Episode 1246 Scott Adams： I Tell You Why Trump Should Resign Today, As Well as All of Congress and the Entire News Media
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The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except a capital protest, and it happens now! Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit, The Simultaneous Sip.
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Hey everybody, come on in, come on in. It's time. Yeah, it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams,
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a flask, a fessel of any kind. Fill it with what? Your favorite liquid. And join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better
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except a capital protest. It's called the Simultaneous Sip and it happens now. Go.
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Yeah, that was just what I hoped it would be. So let's talk about all the things
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in the news. I'm keeping count and so far 73 people today have criticized me for opinions I do not hold.
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It's about one per minute. So actually that number has probably climbed since we signed on here.
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I heard there was a story about Georgia winning both of the two Senate seats, but nobody seems
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interested. Literally the biggest story in the country is that the Senate was going to go Democrat
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and barely talking about it. Well, it was like the entire political world just turned upside down
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and all we can care about is whether Trump's going to resign or something. It's like suddenly it went
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from the biggest question in the world to, eh. Now here's the question. Do you think that Democrats
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having control of the Senate will allow them to do the things they want to do? If you imagined
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that Congress was comprised of competent people with the best interests of the country at heart,
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you'd think that having a majority would be a pretty good deal. But if you believe that Congress,
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no matter who has the majority and what, is a bunch of incompetent people who do not have your
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interests in mind, then it's not going to really matter, is it? In theory, they won't be able to do
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anything useful because it's the same bunch of incompetence as before. They have a majority, but
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you know, on paper, on paper, it looks like they could just push through tax increases and all kinds
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of stuff. And I'm sure there will be some of that. I mean, it's not as if they won't make any changes,
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but I imagine that we over-imagine how much change they can get away with.
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You want to hear the funniest thing? This is the funniest thing about the Senate being so close,
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but just barely Democrat. Just barely. Do you know what that means? That means that if I were a
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Democrat and a Senator, do you know what I would do? Well, I'm not proud of this, but if I were a
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Democrat this year and a Senator, I would go to the Republicans and I'd say, you know, if I switch
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parties, pretty good deal for you guys, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And, but if I did that, I'd certainly want
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something in return. Something pretty darn big. So that's one way I could go. You know, I can't
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imagine that there's not one Senator who isn't thinking, you know, I could be the most powerful
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person in the world if I just sometimes say I'm not going to vote with my team.
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Do you get that? We just turned over the Senator to one person. We just don't know who it is yet.
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There will be one Democrat who becomes the famous one for sometimes not going the way the Democrats
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always go. That person runs Congress. We just gave Congress to one person and we don't even know who
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it is. Will it be Joe Manchin, right? Some people say, you know, he's not really the maverick type.
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He only votes against his team when other people are doing it.
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I'm just saying we just created a system in which it will only take one person to decide to run the
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entire Congress and they can do it. They just have to create a reputation of sometimes voting for the
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other side. Do you know who would be good to do that? This is definitely not going to happen,
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but I'll just put it out there as a thought. This is just a thought experiment.
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There is one member of, well, no, you need a Senator. So I guess that was a bad example.
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What I was going to say is if AOC were a Senator instead of a Representative, I could see her being
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one of the people who would be smart enough to know she could just take over the country.
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She just has to show some ability to change sides sometimes. Now, it would be tough for her because
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she's more extreme on the left and not a Senator. But in concept, you can see what we just did to
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ourselves. The country just funneled all of its power into one person and we don't know who it is.
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We don't even have the name of the person. I'm hearing Tulsi.
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Oh, my God. You're right. You're right. We just handed power to Tulsi Gabbard. How do you feel about that?
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Not too bad. It could be a lot worse, right? How would you feel if you knew for sure that just
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through the strange confluence of events, we'd accidentally given the most power in the country
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to Tulsi Gabbard? Because I feel like maybe that just happened, didn't it? That would be the
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funniest outcome. All right. So we got a number of people quitting in the Trump cabinet. I guess
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Betsy DeVos and I guess Elaine Chao, McConnell's wife, and a bunch of other people quitting in the
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Trump administration. And people on both sides. Now, there are Republicans calling for Trump to
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resign or maybe do the 25th Amendment to take him out for medical reasons or maybe impeach him.
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And I tweeted this morning that this would be a good time for Trump to resign. Do you know how many
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Twitter users you lose if you tweet today's a good time for Trump to resign? Well, it's thousands.
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It's thousands. So I'm a little lighter on Twitter followers, but I feel bad for the people who don't
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wait for the second part. Those of you who have been with me for a while, you know to wait for the
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second part, right? Because there's never just a first part. There's always a second part. So let me
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tell you why I think this is a good day for Trump to resign. Number one, it's Friday. Friday is a good day
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to leave a job. Good day to fire somebody because you just got the weekend right after it. So Friday
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is always the best day of the week to do stuff like that, right? If you're the person doing it,
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Friday is a good time. Number two, Trump has never had better negotiating leverage, right? How many people
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want Trump to leave immediately? Well, you've got all the Democrats. They want him to leave
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immediately. They don't want to mess with impeachment or 25th Amendment if they don't have to
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immediately. How about Republicans? There are plenty of Republicans who are saying, um, it's time.
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I think even Tucker Carlson said Trump's, you know, his date of expiration has passed. So you've got
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plenty of Republicans who think it's time. Got plenty of Democrats who think it's time. Trump's negotiating
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position just peaked. Now, and only now, can he say to a Mike Pence, how about this?
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Pardon everybody in my family for everything, including me, and I'll go early. Do you see it yet?
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He's never been in a better position since realizing that he would probably lose the election.
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He's never been in a stronger position. If he's not talking to Pence about a deal,
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he's missing, like, the best opportunity to make a deal ever, because it's the only time that both
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sides would say, yeah, yeah, get him out of there. If we have to make a deal, we'll do it. But get him
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out of there. That's when I'd do it. So I'm saying that today is a good day to resign. Now, remember,
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Trump has already committed to an orderly transfer of power. It's not like he's going to get something
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done in the next two weeks. What's he going to do? Do a trade deal with China? Probably not.
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What exactly was he going to do for the country in the next two weeks? I can't think of anything.
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But he could create trouble, right? He can create trouble. Now, maybe he's got some extra pardons,
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pardoned Assange, you know, pardoned some other people. I would do that first, right? Or you could
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work that into a Pence deal. You could even say, Pence, you have to pardon Assange, and then I'll leave
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right away. Something like that. So he could still get some stuff done, like pardons. But there's
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never been a better time to resign. On top of that, I would say that he has destroyed any chance of a
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2024 run. I don't think that's even slightly practical at this point. Because Trump has,
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he took it a little too far. I think he took it a little too far. Part of the reason that we've
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liked him as a president, those who have liked the show so far, is because he takes things a little
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too far. That's more of a feature than a flaw. But you know that taking things a little too far
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isn't going to work every time. And this is a pretty strong example of where it didn't work.
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Now, if this were the first term, and Trump had done something of equivalent level to be criticized
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as his rhetoric about the Capitol, and you know, however much he encouraged that, we assume some.
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If he had done this in the first term, people like me would have said, all right, all right, that's bad.
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That's not good. But you'd have to weigh that against the benefit you imagined he could do over
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the next three years. You'd say, I don't like that. But I don't want him to leave because I want those
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other benefits, right? But if you only have two weeks left, what the hell benefits are you going
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to get? I'm not expecting any benefits in the next two weeks. So right now, he's just a cost.
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Every day that, you know, he's in the news, it makes people who have supported him, such as myself,
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look bad. So at this point, it's just all downside. Now, I have great affection for the president.
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You know, as you know, I met him personally, liked him a lot. You know, if you spend 10 minutes
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chatting with him, you're probably going to walk away liking him. He's a real likable human being,
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and he's got the, you know, the big personality and everything. It's all real. I mean, you feel it
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when you're in the room. He's quite charismatic. But there is a time when you have to say what's good
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for you personally, what's good for the country. And sometimes it might be a little different than
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what's good for your president. That this is that time. Now, having said that this is a good time
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for President Trump to resign. And I think that the criticism that he encouraged the capital protests
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that went too far and resulted in deaths, we'll talk about that. That's fair. I think that's a fair
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criticism. But again, given that there's only two weeks anyway, it's stronger than it would be if
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it had been in the first term. It just means a different thing. But I would take that argument
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that says the capital protests would not have happened unless Trump's rhetoric had been, let's
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say, supportive of it. Would you agree that that's true? Could you say that if Trump had either been
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against the January 6th thing, or simply not made as big a deal about, you know, what he made a big
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deal about? Probably it wouldn't have happened. Right? Do we all agree that that's true? And
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therefore, since it wouldn't have happened without his actions, you say, well, he takes responsibility.
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But if you take that theory, oh, wait for the second part, you complainers. There's a second part.
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But if you take that same theory and say that it wouldn't have happened except for the actions of
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a person, you should extend that, logically, to anything else that also had to happen.
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Right? So there had to be an environment in which this could happen. So you had to have massive
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incompetence in Congress and in our elected officials to make an election system that wasn't
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credible. Wouldn't you say that Congress has full responsibility for making an election system that
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wasn't credible? And because of that, if you would remove that variable, there would have been no
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protest at the Capitol. So using the same standard, I think this would be an appropriate time for Trump
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to resign, largely because of his encouraging of the protests that went too far. But Congress,
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I think, also should resign. Every one of them. All of them. And if there's anybody in Congress who is
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not actively working on fixing the election system for the next time, well, they should resign.
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Because they're just going to cause the same problem again. If people are resigning today because of
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what got what was caused this week by their actions, they should just resign right away. Because 2024,
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they're already causing another revolt by not fixing the problem, not even addressing it. So I would say
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every member of Congress, all Republicans and all Democrats who are not actively working on fixing it
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for next time, that every one of them needs to resign. And I don't think there's any question about that,
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is there? Would anybody question that? Now, of course, you want your person to stay so your party has more
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members. I get that. But as a general statement, when you say that any member of Congress, the Senate, the House,
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if they're not actively working on pushing for better election credibility, they have to resign.
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I mean, they really have to resign. Because they're both responsible for this, the problems this year,
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but they're already creating the same problem for next year. You can't even blame Trump for that,
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right? Trump won't be here. But Congress will be here, and they're already creating the same problem
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for the next time by not working to fix it. So yeah, they all have to quit. They all have to resign
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if we're being consistent. Now, also, contributing to the situation yesterday was the fake news.
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If we had real news, where you could depend on it, and you could rely on it, the real news would have
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said, here's the situation with the vote. And let's say that they said it was a credible election,
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because they did. What if the fake news had been a credible institution for the last several years?
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How would you feel if the news that you trusted said, yeah, I know it looks like Trump lost,
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and I know you're looking at all these indicators, but trust us, we looked into it.
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Trump actually lost, fair and square. What if a legitimate news organization told you that,
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and you said, ah, these guys are usually honest, they're usually right. It looks like it was stolen,
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but I guess it wasn't. What would be the result? Well, obviously, there would not have been a
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protest at the Capitol. So everybody who works in the fake news industry, anybody who pushed the Russia
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collusion hoax, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, and even this hoax. So this week,
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we're watching the press push a new hoax. The hoax is that this was a coup attempt.
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The fake news, I think the Atlantic has something about this. The fake news, even right now,
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is telling you that that was a coup attempt. Now, I'm no expert coup plotter, but let me tell you how
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plotting a coup never looks. Here's how it never looks in the planning phase. Hey, you want to
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overtake the government? Good idea. I'm in. How do you want to do it? Well, we're going to need
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resources. Yeah. If you're going to plan a coup to take over the country, you're going to need some
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resources. What are you going to bring? Well, I'm going to bring a Viking horns. And I heard there's
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a guy who's got some twist ties. Should we bring anything else like perhaps deadly weapons? Don't
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see why. Well, one reason would be you're planning a coup against the most advanced military power in
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the history of the solar system. What do you think it would take to get that done?
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That's going to take 10, 11 twist ties. Some people would say that would take 20, 30 twist ties.
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Well, I don't think so. That's just over planning. I think small bunch of twist ties, if you know,
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not by themselves, obviously, you're not going to take over a country with one handful of twist ties.
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I don't want to leave you with that impression. You would also need a guy who has Viking horns.
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And importantly, make sure that nobody brings a deadly weapon and brandishes it. You don't want
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that. So your news, if you can even fucking call them that, is reporting that this was a coup attempt
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with a handful of twist ties and a guy with Viking horns. Those are the only weapons.
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Now, if we had an honest, dependable news organization, along with social media that
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would support it with, you know, not, let's say, not filtering the wrong people and not promoting
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the wrong stories, etc. I don't feel like the Capitol protest would have happened. So I'm calling for
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the resignation today of all the CEOs of the social media platforms, because they're clearly complicit.
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If you took out the effect of social media, would there have been protests? Of course not. Of course
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not. You'd have to have that element for these protests to happen. And that element would have to
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be not honest for this to happen. And there you go. So certainly the president should resign. And by the
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way, I mean that, I mean that seriously. He should actually resign, both for his own good, if he can
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work out the best deal, because of the situation, but also for the good of the country. We don't have
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any extra benefit to get from him. And he is our, he's our servant, right? We elected him to do stuff
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for us. When he's done doing stuff for us, because there's nothing he can do with the next few days,
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it's just going to be causing trouble. So now's the time. And it doesn't matter if you've been a
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supporter of him or how much you love him, how much you think you should still be president.
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And it doesn't matter if you think the election was stolen or not stolen. It's just time. It's just
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time, right? Things have ends. We're there. So you should definitely resign, but all the members of
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Congress should resign. And certainly any member of Congress who didn't speak out against the BLM and
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Antifa riots all summer, including this week, Portland's again under, you know, under siege with
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nearly nightly riots. Now, anybody in Congress who didn't speak out about that,
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including today, because it's still happening, well, they have to resign. I mean, that's easy,
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right? So all of the, all the Congress people who were on that, they need to resign. All the fake news
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industry, they need to resign. All the CEOs of the social media platforms need to resign. And I would
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like to offer my own resignation. Unfortunately, I don't have a boss, so it doesn't hold the same
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weight as other people resigning. But if it makes you feel better, would, would Trump have been elected
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if people like me had not supported him? Well, not by myself, I probably didn't make the difference to
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put him over the line. But I'm part of a group of people whose support, if you imagine, did not
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exist. He would not be president. There would be no protests at the Capitol. So I feel like I should
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resign. I just don't have a boss. So it might be a little bit more, you know, theater. But I offer you
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my resignation for my role in all of this. I take full responsibility. Let's see what else is going
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on here. And by the way, does anybody disagree that Trump's 2024 run ended this week? There's not
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really any chance that he could run for president again. And by the way, I wouldn't, I wouldn't support
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it for 2024 based on age alone. So it wouldn't matter what else was true. It wouldn't matter.
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He's the only one who can beat whoever he's running against, or it's fair, or it's the only way we can
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take back the country. Or, you know, there'll be lots of arguments for him. And he might actually be
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in pretty good shape in four years. You know, it's perfectly, perfectly possible that he's has all of
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his faculties, etc. But you couldn't bet on that for the four years after that. That would be a pretty
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bad bet. So no, his 2024 run is, I say, completely done. At least in terms of the odds of winning,
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it's completely done by this week. I guess Kimberly Strassel wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal
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in which one of the things she said was, the pity is that Mr. Trump's conflagration
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will mostly burn the Americans he wants Washington help. They will bear the higher taxes, the higher
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costs of regulation, the higher unemployment, the loss of freedoms, etc. So would you say that
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Trump's conflagrations? There's a word I never use in public or even in writing. I would recommend
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that you not use that word either. That's one of those words that maybe just never use it. Because
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it's a bigger word than what you need to say what you say. And why would you use a word that half of
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the people reading it don't understand? Why would you do that? So don't use that word, conflagration,
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conflagration. But do you think that what Trump's actions, whatever his actions were this week, do you
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think that it caused the Republican, or let's say his actions, you know, collectively, do you think it
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cost him the election, which therefore cost his supporters, all the things that they wanted?
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Is that a fair statement? I'm not sure if I'm quite capturing
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Kimberly Strassel's argument. So I'll just say that I'm asking the question.
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I don't know, you can make that argument. But I think, you know, if people elected a fighter and
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they got a fighter, I don't know, I'm not quite buying into that criticism.
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So here's an argument that I'm hearing today about the election fraud claims, which, because I'm on
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social media, I have to frame this by saying there is no proof, no proof of any election irregularity
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that would make a difference to the outcome. But having said that, so that I don't get
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deplatformed yet today. Here's the argument I'm hearing about the court cases that were put forward,
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and I guess 59 out of 60 failed, and the one that didn't fail didn't seem that important or something.
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But people are actually arguing with these two points of view as if they're compatible. Number one,
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that the Trump supporting lawyers who put forward all of these lawsuits, that they included the best
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fraud arguments. So this is the first part. So the Trump critics are saying, the lawyers who put
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forward all of these cases that failed, they put together that it was complete, and it had all the
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claims in it, all the strong claims were there, and that judges have seen the strong claims,
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and ruled that they weren't strong, and dismissed them. So that's one claim.
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The other claim is that those same lawyers who did a thorough and complete job of the best
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fraud allegations, and they captured them in lawsuits and put them forward, those same
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highly qualified lawyers who didn't miss anything, they got all the good arguments and put them
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forward. But somehow, although they're really capable and competent of getting the best arguments,
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they're also crazy clowns who can't tell a conspiracy theory that's kind of obvious from the truth.
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So somehow, these two opposites are being put forward. That the lawyers were thorough and got
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everything and presented everything, and therefore the court rejected them. But also those same lawyers
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that are so thorough and good at making arguments are also completely crazy conspiracy clowns.
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I feel like you have to pick one. I've picked one. And the one I picked is, I don't believe that
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there's any chance that the lawyers were capable enough to put together the strong argument. Do you
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believe it? Do you think that this group of lawyers had the capability to look at, let's say, the
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statistical arguments, and know the good ones from the bad ones, ask the right questions?
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I don't think they had anything like that capability. If you would just judge from their public
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statements, the lawyers, and here I'm talking about the Sidney Powells, the Linwoods, not talking
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about Jenna Ellison. So I'm talking about the ones who are a little bit more out there, not the ones
00:29:17.540
who are sticking to the constitutional questions. That's all just fair. But the ones who are out there,
00:29:23.160
and then which lawyers were they that put together the ones that are not directly from the Trump
00:29:29.280
administration? That was most of them, right? What kind of capability did any of those lawyers have?
00:29:36.560
Well, I feel like, you know, you've got some strong attorneys, definitely. But it looked like most of
00:29:44.140
them were deeply incompetent. So why would I assume that the courts have seen a good argument?
00:29:48.700
I assume that they haven't. Now that doesn't mean a good argument exists. All I know is, if you're
00:29:56.400
arguing that the lawyers presented the good arguments, I would say that's completely inconsistent
00:30:01.700
with anything I saw from the lawyers who were in charge of the arguments. I didn't see any
00:30:07.100
competence. I didn't see anything that looked even remotely competent from Trump's main attorneys. Again,
00:30:13.700
not Jen Ellis. There's some that were sticking to the constitutional questions mostly.
00:30:22.960
So that's my argument. My argument is that the argument that the case has not been made. Now,
00:30:28.660
people quite reasonably asked me, what did I think were these strong arguments? I'll tell you what the
00:30:34.120
weak ones are. The weak ones are, I saw this thing on videotape. Weak, because it's not there. I watched the
00:30:41.260
same videotape. The ones about the pristine ballots. You know, there can't be any unfolded ballots that's
00:30:47.760
been debunked. There can be. There are reasons that are good. The shredded ballots that appears debunked,
00:30:56.660
because I think they just shred some envelopes or something. And I can go down the line. The dead
00:31:03.760
people voting has not been proven. The people with the wrong addresses at least hasn't been proven.
00:31:12.360
Now, there's some question about whether the information has been made available so you could
00:31:17.920
prove or disprove these things. But I would say all of those claims fall into the category of things that
00:31:23.540
95% chance are fake. You know, the van showing up with the fake votes and stuff. Maybe. I mean,
00:31:33.860
anything's possible. If I had to bet, I'd bet against it. So that class of things I will categorize as,
00:31:41.480
in my subjective opinion, as unlikely to be true. So that will be collectively the weak criticisms.
00:31:49.120
Doesn't mean they're true. They're not true. I'm not saying that none of them are true. I'm saying that from
00:31:56.160
my limited, you know, advantage point where I don't know the real truth. I'm just looking at the claims
00:32:03.920
because that's all I know. They don't look strong to me. So if somebody's asking me my opinion, what would
00:32:10.560
be strong claims? I would say, for example, we don't have access to the software. We haven't done an audit of
00:32:18.760
the, you know, the data logs. We don't have, there's lots of eyewitness evidence that the
00:32:27.280
observers were limited. The Italian story, I don't put any credibility in. Again, I suppose anything's
00:32:34.920
possible. But I would say that the Italian connection, that doesn't look even slightly
00:32:41.780
plausible to me by its nature. I don't have any inside knowledge about it. It's just that sometimes
00:32:47.900
when there's a story about Bigfoot, you don't really have to research it. It's just, it's Bigfoot.
00:32:56.040
You can tell just by looking at it, right? You don't need too much research. That said,
00:33:03.000
every once in a while, there's going to be something that looks ridiculous. It looks like
00:33:06.780
it's a Bigfoot. But that's true. You know, every once in a while. So you never know for sure. I just
00:33:12.980
put it in the category of things that are really, really unlikely to be true. Now, let's talk about
00:33:18.640
the strong evidence. I would say the strong evidence is an eyewitness, if anything, especially
00:33:24.640
if there's more than one. One eyewitness, eh. But two eyewitnesses, now you're getting towards
00:33:31.760
something. Any kind of a, as I said, the fact that we haven't audited the software, while at the same
00:33:39.080
time, we know that it is hackable. Because all systems are. There's no exception to that.
00:33:46.940
And then I would say these statistical claims, not every one of them, but that some of them are
00:33:52.700
backed by statisticians who do seem to have the right data, I would call those strong claims.
00:33:59.880
Now, when I say something is a strong claim, is that the same as saying it's true? No.
00:34:05.800
There are just some claims that, by their nature, look really strong. Now, I don't know if they've
00:34:13.160
been debunked or not. I'll give you one example of one that, by its nature, sounds strong, but that
00:34:19.660
doesn't mean it's true. And I mentioned this before. If you had two, let's say, voting precincts right
00:34:25.680
next to each other, and for, since the beginning of time, they always voted the same way, because they
00:34:31.280
have basically the same demographics. You know, you've got, let's say, 60% are Democrats, and every
00:34:37.180
year, 60% same ratio. And then this year, they diverged wildly. Well, that could be a coincidence.
00:34:49.000
Could be somebody did better voter, voter, I don't know, get out to vote in one than the other.
00:34:54.760
But if you have enough of them, if you have enough of them, that tells a different story. You know, one
00:35:00.820
or two, no big deal. But all the right ones, just the right places. Well, so if a professional
00:35:08.620
statistician says, I'm using the official database, you can look at it yourself. Here's my math. And I've
00:35:16.900
calculated that the odds that this was a fair election are 0.01, or I'm just making this up, but
00:35:23.840
something like that. I would call that strong evidence, which is not necessarily true, meaning
00:35:31.560
that there could be another explanation. It's just, we don't know what it is. So, would that,
00:35:38.240
suppose that case were made in court? Would a judge say, ah, the statistics are quite compelling,
00:35:44.840
therefore I rule it was a fake election? Not without direct evidence, right? If you're in a court,
00:35:52.520
if you're in court, don't you have direct evidence? Is statistical enough? I'm not a lawyer, so I don't
00:35:59.140
know the answer to that. Now, it might be if you had enough statistical doubt that the court could
00:36:04.020
order, I don't know, a recount or a re-election or something. So, I don't know how that would work
00:36:08.680
legally. I'm just making the general statement that strong evidence would be statistical evidence
00:36:14.840
in which everybody agrees on the database. Nobody's doubting the data came from the right place.
00:36:20.720
An actual expert in the field, not an amateur, and ideally maybe another expert who looks at it and
00:36:27.320
says, yeah, you did the math right. I would consider that strong evidence. Now, which of the 59 court
00:36:33.260
cases was the example that I just gave you? Which of those did the judge evaluate that specific thing
00:36:40.980
that I just mentioned and decided that it wasn't convincing? I don't know. The reason I don't know
00:36:47.880
is that we don't have a functional news business. Imagine if we did. If I were a reporter and I
00:36:55.900
wanted to do an actual, like, real job where I gave real information to people, it would look like
00:37:02.100
this. I would say, what are all the allegations? And then I would do what I just did in public here.
00:37:08.360
I would sort them from the ones that, if they were true, would be strong versus the ones that,
00:37:14.600
yeah, they're just Bigfoot claims. And then I would take the few that look strong and I would do a story
00:37:20.920
about them. I'd talk to the statistician. I'd make sure I talked to another statistician, say, hey,
00:37:26.460
did he do this work right? Can you check this out? I'd make sure that the database is the same one
00:37:31.660
that both sides agree as the actual data. And then I'd write an opinion on it. Where's that?
00:37:39.160
Have you read a story like that? Can you imagine anything that would be more important than that
00:37:44.560
story? Somebody looking at the strongest claim and just sort of digging into it a little bit.
00:37:49.280
The only ones I see are where the fake news takes the weakest claims. So they'll take, you know,
00:37:57.580
they'll say 10 of the weakest claims of, there might be 25 or 30 claims. They'll debunk the 10
00:38:04.140
and they'll leave you the impression that those were the good ones. But they weren't. They were the
00:38:09.900
dumb ones. So the public is, of course, being manipulated and brainwashed by the propaganda
00:38:15.640
that strong claims have been evaluated. But I've not seen any evidence of that. I mean,
00:38:22.540
it could be. It could be that they have been. I just have no evidence of it because we don't
00:38:27.100
have a media, a news media that works. So Ali Alexander, who is organizer of the Stop the Steal
00:38:35.980
event January 6th, which got out of hand and turned into these Capitol protests.
00:38:41.860
Yes. I'm wondering how he's feeling about this today. Because now we know that five people died.
00:38:53.780
And here's the bigger question. Will we ever have a protest in the future in which the protests,
00:39:05.960
if they're, let's say they're peaceful protests, or they're intended to be peaceful,
00:39:09.540
will we ever have a protest where bad elements don't get into it to break stuff and hurt people?
00:39:15.600
Because I feel as if we never will have another situation where there could be a peaceful protest.
00:39:21.740
Because there'll always be the instigators who say, ah, this is perfect. And whether they're
00:39:26.540
Antifa or just people who like trouble, they'll just go there to break stuff and cause trouble.
00:39:31.520
And then whatever trouble that is will be, you know, applied to the reputation of the entire thing.
00:39:38.140
Okay. So have we seen the end of public protests that can work? Because a public protest doesn't work
00:39:45.980
if there are bad elements in it that are killing people or breaking stuff. So I would say that Black
00:39:51.580
Lives Matter had this, you know, great cause, great intentions. But because of the looters who ended,
00:39:58.440
you know, the Antifa and the looters who tagged themselves onto the movement,
00:40:02.800
they ended up behind the curve, you know, recommending dumb stuff like, you know, defunding
00:40:09.920
the police, probably hurt them politically, set them back. So I don't know if we may have reached a
00:40:15.540
point where you just can't have a friendly protest and come out ahead, that every time you have a
00:40:20.740
protest, you come out behind. Certainly Black Lives Matter, I would say they came out behind.
00:40:25.760
And I would say that the Capitol protests came out behind as well. And both for the same reason.
00:40:31.880
They both had, you know, bad elements in them that did not represent the sentiment of the whole.
00:40:37.700
But the whole gets the reputation of the few. I don't know. I feel as if public protests just
00:40:44.180
won't work anymore. What's that do to you? Speaking of public protests, apparently Michelle Obama is
00:40:51.740
recommending an end to free speech, which is interesting. Now, technically, since it wouldn't
00:40:58.300
be the government who would be making these decisions, she's saying the tech companies should
00:41:04.200
permanently ban Trump from their platforms. If it is ever okay to ban somebody like Trump,
00:41:14.060
why wouldn't it be okay to ban people who also had similarly provocative and sometimes incorrect
00:41:24.340
ideas? As soon as you allow that this is okay, that you can pick out one person and ban them,
00:41:32.660
you can kind of ban everybody after that. Now, I don't believe in the slippery slope,
00:41:37.680
but this isn't even a slippery slope. This is starting at the bottom of the hill.
00:41:42.260
If you can ban Trump for being incorrect, but you're not going to ban Biden for inciting violence
00:41:50.840
against Trump supporters all day yesterday? I mean, that's what he did. Biden was inciting
00:41:55.860
violence against people like me in the country, demonizing half the country. But Michelle Obama
00:42:01.940
would say he could stay, despite the fine people hoax and the most divisive lies we've ever seen.
00:42:09.140
I would say more so than Trump. You know, Trump's divisive. But I think Biden beat him by a little
00:42:14.820
bit, you know, not a lot, maybe 20% worse. But if Biden's okay, and Trump isn't, that's the end of
00:42:24.060
freedom of speech, practically, you know, and the Constitution will still say it. But if social media
00:42:29.720
can shut you down, that's how you speak these days. So for Michelle Obama to actually come out
00:42:37.860
unambiguously against freedom of speech, those are my words, not hers, but it's pretty unambiguous
00:42:44.000
what this means. Shocking. It's just shocking. And that it's treated as just a suggestion.
00:42:52.300
This isn't just a suggestion. This would be the end of everything. Because if you get rid of freedom
00:42:59.160
of speech, the way Michelle Obama is suggesting, that is straight to totalitarianism. You know,
00:43:06.520
you won't even pause straight to totalitarianism if you do that. So did Biden encourage violence
00:43:16.100
against Trump supporters? Or am I exaggerating? Well, he did paint the Trump supporters as being
00:43:22.220
complicit, essentially, in whatever Trump did. And certainly, he's painted Trump as a racist, and
00:43:30.620
therefore, all of his supporters. I would say that he did, in fact, paint a target on the back of Trump
00:43:36.720
supporters. Now, let's compare, because what will happen starting now is that everything Biden does
00:43:45.120
will be compared to everything that Trump did in the similar situation, right? That's unavoidable.
00:43:51.120
So let's start now and start keeping track. When Trump and Pence were first elected, and before
00:43:59.400
they were inaugurated, do you remember how I was talking glowingly about their pre-inauguration work?
00:44:06.200
Because they went to Ford and tried to convince them to keep jobs here. They went to Carrier. Now,
00:44:11.000
I don't think either of those two things made much difference. In fact, I don't think
00:44:14.720
any jobs were created from that. But I was praising it not for those specifics, not about Ford and not
00:44:21.080
about Carrier, but because it created an understanding in the country about how serious Trump was about
00:44:29.240
jobs, and especially keeping jobs in the United States. And I think that that was transformative
00:44:34.300
about how we thought about it, you know, what was a priority. And then he went and he succeeded,
00:44:41.380
right? He had the lowest unemployment, set all kinds of records. So I would say if you were to judge
00:44:46.520
the Trump-Pence pre-inauguration phase, it's the best I've ever seen, by far. Name anybody else
00:44:56.340
who made a difference pre-inauguration? I've never even heard of it. But Trump-Pence did, and it was
00:45:05.480
real. I called it out at the time. It's not, you know, I'm not 2020 hindsight guy. I called it out
00:45:11.420
live at the time. Now compare that to Biden. He just did the most divisive speech I've ever heard
00:45:17.800
from a president or a president-elect. And I would give him a complete failing grade to the point of,
00:45:23.680
I think he should resign. I think Biden should resign because of his speech yesterday,
00:45:30.220
condemning half of the country as racist. Now, so if you're keeping score, and this is inevitable,
00:45:39.720
the pre-inauguration phase for Pence and Trump is A+. That was my score when it happened.
00:45:46.660
Biden's pre-inauguration is a failing grade. He's literally suggesting or promoting violence
00:45:52.940
against half the country. I don't know if you could fail harder than that, really. What could
00:45:57.840
Biden have done that would have been even worse pre-inauguration? Once he has power, he can do
00:46:04.900
things that are worse. But until he has power, I don't know that he could find any way to be worse.
00:46:12.920
Actually, he did. Some of his appointments, apparently, involved people who pushed the Russia
00:46:19.560
collusion hoax. That's worse. Well, maybe it's not. Maybe it's not worse. It's not worse than promoting
00:46:27.140
violence against half the country, in my opinion. That's my interpretation of what he was doing.
00:46:32.760
Um, so I would say Biden is the worst president we've ever had pre-inauguration. And Trump is the
00:46:42.520
best president we've ever had pre-inauguration. So as we go, I'll keep doing my scorecard. But right
00:46:49.940
now, it's not even close. Not even close. Now, will Biden provide a better job in his transition of
00:46:57.740
power? Probably. So if you want to look ahead, I'll probably be giving Biden higher marks for
00:47:05.400
whatever he does when he transitions and leaves office than I'm giving Trump, because I'm literally
00:47:10.200
saying Trump should resign over it. So, you know, I'm trying to be fair. But so far, it's one to nothing
00:47:17.700
Trump. All right. Apparently, there were two pipe bombs during this situation at the Capitol.
00:47:27.740
Uh, one pipe bomb was put not by the Republican National Committee headquarters and the other
00:47:32.820
pipe bomb by the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Who do you think placed two pipe
00:47:39.280
bombs in those two locations? Was it Republicans? Do Republicans put pipe bombs in front of Republican
00:47:48.260
and Democratic headquarters? Probably not. Was it Democrats? Would they put a pipe bomb in front of the
00:47:57.720
Republican office and the Democratic office? Probably not? Probably not. What entity or entities would put
00:48:05.680
a bomb at both of those places while there was also going to be a big organized protest? Well, Antifa.
00:48:13.000
Yeah, Antifa would do it. Because Antifa wants everybody to be fighting everybody in chaos. And I'm not
00:48:19.760
interpreting. That's actually what they want explicitly. What about China? Would China put a pipe bomb in those
00:48:28.300
two places to cause trouble in the United States? I'm not saying they did. I'm saying they would.
00:48:35.100
How about Russia? Sure. Yeah, Russia would do that. Anybody who wanted the United States to do poorly
00:48:43.060
would do that. But it's not the people who were marching. It's definitely not the people who were
00:48:50.380
there for the Stop the Steal event. It wasn't them. They're the only ones you can rule out.
00:48:58.040
Now, let's count up. I said there were five people who died as a result of various things. Let's count up
00:49:05.220
the number of people who were killed by any intentional act of the protesters. All right?
00:49:13.200
So five people died. Let's count up how many of the five were killed by the protesters. Zero. Zero.
00:49:22.820
Right? Now, there was a police officer who died of injuries. And you might say to yourself,
00:49:29.800
well, there's one. Somebody injured him to the point of death. But here's what we know. And by the way,
00:49:34.960
if that proved to be true, then that's just true. We don't have that information yet. But at the
00:49:41.960
moment, what it looks like is we had one person who died of a stroke, one person who somehow got
00:49:47.700
trampled to death, which I don't quite understand. You know, I don't really know how you get trampled
00:49:52.920
to death. But I mean, it could happen. I mean, I could see it with a gigantic crowd, a soccer riot.
00:49:59.380
But I don't know how it happened in this case. I guess it could. But obviously, that's not a case
00:50:06.360
of anything intentional being done. It's tragic, but an accident. There was a case of some law
00:50:14.680
enforcement person who shot one of the protesters who was unarmed. But again, that wasn't the fault of
00:50:20.840
the protesters shooting anybody else. It was them getting shot. And then there were some,
00:50:27.600
how many police officers, three police officers who died? No, how many died? But a few police
00:50:34.800
officers died based on something that happened. Now, here's, I don't want to make light of any deaths,
00:50:43.040
because they're all tragic, and we'll take them all seriously. But it has to be said,
00:50:47.640
that if you were to compare the protesters at the Capitol to, let's say, an Antifa or Black Lives
00:50:56.680
Matter protest, it has to be said that there is a difference in health. In other words, you have
00:51:04.920
never heard of anybody in the Black Lives Matter or Antifa group who were killed because they had a
00:51:11.040
stroke while they were protesting. It's a healthier group. They're younger. They seem to be far
00:51:17.620
more fit. They could ride all night. But the Trump supporters, unfortunately, were not, let's say,
00:51:24.560
in the healthy lifestyle segment of the population. And you just mobilize that many old fat people,
00:51:33.660
and somebody's just going to drop dead. And that's partly what happened. I would bet that when we find
00:51:39.940
out what happened with the law enforcement people who died, that it might be some combination of bad
00:51:46.580
health, plus the things that were happening. I don't know that they died because somebody stabbed
00:51:52.820
them, shot them, or bludgeoned them. I feel as if, you know, there's a lot yet to learn. But whatever
00:51:59.820
those, whatever killed those policemen, it could be very similar to whatever killed the number of the
00:52:05.460
protesters, which is bad health. You know, you couldn't survive a crowd, couldn't survive the
00:52:12.980
excitement, couldn't survive, you know, something that would have not killed somebody else. So
00:52:19.400
it has to be said that the deaths are at least partially a demographic artifact, meaning that if you
00:52:28.920
put a bunch of 70-plus-year-old overweight people into an exciting physical situation, people are
00:52:36.020
going to get hurt. You put a bunch of young Antifa people in the same situation, maybe not so much.
00:52:41.260
There is a difference. Yeah, there's a big difference in age, right? So that's a big deal.
00:52:48.760
All right, so just to reinforce, I'm not mocking anybody. I'm saying that that's a real difference,
00:52:55.180
and you can't ignore it. So let's see. Everybody's calling this an attempted coup, but that's crazy,
00:53:05.140
because Viking horns is not a coup. The other thing you're hearing is that if Black Lives Matter
00:53:11.420
had tried to take over the Capitol, the pushback would have been different, that they would have,
00:53:18.840
the guns would start blazing away, and that'd be a different result. To which I say, would it?
00:53:29.540
I don't feel like that's a reasonable assumption, because what we watched was a white woman who was
00:53:36.020
unarmed being shot through the neck intentionally, and I'm thinking to myself, it would be worse?
00:53:43.620
It would be worse than that? Shooting somebody who was unarmed? Isn't that like the worst thing?
00:53:52.200
It would be one thing if she was, you know, attacking the person who shot her, but she was
00:53:56.340
just coming through a window. Now, let me say as clearly as I can, I don't know what the law
00:54:01.960
enforcement rules or strategies are in that situation, and if there were, let's say, if Mike Pence was
00:54:09.440
behind that door, maybe you can shoot people. Maybe you can. You know, that would be the extreme
00:54:16.820
situation. So I don't want to judge before I know all of the facts, but it's hard for me to imagine
00:54:23.260
it would be worse if it had been Black Lives Matter. I feel as if it had been Black Lives Matter,
00:54:30.260
they would have done the same thing, which is if the numbers were so great, they would have gotten
00:54:35.060
out of the way. Because the Capitol Police took injuries. It's obvious that the Capitol Police
00:54:42.660
used physical defense, at least, and physical force. It's obvious that they put in the work,
00:54:50.880
they took the personal risk, and I have great respect for all the individuals who did that.
00:54:55.280
But once the numbers were big enough of the protesters, the smart play was to get out of the way.
00:55:01.180
Are you telling me that if exactly the same situation happened with Black protesters,
00:55:07.060
and there were so many of them, that once the defenders had realized they couldn't hold them
00:55:13.220
back, what would they do? Start blazing away and shooting into the crowd? I don't think so.
00:55:20.460
I think they would have gotten out of the way, exactly like what you saw. Would they have shot
00:55:26.320
one of the Black protesters in the neck and killed them? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. If it was the same
00:55:34.640
situation, first one to break through a barrier. Pence is in the other room. Maybe. But I actually
00:55:43.140
doubt it. If I had to guess what it would look like if that crowd had been Black, it would be either
00:55:50.120
exactly the same or one less shooting. Because you really have to think twice, three times, four times,
00:55:58.940
five times before you shoot a Black protester or a Black suspect or anybody Black, because you know
00:56:05.720
the pushback will be extreme. If you shoot a white person, you've got a problem with the shooting
00:56:11.780
itself. But you don't have a riot. If you shoot a Black person, it doesn't matter the reason. We know
00:56:18.520
that. It doesn't matter the reason. I mean, if they're unarmed, that's the whole story, right?
00:56:24.540
Unarmed, done. It'd be a huge riot. So I feel as if the people who are saying there would be more
00:56:32.260
pushback if they were Black, I feel like it's the opposite. But there's no way to test it. I mean,
00:56:39.380
you're not going to run the experiment. So as Joel Pollack asked on Twitter, if Trump is going to be
00:56:51.780
blocked by social media, and you've got Joe Biden, who just at the same day, he lied about Trump and
00:56:59.040
tear gas. He lied about Trump and holding the Bible. He repeated the fine people hoax. And he called
00:57:05.180
Capitol Police Racist, essentially, saying that they would have acted differently if
00:57:10.700
there were Black protesters. And as Joel says, all of these statements could be used to justify
00:57:16.980
violence. I think that's a fair analysis. So if you can't get rid of Biden for doing basically the
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same thing Trump is doing, he's just a Democrat doing it, then you better not get rid of anybody.
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All right. That. Is Trump going on Locals? Well, Don Jr. is on Locals. So if it might happen yet,
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you never know. All right, that's all I got for now. Somebody says, were there not Black people at
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the MAGA protest? There were. Now, I am seeing reports of Antifa, you know, being in the crowd,
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and they look credible. I don't know if it's true. But the video I saw did seem to look like it was
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Antifa. And it did look did seem to look like the MAGA people were calling them Antifa and trying to
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stop them from breaking windows. Again, video lies. So you never know. But that's what it looked like.
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All right. All right. I'm just going to look at your comments for a moment.
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Andrew Yang has proposals on media and social media. Oh, that would be interesting. You know,
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I have very high opinion of Andrew Yang only because he has interesting and innovative ideas
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ideas that are not sort of, you know, obvious political things. So even when Andrew Yang says
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things that maybe I don't agree with, I so fully respect the way he thinks about it and the fact that
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his intentions are unambiguously positive that anything Andrew Yang says, you should take it
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seriously. He's a patriot. Am I worried about being thrown in prison by a Biden-Harris administration?
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A little bit. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. See, the problem is not that I would be arrested for,
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you know, something that I'm doing in public or something I said. The problem is that if you get
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on an enemy's list, as Chuck Schumer said, the intelligence agencies have a thousand ways from
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Sunday to get back at you. Now, I'm not saying that any intelligence agency would come after me,
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but yeah, I'm worried that there will be some kind of retribution. And I would say that if you
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based it on the rhetoric, there's every intention of retribution. So I do expect that I will be
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targeted first by the media. I think they're probably already starting today. Have you seen
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his start yet? By the end of today, maybe over the weekend, I'll bet you I can forward you some
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articles that are hit pieces on me that haven't even been written yet. It's kind of predictable
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if you've been doing this for a while. So I do believe that some pressure will be applied to me.
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What my critics fail to understand is that I'm not like other people, meaning that I don't have a boss.
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They will fire me. And even if my customers all fired me, I'd be fine. So that's their first
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miscalculation if they come after me. The second one is that unlike other people, I do know how to
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transform energy into my benefit. So if they came at me with massive negative energy,
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unlike someone who is not trained, I could convert it into my energy. And I would just get new users
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and have more audience and have a bigger platform. So if they come after me, I don't think I'm going
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to go down as easily as they hope. I'm probably more anti-fragile than what they're used to.
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So going after me would have a cost. For example, they've been going after me, Democrats have pretty
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viciously, for four years, and I have the largest following I've ever had for this topic.
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So I don't think it works on me, but it's going to happen.
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All right, I'm just, you can always find me on the locals platform, if anything happens to me on the
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other social media platforms. And head on a swivel. I don't know what that means now.
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Stay off planes? Yeah. I think I'll stay off planes. All right, that's all I have for now,
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and I will talk to you later. All right, all you YouTubers, where's this slaughter meter?
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So the thing that I'll have to deal with, maybe forever, is that I predicted Trump would win
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re-election, and of course Biden will be inaugurated. But what's weird about it is,
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we don't really know if I'm right or wrong, because my prediction was not about a system
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taking over and replacing the votes. It wasn't about fraud. I just said that Trump would get the
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most votes in the right places for the electoral college to be re-elected. Now, that didn't happen,
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but I don't know if you could say my prediction was wrong if the reason we suspect it may have gone
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the way it did, was because of rules, rule changes, last minute, and, you know, the coronavirus and
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everything else. So I'm not sure that any prediction made sense, because so many things
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changed that are not just the voters voting. There were so many things in the environment,
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you know, allegations of fraud. But at the very least, there was, you know, media manipulation,
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and rule changes, and lawyer tricks, and all that. So I'm not sure that we saw anything like
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an election. So if somebody says to me, Scott, you said that Trump would win the election,
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what do you say now? I say, did we have an election? Because I'm not aware of anything like
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a credible election. We had something we called an election, but if half the country doesn't believe
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it really happened, did we have an election? Sort of a matter of an opinion, isn't it? We had an event,
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but it certainly wasn't a credible and transparent election. Was it fair? I don't know, because it
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wasn't credible and transparent. Had it been, maybe I could determine if it had also been fair. That's
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something I'll never know. So I don't think you can determine whether I was right or wrong,
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unless there was an election that we all agree was an actual election. And since that's not the case,
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I would say that I get it incomplete on that prediction. Although if I were going to make a
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list, I'd say that I got it wrong. Somebody says, the only hypnotist that has never hypnotized anyone.
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Don't know what that means. Reichstag fire. Somebody keeps asking me about it, to talk about it.
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I don't have any reason to talk about that. I don't use analogies as predictions or reasons,
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and neither should you. Do you know what you should compare to the Reichstag fire? Nothing. Nothing.
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Do you know what you should compare to the Holocaust? Nothing. Not a single thing. Do you know what you
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should compare to Hitler? Nobody. And you shouldn't use that as an analogy. I mean, it's a cautionary tale,
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so it's worth that. We should learn as much as we can from it. But as soon as you're labeling other
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people Hitler, you're just in ridiculous land. Why ever vote again? Well, let's see if the election
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system is more stable. Here's a good question. I want this one to come back. Who pays you? Who
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supplied the bots and trolls? Do you really think I'm paid? Let me answer directly. I don't get paid by
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any political entity directly or indirectly. I only make money from the live stream if I sell a book
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or something. So no, I'm not paid by anybody. That would be great, though. It would be terrific if
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somebody wanted to give me money for doing what I'm doing anyway. So if anybody wants to pretend they're
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bribing me while I just do what I was going to do anyway, that'd be cool. And you're still asking
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me to talk about the Reichstag fire. Let me tell you as clearly as possible. I'm not going to talk
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about that because it would be a dumb thing to talk about. All right. So having asked for it now 10
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times, I will block you. Let's say I'll remove. I guess I can remove it, but I can't block you here.
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I'll block you later. All right. So no more questions about Reichstag fires, please. And I will talk to you