Episode 1705 Scott Adams： Democrats Rigged (Via Media⧸Intel⧸Dem Conspiracies) Two Elections and Trump Still Won One of Them
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about Joe Biden's recent trip to the White House, a new record for gas prices, and whether or not the war in Ukraine is really as bad as it seems.
Transcript
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Does anybody feel their internal organs operating a little bit better now?
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Well, Instagram reinstated me, so I had my account locked for reasons unclear.
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But it turns out that they do look at their appeals, and I'm back online, so I don't know
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why I was banned, and I don't know why I'm back, actually.
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It probably doesn't hurt that I tweet about it.
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Do you think Instagram noticed when I tweeted about it?
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One is Instagram has its own little form you fill out if you think you've been banned unfairly.
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So I did that, but I also tweeted about it at Instagram, and my experience has been that
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if you have a big enough account and you tweet at somebody, your customer service problem gets
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So I don't know what happened, but it got fixed.
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Well, I set a new personal record for expense to fill up my gas tank.
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At the pump yesterday, I spent $116 to fill up my car.
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And the pumps had to be apparently reprogrammed to handle over $100.
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Rasmussen has a poll about what Americans think of Ukraine and Zelensky.
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76% of Americans polled say they had a favorable view of Zelensky.
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And 76% of the U.S. public thought that Russia has committed war crimes.
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That leaves roughly 24%, 24%, 24, rounded to a quarter, let's call it 25%,
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think that Russia has not committed war crimes in a war.
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And 72% of the American public thinks Ukraine should keep fighting
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Well, I just about threw up when I saw these statistics.
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Do 76% of you really know what's going on even?
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Do you even know what country he's actually in?
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I mean, I'm not going to say I have anything bad to say about him necessarily.
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But you do know he's a completely artificial creature, right?
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He's a creature of manipulation and propaganda.
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Well, that's the next thing I was going to say.
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I think that a poll like this is highlighting that the Americans are watching this like a TV show.
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Unfortunately, until stuff starts blowing up in America,
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and I blame Biden for that or inflation or something,
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I don't really see any direct connection to the war yet.
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But I think we're watching it like it's entertainment.
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Does anybody else have that gross feeling that we're being entertained by war?
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And I feel creepy about it, but at the same time, it's a major war.
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Yeah, I guess you heard one story about Ukrainians doing war crimes against Russians?
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The one where they're shooting them in the legs, which is horrific.
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But do you really think the Russians are doing more war crimes than the Ukrainians?
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I mean, I guess the difference is there are no Russian civilians in Ukraine.
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Well, Obama visited the White House to make Joe Biden look especially bad,
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So, Obama was there to celebrate health care improvements that he made in his office.
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And did you see the videos of Joe Biden wandering around and nobody would talk to him because everybody was talking to Barack Obama?
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And he put his hand on Obama's shoulder to get his attention, and Obama just ignored him.
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Like, the President of the United States has his hand on your shoulder.
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And Obama ignored him and just kept talking to who he was talking to.
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And whatever you thought of Obama as a politician, when you see the two of them next to each other,
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Say what you will about Obama, but he was a great communicator.
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And watching that next to Biden is just devastating.
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You know, the purpose of having this kind of a visit is to get Democrats excited
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because they've got this enthusiasm gap that's like a million miles wide.
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If you just judge by the enthusiasm to vote gap, Republicans will win everything.
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If I had to say, I would say the benefit of highlighting that health care got a little
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bit better according to Democrats, the benefit of highlighting that when it's not as salient
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as it was when, you know, first Obamacare happened.
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I don't think that's going to pay for itself if you put Biden and Obama next to each other
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in the same photo shoot, because now it just shows you how degraded Biden is.
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So I think they came out behind on that, amazingly.
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Well, the Durham investigation has new information.
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I think it was an email, which does show that the lawyer who was working for Hillary Clinton
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and the Democrats in the 2016 election did, in fact, lie to intelligence people and maybe
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He said he wasn't working for anybody when, in fact, he was working for the Democrats and
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So let me give you a little context of what's happening now.
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We know for sure that there was a massive collusion between intelligence agencies, Democrats and
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the media to paint Trump as a Russian colluder, which he was not.
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And it didn't change the election enough for Trump to lose, which is amazing, if you think
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It didn't change the election enough for Trump to lose.
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But it looks like they took a better run at it.
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And, you know, I can't help but think that the January 6th insurrection narrative is just
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the same play, where the Democrats come up with a ridiculous narrative, but as long as
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they can get the intelligence people, the Democrats and the media to say it's true, it's true for
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So it doesn't matter if it later becomes, you know, debunked completely, as it will, the
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January 6th thing was clearly not an insurrection.
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And to imagine that you thought it was an insurrection, as opposed to a bunch of people who wanted to
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make sure the system worked the way it was designed, that's literally what they wanted.
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They wanted the system to work as it was designed.
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They weren't even asking for a different result, were they?
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I mean, there were people who wanted a different result, but they weren't demanding it.
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They were demanding a process which would give you some clarity about who actually won.
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One of the most amazing things that I've seen happen while I was watching it.
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So now we've got the media, intel, and the Democrats.
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They gave us Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian misinformation, and it wasn't.
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And they're pushing the January 6th insurrection narrative.
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Three clear examples of intel, Democrats, and the media intentionally colluding to create
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I mean, those are the three that are at the top of the news.
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I literally just took the three top news stories, minus the Ukraine war, and I've got three
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Now, I'm not going to say that the Republicans have never had some bullshit.
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I'm not the guy who says Fox News is always right, CNN's always wrong.
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But what I don't see is the right-leaning part of the country doing anything like this.
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Can somebody give me an example of where Republicans colluded with intelligence agencies and the
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Yes, that would be actually, that's a good example.
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How many years ago was the Iraq War with weapons of mass destruction?
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I'm not sure that that's as relevant as it is today.
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I don't know that Pizzagate was ever embraced by the right-leaning media, though, was it?
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So now, here are some of the things that the media and the Democrats have gotten away with.
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So Russia collusion hoax, Hunter laptop, fake disinformation hoax, January 6th is an insurrection, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax.
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And that's, if you were to design the contours of politics in 2022, it would be hoaxes.
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It's like our entire landscape of politics is literally hoaxes, which is weird.
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Yeah, oh, yeah, the don't say gay thing is a hoax, essentially.
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So here's an experience I had that other people had, and I want to see how many of you had.
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So in the comments, tell me if you've had this experience.
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Could have been some other app, but I used DoorDash.
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And they go to my local store, Safeway, to get things, and then they bring it to me.
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And on paper, that sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
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Use an app to say what groceries you want, and then they just show up.
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Do you know what small, just a small little, let's say, error or imperfection in the system is?
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But the app doesn't have access to what supply the individual stores have.
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So you could order all kinds of groceries, and then your person will go to one store only,
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and that one store doesn't have a third of what you ordered.
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A third of what you ordered, of a fairly long list.
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Now, the first several times this happened to me, I thought it was because of supply chain problems,
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or I thought it was a fluke, or I thought the person shopping for me was bad at finding things.
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As of yesterday, I can confirm that the app is not connected to their supply information.
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Safeway literally sells you shit they don't have.
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And then, to make it worse, this was my experience yesterday.
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That's why I was, like, giving her treats and waiting for my dog food to come.
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Like, I'm not going to go all night without feeding my frickin' dog, right?
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Goes to the wrong store, doesn't have the dog food.
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As my groceries were being delivered, for the price of $60 extra on top of the groceries,
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So for a $60 tip, 20% of a $300 or so dollar thing,
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for $60, I still had to drive past my delivery guy.
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As he was coming to my house, I had to drive past him to go to the store to buy the shit he didn't get.
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But, so far, every time, every time I've used a delivery service, I still had to go to the store.
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There's an option that they give you for substitutions.
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And they say, if we can't find this, would you like to substitute that?
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Because they will text you the entire time they're shopping.
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The reason I'm fucking using the app is because I don't want to fucking do the work my fucking self.
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I pay $60 for the delivery of the food because I don't fucking have the time.
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And from the moment you send in the order until the moment they arrive at your door,
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Now, I say to myself, I'm going to beat the system.
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So I say to them, I write in the notes, no substitutions.
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And so, therefore, I won't get what I want, but I also won't spend the hour that I was trying to avoid.
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Do you know what they do when you say no substitutions?
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They text you and they say, well, I'm just asking you about this one.
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And you think, now that you've said it in the notes, and now that you've answered one with no substitutions,
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you think, well, now they're not going to text you again.
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Well, about six fucking texts later, one every ten minutes, during the same hour I was trying to take a nap,
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do you know why I didn't go to the store myself?
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I was so tired, I didn't think I could drive there.
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I didn't think I could stay awake to get to the store.
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I tried to nap, and every five to ten minutes they texted me.
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If you don't answer the text, you're not going to get your food, because they won't do anything,
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or they'll cancel it or something if they're not getting responses.
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So the whole food delivery business is completely open for conquering.
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And imagine that there's no, it's not being serviced.
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You can still get stuff from restaurants about, I would say my DoorDash ratio of working,
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if I have stuff delivered, is three out of five.
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Well, if you order food for delivery, and let's say there's at least two of you,
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how often do you get the exact thing you ordered?
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Now think about how bad these systems are, and they're still being wildly used.
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So if there's one thing I could tell you about how to decide what kind of business to go into,
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find a business that everybody wants to buy, even though the business is terrible.
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Literally, I bought a phone that couldn't make a phone call.
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The AT&T phone with the antenna problem, with the iPhone, you couldn't even make a phone call.
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I think two years of just texting, because the phone never worked.
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And yet, smartphones are an enormous market, because everyone wanted them.
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First, you pick your food or whatever, and you put it in a package.
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So anyway, the point is that the entire food industry, I think, will be reworked.
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Well, here's an opinion on the Ukraine war from Phillips O'Brien.
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He seems to have some credentials for talking about this stuff.
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And he says that the Russian army might be in worse shape than imagined.
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And he goes on parenthetically to say, and I've probably been as skeptical about their condition as anyone since this started.
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But he says it looks like Putin doesn't trust forces that were not sent to Ukraine in the first place.
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There are two narratives about what's happening in Ukraine.
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Number one is that the Russians are moving forces away from Kiev because it's all part of the master plan to degrade the Ukrainian army in general.
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And having done that, now they're going to consolidate forces in the places that matter the most, around Donbass.
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They'll conquer that, they'll consolidate it, and then they'll expand back into Ukraine, which by now would be so degraded that it would be an easy job.
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So one is that Kiev was a decoy to get the Ukrainian army distributed and then degraded.
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The reason that Russia needs to send the same military that got whacked around Kiev is because they can't send anybody else, meaning that they don't have fresh soldiers that they trust.
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That if Russia had fresh soldiers, that's according to military people.
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They would send the fresh ones into the south because the last thing you want to do is take an army that just got the shit beat out of it and send it directly into another fight.
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Because you don't want to send a crippled army into a fight.
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Because sometimes there's not much difference between the last straw and being an effective military.
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There's like just a little bit of a tipping point.
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And if you've got a degraded army, you might be pretty close to the tipping point and not know it.
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So one possibility is that the fact that the spent forces from the north are being used in the south is desperation.
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Putin definitely has everything under control and is largely working the way a military would conquer a country.
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Just, you know, and they're doing shaping the battlefield and shaping the war.
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Now they're going to mop up the Donbass and they win.
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But the other is that they're in a desperate situation.
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But apparently the, and I'm not sure I believe this, that the Russian military is designed for a nuclear fight and not a standard one.
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In other words, the tanks can't even stop machine gun fire.
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That a lot of the tanks used in Ukraine were developed for a nuclear situation.
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So I guess they withstand nuclear radiation fairly well.
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But there, but you could actually machine gun a tank.
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And if you do it hard enough, long enough, you could actually penetrate the tank with machine gun fire.
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And they showed pictures of tanks that were reinforced because the armor was so light.
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I'm seeing lots of people saying that's not true.
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It did sound a little weird that the tanks would be optimized for a nuclear confrontation.
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I'm going to say there might be something true-ish about it, but I guess I wouldn't accept it just because I saw a tweet about it.
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So when the leaves are on the trees in Ukraine, it looks like that could be a big strategic advantage for the locals.
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Because if you're an insurgency group, your benefit is hiding.
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And they could just hide better because there's going to be leaves on the trees.
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If Ukraine holds on until the winter, what happens then?
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And I've said before that how things go in Ukraine is entirely a – there's only one number that matters, which is the number of drones, I think.
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If they get enough Switchblade and the really good ones that are even better than Switchblade Plus, if they get enough of them, I would think that they win.
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That there is some number of Switchblade drones that would allow Ukraine to win outright?
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Now, this assumes there's no tactical nuclear strike or something, I guess.
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It's only about the number of Switchblade drones.
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Yeah, I mean, when it comes to war, I don't think anything's predictable.
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Wow, I was not expecting so many people to say no to that.
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So I don't quite understand why you would say no to that.
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I'm saying that if they got enough, they're apparently not that hard to train somebody to use, right?
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I didn't see anything about training being a big problem.
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Yeah, and why haven't drones gotten into Moscow?
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I assume that the Ukrainians don't want to look like the bad guys.
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You know, they're managing their reputation, so they're not attacking any kind of civilian center.
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All right, yeah, jamming is a thing, but you can get around the jamming as well.
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I think everybody would agree that the invasion is on Putin.
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Now, it's also true that the United States and NATO did lots of things which invited this attack.
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But you don't really blame the victims if somebody attacks you, do you?
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Even if you say, well, NATO and the U.S. did some provocative things,
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is that justification for war so it takes the blame away from Putin?
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I think your victim can do everything wrong, and it's still the aggressor's fault.
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I think starting the war in Ukraine was 100% Putin's fault.
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Continuing the war in Ukraine after we see that there are massive war crimes
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Now, I know it would be hard for the Russian people to overthrow Putin.
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and how many people would die if they tried to do it.
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But let me talk directly to the Russian people.
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Putin can start a war, and if it was fast, he could finish it.
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So, Russian citizens, you do know how to get real news.
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You do know how to find out what your country is doing there.
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So the new Holocaust is on the Russian people, in my opinion.
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But because the Russian public could, if they rose up as one, really get anything done.
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But it would be a mistake to wear provocative clothing in a dark, dangerous neighborhood,
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Wouldn't it be a mistake for a woman to dress provocatively in a dangerous neighborhood
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Would you say, then, that if she is assaulted, completely her fault?
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That the victim is at fault for creating a situation which invites the crime?
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My view is that the person who commits the crime is always at the blame.
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Now, I would, here's where I would make the distinction.
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I think NATO made a mistake, but Putin's to blame.
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He's the one who did the bad stuff that caused people to die.
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Victims can make mistakes, and victims can do things that make it more likely that they're
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And I would call them out for that, as I have called out NATO for creating a situation where
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But this is on the Russian people now, in my opinion.
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So, if you are a Russian citizen, and you're not doing something about this, I have a problem
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And I think we have to start moving the, you know, moving the frame.
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But the Russian people might have something to say about it.
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Let's talk about Elon on the board of Twitter, Elon Musk.
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So, do you think that Elon Musk will have access to the algorithm, directly or indirectly?
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Do you think he'll have access to find out what's going on there?
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Or does a board member not have that kind of access?
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Who thinks that, as a board member, that would be enough to actually get into the engineering?
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Because normally, that would not be enough, right?
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Normally, the board member would not be digging into anybody's engineering.
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The only thing I know is that when I tweeted about it, Musk liked the tweet.
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So, when I tweeted that Elon Musk would get access to the algorithm, and that that would
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So, do you think that Elon thinks he can get access to the algorithm?
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I feel as if he wouldn't have bought 9% of Twitter, unless he had a strong indication
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Because otherwise, it would be a waste of billions of dollars.
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And he doesn't really look like somebody who wastes a billion of dollars.
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So, he must have had a strong inkling, or even maybe a direct, possibly a direct, some
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kind of direct agreement, that he could get into the details.
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Now, I noticed, before, I'd looked to see if Elon had liked or retweeted anything that
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I'd said, because my number of users climbed by about 20 times.
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After we found out that Musk might get access to the algorithm, the number of people who followed
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me went from around 100 a day, on average, to over 2,500, I think, in one day.
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Now, people said it's because Elon Musk liked my tweet.
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But when he just likes a tweet, I've never seen that move my needle before.
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I've had famous people like tweets, but I don't really see it moving the needle.
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So, here's the first question I'm asking, and because Musk did like my tweet, I can't
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say anything for sure about it, because that could have been the only reason that the numbers
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But I'm going to keep a look at it, keep watching it.
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The only reason I checked that stat, because it's not one I follow, the only reason I checked
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my daily number of new followers is that I imagined that if there's something sketchy going
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on with the algorithm, that the people in charge of it are actively rewriting it right
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That if there was something sketchy about the algorithms, the engineers who are in charge
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are quickly removing the evidence because Musk is getting too close.
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All I'm saying is that I expected it to happen, and when I checked, the numbers were exactly what
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I expected would happen, because it does look like my account is suppressed in some way.
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So, even though it feels like my account was being suppressed in terms of growth, I couldn't
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And now that I've talked about it in public, it probably ruins the experiment, because who
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So, has anybody else had the experience that as soon as the news came out that Musk was
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going to be on the board of Twitter, did anybody see that their daily number of followers or
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Because if you didn't, then I would guess that the only thing that's happening is that
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because Musk liked my tweet, it got a lot of attention.
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Although I looked, you know, before I, I did look to see if he had liked it or anybody
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important, and I didn't see it, but somebody said he did.
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I find this a very strange place for Scott to press in his heels, especially since we're
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Was there anything I said that's not really obvious about the Ukraine war?
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As you know, there are many professional economists.
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Do you think the professional economists are all in agreement about how bad the inflation
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is and what it will take to get it under control?
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We're all aware of 2014 and Crimea and the Maiden movement and all that.
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And I do think that NATO and the United States have a lot to explain in their strategy.
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Meaning that I don't have any trust for Zelensky whatsoever.
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I'm sure the Ukrainian military has committed atrocities.
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Do you know why I'm sure the Ukrainian military has committed atrocities?
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And I don't think there's any exception to that, really.
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If anybody's going to argue with me that one side does war crimes and the other one doesn't,
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I can't even imagine anybody would have that opinion.
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So I don't think that the Ukrainians are more pure than the Russians.
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So I do think that you can't have countries conquering and rubbling neighboring countries.
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So if you're saying that I'm pro-Ukrainian, let's say I'm anti-attacking your neighbor, would you call that the same?
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So I'm very much against attacking your neighbor, which is, I feel like that's different than being pro-Ukrainian.
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Although, if we're talking about the citizens, I'm pro-Ukrainian citizens, as I was until recently, I was pro-Russian citizens.
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But now I think the Russian citizens have fallen into complete disrespect at this point.
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I'd say the Russian citizens are victims as well, but I've lost all respect for them.
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I can't respect the Russian citizens for not doing something about this.
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And I know it's dangerous, but that's why you respect people, right?
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You respect people when they do dangerous things that have to be done, among other reasons.
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But if they don't do the dangerous things that need to be done, I don't respect them, and I don't think you should either.
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Although that's, of course, a personal decision.
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We've got the Paul Krugmans and the Larry Summers and Jason Furman and other famous economists.
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And they don't seem to have a common opinion about whether inflation is going to lead us into a recession or be no big deal in the long runs.
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One view is that we've never been in this situation without X happening.
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But an X being you need a recession to get out of this, basically.
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The idea that your economy could be soft at the same time inflation could be rampant?
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And the economists thought, well, that's not even possible.
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The thing that makes inflation usually is a hot economy and stuff like that, shortages, because you have a hot economy.
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So I think my general statement is that economists don't understand inflation or what to do about it.
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I mean, I remind you that I have a degree in economics, so I'm not guessing entirely.
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But to me, it looks like economists can't do inflation.
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If they could, then all the smart ones would be on one side.
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Somebody's saying that I'm aping the mainstream media genocide line.
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Do you think that a lot of civilians are getting killed?
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I don't need to use your words so that you can have something to debunk me with.
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And I don't find that one of them more morally correct than the other, really.
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You know, if you're looking at individual acts, if you're looking at any individual citizen, they're fine.
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I don't think you can go anywhere and find where all the citizens are bad.
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I'm going to give you my contrarian prediction.
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Everything that's happened so far is because of surprises.
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You know, a lot of people didn't really think there would be a big war in Ukraine, although
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But the general public didn't expect it, I don't think.
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You know, there's just a lot of stuff we didn't expect.
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So probably that's what the future looks like, too.
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But given the coronavirus in China and everything else, I think the supply chain problem is pretty
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I think we have a five-year major adjustment problem.
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And one of the major adjustments will be building different manufacturing facilities,
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Can you get a chip manufacturer up in five years?
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If, let's say, Mexico wanted to build a chip factory, could you spin one up in five years?
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So I'm going to say that we've got a three- to five-year problem, and that at the end of
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it, we're going to have a better supply chain, far more robust.
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So, you know, the bad news, good news situation is we're going to be in way better shape to
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I mean, I think we learned enough from this pandemic, except for the masks.
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But basically, we're in better shape, I think, for the next pandemic.
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And I think the same will be true for supply chain issues.
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We had a really weak supply chain, it turned out.
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We didn't know it because it didn't get stressed.
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But as soon as it got stressed, it just fell apart.
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But human ingenuity, plus three to five years, fixes just about everything.
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Why is there a shortage of chips if they come from Taiwan?
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A.H. says, your analogy, you would attack your neighbor
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that is threatening your way of life with the help of a bully.
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You would attack your neighbor that is threatening your way of life
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Oh, the base materials come from China, but the chips come from Taiwan,
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So in other words, China and Taiwan do a lot of trade.
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That's sort of an interesting situation, isn't it?
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I don't think the raw material is just sand, is it, for silicon.
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China makes a lot of chips, too, but not as much as you.
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Now, I don't really understand why chip manufacturing went to Asia.
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Wouldn't chip manufacturing be the ultimate example
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of something where low assembly line workers are not useful?
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Isn't it a pretty much automated process plus engineers?
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So I can't believe that labor cost is a gigantic portion of chip manufacturing, is it?
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I feel as if you could build an automated plant
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that could make your chips with just a few people carrying boxes around.
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Well, but the machine can handle all that, couldn't it?
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So is it a dirty business, is that what you're saying?
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Okay, people are saying it causes a lot of pollution.
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But apparently if you're going to do it in another country
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I mean, I'm pretty sure we can find a Central American country
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you get the benefits of the environment, I guess,
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to put a never again in quotes with a happy face.
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I just have a problem with people who mock a point
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without any information about what it is that's the problem.
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And I believe this was one of the finest 48 minutes
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I just feel like you might be seeing the same opinion somewhere.
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And that's sort of what I'm resisting, I think.
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you know, basically the stuff we breathe all day,
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If the regular public would find pain in the joke,
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that would be just about where I'd want it to be.
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I know you think that people can't explain humor to you,
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A third of the country doesn't have a sense of humor.
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We love you, but you're a MSM puppet for two years now.
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We love you, but you're a mainstream media puppet
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My views have not been anywhere near the mainstream view.
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If you go to Reddit, it will say that I was pushing vaccines
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There's literally nothing like that I've ever done.
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Nothing like that's ever happened in the real world.
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Think of all the people who have made that accusation
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Think about the fact that I'm completely propagandized
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And I wasn't fully the opposite as an anti-vaccine,
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but I was definitely never pro-vaccine for any of you.
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Now, those of you who are agreeing with the statement
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and then you're hearing me say that never happened,
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how does it make you feel to know that all the people
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who think it did happen have never produced a single quote
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I've had thousands and thousands of critics on that very point.
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I know that the locals people are more informed
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But on YouTube, where people are a little less informed
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Does it give you any pause to know that nobody's produced an example
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I just want to say if anybody who had that opinion about me
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is rethinking it based on the fact that nobody in two years
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I'm not even talking about a tweet that somebody thought said that,
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But the context of my life is being criticized massively
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I care that you understand when you've been brainwashed.
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My show is about helping you understand when you've been brainwashed,
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I'm trying to help you understand that you've been bamboozled.
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Now, anybody who thinks I'm sensitive to criticism,
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being massively criticized about everything on social media.
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I don't think I think about it once during the day.
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I mean, I think about it when I read it, that's about all.
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how much others have been brainwashed about me.
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There's a Tesla Giga Texas Cyber Rodeo tomorrow.
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All you talked about was the vax for, like, six months.
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Is this vaccination going to help me or kill me?
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does not mean that you learned something about my opinion.
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Okay, that comment looks like cognitive dissonance.
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because your friend scared you into trying to save the world.
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Well, do you know how many lives I saved personally?
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But literally, do you know how many lives I saved?
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So how many of you who have actually watched me
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And watch how they have a different opinion about...
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and now you're seeing that the other people who watched me,
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That's people who have the same experience as you.