Episode 1241 Scott Adams： How the Fake News Industry Manufactures HOAXES, Using Today's Fresh Example
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It's the new year, which means it's time for the lizards squad. This week, we have a story about a man who says he met with then-Sen. John McCain to try to buy his way into office, and a union at Google.
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Hey everybody, come on in. Did you think 2021 was going to be boring? Nope. I'm glad we saved up all
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the craziness for the first weekday after the holidays. I feel like I was worried things might
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get boring, but then we've got the lizard squad. We'll talk about that in a moment. I said lizard
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squad. That's actually in the news. The lizard squad. But before we get to that fun news, all you need
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to enjoy this in the maximum possible way. And why would you settle for anything less, frankly? Would
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you? No. No, you're not going to settle for less. So get your cup or mug or glass, tank or chalice or
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stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, and get ready to maximize your experience with the
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little thing I call the simultaneous sip. Feeling connected to people all over the world, better
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than even fungi. Yeah. You think fungi are connected underneath the forest floor? Well, they are, but
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not as much as we're going to be connected in a moment with a simultaneous sip. The dopamine here
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of the day, have I built this up a little too much? Go. No, no, I didn't build it up too much.
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It was just as good as I thought it would be. Sometimes I think I'm exaggerating then. No,
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So, a fellow named Tyler Bowyer, he reports that he was elected to the GOP chair in Maricopa County.
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And he says he met with then Senator McCain, who is now the late Senator McCain. And he said he met
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with him just out of respect for the office and that, this is what he said, he tried to buy me off
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by offering local chamber money, chamber of commerce, I guess, local chamber money he said
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he controlled. He wasn't shy about it. It didn't work. Now, what do you think of that story?
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Does that sound true? Well, Senator McCain is not here to defend himself. So, it's a little bit
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unfair because the person isn't here to defend himself. But I don't see anything about it that
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strikes me as a lie. I mean, it doesn't seem like something you would make up because it's got
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this detail about the chamber money he said he controlled. That's not exactly the kind of lie
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you would make up, right? If you're going to make this up as a lie, you would say, Senator McCain
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said he had some money, you know, and he would put it my way or something. But you wouldn't say
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something so specific that he controlled the chamber money and all that. That's pretty specific.
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I think he's telling the truth. And my only comment on this is that I prefer bribers who don't get
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caught. And scene. In other news, some employees of Google and Alphabet are trying to organize to
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create a union. We don't know how well they'll do. But I wondered, why do you need a union
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at Google? Don't you always hear it's like the best place to work and people are fighting to work
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there and salaries are good and benefits are great. And it's a prestigious job in the middle of the most
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active industry in the world and a great place to live in many places, depending on where the office
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is. Why would you need a union? And so I looked at the details. Turns out they're not so focused on
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compensation. No, they're not really focused on working conditions. Some of the things you would
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expect from a union. Nope, they're focused on the lack of wokeness at Google. Because as woke as Google
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is, it's not woke enough. Because it's doing contracts for the Department of Defense.
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No, protect the country, homeland security. So that's no good, according to these folks at Google.
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And what else have they done? They've profited from advertisements by hate groups. Now, when I say
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hate group, I mean a group that somebody else doesn't like. Maybe that group is a hate group. Maybe
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they're not. But if you hate them, well, let's call them a hate group. It's close enough. So those were
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the two things that they surfaced as being worthy of note for their major claims are two wokeness items.
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Now, how perfect is it that Google could be taken down by wokeness? I don't know that it'll happen.
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But it's a fun story. But not as fun as, yeah, I'm going to get to Trump's phone call. I'm building you
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up to it. It's this is the buildup. So attorney Linwood, who, as you know, is working for the
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president's benefit on the election fraud stuff. But that's not all he's doing. It turns out that
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Linwood has something else to say today. Totally believable. And it goes like this.
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Now, let me be very clear. This is not my opinion.
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What you're going to hear now is somebody else's opinion.
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Or fact, we don't know. But it goes like this. Linwood tweeted,
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I believe Chief Justice John Roberts and a multitude of powerful individuals worldwide
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are being blackmailed in a horrendous scheme involving rape and murder of children
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captured on videotape. It's captured on videotape. Well, if it's captured on videotape,
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obviously it's true. Because there's never anything that's on videotape that's not true.
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Well, hold that thought. Hold that thought for later.
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But given that it's right there on video, and apparently he has access to it, there's a crypto
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key and there's a file and something and he apparently has access to it, wouldn't you think
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you might see, I don't know, one screenshot, for example? I don't have to see the whole video because
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it sounds like the video is pretty bad, which totally exists. And you know why? You know it exists?
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It comes from a credible source called the Lizard Squad. Now, if you are going to be a credible
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organization, one way to advertise your credibility is to name yourself the Lizard Squad.
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There are apparently some hackers who got into these files and have determined that these are
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actual files showing rape and murder of children. And wouldn't you expect to see at least a screen
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grab? Maybe not something that shows the whole story, but wouldn't you like to know that at least
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Chief Justice Roberts is on it? Because if he's not on one of these videos, I'm not so sure there's
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any kind of evidence. And by now, wouldn't we see at least a screenshot? Not the whole video.
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Of course, we don't want to see that, but a screenshot. Or how about, has he shown it to somebody else?
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Let's say a prosecutor. Has he shown it to a prosecutor? And has the prosecutor said, yes,
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I've looked at this video. Looks real to me, or at least something I need to look into to find out
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if it's real. Where's that? Kind of missing. Kind of missing. Well, here's my take on this. I think
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the odds that John Roberts is on any kind of a blackmail video are really, really small.
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Like, really, really small. Like, if you were to take all of the allegations that have ever been made
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since the beginning of time and rank them from most credible to least, eh, this might be close to least.
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Now, let me say this as clearly as I can, because I know you're not gonna hear me. This is one of
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those topics where I could look at you and say, two plus two equals four. And a lot of you will go
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away saying, he keeps saying two plus two is five. I don't know what's wrong with him. And I'll just say,
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two plus two is four. And you'll hear two plus two is five. It's gonna happen right now. Are you ready?
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It'll happen right now. Not to all of you. But some of you watching will hear two plus two is five
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when I say two plus two is four. Are you ready? Here it comes. I'm guaranteed it's got to be true
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that there are very important people who are being blackmailed by major intelligence services.
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That's got to be true. Because it falls into the category of something that would have a high
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upside potential, blackmailing important people. If you're an intelligence agency, your risk of
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getting in trouble for it is zero. Because that's actually your job. What is somebody going to say,
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hey, intelligence agency, your guy is trying to blackmail me? And what is the boss of the guy doing
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the blackmailing going to say? Is he going to say, oh, I got to fire that guy? No, no, the head of the
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agency would say, well, that's why we hired him. He's supposed to be blackmailing you. And by the way,
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he did a good job. So you better shut up. Because we got all the evidence on you. So if you have a case
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where there's no risk of penalty, at least for the person doing the blackmailing, because it's literally
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their job in an intelligence agency, there's a gigantic upside. And then the third thing that's
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necessary to be guaranteed that it happens is that there are a lot of people involved. If there were
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only one important person in the world, well, there's a pretty good chance they haven't murdered
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or raped anybody. But if you have lots of leaders, you can guarantee some number of them, and it might be a
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pretty big percentage, like an alarming percentage of them, 20%, 30%, 50%, it's a big number, have done at
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least something they could be blackmailed for. Maybe it's 80%. But I would say minimum 30% of leaders
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have something they could be blackmailed for. So under those conditions, what are the odds that there
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are sexual predators and rapists, I guess that's the same, in government in major roles? The answer is
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100%. 100%. There's 100% chance that people in power are doing bad things. There's 100% chance that
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intelligence agencies are trying to find out about them. There's 100% chance that in some number of
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cases they have succeeded. And there's 100% chance that it makes a difference. That some intelligence
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agencies have leverage over a number of people. Now, that said, if you were to pick any one allegation about
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any one person, and here's an example, an allegation, the worst possible allegation against Chief Justice
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Roberts, what are the odds that any one specific thing is true, in the context of knowing that the larger story is
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definitely true? There definitely are people doing bad things, definitely being blackmailed by intelligence
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agencies, probably more than one of them at the same time. Those two things are not incompatible. So do you hear
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this? It can be definitely true that it's happening. While almost statistically, you know, if you're just
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going to put an odds on it, any one person who gets accused, very low odds. So I would say the odds that
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Chief Justice Roberts is actually doing anything like any of these allegations, vanishingly small. So small, I
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wouldn't even think of it as being in the category of things that might be true. That's how small the odds of
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this being true are. At the same time, it could be true that there's this stuff going on, but not for
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any individual. You can't make that claim. So unless he's got a screenshot of Justice Roberts, I would not
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look for that to be true. All right. The Epoch Times is reporting that there was a data analysis by something
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called the Data Integrity Group. So I guess they do data analysis. And they did a time series look at
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all the votes coming in on election day, and make the following claim that at least over 400,000 votes
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were switched. Switched meaning removed, I think, at least subtracted from Trump. I don't know if in this
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context, they mean that it was added to Biden or is just removed from Trump. A little unclear, but
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it doesn't matter for the point. All right. Point is, and now here's the payoff. Now, I've been telling
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you before that simplification is going to be the key, because you've got a whole bunch of complicated
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claims about all kinds of things in the election. They all conflate, and did the courts rule on them,
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or did they only rule on doctrine of latches, and, you know, was it only about standing? The whole thing
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is way too complicated for the public to understand. But if anybody, and I talked about, this is going
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to sound familiar, because I talked about this in a different context. If anybody in that data analysis
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world who's got a claim can boil that down to one thing that can be checked, that's going to be
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powerful. Because you've got a whole bunch of claims that are hard to check. If you could take
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even one important thing, let's say something that affected 400,000 votes, if you could boil that one
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claim of 400,000 votes down to one verifiable objective fact, you just look at it. And if you're not
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looking at it, you can't tell. But if you are looking at it, you know. And apparently this group
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did that. They boiled it down to one simple data fact that you could just observe. Now, they make a
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claim that, in my opinion, is probably false. And I'm saying probably just because the way the world
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works, right? It's not based on anything about the data integrity group. It's not based on the
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reporting of the Epoch Times. It's not based on anything that. It's just if you live in the world
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long enough, there are some things you just expect not to be true in the end. And this sort of fits in
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that category. But here's the genius part of it. All you have to do is check. And I'm going to tell you
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what their claim is. And when you see how simple it is, you're actually going to feel it. I tell you
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this sometimes. Every once in a while, there'll be a little piece of knowledge. Your understanding
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of the world you live in just goes up a little bit. Like you reach a little higher level of
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awareness. And sometimes you can feel it. Like you'll get a little goosebumps or something. I'm
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going to do that to some of you now. Most of you won't feel it. But some of you are going to feel it.
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Here's your goosebumps. Here's the claim that is so simple. Just check. It goes like this.
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Quote, there were vote movements across all candidates. Of course, you know, the vote is
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changing in real time as the candidates are getting their votes counted. And they say, however,
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we did not see the same type of negative decrements, meaning votes decreasing in real time from a total
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that was higher to lower, to any of the other candidates that we saw with President Trump's
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tallies. And they happened repeatedly, the Trump ones, with no explanation, said Linda McLaughlin,
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a member of the group. Now, that is a very specific, simple claim, which the data that they have
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available to them, apparently, shows. Now, here's my problem. I'm not telling you to believe this,
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okay? So if it sounds like I'm saying, hey, this is a credible one, believe this one, I'm not there.
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I'm not there at all. But what I love about it is that it's a claim you don't have to believe or
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disbelieve. You can just check it. All right? Now, if it's true that only President Trump's vote counts
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showed several times when they went down, and nobody else ever, ever experienced even one issue
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of where any other vote count, either Biden's or anybody else on the ticket, Republican or Democrat,
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anybody else, if no other vote count all night ever showed one decrease, but the Trump votes did a
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number of times, easy to check, right? Because apparently they have the data. They can just look
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at it and say, okay, here it was, it decreased. And the other ones didn't. Now, do you think if that
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claim is checked, that it would stand up? Oh, and somebody's saying in the comments that it was
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true across multiple states. I believe that's true, that it was not in one place. It was multiple
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counties. Now, how do you like the fact that this is boiled down to something that you could just check
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it? You don't have to wonder. Now, based on the claim, you should not believe it. If all you've read
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is the claim, zero credibility, just like every other claim about the election, no credibility.
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But if the other side doesn't weigh in and say, you idiots, there's a perfectly good reason why it
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looked like that was happening, but it really wasn't. I'd wait to hear that. But what if you'd ever
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hear that? Because as Linda McLaughlin says, that no explanation has been offered. Don't you think
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that would be something they'd want to explain? And don't you think it wouldn't be hard to explain it
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if there were an explanation? For example, and I'll just brainstorm what it might be. It could be that
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they've got different sources reporting, and that every once in a while, there's, you know, an artifact
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where there's a slight timing problem, and it looks like something was decreased, but it really
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wasn't. It was just decreased before it increased, or something, right? You could imagine they'd say,
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look, this is normal. We'll show you that it happened in other elections. We'll show you that it happened
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to Biden too. We'll show you that it happened to other candidates. A defense would be easy. It would be
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easy to defend it. Just tell us why it happened, or tell us it didn't happen. Easy. So do you think
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that this exclusive story in the Epoch Times will be picked up by all the major media, because now we
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know a way to find out for sure if the election was stolen? Isn't that good news? We don't have to
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wonder. In fact, we could probably be sure of it in 24 hours. All you need is somebody who's got the
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opposite opinion about what this data means, somebody qualified, have them look at the same data,
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and then tell us what they think. If they look at the data and have a good explanation, I'm open to
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that. Indeed, I'm not only open to it, I'm far more likely to believe the explanation, because most of
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these things are going to be explained away, like 95% minimum will be explained away. Why would this be
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different? So I would expect it's not real. But every day we go, in which the explanation, the
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alternate explanation doesn't exist, it's a little harder to believe it's not real, isn't it?
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Now, do we live in a world where the news can just disappear something this important? Well,
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let's talk about the Trump phone call. So you all saw the news. Trump made a phone call with, I guess
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it was the Georgia Attorney General and other people in that office and job, in which he was listing his
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grievances and evidence for why the election was stolen. And he had a pretty long list of things
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like dead people voting and people whose addresses don't check out, and there were places where he
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claimed that there were more votes than registered voters, etc. Now, I listened to the entire hour,
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because I think you need to, because if you're just a clip coming out, you won't know what to believe.
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But I listened to the whole hour, and I have a few thoughts. Number one, the president is very,
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very, very poorly advised at the moment. I mean, shockingly poorly advised. Now, do I blame the
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president for thinking that there are all these irregularities, which have been, in my opinion,
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mostly debunked? In my opinion, right? There's some room for opinion on this. But I feel as if he's
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mixing claims that have not been debunked, and are definitely worth looking into, and look pretty
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strong, like this Epoch Times one. I don't know if that's true, but it looks pretty strong, and it
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hasn't been debunked as far as I know. So wouldn't you like to look into that a little bit? Of course
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you would. But by mixing stuff that, at least again, just in my opinion, sounds transparently and
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obviously not true. Somebody's not telling the president the truth. There's nobody in his circle
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at the moment who apparently feels safe that they can say, um, you got some strong things you can say,
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and you got some weak things, and maybe just leave the weak things alone. Because if the strong ones work,
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that's all you need. Why would you throw weak ones in there and ruin the whole thing? So I would say that
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for those of you who have been following the claims, they seemed almost embarrassingly uninformed.
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So that was my take. Now you know, if you watch me, I could not be a bigger booster of Trump,
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right? To the point of a flaw. I'm a booster to the point of flaw. But even I didn't think the stuff
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he was saying about the election was too credible in whole. There were parts of it that I didn't know,
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and I'd like to know more about them. Definitely stuff to look into. But the way it was interpreted
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by the news is in the form of a hoax. Oh, here's the other thing I noticed. He's the president of
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the United States, albeit lame duck, it looks like at this point. And he could not get the people on that
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phone call to be even a little bit cooperative. Not at all. So watching the president of the United
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States trying to make a basically a Karen phone call and complain about the service, and he couldn't
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get the supervisor to say anything helpful. It was shocking to see how little power he had.
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How did it get reported? When we saw how little power the president has? The president couldn't
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even get the other people to be polite, basically. I mean, he couldn't get anything out of them. And
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they're his own party. How was that reported? Obviously a dictator, obviously, trying to force things
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through. If you listen to it, man, that was no dictator. That was whatever you are when you're
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complaining to the DMV, and they're not hearing it. That's what was happening. That wasn't Hitler.
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That was Karen complaining, and nobody cared. That was it. Now, it was characterized, of course,
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as that he was, you know, he was pressuring, and it was illegal, and all the bad people say it's
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illegal. He's pressuring. But if you listen to the whole call, there are a few things that are very
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clear. Number one, I would say with complete confidence, and I believed this before, but the
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phone call removes all doubt, and it's this. I'm not a mind reader, but that call makes it really,
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really clear that Trump believes it was stolen. So if you're thinking to yourself, he doesn't really
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believe it was stolen. It was some kind of a trick to stay in power. In my mind, there's no chance of
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that. You hear the phone call. He absolutely thinks he got screwed. He's got lots of evidence that he
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believes. A lot of it, I don't. But he's convinced. I mean, he sounds like a true believer, and he sells
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that completely. So if you're worried about, you know, he's a dictator, that should dispel that,
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because you didn't see much dictator stuff going on. But the fake news, CNN has turned it into a scandal,
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because they need Trump for their ratings. And here's the pattern of how they turn real news to
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fake news. You see it in this example, and you've seen it a number of other times. Once you see the
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pattern, it's just kind of funny. They use the same trick. First, they'll take an audio or a videotape
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that's longish, and they'll cut out a quote that's out of context. Where have you seen that done?
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You saw that with the Covington kids. You saw it with the fine people hoax. And you saw it with the
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drinking bleach or injecting disinfectant hoaxes. In each case, if you had heard the entire piece,
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you would have said to yourself, that's the opposite of what the news said. For example,
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in the fine people hoax, before the quote that was taken, Trump talked about the people who were
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there who were not racist, just there for the statues. And then after that, he made sure that
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you knew that he was condemning totally the neo-Nazis and the racists who were there. But if
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you take out the clarification and also the context that they started and just show the clip,
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it looks like he called Nazis fighting people. If you look at the Covington kids clip, all they do is
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clip out the parts before and after. And it looks like the kid is the bad person. But if you see the
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whole clip, it's obvious that the person he was with or the guy who claimed to be a Native American
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or who was, I don't remember the story, you could tell that he was the aggressor. Likewise, with the
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drinking bleach hoax, if you hear it in all of its context, you're the first part where the president
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sets it up as talking about light as a disinfectant. Then he talks about it. And then he clarifies
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about light. So if you don't hear that he set it up as light, and then he wrapped it up as light,
00:28:36.840
and all they take out is injecting disinfectant, that's how they create the hoax. Now, the fake edit
00:28:47.800
is not enough by itself. All right, that's not enough by itself. You need the other steps and I'll get to
00:28:53.740
them. All right, so in the case of this phone call, what they took in a quote, they took little pieces
00:28:59.420
and a quote and where he's saying stuff that makes it sound as if he's pressuring him to cheat.
00:29:07.140
Now, the opposite is happening. Trump is pressuring him to look into allegations to make sure that
00:29:14.680
nobody cheated. That is literally the opposite of asking him to, as CNN reports it, find votes.
00:29:22.900
So the second part of this is that the fake news will use persuasion primers. These are words,
00:29:32.080
wit, and phrases, which if you hear them at the same time you've heard the story for the first time,
00:29:37.920
they prime you to see the story a certain way. These are brainwashing persuasion primers. None of
00:29:44.640
this is an accident. They know how to do this. It's the fourth time in a row you've seen it. Same pattern
00:29:50.460
every time. So the the primer words that they use in this case are pressured to find votes. Here's
00:29:58.340
another way to describe exactly what you you heard on the the audio. The president forcefully was
00:30:07.920
promoting his idea that the people in charge should look into the allegations of fraud so that the public
00:30:15.120
can understand that the election was either clean, which would be good, or they'd find that it wasn't,
00:30:21.920
which would be good in another way. So did that sound like pressuring to find votes, meaning
00:30:29.440
manufacture, you know, manufacture about nothing? Did that sound the same? Because what I said was just
00:30:35.340
objectively true. You listen to it. He's making his case. He's presenting his claims for fraud.
00:30:40.780
He says, we just want a fair vote. We just want to know. I just want you to look into it.
00:30:47.220
That's all. And, but if you hear pressured and find votes, and you pair it with a clip,
00:30:54.160
which doesn't have the rest of the context, it looks like what? A mob boss talking. They like to use the
00:31:01.700
things that you've, that you've believed before. Now, because the whole, he's a mob boss was already
00:31:10.520
a meme. They just take a meme that is already active in your mind, and they just attach a new
00:31:16.180
thing to it. It's much easier to attach fake news to an existing meme. Oh, he's like a mob boss. Yeah,
00:31:24.000
whenever he makes a private phone call or thinks it's private, he talks like a mob boss. And here he is
00:31:29.200
making a phone call like a mob boss. Now, if you listen to it, there wasn't anything even close
00:31:36.040
to talking like a mob boss. I mean, not even close to anything like that. The tone was not that.
00:31:46.400
It was just asking for something to be looked into. That was it. And the boldness with which they
00:31:56.120
they try this is amazing. Here's some more phrases from CNN. The president was caught on tape.
00:32:03.540
Caught on tape. Now, what do you imagine is true of somebody who was caught on tape? Well,
00:32:11.340
they're guilty. What does it mean to be on a recording if you were caught? They're signaling
00:32:20.900
that he's guilty before they've even told you what the content is. That's a primer. That's brainwashing.
00:32:29.600
So he was caught on tape. No, he wasn't caught on tape. There was simply an audio tape, which has
00:32:35.300
been available to the public, in which not much of anything happened. That's not even close to being
00:32:41.700
caught. And by the way, I prefer presidents who don't get caught on audio. Here's another sentence
00:32:52.480
directly out of CNN's coverage, that the tape, quote, exposes the depth of his corruption.
00:32:59.840
Suppose you knew there was a long tape. You only heard one part of it, which was something about
00:33:05.880
finding votes. And then you read CNN saying that this tape exposes the depth of his corruption.
00:33:13.220
Wouldn't you kind of think that the parts you didn't hear were more confirming the depth of his
00:33:19.020
corruption? Nothing like that on the tape. Not even close. Nothing even in that general category of
00:33:26.780
corruption. Not even close. It's just him asking for data to be looked at, because they've got some
00:33:33.060
claims. They would like some data to be released by the state to make sure the claims are true or
00:33:38.120
false. Just nothing like exposing a depth of corruption. He literally just asked questions.
00:33:45.200
That's it. They said it was a smoking gun. Anytime you hear any of these phrases, you're being brainwashed.
00:33:56.580
These are not news phrases. They're not even close to news. It's just straight up brainwashing
00:34:02.920
at this point. And then step three, they Bernstein it. So you bring in Bernstein just to say it's worse
00:34:17.080
than Watergate. Literally just to say that. Now, have I taught you the trick of having a big opening
00:34:24.980
offer? So if you're negotiating, which is in a way similar to persuading, at least in the way I'm going
00:34:31.740
to use it now, if you start with a big opening offer, it anchors people to the first thing they
00:34:38.980
heard. So if I say to you, I'm going to sell you my car, and it's worth a quarter of a million dollars.
00:34:45.920
The first thing you think is, there's no car you drive that's worth a quarter of a million dollars.
00:34:50.600
Well, that's true. It's not worth that or anywhere near it. But it's the first number you hear.
00:34:56.860
So now I say, all right, maybe it's not worth a quarter of a million, but man, I'd like to get
00:35:02.160
a hundred thousand for it. Now the hundred thousand doesn't sound so bad because you got primed with
00:35:08.300
the 250. And even though the thing is only worth $35,000 used, suddenly the hundred doesn't sound
00:35:15.900
so bad because you got primed with that 250. That's what Bernstein does. The worse than Watergate
00:35:22.220
guy comes in to give you the first offer. Worse than Watergate. And in your mind, you're like,
00:35:27.200
whoa, whoa, that's big. Now later, when you get more, let's say you get more information about what
00:35:34.700
was on there, you're already primed. So maybe you, maybe you come down a little from worse than
00:35:40.220
Watergate in your mind, but you're like, yeah, I'm not sure it's quite worse than Watergate,
00:35:45.640
but sounds like it's pretty bad. See? So that's how their brainwashing works. Start with a big
00:35:52.060
offer. It's worse than Watergate. And then it's hard to get you off that no matter how much data
00:35:56.680
comes out later. They use repetition because if they say it enough, you'll think it's true. If you
00:36:02.620
hear a news story or item a hundred times, you're going to believe it's more true than if you heard
00:36:07.640
it once. It's just how your brain is operating. They make you think past the sale. So you've got things
00:36:15.060
like exposing his depth of corruption or caught on tape. Those are manipulation phrases to make
00:36:22.300
you think past the sale. The sale is whether anything bad happened. And they're making you
00:36:28.720
think it is exposing the depth of his corruption by making you think of all the other corruption
00:36:33.900
it's like. But they haven't made the sale. They're making you think past it. There's no sale that
00:36:40.760
anything bad happened. They're making you think all the way to not only did it happen, but it's like
00:36:46.080
this other stuff that turns out didn't happen either. All right. Then, of course, you do the
00:36:50.960
mind reading. What is the president's state of mind? Yeah, he's like he's thinking like a mob boss and
00:36:55.840
he's trying to pressure this guy. He's not trying to get justice. Now, in his mind, it's not about
00:37:03.080
justice because CNN can read his mind. You can't, but they can. They got pundits with powers and they
00:37:11.000
read his mind and they find out that, no, despite all of his words that clearly and repeatedly say he
00:37:18.360
just wants to know what happened and can we see the data, please. Now, there's some legal reasons it's
00:37:24.820
hard to give him the data, but that's a separate story. But if you mind read him, none of that's
00:37:29.920
happening. He's just trying to be a dictator. And then the most important part, which is disappearing
00:37:36.260
the debunks. So this video, which is debunking it thoroughly, will not be highly rated on social
00:37:46.520
media. And so anybody who's going to do what I just did will just sort of get disappeared. Now,
00:37:54.180
you might say to yourself, well, that's CNN, right? CNN's crazy, but at least people will go over
00:37:59.760
to Fox News and they'll read the real story. They might even agree with you, Scott, and they might
00:38:05.500
even be on the same side. So you go over to this Fox News and you look for the story and good luck
00:38:11.980
finding it. Now, I don't know what's up with Fox News, but I would think this would be like one of the
00:38:18.000
big stories as opposed to not mentioned. So take that for whatever it means. I would think this one
00:38:26.740
would be mentioned, but it must be a story there. I'm sure Fox News will cover it eventually and the
00:38:32.700
opinion shows later today will cover it, of course. But it's sort of suspiciously not there at the
00:38:39.480
moment, unless it happened in the last hour. All right. So here's the more CNN bad behavior.
00:38:48.740
They also say, quote, legal experts say Trump broke the law by pressuring blah, blah, blah, blah. Well,
00:38:56.060
if he pressured him, maybe he broke the law. I don't know what law they're talking about. But if he was
00:39:01.960
just talking to him and asking for data, is that breaking the law? So here's CNN acting like a law
00:39:11.120
has been broken when you can just listen to the tape and it's obvious no laws are broken.
00:39:17.660
All right. Here's another story just because the simulation loves us and gives us lots of code
00:39:24.280
reuse. All six members of the congressional group we call the squad, you know, the progressives,
00:39:30.680
AOC, et cetera. They all voted to put Nancy Pelosi over the top as speaker. Unanimous they were.
00:39:38.680
So Nancy Pelosi must be doing something right. The squad loves her. Now, I have to admit, when I first
00:39:44.780
saw that the phrase lizard squad was trending, I thought, well, that's not a nice thing to call AOC
00:39:51.920
and the other people in that squad. I feel it's unkind to call them the lizard squad. But it turns out
00:39:59.520
that lizard squad was a different squad. I got that wrong. Lizard squad was the hackers as opposed to
00:40:06.420
the squad who are also lizards, but they go by a different name. Also lizards because they're part
00:40:13.960
of Congress, not because they're... See this taken out of context? Imagine that quote becomes the part
00:40:22.400
they take out of my live stream and miss the part where I say, no, it's because they're in Congress.
00:40:28.140
They're lizards. It's not because it's these, you know, few people in the squad that are lizards.
00:40:33.980
They're all lizards. But you take that part out.
00:40:40.320
My Twitter friend Zach says that watching the Biden presidency is going to be like watching a bad
00:40:48.420
spinoff of a TV show. You know, the Trump TV show is just so awesome and top rated show. But then,
00:40:55.280
you know, they do the spinoff of the minor characters. So it's like, Trump was the TV show
00:41:00.520
friends. And Biden is going to be like Joey, you know, the spinoff show about just Joey. It's like,
00:41:08.920
yeah, we're going to watch it by habit and reflex. And maybe it'll remind us of friends.
00:41:23.620
Here's a little tip for you. I don't know how much backing this has by science, but there was a study
00:41:31.700
saying that if you drink alcohol soon after getting the vaccination, it will make the vaccination way
00:41:38.360
less effective. There's something about alcohol that makes the meds and the vaccination a little
00:41:44.100
less active. So don't drink alcohol within several days of getting the vaccination. So you have all
00:41:51.580
been made more safe by watching this live stream. Here's a question for you. Remember Howard Schultz,
00:41:58.140
who was the founder of Starbucks, and he was running for president for a while? What if he had been
00:42:03.640
elected? Would Howard Schultz, could you trust him to make decisions about whether Starbucks should be
00:42:10.760
open? How do you do that? I feel as if Howard Schultz, although I have lots of confidence in
00:42:19.120
him as a, you know, a smart operator and capable and all that, I have only good thoughts about him.
00:42:25.700
But he would be in quite a bind, wouldn't he? Because one of the biggest questions in the pandemic is,
00:42:32.980
does a place like Starbucks stay open or just go out of business? How could he make that decision or
00:42:38.620
even be part of it? Or, I mean, I don't see how that would have worked. But, you know, short of
00:42:44.400
having a pandemic, he would have been fine. But as soon as it's a pandemic, he's the wrong match for
00:42:49.280
the job, right? Remember, I've told you that there's no such thing as bad presidents and good
00:42:53.980
presidents. They're just presidents who coincidentally are matched for a task. Trump perfectly matched for
00:43:01.380
a whole bunch of tasks, mostly international. But Howard Schultz would have been a bad match
00:43:06.900
for a pandemic, just because you would never know if he was doing something because of Starbucks.
00:43:13.820
You just wouldn't be able to know that. And I'm not casting any aspersions on Schultz. Like I said,
00:43:19.320
I have only good feelings about him, but it'd be a bad position to put him in. Gordon Chang, who talks
00:43:25.200
quite a bit about North Korean Chinese, an expert in that region, is recommending that we cut all ties
00:43:31.120
with China. Think about that. Cut all ties with China. Now, Gordon Chang is not random crazy guy
00:43:40.620
on Twitter. He knows what he's talking about. And if Gordon Chang is telling you we'd better cut all
00:43:48.660
ties with China, you need to take that seriously. Now, I know that the president listens to him, so he
00:43:55.060
probably is taking you seriously. And it's not very easy. I mean, now, and I made the case just
00:44:00.740
briefly, when we say cut all ties with China, it's because every interaction we have with them
00:44:06.100
is militarily bad for the United States. I say militarily, because anything that kills Americans
00:44:12.780
at the hands of our enemy that we're in a hot war with, it's a cyber war, but it's a hot war.
00:44:19.340
Anything that your enemy does to kill people in your country is an act of war. So whether it's they
00:44:24.340
send us fentanyl, they do trade deals that are illegal, they steal our IP, they send spies over,
00:44:31.040
you know, you can just go down the list. Every contact with China is militarily negative to the
00:44:39.020
United States. So we should delist their companies from the stock exchange. The president did that.
00:44:44.420
We should send all of their residents home that are trying to get educations here. We should stop
00:44:50.560
trading with them. We should bring all of our, we should have an order to bring all of our companies
00:44:55.360
home. Now, and I don't, I just don't know. Oh, and this other news thing is that Jack Ma,
00:45:03.520
the founder of Alibaba and multi, multi hundreds of billions, I don't know, he's super rich guy.
00:45:10.320
I guess he criticized the regime and he disappeared so far for a week. Now, it's really hard for a
00:45:16.680
billionaire to disappear. If somebody like, you know, Elon Musk or, you know, Bill Gates were not
00:45:23.100
seen for a week and it were a national story, it wouldn't take long to find them. You know,
00:45:29.120
he was at the retreat or he just took some break from social media or something. But it's been a week
00:45:35.180
and we don't know where one of the richest people in China is and very public guy. Like Jack Ma is
00:45:42.780
always on TV. He's like very public. So what if he never shows up? Because that's possible.
00:45:51.320
We might never see him again. He could be making shoes with the Uyghurs right now. Anything could
00:45:57.480
happen. Now, I imagine he will turn up soon, but his attitude will be adjusted, is my guess.
00:46:03.780
I think the regime probably will talk to him and say, you know, if you'd like to stay, oh,
00:46:09.220
alive and a billionaire, let me tell you how to do it. And it's not the way you're playing it right
00:46:14.600
now. But the other thing that's interesting is that Jack Ma is no ordinary guy. Whatever it was
00:46:22.880
that turned him into one of the richest people in the world was not an accident. He's got skills
00:46:28.720
and he's got billions of dollars and skills. And did I mention skills? And here's my question.
00:46:38.220
As strong as the Chinese Communist Party is, I mean, it's immensely strong. I don't know
00:46:44.100
if they're messing with the right person right now. Because if he's already got a little problem
00:46:48.880
with the leadership, and they're doing something with him right now, you don't want to let him
00:46:55.660
out. Let me say this a different way. If China is doing something bad to Jack Ma, they better
00:47:03.940
finish him. Because you don't want that guy loose with his billions and really, really mad
00:47:11.620
at the regime. Because he is important. You know, he has enough probably inside knowledge,
00:47:17.580
contacts, people he could bribe. He could probably take down the government. Because I think that
00:47:24.360
any billionaire in this country who was like really serious about taking down the government
00:47:28.980
could have a good shot at it. Now, China, of course, you assume that they would close him
00:47:35.160
down the minute he tried anything. He'd obviously have to leave the country. And he'd have to get
00:47:39.280
most of his money out if he could. But if he gets out of the country with his money, and they tortured
00:47:45.360
him, Jack Ma could take down China. I think they've got a dangerous situation on their hands.
00:47:54.720
I don't think they can ever let him out if they're doing something bad to him. Now, they might reach
00:47:59.900
some agreement where they don't do something too bad, maybe just some house arrest. And then when
00:48:04.620
they've talked to him enough, he just feels like, I don't want to go through this again. It wasn't that
00:48:09.180
bad. It was just house arrest for a week. But I don't, you know, next time it could be bad. So I just
00:48:14.240
won't say bad things about China. I would think that's the way it's going to go. I think that he's a
00:48:19.320
smart guy. And they'll just figure something out. And he'll just shut up about China. But did I
00:48:25.240
mention he's Jack Ma? Now, I don't know much about him. I just know that you don't, you don't get
00:48:31.240
where he is by not having skill, not being brave, not doing things that people don't expect, not being
00:48:39.620
able to push through a brick wall as if it didn't exist. So I don't know, you know, what his real
00:48:47.320
capabilities are, but one assumes they're pretty good. China might be in trouble. We'll see. That
00:48:53.860
is my show for the day. And I've got some things to do. So I'm going to run off and do those things.
00:49:01.220
Somebody says Zuckerberg took down Trump. You could make that argument. Yeah. You know, there were too
00:49:06.640
many other variables to isolate one thing. But if Zuckerberg and Facebook did not exist,
00:49:12.900
Trump would probably be president. I mean, that's, that's not a reasonable and unreasonable
00:49:17.120
thing to think. All right. I hope you enjoyed this episode. And I will talk to you tomorrow.
00:49:29.200
All right, YouTubers, you've got another minute. Why do you think the Trump tape was leaked? Well,
00:49:35.340
it was because his enemies probably thought that they could make something out of it. Now,
00:49:42.040
the interesting part is that a lot of people are going to hear the president make a lot of claims
00:49:46.000
about election fraud. So there's at least some thought that maybe the president's team released
00:49:54.400
it. Because by turning it into national news, which just has to be covered, all of his allegations
00:50:01.000
get out there. So it might be good for the president to do that. Explain lead stories. I don't know what that
00:50:08.580
means. Calendar drama. So as somebody pointed out on Twitter, the Dilbert calendar is printed in China.
00:50:18.460
And so the question was, hey, if, if, let's say about Chappelle can get Netflix to take his old show
00:50:26.940
off the air, can't I get my publisher to use a different printing company? That's not exactly a good
00:50:34.540
analogy. If I were Chappelle, and I had an ancient show that I probably made little or no money on
00:50:40.900
at this point, and all, all, all net, all Netflix had to do is just, you know, click a box and it
00:50:48.440
doesn't appear anymore. Because it's probably as simple as that, right? Just click a box and that,
00:50:53.720
that little part of their business just doesn't exist anymore. Probably doesn't make much difference
00:50:58.040
to Chappelle. Because the way Hollywood deals are made, even though it was his show, I doubt he had
00:51:04.960
profits going forward. I doubt it. Or if he did, they weren't much. So he didn't give up anything.
00:51:11.920
So Chappelle basically gave up nothing of any value. And in order to, for Netflix to give him what he
00:51:19.140
wanted, they probably just had to check a box. And they couldn't even tell the difference in their
00:51:24.640
profits. Because it's one of, you know, thousands and thousands of properties. By comparison, my
00:51:31.420
publisher, I believe, does all of their printing for all of their properties in China. It's not easy
00:51:37.240
for them to stop doing that right away. They can't just check a box and then there's no printing in
00:51:43.660
China. Do you have any idea how hard it would be for a major publishing company to change where they
00:51:49.400
publish all of their books? It's a big deal. Now, this is why I promote an executive order that just
00:51:55.780
orders companies out of China, American companies. Because your publisher, it's not really fair to ask
00:52:03.380
a publisher, why don't you decrease your profits by 30% and spend your entire next year trying to
00:52:09.080
figure out how to do this thing that there probably isn't even enough capacity in the United States to
00:52:13.960
get that. Or, you know, you'd have to take it somewhere. So the Chappelle thing was the smallest
00:52:21.680
possible ask. There was no real cost. I mean, immeasurably small. And just check a box.
00:52:29.820
Mine would be an entire publishing company working for a year, changing everything that they do.
00:52:36.260
Maybe there would be no Dilbert calendar, so it would make a big impact on me. It's not the same thing.
00:52:42.360
But I'm on board with getting the Dilbert calendar out of China. So if you wonder what I want,
00:52:50.580
it's that. But I also work in the real world, and it's not really fair to ask a publisher to make
00:52:56.400
that kind of a change until it's either legally necessary, or there's some kind of alternative
00:53:03.180
that doesn't look so bad. You know, do it in Vietnam or wherever. So that's where I stand on that.