Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1692 Scott Adams： Narratives That Are Being Created to Hide The Truth About Other Narratives

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody.

00:00:05.220 Congratulations on making it to the finest moment of all civilization.

00:00:11.500 Yes, it's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's no better place in the world to be.

00:00:16.380 In fact, this is a show that's been enjoyed by, well, let's see, humans.

00:00:24.040 Raise your hand if you're a human.

00:00:26.200 Good, good.

00:00:27.080 I see a lot of humans.

00:00:27.920 How many of you are birds?

00:00:31.180 Are there any birds out there?

00:00:33.240 I understand that there's a cockatoo named Kaylee, or Casey, Casey.

00:00:40.420 Casey, right?

00:00:42.100 Yes, Casey.

00:00:43.480 So I'd like to speak directly to Casey the cockatoo for a moment, because I know Casey is watching.

00:00:50.760 So if you could bear with me.

00:00:53.280 Casey, Casey, good bird.

00:00:56.360 Good bird.

00:00:58.480 Good bird.

00:00:59.860 Casey, want a treat?

00:01:01.520 Casey, want a treat?

00:01:03.100 Good bird.

00:01:04.280 All right.

00:01:04.600 That was just for the cockatoo.

00:01:06.420 Now, there may be other cockatoos watching.

00:01:09.340 If I didn't mention your name, I am talking to you, too.

00:01:13.220 All of the cockatoos.

00:01:14.420 And some of you I know have had a good morning already, and maybe you've had a cockatoo, too.

00:01:23.340 But let's do something that we call the simultaneous sip.

00:01:27.500 It goes well with terrible puns.

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00:01:35.120 A vessel of any kind.

00:01:37.500 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:39.820 I like coffee.

00:01:41.680 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the thing that will make your bird talk.

00:01:49.460 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:51.620 Put your beak in it and enjoy.

00:01:53.260 Anyway, now, yeah, yeah, every time I'm surprised at how good that is.

00:02:06.120 Well, the airlines, the CEOs, a bunch of them have asked the government to drop the mask mandate.

00:02:11.520 And the only reason they're giving is that there's no reason not to, since people are huddling in bars and restaurants every day.

00:02:27.220 And do you know what's the difference between an airplane and a bar and a restaurant?

00:02:32.500 An airplane actually has good ventilation, unlike your restaurant and bar.

00:02:37.140 So the CEOs have just said, why are we waiting another, what, month or so to drop these mask requirements?

00:02:46.860 And I have a hypothesis, which maybe somebody has some data to validate.

00:02:54.360 Why would anybody book a trip between now and the time that the masks are non-mandated?

00:03:01.660 If you're planning a trip, why in the world would you book a flight in the month before the mask mandate drops, if you have a choice?

00:03:11.920 You're going to wait until the mask mandates drop, are you not?

00:03:15.280 Now, business people may have less choice, but even they have a lot of flexibility.

00:03:19.280 I mean, most people, yeah, most people can move their vacation a week or so, you know, a few weeks.

00:03:24.360 So my guess is that the airlines are getting crushed in the current period because everybody's saying, you know, if I just wait three weeks, I don't need a mask or whatever it is.

00:03:36.640 Yeah, and I'm seeing in the comments people say they're intentionally waiting for the mask mandate.

00:03:42.560 So I think finance, follow the money, guarantees where things are going.

00:03:47.460 The airlines will get their mask thing dropped.

00:03:49.820 I believe now all 50 states have dropped mask mandates.

00:03:53.160 I saw that, but I don't believe that's true.

00:03:56.980 Is it true that all state mandates are dropped and all that's left is federal?

00:04:03.060 Because I thought that mask transportation was always masked no matter who owns it.

00:04:10.160 Is that right?

00:04:12.960 Hawaii hasn't.

00:04:14.200 Hawaii hasn't?

00:04:16.520 But has Hawaii announced when they will?

00:04:21.520 Yeah.

00:04:22.040 Well, I don't believe that all 50 states have dropped all mask mandates.

00:04:27.660 I don't think that's true, but they will.

00:04:30.160 All right.

00:04:31.060 Let me check in with you.

00:04:33.680 I think you know that since the beginning, I've been saying that you don't have to worry about the mandates being permanent.

00:04:41.280 Now, some of you said, Scott, you don't know when the government gets some power, they never release it.

00:04:47.180 Well, that's true, but this wasn't like any other situation, right?

00:04:51.860 And the United States is not like other countries.

00:04:55.860 We are a little bit more rebellious, often in a productive way.

00:05:00.160 And it didn't seem to me that the United States could keep mandates.

00:05:06.140 I don't know if anybody can, but I don't think it's going to happen here.

00:05:09.340 So if you, it did take them too long.

00:05:12.480 Yeah, you could argue that for sure.

00:05:14.440 But, you know, the government takes too long for everything.

00:05:17.880 So check your thinking.

00:05:19.020 If you believe that this was going to be masked forever, it was part of a larger global conspiracy, maybe that won't happen.

00:05:27.760 We hope.

00:05:28.200 Dental office tools create particles that easily penetrate N95.

00:05:35.300 Well, that's a weird, specific comment, but I'll bet you're right.

00:05:39.980 All right.

00:05:42.300 I have a proposal, and I was reading about that Congress has a plan.

00:05:49.140 They're thinking about mailing out stimulus checks to people to help them pay for gasoline because gas prices are so high.

00:05:58.200 And I thought, you know, that's not going to work because if you send out stimulus checks in the short term, that might help them buy gas.

00:06:08.100 But in the long term, it's going to increase inflation, right?

00:06:11.800 Because the stimulus checks will not be paid for, so it has to be borrowing.

00:06:18.140 And so therefore, I don't think that's a good plan.

00:06:20.260 But sometimes a bad plan will suggest a good plan.

00:06:25.280 You'll hear somebody's bad plan.

00:06:26.680 And you go, that won't work, but you know, if you just made one tweak to it.

00:06:30.720 So the problem with their plan is that it's not funded.

00:06:33.900 So I propose a new federal tax on gasoline.

00:06:38.980 We'll put a new federal tax on top of whatever taxes there are.

00:06:42.360 And the new federal tax will fund the stimulus payments that will go to the public to help them buy the gas that was funded by the tax on the gas.

00:06:54.320 Now, then you have a closed system.

00:06:58.300 Now, I don't...

00:06:59.460 Please, please...

00:07:00.560 On locals, people are calling me brilliant.

00:07:02.800 And I don't think I deserve it.

00:07:05.060 I don't.

00:07:05.840 I can see objectively, this does seem kind of genius.

00:07:10.580 I can see how you'd think that.

00:07:12.060 But please, you're embarrassing me.

00:07:13.740 You're embarrassing me.

00:07:15.900 Anybody could have come up with this idea, I think.

00:07:18.460 I mean, sure, it was me.

00:07:20.540 This time it was me.

00:07:21.540 But I like to think it's not about me.

00:07:24.580 It's we.

00:07:25.740 It's we.

00:07:28.420 There's no I in team.

00:07:29.740 But as Kobe Bryant once said to Shaq O'Neal,

00:07:37.880 yeah, there is no I in team, but there isn't me in that motherfucker. 0.91

00:07:44.160 All right.

00:07:47.000 So that's my idea.

00:07:49.480 I did a tweet yesterday to cause some trouble, a little provocation.

00:07:54.440 I did a little bit too well.

00:07:55.960 Well, sometimes when I try to provoke, I overshoot the mark a little bit,

00:08:01.640 and I did it again, creating yet again another rumor about my opinions

00:08:06.420 that will haunt me to the end of days.

00:08:10.220 And here's my mistake slash funny tweet.

00:08:15.440 Are you all aware that the word decimated is almost always misused in popular use?

00:08:23.160 Does everybody know that?

00:08:24.180 Most people use the word decimated to mean almost completely destroyed something.

00:08:30.560 Oh, you decimated that city.

00:08:32.760 Oh, it's 90% destroyed.

00:08:35.600 The actual definition, historically, of decimated,

00:08:39.780 and that's where the des part, the DEC part comes from, which means 10.

00:08:44.800 Decimated means you defeated or you destroyed 10% of something.

00:08:50.720 10%.

00:08:51.400 Now, I did look up the definition before I talked about this

00:08:54.840 because I wanted to see if popular use had shifted the definition,

00:08:59.020 and it has, actually.

00:08:59.940 It has.

00:09:00.320 So now it's a substantial or significant destruction of an army or something else.

00:09:09.240 So it's not limited to 10%, but it's any substantial.

00:09:14.720 So I would say 15% would be substantial.

00:09:19.640 You know, that would be decimated according to the modern thing.

00:09:21.900 So there was a report from U.S. officials, I don't know who it was, Pentagon or somebody,

00:09:27.960 and nothing you could trust.

00:09:30.080 So when I say this information came from the government,

00:09:33.640 and I don't specify which part of the government,

00:09:36.840 it doesn't matter what part of the government said it

00:09:40.000 because it's not something you should believe anyway.

00:09:42.880 It wouldn't matter who said it.

00:09:43.860 It's not believable in a time of war,

00:09:46.940 which is how many people have died on the other side.

00:09:51.140 We don't know how many Russians have died.

00:09:53.940 We don't really know that.

00:09:56.720 So you shouldn't believe it.

00:09:58.320 But the report was that as much as 10% of the military,

00:10:02.540 let's say full capacity, not just people,

00:10:05.480 but the capacity of the Russian military has been degraded by 10%.

00:10:09.200 So I tweeted, oh, they've literally been decimated,

00:10:15.020 which caused many people to say,

00:10:16.980 Scott, how could you fall for that Ukrainian propaganda?

00:10:21.480 To which I said, uh-oh, I've done it again.

00:10:23.720 Now there's a permanent record on the Internet,

00:10:26.660 since I keep the tweet up,

00:10:29.060 that seems to indicate to some people

00:10:30.800 that I believe the Ukrainian propaganda.

00:10:34.620 Now, is there anything I believe less

00:10:37.720 than Ukrainian propaganda?

00:10:40.520 I don't know.

00:10:42.160 If you were to make a list of all the things I believe,

00:10:46.280 I'm pretty sure that near the bottom of it

00:10:48.880 would be Ukrainian war propaganda.

00:10:52.720 That might be just about the least likely thing

00:10:55.800 I'm going to believe.

00:10:56.860 But I did make a tweet that led people to believe that.

00:11:00.140 So forever I will be hounded by the belief

00:11:02.260 that I believe the opposite of what I believed.

00:11:05.060 And now you know, decimated is about 10%.

00:11:09.380 Now, I think I saw a tweet by Jeff Pilkington

00:11:14.620 suggesting that the match-up for a president

00:11:18.740 that would make the most sense for both parties

00:11:21.240 would be Gavin Newsom against Ron DeSantis.

00:11:25.840 The theory being that they are two people

00:11:28.540 who, let's say, proved themselves during the pandemic.

00:11:31.880 Now, Democrats would say that Newsom did a good job.

00:11:37.220 Maybe you wouldn't.

00:11:39.040 Maybe you wouldn't, but that's not the point.

00:11:42.040 Right?

00:11:42.440 They only have to get enough votes to be elected.

00:11:44.440 They don't need your vote, per se.

00:11:46.740 And Democrats, of course, would say that Ron DeSantis

00:11:49.700 did everything wrong.

00:11:51.680 Republicans would say he did everything right.

00:11:53.500 So forget about whether you like him or not.

00:11:55.200 Do you buy the concept that,

00:11:59.360 let's just talk about the Democrat side,

00:12:02.420 do you buy the concept that Newsom is their best shot?

00:12:06.380 Let me see.

00:12:07.280 Now, forget about whether you think he'd win,

00:12:09.720 and forget about whether you think he's good

00:12:11.520 in an absolute sense.

00:12:13.540 In a competitive sense,

00:12:15.260 since they have a pretty weak bench,

00:12:17.800 do you think he'd have the best chance of winning,

00:12:20.820 even if he couldn't win?

00:12:22.180 Yeah, I see a lot of people saying yes.

00:12:26.000 Yeah.

00:12:26.720 I mean, it's split like everything.

00:12:28.460 But there are more people saying yes than no.

00:12:30.180 And a lot of it has to do with the fact

00:12:31.380 that he's got the act.

00:12:33.060 He's got the look.

00:12:34.100 He's got the mannerisms.

00:12:36.560 Now he's got serious credentials

00:12:39.060 for his background.

00:12:42.760 He's got the hair.

00:12:43.720 He's got the look.

00:12:45.260 He's got sort of the surface package.

00:12:48.380 But here's something that I read about him today.

00:12:50.300 I assume this will pass the fact check.

00:12:54.760 The L.A. robberies that involve firearms.

00:12:59.100 So in Los Angeles,

00:13:00.520 robberies that involve firearms

00:13:01.920 have increased 44% this year,

00:13:04.800 according to the city's top cop.

00:13:10.040 How do you get elected president

00:13:11.940 when crime in one of your biggest areas of your state

00:13:17.180 increased 44%?

00:13:18.680 Do you know how easy it would be to beat him?

00:13:23.400 Every time somebody asks you a question,

00:13:25.360 let's say it's either Trump or DeSantis

00:13:27.380 running for president on the Republican side.

00:13:30.300 Every time they're asking a question

00:13:31.740 about the other side,

00:13:32.840 just say,

00:13:34.420 I want you to fact check this.

00:13:37.100 Did armed robbery

00:13:38.900 really go up 44% under Newsom?

00:13:41.760 And then they'll say,

00:13:43.700 but Mr. Trump,

00:13:45.920 we're asking you about Ukraine.

00:13:49.120 And then if I were Trump,

00:13:50.360 I'd say,

00:13:50.900 I understand what you're asking me.

00:13:53.320 But do you understand

00:13:54.580 that you're asking me to comment

00:13:56.340 on somebody whose leadership

00:13:58.340 rose armed robbery

00:14:00.320 by 44% in a year?

00:14:02.940 Why would I even talk about

00:14:04.280 any of his other opinions?

00:14:05.420 How could it possibly matter

00:14:07.800 what he thinks about world events?

00:14:11.480 Because if you elect him,

00:14:13.620 you're going to get exactly

00:14:15.000 what the package told you you were getting.

00:14:18.560 If you get Newsom,

00:14:20.560 read the ingredients.

00:14:22.480 Part of the ingredients are

00:14:23.760 increased armed robbery 44% in one year.

00:14:28.080 That's what you're buying.

00:14:29.200 So, you know,

00:14:32.260 no politician would ever do

00:14:33.660 what I recommended,

00:14:34.620 which is only talk about

00:14:35.700 one thing about the competitor

00:14:37.120 the whole time.

00:14:38.580 But it'd probably work.

00:14:40.440 It would probably work.

00:14:42.180 You know,

00:14:42.360 nobody's ever going to do that

00:14:43.500 because it would be boring.

00:14:44.960 But it'd work.

00:14:47.260 All right.

00:14:51.040 Here's your daily propaganda warning.

00:14:54.100 This one comes from Glenn Greenwald.

00:14:56.380 Now, I feel like

00:14:57.680 it's actually useful

00:14:59.120 to repeat this

00:15:00.400 every day or two,

00:15:01.820 which is to remind you

00:15:03.440 that your side

00:15:05.460 is lying to you too.

00:15:08.000 That's really hard to

00:15:09.620 kind of really incorporate

00:15:11.620 into your thinking

00:15:12.420 because we're just sort of

00:15:14.000 biased toward thinking

00:15:15.100 our side is

00:15:15.880 maybe not right all the time,

00:15:18.140 but it's more right

00:15:19.800 than the other side,

00:15:21.260 isn't it?

00:15:22.680 How do we know?

00:15:23.780 We have no way to know that.

00:15:25.200 And Glenn reminds us.

00:15:27.480 He tweets,

00:15:28.040 if you're in the U.S.

00:15:29.140 or a NATO country,

00:15:30.440 you're in a radically

00:15:31.460 closed propaganda system.

00:15:33.500 Much dissent has been banned

00:15:34.840 or demonized

00:15:35.540 to the point of invisibility.

00:15:37.760 And maybe you're still

00:15:38.780 100% right,

00:15:40.560 but at least recognize

00:15:42.100 that everyone in war

00:15:43.220 is propagandized,

00:15:44.960 warranting skepticism.

00:15:46.840 In other words,

00:15:47.340 don't trust your own side.

00:15:49.720 Good advice.

00:15:50.660 Don't trust your own side.

00:15:51.760 And in fact,

00:15:52.840 don't trust the pundits.

00:15:54.960 In a time of war,

00:15:56.020 I don't think you can

00:15:56.640 trust anybody

00:15:57.280 because everybody's got

00:15:59.340 an agenda.

00:16:01.820 And that includes me,

00:16:03.160 but at least I've told you

00:16:04.320 what my bias is.

00:16:06.100 The best you can do,

00:16:07.200 I think,

00:16:07.560 is tell people

00:16:08.340 what your bias is.

00:16:10.160 You know,

00:16:10.500 you can't...

00:16:10.760 You can't do much

00:16:15.040 better than that.

00:16:15.560 So here's a story.

00:16:25.240 And this is a narrative

00:16:26.940 diversion story.

00:16:30.540 So why is it that Ukraine 1.00

00:16:33.000 is doing such a good job

00:16:34.340 of defending?

00:16:36.120 We've heard several reasons,

00:16:37.580 have we not?

00:16:38.700 Here are some of the reasons

00:16:39.760 we've heard.

00:16:40.280 We've heard that the Russians 1.00

00:16:41.260 have low morale

00:16:42.060 and the Ukrainians

00:16:43.980 have high morale.

00:16:45.560 Did I just tell you

00:16:47.760 that everything

00:16:48.600 from your own side

00:16:49.940 is propaganda

00:16:51.720 as well as the other side?

00:16:54.760 Right?

00:16:55.180 So when your side,

00:16:56.480 your own side,

00:16:57.180 tells you,

00:16:57.580 here's one of the reasons.

00:16:58.960 It's because the Ukrainians 1.00

00:17:00.320 have high morale

00:17:01.000 and the Russians

00:17:01.600 have low morale.

00:17:02.800 Now, it could be true

00:17:03.800 because it certainly

00:17:05.420 feels like it might be true.

00:17:07.700 Doesn't it?

00:17:08.920 It kind of feels

00:17:09.480 like it might be.

00:17:10.700 But I don't know

00:17:11.560 that it's true.

00:17:13.480 I don't know.

00:17:14.340 And I don't know

00:17:14.900 that it makes a difference.

00:17:16.400 It might not make a difference,

00:17:18.380 but it could also be true.

00:17:21.940 Here's another thing

00:17:23.100 that we're hearing

00:17:23.620 is that the Russians

00:17:24.300 are using bad tactics

00:17:25.600 and bad equipment.

00:17:27.620 You know,

00:17:27.780 bad maintenance,

00:17:28.780 bad tactics.

00:17:30.400 Now,

00:17:30.840 is that true?

00:17:32.360 Is that true?

00:17:32.900 Is it a coincidence

00:17:34.860 that the enemy,

00:17:36.280 let's say Russia

00:17:37.020 is sort of the enemy

00:17:37.780 for propaganda purposes,

00:17:39.480 is it true

00:17:39.940 that the enemy

00:17:40.520 is always incompetent

00:17:41.620 and, you know,

00:17:42.720 they can't maintain

00:17:43.500 their equipment?

00:17:44.540 It might be.

00:17:45.740 I mean,

00:17:46.060 it might be a little bit true.

00:17:47.580 But how would you know?

00:17:49.560 You wouldn't know.

00:17:51.200 You wouldn't know that at all.

00:17:53.580 You have no way

00:17:54.460 of knowing that.

00:17:55.220 Somebody told you that.

00:17:57.580 Now,

00:17:58.400 here's my question,

00:17:59.640 and it's sort of,

00:18:00.580 it's not quite the dog

00:18:01.740 not barking,

00:18:02.580 but maybe you can figure out

00:18:03.620 how to label this.

00:18:04.400 what's left out.

00:18:08.840 Is there not

00:18:09.860 something that's

00:18:11.300 a little left out?

00:18:12.820 Well,

00:18:13.520 this narrative

00:18:14.360 was boosted again

00:18:16.460 by a story that says

00:18:17.460 the Green Beret,

00:18:18.460 the American Green Beret forces,

00:18:20.680 have been training

00:18:21.600 the Ukrainians

00:18:22.800 quite seriously

00:18:24.000 since Russia took Crimea.

00:18:27.140 Now,

00:18:27.760 if your Green Beret 0.76

00:18:29.340 are training you

00:18:30.920 to create

00:18:32.960 an armed resistance,

00:18:34.400 which is what they do,

00:18:36.100 apparently they're

00:18:36.940 really good at it,

00:18:38.680 according to our own government,

00:18:41.160 who

00:18:42.060 can't really believe,

00:18:43.640 can you?

00:18:44.640 But

00:18:45.120 I feel as if people

00:18:46.760 who have been involved

00:18:47.600 in the Green Beret

00:18:48.340 could confirm this,

00:18:50.060 and maybe some of you have.

00:18:51.040 Is there anybody here

00:18:51.660 who's been involved

00:18:52.320 in the Green Beret?

00:18:53.560 Because I do think,

00:18:55.540 even though you can't believe,

00:18:58.160 you can't believe

00:18:58.900 you're a government,

00:19:00.060 I do think it's likely

00:19:01.200 that the Green Beret 1.00

00:19:02.240 do a solid job.

00:19:03.520 Can anybody confirm that?

00:19:05.160 Has there anybody

00:19:05.680 been in the Green Beret

00:19:06.800 who's watching this

00:19:07.640 who would say,

00:19:08.040 yeah, yeah,

00:19:08.420 this is real.

00:19:11.740 Yeah,

00:19:12.300 their primary mission

00:19:13.320 is training other forces,

00:19:14.760 right?

00:19:15.440 The Green Beret 0.98

00:19:16.180 mostly goes in

00:19:17.080 and trains the locals

00:19:18.220 to be a force multiplier.

00:19:21.640 I mean,

00:19:21.960 I'm seeing some people

00:19:22.660 confirm that it's real,

00:19:23.780 but

00:19:23.960 let's say it is real.

00:19:25.680 So now we have

00:19:28.100 these three reasons

00:19:29.180 so far

00:19:30.060 why Ukraine

00:19:31.200 is doing better

00:19:31.840 than most expected.

00:19:33.440 High morale,

00:19:34.820 bad Russian tactics 0.91

00:19:35.900 and equipment,

00:19:36.820 I guess,

00:19:37.320 and then the Green Beret 0.52

00:19:38.640 trained the Ukrainians

00:19:40.340 to be effective fighters,

00:19:41.620 especially in their local terrain.

00:19:44.600 There's still something missing.

00:19:47.840 Now,

00:19:48.460 of course,

00:19:48.840 there have been

00:19:49.080 lots of stories

00:19:49.760 about the high-tech equipment

00:19:51.000 that we've given them,

00:19:51.920 but here's what I think.

00:19:55.340 I think the high-tech weapons

00:19:58.320 are the actual main story.

00:20:01.080 This other stuff is important.

00:20:02.940 The Green Beret 0.98

00:20:03.600 probably made a big difference.

00:20:05.600 But I think

00:20:06.320 that the narrative

00:20:07.620 is trying to

00:20:09.320 shift us away

00:20:10.820 from the equipment aspect.

00:20:12.740 It's trying to shift us

00:20:13.920 onto the human aspect.

00:20:15.760 So the human aspect is,

00:20:17.220 do you have high morale?

00:20:18.500 Are you well-trained?

00:20:19.640 Do you know

00:20:22.200 how to maintain things?

00:20:24.160 Do you have good tactics?

00:20:26.260 Isn't it interesting

00:20:27.200 that all of the propaganda

00:20:29.360 that we're being subjected to

00:20:32.260 is telling us

00:20:33.980 that it has,

00:20:34.840 really,

00:20:35.440 don't look at the drones.

00:20:37.480 No, no.

00:20:38.040 Yeah,

00:20:38.280 we are sending drones.

00:20:39.700 We're definitely sending them 1.00

00:20:41.020 shoulder-mounted rockets.

00:20:43.180 But, you know,

00:20:43.600 that's not the reason.

00:20:46.300 That's not the reason

00:20:47.500 the Ukrainians are winning.

00:20:48.500 No, it's not

00:20:49.720 that they have

00:20:50.560 thousands and thousands

00:20:51.680 of easy-to-operate

00:20:53.120 deadly weapons

00:20:55.180 that are designed

00:20:56.440 exactly to destroy

00:20:57.680 the things

00:20:58.120 that are destroying.

00:20:59.380 No, it's not the weaponry.

00:21:01.280 It's all about

00:21:02.300 the human part.

00:21:05.880 Correct me

00:21:06.360 if I've gone too far.

00:21:09.200 But here's my hypothesis.

00:21:11.800 If Russia said,

00:21:13.720 who trained these guys,

00:21:15.360 and we found out

00:21:16.000 it was the Green Beret, 0.98

00:21:16.780 let's say the Americans

00:21:17.700 had trained the Ukrainians,

00:21:19.660 would you say

00:21:20.440 that America's in the war?

00:21:23.280 No,

00:21:23.740 because the training

00:21:24.360 is something that happened

00:21:25.600 but may not be happening

00:21:27.340 at the moment.

00:21:29.260 So we're not in the war.

00:21:31.140 We simply did some things

00:21:32.700 that Ukraine found useful

00:21:34.140 to be in the war.

00:21:35.700 So if you're talking

00:21:36.580 about the human part,

00:21:38.440 it's really easy

00:21:39.180 to make the argument

00:21:39.880 that the United States

00:21:40.800 is not in the war.

00:21:42.240 We're not in the war.

00:21:43.080 We're not in that war.

00:21:46.760 But suppose I said

00:21:48.800 to you this.

00:21:50.160 The reason that Ukraine 1.00

00:21:51.580 is winning

00:21:52.020 is that they have

00:21:52.840 American weapons.

00:21:55.700 And that we didn't

00:21:56.900 even sell them to them.

00:21:58.460 We gave them to them.

00:22:00.400 We gave them the weapons.

00:22:02.460 I think, right?

00:22:03.360 Don't we give them

00:22:03.960 the weapons?

00:22:04.340 That sounds like

00:22:08.900 you're in the war.

00:22:10.580 Because when the Russian 1.00

00:22:11.620 gets shot,

00:22:12.820 or when the Russian

00:22:13.580 gets killed, 0.94

00:22:14.940 it's being killed

00:22:16.000 by a weapon

00:22:16.760 that's right there

00:22:18.000 right now.

00:22:19.460 That's current.

00:22:21.100 That's not,

00:22:21.720 you used to train us

00:22:22.760 and now we're good

00:22:23.460 on our own.

00:22:24.800 That was the past.

00:22:26.060 But the weapon

00:22:26.820 that killed you,

00:22:27.440 that's sort of today.

00:22:29.420 And I have a feeling

00:22:30.380 that because

00:22:32.380 giving any country

00:22:34.960 high-tech weaponry

00:22:36.180 can change

00:22:37.260 the course of the war.

00:22:38.940 More so than

00:22:39.940 almost anything, right?

00:22:45.480 Erica, you're too nice.

00:22:47.140 Thank you.

00:22:49.120 So I have a feeling

00:22:50.560 that the propaganda

00:22:51.760 we're seeing

00:22:52.640 is diverting us

00:22:53.620 from the hardware

00:22:54.660 part of the story.

00:22:55.940 And I'm going to

00:22:57.080 reaffirm my

00:22:58.320 prediction

00:23:00.440 that when this

00:23:01.760 is all over,

00:23:02.920 we're going to learn

00:23:04.160 that the Ukrainian

00:23:05.600 fighters

00:23:06.320 had more than

00:23:07.440 just the weapons

00:23:08.220 we know about.

00:23:10.600 That they had

00:23:11.500 what I'm calling

00:23:13.220 the good stuff.

00:23:14.940 There might be

00:23:15.820 some new weapons

00:23:16.680 you have not heard of

00:23:17.880 that might be

00:23:19.220 getting a little test.

00:23:21.420 That's what I think.

00:23:22.480 Now, I don't know

00:23:22.980 if those weapons

00:23:23.660 will be the majority

00:23:24.860 of the reason,

00:23:25.600 but certainly

00:23:26.080 the high-tech weapons

00:23:27.060 is the story

00:23:27.760 in my opinion.

00:23:28.440 I think the high-tech

00:23:30.360 weapons are the story.

00:23:34.120 All right.

00:23:37.600 CNN may have

00:23:40.080 assassinated

00:23:40.800 a Russian general.

00:23:42.760 Now, we always

00:23:44.260 tease CNN about being

00:23:45.620 deep state-owned

00:23:47.280 and CIA-controlled

00:23:50.220 and stuff like that.

00:23:51.340 We don't know.

00:23:52.240 It's hard to validate

00:23:53.280 any of that stuff.

00:23:54.660 But CNN is running

00:23:56.240 a story that goes

00:23:57.940 roughly like this.

00:23:58.780 So there was a rare

00:23:59.660 face-to-face meeting

00:24:01.240 between Russian

00:24:02.300 and U.S. military.

00:24:04.420 Now, apparently

00:24:05.060 that hasn't happened

00:24:06.020 in a while

00:24:06.540 and it's sort of rare.

00:24:08.320 And doing it

00:24:09.680 during the Ukraine war

00:24:10.580 was doubly rare.

00:24:13.040 And the way CNN

00:24:14.160 reports this

00:24:15.000 is that the Russian

00:24:16.540 general,

00:24:17.620 doesn't matter who he is,

00:24:18.640 you all remember

00:24:19.160 his name anyway,

00:24:19.680 who is normally

00:24:21.120 stoic,

00:24:22.700 doesn't show much emotion,

00:24:23.900 was asked about

00:24:25.580 his Ukrainian ties

00:24:28.180 because I guess

00:24:28.760 he was born in Ukraine.

00:24:30.520 So there's a Russian 0.65

00:24:31.420 general fighting a war

00:24:34.080 against his own

00:24:35.620 home country.

00:24:38.420 And the report is

00:24:39.880 that he was,

00:24:41.440 he sort of lost

00:24:42.240 his composure,

00:24:43.140 which is uncharacteristic,

00:24:44.740 and that they saw

00:24:46.440 a break in his,

00:24:47.540 let's say, morale

00:24:48.820 or that,

00:24:50.560 or his,

00:24:52.040 this seemed to indicate

00:24:53.060 that he was not

00:24:53.920 totally on board

00:24:54.800 with the war.

00:24:57.720 They just killed him.

00:25:01.580 Think about it.

00:25:03.180 CNN is reporting

00:25:04.280 a direct anecdote

00:25:05.920 of Putin's general

00:25:07.920 being not so up

00:25:10.360 for the war.

00:25:11.840 And then that

00:25:12.400 became a news story

00:25:13.380 and there's a risk

00:25:14.480 that the soldiers

00:25:15.400 and the Russian army

00:25:16.700 could actually hear

00:25:17.820 that story.

00:25:19.420 I mean, it's hard

00:25:20.160 because they're

00:25:21.080 kind of sheltered.

00:25:21.860 But do you think

00:25:22.860 Putin wants a story

00:25:23.780 about one of his

00:25:24.460 generals,

00:25:25.720 one of his generals

00:25:27.260 saying he's not so

00:25:28.500 hot about the war

00:25:29.220 and he was born

00:25:29.780 in Ukraine?

00:25:31.580 Looked like he,

00:25:32.780 right?

00:25:33.760 Now, tell me I'm wrong.

00:25:35.960 Did CNN just

00:25:37.080 assassinate a Russian 0.99

00:25:38.280 general?

00:25:40.100 Am I wrong?

00:25:42.640 I'm not wrong.

00:25:44.460 They just,

00:25:44.960 they just took out

00:25:45.660 a general.

00:25:46.600 Do you think

00:25:47.260 that CNN did this

00:25:48.540 story without prompting?

00:25:51.220 Do you think

00:25:51.900 the CIA

00:25:52.500 or somebody

00:25:53.520 in the military

00:25:54.120 or the government

00:25:54.760 said to CNN,

00:25:56.400 I got a story

00:25:57.040 for you

00:25:57.500 and I've got

00:25:59.780 some inside

00:26:00.400 information.

00:26:01.500 We don't usually

00:26:02.220 provide the notes

00:26:03.920 of a meeting

00:26:04.400 like this.

00:26:05.540 But we're going

00:26:06.240 to provide you

00:26:06.920 the notes this time

00:26:07.900 if you write

00:26:09.200 this narrative

00:26:09.860 because we're

00:26:11.360 going to kill, 0.95

00:26:11.940 we're going to kill

00:26:12.680 a general with news.

00:26:13.680 I think CNN

00:26:16.160 took him out.

00:26:17.220 Now, he may not

00:26:18.200 die, die, 0.99

00:26:19.580 but he's going

00:26:20.180 to be off the job,

00:26:21.700 is he not?

00:26:23.000 Won't he be locked

00:26:23.800 up by today?

00:26:25.380 And if he's not,

00:26:26.460 it only means

00:26:26.920 Putin hasn't

00:26:27.440 heard about it,

00:26:28.240 right?

00:26:30.320 Does anybody

00:26:31.060 disagree with me

00:26:31.900 that CNN

00:26:32.420 just took out

00:26:33.040 a general

00:26:33.460 and almost certainly

00:26:34.960 was a war-related

00:26:36.340 move,

00:26:36.980 almost certainly

00:26:37.680 guided by

00:26:38.360 whoever fed

00:26:39.500 them the information?

00:26:42.380 I'm not wrong.

00:26:43.680 I don't think

00:26:45.180 I'm wrong.

00:26:46.060 I think they just

00:26:46.900 assassinated a Russian

00:26:48.420 general with the media.

00:26:51.480 I think.

00:26:52.580 I think that just

00:26:53.400 happened.

00:26:55.520 How many of you

00:26:56.460 noticed?

00:26:59.040 That's the weird

00:26:59.940 part.

00:27:00.840 If I hadn't

00:27:01.440 mentioned it,

00:27:02.660 you wouldn't have

00:27:03.280 noticed CNN

00:27:04.200 assassinating a top

00:27:05.500 general.

00:27:06.600 It just happened.

00:27:08.720 In effect.

00:27:11.000 All right.

00:27:12.140 The Supreme Court

00:27:13.260 nominee

00:27:13.660 had at least

00:27:15.400 one interesting

00:27:16.080 moment

00:27:16.860 in which

00:27:19.040 she was asked

00:27:20.640 to define

00:27:21.460 a woman 0.57

00:27:21.840 and then she

00:27:22.480 said,

00:27:23.260 well,

00:27:23.540 I'm not a

00:27:24.000 biologist.

00:27:25.160 And then

00:27:25.700 everybody

00:27:26.120 pounced.

00:27:27.660 They said,

00:27:27.960 wait a minute,

00:27:28.280 wait a minute.

00:27:29.220 If you have to

00:27:30.060 be a biologist,

00:27:31.980 wouldn't that

00:27:32.700 suggest there's

00:27:33.400 a biological

00:27:34.080 basis for

00:27:35.300 male and

00:27:35.920 female? 0.98

00:27:36.160 And that's,

00:27:37.940 of course,

00:27:38.200 counter to the

00:27:38.840 left's hypothesis

00:27:40.060 hypothesis or

00:27:41.140 maybe philosophy

00:27:42.220 that people

00:27:43.980 can choose

00:27:44.540 their gender

00:27:45.120 or that,

00:27:46.040 let's say,

00:27:46.840 let me say it

00:27:47.880 better,

00:27:48.580 that your

00:27:48.940 genitalia or

00:27:50.020 your reproductive

00:27:50.740 ability does

00:27:52.380 not define if

00:27:53.880 you're male or

00:27:54.380 female.

00:27:55.020 That would be

00:27:55.540 their point of

00:27:56.020 view.

00:27:56.120 Now,

00:27:58.200 the weirdest

00:27:59.380 thing,

00:28:01.780 the weirdest

00:28:04.280 thing about

00:28:04.740 this is,

00:28:08.680 I was

00:28:11.920 watching,

00:28:12.320 I thought I

00:28:12.680 made a note

00:28:13.020 about it,

00:28:13.380 Dershowitz?

00:28:14.720 Did anybody

00:28:15.260 see Dershowitz

00:28:16.080 talk about

00:28:16.820 his old

00:28:17.960 student,

00:28:19.380 Cruz,

00:28:19.780 artist?

00:28:20.560 So,

00:28:21.020 Ted Cruz

00:28:21.440 asked what

00:28:23.280 Dershowitz

00:28:23.920 called an

00:28:24.540 absurd question.

00:28:26.120 So,

00:28:26.840 it was Ted

00:28:27.140 Cruz who

00:28:27.660 was asking

00:28:28.220 if somebody

00:28:31.660 who was

00:28:31.960 born with,

00:28:32.880 let's say,

00:28:33.520 male or

00:28:33.880 female genitalia

00:28:34.940 could change

00:28:36.700 their gender,

00:28:39.000 why couldn't

00:28:39.480 he as a,

00:28:41.740 what do you

00:28:42.260 say,

00:28:42.520 Latino,

00:28:43.960 could he

00:28:44.380 change his

00:28:44.880 identity to

00:28:45.520 black?

00:28:46.920 Now,

00:28:47.520 forget about

00:28:48.180 what the

00:28:50.280 Supreme Court

00:28:50.920 nominee Jackson

00:28:51.880 said.

00:28:52.680 This is what

00:28:53.360 Alan Dershowitz

00:28:54.200 said about

00:28:54.720 this.

00:28:55.040 He acted

00:28:56.280 like he

00:28:56.580 was a little

00:28:56.920 embarrassed

00:28:57.400 because Ted

00:28:57.860 Cruz had

00:28:58.260 been his

00:28:58.640 student at

00:28:59.220 Harvard.

00:29:00.380 And Dershowitz,

00:29:01.020 I've been

00:29:01.220 watching for a

00:29:01.860 long time,

00:29:02.520 and I've

00:29:02.880 been quite a

00:29:03.520 supporter of

00:29:04.200 his logic.

00:29:06.440 You can make

00:29:07.520 your own

00:29:07.780 opinions about

00:29:08.340 his personal

00:29:08.860 life and what

00:29:09.520 he has or

00:29:10.000 has not done.

00:29:10.900 I'm not

00:29:11.300 talking about

00:29:11.760 that.

00:29:12.620 You're all

00:29:13.140 welcome to

00:29:13.580 that opinion.

00:29:14.620 I won't even

00:29:15.120 try to influence

00:29:15.760 you.

00:29:16.040 Just have your

00:29:16.540 own opinion

00:29:16.940 about his,

00:29:17.840 you know,

00:29:18.140 his own

00:29:18.440 life.

00:29:18.860 But this

00:29:20.940 is the

00:29:21.240 first time

00:29:21.900 I've seen

00:29:23.000 him be

00:29:23.540 outrageously

00:29:25.380 illogical in

00:29:26.280 public.

00:29:28.360 It's the

00:29:28.880 first time.

00:29:29.540 So even

00:29:30.060 when I would

00:29:30.620 disagree with

00:29:31.280 him on a

00:29:31.680 topic,

00:29:32.180 which would

00:29:32.580 happen now

00:29:33.120 and then,

00:29:34.200 when I'd

00:29:34.560 hear his

00:29:34.880 logic,

00:29:35.400 I'd say,

00:29:35.600 ah,

00:29:35.860 damn it,

00:29:36.160 that's good

00:29:36.520 logic.

00:29:37.860 Here he

00:29:38.300 has no

00:29:38.640 logic.

00:29:39.060 Let me

00:29:39.260 walk through

00:29:39.680 it.

00:29:39.840 So he

00:29:41.080 claimed

00:29:41.540 that he

00:29:44.980 agreed with

00:29:45.580 the notion

00:29:46.040 that you

00:29:46.660 can choose

00:29:47.200 your gender

00:29:47.760 regardless of

00:29:49.880 your genitalia. 0.88

00:29:50.820 So Dershowitz

00:29:51.780 says that's

00:29:52.400 a fact,

00:29:53.320 but it's

00:29:53.700 ridiculous to

00:29:54.580 say that

00:29:55.540 you could

00:29:55.840 choose your

00:29:56.320 race.

00:29:58.280 Do you

00:29:58.560 know why?

00:29:58.980 Do you

00:29:59.400 know why

00:29:59.680 it makes

00:30:01.120 sense that

00:30:01.980 you could

00:30:02.240 choose your

00:30:02.680 gender,

00:30:03.740 but it

00:30:04.460 doesn't make

00:30:04.980 sense that

00:30:05.420 you could

00:30:05.880 choose your

00:30:07.220 ethnicity?

00:30:07.960 Here's the

00:30:08.500 reason he

00:30:08.880 gave you.

00:30:10.020 I'm going

00:30:10.460 to paraphrase.

00:30:11.180 This is

00:30:11.400 not exactly

00:30:11.900 what he

00:30:12.200 said.

00:30:13.160 But it's

00:30:13.460 something like

00:30:13.880 this.

00:30:14.780 Well,

00:30:15.220 of course

00:30:15.820 you can

00:30:16.200 change

00:30:16.520 your

00:30:16.680 gender

00:30:17.020 because

00:30:18.220 people

00:30:18.600 do it.

00:30:20.120 And of

00:30:20.520 course it's

00:30:21.280 absurd that

00:30:21.860 you could

00:30:22.100 change your

00:30:22.520 race.

00:30:24.160 That was

00:30:24.840 his argument.

00:30:26.040 That's not

00:30:26.440 an argument.

00:30:28.000 That's

00:30:28.520 nothing.

00:30:30.120 He couldn't

00:30:30.980 even wave

00:30:31.920 his arm at

00:30:32.480 him.

00:30:33.340 He was

00:30:33.660 absolutely

00:30:34.360 stumped.

00:30:36.640 And this

00:30:36.940 is Alan

00:30:37.540 fucking

00:30:37.960 Dershowitz.

00:30:39.900 Right?

00:30:40.620 Dershowitz

00:30:41.040 Dershowitz is

00:30:41.400 not somebody

00:30:41.980 who doesn't

00:30:42.460 have an

00:30:42.800 argument.

00:30:44.320 And he

00:30:44.660 didn't have

00:30:45.040 an argument.

00:30:45.420 He didn't

00:30:45.620 have anything.

00:30:46.500 He basically

00:30:47.160 wanted to

00:30:47.740 mock it

00:30:48.300 away.

00:30:49.840 Let me

00:30:50.580 do the

00:30:50.920 argument in

00:30:51.740 more of

00:30:52.280 my own

00:30:52.660 style.

00:30:54.000 So I'll

00:30:54.580 try his

00:30:54.960 argument again

00:30:55.540 but more

00:30:56.000 my presentation

00:30:58.800 of it.

00:30:59.340 Of course

00:31:01.540 you can

00:31:01.900 change your

00:31:02.400 gender.

00:31:03.240 Look at

00:31:03.580 all the

00:31:03.780 people who

00:31:04.120 have done

00:31:04.300 it.

00:31:05.200 And he

00:31:05.600 actually

00:31:05.900 argued that

00:31:06.860 the people

00:31:07.200 who have

00:31:07.540 done gender

00:31:09.180 reassignment

00:31:09.700 surgery.

00:31:10.840 He says he

00:31:11.300 knows two

00:31:11.760 of them

00:31:12.020 very well

00:31:12.580 and that

00:31:13.780 they're

00:31:14.000 unambiguously

00:31:14.700 happier

00:31:15.240 because they

00:31:16.160 made the

00:31:16.500 change.

00:31:17.560 And so he

00:31:18.120 argues that

00:31:19.600 because they

00:31:20.400 were happier

00:31:21.120 unambiguously,

00:31:22.540 he knows them

00:31:23.020 well.

00:31:23.540 He has no

00:31:24.580 question that

00:31:25.080 they're happier.

00:31:26.220 They're happier

00:31:27.100 having made the

00:31:27.920 change and

00:31:28.540 therefore that's

00:31:29.960 evidence that

00:31:31.260 you can change

00:31:31.820 your gender

00:31:32.280 because the

00:31:33.740 people who

00:31:34.160 did it

00:31:34.620 are happier.

00:31:37.000 Do you see

00:31:37.680 a problem

00:31:38.180 with the

00:31:38.580 logic?

00:31:41.040 Do you

00:31:41.680 see that he

00:31:42.260 effortlessly

00:31:43.140 changed from

00:31:44.140 is it a

00:31:45.000 fact that

00:31:46.300 you can

00:31:46.600 change your

00:31:47.140 gender,

00:31:48.200 he changed

00:31:48.740 it to

00:31:49.160 people who

00:31:50.140 do it

00:31:50.520 are happier?

00:31:52.900 That's not

00:31:53.640 the argument.

00:31:55.760 Have you

00:31:56.120 heard anybody

00:31:56.840 say there's

00:31:58.180 no example

00:31:58.840 of somebody

00:31:59.340 who did

00:31:59.700 gender

00:32:00.040 surgery and

00:32:00.840 came out

00:32:01.220 happier?

00:32:01.580 Is there

00:32:02.400 anybody on

00:32:03.120 any side

00:32:03.800 of the

00:32:04.040 argument who

00:32:04.560 has ever

00:32:04.820 made that

00:32:05.240 argument?

00:32:06.500 I don't

00:32:07.160 believe so.

00:32:08.480 I believe

00:32:09.080 he was

00:32:09.420 pretending

00:32:10.480 there's an

00:32:11.080 argument that

00:32:12.740 people who

00:32:14.240 do a gender

00:32:14.700 assignment are

00:32:16.180 somehow always

00:32:17.180 unhappy about

00:32:17.880 it.

00:32:18.500 Nobody makes

00:32:19.100 that argument.

00:32:20.520 I think it's

00:32:21.260 observably true

00:32:22.380 that some

00:32:22.940 people make

00:32:23.420 the change

00:32:23.840 and are quite

00:32:24.240 happy about

00:32:24.700 it.

00:32:24.840 I don't

00:32:25.020 know what

00:32:25.240 percentage.

00:32:26.780 Do you

00:32:28.240 doubt it?

00:32:29.060 Is there

00:32:29.300 anybody here

00:32:29.760 who thinks

00:32:30.080 that nobody

00:32:30.720 has ever

00:32:31.100 been happy

00:32:31.640 with a

00:32:32.640 gender

00:32:32.860 reassignment?

00:32:34.540 Does anybody

00:32:34.940 think that?

00:32:35.920 Or do you

00:32:36.260 think in the

00:32:37.760 back of their

00:32:38.440 mind they 0.91

00:32:38.900 wish they

00:32:39.180 hadn't done

00:32:39.580 it?

00:32:41.760 Yeah.

00:32:42.460 Some of

00:32:42.940 them have

00:32:43.220 to be

00:32:43.460 happy about

00:32:43.880 it.

00:32:44.060 So this is a

00:32:46.120 complete breakdown

00:32:46.980 in the

00:32:47.820 Dershowitz

00:32:48.360 logic

00:32:49.260 fortress

00:32:51.880 if you

00:32:52.300 will.

00:32:52.740 I mean he's

00:32:53.120 a solid

00:32:53.540 logical guy

00:32:54.340 but he

00:32:54.620 just threw

00:32:56.140 it all

00:32:56.440 away on

00:32:57.380 this.

00:32:58.080 Now I'm

00:32:59.280 going to

00:32:59.460 backtrack

00:33:01.180 now and

00:33:01.500 give him

00:33:01.760 some credit.

00:33:03.320 He also

00:33:04.040 told you

00:33:04.620 exactly why

00:33:05.520 he's biased.

00:33:06.220 If somebody

00:33:08.140 gives an

00:33:08.520 opinion that

00:33:09.020 doesn't make

00:33:09.480 sense and

00:33:11.100 then they

00:33:11.380 tell you

00:33:11.680 why.

00:33:12.780 Okay here's

00:33:13.320 why it

00:33:13.620 doesn't make

00:33:14.040 sense.

00:33:14.560 He kind

00:33:15.180 of did

00:33:15.440 that.

00:33:16.420 The way

00:33:16.920 he did

00:33:17.200 that was

00:33:17.580 by talking

00:33:18.220 about his

00:33:18.740 personal

00:33:19.560 friends that

00:33:21.720 are happier.

00:33:22.880 And when he

00:33:23.360 says it

00:33:24.200 must be true

00:33:24.860 because I

00:33:25.300 have personal

00:33:25.740 friends and

00:33:26.300 they say

00:33:26.620 they're happier

00:33:27.100 and I

00:33:27.440 observe that

00:33:27.860 to be true

00:33:28.360 he's telling

00:33:30.000 you his

00:33:30.360 bias.

00:33:32.040 Right?

00:33:33.060 That's pretty

00:33:33.560 direct.

00:33:34.680 He's not

00:33:35.120 saying I

00:33:35.740 have a bias

00:33:36.400 because but

00:33:37.760 if he says

00:33:38.340 I have these

00:33:40.640 friends and

00:33:41.140 they're happy

00:33:41.620 and that

00:33:42.460 means something

00:33:43.120 he's telling

00:33:44.160 you that's

00:33:44.600 his bias.

00:33:45.820 So I'm

00:33:46.340 going to give

00:33:46.700 him a partial

00:33:47.400 pass for

00:33:49.320 being illogical

00:33:50.160 because he

00:33:50.940 told you why

00:33:51.460 and it was

00:33:52.360 a human

00:33:52.780 reason.

00:33:54.000 It was a

00:33:54.560 human reason.

00:33:56.020 Right?

00:33:56.240 It wasn't a

00:33:56.680 robot reason.

00:33:57.940 He was a

00:33:58.420 human being

00:33:58.960 and he said

00:33:59.340 you know

00:33:59.660 these are

00:34:00.620 my friends

00:34:01.200 it looks

00:34:02.360 like it

00:34:02.700 works for

00:34:03.060 them I'm

00:34:03.440 going to

00:34:03.620 back them.

00:34:04.540 He didn't

00:34:04.880 say that

00:34:05.300 but it

00:34:06.060 looks like

00:34:06.380 he's backing

00:34:06.840 his friends

00:34:07.400 and their

00:34:08.040 choice and

00:34:09.180 it looked

00:34:09.520 like he

00:34:10.120 had departed

00:34:10.640 the law

00:34:11.360 and logic

00:34:12.000 for a

00:34:12.800 human

00:34:13.080 reason.

00:34:14.020 I support

00:34:14.840 that.

00:34:15.840 I support

00:34:16.700 him taking

00:34:17.300 humanity

00:34:18.060 over logic

00:34:19.300 in any

00:34:21.400 time really

00:34:22.240 but in this

00:34:23.020 case that's

00:34:23.520 fine.

00:34:24.300 But he did

00:34:25.020 depart logic

00:34:25.680 entirely because

00:34:26.460 if you can

00:34:27.020 choose your

00:34:28.200 gender you

00:34:28.680 can choose

00:34:29.040 anything.

00:34:29.340 I think

00:34:31.940 most of

00:34:32.240 you would

00:34:32.500 agree with

00:34:32.860 that.

00:34:35.760 Here's

00:34:36.200 how I

00:34:36.560 think

00:34:36.880 oh there's

00:34:38.620 a story

00:34:38.920 about the

00:34:39.280 richest

00:34:39.600 oligarch

00:34:40.240 that still

00:34:42.120 hasn't been

00:34:42.860 put in

00:34:43.200 prison I

00:34:43.580 guess and

00:34:44.560 that he's

00:34:45.080 not being

00:34:45.600 sanctioned

00:34:47.240 because he

00:34:48.340 might be a

00:34:49.200 way to help

00:34:49.800 negotiate with

00:34:50.640 Putin.

00:34:51.840 That would be

00:34:52.280 interesting but

00:34:53.060 I can't see

00:34:53.540 Putin being

00:34:54.400 influenced by

00:34:55.100 any rich

00:34:57.060 Russian.

00:34:58.580 It just

00:34:58.980 doesn't sound

00:34:59.640 like that

00:35:00.360 makes a

00:35:00.780 difference.

00:35:01.900 I wouldn't

00:35:03.020 wait for that

00:35:03.460 to happen.

00:35:04.600 Here's my

00:35:05.480 persuasion

00:35:06.360 suggestion for

00:35:07.240 Ukraine.

00:35:09.020 And you

00:35:09.680 know everything

00:35:10.040 has to be

00:35:10.520 A-B tested.

00:35:11.360 You can never

00:35:11.740 be sure

00:35:12.160 something will

00:35:13.080 work.

00:35:13.900 But here's

00:35:14.440 what I

00:35:15.080 would have

00:35:15.280 been tempted

00:35:15.760 to do.

00:35:17.800 Ukraine has 0.72

00:35:18.480 shown lots

00:35:19.120 of pictures

00:35:19.520 of dead

00:35:20.020 Russian

00:35:20.360 soldiers.

00:35:22.200 But correct

00:35:22.920 me if I'm

00:35:23.380 wrong we

00:35:24.380 see usually

00:35:25.000 one or

00:35:26.780 maybe there

00:35:27.280 would be

00:35:27.660 three spread

00:35:29.680 out in a

00:35:30.400 little area

00:35:30.900 that's in a

00:35:31.300 picture or

00:35:31.860 a video.

00:35:34.060 If you see

00:35:34.820 videos of

00:35:35.600 individual

00:35:36.280 soldiers dead

00:35:37.720 does that

00:35:40.020 make you

00:35:40.440 worry about

00:35:41.040 let's say

00:35:41.580 your son

00:35:42.740 who's a

00:35:43.100 soldier?

00:35:43.520 Well yes.

00:35:44.580 But you also

00:35:45.140 tell yourself

00:35:45.740 well that's

00:35:46.080 just one.

00:35:47.620 There are a

00:35:48.080 million soldiers

00:35:48.760 that's one.

00:35:51.140 But suppose

00:35:51.900 Ukraine there's

00:35:52.840 a story of

00:35:53.520 one city

00:35:54.020 that's having

00:35:54.540 a problem

00:35:54.920 with all the

00:35:55.420 corpses.

00:35:55.740 So it

00:35:56.800 was a

00:35:57.000 city that

00:35:57.420 the Russians

00:35:57.780 attacked

00:35:58.260 unsuccessfully.

00:36:00.180 As the

00:36:00.960 snow is

00:36:02.640 thawing

00:36:03.120 there are a

00:36:04.360 whole bunch

00:36:04.640 of bodies

00:36:05.060 they have

00:36:05.360 to deal

00:36:05.620 with.

00:36:06.940 And here's

00:36:07.760 what I

00:36:08.020 would have

00:36:08.220 done as

00:36:08.740 horrible as

00:36:09.440 this sounds.

00:36:10.060 I understand

00:36:10.940 this sounds

00:36:11.700 horrible.

00:36:12.480 But remember

00:36:12.780 it's war.

00:36:14.220 I would

00:36:14.780 collect up as

00:36:15.500 many Russian

00:36:16.080 bodies as I

00:36:16.780 could and I

00:36:18.340 would pile

00:36:18.940 them in a

00:36:19.820 mound.

00:36:21.260 But I

00:36:21.680 might fake it

00:36:23.820 a little bit.

00:36:24.300 I might put

00:36:25.100 something under

00:36:25.700 the pile so

00:36:26.960 it looks like

00:36:27.400 it's all a

00:36:27.940 pile of dead

00:36:28.760 soldiers.

00:36:30.120 But you can

00:36:31.080 tell clearly

00:36:31.660 it's lots of

00:36:32.180 individual dead

00:36:32.940 Russian soldiers.

00:36:34.320 And then

00:36:34.560 don't show the

00:36:35.740 military throwing

00:36:36.660 them on the

00:36:37.120 pile.

00:36:38.680 Show the

00:36:39.340 townspeople

00:36:40.460 collecting them

00:36:42.200 and dragging

00:36:42.740 them up to

00:36:43.480 the pile and

00:36:44.580 throwing them

00:36:45.060 on.

00:36:45.300 And if you

00:36:47.740 were a

00:36:48.260 Russian mother

00:36:48.940 and you

00:36:50.440 watched a

00:36:50.860 video of a

00:36:51.860 pile of

00:36:53.640 Russian dead

00:36:54.280 soldiers and

00:36:55.340 you saw the

00:36:55.900 locals, not

00:36:56.540 the military,

00:36:57.380 not the

00:36:57.780 military, you

00:36:58.680 saw the

00:36:59.100 locals tossing

00:37:00.900 them on a

00:37:01.500 mound like

00:37:02.760 firewood, that

00:37:05.760 will change

00:37:06.240 your fucking 0.97

00:37:06.640 mind.

00:37:08.260 Now let me

00:37:09.380 give the

00:37:09.660 Ukrainians some

00:37:10.420 advice.

00:37:11.100 Apparently

00:37:11.440 they've talked

00:37:12.040 to Israel but

00:37:13.600 Israel must 0.98

00:37:14.300 have kept

00:37:14.820 from them

00:37:15.260 their best

00:37:15.860 technique.

00:37:18.240 Have you

00:37:18.460 ever seen a

00:37:18.980 Holocaust picture

00:37:19.880 that involved

00:37:20.420 one person?

00:37:24.040 Are we done

00:37:24.860 here?

00:37:25.840 Have you ever

00:37:26.280 seen a

00:37:26.660 Holocaust picture

00:37:27.560 that involved

00:37:28.800 one person?

00:37:29.820 Well, okay,

00:37:30.320 you have.

00:37:30.980 Yes, you

00:37:31.900 have.

00:37:33.000 But, so

00:37:34.160 let me withdraw

00:37:35.260 the question.

00:37:35.900 Of course you

00:37:36.420 have.

00:37:37.460 But, that's

00:37:38.460 not the main

00:37:38.980 persuasion.

00:37:39.600 The main

00:37:39.920 persuasion is

00:37:40.540 groups.

00:37:41.940 The stuff that

00:37:43.000 moved you,

00:37:43.600 the things

00:37:45.280 that moved

00:37:45.740 you, was

00:37:46.800 the group

00:37:47.240 pictures, the

00:37:48.340 group deaths,

00:37:49.440 the group

00:37:49.880 incarceration with

00:37:50.880 multiple starving

00:37:51.720 people, etc.

00:37:52.840 The Ukrainians 0.94

00:37:53.880 have somehow not

00:37:54.760 used that

00:37:55.300 technique.

00:37:56.240 Now I suppose

00:37:56.820 there's a risk

00:37:57.360 it could

00:37:57.660 backfire.

00:37:58.880 Could backfire.

00:38:00.100 Because it

00:38:00.480 maybe would

00:38:01.360 make the

00:38:01.700 Russians more 1.00

00:38:03.660 willing to

00:38:04.220 fight so they

00:38:04.940 don't meet

00:38:05.580 that fate.

00:38:06.160 I don't know.

00:38:06.900 But it

00:38:07.240 seems to me

00:38:07.800 that the

00:38:09.180 propaganda of

00:38:10.260 visual persuasion

00:38:11.580 is being

00:38:12.880 completely

00:38:13.520 blown by the

00:38:15.400 Ukrainians.

00:38:16.740 Because the

00:38:17.940 onesies and

00:38:18.520 twosies are 0.62

00:38:19.120 selling a story

00:38:19.780 of rarity.

00:38:21.400 Let me say it

00:38:21.900 again.

00:38:22.840 If the visual

00:38:23.680 persuasion that

00:38:24.460 they're sending

00:38:24.920 is here's a

00:38:26.120 dead soldier,

00:38:27.600 here's one

00:38:28.100 tank, it

00:38:30.100 sends a

00:38:30.600 message of

00:38:32.220 rarity of

00:38:32.940 those things.

00:38:33.740 If you show

00:38:34.440 piles, it

00:38:36.040 sends a message

00:38:36.640 of volume.

00:38:38.260 They're missing

00:38:38.980 the persuasion

00:38:39.700 here.

00:38:40.040 It's got to

00:38:40.360 be a volume

00:38:41.000 that they've

00:38:42.020 got to sell,

00:38:42.640 not individual

00:38:43.480 anecdotes.

00:38:46.540 There was a

00:38:47.200 Russian warship,

00:38:48.060 I guess it was

00:38:48.660 a transport

00:38:49.920 carrier for,

00:38:50.940 I don't know,

00:38:51.280 troops and

00:38:51.860 tanks and

00:38:52.400 stuff, that

00:38:53.140 got blown up

00:38:53.800 in one of

00:38:54.120 the Ukrainian

00:38:54.560 ports.

00:38:55.820 To which,

00:38:56.480 again, I

00:38:57.160 ask this

00:38:57.680 question.

00:38:59.340 How hard

00:39:00.120 is it to

00:39:00.560 blow up a 0.94

00:39:01.160 ship when

00:39:01.600 it's on your

00:39:02.040 shore or in

00:39:03.900 port?

00:39:05.660 I don't know

00:39:06.440 much about

00:39:07.200 war.

00:39:08.980 But wouldn't

00:39:09.780 that be the

00:39:10.400 easiest thing

00:39:11.080 you could do?

00:39:12.720 I mean, if

00:39:13.040 you had the

00:39:13.320 right equipment.

00:39:14.340 I assume you

00:39:15.000 need a

00:39:15.400 shoulder-mounted

00:39:16.440 rocket of

00:39:17.140 some sort.

00:39:18.660 I don't

00:39:19.420 understand why

00:39:20.280 there's no

00:39:20.640 such thing as 0.74

00:39:21.480 remote-controlled

00:39:22.500 drone torpedoes.

00:39:25.320 Or are

00:39:26.320 they?

00:39:27.240 And how big

00:39:27.960 would a

00:39:28.960 missile have

00:39:29.360 to be to

00:39:30.580 put a

00:39:31.220 sinking hole

00:39:32.240 in a ship

00:39:32.860 if it hits

00:39:33.300 below the

00:39:33.740 waterline?

00:39:34.760 It doesn't

00:39:35.180 have to be

00:39:35.580 that big,

00:39:36.180 does it?

00:39:37.500 I mean, it

00:39:37.920 would have to

00:39:38.160 be a special

00:39:38.680 type, I

00:39:39.180 think.

00:39:39.420 It would

00:39:39.520 have to

00:39:39.760 stick to

00:39:40.160 the hull

00:39:40.480 and then

00:39:41.720 blow up

00:39:42.640 or something.

00:39:43.320 So it

00:39:43.660 probably needs

00:39:44.120 some science

00:39:44.740 on it.

00:39:46.180 Somebody says

00:39:46.780 radio control

00:39:47.500 doesn't work

00:39:48.020 underwater.

00:39:48.540 Does GPS?

00:39:50.040 Does GPS

00:39:50.640 work underwater?

00:39:52.880 There are

00:39:53.580 drone subs,

00:39:54.440 but we don't

00:39:55.060 have much

00:39:55.440 information on

00:39:56.120 them, somebody

00:39:56.460 said.

00:39:57.220 So here's

00:39:57.660 the question.

00:39:58.880 Are you

00:39:59.220 telling me

00:39:59.620 that America

00:40:00.200 does not

00:40:00.780 have a

00:40:02.040 drone sub

00:40:02.960 that you

00:40:04.120 could carry,

00:40:06.280 that you

00:40:06.640 could actually

00:40:07.000 carry?

00:40:07.340 It might

00:40:07.620 take two

00:40:08.000 people or

00:40:08.460 something.

00:40:09.300 But the

00:40:09.540 you could

00:40:09.800 carry and

00:40:11.780 just drop

00:40:12.400 it in the

00:40:12.740 water and

00:40:13.260 sort of aim

00:40:13.700 it in the

00:40:14.020 right direction

00:40:14.540 and it would

00:40:15.020 just blow up

00:40:15.720 something a

00:40:16.240 mile away?

00:40:17.300 We don't

00:40:17.620 have that?

00:40:19.000 I feel like

00:40:19.780 we do.

00:40:21.600 Is there

00:40:22.120 anybody here

00:40:22.540 who would

00:40:22.800 know if

00:40:23.840 such a thing

00:40:24.400 exists?

00:40:26.500 Somebody says

00:40:27.180 torpedoes go

00:40:28.080 about more

00:40:29.240 than a mile?

00:40:30.120 Okay.

00:40:31.020 But then you've

00:40:31.580 got the aiming

00:40:32.820 and navigation

00:40:33.460 part if it's

00:40:34.120 too far.

00:40:36.160 We do but

00:40:37.020 the Ukrainians

00:40:37.680 don't.

00:40:38.180 Well, that's

00:40:39.420 the question,

00:40:39.960 isn't it?

00:40:40.720 We do but

00:40:41.580 the Ukrainians

00:40:42.420 don't.

00:40:43.980 Do you think

00:40:44.580 they still

00:40:44.980 don't?

00:40:47.040 We are

00:40:47.660 giving them

00:40:48.180 Neptune

00:40:48.700 missiles,

00:40:49.980 shore to

00:40:51.080 ship.

00:40:52.180 Somebody do

00:40:53.340 a Google

00:40:53.760 and tell me

00:40:54.500 what distance

00:40:56.120 a Neptune

00:40:57.060 missile fired

00:40:58.980 from the

00:40:59.420 shore

00:40:59.760 can reach.

00:41:04.120 Germans

00:41:05.320 have a

00:41:05.680 torpedo

00:41:06.220 with 50

00:41:06.900 kilometer

00:41:07.280 range,

00:41:07.720 somebody says.

00:41:11.520 Scott,

00:41:12.160 please change

00:41:12.720 the subject.

00:41:13.440 No.

00:41:14.540 No.

00:41:15.400 Because the

00:41:16.100 reason I talk

00:41:16.680 about this

00:41:17.040 stuff is for

00:41:18.180 prediction

00:41:18.640 purposes.

00:41:20.820 If you want

00:41:21.500 to predict

00:41:21.840 where the war

00:41:22.320 is going,

00:41:23.280 knowing the

00:41:23.920 technology,

00:41:25.200 I think,

00:41:26.020 is the key.

00:41:27.380 Because we

00:41:28.040 kind of have a

00:41:28.700 handle on the

00:41:29.200 other stuff.

00:41:29.640 It's clear that

00:41:30.200 the Ukrainians

00:41:30.800 are fighting.

00:41:31.900 It's clear that

00:41:32.440 they're trained.

00:41:33.100 It's clear that

00:41:33.620 they're not

00:41:33.960 giving up.

00:41:35.040 Beyond that,

00:41:35.680 you kind of

00:41:36.060 need to know

00:41:36.820 the weapon.

00:41:37.860 All right.

00:41:41.140 I will change

00:41:42.140 the subject.

00:41:43.900 Lindsey Graham

00:41:44.920 is being

00:41:46.280 theatrical,

00:41:48.160 and he's going

00:41:48.600 to maybe vote

00:41:49.420 against Jackson

00:41:50.540 because he's

00:41:52.260 mad that,

00:41:53.660 let's say,

00:41:54.860 however long

00:41:55.820 ago it was,

00:41:57.100 Janice Rogers

00:41:57.780 Brown, who was

00:41:58.580 a black woman 0.97

00:41:59.220 that George

00:41:59.940 Bush nominated,

00:42:01.380 so she was

00:42:02.400 turned down

00:42:02.860 to the Dems

00:42:03.540 and now

00:42:04.240 Graham is

00:42:04.900 saying,

00:42:05.300 hey,

00:42:05.540 I'm just

00:42:06.040 going to

00:42:06.200 return the

00:42:06.660 favor.

00:42:08.120 Because it

00:42:10.320 would have

00:42:10.620 allowed,

00:42:11.320 under Bush,

00:42:12.220 it would have

00:42:12.620 allowed the

00:42:13.060 Republicans to

00:42:14.160 nominate the

00:42:14.920 first black

00:42:15.640 woman for the 0.93

00:42:16.300 Supreme Court.

00:42:17.500 And the

00:42:17.800 Democrats didn't

00:42:18.540 want the 0.55

00:42:18.900 Republicans to

00:42:19.700 get that

00:42:20.200 win,

00:42:21.600 and so that's

00:42:22.300 the reason they

00:42:22.840 stopped the

00:42:23.280 nomination,

00:42:23.820 not the

00:42:24.120 qualifications of

00:42:24.940 the judge,

00:42:25.840 not the

00:42:26.360 qualifications of

00:42:27.140 the judge.

00:42:27.480 and so

00:42:31.200 Lindsay is

00:42:31.780 deciding to

00:42:32.360 basically pay

00:42:33.080 them back.

00:42:34.380 Now, here's

00:42:34.980 my decision.

00:42:36.520 How does

00:42:37.200 that work?

00:42:39.520 Like, what's

00:42:40.840 his point?

00:42:42.740 So Lindsay

00:42:43.820 does the same

00:42:44.460 thing to them

00:42:45.200 that they did

00:42:45.880 to him,

00:42:47.240 and that will

00:42:47.860 make them less

00:42:49.260 likely to do it

00:42:50.100 in the future?

00:42:51.100 Or would they

00:42:52.020 be more likely

00:42:53.180 to do it?

00:42:53.780 because the

00:42:57.620 other team did

00:42:58.240 it?

00:43:00.840 Now, I

00:43:01.600 understand there's

00:43:03.360 a Republican

00:43:03.960 point of view

00:43:04.720 that I hear a

00:43:07.320 lot.

00:43:11.560 What time is

00:43:12.200 it?

00:43:13.960 How did my

00:43:14.600 phone disappear?

00:43:16.740 That's weird.

00:43:19.500 You're going

00:43:19.920 to have to

00:43:20.140 tell me the

00:43:20.500 time.

00:43:23.780 So somebody's

00:43:25.980 going to have

00:43:27.800 to tell me

00:43:28.420 how the

00:43:29.720 Lindsey Graham

00:43:30.480 strategy works.

00:43:32.500 Just explain it

00:43:33.360 to me in words.

00:43:35.000 So this is

00:43:36.080 what I'm

00:43:36.380 looking for.

00:43:37.560 So the

00:43:37.960 Lindsey Graham

00:43:38.560 strategy is to

00:43:39.560 pay them back

00:43:40.520 for what they

00:43:41.060 act the same

00:43:42.220 way.

00:43:44.060 And so

00:43:44.360 because you

00:43:44.860 did that,

00:43:46.260 probably the

00:43:47.420 judge will

00:43:47.960 still be

00:43:48.360 confirmed,

00:43:48.880 so it

00:43:49.120 probably has

00:43:49.520 nothing to

00:43:49.940 do with

00:43:50.180 this judge.

00:43:51.360 It won't

00:43:51.600 have any

00:43:51.960 impact.

00:43:52.340 What is

00:43:53.900 its point?

00:43:55.720 And I'm

00:43:56.220 not even

00:43:56.520 saying it's

00:43:56.960 a bad

00:43:57.300 idea.

00:43:58.140 I'm not

00:43:58.480 saying it's

00:43:58.820 a bad

00:43:59.100 idea or

00:43:59.460 a good

00:43:59.700 idea.

00:44:00.400 I don't

00:44:01.540 connect the

00:44:02.840 dots.

00:44:04.440 So he

00:44:04.800 does this

00:44:05.580 and then

00:44:06.900 is his

00:44:08.720 theory,

00:44:09.720 is the

00:44:10.080 theory he's

00:44:10.540 working on

00:44:11.100 that the

00:44:12.140 Democrats

00:44:12.620 will then

00:44:13.280 see the

00:44:16.800 light and

00:44:17.580 stop acting

00:44:18.180 that way?

00:44:20.980 Explain it.

00:44:21.820 How does

00:44:22.180 it work?

00:44:23.160 And do

00:44:23.440 you think

00:44:23.740 that any

00:44:24.240 show that

00:44:25.020 Lindsey Graham

00:44:25.660 goes on,

00:44:27.100 which typically

00:44:28.000 will be like

00:44:28.640 a Fox News

00:44:29.300 show, do

00:44:29.840 you think

00:44:30.040 anybody on

00:44:30.540 Fox News

00:44:30.980 is going to

00:44:31.360 ask him

00:44:31.700 that question?

00:44:33.140 How does

00:44:33.580 that work?

00:44:36.360 How does

00:44:36.880 that make

00:44:37.160 the world

00:44:37.540 a better

00:44:37.840 place?

00:44:38.380 How does

00:44:38.620 it make

00:44:38.880 Republicans

00:44:39.460 look better

00:44:40.040 to voters?

00:44:41.380 How does

00:44:41.760 it stop a

00:44:42.340 nomination?

00:44:42.840 How does

00:44:43.020 it do

00:44:43.220 anything?

00:44:44.720 How does

00:44:45.000 it possibly

00:44:45.480 work?

00:44:46.680 And I'll

00:44:47.600 say to you

00:44:47.980 again that

00:44:48.940 the Republicans

00:44:49.540 had free

00:44:50.220 money here.

00:44:50.760 absolutely

00:44:52.060 free money.

00:44:53.440 All they

00:44:54.140 had to do

00:44:54.600 is unanimously

00:44:55.420 put this

00:44:57.220 woman in

00:44:57.760 and imagine

00:44:59.080 the news

00:44:59.660 from that

00:45:00.040 point on.

00:45:01.360 From that

00:45:01.960 point on,

00:45:02.940 and even

00:45:03.560 today I saw

00:45:04.320 the news

00:45:04.880 saying what

00:45:05.780 the votes

00:45:06.160 were.

00:45:06.860 So I guess

00:45:07.200 Scalia got 0.92

00:45:08.000 in in like

00:45:08.640 a 90 to

00:45:10.740 nothing vote.

00:45:12.800 And I

00:45:13.040 think,

00:45:14.000 what's her

00:45:15.760 name,

00:45:16.000 Ginsburg,

00:45:17.000 I think she

00:45:17.520 got in on

00:45:18.200 87 to

00:45:20.320 3 or

00:45:20.820 something,

00:45:21.420 like some

00:45:21.840 crazy number.

00:45:23.820 And then

00:45:24.080 more recently,

00:45:25.220 yeah,

00:45:25.540 and Thomas

00:45:26.020 was 52 to

00:45:26.660 48,

00:45:27.200 but more

00:45:27.600 recently,

00:45:28.540 it's been

00:45:28.920 close.

00:45:32.120 Somebody says,

00:45:32.880 wow,

00:45:33.160 you're not

00:45:33.560 aware of

00:45:34.000 human Democrat

00:45:34.880 motivation.

00:45:36.620 And you know

00:45:36.940 what?

00:45:37.540 Somebody just

00:45:38.060 said I'm not

00:45:38.580 aware of

00:45:39.300 Democrat

00:45:40.040 motivation.

00:45:40.640 I'm still

00:45:42.580 not,

00:45:43.980 because that

00:45:44.400 comment didn't

00:45:45.080 help me.

00:45:46.420 But you

00:45:46.740 know what

00:45:47.060 would fit

00:45:47.880 good in

00:45:48.320 that space?

00:45:49.460 A description

00:45:50.340 of the

00:45:50.700 motivation that

00:45:51.380 you think

00:45:51.680 they have

00:45:52.020 that I'm

00:45:52.300 missing.

00:45:53.680 So please,

00:45:55.060 if you think

00:45:56.320 you can

00:45:56.760 describe it

00:45:57.320 in a

00:45:57.540 sentence,

00:45:57.920 I think

00:45:58.220 you can,

00:45:59.840 tell me

00:46:00.240 the Democrat

00:46:00.700 motivation

00:46:01.260 that I'm

00:46:01.560 missing.

00:46:02.520 This is on

00:46:02.980 the locals

00:46:03.400 platform,

00:46:04.300 so you don't

00:46:04.780 see these

00:46:05.120 comments.

00:46:08.160 Yeah.

00:46:09.660 Okay.

00:46:10.800 So here's

00:46:11.580 what the

00:46:12.500 Republicans have

00:46:13.960 missed,

00:46:14.360 but not yet.

00:46:14.940 I mean,

00:46:15.240 they could

00:46:15.500 still grab

00:46:16.040 this.

00:46:16.620 If the

00:46:17.000 Republicans

00:46:17.420 can find

00:46:18.340 a way to

00:46:19.260 give a

00:46:19.640 100%

00:46:20.380 support to

00:46:21.140 a female 0.98

00:46:21.980 black

00:46:22.580 qualified

00:46:23.580 candidate,

00:46:24.600 even when

00:46:25.320 they have

00:46:25.620 some questions,

00:46:26.840 because they

00:46:27.160 do have

00:46:27.460 some issues

00:46:27.920 with her,

00:46:28.520 but if

00:46:28.860 they can

00:46:29.100 find a

00:46:29.420 way to

00:46:29.640 do that,

00:46:31.320 the

00:46:32.020 Republicans

00:46:32.460 win,

00:46:33.840 because they'll

00:46:35.120 always have

00:46:35.780 that on

00:46:36.200 their record.

00:46:37.600 And then

00:46:37.820 the next

00:46:38.220 time the

00:46:38.580 Democrats

00:46:38.940 go against

00:46:39.620 the Republican

00:46:40.280 nominee,

00:46:41.800 do you know

00:46:42.080 what every

00:46:43.380 story has to

00:46:44.060 print?

00:46:44.940 Well,

00:46:45.620 you know

00:46:46.060 we gave

00:46:46.600 your

00:46:46.820 candidate

00:46:47.240 100%

00:46:48.240 support.

00:46:50.000 That's the

00:46:50.720 position they

00:46:51.320 should put

00:46:51.620 the Democrats

00:46:52.140 in, to

00:46:53.520 explain why

00:46:54.300 they're not

00:46:54.740 giving 100%

00:46:55.600 support.

00:46:56.620 Because even

00:46:57.300 the news that

00:46:58.320 supports the

00:46:58.920 Democrats would 0.89

00:47:00.620 ask that

00:47:01.100 question.

00:47:02.580 Even CNN

00:47:03.300 would make

00:47:04.100 them answer

00:47:04.500 the question.

00:47:05.860 Am I wrong?

00:47:06.380 I think even

00:47:07.820 CNN would

00:47:08.420 say, you

00:47:08.840 know, let's

00:47:10.020 take Jake

00:47:10.460 Tapper.

00:47:12.260 I know, I

00:47:13.080 know, you

00:47:13.400 have your

00:47:13.980 criticisms of

00:47:14.840 Jake Tapper,

00:47:15.680 and that's

00:47:16.720 not the

00:47:17.000 point.

00:47:17.860 You don't

00:47:18.380 think that

00:47:18.800 Jake Tapper

00:47:19.420 would ask

00:47:21.540 the Democrats

00:47:22.720 why they

00:47:23.280 don't do

00:47:23.820 what the

00:47:25.060 Republicans

00:47:25.460 did and

00:47:26.040 say, okay,

00:47:26.540 we know

00:47:26.900 which way

00:47:27.420 this is

00:47:27.760 going to

00:47:27.980 go, so

00:47:29.940 let's just

00:47:30.620 show our

00:47:30.960 support.

00:47:31.300 I think

00:47:33.620 he would

00:47:33.840 ask.

00:47:34.380 I think

00:47:34.600 he would

00:47:34.780 ask.

00:47:35.100 And I

00:47:35.480 think the

00:47:35.900 Democrats

00:47:36.240 would have

00:47:36.580 a tough

00:47:36.880 time wrestling

00:47:38.100 with the

00:47:38.480 question.

00:47:39.780 So I

00:47:40.640 think the

00:47:41.100 Republicans

00:47:41.540 are making

00:47:42.000 a gigantic

00:47:42.660 strategic

00:47:43.300 mistake to

00:47:45.020 die at the

00:47:45.640 altar of

00:47:46.220 fighting instead

00:47:47.980 of fighting

00:47:48.500 smart.

00:47:50.060 Let me give

00:47:50.900 you this

00:47:51.180 advice.

00:47:52.700 Fighting

00:47:53.180 smart,

00:47:54.940 excellent

00:47:55.400 idea.

00:47:56.640 Excellent

00:47:56.960 idea.

00:47:58.380 Fighting

00:47:58.900 because you

00:47:59.540 think fighting

00:48:00.160 is good,

00:48:01.300 bad idea.

00:48:03.920 Bad idea.

00:48:05.560 Let me say

00:48:05.960 it again

00:48:06.340 because I

00:48:06.700 know a lot

00:48:07.000 of people

00:48:07.240 are missing

00:48:07.560 this good

00:48:08.780 point.

00:48:10.340 Fighting

00:48:10.780 when fighting

00:48:11.320 is a good

00:48:11.840 idea and

00:48:12.320 you have a

00:48:12.580 chance to

00:48:12.940 win and

00:48:13.240 you've got

00:48:13.480 a good

00:48:13.700 strategy,

00:48:14.260 good idea.

00:48:15.520 Good idea.

00:48:17.120 Fighting

00:48:17.560 when you

00:48:17.940 know you

00:48:18.280 can't win

00:48:18.740 and it's

00:48:19.140 only going

00:48:19.420 to make

00:48:19.620 everything

00:48:19.980 worse,

00:48:21.420 this will

00:48:21.780 surprise

00:48:22.100 you.

00:48:23.160 Bad

00:48:23.600 idea.

00:48:24.320 Thumbs

00:48:24.600 down.

00:48:26.100 So that's

00:48:26.640 my advice

00:48:27.060 to Republicans.

00:48:27.980 Fight the

00:48:28.340 fights you

00:48:28.680 can win.

00:48:29.060 And the

00:48:31.500 ones you

00:48:31.820 can't

00:48:32.080 win,

00:48:32.480 take a

00:48:32.900 win any

00:48:33.340 way you

00:48:33.620 can get

00:48:33.920 it.

00:48:36.120 All right.

00:48:38.420 That,

00:48:39.020 ladies and 0.98

00:48:39.380 gentlemen,

00:48:40.960 is bringing

00:48:42.100 us to the

00:48:42.640 conclusion of

00:48:43.700 the best

00:48:44.580 live stream

00:48:45.260 that has

00:48:46.640 ever been

00:48:47.740 broadcast

00:48:48.260 anywhere in

00:48:48.860 the world

00:48:49.180 at any

00:48:49.660 time to

00:48:50.280 anybody.

00:48:50.640 And I

00:48:56.760 ask you

00:48:57.140 this.

00:48:59.180 So far,

00:49:00.240 I have

00:49:00.600 been

00:49:00.880 completely

00:49:01.540 able to

00:49:02.600 identify

00:49:05.000 as a

00:49:06.660 black

00:49:07.020 citizen.

00:49:09.600 Have you

00:49:10.300 been surprised

00:49:11.020 that I've

00:49:11.620 gotten no

00:49:12.140 pushback

00:49:12.620 from that?

00:49:13.960 Anybody?

00:49:16.580 Because I

00:49:17.260 keep saying

00:49:17.700 it, like,

00:49:18.480 prominently

00:49:19.000 and in

00:49:19.320 public.

00:49:19.560 And by

00:49:20.020 the way,

00:49:20.340 I will

00:49:20.600 say it on

00:49:21.880 national TV

00:49:22.720 if I'm

00:49:23.760 doing a

00:49:24.100 book tour

00:49:24.440 or something,

00:49:24.960 if I get

00:49:25.320 interviewed.

00:49:25.700 I will

00:49:25.920 say it on

00:49:26.260 national TV.

00:49:27.080 And I

00:49:27.520 will say

00:49:27.880 it completely

00:49:29.100 straight.

00:49:31.360 I mean,

00:49:31.880 I'll say the

00:49:32.960 reasons,

00:49:33.720 because there's

00:49:34.100 nothing hidden.

00:49:35.580 The reasons

00:49:36.140 are that it's

00:49:36.700 my option.

00:49:38.220 And I

00:49:38.520 kind of,

00:49:38.980 I like it.

00:49:40.540 I don't

00:49:41.080 need to give

00:49:41.560 you a reason.

00:49:42.520 I just

00:49:42.900 have to

00:49:43.240 prefer it

00:49:43.840 and know

00:49:45.280 it's an

00:49:45.560 option.

00:49:46.380 So I

00:49:46.920 prefer it,

00:49:47.980 I know

00:49:48.340 it's an

00:49:48.640 option.

00:49:49.580 It gives

00:49:49.960 me very

00:49:50.440 discreet

00:49:51.000 benefits if

00:49:51.720 I should

00:49:52.020 choose to

00:49:52.420 take them.

00:49:53.200 So for

00:49:53.500 example,

00:49:54.420 if I were

00:49:54.940 to sign

00:49:55.840 up for

00:49:56.140 some

00:49:56.380 government

00:49:56.740 program or

00:49:57.460 something,

00:49:58.360 let's say it

00:49:59.200 favored minority

00:50:00.740 applicants for

00:50:01.420 loans,

00:50:02.420 I would sign

00:50:03.540 up,

00:50:04.260 identify as

00:50:04.840 black,

00:50:06.200 nobody can

00:50:06.860 question it

00:50:07.380 because those

00:50:07.880 are the rules,

00:50:08.480 and I would

00:50:08.820 get those

00:50:09.160 benefits.

00:50:09.540 Am I

00:50:11.580 wrong?

00:50:11.840 Well, I

00:50:13.400 would.

00:50:14.100 Now, I

00:50:15.040 wouldn't

00:50:15.400 specifically do

00:50:16.440 that because

00:50:17.280 I'm rich and

00:50:18.060 I wouldn't,

00:50:18.740 you know, if

00:50:19.660 you're rich, you

00:50:20.220 don't want to

00:50:20.660 use a weasel

00:50:21.500 way to steal

00:50:22.480 money from

00:50:23.000 black people.

00:50:24.940 That would

00:50:25.400 be like the

00:50:26.140 worst thing you

00:50:26.660 could do.

00:50:27.060 So I wouldn't

00:50:27.420 actually do

00:50:28.000 that.

00:50:28.560 But there

00:50:28.900 have to be

00:50:29.360 situations that

00:50:30.160 will come up

00:50:30.660 in my life in

00:50:32.060 which identifying

00:50:32.880 as black might 0.99

00:50:34.020 be an advantage.

00:50:35.600 So I have

00:50:36.320 that option and

00:50:36.980 you don't,

00:50:38.120 unless you're

00:50:38.740 black.

00:50:39.000 Yeah.

00:50:44.180 There's

00:50:44.720 somebody here

00:50:45.180 identifying as

00:50:46.060 a six-foot-two

00:50:47.120 stud.

00:50:48.620 I accept your

00:50:49.700 identification.

00:50:53.540 What?

00:50:55.740 I think

00:50:56.480 there's somebody

00:50:57.040 Italian-American

00:50:58.800 on here who

00:50:59.440 says they're

00:51:00.180 just glad I

00:51:00.800 don't identify

00:51:01.400 as Italian.

00:51:04.160 I can feel

00:51:05.240 that remark.

00:51:06.200 I see where

00:51:06.560 you're going

00:51:07.500 with that.

00:51:09.000 I see your

00:51:09.680 point.

00:51:11.180 All right.

00:51:11.980 That is about

00:51:12.740 all I have to

00:51:13.280 say today.

00:51:14.260 And I would

00:51:14.920 like to leave

00:51:15.500 you with that.

00:51:16.500 YouTube,

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 24, 2022

Episode 1692 Scott Adams： Narratives That Are Being Created to Hide The Truth About Other Narratives

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