Episode 1636 Scott Adams： The News is Delicious Today and So Are You. Get in Here
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about some of the craziest things that have happened to me in the past 24 hours, and the weirdest thing that has happened to my family in the last 24 hours.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best damn thing that's ever happened to you.
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Now, I may have said that before, but this time I'm going to deliver,
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because the news has been kind to us and given us great stories to talk about
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while you're doing your morning exercise or morning coffee or whatever the hell you're doing this morning.
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Just keep it up, though. I can tell from here you're doing a good job.
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Now, if you'd like to take it up a notch, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or gel,
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a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite beverage.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here in the day thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now. Go.
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I think I had a little bit of a slurp with a sip.
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Now, you want your sip to be pure without the slurp,
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but up to a 10% sip-to-slurp ratio would still be acceptable.
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Beyond 10%, ugh, nobody wants to be around you, if you know what I mean.
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Babylon Bee has an important report, as you know.
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The Babylon Bee is the last remaining credible publication.
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And they've got a breaking story out of Sacramento.
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So, daring midday train robberies are the latest phenomena to flourish in the Golden State.
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These rail heists, along with a dearth of electricity and banishment of gas vehicles,
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have led to California rebranding with a vintage Old West theme.
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So, if you were thinking of taking the family to a nice summer vacation someplace that's like a theme park.
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California used to be a bunch of traffic and high-tech stuff and movies and stuff and boring things.
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We've got outdoor bathrooms, indoor plumbing, completely unnecessary.
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We've got, yeah, we've got tribes living among us.
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So, yesterday, my stepdaughter mentioned some comments about something I had posted on Instagram.
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And I said, I didn't post anything on Instagram.
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And I said, I didn't know if I posted something on Instagram.
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And she said, you posted something on Instagram.
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And I recall preparing a post and then deleting it because it was too obnoxious.
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Because once I saw it, I said to myself, you know, this seemed like a good idea.
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Like, I didn't, it's sort of not reading the room right, if you know what I mean.
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Sometimes things will be okay in a certain context, but not in another.
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Well, this is one of those, shouldn't have been posted.
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But, since it's already out there, I'm going to share it with you.
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I had been wanting to purchase an American vehicle.
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You know, at one point, I tried to buy a truck from Ford.
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But I never could pull the trigger because I have a rule that I've got to be able to drive the vehicle
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You can't drive the, you can't even drive the truck you want to buy
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or even one like it because they just don't carry them on the lots.
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And, you know, I've been driving an SUV for a decade because it's just convenient for everything.
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And I thought it was time for a smaller, fun American car.
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And it got caught right in the squeeze, the squeeze of the unavailability of cars.
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And I have to tell you this just as a, like, context.
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You know, when I, I used to think I might be as a kid.
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But as soon as I had enough money that I could afford a car that I wanted, I kind of didn't care anymore.
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Like, I realized there was something about the psychology of just owning nice things or something.
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So it wasn't like a real basic biological need or anything.
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So I've always just taken cars that did what I needed them to do.
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If you can get over that fact, I'm going to say some nice things about some American products here in a moment.
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So I've had experience with nice, sporty, high-end cars.
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And I'm just sort of in love with the way the Mustangs look, just the design.
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I think Ford in general has the strongest design, maybe in the business right now, maybe in the business.
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Depending on whatever class of car you're looking at, I feel like theirs are better just to look at.
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They just look better designed than other cars with similar, definitely better than all the Japanese cars.
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There's not one Japanese car, in my opinion, that's competitive with Ford's line, just in terms of how they look.
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Maybe they just design better for American tastes.
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But, so I get this car, and I didn't know what to expect, because I had never driven a Mustang.
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And the first time I got in this thing, remember, I'm not a car guy.
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And when people show me their new car, I'm like, eh, that's great.
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But I sat in this thing, and I had an experience.
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And let me tell you, this is the best way I can explain it.
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If you're in a well-designed German vehicle, the vehicle, especially a BMW, it'll make you feel like there's no difference between the car and you.
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So if you're driving a BMW, and you say, I'm here, but I want to be up there, you just sort of think it.
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Like, there's no friction between your thoughts and the execution.
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And so that's one thing that makes driving a BMW kind of thrilling, because you feel something that's bigger than just driving, if I can say it that way.
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So I get in this car, and I'd never felt this feeling before, which was it was opposite of the feeling that the car was me.
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The feeling was, I was partnering with a wild animal that temporarily, at least, was willing to do what I wanted it to do.
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Like, the feel of the engine, like the vibration, the color.
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All right, here's a good fake story from The Blaze.
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Now, The Blaze is not responsible for the fakeness of the story.
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So they were just reporting what the police reported.
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There's a shocking cell phone video capturing the moment an armed robber shot at a man he had stopped on a busy Houston highway.
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But police say he later accidentally shot himself in the head during a struggle.
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Do you think that there was a man in Houston who accidentally shot himself in the head?
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How would you interpret this story if it happened in Florida?
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Now, if this happened in Florida, the way I'd imagine it was, oh, Florida man shoots himself in the head, that's just a Tuesday.
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I mean, I have to think that in Florida there's probably eight to nine episodes of people shooting themselves in the head accidentally.
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That's like Florida man always does funny things.
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But when you read this story in Texas about a man who, you know, pulled a gun on somebody else,
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but in the heat of the struggle, the man who pulled the gun accidentally shot himself in the head in Texas,
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well, there's at least one other way to interpret this.
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Somebody pulled a gun in Texas, and it took three seconds for somebody else to put a bullet in his skull before he could pull the trigger himself.
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You know, the paperwork would be a lot easier if we just say he shot himself in the head.
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We're in that period where you don't trust anything about anything.
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So I'm just saying, if this had been a Florida story, I would have seen it differently.
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In the most important news of the day, Disney has decided that Minnie Mouse will no longer be in her iconic little skirt,
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Now, I don't know if there's any truth to the rumor that Hillary Clinton is secretly running the government from behind the scenes.
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But when I see Disney put Minnie Mouse in a pantsuit, I start to think it's a possibility.
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I think that they need to start specifying her sexual preference.
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We know what you're trying to say, but this is 2022, Disney.
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Now, one of the critics of this move was Candace Owens, who, correct me if I'm wrong.
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She can pull it off, meaning she can pull off the look.
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But, so, if you can make it work, and she definitely does.
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So, two mice, two mice is, I don't think two mice is enough.
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Two mice does not represent all of the mice in the public.
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And I think we need, we should definitely have an LGBTQ, a whole range of mice to do this right.
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Now, by the way, I don't want to give away some secrets here.
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But I met Candace Owens once at that Fox News thing.
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And I've got to say, she was one of the warmest people you'll ever meet in your life.
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Like, you know how some people, you meet them and you just instantly, you just instantly like them.
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She has that thing, that kind of charisma that just lights up her room.
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DeSantis, and this is really interesting to me because DeSantis is a, in my opinion, he's a near legendary good decision maker.
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Now, of course, if you're on the left, you disagree with everything he does.
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But within the context of a, you know, Republican candidate, my goodness, he makes good decisions.
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They're compatible and smart and defensible and makes them work and all that stuff.
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So, here's the thing that is a challenge to that.
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So, here's a tweet by Alexander Nazarian, who tweeted that,
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At a press conference today, DeSantis attempted to make it seem as if there were enough Delta cases in Florida to justify the use of Regeneron, which is totally ineffective, against Omicron.
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And then he goes on, according to the CDC, however, Omicron accounts for more than 99% of cases.
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If, let's say we have evidence that Regeneron is useless against Omicron, but did work against Delta,
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but 99%, maybe more by now, of cases are Omicron.
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And one of the things that DeSantis says is you can't tell what somebody has when they come in.
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But the CDC does say 99-plus percent are Omicron.
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The tweeter who seems to be criticizing it, or DeSantis himself?
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On one hand, does it make sense to use a drug that you know is 99% going to be useless?
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And not only 99%, but that 99% is going to go to 100% like by the time we're done talking.
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So, the usefulness of it will basically just vanish.
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I don't want to do any mind reading, but I'll give an argument.
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I guess this would be my own argument that also agrees with DeSantis in its own way.
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The CDC says 99% plus of everything is Omicron.
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Do you think we're so precise that we can get 99?
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Yeah, I guess it would be everywhere if it's 99.
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Is Regeneron so dangerous that if you gave it to 100 people and only one of them needed it,
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that that would be worse than not giving it to anybody?
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So, I actually don't know the right answer to this one.
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But I think DeSantis has a better argument than is represented by his critic here.
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Or is DeSantis just making a political point that's sort of data-free?
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Yeah, the best argument is that the data is all incorrect,
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and why wouldn't you try to fix the 1% and leave it to your doctor?
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And, you know, maybe if the symptoms are extreme, that's the only case you even try it.
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Because, you know, that's where it makes sense.
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Well, Denmark is doubling down on its February 1 thing, getting rid of their mandates.
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And they're saying that Denmark no longer classifies COVID-19 as a, quote,
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So I gave you some updates from visiting a place I didn't specify in which there was very little masking indoors.
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Yesterday, I returned to that same place, and the 50% masking went to about 25.
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So in one day, that one place went from about half-masked to 25% masked.
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And I'm not saying that I had anything to do with it,
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but I can tell you, you can definitely tell what people's politics are when you walk through a crowded space,
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You go into a space, and you're like, Republican, Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican.
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So I don't know if February 1st is we're going to hit it,
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One of the things I see a lot is, why did we shut down the world for something that has a 99.9% chance of survival?
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Why did we shut everything down if there was a 99-whatever percent chance of survival?
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So the chance of survival if you were over 70 was not so good.
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I mean, that was, you know, a few percentages, more than 1%.
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But still, you know, if they didn't have long to live, you could protect them, et cetera.
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Why would you shut things down if there was a 99.9% chance of surviving it?
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And I say that's a good point, and here is an additional point.
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So this additional point does not refute the first point.
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Do you want a 50% chance of ruining one year of your life?
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Because if you get COVID, there's about a 50% chance you'll have long haul,
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Now, if you get taken out for six months, it kind of screws up your whole year.
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I had that experience of, you know, I had my prednisone experience.
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So would you do extreme things to stop half of the public from losing a year of quality life?
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Now, if you say no to that, that's a reasonable answer.
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It's reasonable to say yes or no, but it's not reasonable to ignore it.
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So the only thing I want to add to this is don't ignore it.
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So part of the analysis is that being locked down has its own set of costs.
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I'm just saying that you should throw that in there.
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And the way I would calculate it is, yes, your odds of dying are low.
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Your odds of getting messed up for a year are pretty good.
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And, you know, that can affect your relationships.
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What's that do to your relationships and your career?
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I'm just saying, you know, I'm not trying to change your mind or anything.
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Of the 4,000 or so arrivals so far, they have spotted 129 cases of COVID.
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And at different intervals, some of them have been within the exclusion zone.
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So apparently, you get tested pretty hard and stuff before you can even get into the zone where the athletes are.
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But even within the zone, at least 50 of them have been found within what they call the closed loop since January 4th.
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Now, here's my, let's see, logic and math question for you.
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If you believe that the vaccinations themselves are dangerous and that the athletes have been known to be dropping dead from them,
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what would you expect, how many people would you expect to die of the professional athletes and of 4,000?
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If all 4,000 people compete hard the entire time and go home and nobody dropped dead,
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would that change your mind about the risk of the vaccinations?
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Because we know that these, we get reports of athletes dropping so often that you think you would see them.
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You can't compare 4,000 athletes over two weeks with hundreds of thousands of athletes over years.
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So it wouldn't matter how many people died or didn't die during the Olympics.
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It wouldn't tell you anything about the real world.
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If five people dropped dead during the Olympics, yeah, that would tell you a lot.
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But if zero people dropped dead during the Olympics, that won't tell you anything.
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Because the Olympics are really just 4,000 athletes over two weeks.
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You wouldn't expect, even if the vaccination was dangerous, you wouldn't expect anybody to die in that limited little time window.
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So you can't compare that to all athletes all over the world, you know, high school, professional, college, running all day long for two years.
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Anyway, the reason I bring that up is because I think I had misleadingly asked that question before without clarifying it was a dumb question.
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How many people think that the gigantic surge in Israel of both deaths, their deaths of COVID are way up, and also they're not way up above previous highs, but they're up, but their infection rate is just through the roof?
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They're highly vaccinated, infections through the roof, just way through the roof, and at the same time, deaths are up too.
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That tells you that vaccinations, what, work or don't work?
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Israel is the most vaccinated, and also infections through the roof, and death rates climbing.
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Would you agree that on the surface, if that's all you knew, it's pretty bad news?
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If that's all you know, and there's nothing else to the story, it looks pretty bad.
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Now, translation, that means that they have compressed, remember I just talked about how
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you can't compare athletes over two years, can't compare athletes over two years with
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Omicron is so spready, it took what would have been a longer pandemic and compressed it into
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That high spike, in all likelihood, is going to go up, up, up, up, up, up, up, bam, right
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In all likelihood, that is going to drop like a rock in about a week, because the R is approaching
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one, and they've been tracking that the whole time as it drops.
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They did not impose economic, you know, any restrictions.
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So Israel may have, don't know yet, it's too early to say, so if you say it's too early,
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But they are on the verge of maybe nailing this thing like nobody nailed it.
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So in a week or so, if you don't see that curve just drop straight down, because everything
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But if that doesn't happen, well, then Israel just made all the wrong decisions, or at least
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Would you agree with my setup that if Israel didn't lock down, so they didn't have an economic
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hit, they didn't crash their hospitals, they compressed their entire pandemic into two
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weeks, said, let's just take it now, get it over with, boom, boom.
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If they get it on the other side of this in two weeks, they win.
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Now, of course, that still doesn't count, to be fair, any long-term effect of being vaccinated
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But, oh man, this is the, yeah, this is the most exciting part of the pandemic.
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Now, I would, if you want to see more on that argument, I would refer to you to a David
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Boxenhorn tweet thread that shows you the data that backs up what I just said.
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So look for David Boxenhorn, who's also a really good follow, by the way.
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You can find him in my Twitter thread from yesterday, I think.
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Justice Breyer looks like he's going to retire, so he'll be opening in the Supreme Court.
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How much does it suck for Biden that all he gets to do is replace a liberal?
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So Trump gets to be president, you know, when he can change the nature of the court.
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It looks like Biden will get to be president when he can basically break even, just break
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I'll tell you what I, here's a good reason you don't want me to be president.
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If I were president, I would advocate adding one justice, so it's 10, and balancing them
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So if there were too many conservatives, I'd add a liberal, and I'd try to balance them
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Now, I wouldn't require it of anybody else, but that would be what I'd do, I'd balance
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If you can't get one person from the other side to side with you, maybe you shouldn't
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If you can't get one person to side with you, maybe you shouldn't do it.
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Now, I get that that would not give conservatives as much as they want.
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No, it's a bad take if you prefer a Republican agenda.
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In all things, I would back the system over the decision.
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As president, hypothetically, I wouldn't want to be president.
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But as president, I would always back the system over the specific decision.
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So Senator Sinema decided to back the system by not getting rid of the, what do you call
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So backing the system, the filibuster, thank you.
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So Senator Sinema backed the system over the decision.
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And she actually wanted the decision to go that way.
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She actually voted against her own preference to protect the system.
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I think the Supreme Court's credibility is lower than it should be for our healthy system.
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And I would vote for keeping the health of the system over the specific decision.
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But I would also totally respect someone who just wants the right decisions.
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Nothing crazy about wanting good decisions that, you know, agree with you.
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I'm just saying that as president, you wouldn't always get your way.
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Name a president who gives everybody what they want.
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I would just be consistent and say, look, if it's ever a question of the system versus
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the specific output, I'm just going to go with the system because this is more important.
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So Biden has said that he will only consider for the Supreme Court a black female candidate.
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Now, as you know, I've been identifying as black for some time, primarily for the benefits.
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And also because I, you know, relate, having been discriminated for employment a number of times.
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So I certainly identify with anybody who says the culture is discriminated against them economically.
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However, I realize that my strategy is lacking and it would be much smarter for me to upgrade
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Now, I know it's a long shot that Joe Biden would nominate me to the Supreme Court.
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I don't really have a legal background and probably don't agree with everything he would like to do.
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But unlike the rest of you losers who have no chance whatsoever, unless you're also a black woman.
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So it's just me and the rest of the rest of my sisters, all the other black women.
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So I just don't like to ever be out of the conversation.
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It would be one thing to say, well, we prefer not picking you, Scott, for the Supreme Court.
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And by the way, do you know you can't spell SCOTUS without Scott?
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They only use one T, but I don't hold that against them.
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We are the Supreme Court of the United States for all practical purposes, because that's how it works.
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Well, sorry, you don't have a chance to be in the Supreme Court, but my odds are still looking good.
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According to Rasmussen Poll, 55% of voters believe the Dems or Democrats are too liberal.
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Generally speaking, 100% of our data says that Democrats are going to get shellacked in 2022.
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But do you think that the shellacking they're likely to get in 2022 will be the reason that they might win in 2024?
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Because the country does like a divided government.
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I've got a feeling that the Democrats would have a real good case if they lost, you know, the Congress entirely,
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that they would have to say, well, you can't lose the presidency, too.
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That would be pretty motivating for their base.
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So I think it's going to be tough for a Republican to get through that wall.
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There is a new kind of doctor that I was exposed to twice today.
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I'll call them the LOL doctors, where you say something that you think seems perfectly reasonable,
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and a doctor chimes in on Twitter with, LOL, no, to which I say, oh, okay.
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You know, I grant the superior expertise of the LOL doctors, and I thank you for your service.
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Because what I said was that if you could quickly test, if there were some available over-the-counter tests,
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for vitamin D, and you just tested everybody for vitamin D, then the pandemic would be over.
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And a medical doctor came in and said, LOL, no.
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I was like, oh, okay. Well, now I see why my idea wouldn't work.
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Because at first I was thinking, well, this is perfectly reasonable,
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because of the high correlation between vitamin D and bad outcomes.
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If you knew who was susceptible, not only could you try to give them vitamin D,
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that might help a little bit, but more importantly, you would know who was at greatest risk,
00:36:54.280
And I thought that made sense, given the data that I'd seen.
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The U.S. decided to give Russia absolutely nothing it asked for,
00:37:23.340
I didn't talk about Kamala Harris being potentially a Supreme Court pick.
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Jack Posobiec has some reporting that says it's not even been discussed,
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So I don't think there's any chance that Kamala Harris will be the Supreme Court pick.
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But it would be funny to imagine her running into Brett Kavanaugh in the break room,
00:38:03.380
So why do you think that the U.S. offered basically nothing except a willingness for open dialogue?
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Why would they not be willing to have Russia completely stand down,
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which is what I imagine we would ask in return, and stop hacking?
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Why would we not take that deal, unless there's something we don't know?
00:38:28.720
So I'm going to give Biden a benefit of a doubt.
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I would have given the benefit of a doubt to Trump,
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so I'm just going to extend the same courtesy to Biden.
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It could be the people who are smarter than I am on Russia,
00:38:51.040
which would be almost anybody who spent five minutes trying to be smarter than me on Russia.
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It could be that the smart people just know that Russia can't do anything,
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and as long as we have him by the balls, we just don't even have to agree to anything,
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and that maybe that's just the best way to handle it.
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Because I don't think there's any chance that Putin's going to invade,
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because the financial repercussions would be devastating.
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So it could be that the Biden administration is simply confident that it's a bluff,
00:39:31.480
So even though, in my opinion, what they're being asked to give is so minimal,
00:39:36.580
it's laughably nothing, maybe we don't have to give anything.
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And if you can get away with giving nothing, well, it shows strength, doesn't it?
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It does show strength to say, how about we give you nothing?
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Do you think that that's too much of a benefit of a doubt?
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I'm actually confused, and I don't like the lack of transparency here.
00:40:17.940
Because, you know, yeah, maybe there's some state secrets we've got to maintain,
00:40:22.180
or military, I don't know, the way we frame it might be important for our future,
00:40:30.100
But I don't know why Russia can just say what they want, and we can't.
00:40:33.660
Why is it that Putin can say in public what he wants, and we can't?
00:40:38.520
Like, ours has to be the secret, or we won't agree with anything.
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It makes us look weak that our government can't be transparent, and Putin can't.
00:40:51.860
Now, apparently, the Russia-China association is strong enough that China is backing Russia, essentially.
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Maybe it's too late to put Russia in our camp, and Biden is just saying,
00:41:09.460
all right, Russia is basically just China now, so don't give him anything.
00:41:14.220
You know, how long before we see Putin as a puppet of Russia, of China?
00:41:22.440
It's kind of weird that he's doing this now, just when China wants some pressure off of China.
00:41:27.440
It's a little coordinated, or coincidental, or something.
00:41:35.460
But every time I see something that looks like it's exactly what China would want to happen,
00:41:42.060
you have to wonder if they actually caused it, or if it's a coincidence.
00:41:45.180
Well, according to some reporting by Axios, the commander-in-chief of the United States is Tucker Carlson.
00:41:55.760
And by that, I mean that Axios reports that behind the scenes,
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the Republicans are being very influenced by his opinion on let's not get into a war with Russia.
00:42:06.540
And I believe that, in effect, because we have this, you know,
00:42:14.440
a country that's kind of balanced left and right, Democrats and Republicans,
00:42:19.020
that you can't really go to a slow-motion war, one that's not a surprise.
00:42:29.820
You can't get into a slow-motion war without the public on your side.
00:42:38.120
You know, it would be one thing if it's, you know, sudden,
00:42:43.620
because you don't want it to be in a committee situation.
00:42:46.240
But if you have lots of time to think, and the public is informed,
00:42:50.160
and we're all watching the same stuff, the public needs to be on board.
00:42:55.160
And I think Tucker has made sure that the Republicans won't be,
00:43:03.280
I think that his argument is strong enough, and his platform is big enough,
00:43:12.500
this is crazy, don't let them talk you into war again,
00:43:19.800
So, in effect, Tucker Carlson is going to decide if we go to war.
00:43:30.540
Or is that just a statement of fact that Tucker Carlson literally will decide if we're going to war?
00:43:41.240
our domestic agenda is basically determined by Manchin and Sinema.
00:43:49.160
We have two people in charge of the domestic stuff, Manchin and Sinema.
00:43:53.760
We have one person in charge of the military decisions.
00:44:00.900
And we have Joe Rogan, who's now the Surgeon General.
00:44:13.440
Let me say it again, and then let me summarize it.
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Tucker Carlson is the Commander-in-Chief for all practical purposes.
00:44:29.360
Manchin and Sinema are running the domestic agenda,
00:44:35.500
I mean, Joe Rogan has as much control about what happens to the outcome of the pandemic as anybody else.
00:44:55.620
You know, we've all been wondering who's really running the country.
00:44:59.360
You know, because we feel like Biden isn't the strong leader,
00:45:05.580
So we've been wondering who's running the country.
00:45:34.860
how about we give our president these weird, unusual powers to do executive orders?
00:46:05.800
Like, we respond to stuff like almost a creature.
00:46:13.540
Anyway, I've got a new hashtag to represent the fact that
00:46:18.500
the people leading the country are the people we trust.
00:46:24.920
Because we've got leadership without Joe Rogan.
00:46:59.360
Now, I don't know that that's the case if you've got,
00:47:05.420
the dictator does what the dictator does, right?
00:47:24.300
and people gravitate to certain people's opinions.
00:47:51.720
you know, I'm obviously the small version of that.
00:47:55.300
But the opinion-makers then start to harden opinions.
00:49:00.560
In the sense that we have individual intelligence.
00:49:35.980
It's almost like there's different voices in there.
00:49:54.420
into that version of the conversations in one head
00:50:06.860
You know, we're worried about this singularity,
00:50:10.500
when the computers reach artificial intelligence
00:50:54.020
Now, do you think that the artificial intelligence,
00:51:03.820
certainly smarter than all of our smartest people,
00:51:42.720
if it has some kind of survival impulse at all.