Episode 1656 Scott Adams： All the Fake News About the Real News About Clinton, Science, Pillows
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The face mask mandate in California has come to an end, but what does that mean for the rest of the country? Is it time to stop wearing a face mask in public places? And is it possible that AIDS may have been cured?
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got it. Well, here's the good news. It looks like AIDS may have been cured. Maybe. A little too early
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to say. But a woman who had a form of leukemia received a transplant of stem cells from an adult
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relative and umbilical cord blood from a newborn. And I guess it's that umbilical cord blood that's
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the magic part. And not only did it keep the HIV in remission, but they think it eliminated it.
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Because up to now we've had things that looked cure-ish. But only a few rare cases I think
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people couldn't find the actual virus. And now it looks like they have a method which maybe is
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reproducible. How about that for your golden age, huh? Golden age. What did you do during the
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pandemic? Oh, I cured AIDS. That's what somebody did. Yesterday, I made a big show of taking out my
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scissors and cutting up my face mask because California ended the last day of face masks
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was yesterday. So the mandate ended yesterday. Do you know what I thought that meant? I thought
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that meant I didn't need a mask. What do you think it means when they say the mandate ends yesterday?
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Here's what they meant. Oh, it's not over yesterday. You still have to wear your mask
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all day yesterday. That's just the last day. Are you kidding me? I went to the gym and everybody
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had a mask on. I mean, not everybody, but a lot of people did. You know, I didn't. I didn't wear mine.
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You know, nobody's going to say anything the last week before the mandates come off
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or the last day. So there was no difference in California that I could detect.
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So California dropped the mask mandate and there was no difference. Now, apparently the
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counties have to weigh in. So I think there was a delay for the counties to say what they
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were going to do. And most of the counties are saying that the adults can take their masks off,
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I think, starting today. But there are two groups that can't de-mask yet. Criminals in prison
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and children in school. I'm not making that up. That's actually the California policy.
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If you're a prisoner or a student, you get treated the same.
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Not making it up. There's no hyperbole there. That's actually the policy. Now, you know,
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there are a few other things like health care facilities and, you know, old people homes and
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stuff. Mass transportation. But is that a little bit too on the nose? You know what I mean?
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So why do we have that situation? Well, thanks to Rasmussen, we have a little insight. They did a
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poll and found out that 82% of liberals want masks to continue in public places.
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What? 82% of liberals want to continue masking in public places. But what about the conservatives,
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conservatives who, as you know, are looking at exactly the same science? 11%. 11% of conservatives
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are in favor of masking in public now. And 82% of liberals. So let's go follow the science,
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shall we? Who believes that people can follow science? Is there anybody still who believes
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that myth that human beings can follow the science? You can see it as clear as day. It could not be
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more clear that people can't follow the science because they don't know what it is. If they knew
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what it was, they might follow it. There's not one person on here who would disagree with the idea
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that you should follow the science. Assuming the science is correct. There's not one person. And
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yet they go in opposite directions because of politics. So if you ever thought that humans are
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capable of following the science, can you rule that out now? You can, right? How many years have I been
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telling you that following the science is a little bit nonsense? Because we don't know what the science
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says. Even science isn't quite sure what it says. So how in the world are we supposed to follow
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science when we're just guessing what science says? Now, until I said that, well, until you saw this
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stark data that the two political parties were marching fast in opposite directions on the same science,
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same science, same science, until you see it that clearly, you don't really believe that humans
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in general don't have any capability of following the science, none. We have zero, zero capability as
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human beings. And this includes myself. We have no capability of following the science, none.
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We don't know. We don't know if it's real. We can't tell. We just guess. So everything that you see
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that looks like people doing their very best to follow the science, in a traditional model of the
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world, it's just people trying real hard and the smart people get it right and the dumb people don't.
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Right? Was that your worldview even, say, a year ago? A year ago, would you have said,
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yeah, people try to follow the science. The smart ones who do research get it right.
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The dumb ones who don't do research get it wrong. And that's all it is. But then you look at the
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difference in the political parties, and you know it's not that. It was never that. It was never the
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smart people getting it right and the dumb people getting it wrong. It was always guessing.
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It was always guessing. We just thought we were right when we got it right. And then when we get
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one wrong, we would just forget about it. Or we'd say, well, that, of course, science isn't perfect.
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I followed the science, but, you know, it's not going to be 100%. So we just rationalize it away when
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we're wrong, and we pat ourselves on the back when we're right. But it's just guessing. It always has
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been. Same with stock picking. We won't go down that path again. So I asked this question on Twitter.
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Which of these three countries will be destroyed first? Will Ukraine be destroyed by Putin? Will
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Denmark be destroyed by COVID because they dropped their mandates? Or will the USA be destroyed because
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of progressives? And my totally fair and valid scientific poll, with no bias whatsoever, said
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93% of you said that USA will be destroyed by progressives. Now, this would be exactly the kind
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of poll you shouldn't pay attention to, but I thought it was fun. So, so far, Denmark seems to be surviving
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freedom. I know it's a big surprise. It turns out that freedom is not fatal to a lot of countries.
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Oh, it might cause some extra infections. Might cause some extra deaths. But freedom itself is not
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terminal to countries. It's actually kind of healthy. So maybe we should do a little more of
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that, that freedom stuff. I'm going to remain a, let's see, what is it? Rogue, I guess. When it comes
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to Putin and Ukraine, I am still going to say he's not going to do a full attack. He might use the
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pressure to try to annex something or get some concessions or something. But I'm still going to
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say no attack. And I base it on the fact that he can't know he'll have a good outcome. And it's too
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risky. Right? So if he can get anything out of the deal, anything, I think he'll take that and go
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home. And I think maybe the Biden administration may have played it correctly. Mike Cernovich had a
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provocative quote yesterday, as he often does. Actually, that's redundant, isn't it? To say Mike
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Cernovich had a provocative tweet. That's like saying two things the same. Let's just say Mike
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Cernovich tweeted. And he asked, what world leader was the first to offer help after 9-11? Who called
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the president of the United States first to offer help taking care of the terrorists? And when I say
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taking care of him, you know what I mean? I think it was Putin. So that, I believe that there was a
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period of time in which we could have, you know, turned that into an ally situation. But I don't know
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when things went bad exactly. Certainly by the time Clinton was Secretary of Defense. But perhaps
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before that, I don't know the history of it. So whatever is happening between Russia and the United States
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seems to be fairly history based, don't you think? Is that fair to say? That there's some kind of history
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between Russia and the United States recently, you know, Putin versus various leaders. There's something going on
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there that is really the base reality that everything else springs from, I think.
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Scott, don't you realize that Russia wanting to invade Ukraine is a hoax? Well, I'm definitely not calling
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that a hoax yet. So it looks like negotiating to me.
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What do you think? Give me your opinions right now. Will, will there be a full scale invasion of Ukraine?
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A lot of people say no. All right, here's, here's another secret to subtext. What are the odds?
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Wait for this question. I want, I want you to hear this question really clearly.
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What are the odds that the Biden administration has to protect the Ukraine administration because of
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the dirt that they have on Biden? And they don't want that dirt to leave Ukraine and be in the hands
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of the Russians. There's a really high likelihood of that, isn't there? If anything that we've been
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hearing about Hunter Biden and Ukraine, if any of that's real, and I don't know, you know,
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who knows what's real. I don't know what's legal and what's sketchy and what's not over there.
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But if any of that's real, maybe the main reason that we can't, let's say, treat the Ukraine situation
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objectively is we may have a personal problem with our president and Ukraine. And I can't imagine
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that Ukraine doesn't have the goods on Hunter, can you? Don't you think that Ukraine would keep
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the secret if they have any? This is speculation. But if they had any, if they had any secrets about
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Hunter, don't you think they'd keep those secrets and use that as a leverage against Biden? Of course.
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Why is it that the president of Ukraine keeps acting like there's no attack imminent?
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What does he know? Because that's the strangest part, isn't it? Because there's no leader who acts
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like that under the circumstances that we can see. So given the data that the public has,
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what we can observe, it makes no sense that the president of Ukraine is saying,
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I don't see any attack. What attack? It makes no sense. The only thing that makes sense is that
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there's something big we don't know about, right? Something big. I don't know what that is.
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That something big might be, wait for it, that he has so much blackmail on Biden that he knows that
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the United States will stop a Russian attack one way or another, either through canceling financial
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deals or threats or cyber something or something. I feel like Zelensky is a little too confident.
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And one of those reasons might be that he has Biden in his pocket.
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How do you rule that out? I'm not saying that I have evidence of that. I don't.
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But how would you rule that out? Given that it seems at least, I mean, at least it's a strong
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possibility. Could you deny that? That's a strong possibility. Kind of a dangerous place to be for
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the world. But I don't see Russia and the United States getting into a shooting battle with each
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other. I do think that Putin's not going to get Ukraine. There might be some kind of independent
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region thing going on, maybe something like that. But maybe in the long run, he's just going to keep
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squeezing until he gets what he wants. We'll see. Does it seem to you that the kids these days have no
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game? I'm so cautious about just turning into the old man who yells at the clouds. It feels like
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the kids are not fighting against the mandates as much as we'd expect. Now, there are some schools
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that are having some protests and stuff. But they seem to be sporadic. And I was trying to think how
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I would have handled this in high school. Here's how I think I would have handled it. I think I would
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have organized protests, not against the masks, but a protest to require the teachers and the
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administrators to wear full hazmat outfits to protect the precious cargo. And I would just play
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it straight. I get the whole school to protest that the teachers and the administrators are not safe
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enough from the kids. And that the kids are a dangerous source of COVID death. And the kids are
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very concerned about the health of their teachers and their administrators. And they don't feel that masks
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are enough protection. So I would lead a full protest to demand that our teachers and administrators
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wear full hazmat outfits all day during the day. No taking them off for the bathrooms. No taking them
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off to eat. You better put the food inside the mask before you go to work and drive there. And I would
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never let go of it. And I would never act like I was joking. I would play it straight. And I would say,
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let's say, we got to follow the science people. You're not following the science. I would grow,
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I would go full Greta Thunberg on this shit. And I would push the absurdity as hard as hard as you
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can push it. Because the absurdity is the soft underbelly. Right? As soon as you act like this is
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really about science, you've already lost the debate. Because you're not in charge of saying what the
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science is. Somebody else is in charge of that. So they say the science is, and then you've got to
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do what they say. So you've got to break that model. You've got to find the most absurd part of
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what they're doing and make it bigger. Right? Take the most absurd thing they're doing and make it
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bigger, not smaller. And that'll break the system. That's how I would have done it. And I know there are
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people saying, you wouldn't have done that if you were in high school, Scott. To which I say,
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clearly you did not know me in high school. Oh, I would have done that. Yeah, I would have done
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that. I would have come to school wearing a complete mummy outfit if I thought it was funny.
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Well, here's a question that I've been asking about Bitcoin and crypto in general and how secure
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and private it is. Because when we heard that the government somehow clawed back some billions of
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dollars in crypto that had been stolen, I said to myself, well, that makes sense to me. But other
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people seemed surprised. And I thought to myself, clearly there's a way to get at any money. Because
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you can get at the people. If you can get at the people, you can get at anything. Because you can
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just make the people give you passwords or whatever. So I never understood the idea that Bitcoin was
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secure. Not at all. I mean, or that it was anonymous in any way that mattered. And sure enough, now we
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know a little bit about how the Feds got money back from, there was a couple who sold several billion
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dollars, 4.5 billion. So some, a couple managed to hack, I guess, 4.5 billion from, I think, an exchange.
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Although the money was worth less when they stole it. It just went up in value. But here was the problem.
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Well, apparently there's no way to launder crypto into the real spendable world.
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Now, I wondered how people did it. But I didn't know there actually is no way. So there's one site,
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apparently, where you can go to allegedly do it, where you can go to launder. So there's a,
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what is it? What's the site called? You'll remind me in the comments. There's some kind of a pirate
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site where you can go do that. But apparently that didn't work. So if you go to a site that's
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designed to launder illegal money, who should you be assuming already has control of the site?
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I'll say it again. If you knew there was a website whose existence was to launder illegal gains,
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who would you imagine is running the website after the first month? The feds, of course.
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Or the CIA or, you know, some kind of federal group. Because the feds are not going to allow
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an illegal money laundering thing to be there. But if it exists, they're definitely going to,
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you know, control it so they can get all the money launderers and roll them up easily.
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So it turns out that there was no way. So this couple were so smart that they could do this
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complicated hack. And they were using all kinds of shell companies and shell accounts and thousands
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of fake accounts to move things around. And with all of that, with all of their cleverness and fakery
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and fake accounts and everything, there still was no way to get their money. Did you know that?
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Did you know there was no way to cash that out without getting caught? Yeah. Now, I assumed that
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was the case without knowing anything about this world, really. But I just assumed there's no way
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you can steal that and not get caught. And sure enough, they got caught. So here's a question I
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asked. When do we reach the crossover point at which, if you've got 3D printing and you've got
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robots manufacturing things and you do a bunch of logistics improvements, because we're always
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improving, you know, logistics, how you get the materials to the place you want it, how long
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before it's just cheaper to make everything locally in the United States. Now, some people
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who are in this business said it's pretty close. So people who have 3D printer startups and whatnot
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say, yeah, we're actually pretty close. But other people who know a lot about this world say,
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if you did a plastic injection molding, you can make a part in a few seconds. But if you're
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trying to print that same part, it would take, you know, all day long or something. So that
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you never get to the point where printers can do the job of injection molding. To which
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I say, what? That example doesn't make any sense. Let's say I can use injection molding and it's
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50 times faster. Don't I just need 50 3D printers? I do, right? I just need 50 3D printers.
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Somebody says no. But why wouldn't I be able to print the same amount with just more printers?
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Now, how about this? Do you think we'll ever have a world in which you can have a 3D printer in your
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garage and it prints on demand for some nearby company? You just load it up with whatever,
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you know, is the equivalent of ink, I guess. And you get it, you just make it available on the
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internet. And you say, I have a 3D printer of this type, so I can do certain types of printing, but not
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others. You say, I have this printer of this type. It's available on these hours, so you can schedule
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the printer. And then you've got virtual companies in your local area that just use your printer at
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your house. And they just print on demand if it's available. And then it's up to you, or maybe
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there's an Uber-like service that picks it up. Or maybe you'd put it in the back of your pickup truck
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and drive it to a central location. I don't know. It seems to me that between logistics, robots, and
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3D printing, and keep in mind that the robot could be doing the injection molding, right? So that still
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falls under my category of things that don't require expensive processes. So I think we're really
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close to the point where 100% of manufacturing could come back to the United States and we could
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get rid of shipping costs and probably have much more flexibility as well. Now, there's also,
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there are 3D printers. How many of you knew this? You could buy a 3D printer that prints
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another 3D printer. Did you know that? And I think not every part of the 3D printer, so you probably
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have to buy, I don't know, like the cartridge head or something. But if you can make a 3D printer that
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makes other 3D printers, then all you need is to buy the raw materials. So the cost of the printer
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becomes equal to the cost of the material. Now, is it cost effective? But you can see how easily this
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can go from not cost effective at all to the point where you can make a printer make a new printer.
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I think it becomes cost effective really fast, doesn't it? Years ago, maybe 25 years ago, I was at a
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dinner with some high-powered executives and one of them was a futurist. And the futurist said that
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when robots can make their own robots, that's when everything changes. And we already have 3D
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printers that can make 3D printers. It's a little bit like a robot making a robot, isn't it? It's a
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little bit. And so I just wonder where all this could go. But I think the only point I'm going to
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make here is that you imagine that the crossover point is happening slowly, right? It's like, oh,
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incremental improvements in 3D printing, but we're nowhere near taking over for injection molding.
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We're not even close. But the cost of doing business in China is also going up for political and other
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reasons. So the cost of China is going up. Let's see, the crossover point. China is going up and the cost
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of 3D printing is going down. Here's my only point. For the first 80% of that journey, it's going to look
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like it can't happen. So for the first 80% of getting close to that crossover, it's going to
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look like it'll never happen because it's just going to be these little incremental changes. And then
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something like printers making printers happens. And then that last part goes boop. So the first 80%
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will be all of the hard slog. And then the last 20% is just going to happen instantly. And when it
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happens, you should see a complete collapse of China. Because when the stuff starts, the
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manufacturing gets pulled out of China, it's going to happen in about 10 years. There'll be a 10 year
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period where it all just all collapses and goes to whatever the new model is, robots or printers or
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something. So China has that to look forward to. President Trump announced that his new social media
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platform truth is in beta form, which means you won't be able to see it yet. But they're looking
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at March, I guess, to have that out. What do you think? I hear tell that it's going to be a
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subscription service, which is interesting. Because if it's a subscription service, like the
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locals platform, then you don't have to worry about advertisers. And then you don't have to worry
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about censorship. It might be a good model for that alone. And can you really not sign up for
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the one social media platform that Trump is on? Now, obviously, the Democrats won't,
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except for journalists, I guess. But I feel like you almost have to. As soon as I saw it, I thought,
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oh, crap, I have to sign up for this now, just to know what's going on and feel like I'm well
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informed and stuff. So we'll see how that goes. The one thing that they're doing right is the
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subscription, well, they may do more than that, right? But the subscription model might be the
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thing that sets them apart. That could be the thing that makes it work. We'll see. But you need
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a Trump to have enough pull to make a subscription model work. Maybe, maybe, maybe we got enough pull
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there. All right. Let's talk about Durham. So the Wall Street Journal editorial board is weighing in
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on this story about the Durham filing, in which it is alleged that the Clinton campaign worked with
00:29:24.060
lawyers who worked with a tech guy who had access to some internet data, both at the Trump Tower and at
00:29:32.680
the White House. And now the lawyers for the accused, Mr. Sussman, I guess it is, are saying that the data
00:29:43.420
that was collected was from the Obama era only. What do you think of that? Does that sound even remotely
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true? So, so literally the story, the cover-up story that pundits are actually saying out loud,
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and I'm going to add some hyperbole to this, but this is basically what they're saying.
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They're saying that Durham, with all of his capability and all of his resources,
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that there was nobody on the Durham team who could use a calendar. That's actually the news today.
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In effect, I mean, I'm adding a little to it, but in effect, the news is reporting that the,
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you know, one of the most highest-powered lawyers with a whole team of people can't read a calendar.
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And they couldn't tell that the data they were collecting was from before Trump's term.
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And so the defense is, oh, this is all before Trump. So obviously we weren't spying on Trump
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because the data is not even from his era. Now, do you believe that? That is the most
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ridiculously, obviously untrue statement I've ever heard in my life. We are actually being
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convinced, and Democrats probably are convinced, that Durham can't read a calendar. And he couldn't
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tell the difference between data that happened before and data that happened during the Trump
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administration. Seriously. We're actually being told that today, with straight faces. People
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are actually looking at it and saying, no, that data was collected during the Obama administration.
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Straight faces. They're actually saying that right out loud in public. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
00:31:28.160
Right. So the Wall Street Journal editorial board is all over this now. And you were wondering,
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you know, why isn't there more pushback on what is obviously a cover-up of the story? I mean,
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obviously. And it does look like Hillary Clinton and her team are going to completely get away with
00:31:47.900
this. At this point, it looks like they're going to make this story, the biggest story of several
00:31:54.820
years. Just go away. And it looks like they're actually doing it. And it's working. And I'm not
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even sure I'll be talking about it next week, because even I'll forget about it. It is beyond
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shocking. Beyond shocking. So there was a report that Hillary Clinton was spotted by 400
00:32:20.600
eyewitnesses and several video streams, literally stabbing to death a member of, well, actually a
00:32:29.940
Trump supporter, on the steps of the Supreme Court. 400 witnesses, several video streams,
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lots of DNA at the scene. And the Clinton defense is that it didn't happen. It didn't happen.
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And if it did happen, it was technically legal. So that's the defense. No, none of that happened.
00:32:59.440
There's a, I saw this from an Ian Bremmer tweet. I guess there's a Pew research that says,
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talking about the percentage of adults who have, quote, a great deal of confidence in medical
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scientists. In 2020, 43% of the public, according to Pew, had a great deal of confidence in medical
00:33:22.100
scientists. 43%. That's lower than I would have thought. I would have thought it would be over
00:33:27.920
half. But OK, 43%. In December of 2021, that dropped to 29%. So the entire medical scientific
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community has disgraced itself to the point where they've lost credibility with the public.
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It's pretty hard to lose credibility when you're the medical scientists of the country.
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Now, we get that they can get stuff wrong. We all understand that the scientists of any kind are
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going to get some stuff wrong. So it's not that. There's something else going on. This isn't really
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about getting stuff wrong, is it? That's not why the trust went down. It's because we think they
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lied. It's not because we think they made a mistake. It's because we think they lied to our face in ways
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that are completely obvious to us. So, I mean, it makes sense to me. Well, let's continue watching
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the chess pieces being removed from the board. So I guess George Clooney is going to make a docu-series
00:34:35.660
about some Ohio State wrestling sex abuse scandal that apparently features Representative Jim
00:34:43.860
Jordan, Republican, and not in a flattering light. So he's not accused of any crimes. He's accused
00:34:50.860
of knowing about them. Now, I don't know anything about the story. So I don't know who's guilty or not
00:34:58.380
guilty of anything. So I don't have any opinion on that. But I think this is more of the larger trend
00:35:02.900
where the stronger players are being identified and taken off the field. Likewise, the MyPillow
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founder, Mike Lindell, is saying that his bank just discontinued business with him. The bank decided
00:35:19.600
that they wouldn't take his business anymore. So I don't know what kind of financial distress
00:35:23.540
the MyPillow organization is in, but he's being taken off the field. Now, I'm not saying he shouldn't
00:35:29.660
be. So don't get me wrong. I'm not arguing that anybody said good things and was always right.
00:35:37.720
I'm not saying that some people shouldn't be taken off the field. Left or right, sometimes people need
00:35:45.140
to get taken off the field, right? For good reasons. But doesn't it seem to you that there's a roll-up
00:35:51.320
going on on both sides? You're going to see the strongest players on both sides from, you know,
00:35:57.320
the original Trump era. You're going to see all of them targeted and taken out.
00:36:05.080
And yeah, Matt Gaetz would be another example. The Cuomos were taken out. Much of CNN's been taken out.
00:36:12.840
Clinton seems, she seems bulletproof. Yeah, Joe Rogan taken out, etc. Or at least reduced. Alec Baldwin,
00:36:23.680
although that was his own doing. Rachel Maddow is off the field, right? I'm seeing more names going by.
00:36:32.780
So is it planned? Yeah, I don't know. It does look planned. It does look, well, maybe not centrally planned.
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But don't you think that everybody knows they need to reduce the voices of the strong, strong voices on the other side?
00:36:50.120
Everybody knows that. All right. Yeah, Elon's still there. And Tucker is holding on.
00:36:56.500
I would think that the crown jewel would be getting Tucker. I have to think that Tucker Carlson has led a very clean life.
00:37:06.000
Think about this. Think about the fact that Tucker Carlson is, he's got to be number one target of half of the country.
00:37:13.840
And nothing. Nothing. Right? I mean, the things that they attack him for are the things he says in the course of his job.
00:37:23.560
But apparently, that's okay with the people who watch him, so he's safe.
00:37:28.540
But apparently, he's never done anything that was especially wrong, or that anybody knows about.
00:37:35.140
So, he's in a good position right now. He's in a very good position.
00:37:45.200
Yeah, so Elon's being attacked. Oh, Berenson is gone. That's true.
00:37:51.440
Naomi Wolf is gone. Did Alex Berenson get anything right?
00:37:55.300
Let me ask you. Did Alex Berenson get anything right?
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Did he get anything wrong? Yeah, I think he got almost everything wrong, didn't he?
00:38:25.300
So, I guess we'll never know who got what right and what got wrong,
00:38:28.080
because we won't agree what was right and what was wrong.
00:38:38.900
All right. Even Alex Sharpton was in trouble, but I don't think he's...
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Okay. Well, let me just add this one other thing about the story about Clinton.
00:38:56.820
The thing that will be left out of all the stories about Clinton asking for her lawyers to get this dirt on Trump,
00:39:06.580
what will always be left out is that she paid the lawyers to get the stuff.
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What they will always leave out is that it did include the Trump era.
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although it was legal for the people who had access to it to have it,
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Although if you're passing it on to law enforcement, maybe that's always legal.
00:39:35.860
So you'll see that the people defending Clinton on this story will simply leave out parts of the story
00:39:44.860
and they can do it because people don't know enough about the story and it will just work.
00:40:01.440
I've never seen anybody look more like they know they're gone
00:40:06.100
than when he gave that press conference about the emergency powers.
00:40:11.240
It really sounds like he knew he was gone, didn't it?
00:40:13.980
To me, it looked like a person who knew that was the end of his political life.
00:40:34.300
and Republicans rank them highest in importance.
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abortion, of course the Democrats would say it's not even a human.
00:40:54.740
That's Republicans in favor of children or children-like entities,
00:41:04.300
Then you've got they don't want critical race theory taught in schools,
00:41:12.220
That they learn that they're defective or special based on race
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Masking of kids, it's obvious that the Republicans are on the right side of that
00:41:33.440
Now, the exception would be, if you wanted to be devil's advocate,
00:41:40.700
Because Greta has done a good job of, Greta Thunberg,
00:41:44.380
of framing that as, you know, the children against the old people
00:41:49.380
But you have to accept Greta's estimates of catastrophe
00:41:56.920
in order to even buy into what's good or bad for kids.
00:42:00.080
I would think that Trump is actually closer to right about what's good for kids.
00:42:08.980
you're probably going to make everybody a little richer.
00:42:13.540
And probably you'll have more money to remediate,
00:42:18.680
So I think you can make an argument that climate change,
00:42:21.700
it just depends on your assumptions about what is true.
00:42:24.200
That's really not about what is good or bad for kids.
00:42:31.840
And Democrats are not in favor of school choice, generally speaking.
00:43:27.080
there aren't many kids coming from same-sex marriages.
00:43:30.340
Well, there are kids coming from those marriages.
00:44:19.120
Can you give a live stream lessons to Kim Iverson?