Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 28, 2022


Episode 1668 Scott Adams： Let's Figure Out What's Going On In Ukraine Without Any Useful Information


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

140.21504

Word Count

5,825

Sentence Count

374

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Some people say that coffee with Scott Adams makes you happier, but what if you're not? And I say those people are idiots because if you think you're happy, you're probably not. And I don't care what Joe Biden says.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
00:00:07.700 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:09.500 Gets better every time.
00:00:12.040 Can you confirm that?
00:00:13.440 Yes, you can.
00:00:14.640 It's the power of the crowd.
00:00:16.160 They've already convinced you.
00:00:18.000 Now, some say it's just a placebo.
00:00:21.700 Some people say that Coffee with Scott Adams makes you think you're happier.
00:00:26.980 But what if you're not?
00:00:28.080 And I say those people are idiots because if you think you're happy, you're happy, damn it.
00:00:32.740 And I don't care what Joe Biden tells you.
00:00:35.080 So let's take it up a notch because we can.
00:00:38.320 All you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vassal of mankind.
00:00:45.280 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:46.380 I like coffee.
00:00:48.080 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
00:00:51.100 It's the dopamine hit of the day.
00:00:53.100 It's the thing that makes everything better except the war in Ukraine.
00:00:57.260 And Laurie, Laurie Posonek, that's a funny last name in the sense of funny that it sounds familiar.
00:01:08.860 Sounds like a family member to Jack.
00:01:11.980 But I digress.
00:01:13.800 Join me now.
00:01:14.760 Sip.
00:01:15.000 Encircled and being shelled.
00:01:24.420 Yeah.
00:01:25.800 All right.
00:01:26.460 Let's talk about all the things that are happening.
00:01:29.120 Number one.
00:01:30.500 So yesterday I retweeted a Alexander Vindman tweet, which some say included fake news.
00:01:38.840 The fake news being that there was a general in charge of the Ukraine situation who was fired by Putin for presumably doing a bad job.
00:01:49.020 But as other people said, wait a minute, Alexander Vindman.
00:01:54.100 Maybe the reports of this general being fired are fake because he appeared with Putin at some announcement after he supposedly had been fired.
00:02:03.300 So what do you say the general was reported to be fired, but then very soon after appeared with Putin in what seemed to be an official capacity.
00:02:16.140 So is it fake news or is it a reverse fake news, meaning that if if Putin had actually fired his main general, do you think he would not invite him to the meeting on the camera?
00:02:30.900 Of course he would.
00:02:33.820 Number one.
00:02:35.120 The guy you just fired from the head of the situation also knows the most.
00:02:41.540 Even if you just fired him, you'd keep him on the team.
00:02:45.460 You'd still go to the meeting.
00:02:47.420 And if you didn't want the world to know you had just fired your general, you would still invite him to the meeting.
00:02:52.700 So I'm going to say that the people who debunked Vindman's tweet may be the ones who are debunked themselves because their debunk is not convincing.
00:03:05.540 And Vindman only said it was a report.
00:03:08.900 He did not state it was true.
00:03:10.660 He said it was reported.
00:03:11.960 So the tweet was that it was reported and that's true.
00:03:14.840 And then the debunk is, I would say, marginally persuasive.
00:03:20.180 I get that being filmed in public after he should have been fired does make you wonder if it was true or not.
00:03:31.700 But it doesn't tell you anything for sure.
00:03:34.360 So I'm going to say that's a question mark.
00:03:36.520 But I'm guessing that story, because it sort of went away, we'd probably have some more confirmation if it were true by now, I think.
00:03:44.760 On the other hand, I also can't imagine that Putin wouldn't be firing a general by now.
00:03:51.760 Am I right?
00:03:53.140 Doesn't it seem to you that some general would be fired by now?
00:03:57.460 Or, you know, demoted or something.
00:04:01.060 All right.
00:04:03.340 I guess Ukraine and Russia are going to talk in Belarus.
00:04:07.240 Do you think this is real?
00:04:08.600 Do you think that Russia actually wants to talk about peace?
00:04:18.000 Or is it just part of the public relations?
00:04:23.040 Because we do think that Putin might need an exit ramp unless he's actually winning.
00:04:31.620 Do you believe anything that's coming out of Ukraine?
00:04:34.180 Because you probably shouldn't.
00:04:35.360 Do you believe that the Russian army is basically thwarted?
00:04:41.140 Or do you believe that they're just uncoiling and they've got the city surrounded and they can kind of take their time and do what they want?
00:04:49.000 Because nothing would stop them.
00:04:52.020 Well, we don't really know, do we?
00:04:54.320 And here's my question.
00:04:57.780 Does Ukraine already not have cell service anywhere?
00:05:02.460 Is the entire Ukrainian mobile phone network already down?
00:05:09.700 Can somebody tell me that?
00:05:10.780 It feels like that should be in the news all the time, if it is.
00:05:13.660 Do they have access to the Internet?
00:05:18.120 They can still upload videos.
00:05:20.240 So if you've got a population center that's full of people with smartphones,
00:05:25.420 and the population centers are being attacked, why are we not really seeing much in the way of video?
00:05:32.660 Should we not be seeing almost unlimited video?
00:05:35.900 Like people cowering down but sticking up their phone to record things?
00:05:41.920 Somebody says we are, but I'm not.
00:05:44.420 Like, what news source are you watching?
00:05:46.240 Check Reddit, somebody says.
00:05:52.320 Well, I also worry that things that are labeled to be from there are fake.
00:05:58.700 You'll see a lot today.
00:06:01.120 I don't know.
00:06:02.100 But don't you have a question about that?
00:06:03.980 It just does seem like, first of all, why are the phone networks working?
00:06:08.680 And if they are, it doesn't make sense we're not seeing a lot more video.
00:06:13.880 Because even the sources that I look at would still have those videos.
00:06:20.420 Yeah.
00:06:22.280 So I guess that's a big question.
00:06:25.520 Here's a question I asked.
00:06:26.720 Apparently this was a plot for the TV show Silicon Valley, but I didn't know that.
00:06:31.480 Is there a way to make, in an emergency,
00:06:33.460 is there a way to make your mobile phones a mesh network of some sort
00:06:39.480 so that as long as you were close enough to somebody else who had a phone,
00:06:44.380 your signal could hop to their phone before it finds another way out?
00:06:48.660 Is that a thing?
00:06:52.380 Well, it doesn't have the software, of course.
00:06:54.800 But could it?
00:06:57.740 The mesh needs to be in every app.
00:06:59.880 If the camera's pointed in the right direction.
00:07:06.220 Stuxnet.
00:07:08.240 I think they do that on cruises.
00:07:10.440 I don't think they do, do they?
00:07:12.940 Tethering.
00:07:14.680 All right, so I guess we don't know that,
00:07:16.920 but a company called Gotenna does that, somebody says.
00:07:23.060 Meshtastic.
00:07:24.300 All right.
00:07:24.680 So I guess the open question is,
00:07:27.100 is there a way that despots could be thwarted from turning off networks
00:07:32.620 because the phones just turn into a mesh network on their own?
00:07:36.020 It feels like we should be working on that for disaster, right?
00:07:39.760 See an Elon Musk tweet?
00:07:41.660 Well, I know about Starlink,
00:07:43.920 but you need a certain kind of terminal for that.
00:07:46.860 That's not going to help you if you don't have the right equipment
00:07:48.900 to use their network.
00:07:50.580 We already have Meshtastic and low-rod devices.
00:07:56.900 Yes, you can use your phone with those through BT.
00:08:01.480 Okay.
00:08:02.660 Interesting.
00:08:03.840 So maybe there's something there.
00:08:05.820 Question.
00:08:06.540 Do you think that the experience in Ukraine so far
00:08:09.920 is making China more or less confident that they could take Taiwan?
00:08:15.020 I feel like China is watching this and saying,
00:08:21.320 uh-oh, you can't really move massive equipment
00:08:24.680 into any place that has drones
00:08:26.440 or any place that has modern technology.
00:08:30.600 Right?
00:08:31.820 Because the whole process of occupation
00:08:34.960 requires lots of heavy equipment,
00:08:38.820 weapons and troop carriers and tanks,
00:08:41.220 and I don't think there's any world anymore
00:08:44.480 in which that kind of equipment
00:08:46.860 can make it into the country unmolested.
00:08:49.540 I mean, I think it would just be
00:08:50.740 turned to burning embers
00:08:53.300 somewhere on the highway
00:08:55.300 toward the metro centers.
00:08:57.900 So we'll talk about that a little bit more.
00:09:00.360 Do you remember when the military said
00:09:01.920 that the biggest threat to the U.S. military
00:09:04.220 was climate change?
00:09:05.380 And a lot of people snorted and said,
00:09:08.680 come on, you're being all politically correct there.
00:09:12.600 That can't be the biggest military threat.
00:09:15.780 And then we find ourselves looking at Putin
00:09:19.820 putting his nuclear forces on alert
00:09:22.240 because of Ukraine,
00:09:25.540 which is largely because,
00:09:27.720 or at least partly because,
00:09:30.040 the way we manage energy in the United States,
00:09:32.960 which is partly because of climate change narrative.
00:09:38.680 So indeed,
00:09:41.260 maybe not in the way that was imagined,
00:09:45.280 but climate change actually literally
00:09:47.260 became our biggest military problem
00:09:49.260 because of the way it works through the system
00:09:52.180 and makes Russia richer
00:09:53.920 and that emboldens them.
00:09:57.700 So I didn't see that coming.
00:09:59.200 Are you seeing any reports
00:10:03.340 that Russia is holding a major city in Ukraine?
00:10:08.680 Because the standard news is saying no, right?
00:10:14.540 But I'm also seeing Russian trolls on Twitter
00:10:18.340 saying that, you know, some city fell.
00:10:23.060 Now, is anybody else getting a lot of Russian troll action?
00:10:29.160 Because I am.
00:10:30.280 I'm getting obvious Russian operatives
00:10:32.980 who are tweeting at me.
00:10:34.080 I mean, they're just really obvious.
00:10:36.960 Now, is everybody getting that
00:10:39.080 or are they targeting people
00:10:40.400 who just do some kind of public commenting?
00:10:47.240 Why assume they are trolls?
00:10:48.720 Because they have completely different information
00:10:50.440 and it's obvious disinformation.
00:10:53.480 I'm not even going to tell you what they're saying
00:10:56.140 because it's pretty obviously disinformation.
00:11:00.020 Yeah, I think I might be a target,
00:11:01.760 but it could be just a general approach.
00:11:04.720 Who knows?
00:11:07.460 I remind you again that I might be the only person
00:11:10.340 who said prior to the invasion
00:11:12.280 that if there was an invasion,
00:11:14.540 which, by the way, I predicted incorrectly,
00:11:17.140 because I said there's no way Russia...
00:11:18.480 I said there's no way Putin thinks this could pay off.
00:11:24.740 Right?
00:11:28.840 And so I got that wrong.
00:11:30.820 But I was making an assumption
00:11:32.660 that he was operating rationally.
00:11:35.440 And who knows?
00:11:37.360 You know, the information at the moment
00:11:38.940 is that he's not,
00:11:40.380 but you can't rely on that either.
00:11:41.800 Oh, you are a bad person there.
00:11:47.940 Let's get rid of the bad person
00:11:49.260 who's putting the bad words here.
00:11:51.800 Remove.
00:11:54.260 Sorry about that.
00:11:55.600 Sorry you had to put up with that.
00:12:01.460 Now, there's a big mystery going on,
00:12:05.060 which is why is Ukraine doing so well,
00:12:07.820 or are they?
00:12:09.380 I guess the first question is,
00:12:10.900 do we even know for sure
00:12:12.680 that the Ukrainian resistance
00:12:14.300 is putting up a great fight?
00:12:16.360 Because I don't know that we know that for sure.
00:12:19.520 Right?
00:12:21.060 Yeah.
00:12:21.520 I don't know that we know that for sure.
00:12:26.360 Yeah, you know,
00:12:27.040 we're also not seeing pictures of dead Russians.
00:12:31.060 Is that true?
00:12:33.460 Well,
00:12:35.080 I saw Mike Cernovich asking about this yesterday.
00:12:37.380 It was a good question.
00:12:38.080 Apparently,
00:12:39.480 there are people who know more than I do
00:12:41.060 who say,
00:12:41.680 it looks like the Russians are sending
00:12:43.060 their low-end tanks.
00:12:45.740 They're not sending their best equipment.
00:12:48.040 Does that make sense,
00:12:48.980 that they wouldn't send their best equipment?
00:12:51.860 Yes,
00:12:52.300 my allergies are back.
00:12:53.260 And I'm not sure even that's true.
00:12:59.900 Now,
00:13:00.340 could it be?
00:13:01.420 I was seeing a lot of speculation
00:13:03.000 about why we're seeing what we're seeing,
00:13:05.280 if it's even true.
00:13:06.800 One is that maybe they're just,
00:13:08.320 you know,
00:13:09.100 testing the defense,
00:13:10.440 so they send in their bad tanks
00:13:12.000 to see what happens,
00:13:13.280 and they figure they'll lose a bunch.
00:13:14.660 It might be
00:13:16.760 that they're putting all the good equipment
00:13:18.460 in one place.
00:13:20.300 So maybe the best equipment
00:13:21.700 is already staged for,
00:13:24.600 let's say,
00:13:25.180 taking the capital or something.
00:13:27.040 So it could be that the,
00:13:28.680 you know,
00:13:28.860 what you're seeing
00:13:29.500 is the bad equipment being destroyed,
00:13:31.840 but that's a diversion
00:13:33.120 from the good stuff
00:13:34.360 which is waiting to attack somewhere else.
00:13:36.620 I suppose that's possible.
00:13:38.420 The other possibility is
00:13:39.980 they don't have any good stuff.
00:13:42.640 That they do have high-end tanks and whatnot,
00:13:45.960 but not many of them.
00:13:47.280 Maybe they just didn't want to risk them.
00:13:49.340 Maybe they thought
00:13:50.180 it would be such an easy war
00:13:51.580 or that Ukraine
00:13:53.580 would just fold immediately
00:13:54.980 that they didn't need
00:13:56.380 to risk any of the good stuff.
00:13:58.180 Maybe they didn't want
00:13:59.000 the Americans or NATO
00:14:00.160 to see how their best equipment operates.
00:14:03.300 And they thought,
00:14:03.740 well, we don't need the best stuff.
00:14:05.960 So those are all possibilities, right?
00:14:07.880 Let me give you my filter on this,
00:14:12.480 which I don't know
00:14:13.720 if anybody else has said this yet,
00:14:16.020 but I'm going to put
00:14:19.040 the Dilbert filter on this.
00:14:21.280 Now, the Dilbert filter is
00:14:22.740 how does any large organization operate,
00:14:26.300 whether it's a government,
00:14:28.060 could even be within a dictatorship,
00:14:30.180 or, you know,
00:14:31.980 a regular corporation.
00:14:33.440 There are some things
00:14:34.400 that are very common
00:14:35.400 to large organizations,
00:14:37.180 and one of them is the slow walk.
00:14:40.380 The slow walk
00:14:41.420 is when the boss tells you
00:14:42.520 to do something
00:14:43.180 that you don't think
00:14:44.640 should be done,
00:14:45.940 but you don't want to argue
00:14:46.860 with the boss
00:14:47.520 for all the obvious reasons.
00:14:49.480 So you say,
00:14:50.160 sure, boss,
00:14:51.440 and then you go about
00:14:52.420 the job of doing it,
00:14:53.520 but inefficiently.
00:14:55.160 In other words,
00:14:55.800 you might put in a phone call,
00:14:58.680 but then you don't do anything
00:14:59.960 until you get a return call,
00:15:01.360 which often never comes.
00:15:03.540 And then when somebody asks you,
00:15:04.840 you say,
00:15:05.020 yeah, I put in a call,
00:15:06.800 I just haven't gotten
00:15:07.500 a call back.
00:15:08.580 Now, if you were really
00:15:09.560 trying to get something done,
00:15:10.800 you'd put in a call,
00:15:12.640 you'd put in a text,
00:15:13.580 you'd go visit the person,
00:15:15.020 you'd bug them
00:15:15.700 until you got a response,
00:15:16.780 you'd try somebody else.
00:15:18.540 You know,
00:15:18.720 that's what it looks like
00:15:19.580 when you're trying
00:15:20.140 to get something done.
00:15:21.640 But when you're slow walking,
00:15:23.740 you do what you're told to do,
00:15:25.520 and you just make it look like
00:15:26.900 you're following orders.
00:15:29.820 To me,
00:15:30.460 it looks a lot like
00:15:31.320 the generals are slow walking this
00:15:33.100 because they don't want to win.
00:15:37.440 And one reason
00:15:38.600 that they might not want to win
00:15:40.080 is that they think
00:15:41.060 Putin has lost it,
00:15:43.040 and if they lose the war,
00:15:45.700 then they could have
00:15:47.980 a justification
00:15:48.680 for taking Putin out.
00:15:50.960 A palace coup,
00:15:51.820 as it were.
00:15:54.260 At the moment,
00:15:55.420 correct me if I'm wrong,
00:15:56.920 Putin is still wildly popular
00:15:58.720 in Russia.
00:16:00.460 And taking Ukraine,
00:16:01.400 I think taking Crimea
00:16:02.440 brought him to like
00:16:03.720 80% popularity,
00:16:05.040 didn't it?
00:16:05.420 At least for a while.
00:16:06.080 Who knows if those numbers
00:16:08.020 are accurate.
00:16:09.560 But there's no way
00:16:12.260 that anybody could
00:16:13.520 take Putin out
00:16:14.420 unless they degrade his,
00:16:16.480 let's say,
00:16:17.900 his reputation.
00:16:21.220 Are the generals
00:16:22.340 slow walking the war
00:16:24.220 because they have
00:16:25.720 no reason to win?
00:16:27.180 There's nothing in it for them.
00:16:29.120 And their best play,
00:16:30.940 if they think Putin
00:16:32.300 has lost it,
00:16:33.700 and that he's actually
00:16:34.440 just dangerous at this point,
00:16:36.360 they might try to
00:16:37.740 slow walk the war
00:16:38.720 and not try to win.
00:16:43.880 There's huge corruption
00:16:44.960 in the Russian army.
00:16:45.900 Yeah, I don't know
00:16:46.380 if that plays a part in it.
00:16:52.980 Maybe he thought
00:16:53.820 it would be like
00:16:54.420 taking Crimea.
00:16:55.740 Yeah.
00:16:56.000 Now let's talk about
00:16:58.400 why it's not.
00:17:00.460 Have you all seen
00:17:01.140 some drone footage
00:17:02.260 of what looks like
00:17:03.340 Ukrainian-operated drones?
00:17:08.240 I think they're
00:17:08.820 Turkish by design.
00:17:11.540 And I asked
00:17:12.820 how many they have
00:17:13.680 and how many would it take
00:17:14.660 to stop
00:17:15.200 a Russian incursion?
00:17:18.800 Well, the big variable here
00:17:20.940 is the Russian
00:17:22.840 anti-aircraft
00:17:24.120 defenses.
00:17:26.760 So presumably,
00:17:28.260 you know,
00:17:28.480 so I'm not a military person,
00:17:29.740 so correct me
00:17:30.700 in real time
00:17:31.260 as I go, right?
00:17:32.140 I'm just saying
00:17:32.980 some things
00:17:34.000 that sound logical
00:17:34.820 but they may not
00:17:35.640 be militarily sound.
00:17:38.200 That I would think
00:17:39.280 that the only defense
00:17:40.480 the invading army
00:17:42.060 would have
00:17:42.680 would be
00:17:44.300 ground-based
00:17:45.300 anti-aircraft.
00:17:46.760 So if a
00:17:47.980 serious military drone
00:17:49.280 came into the airspace,
00:17:50.700 they would try to
00:17:51.240 shoot it down
00:17:51.740 with the anti-aircraft.
00:17:52.880 Am I right?
00:17:53.300 If the drone
00:17:55.900 or some other
00:17:56.920 kind of weapons
00:17:58.740 took out
00:17:59.860 their ground-based
00:18:00.900 anti-aircraft,
00:18:02.540 which would be
00:18:03.280 easy to identify
00:18:04.160 because apparently
00:18:05.500 they'd just come in
00:18:06.220 on a big highway
00:18:06.880 during the daytime.
00:18:09.040 If you're looking
00:18:09.920 down from above
00:18:10.880 with satellites
00:18:11.780 or anything else,
00:18:12.880 drones or satellites
00:18:13.900 or who knows,
00:18:15.200 can't you just see them?
00:18:17.640 And, you know,
00:18:18.580 you're also talking
00:18:19.340 about jamming equipment.
00:18:20.920 Couldn't we just see
00:18:21.620 the jamming equipment?
00:18:22.440 And then could we
00:18:24.040 take that out first?
00:18:26.100 So here's the real question.
00:18:28.240 Could we take out
00:18:29.060 their jamming
00:18:29.860 and anti-aircraft
00:18:31.060 so soon
00:18:32.840 that they would
00:18:34.440 come into the country
00:18:35.220 naked?
00:18:36.780 In other words,
00:18:37.740 it's the only thing
00:18:38.580 you target.
00:18:39.680 As soon as the convoy
00:18:40.800 comes across the bridge,
00:18:42.160 you take out
00:18:42.920 their anti-aircraft
00:18:43.960 and then here's
00:18:44.820 the genius part.
00:18:46.400 You let them in.
00:18:48.120 But you let them in
00:18:48.980 naked
00:18:49.300 because they wouldn't
00:18:50.580 have anti-aircraft.
00:18:51.580 You took it out first.
00:18:52.440 Once they're in
00:18:53.700 and it's hard
00:18:55.120 for them to go back,
00:18:56.960 you just pick them off.
00:18:59.440 And here's the real question.
00:19:01.920 What kind of hardware
00:19:02.860 or equipment
00:19:03.500 would it take
00:19:04.200 to make sure
00:19:05.540 that you could
00:19:07.940 take out
00:19:08.440 their anti-aircraft
00:19:10.060 on the ground
00:19:10.780 before they can
00:19:12.540 take out
00:19:12.980 your whatever it is
00:19:13.940 that's taking out
00:19:14.560 the anti-aircraft?
00:19:17.120 Do you think
00:19:17.900 that might have been
00:19:18.740 maybe some
00:19:19.720 American equipment
00:19:20.660 involved in that?
00:19:23.920 You know,
00:19:24.420 I don't know
00:19:24.760 if there would be
00:19:25.300 an American operator,
00:19:26.500 but there might be
00:19:26.980 American equipment
00:19:27.880 involved in that
00:19:29.580 somehow.
00:19:32.040 So,
00:19:33.040 I do believe
00:19:34.680 that it wouldn't be hard
00:19:35.820 for ground-based
00:19:38.900 anti-aircraft
00:19:39.800 or jamming
00:19:40.620 to take out
00:19:41.120 a drone.
00:19:41.480 but if we had
00:19:44.840 missiles
00:19:45.360 that could be
00:19:47.400 guided onto
00:19:48.300 an incoming transport,
00:19:49.720 let's say you had
00:19:50.220 a spotter.
00:19:51.660 This is a real thing,
00:19:52.700 right?
00:19:53.040 Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:19:54.200 If you have
00:19:54.600 special forces
00:19:55.400 and they have
00:19:56.760 a visual sight
00:19:58.080 of an incoming convoy,
00:20:00.520 doesn't the special forces
00:20:01.820 just put a
00:20:02.700 laser tag
00:20:04.800 on whatever
00:20:05.940 they want to blow up
00:20:07.000 and then
00:20:08.180 a missile
00:20:08.540 arrives
00:20:09.100 from some
00:20:09.840 distant place
00:20:11.340 and it follows
00:20:12.680 the laser pointer
00:20:13.600 to the exact target?
00:20:16.260 Right?
00:20:16.820 Now,
00:20:17.240 wouldn't it be
00:20:17.640 really hard
00:20:18.100 to shoot
00:20:18.580 that missile down?
00:20:20.040 It would be
00:20:20.400 a lot harder
00:20:20.900 than shooting
00:20:21.340 down a drone,
00:20:22.640 right?
00:20:23.940 Am I right
00:20:24.480 about that?
00:20:24.880 So I don't know
00:20:31.700 what technology
00:20:32.420 we have
00:20:32.960 for blowing up
00:20:33.820 anti-aircraft
00:20:34.740 stuff on the ground,
00:20:35.880 but I would guess
00:20:36.980 if you could see it,
00:20:38.600 that's all you need.
00:20:40.500 If you have
00:20:41.220 modern equipment
00:20:42.000 and you have
00:20:43.600 a visual sight
00:20:44.600 on it
00:20:44.940 as it comes in,
00:20:45.840 isn't it gone?
00:20:48.560 I mean,
00:20:48.860 it's pretty much
00:20:49.520 gone if you can
00:20:50.360 see it,
00:20:50.920 right?
00:20:51.700 And then once
00:20:52.520 that's gone,
00:20:53.560 I feel like
00:20:55.540 you can just
00:20:55.960 pick them off.
00:20:57.240 So how many
00:20:57.920 drones does
00:20:58.860 these high-end
00:21:00.040 drones,
00:21:01.240 how many of them
00:21:01.960 does Ukraine
00:21:02.760 manage?
00:21:04.340 I looked that up,
00:21:05.440 somebody said 10,
00:21:06.760 I saw an article
00:21:07.740 that said 20.
00:21:09.320 You know what
00:21:09.700 the real answer is?
00:21:11.640 How would we know?
00:21:13.380 Would we really know?
00:21:15.460 And if they had
00:21:16.200 20 on
00:21:16.960 Saturday,
00:21:19.160 how many did
00:21:20.000 they have on Sunday?
00:21:22.360 Because they fly,
00:21:23.340 right?
00:21:23.720 I mean,
00:21:24.060 I don't know
00:21:24.460 how hard it is
00:21:25.180 to deliver a drone
00:21:26.140 to a war zone,
00:21:27.500 given that they fly.
00:21:30.860 But
00:21:31.260 Ukraine seems
00:21:34.160 to have lost
00:21:34.640 five drones,
00:21:35.480 somebody says.
00:21:36.280 You know,
00:21:36.500 everything's fog of war,
00:21:37.580 so we don't
00:21:38.740 believe it.
00:21:40.020 An Apache
00:21:40.540 helicopter would work.
00:21:42.720 Would work for what?
00:21:47.460 Yeah.
00:21:47.900 All the videos
00:21:54.140 about Russia losing
00:21:55.160 are in Telegram,
00:21:56.760 but that would
00:21:57.520 also suggest
00:21:58.280 they're not real,
00:21:59.860 because if they're
00:22:00.680 real,
00:22:01.180 they would jump
00:22:01.640 from Telegram
00:22:02.460 to the regular
00:22:03.580 news pretty quickly,
00:22:04.860 because the regular
00:22:05.560 news would love
00:22:06.220 to show that story
00:22:07.060 of Russia losing.
00:22:08.560 So there's something
00:22:09.340 not tracking here.
00:22:11.740 Well,
00:22:11.920 there's a lot
00:22:12.300 not tracking.
00:22:12.800 So here's my
00:22:15.140 hypothesis.
00:22:18.080 In addition
00:22:18.720 to all the stingers,
00:22:21.600 you know,
00:22:21.780 what about
00:22:22.320 one of those
00:22:22.960 anti-tank weapons?
00:22:25.120 If you had
00:22:25.880 the high ground
00:22:26.640 and you could see
00:22:28.320 a military convoy
00:22:30.020 coming by,
00:22:31.020 couldn't you
00:22:31.440 recognize and
00:22:32.280 destroy
00:22:32.780 the anti-aircraft
00:22:34.640 stuff
00:22:35.900 pretty easily?
00:22:39.000 I don't know.
00:22:39.840 So I'm guessing
00:22:40.560 that the Ukrainians
00:22:41.420 just have better
00:22:42.000 equipment than
00:22:42.560 we think,
00:22:43.020 or they're
00:22:43.280 using it better.
00:22:44.580 And I don't know.
00:22:46.660 I think we may
00:22:47.440 have reached a
00:22:47.940 point in history
00:22:48.680 where as long
00:22:50.700 as a country
00:22:51.320 has access
00:22:52.000 to unlimited
00:22:52.780 technology from
00:22:53.840 the outside,
00:22:55.320 nobody can
00:22:56.060 conquer and
00:22:56.560 hold them.
00:22:58.040 And I think
00:22:58.740 maybe having a
00:22:59.580 border with
00:23:00.120 friendly countries
00:23:00.920 is all you need.
00:23:02.900 That as long
00:23:03.480 as you have a
00:23:03.940 border with a
00:23:04.520 friendly country,
00:23:06.000 and there are
00:23:06.480 other countries
00:23:07.120 that are willing
00:23:07.580 to support you
00:23:08.320 financially by
00:23:09.100 sending you
00:23:09.580 unlimited military
00:23:10.640 stuff,
00:23:11.600 then nobody
00:23:12.080 can hold
00:23:12.520 the country
00:23:12.960 because it
00:23:13.820 would just
00:23:14.080 be too hard.
00:23:15.500 Because if you
00:23:16.000 can put in
00:23:16.420 one person's
00:23:17.120 hand enough
00:23:18.560 firepower to
00:23:19.300 take out a
00:23:19.800 building,
00:23:21.220 which largely
00:23:22.520 we have now,
00:23:23.640 if one person
00:23:24.580 with a handheld
00:23:25.280 weapon can take
00:23:26.040 out a whole
00:23:26.380 building or a
00:23:27.480 tank,
00:23:28.620 I don't know
00:23:28.920 how you can
00:23:29.280 hold the
00:23:29.560 country.
00:23:29.820 Russia's stock
00:23:34.220 market closed,
00:23:35.560 the ruble is
00:23:36.140 plummeting,
00:23:37.140 sanctions are
00:23:37.880 on, the
00:23:38.660 Russian
00:23:39.680 central bank
00:23:42.680 is going to
00:23:43.180 be stalled
00:23:44.480 in a variety
00:23:45.120 of ways.
00:23:46.620 And I guess
00:23:47.020 Putin's response
00:23:47.920 to that was to
00:23:48.560 put his nuclear
00:23:49.560 arsenal on some
00:23:51.060 kind of high
00:23:51.600 alert.
00:23:52.860 Now, I don't
00:23:53.480 believe we have
00:23:54.120 responded or
00:23:54.940 anybody's responded
00:23:55.780 because that looks
00:23:56.940 like just
00:23:57.820 posturing.
00:24:00.600 Looks like
00:24:01.460 posturing.
00:24:03.080 We hope.
00:24:04.600 But, here's
00:24:06.040 the question.
00:24:07.600 I'm still
00:24:08.400 seeing the
00:24:09.140 two world
00:24:10.060 reporting.
00:24:10.820 One is that
00:24:11.460 the sanctions
00:24:11.960 are too weak
00:24:12.740 and Putin will
00:24:14.160 just ignore them.
00:24:15.400 And the other
00:24:15.840 is the sanctions
00:24:16.700 are devastating.
00:24:19.600 Why don't we
00:24:20.420 know that?
00:24:22.160 Don't you think
00:24:22.800 that would be
00:24:23.180 like a basic
00:24:23.840 thing to know
00:24:24.420 about this story?
00:24:25.260 Maybe the most
00:24:25.920 basic thing.
00:24:26.940 The most
00:24:27.540 basic thing
00:24:28.120 about the
00:24:28.460 story is
00:24:28.900 are the
00:24:29.720 sanctions
00:24:30.160 really going
00:24:30.740 to make
00:24:30.960 a difference?
00:24:32.260 Like, are
00:24:32.560 they the
00:24:32.920 type that
00:24:33.380 would make
00:24:33.720 a difference?
00:24:34.620 And apparently
00:24:35.320 we don't
00:24:35.740 even know
00:24:36.140 that.
00:24:38.460 Apparently
00:24:38.860 we don't
00:24:39.260 even know
00:24:39.660 that.
00:24:41.480 Yeah, so
00:24:42.080 SWIFT has
00:24:42.880 kicked in as
00:24:43.920 at least
00:24:44.540 partial
00:24:45.600 problem there.
00:24:47.560 Some people
00:24:48.160 say, hey,
00:24:48.860 crippling 80%
00:24:49.780 of Russia's
00:24:50.880 banks will
00:24:51.520 plunge them
00:24:52.420 into economic
00:24:53.220 despair.
00:24:54.320 And then other
00:24:54.900 people are
00:24:55.300 saying, well,
00:24:56.500 Putin only
00:24:57.580 needs 20%
00:24:58.380 of the banks
00:24:58.860 and he can
00:24:59.200 do whatever
00:24:59.520 he wants.
00:25:00.800 But I don't
00:25:01.480 think that's
00:25:01.940 true either.
00:25:03.720 Yeah, we're
00:25:04.260 still buying
00:25:04.740 Russian oil,
00:25:05.440 which is just
00:25:05.900 the weirdest
00:25:06.300 thing.
00:25:07.620 But I suppose
00:25:08.200 if they're
00:25:08.520 willing to sell
00:25:09.080 it to us
00:25:09.440 at a good
00:25:09.780 price, we
00:25:10.320 should buy it.
00:25:12.020 None of
00:25:19.360 them is real.
00:25:20.560 Well, none of
00:25:21.080 the information
00:25:21.560 is real, I'm
00:25:22.140 sure.
00:25:23.040 Germany says
00:25:23.820 it's going to
00:25:24.200 keep its
00:25:24.560 nuclear plants
00:25:25.260 longer, partly
00:25:26.140 in response to
00:25:27.200 feeling vulnerable
00:25:28.740 in their energy
00:25:29.520 supply.
00:25:30.500 So why did it
00:25:31.480 take so long
00:25:32.140 for Germany to
00:25:33.120 decide to
00:25:34.000 extend its
00:25:35.420 nuclear power
00:25:36.000 plants?
00:25:36.960 Well, it turns
00:25:37.900 out we have a
00:25:38.540 new little
00:25:38.920 report about
00:25:40.440 Russia.
00:25:42.140 Apparently the
00:25:42.780 Russian energy
00:25:44.720 giant Gazprom,
00:25:47.220 and this is
00:25:48.020 reported by
00:25:48.860 Zion Lights,
00:25:52.380 she's saying
00:25:52.860 and apparently
00:25:53.720 Dominique Rene
00:25:55.360 reports, I
00:25:56.380 don't know who
00:25:56.660 that is, that
00:25:58.000 we found that
00:25:58.720 Gazprom funded
00:25:59.580 environmental
00:26:00.220 NGOs, non-government
00:26:03.140 organizations, that
00:26:04.260 provide ministers to
00:26:05.280 various governments
00:26:05.920 such as Belgium,
00:26:07.240 which then
00:26:07.660 advocated a
00:26:08.460 abandoning
00:26:09.040 nuclear power.
00:26:10.340 In other words,
00:26:11.900 the competitor to
00:26:13.120 nuclear power, the
00:26:14.460 Russian competitor,
00:26:16.740 had been funding
00:26:17.700 disinformation to
00:26:20.080 get people to get
00:26:21.000 out of nuclear,
00:26:21.900 because nuclear was
00:26:22.760 actually the better
00:26:23.540 solution.
00:26:26.160 So, thank you
00:26:28.300 Russia.
00:26:30.040 And do you
00:26:31.060 remember when
00:26:31.580 there was this
00:26:32.240 guy, I can't
00:26:33.700 remember his name,
00:26:34.620 maybe you can
00:26:35.160 remember, he had
00:26:36.580 orange hair, he
00:26:37.920 was the president
00:26:38.440 for a while,
00:26:39.480 and he called
00:26:39.940 China, he
00:26:42.300 said that
00:26:42.800 climate change
00:26:44.440 was a Chinese
00:26:45.480 hoax, and
00:26:47.720 it turned out to
00:26:48.320 be a Russian
00:26:48.760 hoax, like
00:26:50.660 actually,
00:26:51.300 literally a
00:26:51.760 Russian hoax,
00:26:53.400 in the sense
00:26:54.600 that Russia,
00:26:56.180 you know,
00:26:56.440 Russia's, a
00:26:57.800 Russia-owned,
00:26:58.880 you know,
00:26:59.580 energy giant was
00:27:00.700 literally trying to
00:27:01.720 disinform the
00:27:02.680 public to change
00:27:04.280 the course of
00:27:06.320 civilization away
00:27:07.900 from nuclear,
00:27:09.220 which probably
00:27:10.600 is going to be
00:27:12.480 one of the
00:27:12.880 biggest problems
00:27:13.500 that ever happened
00:27:14.180 on the planet
00:27:14.720 Earth, according
00:27:16.540 to the climate
00:27:17.840 people.
00:27:20.060 All right, so
00:27:20.840 thanks for that.
00:27:23.380 This story, of
00:27:24.380 course, the next
00:27:25.140 story was I saw
00:27:26.100 in Fox News, so
00:27:28.240 you're going to
00:27:28.900 have to give it a
00:27:29.660 grain of salt for
00:27:30.560 the bias, because
00:27:32.000 when they talk
00:27:32.500 about their
00:27:32.860 competitors, it's
00:27:34.620 always interesting,
00:27:35.440 and it's funny,
00:27:36.900 but remember, it's
00:27:37.960 somebody reporting
00:27:39.020 on their
00:27:39.360 competitors, so
00:27:40.180 they're going to
00:27:40.580 paint them in a
00:27:41.020 bad light.
00:27:42.160 But I guess Tom
00:27:44.380 Cotton, I didn't
00:27:44.980 see it, but Tom
00:27:45.620 Cotton was on
00:27:46.360 ABC News with
00:27:47.860 Stepanopheles, and
00:27:50.260 Stepanopheles,
00:27:51.160 apparently,
00:27:51.960 reportedly, was
00:27:53.320 getting frustrated
00:27:54.720 because he
00:27:55.880 couldn't make
00:27:56.460 Tom Cotton
00:27:57.260 insult Trump,
00:27:59.820 to which I
00:28:01.020 say,
00:28:02.000 why was
00:28:03.200 Trump really
00:28:04.460 even the
00:28:04.960 topic?
00:28:06.060 Now, we get
00:28:06.680 that he made
00:28:07.280 some decisions,
00:28:08.280 he said good
00:28:09.140 things about
00:28:09.680 Putin, but
00:28:11.040 Cotton was
00:28:12.040 refusing, just
00:28:14.060 saying, you
00:28:14.520 should have
00:28:14.840 Trump on if
00:28:15.440 you want to
00:28:15.760 talk to him,
00:28:16.980 and Tom
00:28:17.820 Cotton just
00:28:18.280 focused on the
00:28:19.400 actual real
00:28:20.440 issues.
00:28:22.100 And apparently
00:28:23.540 that was a
00:28:24.500 terrible thing
00:28:25.100 because ABC
00:28:26.000 only wanted to
00:28:26.860 use the
00:28:27.220 opportunity of
00:28:29.460 this event that
00:28:30.240 has nothing to
00:28:30.860 do with Trump
00:28:31.500 to make it
00:28:32.520 an anti-Trump
00:28:33.280 story.
00:28:34.680 And they're
00:28:35.680 still trying to
00:28:36.400 torture the
00:28:37.280 fact that
00:28:38.520 Trump plays to
00:28:39.680 Putin's ego and
00:28:41.080 calls him smart.
00:28:42.720 They're trying to
00:28:43.320 make that into a
00:28:44.100 story negative
00:28:45.040 about Trump,
00:28:46.460 when in fact,
00:28:48.740 he is the
00:28:49.380 smartest person in
00:28:50.260 the game.
00:28:51.060 Because you
00:28:51.700 should absolutely
00:28:52.600 tell Putin he's
00:28:53.460 smart while you're
00:28:56.060 arming Ukraine,
00:28:57.460 and while you're
00:28:59.380 doing everything
00:28:59.900 you can to
00:29:00.540 minimize his
00:29:01.200 impact, you
00:29:02.120 should totally
00:29:02.600 call him smart.
00:29:04.420 Because you
00:29:05.120 take away one
00:29:06.100 ego reason for
00:29:07.240 him to act
00:29:07.660 irrationally.
00:29:08.820 You want Putin
00:29:09.700 to act rationally,
00:29:11.140 so don't give him
00:29:12.400 a reason to act
00:29:13.080 irrationally.
00:29:14.260 Don't make it
00:29:14.840 personal.
00:29:17.360 Trump is just a
00:29:18.320 better negotiator.
00:29:20.100 Do you know
00:29:20.380 what, here's some
00:29:21.880 advice for Tom
00:29:22.700 Cotton.
00:29:23.020 You should say,
00:29:25.820 I don't know,
00:29:26.300 Trump is a
00:29:26.860 salesperson.
00:29:27.980 Does a salesperson
00:29:28.920 usually insult the
00:29:29.880 buyer?
00:29:31.820 And then just be
00:29:32.720 done.
00:29:33.700 And if he asks the
00:29:34.380 question again,
00:29:35.020 well, but do you
00:29:36.160 think it was wise to
00:29:37.380 praise Putin like
00:29:38.320 that?
00:29:38.600 I would just say the
00:29:39.300 same answer again.
00:29:40.700 Trump is a
00:29:41.440 salesperson.
00:29:42.380 He tells you he's
00:29:43.300 a salesperson.
00:29:44.640 He tells you what
00:29:45.540 he's selling.
00:29:46.420 He even tells you
00:29:47.080 how he's selling
00:29:47.660 it.
00:29:48.600 He does it right
00:29:49.300 in front of you
00:29:49.880 transparently.
00:29:51.260 He's selling
00:29:52.100 something to
00:29:53.680 Putin.
00:29:54.680 Do you want
00:29:55.180 your salesperson
00:29:55.940 to insult the
00:29:56.720 customer or to
00:29:57.920 sell the way
00:29:58.540 sales has worked
00:29:59.520 since the
00:29:59.960 beginning of time
00:30:00.740 where you praise
00:30:02.240 the customer,
00:30:02.860 you tell them
00:30:03.180 they're making
00:30:03.540 excellent choices,
00:30:04.800 and then you
00:30:05.580 work with them
00:30:06.120 to persuade them
00:30:06.880 in the direction
00:30:07.340 you want?
00:30:08.020 Which one works?
00:30:10.600 I think the
00:30:11.660 next politician
00:30:12.640 who's asked to
00:30:13.400 answer for Trump
00:30:14.340 just needs to
00:30:15.780 go high ground
00:30:16.760 and just slap
00:30:17.880 the shit out of
00:30:18.580 whoever's asking
00:30:19.180 the question.
00:30:20.500 I mean, you
00:30:21.320 know, with
00:30:21.840 words, not
00:30:22.440 with slapping.
00:30:24.600 Am I right?
00:30:26.280 It's the easiest
00:30:27.280 defense you could
00:30:28.060 ever have.
00:30:29.120 Trump's a
00:30:29.580 salesperson.
00:30:31.000 Is he supposed
00:30:31.580 to insult the
00:30:32.280 customer?
00:30:33.480 Well, how would
00:30:33.920 you do it?
00:30:35.060 How would you
00:30:35.560 plan it,
00:30:36.620 Stepanopheles?
00:30:37.960 What's your plan?
00:30:39.000 Insult the guy
00:30:39.660 you're negotiating
00:30:40.260 with?
00:30:42.220 When has that
00:30:43.000 ever worked?
00:30:44.180 In the history
00:30:44.920 of all negotiations
00:30:47.280 from the beginning
00:30:48.060 of time, when
00:30:49.260 has that ever
00:30:49.900 worked?
00:30:50.280 your idea.
00:30:51.800 So why don't
00:30:52.180 you defend
00:30:52.760 why you think
00:30:53.940 it's a problem
00:30:54.600 to negotiate
00:30:56.340 exactly the way
00:30:58.040 it has always
00:30:58.560 worked since
00:30:59.080 the beginning
00:30:59.460 of time?
00:31:01.200 So, Stepanopheles,
00:31:02.500 do you have
00:31:02.820 access to some
00:31:03.980 kind of new
00:31:04.440 research that
00:31:05.840 says the thing
00:31:06.420 that has always
00:31:07.160 worked,
00:31:08.680 everywhere in
00:31:09.540 every context,
00:31:11.200 won't work in
00:31:11.900 this one case?
00:31:13.680 I mean, he
00:31:14.020 should have
00:31:14.240 turned it around
00:31:14.840 and just crushed
00:31:16.440 it.
00:31:16.680 because the
00:31:17.920 opportunity was
00:31:18.640 there.
00:31:19.420 I think I
00:31:19.980 would have
00:31:20.180 done it.
00:31:22.820 All right.
00:31:25.640 Did I see
00:31:26.480 in the comments
00:31:27.340 somebody said
00:31:27.880 the ruble's
00:31:28.440 down 30%?
00:31:30.640 Does it
00:31:31.160 matter?
00:31:32.200 I don't know.
00:31:33.260 We're seeing
00:31:33.780 Bitcoin being
00:31:34.860 part of the
00:31:35.900 story.
00:31:37.640 Bitcoin,
00:31:38.380 part of the
00:31:38.720 story.
00:31:39.080 So I guess
00:31:39.400 people are
00:31:39.820 donating.
00:31:40.200 I heard it
00:31:41.420 was a million
00:31:41.940 dollars so far
00:31:42.740 to Ukraine,
00:31:43.360 which is really
00:31:44.660 not enough
00:31:45.140 to make a
00:31:45.500 difference in
00:31:45.940 anything.
00:31:46.740 But it does
00:31:47.420 show that
00:31:48.380 crypto might
00:31:50.020 be a necessary
00:31:51.100 tool against
00:31:52.280 despots.
00:31:54.340 Meaning that
00:31:55.220 if the people
00:31:56.300 in Ukraine
00:31:56.820 think it's
00:31:57.420 money,
00:31:58.340 well, it's
00:31:58.800 money.
00:32:00.160 If they
00:32:00.880 treat it like
00:32:01.380 money, it's
00:32:01.800 money.
00:32:03.080 So Russia
00:32:05.860 is using
00:32:06.340 crypto.
00:32:06.780 Everybody's
00:32:07.160 using crypto
00:32:07.680 at this point,
00:32:08.220 I think.
00:32:10.020 Russian interest
00:32:10.780 rates went
00:32:11.260 from 9.5 to
00:32:12.420 20%.
00:32:13.300 Now, I
00:32:15.280 imagine that
00:32:15.920 Putin is
00:32:16.620 telling the
00:32:17.740 public it's
00:32:18.300 temporary.
00:32:20.260 Have we
00:32:20.900 heard anything
00:32:21.360 like that
00:32:21.900 where we
00:32:23.640 are?
00:32:25.580 Yeah, it's
00:32:26.240 temporary.
00:32:26.720 He's going to
00:32:27.100 go all Biden
00:32:27.740 on that.
00:32:28.100 It's transient.
00:32:29.340 It's totally
00:32:29.780 transient.
00:32:31.180 Don't get all
00:32:31.820 worried about
00:32:32.280 this transient
00:32:32.960 stuff.
00:32:35.020 Yep,
00:32:35.340 transitory
00:32:35.900 inflation.
00:32:36.500 That's what
00:32:36.780 he's going
00:32:37.020 to say.
00:32:38.100 All right.
00:32:40.360 There's really
00:32:41.060 nothing else
00:32:41.620 happening except
00:32:42.300 the war,
00:32:42.880 am I right?
00:32:43.300 Red Cross
00:32:47.360 needs donations
00:32:48.100 for Poland,
00:32:48.900 somebody says.
00:32:53.280 No videos
00:32:54.100 of Russia
00:32:54.600 sucking.
00:32:56.220 Well, there's
00:32:56.580 no...
00:32:57.100 I'm just
00:32:58.260 really puzzled
00:32:58.900 by the lack
00:32:59.420 of video.
00:33:05.200 Yes, and
00:33:05.920 does it seem
00:33:06.440 that COVID
00:33:06.900 was cured
00:33:07.480 by war?
00:33:09.820 So we're
00:33:10.460 not hearing
00:33:10.880 about Durham,
00:33:11.740 we're not
00:33:11.980 hearing...
00:33:12.880 I don't
00:33:13.560 think the
00:33:13.920 war is
00:33:14.220 a diversion
00:33:14.660 from those
00:33:15.160 things.
00:33:17.500 Yeah, the
00:33:18.140 trucker
00:33:18.480 convoy, we're
00:33:19.300 not hearing
00:33:19.620 about anything.
00:33:23.520 New York
00:33:24.120 City is
00:33:24.580 lifting
00:33:24.960 vax
00:33:25.400 passports
00:33:26.180 March 7th.
00:33:27.360 Now, I
00:33:30.100 saw a
00:33:30.920 headline about
00:33:32.660 schools no
00:33:33.580 longer needing
00:33:34.220 masks, either
00:33:36.220 now or very
00:33:36.980 soon, but
00:33:37.500 that's not
00:33:37.920 true.
00:33:38.980 Is it?
00:33:40.860 That was
00:33:41.460 fake news,
00:33:42.060 right?
00:33:42.380 Because my
00:33:43.880 local school
00:33:44.460 still has masks,
00:33:45.200 as far as I
00:33:45.780 know.
00:33:45.920 what do you
00:33:50.760 expect from the
00:33:51.580 State of the
00:33:51.940 Union?
00:33:53.420 Is that
00:33:53.960 tomorrow?
00:33:55.320 When is the
00:33:56.000 State of the
00:33:56.380 Union?
00:33:56.840 Tomorrow?
00:33:59.480 Or is it
00:34:00.100 today?
00:34:00.480 Tomorrow?
00:34:00.760 Well, I would
00:34:02.880 agree with what
00:34:03.560 I saw in the
00:34:04.020 news, that
00:34:05.660 Biden is
00:34:06.600 probably rewriting
00:34:07.480 the State of the
00:34:09.320 Union, and he
00:34:09.900 might rewrite it
00:34:10.720 right up to the
00:34:11.460 moment of the
00:34:12.340 speech itself.
00:34:13.180 because I
00:34:13.960 think events
00:34:14.620 in Ukraine are
00:34:16.800 going to have to
00:34:17.300 be mentioned in
00:34:18.560 their most current
00:34:19.380 form, and who
00:34:21.420 knows in 24
00:34:23.240 hours, who
00:34:23.800 knows?
00:34:26.040 Now, well,
00:34:29.380 yeah, somebody's
00:34:30.220 writing it.
00:34:37.440 Yeah, gold, is
00:34:38.920 gold still going
00:34:39.920 up?
00:34:40.740 I've never
00:34:41.540 understood gold.
00:34:43.180 As a store of
00:34:44.100 value.
00:34:45.280 I've never
00:34:45.860 owned gold.
00:34:47.680 Because, you
00:34:48.300 know, I get that
00:34:48.880 it would have
00:34:49.180 made sense.
00:34:49.860 You know, in
00:34:50.180 retrospect, wouldn't
00:34:51.460 it have been nice
00:34:52.080 if I had 5% gold
00:34:53.200 or something?
00:34:54.340 But I've never
00:34:58.720 understood it
00:34:59.400 because gold is
00:35:00.680 the one thing that
00:35:01.340 could go to a
00:35:02.240 very low price
00:35:03.200 very quickly.
00:35:04.500 I realize it has
00:35:05.440 industrial use and
00:35:06.620 jewelry use and
00:35:07.540 that.
00:35:08.760 But once you get
00:35:09.680 past its actual
00:35:10.600 industrial application,
00:35:11.980 corporation, I
00:35:13.220 just wouldn't put
00:35:13.820 money in something
00:35:14.780 that's that
00:35:16.880 sensitive.
00:35:18.280 Now, that said, I
00:35:19.260 do have a small
00:35:20.500 amount of crypto in
00:35:21.480 my portfolio.
00:35:22.860 But that's
00:35:23.540 diversification.
00:35:25.920 And some of it was
00:35:26.680 accidental.
00:35:31.260 Gold has a limited
00:35:32.360 supply, does it?
00:35:34.080 I don't know, does it?
00:35:34.880 All right.
00:35:41.240 Gold usually has
00:35:42.340 tungsten inside.
00:35:44.640 And we need that
00:35:45.640 for what?
00:35:46.380 Some technology?
00:35:48.620 You are uninformed.
00:35:52.080 Well, yes, I realize
00:35:53.400 that gold is technically
00:35:55.640 exactly limited.
00:35:56.940 Okay, I get your
00:35:57.780 point.
00:35:58.700 But remember, we
00:35:59.420 thought oil was
00:36:00.480 limited.
00:36:01.400 And then fracking
00:36:02.180 was invented.
00:36:02.800 If you think that
00:36:06.720 gold is limited
00:36:07.580 forever, I would
00:36:09.920 say, I don't
00:36:11.880 know, what if
00:36:12.380 somebody invents a
00:36:13.160 new way to find
00:36:13.780 it or a new way to
00:36:15.300 extract it?
00:36:16.520 What if somebody
00:36:17.160 invents a way to
00:36:17.840 create it?
00:36:19.500 You think we could
00:36:20.480 never get to the
00:36:21.060 point where we
00:36:21.680 could artificially
00:36:22.360 create gold?
00:36:25.220 I don't know.
00:36:26.000 Maybe we can't.
00:36:26.880 But if we're doing
00:36:27.500 fusion, I got a
00:36:29.160 feeling we could
00:36:29.720 make some
00:36:30.060 artificial minerals
00:36:31.620 at some point.
00:36:32.920 So it does seem
00:36:33.900 to me that there
00:36:34.500 could be a
00:36:35.160 technical advance
00:36:36.060 that would make
00:36:36.620 gold worthless
00:36:37.620 at some point.
00:36:40.960 I don't know
00:36:41.580 about asteroids.
00:36:44.900 Yeah, fillings
00:36:45.720 for teeth.
00:36:46.960 Except I don't
00:36:47.460 think you...
00:36:47.900 Do you want
00:36:48.240 gold?
00:36:48.620 I don't know
00:36:49.760 if you want
00:36:50.100 gold.
00:36:50.340 So Maya is
00:36:56.760 saying that the
00:36:57.380 MSM's narrative
00:36:58.560 is Ukraine is
00:36:59.440 a helpless
00:36:59.780 victim, hence
00:37:00.580 no videos of
00:37:01.500 Russia losing.
00:37:03.220 So, you know,
00:37:04.520 I don't know
00:37:04.880 who's a Ukrainian
00:37:07.380 troll or a
00:37:09.300 Russian troll,
00:37:10.240 but anybody who
00:37:11.600 has some
00:37:12.180 confidence that
00:37:14.160 they know what's
00:37:14.680 happening in these
00:37:15.320 cities, I'm going
00:37:16.500 to assume is a
00:37:17.340 troll.
00:37:18.600 Is that fair?
00:37:19.320 Anybody who
00:37:21.480 has confident
00:37:22.440 current predictions
00:37:24.200 about what's
00:37:24.900 happening in
00:37:25.600 Kiev or
00:37:26.580 Kharkiv, I
00:37:28.920 would say I
00:37:29.840 wouldn't believe
00:37:30.280 anything that
00:37:31.060 somebody said
00:37:31.600 about those
00:37:32.100 places at the
00:37:33.280 moment.
00:37:34.360 You know, maybe
00:37:34.740 in 48 hours we'll
00:37:36.500 know what happened
00:37:37.140 two days ago,
00:37:38.280 but I wouldn't
00:37:39.260 believe anybody who
00:37:40.000 says they know
00:37:40.460 what's happening
00:37:40.940 right now.
00:37:42.400 None of that
00:37:42.960 sounds real.
00:37:43.460 All right.
00:37:47.440 The fence in D.C.
00:37:48.580 has been put back
00:37:49.400 up.
00:37:49.660 I wonder what
00:37:50.060 that's about.
00:37:51.080 Or maybe the
00:37:51.640 State of the
00:37:52.020 Union.
00:37:54.820 The ruble has
00:37:55.860 been renamed the
00:37:56.860 rubble.
00:37:58.100 Oh, no, there's
00:37:58.920 a...
00:38:01.000 Wow.
00:38:02.080 The ruble is
00:38:03.020 rubble.
00:38:04.420 I'm sure somebody's
00:38:05.300 thought of that one
00:38:05.880 before, but I like
00:38:06.820 it.
00:38:08.480 Convoy.
00:38:09.280 So the trucker
00:38:10.000 convoy is heading
00:38:10.700 to D.C.
00:38:12.680 Is that worth
00:38:13.580 doing?
00:38:15.140 I don't even know
00:38:16.120 what mandates
00:38:16.700 are left.
00:38:19.400 Do American...
00:38:22.800 What mandates
00:38:23.800 are left?
00:38:24.280 I don't even know
00:38:24.720 what they're
00:38:24.920 fighting at this
00:38:25.540 point in the
00:38:26.920 United States.
00:38:28.380 It's a trap.
00:38:29.940 Yeah, I would...
00:38:31.080 I can't say I'm
00:38:32.260 necessarily in favor
00:38:33.240 of a U.S.
00:38:34.260 trucker convoy.
00:38:35.840 I'm not against
00:38:36.800 it.
00:38:37.140 I would be
00:38:37.540 uninformed, but I
00:38:38.560 don't know what
00:38:38.860 they're...
00:38:39.560 What are they...
00:38:40.560 What are they
00:38:41.240 trying to get
00:38:41.900 that isn't going
00:38:42.620 to happen on
00:38:43.180 its own anyway?
00:38:47.620 Yeah, I don't
00:38:48.240 know what that's
00:38:48.660 about.
00:38:52.940 So, Babak
00:38:53.940 Tagavi has
00:38:55.960 good videos,
00:38:56.640 you say?
00:38:59.960 All right.
00:39:00.680 That's all I
00:39:01.140 got for today,
00:39:01.820 so I won't
00:39:02.360 babble anymore.
00:39:03.360 And I will
00:39:04.020 let you go.
00:39:05.200 And shall we
00:39:06.560 talk again
00:39:07.020 tomorrow?
00:39:08.560 Anybody?
00:39:09.540 Yeah.
00:39:09.820 Kalen says,
00:39:14.520 Jesus, Scott
00:39:15.800 has absolutely
00:39:16.460 no idea of
00:39:17.260 what's going
00:39:17.660 on.
00:39:19.880 Kalen.
00:39:23.160 You may
00:39:23.820 have heard
00:39:24.160 that sometimes
00:39:24.840 I say harsh
00:39:25.880 things about
00:39:26.500 people who
00:39:28.420 make comments
00:39:29.040 of this nature,
00:39:29.980 very much of
00:39:30.740 the nature of
00:39:31.260 the comment
00:39:31.600 you're making.
00:39:32.500 In the past,
00:39:34.180 I do have a
00:39:35.400 history of
00:39:36.880 going off on
00:39:37.520 people who say
00:39:38.160 things like
00:39:38.600 that.
00:39:39.480 Because,
00:39:40.000 first of all,
00:39:40.940 you fucking
00:39:41.540 idiot.
00:39:42.860 That's what
00:39:43.420 I'm saying.
00:39:44.860 So, in order
00:39:45.560 to disagree
00:39:46.360 with me
00:39:47.040 when I say
00:39:48.780 I don't know
00:39:49.320 what's going
00:39:49.780 on there,
00:39:50.900 for you to
00:39:51.900 say,
00:39:52.720 Scott,
00:39:53.240 Scott,
00:39:53.540 Scott,
00:39:53.940 you don't
00:39:54.660 know what's
00:39:54.980 going on
00:39:55.360 there,
00:39:55.780 may I do
00:39:56.400 a short
00:39:57.080 skit
00:39:57.940 involving you,
00:39:59.720 fucking idiot,
00:40:00.860 and me?
00:40:01.980 I'll first
00:40:02.680 play the part
00:40:03.200 of me.
00:40:04.500 It's a fog
00:40:05.000 of war.
00:40:05.400 I wouldn't
00:40:05.980 believe anything
00:40:06.700 about anything
00:40:07.280 that's coming
00:40:07.760 out of there.
00:40:08.180 In fact,
00:40:08.880 I don't think
00:40:09.560 anybody should
00:40:10.140 trust any
00:40:10.700 of the
00:40:10.880 information
00:40:11.260 coming out
00:40:11.740 of there.
00:40:12.620 And now,
00:40:13.480 let me do
00:40:14.360 you,
00:40:15.180 fucking idiot.
00:40:16.560 Well,
00:40:17.340 Scott,
00:40:18.160 I don't think
00:40:19.100 you know
00:40:19.420 what's happening
00:40:19.920 over there.
00:40:21.840 Now,
00:40:22.480 back to me.
00:40:23.640 Yes,
00:40:24.400 fucking idiot,
00:40:25.880 that's exactly
00:40:26.880 what I just
00:40:27.940 fucking said,
00:40:29.160 you dickhead
00:40:29.900 piece of shit.
00:40:32.520 Well,
00:40:33.440 Scott,
00:40:33.960 I think
00:40:34.640 maybe you
00:40:35.100 should do
00:40:35.380 your own
00:40:35.740 research.
00:40:39.860 Okay,
00:40:40.900 you're agreeing
00:40:41.760 with me
00:40:42.140 really,
00:40:42.740 really hard
00:40:43.140 here that
00:40:44.120 I don't
00:40:44.580 know what's
00:40:45.040 going on,
00:40:46.100 and I
00:40:46.560 don't know
00:40:46.840 how to say
00:40:47.240 it in a
00:40:47.620 way that's
00:40:48.780 different,
00:40:50.320 and we'll
00:40:51.180 get through
00:40:51.780 to your
00:40:52.280 thick skull,
00:40:53.460 which is
00:40:53.900 apparently
00:40:54.320 entirely skull
00:40:55.440 material,
00:40:56.260 and no
00:40:56.880 brain whatsoever
00:40:57.800 on the
00:40:58.300 inside.
00:41:00.500 I guess
00:41:00.880 you don't
00:41:01.200 know what's
00:41:01.520 happening in
00:41:02.020 car keep.
00:41:02.700 Okay,
00:41:03.100 okay.
00:41:06.860 All right.
00:41:09.080 That's all
00:41:09.640 I got for
00:41:10.020 you today.
00:41:11.560 Thank you
00:41:12.140 for the
00:41:12.420 comments.
00:41:14.280 And by
00:41:14.580 the way,
00:41:15.460 I don't
00:41:16.080 know if
00:41:16.360 you caught
00:41:16.740 on to
00:41:17.080 this,
00:41:17.420 but I
00:41:18.740 don't know
00:41:19.000 what's
00:41:19.200 happening
00:41:19.540 over there
00:41:20.000 in Ukraine.
00:41:21.220 I know,
00:41:22.180 I know,
00:41:22.900 surprising
00:41:23.480 admission.
00:41:25.800 See you
00:41:26.360 tomorrow.
00:41:26.600 See you
00:41:27.600 tomorrow.
00:41:28.600 See you
00:41:29.600 tomorrow.
00:41:30.600 See you
00:41:31.600 tomorrow.