Episode 1330 Scott Adams： The Gaetz Extortion Story, Feds Try Shutting Down Crypto, Amish Stuff, Bitegate
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss whether or not the government should be required to provide universal vaccination across the whole country with a single-payer vaccination program. We also discuss the slippery slope to universal vaccination, and whether that's a good or bad thing.
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Well, I was trying to figure out why people who normally would be of the same opinion as I
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disagree with me so much on this one question of vaccine passports. And I finally figured out what
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it is. It took me a while. Because I couldn't figure out why my view, which I thought just
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seemed completely reasonable, was just a mile away from most of you, actually. Probably the majority
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of you. And here's the answer that I have preliminarily. When you hear the government is
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going to implement a system, what happens in your brain? Every alarm goes off, right? It doesn't
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matter what the system is. If the government is going to impose a new system, you don't like
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it. And the other assumption, and this is the part I finally realized, the difference is
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that when I see that the government is considering implementing a system, I make the following
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assumptions, which are different than yours. So this is why we ended up on different places.
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My assumption, well, let's do your assumption first. Your assumption, you mean most of you,
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not every one of you. Your assumption is that if the government puts in any new system, it's just
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a slippery slope, or even doesn't even take much slipping, to be a monstrous mistake. And it doesn't
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even matter what the system is. If the government's going to do it, and it's going to have some effect
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on you, it's just going to be a giant screw-up. Now, if that's your philosophy, that it doesn't
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even matter what the system is, they're going to do it wrong, and they're going to do it in the
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worst possible way, so it doesn't just help solve a pandemic, it actually removes your rights forever,
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like the worst possible thing you could do. Is it reasonable to assume that the government would
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just do the worst possible implementation? I would say no. In my opinion, that's not reasonable.
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It's not reasonable. Here's what I think. I think that it more likely starts exactly like yours.
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Day one, the government implements a new program. It doesn't matter if it's this vaccine
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vaccination passport or anything else. On day one, how does it look? Pretty bad, right?
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Pretty bad. Like Obamacare, day one. You know, the websites don't work and stuff. So I would agree
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with you so far. So so far, we're on the same page. Everything the government does is a gigantic
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mistake. On day one, right? So we're on the same page there. But where we differ is that I think
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things improve over time, and you think that they're a slippery slope to something worse.
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Doesn't mean you're wrong. Doesn't mean you're wrong. So so far, we're not disagreeing, right?
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So far. Here's, and then to find out which of those views is more likely reasonable, I think you'd
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have to look at historical examples. Now the problem is, historical examples are never exacts,
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right? They're analogies, they feel the same, but it's not the same situations. I've argued that the
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government routinely puts in short-term measures and then removes them when they're not necessary.
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Other people say, you idiot, once they put in anything short-term and money starts being involved,
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it just ends up being forever. Taxes being a, you know, an example that's given. Somebody gave an
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example that the government raised taxes 4% to pay for World War II, and then we've just been taxed
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forever. But nothing's really like taxes. Because I think every country that doesn't have massive oil
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revenue has taxes. So I'm not sure you can, you can say that, hey, we have taxes, therefore the
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government always does X or Y. We're just sort of like every other country, we have taxes to run the
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country. So that's not a good example. But what about other things? Let's take a Patriot Act. Okay,
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there's a good one. The Patriot Act. Has the Patriot Act hurt any of you personally? How many of you
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have been somehow inconvenienced by the Patriot Act? Is there anybody here whose life was affected
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by the Patriot Act? What would be some examples? I see yeses. And what are the examples? I haven't
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talked, I haven't talked about crypto yet. That's coming up. The spending, the spending, okay. So, but again,
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the spending is sort of hard to compare that to anything. Yeah, I'm just looking at your comments
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now. All right, so a lot of you are OTSA, etc. But here's the thing, there are lots of things the
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government does that need to be done. So if they do something that needs to be done, and it continues
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to need to be done, is that the government failing? Or are they just taking care of things when they need
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to? And then they just keep doing it? Is that a problem? What about when there's a FEMA emergency
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and there are emergency restrictions put in place? Has the government ever declared an emergency
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and then just kept the restrictions in place after the emergency was over? Has that ever happened?
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Unless it made sense for some reason. I can't think of it.
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Been to an airport in the last 30 years. Well, of course, airports have security because they think
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they need it, right? Wouldn't you want good security in an airport? Do you not want that? I kind of like
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the good security in the airport. FISA court, good example. But the FISA court is probably being
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examined now, right? I forget the details. All right. So the examples you give me are things which
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I'm not so sure that the public is against. Which of the things you mentioned would the public
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by a majority be against? I don't know the answer to that, but that wasn't, that sounded like a,
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uh, sounded like a point. It was an actual question. Um, TSA has caught zero terrorists.
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So there's somebody here who thinks that the airports should not have, uh, the high level of
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security that they do. Wouldn't that just make it obvious that planes would start blowing up?
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The FISA thing is a good example of something that, um, became a problem. And is it not being
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reviewed right now? So my point is this, that when things become a problem, we, we then get serious
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about it and try to solve it. Private security might be better. Somebody said, well, I don't know about
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that. All right. So I'm very interested in your examples. So here's the thing. I think that, uh,
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the vaccine, the vaccination passports, people are saying, uh, next thing, you know, they'll be
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putting other healthcare information on there to which I say, really, you think other healthcare
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information is going to end up on that database? I could see other vaccinations. I could see that,
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but what other healthcare information would need to be on there? What business isn't going to let you
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in because of your health situation? Uh, to me, it seems like the market will take care of this.
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Let's say we have vaccination passports and, uh, airlines require it. Um, how is that different
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from now? I mean, I've flown a few times during the pandemic and each time they required me to get a
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COVID test. That's negative. And I just got the test and then I flew. It was inconvenient and I
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didn't like it, but I prefer doing that knowing that other people also took the test. If you gave
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me a choice of flying without it or flying with the test, I would have taken the test. So I'm never
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against, uh, the government having useful information. So here's, here's the bottom line.
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Now, those of you who are saying, my God, the government messes up everything. It's going
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to be a slippery slope. Um, as Abe says, slippery slopes are slippery. Well, I'm not sure that's
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a reason, but, uh, I, I acknowledge, I acknowledge your suspicion that the government ruins everything.
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I would just say that if you looked at everything the government's done, you'd probably find more
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successes than failures. And I don't think we have the government that would allow us to move to full
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social credit system. So let me make you this offer for those of you who are worried. If our
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government, um, either slips into it or decides to have a social credit system, like the Chinese
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social credit system, do we all agree that we will overthrow the government? Democrats, Republicans,
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we'll just all throw in together on this one and just overthrow the government. I mean,
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actually overthrow the government, not, not just, you know, make small changes.
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So here, here's a guy who says, I'm out. Scott has gone full blown bootlicker. I just told you that
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I'm going to, I'm going to be on your side to overthrow the whole fucking government.
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So if you think you're less extreme than me, maybe listen for the rest of the story.
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So here's what I think. I think sometimes the government needs to do some things, especially
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in an emergency. I think that if they go too far, we overthrow the fucking government.
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We don't really live in the country where the government is going to ride rough shot, rough
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shot? What's that word? I don't think we live in a country that the government can abuse us
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the way China can abuse its citizens. I think we have too many guns, we have too many
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patriots, we have too many freedom loving people, and we're just not that personality.
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You know, countries have a personality. You know that, right? So it's a lot of different individuals,
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but America has a personality. And there is a limit, right? And nobody here, nobody is going to be
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okay with a social credit system, right? So if you're worried that I've gone full bootlicker,
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bootlicker, let me tell you, I would take up arms and I would be part of an armed insurrection
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against the government if they do a social credit system. So is that badass? Is that bad enough for
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you? All right. Are the rest of you not with me? You wouldn't, you wouldn't take up arms if they did
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that? Because, so he says, BS. No, I would take up arms. I'm not kidding. Yeah, you, there is a limit
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that every citizen has. I'm just telling you what mine is. That's my limit. How many things in this
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country are opposed by a majority of the public? Can you think of, somebody says, you are no badass.
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What do you know about me? My personality has this strange characteristic, which is I'm totally
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flexible until I'm not. And sometimes that fools people because people see me being very flexible.
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Yeah, let me, I will consider your argument. I'd like to fully consider both sides. Seem very flexible.
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I'm very flexible. I'm very flexible. And I try to be until I'm not. And I just told you where not
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happens. Social credit system. That's when I'm not flexible anymore. There's no argument there.
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There's a point beyond which nobody is flexible. That's my point. All right. Let's talk about these
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Floyd trial. I'm learning that there's such a thing as a two, there are two ways to joke a person.
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Apparently, there's the air choke where you're, you're cutting off their airflow. And then there's
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the blood choke, which I only heard of today. Apparently, if you're an MMA fighter, you know
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about this stuff. And a blood choke, you're apparently putting pressure on the arteries or
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veins or whatever, I think arteries, and cutting off the blood flow. So the air choke cuts off the air,
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the blood choke cuts off the blood. And at least two MMA fighters have said that when they look at it,
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it looks like Chauvin or Chauvin, whoever he is, was adjusting to make sure he had a blood choke
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instead of an air choke. Now, what is the significance of this? First of all, I wouldn't know the difference,
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and I don't know if it's true. But if it were true, I did a little bit of Googling.
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Did a little bit of Googling. And it seems that some people say the blood choke, the one he's
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allegedly used, would cause you to pass out, but it wouldn't kill you.
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But I suppose it depends how long you do it, right? If you did it forever, then it would kill you, I guess.
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So, somebody says, I think doctors would be able to tell what kind of choke it was.
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So what I don't know is if you did a blood choke, would that necessarily leave some bruising?
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Or damage? I don't know. If you did it for nine minutes, maybe. I don't know.
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So, my remaining questions are, would a blood choke be deadly?
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So we'll wait on that, see what's going on there.
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So, Biden has this infrastructure plan that's going to cost a few trillion dollars and gets
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into all kinds of stuff. And here's my question on it. And I want to see if you know the answer
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to this. Does this pay for itself? Because the infrastructure is not like other things.
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You know, if you fund a bunch of infrastructure, it ends up employing tons of people. And the
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the kinds of people it employs are exactly the ones we want to get employed, right? The ones who
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maybe don't have an advanced college degree, but for all sorts of construction infrastructure jobs,
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they're exactly the right people. You know, so I would love to know what the economists are saying
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about this. Because wouldn't you like to know if it pays for itself? Meaning if you get this much,
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this many people employed, they start buying things, the economy goes well, the places that
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they bought stuff pay taxes. Does it pay for itself? I just wonder that. Now, it could be that we just
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have to do it. You know, so it doesn't matter if it pays for itself. You just have to do it
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because the country is crumbling otherwise. Have you driven on an American road recently?
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I swear to God, I'm going to get like a Baja dune buggy or something just to drive around on
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California roads because the whole time you're just... It's just potholes and cracks and bumps and
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shit. So we certainly need some infrastructure, especially for the low-income people, if Wi-Fi is part
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of this. Or 5G, I hope. I hope 5G is in here. Can somebody tell me if 5G infrastructure, or at
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least Wi-Fi or something, it's in there, right? So I don't have an opinion on the infrastructure
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plan. I'd want to see some economists tell me if this actually ends up being positive, because it
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might. It has that quality. All right. There's a very disturbing story about YouTube
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competitorlibrary.com. I think they pronounce it that way, but it's spelled L-B-R-Y. And they use
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some kind of a blockchain token-based system to be a fully censorship-resistant platform.
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And the government has decided that because of their Bitcoin-like token, that they're an
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unregistered security, and they've been sued. So the SEC has sued this company for being an
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unregistered security. Now, do you think this would happen if Google did not have a lot of money
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and was the competitor to this? I mean, it might, I suppose. The SEC might just look at it and say,
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hey, you know, these tokens are a problem. But don't you have to worry that Google has so much
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money that they could influence somebody to take a look at a competitor? Like, you worry about that,
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don't you? I feel they do have that clout. Now, should the SEC be closing down anything that's got a
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Bitcoin-like token? Well, I, of course, am biased on this question, very biased. And I don't believe
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they should if the company has gone through the due diligence lawyers, etc., to make sure that they're
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on the right side of the law. Most of the companies that have any kind of a token did do that. They went
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through a pretty expensive process. It's going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars to issue a token
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if you want to make sure you've checked all the right boxes. I'm sure a library did that. You
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know, chances are that they lawyered up the way they would, typically. So this is really chilling.
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If the government can start closing down, you know, blockchain-related businesses because of the
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token element of it, which isn't a lot of them, that's a pretty big problem. And
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in many ways, blockchain is sort of the alternative to our government. You know, I mean, people who
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don't follow blockchain, etc., just think it's like a crypto way to make some money. They don't realize
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it could be, you know, transforming society because of the distributed power of it. It's a longer story.
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But we've got to be really worried about this. And I don't know if that would have happened under
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Trump. So that might be another Biden situation. All right, let's talk about the Matt Gaetz story,
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the fun story of the day, fun for everybody except the Matt Gaetz family. And you know the story. The
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story is that New York Times is saying that Matt Gaetz is under investigation for... No, actually,
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I'm going to change the story. I'm going to say that the story is that Matt Gaetz is the subject of
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an extortion plot. That should be the top story. Because there's two parts of the story.
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There's an allegation that he was paying some kind of sex trafficking thing with a 17-year-old,
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of which we have no evidence that she even exists, right? So there's no evidence that anything like
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that happened that we've seen. Zero evidence. But Matt Gaetz did say that the allegations were
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somehow connected to an extortion plot in which he actually named a lawyer a real person. He gave
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his name on TV on the Tucker Carlson show and said, this lawyer has been trying to extort us.
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My father wore a wire. And our plan to get him on tape extorting us was thwarted by this rather
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coincidental leak about the New York Times or the New York Times leak about the investigation.
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Is it a coincidence? Because Matt Gaetz says this can't be a coincidence that just when they were
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going to get the actual recorded goods on this alleged guy who was blackmailing him or extorting,
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I don't know if it's the same thing, extorting, I guess, that just before they were going to get the
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evidence that would damn him forever, the New York Times broke the story, which made it impossible
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to get that evidence. But there would be other witnesses. Apparently there would be multiple
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witnesses, according to Matt Gaetz, that would back up his story that there was this extortion plot.
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Now, what do we have evidence of? And what do we not have evidence of? We have evidence,
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evidence, I would say, really highly credible evidence, because Matt Gaetz named an actual
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person on TV. Now, is Matt Gaetz smart enough to know that you don't name somebody to be part of a
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major crime, give their actual name, especially if that person is a lawyer who's part of a major law
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firm. Would you slander somebody on TV who was a lawyer who was part of a law firm if you couldn't
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back it up? Do you think so? I don't see any chance he would have said what he said unless he believes
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it's true, right? Whether he can demonstrate that to us is, you know, to be seen. But I would say if
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you're trying to score this and then predict, we'll put some odds on stuff, right? And what I'm
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trying to do is just walk you through how you would look at this story and how you would guess
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what's true and what's not. So, so far, I would say the odds of him having a legitimate complaint
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about this extortion thing, having other witnesses that will back it up, and I think law enforcement
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was involved. So, I mean, he's going to have really good sources, not just his family. There'll
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be somebody from law enforcement that's going to back up his story, I think. So, I'm going to give
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that credibility of 90%. 90%. So, I would say that what he's saying is probably almost certainly
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true, if you were going to predict its likelihood. Now, let's say, what is the likelihood that before
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he was engaged, because Matt Gaetz is engaged right now, but before that, it was fairly well
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known that he was, let's say, an active single guy. And he was an active single guy who was good
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looking, young, and on TV, and has power. How do you think he did dating? Pretty well, right?
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Do you think he needed to pay for sex? In fact, in the entire United States, if you were to rank
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people by how likely they had to pay for sex, he would be real near the bottom, right? Of all the
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men in the world who needed to pay for sex, he would be at the bottom, right? That's just true.
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If he were rich, if he were rich, you might say, well, you know, sometimes he pays for it,
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it's just easier, or whatever. But he's not even rich, right? He's not even rich. So, the odds that
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he would pay for something he could get in unlimited quantity for free seems low to me. It seems low.
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So, I'm going to put the odds of that, I don't know, 5%, something like that. And only 5% in the
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anything's possible category, not that there's any evidence for it. Number two, the woman involved
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has not been named, and Matt Gaetz says he doesn't even know who they're talking about.
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Do you think he traveled with somebody, paid her money, and can't even think who they're talking
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about? What, did he travel with so many 17-year-olds, he's like, I don't know which even, I don't even
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know which one they're talking about. No. It sounds pretty credible when he says, I don't even know
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the name. I couldn't even tell you who they're talking about. She hasn't been named, right? Now,
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you're saying that she was 17. I don't know if she's still 17. No, it was a while ago. Do you think
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she's still 17? Somebody says, Lyle says, wait until Scott gets me-tooed. It's coming. I assume so.
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I assume so. I assume people will come for me. So, we have no evidence whatsoever of the allegations
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against Matt Gaetz. We have a pretty good, credible set of facts that he is being extorted.
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Now, let's say this. Let's just walk through what we know. There are no charges filed, and apparently
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this investigation has been happening since October. Do you think it would take that long to file
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charges? I don't know. Unless it was part of some larger thing, but we don't have any evidence of that.
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So, that's suspicious. Here's the other thing. When this sort of thing happens, how often is it limited
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to one accuser? How often is a famous politician accused of some kind of anything in this sexual
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impropriety range? In this case, only because of the age and the allegation money was involved.
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But how many times does that end with there was just one person accusing? It's always the third one
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that gets you. Like Cuomo, right? It's never the first one. Because the first one, everybody goes,
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maybe, maybe not. You know, a certain age, he's only had one accuser. But by the time you get to the
00:29:23.200
third one, you go, oh God, there's a pattern. Right? It's always the third one. It doesn't matter
00:29:30.100
if it's Bill Clinton. It doesn't matter who it is. But we've had no third one, no second one.
00:29:37.300
So, the longer you go without other people coming forward and saying, oh, you know, the same thing
00:29:43.280
happened to me, the credibility keeps going down. All right? And there are no witnesses that we know
00:29:52.300
of. So, although it makes sense that maybe the 17-year-old, if she's still 17, might not be named,
00:29:59.540
would there not be one witness somewhere? No witness that we've heard of? Not to say they don't exist,
00:30:08.940
but I feel like we would have heard of one witness, or even that a witness exists. So,
00:30:16.160
the lack of evidence here is sort of shocking. All right, so what do we know about Matt Gaetz? We
00:30:23.980
know that he is probably one of the most anti-war Republicans. Would you say that's fair? He is one
00:30:32.280
of the most anti-war Republicans, which would make some enemies, wouldn't it? Now, would that make you
00:30:40.720
an enemy of China? Do you think China could be behind this in any way? I don't think so, because I
00:30:48.280
think China prefers people who don't like war in the United States. How about Russia? Would Russia be
00:30:56.300
trying to take him out? I don't think so, because they would like also the United States to have
00:31:02.700
somebody who doesn't like war. So, it wouldn't be China or Russia. So, if there were any foreign
00:31:12.020
influence, you know, any foreign interference, you'd have to look for somebody who did not want the
00:31:19.400
United States to be too anti-war, right? Now, that could be people within the United States who have
00:31:26.480
an interest in, you know, the industrial war machine, but you always have to worry about foreign
00:31:33.780
influence. So, you'd have to be looking for some kind of a country that wanted the United States not to
00:31:40.220
be anti-war. How about Iran? Iran. Do you think Iran would not want an anti-war president? I think they'd
00:31:52.160
want us to have an anti-war president, because Matt Gaetz is often, you know, he's mentioned in the short
00:31:58.180
list of people who could be a presidential candidate. So, probably not Iran, probably not China, probably not
00:32:06.340
Russia. And we don't have any evidence that there's any external anything here, right? So, there's no
00:32:11.620
evidence of another country. But let's see what else we know. Here's a coincidence. There's a major Epstein
00:32:20.260
story that's breaking today about a new accuser and some terrible allegations. Now, it's kind of
00:32:27.060
interesting, because the Epstein story has been around for a while, you know? The Epstein story has been
00:32:32.640
around for a while. So, every now and then, it pops up. But it's kind of interesting that the Epstein
00:32:40.020
story popped up the same day that these allegations about Gaetz are in the news. What's that do to your
00:32:48.000
brain? Well, you can look at social media, and you can see exactly what it does to your brain.
00:32:53.720
It conflated them. Suddenly, because these two stories that don't have anything to do with each other
00:33:00.060
are just in your mind at the same time, what's that make you think a little bit of Matt Gaetz,
00:33:05.320
right? Suddenly, you've got, ooh, Epstein, this is all true, right? We know the Epstein stuff is true.
00:33:13.980
Nobody's doubting that it's true. And we know it's awful, and we know it has underage, teenage
00:33:19.640
girls in it, right? Now, suddenly, it's in the news in the same day. Could it be? Well, somebody says
00:33:29.920
it's related, but I don't think there's any suggestion that the stories are related. But they're related in
00:33:35.640
your brain, aren't they? Now, if somebody had, say, decided that it was a good thing for this story to be
00:33:43.660
in the news at the same time, because it would be bad for Matt Gaetz, you'd have to wonder who could
00:33:50.880
have that kind of influence over the news. Well, Democrats. Democrats could have that kind of
00:33:58.060
influence over the news. And Democrats could say, you know, let's put this story out at the same time,
00:34:04.660
because this is going to be really good to have them out there at the same time.
00:34:07.480
Yeah, Democrats. Now, that's if it's domestic. So, I would say that there's going to be more,
00:34:24.380
there will be layers to this story. At the moment, the information we have would suggest to me that
00:34:32.560
the story is not real, and that there might be some forces behind this that we are yet to learn
00:34:44.240
of. So, that's what it looks like. Now, let's test our prediction skills. So, I'm going to go on record
00:34:53.000
as saying that my prediction is that the extortion against Matt Gaetz will be demonstrated, and the
00:35:00.140
allegations against him will not hold up in time. That's my prediction. Let's see your predictions.
00:35:07.700
Give me your predictions on both. Will the extortion thing turn out to be true?
00:35:13.700
And or will the allegation about the 17-year-old turn out to be true? Give me your predictions.
00:35:23.820
You're all agreeing with me? That's not supposed to happen.
00:35:26.920
I'm saying no's, but I don't know what the no means. I'm seeing people agreeing,
00:35:40.480
The people say no. I'm not sure what the no is for.
00:35:45.260
Somebody says, yeah, Nestor is sort of his adopted son, if you'll call him that. Nestor seems part of
00:35:55.720
the story because he's young, but I don't think he's part of the story.
00:36:01.800
Interesting. Interesting. When was the last time you saw so many people not believe an allegation?
00:36:09.340
I can't think of another time. Generally, when there's an allegation, don't you,
00:36:17.780
don't you feel that whenever there's an allegation, you think to yourself,
00:36:23.880
probably, probably true, right? The Kavanaugh thing really changed everything, didn't it?
00:36:30.260
And yeah, I think the Kavanaugh thing just opened our brains to the fact that these can be made up.
00:36:36.020
And I think most of you are being pretty non-critical about this.
00:36:43.100
Now, there is a big risk in this Gates story, whoever is trying to take him out,
00:36:48.460
and the big risk is it's going to make him president.
00:36:52.700
If this thing falls apart the way it looks like it's going to fall apart,
00:36:56.660
you're going to have to ask yourself why they want Matt Gates out of the picture.
00:37:01.500
Do you remember the story? We saw some documents that showed that the Democrats,
00:37:09.380
were intentionally trying to get the news to promote Trump or Ted Cruz as the nominee
00:37:16.260
because they figured that they would be the easiest to beat.
00:37:20.280
So we already know that the Democrats have colluded with the news industry
00:37:25.700
to try to manipulate who is the Republican candidate.
00:37:33.860
Doesn't it look like the Democrats, at least, if it's domestic,
00:37:39.020
doesn't it look like the Democrats are colluding with the media?
00:37:46.400
We can't say that's happening, but we know it did happen,
00:37:52.760
because nothing would stop anybody from talking to anybody, right?
00:37:56.640
There's nothing that would stop it from happening again,
00:38:08.080
Whoever the Democrats slash news business is trying to take out
00:38:16.460
Whoever is getting surprisingly a lot of attention
00:38:24.700
So watch out for the media telling you that, you know,
00:38:29.500
the strong candidates for a Republican presidency,
00:38:36.120
Because I think everybody who's strong is going to have a scandal.
00:38:42.640
If you look at other strong Republican candidates,
00:38:55.740
You see, the media is totally, totally ganging up on Ted Cruz, right?
00:39:02.080
So it's obvious that the media has Cruz in their sights.
00:39:12.800
And I have to say, if you had asked me just even a few months ago,
00:39:16.960
you know, could DeSantis be, you know, the candidate for president,
00:39:19.860
I would have said, no, I just don't think he has the vibe.
00:39:24.960
There's something that looks a little bit more state government about him.
00:39:34.180
It feels like maybe governor was like his maximum.
00:39:39.540
You know, he hit his potential and he's a good governor.
00:39:42.420
Well, lately, lately, I would say his handling of the coronavirus is sort of,
00:39:55.440
And I would say that my own opinion of him as a presidential candidate has changed.
00:40:08.400
And you kind of want, you want a president who can make a gutsy call, right?
00:40:20.340
you need somebody who can violate some expectations.
00:40:28.740
No matter what you think of the passport, which is a separate question,
00:40:32.580
the fact that he just said, you know, screw this, you're not doing it in my state,
00:40:45.060
So I would expect to see some rumors about him.
00:40:48.640
I would expect to see the media try to take out Tom Cotton.
00:40:55.680
I think the media's going to try to take him out.
00:40:58.220
So look for some kind of story about him coming up.
00:41:05.100
Name a major problem in the U.S. that is not caused by China.
00:41:15.840
You've got the economic devastation of the pandemic.
00:41:21.480
You've got the story about the vaccination passports.
00:41:28.900
You've got the fentanyl coming across the border.
00:41:35.100
You've got the economic destruction of the U.S. middle class for the last 30 years.
00:41:48.600
Now, you're saying to yourself, Scott, what do they have to do with that?
00:41:51.540
Do you think that the racial unrest in America is just happening on its own?
00:41:58.060
Do you think that we're talking about violence against Asian Americans because that just happens to be what's happening and it's important and it's a top topic?
00:42:12.280
Well, we're talking about it because somebody wants us to talk about it.
00:42:23.460
We don't want any violence against Asian Americans or any Americans, right?
00:42:28.880
And especially when you put an ethnicity on it, it's worse than even regular violence.
00:42:39.120
But there are a lot of problems in this country.
00:42:43.520
And the headlines are, you know, maybe 20 different things will be in the headlines at any given time.
00:42:49.040
But we have, you know, a hundred problems that are pretty big.
00:42:55.680
Well, there are smart people who I won't name who would tell you that China already controls our headlines through artificial intelligence.
00:43:13.240
Now, I don't think that China controls all of our headlines.
00:43:16.880
I think that every country, every foreign country, tries to control just specific headlines.
00:43:22.120
So would China use, let's say, TikTok to create enough energy on TikTok about Asian American violence and discrimination that TikTok would bleed over to Snapchat?
00:43:42.680
You know, the young people on TikTok are also on Snapchat.
00:43:46.360
So anything that becomes big on TikTok, owned by China, becomes presumably big on Snapchat.
00:43:55.060
And from there, presumably, it would infect the rest of social media.
00:43:59.580
So do you think that the reason we're talking about this Asian American violence, which, again, important, I'm not minimizing it,
00:44:08.920
do you think we're talking about it because we decided it's our headline this week?
00:44:13.360
Maybe, but I think the smarter position is that China made that our headline.
00:44:24.920
And there are smart people who tell me that this is certain, that they do have that ability and they are using it.
00:44:34.020
I'm just saying that smart people have told me that.
00:44:40.600
Do you think we'd have as big a military budget if not for China, and China being adventurous?
00:44:48.640
If China were not militarily, let's say, flexing, would our military budget need to be as big as it is?
00:44:57.160
Let's say Russia was our only risk we were worrying about, and terrorism, I guess.
00:45:02.800
I would say that China costs us a lot of money in military preparation.
00:45:09.080
Of course, China could fix that, doesn't want to for some reason.
00:45:13.640
So it's kind of amazing how many of our total problems in this country are directly or indirectly from China.
00:45:25.880
And we're even worried about Biden having a little too cozy with China.
00:45:31.800
So China is basically all of our problems, you know, because we don't have any problems that wouldn't be better if we had, you know, freed up more money from our budget, if we weren't dying of fentanyl, if we weren't in a pandemic.
00:45:47.340
Almost all of our other problems would be less of a problem if we could concentrate on them instead of trying to continually fix problems from China.
00:46:00.180
Does China have any control over the teachers' unions?
00:46:05.880
But if they wanted to destroy America, they would probably make sure that the teachers' unions were good and strong, because that's the best way to do it.
00:46:14.720
So if anybody has any information that any teachers' unions are influenced by China, let me know that, because it seems like an obvious play.
00:46:29.700
Rasmussen reports that 62% of the, I think, likely voters is usually who they talk to,
00:46:38.280
but 62% of who they interviewed were in favor of more market competition to lower health care costs.
00:46:48.220
And, of course, it breaks down the way you'd imagine.
00:46:51.020
78% of the Republicans want more market competition and 45% of Democrats.
00:46:59.560
Remember I told you that no matter what the question,
00:47:02.620
about 25% of the public will just do whatever is the stupidest thing?
00:47:06.240
We have a solid 25% stupidity problem in this country,
00:47:12.600
although I'm not sure it's the same people on every poll,
00:47:17.660
In this case, you know, 22% of Republicans are not in favor of more market competition.
00:47:29.080
how in the world are 22% of Republicans opposed to market competition
00:47:36.260
that would improve health care and lower costs?
00:47:44.740
Show me the Republican who's not in favor of greater market competition
00:47:52.360
I don't even feel that's like a political issue.
00:47:55.100
That's sort of just a stupid problem, isn't it?
00:48:20.180
Because market competition was sort of Trump's, you know, approach.
00:48:30.660
And I always thought he should have sort of packaged up
00:48:39.760
allowing doctors to do telemarketing across borders.
00:49:18.080
I created accidentally the two-movie situation.
00:49:30.200
because it's being interpreted two different ways.
00:49:35.500
and it turns out it was just one group of Amish,