Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1655 Scott Adams： The Great Clinton Cover-Up Has Begun, Russia Plays Chess, Freedom Breaking Out Everywhere

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you.

00:00:04.360 Today, well, for some of us, it's even better than usual.

00:00:09.020 Because today is officially the day that my state, California,

00:00:15.760 dropped mask mandates for adults, if they're vaccinated.

00:00:23.140 So that's not a clean win, and the kids still have to go to school with masks

00:00:28.540 for at least two more weeks.

00:00:31.040 But my long road to hell and back just about completed.

00:00:39.440 Because I don't have to worry about mandates, because I am vaccinated,

00:00:43.020 whether that was a great decision or a bad one.

00:00:45.720 I suppose we'll find out if I clot up and die.

00:00:48.620 But so far, so good.

00:00:51.300 Which would mean there's a great possibility that I made it through the pandemic

00:00:57.300 on the optimal path.

00:01:00.560 Don't know that.

00:01:01.440 It's too early.

00:01:02.560 And anybody who claims that they, you know, at this point,

00:01:05.420 anybody who claims that they made all the right decisions,

00:01:08.160 a little premature.

00:01:09.700 A little premature.

00:01:10.440 But if I got through this with only two vaccinations and no boosters,

00:01:18.560 which gave me as much freedom as I could get,

00:01:21.500 and I got through it to the point where masks go away,

00:01:26.000 so that means they didn't keep that weird thing forever,

00:01:29.700 I also did not get infected.

00:01:33.300 Now, in theory, I will.

00:01:36.620 But we do have lots more information about long COVID,

00:01:39.840 which may or may not be true.

00:01:41.740 However, let's do the simultaneous sip.

00:01:45.700 That's the important thing.

00:01:47.640 And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass,

00:01:49.180 a tank or chalice, a canteen, a jug or a flask,

00:01:50.980 a vessel of any kind.

00:01:52.380 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:55.100 I like coffee.

00:01:56.400 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine

00:01:58.740 to the other day,

00:01:59.380 the thing that makes everything better,

00:02:01.480 including freedom,

00:02:02.620 which is breaking out everywhere.

00:02:04.560 Oh, we're a long ways to go.

00:02:06.680 We still got to claw it back.

00:02:09.220 But for now, let's drink to freedom

00:02:10.900 and the truckers in Canada.

00:02:13.160 We're making us proud.

00:02:15.160 And enjoy your simultaneous sip.

00:02:21.820 Oh, yeah.

00:02:22.980 Oh, yeah, that was a good one.

00:02:25.600 Surprisingly, zesty.

00:02:28.740 Did anybody else find that a little zestier than normal?

00:02:33.020 Was that just me?

00:02:34.480 I don't know.

00:02:34.920 I felt like it was like 10% to 15% extra zest in that one.

00:02:40.360 Could be in my imagination.

00:02:42.660 Well, in California, as I said,

00:02:44.200 the mask mandate is dropping,

00:02:46.060 at least from the state.

00:02:47.140 We'll see how the businesses deal with it.

00:02:50.060 But kids still have to wear them for two more weeks,

00:02:53.200 at least.

00:02:54.260 And then they'll reassess.

00:02:55.580 Why do the children need to continue wearing masks for two weeks?

00:03:00.800 Is it because we followed the science?

00:03:04.220 Is that why?

00:03:05.960 Is it the science?

00:03:09.040 Well, no.

00:03:10.600 Because the science ignores reality.

00:03:13.120 So if the science makes the speculation

00:03:17.400 that the kids are being masked

00:03:19.080 and they're very cautious all of the time,

00:03:23.040 except when they're in school,

00:03:26.280 then the science might,

00:03:28.180 and I say might,

00:03:29.700 because I don't think there's enough evidence for it,

00:03:31.980 but it might, under those conditions,

00:03:34.360 suggest that masking children makes sense.

00:03:37.500 Under the specific condition

00:03:39.200 that when they walk out of the school,

00:03:41.400 they're still masking.

00:03:44.220 But in the real world,

00:03:45.740 in which everybody is aware,

00:03:48.060 the kids are massively unmasked

00:03:50.100 for the moment they walk out the door.

00:03:52.140 They're actually unmasked between classes.

00:03:55.640 They actually walk out of the class.

00:03:58.200 They're allowed, at least in our town,

00:04:00.320 they're allowed to take off their mask

00:04:01.680 because they're outdoors,

00:04:03.340 between the buildings.

00:04:04.880 They're hugging and joking

00:04:06.860 and interacting with each other at close quarters.

00:04:09.580 And then they walk into the building

00:04:11.620 and put on their mask.

00:04:13.340 And then they go to lunch

00:04:14.700 and take off their masks.

00:04:16.960 And then they go home

00:04:18.040 and have a sleepover or a Super Bowl party.

00:04:20.340 And they mingle without their masks.

00:04:23.240 Now, I'm not wrong

00:04:25.340 that under those conditions,

00:04:28.120 you don't really have to address the science.

00:04:31.760 It would be one thing

00:04:34.700 if this were some kind of a controlled situation

00:04:37.560 where kids were always in masks.

00:04:40.480 Then you'd say,

00:04:41.360 well, we care about these children so much,

00:04:44.260 we'll keep them in masks completely

00:04:46.000 until the danger is past,

00:04:48.100 which would also not be a good idea,

00:04:50.620 but at least it would be consistent.

00:04:52.640 It would at least be consistent with science.

00:04:55.140 But how in the world

00:04:56.300 does science pretend not to know

00:04:58.800 that the kids are cheating massively on the masks

00:05:02.120 to the point where

00:05:03.240 it couldn't possibly make a difference

00:05:04.820 that they're sitting, you know,

00:05:06.680 in their isolated chairs in class

00:05:08.840 in a well-ventilated place?

00:05:12.180 It's just crazy at this point.

00:05:14.140 And I think unforgivable, honestly.

00:05:17.980 It's unforgivable.

00:05:19.700 You know, the rates of infection

00:05:21.660 are way down 70%,

00:05:23.600 less infections

00:05:24.740 and hospitalizations down 36% to 40%.

00:05:28.260 Even Washington, D.C. is dropping mandates.

00:05:32.020 So we're seeing the mandates dropping.

00:05:35.460 How many of you thought

00:05:36.560 we would wear masks forever?

00:05:39.640 Did anybody think that?

00:05:42.120 No, you did.

00:05:44.700 Some people actually were worried

00:05:46.520 that the masks were a forever thing.

00:05:49.280 Yeah, no, I never worried about that.

00:05:50.700 Now, the vaccine mandates,

00:05:55.520 those are stickier, right?

00:05:59.000 There was no chance

00:05:59.920 the masks were going to be forever,

00:06:01.480 I don't think.

00:06:02.980 But the mandates, they might be.

00:06:05.480 They might be forever.

00:06:07.440 So unless we see some motion there,

00:06:12.620 they might be.

00:06:14.460 Rasmussen has a poll

00:06:16.080 that says that 59% of Americans

00:06:17.920 support the Canadian truckers.

00:06:19.960 59% of Americans.

00:06:23.500 That's a pretty solid majority right there

00:06:26.280 by American standards.

00:06:28.220 It's a solid majority.

00:06:30.400 And what is President,

00:06:32.960 or not President,

00:06:33.800 Prime Minister Trudeau doing about it?

00:06:36.400 How many of you saw

00:06:37.660 Trudeau's press conference

00:06:39.560 about the emergency powers?

00:06:42.340 Trudeau explaining what he was doing?

00:06:43.340 So I guess...

00:06:44.340 So I guess...

00:06:46.340 Yeah.

00:06:49.680 Carpe donctum was just saying

00:06:52.300 that imagine thinking

00:06:53.320 that freedom breaking out

00:06:54.560 is a national emergency.

00:06:58.480 That's actually what's happening.

00:07:04.800 So...

00:07:05.280 How many of you saw

00:07:07.340 the press conference

00:07:08.540 with Trudeau

00:07:10.040 explaining what he was doing?

00:07:11.880 Now,

00:07:13.900 if you didn't see it,

00:07:16.320 I would...

00:07:18.320 I strongly recommend it.

00:07:26.320 Something's happening

00:07:27.180 in my house right now

00:07:28.140 that is unexplained.

00:07:31.920 Anyway...

00:07:33.780 Oh, okay.

00:07:35.640 Let me see what kind of trouble

00:07:36.920 I'm in here first.

00:07:38.620 I've got to fix a problem.

00:07:52.740 All right.

00:07:53.280 Problem solved.

00:07:53.960 Sorry about that.

00:07:55.940 Or not.

00:07:56.780 We'll see.

00:07:59.140 So...

00:07:59.660 Here's what I want to say

00:08:00.920 about Trudeau's

00:08:02.020 emergency powers

00:08:03.300 press conference.

00:08:04.880 Now, I want to be very careful

00:08:07.380 when I say this.

00:08:09.280 Okay?

00:08:10.340 I want to be very careful

00:08:11.460 when I say this.

00:08:14.600 As you know,

00:08:16.100 my regular audience,

00:08:17.200 I'm a big supporter

00:08:18.400 of the LGBTQ community.

00:08:22.100 So I'm going to say something

00:08:23.420 that if you heard it

00:08:24.420 in the wrong context,

00:08:26.180 would sound like

00:08:27.060 I was making fun

00:08:27.960 of the LGBTQ community.

00:08:30.260 Which I'm not.

00:08:31.880 All right?

00:08:32.360 So that's not

00:08:33.020 what's going to happen.

00:08:34.420 But,

00:08:35.320 in terms of looking

00:08:36.500 at our politicians,

00:08:39.540 how they present themselves

00:08:41.180 is part of the story.

00:08:42.600 Would you agree?

00:08:44.300 That the way

00:08:45.400 we receive

00:08:46.420 the message

00:08:47.360 from our politicians

00:08:48.280 is part of the story.

00:08:50.280 In addition to

00:08:51.200 what the message

00:08:51.720 itself is.

00:08:53.200 When I watch

00:08:54.180 Trudeau's

00:08:55.100 press conference,

00:08:56.920 I see somebody,

00:08:58.860 and again,

00:08:59.960 this is not

00:09:00.640 a criticism.

00:09:02.520 This is an observation.

00:09:05.000 The observation is

00:09:06.320 he looks like

00:09:06.920 he's transitioning.

00:09:09.060 Did anybody else see it?

00:09:12.340 He looks like

00:09:13.200 he's transitioning.

00:09:15.120 Now,

00:09:15.600 some of you

00:09:16.140 are saying that,

00:09:16.920 I'm seeing in the comments,

00:09:18.000 he was acting gay.

00:09:19.240 And I want to make

00:09:19.920 it very clear here

00:09:21.020 to all of you

00:09:22.200 that none of this

00:09:23.480 should be construed

00:09:24.720 as anti-anybody.

00:09:27.520 This is simply

00:09:28.260 an observation,

00:09:29.900 which,

00:09:30.280 because he's a leader,

00:09:32.040 it matters

00:09:32.640 how we receive him

00:09:33.680 and how we process it.

00:09:35.980 But there's something

00:09:37.860 about his haircut

00:09:38.600 which suggests

00:09:39.700 he's growing it out.

00:09:42.400 Because who would go

00:09:43.540 on TV

00:09:43.980 with that haircut

00:09:44.880 unless it was part

00:09:46.580 of a larger strategy?

00:09:48.900 Did you see his haircut?

00:09:51.420 I mean,

00:09:51.940 it was way beyond

00:09:53.280 the normal haircut.

00:09:56.380 It looked like

00:09:57.220 he was growing it out.

00:09:58.840 And he was talking

00:10:00.280 with a,

00:10:01.580 let's say,

00:10:02.540 a mannerism

00:10:03.240 which I had not heard before

00:10:04.760 that sounded different.

00:10:07.200 Did he not sound different?

00:10:09.640 As in,

00:10:10.480 more feminine?

00:10:12.540 And again,

00:10:13.360 that's not a criticism.

00:10:15.220 It's an observation.

00:10:16.980 And I'm not,

00:10:17.900 there's no hyperbole here.

00:10:19.460 I'm saying that

00:10:20.180 there was something

00:10:20.800 about his presentation

00:10:21.900 which strongly suggested to me,

00:10:24.840 and it could be

00:10:25.400 because of the news,

00:10:26.380 has so much news

00:10:27.820 about,

00:10:28.720 I don't know,

00:10:29.620 trans issues

00:10:30.980 that maybe I'm just primed

00:10:32.660 to see it or something.

00:10:33.700 But he looked like

00:10:35.020 he was transitioning.

00:10:37.200 And it was very distracting.

00:10:39.420 And again,

00:10:39.820 I want to be very clear.

00:10:41.480 That's not a criticism

00:10:42.720 because if he is transitioning,

00:10:45.180 that's his business,

00:10:46.160 not mine.

00:10:47.860 But it changes

00:10:50.080 how you receive

00:10:50.720 the message,

00:10:51.300 doesn't it?

00:10:51.700 And whether you,

00:10:54.040 whether you looked at it

00:10:55.000 and thought,

00:10:55.520 well,

00:10:55.760 he's,

00:10:56.180 he's simply not acting

00:10:57.940 very testosterone-y,

00:11:00.200 that has an effect on you,

00:11:02.640 how you process it.

00:11:05.440 But to me,

00:11:06.500 it looked like

00:11:07.180 somebody who knew

00:11:08.380 his political life

00:11:09.420 was over.

00:11:10.800 How many,

00:11:11.540 how many also

00:11:12.240 picked that up?

00:11:13.060 And again,

00:11:13.640 this is just so subjective.

00:11:15.520 We're just reading

00:11:16.200 speculation,

00:11:17.640 reading his mind,

00:11:18.800 you know,

00:11:19.000 none of this is real.

00:11:19.840 It's just how we feel

00:11:20.620 about it.

00:11:22.020 And in a political context,

00:11:23.600 how you feel about it

00:11:24.660 is kind of all that matters.

00:11:26.400 So I think it's fair game.

00:11:28.060 How I felt about it

00:11:29.360 is it looked like

00:11:29.940 a leader who had

00:11:31.060 completely lost it,

00:11:33.140 just completely lost it,

00:11:34.780 and knew it,

00:11:36.180 and knew that

00:11:36.900 his game was over,

00:11:38.880 basically.

00:11:39.560 And I think he's doing

00:11:40.640 the best he can

00:11:41.320 to try to act tough,

00:11:42.960 but he spent so much time

00:11:45.260 not being tough

00:11:46.300 that I just don't know

00:11:50.480 if he could pull it off.

00:11:51.780 He didn't pull it off

00:11:52.520 at all.

00:11:53.700 So that was interesting.

00:11:55.920 I loved Donald Trump's

00:11:57.360 tweet about this

00:11:58.240 as Prime Minister Trudeau

00:12:02.500 was acting somewhat

00:12:03.940 authoritarian

00:12:04.660 with his emergency powers.

00:12:08.660 And he sounded

00:12:09.580 a little like Mussolini,

00:12:11.640 but Donald Trump Jr.

00:12:14.600 tweets it

00:12:15.120 with a different spelling.

00:12:16.300 The moose part

00:12:17.640 is spelled like a moose,

00:12:19.720 a Canadian moose.

00:12:21.340 So he's Moose-Solini.

00:12:23.420 Pretty good.

00:12:24.300 Pretty good.

00:12:24.880 It doesn't translate

00:12:25.600 into verbal,

00:12:26.300 but if you saw it in writing,

00:12:27.980 you'd be laughing right now.

00:12:30.400 So I think it's

00:12:31.760 a pretty big deal

00:12:32.520 that in Washington, D.C.,

00:12:36.960 they're dropping mandates

00:12:38.140 because Washington, D.C.

00:12:39.260 was being targeted

00:12:41.120 by truckers, wasn't it?

00:12:43.260 Can you do me

00:12:44.020 a fact check on this?

00:12:44.980 So aren't we

00:12:47.580 a little bit surprised

00:12:48.600 that Washington, D.C.

00:12:50.100 dropped the mandates already?

00:12:53.400 And was Washington, D.C.

00:12:55.540 not targeted

00:12:56.480 for the truckers?

00:12:58.940 And did they do that

00:13:00.340 to...

00:13:01.980 was the point

00:13:03.160 to get the...

00:13:04.320 you know,

00:13:04.500 to make sure

00:13:04.920 there was no trucker

00:13:05.940 insurrection?

00:13:06.660 So I don't know

00:13:09.420 if those are related

00:13:10.160 or not,

00:13:10.580 or just the timing

00:13:11.300 worked like that.

00:13:12.280 But to me,

00:13:12.920 the timing looks

00:13:13.580 a little bit interesting.

00:13:18.280 Here's another

00:13:19.060 me telling you

00:13:20.760 I told you so

00:13:21.700 way ahead of the news.

00:13:23.660 So the news

00:13:24.480 is talking now

00:13:25.280 about how

00:13:26.120 Russia

00:13:26.860 and China

00:13:28.420 are becoming

00:13:29.040 more strategic allies.

00:13:30.880 They're not quite,

00:13:31.660 you know,

00:13:32.460 best friends,

00:13:33.600 but they're moving

00:13:34.300 in that direction.

00:13:36.420 Who is the first person

00:13:37.840 who told you

00:13:38.380 that that's like

00:13:39.300 the biggest thing

00:13:40.020 we have to worry about?

00:13:41.940 Probably

00:13:42.420 my audience

00:13:43.540 probably heard it

00:13:44.120 from me first.

00:13:45.040 Is that true?

00:13:46.540 Or does...

00:13:47.460 Because I can't remember

00:13:48.440 seeing it in the press

00:13:49.540 until maybe

00:13:50.820 just this week

00:13:51.900 or last two weeks.

00:13:54.140 Oh, Kissinger.

00:13:55.240 I guess Kissinger

00:13:56.500 beat me to it.

00:13:59.180 So, you know,

00:14:00.020 it's not like

00:14:00.460 I invented the idea,

00:14:01.760 obviously.

00:14:02.500 But in terms of

00:14:03.440 how much it is

00:14:04.520 on the front

00:14:04.980 of your head,

00:14:06.580 I think I was

00:14:07.320 warning you

00:14:08.560 about this

00:14:09.020 at least a year

00:14:09.640 before it became

00:14:10.500 headline news,

00:14:11.660 which it is right now.

00:14:13.080 And sure enough,

00:14:14.720 that's the big thing

00:14:15.580 to worry about.

00:14:17.200 So,

00:14:17.840 got that right.

00:14:22.840 Here's a random thing

00:14:24.260 that is out of order

00:14:25.500 in my notes,

00:14:26.120 so I'll just tell you.

00:14:26.840 So I saw a tweet

00:14:28.440 by Dr.

00:14:30.540 Krushbu Pandya,

00:14:31.740 who is...

00:14:33.960 In her bio,

00:14:34.900 she says she's

00:14:35.440 India's first

00:14:36.300 social media doctorate.

00:14:38.560 Right?

00:14:38.880 So I assume that means

00:14:40.800 she lives and works

00:14:41.880 in India

00:14:42.440 and she's a doctorate.

00:14:44.960 And she tweets this.

00:14:46.880 It's a quote

00:14:47.440 by our own

00:14:48.560 Ed Latimer.

00:14:50.020 Now,

00:14:50.220 when I say

00:14:50.560 our own,

00:14:51.780 I mean,

00:14:52.260 you know,

00:14:53.280 America's Twitter

00:14:54.480 and our own being...

00:14:57.340 He's well-loved

00:14:58.940 among a lot of people.

00:14:59.920 Anyway,

00:15:01.360 so Ed apparently

00:15:02.580 said this

00:15:03.720 and he's being quoted

00:15:04.480 in this tweet.

00:15:05.320 When your words

00:15:05.960 are capable

00:15:06.480 of cutting through

00:15:07.360 the fog

00:15:08.000 and your signal

00:15:09.060 is free of noise,

00:15:10.440 then you're

00:15:11.040 a dangerously

00:15:11.740 effective individual.

00:15:14.500 Which I have

00:15:15.700 two comments about.

00:15:16.600 Number one,

00:15:17.060 that perfectly captures

00:15:18.280 the Joe Rogan problem,

00:15:19.860 doesn't it?

00:15:21.180 It perfectly captures it.

00:15:23.260 Joe Rogan is dangerous

00:15:24.360 because he's

00:15:25.540 cutting through the fog

00:15:26.540 and he's clear.

00:15:27.800 Now,

00:15:29.060 the attacks on him

00:15:29.940 are for misinformation.

00:15:32.780 But

00:15:33.260 we wouldn't even

00:15:34.940 be talking about him

00:15:36.060 except that he

00:15:37.240 can do this thing,

00:15:38.420 which is cut through

00:15:39.200 the fog and simplify

00:15:40.320 and, you know,

00:15:41.420 sort of get to

00:15:42.000 the truth of things.

00:15:44.380 And sure enough,

00:15:45.740 Ed Latimer

00:15:46.220 is correct,

00:15:47.960 and I would say

00:15:48.860 that's a feature

00:15:49.620 of what we're watching,

00:15:51.240 is the most effective

00:15:52.380 voices being taken out.

00:15:54.540 Because each side

00:15:55.220 wants to silence

00:15:56.040 the most effective voice

00:15:57.440 on the other side,

00:15:58.200 and they're doing

00:15:58.600 a good job

00:15:59.160 taking pieces

00:16:00.340 off the chessboard.

00:16:01.560 But here's the part

00:16:02.240 that caught me by that.

00:16:03.640 It's sort of the story

00:16:04.720 within the story.

00:16:07.280 That there's the...

00:16:08.880 India's first

00:16:10.000 social media doctorate

00:16:11.320 is quoting Ed Latimer.

00:16:13.240 Do you know why

00:16:15.820 somebody who is

00:16:17.180 prominent

00:16:17.640 on social media

00:16:19.320 in India

00:16:19.980 is quoting

00:16:21.000 Ed Latimer

00:16:22.160 in America?

00:16:23.600 Because it turns out

00:16:24.640 that Ed Latimer

00:16:25.200 is the best example

00:16:26.280 of his own point.

00:16:27.880 He's somebody

00:16:28.440 whose words

00:16:29.120 can cut through

00:16:29.740 the fog

00:16:30.320 and his signal

00:16:31.640 is free of noise.

00:16:33.300 So

00:16:33.640 if you want to know

00:16:35.280 how much

00:16:36.560 purchase

00:16:37.960 you can get

00:16:38.740 in this world

00:16:39.520 by just being

00:16:41.100 a good communicator,

00:16:42.180 look at Ed Latimer.

00:16:45.040 So he gets a lot

00:16:46.080 of boost

00:16:46.480 from people like me

00:16:47.760 because what we see

00:16:49.120 in him

00:16:49.520 is a communication

00:16:50.640 and a message

00:16:52.200 that's first of all

00:16:53.380 great messages

00:16:54.100 and second of all

00:16:56.000 his communication

00:16:57.440 capability

00:16:58.100 is stellar.

00:17:00.300 I mean it's really

00:17:00.840 spectacular.

00:17:02.540 So

00:17:02.820 this is one person

00:17:04.520 who just by being

00:17:05.640 good at talking,

00:17:07.340 I guess communicating

00:17:08.180 I should say,

00:17:09.520 is

00:17:10.100 becoming

00:17:11.720 well-known

00:17:12.200 in India

00:17:12.720 on the other

00:17:13.400 side of the world.

00:17:14.900 Just think about that.

00:17:16.660 I mean he's

00:17:17.380 becoming famous

00:17:18.580 around the world

00:17:19.680 for just being

00:17:21.300 good at saying

00:17:22.060 stuff.

00:17:23.400 That's like a real

00:17:24.360 thing that's happening

00:17:25.040 right now.

00:17:26.460 Anyway,

00:17:26.920 I thought that was

00:17:27.440 worth it.

00:17:28.220 Worth mentioning.

00:17:29.820 Meanwhile,

00:17:30.940 the ex-president

00:17:31.980 of Honduras

00:17:32.880 is being arrested

00:17:34.100 for allegedly

00:17:35.600 being involved

00:17:36.500 in some kind of

00:17:37.620 drug trafficking

00:17:38.700 case

00:17:39.300 and some other

00:17:40.720 electoral fraud

00:17:41.940 and stuff.

00:17:43.380 Electral fraud?

00:17:46.600 Didn't even know

00:17:47.400 that was a possibility.

00:17:49.120 But

00:17:49.380 did you know

00:17:51.060 that the United

00:17:51.640 States can just

00:17:52.540 tell Honduras

00:17:53.300 to arrest

00:17:54.680 their ex-president

00:17:55.640 and then Honduras

00:17:56.640 will go do it?

00:17:58.460 Because that's

00:17:59.180 happening right now.

00:18:00.780 And we're acting

00:18:01.540 like that's just

00:18:02.180 completely normal.

00:18:04.120 We just ring up

00:18:05.200 a neighboring country

00:18:06.040 and say,

00:18:06.920 we'd like you

00:18:07.740 to arrest this guy

00:18:08.900 and then they

00:18:09.960 just round him up.

00:18:12.340 I don't know.

00:18:12.940 I guess that's,

00:18:13.740 is that healthy?

00:18:15.500 It's kind of weird.

00:18:16.520 Because the context

00:18:17.560 is we're talking

00:18:18.280 about should Russia

00:18:19.340 have this control

00:18:21.160 over Ukraine?

00:18:24.440 Right?

00:18:25.560 Should Russia

00:18:26.320 have control

00:18:27.080 over its neighboring

00:18:27.900 countries?

00:18:29.000 At the same time

00:18:30.000 we can just ring

00:18:30.740 up Honduras

00:18:31.360 and say,

00:18:31.780 you know,

00:18:32.480 why don't you

00:18:32.820 round up your

00:18:33.380 ex-president

00:18:33.940 and put him in jail?

00:18:34.640 Now, I'm not saying

00:18:36.120 he doesn't deserve it.

00:18:38.180 And I'm not saying

00:18:38.880 that this isn't

00:18:39.620 normal business.

00:18:40.900 I mean,

00:18:41.180 because,

00:18:41.680 you know,

00:18:42.420 countries do

00:18:43.120 contact other countries

00:18:44.240 to get people arrested.

00:18:45.780 But this went

00:18:46.800 a little smoothly.

00:18:48.640 Is it supposed

00:18:49.460 to go this smoothly?

00:18:51.600 Hey,

00:18:52.240 we've got some evidence

00:18:53.340 that your ex-president

00:18:54.480 should be arrested.

00:18:56.060 Could you get,

00:18:56.660 oh,

00:18:56.860 you're already

00:18:57.300 arresting him.

00:18:57.900 Thank you.

00:18:58.540 Thank you.

00:18:59.020 Could you turn,

00:18:59.640 he's already on the flight.

00:19:00.980 He's already on the way back.

00:19:02.840 It's like they're

00:19:03.280 a little bit,

00:19:03.820 a little bit too friendly

00:19:05.220 or something.

00:19:11.000 Anyway,

00:19:11.520 let's talk about,

00:19:12.240 I will talk about

00:19:14.200 the Hillary Clinton

00:19:15.300 stuff in a minute,

00:19:16.920 but let's talk about Ukraine.

00:19:19.880 So the news is reporting

00:19:21.380 that Russia's

00:19:22.680 withdrawing some troops

00:19:24.440 from the Ukraine border.

00:19:26.860 Is that true?

00:19:29.700 Well,

00:19:30.040 it's true that they announced it.

00:19:31.380 It's not true

00:19:32.680 that apparently

00:19:33.240 anybody's noticing

00:19:34.140 any difference

00:19:34.780 in troop strength.

00:19:36.420 Probably just rotating

00:19:37.780 some troops

00:19:38.520 or some normal stuff.

00:19:40.480 Maybe it's a chess move.

00:19:42.720 Some people are suggesting

00:19:43.980 it's all part of

00:19:44.780 Putin's

00:19:45.420 four-dimensional chess

00:19:46.740 where he's trying

00:19:47.760 to keep you guessing.

00:19:48.720 Am I going to attack?

00:19:49.500 Am I not?

00:19:50.320 And it exhausts you.

00:19:52.100 You become psychologically

00:19:53.380 exhausted,

00:19:54.180 but you get ready

00:19:55.380 for the attack

00:19:56.040 and then it's off.

00:19:57.900 And then you get ready

00:19:58.600 and then it's off.

00:20:00.000 And then he attacks.

00:20:01.640 So it could be that.

00:20:02.840 It could be.

00:20:03.760 Or it could be

00:20:04.420 literally nothing.

00:20:05.480 Or it could be just

00:20:06.220 troops rotating,

00:20:08.280 whatever.

00:20:10.320 But let's talk about

00:20:11.880 where that's going.

00:20:18.220 What's your current guess

00:20:19.680 on whether Putin

00:20:20.660 will attack?

00:20:22.860 Invasion,

00:20:23.460 yes or no,

00:20:24.060 in the comments.

00:20:24.860 Give me your current opinion.

00:20:25.920 Oh, I'm seeing

00:20:27.980 mostly no's.

00:20:29.100 Interesting.

00:20:29.860 On locals.

00:20:31.760 You know,

00:20:32.180 in the news,

00:20:32.880 on social media,

00:20:33.760 it's mostly yes, right?

00:20:35.500 And how about on...

00:20:37.840 Oh, my goodness.

00:20:39.640 I'm seeing some yes's

00:20:40.940 on YouTube,

00:20:42.420 but mostly no's

00:20:43.200 there as well.

00:20:45.180 Oh, all right.

00:20:45.700 What's happening here?

00:20:48.000 I'm a little confused

00:20:49.160 about what I'm seeing.

00:20:50.000 Is this a reflection

00:20:53.780 of the uniqueness

00:20:55.200 of my live stream audience?

00:20:57.440 Or is this actually

00:20:58.640 a general opinion?

00:21:00.940 Does the general public

00:21:02.340 think there's not

00:21:03.040 going to be attack?

00:21:04.780 Because I would think

00:21:05.720 that the media

00:21:06.280 is telling us

00:21:07.040 there will be.

00:21:10.400 Wow.

00:21:11.440 All right.

00:21:11.740 Take a minute

00:21:12.200 to just drink this in,

00:21:13.640 will you?

00:21:14.680 I'm pretty sure

00:21:15.600 the mainstream media

00:21:16.500 is telling us

00:21:17.200 that an attack

00:21:17.940 is inevitable.

00:21:18.580 Am I wrong?

00:21:21.440 And yet the public,

00:21:22.740 at least as represented

00:21:23.840 by my live stream audience,

00:21:25.520 I don't know

00:21:26.400 how unique this is.

00:21:28.000 That's the question.

00:21:29.700 None of you

00:21:30.360 are believing this,

00:21:31.040 are you?

00:21:31.940 It's like you're not

00:21:33.000 buying it at all.

00:21:34.960 Did I do that to you?

00:21:37.220 Partly.

00:21:38.700 How much of this

00:21:39.520 is because of what I said?

00:21:42.520 Versus is it just obvious

00:21:43.920 in some way?

00:21:45.380 Or you just don't

00:21:46.000 believe the news anymore?

00:21:46.900 Wow.

00:21:49.620 Are you as blown away

00:21:50.620 by the other comments

00:21:53.320 as I am?

00:21:54.760 Are you surprised

00:21:55.840 that people aren't

00:21:56.960 expecting this

00:21:57.780 to be an attack?

00:22:00.100 All right.

00:22:00.600 Here's my current analysis

00:22:01.980 as of today.

00:22:05.160 Putin's calculation

00:22:06.220 depends on

00:22:07.100 the odds of success.

00:22:11.220 Right?

00:22:11.820 So he's got the odds

00:22:13.020 of success

00:22:13.640 of actually,

00:22:14.440 conquering and holding

00:22:16.300 whatever it is

00:22:17.000 he wants to conquer

00:22:17.760 and hold.

00:22:18.660 But then there's also

00:22:19.520 the unknown,

00:22:20.580 how big will the

00:22:21.560 blowback be

00:22:22.800 and sanctions,

00:22:24.440 et cetera,

00:22:24.780 how bad will that be?

00:22:26.060 So Putin is dealing

00:22:27.060 with massive unknowns.

00:22:29.580 But one of the unknowns

00:22:30.880 that you and I

00:22:32.260 and the rest of the world

00:22:33.160 have discounted

00:22:35.160 is whether he can succeed.

00:22:37.360 Because we just look

00:22:39.320 at the size

00:22:39.800 of the army

00:22:40.280 and say,

00:22:40.720 oh,

00:22:41.420 Russia,

00:22:42.300 one of the biggest

00:22:42.860 militaries.

00:22:44.000 And then you look

00:22:44.700 at the Ukraine

00:22:45.240 and you say,

00:22:45.720 okay,

00:22:45.860 not one of the biggest

00:22:46.740 militaries.

00:22:47.820 This should be

00:22:48.800 quick work,

00:22:49.840 right?

00:22:50.080 It should be like

00:22:50.700 the United States

00:22:51.580 just rolling up Iraq

00:22:53.340 in the Iraq war.

00:22:54.140 It should be like that,

00:22:54.800 right?

00:22:56.940 I'm not so sure.

00:22:58.700 Because the biggest

00:22:59.860 wild card

00:23:00.580 is what weapons

00:23:01.840 Ukraine has.

00:23:02.860 And I don't think

00:23:04.660 Putin knows.

00:23:06.220 Do you?

00:23:07.800 Do you think

00:23:08.580 that Putin knows

00:23:09.640 what kind of

00:23:11.540 military assets

00:23:13.600 or even strategies

00:23:14.820 will be used

00:23:16.040 if he attacks?

00:23:17.440 Because I keep hearing

00:23:18.600 that he's amassing

00:23:20.100 tanks.

00:23:22.740 Can somebody

00:23:23.680 who knows more

00:23:24.480 about all things

00:23:27.040 military

00:23:27.620 explain something

00:23:28.960 to me?

00:23:30.200 Can you have

00:23:31.160 a tank

00:23:31.720 a tank

00:23:33.560 group move

00:23:34.320 against a modern

00:23:35.080 army?

00:23:36.400 Is that even

00:23:37.220 a thing?

00:23:38.580 Because I would

00:23:39.160 think that modern

00:23:39.840 technology would

00:23:40.680 take out tanks

00:23:41.580 more easily

00:23:42.920 than anything

00:23:43.600 could take out

00:23:44.260 anything.

00:23:45.980 Could you not?

00:23:47.580 And I'm just,

00:23:48.400 I don't know

00:23:48.840 anything about

00:23:49.360 the technology

00:23:49.980 for tank killing,

00:23:51.580 but is there

00:23:52.300 not already

00:23:53.160 a missile

00:23:54.240 that you can

00:23:54.760 fire in the air

00:23:55.600 that comes down

00:23:57.040 approximately

00:23:57.740 where all the

00:23:58.400 tanks are

00:23:59.040 but before it

00:24:00.820 hits the ground

00:24:01.700 it splits into

00:24:02.760 25 tank

00:24:04.680 killing projectiles

00:24:06.260 that just find

00:24:06.880 the biggest metal

00:24:07.560 thing and kill

00:24:08.260 it?

00:24:10.260 Like that doesn't

00:24:11.220 already exist?

00:24:13.100 Couldn't you

00:24:13.720 fire one missile

00:24:14.560 that takes out

00:24:15.200 an entire

00:24:15.800 tank,

00:24:17.580 whatever you call

00:24:18.300 it,

00:24:18.620 squadron?

00:24:19.240 So I'm saying

00:24:21.280 no.

00:24:23.640 But here's the

00:24:24.500 question.

00:24:25.160 Would you know

00:24:25.740 if it existed?

00:24:27.960 Do you think

00:24:28.600 that the public

00:24:30.260 is aware

00:24:31.060 of the weaponry

00:24:32.020 that would

00:24:32.940 actually be

00:24:33.640 employed by

00:24:34.340 Ukraine

00:24:34.760 with the help

00:24:36.120 of the United

00:24:36.600 States

00:24:37.060 advisors,

00:24:38.660 if you know

00:24:39.260 what I mean?

00:24:40.180 Because all you

00:24:41.000 need is the

00:24:41.620 advisors standing

00:24:43.260 nearby and saying,

00:24:44.380 okay,

00:24:44.660 Ukrainians,

00:24:45.540 push this button

00:24:46.600 now.

00:24:47.640 So then it's

00:24:48.180 the Ukrainians

00:24:48.800 using the weapons,

00:24:50.040 not us.

00:24:51.100 We just told them

00:24:52.040 how to do it.

00:24:53.380 You don't think

00:24:54.300 we've got some

00:24:54.900 good stuff that

00:24:56.020 the Russians

00:24:56.520 are afraid

00:24:57.060 of?

00:24:58.360 I don't know

00:24:59.120 either.

00:25:00.000 I'm just

00:25:00.420 speculating.

00:25:01.400 But here's my

00:25:01.940 current thinking.

00:25:03.420 One of the

00:25:03.980 reasons that

00:25:04.560 Putin would

00:25:05.740 build up a

00:25:06.380 force and

00:25:07.340 keep it there

00:25:07.920 for a while

00:25:08.520 is to see

00:25:09.640 what the

00:25:09.940 reaction is.

00:25:11.300 Because that

00:25:11.980 might scare

00:25:12.620 up some

00:25:13.020 information about

00:25:13.880 what the

00:25:14.220 response would

00:25:14.880 be.

00:25:15.580 And he

00:25:15.960 might be

00:25:16.360 learning

00:25:16.700 something he

00:25:17.280 doesn't like.

00:25:19.380 In other

00:25:19.740 words,

00:25:20.100 Putin might

00:25:20.640 have made

00:25:23.080 sure that

00:25:23.600 Ukraine

00:25:24.000 responded so

00:25:25.620 they could

00:25:25.900 see what

00:25:26.260 the response

00:25:26.820 would be

00:25:27.220 militarily.

00:25:28.520 And then

00:25:29.100 they didn't

00:25:29.460 like the

00:25:29.780 response and

00:25:30.420 said,

00:25:30.660 oh,

00:25:30.960 crap,

00:25:31.300 this invasion

00:25:32.020 isn't going

00:25:32.440 to go so

00:25:32.860 well.

00:25:34.680 Look what

00:25:35.580 happened when

00:25:36.140 the Soviet

00:25:36.840 Union tried

00:25:38.020 to attack

00:25:38.840 Afghanistan.

00:25:40.060 As long

00:25:40.740 as Afghanistan

00:25:41.420 had modern

00:25:42.180 weaponry and

00:25:44.560 the willingness

00:25:45.280 to die,

00:25:46.060 they did

00:25:46.960 well.

00:25:48.880 So I

00:25:49.520 think Putin

00:25:49.920 has a big

00:25:50.520 unknown on

00:25:51.220 what weaponry

00:25:51.980 would be used

00:25:53.000 against him.

00:25:53.920 And can you

00:25:54.320 imagine if he

00:25:54.960 attacked and

00:25:55.520 lost?

00:25:57.140 Imagine that.

00:25:58.540 Just imagine

00:25:59.240 a scenario

00:25:59.860 where Putin

00:26:01.060 either got

00:26:02.240 in there and

00:26:02.820 couldn't get

00:26:03.220 out and

00:26:04.100 couldn't win,

00:26:05.680 like just

00:26:06.020 got a few

00:26:06.920 miles in or

00:26:07.600 whatever,

00:26:07.960 got part of

00:26:08.500 the country

00:26:08.900 and then got

00:26:09.840 bogged down.

00:26:11.180 What would

00:26:11.560 that do for

00:26:12.960 the credibility

00:26:15.760 of Russia's

00:26:16.700 military strength?

00:26:18.440 It would be a

00:26:18.940 disaster.

00:26:19.940 Because right

00:26:20.420 now people are

00:26:21.160 afraid of the

00:26:21.740 Russian military.

00:26:23.240 But what if

00:26:23.840 they were shown

00:26:24.860 to be ineffective

00:26:25.680 in an actual

00:26:26.520 war would be

00:26:28.400 different.

00:26:33.160 So I guess

00:26:34.260 the argument

00:26:34.620 would be that

00:26:35.580 they've got

00:26:36.340 some experience

00:26:36.900 in Georgia,

00:26:37.600 I guess.

00:26:39.120 Scott fell

00:26:39.820 for another

00:26:40.300 hoax,

00:26:41.480 says Chen.

00:26:43.100 Which is the

00:26:43.920 hoax?

00:26:46.340 All right.

00:26:48.700 And I also

00:26:49.580 wonder how

00:26:50.040 expensive it is

00:26:51.040 for Putin to

00:26:52.440 keep his army

00:26:53.060 there idling.

00:26:54.700 I wonder if

00:26:55.560 part of our

00:26:56.080 strategy is to

00:26:56.920 just break the

00:26:59.080 bank, sort of

00:27:00.080 Ronald Reagan

00:27:00.780 like.

00:27:01.560 Because Reagan

00:27:02.300 did the Star Wars

00:27:03.160 thing which

00:27:03.660 caused Soviet

00:27:04.540 Union to

00:27:05.120 overspend on

00:27:05.860 defense, which

00:27:06.700 led to their

00:27:08.060 demise in part.

00:27:09.880 Could it be we're

00:27:10.740 doing the same

00:27:11.300 strategy of just

00:27:13.840 trying to starve

00:27:14.580 Putin, but maybe

00:27:16.340 energy prices are

00:27:17.260 so high that he's

00:27:18.000 doing fine?

00:27:18.580 I don't know.

00:27:20.720 Imagine if

00:27:21.600 Trump had been

00:27:23.000 president.

00:27:26.000 All right.

00:27:26.640 This is our

00:27:27.300 favorite speculation.

00:27:28.420 Imagine if Trump

00:27:29.040 had been president.

00:27:30.320 Well, number one,

00:27:31.220 Trump would have

00:27:31.780 been keeping the

00:27:33.120 United States the

00:27:34.020 number one producer

00:27:34.840 of energy, or at

00:27:36.220 least way more

00:27:37.620 than we are now.

00:27:39.080 And if Trump had

00:27:40.080 done that, what

00:27:40.780 would be the price

00:27:41.920 of energy around

00:27:42.720 the world?

00:27:44.560 It'd be lower,

00:27:45.500 wouldn't it?

00:27:46.800 And if the price

00:27:47.580 of energy were

00:27:48.220 lower, wouldn't

00:27:49.500 that come out

00:27:50.840 of Putin's

00:27:51.420 pocket and

00:27:51.960 into ours?

00:27:53.280 I think it

00:27:54.120 would.

00:27:55.580 So, was the

00:27:58.920 real strategic

00:27:59.980 error when

00:28:01.780 Biden started

00:28:02.720 crippling our

00:28:03.740 own domestic

00:28:04.420 energy?

00:28:05.660 Because when he

00:28:06.200 crippled our

00:28:06.820 own energy

00:28:07.360 stuff, what he

00:28:08.980 did was he

00:28:09.940 basically transferred

00:28:11.120 assets to

00:28:12.980 Russia and

00:28:14.200 other places.

00:28:14.740 So, I think

00:28:16.160 from a military

00:28:17.100 perspective, Trump

00:28:18.780 was 100%.

00:28:20.200 That the thing

00:28:21.860 we had to get

00:28:22.560 right is to

00:28:24.060 have the biggest

00:28:24.800 domestic energy

00:28:25.820 program we have

00:28:26.820 pump oil like

00:28:28.160 crazy, keep all

00:28:30.040 of the prices

00:28:30.860 for oil low,

00:28:32.880 and basically

00:28:35.480 degrade our

00:28:36.340 enemies while we

00:28:37.280 built up the

00:28:38.080 capability to

00:28:38.800 replace oil

00:28:39.420 ourselves.

00:28:42.100 Yeah.

00:28:42.280 I feel like

00:28:43.420 we're not

00:28:43.860 talking enough

00:28:44.640 about the

00:28:45.820 military benefit

00:28:47.440 of a domestic

00:28:48.820 energy program.

00:28:50.460 And I feel

00:28:50.880 like Trump

00:28:52.220 knew that in

00:28:53.800 every way.

00:28:55.320 Am I wrong?

00:28:57.000 I don't think

00:28:58.140 Trump was simply

00:28:59.060 operating on the

00:28:59.960 hey, energy is

00:29:01.300 good for the

00:29:01.860 country.

00:29:02.600 I think he was

00:29:03.300 operating also

00:29:04.480 on a strategic

00:29:06.560 global kind of

00:29:08.480 a basis.

00:29:10.360 Yeah.

00:29:10.500 That was

00:29:11.600 probably the

00:29:12.020 biggest thing

00:29:12.680 that Biden

00:29:13.060 got wrong.

00:29:16.560 Speaking of

00:29:17.480 the left,

00:29:21.360 apparently there

00:29:21.960 are conservative

00:29:22.580 Democrats, which

00:29:23.620 exist, that are

00:29:25.580 fighting the more

00:29:26.320 liberal Democrats

00:29:27.160 in San Francisco,

00:29:28.320 and three members

00:29:29.180 of the San

00:29:29.660 Francisco school

00:29:30.480 board are up

00:29:32.920 for re-election

00:29:34.600 and they're being

00:29:35.300 challenged.

00:29:36.260 So the

00:29:36.720 progressives on

00:29:37.500 the school board

00:29:38.040 are being challenged

00:29:38.700 by the Democrats.

00:29:40.500 So it might not

00:29:41.780 even be the

00:29:42.720 Republicans who

00:29:44.700 make any kind

00:29:45.580 of head roads

00:29:46.180 against the

00:29:47.260 super progressive

00:29:48.420 part of the

00:29:48.980 country.

00:29:49.500 It might be the

00:29:50.220 Democrats themselves

00:29:51.040 having to shut it

00:29:53.320 down so the

00:29:54.200 Democrats can still

00:29:55.140 have power.

00:29:57.100 So there'll be a

00:29:57.800 civil war there

00:29:58.460 happening.

00:29:59.920 New information

00:30:00.640 on long

00:30:01.560 COVID.

00:30:03.180 David Boxenhorn

00:30:04.140 tweeted today.

00:30:05.900 So there's a new

00:30:06.440 study out, and

00:30:07.260 when I talk about

00:30:07.880 studies, what

00:30:10.600 level of credibility

00:30:11.600 should you put on

00:30:12.760 any study that I

00:30:13.900 talk about, and I

00:30:14.700 say, hey, there's a

00:30:16.020 new study, what

00:30:17.640 should be your

00:30:18.140 first impression of

00:30:19.920 the credibility of

00:30:20.900 the study?

00:30:22.140 Low.

00:30:24.000 50% would be the

00:30:25.400 top, the top.

00:30:28.160 If you put the

00:30:29.140 odds of a new

00:30:30.140 study being both

00:30:31.780 accurate and telling

00:30:32.940 you what you need

00:30:33.600 to know, it's

00:30:35.220 not more than

00:30:35.800 50%.

00:30:36.660 So that should

00:30:38.540 be your

00:30:39.120 skeptical, informed

00:30:41.740 citizen starting

00:30:42.980 point.

00:30:44.180 Who would

00:30:44.600 disagree with

00:30:45.160 that?

00:30:46.060 Any pushback on

00:30:47.180 that?

00:30:47.860 That if you don't

00:30:48.480 know anything else

00:30:49.220 about it, the

00:30:50.620 day you hear it,

00:30:52.060 never give it more

00:30:52.980 than 50%

00:30:53.740 credibility.

00:30:56.320 No, you're

00:30:57.480 saying 50% is too

00:30:58.560 high for what it

00:30:59.240 really is, but I'm

00:31:00.860 saying 50% is a

00:31:02.320 cap.

00:31:03.260 If you found

00:31:03.860 yourself thinking

00:31:04.560 it's more likely

00:31:05.300 true than not, you

00:31:07.200 should check your

00:31:07.780 thinking.

00:31:09.220 You should stop at

00:31:10.300 could be true.

00:31:11.940 That's the highest

00:31:12.840 you should go.

00:31:13.880 Not probably true.

00:31:15.960 Not more likely to

00:31:17.400 be true.

00:31:17.860 That's a little too

00:31:18.440 far.

00:31:19.480 But possibly true.

00:31:21.960 That's as far as

00:31:23.040 you should take it.

00:31:24.580 All right, so

00:31:25.260 here's the news.

00:31:27.100 There's some

00:31:27.780 suggestion that we

00:31:28.800 know, or that we

00:31:30.380 have a good idea

00:31:31.460 what causes

00:31:32.240 long COVID, if

00:31:34.460 long COVID is

00:31:35.460 real.

00:31:36.360 I know, you have

00:31:36.960 to play that

00:31:37.520 skepticism in your

00:31:38.780 head about

00:31:39.260 everything, right?

00:31:40.600 Is long COVID

00:31:41.560 even real?

00:31:43.300 It's a good

00:31:43.720 question.

00:31:44.560 But apparently

00:31:45.140 the evidence is

00:31:46.140 mounting than it

00:31:46.980 is, and there's

00:31:48.600 a constellation of

00:31:49.760 symptoms that

00:31:50.520 finally may have

00:31:52.380 revealed what's

00:31:53.440 going on, which

00:31:54.120 is this thing

00:31:54.620 called a vagus,

00:31:55.920 I hope I'm

00:31:56.760 pronouncing that

00:31:57.340 right, is it

00:31:57.860 vagus nerve?

00:31:59.840 So there's a

00:32:00.540 nerve that starts

00:32:01.260 in the back of

00:32:01.800 your head and

00:32:02.240 goes all the

00:32:02.640 way down to

00:32:03.060 your ass.

00:32:04.020 Some would

00:32:04.680 say it goes

00:32:05.280 all the way

00:32:05.640 down to

00:32:05.980 your taint.

00:32:07.420 But in

00:32:08.980 medical terms,

00:32:10.060 you don't

00:32:11.180 talk about

00:32:11.600 your taint.

00:32:12.680 You talk

00:32:13.280 about the

00:32:13.640 vagus nerve,

00:32:14.800 and the

00:32:15.420 thinking is

00:32:16.040 that the

00:32:16.640 virus damages

00:32:18.280 that, at

00:32:20.180 least, you

00:32:20.900 know, potentially

00:32:21.340 for a few

00:32:21.920 months, and

00:32:23.360 maybe longer,

00:32:24.080 who knows.

00:32:24.900 But the

00:32:25.440 damage to

00:32:25.940 that would

00:32:26.500 give you all

00:32:28.380 of the range

00:32:29.020 of symptoms

00:32:29.520 that people

00:32:30.000 are having,

00:32:31.040 because it

00:32:31.660 affects everything

00:32:32.600 from, I

00:32:33.140 guess, breathing

00:32:34.320 to swallowing

00:32:36.080 to talking,

00:32:37.120 dizziness,

00:32:38.120 heartbeat,

00:32:40.280 persistent voice

00:32:41.600 problems.

00:32:42.240 Did you know

00:32:42.600 that?

00:32:43.380 I'd never heard

00:32:43.980 that there was

00:32:44.400 a persistent

00:32:45.020 voice problem

00:32:45.980 to long

00:32:46.440 COVID.

00:32:46.960 That's the

00:32:47.300 first time

00:32:47.620 I've heard

00:32:47.880 that.

00:32:48.620 I'm not

00:32:49.080 even sure I

00:32:49.480 believe it.

00:32:50.880 But if that's

00:32:51.960 true, then it

00:32:52.680 would be

00:32:53.200 interesting and

00:32:54.540 maybe tell us

00:32:55.920 how we

00:32:56.220 could treat

00:32:56.580 it.

00:32:57.420 Might also

00:32:58.240 give us

00:32:58.820 some insight

00:32:59.300 about why

00:32:59.760 it affects

00:33:00.180 some people

00:33:00.640 more than

00:33:01.000 others, sort

00:33:01.940 of thing.

00:33:02.460 So I think

00:33:02.880 that's just

00:33:03.240 a watch and

00:33:03.740 see.

00:33:04.140 All right,

00:33:04.400 here's the

00:33:04.680 big story

00:33:05.060 of the day.

00:33:07.760 How many

00:33:08.420 of you were

00:33:08.960 watching as

00:33:10.060 the, let's

00:33:11.760 say, as the

00:33:12.220 Durham filing

00:33:13.060 recently showed

00:33:14.200 on Friday,

00:33:15.440 the Durham

00:33:15.940 filing suggested

00:33:16.880 that the

00:33:17.640 Hillary Clinton

00:33:18.340 campaign had

00:33:20.340 funded some

00:33:21.960 spying,

00:33:22.880 spying,

00:33:24.540 into the

00:33:25.380 phone records

00:33:26.080 of Trump,

00:33:27.080 both before

00:33:27.800 he was in

00:33:28.260 office and

00:33:29.200 after, and

00:33:30.660 that the

00:33:31.060 purpose of

00:33:31.600 it was to

00:33:32.640 gin up a

00:33:34.100 phony narrative

00:33:34.920 that Trump

00:33:36.180 was communicating

00:33:37.080 with Russia

00:33:37.700 in a secret

00:33:38.760 way.

00:33:40.180 Now, and

00:33:41.560 then we all

00:33:42.000 talked about

00:33:42.440 how the

00:33:42.760 mainstream media

00:33:44.360 didn't touch

00:33:44.960 it, right?

00:33:45.960 So there were

00:33:46.540 two stories.

00:33:47.320 One is the

00:33:47.900 story itself,

00:33:49.220 and then the

00:33:49.880 story of how

00:33:51.320 the news was

00:33:52.380 being suppressed.

00:33:53.140 suppressed, but

00:33:54.480 the suppression

00:33:56.160 is over.

00:33:57.720 The New York

00:33:58.280 Times just ran

00:33:59.100 a large story

00:34:01.140 about it by

00:34:02.320 Charlie Savage.

00:34:03.280 He wrote this,

00:34:04.560 and he has

00:34:05.720 debunked the

00:34:06.340 entire thing.

00:34:08.100 Debunked the

00:34:08.820 entire thing.

00:34:09.700 So what you

00:34:10.420 thought was the

00:34:11.540 Hillary Clinton

00:34:12.140 campaign paying

00:34:14.680 lawyers, and

00:34:16.500 that the lawyers

00:34:17.240 working with the

00:34:18.060 tech people got

00:34:18.780 this information

00:34:19.520 they shouldn't

00:34:20.020 have had for

00:34:21.140 the purpose

00:34:21.620 of a narrative.

00:34:23.160 According to

00:34:23.720 the New York

00:34:24.020 Times, that's

00:34:24.620 all fake news.

00:34:27.280 Now, let me

00:34:28.280 tell you something

00:34:28.920 about the news

00:34:30.160 ecosystem.

00:34:32.780 If you wanted

00:34:33.740 to debunk

00:34:34.680 something that

00:34:35.320 was true,

00:34:36.700 how would you

00:34:37.820 do it?

00:34:39.620 How would you

00:34:40.320 debunk something

00:34:41.020 that was true?

00:34:42.400 Like, if you

00:34:42.940 wanted to get

00:34:43.500 somebody to say

00:34:44.100 something that is

00:34:44.740 true, it's not

00:34:45.380 true, how would

00:34:45.900 you do it?

00:34:47.120 Well, if you

00:34:48.900 were, let's

00:34:50.880 say, an unknown

00:34:52.260 person, you'd go

00:34:53.100 to social media,

00:34:54.620 and then who's

00:34:55.240 going to believe

00:34:55.720 it, right?

00:34:56.200 It's just you on

00:34:56.880 social media, so

00:34:58.340 that doesn't work.

00:34:59.420 Let's say you go

00:35:00.120 to a second-tier

00:35:01.560 publication, so

00:35:04.320 whatever you want

00:35:05.420 to call a second

00:35:06.120 tier, and you get

00:35:07.500 them to say,

00:35:08.300 yeah, I debunked

00:35:10.080 this.

00:35:10.400 Would that work?

00:35:11.760 Well, it would

00:35:12.660 help you tweet

00:35:13.380 things.

00:35:13.800 You'd have

00:35:14.060 something to tweet,

00:35:15.160 but probably not.

00:35:16.320 That wouldn't

00:35:16.960 make that much

00:35:17.480 of a difference.

00:35:18.560 But if you

00:35:19.380 were the

00:35:19.620 Democratic Party

00:35:20.600 and you had

00:35:21.780 access to the

00:35:22.480 most powerful

00:35:23.140 everything, including

00:35:26.020 people in the

00:35:26.900 press, how would

00:35:28.220 you make a true

00:35:28.960 story disappear?

00:35:31.080 Here's how you

00:35:31.820 would do it.

00:35:32.840 You would contact

00:35:33.640 somebody who worked

00:35:34.400 at the New York

00:35:34.960 Times, primarily,

00:35:37.260 right?

00:35:37.860 Second choice would

00:35:38.880 be the Washington

00:35:39.500 Post, but first

00:35:40.900 choice by far is

00:35:42.780 the New York

00:35:43.200 Times.

00:35:43.880 And you would

00:35:44.360 have them write a

00:35:45.140 debunking piece,

00:35:46.320 that once the

00:35:47.920 New York Times

00:35:48.500 has said it's

00:35:49.120 debunked, all of

00:35:50.460 the lesser entities

00:35:51.440 can just say,

00:35:52.180 well, you don't

00:35:53.480 believe me, but

00:35:54.280 look at the New

00:35:55.000 York Times, because

00:35:56.440 that's the standard

00:35:57.260 for news.

00:35:59.280 So the New York

00:36:00.140 Times is doing

00:36:02.580 exactly what you

00:36:03.620 would expect if

00:36:05.640 the Clinton

00:36:06.240 campaign had

00:36:07.180 corrupted them to

00:36:08.740 write a cover

00:36:09.360 story to debunk

00:36:11.080 something that

00:36:11.680 actually was true.

00:36:12.680 Now, I'm not

00:36:14.260 making that

00:36:14.800 allegation, so

00:36:16.640 I'm not saying

00:36:17.420 that's what

00:36:17.800 happened.

00:36:18.540 I'm saying that

00:36:19.480 if a top

00:36:21.080 Democrat wanted

00:36:21.980 to debunk

00:36:22.640 something that

00:36:23.220 was true, it

00:36:24.800 would look

00:36:25.140 exactly like

00:36:25.920 this.

00:36:27.640 Anybody

00:36:28.200 disagree?

00:36:29.420 This is exactly

00:36:31.020 what it would

00:36:31.520 look like if

00:36:33.140 the fix were

00:36:33.860 in.

00:36:34.700 But it's also

00:36:35.560 exactly what it

00:36:36.500 would look like

00:36:37.200 if the story

00:36:39.140 wasn't true and

00:36:39.820 they were just

00:36:40.200 debunking it.

00:36:40.800 But let's see

00:36:42.160 what he says.

00:36:43.340 And we should be

00:36:44.200 able to tell

00:36:44.600 pretty quickly by

00:36:46.080 how he handles

00:36:46.920 the story, whether

00:36:48.480 he's really

00:36:49.220 debunking it, and

00:36:50.700 the whole thing

00:36:51.160 was BS, or if

00:36:53.540 it's trying to

00:36:55.000 cover up something

00:36:55.920 and there's no

00:36:57.060 debunk that's

00:36:57.720 real.

00:36:58.740 What do you

00:36:59.180 think?

00:37:00.220 Before I go

00:37:01.180 through it, do

00:37:02.040 you think the

00:37:02.480 debunk will stand

00:37:03.520 up, or will it

00:37:04.900 be transparent

00:37:05.680 bullshit?

00:37:09.380 Let's see

00:37:10.020 your vote.

00:37:10.460 before I go

00:37:11.200 on.

00:37:11.880 All right.

00:37:14.080 So here are

00:37:14.940 some of the

00:37:15.300 claims.

00:37:16.660 They're saying

00:37:17.300 that Fox News

00:37:18.020 is inaccurately

00:37:19.160 declaring, this

00:37:21.420 is what Charlie

00:37:21.960 Savage says in

00:37:22.660 New York Times,

00:37:23.640 it says that

00:37:24.300 Fox News is

00:37:25.100 inaccurately

00:37:25.980 declared that

00:37:27.220 Mr. Durham

00:37:27.900 had said he

00:37:28.520 had evidence

00:37:29.140 that Hillary

00:37:29.680 Clinton's

00:37:30.280 campaign had

00:37:31.600 paid a

00:37:32.180 technology company

00:37:33.200 to infiltrate

00:37:34.540 a White

00:37:34.980 House server.

00:37:36.880 Did Fox

00:37:37.440 News ever say

00:37:38.100 that?

00:37:40.460 Almost.

00:37:43.680 Almost.

00:37:45.480 Fox News said

00:37:46.440 something like

00:37:47.280 that, but

00:37:49.000 not that.

00:37:50.660 So what he

00:37:51.480 did was he

00:37:52.060 set up a

00:37:52.560 straw man, a

00:37:53.540 thing that Fox

00:37:54.220 News did not

00:37:55.000 say, and then

00:37:56.340 he debunked it.

00:37:57.700 Now how many

00:37:58.260 people will read

00:37:59.020 in the New York

00:37:59.540 Times also watch

00:38:00.920 Fox News to

00:38:02.660 know that what

00:38:03.220 they're debunking

00:38:03.940 is not what

00:38:04.440 they said?

00:38:04.900 Not many.

00:38:07.440 This is why it's

00:38:08.420 so genius.

00:38:09.460 There's almost no

00:38:10.240 crossover between

00:38:11.820 people who watch

00:38:12.580 Fox News and

00:38:13.360 New York Times.

00:38:14.520 So if you're only

00:38:15.420 trying to convince

00:38:16.140 your side that

00:38:18.120 something is true,

00:38:19.480 you just say Fox

00:38:20.780 News says that

00:38:21.620 unicorns can fly,

00:38:23.220 and we proved

00:38:23.960 it's not true.

00:38:24.700 Would you know

00:38:27.000 that Fox News

00:38:27.860 never claimed

00:38:28.720 that unicorns

00:38:29.760 can fly?

00:38:30.960 You would not.

00:38:32.380 You would just

00:38:32.940 accept that they

00:38:33.640 probably said

00:38:34.180 that, and it's

00:38:34.860 debunked.

00:38:36.020 This is really

00:38:37.160 clever stuff.

00:38:38.580 I mean, clever

00:38:39.760 even though it's

00:38:40.660 like right in

00:38:41.380 your face and

00:38:42.080 obvious, but

00:38:44.040 clever in the

00:38:44.900 sense that it

00:38:45.340 works.

00:38:45.960 All right, let's

00:38:46.280 go on.

00:38:47.280 What else do

00:38:47.980 they say to

00:38:48.800 debunk the

00:38:49.280 story?

00:38:50.260 Now, first of

00:38:50.860 all, it's my

00:38:51.280 understanding, can

00:38:52.040 you give me a

00:38:52.440 fact check?

00:38:53.520 My understanding

00:38:54.300 is that there

00:38:56.440 is no claim

00:38:57.380 that Hillary

00:38:58.460 Clinton directly

00:39:00.180 paid the tech

00:39:01.480 company.

00:39:01.960 My understanding

00:39:03.820 is that Clinton

00:39:05.120 paid a law

00:39:06.380 firm, or

00:39:07.200 somebody associated

00:39:08.040 with it, to

00:39:09.800 guess some

00:39:10.220 information, and

00:39:11.080 then the lawyer

00:39:12.020 got it from the

00:39:13.320 tech company.

00:39:14.420 Is that true?

00:39:16.020 So if what

00:39:17.020 they're debunking

00:39:17.820 is the campaign

00:39:19.360 paying the tech

00:39:20.360 company to spy,

00:39:21.980 that was never

00:39:22.820 the claim.

00:39:23.820 It wasn't.

00:39:25.040 I don't think

00:39:25.980 that what he's

00:39:26.560 debunking is the

00:39:27.440 actual claim.

00:39:28.800 He's taking

00:39:29.520 out the middle

00:39:30.120 part, the

00:39:30.680 lawyers, which

00:39:32.060 is the part that

00:39:32.700 makes the whole

00:39:33.640 story hold

00:39:34.520 together.

00:39:35.620 So he's acting

00:39:36.420 like they said

00:39:37.500 there were no

00:39:38.180 lawyers in the

00:39:38.900 middle, even

00:39:40.740 though they are

00:39:41.180 mentioned, but

00:39:41.760 it's mentioned in

00:39:42.400 a way that, you

00:39:43.640 know, let's say

00:39:44.980 it looks like it's

00:39:45.840 intentionally misleading.

00:39:47.720 That's what it

00:39:48.360 looks like.

00:39:49.000 We don't know

00:39:49.680 what anybody's

00:39:50.200 thinking, so I

00:39:51.620 can't read his

00:39:52.140 mind, but as a

00:39:53.380 reader, it comes

00:39:54.880 across as

00:39:55.540 intentionally trying

00:39:57.140 to mislead me.

00:39:58.360 I don't know

00:39:58.820 that that's true,

00:39:59.840 but that's how

00:40:00.320 I'm receiving

00:40:00.860 it.

00:40:02.920 So Charlie

00:40:03.760 Stavage also

00:40:04.340 says, the

00:40:07.260 Washington

00:40:07.700 Examiner claimed

00:40:08.720 that this all

00:40:09.500 meant there had

00:40:10.620 been spying on

00:40:11.540 Mr. Trump's

00:40:12.140 White House

00:40:12.540 office, and

00:40:14.580 when mainstream

00:40:15.380 publications held

00:40:16.300 back, Mr. Trump

00:40:17.260 and his allies

00:40:17.680 began shaming

00:40:18.480 them.

00:40:19.260 So now they're

00:40:20.140 claiming that the

00:40:21.560 reason that people

00:40:22.220 held back is that

00:40:23.320 there was nothing

00:40:23.860 there.

00:40:24.220 That's not

00:40:27.300 true.

00:40:28.980 Do you think

00:40:29.720 that's true?

00:40:30.860 There was nothing

00:40:31.380 there, and that's

00:40:32.540 the reason everybody

00:40:33.320 held back?

00:40:35.560 You know, at the

00:40:36.760 very least, they

00:40:37.780 would be doing the

00:40:38.460 story about how the

00:40:39.520 story is wrong,

00:40:41.040 right?

00:40:41.780 At the very least,

00:40:43.400 they waited for New

00:40:44.500 York Times to go

00:40:45.320 first.

00:40:45.800 Do you know why?

00:40:47.560 Because they knew if

00:40:48.740 they went first, it

00:40:49.680 wouldn't be credible.

00:40:51.120 You needed somebody to

00:40:52.360 write a long,

00:40:53.020 complicated story that

00:40:54.320 nobody understood, so

00:40:56.240 that everybody from

00:40:57.040 that point on could

00:40:57.840 just point to the

00:40:58.580 story.

00:40:59.420 What do you think the

00:41:00.360 news will be talking

00:41:01.280 about on CNN today?

00:41:03.800 CNN will be able to

00:41:05.000 say the New York

00:41:06.060 Times debunked this,

00:41:07.800 and then the CNN

00:41:08.880 viewers will say,

00:41:09.940 did they?

00:41:10.520 I don't know.

00:41:11.720 I didn't read that

00:41:12.640 story.

00:41:13.720 But if all these

00:41:14.440 people on CNN are

00:41:15.380 saying it's debunked,

00:41:16.340 it must be debunked.

00:41:18.020 So the way they're

00:41:19.000 going to sell this is

00:41:20.900 effectively.

00:41:21.400 It will work.

00:41:23.220 It is working.

00:41:24.960 All right, here's some

00:41:25.560 more.

00:41:27.060 That nothing is news.

00:41:29.100 So part of the

00:41:30.060 defense or the debunk

00:41:31.480 is that nothing new,

00:41:35.020 oh, not all of it,

00:41:36.440 but for one, much of

00:41:37.460 this was not new.

00:41:39.360 And then they go on to

00:41:40.320 say that the New York

00:41:41.540 Times had reported some

00:41:42.760 of this.

00:41:43.300 In October, that what

00:41:45.780 Mr. Sussman, I guess

00:41:47.580 this is one of the

00:41:48.160 lawyers, had told the

00:41:49.800 CAA about data

00:41:51.100 suggesting that

00:41:51.900 Russian-made

00:41:52.380 smartphones were

00:41:53.960 connected to networks

00:41:55.000 at Trump Tower and

00:41:55.960 the White House.

00:41:57.200 So the New York Times

00:41:57.780 is saying, we did

00:41:58.520 report this, so it's

00:41:59.780 not new.

00:42:00.960 But of course, the

00:42:02.300 whole point of it is

00:42:03.460 that it was reported

00:42:04.480 fakely.

00:42:05.760 So they're claiming

00:42:06.840 that they had already

00:42:07.840 reported it without

00:42:09.660 noting that what they

00:42:11.900 reported was the

00:42:12.900 fake narrative.

00:42:13.500 So they're claiming

00:42:15.880 that it's old news

00:42:17.080 by showing their own

00:42:18.980 fake news, the part

00:42:21.480 that was the

00:42:22.600 narrative, not the

00:42:23.300 real news, the

00:42:24.580 narrative part that

00:42:25.520 the Democrats

00:42:26.240 planted.

00:42:28.640 Unbelievable.

00:42:29.880 Now, how many people

00:42:30.640 are going to do what I

00:42:31.400 did, which is pour

00:42:32.320 through this, compare

00:42:33.700 it to the Durham

00:42:34.400 report, and see how

00:42:36.240 completely unethical

00:42:38.440 all of this looks?

00:42:40.720 Nobody.

00:42:41.820 Almost nobody.

00:42:43.500 All right.

00:42:44.640 I'll better talk a

00:42:45.340 little, though.

00:42:46.980 Here's some other

00:42:47.960 things they say.

00:42:50.140 Let's see.

00:42:52.120 The conservative

00:42:53.040 media also skewed what

00:42:54.860 the filing said.

00:42:56.620 For example, Mr. Durham's

00:42:58.160 filing never used the

00:42:59.320 word infiltrate.

00:43:01.600 Well, did the

00:43:03.800 conservative media say

00:43:05.140 that he said

00:43:05.740 infiltrate?

00:43:06.880 I don't believe they

00:43:07.900 claimed he said

00:43:08.660 infiltrate.

00:43:09.780 That sounds like their

00:43:10.600 own word.

00:43:11.200 What does the word

00:43:13.580 infiltrate mean?

00:43:16.180 I mean, without

00:43:16.620 looking, could

00:43:17.120 somebody look it up

00:43:17.820 while we're doing

00:43:18.660 this?

00:43:18.880 Put it in the

00:43:19.260 comments, just

00:43:19.900 paste it.

00:43:20.700 What's the

00:43:21.060 definition of

00:43:22.760 infiltrate?

00:43:23.940 Well, I would

00:43:24.520 think it would

00:43:25.740 mean get in

00:43:26.460 somewhere you

00:43:26.960 don't belong and

00:43:28.080 get some stuff.

00:43:29.900 It means spying,

00:43:30.940 right?

00:43:31.840 I feel like that

00:43:32.800 would be a fair

00:43:33.840 characterization if

00:43:36.040 the facts were the

00:43:37.200 way they thought the

00:43:37.840 facts were.

00:43:39.160 Let's go on.

00:43:39.840 So they're arguing

00:43:41.000 with infiltrate as

00:43:42.180 if it mattered that

00:43:43.260 Durham didn't use

00:43:44.060 that word, but that

00:43:44.880 didn't matter, right?

00:43:47.100 So it's a fake

00:43:48.340 debunk.

00:43:49.660 They're debunking

00:43:50.480 Fox News' word

00:43:51.640 because Durham

00:43:52.620 didn't use it, but

00:43:53.820 that's not the

00:43:54.460 point.

00:43:55.240 It doesn't matter if

00:43:56.040 Durham used it.

00:43:57.260 What he described

00:43:58.400 sounds a little like

00:44:00.120 infiltrating, doesn't

00:44:01.080 it?

00:44:02.540 Now, whether it

00:44:03.380 happened or not is a

00:44:04.260 good question, but

00:44:05.780 whether you

00:44:07.060 would characterize it

00:44:08.220 as infiltrating doesn't

00:44:09.460 seem like the big

00:44:10.160 question here.

00:44:11.680 All right.

00:44:15.920 And most

00:44:16.720 important, this is

00:44:18.240 the New York Times

00:44:19.280 says, contrary to

00:44:21.300 the reporting from

00:44:22.620 the conservatives, the

00:44:24.280 filing never said the

00:44:25.340 White House data that

00:44:26.240 came under scrutiny was

00:44:27.500 from the Trump era.

00:44:28.800 That is correct.

00:44:30.600 So this debunk

00:44:31.680 correctly says that

00:44:33.760 the filing never said

00:44:34.860 the White House data

00:44:35.680 came under scrutiny was

00:44:37.500 from the Trump era, but

00:44:39.420 that's not a debunk.

00:44:41.620 That's what the story

00:44:42.740 is.

00:44:44.120 So notice that they're

00:44:45.300 acting like this is a

00:44:46.480 debunk, but what they're

00:44:48.120 saying is the same thing

00:44:49.100 that the actual story

00:44:50.020 says, that it was not

00:44:52.200 all from the Trump era.

00:44:54.020 That being the entire

00:44:55.340 point of the Durham

00:44:56.680 complaint, that they

00:44:58.640 should have told the, I

00:45:01.240 guess, law enforcement

00:45:02.100 should have been told that

00:45:03.920 this data came both

00:45:04.980 before Trump's era and

00:45:06.320 after.

00:45:07.340 And since that part was

00:45:08.420 left out, the

00:45:10.120 implication was they

00:45:11.060 were selling a

00:45:11.680 narrative, which was a

00:45:13.200 lie.

00:45:14.020 The narrative was that

00:45:15.520 something about the

00:45:16.260 Trump administration is

00:45:18.160 what activated these

00:45:19.400 sketchy-looking contacts

00:45:21.380 with Russia, but

00:45:22.780 apparently they had been

00:45:23.640 going on since 2014.

00:45:26.720 So, the New York

00:45:29.480 Times is acting like

00:45:30.540 they're debunking

00:45:31.540 exactly what conservative

00:45:33.720 media also agrees is

00:45:35.700 true.

00:45:37.140 So they're saying

00:45:38.080 something that agrees

00:45:39.080 completely with

00:45:39.960 conservative media, but

00:45:41.780 because you don't know

00:45:42.760 what conservative media

00:45:43.720 is, if you're a New York

00:45:46.500 they're debunking it while

00:45:48.400 completely agreeing with

00:45:49.420 it.

00:45:50.700 Now, keep in mind, all of

00:45:52.360 this is in the context of a

00:45:53.620 big, complicated piece.

00:45:55.900 If you read this without

00:45:57.140 knowing the other side, you

00:45:58.580 know, the side that I'm

00:45:59.760 trying to present here, if

00:46:01.120 you didn't know any of

00:46:01.860 that, you would not

00:46:03.540 suspect anything was

00:46:05.060 missing.

00:46:06.300 This is so diabolical.

00:46:10.000 All right.

00:46:13.620 And then they quote

00:46:15.000 lawyers for, you know,

00:46:16.740 some of the people who

00:46:17.560 are accused of stuff, and

00:46:19.240 the lawyers say, what

00:46:20.140 Trump and some news

00:46:21.040 outlets are saying is

00:46:22.100 wrong, say the blah, blah,

00:46:23.860 blah lawyers for Mr.

00:46:24.940 Dagan.

00:46:25.820 Now, of course, the story

00:46:27.900 does need to quote both

00:46:29.500 sides, you know, they're

00:46:30.560 both sides, but they're

00:46:32.460 just saying they're wrong.

00:46:34.160 And then they go on and

00:46:35.300 say that this is the reason

00:46:36.420 they're wrong, according to

00:46:37.420 the lawyers.

00:46:38.580 They say the cybersecurity

00:46:39.880 researchers were

00:46:40.960 investigating malware in the

00:46:42.700 White House.

00:46:43.800 We don't know that.

00:46:44.920 It could be true.

00:46:45.640 It could be not.

00:46:46.500 Not spying on the Trump

00:46:47.820 campaign.

00:46:48.340 And to our knowledge, all

00:46:50.860 the data they used was

00:46:52.060 non-private DNS data from

00:46:53.940 before Trump took office.

00:46:56.240 That's just not true.

00:46:58.440 Can you do a fact check on

00:46:59.780 that?

00:47:00.860 I believe what the lawyers

00:47:02.600 are saying is unambiguously

00:47:04.160 not true, and the New York

00:47:06.040 Times knows it's not true in

00:47:07.540 their own reporting in the

00:47:08.600 same story, and the

00:47:12.800 conservative news knows it's

00:47:14.000 not true.

00:47:17.300 Am I right?

00:47:18.740 Somebody says it is true.

00:47:20.120 I'm saying that the DNS data

00:47:22.200 included before Trump and

00:47:25.100 after Trump.

00:47:26.760 And the lawyers are saying

00:47:28.100 it was only before Trump.

00:47:30.200 Do you think the lawyers are

00:47:31.380 correct?

00:47:32.420 If the lawyers are correct,

00:47:34.220 then all the reporting is

00:47:35.220 wrong, which is possible.

00:47:38.560 Well, this is pretty sketchy.

00:47:40.400 I don't know what's true about

00:47:41.160 that.

00:47:42.760 And also, it seems to me that

00:47:44.820 the tech people did have legal

00:47:46.840 access to the data.

00:47:48.340 But did the tech people have

00:47:50.120 authority to give it to the

00:47:53.020 Clinton campaign?

00:47:54.920 Isn't the big question, how did

00:47:57.000 that information get into the

00:47:58.280 hands of the Clinton campaign?

00:48:00.800 That's the question, right?

00:48:03.100 Or am I missing the big

00:48:04.200 question?

00:48:04.500 So it's not that the tech people

00:48:06.940 were spying, it's that the tech

00:48:09.260 people gave information to

00:48:10.860 somebody who was spying.

00:48:13.520 Like, that's different.

00:48:16.100 Well, it's different in one

00:48:17.060 sense.

00:48:17.680 It's different in the sense that

00:48:18.760 the accusation would be about the

00:48:20.580 middle people more than the tech

00:48:22.780 people, but why did the tech

00:48:24.000 people even give that information

00:48:25.340 to anybody?

00:48:26.080 I don't know.

00:48:26.480 Did they have access?

00:48:27.580 So there's so many questions of

00:48:29.520 this.

00:48:30.280 You can see how easy it's going to

00:48:31.560 be to confuse this to the point

00:48:32.920 where you're not sure what's

00:48:34.040 true.

00:48:37.840 Somebody's claiming they're

00:48:38.840 apolitical.

00:48:39.740 That's BS.

00:48:42.020 And then the New York Times just

00:48:44.380 throws this in like it's a fact.

00:48:46.060 So without a link or anything, they

00:48:51.500 say, or Charlie Savage says, after

00:48:54.340 Russians hacked networks for the

00:48:55.920 White House and the Democrats in

00:48:57.260 2015 and 2016, it went on.

00:49:00.260 Wait a minute.

00:49:02.340 Is that true?

00:49:04.960 Do you believe that Russia hacked

00:49:06.980 networks for the White House and the

00:49:08.960 Democrats in 2015?

00:49:10.200 I know it was reported, but do you

00:49:12.480 believe it's true?

00:49:13.060 I believe we can't tell.

00:49:16.860 I believe it was reported as true,

00:49:18.920 but we don't know.

00:49:20.560 Because if you're telling me that

00:49:21.760 hackers can't cover their tracks, I

00:49:24.260 don't know what world I live in.

00:49:26.620 Do we live in a world where hackers

00:49:28.320 can't cover their tracks?

00:49:30.880 I thought they could.

00:49:32.200 Why does hacking even exist?

00:49:34.320 It seems like it'd be hard to be a

00:49:35.920 hacker if you couldn't cover your

00:49:37.800 tracks.

00:49:40.100 All right.

00:49:40.520 So I thought that was interesting.

00:49:43.520 They slip it in there like that's

00:49:44.740 unquestionably true.

00:49:46.220 I certainly question it.

00:49:48.360 And then they say a spokesman for

00:49:50.320 Mr. Durham declined to comment

00:49:52.000 toward the end.

00:49:53.240 But why would Mr. Durham decline to

00:49:55.240 comment?

00:49:56.800 Shouldn't that also include the

00:49:58.620 statement that of course he doesn't

00:50:00.120 comment because you never comment

00:50:02.340 during the investigation?

00:50:05.700 So acting like you wouldn't comment

00:50:07.900 makes him look guilty of saying

00:50:09.300 something wrong.

00:50:10.440 Well, he didn't comment.

00:50:12.540 But that's not the case.

00:50:14.280 It's just something where you don't

00:50:15.820 comment.

00:50:19.960 Now, what do you think about this?

00:50:21.460 The cybersecurity researchers were

00:50:23.260 investigating malware.

00:50:25.440 Do you think that in the course of

00:50:27.020 investigating malware, that's what

00:50:29.440 caused them to find out all these

00:50:31.060 weird Russia server connections?

00:50:33.420 Maybe, possibly, but I'd have to see

00:50:40.900 why looking into one got you the

00:50:43.860 information on the other.

00:50:44.900 It could.

00:50:45.680 I mean, that's not impossible.

00:50:47.400 But it doesn't sound true, even if it

00:50:50.140 is.

00:50:53.680 Anyway, it looks to me like the New York

00:50:56.600 Times is running cover for this story by

00:50:59.980 pumping out a bunch of inaccurate

00:51:02.540 statements of what the conservatives

00:51:05.460 are saying and also trying to sort of

00:51:09.860 obscure that connection between the

00:51:11.760 campaign and the data.

00:51:16.220 All right.

00:51:19.020 Anything else happening?

00:51:21.700 Nope.

00:51:23.280 Well, that's it.

00:51:24.580 That's what's happening.

00:51:27.740 Read up more of this and get back to us

00:51:29.540 tomorrow.

00:51:30.340 The problem is that no matter how much

00:51:32.480 I read up on it, if I got to the point

00:51:35.860 where I understood it, then the

00:51:39.300 explaining to you would be too

00:51:41.020 complicated.

00:51:42.460 So this is sort of a situation that

00:51:44.760 can't be explained because it's just

00:51:46.440 too complicated.

00:51:47.760 So when you have a situation that can't

00:51:49.540 be explained, the best way to hide it is

00:51:52.460 to have the New York Times pretend they're

00:51:55.340 debunking it and then just call it good

00:51:57.940 and walk away and it looks like that's

00:52:00.380 what's going to happen.

00:52:01.160 And it looks like it's working.

00:52:08.260 You are unable to explain something?

00:52:10.160 Well, unable in the specific sense that

00:52:14.080 if something is detailed and complicated

00:52:17.400 and all of the complication matters,

00:52:20.100 what are you going to do?

00:52:21.180 There is a category of things that is one

00:52:25.060 of my favorite mental hobbies, is thinking

00:52:29.580 about things that can't be communicated.

00:52:33.400 Sometimes because they're too complicated,

00:52:35.840 but sometimes because there's nobody you

00:52:37.620 could trust.

00:52:39.400 The only people who know the information for

00:52:41.440 sure are the ones you can't trust at all.

00:52:44.560 So there are situations where things simply

00:52:46.860 can't be communicated, and this might be one.

00:52:52.020 You'd have to litigate it in court.

00:52:54.760 Yeah.

00:52:55.460 So if we were going to simplify the case

00:52:58.300 of whether it's debunked or not,

00:53:00.700 I think it comes down to, did the Clinton

00:53:03.700 campaign ask lawyers that they paid

00:53:07.220 to get some information to create a narrative

00:53:11.280 that they knew was false.

00:53:14.480 And the New York Times did not debunk that.

00:53:18.100 They pretended the story was a little bit different

00:53:20.780 and debunked the different parts.

00:53:26.780 Canada has just removed all civil liberties.

00:53:29.120 Not worth a comment.

00:53:30.440 Well, here's my comment on...

00:53:33.120 I did talk about Trudeau.

00:53:35.500 I think that Canada is in good shape.

00:53:37.880 So I'm liking what I'm seeing in Canada.

00:53:42.640 I believe that the great clawback is underway,

00:53:47.140 clawing back our rights around the world,

00:53:49.540 not just the U.S.,

00:53:50.660 and that the truckers are going to get what they want,

00:53:54.540 I think, in the long run.

00:53:56.820 But it might require removing their government first.

00:54:01.920 So I do think that the truckers took out

00:54:04.000 the Trudeau government.

00:54:06.220 Do you agree?

00:54:07.880 I think Trudeau is done.

00:54:10.860 I mean, it's hard for me to read the room in Canada.

00:54:14.140 But from my perspective,

00:54:15.560 I think he's completely done.

00:54:18.440 Am I wrong about that?

00:54:20.560 Because I can't imagine that even his low approval rating,

00:54:24.900 as it exists,

00:54:26.460 I can't imagine it survives this.

00:54:29.400 You know, this doesn't look like anything

00:54:31.120 that Biden's doing.

00:54:32.760 Compare the way Biden is running things,

00:54:36.440 even if you don't like it.

00:54:37.880 To how Trudeau ran things.

00:54:40.880 Right?

00:54:41.600 You could think Biden did a ton of things wrong,

00:54:44.560 and it doesn't come close

00:54:46.340 to what Trudeau is doing to his country right now.

00:54:49.180 It doesn't come close.

00:54:50.440 Not on an emotional level,

00:54:53.500 not on an ethical level,

00:54:55.060 not on a moral level,

00:54:56.220 not on anything.

00:54:56.860 You know, Biden,

00:54:58.920 to me,

00:54:59.440 Biden just looks like somebody

00:55:00.660 who's trying to do the best he can.

00:55:03.040 Whatever is happening in Canada

00:55:04.560 doesn't look like that to me.

00:55:07.160 It looks like a personality problem.

00:55:10.560 It does.

00:55:11.620 It looks like Trudeau painted himself in a corner

00:55:14.020 and can't get out.

00:55:15.180 It doesn't look like a Canada problem.

00:55:19.100 It looks like one person has a problem,

00:55:20.800 and he's making that...

00:55:23.520 His personal political problem

00:55:25.180 has become the country's problem.

00:55:29.360 Now, this said,

00:55:31.220 there are a number of my critics who said,

00:55:32.940 Scott, don't you understand

00:55:34.360 the importance of keeping things open?

00:55:39.740 To which I say,

00:55:41.180 that's the point.

00:55:43.060 That's the point.

00:55:44.880 The point is that the country,

00:55:47.360 or at least a segment of the country,

00:55:49.640 has reached the point

00:55:50.620 where they will shoot themselves

00:55:51.980 in their own head

00:55:53.260 before they will give up their freedom.

00:55:56.840 Do you know how the only way

00:55:58.620 that can be communicated?

00:56:00.880 Shoot yourself in your own head.

00:56:02.820 That's the only way

00:56:03.580 anybody's ever going to believe it.

00:56:05.600 And the truckers are doing that.

00:56:07.900 The truckers are calling the bluff

00:56:09.720 like I've never seen a bluff called in my life.

00:56:11.820 They are calling the frickin' bluff.

00:56:15.320 And so, when Trudeau is acting

00:56:16.860 like he only has one choice,

00:56:19.000 no, he has another choice.

00:56:20.920 Freedom.

00:56:22.340 Freedom's always the choice.

00:56:24.640 Now, that would probably kill more people,

00:56:28.200 but he's got a choice.

00:56:30.400 And I think the public's...

00:56:32.880 Here's what I think Trudeau did completely wrong.

00:56:37.780 And I would argue that Biden got this wrong as well,

00:56:40.500 but not as wrong.

00:56:41.820 Trudeau did not respect

00:56:44.700 the opinion on the other side.

00:56:47.740 Big mistake.

00:56:49.540 Big mistake.

00:56:50.700 I think he could have done

00:56:52.000 everything he's doing now

00:56:53.360 and said, you know, I totally hear you.

00:56:56.220 I totally hear you.

00:56:57.420 If you'll get out of the trucks,

00:56:59.320 I'll put you on TV.

00:57:01.160 We'll talk about it on TV.

00:57:03.300 You know, I think your message is important.

00:57:05.140 And I appreciate anybody who's fighting for freedom.

00:57:09.880 He should have been on their side

00:57:11.980 while disagreeing with them.

00:57:13.320 You know what I mean?

00:57:14.620 Had he been more capable,

00:57:16.740 he would have been solidly on the side of the truckers

00:57:19.660 while trying to stop them.

00:57:21.140 And he could have done that.

00:57:23.700 Trump could have done it.

00:57:24.520 Am I wrong?

00:57:26.800 You don't think Trump could have thread that needle?

00:57:29.100 He could have.

00:57:30.360 Trump could have sided...

00:57:32.020 Let's say it had been an American problem.

00:57:34.380 Trump could have sided with the blue-collared workers,

00:57:36.880 and he could have stopped them.

00:57:41.360 Nobody else could have done that.

00:57:43.760 I don't think.

00:57:44.440 I don't think there's anybody else

00:57:45.860 who could have done that.

00:57:47.240 Now, of course, it's speculation

00:57:48.580 because he didn't have to do it.

00:57:50.320 But I don't think anybody

00:57:51.400 could have thread the needle like that.

00:57:54.040 And this was Trudeau's opportunity

00:57:57.160 to be at least as clever as Trump

00:58:00.540 in managing the room.

00:58:02.780 Trump can manage the room.

00:58:04.980 He doesn't manage the press

00:58:06.220 because that's a different issue.

00:58:08.640 But he can manage the room.

00:58:14.140 Yeah.

00:58:15.520 All right.

00:58:16.480 That is my show for today.

00:58:18.280 I hope you liked it.

00:58:19.000 It's the best thing you'll ever see today.

00:58:20.560 And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 15, 2022

Episode 1655 Scott Adams： The Great Clinton Cover-Up Has Begun, Russia Plays Chess, Freedom Breaking Out Everywhere

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