Episode 1303 Scott Adams： The Fake News Alleged Threat on the Capitol, Congress Makes Voting Worse, and Reality
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Bill Pulte talks about Elon Musk's rocket explosion, Tiger Woods' car crash, and Gavin Newsom's recall attempt in California. Plus, a new addition to the podcast and of the day.
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Hey everybody, come on in. I'm sorry if you saw my aborted attempt to do a live stream just a
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minute ago. I was trying to take my selfie profile image that appears as the as the thumbnail and I
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hit the wrong button because this interface could use a little help. But how great is today? I'm
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going to teach you about reality, tell you what the fake news is trying to fool you with,
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and we're going to have some fun. Oh yeah. And all you need is a copper mug or a glass,
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Bill Pulte, good to see you. And we have lots of stuff to talk about. Let's jump right in. All right.
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Number one, Elon Musk. One of his test rockets exploded after it returned otherwise safely back to the
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launch pad. Have you watched one of these SpaceX rockets land after it's done its thing? And it's the
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wildest thing to hear, to see it land upright. It just seems like, isn't there some way to do this easier
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than trying to make it land upright? But maybe not. I'm sure they thought about it all. So it did land
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okay. But a few minutes after it landed, it exploded. There was some, some kind of leak or something,
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maybe. And I was trying to think how, how hard that must be if you were on the team and you thought
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it worked and it went up and it came back. And I guess previous ones have exploded and this one landed
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and you're like, yay. What? And it just blew up. I'll tell you, Elon Musk has a pair of gonads about the
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size of Jupiter. I believe our largest planet. And I love the fact that he's going to, he's just going to
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blow up rockets until this works. I don't know if the, I don't know if NASA could do this. Could NASA
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fail as many times as you necessarily will need to, to get to success? I don't know if they could.
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I feel as if his, uh, Elon Musk's sort of special place in the country gets more and more special
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every time he pushes through something like this. And you know, he's going to push through it,
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right? They're going to learn something and do it again. Just keep doing it again until it works.
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So I love living in a country where Elon Musk can put up a rocket and it can blow up.
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Doesn't even slow him down. Don't you like that? I mean, you know, nobody wants the rocket to blow up.
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Nobody was hurt. But, uh, there's something awesome about it blowing up and having no impact,
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Tiger Woods is talking about his crash and apparently says he doesn't remember driving,
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which is interesting because he was lucid when he was found, but he doesn't say,
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I don't remember the crash. He says, I don't remember driving. Is that ambient? What is that?
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It does feel as though there was, uh, some loss of consciousness. So my guess, I'm just speculating,
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but based on how, where the car, the automobile went after he lost control, it looks like he was
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unconscious. So I guess we'll find out. Or maybe we'll never find out. The, uh, effort to recall
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Gavin Newsom in California needed 1.5 million signatures, but they always get extra in case
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some are thrown out. They're up to 1.9. They have 1.9 million people signed a recall, um, petition for
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the governor. Does anybody have any idea who would replace him? Because I think if you do the recall,
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he can still run, right? Is that how it works? Even though he's recalled, he can still run because
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nothing prevents that. Um, so he's out to win again, right? So who in, who in, uh, California is even
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the right candidate? I don't even know. Somebody's saying Rick Grinnell. I don't know if he wants to
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run for state office though. I could see him running for president someday. Rick Grinnell. How would you
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like to see Rick Grinnell run for president? Let me just give, let's just see what it looks like here
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in the comments. Because I don't know how he would lose. Do you? Uh, how could he lose? How could Rick
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Grinnell lose if he ran for president as a Republican? I don't think he could. I feel like
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he's got the, you know, the demographic little advantage there. The people were going to sort of
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be semi-automatic voters. And then you just get all the Republicans and then you're done.
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Um, I don't know how he could lose, honestly. Now he may have, you know, maybe somebody digs up
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some scandal or something we don't know about. Everybody's got one of those, but he seems pretty
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solid. Seems pretty solid. We'll see. Um, Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor. Uh, he's actually
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going to come back. For a while, it looked like he was going to step back from the job because he said
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some inartful things about one of the contestants who had some years ago been at a, uh, what do they
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call it? A, uh, uh, like a party celebrating the old South antebellum party. And that was considered
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racist because it was celebrating a, you know, a system that included racism as a, like a prime
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foundation of the system. And here's, I want to read you Harrison's actual, uh, words, apology. Okay.
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And I want it, I want you to see if he says something racist in the apology. See if you can
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find it. All right. So he's trying to avoid being called racist or insensitive, I guess.
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And he's going to make a statement. See if you can find the racist statement that's in the apology.
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All right. Here it goes. Chris Harrison says, quote, I am saddened and shocked at how insensitive I was
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in that interview with Rachel Lindsay. And I didn't speak from my heart. And that is to say,
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I stand against all forms of racism and I'm deeply sorry. I'm sorry to Rachel Lindsay and I'm sorry to
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the black community. Harrison added, did you catch it? Did you catch the racist statement within the
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apology? Let's see if anybody saw it. Right. You got it. Somebody got it right away. All forms.
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If you, if you say that you're opposed to all forms of racism, what have you said?
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It says you're opposed to racism, including against, against white people and against adult white males
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because it's all forms, right? I don't know if you can include that anymore. Can you? Because it feels
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like when he threw in the all forms, didn't you feel a little bit of a Republican vibe to that?
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Just a, just a whiff of maybe a little, I don't know that he would be a Republican or, you know,
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I'm not saying, I'm not saying he would categorize himself that way. I have no idea. So I'm not
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speculating on that. I'm just saying that choice of words is just, just a whiff. There's just a whiff
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of a hint with that phraseology. Now, I don't know if you can tell that I'm not calling it racist.
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You didn't think I was calling it racist, right? I'm saying that there's, there's just a choice of
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words there that shows a little bit of independence. Just, there's just a little bit
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of revolt that's embedded in, in an embarrassing apology. It's embarrassing because it's over the
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top. You know, I'm a horrible person. I can't believe what I did. It's the end of the world because
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I used an inertful phrase. What was I thinking? It's all ridiculously over the top. And then after
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he's gone ridiculously over the top, where you're thinking to yourself, legitimately, I asked this
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like no joke. The first time I saw his apology, I said, I can't tell if he's kidding because he did
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it so on point that it looked like sarcasm, like almost, right? And then he comes out with this,
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with this little all forms of, of racism. And I think, did he do it again? I feel like Chris
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Harrison just sent us two secret messages. I'm reading a book you may have heard of. It's called
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1984. And people said, hey, you should read this book, 1984, because it has historical significance.
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And somehow my incredible education in Wyndham, New York did not include that book. It's amazing.
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But I'd never read it before. So I just started digging in. And one of the major themes
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is that the people are so observed, you know, they've got a monitoring screen in their house
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that listens to them and watches them. And they don't even want to make a wrong facial expression
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unless they turn away from the screen that's in their home watching them all the time.
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And they don't even want to make like eye contact with somebody else, if even the eye contact could
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be interpreted as maybe, maybe some kind of the beginning of a rebellion. It's like, hey,
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if you looked at that person across there, and they looked at you in a knowing way,
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maybe that's the beginning of a rebellion. And you better watch how your eyes work.
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So in 1984, things are so restricted, and you'll be effectively canceled, I guess, if you deviate even
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a little bit, that the main character is wondering if some other character is sending him a secret
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message, just because of the way he looked at him once, just once, just gave him a look like, oh, I'm on
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your side. But he wasn't sure if that's what the look said. All he had was the look. And it was the only
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thing he had to cling to, to feel any hope, any hope, basically, or any feeling of humanity, was just a little
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glance from another person that may or may not have said, I feel you. You know, we're all trapped
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here. And here's Chris Harrison. And by the way, I'm making, this is all just speculation for fun,
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right? Nobody knows what Chris Harrison is thinking. So don't, don't take anything I say
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about what he's thinking as any kind of a credible statement. I'm just saying, if you read the book,
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and then you watch this, it feels very similar. It just feels like Chris Harrison sent us a message.
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But it was a really subtle one. By over apologizing, you saw it, right? How many of you got that message?
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When you saw his apology, did you say to yourself, huh? Anybody? Yeah, before I told you that it looks
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suspicious. How many of you saw it, and the first thing you thought was, I'm not sure.
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Just look at the comments, see if anybody else picked up on it. It's like a wink. Somebody says,
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yes. There's more no's than yes. Somebody says, I heard a dog whistle. Nah, nope. Yeah,
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so I'm probably imagining it, right? Maybe so. But that is the world that we have entered,
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in which any thought that you would say your actual opinions, pretty dangerous. Pretty dangerous.
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The latest presumed fake news, and I'm going to use that word presumed, because I think you have
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to presume some kinds of stories are fake news from the start, right? If you hear a story that says,
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an anonymous source says that Trump was eating a baby, a live baby, what would be the presumption?
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The presumption would be that's fake news, right? Just on the surface. Here's another one.
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Quote, we've obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot, this is a government statement,
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to breach the capital by an unidentified, by an identified, not unidentified, by an identified
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militia group on Thursday, March 4th. The USCP said in a statement, so what do you think of that? Do you
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think that there's a possible plot to breach the capital by identified militia groups? That's being
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reported. So it's probably true, right? Because it comes from our intelligence organizations.
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And if you can't trust our intelligence organizations, who can you trust? Am I right?
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So the intelligence organizations, the same people who told us there was an armed insurrection,
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or at least associated with the same people who told us there was an armed insurrection,
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as Byron York points out in the Washington Examiner, Britt Hume tweeted this, tweeted Byron's
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article. And Byron York points out something that I kind of think maybe I sort of almost knew,
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but I didn't, which is during the, quote, armed insurrection, and Byron shows how armed insurrection,
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those exact words are used by the media a number of times. So they called it an armed insurrection.
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And there were also lots of people arrested, right? So those are the two things we know. The media
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called it an armed insurrection, and they arrested a lot of people. How many guns did they take from
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the people they arrested? Give me a number. What do you think the total number of guns that were taken
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from all the people arrested? There are hundreds now, right? Is it dozens or hundreds who were
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arrested? Zero. Zero. They did have stuff like bear spray and clubs and stuff like that. And those,
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they'll kill you too, apparently. But zero. If they had taken one gun, I would be sensitive
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to, at least if they said, armed insurrection. At least it's sort of, technically almost true.
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Somebody's saying one, but that was taken from a car. It wasn't taken from a person.
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Taken from a car from some, you know, somebody owned it, of course. Think about that. Think about
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the fake news selling you on an armed insurrection, and nobody who got arrested had a gun. Now,
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there were people with concealed carry, and unconcealed carry, I think. I'm not sure. But
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we know weapons were there. There is a complete non-overlap between the people who had weapons
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and the people who were willing to break the law at that time. Nobody with a weapon broke a law and got
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caught. Not one person who had a weapon on them also broke some different law and got caught.
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That's a little bit hard to sell as an armed insurrection. But now we're being told there's
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another one. Armed insurrection version two. And it's an identified militia group. What's their
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name? What's the name of the identified militia group? Let me read further in the story.
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I don't see it. Did you? Have you seen the name of the identified, identified militia group?
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They're not going to tell us the name? If this were Al-Qaeda, would they say, well, we have a terror
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group? That's all you need to know. Somebody says it's classified. Should it be? Maybe it is. Should
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it be? Because I don't believe any of this story. Because this story depends on the fact that somebody
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watched the Capitol assault on January or whatever, and that they said to themselves,
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I think this could work out if we take another run at it. What would that look like? How big is this
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militia? Is this a militia with, let's say, oh, I don't know, I'll pick a number, 80 people who are
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associated with it, which would be a lot, 80 people, who maybe 15 of them could get a plane ticket to
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Washington, D.C. on this date? And then they were going to do what? Were they going to conquer the
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Capitol and hold territory with their 15 people, and then use that as the beginning of running the
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country? What? Could the news that's making up this story, this is obviously a bullshit story,
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could they at least give us some kind of a makeup, some more details, like what they plan to do is
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bring X number of people, and they plan to hold the government, or is it the beginning of what they
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hope will be a general uprising once they get things going? Because they watched the first Capitol
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assault, and you'd have to think that they thought, well, that works so well, let's do some more of that.
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What exactly was the plan here for these 15 guys, I'm just making up a number, 15 guys who could get
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to D.C.? Were they going to take on the military of the United States? If you can't even come up with
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a fake news story that even holds together with its own fake news facts, don't put it in the news.
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Don't even tell us about it. If you can't even make the fake news fit, like it doesn't even make any sense.
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These guys really want, they're going to, anyway. So that's the world we live in. All right.
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President Biden did something. I don't know that he's done anything like this in a long, long time.
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It was quite unprecedented. He said something interesting. I know. I didn't see it coming
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either. So apparently Biden was talking about the governors of Texas and Mississippi who dropped all
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the restrictions for coronavirus masks and lockdowns and stuff. And Biden said, the last thing we need
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is the Neanderthal thinking. So he's basically calling the Republican governors of those two states
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Neanderthals. To which I say, thank you. Thank you, Joe Biden, for being interesting for once.
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I mean, I do this live stream every day. You're giving me nothing. Nothing. I need a little more,
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dare I say, trumpiness. What did I tell you would happen to Joe Biden eventually? And
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really, there's no way to be avoided. Inexorably, there's a word you shouldn't say until you practice
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sitting here in front of the mirror. Inexorably, you know the word. I'll just do a Joe Biden. You
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know the word. You know the word. The thing. The thing. But he's finally insulting people with
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insulting names like Neanderthal. And I, as an observer of politics, appreciate this.
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Thank you for being more like Donald Trump. Because Trump was interesting. No matter what
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else you said about him, he always entertained. Now, Biden taking a little, little baby step into
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being more interesting, calling the governors Neanderthals. I approve. I'm not saying I agree
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with his opinion. I'm saying I approve of his insulting, his insulting ways. Well, in other news,
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the Democrats, this is according to Steve Scalise, he said the Democrats just voted to ban
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voter ID nationwide and force every state to permanently expand mail-in voting. Now,
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how many of you know the argument, pro and con? I'll bet none of you. Or close to none of you.
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How many of you could articulate the argument on either side? On either side? Because I don't feel
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like we were ever told the argument. It feels like they just report what the bill is and then just say
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what happened. But what's the argument? What would be the argument for not requiring ID? Well,
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according to Daniel Dale, who tried to do a fact check on the claims made about this latest legislative
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thing, and he really has to try hard. Yeah, you have to listen to these Daniel Dale fact checks on this.
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So he's not fact checking Steve Scalise. He's just fact checking people saying things about the
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bill. He says, well, first he's talking about Mike Pence's talking about the topic. And he says that
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Pence claimed that under the bill, voter ID would be banned from coast to coast. So is that true or
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false? That voter ID would be banned? I feel like that's what was reported, right? Wasn't that exactly the
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point? So I feel like Mike Pence just described exactly what the news told us, that the bill would
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ban requirement of voter ID. But Daniel Dale says that's a false statement. It's false. And here's
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why. He says, facts first, this is false. The bill does not prohibit states from having voter
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identification requirements. Oh, well, that's different, right? But read on. Rather, it requires states to
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allow voters who do not show ID to instead submit a signed statement under penalty of perjury, attesting to
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their identity and eligibility to vote. Oh, oh, that kind of ID, the kind of ID where you promise it's really
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you. Why didn't you tell me? Why do we need? Why do we need driver's licenses? Can't we get rid of the DMV? And
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then if a cop stops you? And he says, do you have a license? And I say, of course I do. He says, can you
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show it to me? And I say, what kind of Neanderthal are you? This is 2021, Jack. We don't show ID.
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That's a little bit discriminatory, but I'll tell you what I will do. I will promise you that I'm really
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who I say. Are we good? And the cop says, whoa, now that you put it that way, I was thinking that
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some kind of government ID would be the only way I could tell reliably whether you are who you say.
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But now that you've offered this alternative, where you simply promised me that you are,
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would you write it? Would you put that in writing? Yes, I would. All right, here's a form.
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Just sign it. It says, you're really you. You swear to God, you're really you. Okay.
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Here you go. And we're good. Right? If you're like this comedian, was it Chris Alayu or something?
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Who's the comedian who just got in trouble for doing naughty things online with a 17-year-old
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allegedly? Now, if the problem is that the 17-year-old is under 18, I guess that is the
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problem. I feel as if Chris should be let off as long as she promised that she was over 18.
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Because why would she need to show him ID when she could just promise, just say for sure I'm over 18?
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I think we should take this as a standard, too. If you're writing a check at the store, and the store
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says, I'd like to see some ID, here's what I'm going to say. I'll just write it right on the check.
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I promise I am really the named person who is named on this check. Scott Adams.
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I'll show it to the store, and they'll say, that's not really ID. That's just you promising that you're
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really this person. And I'll say, have you heard of the United States government, Neanderthal?
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You probably haven't. The United States government, the Congress, have you heard of Congress?
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Congress. They say that promising you are who you are is just as good. So let's be taking this check,
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guys. Snap it up. So I think we should even take an attitude about it. Rather than when anybody asks
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you for identification, you should just look at them like they've got a turd hanging out of their mouth
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and just say, oh my God, who are you? Asking me for ID. I promise you I'm who I say. If you need more
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than that, that's voter suppression or something. Discrimination at the very least.
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But that's not all. Daniel Dale did more fact-checking because we can't have Mike Pence out there
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saying stuff. So here's another. Let's see. Oh, and Pence made an outrageous claim, an outrageous
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claim. But luckily, Daniel Dale was there to catch it. Because this could have just slid right through
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if Daniel Dale had not flagged it for you. So Pence makes the outrageous claim in his article that he
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wrote, claiming that the election involved, and this is a quote, this is not for me. This is from
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crazy Mike Pence. Okay? Not for me. So I can't get canceled for this, right? I'm just quoting this
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Neanderthal Mike Pence. And he said that the 2020 election involved significant voting irregularities.
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That's him. That's him. That's him. That's not me. I would never say such a thing. But Mike Pence
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says it involved significant voting irregularities. Now, Daniel Dale fact-checks him hard. He fact-checks
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him so hard, he checks him right into the wall. He says that unlike Trump, Pence did not say that the
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election involved fraud. But he left his vaguer claim about voting irregularities wide open,
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wide open for readers to interpret it as an endorsement of Trump's fraud lie. That's right.
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So when Pence notes irregularities, what do you think he was referring to? Could it be that this election
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violated every, what do you call it, bellwether indicator of who should win? Would you say that
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the irregularities would be anything that is off regular? That's what the word means, right? So if
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there's something that regularly happens, such as every time you win these certain counties,
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you win the presidency, you win the presidency. That regularly happens. Such as winning some high
00:30:36.840
percentage of the primary vote, which has historically guaranteed you would become president.
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But it didn't happen this time. So regularly it happens, but not this time. Were there other
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statistics which you could look at and say, you know, that's never happened before? Yes, there are.
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A lot of things that regularly happened in the past didn't happen this time. So is Mike Pence saying
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something that is untrue even a little bit? No, there's not anything that's even a little bit
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wrong with what Pence said. Is it true that people might interpret it, voting irregularities,
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as being voter fraud? Yes, that's possible. It's called people being bad at reading.
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That's a thing. Do you think that fact checking is the right thing to employ for anything that might
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be misinterpreted? Do you know what else might be misinterpreted? Everything I've ever fucking tweeted.
00:31:46.400
Everything. Everything I've ever put in words has a high chance of being misinterpreted. How do I know
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that? Because everything I've ever put in words has been misinterpreted by somebody. You know, not
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everybody. But everything I've written has been misinterpreted. So therefore, is everything I say
00:32:10.780
a lie? Because I know that I'll be misinterpreted. I know that. There's no chance there won't be. It
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always is. So better fact check me hard. Because sometimes people misinterpret me. And therefore,
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Okay. So Pence suggested, this is Daniel Deal fact checking again, suggested that the bill,
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this voting bill, would allow undocumented immigrants to register to vote. Well, that's quite a claim.
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You Neanderthal lying Pence, he's suggesting that the bill would allow undocumented immigrants to
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register. Well, that's not true. Here's the facts. The bill does not change the current law that bans
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people who aren't citizens from voting. So that's good. So it didn't, it did not say undocumented
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non-citizens can vote. So it didn't say that. All right. But what did it say? Daniel Deal says,
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the bill makes clear that people would still have to affirm. Interesting choice of words. Affirm.
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How would they affirm it? Let's go on. They would have to affirm that they are U.S. citizens
00:33:31.120
before they are added to the voter rolls. It also says that the government agencies involved in the
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process are to inform only U.S. citizens that they will be registered to vote. All right. But that's
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something that the government does. But in terms of the citizens themselves, they must affirm that
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they are U.S. citizens before they are allowed to vote. Affirm. Sign a document that says you are.
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It's just a promise, right? So Daniel Deal is fact-checking Pence, who is, I would say he could have
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added more context to his statement. But I feel that neither of them did a good job on this one.
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I don't think that Pence was clear enough. And I don't think the fact-check was even
00:34:21.120
slightly legitimate on this. All right. So that's the kind of fake news we're getting today.
00:34:31.220
So here's the context we have. So we had this capital assault, which was the biggest news the last few
00:34:40.160
months, right? So the capital was assaulted. Some say a coup. Some say an armed insurrection without
00:34:47.620
guns, I guess. But so we've got this hanging over our head that the election was not credible enough
00:34:58.300
to prevent a capital attack. How bad does your credibility need to be? And I'm only talking
00:35:08.160
about credibility, not talking about any allegations of fraud. I'm not saying the election was not
00:35:14.260
accurate. Those are separate claims. I'm saying that in terms of people's minds, a huge number of
00:35:21.440
citizens thought it was not credible and gave reasons, as in lack of transparency, as in we don't
00:35:28.380
know if all the right people were registered to vote, etc. Just lack of transparency. So given that
00:35:33.840
that's the biggest problem we have right now, wouldn't you say? The biggest immediate threat to the
00:35:40.000
republic is the country itself pulling itself apart without any external influence, or at least not
00:35:49.060
much of it. And at the same time, to address the biggest problem in the country, Congress just voted to
00:35:58.720
make it worse. That just happened. The biggest problem in the country was a big part of the
00:36:06.920
country, let's say one third or half or whatever the number is, not thinking that the elections are
00:36:12.440
credible the way the system is designed. Independent of whether the result was right, a big part of the
00:36:20.260
country doesn't think the system is even designed right. And then Congress aggressively made it worse.
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That was their response to their so low credibility in the system that the capital was attacked,
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or at least occupied, let's say. How'd they fix it? By making it worse. And they did it right in
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front of you. It's not like this is even an interpretation. Do you think that the people who
00:36:48.980
attacked the capital would be less inclined to attack because now you just have to promise your
00:36:56.140
citizen to vote? That makes them less likely to attack the next time? No. No, it doesn't. It makes
00:37:03.960
it more likely. How do you look at the big and decide to make that a little worse? Obviously worse.
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I mean, clearly, obviously worse. This is unambiguous.
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So, and then there's complaints that the Republicans are just trying to change the rules
00:37:24.360
because it will give them an advantage. Wasn't that what the Democrats just did? They just changed
00:37:30.940
the rules to give their team an advantage. It's either legal or it isn't. If the stuff you're doing
00:37:37.940
is legal and you're doing it through the courts and the elected officials, you can change the rules
00:37:46.520
to benefit your side. It's not illegal. It's just shitty. All right. Well, I'm trying to say this
00:37:55.160
without being blamed for inspiring or inciting insurrection. I don't know if you have enough
00:38:04.660
National Guard on the Capitol if you keep doing this stuff. If you spit in the face of the voters
00:38:12.600
enough, and this is just a spit in the face. That's what this is. This is an insult. This isn't even just
00:38:18.880
bad work. This is an insult to a big part of the country. So it's adding insult to injury, quite
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literally. And if you don't want trouble, you're going in the wrong direction. All right, here's the
00:38:33.960
most provocative idea of the day. And here's where you get to have some fun. I'm going to put something
00:38:42.740
out here that you as a collective group could actually make a big difference in a national
00:38:49.980
topic. Are you ready? And it's funny because it's so easy. There's something you can literally do.
00:38:57.360
It could happen in the next few minutes, actually, that would make a big difference to a national
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topic. And it goes like this. I saw Jeff Pilkington on Twitter. He wondered why we don't have a poll
00:39:13.280
specific to female athletes under 40 to ask them what they think about transgender sports athletes
00:39:23.640
playing on women's teams. Now, why is this important? It's important because women under 40
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are strongly in favor of transgender athletes. But that's just generally women. Not every woman would
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be in any way affected by the topic. But what about the people most affected? The people most affected,
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the victims, if you will. And I don't call them victims, by the way. Because as soon as you call
00:39:50.240
them victims, that's anti-LGBTQ, anti-transgender. In my opinion, it comes out that way. So I don't think
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there's a victim here. Because no matter what you do, there's still just one winner. There's still just
00:40:05.460
one winner. Everybody else was going to lose no matter what. So if you take a situation where there could
00:40:11.740
only be one winner, and there's still just one winner, I don't know, it doesn't feel like that's the worst
00:40:19.220
thing in the world. But that's just me. So here's what I would wonder. Could we do a poll of just female
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athletes, people who are actually currently, currently involved in female sports? And I would say do it at the
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high school, college level. I don't think you need it to do it professional level, do you? You can
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throw them in there. But it gets better. You're waiting for the good part? Right, here's the good
00:40:47.720
part. Rasmussen will do this poll if they can find a sponsor. Sponsor meaning money. So if there's
00:40:58.860
anybody out there who has access to some money, and you would like to see this poll, it's going to cost
00:41:05.320
something because it's not their normal polling setup. They would have to do a custom thing. But I
00:41:10.640
just talked to Rasmussen, and they say that they'll take this seriously. You just need somebody to fund
00:41:18.980
it. So how would you like to know if women athletes, just say women athletes, under 40 is sort of
00:41:27.720
automatic if you're an athlete. But say women athletes, just them, and then just settle it based
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on that. And just settle it. Because I think you know what's going to happen? I'm not positive.
00:41:40.560
But I think the female athletes are going to be pro-transgender athletes. I'm not positive.
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But I think they will. And they might be like two to one. I mean, it might be overwhelming.
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Because remember, the women under 40, not exclusive to athletes, but just women under 40 were,
00:42:02.020
I think like close to two-thirds of them were pro-transgender athletes. So why do you care
00:42:09.340
if they don't? You should not care more about somebody else's victimization than they do,
00:42:17.520
right? The reason that I care about the Uyghurs being imprisoned in China is that I feel confident
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that they care about it too, right? I don't believe if you checked in with the Uyghurs, they'd say,
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why are you making all this noise? We're fine. We got food. We're good. No. You should not be
00:42:36.940
more angry at somebody's victimization than the victim. Let the victim tell you how angry you should
00:42:42.960
be, right? If you want to have some empathy. All right. Did you see the latest Joe Biden video
00:42:54.780
where it looks like Nancy Pelosi shut off the feed when he said he would take questions?
00:42:59.940
You have to see this thing. I will never be bored at looking at a new Biden gaffe video,
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but this one's pretty good. And it looks like he just ran out of life force or something.
00:43:14.500
I'll paraphrase it, but at the end of his video, whatever it was, some kind of video event,
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happened. And he said, well, I'll take questions if that's what you want me to do. And they just
00:43:29.860
sit there looking confused and they just cut the feed. He just offered, the President of the United
00:43:37.220
States just said he was willing to take questions. And somebody else who is not the President of the
00:43:45.800
United States decided he wasn't. You watch that in front of you. Because he said it as clearly as
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possible. I'll take questions. And then somebody decided he wouldn't. Just think about that.
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And people are saying it was Nancy Pelosi cut it. I don't know if that's the case.
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But he, and it made me wonder, if you made a deep fake imitation of Biden, and you nailed it,
00:44:17.120
somehow you could make, you know, you can't, we're not there yet. But somehow, if you could make a
00:44:21.700
perfect reproduction of Biden, nobody would think it was real. Because the real Biden doesn't act like a
00:44:32.160
sentient person. Because you would just need to make the deep fake make no sense. He'd be like,
00:44:38.560
oh, we'll take questions. And you could nail it. You could, you could pass the, the Turing test pretty
00:44:45.940
easily, if you were trying to imitate Biden. Because you know what he's going to do all the time.
00:44:54.160
All right. Here's, there's new news that China is making all foreigners take mandatory COVID-19
00:45:08.900
anal swabs. That's right. If you didn't have enough reasons not to visit China,
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China. And there might be a few reasons you missed. For example, you might not be aware
00:45:25.560
that they kill 50,000 Americans a year with fentanyl intentionally. Maybe you didn't know
00:45:32.480
that. So you're thinking to yourself, I'd like to visit China. But you hear about that,
00:45:38.040
you know, I still want to visit. Then you hear, you know, there is very credible evidence that
00:45:44.800
they're harvesting organs from political prisoners and selling them to people who have money in
00:45:51.200
China. And you say, well, I know that. But I'm not a political prisoner. I'd really like to see
00:45:59.460
China. I think I'll visit. You say, you're aware that they have actual literal prison camps for their
00:46:08.860
Uyghur minority. You knew that, right? To which I say, I've heard a few things about that. But you know,
00:46:17.780
I've been to a lot of other countries. I really like to visit China. You know, I think I'd like to go
00:46:23.340
there anyway. You know, they're stealing our IP and cheating on all of our deals, right? Yeah, but I'd really
00:46:30.360
like to, I'd like to visit. That doesn't really talk me out of it. You know, the cities are so polluted
00:46:35.920
that you won't even be able to breathe outdoors without a gas mask just to walk down the street.
00:46:41.800
You know that, right? I do know. I do know that. I saw something about that. But still,
00:46:46.880
I would like to visit. And then they say, you know that China will make you drop your pants and bend
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over and they will shove an anal swab up your ass just to let you in the country. And then you say,
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what? Yeah, yeah. They'll actually make you bend over. They'll shove something right up your ass
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because you're a foreigner. I really want to visit China though. Well, if you didn't have enough
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reasons to not visit fucking China, there's a good one. All right. Barry Weiss has a real good article
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in Deseret News. And it's about how the left is killing itself with their own rules. And the
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gist of it is that young professionals who are left, so people who are on the left,
00:47:45.500
they're scared to death of talking honestly to anybody, even a friend. That if you're on the left,
00:47:54.760
they're actually afraid of talking to a friend privately. Do you feel that yet? If you lean right,
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let's say you're more conservative, most of this audience probably is, have you ever felt
00:48:17.340
that it was dangerous to talk privately to a friend? I haven't. I don't think I can think of
00:48:29.800
one example where I ever edited myself privately to a friend. Like, you know, there are always things
00:48:37.720
that you don't say to some people, right? But I've never worried about it. I never thought,
00:48:42.960
what if my friend tells somebody what I said? Now, I suppose it's a risk, especially if you're a
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public figure. You know, people could actually take something I said privately and make something out
00:48:55.180
of it in the news or social media. But I've never once worried about it. Never once. Literally,
00:49:00.940
it's never crossed my mind. But if you're left-leaning and you're a professional, the example that Barry
00:49:07.760
Weiss gave was lawyers, they're actually literally afraid of what their friends will say. Because
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they're afraid of their friends. Because of all the wokeness. Oh my God. I'm glad I'm not part of
00:49:22.500
that. All right. Even though I'm left to Bernie, I'm still not crazy. So I always say I'm left to
00:49:33.780
Bernie but better at math, which ends up you don't get to do a lot of Bernie stuff. Because if you're
00:49:38.500
good at math, it doesn't make sense. Here is my last point, and the most interesting one. It's only
00:49:44.520
half developed. So you might have to do, you know, look into this if you care. There's a, there's a
00:49:53.220
thought from Hoffman, who is he a physicist or a philosopher? I can't remember. But he's got an idea
00:50:01.440
that the universe is nothing but consciousness. And that there's no, there might not be any physical
00:50:10.380
stuff anywhere. That it's just consciousness looking at other consciousness. And when you say
00:50:16.300
that, you say to yourself, well, what the heck is consciousness then? How do you define that?
00:50:20.680
And the idea is that in quantum physics, and I'm going to mess up, I'm going to get all this wrong,
00:50:25.040
so go, go Google Hoffman and TED Talk and reality, and you'll get the good version. But the idea is
00:50:34.780
that we know from quantum physics that nothing exists exactly until it's observed. In other words,
00:50:42.620
if a human sees something, the probability wave collapses, to use their words, and then that's real
00:50:49.540
from that point on. And if you go back and somebody else checks, it's still real, stays there. But until
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something is witnessed by something intelligent, and this will be, or something conscious, I'll say,
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and I'll define that in a moment, it doesn't really exist. It's just a probability stew that's just,
00:51:09.800
well, it could be, could be, until somebody sees it. But seeing it doesn't require a,
00:51:14.540
let's say, a sentient entity, the process of seeing something could be a device. So if you had a
00:51:25.100
detection device, and it detects something, that collapses the wave, just like if a person saw it.
00:51:32.380
So anything that can be changed by sort of existing, or interacting, or observing anything else,
00:51:41.180
it becomes real, once anything else reacts to it. Does that make sense? So instead of saying,
00:51:48.300
using words like consciousness, I'm replacing that with like a, like a cleaner, simpler definition,
00:51:55.800
which is anything that responds, or any, anything that would cause something else to have a reaction
00:52:02.920
to it. Let me give you a trivial example. If, if, if, if you were the only thing that existed in the
00:52:12.460
emptiness of space, and a meteor went by, that being the only other thing, and you saw it,
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I guess you need one other thing, the sun. And there's some stars, and there's some sun.
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The light would bounce off that meteor, and then that light would hit your eyes,
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and that would be like an interaction. So that would be like intelligence, because something got
00:52:33.980
registered, something changed. So my brain registered the light reflecting off the meteor,
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that became a memory, or some slight change, and that slight change became like a recording,
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or let's say it collapsed, it collapsed the reality into one reality. Now,
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Hoffman takes it to the next level, apparently, in which he says, we don't have proof that there's
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anything physical here at all. All we have is like consciousness looking at consciousness. Now,
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I can't quite get there, like my brain doesn't even know what that means, but we're getting really
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close to understanding something a lot deeper about what all this is. And I feel as though
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it's going to be one of the biggest points of enlightenment in human experience.
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And the way Hoffman explains it, and by the way, this is the way I've explained and viewed reality for
00:53:39.020
a long time, which is that everything you see and touch is more like a user interface. And the example
00:53:46.620
you use is that on your computer screen, there's a little icon for the garbage pail,
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but the little icon of the garbage pail is not a garbage pail.
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It's a representation of something that you know how to use it by dragging things into it.
00:54:00.300
But it doesn't exist in the real world. It's like an icon or a user interface.
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You don't know what's happening behind that, because you're not a programmer.
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You don't know what the bits are doing. You just see the front, the icon.
00:54:12.340
And the idea is that everything's like that. Everything in reality is just a, your brain has
00:54:18.480
turned it into an icon. And you don't know why anything works. You just know if you push this
00:54:23.960
button, a pellet comes out. And if you push this button, a pellet doesn't come out. That's all you
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know. And you don't know anything else. This one's got a pellet. This one doesn't. But you don't know
00:54:36.400
what's behind the button. And nobody does. Now, what are the implications of this?
00:54:46.240
Let me tell you one. And this is the fun part. If you read any of my books, some of them behind me,
00:54:53.700
you know I talk about affirmations and trying to steer your reality by just focusing and maybe
00:54:59.420
repeating or writing down the thing you want to happen. If it's true that our world is consciousness
00:55:07.200
and flexible to our minds, meaning that we're inventing the reality as we go, it doesn't exist,
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we're inventing it. How flexible is that? How much of a different reality could you invent
00:55:26.000
if you were just taking it like an artist instead of a scientist? Look at my life. For my entire adult
00:55:36.020
life, I've believed that reality was subjective to the point where I could manipulate it and create
00:55:42.980
a subjective life that I could live in just like it was real. And in theory, all of us are living in a
00:55:51.880
subjective reality just like it's real. But I said to myself, if it is subjective, can't I program it?
00:56:00.980
If it's objective, then I don't have much control over it except the things I directly touch.
00:56:07.340
But if our reality is subjective, a product of the mind, and there are lots of different ways you could
00:56:13.540
create a subjective reality. One says, I'm the greatest person and I'm happy. The other says, I have no
00:56:19.620
confidence and I'm unhappy. But all the rest is the same. It's just how you're interpreting it. So if you can
00:56:25.480
interpret it differently, how much differently? Is it just that you could be happy or unhappy in the same
00:56:33.880
scenario? Is that the limit of what you can change? Or can you change the stuff? If you believe that the only
00:56:42.120
thing you can change is how you think about the stuff? Maybe. Maybe. Perfectly reasonable assumption.
00:56:50.340
But we haven't ruled out that you can change your external environment in a practical way.
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Practical means that you can live within this artificial reality and it never hurts you.
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And it only helps you. So you can have different filters on your reality that work perfectly as long
00:57:09.120
as you can also mate and reproduce, right? It's the only requirement. So look at my life from the
00:57:17.500
outside. At the age of six or something, I said that I wanted to be a famous cartoonist and rich as a
00:57:26.800
cartoonist. Do you know how few cartoonists in the world are rich? A lot of cartoonists. But do you know
00:57:35.720
how few actually got rich? It's almost none. I mean, it's out of 7 billion people. I don't know, 20?
00:57:48.240
20? Maybe? Out of 7 billion? So did I create this reality? And do you see the same one I see?
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Or do you even have, do you even experience a reality in which I exist? And I'm a cartoonist and I did
00:58:04.240
well. I don't know. I have no way of knowing. I only know that I perceive it. So if you look at
00:58:10.920
where my life has gone and what I've done, it would look to an observer like I had created it,
00:58:23.680
to a degree that doesn't make any sense even to me.
00:58:30.620
like it doesn't make any sense the number of things that go my way. I can't explain it. And
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the subjective reality theory is the only one that at least is robust enough to explain 100% of what I
00:58:47.200
see. I don't know that it's true in some sense that anything is true. I know that it explains
00:58:54.080
everything. So I offer you this. I can tell I've received, I don't know, hundreds and hundreds of
00:59:02.800
messages from people who have read my work. They've tried this affirmation idea, the idea that they can
00:59:08.580
create their environment somehow. It might be a subjective one, but they can create it.
00:59:13.720
And have reported that it's changed their life in major ways. People are telling me they're losing
00:59:20.160
45 pounds. I heard that yesterday. You know, 80 pounds. Now, some of it's using a system and not a
00:59:26.520
goal. But a number of people tell me that they basically just carved their subjective reality
00:59:33.480
into a whole new thing. And they did it by simply having the intention to do that.
00:59:40.460
I told you before, the spookiest conversation I've ever had was with the founder and CEO of
00:59:49.740
Salesforce, Mark Benioff. And he talks about the importance of intention. And intention is that
00:59:57.460
thing that you're putting into the universe that's modifying reality. And I didn't ask him this
01:00:05.920
question directly. But I'll bet Mark Benioff has a sensation that he is creating reality.
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Because it looks like he is. Or at least some subjective reality that I also live in.
01:00:18.540
So if you focus your intentions, you might find that your subjective reality starts wrapping around
01:00:26.640
those intentions in a way that you cannot explain. There is no science that can explain it. And it might
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just be an illusion. But I'll tell you, if this is an illusion, if it's an illusion that my life
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dream of becoming a cartoonist actually happened, and that I get to do this every day, if this is an
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illusion, I'll take it. Pretty happy with it. All right. So that's what I got for today.
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Somebody says, that's what my art mentor talks about all the time. Sounds like you have a good mentor.
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Just looking at somebody. I just want to see some of your comments, because I want to see if I went
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too far. Every thought is a limit. Oh, I like that thought. Just deal with that thought. This just
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came in from a comment. Every thought is a limit. Yeah, you have to, you're gonna have to roll that one
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around for a while. Every thought is a limit. It reminds me of freedom is just another word for
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nothing left to lose. Have you ever been in a situation where things went so badly that you
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gained freedom? And you thought to yourself, what's this I'm feeling? Oh, it's something, everything went
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so badly that now I'm free. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Once you realize
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that, it's a real mind bender. And it's also true that having complete power and having no power
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whatsoever turn out to be the same thing. And by the way, if you don't know that, that will place you
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on your level of awareness. If you're, if you're trying to figure out where do I rank
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on awareness? Here's a good test. Do you understand what I mean when I say that having complete power
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and having no power at all are identical? If you don't,
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maybe you will. And if you do, you know exactly what I just said. So there are some,
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some little ways you can test yourself along the way. All right, that's all for now. And I'll talk
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to you tomorrow. All right. The homeless guy does have freedom. Well, the homeless guy doesn't have
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money, so money would help. All right, that's all for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow.