Episode 1308 Scott Adams： Biden's Bad
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In this episode of Coffee with scott adams, we talk about the coronavirus pandemic, the royal succession crisis, and the future of the royal bloodline. We also have a special guest on the show this week, Dr. Scott Adams.
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all right well i would like to declare that things are going okay that's it things are going
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pretty well how do you know because we can't stop talking about harry and megan let me tell you if
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there's one way to know that the world is heading in the right direction finally it's when the biggest
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thing you have to talk about is harry and megan do you mind if i throw a little bit of extra
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provocation into the mix correct me if i'm wrong but isn't there some question as to whether harry is
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actually related to the royal line i mean he's related to his mother but is harry actually related
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to the queen and if he's not would his son be related and do we know that just asking because
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somebody from great britain doesn't like this conversation at all
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if the royal uh the royal succession is supposed to be by bloodline
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wouldn't this be a coup i mean wouldn't it if archie ever became the the king
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wouldn't they have basically just taken over the taken over the bloodline it'd be a whole new
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bloodline am i wrong i mean i haven't seen his dna test i'm just wondering you know i'm i'm not the
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one who made the rule that bloodline is what determines who gets what i didn't make that rule
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i'm just saying if that is the rule we have the technology to check that bloodline now and
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i'd just be interested i'd be a little bit interested to see if he's part of it
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so i'll just throw that in the mix just to get things mixed up a little bit
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how are you having this same feeling i went out yesterday and i was just i decided to just go
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around take a drive and just see what things look like uh now that we're getting a little bit back
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to normal and i gotta tell you yesterday felt pretty normal maybe people had masks on indoors
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but most things were open that are still in business a lot of stuff won't come back but the things that
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are in business they seem pretty open and uh travel is happening you know people are traveling
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so psychologically see if you're with me on this psychologically but not physically
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i feel like the pandemic's over do you feel that just psychologically obviously there's still
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restrictions in place obviously people will still die obviously it's still a problem you got to get
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vaccinated so all those real things are there but psychologically doesn't it feel over it does
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doesn't it because at this point i put on my mask not because i'm afraid but i'm just going through
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the emotions at this point because the difference between being i don't know one third vaccinated
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versus being you know nearly 100 protected we're almost there because if you get all the if you get
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all the people who are vulnerable vaccinated we're kind of done because as soon as the vulnerable are
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vaccinated the size of the problem shrinks down to the size of our other problems and we we don't need to
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make it go to zero it just needs to be about the same size as our other problems and then we can go
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on and i feel like we're there i mean not really a few more weeks but psychologically where are you now
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compared to just months ago it's really different isn't it am i wrong it feels completely different
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just in the last week or so um oh somebody says they got the vaccine and then got coronavirus
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well uh that sucks now for on my end i'm actually going to be socially distancing a little bit harder than
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normal i mean i'm going to try even harder because it wouldn't make sense to get the coronavirus now
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you know so close to the vaccination you know i feel like i'm in the next wave in california
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probably the next wave gets me so i'm going to play a pretty safe until then all right
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here's a question so you you probably heard the story that one of joe biden's german shepherds in
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the white house apparently bit somebody and so they relocated it back to delaware to his home
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and here's a question i ask if trump had been in the white house and had two german shepherds
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would the news have just just ignored that choice of breed do you think that that trump could have
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owned two german shepherds and and that would have been fine nobody would have mentioned it hey good
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doggie good doggie no no i don't think that trump could have owned german shepherds or dobermans
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he could have owned a fluffy dog or something that's probably not his personality but he couldn't
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have gotten away with even owning those dogs and you know that's true right because it would look like
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hitler with his attack dogs but what would have happened if trump owned two german shepherds and one
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of them bit somebody if one of those dogs bit somebody in the trump administration how long would it be
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before we found out the uh the ethnicity and gender of who got bitten right right we would know the
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ethnicity of who got bitten by now because then that would turn into a whole story about even his dog
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so yesterday there's another biden gaffe where he couldn't remember what was it he couldn't remember
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the name of his uh secretary of defense he couldn't remember the name of the pentagon uh it was pretty
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bad and he just got up there and muttered and uh wandered away and once again i must ask this
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provocative question how much does the press know about what's happening behind closed doors
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with biden that they're not telling us do you really think that when biden goes from his public
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performances which are frankly embarrassing do you think that as soon as he gets off camera
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he comes alive and he's he's completely lucid it's only when the camera's running that he falls apart
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what do you think does that seem likely no it's far more likely that if anything he performs better
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for the camera because he you know had to get up for it right he made sure that he didn't go out
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there until he was at least feeling right but how bad is he when he's not trying to get up for
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something and nobody's reporting on this now you could argue that there's a national security reason
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to not report on it but would that stop anybody do you think that do you think our news would say oh
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we better not tell russia and china how bad he is behind closed doors because then they might attack
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or something i don't think they're going to attack um but when you when you hold in your head
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how aggressively dishonest the press is to keep this from the public you know there are stories
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come on you know that there are stories and we're going to hear them after biden's out of office
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and you're going to be really mad you're going to be really mad when you find out what the press
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knew and didn't tell you uh here's a mystery for you i put this on twitter people have lots of
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theories let's see what you think why is it that um let's say for the people who believe that masks
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and social distancing don't make a difference why is it that the normal seasonal flu the regular
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influenza we get every year why did that drop to zero sort of everywhere not just in the united
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states but worldwide it just sort of disappeared now is your argument that that for the regular
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influenza if you believe the mass and distancing don't make a difference for coronavirus do you
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believe that the explanation the explanation is that masks only work for regular flu but they don't work
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for coronavirus because it is suggested that the regular flu may be more about surfaces things you
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touch whereas the coronavirus the the virus is more aerosol than airborne but the coronavirus is heavier i just
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read than say measles or chickenpox so viruses do have different weights so that's that's a real thing some viruses
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stay in the air and some don't now what is the function of a mask isn't the function of a mask
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to stop it before at least stop some of it before it gets out there now if the virus is on the water
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particles and the water particles hit the mask you would think that they'd stay some of them would stay
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in the mask but this mystery remains now some people said it's because everybody with the regular
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flu is being diagnosed as having coronavirus do you believe that do you believe that everybody who had
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a regular flu is getting misdiagnosed as having coronavirus now that might have happened early on
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but at this point if you have symptoms of either flu don't you get tested every time
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can somebody do a fact check on that if you're in the united states and you go to a doctor
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because you've got flu symptoms of any kind won't they test you for coronavirus every time
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now you couldn't do it in the beginning but now they'll test you every time right
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right so there shouldn't be any any doubt today about whether somebody has coronavirus at least
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now somebody said well what if they have both coronavirus and the regular flu we would we would treat
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those as coronavirus well we probably would but how many of them are there how many people have
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coronavirus and the seasonal flu at the same time i mean maybe some but that's not enough to change
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what we're seeing right our observation can't be explained by that little bit of overlap other people
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say that the coronavirus is uh not nearly as big as you think because the way we test it we're picking
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up fragments or whatever i don't think any of that's true by the way now i haven't looked into it but
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uh it does seem to me that uh that we're at least picking up that somebody had coronavirus
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all right so it doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to have symptoms
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so um i would say that this remains a mystery and and however this mystery is solved we're going to
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learn something that we thought was true is not true we're either going to learn that the regular
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seasonal flu was never real like it just wasn't real is that possible because all of the explanations
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sound a little bit impossible so it's going to be something that doesn't sound possible so it's either
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that we've always miscounted the regular flu and i'm kind of a proponent of the fact that we
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miscounted the deaths from the seasonal flu regular flu um or the or that we tested wrong or that masks
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only work for one kind of thing but not the other possible it's possible but i would say it's still pretty
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mystery wouldn't you how did we get all the way to here and we don't know how to explain that
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it feels like there's something really big that we don't understand now i've been seeing on social
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media a couple things one is that the cdc and somebody do a fact check on this the cdc did a
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study and now they're saying that the uh masks uh i think they're talking about masks or maybe social
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distancing only made i think masks only made uh like a less than one percent difference do you think
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that could be studied do you think somebody can tell you if masks worked or didn't work is that
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possible to study that how how would you possibly study that where is the place that had both masks and
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no masks at the same time because if you don't have that you don't have anything there are no two
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places that are the same and there's no way to know why the curve did what the curve did too many
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variables you you could certainly observe okay we put in masks and things got better or they got worse
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and you can compare it to other places but that wouldn't tell you anything right there's no control
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group so um the best they could do is sort of a non-randomized controlled thing where maybe they
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did a meta study of combining things would you trust that would you trust a meta study some kind of a
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study of studies where none of them are randomized controlled trials none of them are but if you add
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them together they'll tell you something now that is a thing there are times when you can actually
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get to truth by doing exactly that adding together the studies and that you know you hope that they
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cancel out whatever they did wrong if they didn't all make the same mistake you hope it cancels out so
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that's a real thing but i don't believe that the cdc can study this i don't believe this is testable
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because there are too many other variables if if the masks were one of three variables
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that maybe you could tease it out but we don't even know why why we don't have a seasonal flu
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like very fundamental questions we don't know about what's going on so whatever is happening
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in terms of uh why this thing is spreading we can't study that so i wouldn't believe the cdc
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when they say masks don't work and i wouldn't believe them when they say they do
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because they can't study it so you would have to treat it like a risk management problem if you're
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treating it like a a binary masks work or masks don't work that's not the way to treat this you have
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to treat it as a risk management situation knowing that you don't know all right um
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i guess the uh new york times is finally reporting uh that the lincoln project was a big old scam of
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grifters i'm paraphrasing a little bit but wouldn't you have liked to know that the lincoln project was a
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big old scam before the election we've got some great reporting now after the election when nobody
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cares about the lincoln project they're not that relevant anymore but now we find out now we find
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out so i'm having this uh sort of ongoing twitter exchange with eric uh brindjolfson he's a professor
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at stanford i mentioned him before and he was saying that uh there have been a number of bills proposed
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for fixing the election system and he points out that before the election republicans killed the
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proposed law the safe act which would have required robust robust manual audits of all federal races
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and banned internet connectivity to voting systems and then um right and i think there was at least
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one other time when when proposed voting improvements were killed either by republicans or democrats or
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both now what do you make of that let's say let's say there's a bill to improve voting doesn't matter
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what the details are and the republicans kill it what's that tell you about the bill does that tell
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you it was a bad bill because the republicans voted against it if you're an idiot it tells you that
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yeah if you have an iq of say 80 just to pick a number and you hear that the republicans voted against
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a voting bill you'd say to yourself huh republicans are smart and honest and trustworthy and they voted
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against it so therefore it was a bad bill right well that would be bad thinking here's good thinking
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the people voting for or against that bill got elected under the current system the current system
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with all of its flaws supports the incumbents why the hell would the incumbents vote against their own
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interest because anything they change is going to put them at risk because the way things are
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are is perfect right 98 percent of incumbents get re-elected that's that's almost perfect so you're asking
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the only people on earth literally the only people on earth who are the wrong people to work on this
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problem because they all benefit from not changing it that's what an incumbent benefits from
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so the first thing we need to do is take them out of the mix maybe we can let congress vote yes or no
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on something that was let's say put together by independents you know if there's some kind of by you
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know bipartisan independent commission that comes up with a bunch of recommendations
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well maybe we could force our politicians to vote for it if we put enough pressure on them
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but the current system the current system the current system is ridiculous don't ask the people benefiting
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from the system to change it that's crazy all you're going to get is what we're getting which is the
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people who vote against it will say well i had good reasons look at all my good reasons for voting
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against this and you look at the reasons and you'll think well actually those are pretty good reasons
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and you'll think that your representative did a good job voting against that nothing like that's
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happening you have a bunch of people who have no interest in changing it and it's their job and
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that's the end of the story it won't change it can't change there there there's nothing we know about
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the world that would suggest that voting will be fixed if the people who don't want it to be fixed
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are the only ones in charge that's it so let's fix that right we we should not even be having a
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conversation about which politician voted for or or proposed a bill that's stupid talk we don't care what
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they propose i don't care what anybody in congress proposes they're all untrustworthy on this question
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on this question they could be trustworthy on you know any number of other things but on this
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question the one that determines whether they personally get re-elected no we can't trust them
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we we have to take that out of their control now let me say this uh if biden were to do that
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and let me give you uh the most weirdly optimistic thing you've ever heard in your life
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i don't predict this will happen so unfortunately my prediction and my optimism are not aligned right
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now right but here's something that could happen what is the one kind of person who could change this
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situation like what type of person would be in the right position and have the right you know mindset and
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incentives to fix the voting system there are two people i can think of one is biden and the other is trump
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for completely different reasons biden has a chance to go out as one of the greatest leaders we've ever had
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he only has to change one thing just change the election process to make it transparent
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and credible now if he were to stay in office and he were a younger man and he had to live with the
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democrats and put up with whatever pressures they're putting on him to not change things
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well you know i don't expect things to change but biden doesn't have a lot of days left
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and he does have an opportunity to go out on top if he only changed one thing which was to say i'm
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going to set up executive order or something i'm going to set up a bipartisan commission and then we're
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going to bring their recommendation to the congress and i'm going to let the entire public see
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what what we see public take a look at this watch your members of congress not vote for this thing
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that a bipartisan commission said is the only way to fix the election and then leave on top
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i would be willing to say biden would be one of our greatest presidents if he did that one thing
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and then even you know resign and put kamala in charge he's still the one of the greatest if he does the
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one thing now who's the other thing other person who could do the one thing trump but he'd have to be
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at the end of his second term right he still he still needs to get elected to a second term if
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that's what he wants but there are only two people who can do it and here's the good news
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they might be in charge right one after another so i'm not optim so i'm not optimistic in terms of a
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prediction but it could be fixed yeah yeah i'm a dreamer you're right yeah the the odds of biden
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doing that are vanishingly small but it's interesting to know that he could and i will tell
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you this there is something about and this is my private uh philosophy or no my private uh let's
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say view of the world that is shared by basically nobody so here's something you're not going to agree
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with the office changes the office holder more than the person changes the office meaning that the
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presidency has to change you like no matter what how much of a turd you were when you were running
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for office and working your way up through politics to become you know a candidate no matter how bad you
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were in those days and how selfish by the time you become president it's actually your job like
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literally it's your job to take care of all this stuff i think it changes you and whatever you say
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about biden did or did not do in the past and blah blah blah he's president now he's the president
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now and i don't think he would hate a chance to go out on top if it really helped the country
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i believe that everybody who is in that office is a patriot because the office turns them into one
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so um that's that's at least a possibility that's out there um
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uh so uh we've got uh new new evidence from some independent group that uh says that china is
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involved in a genuine genocide against the uyghurs uh 50 global experts in human rights war crimes and
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international law looked looked into it and said absolutely positively it's a uyghur genocide
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now china of course explains it in terms of trying to uh control dangerous extremism now what they call
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dangerous extremism is you know the extreme version of uh islam but here's an interesting and provocative
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thought how could islam ever end without a genocide isn't genocide built into the guaranteed outcome
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islam isn't it because imagine if uh islam continues to spread
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and let's say the chinese government you know degraded to the point where there were so many islamic
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citizens that there weren't that many of the old chinese type i suppose now i don't know how long
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that would take a long time i suppose but islam has a interesting characteristic not so much the way it's
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practiced in the united states but if you leave the religion you could be killed for leaving the
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religion which is a strong advantage for a system if you want a system that will grow and not shrink
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try killing people who leave because you can always attract people and then you don't want to lose any
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so islam has a superior system independent of what you believe about reality or anything else but in
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terms of a growing system it's just a better one and china has decided that this growing system which is
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a superior system uh in terms of growth uh needs needs to be controlled because it would be a danger to china
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are they wrong is china wrong that if if they let islam flourish
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that china would be in trouble are they wrong yeah we can't talk about that can't we can't talk about
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that because here's the problem they're not wrong now the thing they're doing is still a genocide
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is still evil it needs to be stopped but they're not wrong about the risk they're not because it's built
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right into the system it's just at the moment it's very small but it's it's built to grow it's like
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catching a virus early you don't say the virus if it's only infected a few people is no problem
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you say oh it's a virus viruses grow so you can't there's no way you can you know morally or ethically
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support what china is doing it's a genocide it's a freaking genocide but uh i would only add this
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that islam has to end in genocide it just is a question how long it takes because either the the
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winners let's say if islam dominated would end up crushing and uh performing genocide i think on a
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number of different societies if if they became dominant enough so as soon as you uh inject
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islam into the system worldwide and again this is not such an issue in the united states of course
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but worldwide where you have a let's say a more uh let's say a more robust version of islam so i don't
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put an insult on it it's a more robust version and it has to end in genocide it's just a matter of who
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get who gets killed because that's the system as it's designed if it grows it has to create genocides
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and china is just saying well if we genocide you first you won't later get big enough to genocide us
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later because that is in fact built into your plan now it's an interesting question isn't it it's an
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interesting question you can't support genocide ever under any conditions but what was the other
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thing they were supposed to do well what was what was the other way to play it they didn't have one
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now can't support it but i'm just pointing out that it's uh it's a more complicated situation than
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you think all right uh i keep seeing this story and i can't believe it's real can you tell me if this
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story is real that the chain of custody documents for 400 000 georgia mail-in votes is missing like
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permanently missing like they will never be turned up and and the state was only won by 12 000 votes
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in the presidential election and 400 000 of them we can't trace or audit
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i'm looking at your uh comments i don't see anybody saying it's not true everybody thinks it's true
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how in the world are we okay with this is there something i don't know about it is there something
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i don't know in the sense that even if they're missing that doesn't mean that the election was
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fraudulent in other words was there some way that something could be audited
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that would make us not worry about this is there some other way we know we don't have to worry about
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it what am i missing why why is this not the only story why is there any other story
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because wouldn't this be proof not of a there's no proof of a fraudulent election
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but wouldn't it be proof that it's a non-transparent election
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it feels it feels like we should be able to say at this point
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unambiguously with nobody arguing with us that the election was not transparent
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this one case alone given that georgia was important to to a lot of things how many other
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states have this same problem where the chain of custody for the mail-in votes is missing
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is georgia the only one who has this problem let me ask you this if you had a lot of these
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these mail-in vote pickup boxes or or even if they just went through the post office if somebody was
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intelligently throwing away votes from pro-trump areas because they would kind of know which areas
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were more pro-trump just throw them all away how would you know how would you know
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if ballots were just discarded would you know that now it doesn't look like it could have been
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done at a wide widespread scale because the number of total votes for both candidates was so high
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so we had an unprecedented number of votes so it doesn't look like there were massive throwing
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away votes but you wouldn't have to do it massively you could do it targeted so um
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i i feel as though every time somebody argues that there was fraud in the election they're just
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walking into a trap because the trap always springs the same way uh i think there was fraud in the
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election trap courts say there was no fraud in the election which has nothing to do with the claim
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right because the court courts didn't really look at much but you're still done for some reason that
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argument beats your argument because you don't have proof courts don't either it's sort of the end of
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the argument but when you talk about the 400 000 missing uh chain of custody documents that's a that's
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proof of non-transparency and i think that's the strong argument the non-transparency
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let's see i'm going to do a micro lesson a little bit later today on the locals platform that's where i put
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my stuff that you don't see here and it's going to be on the uh how do you use filters
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to be successful and here's the key you know we we have filters on the world such as one filter is
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everything's racial another filter is it's always about the money another filter is it's always about
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power uh etc so there are lots of filters you can apply the mistake we make is to think that the filter
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is telling you what the truth is we don't have access to the truth so if you're using your filter
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that way you're using it wrong but if you use a filter because it seems to consistently give you
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a good outcome that's good filter even if it's not telling you the truth so what i'm going to teach you
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on locals later is how to know that you're using your filter correctly not as an indicator of truth
00:36:18.580
but as a let's say a map for how to solve a problem and that will be one of the most useful
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things you've ever heard in your life it really will be now i want to tell you a a weird simulation
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thing from yesterday and i want you to try this at home how many times have you lost your phone
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when you knew it had to be right here somewhere and then you're looking room to room and you you and
00:36:49.940
you're saying i literally just had it in my hand how many times has that happened to you and then you
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look through your whole house it just seems to be gone it's just gone and i was doing this last night
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and uh i've told you before that i don't view reality the same way you do i do i do view it as that
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we're literally in a simulation and i do view it as though history is created on demand so if you
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believe that history is created on demand you can make your phone appear
00:37:29.940
if you believe that there's a base reality that's just reality
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that your phone is lost and he can't find it but the moment you believe that your your entire
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experience is subjective you can make the phone appear so last night i looked through my whole
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house uh literally had tried every surface of every room that i knew i was in and then i stopped and i
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said all right all right let's let's the the normal way of filtering my environment didn't work
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my normal filter didn't work so i'm going to change my filter so i said all right consciously i'm going
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to change my filter now my new filter is that uh i can make that phone appear simply by recognizing that
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i live in a simulation and that i can make the past anything i want it to be and once i've made it
00:38:24.260
that i'll it will be filled in with false memories that make it all make sense and the moment i said that
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and said all right suppose it's just a simulation and i'm going to make that phone appear
00:38:36.020
i walked directly over to the phone and picked it up
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true story the moment i reframed it as a simulation where i could make the phone appear
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i walked directly to it without stopping and picked it up now
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now the first thing you get to say to yourself is well that's a coincidence or that just reminded
00:39:02.820
you where the phone was or it's always in the last place you look because that's when you stop looking
00:39:08.900
so do you think there is any significance to that i don't i don't think there's significance in terms
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of some kind of proof that i caused the phone to appear in some magical way i don't think that
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here's what i do think as soon as i changed my filter i found my phone keep in mind that the filters are not
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um viewers of reality the first filter was not a view of reality and the second one was not a view
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of reality i did not improve my filter to see a better reality i just changed it and the moment i did
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something in my brain worked a little better and then i walked over and picked up my phone the one place
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i forgot that i had been right and yeah same thing with glasses etc so be very specific about what the
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claim is the claim is not that it caused magic the claim is that shifting your filter just makes your
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brain work differently and that might be advantageous that's all just made my brain work differently and
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that might have given me some advantage so try it i've done this a number of times and you know it's
00:40:25.140
a subjective experience so it feels like something magic happens every time whenever i just say okay
00:40:30.740
it's a simulation let's just play it like a game and it's amazing how often it works
00:40:43.060
somebody says my mom did that too she prayed a little bit i wouldn't be surprised if praying
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allowed you to find your phone for the exactly the same mechanism you might be able to pray your phone
00:40:54.420
into existence um when i can't watch a scary movie i just let my wife go through my phone
00:41:07.140
you know the worst part about letting a spouse or a partner go through your phone
00:41:12.260
is not the bad stuff that they find it's the stuff that wasn't bad that looks like it if you see
00:41:18.020
that in the context that's dangerous that's dangerous um ever heard of find my iphone well
00:41:30.260
it doesn't work so well within the house it's not that accurate
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filter on depression well um believe it or not that is an area in which
00:41:48.340
which i put a lot of effort into figuring out how to reframe your experience to make yourself
00:41:54.500
happier now the problem is that depression i doubt it's the same in all people right i i doubt there's
00:42:00.820
some exact part of your brain that's always the problem if you're depressed it's probably a constellation
00:42:07.300
of different brain related and experience related things so i don't it's hard to find one solution
00:42:13.540
that works for a whole bunch of different things that just happen to have the same label
00:42:18.500
but that said uh for maybe some proportion of people who would label themselves as depressed
00:42:27.700
i would imagine that there's something you can do by reframing your experience
00:42:32.260
that would change it change your subjective feeling uh imagine if you will just take one example
00:42:40.180
suppose you went from having a point of view that you had no control over your environment nothing
00:42:48.820
you can do now suppose you change that and reframed it to you have lots of control over your environment
00:42:55.300
it's a simulation you can guide it you can build the talent stack you can do the smart things instead
00:43:00.820
of the dumb things if you imagine that you went from having no control to having all kinds of control
00:43:06.340
even if nothing's really different it's just how you're viewing it would that make you less depressed
00:43:13.780
well not everybody obviously because again different reasons for being depressed but maybe some
00:43:19.220
maybe some maybe some and that may not be the reframe that helps many people but i feel like
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there are a lot of reframing opportunities that we haven't uh we haven't used
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um somebody says you jackasses still looking for those votes well let me let me address this
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there are two kinds of people who are really fucking stupid and you're one of them
00:43:53.300
um who is this uh dedra you're one of the two really fucking stupid types of people one is you're
00:44:01.220
positive that there was a widespread fraud in the election you're positive well you haven't really
00:44:08.420
seen the proof right you've seen statistics and stuff like that but it's kind of stupid to say that you
00:44:15.140
know that that it was fixed do you think it was probably fixed i think people could have could reasonably
00:44:23.060
think that it probably was because any system that has a lack of transparency and a big gain if you
00:44:30.740
could rig it will be will be rigged eventually so i would say this it is not brilliant to say you
00:44:40.180
know it has been rigged but it is brilliant to say it will be eventually if it hasn't been
00:44:47.140
because this kind of a system has to be rigged every time because it's rigable and there's a really big
00:44:54.740
gain and you don't see many people getting caught well actually we wouldn't know how many people are
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getting away with anything so under that situation fraud is guaranteed but we can't see it right we
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don't have access it's not transparent the so it's stupid to say it's absolutely was a rigged election
00:45:18.260
it is equally stupid maybe stupider a little bit to say that it definitely wasn't
00:45:26.980
you don't know that that's what a non-transparent system means how many how many mail-in votes got thrown
00:45:34.180
away do you know i don't know i don't know now so those are the two really serious stupid opinions
00:45:46.340
definitely was fixed definitely wasn't everything in between is reasonable people with functional
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brains you know they're maybe estimating opinion that's all fair the stupid people are on the extremes
00:46:03.940
like you my friend just in case you didn't know if you were stupid i like like to fill you in
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um trump said he won by a landslide well you know if you are the candidate i think you have to get a
00:46:19.860
little get a little slack you know trump probably has a belief that's in the you know greater than 90
00:46:27.060
percent likelihood so if the candidate exaggerates that to a certainty that that's just part of the game
00:46:33.540
but you don't have to do that you're not talking in public you can just have a real opinion
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and if it's a hundred percent maybe it shouldn't be
00:46:49.300
somebody says they think trump has access to information you don't have
00:46:54.340
maybe but if it were if it were damning i think we would know by now
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all right uh that's all i got for now i will talk to you tomorrow
00:47:08.500
and maybe tomorrow we'll have some more interesting news uh how can we eliminate the rise of a
00:47:20.100
permanent political class well the problem is that permanent political class are the only ones who can
00:47:27.380
vote for uh term limits so they won't so there's not much we can do about it
00:47:34.500
uh thank you mcclain all right uh i just want to see this comment
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uh i wish you'd read youtube comments and not periscope i do both
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but um the the actual reason is that i've got two ipads here and the my periscope ipad
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is a larger one and i can just see them a little bit more clearly
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all right um all right that's all for now i'll talk to you guys