Episode 1288 Scott Adams： Talking About the Biden Townhall Dementia Telethon, Trump Insults McConnell, and Central Park Karen
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In this episode of the podcast, Scott Adams talks about the mystery of why the number of flu cases in India is dropping, and why it s not just because of the weather it s because there s something else going on.
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Let's talk about the news. So the mystery of COVID continues. The mystery being, why does it
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sometimes subside? So the mystery in India is deepening. They have a dramatic drop in COVID,
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hospitalizations, infections, and everything else. Nobody knows why. Nobody knows why.
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What does that tell you about our scientific understanding of the coronavirus? Well, there
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is some gigantic variable that's just sort of hanging out there. Now, it's definitely not
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hydroxychloroquine. We would know that for sure, because it's the first thing you'd look for.
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Right? It literally would be the first thing you look for. It's like, hey, India has a big
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drop in infections. What are they doing differently? So I would say, you can't say 100%, but 95, 99%
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odds that the answer is not hydroxychloroquine. Now, somebody says blood type, but why would that
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make the infections just stop or plunge? Because it's not as if all the people with one blood type
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got the thing and then you ran out of those people. We don't have any kind of infection that's close
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enough to have expired an entire category of people. I don't think. So here's another mystery
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to overlay on top of the first mystery, that there is COVID seasonality. And I had a little exchange
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with somebody on Twitter who knows more than I do about this stuff. And send me a list of published
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papers about flu virus seasonality. And here was a little tidbit that apparently around the world,
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flu viruses always peak in February. Are you confused? Around the world. So places where it's winter
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and places where it's summer at the same time, whether it's winter or summer, February causes a decline
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worldwide in infections. Why? Why? Now, if it's the temperature, February should be the worst, at least in the winter
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places, right? But winter and summer places all have a sharp, or at least they peak. That's the highest
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point. So if you thought that the whole reason there is seasonality is because of the temperature,
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meaning that it either doesn't kill the virus when it's outdoors, or it causes people to spend more
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time indoors. If you thought it was one of those things,
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apparently it's not. It doesn't seem to be related to the weather. Somebody says it's because February
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is 28 days. I would hate to think that's true. But I know what you're saying. That, you know,
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if you just compared it to the month on either side, it would look lower because there are fewer days.
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So fewer people died that month or something. It's not that. I think we can assume that the
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scientists know how many days are in a month and may have adjusted for that. So let's assume it's
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not because February has 28 days. Although I love that. I love the suggestion because every now and
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then you have to remind yourself, you have to remind yourself that the world can make that kind of
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mistake. It's not crazy, but I don't think that's what it is. Let me give you my speculation.
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You ready for some non-scientific speculation? Here's why I think February might be the low
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month. Because Christmas is worldwide. Or ish. Not completely worldwide. But no matter where you
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are, Christmas is still December 25th and people still get together in ways that they would not
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normally get together. So here's my speculation. That what's different about Christmas is that
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people get together in combinations they don't normally get together. And so you're taking a
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bunch of people who are already not socially isolating well and they just do it even worse.
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But not only do they do it worse, but it's a different combination of people who have traveled
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from all over. So in theory, December, January should be your worst months just because of the lack of
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social distancing. By February, you've kind of hunkered down with your crowd. Meaning that the people
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you see in February all month are the people you saw a month. The people you saw in December was a whole
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bunch of different people from all over. So could it be that there's literally nothing to seasonality
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except what it does to the mix of people coming in and and mixing with each other? Is that possible?
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I'll just put that out there. That I don't know that we know why there is seasonality. All right.
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Retail sales jumped 5.3% in January. Economists thought it would be 1.1%. So apparently the stimulus is
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working and the stimulus worked so well, there's a question whether you should do another one might
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be too much. I'm not really worried about too much stimulus. That's the last thing I'm worried
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about at the moment. But something to worry about. So that's good news. On the bad news, still millions
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of people I've seen 3 million 4.2 million. So I don't know what it is at the moment without power in
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Texas. And, you know, unprecedented or maybe precedented. Cold temperatures there and people
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dying. People dying in their cars because they're trying to use their cars to stay warm.
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And the carbon monoxide gets them in some cases. So this is a major tragedy. But it also has to say
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something about Texas, doesn't it? Do you let Texas off the hook for this? Do you say that the way Texas
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managed their energy has nothing to do with the outcome? I don't know. You know, could it be that
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nobody could have seen this coming? Is that true? Nobody could have seen this coming? That you'd have an
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extra cold day and it would do this to Texas? I just don't know. But I don't think we can say Texas is
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this gigantically well-managed state and California is a disaster when, at least right now, I've got
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electricity in California. So at the moment, at the moment, I've got a little advantage. Let me give you a
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little life advice. One day when I was in my senior year of college in upstate New York, I went to a
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job interview for a job I would take after college if I got the job. And it was February, coincidentally,
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and my car broke down on the road between college and my interview in a different city. Now, I happened
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to break down on a chunk of road at night, or at least after dark, in which there was no other traffic
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because it was upstate New York. And after a certain time at night, sometimes there's just no cars. And I
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didn't bring a jacket. I actually went on a trip in February without a jacket because I was just going
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to go to my car and card a building and I didn't have a nice jacket for an interview. So I didn't wear
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one. So my car stops, breaks down in the middle of winter in February in upstate New York. Has
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anybody ever been to upstate New York in February? Oh, it's cold. It's really cold. And I get out of
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my car and, you know, I thought to myself, okay, there's no other traffic and there's no other
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civilization within walking distance or running distance. And I said to myself, I know that if I
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tried to go backwards from where I would just came from, it's too far to civilization, I wouldn't be
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able to find a house or any place to get warm. But what I didn't know is if that was also true ahead
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of me. So I didn't know if I were to run forward, maybe I could find a house before I died. Now, when I
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say before I died, I mean that literally, because it was really cold. And if I didn't mention it,
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didn't bring a jacket. That's how smart I was. And so I started to run for it.
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And you can't run very far when the temperature is zero-ish or whatever it was, because your hands
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and your feet start to freeze. And your ankles don't move, like they just become frozen. And you're
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just like running on sticks after a while. And everything hurts. And you start to get numb.
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And you say to yourself, I think I'm actually going to die. I might actually die.
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And I made a promise to myself that night, if you haven't heard this story before.
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I promised myself that if I lived, and it was pretty iffy at that point, that if I lived,
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I would sell my car for a one-way ticket to California and never see another
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effing snowflake again for the rest of my life. Well, the story ended with a station wagon
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finally drove by. It was a shoe salesman who had been doing some work out of town. And I stood in
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the middle of the road and made sure he couldn't go around me. And he saved my life, drove me back to
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campus. And a few months later, I graduated and traded my car for a one-way ticket to California
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to my sister. And it was a one-way ticket. I wasn't planning on coming back to where there was snow.
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And so I moved to California. And I live here in Northern California. And one of my survivalist
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methods, and I built my adult life around a survivalist kind of attitude, is that I wanted
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to live somewhere where I could not die because I went outdoors. That was it. I don't want to die
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because I went outdoors. I can go outdoors here in most seasons. And if I bring even a light jacket,
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I'm going to survive. I might not like it on some days, but I'm going to survive.
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In Texas, it's getting pretty iffy. There are people literally dying from it.
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So part of your decision about where to live should be, what happens if things go wrong?
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Because if you live 100 years, something's going to go wrong sooner or later. So that's one of the
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reasons I chose to live where I live. All right. So good luck to Texas. I hope you can pull out of
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this. This is just horrible. Have you noticed that iPhones are made to break? Do you ever wonder
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about that? You take on a brand new iPhone, and it really looks good. I mean, the design is great,
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but it's slippery. It's like they made it out of like wet soap or something. It's like
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zoop, flips out of your hand. And the only way you can actually have a phone that's not guaranteed to
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be cracked and broken is to put an ugly case on it. Now, there's no such thing as a good looking
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phone case, right? So Apple gets it both ways. They claim that they have a good design, and it's
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something they can show in their commercials, and it looks great. I mean, just look at that thing.
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That's a good looking phone. But you can't use that phone. It's the greatest mindfuck that you
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think you're buying a well-designed product, but you can't possibly use it. I mean, I know some
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people use it without a case. And I hear about the people, I've had my phone three years. I've never
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cracked it. Okay. That's not typical. Most people drop their phone two or three times a week. I mean,
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I do. Never broke one yet, because I'll never use a phone with one hand without a case. So that's my
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rule. Would you like to hear the rule again? Never use your iPhone with only one hand unless it has a
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case on it. So if before I put a case on it, I get a new phone, let's say an upgrade, I will only hold
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it with two hands. Period. I will never use one hand. I'll never do this. And I've never, never lost
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the phone. The other thing I'll never do, I will never use my phone over a body of water.
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How many phones have you replaced in your family because somebody used their phone in the pool
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or in the bathtub? Yeah, or in the beach. Never in any circumstance will this phone be directly above
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a body of water. How many phones have I lost because I dropped them in bodies of water? Zero. How many
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have my various family members lost because they dropped them in bodies of water? A lot. That's a big
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number, right? So if you're wondering if Apple makes them intentionally slippery so they'll break,
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I would say probably yes. Because how hard would it be to put some non-stick surface on it? How hard
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would it be to make it not breakable? Not hard, right? How hard would it be to make this not breakable?
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They would just have to put a screen protector on it when it ships. It would be the easiest thing in the
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world. There's no way it's unintentional. When I worked with a phone company, a local phone company
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years ago, and I would get to see the discussions that happened, you know, within the company,
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obviously. And one of the discussions was about one of our most profitable lines of business,
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which we called, we called it a line of business, was late payment on your phone bill.
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Because people would be penalized, a fee, for being late on their phone bill. But since everybody
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needs a phone, or at least in those days you needed a landline phone, you were going to pay
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eventually. Because even if you moved and tried to get new phone service, you couldn't do it until
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you paid your old late fee. So it was this, you know, this lock on people that if they paid late,
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they would have to pay the late fee, or never have phone service in the modern world.
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So what happened, do you think, when I brought up the idea of maybe making it easier for people
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to pay on time, so that the customers would not be inconvenienced by a late fee, we would get our
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money on time, and then everything would work the way it's supposed to work. What do you think they
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said about that? Shut up. Shut up. Not, not really shut up. But nobody wanted to hear the idea that
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would reduce our profits. Just, that's it. It would just reduce our profits. That's all it would do for
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the company. Now for the customer, it would be terrific. But we wouldn't even have that discussion.
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Because we liked having built a trap, so that people would fall into it, and we would make
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money. And that actually happened behind closed doors. That was an actual conversation in a real
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company about screwing the fucking customers, because it was easy, it was easy, and it was really
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profitable. That's real. Now you tell me that Apple has not had conversations behind closed doors
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about fixing their easily breakable phone? Of course they have. Do you think there's no engineer who
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could figure out how to make these phones to not break so easily? Of course they have those
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engineers. Of course. They just prefer it this way, for whatever reason. All right. Racist Central Park
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Karen has been, apparently she won't have any jail time. She's the one who, I guess she tried to call
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the police or did call the police, because it was a black man in the park who was a birdwatcher. And by
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the way, if you've seen a picture of the black man who was the birdwatcher, he is the least threatening,
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most nerd-like human being you've ever seen. Like if there was one person you were going to see in a
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dark alley and not be afraid of, it would be that birdwatcher. If you haven't seen the picture of
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him, because usually you see the video of just the Karen woman complaining, but you have to see the
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picture of the birdwatcher to understand how completely non-threatening this guy looked.
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Like if all you're thinking in your mind, your racist mind, is, oh, a black male, I can see why
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maybe she was afraid if you're a little racist, you're thinking that. But then you see a picture of
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him. He's not the guy you're going to be afraid of in the dark alley. He's just the friendliest looking
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nerdy guy, right? So she gets released, but only after she went through, what do they call it? A
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comprehensive, respectful program at the critical therapy center, where she focused on, quote,
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the ways in which Ms. Cooper could appreciate that racial identities shape our lives,
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but we cannot use them to harm ourselves or others. And because she went through that program,
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and now she sees the errors of her ways, she was released without any jail time. And some people
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are arguing that that was, you know, white supremacy or something. But what do you make of the fact
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that she avoided jail time by accepting brainwashing? Is that a place we want to be?
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I mean, do we? Could there be anything worse than that? I mean, it would be hard to come up with
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anything that would be worse than that. Is that fundamentally different than what China is doing
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with the Uyghurs? Sure, you know, they've got the gang rape and the other stuff that's pretty bad.
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But they are brainwashing the Uyghurs. Like, that's a part of the Holocaust over there, is they're
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brainwashing them. So now we're doing that. Now we're brainwashing a citizen. Now, just to be
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completely clear, I'm not backing the Karen in this story. I think what she did need some kind of,
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uh, it should be addressed, let's say. I don't think it should be a free pass for her behavior.
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And I don't even mind that she maybe was exposed to some sensitivity training. And, you know, maybe
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this, uh, maybe this could help her in some ways. But is this a, is this a thing we want to make our
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thing? Do we want this precedent to stand that you can be forced to attend a brainwashing
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event? Forced to attend brainwashing. Now, even if, remember, I call it brainwashing even if it's
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good for you. I call patriotism and the Pledge of Allegiance brainwashing, but I think they're
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really good for you. Like, it's good to have a coherent patriotic country. So brainwashing can be
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good or bad. But do we want to build it into our, our legal system? Do you want your legal system
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to have brainwashing as an, as a legitimate component? I don't know. We want to go there.
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I don't think so. All right, let's get talk politics. Finally, ex-President Trump is back in the news.
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And it's interesting. Again, if you didn't see Trump's letter, uh, uh, complaining about Mitch
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McConnell, oh, you got to see it. Here's one line from Trump's letter about McConnell.
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He called him a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack. That was just one sentence.
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Just one sentence out of a long document. A dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack. Now,
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just feel that sentence. Just feel it. You're imagining Trump, and you're imagining McConnell,
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and now you're imagining Trump writing he was a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.
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That writing, that language, is just alive. It's just alive. It's like a creature.
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And you forget, after even just, you know, a month of not enough Trump in our lives,
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after a month you forget how frickin' good he is at this. This being inciting people and getting
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people worked up and using interesting language and being impossible to look away. He doesn't know
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how to be uninteresting. He is so naturally interesting that I'm just so happy that he's
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back a little bit, you know, even with just his letter. Uh, so you have to read that just to,
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just to feel just how his language excites. And I mean excites good and excites bad. Like,
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it's so active and alive. Uh, you just don't see that from the other boring politicians.
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All right. Um, uh, Playboy, Playboy magazine, uh, their new cover is a, a singer, an artist named,
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uh, Kelani. Uh, and she's posed as both a male, a man and a woman kind of a image. So she,
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she plays two people on the cover. Both of them are her, but one is man and one is woman. So she's
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the king and queen of the prom. And, uh, apparently the, uh, the backstory is that she's, uh, gender
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fluid, I think is the right term that she used. Uh, so she's doesn't identify as either strictly
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male or strictly female. I believe that's what gender fluid means in this context. And I said to
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myself, all right, now I totally get that we want to be a more inclusive society. And as you know,
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nobody has been more supportive of the LGBTQ and especially the, the transgender community than I
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have. And I mean it like, I just think everybody is different from everybody else. And that, you know,
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artificially saying this group of people who are different are the good ones. And these are the
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bad ones. It just doesn't make any sense. I just think everybody's infinitely different
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and let them be themselves as much as that's practical, right? You have to make some practical
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considerations. But so I'm, I'm as pro LGBTQ as it is possible to be. Um, but
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Playboy magazine, the whole point of the magazine was to, uh, cater to a certain perspective, right? A
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certain, certain kind of man, usually women read it too, but mostly, mostly men. And I thought to
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myself years ago, uh, I don't know if you know this, but years ago when, uh, Hugh Hefton himself
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stepped down from active management, he put his daughter in charge of the magazine.
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Christy Hefner. And as soon as Hugh Hefner put his daughter in charge of the magazine,
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I thought to myself, well, it's just a matter of time because there isn't any way they can survive
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with a woman running that magazine. Now you may say to yourself, you sexist,
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a woman can do anything a man can do. That's true. But do you think that a woman, any woman
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should be in charge of a man's magazine that is trying to create an image for men?
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I mean, it doesn't make sense, right? If I told you that a man was, uh, the CEO of Cosmopolitan
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magazine or, or some women oriented magazine, would you think that made sense? Probably not.
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Probably not. But again, you know, you, there's, there are always exceptions. So it could have been
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that the very best CEO of Playboy would have been Christy Hefner. You can't rule it out because she's
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a woman, but it's hard to imagine in our world when the whole point of diversity is that people
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have different perspectives. It doesn't make sense that the person with the least, probably the least
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appreciation for the perspective of the magazine is in charge. And here you end up with something
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that, uh, for society is a good thing. I like it when society celebrates people being not all the
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same. So I do like the fact that Kehlani is on the cover of a magazine. So if you said to me,
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should she be on the cover of a magazine? I'd say, yeah, I like that story. You know, it seems like
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she's an, uh, she, yeah, I think she goes by she is an engaging person. Why not? But Playboy
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just feels like maybe that was a mistake. I don't know. Uh, the story today is that, uh, uh,
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there's a book out claiming that Steve Bannon, quote, realized that Trump was repeating the same
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stories over and over and worried that he had early onset dementia. And then the book goes on to say
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that Steve Bannon thought that, uh, Trump should have been removed with a, uh, amendment,
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25th amendment situation for being mentally incompetent. And that, that Bannon himself planned
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to take over Trump supporters and become president later. Does that even sound slightly true?
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Does that sound even slightly true? Because it doesn't to me. Yeah. I mean, have we reached the
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point where we could all know instantly that's not true? Like, do you have to even talk about it?
00:28:51.440
So here's the thing. Uh, if, if this had stopped, if this, if the claim had stopped at
00:29:00.180
Bannon was worried that Trump had early onset dementia, I would have said to myself, well,
00:29:07.300
that might've happened. Anybody who's a certain age who maybe repeats a story or forgets something,
00:29:14.540
isn't that the first thing you think? Once you reach a certain age, it's on your mind to be sort
00:29:20.760
of looking for it. Plus it was in the press, et cetera. So if it had been true that Bannon had
00:29:26.800
wondered, you know, if there was any like pre-dementia issues here, maybe I would have said,
00:29:33.960
well, that could be true. It could not be true, but it could be true. But when they add the part
00:29:39.920
where Bannon was planning to take over his supporters and become president, I'm sorry,
00:29:45.320
that's not fucking true. Remember, remember I told you, uh, how to tell if something is a fake news
00:29:53.240
and the standard is if you can just read it and you shake your head and you say, well, that's not
00:30:00.400
fucking true. It's not. All right. You can, now you might be wrong once or twice in your life,
00:30:09.180
but if you just use that standard every time, when it looks like this, this sort of story and you go,
00:30:16.140
that's not fucking true. It's not. All right. But why do we see this story today? Well,
00:30:25.280
let's take the Tucker Carlson. Uh, I wanted to call it like a law or hypothesis or something.
00:30:32.120
I haven't got a good name for it yet, but Tucker Carlson always talks about the,
00:30:36.000
the Alinsky rule kind of thing where, uh, bad people will blame you of whatever bad behavior
00:30:42.360
they're doing. Now, I don't know if this, uh, I don't have an opinion that this is some kind of
00:30:48.940
widespread plan thing that Democrats do, but we do observe a consistency to it. Why? I don't know.
00:30:58.160
Maybe it's just an observational oddity, confirmation bias. Maybe there's an underlying reason for it.
00:31:04.860
Um, maybe it's intentional. Maybe it's not, but it's certainly, we observe it. I don't know why
00:31:12.160
somebody says it's projection. Maybe it is, but, uh, the town hall last night with Biden,
00:31:19.880
uh, showcased Biden. And there was also a video that went around yesterday. Uh, the video I think
00:31:25.460
is fake. I'm not sure, but the video looked like Biden looking, having quite a mental episode.
00:31:32.140
He was just sort of slack jawed and his wife was just looking at him and he was just, you know,
00:31:38.780
he looked like his brain had shut down in this video that went around. Now I, I'm going to emphasize
00:31:45.080
again, I think the video is fake or somehow enhanced in some way to make him look worse than he was,
00:31:53.840
take it out of context, maybe whatever. But I think it's a fake video. Um, however,
00:32:00.040
when he did his town hall, he did not look sharp to say the least. So the question of Biden's
00:32:08.660
dementia or mental capacity is in the news. And then coincidentally, there's a claim about Trump
00:32:15.100
having dementia. Oh, isn't that, isn't that a coincidence that the moment Biden is acting like
00:32:22.260
he has dementia? Suddenly there's a book we're all talking about, about, you know, Bannon and
00:32:28.800
Trump's dementia. Is it coincidence or is it yet again, the Tucker Carlson observation
00:32:37.180
that this is not a coincidence that they blame you of whatever they're doing? Or in this case,
00:32:43.000
you know, they're, they're, they're smearing the story about the dementia stuff until Trump becomes
00:32:50.020
the shiny object in the story, which is a good strategy if that's what they're doing intentionally.
00:32:55.620
Well, let's talk about how bad, uh, that town hall was. And first of all, I should point out that one
00:33:04.320
way to know that your political system in your country is suboptimal. If you're having a conversation
00:33:12.460
about whether your current president or the one who just left office is the one with the most
00:33:18.200
dementia, that's not a good place to be. No, no, that would be like being in Texas in February.
00:33:26.780
It's just not a good place to be. You don't want to be arguing about which of your potential
00:33:31.540
presidents, the recent last one or the current one is the most dementia addled person. That's not a
00:33:39.280
good sign. Wouldn't you like at least one of them to be? Maybe not. Maybe not. That'd be cool.
00:33:47.240
But that's where we are. Here's the thing that made me the happiest. You know, you watched Biden
00:33:53.620
when he was running for president and then after he got elected, he continued to say that the reason
00:33:58.820
he ran was in large part because of the fine people hoax that he believed, I think, was true.
00:34:07.520
Now, maybe we don't know what he believed, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Let's say
00:34:13.260
he believed it was true and he used it as the basis for running for office, mentioned it almost every
00:34:18.680
time. And then last night during the town hall, which follows by a few days, Trump's lawyers debunking
00:34:27.160
that hoax in front of the entire world. Biden got to that point where he always mentions it
00:34:33.680
and he didn't. I mean, it was conspicuous. He always mentions it because he's, you know,
00:34:40.940
you see the lead up and where he's going and now, now's the point where he throws in the fine people
00:34:45.840
hoax and he didn't. Is that a coincidence? Or does he know that that would get fact checked
00:34:54.240
because now the lawyers have debunked it? I think it's intentional. I think there was an actual
00:35:02.320
conversation in which somebody said, you know, maybe lay off of this fine people hoax. If we wait a few
00:35:08.760
months, we can revive it and people will forget what the lawyer said. Maybe. Don't know.
00:35:18.580
Biden had a few fact check problems, something about whether he knew there was a vaccination
00:35:24.260
when he took office, but before he'd said that he obviously knew it, everybody knew it.
00:35:30.060
It was a Trump vaccination. So he misspoke or something. I don't know. Or it was dementia. We don't
00:35:35.160
know. But how did CNN cover the fact checking? What do you think? So Stephen Collinson, one of their
00:35:47.100
propaganda demons, who always does the negative Trump articles on CNN, he mentioned two of Biden's,
00:35:57.100
and I'll use his exact word, missteps. So while President Trump is full of lies,
00:36:05.160
when Biden says things which are not true, they're missteps. All right. So that's the first
00:36:13.080
thing you need to know. It's a misstep. And then Collinson says this. He goes, Biden's missteps
00:36:18.720
paled in comparison to the hurricane of lies, false statements, bitter political attacks,
00:36:25.000
and self-aggrandizement that regularly dominated Trump's appearances and rally speeches and town hall
00:36:31.300
events on conservative media. And despite his characteristic stumbling, so it's a characteristic
00:36:38.660
stumbling, it's not even anything to worry about, really. It's more like a little bit of misstep,
00:36:45.920
a little bit of, oh, I'd say characteristic stumbling. Because if it's characteristic, it's already
00:36:52.140
baked in. You know, just characteristic. Over some precise figures. Oh, he didn't make a gigantic
00:36:59.540
error about misspeaking about the availability of vaccinations. No, he stumbled over some precise
00:37:07.380
figures. So there was a little bit of, just a little bit of lack of precision. You know,
00:37:14.220
and that's not so bad. A little bit of lack of, just a little bit. Just a little bit of lack of
00:37:19.780
precision. And that's way better than the hurricane of lies and false statements, bitter political attacks,
00:37:26.000
and self-aggrandizement from Trump. I mean, that's, it's way better to have just a little,
00:37:31.840
just a slight little technical, technical irregularity, let's call it.
00:37:39.680
And nowhere in Collinson's review of the town hall did he mention China, which is the biggest story.
00:37:49.380
The biggest story of the town hall is that Biden basically backed China's policies
00:37:56.860
against, you know, the benefits of really the United States, you could, you could argue.
00:38:07.580
And that was the biggest story. And Collinson doesn't even mention it one way or the other.
00:38:12.040
It's like it didn't exist. They're going to make that disappear. So here's what Biden said. You have to,
00:38:18.580
you have to watch the video to understand how bad it is. If you listen to my characterization of what
00:38:24.760
he said about China, and you say to yourself, I feel like you're, you're spinning that. It couldn't
00:38:31.240
have been that bad, right? Listen to it yourself. You will hear the president of the United States
00:38:38.880
say that President Xi's treatment of the Uyghurs who are in concentration camps being gang raped,
00:38:46.920
the Hong Kong stuff, the Taiwan stuff, and Biden saying basically that Xi has a good reason
00:38:55.420
for why he's doing these things, because he needs to keep his country unified, and that Biden
00:39:02.180
understands those reasons. Basically, basically, Biden backed China's Holocaust.
00:39:12.100
And I didn't think I was watching it. Like what the first time I watched it, I had to replay it,
00:39:20.400
because I thought, this isn't happening. Is it? Now, if you are wondering if Biden is under the
00:39:29.120
control of China, you can stop wondering, because that pretty much cleared things up. It did. If you're
00:39:37.520
wondering if China has control over Biden, I don't think you would wonder after you saw that. Now,
00:39:44.160
can I read Biden's mind? No. Do I know his inner intentions? No. Do I know if he's intentionally
00:39:51.140
being nice to China because of any business dealings or any, you know, blackmail they might have about
00:39:58.120
Hunter Biden? I don't know any of that. I'm not making any claim about any of that. I'm just saying
00:40:04.020
that if you watch your leader, if you're American, if you're watching your president,
00:40:09.920
the appearance is that he's working for China. I don't say that lightly, because I don't want it
00:40:19.560
to be true, but it sure looks true. Now, of course, he had to correct that, and CNN had to jump into
00:40:27.900
the breach to try to fix what got broken here. And I'm not sure they made it better. So let me see
00:40:36.780
if I can find the exact quote here that's pretty funny, which I hope I didn't lose.
00:40:43.840
So what Caitlin Collins did at CNN is she ended up taking two fragments of what Biden said and trying
00:40:57.160
to connect them in a tweet so that his incoherent fragments sort of made sense when you rearranged
00:41:03.480
them. That actually happened. Doesn't it sound like I just made that up? That CNN took his sentence
00:41:11.640
fragments that weren't even complete sentences when he said them, arranged them so that one fragment
00:41:18.480
would be closer to another fragment, and it would look like a complete thought that was kind of
00:41:24.560
different than what he actually said. That actually happened. And you, you know, watch my tweet and see
00:41:31.520
for yourself, right? Use your own judgment and ask yourself if that really happened, that they took
00:41:38.000
two sentence fragments, not even complete sentences, and arranged them to look like they were, they were
00:41:43.980
coherent. That actually happened. All right. So of course, he had to walk it back when he was questioned
00:41:51.620
about it. And here's how Biden sort of explained himself better. He said, quote, this is after the town
00:42:03.520
hall, I guess. He said, China is trying very hard to become a world leader. True. And to get that
00:42:10.540
moniker and be able to do that, they have to gain the confidence of other countries, Biden said.
00:42:19.160
Back in January, I guess. And he said that, oh, so this was in January. So he said this before the
00:42:24.880
town hall. And he said, as long as they're engaged in activities that is contrary to basic human rights,
00:42:31.180
it's going to be hard for them to do that. So Biden's take on China is that if they don't manage
00:42:38.240
their own brand well, that other countries will not give them the moniker of a world leader.
00:42:48.520
Well, I guess he showed them, huh? You know, I feel sorry for President Xi when he found out that
00:42:56.320
according to Joe Biden, other leaders around the world might not give China the moniker of a world
00:43:03.620
leader if they keep acting the way they're acting. Huh. Pretty tough on China, isn't he?
00:43:11.920
So we definitely have a, and I guess in another comment, he said that China would essentially pay
00:43:20.240
for their human rights abuses. So he, so he accepts that some of that's going on, but he says that
00:43:26.920
they'll, you know, they'll pay for it in some indistinct way that has nothing to do with him,
00:43:31.920
apparently. Um, well, here's a little more, uh, background. Uh, Breitbart is reporting this,
00:43:41.780
that the, uh, Secretary of State under, uh, Biden, whose name is Blinken, was the co-founder of a
00:43:50.080
consulting company called Wessex Act Advisors, which according to the Washington Free Beacon,
00:43:55.440
so I guess you'd have to make sure this is correct, uh, quote, helped U.S. universities raise money from
00:44:02.360
China without running afoul of Pentagon grant requirements. Can you think of anything worse?
00:44:11.780
What would be worse than trying to get Chinese money, uh, influencing U.S. universities?
00:44:22.260
Like, literally, what would be worse than that? That's the worst thing I can even think of.
00:44:28.840
Like, short of actual immediate violence, what would be worse than helping China get financial
00:44:37.280
influence over U.S. universities? Now, the way it's, uh, way it's stated is that, uh, helping them raise
00:44:45.580
money. But what happens when you raise money from somebody? They have influence, right? If somebody
00:44:54.860
gives you millions of dollars, they, they've got a little bit of influence over you. And our own
00:45:02.000
Secretary of State, allegedly, and, uh, you know, I, I feel like I would need a fact check on this. This,
00:45:06.880
this feels like the kind of thing that might not necessarily be true once you look into it. Uh, but
00:45:13.120
that's the reporting we have right now, is that, uh, he helped U.S. universities raise money from China.
00:45:21.420
Now, what could be more disqualifying than that? I can't even think of anything. Like,
00:45:27.560
short of actually selling nuclear secrets to China, what would be more damaging than helping
00:45:34.320
them get influence over our university system? I can't think of anything worse than that.
00:45:40.740
And it's in Breitbart, but will it be in any other publication or will it just be ignored?
00:45:52.640
Jelaine Maxwell, you know, Epstein's, uh, partner there, is reported to be losing her hair in a
00:46:02.360
withering shell of her former self, the Daily Mail says, and was physically abused by a guard
00:46:07.900
during a pat-down at Brooklyn jail, her lawyer claims.
00:46:11.660
So the woman who was accused of serial sexual abuse is put in prison and got alleged, allegedly
00:46:25.380
sexually abused by a guard. Now, I don't even know what to think about that because my first impression
00:46:34.340
was, well, screw her, had it coming or some version of that. But I also don't want to live in a world
00:46:44.100
where the, where the, uh, prison guards are filling up the prisoners. So on one hand, I don't feel as bad
00:46:54.260
about this as, uh, my brain tells me I ought to. So I'm not proud of that. On the other hand, if this is true
00:47:03.320
and this, this guard actually sexually abused her, uh, you should be executed for that because you
00:47:11.800
have power, you know, anybody who has power over somebody who makes it, you know, that extra bad
00:47:16.420
situation. Yeah. And why was there a male guard patting her down? I mean, it's actually, it's not,
00:47:24.800
it's not mentioned actually. It was physically, it says physically abused by a guard. Actually,
00:47:30.240
it doesn't specify whether it was a male or female guard. So we don't know. Um,
00:47:36.320
all right. Uh, Breitbart is also reporting and increasingly there's a lot of news that you're
00:47:44.080
only going to see on Breitbart. If you haven't noticed that yet, there, there are whole topics
00:47:49.820
which are interesting and matter and they matter to the country, et cetera. And you don't see them
00:47:56.360
anywhere else. It's just, it's just nobody else reports them. It's weird.
00:48:03.320
All right. Um, so apparently Oregon's progressive department of education, according to Breitbart,
00:48:10.380
uh, they came out with a 82 page training manual, manual to how to make a math instruction more
00:48:18.060
equitable. So it's called a pathway to equitable math instructions, dismantling racism in mathematics
00:48:25.060
instruction. So their problem was that they believe that math instruction was sort of a,
00:48:32.420
uh, that it was a white supremacy culture kind of invention. And so they're trying to make math
00:48:40.240
instruction less racist and white supremacist. Now I'm not making up what I'm going to read next.
00:48:48.580
You're going to think maybe it's a joke. This is real. These are the real words. I'm going to quote
00:48:54.840
them, uh, from the Oregon's progressive department of education. Uh, the manual enumerates the signs of
00:49:02.800
what they call white supremacy culture and the mathematics classroom, which include a focus on
00:49:08.300
quote, getting the right answer and emphasis on quote, real world math. So, you know, things that can be
00:49:15.960
applied teaching math in a linear fashion, quote unquote, students being required to quote,
00:49:23.200
show their work and grading students based on their demonstrated knowledge of the material.
00:49:30.220
And it goes on quote, in order to embody anti-racist, uh, math education, teachers must engage in
00:49:37.500
critical praxis, P-R-A-X-I-S. Right? Now, if you're reading this, make sure you, you get it right. You've got to,
00:49:47.880
uh, the manual declares. So, um, I would like to give this same advice to all of you. A lot of you,
00:50:16.380
um, I've noticed have not been engaged in a critical praxis. Have you? Be honest. How many of you have been
00:50:25.900
engaged in a, in a critical, in any kind of a critical praxis that interrogates the way in which
00:50:32.240
you perpetuate white supremacy? Have you done any of the work? Probably not, right? You haven't done the
00:50:39.100
work. And if you haven't done the work, well, I feel you're sort of a white supremacist, even if you're
00:50:48.420
not white. Those are the rules. Uh, so there you have it. Math is racist, and we've got to do something
00:50:57.400
about that. And the way to do that, in case I didn't mention it, was to make sure that you're, uh,
00:51:04.560
you're engaged in critical praxis, interrogating the ways in which you perpetuate white supremacy.
00:51:12.540
Uh, what's praxis mean? No idea. Um, but it seems important. So, we have reached a point where,
00:51:26.280
uh, you know, we've, we've legitimately entered that 1984 territory. You know, for my entire life,
00:51:33.480
I don't remember any time in my life people were not making 1984 comparisons, but they were always
00:51:39.740
kind of dumb. It's like, yeah, it's not 1984. Ah, you know, you're just, it's hyperbole. But we,
00:51:47.220
we actually have a situation in which organized governmental or government approved entities are
00:51:55.140
brainwashing. And, and it's not even any kind of a hidden, it's not a secret. It's not, they're not
00:52:02.480
doing it cleverly through their advertisements or something. They're actually directly brainwashing
00:52:07.340
to make people think right. Somebody says, uh, slippery slope. Um, I may have to change my,
00:52:18.440
my whole view on the slippery slope, but let, but let me, uh, state my view more clearly.
00:52:26.320
Things will go the way they're going in all cases until something springs up to stop it.
00:52:32.080
So typically you can depend on some, some counterforce to spring up. And that's why the,
00:52:38.740
I'm not a proponent of the slippery slope because there are, there's always a response to it if it
00:52:45.300
matters. If it doesn't matter, then things will just keep slipping. But if people care,
00:52:50.400
they will mount a defense. Now, what's unique is that because of the topic we're talking about,
00:52:57.080
you know, any racial sensitivities, et cetera, you can't mount a defense because anybody who
00:53:02.960
mounts a defense becomes part of the problem, right? So this is a slippery slope that any
00:53:09.120
counter element that tries to pop up gets slapped down. So that's a weird kind of slippery slope.
00:53:16.520
Mostly the slippery slope just goes until something happens to stop it. But the unique situation here
00:53:23.260
is that anybody who tries to stop it becomes part of the problem by definition. So, so the slope,
00:53:30.660
the slippery slope has built into it that if you try to stop it, you should be killed.
00:53:38.240
Basically you're a horrible person. You're a, you're a racist or whatever. So that's a unique
00:53:43.240
situation in which it's not the slippery slope part. That's the active part. It's the fact that they
00:53:50.020
suppress anything that would normally stop it. So it's the suppression that's the story,
00:53:55.540
not the slipperiness, if that helps you at all. Uh, is 1984 worth reading? I don't know. I've never
00:54:02.380
read it. Uh, 1984 and Animal Farm. Uh, I resist reading because everybody tells me to do it.
00:54:11.100
Honestly, that's why I feel like the crib notes are good enough. I don't feel like I have to read
00:54:16.820
fiction to get the idea. I get the idea, right? You don't have to read 1984 to get the idea
00:54:23.140
and Animal Farm, same thing. We've all heard enough about it to, you know, we all have the crib notes.
00:54:29.600
Um, somebody says, what? You must read them. Do you think that reading them would add a, uh,
00:54:40.420
let's say, a new filter to my head? Or would it just propagandize me harder?
00:54:48.320
Because if you know the concept, why does reading it in the form of fiction make a difference?
00:54:54.780
I know the concepts. Read it anyway. Get that propaganda. Well, if you don't mind,
00:55:03.980
I will ignore the parts that are, uh, intended to, to inflame my emotions and I will take from it the
00:55:10.680
facts which are actually useful. It might blow my mind as fiction, as fiction. It might blow my mind.
00:55:19.340
Um, so, so I'm saying here that people are saying that if you read 1984, you will learn something that
00:55:31.020
you won't get from just knowing the concepts in it. That might be true for you. I don't know that's
00:55:39.000
true for a hypnotist. I really don't. I feel as if it would look like territory I'd been on a lot,
00:55:47.760
just organized well. That's what it feels like. But, uh, yeah, the Ministry of Truth, we know all these
00:55:55.120
concepts and, uh, Atlas Shrugged. So, uh, let me say about Ayn Rand, the most overrated author and
00:56:05.440
thinker maybe of all time. All right. So I've, I've read, you know, the two big, you know, Ayn Rand
00:56:13.420
books, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, I guess. And I just didn't find anything there.
00:56:19.640
It was just empty. To me, it was just a bunch of nothing. It was just a poorly written books.
00:56:25.260
I didn't see anything of value in any of them. Sorry. Um, the golden age, you said it was coming.
00:56:36.500
We might be pretty close to the golden age. Um, I'll check my stocks, but, uh, stocks during the
00:56:43.240
Biden era had been good so far. Let's see what it looks like at the moment. Yeah, they're just
00:56:50.260
bouncing around. So at the moment, stocks are down a little bit. Uh, Bitcoin is at a new high.
00:56:58.860
Um, the, uh, retail sales are up. We have peaked in coronavirus and it's going down.
00:57:08.500
We've probably learned a ton about how to handle our next pandemic. Um, we are preparing to
00:57:17.800
colonize space. Thank you, Elon Musk. Uh, and I believe that we have completely begun to rethink
00:57:28.380
everything from our education system in a way we never would have before. The worst situation would
00:57:35.600
have been our school system continued on the way it was. That would have been the Holocaust.
00:57:40.940
Uh, okay. I won't use the Holocaust. I'll take that back. That would have been a disaster.
00:57:45.840
But having to rethink it, losing a year as expensive as this is in the lives of our children and,
00:57:52.040
and their parents, as expensive as it is in every emotional and physical and economic way,
00:57:58.060
we probably had to, we probably had to break the system before we could re-engineer it. Likewise,
00:58:05.160
the, the idea of work has completely changed. We've now accepted the, uh, the idea of direct
00:58:13.640
payments to people who don't have jobs, universal basic income. We've basically accepted that. You
00:58:20.000
know, we accepted it under the pandemic, but now it's sort of in our minds and it would be easier to
00:58:25.320
implement in the future. Um, and working at home without the commute is obviously big,
00:58:33.160
seeing all kinds of movement toward figuring out how to make, uh, it less expensive to, you know,
00:58:38.740
have housing. I think that as bad as these disasters are with the, the Texas, uh, power grid,
00:58:45.760
et cetera, that these all create the good things. When you look at Elon Musk making a hundred million
00:58:52.780
dollar, uh, prize available for whoever builds the best carbon capture, that's really big.
00:59:00.580
That's really big. Now that doesn't mean that's what's going to solve climate change. If you think,
00:59:05.780
if you even believe there's something to solve, but it is part of a tapestry of good things happening
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in that realm. And I think that we're all getting a lot smarter about green energy versus non. Uh, you may
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have, you may have heard, I think I mentioned it, that the Trump administration in December,
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just before they were out of power, passed through a bill that included, uh, money to develop our, uh,
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fusion technology. So instead of nuclear fission, which we have, but it has some issues,
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nuclear fusion would be sort of nearly unlimited low cost energy. So there's a whole bunch of stuff
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that happened in the last year or so that are really big, really big. And even though they look
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bad because they are, you know, our energy problems or pandemic, that's bad, but they've, they've,
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they've opened a, uh, a doorway on each of those topics in which we can see them more clearly for the
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first time. And when you, when, when humans, and I'm going to say Americans, if you, with apologies,
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with apologies to people around the world who are watching this live stream,
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I do have a bias toward the American, let's say spirit. Now I don't have a lot of knowledge about
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the spirit in other countries, so maybe somebody has got a better one, but the American
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spirit, if you will, is if we can understand the problem, we can fix it. It's not understanding the
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problem is where we get in trouble. It's like, are we supposed to be working on this climate
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change? Is it really a problem? I'm not sure. Should we fix immigration or should we just open
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the gates? If you can't agree on what the problem is, then you, you're going to have trouble fixing
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it. But when Americans agree, let's say the year 2000 bug, I like to use that example all the time.
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Nobody in the world wanted the year 2000 bug to destroy computers around the world and plunge us
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into a depression. Nobody wanted that. We had just this, this specific problem. You got to fix the
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old code that won't recognize when the year turns 2000. Everybody recognized the same problem.
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And then we went and fixed it. That's the way it works. But you first have to understand you're all
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looking at the same problem. And I feel as though these recent disasters, everything from the pandemic
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to the energy problems, et cetera, are sort of opening up some visibility into all these things.
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And it's a new visibility. And maybe that gets us on the same page and gets enough ingenuity going to
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solve things. Yeah, I think we're in the golden age. I do. Do you realize that at least in the United
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States, by the way, correct me if this is wrong, we had our entire food distribution system attacked
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in a way we've never seen anything attacked. I'm talking like Trump now in a way we've never seen
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before. Yeah, we've seen things before. So remove the hyperbole. I didn't need it. And how did we
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respond? There are a lot of, and by the way, I've been meaning to do this. I would like to directly
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and explicitly thank everybody who worked in any part of the food distribution network, from farmer
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to, you know, everybody who gets the food to your plate. All the people working on that, especially
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the meat, the meat packing plants, et cetera, you guys are heroes. Because you guys, and women, of
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course, you didn't get to take time off. You didn't get to work at home. You had to produce the food
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to keep us alive. And how'd they do? How'd they do? Nailed it. Absolutely freaking nailed it.
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Now, you know, lots of problems. Things didn't work perfectly. But of course, it was a pandemic.
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But correct me if I'm wrong. Give me a fact check on this. Zero people starved because of the pandemic
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in the United States. Can somebody give me a fact check on that? I think that's true. I think it's
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true that zero people starved. Now, a lot of people had a lot of trouble, still do. I'm not minimizing
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the amount of pain and suffering that's happening. But nobody starved. I mean, think about that.
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And by the way, in hindsight, in hindsight, you know, it doesn't look as impressive. But in the
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beginning, we didn't know if we were going to starve. We didn't know. And the food service people
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from farmers on, they pulled it off. So here's another example. There was nobody in America who
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wanted anybody to starve. Right? We were all on exactly the same side. We've got this big food
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problem. We need to solve this. And then we did. And that's typical of what happens certainly in this
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country, but we saw it all around the world, is that if the problem is agreed on, you can solve it.
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It's only when you don't agree that you got a problem. All right. That is all I have to do for
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today. That's all I have to tell you. Yeah, that is my dog snoring. You can actually hear that on
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person. Listen, that snicker snoring. That's what I have to listen to all day. All right. That's all
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for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow. All right. What exactly was the problem? Somebody says.
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Bridget, don't talk like that. I don't think the protesters should have hung anybody.
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But if I'm being honest, and I've said this before, I know this is terribly wrong to say,
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which is why it's fun to say, because it's terribly wrong. Terribly wrong. I do think that the capital
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assault, while I don't promote it, I disavow it, and the people have to deal with the justice system
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appropriately. But I do think that your government needs to feel the people now and then. I do think
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that the government needs to be reminded who they work for. Now, if the capital assault reminded them
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that there are people in the country, they need to do their job in a way that the public generally will
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be happy, I don't feel that they were doing their job. Now, I don't. Just to be extra sure, you hear me.
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I'm not giving any apology or support for any of the assaulters on the capital. They're disowned.
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That's their business. They need to deal with the legal system. But I'm not going to say that there
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were no benefits. Because I feel as if the people need to show that they control the government and
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not the other way around. This was maybe the worst possible way to do it. You know, I can't imagine a
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worse way to do it. But it did have that, it might have had that effect. And we won't know for a long
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time. But maybe Congress will be maybe a little bit more effective if they feel the pressure.
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But don't storm the Capitol again. Just be clear about that.
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All right, that's all for now. And I will talk to you later.