Episode 1653 Scott Adams： Breaking Bombshell Report From Durham About Hillary Clinton, Russia, More
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Scott Adams talks about the Super Bowl, the Canadian trucker rebellion, and why you should care about what s going on with the Ukraine crisis. Plus, a new addition to the dopamine hit of the day: the simultaneous sip.
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Good morning everybody. So is there anything in the news today that got you excited about
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Yes, I understand from people who know things that today is a thing called the Super Bowl. Super
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Bowl. Have you all heard of that? Some kind of a football event that happens once a year. It's the
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sort of thing I used to care about. But for some reason, watching television just doesn't seem to
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make any sense anymore. Has anybody had that same experience that over the course of the
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pandemic, you lost your, let's say, television habit? How many of you had a habit of just,
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oh, I'll turn on TV, see what's on? That's completely gone. Because for a long time, it was nothing but
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repeats. So you had to stream and then you got used to streaming services. And yeah, lost it years ago.
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Well, here's my prediction about the Super Bowl. I, of course, have been making Super Bowl predictions
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for many years. Probably for 20 years in a row, the press would ask me once a year for my Super Bowl
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prediction. They would often put together semi-famous people's Super Bowl predictions to make a story out
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of it. And I started making my predictions based on whose mascot could beat the other mascot.
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So far, not a bad way to predict. So it seems that we have the Bengals, which would be Tigers,
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playing against the Rams, which would be the food that Tigers eat. Am I wrong about that?
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Am I wrong that one of the mascots is literally the food of the other mascot? I'm not wrong about
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that, right? A Ram is literally food for the other team. So I'm no betting expert. But I'm
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going to go with the technique that's gotten me where I am. I'm going to predict that the Tigers
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will eat the Rams. How about that? I'm not wrong. Well, I don't know. I suppose they both
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have quarterbacks and stuff like that. I should know all those things before I make a prediction.
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But I don't. Well, the Trucker Rebellion showing no signs of cracking. And indeed,
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Canada's veterans are starting to stream in to join the truckers. So now you have veterans
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and you've got your truckers. It's a very testosterone-y kind of a divide, isn't it?
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Have I ever told you my theory that we get everything wrong about what team people are on,
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and that maybe there's just a testosterone thing, and people who have high testosterone end up on the
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same team, and people who don't end up hating that team? Well, there's something about this Canadian
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protest that is strikingly, strikingly testosterone-y. It's very male. You know, obviously,
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there are tons of women supporting the thing. And there are lots of women truck drivers, of course,
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and female veterans, of course, of course, of course. But if you look at the images, it looks like
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a fairly male-centric situation. I don't know if that's important. Is that important in any way?
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Because it makes you wonder, who's more effective protesting? What would be a more effective
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protest? An equal number of, let's say, moms or the truckers and the veterans who tend to be mostly
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male? Who would get the job done? I don't know. Yeah, kids are hard to beat.
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But if it were moms versus truckers? I'm not sure. I think I'd bet on the moms.
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So Biden and Putin talked. And this leads us to the question, what the hell is going on over there?
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Do you get the sense that we don't have any idea what's happening with Ukraine? Meaning that the
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real story is probably three layers below the actual story? Right? Let me give you a hypothesis.
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This entire thing is really about Hillary versus Putin. All of it. Like everything. Everything that
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involves Russia poking us or us poking Russia is all about. I believe there's a hypothesis that when
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Hillary was in the State Department, she was trying to organize a coup against Putin. Can anybody give me a
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fact check on that? Did that really happen? Did or is it alleged or is it a known thing? Did she? I'm
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seeing people say yes, but I don't know what's a conspiracy theory and what's real anymore.
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And don't you think that Putin would have to respond to that? And maybe if he did any election
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shenanigans as alleged, maybe that could have been it. But it's looking a lot like some kind of a
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personal thing between Hillary and Putin. And by personal, I mean only one of them will be there in
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the end. I mean, I think he's trying to take her out as quickly as she's trying to take him out directly
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or indirectly. Now, here's the other filter on this. So one filter is it's a personal vendetta
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between two people. And they have enough weight that they can make two countries fight.
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Do you remember when George Bush Jr. was thinking about going to war in Iraq? And people said,
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wait a minute, that looks kind of personal. Because Saddam Hussein allegedly tried to assassinate his
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father. Do you think that anybody would get tough with somebody who allegedly tried to kill their
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father? Probably. It probably makes a difference. I mean, we're all humans, right? You're supposed to
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not put that in your judgment if you're president. But seriously, somebody tries to kill a family
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member. They have a specific specific kind of method to do it. I think you would go pretty hard on
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them. And so I don't think you can rule out personal vendettas from any of this. Now, here's the other
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filter. Who makes money if Putin attacks Ukraine? Who makes money? Well, I would say arms dealers,
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right? Because that would cause a new flurry of purchases by NATO and anybody who cared. So is it a
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coincidence that as Afghanistan winds down, Ukraine winds up? So one filter on this is that all of the
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news is fake and all of our international dealings are fake and they're all orchestrated by arms
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dealers who have enough clout to control the news and have enough clout to cause a war because it's
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good for business. Now, who else could financially benefit? Because remember, following the money is a
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pretty good way to figure stuff out. Who else could financially benefit? Well, I feel as if this would
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be good for American energy companies. Am I right? Wouldn't American energy companies do better
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if Russia is degraded as an energy competitor? Now, of course, we have a distance problem. I don't know
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exactly how that plays into the economics, except that it's more expensive, obviously.
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So it seems to me that the United States, and I need a fact check on this. If the United States
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doesn't get involved militarily, which is likely, and if Russia spends a ton of their money trying to
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invade and occupy, it's really expensive, and that causes the United States and Biden to be able to say,
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okay, your pipeline deal, the Nord Stream 2 is dead, and by the way, we'll be picking up the slack
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by selling our own natural gas and whatnot to Germany. I guess we'd need tankers to do that.
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Now, Russia would presumably, if they get sort of shut out by the West, because if Putin invades,
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he becomes Hitler, right? Am I right? From the perspective of the Europeans, and the Germans
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in particular, if Putin invades a country with an army, he becomes Hitler. You don't shake that off.
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And I don't believe that Germany could ever do business with him at that point, and it wouldn't
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matter what the economics were. Am I wrong? I think that once Putin becomes Hitler, like actually,
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literally acts like him in the, not just the analogy way, but actually doing Hitler stuff, invading the country.
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Yeah, I think it's tougher for him to sell stuff. So, what would happen if Putin then said, as I've seen some
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analysts say, well, he'll just take his business to China, because China has an insatiable demand for oil.
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Do you think that Putin wants to have one major customer, and it'd be China?
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What would be the worst possible thing for a producer of energy?
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The worst possible thing is to have one big customer who's even bigger than you are.
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It's a problem. You don't want one country to be able to turn off your economy if they want.
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Now, it would hurt their own economy, of course.
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But, yeah, you know, I don't think, it seems to me that Putin would not want too much Chinese control
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over Russia, you know, directly or indirectly. So, that's the problem. So, it seems to me that at
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least one possibility here is that Biden is literally tricking Putin into attacking, meaning he's talking
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tough, but the talking tough is only because he wants the consequences. In other words, Biden might
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have calculated, or the administration might have calculated, that a getting rid of this corrupt
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regime could solve a lot of problems. You know, right now we have a Ukraine problem and a Russia
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problem, wouldn't you say? And they're two separate problems. One is, why do we keep getting,
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why do we keep having Ukrainian issues with American politics? So, as long as Ukraine exists
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as an independent, corrupt country, it's going to look like everybody's money laundering
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place they go to do bad stuff, right? So, from the Democrat perspective, it just looks like a giant
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money laundering country. And if it gets sucked up by Russia, then don't we just have one problem?
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So, now we have two problems. Ukraine keeps creating domestic problems in the United States.
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And then Russia is always, you know, a big competitor. But if Russia eats Ukraine,
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we're down to one problem. Just Russia, right? Because you just have one entity to deal with,
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and the rest is just a puppet. Now, of course, I'm oversimplifying everything, right? I don't think
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that this story is about one of these interpretations. Do you? I don't think one frame
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or one interpretation gets anywhere near explaining what's going on. I think the best explanation is a
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whole bunch of competing interests. They'll all have their own little story. And then the little
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stories somehow sum up to something that nobody can quite understand, because there are too many
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people with their individual stories. Of course, the arms dealers are involved. Of course, they are.
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You know, of course, there are secrets in Ukraine that probably somebody is interested in hiding or
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something. Of course, there are, you know, probably some personal feelings between the Clintons and
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Putin. And Putin. Of course, there are historical Russian, let's say, part of the psychology that they
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should have control over the neighboring countries. Of course. So all of those things are in there. But I
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don't know. I don't know which are the big variables. Maybe some are bigger than others. Here's the mystery
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that I think is the most interesting part of this. So the president of Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky,
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has said that if Western powers had any firm evidence of an impending invasion, he had yet to see it.
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How do you explain that? How do you explain that the person most at risk is saying, I don't know,
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settle down. I haven't seen any evidence of an invasion. Here's what is missing, the dog-nark barking.
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All right? This bark, you should be hearing all the time, but you're not. We've heard that 100,000
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troops are amassed on the border. But don't you think we could tell the difference between an invasion
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force and something that's not an invasion force? Let's say a bluff. Don't you think we could tell?
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Because here's my assumption. A real invasion force would be prohibitively expensive unless you
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were actually going to invade. So there's an assumption that might be wrong, but that's my
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operating assumption. That an actual invasion force would be so expensive to have it just sitting
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there idling next to the border that you just wouldn't do it if you could bluff instead. If your
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intention was to bluff, you wouldn't put a real force there. You'd put something that's in the direction
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of a real force. Something that would be scary enough, but not that expensive. And maybe something
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that doesn't show all of your capabilities, too, because you don't want to give away any secrets.
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So where is all the discussion about the nature and composition of their forces? And whether this is
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a legitimate invasion force, or would they have to quickly supplement it? And how quickly could they do
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that? Maybe it's only a difference of, you know, a week between what they have and what they need for
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a full invasion. Might not take that long. But we should be talking about that, right? Should we not be
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seeing a story every day in every platform that says, oh, it looks like they brought in the XYZ tanks or
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whatever. That means it's on. We should be seeing that. We're not. Which suggests that maybe Ukraine hasn't
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seen it either. And maybe Mr. Zelensky is telling the actual literal truth that he's seen no evidence
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of an invasion, impending invasion. Do you think that all of our news entities would lie to us so badly
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and tell us a story that, let's say, the Biden administration and other entities maybe wanted
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us to believe that war is imminent? Could all of the platforms be essentially in on it?
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Or fooled, I guess. They could be fooled or they could be in on it. Either one, we wouldn't know the
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difference. But there is something really, really sketchy about this whole situation.
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And until I hear an explanation of why Ukraine itself isn't worried, and apparently some of the other
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European countries are just business as usual. And Ukraine itself, the cities are like, you know,
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maybe we should prep or something. I feel like we should get some canned goods, but let's go party.
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All right. I see smart people saying that the attack is just obviously going to happen. Or we're either
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going to give them control or they're going to attack, but Putin is definitely going to get Ukraine.
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How many of you think that's true? Based on what you know as of today, how many of you think that
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they're going to take Ukraine? I think on locals, I may have influenced you too much. I worry that I
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may have influenced you too much. Interesting though, I'm saying mostly no's. So most of you don't think
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that an invasion is coming. But you do know that the press is trying to make you think there's one,
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right? How many of you are thinking it's a wag the dog situation? That there's something going on here
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that's so amazingly sketchy that you just can't believe anything you hear? I think that's where we're at.
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We don't believe anything. Well, I don't think there's any risk of America and Russia going to war with
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each other over this. Yeah, it really feels, if I had to put my money down, I think that Biden knows
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he's in a win-win situation and Putin's in a lose-lose. So here's Biden's win-win. He either
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prevents Putin from coming in, which makes him look strong, or Putin comes in and then Biden says,
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aha, you fell for my trap, effectively. He wouldn't say that out loud. But then he would
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just shut down Russia as a viable energy competitor. So it just looks like business to me. I mean,
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it looks exactly like just a business strategy. So that's my guess. So my guess is we do have all
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the lingering historical personal animosity and stuff. So that makes it a fertile situation.
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But to me, this looks like business. How many would buy into the interpretation that this is
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just a business move? Whatever happens, it's all business. Meaning the energy industry, the arms
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industry, etc. Yeah, and some of you are saying it's obvious, right? Some saying it's dementia.
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Yeah. To me, it looks like business. And if it's business, I don't know that you start firing
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bullets. Not if you're smart, because that's rarely good for business.
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That is the story of that Russia story. But are there more Russia stories? Yes. Because there are
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only two things we care about today. What about Joe Rogan? And what about Russia?
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Dear God, let there never be a Joe Rogan slash Russia story. Please, please, Democrats, do not
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start another phony rumor about Joe Rogan being a Russian asset. Because I'm surprised that hasn't
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happened yet. I'm pretty sure I've been accused of being a Russian asset. Is there anybody else
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here who's been accused of being a Russian asset? I've been accused in public. Yeah, everyone
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on Fox, I guess. So have you heard about the big news today? So there's a story about the
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the Durham investigation, discovered that the Hillary Clinton campaign had been paying
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some lawyers to invent, I'm going to say invent, even though that's not exactly, exactly in
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evidence. But it looks like it. It looks like that is the case. To go find a way to tie Trump
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to Russia. And they found a tech, the lawyers worked with a tech company that had access to
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some, not only White House data, but some data on some servers in Trump Tower. I don't know
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how the same entity had access to both of them. So that part of the story, I don't quite understand.
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But apparently they found some complete bogus data that made it seem as if Trump had been
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making some secret contacts with Russia, or a Russian bank that was, you know, connected
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to the Kremlin. And apparently the evidence that they used is completely bogus. It's just
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something that you would see in a database. It's been there since 2014, since well before
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Trump. So whatever the data actually means, there's no evidence that has anything to do with
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Trump and Russia. But at least one lawyer, I think lied about it to the Durham folks, and
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he's in trouble. And it looks like the campaign was definitely involved in something that looks
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like an insurrection. Because not only did they do this activity before the election, they
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did it after Trump was in office. They were still spying on him through this method. They were
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spying on his communication traffic, even through the point where he was in office. Now keep
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in mind, this wasn't an FBI investigation, right? This was some lawyers who had some access
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to some technology guys who had some access to some data. This is about the most illegal
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thing you've ever heard of. You know we've been five years of hearing that everything's worse
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than Watergate. As Joel Pollack pointed out when the story broke, this is actually the
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first one that's literally worse than Watergate. It's bigger. And it happened not only during
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an election cycle, but it happened after the president was sitting in office. Yeah, and part
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of the story, as Jack Posabik has pointed out on Twitter, is that Jake Sullivan, who you all
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know from the current administration, was deeply involved in all this. And Mark Goliath was part
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of it, and that law firm, and basically everything that was your worst imagination of what was happening
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seems to be coming true. Now, I'm going to say something that might get me in trouble here.
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So I want to be really careful. This is a joke. The next thing that comes out of my mouth is a joke.
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As far as you know. Just a joke. At the current rate, we're two weeks away from finding that
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Pizzagate was totally real. Just a joke. Just, I swear, I swear, it's just a joke. No, no, no,
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please don't censor me. No! Just kidding. Barely. So here are the interesting parts of this story
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besides everything. How many times does Tucker Carlson have to be right in the most unusual
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prediction I've heard in years, which is that everything that the Democrats accuse you of
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doing is exactly what they're doing, like right now. Now, Tucker has been saying that for several
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years, and every time I heard it, I would just harumph to myself in private, like, that's just some kind
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of weird pattern recognition thing that just feels like it, but there's nothing to it, right? There's
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no, there's nothing that causes that to be true. But there is absolutely something that causes that to
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be true as I think about it more. And it's the fact that if they accuse you first of the thing they're
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doing, they can do that thing. And then when they get caught, which is happening right now, the Durham
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investigation catching the Hillary Clinton connection to this insurrection, you could call it. So once they
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get caught, because they've created such an imposing narrative that it's Trump who is doing the bad
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stuff, you can't see it. You become cognitively blind to one of the biggest crimes ever. And if you look
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at how CNN is covering it, have you checked CNN's homepage today? Biggest story in a long time.
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It's not there. I don't mean that it's a small little piece in the bottom right. I mean, it's not there. It's not
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there. So I went over to MSNBC, because at the very least, we should have a story about how Fox News has a fake
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news story. Because you know, they love those, right? Whenever they think Fox is getting something wrong, they'll do the
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story about how Fox News is wrong about a story. So they at least they would be killing the story
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if it were fake. But it's the Durham report. So they're not going to say it's fake. It's pretty
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tough to say that's fake. So what do they do? Both MSNBC and CNN so far, as of just before I came on here,
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they're actually ignoring the story. And they can get away with this. Because the Democrats will never
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look anywhere else. And if they did, they wouldn't believe what they saw. So the mainstream media
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is able, thanks to this always blaming the other side of whatever you're doing, it creates this great
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cognitive distortion that you can't even see it when the other side does it, when the Democrats do it.
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It's just invisible. And then the news doesn't cover it. And they can actually make it disappear.
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They're disappearing on a gigantic story, successfully. Absolutely successfully.
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It's mind-boggling. I was hoping that they would get their, CNN would get their crack team to talk
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about this, what I think could be called legitimately a Hillary Clinton insurrection against
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the government. And I was hoping that they could get Jeffrey Toobin to handle the insurrection.
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Because he's pretty good at handling insurrections.
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So what does CNN talk about when the biggest news in the world, or the country, I guess,
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is something that they don't want to talk about? Well, here's an example. A big opinion piece
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and I'm not even going to tell you the name of the author because it's just an idiot and you don't
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need to know. This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. This article said that Joe Rogan
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using the N-word, which I remind you, his use of the N-word, although it was multiple uses,
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was talking about the use of the N-word. That's always left out of the story. If you say somebody
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used the N-word multiple times, don't you assume they used it in the worst possible way? You do,
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right? But if I told you, well, he never used it in the way of insulting somebody, only used it in
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talking about it. Whole different story. Completely different. But to CNN, they can get some action
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out of this story. So they say, Joe Rogan using the N-word without being cancelled destroys a,
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basically said it destroys the fabric of the civilization that's holding things together.
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So this writer believes that the prohibition in which white people can't use the N-word
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is such an important part of the fabric of holding our civilization together that when Joe Rogan got away
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without being cancelled, it was similar to the January 6th insurrection in which both of them
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are tearing apart the fabric of the country. That's actually on CNN's page today, but not the biggest
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news in the country. Now, did you think CNN could get worse?
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I guess so. Now, I'll tell you what's going to be interesting.
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Don't you assume that CNN, you know, the, at least the hosts and the news people,
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they're not all the same, right? Wouldn't you agree? There must be a variety of opinions there.
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I don't think Jake Tapper can go through today without mentioning this story. What do you think?
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Right? You know, Jake and I have had our differences, but I do respect him in a lot of ways.
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And I don't think, no matter what his management is telling him, I don't think he can not mention
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the story. So I'm going to put that, put that little prediction out there. It's entirely possible
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that you're not going to hear anything from Don Lemon, right? But I think Jake is going to talk
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about it. I think he will. So I have confidence that he will handle this as a professional,
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no matter what, no matter what's happening in the air. So maybe I'm wrong. You know, if you want to
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take the other side of that bat, go ahead. But I'm going to bet on him mentioning it today. How many of you
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think I'm wrong? Many of you think I'm wrong. Good. I like it when you think I'm wrong. Now, here's a
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question that I actually wonder. Did CNN have a meeting today in which they legitimately talked about how to
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not cover the news? Because I think that probably happened. Like, actually, literally, I think the
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most trusted name in news, CNN, as they like to call themselves, I'll bet, I mean, I don't know, I have
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no way to prove it, but I'll bet you they had an actual meeting, probably phone-related, Zoom or
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something, but I'll bet they had an actual meeting to talk about how not to talk about the news.
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It's a news organization. I'm not making that up. I mean, I'm speculating, so I guess I am making
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it up. But I'm pretty sure something like that had to happen.
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Wow. So you got that going on. And then the CNN is also trying to talk up, as are the trolls on
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Twitter. By the way, did you notice how quiet the trolls got? You know, the professional paid trolls
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that have been jumping on us lately? Did you notice that on this story? All they have is that Trump
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mishandled some documents by taking some home that were, by the way, I assume, already digitally copied.
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Am I wrong? Do you think that there's any document that goes into the White House that doesn't get
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digitally copied before it's handed to the president? I don't think the president sees it before it's
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digitally copied, right? Don't you assume? Because I guess Trump had a habit of, like, ripping up
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things after he was done with them. So of course, of course it was digitally copied. So they're making
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this big story about how it's illegal. And it might be. I mean, it might actually be illegal.
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But in terms of the size of the crime, is it the biggest crime in the world that Trump would want
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to keep his Kim Jong-un love letters when, you know, the digital copies were part of the record
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anyway? So I'm not, I can't defend Trump on this and I don't know why or even if he was involved in
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the decision to keep him at Mar-a-Lago. So we don't know enough about it, but I won't defend it.
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It just doesn't seem like a big deal. And then there's a story about him continually flushing
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documents down the toilet, which he denies. All right, who do you believe? Do you believe that
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Trump would rip documents up and walk them into the toilet and flush them? Or do you think he would
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rip them up and leave them on his desk or in the trash? I mean, maybe he was reading
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in there. I don't know. I don't know. You know, the only situation I can imagine is if he had
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some, he had some confidential document and he didn't want to deal with it. He's like,
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I just flush this freaking thing. Yeah. I don't, I don't think that story is real because it,
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you know what it reminds you of? What's it remind you of? It's a little too much,
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you know, steel dossier and the prostitutes bed sort of thing. Prostitutes in the bed.
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Yeah, it just sounds fake. I don't believe the flushing story at all. I do believe there might,
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might've been one document at the one time that ended up in the toilet or something like that,
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but I don't think it was like some regular thing he did. Trump made a statement.
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About the breaking news, about the Hillary campaign, digging up some dirt.
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He goes, it's greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate.
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Carl Bernstein. Carl is the one they dragged down to CNN did every time they needed somebody to
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literally say it's worse than Watergate. He became the worse than Watergate guy.
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Carl, do you think it's worse than Watergate? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Way worse than Watergate.
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but now we have something that actually is literally by any objective standard,
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well documented because it's coming from Durham, but not only is it well documented to be true,
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it is literally worse than Watergate because it included not only the, you know,
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It wasn't after the opponent became actual president of the United States.
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It's worse, you know, it's bad enough before somebody gets elected,
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but if you're still doing it after they got elected, oh, that's worse than Watergate.
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Fairly, and I don't think that that requires much of a subjective judgment, does it?
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Does that even sound like a subjective judgment to say that if one crime was stealing some stuff,
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information really, you know, before an election,
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that somebody who was spying on you before an election and after would be worse, right?
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Like, I don't feel there's any subjectivity in that at all.
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I think you need to get on there and say it's worse than Watergate.
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We should start a GoFundMe to get Carl Bernstein to come on television
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I think you could get Carl Bernstein for half a million.
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If you started a GoFundMe to get him just to say those words about this story,
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I think you could get him to go for half a million.
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but we'll hear more about it as the day goes on.
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Do you think it's a coincidence that this story dropped at the same day as the Super Bowl?
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Now, there's no reason to think that Durham would drop it at a politically sensitive time or anything.
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But isn't it a weird coincidence that the one day you can guarantee you were thinking about anything but the news,
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I mean, Christmas would have been better, maybe,
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If it came as a leak from the Democrats or something,
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Do the Democrats have a way to make a story like this
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who you may or may not know from Twitter as being a PhD in economics.
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And he's usually my go-to for debunking other people's claims with studies
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because he's real good at looking at his study and saying,
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or they missed some logical comparison or something like that.
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And here's the filter I'm going to put on this.
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you also will write like a comedian accidentally.
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That's exactly the same skill that a humor writer uses.
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I just want you to be kind of listening to the content
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but also keeping this recording in the back of your head
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of how similar economics writing and humor writing is.
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It's just a weird little lesson about simplicity, I guess.
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that the reason we're getting dumber is economics.