Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1635 Scott Adams： Lots of Mysteries and Absurdities In the Headlines. I Will Sort Them All Out For You

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00:00:49.380 Ah. It might just be me, possibly a placebo effect,

00:00:55.100 but I feel the blood clots in my blood starting to dissipate. Does anybody feel like their blood

00:01:03.320 clots just decreased a little bit? I mean, not a lot. I'm not talking about completely eliminating.

00:01:10.380 I'm talking about a little bit. I mean, don't get greedy. It was just one sip. You can't cure COVID

00:01:18.240 with one sip. That would take at least three to five. All right.

00:01:27.380 I give you now my plan to destroy the United States.

00:01:30.940 How would you do it? What would be the cheapest way to destroy the United States? Let's say you

00:01:38.920 were on a budget. You could be, I don't know. I'll just pick a random country. China. You could be

00:01:45.200 China. Let's say you're on a budget, and I'm just picking them randomly, and you wanted to destroy the

00:01:51.060 United States. What's the one person you could get to to do that? Well, the president, right?

00:01:58.180 Getting to the president would help you do it. But there might be a cheaper way, because the

00:02:02.980 president's pretty expensive. You know, you're buying Hunter Biden with that deal. Hunter Biden

00:02:09.020 doesn't come cheap. Some say $31 million is the minimum price. But if you wanted to get even

00:02:16.020 cheaper than that, who is the one person you could influence in the United States that would destroy

00:02:21.880 the country? Just one person. Okay, me. Okay, not counting me, because I'm not going to destroy

00:02:29.900 the country, so they don't have that option. Well, I would suggest, and by the way, I'm not suggesting

00:02:35.260 that this is happening. I'm just telling you, you should be alerted to this risk. If I were going

00:02:41.040 to destroy the United States, I would bribe the head of the teachers' unions. And we're done.

00:02:50.840 How much would it cost to bribe the head of the biggest teachers' unions? Now, I'm not saying

00:02:58.540 they've taken any bribes. I'm not suggesting there's any evidence of anything like that.

00:03:02.220 I'm just saying, hypothetically, what would it cost to totally own the head of the teachers'

00:03:10.720 unions? I think you could get it for about a million, maybe less, don't you think? So for

00:03:18.300 maybe a million dollars in, you know, indirect benefits that can't be traced to anybody in

00:03:24.160 particular, you know, maybe a business does well that is related to them somehow. If you could get

00:03:30.860 that one person, what would you encourage them to do? Well, you might encourage them to select a

00:03:36.360 fact-checking news filter and suggest that it run in all the schools. And perhaps that news

00:03:42.820 checking filter would be biased toward a certain kind of news and biased away from a certain other

00:03:51.620 kind of news. What would happen if you did that? Well, if that news filter happened to be legitimate

00:03:59.800 and it happened to be making you smarter and educating our kids better, that's all good for

00:04:06.400 the kids, good for the country too. But what if said person bribing the head of the teachers'

00:04:14.140 unions, which is not happening as far as I know, just talking about the risk of it, couldn't they

00:04:20.180 come up with ideas like educate your kids at home, even though the science might not support that?

00:04:28.000 Wouldn't they come up with ideas like filtering the news so that only pro-China news gets through?

00:04:34.900 Just for example, critical race theory. They might suggest critical race theory.

00:04:40.820 All I'm saying is that there is one individual in charge of the current country, and that's Joe Biden.

00:04:47.480 But there might be only one individual in charge of the future of the country.

00:04:51.340 And that's whoever has the most control over our education system, because those are the minds that

00:04:58.740 will be running in the country in the next generation. So I am very uncomfortable having one person having

00:05:05.220 this much control over the future of the country, especially when any one person can be bought.

00:05:11.940 You know, I'd love to say there's nobody who can be bought. But, you know, anybody who's not already

00:05:20.980 pretty rich can be bought. Everybody's got a price. They can either be blackmailed, bought, coerced,

00:05:27.440 persuaded. This is a real, real problem that we have such a vulnerability in our national defense.

00:05:35.160 I would go so far as to say that Homeland Security should be in charge of the teachers' union.

00:05:42.940 Yeah? Yeah, you didn't see that coming, did you? Homeland Security should be in charge of education,

00:05:48.180 because if we don't get education right and protect the kids from being brainwashed by external sources,

00:05:54.460 we will be giving away the future. Didn't see that coming. Now, I'm not terribly serious about Homeland Security,

00:06:02.260 because you don't want to add, you don't want to add any extra layers of government anything if you

00:06:07.300 can avoid it. But my point is, we have a real vulnerability that is a genuine security problem,

00:06:14.420 like a real security problem, like a real, real, really big security problem, like as big as security

00:06:20.500 problems could ever be. It's just that it's about the future. Like it's not, we're not on fire at the

00:06:26.900 moment. It's just something brewing that will kill us all eventually. The hard way. Anyway,

00:06:32.900 we need to do something about that. I thought that I saw a joke on CNN, and it turned out it wasn't a

00:06:40.380 joke. How often have we joked about the anti-Trumper saying that the walls are closing in on Trump?

00:06:48.380 Right? Isn't that like a punchline? The walls are closing in on Trump now.

00:06:51.980 They're going to get him any minute. Oop, oop, oop, oop, oop. Those walls are closing in.

00:06:58.940 Right? The walls are closing in as just a punchline, I thought. I didn't know that anybody actually said

00:07:03.780 it anymore. You know, originally they were saying it and repeating each other. But at this point,

00:07:09.840 at this point, I'm really asking, are people actually saying that? Well, it turns out Chris

00:07:15.660 Silliza, or at least the headline, actually said that. And it wasn't a joke. And here's Silliza's

00:07:22.280 argument. That the walls are closing in on Trump's legal problems. Now, here are all the examples.

00:07:29.020 I've done this before, but it's just head shaking to see how the media creates this narrative.

00:07:36.520 All right? So look at all the examples that they've fit into the narrative. It's the same

00:07:42.500 thing they did with Russia collusion. You start with the framework. Oh, there's Russia collusion.

00:07:48.740 You know, roughly, ambiguously stated. And if you've got this ambiguous framework of Russia

00:07:54.440 collusion, then anything that involves a Russian is probably going to map to it. Right? Confirmation

00:08:01.620 bias is going to do the rest. Something with a Russian phone call. Oh, that probably fits

00:08:06.620 there. All right. Trump once said, nyet. Well, that's probably there. Right? So once the framework

00:08:14.680 is set, your mind just fills in the framework. It's automatic. So CNN has caused this framework

00:08:20.840 of Trump legal problems. Right? So now you've got this ambiguous framework. Yeah, there's some

00:08:26.920 kind of legal financial tax problem, something. But so everything you see is going to like

00:08:34.900 stick to it. Right? So here are the things they threw against that framework. The New York

00:08:40.280 Attorney General is, has told us that the Trump, the Trump company has a number of misleading

00:08:50.320 statements and omissions used to secure loans. So do you think it's true, first of all, that

00:08:58.780 there are, quote, misleading statements and omissions that were used to secure loans?

00:09:06.060 Well, let me put this in context. How many of you have ever been a banker and it was your

00:09:11.700 job to evaluate loans? Me, me. That was my job for several years. For several years, I

00:09:20.300 worked for a bank. And one of my jobs, I had a number of them, was to be the one who approved

00:09:25.360 loans, business loans. So somebody would propose one and I'd have to look at it and sign it off.

00:09:32.800 And how often have I ever seen a misleading statement or an omission used in a loan application?

00:09:42.680 Do you think I've ever encountered a misleading statement or omission?

00:09:47.880 How often, like what would you guess is the percentage of time you encounter a misleading

00:09:56.240 statement or omission? 100% of the time. 100%. So what is, what is the New York Attorney General

00:10:07.040 telling us? That Trump's statement is exactly like every other big statement. In other words,

00:10:12.940 if there's a certain level of complication, you always have omissions. You always have misleading

00:10:20.020 statements. Now, is that illegal? Which one of those things is illegal? It depends. There's nothing

00:10:29.140 illegal in concept, right? Because misleading is a subjective standard, isn't it? It's hard to say

00:10:37.940 what is misleading. Wait, if it's untrue, that's a standard, right? If you just put something down,

00:10:45.520 it's just, you know, you say you made this much money and it's just not the right number. Well,

00:10:49.840 that's just untrue. So that's a standard that you could, you could manage to. But how do you manage

00:10:55.360 to misleading? I don't think misleading is a, is a legal standard, is it? And if it is, there's going

00:11:04.340 to be a whole lot of judgments in there. And the reason that you hire accountants, why do you hire

00:11:11.040 accountants and CPAs to do your taxes if you're a business instead of doing them yourself? Well,

00:11:17.280 one reason is they're complicated. It's hard to do yourself. Do you know what the other reason is?

00:11:23.340 Here's the other reason. If your CPA or accountant makes a misleading statement that they can back up,

00:11:31.680 as in, well, there were two ways to handle this. Both of them were legal. We, we chose this one.

00:11:40.040 How much trouble does the client get in? The client, you know, the person who hired the CPA,

00:11:45.120 how much does the person who hired the CPA, how much trouble do they get in if the person they hired

00:11:50.300 who's a professional does this every day, says, you know, there were two ways to do this. We chose this

00:11:55.640 way. They're both legal. And then the IRS comes back and says, you know, I think you should have

00:12:00.420 chosen the other way. Zero legal risk. There might be, there might be a financial risk,

00:12:07.300 meaning there might be a penalty or something. If the IRS says, oh, you know, I see why you did it,

00:12:12.140 but you should have done it this other way. We'll give you a penalty. You don't go to jail for a

00:12:15.740 penalty. You just pay the penalty. Fairly ordinary. I'm pretty sure that I've had that happen. I'm sure

00:12:22.900 at least, I think, yeah, I think at least maybe twice the IRS has said, oh, something wrong here.

00:12:29.360 You owe a penalty. And, you know, I look at it and go, oh, okay. Yeah, I owe a penalty. Just pay the

00:12:34.280 penalty. All right, here's another one. There's been a document release about all the January 6th stuff

00:12:44.180 that might show that Trump did something bad.

00:12:47.500 What? We're looking for things to find out if there might be something bad? What? Couldn't you say

00:12:59.640 that about literally everything? You know, I don't have any direct information about Joe Biden doing

00:13:09.660 horrible things, but if we can get access to all his documents, I'll bet we'd find something.

00:13:14.540 Yeah. Phishing expedition is not a legal risk per se, except they might find something. So you got a whole

00:13:25.100 bunch of nothing in the, in the, about his misleading statements and omissions, at least the way it's

00:13:31.360 described to us. I'm not saying there's no substance. I'm saying that if there were substance, it's weird that

00:13:36.940 they wouldn't tell us, because I feel like that would have been important to the story. Then they're just looking

00:13:42.380 for stuff on January 6th. And we found out today that apparently the, the, the protesters were already

00:13:50.280 overthrowing things even before Trump spoke. So that, so the trouble had started long before Trump

00:13:57.000 was even talking. So that's a factor. Then there's also a special grand jury being convened in

00:14:03.880 Georgia talking about his phone call in which he said he hoped they could find the votes. There isn't

00:14:11.920 any chance he's in any legal trouble for a phone call that everybody was on in which he used ambiguous

00:14:18.920 language about finding votes when the context of the call was he thought they were fraudulent.

00:14:24.960 If the context of the call is, I think there was fraud and you say, I think there's fraud. You

00:14:31.060 should look into it because we'd only need to find X number of votes. Clearly the context is not

00:14:37.920 illegal. The context is perfectly clear that he means to find votes that are real that just weren't

00:14:45.500 counted or vice versa. Right? So there's no way that's going to get him in trouble. That's the third

00:14:51.480 thing that's completely empty. And then my favorite ones are E. Jean Carroll. She's the one who accused

00:14:58.360 him of rape and nothing happened to that. But now Trump said that she's not his type. It didn't happen

00:15:06.520 because in part because she's not his type. And now she's suing him for some kind of defamation for

00:15:12.800 saying she's not his type or something. Could anything be less than that? Can you think of anything

00:15:20.560 there would be less of a legal risk than that? Even if everything went wrong, you just pay some

00:15:26.660 money. Right? This one has no risk other than, all right, here's some money. Make it go away. And

00:15:32.600 even then, this is clearly not any kind of defamation. I'm no lawyer. I'm no lawyer, but I feel confident

00:15:40.220 in saying this is not going to be a problem. And then there's his sister, Mary Trump, who is suing him

00:15:46.480 for alleged fraud on their estate however many decades ago when they all inherited? Do you think

00:15:55.560 that's going to turn into anything? I doubt it. A lot of time has gone by, and I would imagine the

00:16:02.460 entire family is on the other side, and I imagine there were lawyers involved, so they probably did

00:16:08.640 everything as legal as anything can be done. So he says it's his niece. Oh, he's a niece. I'm sorry.

00:16:14.460 Mary's a niece. Well, that's sad for Mary because I put her in the same age range as Trump. So sorry,

00:16:23.740 Mary. Sued for defamation. Anyway, so do you see any part of this that sounds like the walls are

00:16:31.140 closing in on Trump? I mean, really? Seriously. Does any of this look like he has any legal risk

00:16:38.140 to speak of? Not really. You know, I mean, I suppose a fishing expedition could come up with

00:16:44.060 something, but I'm not expecting it. All right, here's the funniest marital problem story of the

00:16:48.680 day. So you know that RFK Jr., he's an anti-vax kind of guy, and he's married to Cheryl Hines,

00:16:57.600 actress Cheryl Hines. You know her from Curb Your Enthusiasm and other stuff. And so RFK Jr.

00:17:04.060 made this, let's say, ill-advised comparison of vaccinations to Nazi Germany, at least the mandates,

00:17:16.540 the mandates anyway. And Cheryl Hines, who works in Hollywood, and if you work in Hollywood,

00:17:24.380 one thing you don't want to do is disrespect the Holocaust. I'm just saying that's not a good

00:17:31.960 career move if you're a Hollywood actor or actress. And so Cheryl Hines did something I've

00:17:38.960 never seen any spouse do before, but it's hilarious. I've never seen anybody come out harder against

00:17:44.480 their own spouse. So the offending comment was something about Anne Frank, right? Details don't

00:17:51.120 matter. So RFK made an Anne Frank reference about vaccine mandates. And so Hines said,

00:18:00.120 my husband's reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive.

00:18:08.280 What? Are you really married? Are you two actually married? What? Now, I always appreciate people

00:18:20.000 speaking their mind. And it certainly doesn't surprise me when spouses have disagreements on

00:18:28.600 political stuff and stuff. But how do you stay married after that? Would you stay married to

00:18:36.860 somebody who called you reprehensible in public, in a public statement? If your spouse makes a public

00:18:42.500 statement that says you did something reprehensible that was just words, right? It'd be one thing if,

00:18:48.440 you know, if you were violent or something, then sure. But just words, a political opinion,

00:18:53.280 a bad analogy. If you use an ill-advised analogy while you're trying to make the world a better

00:19:03.000 place. Now, I'm not on RFK's side on everything he's persuading. I'm just saying it's pretty clear

00:19:12.700 that his intention is to make the world a better place. Would everybody agree with that? I mean,

00:19:18.480 no matter what you want to say about RFK Jr., I don't think he's in it for the money, right? Can we at

00:19:25.300 least give him that? I don't think he's in it for the money. I don't think he's in it for, like,

00:19:30.460 personal gain. I mean, you get your ego involved, so that's always a factor. But it doesn't look like

00:19:36.600 there's any intention here other than to help people survive.

00:19:40.880 Now, if she had said, I don't agree with my husband's characterization, but he has a right

00:19:51.060 to, you know, make his points, would you be okay with that? I don't agree with his characterization.

00:19:57.500 I thought that was ill-advised. But of course, it's a free country, and I support his right to

00:20:04.200 his opinion. Now, that's how you stay married. But if you go in public and say that your husband

00:20:11.820 said something reprehensible and insensitive, I think you've just signaled to the world you're

00:20:17.900 not planning to stick around. Right? I think she just told us she's not sticking around.

00:20:25.620 Like, I don't know how, because imagine what her life is like having to explain her husband

00:20:30.900 every time she walks out the door. Hey, Cheryl, can you explain your husband? Because where

00:20:36.180 she is, you know, vaccines are like gold. Anyway, that's a funny story. Tragic, but funny.

00:20:46.480 Here's a big story. West Virginia. The state Senate voted to lift their ban on nuclear power

00:20:51.440 plants in West Virginia. How big a deal is that? Well, West Virginia is a big coal state. So,

00:20:57.380 you know, if they're going nuclear, we're in good shape. As you know, one of our favorite nuclear

00:21:06.340 advocates, Mark Schneider, tweeted this. He says, I have to wonder if my meeting with the Speaker of

00:21:13.460 the Assembly helped set the wheels in motion for this. Well, Mark, I don't think it's a coincidence

00:21:21.440 that with your level of persuasive ability, that after meeting with the Speaker of the Assembly,

00:21:29.180 that things went your way. I don't think that's a coincidence. Now, I do think all the argument

00:21:36.620 was on the side of, you know, the decision they just made. And I think that things have changed

00:21:42.620 in terms of climate change, right? You know, nuclear power went from something that, you know,

00:21:53.780 was just an economic decision. Then it turned into, well, it's necessary for climate change.

00:22:00.500 And then it turned into, it's more than necessary for space travel. Because if you need to dominate

00:22:06.340 space, you have to be a nuclear nation, because everything in space is going to be nuclear powered,

00:22:11.080 we expect. So if you don't have a really good domestic nuclear program, you can't have a good

00:22:16.400 space program. And if you don't have a good space program, you basically are giving up. Because

00:22:21.980 you're going to lose everything if you can't control space. So, you know, when you see that

00:22:28.540 things are going in that direction, it's partly because the environment served up the opportunity.

00:22:33.440 But even more than that, it's because people learn to essentialize the argument. So if you want to

00:22:39.740 see somebody take the nuclear argument and simplify it, so every politician can understand it, you want

00:22:46.080 to listen to Mark Schneider describe it. So he's probably the best in the business of simplifying,

00:22:54.520 you know, what the argument is. Then, for those people who just need more science and more detail,

00:23:00.640 I would say that the Michael Schellenberger approach really just closes the deal. Because

00:23:08.300 Schellenberger comes in with all the data in the world, and he'll just basically sweep your

00:23:16.840 arguments away like leaves. I like use that analogy twice in two days. So between the two of them,

00:23:22.800 my God, they're so effective right now. Here's my insight on Ukraine, which I have not heard anybody say.

00:23:32.560 Apparently, the U.S. has sent over or is sending over soon a written response to Putin's request

00:23:41.260 for, you know, he has demanded a few things. So he's demanded that we say that NATO won't come to

00:23:49.100 Ukraine and also that offensive weapons won't be put in Ukraine. Now, why is it that Putin is asking

00:23:54.940 for a written response? Because it seems like they're making a bigger deal about the written

00:24:00.580 part than I'm used to. Why is Putin asking for a written response? Why would anybody ask for a

00:24:09.660 written response? Half of Ukraine, well, trust for the record, priming, not quite. No, those are all

00:24:22.740 reasons, but not the reasons I'm looking for. Accountability to show the public you're getting

00:24:28.180 close. All about the price of oil. Social media, contract, a document. Okay, let me tell you why.

00:24:42.360 I think none of you got it right, but it's hard to read all the comments. So some of you might have

00:24:46.920 gotten it right. Here's the reason you asked for something in writing. You ready? Because your argument

00:24:54.440 is better than the other side. And you know that everybody will see it. It just has to be written

00:25:03.040 down. Because right now we're just talking. And when you're talking, it's hard to really hold all the

00:25:09.820 argument in your head at the same time and then decide what's going on. The person who asked you to put

00:25:15.980 your response in writing is already the winner. He's already the winner because he asked for it in

00:25:25.240 writing. And then what is the United States going to do? They're going to send a secret memo to Putin

00:25:31.780 that you, the public, can't see. Why will the United States not show the United States public

00:25:39.140 its own response? Why is that going to happen? Because it will be embarrassing.

00:25:48.960 That's why. Our response will be embarrassing.

00:25:55.640 Putin's requests are not embarrassing, are they? Putin's saying, don't put an aggressive military

00:26:01.800 entity in my backyard. Is that reasonable? Everybody thinks that's reasonable. It doesn't

00:26:10.760 matter how anti-Russian you are. Literally everyone understands you don't want an offensive

00:26:16.940 force in your backyard. Everybody, right? So Putin is making the world's most reasonable request.

00:26:24.620 Now, now hold on, hold on. I'm not pro-Putin. I'm not saying that he doesn't have tricks in his bag.

00:26:32.620 I'm not saying that he's a good force. You know, just assume everything bad about Putin that you want

00:26:38.360 to. But here's what you should not assume about Putin. And see if I can get agreement on this.

00:26:45.160 He's not dumb. Am I right? I mean, he might be evil. He might be, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:26:52.020 That's all fine. But nobody, nobody says he's dumb. Nobody in Russia says he's dumb. Nobody in the

00:27:02.440 United States says he's dumb. Nobody in the world. In fact, have you ever, ever heard anybody say

00:27:08.440 Putin was dumb? No. He probably won't. So why would Putin make this written request? It's got to be

00:27:15.980 right. And by the way, the news says that he, that Russia is likely to release the U.S. response.

00:27:24.140 Yes, they are likely to do that. Now they'll have to read it first because there might be some

00:27:28.520 surprises in there. But I think what Putin is going to do is going to show the world what he asked for

00:27:34.980 and that he's going to show the world the ridiculous response. He wins. He wins. Because

00:27:45.700 we don't have an argument. What do you think is really behind all this? I think this is just

00:27:54.800 speculation, but strong speculation. I think that Putin knows that his argument can be made

00:28:01.380 publicly because there's nothing hidden. You know, don't put offensive weapons in my backyard. Simple,

00:28:08.060 right? But don't you think that the American argument has some hidden variables?

00:28:16.600 It does. The American argument has to have hidden variables because it would be too easy to reach a

00:28:23.400 deal otherwise. Here's what the deal would look like if we wanted to make one. We will agree not to

00:28:29.920 put NATO, or not to accept Ukraine into NATO. We will agree not to put offensive weapons there.

00:28:36.920 All you have to agree in return is that it's conditional on ceasing cyber attacks,

00:28:43.620 pulling your military back so you don't have an aggressive force that looks like an invasion force,

00:28:48.600 and don't do other destabilizing things. How hard would it be for the United States to make that

00:28:54.260 counteroffer? Oh, yeah, we can do both of these things, as long as you do some equally confidence

00:29:01.440 building things like, you know, get your troops away from the border and stop doing the cyber attacks.

00:29:07.380 Seriously, if those were the only variables that mattered, how hard would it be to reach a deal?

00:29:13.660 One day? There's literally nothing to disagree about. I mean, some details about what it looks

00:29:21.740 like to not be aggressive, I suppose. But we could go back on the deal anytime we wanted. We would be

00:29:27.820 giving up nothing. We could wait a week and say, well, there was another cyber attack, so I guess the

00:29:33.600 deal's off. Right? We could call the deal off anytime we wanted just by claiming there was a cyber attack,

00:29:40.380 even if there wasn't. I hate to say that. But even if there wasn't a cyber attack,

00:29:46.540 our government could say there was, and just say the deal is off. So if we can't make a deal that's

00:29:52.820 that easy to make, a deal that we can cancel like that, keep whatever we want, which is the ability to

00:30:00.480 defend Ukraine if we feel like it. Yeah. Does Congress have to approve this? I don't know the details of

00:30:09.720 that. But I think what you're going to expect is that our writing will look pathetic. Putin will

00:30:17.200 show it. And what he will show, here's the key to all this, what Putin will show is that our

00:30:24.520 governments are lying to us. And the way he will show that is that we can't make a deal that's simple

00:30:31.200 to make. And we're pretending that we would prefer a war with a nuclear power over making the simplest

00:30:39.720 deal that anybody could ever make. The simplest deal. The easiest deal. A deal that both sides

00:30:46.760 want their end of the deal. There's literally nothing to discuss. Unless, unless the United States

00:30:56.340 has a hidden variable, could be finance, could be economics, could have something to do with China or

00:31:03.380 Germany or some other country that we don't know about, right? But the thing that I can guarantee you is

00:31:11.440 that Putin's about to embarrass the United States. You want to take that bet? I wouldn't take that bet.

00:31:19.120 He's getting ready to totally face the United States, like just totally embarrass us. And it's

00:31:25.800 going to probably happen in the next couple of days. Just watch what happens. All right.

00:31:34.380 So that's all fishy as hell.

00:31:38.660 Here's my problem with, well, one of my many problems with the COVID mandates. Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:31:45.400 Give me a fact check on this. True or false. All of the mandates in place for masks and vaccines

00:31:52.080 were created during the last war, meaning the war against Delta.

00:32:00.120 Were there any mandates that were put in place, maybe a few, after we knew that Omicron was 99.5%

00:32:08.800 of infections, new infections?

00:32:13.140 So here's all I would ask. It is not irrational for the government to say we're just continuing,

00:32:20.700 you know, continuing things because they work. Because they do have that argument.

00:32:24.820 They can make that argument. We'll talk about Alex Berenson in a minute.

00:32:28.300 But here's what I would ask for a good government

00:32:30.700 as a citizen. So this is just a citizen request.

00:32:34.980 So as a citizen of the United States, I assert

00:32:39.160 the following

00:32:40.020 preference.

00:32:42.840 That because we're in a new war,

00:32:45.140 our government needs to make a new argument.

00:32:48.240 The government needs to start from scratch and say,

00:32:50.980 imagine there were no mandates.

00:32:53.420 Would we put them in place?

00:32:55.800 Because that's the problem with the thinking right now.

00:32:58.200 Right now we've drifted into where we are

00:33:00.480 and we've gone from one kind of war

00:33:02.920 to a completely different war. Omicron's just a whole different war.

00:33:06.880 Our government

00:33:07.720 doesn't necessarily need to change what it's doing.

00:33:11.480 This is an important point.

00:33:12.960 I'm not saying that I'm so smart

00:33:14.600 that you need to change what you're doing.

00:33:16.860 I'm telling you that you need to renew

00:33:18.920 your argument as if you had never

00:33:21.080 made one. Because it's a new war.

00:33:24.000 You don't get to

00:33:25.100 slide us from war to war

00:33:26.640 under some continuation theory.

00:33:29.600 Am I right?

00:33:30.140 If you start a war with Elbonia

00:33:32.780 and the United States public

00:33:34.920 is in favor of it,

00:33:36.020 that did not give you authority

00:33:37.580 to start war with another country.

00:33:40.180 If we approve,

00:33:41.040 if we approve, let's say,

00:33:42.280 by our actions,

00:33:43.960 not necessarily by a vote,

00:33:45.440 but if the public approves

00:33:47.040 by public opinion

00:33:48.060 a war against Elbonia,

00:33:50.280 that is all we've approved.

00:33:52.160 We did not approve

00:33:53.540 war.

00:33:55.260 Right?

00:33:56.020 Nobody approved

00:33:56.760 war.

00:33:57.580 We approved war

00:33:59.260 against Elbonia.

00:34:00.580 You need to ask us,

00:34:03.480 in essence,

00:34:04.320 I mean,

00:34:04.540 not in an emergency situation,

00:34:06.280 but over time,

00:34:07.160 you need to ask the public,

00:34:08.900 are you okay

00:34:09.560 with a second war?

00:34:10.880 And if not,

00:34:11.440 we need to get the hell

00:34:12.140 out of there.

00:34:13.160 This Omicron war

00:34:14.320 is a different war.

00:34:15.360 It's a different country.

00:34:16.500 It's different weapons.

00:34:17.560 It's a different problem.

00:34:18.460 It's different everything.

00:34:20.180 Right?

00:34:20.660 It's enough

00:34:21.400 of a different problem.

00:34:22.200 All I ask

00:34:23.720 is that the government

00:34:25.720 give us this

00:34:26.840 mental experiment.

00:34:28.440 If there were no mandates

00:34:29.800 today,

00:34:30.420 and the only problem

00:34:31.340 we had was our current

00:34:32.340 problem with Omicron,

00:34:33.920 would they tell us

00:34:35.000 to have mandates?

00:34:36.980 If they say yes,

00:34:39.380 then at least

00:34:39.960 they made the argument,

00:34:40.880 and I think that's

00:34:41.420 a responsibility.

00:34:42.480 You could agree

00:34:43.080 or disagree.

00:34:44.120 But without the argument,

00:34:46.080 there's no argument

00:34:46.940 being made.

00:34:48.120 So I think this is

00:34:49.120 a gigantic failing

00:34:50.260 of leadership.

00:34:52.000 You need to remake

00:34:53.040 this argument.

00:34:53.860 It's just convenient

00:34:54.620 that they don't have to.

00:34:55.960 We shouldn't let them

00:34:56.680 off the hook.

00:34:57.640 Remake the argument

00:34:58.400 from scratch.

00:35:00.980 All right.

00:35:02.840 Germany is noodling

00:35:04.640 with the idea

00:35:05.440 of having compulsory

00:35:07.580 vaccinations.

00:35:09.900 Well, do you think

00:35:10.720 that's going to happen?

00:35:11.580 Do you think

00:35:11.980 that the German public,

00:35:13.080 or actually the politicians,

00:35:15.200 will approve a law

00:35:16.340 to have compulsory

00:35:18.480 vaccinations in Germany?

00:35:20.260 Here's why I predict

00:35:23.700 that that will not happen.

00:35:26.980 Because if Germany,

00:35:29.040 of all countries,

00:35:30.660 decides to go full,

00:35:33.000 you know,

00:35:34.100 if Germany decides

00:35:34.900 to go full,

00:35:37.160 well, you know.

00:35:39.720 You know what I mean.

00:35:41.340 I don't have to finish

00:35:42.320 the sentence, right?

00:35:43.560 You never want to go full,

00:35:45.800 you know,

00:35:47.260 H-word.

00:35:47.700 And in my view,

00:35:50.860 Germany just can't do it.

00:35:53.160 I don't think

00:35:53.940 they can do it.

00:35:55.040 No matter what you think

00:35:56.020 about the compliance

00:35:56.980 of the German public,

00:35:58.400 you know,

00:35:58.660 if you're thinking

00:35:59.160 historically,

00:36:00.180 how did they ever

00:36:00.960 agree to that?

00:36:01.780 And how did they

00:36:02.280 ever agree to that?

00:36:03.780 Well, first of all,

00:36:05.020 we're probably totally

00:36:05.700 misinformed about

00:36:06.600 what they did

00:36:07.140 and did not agree about

00:36:08.220 in the public.

00:36:08.920 But secondly,

00:36:11.000 the weight of the Holocaust

00:36:13.020 is just,

00:36:14.240 hangs over Germany

00:36:15.380 to an extent

00:36:18.560 that I don't think

00:36:20.040 they can,

00:36:21.080 their brand can't

00:36:22.240 handle this.

00:36:23.140 Do you know what I mean?

00:36:24.620 Their brand can't

00:36:25.920 handle it.

00:36:30.080 You're saying that

00:36:31.020 Austria already did.

00:36:32.400 No, Germany's a different,

00:36:33.900 I think Germany's

00:36:34.660 a different deal.

00:36:35.780 So that's my prediction.

00:36:36.900 I could be wrong.

00:36:37.480 I could definitely

00:36:39.160 be wrong about that,

00:36:40.060 but I'm going to

00:36:40.480 put that prediction in.

00:36:41.680 Meanwhile,

00:36:42.300 the Netherlands

00:36:42.820 has reopened

00:36:44.260 all sectors of society

00:36:45.560 and they said,

00:36:46.900 quote,

00:36:47.220 living even longer

00:36:48.100 with many restrictive

00:36:49.020 measures would damage

00:36:50.260 our health and society,

00:36:51.420 health minister says.

00:36:53.240 And yet another domino

00:36:54.660 has lined up.

00:36:56.580 Now,

00:36:57.060 what is it that's

00:36:57.780 happening in the Netherlands

00:36:58.700 that's so different

00:36:59.580 than what's happening

00:37:00.340 in other Western countries?

00:37:03.140 Can't be that different,

00:37:04.700 right?

00:37:05.280 Is the Netherlands

00:37:05.980 basically just going

00:37:07.000 to be Florida now?

00:37:08.640 It can't be that risky.

00:37:13.060 So the dominoes

00:37:14.440 might be lining up

00:37:15.280 for February 1st.

00:37:16.200 We'll see.

00:37:18.720 I asked yesterday,

00:37:20.140 why don't we have

00:37:20.980 a vitamin D test

00:37:23.260 that would give you

00:37:24.500 an exclusion

00:37:25.180 or a passport?

00:37:26.740 Because we know

00:37:27.280 that people

00:37:27.580 who have high vitamin D

00:37:28.500 almost rarely have,

00:37:30.920 you know,

00:37:31.580 critical problems

00:37:32.420 problems with COVID.

00:37:37.480 And so,

00:37:38.680 I was asking,

00:37:40.860 you know,

00:37:41.360 why don't we have

00:37:42.040 a vitamin D test

00:37:43.860 exclusion

00:37:44.400 if you wanted

00:37:45.140 to not take

00:37:45.920 the vaccination,

00:37:46.700 for example.

00:37:48.000 And then I wondered

00:37:50.040 if there are vitamin D tests

00:37:51.460 you can take at home.

00:37:52.860 So I Google it.

00:37:54.580 And it turns out

00:37:55.200 there are a whole bunch

00:37:55.760 of home tests

00:37:56.840 for vitamin D.

00:37:57.800 Did you know that?

00:37:58.360 But don't buy one

00:38:00.500 unless you look

00:38:01.220 at the reviews.

00:38:03.400 Because the reviews

00:38:04.320 are pretty sketchy.

00:38:06.360 I won't name names,

00:38:07.720 but at least one of them,

00:38:09.460 people were,

00:38:10.760 there were a number

00:38:11.320 of cases where people got,

00:38:12.920 they tested it

00:38:13.840 with the home kit.

00:38:14.800 I won't mention the brand.

00:38:16.480 But then they had a reason

00:38:17.480 to get it tested

00:38:18.240 professionally,

00:38:19.560 an unrelated reason.

00:38:21.160 And when they compared

00:38:22.680 the professional test

00:38:24.620 to that home test,

00:38:25.620 they weren't even close.

00:38:26.320 Like one was

00:38:27.820 you're way below

00:38:28.420 and one was you're fine.

00:38:29.980 I mean,

00:38:30.240 they're not even close.

00:38:31.240 So I don't know

00:38:32.280 if people maybe

00:38:33.480 took the test wrong

00:38:34.820 or maybe there's

00:38:35.600 some errors in the test

00:38:36.900 or how accurate they are.

00:38:38.720 But I don't think

00:38:40.920 you could trust

00:38:41.760 that they necessarily

00:38:43.860 are accurate.

00:38:46.200 Yeah.

00:38:47.020 So, yeah,

00:38:48.120 it's both expensive.

00:38:49.380 It's like 100 bucks.

00:38:51.980 And I don't think

00:38:53.620 I would necessarily believe it.

00:38:55.060 All right,

00:38:55.320 here's something interesting.

00:38:56.320 From Fox.

00:38:57.860 Brett Baer is reporting.

00:38:59.640 If you're not familiar

00:39:00.560 with Brett Baer,

00:39:02.180 don't lump him in

00:39:03.820 with anybody else

00:39:05.120 on Fox, okay?

00:39:07.100 So in order to listen

00:39:08.260 to this story

00:39:08.920 and judge it effectively,

00:39:11.580 just know that

00:39:12.280 Brett Baer

00:39:12.800 is not an opinion person.

00:39:14.760 He's a news person

00:39:15.600 highly respected.

00:39:17.140 So if he gives you

00:39:18.120 the news,

00:39:19.000 you can be sure

00:39:19.740 that he's not spinning it.

00:39:21.840 You know,

00:39:22.040 everybody could have

00:39:22.880 a mistake.

00:39:23.380 But he's a stray shooter.

00:39:26.180 So you need to know that

00:39:26.940 even for this context.

00:39:30.240 So here's some of the things

00:39:30.960 he's reporting.

00:39:33.480 Fauci was told

00:39:34.360 on January 27th

00:39:36.880 in 2020

00:39:37.780 that his

00:39:39.720 NIAID,

00:39:41.320 I guess that's some

00:39:42.140 group he had control over

00:39:44.080 or was involved with,

00:39:46.140 had been indirectly funding

00:39:47.600 the Wuhan lab

00:39:48.400 through the EcoHealth,

00:39:49.380 a U.S.-based scientific

00:39:50.460 non-profit.

00:39:51.700 So on January 27th,

00:39:53.440 Fauci already knew

00:39:54.560 that money he had

00:39:56.180 some say about

00:39:57.100 had indirectly

00:39:58.200 gotten to the lab.

00:40:00.000 Now how would you feel

00:40:01.020 about Fauci

00:40:01.760 if he told you

00:40:03.160 that directly?

00:40:05.120 Oh yes,

00:40:05.760 we funded something

00:40:06.620 called EcoHealth

00:40:07.640 and it does look like

00:40:09.100 they in turn

00:40:10.020 funded some work

00:40:11.300 at the Wuhan lab.

00:40:12.860 But we didn't,

00:40:13.720 you know,

00:40:14.200 we didn't know

00:40:14.620 that that was going to happen.

00:40:16.740 Wouldn't you feel

00:40:17.340 really different about him?

00:40:18.340 I feel like his denial

00:40:20.640 was so weaselish

00:40:22.020 as in,

00:40:23.280 no, no,

00:40:23.840 we didn't fund the lab.

00:40:25.200 We only funded

00:40:26.180 the entity

00:40:26.840 that funded the lab.

00:40:29.580 Doesn't it feel like

00:40:30.700 he just acted

00:40:32.580 like a criminal?

00:40:34.100 Because if I heard

00:40:35.420 this story,

00:40:36.540 you know,

00:40:36.920 let's say it happened

00:40:37.520 to me.

00:40:38.040 Let's say I was Fauci.

00:40:39.280 I don't know why

00:40:40.180 I wouldn't just tell you

00:40:41.120 if I just said,

00:40:43.740 you know,

00:40:43.980 this is one of the risks

00:40:44.860 of funding.

00:40:45.920 You can give the funding

00:40:47.020 to one entity

00:40:47.740 but once they have

00:40:48.380 the money,

00:40:48.780 you don't have

00:40:49.200 full control

00:40:49.980 of what happens

00:40:50.620 to it after that point.

00:40:52.080 This was definitely

00:40:52.960 something we wish

00:40:54.460 hadn't happened.

00:40:56.320 I mean,

00:40:56.800 I feel like he could

00:40:57.660 have been

00:40:58.040 pretty much

00:40:59.920 in the clear.

00:41:01.240 All he had to do

00:41:01.920 was say,

00:41:02.220 you know,

00:41:02.420 this is a widespread

00:41:03.360 problem in funding.

00:41:05.380 You know,

00:41:05.560 you make your best,

00:41:06.640 you make your best judgment

00:41:08.060 but then you don't

00:41:08.940 always know

00:41:09.400 where it's going

00:41:09.820 to end up.

00:41:10.260 That's true.

00:41:11.060 And in this case,

00:41:11.760 that might have

00:41:12.160 been a problem.

00:41:13.480 If he had just said

00:41:14.480 that,

00:41:14.700 I would have been

00:41:15.120 fine with it.

00:41:16.460 Would you?

00:41:17.980 Would you have been

00:41:18.660 fine with that?

00:41:19.400 I mean,

00:41:19.660 we all would have said

00:41:20.600 you should have checked

00:41:21.340 harder,

00:41:23.180 but you would have

00:41:23.800 kind of understood

00:41:24.660 that that's not

00:41:27.180 an easily checkable thing.

00:41:28.840 Right?

00:41:30.260 Yeah,

00:41:30.500 you could still be

00:41:31.260 mad at him

00:41:31.720 but it wouldn't

00:41:32.080 feel the same.

00:41:33.260 It would feel

00:41:33.700 completely different.

00:41:34.480 So,

00:41:36.940 you know,

00:41:37.380 I could forgive

00:41:38.220 a mistake,

00:41:39.060 especially one like that

00:41:40.100 where there's an indirect

00:41:41.060 thing that maybe

00:41:41.740 you didn't see coming.

00:41:43.160 But the lying

00:41:44.140 or the weaseling,

00:41:45.680 I guess,

00:41:46.160 wouldn't be lying

00:41:46.820 so much as weaseling,

00:41:48.440 is tough to take.

00:41:49.640 All right.

00:41:50.180 Then also,

00:41:50.880 in the Brett Baer

00:41:52.380 reporting,

00:41:53.620 on January 31st,

00:41:54.980 a few days later,

00:41:56.300 Dr. Christian

00:41:57.420 Anderson,

00:41:59.160 a noted virologist

00:42:00.420 at the Scripps Lab,

00:42:01.880 privately told Fauci

00:42:03.120 that after talking

00:42:04.780 to his other experts,

00:42:06.400 he said that

00:42:07.100 the virus looked

00:42:08.140 possibly engineered

00:42:09.400 and the, quote,

00:42:11.260 genome is inconsistent

00:42:12.560 with expectations

00:42:13.640 from evolutionary theory

00:42:15.280 and needed to be

00:42:18.100 looked into,

00:42:18.840 blah, blah.

00:42:19.880 So,

00:42:20.520 as early as

00:42:21.580 January 31st,

00:42:23.680 Fauci had

00:42:24.280 expert opinion

00:42:25.260 that it was

00:42:28.140 possibly engineered

00:42:30.380 and I think

00:42:32.600 more than possibly

00:42:33.520 as in

00:42:34.360 looks engineered,

00:42:36.820 right,

00:42:37.260 which is not confirmed.

00:42:38.980 I think rather than

00:42:39.780 saying possibly engineered,

00:42:42.100 maybe it would have been

00:42:43.220 closer to say

00:42:43.940 it looks engineered

00:42:44.900 because it has things

00:42:46.080 which are inconsistent

00:42:46.960 with evolutionary theory,

00:42:48.440 which is different

00:42:49.160 from saying it is,

00:42:50.040 it just looks like it.

00:42:52.480 Hours later,

00:42:53.900 according to the same reporting,

00:42:55.500 Fauci hastily organized

00:42:56.700 a call with dozens

00:42:57.380 of worldwide virologists,

00:42:59.700 blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:43:00.140 and he suppressed

00:43:02.620 suspicions of the

00:43:03.700 lab leak

00:43:04.740 and possible

00:43:06.260 Chinese government

00:43:07.200 involvement.

00:43:08.860 And then in the meeting

00:43:09.840 that was hastily

00:43:10.580 called later,

00:43:12.600 the then National

00:43:13.600 Institute of Health

00:43:14.480 director,

00:43:15.200 Francis Collins,

00:43:17.340 was concerned

00:43:18.480 that, quote,

00:43:19.140 science and

00:43:19.720 international harmony

00:43:20.700 could be harmed

00:43:21.420 and accusations

00:43:23.000 of China's involvement

00:43:24.140 could distract

00:43:25.140 top researchers.

00:43:26.260 And there it is.

00:43:30.060 So, that's the whole story.

00:43:32.420 This is one of those times

00:43:33.460 where you rarely get

00:43:34.500 like the whole story.

00:43:36.320 You know,

00:43:36.520 usually you're just

00:43:37.260 confused.

00:43:38.680 But I think this

00:43:39.380 Brett Baer reporting,

00:43:41.400 I feel as if

00:43:42.340 that's the whole story.

00:43:44.640 Like it's all

00:43:45.400 explained there.

00:43:46.700 Now, you could

00:43:47.560 criticize their decisions

00:43:48.840 and I have,

00:43:50.420 but is it crazy?

00:43:53.520 Is it crazy

00:43:54.300 for Francis Collins

00:43:55.500 to have thought,

00:43:56.180 remember,

00:43:56.520 this is the beginning

00:43:57.760 of the pandemic

00:43:58.440 and what mattered most

00:44:00.640 in the beginning

00:44:01.940 of the pandemic

00:44:02.500 is that we save lives.

00:44:04.760 And that was

00:44:05.200 number one, right?

00:44:06.700 Number one wasn't,

00:44:09.180 you know,

00:44:11.820 get back to China

00:44:12.860 or something.

00:44:14.000 So, I'm not sure

00:44:15.600 he made the wrong decision.

00:44:17.380 I hate it.

00:44:18.900 I hate it.

00:44:19.760 Don't you?

00:44:21.160 When you hear this,

00:44:22.060 don't you hate?

00:44:23.500 That Francis Collins

00:44:24.380 said, let's leave

00:44:25.120 that out of this

00:44:25.760 for now

00:44:26.120 because we don't

00:44:26.580 want to get

00:44:26.940 China angry?

00:44:28.760 I hate that.

00:44:30.320 I mean, I hate it.

00:44:31.360 I hate it.

00:44:31.860 I hate it.

00:44:32.200 I hate it.

00:44:33.460 But,

00:44:34.560 was it irresponsible?

00:44:38.720 Not necessarily.

00:44:40.600 I hate it,

00:44:41.780 but it wasn't

00:44:42.900 necessarily irresponsible.

00:44:44.800 I might have

00:44:45.160 played it differently.

00:44:46.700 You might have

00:44:47.200 played it differently

00:44:47.780 and I might have

00:44:48.380 liked that better.

00:44:49.760 But,

00:44:50.480 he did have a reason.

00:44:52.740 He did have a reason.

00:44:55.620 You know what I mean?

00:44:57.180 So,

00:44:57.700 I have a different

00:44:58.460 opinion about people

00:44:59.260 who can offer a reason.

00:45:01.240 Like,

00:45:01.700 we're not offering

00:45:02.820 a reason with Ukraine,

00:45:04.080 right?

00:45:05.080 That's the problem.

00:45:06.120 The problem isn't

00:45:06.720 that I disagree

00:45:07.380 with the reason.

00:45:08.060 It's like,

00:45:08.380 you haven't given us

00:45:09.100 a reason.

00:45:10.020 How about offering

00:45:10.780 a reason?

00:45:11.180 So,

00:45:13.460 I hate it,

00:45:14.720 but,

00:45:15.220 he did have a reason.

00:45:17.620 All right.

00:45:19.180 So,

00:45:19.660 I feel like we know

00:45:20.260 the whole story there.

00:45:22.060 Fauci's money

00:45:22.860 did get to the lab.

00:45:24.380 They did have a suspicion

00:45:25.500 about it early on.

00:45:30.840 That's the whole timeline.

00:45:32.040 I feel like this is one of the,

00:45:33.840 I feel like this is a mystery solved.

00:45:36.220 Do you?

00:45:37.580 I feel like we're done

00:45:38.660 with that question.

00:45:39.480 That feels like the whole thing

00:45:40.560 just was laid out.

00:45:42.340 That they did suppress

00:45:43.900 some information

00:45:44.620 because it wasn't confirmed,

00:45:46.620 which is actually

00:45:47.280 a pretty good reason.

00:45:48.740 Pretty good reason

00:45:49.560 if it's not confirmed.

00:45:52.780 All right.

00:45:54.800 Rasmussen has a poll

00:45:55.920 that says,

00:45:56.700 if Russia attacked Ukraine,

00:45:58.520 should U.S. combat troops

00:46:00.400 be sent to help defend Ukraine?

00:46:05.120 31% said yes.

00:46:09.480 What?

00:46:16.560 What?

00:46:19.160 Hold on.

00:46:20.000 It gets worse.

00:46:21.400 36% said no.

00:46:25.340 33% said not sure.

00:46:28.500 If you add the not sure's

00:46:33.040 to the yes's,

00:46:34.800 64% of respondents

00:46:37.160 could not give a firm no

00:46:40.660 to putting troops

00:46:42.860 on the ground in Ukraine.

00:46:45.900 What?

00:46:47.640 Now this 33%

00:46:49.380 are the people not sure.

00:46:51.200 How hard would it be

00:46:52.200 to make them sure?

00:46:53.320 As soon as we,

00:46:55.900 as soon as the president,

00:46:57.000 any president,

00:46:57.680 says we're going to war,

00:46:59.200 what happens

00:46:59.780 to the undecideds?

00:47:01.600 They become decided.

00:47:03.500 Pretty quickly.

00:47:05.540 This 33%,

00:47:06.860 when you compare it

00:47:07.980 to the 31%

00:47:09.120 who are already

00:47:09.700 apparently at a yes,

00:47:12.300 you could easily

00:47:13.300 get a majority.

00:47:15.780 You could imagine

00:47:16.780 that in one week,

00:47:18.440 let's say something happened,

00:47:19.860 and it could be

00:47:21.600 a false flag attack,

00:47:23.040 something.

00:47:25.080 The public is literally

00:47:26.740 primed for war.

00:47:29.140 The American public

00:47:30.400 is primed for war.

00:47:33.020 They're ready

00:47:33.760 to be convinced.

00:47:35.740 Oh my God.

00:47:37.260 They're ready

00:47:37.780 to be convinced.

00:47:39.400 It's just like,

00:47:40.060 yeah, talk me into it.

00:47:41.040 I'm open to it.

00:47:42.480 Oh my God.

00:47:44.180 Oh my God.

00:47:45.580 And, you know,

00:47:46.460 my best interpretation

00:47:47.360 of this is that

00:47:48.320 Americans are just warlike.

00:47:50.460 I think we're just

00:47:51.460 a warlike people.

00:47:52.980 I mean,

00:47:53.680 that's not a big surprise.

00:47:55.600 But when you see it

00:47:56.680 in numbers,

00:47:57.240 this is just shocking

00:47:58.300 that we would be

00:47:59.820 so open to the possibility

00:48:02.400 of sending our young people

00:48:04.620 to die

00:48:05.280 for nothing.

00:48:07.460 For nothing.

00:48:09.560 Wow.

00:48:11.120 Wow.

00:48:12.040 That one blew my mind.

00:48:18.340 Wow.

00:48:19.740 So Rasmus has also

00:48:21.380 asked people

00:48:22.120 to rate Biden's

00:48:23.220 handling of Russia.

00:48:25.100 30% said it was

00:48:26.520 either excellent

00:48:27.340 or good.

00:48:28.480 And 50% said

00:48:29.560 it's poor.

00:48:30.920 So at the same time

00:48:31.920 that 50% say

00:48:33.120 Biden is handling

00:48:33.880 the Russia situation

00:48:34.840 poorly,

00:48:36.380 a third of the public

00:48:38.040 is willing to go to war

00:48:39.300 behind the president

00:48:42.840 that 50% don't think

00:48:44.680 he's even handling it right.

00:48:45.840 You have to be so primed

00:48:49.000 for war

00:48:49.620 that, I mean,

00:48:51.280 it's just amazing

00:48:51.940 that this isn't zero.

00:48:55.180 Here's a statistic

00:48:56.240 I saw from Kyle Becker

00:48:58.780 on Twitter.

00:49:01.080 Now, if you don't

00:49:01.820 follow Kyle Becker,

00:49:03.940 you should.

00:49:05.000 He's a real strong tweeter.

00:49:07.800 And he often has scoops,

00:49:10.120 which is the best reason

00:49:10.980 to follow him, actually.

00:49:11.700 And, but I haven't seen

00:49:13.540 a fact, I need a fact

00:49:14.720 check on this.

00:49:15.380 Can somebody check this?

00:49:16.760 He tweeted today

00:49:17.580 that state-level data

00:49:18.900 shows that 80% to 90%

00:49:20.980 of Americans

00:49:21.620 already had a COVID

00:49:23.100 infection and survived.

00:49:24.940 80% to 90%

00:49:26.160 of state-level data?

00:49:27.920 Now, I tried to Google

00:49:29.320 that and couldn't find it.

00:49:30.520 Is that true?

00:49:31.860 That doesn't sound true.

00:49:34.840 Does anybody have a link

00:49:36.100 that would support

00:49:36.880 that claim that 80%

00:49:38.100 to 90% of Americans

00:49:39.180 already had a COVID

00:49:40.140 infection?

00:49:40.600 That doesn't sound true.

00:49:44.760 The only reason

00:49:45.480 I would even retweet it,

00:49:48.460 which I did,

00:49:49.180 is just because it came

00:49:49.980 from Kyle Becker,

00:49:52.200 who I've been following

00:49:53.640 for long enough

00:49:54.260 to know that his stuff

00:49:56.400 is pretty solid.

00:49:59.180 How would they know?

00:50:00.120 The way you would know

00:50:00.960 is you would test

00:50:01.640 a random sample of people

00:50:02.960 who had not been necessarily

00:50:05.220 admitted to the hospital,

00:50:06.560 just a random sample,

00:50:08.280 and just find out

00:50:09.020 what a random sample,

00:50:09.840 if 90% of a random sample

00:50:11.560 had immunity,

00:50:14.560 then you could extend it

00:50:16.320 to the population.

00:50:24.500 Weinstein interviewed who?

00:50:26.940 Kyle Becker?

00:50:28.580 Or the guy?

00:50:29.600 Who was the guy?

00:50:31.880 Anyway, I don't...

00:50:33.300 Oh, here we go.

00:50:34.620 Is there a link?

00:50:35.260 All right,

00:50:38.320 somebody just gave you a link.

00:50:39.480 Let me just open this

00:50:40.320 and see what it says.

00:50:43.420 Okay, that link is

00:50:44.640 a bad link.

00:50:46.960 Here's an element.

00:50:48.200 One in three.

00:50:50.020 In August,

00:50:50.660 it was one in three.

00:50:52.140 All right, well,

00:50:52.860 if you see a link to that,

00:50:54.460 send it to me.

00:50:55.420 Because if that were true,

00:50:57.380 then, I mean,

00:50:59.140 that would tell us something.

00:51:00.380 All right, Alex Berenson

00:51:01.240 making some news.

00:51:02.340 As you know,

00:51:03.120 Alex Berenson's sort of

00:51:04.120 an anti-COVID vaccination guy,

00:51:07.260 anti-mandate guy.

00:51:09.060 And he got kicked off

00:51:10.300 at Twitter for allegedly

00:51:11.580 saying things

00:51:12.340 that weren't medically true.

00:51:14.300 He would argue that case,

00:51:15.440 I'm sure.

00:51:17.100 But he was on Tucker.

00:51:18.540 And he also has a sub-stack article

00:51:23.120 I'll talk about in a minute.

00:51:25.080 But here's his statement

00:51:25.980 that got a lot of press.

00:51:26.980 He said,

00:51:27.800 the mRNA COVID vaccines

00:51:29.980 need to be withdrawn

00:51:31.700 from the market.

00:51:32.800 Wow.

00:51:33.600 That's a pretty strong statement.

00:51:35.260 He says,

00:51:35.860 this is Alex Berenson says,

00:51:37.380 no one should get them.

00:51:38.500 No one should get boosted.

00:51:39.700 No one should get double boosted.

00:51:41.500 They are a dangerous

00:51:42.220 and ineffective product

00:51:43.380 at this point.

00:51:44.240 My only problem

00:51:46.760 with that statement

00:51:47.360 is that all the data

00:51:48.360 says the opposite.

00:51:51.300 Now,

00:51:51.900 when I say

00:51:52.640 all the data

00:51:53.180 says the opposite,

00:51:54.460 what I mean is

00:51:55.220 all the data I've seen.

00:51:57.340 I haven't seen

00:51:58.140 any data that says

00:51:59.120 that the vaccinations

00:52:00.740 don't work against

00:52:01.980 Omicron.

00:52:03.380 Have you?

00:52:05.840 Yeah,

00:52:06.120 somebody says,

00:52:06.700 all the data

00:52:07.640 says it's effective.

00:52:09.280 100% of it.

00:52:11.280 Anything that you think

00:52:12.420 says it's ineffective

00:52:13.340 against Omicron,

00:52:15.060 you're looking at

00:52:15.840 just fake data

00:52:16.860 or reading wrong

00:52:18.240 or misinterpreting it

00:52:19.620 or something.

00:52:20.560 So we'll get into

00:52:21.240 the actual details of that.

00:52:22.860 But just know

00:52:23.980 that there's nobody

00:52:25.800 who's good at data

00:52:26.740 who thinks that's true.

00:52:28.260 Now,

00:52:28.600 it is true

00:52:29.220 that Omicron,

00:52:31.220 the infection rate

00:52:33.180 seems to be

00:52:33.800 unrelated

00:52:34.360 to the vaccination.

00:52:36.360 So would you agree

00:52:37.180 that the infection rate

00:52:39.380 doesn't seem

00:52:40.580 to be affected

00:52:41.260 by the vaccination?

00:52:43.700 Doesn't seem to be.

00:52:45.080 But in terms of

00:52:46.180 death,

00:52:48.120 in terms of death,

00:52:49.940 all of the data

00:52:50.740 says that Omicron people

00:52:52.240 survive better

00:52:53.260 with the vaccination.

00:52:54.760 If you've seen

00:52:55.600 different data,

00:52:57.080 you probably have not

00:52:58.180 seen real data.

00:53:01.260 I'm not planning

00:53:02.160 to get the booster.

00:53:06.260 All right.

00:53:07.180 Yeah.

00:53:08.240 So we don't trust

00:53:09.820 any data,

00:53:10.760 pro or con.

00:53:11.400 I'm just saying

00:53:11.840 that the only people

00:53:13.320 I know who know

00:53:14.020 how to look at data

00:53:15.080 send me data

00:53:16.560 that says that it works

00:53:17.740 for a while

00:53:18.580 to keep you alive.

00:53:19.920 Now,

00:53:20.380 I don't think

00:53:20.920 that that's necessarily

00:53:21.640 reason enough

00:53:22.660 to have a mandate.

00:53:25.620 So I'm anti-mandate.

00:53:28.580 All right.

00:53:29.080 So I would argue

00:53:30.640 that everyone

00:53:31.220 who believes

00:53:31.820 Eric Berenson,

00:53:32.980 when he says

00:53:33.600 that we know

00:53:34.860 that the vaccinations

00:53:36.320 do not work

00:53:37.260 against Omicron,

00:53:39.020 that is 100%

00:53:40.300 false,

00:53:41.540 according to

00:53:42.200 100% of the data.

00:53:44.440 That's my statement.

00:53:46.080 That there is no data

00:53:47.300 that supports it.

00:53:49.200 And in fact,

00:53:49.880 when he makes a claim,

00:53:50.620 he doesn't show any data,

00:53:51.920 which should be a tell

00:53:53.540 right there.

00:53:54.380 So look at my tweet.

00:53:56.660 If you want to see

00:53:57.400 the counter arguments,

00:53:59.460 look at my tweet

00:54:00.460 today

00:54:02.640 about his statements.

00:54:04.080 You'll see in the comments

00:54:05.060 the fact checks

00:54:05.960 just rip them apart

00:54:07.540 and you can make

00:54:09.020 your own judgment.

00:54:10.320 Now,

00:54:10.660 here's the problem

00:54:11.520 with the Alex Berenson

00:54:13.120 trap.

00:54:16.640 Alex Berenson

00:54:17.360 is now so identified

00:54:19.020 with saying

00:54:20.700 that the vaccines

00:54:21.460 are going to make it

00:54:22.620 worse,

00:54:22.980 not better,

00:54:23.460 that he wouldn't

00:54:25.080 be able to see

00:54:25.880 anything that said

00:54:26.680 the opposite.

00:54:28.540 Because that's how

00:54:29.260 our minds are wired.

00:54:30.620 And it has nothing

00:54:31.400 to do with Alex himself.

00:54:33.120 If you put any person

00:54:34.320 in the situation

00:54:35.160 he's in,

00:54:36.380 they would become

00:54:37.140 cognitively blind

00:54:38.640 to any data

00:54:39.980 that didn't agree

00:54:40.600 with them.

00:54:40.980 Because there's too much,

00:54:42.560 they've got too much

00:54:43.280 invested in this

00:54:44.440 point of view.

00:54:46.620 So,

00:54:47.100 however credible

00:54:48.120 he was

00:54:48.820 toward the beginning,

00:54:50.760 your assumption

00:54:51.520 of his credibility

00:54:52.380 should now be

00:54:53.300 dialed down

00:54:53.760 to zero.

00:54:55.260 Even if he's

00:54:56.040 right.

00:54:57.460 Even if he's

00:54:58.040 right.

00:55:00.560 Does that make

00:55:01.280 sense to you?

00:55:02.300 That even if

00:55:03.060 he's right,

00:55:04.900 your assumption

00:55:05.800 of his credibility

00:55:06.640 should be dialed

00:55:07.480 back to zero

00:55:08.160 because he's now

00:55:09.460 put himself

00:55:10.020 in a position

00:55:10.840 where he can't

00:55:11.440 tell you the truth.

00:55:12.760 He can't.

00:55:14.280 Well,

00:55:14.640 I'm sorry,

00:55:15.420 that is incorrect.

00:55:17.880 He could tell you

00:55:18.780 the truth

00:55:19.200 if it coincidentally

00:55:20.120 was what he believed

00:55:21.280 to be true.

00:55:23.020 If it's the other

00:55:23.900 way,

00:55:24.400 if the data

00:55:25.200 started showing

00:55:25.840 that everything

00:55:26.260 he said was wrong,

00:55:27.480 he couldn't tell you

00:55:28.220 that.

00:55:29.440 Nobody could.

00:55:30.540 Nobody in his

00:55:31.180 situation

00:55:32.940 could possibly

00:55:34.220 change their mind.

00:55:35.200 It's just too hard.

00:55:36.540 We're humans,

00:55:38.500 we're not robots.

00:55:39.460 You put a human

00:55:40.220 in that situation

00:55:41.080 and he's going

00:55:42.020 to turn into

00:55:42.520 Alex Berenson

00:55:43.200 every time.

00:55:44.000 So whether

00:55:47.280 or not

00:55:47.580 Alex Berenson

00:55:48.200 is correct

00:55:48.920 or incorrect,

00:55:49.900 your opinion

00:55:50.480 of his credibility

00:55:51.360 at this point,

00:55:53.380 which is different

00:55:54.240 from the beginning,

00:55:55.560 at the beginning

00:55:56.140 I think you should

00:55:56.840 listen to everybody,

00:55:58.740 but at this point

00:55:59.760 he cannot be

00:56:01.360 considered credible.

00:56:03.080 Do you know

00:56:03.440 who else I'd put

00:56:04.100 in that same category?

00:56:05.580 Dr. Malone

00:56:06.420 and Dr. McAuliffe.

00:56:08.760 Same problem.

00:56:09.680 Now they have

00:56:10.380 at least expert

00:56:11.160 credentials,

00:56:11.920 so that's better,

00:56:12.440 but at this point

00:56:13.980 they would all

00:56:15.420 be cognitively blind

00:56:16.860 to any data

00:56:18.260 that disproves

00:56:19.320 their point of view.

00:56:21.720 So you should

00:56:22.580 listen to all

00:56:23.200 their arguments

00:56:23.680 and definitely

00:56:24.160 look at any links

00:56:25.020 that they show,

00:56:25.980 but also look

00:56:26.760 at the counterargument.

00:56:28.760 So who is credible?

00:56:29.720 That's exactly

00:56:30.380 the right question.

00:56:31.700 Who is credible

00:56:32.480 is anybody

00:56:33.180 who can change

00:56:34.180 their mind

00:56:34.680 and anybody

00:56:37.240 who's smart enough

00:56:38.040 to look at the data.

00:56:40.000 So somebody

00:56:44.740 said Dr. Drew

00:56:45.540 as an example.

00:56:46.740 I would say

00:56:47.020 Dr. Drew

00:56:47.580 would be a perfect

00:56:48.420 example of someone

00:56:50.280 who has a track

00:56:51.560 record of being

00:56:53.220 able to look

00:56:53.980 at the data

00:56:54.400 and say,

00:56:54.720 oh, the data

00:56:55.200 changed,

00:56:55.620 so I changed

00:56:56.040 my mind.

00:56:57.640 Now I can do it,

00:56:58.940 but you shouldn't

00:56:59.440 take me as credible

00:57:00.260 because I probably

00:57:01.780 have too much

00:57:02.240 stake in it.

00:57:04.120 So I'm not sure

00:57:05.220 you should take

00:57:05.600 me as credible,

00:57:06.540 but I am a person

00:57:07.620 who can change

00:57:08.160 my mind

00:57:08.560 based on the data.

00:57:09.300 Bill Maher

00:57:10.600 is a person

00:57:11.240 who can change

00:57:11.780 his mind

00:57:12.100 based on the data,

00:57:12.900 but I wouldn't

00:57:13.240 take him as credible

00:57:14.060 because he's

00:57:15.120 an entertainer,

00:57:15.860 he's not a doctor,

00:57:17.240 same as me.

00:57:18.740 So you do have

00:57:19.700 a real problem,

00:57:20.920 but I would say

00:57:21.740 at the minimum,

00:57:22.660 the minimum

00:57:23.240 is you've got to

00:57:23.880 find somebody

00:57:24.440 who is capable

00:57:25.140 of changing

00:57:25.740 their mind,

00:57:26.600 somebody who

00:57:27.760 isn't so invested

00:57:28.880 in their point of view

00:57:29.860 that they can't say,

00:57:31.200 whoops,

00:57:32.100 I guess I killed

00:57:32.800 a bunch of people

00:57:33.400 with my bad advice.

00:57:36.560 All right.

00:57:37.100 So here are

00:57:39.920 some things

00:57:40.440 that Alex Berenson

00:57:41.320 says,

00:57:41.980 and you can decide

00:57:42.940 if they're true.

00:57:43.840 He says,

00:57:44.180 number one,

00:57:45.020 now keep in mind,

00:57:47.000 I'm not saying

00:57:48.700 any of this is true.

00:57:50.280 This is Alex Berenson,

00:57:51.560 so we're just

00:57:52.020 judging his credibility,

00:57:53.400 right?

00:57:53.980 Number one,

00:57:54.700 both the within-country

00:57:55.780 and between-country

00:57:56.560 data show

00:57:57.220 that people

00:57:58.080 who are vaccinated

00:57:59.020 but not boosted

00:58:00.660 are at higher risk

00:58:01.860 of Omicron infection

00:58:02.980 than the unvaccinated.

00:58:05.160 He says,

00:58:05.580 anyone who says otherwise

00:58:06.620 is lying.

00:58:08.040 I say otherwise.

00:58:09.820 I say otherwise.

00:58:11.760 So according to him,

00:58:13.460 I would be lying.

00:58:14.760 I believe there is

00:58:15.680 zero data

00:58:16.260 to back up that point,

00:58:17.620 and he doesn't offer any.

00:58:19.300 If you're going to make

00:58:20.000 a point that is clear,

00:58:22.700 you kind of need

00:58:23.500 to show your work there,

00:58:24.640 don't you?

00:58:25.320 Don't you need a link?

00:58:26.660 Don't you need

00:58:27.100 to show a study?

00:58:28.620 Something?

00:58:29.880 All right.

00:58:30.460 So some of you

00:58:31.140 think that's accurate,

00:58:32.600 right?

00:58:32.780 All right.

00:58:35.580 Some of you

00:58:36.540 think it's accurate

00:58:37.360 that the data

00:58:39.340 shows that

00:58:40.480 the vaccinated

00:58:41.380 are a higher risk

00:58:43.380 of Omicron

00:58:44.020 than the unvaccinated.

00:58:45.580 I don't have to do

00:58:46.680 a bit of research

00:58:47.640 to know that's not true.

00:58:49.660 I don't have to do any.

00:58:51.840 I'm going to say

00:58:52.580 with no research whatsoever,

00:58:53.940 that's not true.

00:58:55.560 That's not true.

00:58:56.760 And, you know,

00:58:57.440 I'm sure it wouldn't

00:58:58.180 take you more than a minute

00:58:59.180 to find the debunk

00:59:00.520 on that.

00:59:01.500 So I would consider

00:59:02.580 that ridiculous

00:59:03.500 on face value.

00:59:05.300 Let me ask you,

00:59:05.880 what are the odds

00:59:06.700 that the vaccination

00:59:08.340 makes Omicron worse?

00:59:12.020 But the boosters

00:59:12.900 make it better.

00:59:14.620 So he's saying

00:59:15.460 that if you get

00:59:16.060 the vaccination,

00:59:16.960 it makes it worse.

00:59:18.060 But if you get

00:59:18.680 the vaccination

00:59:19.360 plus the booster,

00:59:20.460 it makes it better.

00:59:21.960 Really?

00:59:23.560 Does that make sense

00:59:24.440 to you?

00:59:25.580 I mean, maybe.

00:59:27.020 I suppose anything's possible.

00:59:28.340 Yeah, I know,

00:59:29.700 the ADE and blah, blah, blah.

00:59:31.840 But there's no evidence

00:59:33.600 for that,

00:59:34.940 at least available

00:59:36.060 to the public.

00:59:37.660 Number two,

00:59:39.420 he says thus,

00:59:40.420 based on his first point,

00:59:41.780 thus vaccines

00:59:42.540 will actually make

00:59:43.360 hospitalization

00:59:44.140 or death from Omicron

00:59:45.280 more likely.

00:59:48.160 Now let's take Israel

00:59:49.160 as an example.

00:59:50.960 As you know,

00:59:51.640 Israel is super vaccinated

00:59:53.220 and boosted.

00:59:54.600 They're vaccinated

00:59:55.540 and boosted

00:59:56.220 and their hospitalizations

00:59:57.700 going through the roof.

00:59:59.340 Correct?

01:00:00.540 And their number

01:00:01.360 of infections

01:00:02.020 going through the roof.

01:00:03.820 Correct?

01:00:04.740 Well, that's what Omicron does.

01:00:07.520 So everybody's infection rates

01:00:09.060 are going through the roof.

01:00:10.320 So Israel would be similar.

01:00:13.260 What is their death rate?

01:00:16.260 Well, fortunately,

01:00:17.960 their death rate

01:00:18.500 is still under control

01:00:19.560 because they're so vaccinated.

01:00:23.140 And apparently that works.

01:00:26.220 Scott is confused

01:00:29.340 and jab-biased.

01:00:30.640 All right,

01:00:30.940 you fucking idiot,

01:00:31.860 Andrew,

01:00:32.380 we're going to get rid of you

01:00:33.600 for being a completely

01:00:35.500 unwoke fucking idiot

01:00:37.420 who just wants to imagine

01:00:39.400 you can read my mind

01:00:40.760 incorrectly.

01:00:42.580 Goodbye.

01:00:43.180 You are banned

01:00:43.800 for eternity.

01:00:47.920 And we have no way

01:00:49.700 of knowing

01:00:50.100 how things...

01:00:51.700 Number three,

01:00:52.500 it is unclear

01:00:52.960 whether the vaccines

01:00:53.860 interfere with the development

01:00:55.160 of long-term

01:00:55.900 post-infection immunity

01:00:57.020 and people who are infected.

01:00:59.380 Anyone who says otherwise

01:01:00.620 is lying.

01:01:01.720 Well,

01:01:02.220 almost everything

01:01:03.660 is unclear.

01:01:05.840 It's easy to make a case

01:01:07.320 that things are unclear.

01:01:10.040 I guess that's always true.

01:01:11.280 But it's not true

01:01:12.020 that the opposite is true.

01:01:14.800 He says,

01:01:15.500 it is clear

01:01:15.940 that a third vaccine dose

01:01:17.440 temporarily reduces

01:01:19.000 the risk of serious illness.

01:01:21.160 So he admits

01:01:21.800 that boosting

01:01:22.480 temporarily reduces

01:01:24.320 Omicron deaths.

01:01:26.380 But it is unclear

01:01:27.000 how long

01:01:27.480 that protection will last.

01:01:29.560 That's not a point.

01:01:32.620 If it lasts long enough

01:01:34.320 to get through

01:01:34.820 the hospitalization surge,

01:01:36.540 that's all we needed.

01:01:37.200 And he's saying,

01:01:40.980 it's unclear

01:01:41.380 whether boosters

01:01:42.460 will make you

01:01:43.020 more or less vulnerable.

01:01:45.060 Well,

01:01:45.720 it might be unclear

01:01:46.640 in the sense

01:01:47.360 that it hasn't been tested

01:01:48.440 like most things

01:01:49.260 have not been tested.

01:01:51.040 But

01:01:51.340 I would say

01:01:54.420 that his take

01:01:55.740 on this

01:01:56.160 is so obviously

01:01:57.220 based on

01:02:00.500 let's say

01:02:02.660 where he's at

01:02:03.280 in life

01:02:03.660 at this point

01:02:04.220 that

01:02:05.360 Scott is fake news

01:02:08.120 on this.

01:02:08.620 LOL.

01:02:10.040 Let me

01:02:10.680 make a challenge

01:02:11.900 for you,

01:02:12.400 okay?

01:02:13.500 Some of you

01:02:14.160 believe that

01:02:14.680 there's evidence

01:02:15.380 proving that

01:02:16.200 Alex Berenson

01:02:16.820 is correct

01:02:17.460 in these assertions.

01:02:19.080 Send me a link.

01:02:20.840 I'll tweet the link

01:02:21.860 and ask for

01:02:22.480 some fact check.

01:02:23.980 And then you can

01:02:24.560 look at the

01:02:25.680 data that you believe

01:02:26.740 is convincing

01:02:27.440 and then just look

01:02:29.220 at the fact check

01:02:30.620 and then decide.

01:02:32.640 If you can look

01:02:33.480 at the data

01:02:34.040 and also look

01:02:34.820 at the fact check

01:02:35.600 and still believe

01:02:36.580 the data

01:02:37.060 tells you

01:02:38.640 clearly that

01:02:39.920 these risks

01:02:40.740 are what

01:02:41.160 Alex Berenson

01:02:41.800 says,

01:02:42.860 let me know.

01:02:46.020 So

01:02:46.520 let me tell you

01:02:48.240 that I'm completely

01:02:48.940 open to the argument.

01:02:51.320 I'm completely

01:02:51.920 open to the argument.

01:02:52.980 Because remember

01:02:53.480 the argument

01:02:53.880 is about Omicron.

01:02:56.320 I don't have

01:02:56.900 a vested

01:02:57.460 so I don't have

01:02:59.180 a stake in the ground

01:03:00.080 on Omicron

01:03:00.860 and vaccinations.

01:03:02.320 Can somebody

01:03:02.820 give me a confirmation

01:03:04.380 on that?

01:03:05.840 Those of you

01:03:06.520 who have watched

01:03:06.940 me long enough,

01:03:08.260 would you say

01:03:08.840 it's true or not true

01:03:09.840 that Scott,

01:03:11.840 well, let me ask

01:03:12.540 it in a better way,

01:03:14.300 just confirm

01:03:15.400 that what I'm saying

01:03:16.060 is true,

01:03:16.540 that I don't have

01:03:17.440 any opinion out

01:03:18.720 about vaccinations

01:03:20.320 and Omicron.

01:03:21.760 I've simply told you

01:03:22.900 what data I've seen.

01:03:24.820 Right?

01:03:25.740 So I have not told you

01:03:27.040 to get vaccinated.

01:03:28.200 I've not told you

01:03:29.120 to get a mandate.

01:03:30.680 I've not told you

01:03:31.800 what to do

01:03:32.420 or any recommendation

01:03:34.120 whatsoever.

01:03:35.280 So if it turned out

01:03:36.700 that Alex was right

01:03:38.240 on the Omicron part

01:03:39.780 of it

01:03:40.040 and that

01:03:40.600 against my

01:03:42.580 common sense

01:03:43.400 and everything

01:03:43.960 I think I know,

01:03:45.320 if I were surprised

01:03:46.800 and if,

01:03:48.600 and I think

01:03:48.960 this is deeply unlikely,

01:03:50.760 that the boosters

01:03:51.740 or that the vaccinations

01:03:53.520 made it worse

01:03:54.480 for Omicron,

01:03:56.300 if that turned out

01:03:57.100 to be right,

01:03:57.880 I think I could

01:03:58.760 easily say that.

01:04:01.000 Do you think so?

01:04:02.820 Do you think

01:04:03.460 if the data,

01:04:05.120 let's say the data

01:04:06.140 started to really

01:04:07.000 show that that

01:04:07.640 were the case,

01:04:08.280 do you think

01:04:08.620 I'd have a problem

01:04:09.280 saying that in public?

01:04:12.600 I'm actually curious

01:04:13.620 because I don't know

01:04:14.220 if you think I could.

01:04:15.780 I think that

01:04:16.420 that would not be,

01:04:18.500 in my opinion,

01:04:19.340 that would not

01:04:19.920 conflict with anything

01:04:20.940 I had already said

01:04:21.900 and therefore

01:04:23.340 I should not

01:04:24.040 have any obstacle

01:04:24.740 to do it.

01:04:25.620 Because remember,

01:04:26.100 what I like to do here

01:04:27.260 more than anything really,

01:04:29.080 what I like to do

01:04:29.680 in these live streams

01:04:30.440 is to show

01:04:31.600 how we've all

01:04:32.300 been fooled.

01:04:34.180 So if I could show

01:04:35.120 you a perfect example

01:04:36.240 of how I had been fooled,

01:04:38.680 especially since

01:04:39.480 you've seen

01:04:39.860 all my thinking on it,

01:04:41.360 if I could be

01:04:42.260 that fooled,

01:04:45.000 I'd really like

01:04:46.320 to know that.

01:04:47.640 And I would love

01:04:48.200 to tell you,

01:04:49.360 I would absolutely love

01:04:51.100 to tell you

01:04:52.440 how wrong I was.

01:04:54.240 I would find

01:04:55.020 enjoyment in that.

01:04:56.100 And it would be useful

01:04:56.940 because then

01:04:57.840 maybe you'd learn

01:04:58.480 how to avoid it

01:04:59.240 next time.

01:05:00.480 So my stake

01:05:01.980 in the ground

01:05:02.460 is that being wrong

01:05:03.600 actually works for me.

01:05:05.380 Right?

01:05:05.840 Because it makes us smarter,

01:05:07.700 we can do better things,

01:05:09.040 we can live longer,

01:05:10.040 all that stuff.

01:05:11.040 So my reputation

01:05:13.160 does not require

01:05:14.040 that vaccines work

01:05:15.200 or not work.

01:05:17.060 My reputation

01:05:17.960 doesn't require that.

01:05:18.860 Scott, explain

01:05:22.600 your vaccine

01:05:23.320 plus booster

01:05:24.080 worked for you

01:05:24.960 in all caps.

01:05:26.080 I'm just going to block you

01:05:27.120 for asking that

01:05:28.560 in all caps.

01:05:29.820 Big bird,

01:05:30.680 see ya.

01:05:33.080 The question

01:05:33.840 didn't make sense

01:05:34.520 but you shouted it

01:05:35.420 at me so,

01:05:36.760 oops.

01:05:38.600 So I'm going to

01:05:39.140 remove you.

01:05:39.680 You're still shouting?

01:05:43.840 All right.

01:05:44.580 Good, you're gone.

01:05:49.840 I should go on

01:05:50.900 Timcast.

01:05:54.680 Oh, I forgot to say

01:05:56.280 that the Israel

01:05:57.600 infection rate

01:05:58.700 is also coinciding

01:06:00.840 with a mass increase

01:06:02.120 in testing.

01:06:02.640 So anybody who's

01:06:03.960 doing a lot more

01:06:04.640 testing is going to

01:06:05.480 have a lot more

01:06:06.320 vaccinations,

01:06:07.080 a lot more

01:06:07.840 infections.

01:06:11.840 Oops.

01:06:18.500 I might have to run

01:06:19.860 like really soon.

01:06:20.840 Hold on a second.

01:06:21.720 I'm going to see

01:06:22.220 if I'm

01:06:23.720 going to be driving.

01:06:28.060 Oh, shit.

01:06:29.300 I am.

01:06:29.740 Got to run.

01:06:30.940 Bye for now.

01:06:32.640 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 26, 2022

Episode 1635 Scott Adams： Lots of Mysteries and Absurdities In the Headlines. I Will Sort Them All Out For You

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