Episode 1579 Scott Adams： Today's Show Will Be Epic. You Might Love Me or Hate Me After We're Done
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Join me for the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except the vaccination, and it happens now! Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the Hit of the Day.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to what will surely be the highlight of your entire life,
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if not a highlight of civilization itself. Yeah, it's called Coffee with Scott Adams,
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and I don't think anything has ever been better. I know you like sunshine and money and all those
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things, but really they pale in comparison to what we're about to experience here,
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and we can take it up another notch. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a gel,
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a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes
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everything better except the vaccination. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go.
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Oh, I was wrong. I'm sorry. I was wrong. It made the vaccination better too. Oh, I'm not saying
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you should take it. I'm just saying it makes everything better. Satan, he got a little bit
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better when we took that sip. So it's really everything. Well, let's talk about the news.
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Now, because we live in a simulation and the creator of this simulation clearly has a sense of humor,
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we can look for this sense of humor in many things that we think are coincidence, but really it's
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just a simulation having a sense of humor. For example, on the trending news column today on Twitter,
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two stories that seem to be unrelated, or are they, were lumped together completely by chance.
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The following titles appeared right next to each other. Number one, Toobin. So there's some news
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about Jeffrey Toobin. And number two, a story that says sperm is being used to make dishware.
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Now, I don't know that those two stories are connected, but my first thought was I don't think
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Toobin can handle that kind of volume. That's my only question. I don't know if he can handle the
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volume. The most unusual thing that could ever happen in the history of the universe
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happened recently. Listen to this. You won't believe this. This is one of those things you
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would say to yourself, well, that could never happen. And here's what it is. Ben Shapiro admitted
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he was defeated in a debate. What? Have you ever, did you ever think that was going to happen?
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Now, it turns out it was kind of a special case. So it wasn't so much a straight up debate.
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But here's what happened, apparently. So Ben Shapiro himself admits he just got destroyed
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in the debate. But it wasn't so much a point by point thing, but rather he was being interviewed
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by someone he didn't know, who he misinterpreted to be showing the antagonism of a political leftist.
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So believing that he was being sort of set up and attacked by somebody who was just a lefty,
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he reacted as though that's who he was talking to. And, you know, I think he ended it before he was
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done and blah, blah, blah. So it seemed more like it was a hit piece. And then I guess Ben Shapiro just
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reacted as though he had been invited to a sabotage. But it turns out it wasn't. It turns out it's just an
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interviewer who asked hard questions. He wasn't a leftist at all. And so Ben, I give him total credit
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for in defeat, he's a winner anyway. That's right. In defeat, meaning he admits he lost the interaction.
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But by being smart and admitting that he lost and why, he wins. So believe it or not, he actually
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won by losing. That's a real thing. This actually happened. Imagine being so good at debating that
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you can lose and still win. That's how good Ben Shapiro is. All right. This is part of my series
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that I call Humans Are Horrible. Humans Are Horrible. That includes you. Yeah, you're human.
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Includes me too. Because we're going to find entertainment in tragedy. Not all of you, but some
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of you will find some entertainment in tragedy. And that means that you're horrible people.
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Well, here's the story. Anti-vaccine Christian broadcaster, somebody named Marcus Lamb. That's
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right. There's a Christian broadcaster whose last name is Lamb. Marcus Lamb. Is that a real
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name? Can somebody tell me if he was born with the name Lamb? You know, because Lamb, Christ,
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right? You all know your Bible stuff. Was that really his name? That's just a coincidence,
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right? I don't know. My mom just confirmed name. We're all lambs. Okay. By the way, that's
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his name, but that's not the story. The story is that he was an anti-vaccine crusader and he
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just died of COVID. Now, of course, the news is dancing all over this because it's another way
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that they can promote vaccinations. So the left is being very, very bad. Very, very bad. And seems
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to be enjoying the death of this person because he's a political opponent that they think did bad
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things. Now, here's the thing that is most alarming to me. He was exactly my age and it looked like
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he's in good shape, at least the recent pictures. He didn't have any obesity problem that was
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apparent in any pictures. 64 years old and he looked like a young 64. He looks like he took care of
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himself. Now, apparently he did take ivermectin and vitamin D and I think hydroxychloroquine too,
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maybe. I'm not sure about that last one, but he died anyway. Now, as I tweeted, and a lot of you
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know, I'm not a believer personally, but I have a great respect for religion because I think it helps
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people in a whole variety of ways. So I'm very pro-religion, I'm just not personally a believer.
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But somebody has to tell me here, because I'm not a believer, so I don't know how these things work.
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Does God ever express an opinion of this directly? Anybody? When you see something like this,
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do you say to yourself, well, that's a sign from God? Or do you say, no, you can't tell what God is
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thinking? You know, he's mysterious. Things happen for various reasons and doesn't mean it's a sign
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from God. Well, let me ask you this. If this had gone the other way, would you think it was a sign
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from God? In other words, if the direction of this story was one that you expected or believed or
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wanted to be true, would you have said, well, that's a sign from God. That's a pretty clear sign
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from God. I'm seeing those. Very good. Very good. Now, I'm not sure you know, I'm not sure you're all
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right about that. But the fact that you're all aware that you would not treat it as meaningful,
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no matter which way it went, is a very encouraging sign. We're going to talk about critical thinking
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in a moment, but so far, I'm impressed. Okay. So people are horrible, but apparently not the people
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watching this live stream, because many of you are beautiful and smart and unusually sexy. I don't
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know if you've noticed that, the people who watch this live stream. If you meet somebody else who
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watches the live stream, just check them out. Extra sexy. I don't know why. It doesn't even matter
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what they look like. But there's just some kind of animal magnetism that comes out of people who
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watch this show, and I can't explain it. China's birth rate looks like it's in decline. They just
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registered the lowest birth rate since it's been recorded. Wow. What is behind that? If you had to
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guess, and I'm sure smart people have weighed in on this, what is behind China's low birth rate?
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What do you think? Because the government doesn't want them to have a low birth rate.
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Economic growth? Yeah, whenever the economy improves, birth rate goes down, especially if
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you don't have immigration. So answer me a question. We have so many smart people watching
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this. Somebody will know this. Would the birth rate in the United States, or let's say the population
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decline, would the population be declining in the United States if we didn't have immigration?
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Anybody? Anybody? Would the population in the United States be declining if we didn't
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have immigration? I see only yeses. Do we know that? Do we know that for sure? I see one
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no, but almost all, well, a few no's. Some people are not sure. Yeah, it might be close. Well,
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almost everybody's saying yes. I think we've got 95% yeses. So, I don't know. Some of you do
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say no. So, I'm going to say it's not settled, but it looks like there's definitely some correlation
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going on there. All right. Here's what I think. I'm just going to put this out there. Do Chinese
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parents want to bring a child into a police state? Is that a thing? You know, can we identify
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that when the government is the most repressive, the birth rate goes down? Is that a thing? I don't
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know if that's a thing. I mean, one would assume. So, Buzz is saying this might be mind reading.
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No, speculation is fine. Mind reading is when you're sure you see something in there. If you
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say, I wonder what people are thinking, and you speculate that it might be this and for this
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reason, that's perfectly fair. But the moment I think I know I see it, well, that's mind
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reading, right? And then you're in crazy town. But speculating is fine. Well, I would think,
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based on everything I know about human beings and economics, that people would make their
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decision at least a little bit based on what they're bringing into the world. Now, you are
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aware that there are a number of people afraid of climate change in the United States who don't
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want to bring a child into the world, right? Are you aware of that? How many of you knew
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that that's becoming a thing? People who don't want to have kids because of climate change?
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Well, if climate change would cause birth rates to change, and I think this is more anecdotal,
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you know, the part about climate change causing people to have fewer babies, I think that's only
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anecdotal. But we're seeing it. I mean, it's a thing. I don't know if it's more of a thing than
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the people having extra babies, but it's a thing. So why wouldn't, if it's a thing for some people,
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and we know that, because we can talk to the actual people who have that opinion, why wouldn't it be
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true in China? I mean, people are people when it comes to stuff like that. Yeah. But here's the
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other possibility. You ready for this? I'm going to blow your frickin' mind right now. There's one
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other possibility. It's us. The United States. Because don't you believe that all the major
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countries have persuasion campaigns going against their competitors? If they don't, they should.
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Don't you think that China and Russia are trying to influence American opinions? Probably.
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What would be a way to destroy China in the long run? To persuade them not to have babies.
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Could somebody in the United States, let's say an intelligence organization, could they, or would
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they, have the ability or the power to persuade Chinese citizens to have fewer babies as a long
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run plan to destroy China's growth? The answer is yes, emphatically. Now, I have no evidence that
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anything like that's happening. I just want you to know that if we wanted to do that, and
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if the United States intelligence agencies brought the right people into the mix, they probably
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could reduce the birth rate in any country they wanted. Do you believe me? How many think
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that's a reasonable thing to say? That a country could influence another country to change their
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birth rate? I see some no's. I've seen lots of no's. A mix of yeses and no's. So you're pretty
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mixed on this one. I see some absolutely's, some yeses, some no's. All right. So it's unknowable,
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I guess, you know, by its nature, since we haven't done it, and we haven't done a randomized control test.
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I would agree it's unknowable. But I would tell you from my personal decades of experience as a trained
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hypnotist and an influencer, it would be in the easier category of things to do. Some things are really
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hard to persuade. This would not be. You could, you could move 10% of a population if you tried
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pretty hard. And 10% might be a lot, right? It might make the difference between growth and not
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growth. All right. So I have no reason to believe that's happening, but I'd be surprised if it isn't,
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because it's such an obvious play. All right. I've heard that the birth rate in China is getting so bad
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that the government is actually considering not murdering dissidents and selling their organs.
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That's how bad it is. So keep an eye on that. The Supreme Court is looking at an abortion case
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that I have to admit, I'm a little bit surprised. I didn't expect that even with the changes in the
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Supreme Court, that Roe versus Wade would be this threatened. And again, I'm not giving you any
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opinions on Roe versus Wade. I abstain from that because I don't have babies and never have. So
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to me, women can work that out. The rest of you men can certainly weigh in. I have no objections to
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men weighing in. Of course, it's a democracy. It's only my personal decision not to have an opinion on
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that. But Mississippi is arguing to keep their ban on abortions after 15 weeks, which would
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effectively, you know, come close to banning abortions in the state. And the Supreme Court decided to look
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at it. So I didn't expect that. Now, I remember telling you that you shouldn't, not you, but people
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probably should not predict that Roe versus Wade would fall because any state that got rid of it
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would no longer be competitive. In other words, you couldn't attract top talent to your state
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if something like half of them said, I'm not going there because of that abortion stuff.
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So I predicted that it wouldn't be sweeping the country, you know, banning abortion because it
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would make your state uncompetitive. But Mississippi was never competitive in the first place.
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So I'm not sure that my prediction made any sense. You know, if you're talking about,
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you know, one of the bigger states, you know, you can make that argument. But I'm not sure Mississippi
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even cares. You know, it's not like they're tearing it up to be the next tech hub. So I will revise
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my opinion. And I would say it's looking slightly more like Roe versus Wade will fall or at least
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be constrained so much in some states. You know, obviously the red states, the blue states will
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stay the same. But this is one of those things that's really going to make that red state, blue
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state thing, which is already bad, you know, the division. It's going to make it pretty different.
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And I've also argued that the United States would never separate. I mean, you can't say never
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in a thousand years, but no time soon do you have to worry about, you know, some part of the United
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States separating from some other part. But then I saw this abortion thing and I thought, what happens
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if all the red states ban abortion and all the blue states don't? That feels like that would be the
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first time that there's like a really significant, you know, choose your country kind of situation
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there. I'm still going to predict we're not going to separate while I'm alive, you know, during my
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lifetime. But this definitely makes it more likely, it looks like. And I'll be interested to see how the
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court rules. I don't even have a prediction on that. Remember I told you to follow the money even when
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it doesn't make sense. You know, you can predict the future by looking at who's going to make money
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and how. And I told you I added something to that. Now, everybody knows that, right? Follow the
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money. It's the most basic thing that every adult knows. Oh, somebody's making money. That's why
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everything's happening. But I'm going further than that. I'm adding something to that, which is that even
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when there's no mechanism, this seems obvious for why money should make the decision different, it always
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does, even when there's no reason. I'm not sure it's causation or coincidence. But if you simply predict that
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whatever the money suggests is going to happen, you're going to be right most of the time. Let me give you an
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example. Moderna and Pfizer have announced that they're already looking at Omicron specific vaccines.
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So, do you think that there will be someday a big push, I don't know if it'll be mandatory, but a big
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push to get you a second kind of vaccine, one for the regular one and one for the Omicron? Yes. Yes.
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And it doesn't matter if the science makes sense. It doesn't matter if there's nobody in it for the
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money. Well, yeah, which would be hard to imagine. But even if no one was in it for the money, and you
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could put a, you know, lie detector on them and read their minds, and there was just nothing in there
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about money, it's still going to go the way of the money, right? Now, let me extend that.
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Take every mystery and inconsistency you know about COVID from the official data. Is there one thing
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that would explain all of it? Is there one thing that would explain everything that's happened that
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we've observed with the coronavirus? I see corruptions, I see money, I see China, and I see vitamin D.
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Which one of those explains everything we see? All right, from those choices, which one controls
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everything? Which one would explain everything? Money? Some say money would explain everything.
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I'm going to give money and vitamin D both an A, because they work together in this case. So I think
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money is the right answer, but vitamin D has to be in the mix for the money part to make sense.
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Because when we look at what countries are having good and bad results, I told you there was a study
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recently that showed there was a perfect correlation, or very high correlation for vitamin D. You know,
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people with good vitamin D did better than the others. Now, what explains Africa? Well, they're younger,
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they're less obese, there's that. But I've got a feeling it's going to turn out to be vitamin D,
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spending more time in the air. I also think ventilation is going to be one of the biggest
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variables that we didn't talk about enough. Can somebody answer this question for me?
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In most of Africa, so it's sort of a general statement, do they keep the windows open indoors
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all the time? Can anybody answer that question? In Africa, when you're indoors, are the windows open all
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the time? Yes, because no OC, one would assume. Because it never gets cold there, right? So don't they
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just leave the windows open all the time? If they have windows? I think even in the cities,
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they leave the windows open, do they not? So obviously, they would have some air conditioning
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in the cities. But I think even in the cities, there would be a lot of windows open.
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Yeah, I think vitamin D and ventilation are going to be the two of the biggest variables that made a
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difference. But you can't make any money on opening windows. And you can't make any money. I mean, if
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you're big pharma, you can't make any money on a generic vitamin. So I think money is going to be
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explaining everything, but not without also vitamin D, and not also without ventilation indoors.
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I think indoor ventilation is just going to be the thing along with vitamin D. And then the reason
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that we're not all completely informed that those things are the big variables would be,
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what would keep us from being informed that indoor ventilation and vitamin D are really the biggest
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factors? Money. The money. Right? That's what would keep you from being informed. Now,
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I've drawn a picture that I cannot tell you is true. Right? I'm not going to tell you that vitamin D
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will make you invulnerable from... I'm not going to tell you that supplementing would make you
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invulnerable. Right? I do think that having good vitamin D levels are positively correlated with
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good health in every possible way. Or in most possible ways, including coronavirus. But that's
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different than, you know, supplements will help you. I think they might. Good chance. But I think
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we're not quite there to know that scientifically. However, if you put money, vitamin D, and indoor
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ventilation together, I think they explain every inconsistency. Am I right? Can anybody give me a
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mystery about the coronavirus that's not explained by one of those variables? Thank you, Brian. I
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appreciate that. Just being thinner works. Do you think that weight is the variable that kind of
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explains it all? Because actually, that's a good point. Because if you're seeing that our governments
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are not encouraging us to get healthy? I mean, not really. I mean, they may have mentioned it a few
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times. But where is your government telling you to get fit? The most basic thing you'd say. Well,
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nobody makes money from that. Right? So almost every inconsistency and mystery of why anything's
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happening the way it is seems to be explained by just a few variables that nobody makes money on.
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All right. Doesn't mean it's true. It just means that it's a hypothesis that fits all the
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observations. San Francisco is hoping to have a good holiday season and sell a lot in the retail
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stores, which is being somewhat hindered by the fact that the windows are boarded up because of all
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the smash and grab robberies. If you go into Union Square, which is sort of the high-end shopping part of
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San Francisco, the windows are boarded up. Can you imagine going to a festive shopping excursion
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into a place with boarded windows? Oh, my God. The whole city is ruined, in my opinion. And
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police union leaders are blaming the ACLU for essentially making it possible for all the smash
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and grab robberies to be unpunished. And I ask you this question. This is an experience
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that a lot of people in the cities are going to have. They're going to go shopping. They're going
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to find out that it's so criminally, there's so much crime that they can't even go shopping the way
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they used to. And I ask this question. How bad would you have to be as a Republican candidate
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to lose an election in 2022 or 2024? I feel like you would have to be the worst politician in the
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world to lose in this context. And, you know, I know that sounds like hyperbole, but how in the world
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could you lose? I mean, really? You would have to be just awful to lose an election in this context.
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One way you could do it is just stick to your far-right opinions and just never budge. I mean,
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that could lose you the election, sure. But if you had any, like, political savvy,
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you would go soft on your, you know, your right-leaning stuff a little bit, and you could
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win any blue state you wanted, any blue election. I'm pretty sure if, you know, if I didn't have my
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baggage of my history, I'm pretty sure I could enter any blue state election as a Republican
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and win the election. Except for, you know, people would dig into my history and find out about all my
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massive crimes and whatnot. Anyway, so if you see a Republican losing an election,
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that is a really a bad, bad candidate, in my opinion. It'd have to be a real exception.
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All right, there's another school shooting. I'm not going to talk about any of the details. I'm not
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even going to tell you where it was, because it's just, I don't want to encourage this stuff.
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But I have an opinion that school shootings are mostly caused by social media.
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Now, right away, your critical thinking should say, and that would be correct. You should say
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something like that. You should be saying something like, wait a minute, there are lots of causes for
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that. There's not one cause. Nothing has one cause. You are correct. Nothing has one cause.
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Remember that, because we're going to talk about it again today. Nothing has one cause. Sometimes
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there's the last straw. But the last straw is not the heavy one. It's just the last one. It's just the
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last thing that happened. So the way our limited brains are organized, we think the last thing that
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happened is the cause. No, it's probably just the last thing that happened. And it's, you know,
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random like that. So like with coronavirus, is it the coronavirus that's killing you if you have
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five comorbidities and you're 100 years old? Well, that's what the documents are going to say.
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But no, all of that stuff had to happen for you to die. Coronavirus was just the last straw.
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So, you know, keep that in mind. Whenever we talk about the cause of anything, it's never really
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the cause. It's just sort of the last thing that happened that triggered it. So there are triggers,
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no pun intended. And in my opinion, the trigger and sort of the last thing that will happen before
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somebody, at least a student, starts shooting, is social media bullying. And here's my hypothesis.
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The hypothesis is that in the past, people were bullied in person, and that was pretty bad.
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Being bullied in person is really bad for you. But it was a small group and it was private.
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Have you ever seen the movie Carrie by Stephen King? Have you ever seen that? In the movie Carrie,
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there's a young girl who, you know, ends up killing a lot of people. But the trigger for it
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was not all of the bullying that happened, you know, sort of on the baseline. It was that she got
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humiliated in public, in front of a big crowd. So it was the public part that turned Carrie from
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an angry, bullied person into a mass murderer. Now, that was a movie, so don't take too much for movies.
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But I think that it's the public part of it, the social media part of it, that has taken the high
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school bullying to the Carrie level. And that under this scenario, it should produce lots of carries.
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People who have been bullied to the point where, you know, they're at their breaking point,
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but then it becomes a social media thing. And then they break. Because once it's public,
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you don't have anything to live for, do you? If you're a student, and you are publicly shamed,
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so there's no place you can go because they've already heard of you,
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it's not going to feel like you have anything to live for. All right? Now, you do, and nobody should
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kill themselves over bullying in school. Because if you get out of school, everything gets better.
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So just sort of last, you know, wait it out would be my advice. But you can certainly predict it,
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and you can certainly understand it. And in my opinion, social media should be regulated like
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alcohol and firearms, because it has a similar risk for young people. Let's see in the comments how
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many of you would agree that social media has a risk profile that's at least as dangerous as alcohol
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and firearms and cigarettes. Same class, wouldn't you say? Because one is, you know, the others are more
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of a physical health problem, whereas the social media is a mental health problem, but it's a massive
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problem. Massive problem. So mostly yeses. Now, of course, you know, most of us are over 21,
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so it's easy for us to say we'll regulate other people. We're all in favor of regulating other
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people. We just don't like to regulate ourselves. Somebody says not firearms. Yeah, I think you can
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make an argument for a younger age for firearms. In some cases, yes. All right. Chris Cuomo was suspended
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from CNN from the new information about the extent to which he was helping his brother,
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the governor, who was accused of sexual improprieties. And when you see that Chris Cuomo
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is suspended, of course, you know that Fox will be enjoying this. But there was a Fox headline
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that I just laughed because I love this little rivalry between CNN and Fox. And if you say you
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don't enjoy that, I don't know. You have to enjoy that, don't you? I mean, I enjoy it in both
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directions, watching the back and forth. It's very entertaining, and I like that both of them do it
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because it's a way to be a check on the other, I guess, the excesses of the other. But here was Fox's
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headline about it, about Chris Cuomo being suspended. And this is so diabolically humorous
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without going over the top. Just listen to how funny this is coming from Fox News.
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Quote, CNN punishes its only star. Come on, you have to appreciate the headline from Fox News,
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you know, being like a way to prod the competitor. CNN punishes its only star.
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Now, I understand he has the highest ratings, but that might have to do with the time slot, right?
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He's clearly not their only star. But the fact that Fox frames this as CNN only has one star,
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and he just, he had to be fired for bad behavior.
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Oh, that's funny. Anyway, I continue to support most of what Chris Cuomo did for his brother,
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for the same reason that CNN kept him on until now, which is that people helping their brother,
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you know, you just, you just got to be understanding of that, right? You know, that's just a special case.
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But he may have gone too far. That's what the new information suggests. So that's what they're looking at.
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And I think it's responsible for them to suspend him at this point. It's just good for the brand, I think.
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But here's what we've learned about the Jeffrey Toobin situation, and now the Chris Cuomo thing.
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If you put it all together, we've learned that CNN will keep you employed.
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You can be a dick, like Don Lemon. You can yank your dick, like Toobin.
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But you can't help your brother if your brother's a dick.
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So that, we now know the standard. You can't be a dick, but you can yank your dick,
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and you can't help your brother if he's a dick. So that's sort of the dick rule at CNN.
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And they're very consistent about that. I'll give them the credit.
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in which, apparently, it's a video of Jill Biden reading to children,
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and some wag added, layered on some extra video of a child who, quote,
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appears to shout a profanity towards the U.S. First Lady.
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Now, have any of you heard the video? I haven't heard it.
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Because, you know, the fact checkers don't show the video.
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But, every time somebody, I assume this is, you know, somebody on the political right did this,
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but every time somebody on the right doctors a video, it just makes me so happy.
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Because every time the left sees that a video has been doctored,
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it should give them a little bit of, just a slight little grain of salt hesitation
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Because they're up to, how many hoaxes have the left believed
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Fine People hoax, Covington Kids, the Koi Fish feeding, the Drinking Bleach.
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They're all fake videos, meaning that they were edited to reverse their meaning or whatnot.
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Somebody needs to send me a link to the doctored video
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Anyway, so Democrats normally didn't get to see all the Rupar videos,
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but now they're seeing doctored videos and it might make them think that.
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Well, on the bad news front, war has begun in space, which I was not aware of.
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It turns out that according to U.S. officials, military officials,
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Russia and China are attacking our space assets, quote, every single day.
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Now, I think their attacks are non-kinetic, meaning it's hacking and digital and jamming and stuff like that.
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But did you know that war in space is already on?
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And that, you know, China's launched their hypersonic missile and, you know, we're gearing up?
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Even more than resources, at least in the modern world.
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In the modern days, it's mostly land and, you know, yes, resources.
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What are the odds of a superpower war in space?
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Because while we might not want to start a war terrestrially,
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you know, if it becomes nuclear on Earth, everybody dies.
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But there's a 100% chance we're going to be fighting like crazy in space.
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The reason that anybody would conquer any territory
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They're taking over a neighboring country to bolster their defense.
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And I imagine there'd be a variety of advantages to owning space,
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Whoever can protect their satellites gets to have a good life on Earth.
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Whoever can't protect their satellites, they lose.
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But you know that everybody's working on kinetic weapons for space, right?
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I mean, how hard would it be to take out a satellite?
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It seems like you'd need a bullet-sized projectile
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that had some navigation ability, and that's it.
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Yeah, we have all the technology to do what I just described.
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who is most responsible for the January 6th protests at the Capitol?
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My choices were Trump, fake news, the CIA via Q.
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Now, some people said I should put the protesters themselves
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Now, if I put the protesters themselves as one of the choices,
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it wouldn't be any fun because that would have won, right?
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I kind of think they would have had 80% of the vote.
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So Trump got, last I looked, about 11% of the votes.
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Fake news got about 47% as the cause of January 6th.
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hey, the protesters are themselves responsible,
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Just as I would apply that same standard to Alec Baldwin.
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You know, there are a lot of things he could have done.
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Now, I'm not asking you to see it the same way.
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and you could say that it's either predictable,
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So the way to say your worldview is good or not
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it always has to still be the person who did it
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sometimes they say it doesn't make a difference.
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that the election system can't be audited fully,