a little legal strategy I would like to suggest to rapper Lil Wayne. It goes like this.
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Lil Wayne is one of the people who came out either pro-Trump. I don't remember if he was pro-Trump or
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just he was okay with Trump, but he got sort of labeled on that side, that unpopular side where he
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was kind of okay with Trump. I feel like he should get a pardon because I think you could make the case
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that anybody who's going to jail in our current environment, who also was a supporter of Trump
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is not going to get a fair trial, right? How could anybody get a fair trial in the context
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of being a Trump supporter in this current time? Because we're watching Democrats, uh, literally
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and publicly finding a variety of ways in which they say in public, we're looking to punish anybody
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who supported Trump. We're actually looking to punish them for political opinion. Now, if I'm President
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Trump and I'm thinking, you know, maybe my odds of a second term are pretty low right now. And I knew
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that rapper Lil Wayne supported me. And I knew that his only crime was not an act. There was no actual
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crime. In other words, the crime was just having a gun. There was no intention, no, no allegation he was
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going to use it for something specific. So really there was no victim. And in the context of nobody who
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supports the president should expect a fair trial. Is that a fair statement? Don't you think it's a
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completely reasonable statement to say that any notable figure who is notable for supporting Trump,
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they could not get a fair sentence or a fair trial in the United States in 2020. Isn't that a fair
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statement? I think that's completely fair. Now it wouldn't be probably fair. It wouldn't be a strong
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enough statement to have, have the court overturn anything or for the court to reverse anything,
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but it's a hundred percent strong enough for president Trump to pardon him. It's a hundred percent
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strong enough for that. In fact, if you could show me a better reason for a pardon, I've never seen one.
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I've never seen one. I will, I will hold up rapper Lil Wayne, in my opinion, is the strongest case for a
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pardon, presidential pardon I've ever seen. Now, I don't know if his crime is the kind that can be
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pardoned. I don't know if it's federal or it's state. So I don't know how that works. Maybe he can't
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be pardoned. But if he can be, I would. Later today, maybe, or soon, I'm going to do a lesson
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on reframing on the Locals platform. So if you're a subscriber to Locals, Locals.com, where you can
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follow me for a subscription price, I'm going to teach you a hypnotist lesson on reframing. Now, a lot
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of hypnosis is something you really need to be trained to do. But reframing is something anybody
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can do just by sort of understanding what it is and a little bit of A-B testing on your own. But
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reframing can change you from unhappy to happy. It can change a good time or a bad time to a good time.
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It could change a loss into a victory. So reframing is one of the most powerful tools you'll ever have
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in your life. So that'll be on Locals later for subscribers. Breaking news, the FDA has authorized
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Pfizer's vaccine. I don't know if I want to be first. But I have a lot of respect for those who will.
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Right? Now, I wouldn't say that I'm afraid of the vaccinations. But I will say that the longer you go
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before you get it, the more you might know. So I would expect I'll get a vaccination. If you're
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looking for what are other people doing, you know, to help make your decision, what I'm doing is not
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making up my mind until the last moment I need to, which is when it's available to people like me.
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So until it's available to people like me, I'm not going to make a decision. When it is available,
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I will look at all the information. I doubt there will be much more that we don't, you know,
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that we've learned since then. But if there's anything more, I'll incorporate it. And if there's
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nothing more, I probably will get the vaccination. So if you're wondering, you know, how people are
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thinking about it, how they're doing their cost benefit analysis, I can't separate the benefit to
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other people from the benefit to myself. Is there some risk that I would have some harm from the
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vaccination? Yes, in the sense that anything is a risk, sort of in the general universal way that
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risks exist. But it is sort of a war situation, isn't it? You know, the coronavirus is sort of like
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going to war. And if you said to me, Scott, do you want to personally protect yourself at the risk of
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taking this vaccination? If I were the only person in the world, would make sense with a pandemic. But
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imagine if the only thing I had to think about was my own well-being, I might make a different
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decision. But if you're in a war, and you're a soldier, and we all are, we've been asked by our
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general to take a risk that might be a little bit bigger than you want it to take for yourself.
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And the reason you're being asked to take that risk is for the benefit of someone else who might
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have been infected in your chain of infections if you don't take the vaccination. So as an individual,
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I might make a different decision. But as a soldier, I'm going to almost certainly obey orders.
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I mean, I'm going to look at all the information. But that's my my inclination is to obey orders in the
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context of a war. And I consider this a war. So if there's a risk to me, but the point is for the to win
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the war, I accept my role as a as a soldier. Steve Schmidt of the the Lincoln Project, he's one of those
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main guys, he's reached out to AOC in the most awkward tweet I've ever seen. So this is what Steve
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Schmidt tweets at AOC. I would like to officially reach out to AOC on behalf of the Lincoln Project
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in defense of democracy. And he says, we disagree on many issues. And that is okay, in our view. Oh,
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that's nice. How about that? Did you know that the the Lincoln Project? Apparently, they think it's
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okay to disagree on on issues. Did you know that? That's pretty big of them. Because a lot of people
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were thinking that they were were completely communist. But it turns out that they they do
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think it's okay to disagree on issues. So that's a big step. So thank you, Steve, for telling us that
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because we we didn't know that until he said it. And he said, we disagree on many issues. And that
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is okay, in our view. By the way, we don't look down on waitresses. What? We admire them. We are all
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the types. We are all the types of guys who always tip at 50% or more. This is so awkward. Okay,
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have you ever heard of the the pickup artist strategy called negging? N-E-G-G-I-N-G. The technique
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is considered a manipulative, let's say unethical way to manipulate people into sex, specifically women.
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And the pickup artists learn that the way you get women to respond to you and potentially become
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sexual partners is with this concept called negging. And the idea is that you you subtly find a way to
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tear down their ego. And they will and and the the theory goes, the theory goes, and I can't say that
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I've, I've never intentioned, I will say that I've never intentionally used this method. So I don't have
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a personal experience that it even works. But a lot of people say it works. And it's part of the body
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of persuasion. So I'll talk about it as if it works. But I haven't personally, I can't tell you that it
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works from experience. However, the technique is very clear. If you say to somebody who is a an elected
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congressperson, a elected congressperson, aOC is one of the most capable political people of
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our era, right? You know, you say what you will about disagreeing with her and the Green New Deal is
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crazy and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I know all the criticisms. But it is nonetheless true
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that she has achieved a tremendous success of getting where she is. And she has a great weight
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and gravitas. She's moved the entire party. All right, so that's who she is. She's this person who's
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moved the country with her personal force of will, etc.
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And Steve Schmidt decides that in his tweet where he's reaching out to her, he needs to mention
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that she was recently a waitress. That's negging, right? You make it look like you're not doing it
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for a purpose. It's just it's another purpose. No, we're just saying that we get along with you.
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We're not going to insult you. That's all I'm saying. Oh, did I mention that you were only recently
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a waitress? Oh, yeah, that's just part of the story. There's no reason I'm mentioning it. It's
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just because we're good guys. That's negging. All right. Now, I don't know if he was thinking of it
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intentionally or it just came out exactly like negging. But he used the word waitresses. Now,
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there is some disagreement on using that word. Waitresses is like I would describe it as the
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mildest version, just by analogy, of the n-word. The n-word is something that a person could use
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about themselves if they happen to be black. But you wouldn't use it about somebody if you were not
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talking about yourself, right? Unless you were black. So waitress and waiter are like that.
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People who work as servers, which is the more generic accepted term at the moment,
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people who work as servers often call themselves waiters and waitresses. And when they call
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themselves that, nothing wrong with it. You can call yourself anything you want, right? But when
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other people use the word waitress, it just wakes up this little part that says it feels like it's a
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woman's job. And that's not quite the vibe of 2020, because obviously it's not just a woman's job.
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And so it feels sexist, and it feels old-fashioned. And so in his reaching out, he used a word which
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he has used about herself, but he has a little blind spot, which is she can use it about herself.
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Using it about yourself, completely appropriate. Other people using it? Well, some people will be
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offended, some will not. Some people are saying bartender was the right word. I think it was both,
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wasn't it? Usually if you're a bartender, you're also a server. In most restaurants, you're going
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to do a little of both. All right. So I fact-checked them and said they're called servers by the people
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who don't look down on them. That's not entirely true, but it was funny. And then he adds this part
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where all the types of guys who tip 50% or more, that is really nothing but showing his penis to her.
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That's all that is, right? Because why did he need to throw the part in about them being big tippers
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and their guys? That is nothing but a penis measuring statement. It had no applicability. It
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was condescending. It was the most awkward tweet I've ever seen in my life. All right. Texas GOP
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Chairman Allen West was talking about the Supreme Court we'll talk about. And he was saying that
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perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the
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Constitution. So Allen West thinks maybe Texas should start a new country of people who actually
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follow the Constitution. Now, I don't think that's going anywhere, but there'll probably be more talk
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about it. All right. Supreme Court tossed out, or I don't know what the proper legal word, but they
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have rejected, shall we say, the latest lawsuit that was the Texas lawsuit and other states were bonding
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to, or yeah, the Texas lawsuit against the other states. Now, the smart people had warned you
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that the Supreme Court was not going to go by the Constitution on this one. Now, they gave a reason
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that seems vaguely constitutional, and the reason was that the lawsuit didn't have a standing,
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Texas didn't have a standing, a legal term which means that it's none of their business.
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That's it. So the Supreme Court did not look at the evidence. They didn't look at the details.
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They just said, Texas, why don't you stay out of the business of the other states? That's it.
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That was the ruling. Now, if the ruling does not look at any of the evidence presented, none of it,
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and if the only reason is because it was one state interfering with another, how would, let's say,
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CNN report that? Well, I watched Chris Cuomo report the news, and the way he reported it was
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that it was rejected because there was no evidence of fraud. Now, isn't that the opposite of what
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happened? Because it seems to me it was a gigantic document, the lawsuit, filled with evidence of
00:29:22.420
fraud. Now, evidence doesn't mean true, but it was a gigantic document of evidence. Now,
00:29:31.320
it is true that the, you know, the lawsuit isn't going anywhere, so it seems to be as dead as anything
00:29:39.220
can be, and that part's true. But it's not dead because there was no evidence of fraud. It was
00:29:46.420
dead in spite of a gigantic pile of evidence of fraud. Now, what's going to happen to this video
00:29:55.240
on YouTube? Well, I think we know, because the last time I made a statement about evidence of fraud,
00:30:03.720
simply noting that evidence of fraud existed, my video was censored. Now, when I say censored,
00:30:12.280
a lot of you say, Scott, Scott, Scott. Censorship is when the government does it. It's not censorship of
00:30:20.260
a private company that you could use or not use. You know, they have competitors. That's not censorship.
00:30:27.100
You're using the word wrong. Well, let me make a case for using the word correctly. The government,
00:30:35.500
we agree, is the one who has the power to censor or not censor. In this context, that's what the word
00:30:41.240
means. But because the government knows exactly what the social media companies are doing,
00:30:48.180
and it allows it specifically. In other words, the government has created a law,
00:30:56.100
a structure of laws, that allow these social media companies to suppress the views of a certain
00:31:03.780
kind of person with a certain kind of view in a way that the government knows is happening. They can
00:31:09.480
observe it, too. And they have laws that actually support it. The fact that the social media networks,
00:31:18.160
don't have the risk of being sued, but they could, if the law did that, means that the government
00:31:25.560
has decided that the social media networks have been delegated the power of censorship by the
00:31:34.340
government. Now, you could say, Scott, that's not what people intended to do. The government never
00:31:41.400
made a decision to outsource its censorship to private companies, and they didn't. Nobody ever
00:31:48.460
had a meeting. Nobody ever had a conversation. Nobody signed a document that says, we, the government
00:31:54.300
of the United States, delegate our authority for censorship to these private companies. That never
00:31:59.800
happened. But it's what happened. It doesn't really matter if somebody intended it to happen.
00:32:07.940
Here we are. We are in a situation where the government sees what the social media companies
00:32:15.600
do and says that's legal. And as long as that's blessed by the government and completely legal,
00:32:22.820
I would say that they have delegated their authority of censorship for all practical purposes.
00:32:29.920
So you could argue that the social media companies are not government censorship. And I would argue that
00:32:35.600
that's technically true, but not true in a real way. Because if the government wanted the social
00:32:41.580
media companies not to do that, they would simply stop it. And so anything that the government allows
00:32:48.920
to happen is basically sanctioned, right? Wouldn't you say it's sanctioned by the government if they allow
00:32:55.960
it and they have the complete ability to stop it? So I would say it's government censorship.
00:33:02.840
It's just working through the social media. It might be completely legal, but it's still government
00:33:10.680
censorship in effect. The fact that social media companies do it doesn't matter. So I opened a
00:33:16.580
Rumble account. So if any of my videos get taken down on YouTube, just go over to Rumble and Google my
00:33:25.980
name and your real coffee with Scott Adams and it will pop right up. Now I've only put one video over
00:33:31.880
there so far. It's the one that got taken down. I think this one will get taken down for the same
00:33:37.140
reason. And if it does, you can just go see it over there. All right. I was looking at the, now that it
00:33:47.100
looks like Trump will not have a second term, I was looking at the genius of the hoax system. Because
00:33:54.860
you know, they had the fine people hoax and that would paint Trump as a racist. They had the drinking
00:34:00.160
bleach hoax that paints him as anti-science. They had the mocking the disabled guy hoax that makes
00:34:06.620
him look like a bully against everybody. And then they had the kids in cages hoax, which wasn't
00:34:13.900
exactly a hoax because that actually happened, but the context is all left out. And I don't mean the
00:34:19.380
context that Obama built the cages. I mean the context that there was a surge of immigrants and the
00:34:25.880
alternative of just letting the kids go with their abusers in many cases was deemed worse.
00:34:33.080
So the real story of the kids in cages is that nobody was happy about it, but it wasn't as bad
00:34:39.500
as the alternative in that emergency situation. It was also terribly handled in every way. I think the
00:34:45.100
administration botched the handling of it, but it was largely hoax. And I was looking at the entirety of
00:34:51.820
the hoax structure, and it's kind of genius. Because they managed to find a hoax that fit every claim.
00:35:02.540
So for whatever was the major claim that would bother you psychologically, they attached a hoax to
00:35:08.240
it. You know, what would be more bothersome than somebody who's a racist? That's a pretty big issue,
00:35:14.120
right? So they attach a hoax to it, to find people hoax. What would be worse than a president who
00:35:18.960
didn't care about science? That's pretty bad. So they attached the drinking bleach hoax to that,
00:35:25.380
to give it, you know, substance. And then, you know, mocking the disabled guy who wants a bully.
00:35:30.800
Bullies are really a triggering kind of thing. And kids in cages, you know, who wants a heartless
00:35:35.860
president? So the brilliance of the hoax structure is actually sort of breathtaking. And I almost wonder,
00:35:44.580
when you see how complete it is, and how well done it is, you wonder if it was actually strategic,
00:35:51.720
as opposed to they just turned whatever they could into a hoax, and it just worked out that way.
00:35:56.900
It feels as if somebody almost mapped it out. Like somebody who was really good at persuasion
00:36:02.520
said, all right, we've got five things that different parts of the public respond to.
00:36:08.620
Some are going to respond to this kids in cages, some to bullying, some to, you know, mocking
00:36:15.660
disabled, some to racism, etc. And people are triggered by slightly different things, but we've
00:36:21.220
got five of them, or four, or whatever. And so now we're going to look for, you know, we're going to
00:36:27.560
be on the lookout for which hoax to attach to them. Because once you attach the hoax, it becomes visual,
00:36:33.320
right? If I said the president doesn't appreciate science, that's a concept. But if I say the
00:36:41.800
president suggested drinking bleach, there's a movie. Go, go, go, go, go, you see it. You immediately
00:36:48.500
see it. Likewise, the tiki torch marchers is visual, the mocking the disabled guy, that's visual.
00:36:58.400
So what they did was turn visual, your greatest fears. And the way they turned it visual is adding
00:37:05.980
a hoax to each one. It's really, really good. And it's so good that it's either sort of a lucky
00:37:15.080
coincidence, or they just improv their way into a good situation. Or there is a gigantic tell here
00:37:24.080
for a pretty deep psychological operation by somebody who knows how to do this stuff. Because
00:37:33.820
this stuff was done better than I've ever seen it done. Or maybe you don't notice it if it's done
00:37:38.180
really well. So I guess I wouldn't have noticed it. But, all right. Don't we need to change our
00:37:49.240
our immigration naturalization test? I was telling you the other day that there was some
00:37:55.400
controversy over the changes in the test. So if you want to become a citizen in naturalized
00:38:00.960
immigration, you take a test. And some of the tests are about our form of government.
00:38:06.380
And one of the questions is, what kind of a form of government are we? The correct test used to be
00:38:12.780
that we're a republic. And I think there were a few versions of that, but basically some version
00:38:18.360
of saying we're a republic. But we're so clearly not a republic now. Because whatever we are,
00:38:25.440
whatever happened in this election, we don't know. So we can't even say for sure that there was a fraud
00:38:33.540
enough to change it or not. Because what protects us from knowing if we had an election that was credible
00:38:40.520
is the bullying, the violence. So there's this layer of violence that prevented the witnesses
00:38:46.340
from seeing things. There's a layer of bullying and, you know, you could say social media violence
00:38:51.940
keeping republicans from having visibility on what happened and the courts, etc. So I don't think
00:39:01.960
that's too strong a statement. And I don't think it's hyperbole to say that we did lose the republic
00:39:07.420
this year. Now we'll probably be fine. You know, the weird thing about the world is we adapt to
00:39:13.900
change really well. Things go wrong, we fix it. So we'll probably fix it. My guess is that we'll
00:39:21.080
drift back to the, you know, the reasonable middle. But at the moment, we're not in any way a republic.
00:39:28.660
And it would be weird if somebody missed one too many questions, and the one they missed was this one.
00:39:34.280
It's almost like you would have a lawsuit. Imagine, you know, your client was denied citizenship because
00:39:41.800
one question got wrong, and it was that one. And then your lawyer says, Your Honor,
00:39:47.520
my client said this was not a republic, and here's the evidence that he's correct.
00:39:53.960
I don't know, could he make a lawsuit out of that and become a citizen because you're the only one who
00:39:58.620
knows we're not a republic? It seems like you would be an extra good citizen, because you'd be smarter
00:40:03.500
than the ones who live here. All right. And then this guy, Bill Pasquale, he's demanding that the,
00:40:12.080
he's a representative, Democratic, he's representing, he says that he wants the House leadership to refuse
00:40:17.780
to seat the 126 Republicans support, who supported the Texas lawsuit about the election. Now,
00:40:25.660
this is nothing but collective, well, not collective, but it's just punishment for political opinions and
00:40:34.760
people doing completely legal things. Can you, can you believe that somebody could say this in public,
00:40:41.740
and we've reached a point where the thought of punishing Republicans for just sort of being
00:40:48.300
Republicans is acceptable enough that you could say it in public and not get your ass kicked and not
00:40:56.960
lose your job? It's now acceptable to, it's acceptable in all forms of the public to flow ideas for
00:41:07.220
punishing citizens for different opinions. That's an actual conversation we're having where nobody's
00:41:15.360
embarrassed to be in the conversation. It's, it's really impressive how, how things can change.
00:41:25.560
I asked this in a poll. Do you think there would be grounds for removing Joe Biden after assuming he
00:41:32.540
gets inaugurated? Would there be grounds to remove him under the 25th amendment strictly for believing the
00:41:39.460
fine people hoax? I feel as if that would be a good enough reason. Because if somebody believes a
00:41:46.280
hoax that can be debunked as easily as just reading the transcript, that's it. It's not, there's no
00:41:53.780
challenge to it. Here's the transcript. All right, now you can see it was a hoax. And one third of the
00:42:00.160
reason he ran for office was on that hoax. If one third of the reason that you ran for office was based on a
00:42:07.580
hoax that is transparently, obviously not true, are you mentally capable? Because to me, that seems
00:42:14.660
like proof of a lack of mental capability. Because if you're an old person, you're more likely to be
00:42:21.480
taken in by hoax, right? By scams. I feel like that's pretty strong evidence that he's not capable.
00:42:28.920
Speaking of not being capable, so I guess the New Yorker, the New Yorker did a long article on
00:42:39.500
Feinstein, Senator Feinstein, and how she is allegedly losing her mental faculties and her
00:42:45.560
short-term memory. Now, add that conversation, you know, is Feinstein mentally capable? Same questions
00:42:54.940
we've had about Pelosi. Same questions they've had about Trump. Same questions about Joe Biden. And
00:43:01.480
I've got my own questions about Adam Schiff. I don't think he's got dementia, but there's something
00:43:06.200
wrong with that guy. And I'm thinking to myself, if one of your main conversations about your leaders
00:43:13.180
is about their level of dementia, you're doing something really wrong. However you've designed
00:43:22.240
your political system, which used to be called a republic, and now it's something else, a
00:43:27.540
bullyocracy maybe, you're really doing it wrong if you're having a lot of conversations about the
00:43:36.260
relative amount of dementia your leaders have. Keep in mind that we're not even talking about whether
00:43:43.100
they're, you know, completely gone or they don't have it. We're really talking about how much.
00:43:49.240
Because Feinstein's a case of, it's not so much does she or doesn't she have some mental decline.
00:43:56.320
It's really about how much. With Joe Biden, it's not about whether he has mental decline. It's obvious
00:44:02.420
if you see old videos of him, he's a different person. But we're really talking about how much.
00:44:09.200
With Nancy Pelosi, everybody, a lot of people seem to admit she's very effective at her job. But it's also
00:44:16.680
pretty clear that she's lost a step. We just don't know how much. How is it that we're having honest,
00:44:26.560
legitimate, transparent conversations about the obvious mental decline of our leaders,
00:44:33.940
and we're okay with that? We're actually okay with that?
00:44:37.100
Shouldn't the, you know, if you were thinking in terms of systems instead of goals,
00:44:43.940
a goal might be to get the topics you want and get your health care and everything. So you'd have a
00:44:48.700
lot of goals that you want. But I would think that a systems approach should be we shouldn't be talking
00:44:55.620
about people's dementia. We should figure out a way that that's not part of our process. And maybe
00:45:00.800
we could get to a better outcome then. All right. So overall, 36% of voters believe the election was
00:45:12.660
stolen. So in a world in which 36% of voters believe the election was stolen, if I, as a YouTube
00:45:20.100
creator, say there are allegations that the election was stolen in the context of 36% of the people saying
00:45:28.680
it was, and I just simply say there are allegations, my video will be removed, it looks like. Think about
00:45:37.020
that. I will be censored effectively by the government via the social media platforms that
00:45:43.180
they allow to work this way, for simply saying the same thing the poll says. Because the poll says
00:45:51.540
36% of people doubt it. In other words, they allege there was fraud.
00:46:00.440
Just reporting a poll result could get me taken off the platform. Whoops. Think about that. Just think
00:46:09.040
about the enormity of that. That just talking about the poll results exactly the way they are, adding
00:46:15.600
adding no hyperbole, no opinion whatsoever. Just talking about the poll results would get me pulled
00:46:22.340
off of a major platform. I mean, that's so mind-boggling that it's unbelievable. Apparently, 77% of Trump
00:46:34.480
voters think he actually won, as do 26% of independents and even 10% of Democrats. 10% of Democrats
00:46:44.260
think the election was stolen. Do you think they know something? Maybe. Here's my guess.
00:46:53.960
People answer polls based a little bit on what they want the outcome to be, right? So people don't
00:47:00.040
answer this kind of poll honestly. It's just not something people do. So if you're a Republican,
00:47:05.620
you probably did answer it honestly, because you got nothing to lose. If you're a Democrat,
00:47:10.140
and you want the result to stand, you say to yourself, uh, do I admit that I also kind of
00:47:17.480
think it might be stolen? Or do I want to keep the result? And one of the ways to do that is make
00:47:23.700
sure that the poll looks like people believe it's a legitimate result. So you can't believe any of the
00:47:29.600
Democrats, except maybe the 10% who went against forum and said they think it's stolen. If I had to
00:47:35.420
guess, I'll just put a, this is pure speculative, my guess of the number of Democrats who really
00:47:43.580
believe the election was either stolen or really could have been closer to 50% would be my guess.
00:47:52.940
How about you? What would be your guess? We can't know, right? We're not mind readers. There's no poll
00:47:58.380
that's dependable on this. But what would you guess is the number, is the percentage of Democrats
00:48:06.160
who privately, won't say it out loud, but privately think it was stolen? Yeah, I'm looking at your
00:48:14.420
numbers. I'm seeing 30, 50, 20%, 35%, 100, somebody says 100%. That's a little too cynical. 60%, 47%. Yeah,
00:48:25.220
I think we're all thinking along the same lines. That it's not like we don't, you know, as a majority
00:48:33.360
in this country, I feel like the solid majority thinks the election was stolen. I also think that
00:48:40.400
the majority thinks maybe that's just always the way it is. Maybe it's always stolen, so they don't care
00:48:45.780
so much. All right. Would you like some provocative stuff now? I know you would. I know you would.
00:48:55.360
And here it comes. Since we have this social media censorship, what do you do about it? There's,
00:49:01.920
of course, a big limit to what the government could do, because they can do this Section 230 thing,
00:49:07.000
but it doesn't look like Congress is willing to do that, because there are trade-offs. Section 230
00:49:12.020
might kill industries, or it might even kill just the competitors. It could make it worse. So the
00:49:18.700
Section 230 thing is a possibility, but it doesn't look like a perfect solution. So if we were to
00:49:26.340
brainstorm a little bit more and say, all right, what would a perfect solution look like? Well, I would
00:49:31.640
love a solution where the social media networks allowed you to turn off their algorithm, where you
00:49:36.400
could just turn it off, and you could be sure it was turned off. But I don't know how I would ever be
00:49:41.520
sure it was turned off as a user. How would you ever know? You would always suspect, right? It's like,
00:49:48.780
well, I pushed the button, and it says I turned off the algorithm, but I feel as if people aren't
00:49:54.280
seeing my tweets, right? So people would suspect that that wasn't working. So even if the social
00:50:01.420
media networks did say, yeah, you can just turn off the algorithm if you want, nobody would believe it,
00:50:06.740
right? You'd still be like, I don't know, maybe. So let me teach you a lesson on business models.
00:50:17.720
So here's a little business strategy lesson that's going to be tied to this topic, which is, could the
00:50:23.640
free market do anything that would change the situation in terms of what I will call government
00:50:30.000
censorship that just happens to be expressed through the social media platforms? And here's a question
00:50:36.740
that I ask, because I don't know why this hasn't already been done. I've got a really bad glare on there,
00:50:42.820
don't I? Sorry. YouTubers, I don't think I can fix that little glary. So it could be that there's some
00:50:51.800
reason that the idea I'm going to talk about, there might be some reason it can't be done. But I don't
00:50:57.840
think it's a technical reason, and I don't think it's a legal reason. So I don't know what the reason
00:51:02.400
would be. And it goes like this. Why is there no billionaire who just wants to change the landscape?
00:51:10.580
Why is there no billionaire who doesn't build what I'll call a God app? Now, the God app would be one
00:51:17.000
in which you could post your content to any of the competing platforms. Now, this is just a sample of
00:51:23.080
platforms. It could be, you know, 20 different platforms. You've got a couple of competitors for
00:51:28.620
every different thing. Now, I don't know if it's also possible that it works both ways. Could your
00:51:35.380
God app also read all the content that other people are posting? And could you reply, you know, via just
00:51:42.260
the one app, no matter what platform? Now, let me tell you what the interface would be if I were designing
00:51:48.420
this. The way I design it is if you start that instead of thinking where you're going to post
00:51:56.260
something first, the only thing you think of first is what content you want to post. So you start your
00:52:02.700
post, and maybe there's a video or there's a picture, and you add the video. And then you see all of the
00:52:09.960
services that could handle that content light up, which tells you that it can handle that content.
00:52:16.840
If, let's say, you type something too long, and Twitter might go dark, but it might also have an
00:52:23.780
adjustment where it can add a thread option so that Twitter can also handle longer content. But maybe it
00:52:31.420
warns you that it's not ideal, right? So in other words, you start with your content, and then the
00:52:36.400
system tells you where it can go. And then, if you don't like the format the way it'll show, you just shake
00:52:43.100
your phone, and it gives you some more suggestions of how to organize your content, you know, different
00:52:48.500
formatting, etc. And then just publish. Now, here's the part that's not obvious about this.
00:52:55.280
Yeah, somebody says that Hootsuite already does this, but it doesn't. All right, Hootsuite is just for
00:53:02.040
scheduling your posts. What it doesn't do is allow you to write one post, I think, that can be posted
00:53:09.760
everywhere, but that also you could read the replies to it in your app. Hootsuite doesn't do that.
00:53:15.420
So what we do know from Hootsuite is that it is possible to have one app that can post to different
00:53:21.360
places, but it's not quite the idea that I'm expressing. Now, if you did this right, what this
00:53:27.560
does is inverts the power structure. Because right now, I want to be on YouTube because it's good for me,
00:53:36.360
but YouTube doesn't care that much, right? So YouTube has all the power, because I need them,
00:53:43.620
but they don't really need me specifically. They need people, but they don't need me so much,
00:53:50.140
right? So right now, I don't have any power. But if I were using the God app, I wouldn't care
00:53:56.740
if YouTube banned me or not. It wouldn't make any difference, because I'd have so many platforms,
00:54:02.180
I'd just put it out there, and people looking for me would look at another platform. So this would
00:54:09.520
actually invert the power. So the power would end up with the platforms, or actually the user,
00:54:16.040
not the platforms. So the power would go to the user, and it would reverse the structure. Now,
00:54:22.440
this is similar to, if you're familiar in the restaurant business, there's an app called OpenTable.
00:54:28.940
OpenTable was an app that allowed any restaurant to use the service and let people book their
00:54:35.400
reservations online back when that was a novel thing to do. When I owned a restaurant back in
00:54:41.780
those days, I resisted OpenTable aggressively, and I tried to talk other restaurant owners into
00:54:48.000
resisting them, because restaurant owners are not very sophisticated. And OpenTable was really for
00:54:53.760
the independents. It wasn't for the chain restaurants, for the most part. It is now.
00:54:58.080
But the independents were clearly going to be taken out of business by OpenTable. Because if OpenTable
00:55:05.700
succeeded, it would become the way that people made reservations. And then OpenTable decided what
00:55:12.060
you saw. In other words, OpenTable could say, well, I went on to make a reservation for
00:55:17.760
one restaurant, but it decided to promote another one. Because OpenTable might have had a deal with
00:55:24.580
them, for example. Yeah. So you don't want anybody to put you in between the service that you want
00:55:30.460
and the customer. You don't want the middle person to get in the way, because they can start sucking up
00:55:36.020
all the margins. It was obvious to me that once OpenTable became indispensable, instead of just a
00:55:43.200
useful app, as soon as it became indispensable, then they could start raising their prices until your
00:55:49.980
margin as an independent restaurant owner would be shrunk to zero. So it was obvious in the long run
00:55:54.980
that OpenTable would destroy independent restaurants. Likewise, if you put in your middle app between the
00:56:04.700
user and the services, you would take the power away from them to some extent, because you would add
00:56:12.140
competition that doesn't exist. So right now, if you say to me, hey, it's too hard to compete with
00:56:19.340
these big services. If you're a little service, you can't compete. But the God app would make competing
00:56:26.120
easier, because there would be no extra friction putting something on Rumble if you're also going to
00:56:32.360
put it on YouTube. Once you remove the friction, you give the power back to the user, and you take it
00:56:39.060
away from the platforms. Why did I ever want to run a restaurant, somebody said. Well, it wasn't
00:56:45.260
because I think restaurants are a good business. It was because my job as a cartoonist was lonely,
00:56:52.440
and I had no human contact. And so I wanted to have a business in the local community that would be,
00:56:58.680
number one, good for the community, create some jobs, etc. But I would have a place to go,
00:57:04.260
and I could do something more interesting. And, you know, I had a partner who did the business part,
00:57:10.460
and I was sort of a financial person and advisor. So I didn't do it to make money. I did it as an
00:57:17.380
experience, and it was an amazing experience. But of course, restaurants are not really what you want
00:57:23.960
to do to make money. Let's see. Human contact. Have you had the experience yet of watching a movie or
00:57:36.180
television show, and when you see the characters get too close to each other, you go, ooh, because they're
00:57:42.540
not socially distancing? I have trouble watching movies now, where characters without masks get close to each
00:57:50.620
other. Because the whole time I'm thinking, you better not do that. Oh, you can do that. It's a movie.
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Has anybody had that yet? Yeah, I'm seeing in the comments. Yes, I have. It's starting to look weird to see
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people close together, isn't it? And that is really messed up. The fact that it ever became normal to look
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abnormal, the two characters without masks are close to each other. That's pretty bad. Yeah, the comments are
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lighting up with people saying, oh, yeah. Oh, but we have some news as well. All right.
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Somebody says they're always screaming at the TV when they see somebody not socially distancing in a
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fictional story. Somebody says this has never been about a pathogen. Well, let me say this. It is
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completely about the pathogen. There is no great reset. This is not part of a grand conspiracy to take
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away your rights. None of that's true. Right? So if there are any QAnon people who think the pandemic
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was fake, and it was all part of a major scheme, I'm here to tell you I've got a pretty good track
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record of spotting bullshit. And I can tell you with complete certainty, that whatever the pandemic
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was, I'm not sure we know all the details of its origin, etc. But whatever it was, it wasn't part of
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any plan. Like there was nobody had a plan, unless it was one crazy person who released it. That might be
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true. But there's no like a big organization with a pandemic take over the world plan. And I'm seeing
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in the comments, wrong. Sorry, Scott. Want to bet? Let me put it in this terms. If you're watching me
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right now, it's because you've seen me get things right. Probably. By now, I would say that you wouldn't
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be watching this if you hadn't seen me consistently be right about a lot of stuff. Now, am I wrong about
01:00:03.660
things too? Yeah. Wrong about Trump getting reelected. Did not see the, let's say, alleged
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shenanigans. Did not predict that. At least predict that it would make a difference. So I'm going to put
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this in context. There are some things I say where I'm 80% confident. There are things I say when I'm
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20% confident. This is one of the few things that on a scale of one to 10, I'm a 10. Meaning that there
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isn't the slightest chance that the whole pandemic is part of some scheme or plan or reset or anything.
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So on a scale of one to 10, there's nothing I've talked about that I've been right about. And I've
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been right about a lot. There's nothing I've talked about that's more certain than that that's not real.
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That I'm at the maximum amount of certainty. Now, nothing's 100%, right? So I suppose you could
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be wrong and ghosts exist and aliens built the pyramids. And I mean, anything's possible. But
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there isn't, I have the highest level of certainty that the QAnon stuff is not real. So
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somebody says, you're watching because you're hypnotized. Well, you are. You know, that difference
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between what is formally hypnotized and what is just influence and what just is part of the texture
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of people influencing each other is a little murky. But you're always influenced by anything you spend
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time around. So certainly true. Somebody says it's a great excuse for tyranny, curfews, random
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restrictions. Let me ask you this. By who? Who is the person behind the need for tyranny and control?
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Now, I think it's just a lot of individuals who are making individual decisions for lots of
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different reasons. That's all it is. Bunch of individuals making individual decisions.
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There has never been a meeting where anybody got together and said, I think we can use this to
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control people. That's never happened. Bill Gates was mentioning it for years because it was
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an obvious risk that was guaranteed to happen. And he was right.
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You hope. Now, do you think there's any chance I could talk the Great Reset people out of their
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belief? Probably not. It's pretty hard in belief.
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They all sing the same song, Scott. Well, it's definitely true that, you know, Democrats want power
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and sing the same song, etc. But no, there is no global conspiracy to create power by releasing
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the pandemic. I guarantee you that's not real. Scientists are taking advantage. Well, it's definitely
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real that people take advantage of situations. That's different than an intentional plot.
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How does a curfew prevent virus spread easily? Why would you even ask? Somebody's asking, how does a
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curfew prevent virus spread? How's that not obvious? It seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? I'm not even
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going to answer that. If you can't figure that one out on yourself, phone a friend. Now, the latest
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information that I saw, maybe you saw the same, is that the risk of getting coronavirus from touching
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something is now really, really, really small. Is that your understanding as well? And it seems obvious
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because if you could get coronavirus by touching common surfaces, I feel like we'd all have it by now.
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I mean, I don't put on gloves to use the ATM, do you? Who puts on gloves to use the ATM? I don't put on
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gloves to open the door, although I do use my elbow as much as possible. I must have touched
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a hundred thousand things that a hundred thousand people have touched. And if you could get it from
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touching stuff in public, I would have coronavirus for sure. So, you know, science has now confirmed,
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this is my understanding anyway, so I don't think I'm wrong about this, but science has confirmed that
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the odds of getting it from a surface is really, really small. So, that's good news.
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How can you guarantee, guarantee what? That it's not a great reset? Naive fool, somebody says to me,
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you naive fool. Scott is bought and paid for. I wish somebody had.
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You know, probably the single value that I have to you, probably one value that's, you know, above the
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others, is that you can pretty well depend on me not being bought off. It's sort of the one thing you
01:05:23.600
can be sure of. I can be right or I can be wrong, but you can be sure I'm not bought off because it's
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the advantage of being, you know, already rich. How much would somebody have to pay me to lie in
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public? I've never priced it, but what would you think? Like, what would be an amount of money I
01:05:44.420
would take to lie in public? A million dollars? I wouldn't take a million dollars to lie in public
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because I have, you know, I've got a few million dollars, right? So, I didn't really need another
01:05:56.500
one. It wouldn't change my life. Well, what would be the amount that somebody would pay me to lie in
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public? Would I lie for a billion dollars? Well, nobody's going to offer that. It wouldn't matter.
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You know, you can imagine that I would say yes to that, but nobody's going to offer a billion dollars.
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I don't know of any way to get paid for anything I do. If you do, let me know. Maybe there's some
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money I'm not making, but if there's any way to, if there was, if there were any way to be paid off
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for what I do, I'm not aware of it. Nobody's ever offered. By the way, nobody's ever offered.
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Just, just in case you're wondering, um, if you consider as much as I talk in public about politics,
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and apparently it's having some impact, nobody has ever offered to pay me. I'm not even an offer.
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So, I don't even know, how does it happen? Is there somebody, does George Soros, uh, need an
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appointment? You know, if I wanted Soros to bribe me, you know, do I make an appointment? How do you do
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that? Um, $10,000 per lie, somebody says, is the going rate? Yeah, I don't think I would do that.
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Um, you know, it's funny that, uh, uh, I have, I block certain keywords on Twitter, so I don't have to
01:07:28.020
see certain kinds of trolls, but I haven't blocked the same keywords on YouTube. So only on YouTube,
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there's a whole certain kind of troll that, that I stopped seeing for a while. All right, that's all
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I got for now. Somebody asked me, how's the e-bike? The e-bike's great. You should get one. And I will
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talk to you later. And you YouTube people, uh, thanks for hanging out with me. Sorry, I started this a
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little bit early. Um, do I block and mask keywords? I do on, uh, Twitter, and I, I think
01:08:02.960
I have that function here on YouTube. I haven't used it as much. Uh, all right. Oh, the nasal
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surgery. Uh, unfortunately the nasal surgery will not be successful on me. So I went through that
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whole surgery only to learn that I have a certain kind of situation in which they're likely to come
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back. So at the moment it's better than it was, but it'll just come back. So the surgery was not
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the success in the long run. All right. That's all for now. I'll talk to you later.