Episode 1555 Scott Adams： The Democrat Party is Coming to a Rapid End. I Will Tell You All About it.
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The dopamine hit that makes everything better and stronger, and especially your antibodies. I m sick of me. I ve got a plan to get the younger generation to believe that the older generation is responsible for climate change, and it s all their fault.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best thing that's ever going to happen to you.
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Until possibly tomorrow. I have high hopes for tomorrow and beyond.
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But for now, this is the peak of your existence. The best day of your life so far.
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And what are we going to do to make it even better? Yeah, we're not going to be satisfied.
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A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine hit of the day.
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The thing that makes everything better and stronger, and especially your antibodies.
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I don't mean to sound racist, but my white blood cells are just charging up.
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Enough about me. I mean, really, I'm sick of me.
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How many of you think you'll get a compliment today from anybody?
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How many of you would expect to get a compliment today about anything?
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Now, I usually get a compliment just because I'm a public figure.
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But I'm kind of surprised that so many of you expect a compliment.
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Many of you said no, but I'm wondering if the people who said yes are all female.
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You know, have you ever thought about the, we have a standard in society that women must
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be complimented on a, like just a continuous schedule.
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You got to compliment women, especially your significant other or spouse, whatever.
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And, but it doesn't work the other way, does it?
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Have you noticed that there's no requirement for complimenting men?
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That, that, that women are automatically expected to be complimented.
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In fact, men expect to be insulted, don't they?
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Men, how many of you expect to be insulted by the significant person in your life today?
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So I have a strategy for dealing with climate change.
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As you know, there seems to be some kind of division between the young and the old.
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And the younger generation believes that the older generation has essentially screwed them
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And I thought we should take the fight to them, rather than just being, you know, boomer victims.
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If any of you are boomers, I'm just speaking for my people now.
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But I think we should start brainwashing the kids into thinking that the cause of climate change
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is them leaving doors open while the heat's on.
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Now, remember, they're kids, so they're not going to do a deep dive into the science.
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If you get them young enough, that's the trick.
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Just tell them that the problem with climate change is their own damn fault
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for continually leaving the door open while the heat is on.
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What do you think they're going to do to your Social Security payments
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once they realize you destroyed the planet and you're planning to die and leave it to them?
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I feel it's inevitable that the youth of today will get so mad
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they will take your Social Security away and watch you die in your own degenerated state.
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We've got to target the children and brainwash them into thinking it's all their fault.
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So, I did a joke on Twitter that some people didn't think was funny.
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But, I believe that those who didn't think it was funny
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have a few things going on that is different from other people.
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But, the other thing is I don't think they understood the joke.
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And, you tell me, is this the unfunniest, horrible thing, most horrible thing you've ever heard?
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I said, I hear Pfizer is working on a vaccination that prevents concerts.
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Now, in the comments, can you tell me what is the point of the joke?
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Am I making fun of people who died at a concert?
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Am I having fun at the expense of tragic loss of life?
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I see a yes from somebody who obviously works in the arts.
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Anybody else work in the arts and think that that's about?
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The people on Locals, especially, who probably know me best, are kind of shouting the answer.
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It's about the pharma companies looking for any situation to sell some drugs, no matter how reasonable it is, or no matter how good it is for you.
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Now, if you're an artist, you think, hey, I think he's against music.
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He doesn't want us to get together and have fun.
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I'm making fun of the pharma companies who would make money on any tragedy if they could.
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You realize the joke doesn't work unless we all agree it's a tragedy.
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That's the only way it works, is that the person telling the joke and the person listening to it all agree that the concert was just a tragedy.
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So, anyway, for those who don't understand jokes, that could be important.
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Now, here's the best thing that came out of that.
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There was a comment I saw in the comments to that joke.
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Now, I know you know that Dogbert is the character that I draw in the comic strip.
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It was basically written in the voice of Dogbert.
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Now, who would be smart enough to make that connection?
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Like, what kind of observer would be smart enough to say, oh, you just wrote in Dogbert?
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Well, I had to check the profile of the person who said that, because it was just one word, and it was perfect.
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So I'm going to give her a pass for being an artist.
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Because if you're writing for The Simpsons, you're really smart.
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So Brody was smart enough not only to know that it was a joke, but that it was written in Dogbert's voice.
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So she's operating at a whole other level than even the people who got the joke.
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When the Travis Scott concert tragedy happened, and it was still in the fog of war, and we
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didn't know what was happening, how many of you heard an untrue rumor that somebody was
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stabbing people with fentanyl, or that it was fentanyl deaths, and that in fact one of
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the security or police, I forget, was stabbed with a needle and had to be revived with Narcan?
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When I was asked, when I first heard it, I said, nope, I don't believe that's true.
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And I want to give you a trick for deciding what's true or not.
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Imagine you hear a story, and you say to yourself, well, there's only one explanation for this.
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And here's the part of the story that you probably said there's only one explanation for.
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There was a, I forget, was it a police officer?
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I think it was a police officer who collapsed at the concert and was taken to the emergency
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Now, Narcan is a drug you use to revive people who have fentanyl overdose.
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So, based on the fact that Narcan was used and seemed to have worked, you could conclude there
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was probably fentanyl, but I'm not sure you would know for sure, and maybe people just
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pop back to life and you don't know why sometimes.
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But that would be the implication, that it must have been fentanyl.
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And then the medical team found what they thought was a needle mark in the neck, and
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then when they asked him, he said, yeah, I think I felt something on my neck.
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So, putting two plus two plus two together, people thought that the other deaths might
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be fentanyl, and this guy was stabbed with a needle, and maybe there was a crazed needle
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Number one, nobody would put fentanyl in a needle deadly amounts.
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I don't think anybody would do that and not expect to die themselves, because it's pretty
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So, I don't know that anybody would put it in a needle, because the alternative would
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Suppose you wanted to kill a bunch of people with fentanyl, how would you do it?
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Well, if you had the raw fentanyl you could put in a needle, it means you have some wherewithal,
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You have some ability to manage something with fentanyl.
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It would be much easier just to buy pills, fake pills, just put a little extra fentanyl
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Suppose you said to yourself, I can't imagine any other explanation for how that police officer
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had a hole in his neck, it collapsed to fentanyl, and was revived by Narcan.
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Does anybody have an imagination in which they can explain those facts any other way?
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It took one second for somebody on Locals to have the right answer.
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I don't want to make an accusation, because there's no evidence for what I'm going to say
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I'm just saying that there are different ways to explain what you observed.
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I'm suggesting that if you couldn't imagine this was a possibility, then you could easily
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How many police officers are taking drugs on the job?
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You have to assume that some police officers take drugs, because some of everybody does.
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I don't think there's any profession in which there aren't some people who come to work
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How many police officers would be more likely to take, let's say, a drug that put them in
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a good mood if they were going to be working a concert?
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If you were somebody who took drugs anyway, and you were a police officer, and you thought
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you were going to spend the night at a concert just standing around, you might pop a bar.
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A bar is a little, usually a fake Xanax that has fentanyl in it.
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Now, you might not know it has fentanyl in it, and you might have taken it before and said,
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well, I'll just pop a bar, it'll take the edge off, and I'll have a good time, good time
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It's we're speculating what another possibility would be.
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Mind reading is if you actually think you know what somebody's thinking.
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I'm just saying there could be another explanation for the facts, that's all.
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Now, unfortunately, I know what it means to pop a bar, because that's probably what killed
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All right, so let's take the possibility that you had a police officer who took a bar, a little
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pill that he thought was going to be safe enough, but it had fentanyl in him, because they almost
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Now, imagine that this police officer simply had an overdose, just popped a bar, had an
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I'm saying it fits the facts, as other explanations also do.
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Why would the, why would he have a little needle mark in his neck?
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But as soon as you said that, I thought to myself, oh my God, that's actually possible.
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Yeah, I don't think the Narcan is a needle that you put in the neck.
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So imagine you're, again, I'm not alleging any of this happened.
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But imagine he had taken a bar, got caught, had an overdose, didn't want to get fired.
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He would say, I don't know how that got into my system.
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But I felt something on my neck, you know, it was like a little pinch.
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And then once he told people that maybe there was a little something on his neck, do you think they could find it?
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If you tell somebody that there might be a needle mark on your body somewhere, not necessarily in the neck,
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but if you told medical professionals there might be a needle mark somewhere in my body,
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do you think they could find something they thought was maybe a needle mark, but not quite sure?
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Because it would prime them to look for something.
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So the alternate explanation is that the cop was an addict.
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He took some fentanyl and he lied when he got to the hospital.
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And maybe they did or did not see a mark on his neck, but probably it was a coincidence or confirmation bias.
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Just because you can't imagine another explanation for a thing doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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A magic trick works because you, the audience, can't imagine how it happened.
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It's your lack of imagination that makes magic tricks work.
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Likewise, when you see these situations, if you think, well, there's only one thing that could have happened,
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Because there's always another explanation that you didn't think of.
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There's always another one you didn't think of.
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It's not like I don't make the same mistake all the time.
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Saying, well, there's only one explanation I can think of.
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That looks like 75% chance that that's what happened.
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That'll keep you a little bit out of the trouble.
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So Trump has basically told us he's running without telling us he's running.
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Because he says a good time to announce his intentions would be after the midterms.
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If there's anything that I can say with complete certainty, Trump has decided to run.
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He kind of has to run just for the social media platform to work.
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Because otherwise it'll just go away if he doesn't run.
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I saw CNN touting the infrastructure bill as a big, big win for Biden.
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How many Americans think the infrastructure bill is, that's the thing?
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You know, I was a little undecided about Biden, but we got that infrastructure bill.
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The news is going to try to push this infrastructure bill as if people care about it.
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If the public really wanted that thing, I think it would have happened sooner.
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I mean, the few people who follow this stuff cared.
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You know, I don't think more than 5% of the country even knew there was an infrastructure bill.
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If you did a survey and said, did you know there was a big vote with an infrastructure bill?
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How many people would say, oh, yeah, I've been following that?
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So, if that's what they're holding on to as their victory, good luck.
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Because you've got parents who can't afford to buy gas to drive their little masked-up kids to the place where they are taught that they're racist and or white people are racist.
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Think about the things that real people are concerned about.
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The mandates, the vaccination, the masks, the schools, CRT, gas prices, right?
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They're not worried at all about the infrastructure bill.
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Now, you know, when explained to them, they probably would say, oh, that's, you know, I guess that would be good.
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So, no surprise that, well, we'll talk about Biden's ratings in a moment, his popularity.
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So, Thomas Massey, Representative Massey, says this about the, I guess Biden wants to have a mandate for vaccinations for any company that's got 100 or more workers.
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And as Thomas Massey correctly states, this is absolutely unconstitutional.
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Now, I guess the way it would be enforced is through OSHA.
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But who gave OSHA, who gave OSHA the authority to put drugs in your body or to require it?
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What part of the Constitution says OSHA can make you get a vaccination or anything like it?
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So, here will be a good test of what I've been telling you for a while.
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And when the people want something by enough of a majority, if it's 50-50, then the government is in charge.
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But as soon as the public just totally wants something, then the government will just give it to them.
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Do you think the public is going to put up with this?
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Do you think the public is going to put up with a vaccine mandate for companies as small as 100 workers?
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So you wondered how far things could get pushed?
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There will not be an enforced mandate for vaccines for people with 100 workers.
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So either this will be withdrawn or it will break the system.
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So I can imagine it would get implemented, but I think it will break the system.
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Meaning that the system will just come apart over this.
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Now, I know you're not all Americans watching this.
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Do you know, does the Australian government have to do what the Australian public tells them to do?
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Now, I'm not saying that the armed civilians can have more military might than the actual military.
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But that's not even who they're going to fight.
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Because I'm not even sure the military would be on the government side.
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And they're certainly not going to turn on the public over this.
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Do you think that the military would mount a response like the American military?
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Do you think they would put bodies in the street to support an unconstitutional rule from the government?
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Would the American military enforce an unconstitutional rule?
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I don't think you have to be a scholar to know this is unconstitutional.
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So, Australia might learn the difference between America and Australia.
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Because there's a reason so many Americans have guns.
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Because when the Americans want the government, by enough of a majority,
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when a majority of Americans want the government to do something, it's going to do it.
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So, my prediction is that this will either be withdrawn,
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or modified in some way that makes it more palatable, I suppose.
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So, it might temporarily, you know, be implemented, but it's just not going to work.
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I'm comfortable giving power to the government.
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And I'm even comfortable knowing they'll make mistakes.
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Because in an emergency, everybody makes mistakes.
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But, we're now informed enough, and enough time is going by.
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We're not really making emergency decisions anymore.
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So, this is not really the time for the government to be making these decisions.
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I mean, it needs to be started to be delegated down to the citizens.
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Now, I think what's going to happen, if I had to make a guess,
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And then that will be the cover for them to back down on this.
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Well, I guess this mandate isn't as important as we thought it was before.
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So, I think the therapeutics will give them the exit ramp to back down from this.
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Glenn Greenwald is living my personal nightmare.
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Do you ever have the nightmare where you can see the monster, but nobody listens to you?
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Can't everybody see there's a monster in the room?
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And I think Glenn Greenwald is experiencing that because he keeps talking about the fact
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that it is now obvious and a matter of fact, I would say,
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that the American intel agencies, Department of Justice, Democrats, and the media
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colluded to run a coup against Trump and maybe succeeded.
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And Greenwald just keeps tweeting and writing about it, but it's not having the response
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you'd expect, meaning that the public is just like,
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yeah, I think I'll buy some Christmas presents.
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That there's this most awful thing that's happened and is still happening and there's
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It's the worst, most terrible thing that's ever happened in this country.
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And it really matters because it's affecting you right now.
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And the public says, I didn't see anything about it on CNN.
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And so we've reached a point where the news business can disappear, not just an embarrassing
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story, but the biggest story of the last five years.
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They're making it disappear right in front of you.
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Now, what does that tell you about all your priorities that come from listening to the
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How long have I been telling you that your opinions are assigned to you by the media?
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Some of you might be exceptions, but probably not.
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And so the media has decided that it won't assign the opinion that something bad happened.
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They will only assign the opinion that there are lots of details coming out and do what
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But we're not going to tell you that it's important or that it's the biggest thing that's
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If you don't count wars or terrorism, it's the biggest story of the last five years, 10
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So it's the biggest political story by far, right?
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January 6th, if you were to compare the January 6th event on a scale of 1 to 10, that's like
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Because one of them was an actual genuine attempt to overthrow the frickin' government.
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Because it wounded Trump enough that he lost the election.
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And I don't think there's anything that's going to change it.
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Because even the right-leaning media isn't treating it the way I would treat it.
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Maybe there's some confirmation somebody's waiting for.
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But I have some theories about why the public finds this invisible.
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So I'm going to give you a few different explanations.
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But one of them is the story is too big to grasp.
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It's complicated so people can't hold it all in their heads.
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It would be as if we found out that all along the presidents have always been lizard people from another planet.
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Wait, you're telling me that all of our past presidents have actually literally been lizard people from another planet.
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You would just go on with your day because you can't handle it.
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It's only the little outrages that we can handle.
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It's like, oh, there's what you think is a man in a dress when the restroom.
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These are all tiny compared to the news that's being hidden from you.
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And the other is the news simply decided it wasn't going to be the news.
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So they just told you it wasn't news and now it isn't.
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Well, I don't think we should call it the Russian collusion hoax.
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Rasmussen tells us that 57% of those polls say they don't want any settlement payments to immigrants who are separated at the border.
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So do you think anything can happen if 57% of the public doesn't want it to happen?
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Because this is not quite passing the pain level.
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57% is on the border of being enough people against it, but it's not enough.
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I think you need around 70% of the public to hate something before it won't happen.
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But certainly 57% is enough to guarantee that the Democrats won't win any elections anytime soon.
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I'm pretty sure that this issue is a really good one.
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And how many of you saw the Peter Doocy question and answer at the last press conference?
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So whoever is the stand-in speaker for Jen Psaki, I don't know her name, but whoever the current fill-in is for that,
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Is there any discussion of giving money to immigrants who come here legally?
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Because, you know, the whole point of these press conferences is to get the sound clip.
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Like, you want to be the one who says the clever thing?
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He says, Is there any discussion of giving money to immigrants who come here legally?
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Why would we give money to people who come here legally?
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Why would you give money to people who come here illegally?
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Because Doocy's comment, it's a 10 out of 10 for public zingers,
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but, you know, it doesn't really pass any kind of rational analysis.
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The reason that the illegal immigrants would get money is because, you know,
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some crime was done against them, meaning the separations.
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So, since that didn't apply to the legal immigrants, the whole question didn't make any sense.
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So, if your job is to look good, that you asked the right question,
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I assume he had that answer, like, locked and loaded, right?
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Like, he knew what her answer was going to be, and so he already had the answer.
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According to a USA Today Suffolk University poll, Biden's approval rating is 37.8.
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And 46% of those said Biden has done a worse job.
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Well, that probably just lines up with political parties.
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And 64% said they don't want Biden to run for re-election,
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You know, that's all of the Republicans plus a few Democrats who think he's too old.
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and given that the Democrats in Congress have done nothing but fight with each other
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and get us an infrastructure bill we should have gotten three years ago,
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I don't see how Democrats could keep control after the primaries,
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And I don't see how they could win the presidency
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they meaning the media plus our intelligence agencies
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It's obvious they're probably cooking up a new attack against Trump.
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apparently had no influence on him doing his job as president.
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Well, before he was president in the first place,
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I mean, I didn't even bother trying to defend him on that one.
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But, if you've served as president for four years,
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I mean, it didn't matter to the first four years of his performance.
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So, all those things that were pretty good points