Episode 1252 Scott Adams： I Teach You How to Fix Wokeness and Free Speech Problems With Aggressive Compliance
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss the latest in the Trump administration, impeachment, and Jack Dorsey's controversial tweet about Trump. Plus, we talk about the power of persuasion and why you should never complain about something you don't have.
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Hey everybody, come on in, gather around, grab a chair, it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams,
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the best time of the day. Dr. Drew, glad to see you. Come on in. Well, today is a special day
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full of interesting news, but most importantly, I'm going to tell you how to fix everything.
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pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the
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simultaneous sip and have a stamp. Go. What's the slaughter meter? Somebody says. Well, you know,
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it's interesting if you make a prediction about the outcome of the election, but you're not entirely
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sure if everything's been audited as much as it could be. Is the prediction wrong or is it hard
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to measure? So let's talk about all the things big news today. I think you heard Trump got impeached
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for a second time. You know, I don't hate that at all. It has nothing to do with what Trump did or
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didn't do. I kind of like the fact that he got impeached twice. It feels better than once. Am I the
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only one who feels that? Because if you get impeached once, what does history make of it? I think they
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say, well, probably did something to deserve getting impeached. I mean, that would be the first thing
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you'd assume, right? Because impeachment is pretty serious. If you're going to impeach somebody,
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you probably put some thought into it and, you know, made an argument, etc. So if you're impeached
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once, that feels really, really bad on your record. But if you're impeached twice, and especially if the
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last one is a week before you leave office, does that say something about Trump, or does that say
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something about impeachment? See where I'm heading? I think he came out ahead. Now, I know I'm the guy
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everybody mocks for spinning things pro-Trump, no matter what it is. No matter what it is.
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But I'll just put that out there. If it were me, if I were in his position, I would much prefer being
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impeached twice. Because the second one is so obviously bullshit, it makes the first one look
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like bullshit. See where I'm going here? Two impeachments, obviously just political. One
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impeachment, maybe he did something worth impeaching. It just makes the credibility of the
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whole thing so much less. So and I also like the fact that Trump is a sort of a person of extremes
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and a person of records, good records, bad records, but records. He's a guy who sets all kinds of
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records. I kind of like the fact that he has the record for impeachments. Because it does tell the
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story better than if he only had one. If he has the record, well, then he's truly a, let's say,
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a disruptive character. If he just has one, maybe he just did something wrong. All right. Jack Dorsey
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made a large, largest statement on Twitter about the banning of Trump from Twitter. And I like to look
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at these CEO statements about controversial, controversial items to see how they did, just
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to see how the communication went, whether it's persuasive. So separating from the topic, I'm just
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going to talk about whether the communication was done well. Skipping to the final vote, it was done
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well. It's an impossible situation, meaning that Twitter and the others, they really didn't have a
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clean winning path. So anybody who thinks, oh, just take the easy path. Why didn't you do that?
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There was an obvious solution, but you did the wrong thing. That's not really what's happening here.
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But Twitter basically had two bad choices and had to pick one. They didn't have the choice of not
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picking, because not picking a choice is a choice too. So here's how Jack does this. I'll read some
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of the highlights from his thread. And I want you to see the technique, because it's really good.
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All right. Now, if you can separate from a moment what you currently feel about Twitter and what you
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think about Jack Dorsey, what you think about Trump, just separate from that for a moment. We'll just
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talk about the persuasion part, just the skill. All right. Forget about the politics. We'll just talk
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about the skill. The skill in this is extreme. It's really good. The first thing you need to do if you
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are going to deal with something that's controversial is you have to acknowledge the complaining side.
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It is not good technique to say something like, somebody is complaining, therefore we're going to do
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X, Y, Z. It's not good enough just to note that there are problems or complaints. You need to describe
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the complaint in your own words as clearly as the complainers describe it. Right? So if you can't put
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it in your own words, what the other people are saying about you, it doesn't look like you understand
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it or accept it or treat it as valid. So that's the first thing you look for. And Jack did that
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perfectly, actually, in a few different ways. Let me give you some quotes.
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He says, you know, he goes, I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban Trump. So the very
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first sentence is, he's telling you he's not happy about it. That's pacing, because he knows the people
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who are looking at this are not happy about it. So the first thing he says is, I'm not happy about it either.
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That's good. Good technique. He's not happy about it either. His reasons may be different than yours,
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but we'll get to that. And he says that they made the decision with the best information they had
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based on threats to physical safety, blah, blah, blah. And then he asked the question, was this correct?
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Correct. Now, have I told you the technique of saying what people are thinking the moment they're
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thinking it? It's a really strong communication technique. It binds you to the listener. So at the
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very moment that Jack says in his tweet thread, was this correct, is exactly the moment you were thinking
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it. So he says, you know, we made this decision based on our best information. And the moment you read
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that, you're saying, yeah, but was it correct? And then he says, was this correct? It's exactly the
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right sentence in exactly the right place. If you don't sort of study this stuff, you don't see how
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well this is constructed. It's actually engineered really, really well. So we'll get to some more.
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He says, I believe this was the right decision for Twitter.
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Twitter. The right decision for Twitter. That's very transparent. Because what he did not say,
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he did not say, I think it was the right decision for the country. And later he goes on saying,
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maybe it wasn't the right decision for the country. Maybe we need to do better.
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But he says directly, I believe this was the right decision for Twitter. Now, was it? Are you a CEO?
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Do you know if this was the right decision for Twitter? Would Twitter as a company pursuing profits
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within a capitalist system, which is their right? Was this the right decision? And I feel like maybe,
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maybe yes, maybe no. I'm not really sure. But I don't take that decision away from Twitter. I mean,
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it's their decision, right? What I don't have a better idea. I might have played it differently.
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But I don't know if that would have been better for Twitter. So I think it's very transparent. And I
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appreciate that the first thing he says is, I think we made the right decision for Twitter,
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which is his job. His job is to make good decisions for Twitter. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. I don't,
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I don't feel I have insight into that. And he talks about the extraordinary and untenable circumstance,
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meaning there wasn't any way to do everything right. That wasn't really an option. And that they
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basically took the reduction of harm as their highest priority. Pretty good, right? Now, if you
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were making the decision, you might have said, you know, free speech has some rough edges. You know,
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maybe I'd prefer free speech, even if people get hurt. Maybe I prefer free speech, even if people get
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killed. I still might prefer it. But that's something you can say as an individual, right? That's not
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really something you can say if you're a leader, exactly, because you can't be in favor of anybody
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getting killed under any circumstances. So they had an untenable situation. And, and he says they
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have to reflect on their operations and the environment around it. He acknowledges that it's
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has a negative impact on the public, and that it's a pretty big one. So he's not, he's not minimizing
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whatsoever that this has an impact on free speech that could be a big, big, big, big deal. So he's
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saying it directly. That's good technique, because that's what you're thinking, right? You're thinking
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it's a big, big, big deal. And he acknowledges it. So that's good technique. And he says, and this,
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I think this part I like the most, because just listen to this, how well this is constructed. He says,
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the check-in accountability on this power, the power of Twitter to, you know, ban people or not
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ban people, has always been the fact that a service like Twitter is one small part of a larger public
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conversation happening across the internet. If folks do not agree with our rules and enforcement,
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they can simply go to another internet service. Now you don't agree with that, right? Here's the
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second part. The second part is he doesn't agree with it either. He's going to agree with you now.
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Watch how good this is. He says, this concept, meaning the concept that you could just go
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somewhere else if you don't like Twitter, was challenged this week when a number of foundational
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internet tool providers, the social media platforms meaning, also decided not to host what they found
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dangerous. I do not believe this was coordinated. I agree with him that, you know, there wasn't like a
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meeting to talk about it. More likely companies came to their own conclusions and were emboldened by the
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actions of others. I think that's actually the way I see it. I don't think they needed a meeting
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because you don't need to have a meeting and collude on something that you all kind of are
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going to just go the same direction anyway. So he's basically debunking the argument that
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Twitter could ban you and then you could just go somewhere else because now we've seen in the real
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world that if there's something big enough for Twitter to ban you, you're probably going to be
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banned on the other platforms or at least they'll be emboldened to do that. So he's acknowledging that
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that argument doesn't work and that was always their best argument. So when have you ever seen a CEO
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respond to a major public uprising by saying that their own argument doesn't work?
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I've never seen it before. I've seen people admit mistakes, but I've never seen anybody say our
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own argument doesn't work. Here's why. It's kind of remarkable. And again, try to separate from what
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you feel about Twitter, feel about Trump, feel about Jack Dorsey. Just look at the technique. It's kind
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of extraordinary. And then he talks about what they're going to do about it, which is the next part of a
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good CEO response. So they've got some kind of an effort that they're ramping up for some kind of a
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service that they would be a client of their own, their own entity. Well, I don't know who owns the
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entity. That might be, there's a question there. But the point is there's some plan that Twitter's
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doing to address directly the free speech thing so that everybody can get their free speech. But
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Twitter could also be protected and you as a user can see what you want to see. So they've got
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something they're working on. I don't know how long that's going to take. I'd like, you know,
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it'd be better to have some transparency on that. But as a response, I thought it was excellent.
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It's a complete acceptance of the situation. That's about as good as you can do. Completely accepting
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the complaints and telling you what they're going to do about it. Right? You can hate, you can hate
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everybody. But this is good technique. All right. I tweeted yesterday that this was the low point
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in the Biden presidency yesterday. And he hasn't even started the job. What do you think about an
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incoming president, Biden, who won't stop this impeachment when he knows it's going to lead to
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division? He knows it has no purpose. And he said so, basically. He basically said out loud,
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he's not really so much in favor of the impeachment. He's just seems like he doesn't care.
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But that's not too much leadership. I feel as if Biden could have stepped in and said, look,
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it's time for healing. My entire proposition was healing and getting rid of the division. So we're not
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going to pursue this because there's not enough of an upside. But there's definitely a downside.
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There's just not much of an upside. So let's not do more division for that little bit of gain you
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think you're going to get. That would have been presidential. And indeed, I would have been a
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little bit impressed. Not going to lie. If Biden had done that, I would have reassessed his entire
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starting presidency. I would have said to myself, huh, that actually is what's good for the country.
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But he didn't do that. It's clearly what's best for the country is to not do the impeachment and try
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to move on. Because all the impeachment does is it guarantees that you're going to get more and more
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Trump past the inauguration. Because now the Senate is going to give him a platform.
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So I would say it's the worst day of the Biden presidency. I don't know if he'll ever do worse
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than this. I mean, it's pretty bad. And at the same time, well, we'll talk about that later.
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So what is the price to the country of the Congress focusing on impeachment? Well, here's a little
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report on Twitter that Secretary Gene Scalia, I guess he's a must be in the cabinet or something.
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He asked for recently asked for $2 billion from Congress to fix the state unemployment system.
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And they were not able to persuade Congress. So he asked for $2 billion recently to fix this system
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didn't get it. Now, that's not too unusual, right? It's not terribly unusual that you'd ask for $2
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billion. And somebody would say no, except that there was a strong case that spending $2 billion
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would have saved $10 billion. Meaning that it was a new system that would get rid of the fraud,
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and they can measure the fraud. And it's around $10 billion. So just think of this, your Congress,
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if you're American, your Congress didn't have the capacity to say yes to spending $2 billion to save
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$10 billion. Didn't have the capacity. Now, is that a hard decision? Do you want to spend $2 billion to
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make $10? That wasn't even a hard decision. Neither was it political. Is there a Democrat position to
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saving $10 billion? No. Is there a Republican who's opposed to it? No. Your Congress is so obsessed,
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that's a persuasion word. I'll take obsessed away. They're focusing on impeachment at the expense of
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doing even things that everybody agrees on. That is as incompetent as you could possibly get.
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How could you become more incompetent than that? That's what they're giving you.
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So it feels like the impeachment of Trump is really an impeachment of free speech. Wouldn't you say?
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It feels like a continuation of impeachment of free speech. Yeah, Patrick Byrne, didn't he get
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kicked off of Twitter recently too? So there does seem to be an impeachment going on, but it doesn't
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feel like it's so much about Trump. It feels like it's a free speech thing. Because when you say that
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if you say what you believe to be true is incitement, are you going to get impeached for it?
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Because you think it's true? Meaning is election fraud claims? That really is impeaching free speech.
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That's not so much about the person. It is working. Free speech is actually going away while we watch.
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Funniest story is that whoever stole the lectern, Pelosi's lectern during the
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capital assault. Twitter user John Henry humorously notes that they got it back. And he says,
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breaking, Florida man's reign comes to an end. Gainesville, Florida. The power of the United
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States federal government has finally been wrestled out of the hands of a Florida man,
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marking an official end to his brutal reign. So all the people who think that there was something like
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a coup or an insurrection was pretty much limited to taking a lectern as a, as a souvenir. Now,
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a lot of people think that if you get the magic lectern, you actually run the country.
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But no, it turns out that having the lectern did not give him the nuclear codes. Now, I don't know if
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you knew that. It came as a big surprise to the Democrats. They're having full control over the
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magic lectern. Not as important as you'd think. Turns out you can't, can't order the army to do
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anything. You probably tried. So, um, all right. Uh, I was, I was mildly in favor of impeaching Trump
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for inciting violence that led to the, you know, the, you know, the Capitol assault. Until I heard their
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argument. After listening to the Democrats argue why he should be impeached, I thought to myself, uh, you
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already had me. You already had me. And how hard is it to get me? I mean, for God's sakes, if you can get
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me to say that Trump should be impeached, stop selling. You've already made the sale. Stop
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selling. But did they stop selling? They did not. They kept selling. And in their selling,
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they proved beyond any doubt that I have. I mean, you might have a different experience,
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but they removed any doubt I had that it's just revenge. And it's just political.
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I was completely on board when they were talking about real things. Should the president, this is
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sort of the Geraldo view, which I share, which is, although the president's words had nothing in them
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to incite violence directly, he should have known that just being involved the way he was
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created a dangerous situation. And I, and my opinion was, well, that's true. I feel as if he should
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have known that the way he played it created a little more danger than was necessary, even though
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his words did not incite violence and directly said, be peaceful. Very directly, he said, be peaceful.
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But still, should have known. I would have known. I think you would have known. I feel like he should
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have known that there was a little danger involved in that. All right. So if that was the argument that
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they had used, they already had to be sold. Now, I'd said before that if it were the beginning of his
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term, that I might think differently, but I don't care if he gets impeached three days before,
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before he's gone anyway. You know, it makes it funnier. Two impeachments is funnier than one.
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Helps him more than it hurts him. I don't care. But as soon as I heard them sell it, it was so
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obviously demented, evil, poorly conceived, revengey, emotional. Now I'm fully against it.
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Now he got impeached anyway, so it doesn't matter what I think. But don't, this is a good example of
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why you don't keep selling after you've made the sale. Because everything you say after that might
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hurt you, like you did here, but it's not going to help you. You already made the sale.
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Extreme incompetence by the Democrats just making their arguments in public.
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I saw a CNN piece in which a person on the street was talking to Trump supporters. And the CNN person
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asked this question, quote, what if you found out Trump was lying to you about the election being
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stolen? And they asked that hypothetical question. What if you found out Trump was lying? Now, correct me
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if I'm wrong. CNN and the other news sites that are anti-Trump, don't they report that Trump is lying
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about his election fraud claims? They don't say he believes it, but he's wrong. They say he's lying.
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Which was such a tell for propaganda, because my take on it is that all the evidence suggests he believes it.
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All evidence suggests he believes that the election was stolen. Just like tens of millions of other
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Americans also believe it. And when they say it, they're not lying. They believe it. They could be
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wrong. They could be right. But they're not lying. It's what they actually believe. Now, when you change
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somebody's honest belief, which might be right, might be wrong, into their lying, that's just propaganda.
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Because you're not a mind reader, and there's no evidence of lying. There's plenty of evidence that he believes
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it. As in all of it, 100% of everything you see suggests that the president absolutely believes it. Just like
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tens of millions of other voters believe it as well. So CNN decides that they'll just try to get away with
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calling it a lie, and you won't notice. There's no evidence that it's a lie. There is evidence that it
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might not be true. That's not a lie. So here's the little thread that I did. People liked it a lot this
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morning, so I'll just go over it. Here's how you can tell you're in a propaganda bubble, as opposed to
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being in a world with real news. And here are six reasons. The fake news tells you Trump is lying
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about the election stolen, as opposed to actually believing it the way tens of millions of people do.
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That's an obvious tell. That's an example where the news is not even really trying to be anything
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but propaganda. Because if they were trying, they wouldn't be calling it a lie. They'd say it's just
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he's saying it, and it's not true, in their opinion, if that's what they believe to be true.
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Number two, the fake news tells you all of the election fraud claims have been rejected by the
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courts. But where's the master list? Have you seen it? Have you seen the list of all the election
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fraud complaints, and then a list of all the courts that have ruled, so you can see that all the
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complaints have been ruled on and rejected? Have you seen it? Well, if you haven't seen it,
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and you watch the news as much as I do, I haven't seen it, wouldn't you assume it doesn't exist?
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Right? Now, soon after I put out this tweet, I was contacted by, let's say, a prominent member of
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our government to say that that list does exist, and he could provide it to me. Now, I haven't looked at it
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yet, but I do know that whatever that list includes, it does not include we looked at the source code of
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the digital systems involved in voting, because I know that didn't happen. And if you didn't look at
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the source code, do you really know what did or did not happen in the election? Now, not looking at the
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source code, it doesn't tell you there was any problem. It just tells you you don't know. So
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apparently there is some kind of a large list. I'll look at it, and I'll let you know how many of the
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claims it looks like it did address. But we know it didn't address at least, I don't know, three quarters
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of the votes, which probably were, went through some, well, 100% of the votes went through some
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kind of digital system at one point. So that's an open question I have. All right, so here's some
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more of the six points that, oh, here it is. So then I also said you're in a propaganda bubble.
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If knowing you are inciting domestic violence is a standard for impeachment, and that's what's
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happening, what happened with Trump, is that they said, well, he knew that what he was saying would
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incite violence, therefore, he's guilty of it. But that standard needs to apply to everybody or else
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it's just propaganda. If you applied the same standard to Harris and Biden, pushing the fine
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people hoax and supporting the BLM rioters, Harris actually helped start a fund, I think,
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to bail out some of the bad actors in Antifa and Black Lives Matter. So if inciting violence is a
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standard that we accept for impeachment, you have to impeach everybody who did it. Otherwise, it's just
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propaganda. So given that there's no interest whatsoever on the Democrats of policing it within
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their own ranks, you can't call that news. That's just propaganda. If there's no acknowledgement
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that the fine people hoax is still the most damaging fake news in the history of America,
00:28:07.340
that's not any attempt to be a news organization. That's propaganda. Because the fine people hoax is the
00:28:15.080
most well documented, easy to debunk hoax. And CNN still reports it like it's real. That's how you
00:28:22.040
know you're in a propaganda bubble. In 2016, when Trump won, the fake news said definitely Russia
00:28:29.980
interfered. And that interference definitely made the difference. And yet, when Biden wins,
00:28:36.560
suddenly Russia doesn't have any role? That whatever they did didn't make any difference?
00:28:44.060
So that's how you know you're in a propaganda bubble. Because either Russia is trying to change
00:28:48.560
things or they're not. Either it's working or it isn't. But it's going to be the same-ish. Or at
00:28:54.580
least you would have to address why you thought it was different. Nothing. It's just that Russia was a
00:29:00.240
problem. Now they're not. Blah, blah, blah. Don't look over here. Propaganda bubble.
00:29:09.080
And of course, the big one is when the fake news labels the Capitol assault, I'll call it an assault,
00:29:15.020
a coup, or when they called it an insurrection. How did they think these protesters were planning to
00:29:22.420
conquer and hold power from a superpower by occupying a few empty rooms and stealing a
00:29:31.500
lectern? Did they think that those plastic ties would be enough to secure the entire military of
00:29:40.940
the United States? Or did they think the military was going to join them? Exactly how was this supposed
00:29:48.060
to be a coup? Because I don't think I've ever seen a coup that didn't bring weapons. Too many people
00:29:56.020
did have weapons, but it's obvious they were not planning to use them offensively. They used some
00:30:01.960
clubs and stuff, and they did kill people. And they need to go to jail for that. Anybody who was
00:30:06.760
involved in that, that has to be treated with extreme prejudice. But it didn't look like they were
00:30:13.900
preparing to take over a country. I didn't see that. Because if they did, they're really bad at
00:30:20.580
planning, and I don't think that's the case. There were a lot of military people there, ex-military,
00:30:25.060
et cetera. If they wanted to take over the country, if they wanted to do a coup, if they wanted it to be
00:30:32.500
an insurrection, it would have looked a lot different. A lot different. Somebody is prompting me in the
00:30:41.420
comments that the trouble there was planned long before Trump had made comments. I don't totally
00:30:49.440
buy that that matters to the argument. I think it's true. I just don't know that it matters to
00:30:55.000
the argument. Because whether or not they had planned something, Trump was still saying things.
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And the things he was saying, a reasonable person could have said, eh, you could have told them to
00:31:06.280
stay home. So there's room for judgment on that. All right, here's the important part. I'm going to
00:31:15.180
tell you the one and only way that Republicans can get back something like a country. In other words,
00:31:22.480
how can they get out of the wokeness cycle? How do they get out of the end of free speech?
00:31:28.720
What would be a strategy that the Republicans can use? The strategy they're trying to use is the
00:31:34.500
hypocrisy argument. You just saw me use it right now. The hypocrisy argument, Lindsey Graham also has
00:31:42.460
used it. He says, if you want to end the violence, end impeachment. Now, Lindsey Graham, I would say a
00:31:50.640
credible person, even if you don't agree with him. He's a credible person who understands the world.
00:31:55.880
He has just stated to Democrats that pursuing impeachment will incite violence. They did it anyway.
00:32:04.500
Now, does the hypocrisy claim move the needle? Does it solve anything? No. Claiming hypocrisy
00:32:12.760
and blaming somebody of being a hypocrite has no persuasive power. It has no political weight.
00:32:21.520
Nobody in the history of the world has ever won an argument or changed anything because of claiming,
00:32:26.940
even accurately claiming, hypocrisy on the other side. It's a complete empty strategy. It can't work.
00:32:34.880
It's worth noting. So you shouldn't ignore it. But don't think it's some kind of a strategy.
00:32:40.760
It's not going to change anything. If you want to change something, I believe we're down to one
00:32:47.160
choice. You know, and here I'm ruling out anything like a coup. I'm ruling out any kind of violence. I'm
00:32:53.920
ruling out all the crazy stuff. If you want to live in a real world with real rules,
00:32:58.840
and you don't want one side to be beating the other side like a seal,
00:33:07.100
there's only one strategy that could work. And I've mentioned this before in the context of my
00:33:14.360
first job as a bank teller. And the strategy is aggressive compliance with the rules. And here's how
00:33:22.740
it worked when I was a bank teller. We had a whole bunch of rules about what we could or could not do
00:33:26.620
in terms of dealing with the customers. So, you know, if they didn't have two IDs, you couldn't
00:33:31.060
cash the check. If they didn't bank here, you couldn't do this. If the amount was over a number,
00:33:35.720
you had to get signatures. So we had all these restrictive rules of what you could or could not do.
00:33:40.320
But they were so restrictive that if you actually followed them all, you couldn't do anything.
00:33:45.300
You wouldn't be able to do your job at all. Just every single customer, you'd have to call a
00:33:51.360
supervisor. So you quickly learn to bend the rules when, let's say, it's a customer that you've waited
00:33:58.280
on 15 times, and you've seen their two IDs before. Well, you don't need to ask for the second ID if
00:34:05.860
you've checked the same person and you know them personally, because they come to your window all the
00:34:10.480
time. It's like, okay, I'll just check one ID. I literally know your last name as soon as you
00:34:15.480
walked up here. Now, would that be a security problem? Obviously not. Obviously, bending that
00:34:22.340
little rule was just good for the customer, good for the bank, good for me. But what happened when I
00:34:30.960
got in trouble for doing some other bent rule? Well, as soon as I got in trouble, I and the other
00:34:37.840
tellers said, you know, it's a good idea. We should follow all these rules. And so I would call a
00:34:43.620
supervisor for every transaction, because that was the rule. I wasn't making up stuff. The rule was, oh,
00:34:50.520
I can't do this. I better call it a supervisor. At the same time, all the other tellers in the line
00:34:57.500
were also calling the supervisor for the same reason. There was only one supervisor. What did the
00:35:03.940
supervisor fairly quickly learn to do? Change the rules? Because we proved that following the rules
00:35:12.340
couldn't possibly work. All we did is follow the rules aggressively. We aggressively complied,
00:35:21.000
and it broke the whole system and immediately forced a change. All right. Now, the Democrats have said
00:35:29.400
wokeness is important, fairness is important, and freedom of speech should be limited if we can make
00:35:36.520
an argument that it incites violence. Those are their rules. They're using them like a club to beat the
00:35:43.900
living shit out of Republicans. What are Republicans doing in response? Ow! Ow! You're a hypocrite! Ow! Ow! Stop
00:35:54.100
hitting me! You're a hypocrite! Ow! Why isn't this working? I keep saying you're a hypocrite, but you keep
00:36:00.720
hitting me! Ow! Ow! That's it. That's the whole fucking strategy, is to get hit with a club and say,
00:36:09.460
stop hitting me with a club. The whole fucking strategy is to get hit with a club. That's it.
00:36:16.340
Here's a better strategy. Adopt their techniques more aggressively than they use their own techniques.
00:36:26.660
Use their own arguments and never break character. For example, they should, Republicans should,
00:36:34.820
close the entire government down. Don't let any work get done until they handle the important things.
00:36:41.220
Wokeness, fairness, and making sure that everyone who incited violence is impeached. That's big work.
00:36:50.280
And they shouldn't do anything else until they get that work handled. So they should immediately do
00:36:55.500
articles of impeachment for every Democrat who supported Black Lives Matter. Harrison Biden, of
00:37:01.400
course. Pelosi, of course. And this would be a much bigger task than you could actually handle
00:37:07.700
and still do the business of government. So you should stop doing the business of government.
00:37:14.320
Just let it go. Don't let any checks go out. Don't let any laws get passed. Don't do anything else
00:37:22.340
except try to get some fairness in the Democrats. For example, does it seem fair to you that Pelosi,
00:37:29.440
a white woman, is the speaker? I don't think so. I think that there should be a lot of pressure
00:37:36.820
on the Democrats to get a person of color to replace Nancy Pelosi. Why? Because I don't want
00:37:44.100
to live in any racist country where a racist white person can be in charge of the Democratic Party,
00:37:50.420
which isn't even catering to white people. How is that right? Right? So instead of arguing your own
00:37:59.560
side, let's say you're Republican, and saying, hey, how about everybody has free speech? And hey,
00:38:05.380
Adam, how about we don't pick ourselves to death over this wokeness stuff? Doesn't work. You need to
00:38:12.120
embrace it harder than the other side until it shuts down the whole government. Now, when you say,
00:38:19.600
Scott, isn't that a little dangerous to shut down the whole government? It's not as dangerous as the
00:38:23.900
alternative, which is to let one side dominate the other, because one side has a club, you know,
00:38:31.240
this wokeness and the impeachments and the you're not fair and you're all racist. And the other side
00:38:36.340
doesn't have a weapon. They're not even looking for one. They don't have anything. So if you want
00:38:42.700
that to persist, keep doing what you're doing. If you want it to end, you've got to impeach every one
00:38:49.880
of the Democrats who pushed the fine people hoax. That would be a minimum. Anybody who said that in
00:38:58.860
public, the fine people hoax, that was inciting violence. They've got to be impeached. And you
00:39:04.260
should close down, if you're Republican, you should close down the whole government. Just say, I'm not
00:39:08.740
even going to work on other stuff. If you think this is the important thing, if you think that stopping
00:39:14.760
the incitement of violence is your top priority, it's my top priority too. And we're not going to go,
00:39:21.460
we're not going to do a fucking thing until we get this handled. And how about the fairness? Let's
00:39:27.260
take a look at all those Republican committees and appointments. Does that look like America?
00:39:34.660
Well, probably pretty well compared to Republicans, but I don't think it's nearly good enough.
00:39:39.300
Do they have enough LGBTQ representation? I think we ought to look into that, because they ought to
00:39:46.200
have a lot more. I think they ought to have a lot more black people in their cabinet. I think they need
00:39:51.620
a lot more Islamic folks in the cabinet. And I don't think we should allow this. Not a bit. We need more
00:40:03.520
fairness. We should call them racist for everything. In fact, we shouldn't even talk about it any other
00:40:10.200
way. Every single thing they do should be called racist. Because it is. Not because it isn't. Because
00:40:17.580
it is. What I'm suggesting is no lying. No exaggeration. Just take their own standard and use it aggressively
00:40:26.340
until it closes the government, because it would. And then see if they get flexible. If that doesn't
00:40:33.140
make them flexible, that's the end of the country. And that would be okay with me.
00:40:42.880
Because living under the current situation is untenable. Meaning it can't last. It will either
00:40:49.700
push people to violence. No, actually, that's all it will do. It will just push people to violence.
00:40:55.600
So violence is pretty much guaranteed in the current system. So if you tell me, you know, that shutting
00:41:05.080
down the government leads to bad outcomes, I say, yeah, not as bad as the other way. It's the only way
00:41:11.740
that you have actually, you know, some chance that you might be able to fix things.
00:41:16.620
So if you don't see aggressive movement toward impeaching every Democrat who pushed the fine
00:41:25.440
people hoax, I would say Republicans should not be supported anymore. I'm not Republican,
00:41:31.160
by the way, just for full disclosure. I liked a lot of the things that I thought Trump could do,
00:41:38.160
because I thought he could do some things that other regular politicians couldn't do.
00:41:42.180
And sure enough, he did. The Middle East would be the best example of that. So I feel that
00:41:50.800
Republicans have just, they've just basically surrendered. Because if all they've got is argument,
00:41:59.280
and all they've got is, hey, stop hitting us with that club, they don't have anything. And I don't see
00:42:05.660
any reason you should back them whatsoever. If they're not willing to fight to get rid of these
00:42:11.720
weapons on the other side, the wokeness, and the racism stuff, and the fake news, and the fake
00:42:18.180
impeachments, and the fake incitement of violence, and the getting rid of free speech, and the banning
00:42:22.780
you on social media, if they're not fighting against that stuff, then everything's lost anyway.
00:42:29.640
So it doesn't matter what else you do. So let's see if some Republicans can get a spine,
00:42:35.160
and shut down the government. Because I think we're at that point where they just need to do that.
00:42:40.760
Just shut it all down. Because this impeachment is so aggressively offensive to the public.
00:42:49.080
Obviously, some people like it. But it's aggressively offensive in the sense that they're not even trying
00:42:53.900
to do the job of the people. Because this wasn't it. This was the job of the politicians.
00:42:59.020
All right? They just wasted all of our time doing something that had no benefit,
00:43:13.600
Scott, you said they have to fight. Where's the rest of your comment?
00:43:19.160
Yeah, and you should also approach the NBA. Now, I think it would be a mistake
00:43:25.380
to go at it like, oh, white people are being discriminated against. You still need to say that
00:43:31.820
if you think it's true. But that's not a strategy. That's more the hypocrite thing.
00:43:36.820
It would be better to make them live up to their own rules. And Biden has to go because he's an old
00:43:42.200
white guy. I mean, those are their rules. It's not our rules.
00:43:55.920
COVID-19 vaccinations or MIA. I read something disturbing that I guess Israel has vaccinated
00:44:03.400
20% of their population. I'm guessing that that 20% is in the people who have the most risk.
00:44:11.100
But they're not yet seeing any reduction in the coronavirus, you know, outcomes. So if you could
00:44:18.580
get, if you vaccinated 20% of your population, and it happens to be the 20% that matter the most,
00:44:25.220
the ones that need the most protecting, I always think that within the week, the statistics should
00:44:33.160
start to reflect that, right? If we don't see that reflected really soon, I'm going to have some
00:44:38.900
questions. I don't quite understand that. All right.
00:44:50.260
Adults are so woke. Just looking at your comments for a moment.
00:44:54.380
All right. That's all we got now. Yeah, we might have to wait a few weeks to know if the
00:44:58.360
vaccinations are already making a difference. There's some reporting lag as well.
00:45:04.560
All right. That's all I got. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.