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00:05:46.720They're priming the pump because when everything is in the virtual world, it seems to me that it's inevitable that you're going to go to work in a virtual world.
00:10:45.280It could be, and maybe I need a lawyer to help me sort this out.
00:10:49.300There are lots of lawyers watching this always.
00:10:51.440So, do you think that Trump's real play is discovery?
00:10:56.880Do you think that the real thing is either political,
00:10:59.880to put something in the news that people have to talk about that makes it sound like he was right?
00:11:05.800Or is it because the process will allow more discovery and that process will just be infinitely good for Trump if he's running for a re-election?
00:11:14.820Because the process would take a long time.
00:11:17.360Wouldn't be completed probably before the election in 2024.
00:12:58.020Reuters actually writes matter-of-factly that Trump's claims about the 2020 election are, quote, false claims, or they say he falsely claims.
00:13:09.060And does it make sense to you that a news organization can call Trump's claims or his allegations false?
00:13:40.480How would you possibly know if it were false?
00:13:43.020Just, you know, very minor parts were audited.
00:13:45.140You don't know about the 99% of it, do you?
00:13:48.300So, somehow, the fake news has allowed you to accept uncritically that Trump's allegations about the election went from unproven to proven false.
00:15:56.400The only way we work is by accepting sketchy results.
00:16:02.380It's the only thing that keeps the system working.
00:16:05.140The moment I said I don't believe the result, therefore I won't act like a citizen, the whole thing falls apart.
00:16:11.720So, I think you could completely separate was it a fair election from the question of whether as a citizen you should treat it as fair for all practical purposes.
00:17:33.340And they say the position is you're going to be the vice president of the Catherine and Shelby Cullen Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
00:17:42.680You should say, can you change the name of my job because I don't think I can have that job name.
00:17:49.840Every time somebody asks me, where do you work?
00:19:14.260But a good opinion that says it might have made the difference for at least four years.
00:19:19.160So, and it's pointed out that Trump was nicer publicly to Putin, but tougher in terms of policy and stuff.
00:19:28.000And part of Carifano's argument is that the Obama foreign, you know, foreign relations people and advisors were the same ones from Obama.
00:19:42.040So Putin's, from Putin's perspective, it looks like just Obama too, because it's the same staff and Biden is basically Obama too.
00:19:52.080So, from Putin's perspective, the election of Biden was a green light.
00:19:57.440And then Biden goes ahead and says, you know, we're never going to commit ground troops, which of course is a smart idea.
00:20:03.360But then Putin says, well, okay, if you're Obama-like and you always cave and you're not too concerned about us, and if you said you're not going to send in ground troops, I feel like you just said go ahead.
00:20:16.820So, there's one argument that Biden himself caused the war, you know, just by the, I don't know, the low quality of his leadership, I guess.
00:24:52.540So you can only, you know, judge from the actions.
00:24:54.960But if you judge from the actions, it doesn't look exactly like Biden wants the war to stop.
00:25:01.740It looks like what he wants is to degrade Russia because he's full of anti-Russia people and permanently degrade them and then take their business.
00:25:12.500And so Biden is putting together this alternate energy channel, I guess, with Western interests that will provide, you know, more energy to Germany and Europe.
00:25:22.520And here's what's missing from the story.
00:25:31.520How many of you have seen the story that says Biden is putting together some kind of a workaround so that the United States and other producers can produce gas for and deliver it to Europe?
00:25:46.060And that Russia will be cut out of that, you know, gas deal.
00:25:49.800Do you know what's missing in the story?
00:25:51.200So far, maybe, maybe you've seen it, but I haven't seen it yet.
00:25:57.100This is a story that depends entirely on numbers, as in what percentage of the oil is coming from Russia and what percentage of that percentage can be backfilled by other sources.
00:26:12.360Because I have a bad feeling that for every hundred cubic whatever of gas that's coming out of Russia, that maybe the total availability of alternate sources might be 10 to 20 percent of that.
00:26:30.880You know, your opinion of whether we should push Zelensky to work out a deal and stop the war, and Russia too, would depend a lot on whether you think you can get alternate sources of energy to Europe in short order.
00:26:48.520I don't think that the Biden administration and maybe the news won't tell us if we're even close to being able to do that.
00:27:01.000And isn't it fairly easy to figure it out if you were a journalist trying to figure it out?
00:27:07.060Could you not produce numbers of how much Russia is producing and then ask the Americans who are working on this process, how much of that do you think you could replace?
00:27:36.280It doesn't seem hard to produce at least estimates, even if the estimates are wrong.
00:27:41.220So, when you see something like this that's not in the news, and nobody except me, apparently, has noticed it's missing, that tells you something.
00:27:54.100I mean, that tells you that the propaganda doesn't want you to know that.
00:27:57.440And it probably means that we can't produce it.
00:28:01.460But if we could find a way, even if it were hard, if we could find a short-term-ish way to replace all that Russian energy, you don't think that number would be in the press?
00:28:54.020Because Biden, if you take the hypothesis that Biden likes the war more than the peace, at least in the short run, he wants to degrade Russia and really ostracize them and make them basically permanently unable to build a powerful military.
00:29:11.500It looks like all he's doing is making Europe happy that they won't starve to death and run out of energy.
00:30:12.840Justice Clarence Thomas's wife, Jeannie Thomas, apparently a conservative activist.
00:30:19.580We know now that she was e-mailing a number of times White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump, the last days of the Trump administration.
00:30:29.600And with her, quote, unrelenting efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election result.
00:30:38.340Now, the scandal here is that while she was an activist working to have the result overturned, there was talk about the Supreme Court having to make decisions related to the same topic.
00:30:51.780So how awful would it be to have one of the Supreme Court justices' wife active in a thing that he might have to rule on?
00:32:54.620See, the problem with the Supreme Court is that you already know how they're going to vote almost all the time.
00:33:03.160If you didn't know how they were going to vote, then you might worry about them being influenced.
00:33:07.520But if you already know how they're going to vote on all the big stuff, meh, meh.
00:33:12.560Here's a horrible thing that happened.
00:33:18.260Biden, talking not even in the United States, on a foreign trip, mentioned again the fine people hoax as if it were real.
00:33:26.840You know, the idea that Trump actually praised neo-Nazis in Charlottesville.
00:33:32.660By the way, if there's anybody who's watching this live stream and still believes that Trump literally praised neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, do a little homework.
00:33:44.700Because I think by now you should know that edited videos can reverse their meaning.
00:34:57.820Here's a question that I saw on a tweet from Machiavelli's Underbelly, keeping in mind that the Ukraine forces have verified actual Nazis, small number, I think, but there are actual Nazis fighting on the side of the Ukrainians.
00:35:15.880And Machiavelli's Underbelly said, and Machiavelli said, someone should ask Biden if there are fine people on both sides of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
00:35:51.740What are the odds that Biden would make his signature move to become president, making fun of Trump for allegedly saying that neo-Nazis were fine people,
00:36:04.620and that Biden would find himself in the exact situation as president, of having to explain why he has any support for a group that has Nazis verified, Nazis within them?
00:36:19.440Let me ask you, have you ever in your life been in a situation where somebody accused you of backing Nazis because there were some in some group that you liked?
00:36:38.380It's a weird, weird situation, and it looks like code reuse.
00:36:43.660Now, one of the weirdest prediction methods that I use, and it's maddening when it works, because it shouldn't.
00:36:51.800There's no reason that any logic would connect this.
00:36:55.480But when you predict that the reality will take the same path that a well-written movie would take, or even a poorly written movie,
00:37:03.980when you predict that reality will follow the format of a movie, and then it does, is that a coincidence?
00:37:15.020But it's a weird little technique, and I want to show you how well it worked recently.
00:37:23.020Do you remember that I somewhat whimsically and jokingly tweeted that wouldn't it be sort of perfect if the simulation gave us the following?
00:37:33.820Finding out that Hunter Biden funded the biolabs in Ukraine.
00:37:40.360Now, I'm not saying that that happened.
00:37:42.720I'm just saying, wouldn't that be like the perfect movie script, right?
00:37:48.880Because you, and by the way, this is a Seinfeld writing technique.
00:37:54.220I once worked with one of the original writers for Seinfeld, so Larry Charles, not to be confused with Larry David.
00:38:05.340Larry David was one of the co-creators.
00:38:07.900Larry Charles was one of the first writers when they began the show.
00:38:11.760And I worked with Larry on a Dilbert TV show, so I got to know him pretty well.
00:38:16.340And he told me the story about, and I probably have all the details wrong, but I think he was taking a walk with Larry David.
00:38:24.340And they were talking about plots and writing, and they kind of came up with the idea of having separate plots that apparently had nothing to do with each other, and then very cleverly tying them together at the end, which became sort of a staple of Seinfeld TV.
00:38:41.120Now, that's not that innovative, because movies always have an A story and a B story, and then in writing terms, the B story will interfere with the A story toward the end of the movie.
00:39:26.820There is, I won't call it reporting, but there is a suggestion, and Tucker Carlson talked about it, that Hunter Biden was part of an investment group that invested in the bio labs in Ukraine.
00:39:42.760And that actually, frickin' literally, maybe, all right, this is an allegation.
00:39:48.120I'm not sure you can say this is a fact.
00:39:49.800But that there's a good chance that, literally, Hunter Biden may have funded some bio labs.
00:39:57.840Now, again, it doesn't mean the bio labs did anything wrong.
00:40:00.980But let me take it to the Seinfeld extreme.
00:40:04.300What's the next thing that happens in this movie?
00:40:10.660The next thing that happens is that we find out that the coronavirus came out of a Hunter Biden-funded Ukrainian lab.
00:40:20.000Now, I don't think there's any chance that that'll happen.
00:40:24.820But that would be what the movie would be.
00:44:23.020But I love the fact that he seems to be picking up tips from Putin, tips from Trump, and tips from Hollywood.
00:44:31.840So, they produced this almost Top Gun-looking video where, you know, in movies where you see the cool guys, maybe there are two or three of them or more, and they're, you know, it's usually guys.
00:44:43.480And they're walking, and behind them there's something awesome, but they're just ignoring it.
00:44:48.620They're just walking looking awesome, but behind them there's something awesome.
00:44:52.280So, they made that video, North Korea did.
00:44:54.980And so, Kim Jong-un, he's got a flight jacket on, and he's got the aviator glasses, looking pretty sharp, looking good, actually.
00:45:03.400And he's got two generals that are looking like almost cartoon generals because, you know, the North Korean outfits are so little over the top.
00:45:11.400And he's just, you know, walking in front of this enormous missile, and there are lots of video cuts where you see the thumbs up.
00:45:21.340You know, I've never been more convinced that we should make, you know, we should continue to be, I guess, friendly with Kim Jong-un.
00:45:33.580Because there's something very human about that guy, you know, monster though he may be, there's something very human about him that Trump accurately knew that the human part was the way in.
00:45:44.580And so, he took the human part, hey, you're my friend, I love you, we're friends.
00:49:26.180Let's see if anything else is going on.
00:49:27.940Mary Pol got completely destroyed, as you know, in Ukraine.
00:49:31.060And I heard an anecdote of that the people who were leaving, trying to escape the destruction, had to go through Russian checkpoints.
00:49:40.440And one of the things the Russians would check is it would make you delete your photos of the city that you're leaving that had been completely destroyed.
00:49:47.680Yeah, everybody says that Putin would be okay without a yacht.
00:52:06.260But let me give you a little idea of what's happening.
00:52:10.160Did you know that if you do a vertical farm, which is an indoor farm, in which they put the plants up a wall, lots of different walls, that you would use 0.1% of the water, land, and fertilizer of an outdoor farm?
00:52:27.380So, you could reduce your fertilizer need by 99.9% to grow indoors.
00:52:36.360But, what is the big problem with growing indoors?
00:52:54.560So, I don't know if this number holds, but one expert said that vertical farming is still four to five times more expensive, and that mostly that's energy cost.
00:53:05.160Can you imagine Elon Musk building a vertical farm prototype that not only uses, let's say, solar powers or something, but has a way to maybe be more cost-effective?
00:53:28.260It seems to me that we may have a gigantic innovation wave coming in vertical farms, because I'm pretty sure we have to grow everything indoors eventually.
00:53:39.480Climate change alone, variability of the weather, et cetera.
00:58:04.420So, I would suspect that all over the world, there are alternative food sources that are trying to ramp up as quickly as possible, because they know it makes sense.
00:58:15.560Yeah, we're good problem solvers, so we'll probably get through this, but I do think there will be some starvation at risk.
00:58:24.320What I'd like to see is a way to grow quinoa and process it in my own house, so I get that good protein.
00:58:35.960Quinoa is great, especially if you mix it with brown rice.
00:58:44.780All right, yeah, somebody over here saying soil and green.
00:58:51.100Whoever is saying soil and green, you might be new to this live stream.
00:59:28.020And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have for you.
00:59:31.580With your permission, and even without it, YouTube, I'm going to turn you off, and I'm going to talk to the locals people a little bit more.
00:59:40.580And sorry about the sound if you had a real problem there, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.