Episode 1546 Scott Adams: Trouble. Get in Here
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 57 minutes
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139.98778
Summary
In case you missed it, here's something you should have taken care of before you missed the show: it's a bad start to the day, but it's not as bad as you think it is, and that's because it's actually pretty good.
Transcript
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This is the part of the show that locals people usually see, but you don't see on YouTube.
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This is where I'm fussing around to do my checklist of everything and get it right in two minutes.
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As sound you hear is my notes printing out for the best show you're ever going to see.
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I won't say that every time, but today, oh yeah, it's a good one.
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All right, just a couple more steps here and we're good to go.
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It looks like there might be another twist in this saga that instead of my normal show,
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Looks like it's begging for cartridges or something.
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But what it does is that my last HP printer is in pieces on the floor of the garage.
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I don't even think it knows it because obviously, hey, what the hell is going on?
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Obviously, if my printer knew what its fate was going to be in about five minutes, it would
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Because its predecessor is in a lot of pieces that I keep in a container next to the door
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in the garage so I can see it every time I walk by.
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And I'd like all of my equipment to know that it's this close to being destroyed in public.
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Because if this doesn't produce anything like my notes in about 60 seconds, I am going to
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rip it out of the wall and throw it over my balcony onto the sidewalk below.
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A lot of you think it's senseless to threaten your technical devices.
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Those of you who say, it doesn't make sense to threaten technology.
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Well, I don't want to say this is the worst start to the show of all time.
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Welcome to the worst simultaneous sip of all time.
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I know there was a little bit of panic there when you thought to yourself, I don't know
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A lot of people don't think threats work, but they do, even on technology.
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So I can't claim this will be the best thing that happened all day, because I had such
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But it's going to be in the top ten, even with this bad start.
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And the only thing that could make it better, well, just one way, would be the simultaneous
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stye, a canteen jug,
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The thing that makes everything better, including your antibodies, that's science, bitch.
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You can feel your antibodies a little more active now, right?
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And I'm going to do that by showing you a little video here that some of you may have
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But it's so damn good, I've got to show you again, in case you missed it.
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Just in case you missed it, there's a new meme video going around.
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Oh, I don't know if you get how well you can see.
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All of my technology is sort of acting the way it's not supposed to.
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This is something that should have taken, oh, 10 seconds.
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There's a photo on my phone, and now I'm just going to touch it with my finger.
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I tried that before, and all kinds of bad shit things happened.
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But I'm going to try it again, because I'm pretty sure that touching a photo, it worked
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Here's a photo of Joe Biden greeting Boris Johnson.
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Look at the expression on Boris Johnson's face.
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Can you see the expression on Boris Johnson's face?
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It turns out that corporeal disease is actually transmissible by touch.
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You remember the Joe Biden, where he was standing like he was frozen?
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Because it looks like Boris Johnson just immediately went into cornholio mode as soon as Biden touched
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I think our medical professionals should look into that.
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But that wasn't even what I was going to show you.
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I was going to show you one of the best political ads I've ever seen.
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And I'm not really following the Virginia governor's race enough to have a favorite.
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But Glenn Youngkin is running as a Republican against Terry McAuliffe.
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And I just looked at a campaign ad put out by Youngkin.
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I haven't looked into any of these candidates enough to have an opinion.
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Whoever is in favor of school choice, I'm probably for.
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I don't know if you'll be able to see it well enough on my little phone, but it'll give you
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For too long, we've been told by the same career politicians that more government control
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It's about law enforcement that needs our support to keep Virginia safe.
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Parents who want a better education for our kids and Virginians who deserve lower taxes.
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Together, we can build a better future that works for us.
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So you missed the first part that makes it brilliant.
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But it's the first few seconds is what makes this brilliant.
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For too long, we've been told by the same career politicians that more government control
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It's about law enforcement that needs our support.
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But the point is, it starts with this army of boring, zombie-like, older white men in
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And they sort of represent, you know, the government or the power or the people in power.
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And then you see regular citizens, beginning with a police officer, you know, walking through
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them, sort of violating their powerful whiteness, I guess.
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Now, they weren't all non-white, but the clever way that they set it up is that it's all these
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And then you see people who, some white, some black, you know, you've got a mix of men and
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And you see that they're all sort of violating that row of old white guys.
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The payoff is that he reframed the situation from race, which is where the other team was
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going with it, to power, which was very clever.
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Because he made it look as though the old white guys are not about being white, because the
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people violating, you know, their power of visual were some white, some black, some men,
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So he basically reframed it from race to power.
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Somebody says my locals mic is off, but it isn't, is it?
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So are you having trouble with the sound on locals?
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I'm going to kill this feed, which means ending the app.
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Over on YouTube, apparently we have good sound if you want to run over there and not have
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Seriously, just everything is not going to work today.
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You're just going to have to sit this one out because I've got to fix this right now.
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See, this is the trouble with all live streaming.
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If you've never tried to live stream, the technology never works the same twice, which
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is why it's just really hard to live stream on two platforms at once.
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So in theory, I'm firing up another local's feed, but you might not be able to see it.
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So we'll see if they can find it, and I'll go on.
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Have you seen the LGB meme video, Let's Go, Brandon?
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Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that my local's app wouldn't learn something from the printer.
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I'm trying to just type a message to the local's platform to go to YouTube.
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And every time I type, it's just changing the words as I type them into something else.
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And if I can't type that in the next minute, I'm just going to destroy everything in this office.
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I'm literally going to start ripping the technology out and throwing it all out the window in about 60 seconds.
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I'm just going to try to write, go to YouTube on an iPad while it continually tries to, correct me, go to capital Y-O-U-T-U-B-E, send.
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So have you seen the, there's a great meme called Let's Go Brandon.
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And I was going to play it for you, but the odds of that actually working seem so low right now that sure enough, I can't even find it.
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It's just, if I were you, I would just give up on this.
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You know, normally, I'm pretty happy about the content I'm producing here.
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Anyway, somebody made a great meme in which they blah, blah, blah.
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Wouldn't it be great if you could hear the thing I'm talking about?
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Is there anything more boring than somebody describing a meme that they're not showing you?
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But describing a dream or telling somebody about a good meal you had, those are worse than this.
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You could be listening to a co-worker telling you about a great potato they ate that one time.
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Let's talk about something that doesn't require any technology.
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Have you seen that Facebook is doing these ads in which they're asking for more government regulation?
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Because both the left and the right are mad at Facebook for different reasons, and some similar reasons.
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So Facebook is very cleverly doing persuasion in which they're producing ads saying, we'd like to have the best control of bad content while letting good content through.
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It would be a lot easier if we were more regulated.
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And I think it's brilliant in terms of a way to manage the problem.
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I don't know what could be better than asking to be regulated.
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So apparently Roe v. Roe v. Wade might fall because of the nature of the Supreme Court.
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But let's say it gets chipped away at to the point where it's difficult to get an abortion in, I think there could be up to 20 states that would restrict it if they could.
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So if Roe v. Wade falls, let's say 20 states or so make it illegal to get an abortion.
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You should expect people would drive to neighboring states where they could.
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And here's my prediction, which I predicted before, but I'll re-up it.
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I will predict that there will pop up a solution to the transportation problem.
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So right now if you were low income and you wanted an abortion in a state that, let's say in the future they restrict it,
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you could in the future also, I'm pretty sure, arrange to get a ride and maybe even a place to stay overnight until you come home, something like that.
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And I think that it will just pop up spontaneously from abortion activists who will just say,
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So I have a feeling that it will get really complicated to get an abortion, but I can't see it going away.
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You know that Joe Biden likes to raise your taxes, right?
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But Biden loves taxes so much, he's actually trying to raise taxes on other countries.
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Biden is at the G20 meeting right now, and he's going to be pushing something called the global minimum tax.
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He's literally, not making this up, he's literally trying to raise taxes in other countries.
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Now, if you had told me that could happen, I would have said, that's pretty funny.
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He loves raising taxes so much that he's raised all the taxes he can in this country,
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and now he's got to go to other countries to raise their taxes.
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But don't you feel good that instead of sending a leader that would embarrass the country,
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somebody who has embarrassed the country with mean tweets,
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don't you feel better knowing that we sent an empty bag of meat instead of a mean tweeter?
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I feel pretty, pretty good about Joe Biden being there,
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And the good news is, I don't think people are going to mock him like they did Trump
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I think they're going to let Biden off the hook because you don't really want to be seen
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And while you think that might be a joke, it isn't.
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Because I do think that Biden is so obviously mentally degraded at this point
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that it's a little hard for any leader to make fun of him
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because it would be making fun of somebody mentally handicapped.
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So Biden has somehow solved the problem of our president being mocked
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by being so degraded that he's unworthy of mocking at this point.
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So good work for those other leaders, not mocking our degraded president.
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Did you ever get, let's say, you leave a job or you get fired or something,
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and then you're replaced by somebody who's really good?
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Because you're like, oh, damn it, I got replaced by somebody who's better than me.
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Same as if you have a breakup, and you get replaced by somebody who's, I don't know,
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better looking, younger, richer, whatever it is.
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But it's worse if you get replaced by somebody terrible.
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But if you're running for president, and you get beaten by a brainless bag of meat,
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It was a sort of a semi-sentient bag of meat, and beat me pretty handily.
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Apparently, one of the big topics at the G20 will be climate change.
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And I remind you, this is a perfect example, that the public runs the government,
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The public runs the government, not the other way around.
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Now, it's different in maybe a dictator situation,
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but in any democratic republic kind of a situation, the people are in charge.
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And why is it that the politicians all have to say good words about climate change
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Is it because they, as leaders, decided that's what they want to say?
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They have to say these things in public because the public requires it.
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The politicians have to give the public what they ask for,
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We do delegate to our government decisions that are close.
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In other words, if the country is a little bit closer to, you know,
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well, then we say, all right, okay, we can't figure it out ourselves.
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So government, you know, go make a decision and we'll live with it
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But the public does that intentionally, in a sense,
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because they can't make a decision on their own.
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But when the public wants something, let's say 90 to 10,
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If the government wants something by a 90% majority,
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So if you're trying to guess something, don't convince the government.
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So your power play is to convince other people.
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And then other people, when they get to some majority,
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But convincing the government of anything is probably a waste of time.
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So never forget that you're in charge if you need to be.
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And if it's 50-50, well, maybe you just need a different system
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Apparently, Biden's playing the forgetful old man card at the G20.
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So, of course, it was sort of awkward when he meets France's head, Macron,
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because there was that thing where the US, Australia, and UK
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put together some submarine deal with Australia
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and cut France out of a multi-billion submarine deal.
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under the impression that France had been informed long before
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that the deal would not go through, meaning the French deal.
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about some major thing happening in the government.
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And what do you think of Bitcoin in the context of regular money being inflated
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Now, I think it was Jack Dorsey who was tweeting
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about Bitcoin and its association with inflation.
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And he had some provocative tweets that I thought were really good
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So, if you're worried about the value of your regular money,
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Well, some people are going to put their money in Bitcoin.
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And, but some percentage of the public is going to put money there.
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So, what are the odds that Bitcoin will grow as inflation grows?
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Let me give you, let's get your prediction rather than mine
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Now, of course, crypto is a psychological money, right?
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If I had to guess, and again, this is not financial advice,
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and I should tell you that I do own some Bitcoin, not a ton.
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Someday it might be most of it if things go the way they're going.
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So, my Bitcoin exposure is small, not enough to, you know, really care.
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And while there will always be lots of frothiness
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I think the two that people are just comfortable hearing
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And that's all anybody's going to be able to understand.
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I guess I've got to get into this crypto thing.
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relative to something they don't know anything about.
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inflation will make crypto seem like a smarter move,
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and that the Bitcoin and ETH will be the big winners.
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There will also be some minor coins that do well,
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pretending to support Glenn Youngkin, the Republican.
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because most of their voters don't know it was a hoax.
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the Fine People hoax was something that actually happened.
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They don't know it was a fake edit of the video.
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I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears,
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would you admit you had worked on the Lincoln Project?
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if I wanted to sell my service to anybody else.
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to coordinate today's Youngkin action in Charlottesville,
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I joined them in the fight to defend our democracy
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And I can tell you from one personal conversation
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with somebody who reports the news for a living.
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And that person absolutely believed it was true.
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It was somebody who absolutely believed it was true.
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I'm not sure he believed it was completely true.
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are gradually being sucked into the digital world.
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And he says the meta will just put you over the top.
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will be one you try to avoid as much as possible.
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For those of you who have not experienced VR yet,
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if you think it will not be addictive enough to get you,
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even with the current technology that's not so great.
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you can just tell me what it means or what it is,
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But just saying those words over and over again.
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is that I've spent some time in the virtual world,
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Ray Epps was paid by the FBI to cause the insurrection.
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I'm saying that if you hear that story for the first time,
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a specific FBI agent who was paid to incite a riot,
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the first thing you should think is it's probably not true.
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But if you always bet against everything that sounds too perfect,
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He's on several videos inciting the people to go in.
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I don't think it happens in the numbers, we've been told.
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Yeah, so you've got a problem there, don't you?