Episode 1424 Scott Adams： Good Stories About Dumb People. Also Known as Politics and Social Media
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, I talk about how to get rid of a conservatorship that keeps your daughter in one, and why I would be the perfect choice to replace her dad with a much more lenient one.
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it's time for coffee with scott adams the best time of the day coming to you live on both the
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day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip but it's going to
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that's good so welcome to another day of my critics completely misinterpreting things i've said
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and then shredding me for their imaginary imaginations uh there was probably a better word to finish that
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sentence but i didn't have it at the moment so put a tack in that all right uh let's talk about the
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news um every now and then somebody does something right
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yes my mic is not already right now how many times have i told you that the secret to success
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is simplicity and that if you add if you add even one element of extra variable to the live stream
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the failure rate gets to it's like 30 percent and you're logically that doesn't make any sense right
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logically you say to yourself oh wait a minute just adding one variable just one thing you have to push
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another button to push that's it just one variable and you have a 30 failure rate trust me one variable
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will give you a 30 failure rate uh that's my experience so i'm i'm now streaming on two platforms and
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had only one microphone on uh other times i forget to turn on i don't know the power here plug this in
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whatever so i guess i need a checklist all right but that's enough of that so here's some good news
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britney's britney spears as you know she is subject to a conservatorship so she can't make all of her own
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decisions her father plus a professional company that signed on to be sort of a control for her father
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so that there would be two entities not not just her father they just resigned so the professionals
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who were going to be the balance to sort of balance out her father the courts that allowed that
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they just said no we just listened to britney say she doesn't want to be in a conservatorship
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so they freaking resigned and i'm thinking to myself that was exactly what you needed to do
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that was exactly the right thing rarely do you see a company act perfectly right and this is so clean
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because this is a company that if if your whole job is to do conservatorships the last thing in the
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world that you want is to have this kind of publicity where you're doing a conservatorship
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and a famous person says we don't want it you know i don't want this at all so this was very smart of
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them to to bow out and and to give their reasons and their reasons were very clear that the subject of
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the conservatorship didn't want it and that's all they needed oh you don't want it okay so i i have
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a suggestion for britney well it looks like she won't be able to get rid of her conservatorship
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entirely so her dad's in charge and it looks like this trust didn't want to do it because
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she was not in favor of it britney i would like to make you an offer so britney spears i i know you
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always watch my live streams okay probably not but somebody might tell you about it and that's just
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as good and britney here's my offer i will be your conservator i will be a very lenient conservatorship
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meaning that all you have to do is tell me what you want i'll give it to you it's your damn money
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i'm not going to keep your own money from you but i do have a degree in economics i have an mba
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and i have some appreciation for the celebrity lifestyle you know in a little bit my tiny little
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corner compared to britney's but i would be an excellent choice to be your conservator either in
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place of your dad or even working with him i could work with him i'm very persuasive so if you
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need your dad persuaded i think i would be a good choice for that very uh i'm very uh let's say
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independent and uh would only want what's best for you so britney if you can get your lawyers to
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appoint you a new conservator uh keep me in mind i'll do that job for you like crazy
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all right uh the economy is doing great the economy added 850 000 jobs in june
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uh it was more than what people forecast the smart people uh and even though the unemployment rate
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ticked up um we'd you know we'd rather have more people going to work
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and the employment rate is based on who says they're looking for work etc so it's a little
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bit disconnected so let's uh check some of our predictions shall we i'll talk about one of my
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predictions that's getting a little controversy in the last 24 hours but let's let's go with this
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one i take you back to um a time a year ago when it looked like maybe the entire economy was going
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to melt down and i told you it's not going to happen all right so i was one of the stronger
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voices saying that the pandemic wasn't going to take down the economy it wasn't going to take down
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the food supply and that we would pull out of it um strongly and actually in an impressive fashion
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how close was i would you say that the economy did pull out of it we did not run out of food
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we fed everybody we took care of people we we developed vaccines and damn it we're pulling out
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pretty impressive now that was my prediction my prediction is that the united states would be
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the united states you know the rest of the world is still struggling and i'm not minimizing that
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but betting against the united states in a crisis who does that seriously if you have a crisis who are
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going to call the united states right it turns out that there's some things the united states
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is bad at of course there's some things the united states is really good at we're really good at this
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we are really really good at crises i guess we've had a lot of practice but if you're going to bet
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against the united states in a crisis you're taking a bad bet just remember that so there's interesting
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news about vaccinations and i have a question so apparently germany is i guess the first country
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to say you should mix the vaccinations so for example if you first got the astrazeneca the oxford
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astrazeneca they're now suggesting that your second dose be a different vaccine so you'd get one dose of
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the oxford astrazeneca maybe a second dose of the moderna or the pfizer and i'm not sure if all of
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them could be mixed but the basic idea is that some of them can be now here's my question according to
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rasmussen um i believe of the people who are not vaccinated 50 of them don't trust that the experts are
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telling them the truth about the risks 50 of the unvaccinated people believe that the experts
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are lying about the risks that's a big problem well it's a big problem if what you want is to get
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people vaccinated and it's a big benefit if you think you want them not to i suppose but
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here's the thing suppose you were one of those people who said i think there are risks of the
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vaccination but i also understand and i think most people would agree with this that there are probably
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some protective values and you would have to weigh the protection from the virus against the risk
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that you took a vaccine of vaccination and the vaccination had a problem now
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some people have decided that the completely unmeasurable risk of the virus because you don't
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know exactly what your personal risk is is maybe not as high as the impossible to measure risk for you
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personally of taking any vaccination so so the first thing you need to know is that we don't know either
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of those two things you might have some general idea about what the risk is from the virus because there's
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lots of data we don't believe it all but there's lots of data but do you know your risk because you're not
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the average right so if you're trying to calculate you specifically what is your risk it's uncalculable
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nobody really knows their risk i mean you could say some general things like you have comorbidities
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or not but you don't know if you're going to get it and you don't know if your genetics are the kind
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that will have a good outcome or bad so you could you could say if you're a kid you're going to be safe
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probably you know below a certain age but still for most of us who are in that should you or should
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you not get vaccinated you don't really know your risk so you don't know the risk that you're
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protecting against but you also don't really know the long-term risk of any vaccination right so you
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have two risks that you can't possibly measure and you're trying to compare them comparing two
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blobs that you can't measure how do you do that well i don't know but i would submit the following
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and i'll put it in the form of a question because if i make it as a statement i think
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i get kicked off of social media so i'll put it in the form of a question
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the protection you get from mixing the two vaccinations seems to be an improvement from maybe
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you know 70 something percent to you know maybe 90 something percent something in that range right
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something like 80s to 90s something like that that's the extra protection so so that that feels like a
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number that you can you make a decision with but do you double the risk of a side effect in other
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words are the people who would have a certain reaction to one vaccination exactly the same people
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who would have exactly the same reaction to any of the vaccinations because that doesn't seem likely
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does it it feels to me that if you had two different vaccinations
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without being a doctor and without being you know a medical professional i'll put it in the form of a
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question wouldn't that double your risk so i don't know how big the risk is of a problem if you actually
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get the vaccination it's really i imagine it's pretty small but doesn't two shots double it and
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if we're trying to be informed citizens making up our own minds about our own bodies etc shouldn't they
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say that shouldn't somebody tell us directly so look it'll double your odds of a complication but
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and here i imagine this is what they would say the odds of a complication are so small
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the doubling it hardly makes a difference now i don't know if that's true but that would be a
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thing you'd expect them to say if they were being you know if the officials were being legitimate at all
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i hear some people say it's gene therapy not vaccination i don't think that that is a
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an accepted description of what's going on i don't believe that the experts would agree with you that
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is gene therapy but i'm not the experts i just don't think that you're on the same page with the
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people who know what they're talking about uh just follow the science right yeah which is impossible
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all right so we got that going on uh so there's an american uh sprinter who probably would have been
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in the olympics and maybe even won a medal but it looks like she's in trouble her name is shah
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carrie richardson and she was born a woman i think so that's something you have to have to add to these
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stories i'm pretty sure she was born a woman and is still a woman and she was going to do well
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but she tested positive for cannabis so she had some marijuana and she might be banned at least for
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a month or whatever so she won't be able to be in the olympics now does that seem right to you
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is there anybody here who thinks that an olympic athlete who smoked a joint should be banned from the
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olympics because remember she probably smoked a joint legally right didn't break any laws
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and would she be banned from the olympics if she had had a drink recently can you drink alcohol which
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is legal and still be in the olympics i think you can but you can't have marijuana which is probably
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legal wherever she did it and you get banned where is where's joe biden on this right this is something
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that um if trump were president you know he wasn't he wasn't pro-legalizing marijuana as far as i know
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because he never did anything about it which i consider a failure by the way a big failure of the
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trump administration a really big one um and i've criticized that forever but i feel as though
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i joe biden or if it had been trump need to do something about this because it doesn't seem right to
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anybody right right so i think you need a presidential level person to say look can you just change this
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rule let's just change this rule and let it let everybody you know compete because it's not like
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marijuana is uh you're going to be a performance enhancer uh at least not directly i suppose you
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could help your workouts but i don't think that they think of it that way all right so that's deeply
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unfair and i would like to see either the olympics canceled because they're a big old waste of time
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or if you're going to do them don't let this you know african-american woman who worked all her life
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to get to this point don't let that tiniest of mistakes derail her that we don't want that nobody wants
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that all right um so biden is uh following up on trump's lead of getting out of afghanistan and i guess
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part of the reason is that trump had made some agreements that biden was trying to follow which
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i think is actually a reasonable thing to do and so once again we see biden doing nothing but
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so are you happy you got a different president if he just keeps doing all the things that
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that trump would have done but at least we're getting out of afghanistan it looks like
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the taliban will take over fairly quickly and we'll just go back to where it was now one of the
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arguments for getting out is that uh the moment we get out it looks like the taliban will take over
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after 19 years of training people in the government to run a proper government 19 years and all those
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billions and the government can't stand for more than a few months if we pull out well that means we
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shouldn't have been there because we were the only reason for the government existing so that can't be
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a long-term solution so there's a different topic there's some stories about kamala harris's
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office environment being abusive and people are impolite and abusive
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now who do you think started that rumor do you think that rumor was started by the republicans
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maybe right it's possible but i have a feeling that there might be a democrat who wants to run for
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president who may have started that rumor or somebody associated with a democrat it feels like
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an insider thing because i don't think there was a republican in the office right so it's probably you know
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democrats um gossiping etc so it looks like there might be some democrats who are trying to take out
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kamala harris by starting these rumors by the way it's one of those rumors that you kind of believe
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because you're prejudiced you know you see kamala harris and you say to yourself she looks exactly like
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the kind of person who would be mean doesn't she now now of course that could be sexist because if it
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were a man would i be saying oh that man looks tough so get over it you know it's like trump oh yeah trump's
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tough you should have known that when you took the job get over it of course it's a harsh office
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environment but when it's kamala uh because she has a certain personality that you imagine
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all that laughing like a hyena doesn't happen in private so much and that maybe she's kind of mean
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but i feel like i might be just being sexist check me on that is that do you have the same feeling and
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are you being sexist when you say it would you judge a man the same way i don't know but you know at
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least i'm asking the question so i get points for that i give myself points uh so as i told you
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before rasmussen is going to report that 30 32 of the people they polled uh believe health officials are
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lying about the safety of coven 19 keep in mind that the way this is worded is that they're lying
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not that they're wrong not that they're mistaken 32 of the people polled by rasmussen think the public
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wow and and it's half of the people who are unvaccinated think that so how much how many
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people are being killed by the fake news how many people are being killed by the way the public is
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informed because the public has lost all faith in our professionals the professional class
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and whose fault is that is that trump's fault for calling everything fake news and for you know not
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passing the the fact check or is it the news's fault for being fake news or is it the the science's
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fault for having somebody uh missteps that people stop trusting it's somebody's fault but uh that's a
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shocking number of people who think they're being lied to let's talk about me for a second um you may
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have seen something on social media in which yes it's all my fault you may have seen something on social
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media uh there's a couple stories on raw story and bongo bongo or boing boing or something like that
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so one year ago or so i predicted that if biden is elected there's a good chance you'll be dead in a
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year so that's what i said a year ago if biden gets elected there's a good chance you'll be dead
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in a year let's talk more about republicans here and then separately i said that republicans will be hunted
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now uh my critics are shredding me today that's their word they're shredding me because of my bad
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prediction but like most things like most things they don't really understand what's going on here
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so let me explain to my critics number one if you say there's a good chance of something
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what does that mean let me give you an example um if you go into a crime ridden neighborhood
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there's a good chance you'll be mugged okay if i said that if you go into this crime riddled
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neighborhood there's a good chance you'll be mugged what would that feel like percentage-wise
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would a good chance of getting mugged feel like more than 50 chance 90 chance chance or would you
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say to yourself well wait a minute people don't generally get mugged even in criminal neighborhoods
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probably 10 right so subjectively you could put a pretty wide range on that based on the situation
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you'd say to yourself well most people don't get robbed even if it's a dangerous neighborhood most
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people don't get robbed so a good chance of getting robbed would look like 10 right if i said uh if you
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get a motorcycle there's a good chance you'll die on it what would you translate that to in your head
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there's a good chance you'll die if you get a motorcycle two percent five percent you wouldn't say
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it's over 50 right you would you would put it in the context of motorcycle riders and you'd say to
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yourself well how many of them die one percent i don't know so maybe you're saying it would be two
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percent but my critics have decided that when i said there's a good chance you'll be dead in a year
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that instead of putting that in context of perhaps it increases the chances of violence against
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republicans republicans let's say uh they've decided that that really meant there definitely will be a
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slaughter and that i personally will be dead in a year now that's not even close to what i said but it
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was enough for the raw story a an alleged uh publication to write a story about how wrong i am
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but how can you be wrong with statistics if i were to say there's a 30 chance of something happening and
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then it doesn't happen was i wrong it doesn't work that way if i said there was a 75 chance of something
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happening and then it doesn't happen am i wrong because 75 is a pretty big number right no no i'm
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not wrong if i said something is going to happen such as i did say with trump's election i didn't say
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the odds of him get elected i said it's my prediction he'll get elected now if i get that wrong i'm just
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wrong but if i tell you there's a percentage chance of something happening and it's not 100 and then
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that thing doesn't happen i'm not really wrong so my critics uh demonstrate this weird thing that
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people on social media especially exhibit which is a a binary mindset these are the same people who
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look at building a fence on the border and say well wait a minute if one person could conceivably
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climb over the fence in the right situation fences don't work to which i say ah no fences aren't
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supposed to stop every person they're supposed to make it harder stop a lot of people put a little
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friction on it right so it's the people who don't understand friction or percentages or risk management
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they're sure that i made a crazy suggestion and there are at least two articles on it uh but uh
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there you go now now let's let's take it down another level when i made that prediction
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what do you think was my purpose those of you who have known me a while what do you think was my purpose
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in saying that if biden is elected elected there's a good chance you'll be dead in a year
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what why did i tweet that was it to make a good prediction somebody says publicity
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yes and no i mean everything i do publicly you could argue is for publicity
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to deter it from happening thank you yes the purpose of it is to make it less likely
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because if you put it out there people have to wrestle with it in their heads
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and then take it seriously and then maybe adjust in some way so putting it out there was sort of a way
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to warn people that there was something brewing to maybe take the edge off it under that context
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am i wrong no i got exactly what i wanted out of it and uh some would argue that republicans have been
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hunted but not in the not in the violent way so far so one of the the benefits of having a bad memory
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is that i can be uh surprised by things that i already knew about
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this morning i got up pretty early and started work i guess i got up around
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2 30 this morning i hate sleep if i ever mentioned i don't like sleeping so i got up and uh i was
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watching uh a video called the accidental president have you all seen it the accidental president
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um it's a documentary about uh trump's election and i'm watching this thing and you know doing some
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work at the same time and i hear this voice that sounds really familiar and it's me
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so it turns out i'm one of the stars of this movie the documentary so i'm one of the people that they
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interviewed and i had a number of clips on it um i'd recommend it it's really good actually it's a
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it's a it's a it's a fun romp through you know that time and what people were thinking at the time
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so check it out called the accidental president um all right here here's my my funniest story for
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today all right i've been laughing about this for a while so i was alerted to a video there was a
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zoom meeting so a number of people were on the zoom call and one of the people was ceo of bishop ranch which
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is a a big uh corporate building uh complex here out in san hermone in california now that's where i
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used to work so my old cubicle when i worked for the phone company was in this complex that is owned
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by this alex moran that's his name uh sunset development company and so here's a little
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background so some time ago i guess it was last year i was asked if i could work with the property
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managers in this building to build a display of dilbert comics to sort of call out the fact that
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dilbert was born in that building in the sense that that's where i was working when i got syndicated
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and that it was sort of a you know historical point of interest that my cubicle had been in that
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building so they'd asked for permission to build a display in a hallway in which there would be a
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whole bunch of dilbert comics blown up and maybe some biographical stuff about me etc so i was called
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and they said would you like to work on this with us to which i said no nope and they said but it's you
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know it's an honor to you it would be you know good publicity and all that to which i said no not
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interested now is that my fault am i a bad person because i wasn't interested in putting in work
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to build a monument to myself did that sound like did anything about that seem inappropriate or even
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unprofessional i would say a person not wanting to work for free to build a monument to himself
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for the benefit of a corporation you don't care about would be fairly reasonable because what
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they were asking me to do is a good deal of work for a corporation i have no no financial interest in
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about something i didn't want to happen in the first place i didn't want it there i would prefer it
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not be there but because i didn't want to be a total jerk i said i'll tell you what if you can make me not
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do any work you can deal with my syndication company who have the the rights to stuff and
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if they approve the comics just go ahead and do what you want and i'll it's fine with me so whatever
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you want to do it's fine with me so time passes and i see photographs that the property manager sends
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me and it looks great it's like this this hallway they've blown up these dilbert comics and they've got
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some you know words about it and everything it was a great thing well time goes by and i'm alerted to
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this zoom call as i said with alex moran who's the head of the sunset development company and he tells
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the following story about that event number one he described me as quote hard to work with
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is that fair am i hard to work with because i didn't want to work for free for the benefit
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of corporation that i don't care about and have no interest in to build a monument to myself
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that was considered unreasonable hard to work with but wait it gets better are you ready for the good
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part after they'd installed it and done a ton of work somebody told alex moran that i was a racist
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they had to remove the entire hallway exhibit that they'd done all that work for for months
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because somebody told them that i was a giant racist which alex moran repeated
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is anybody aware of me ever being accused of doing anything racist can you think of even
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an example and i'm talking about an example even that i would maybe disagree with but even an accusation
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have you seen any accusation in public in private anything so it's not as if there's even a story out there
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not even close can anybody think of any example where i've even been confused with a well i've been
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i'm not even conservative i i consistently say that i identify as black i've worked on reparations i've
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backed uh um what's his name for kneeling uh i've i've worked with black lives matter
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i'm working on the single most important systemic racism problem there is which is
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school choice and the and the teachers unions i don't think you could have much of a better record
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of not being racist than i have it'd be hard no matter whether you're a democrat or republican
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it would be really hard to have a better public record of not being a racist so
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this poor bastard alex moran spent all of this money and they built this whole exhibit and then because
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he's a gullible fucking idiot he had to rip it all down
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somebody's saying i should sue him now it's funnier that he wasted his money and sooner or later somebody
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will point him to this video and alex let me let me talk to you personally because you'll probably see
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this this clip you're a fucking idiot alex whoever told you that i'm a racist do do a little bit of
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research just a little bit you wasted your fucking money you idiot all right so that's that um
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um so the trump organization's legal problems seem to be ratcheting up as the uh the cfo alan weaselberg
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actually got handcuffed and taken to court how do you feel when you see the cfo of the trump organization
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handcuffed and taken to court number one did they really need to handcuff that guy i mean i'm sure it's
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just some kind of a rule that they always have to do it or whatever but seriously seriously that
00:34:57.060
guy needed to be handcuffed i that's just wrong that's just wrong um next apparently they're going
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to plead uh not guilty and uh i don't think he's going to jail and maybe but i'll doubt it so we'll see
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apparently uh arizona uh voting strength well depending on your point of view the arizona had
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some rules to they call it strengthen their election security but of course the critics call it
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racist and it's just a way to keep poor and black people from voting and the supreme court ruled in
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favor of the republicans and basically i guess the idea is as long as you're doing something that has a
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legitimate value to tightening up security it's not going to matter that much if it has a racial
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impact because pretty much everything does everything he does has a racial impact one way or another
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but as long as you're doing what you're supposed to do which is strengthen the security of the system
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i guess you can get away with that according to the supreme court and where do we get to the point
00:36:11.060
where voters actually make a difference have you noticed that the actual voters don't seem to have
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any role anymore because as long as the presidential elections are kind of close and it looks like
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that's going to be that way for a while it's all about the rules well that's it it's about the rules you
00:36:30.660
know who who gets to decide what the rules are of who votes and how that's the only thing that changes the
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election now now the democrats did a great job of you know maximizing the pandemic crisis and getting
00:36:44.340
rules changes that work for democrats but now the republicans are on to that trick so it looks like
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they're tightening up in those states that they can do that and it's not about the voters at all
00:36:57.860
the voters are irrelevant to this process it looks like the republicans will just use the court system
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to create a situation in which probably republicans will win the next election somebody says matt says
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not true give me more matt give me more than not true um they've been cheating for years somebody says
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well how many of you let me ask you in the comments we're still waiting for the results of the maricopa county
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audit how many of you believe that the maricopa county audit will show massive voter fraud such that
00:37:38.500
you could easily imagine it changed the election outcome how many of you at this point are predicting
00:37:44.580
that that will happen right in the comments the maricopa thing will it change your mind about anything
00:37:52.180
um so i'm seeing lots of people saying yes 50 50 um well most of you say yes
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what will you feel like if you're wrong because i think you know that um yeah some of you say no and no
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chance so my prediction is that if they had the goods we would know about it for sure already at least in
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concept we'd know about it but the fact that we haven't heard about anything yet i don't think so
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now i have two things to say about that number one i don't think that they're going to find anything
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with the way they audited but number two has anybody ever audited the software or the databases
00:38:41.380
is that even a thing it is the biggest place that you could potentially have a problem which is within
00:38:48.580
the context of the technology has anybody audited that and how do you audit that is it even doable in
00:38:56.660
other words do the do the records exist in a way that they could be audited um
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all right matt says in 2042 the maricopa audit will be continuing
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yeah so maybe the audit will just go forever or we'll never hear about it
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uh so matt brainard said to expect something big you know i uh made the mistake
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of thinking that when rudy giuliani said that they had the goods that they had the goods
00:39:38.180
because i thought to myself rudy giuliani he's got you know reputation and lots of credentials
00:39:45.140
he's not going to make a claim that's ridiculous in public but it looks like he did the same with
00:39:53.380
sydney powell i said to myself well she's got you know a reputation to protect and she's very
00:39:59.220
high level smart person etc she's not going to make a claim in public
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that she can't back up just a ridiculous claim but it looks like maybe she did so when you say to me
00:40:12.740
matt brainard says we're going to see something big my impression of matt brainard is that he's very
00:40:20.660
capable and very credible but i also thought that about rudy giuliani
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so do i learn you know can i learn from my mistakes because um somebody said you'll be dead
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rlb did you miss the part where i called people like you really stupid
00:40:47.780
you did i you probably came in late but the people who can't read well believe that i predicted
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that we'll all be dead the people who know how to read see the words good chance and understand that
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there was a chance of it that might have been greater so uh stop reading the raw story and boingo
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why did rudy and sydney do it good question i'll give you a hypothesis but i don't know what
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percentage of of confidence i would put on it my hypothesis is that both uh giuliani and
00:41:34.340
sydney powell uh believed that there was something defined so that's number one so if you believe
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there's something there you're more likely to imagine you saw so cognitive dissonance probably
00:41:45.700
was at work but not the whole story i'm guessing that they were fed a fake some fake data there's
00:41:55.380
somebody who wanted to embarrass them told them some stories especially the ones about venezuela
00:42:00.500
controlling the machines or some damn thing and i think you remember that when i heard those stories
00:42:07.620
i said okay those stories are definitely not true and at least up to this point it looks like they
00:42:14.500
were not true but i did think that given all the different pieces of evidence they claimed to have
00:42:22.740
i figured they had something i mean that was a reasonable assumption given the people involved
00:42:28.500
but uh there's still a little bit of a mystery as to why they why they were so strongly sure that
00:42:36.180
they had the goods and we have not seen that yet um so robert barnes stated that they were fed bs yeah
00:42:46.260
that's what it looks like that's what it looks like because that's a real thing i mean there is
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precedent for feeding people bad information to make them seem less credible when they get good information
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um all right some of you think the arizona audit will rip the fabric of reality maybe maybe i'm gonna bet
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the evidence that they were focusing on was too on the nose
00:43:21.620
i hear the locals clicks through scott's mic what does that mean
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uh okay but that's all i got for now and i will talk to you on youtube tomorrow and i'll spend a few
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more minutes with the locals people before i go talk to you tomorrow