Episode 1512 Scott Adams： No Cursing and No COVID on Today's Live Stream. But Let's Talk About the Audit.
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Glenn explains why he thinks Matt Gaetz is a racist, and why Tucker Carlson thinks he's a racist. Plus, a conspiracy theory about the replacement theory. And a special guest appearance from Glenn's cat.
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offline. The moment I started, YouTube just gave me an error message, but not the comments.
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How about now? Let's see if we can stay online for a minute.
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Was it my topic? What was it that was causing YouTube to spaz out?
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I used to think, oh, it's my internet connection, but I have two platforms going,
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and the locals platform has been fine. So whatever it is, it's common to only YouTube.
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All right, so let's regather our thoughts now that we've had this technical problem.
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I would like to tell you that this is not the first technical problem I've had this morning.
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No. The first technical problem I had was my cat. So I got my cat back from the veterinarian
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hospital. Five different medications on five different schedules, plus feeding her through
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a tube. And all the schedules are different, and all the names of the drugs are things I
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can't remember and can't pronounce. Now, if there could be a task I am less suited for
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than keeping all of that straight, I don't know what it is. But the cat's home and she's
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happy. And so we've been reunited, and it was very, very good. But before we get into
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the news, the special news. Let me just tell you that the thing you need to make this a special
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day, and I think you will. I think you will. Do you feel it yet? Do you feel a little bit
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of a tingle that your day is starting to get better? Yeah, it is. You can feel it already.
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And it's going to go to a new level as soon as you take your hand and put it on a cup
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or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel
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of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled
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pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the thing
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that's making you feel better right now. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it's going
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Oh, yeah. That's good. So just before I signed on, and I did not include it in my notes,
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I saw that Matt Gaetz is trending. He just tweeted that Tucker Carlson is right when he talks about
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the replacement theory. Now, the replacement theory, if you've never heard of it, is a racist-sounding
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idea in which the belief is that the white dominant culture of this country, or at least
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historically dominant culture, is intentionally being replaced by people from other countries
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countries and other countries. And Matt Gaetz says, yes, that's completely accurate. And that's
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happening. And that the ADL, who is pushing back against this idea from Tucker, the ADL itself
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is racist. Now, I think this is one of those situations. Glenn, I've got a conspiracy theorist
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here. I want you to see. All right, you can still see. There's not much. But you can see
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it. There's real coffee. Oops. Now there's real coffee on my desk. It was in the cup. A little
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of it is on my desk. But Glenn, you have to believe somebody. Somebody you have to trust.
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In this big old world of ours, where we have nothing but conspiracy theories and fake news,
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is there one thing you can trust? Just one thing? Yes, Glenn. You can trust that my coffee
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cup has real coffee in it. Well, a little watered down, but basically coffee.
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So anyway, talking about Matt Gaetz, here's the interesting part of that. Matt Gaetz has learned
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his technique, I would say, at least observationally, it seems this way, from Trump. And man, does
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he know how to make news. You know, the same way that Trump will say something where you'll
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say to yourself, wait a minute, I'm not so sure you can say that out loud. Or you think
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to yourself, well, I see what his point is, but it feels like people are going to interpret
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this as a little racist. And that, of course, is what gives it all the energy. If there's
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one thing, if there's one thing I can teach you about going viral, or about writing a best
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selling book, or having any kind of entertainment property that people care about, here's a rule
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to keep in mind. To get people's interest and hold it, whether it's a meme or a TV show or
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anything else, you have to show that somebody's in trouble, in danger. Somebody needs to be
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in danger in order for you to get attention. Now, the person who's in danger could be the
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person who's talking. In this case, Matt Gaetz is putting himself in danger. Because he said
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something that you know, is going to get all kinds of people accusing him of being a racist,
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right? Now, of course, he knew that before he said it. So in order to get attention, he said
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something that makes you say, Oh, is he going to get canceled? Is this his last day as a politician?
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Is he done? I don't know. Probably not. I mean, probably not. But because you think that,
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it just holds your attention. So this is what Trump does consistently. He'll say things that you say,
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Oh, that's the world's going to blow up, isn't it? But then it doesn't. The world doesn't blow up.
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So that's my only point about Matt Gaetz is that he's good at getting attention there.
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So Boo the Cat is back and healthy, if I didn't mention that already. So in case you were rooting
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for Boo the Cat, she's doing well. But it will be my full-time job to be her nursemaid.
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Pretty much all day long for the next week. I'm just going to be giving her food and meds by her
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little feeding tube. So there's this story by, let's see, Yahoo News is the story. They interviewed
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30 former U.S. officials and they came up with the story that CIA officials under the Trump
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administration allegedly made secret plans to kidnap or even assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian
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Assange. Do you think that's true? Let's give a, let's give a fact check. Do you think it's true
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that the CIA officials under Trump made secret plans that they did not execute, but they made
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secret plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder? What do you think? Now Trump says he
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never considered it. So now what do you think? Trump says he never considered it, but the story
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is that the CIA did drop plans. They, they both can be true, right? These are not opposites. I believe
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it is 100% true that Trump never considered it in the sense of never was serious about considering it.
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He may have heard it. Somebody may have floated it, but that's different than considering it exactly.
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Considering it means there was some chance he might have done it. Um, I would tell you from my own,
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my own sources that it is deeply, deeply unlikely Trump ever considered this. So that's, that's for my
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own sources. Very unlikely that Trump ever considered assassinating Julian Assange. Um,
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but did the CIA come up with a plan? At least, you know, draw it down on paper? Maybe. Is that a
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problem? Is it a problem if the CIA came up with a plan to do this? I don't think so. Unfortunately,
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it's not a problem because the military, and I would imagine the CIA is the same, should have a plan for
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everything, for everything that might happen, right? Don't you think that they come up with plans for
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all kinds of things they don't do just in case they need to do? I'm not sure that this story has
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any contradiction in it or even a problem. Do you have a problem if the CIA is making plans for things
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that it decides not to do? I don't have a problem for that. Why would that be a problem? They make plans
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for everything. Now, obviously, if the CIA was trying to make it happen, and you don't want that
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to happen, that's a problem. But the report is just that they made plans. I don't know if that alone
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should bother me, because they should make a plan for everything, right? They don't know what the
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president's going to order. They should have something, at least on paper, ready to talk about if he asks
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about it. But the reporting seems to indicate that Mike Pompeo was the one who was mostly behind it,
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at least the planning. Suppose that's true. Can you believe it? I wouldn't believe the reporting,
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necessarily, just because I don't believe any reporting anymore. But suppose it's true that Mike
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Pompeo was wanting to kill Assange. Doesn't that rule him out for president? If it's a problem, you can't
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support him for president, can you? Yeah, I think that would take Pompeo right out of the running. But we'll
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see, because first of all, I don't necessarily believe that he even had any involvement in any way. We don't
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know. What is a bad combination? Let me tell you, this could be like a news segment. Bad
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combinations. Things you don't want to put together, because if you put them together, bad things
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happen. For example, John Bolton is talking about the Taliban maybe someday taking over Pakistan and
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getting 150 nuclear weapons. Two things you don't want to put together. Taliban, 150 nuclear
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weapons. So things you don't want to put together. Here's another one. You don't want to put
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together TikTok and dumb people. Do not combine TikTok and dumb people. You're going to get a bad
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result. For example, there was a FedEx driver who posted a TikTok video vowing never to deliver to
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homes that support Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Black Lives Matter. His job did not last very long.
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No. He was immediately fired. So two things you don't want to put together. The Taliban and nuclear
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weapons. And TikTok and dumb people. Dumb people plus TikTok, bad combination. Do not put them
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together. All right. Here's some fake news. Fake news. Where was this? Damn it. I forgot who was
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reporting this fake news. So there's a report that Trump could face multiple criminal charges. I think
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this was in the Daily Mail. He could face multiple criminal charges. Do you know who else could? Who
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else could you say this story about? You. You. Me. Everybody else. Do you know who could maybe face
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multiple criminal charges? A lot of people. They won't. But a lot of people could. Right? So that's a weird way to
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say something. How about Donald Trump is not facing any criminal charges. How about that? That's true.
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Right? There are no criminal charges against President Trump. Why not say that? There could be. Maybe
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somebody will come up with something later. But haven't heard of it. But anyway, the thought is that he
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could have some criminal liability for his attempts, quote, his attempts to overturn the 2020 election
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loss in Georgia. And this report is still reporting that Trump told Brad Raffzenberger, the Secretary of State,
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to find 11,780 votes, enough votes to make him president instead of Biden, or at least in the state,
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to give him the win in the state. And that is a fake news reporting on a context. Because when you hear the
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whole context, it's pretty clear that Trump was not asking him to do anything illegal, but rather
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believed that the election was genuinely fraudulent, you know, true or not, he seems to have believed it,
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and was asking him to help find fraudulent votes. So here it is, Trump asking somebody to identify
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fraudulent votes, which is exactly what you'd want everybody to do, right? Is there anybody who
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doesn't want to identify the fraudulent votes? Why wouldn't Trump ask for that? And why wouldn't
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Raffzenberger want to do it? I mean, if he could do it easily. I mean, there's a practical element to
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it. But everybody would want to know if there were any fraudulent votes. And Trump just gave them
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numbers, like if we found this many, you would reverse things. So I'd like you to find that many.
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That's really different from, you know, somehow pressuring him to lie. That's not in there.
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So this is just total fake news. Where does this come from? Oh, the DC think tank, the Brookings
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Institute. Right. The Brookings Institute is who it is who says he might be facing multiple charges.
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Who the hell is a Brookings Institute? Unless it's like a bunch of lawyers or somehow independent.
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I doubt that they're an unbiased institute, obviously. Let's talk about the plot to control you.
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I saw a tweet by Unhoodwinked, one of my followers on Twitter, Unhoodwinked. And he tweeted today,
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can we finally admit that the policies both now and in the past, like lockdowns and masks
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on children, are not to protect people, but instead are new precedents to train obedience
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and servitude to power-hungry state actors. How many of you watching agree with this take,
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that the lockdowns and the masks are part of a larger process by which power-hungry state actors
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are training the public to obedience? All right. I'm seeing on locals, lots of yeses,
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lots of noes, but lots of yeses. And then on YouTube, lots of yeses, some noes, right? More yeses
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than noes, 100%, 100%. So would you like me to talk about that? Because this is my sweet spot,
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right? Don't you think that of all the people you could listen to on the topic of whether you're
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being brainwashed? Who would be a good source for sorting that out for you? I would, right?
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It's sort of my specialty. Trained hypnotists talk about persuasion all the time. So let's talk about
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this. Do you believe that you are being manipulated and trained for obedience?
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So those of you who believe it, give me a little bit more. I'm going to ask you for a little bit more.
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Who is it who's doing it? Who specifically? Let's say in the United States. Now it's happening all over
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the world, right? So whatever's happening in the United States must be reproducing itself all over the
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place. So let's just talk about the United States. Who exactly in the United States, just the United States
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now for a moment. We'll talk about the other countries. But who in the United States is doing
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it? And for what personal benefit? To what benefit? BlackRock, AI, intelligence community, the DNC,
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Satan, big pharma bankers, corporations, globalists, Fauci, cartels, CCP, China, unions,
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the AMA. A lot of different answers. So here's the first point. When I first asked the question,
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are there deep state power people who just want to train you? A lot of people said yes. But when I
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ask you who they are, your answers were all over the place. Right? So far, I'm just objectively speaking.
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There's no opinion. There's no opinion yet. Your answers were all over the place about who these
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people are. And since the who is different for all of you, wouldn't this also mean that they had
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different motivations? Right? Now, do you think that there are people who want to train you and get
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power just because they like the power? How many of you think that's a thing? That they want power just
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for the power. It's not a specific thing that they're trying to train you for. It's just the
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power. Just sort of generally the power. Right? Okay. So, and you know that there are millions and
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millions of people who independently agree with the people in power, right? Would you agree that
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there are lots of doctors and researchers and just independent people who have nothing to do with
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these power people at the top who agree with them that we should wear masks or we should do
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lockdowns, et cetera? So whatever it is that the elites are trying to push, would you agree with the
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following statement that there are plenty of experts who also think it's a good idea just for medical
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reasons? Would you agree that there are plenty of real experts who also think it's a good, whether
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they're right or wrong, but they also think it's a good idea to do all the things that these power
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elites want us to do? So, yeah, I think you agree with that. So what, how do you make sense of
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something where there's a legitimate medical interest in doing it? Now, keep in mind that it might be
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right or it might be wrong, right? The experts could be right. The experts could be wrong. Could go
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either way. But it's true that they do have that opinion, right? Whether they're right or wrong,
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they are of the opinion that these are good things. Wouldn't you agree? There are plenty of
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independent people. So even if the elites are doing it for sneaky reasons to take power, it's also true
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that it's medically recommended by every major medical group in every country, basically, except Sweden,
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I guess. All right. So the first thing you want to question yourself if you think it's part of a big
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power move by the elite is who are they? And why is it that their power move is exactly what
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independent professionals would say they should do? Because wouldn't that be a weird coincidence
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that the actual best thing you could do for your health, according to the experts, again,
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they could be right or they could be wrong, but the experts do say masks and social distancing are
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something you should do. What are the odds that coincidentally it's medically recommended,
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but also coincidentally it's really good for the secret plot to train you to be more obedient?
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I don't know. I would say that I should put a little question mark into your thinking, wouldn't you?
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Does anybody respond to that point? Shouldn't that at least make you question the hypothesis that it's only
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being done for power reasons? There's just so many individuals who also agree with it, who are experts.
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I'm not an expert, so I'm not saying who's right or wrong. I'm just saying that they exist.
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Okay. So that's the first thing. Number two, why would anybody want to give power to other people?
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Do you know anybody who wants to give power to other people over themselves? Do any of you wish to
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increase the amount of power other people have over you? Anybody? In the comments. Let's just talk
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about yourself. Let's not read other people's mind. For yourself, do you personally, would you like to
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give more power to other people over your life? Who would like to do more of that? Right? Nobody. Pretty
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much nobody. But here's my problem with this idea that there's this secret elite power hungry state
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actors. They're also giving power to other people. Because let's say Pelosi, she has to wear a mask
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too. Right? She's also giving power to somebody. What about Biden himself?
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Biden's giving power to somebody too. He's got to wear a mask and he's got to do a bunch of stuff.
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He's probably not too happy about it. Don't you think Biden would like the pandemic to go away?
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Let me ask you this. Would Biden be politically better off or worse off if the pandemic stays or if he
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solves it? What could be better for the Biden administration than solving the pandemic and
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getting your mask off? How would... Well, let me ask you this. Somebody says you're full of BS.
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Let me ask you this. If Biden and Harris wanted to maintain power, let's say the Democrats want to
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maintain power, and they have two possibilities. One possibility is to train the public to be more
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obedient with the masks and the mandates. And the other is to solve the pandemic and get things
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working again. Which of those two plans is more practical and would give you more power?
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I'm looking at your answers. Which would give you more power, solving the pandemic or extending it and
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making everybody unhappy about it? But at least you'd be training them, training them to be more
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obedient. I'm seeing a lot of people say extending it. Explain that. Why would extending it and losing
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the next election be good for them? You realize that they'll lose the election, right?
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You know, the worse the lockdowns and the masking are, the worse all that is when you've got to vote,
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the more you're going to hold it against whoever's in power.
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I'm saying mail-in voting. We'll talk about that in a minute.
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Why is mail-in voting? Why are you saying mail-in voting? Oh, I see. You say mail-in voting because
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the pandemic would cause the mail-in voting and then you could cheat on the mail-in voting
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looks like it's been solved in a few states. All right. I'm just reading your comments.
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Today, are you having one of those days where everything that's happening to me is some kind
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of an emergency and everything has to happen at once? Like, there's nothing that can wait.
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You ever have one of those days? Nothing can wait.
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Everything has to happen right now. And it's an emergency if it doesn't.
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If you think that it's all about the mail-in ballots, do you think that the pandemic is going
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to change that? Because I feel as though whether we had a pandemic or not, the mail-in ballot
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situation would stay the same at this point. Don't you think? Because it seems that people just
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like mail-in ballots and you get more of them and blah, blah, blah. I don't think they need a
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pandemic for mail-in ballots, do you? I mean, it did kickstart things. And they certainly took
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advantage of it. So I would agree with you that they took advantage of it to beat Trump. There's
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no... I think that's fair to say. Do we all agree on that? That the way the rules of elections were
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gamed by the Democrats was quite masterful. And they got away with it because it was, you know,
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they did it through legal means. And they got a set of rules that worked for them.
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Yeah. So the pandemic definitely did change the power structure. But I think at this point,
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at this point, I think people either like mail-in ballots or not, independent of the pandemic.
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Give me a fact check on that. Would you agree that people's opinions of mail-in ballots
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are now divorced from the pandemic? It's sort of a separate category, I think, by itself.
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Because there are plenty of reasons to have mail-in ballots, or plenty of reasons to dislike them,
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right? You could go either way. But it has nothing to do with the pandemic at this point. It did.
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But at this point, I think we're past that. I think just it's a question about ballots themselves.
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All right. Yeah, there's a lot to be... needs to be fixed in the election. There's no doubt about that.
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Somebody says they lost the video, but I don't think that's true.
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Here's what I would say. I don't believe there's anybody who wants to give power,
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at least in terms of the masks and the lockdowns. That part, if it's all about the mail-in ballots,
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then I acknowledge that point. Could be. Certainly, there are people who would prefer
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a good reason for mail-in ballots if they're Democrats. That makes sense.
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So I'll agree with you that far, that it's opportunistic.
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I tried to find a good, reliable news source to help me understand
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whether the Arizona audit found nothing or something.
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Because, you know, as I predicted, it broke into these two movies.
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And so I was trying to figure out what did the audit find
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and what things could they not find because they couldn't check them.
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All right. Now, keep in mind my number one rule
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is it's real news if it's reported the same on both networks.
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But it's a pretty good starting point for identifying fake news,
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which is that if the two networks are reporting it differently,
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Right? One of them is giving you fake news at least, maybe both.
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If they both reported the same, it's probably true.
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Did Fox News and CNN report the Arizona results about the same?
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And neither of them seem to say that any fraud was found
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But let's talk about what they did find and what they did not find.
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they didn't find a big problem with the actual ballots.
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believed that there were ballots that were made
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How many of you believe that some of those ballots
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If you ever believed that there were bamboo paper ballots,
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In fact, I would argue that the attitude you should take
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when you find out you're wrong about something like that
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Why should you be happy to find out you were so wrong?
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that you don't know is right in the first place,
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There was somebody who got paid to do something
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is do an audit of the place where the fraud isn't.
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Because then you'll convince yourself there's no fraud,
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that probably were not the problem in the first place.
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any candidate who said they were going to fix this.
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Do I care about this hypothetical candidate's fiscal policy?
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Do I care about this candidate's international policy?
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If you want to turn me into a single-issue voter,
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So, yeah, this system isn't going to fix itself, right?
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because we don't have a way to check elections.
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to create systems that can be audited instantly.
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I think the federal government could do that, right?
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So we don't know what any other state looks like,
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Canadians apparently are a little too trusting.
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But I'm wondering if what comes along with that
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80% of Canadians consider online information reliable.
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And apparently the minister of something up there
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to police the news and information on the Internet.
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Well, how's your infrastructure bill looking now?
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When did I tell you that the infrastructure bill
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Thank you for tanking the real estate market in China.
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No, I'm not sure I believe anything out of India.
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what happens to your consciousness when you die?
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Well, mine's going to go into computer, digital form.