Episode 1744 Scott Adams： Headlines And Coffee
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Summary
A judge in the UK rules that calling a man bald at work is sexual discrimination. Yale Law School students confront conservative classmates who identify as conservative. And the Supreme Court prepares to rule on Roe v. Wade, and we're all woke about it.
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Appreciate it. Is everybody here for the Simultaneous Sip, which is one hour delayed, and damn it, that's the best I could do today.
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I know you hear the crying babies outside, which are not crying babies, they're some kind of weird bird.
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There they are, screaming birds, you got it. You got it.
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So, should we talk about the news after we have our Simultaneous Sip?
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Sorry to say that this is the vacation version of the Simultaneous Sip, and that means paper cup.
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So, how would you like to join me now for the Simultaneous Sip?
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You can put it in any kind of vessel. That's the vacation version, quick version.
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And you're ready? It's the dopamine hit of the day. It's the thing that makes everything better.
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I'm asked in the comments on YouTube if it would be okay to have a cold cup of coffee.
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But I would consider it respectful to the rest of us, if you would be prepared next time.
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Sure, I'm an hour late. Yeah, that's the thing.
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Well, I'm looking at all the important news today, and by far, the most important story.
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There's a ruling in the UK, a judge ruled, that calling a man bald at work is sexual discrimination.
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When people refer to me as bald, the first thing I think is,
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Why must you mock me for my high testosterone, which causes this baldness?
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Or testosterone sensitivity, which is almost the same thing, but technically different.
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Well, I believe it's because people are terrible.
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And that when they mock me for my follicle, let's say my follicle shortage, is that fair?
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And the argument, apparently, actually I don't, but the argument, apparently, is that since men
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are the primary gender that gets bald, primarily, but not exclusively,
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that this must be some kind of a sex-gender-related insult.
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And so I accept this new standard on behalf of all the bald men out there,
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who, as you know, are more virile, more efficient, more aerodynamic,
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and in many ways superior to all those who have good hair.
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All people of all kinds of follicle situations, we are all equal.
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That one day, you'll go to the barber, and the barber will treat you exactly the same as
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I don't know how they do that, but someday, they'll do that.
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Well, speaking of woke people, apparently there's a trend in Yale Law School
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of angry people who want to get in the face and have unrelenting, quote,
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unrelenting daily confrontations with their fellow students who identify as conservative.
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Do you know why the woke Yale Law School people want to get in the face of those conservative
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Because of the Supreme Court decision about, or upcoming decision, we expect, about Roe versus
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And the thinking is that these students, although they have done nothing, will someday grow up
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to be just like these Supreme Court people, and you've got to get them early.
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If you were going to predict which side of the Roe versus Wade question were most likely
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Like, if you didn't know anything about anything, and you just heard that there was one political
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side that was trying to prevent what they believed was murder of babies, that would be
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their interpretation, versus another side who's saying, no, these are not human lives, so it's
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If you've been watching me long enough, you know I don't have an opinion on abortion.
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Abortion that I want to share, meaning let women work it out, and I'm going to accept
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whatever they come up with, which I think is just a better system.
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The less my opinion is part of this, the better everybody is, right?
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I don't have a womb, and therefore I would rather allow my vote to be taken by somebody
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So, wouldn't you imagine that the pro-life people would be the ones who were the most
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But, to be fair, if I were a woman, and I could have a baby, and somebody told me that, let me
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Somebody told me that if I had been raped, I would have to raise the rapist baby.
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You know, this is not my opinion on abortion in general.
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I'm going to give you a very narrow little opinion.
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The narrow little opinion is if I got raped, and I were a woman, and I got pregnant, I would
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want to kill that little fucking thing so badly that I don't know if I would care if it
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Like, I can tell you that if I were the victim of that specific crime, there isn't anything
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I'd certainly want to kill any fetus that came out of it.
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I'm not saying you should build any kind of laws around that.
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So, don't change the Constitution to be compatible with my way of thinking on this.
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I'm just saying that if the situation were reversed, and somebody was telling me what
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But, if you were to guess which side was going to be the one to get violent about this, it's
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kind of, it's not exactly the way you'd expect it.
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All right, let's talk about, here's a smallish story that's bigger than you think.
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It's just a little, tiny little story that you could imagine it, like, becoming gigantic.
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So, the story is that David Sachs has just endorsed on Twitter, endorsed Michael Schellenberger,
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who's running as an independent, against Gavin Newsom for governor of New York, I'm sorry,
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There are certain people in the, let's say, the tech ecosystem, who just have a little
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So, he sort of represents, let's say, and this is me talking, this is not him, so don't
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But, he's positioned, let's say, he's the kind of person who, if he says a full-throated
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endorsement of an independent candidate, there's a lot of people listening.
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And the people listening are, let's say, opinion makers.
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But, the argument for Schellenberger, who's the same one I'm making, because I endorsed
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him as well, is that he's got solutions that are very specific, very well-researched, based
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I mean, it's just the most commonsensical, solution-based, very detailed, here's how we're
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In the interest of, you know, saving America, and I think we're at that point where saving
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it isn't too strong a word, would you agree with that?
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Do you think we're at the point where you have to save the country?
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I feel like, I feel like we're in some serious shit right now.
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But imagine a world in which somebody ran as an independent in our, you know, one of our
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biggest states, or the biggest, I don't know, what's bigger?
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Because he doesn't say things that are, let's say, poison to Democrats, and he doesn't say
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Imagine somebody running for a major office, getting this much attention, and he's not saying
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He's just got solutions that he's detailing in, you know, books, best-selling books.
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He's showing you exactly what he's going to do.
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And he's right on point with just science and things that we know work.
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I mean, unless they're just teen people, right?
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Now, I know, I know, all the money suggests that Newsom will win.
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So he's got the machine, he's got the money, he's got the history, the inertia, everything,
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But what he doesn't have is a good proposition.
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What he's offering you is more of what you had.
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Not one person, not of any persuasion, not one resident of California wants more of whatever
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the fuck we had for the last five years or whatever.
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So how does an independent who is not defending either Democrats or Republicans, and by the
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Or no, and I don't think people are understanding how smart you have to be to do it.
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If you want Schellenberger to navigate this space, he's literally stepping on all the rocks
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It's like he can see the rock to get across the river without getting his feet wet.
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And there are a lot of rocks, and he hasn't missed a rock yet.
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So, and the one thing that I'm puzzled by is why the national press hasn't been more aggressive
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And obviously it's because the Democrats, you know, would like to keep power.
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But, and they're, you know, they're backing Newsom, of course.
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But it does seem like the nature of the story is just made for the news.
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Because it's a whole different approach, and it would be nationally transforming.
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So here's why it's a small thing that's a big thing.
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The David Sachs endorsement makes it safe for other people to do the same.
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Because he's considered so rational and so respected, in, you know, the Silicon Valley tech world,
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People are aware of who's done things in that world.
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That I think he's just made it safe to back the independent.
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And so if you see more people of his, let's say, stature following on, this could be a big deal.
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And it could have influence for national elections in the future.
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Because it's a little bit DeSantis-like in some ways.
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But DeSantis goes for Republican-only solutions, right?
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DeSantis is a real practical guy, but he's nowhere near a Schellenberger.
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Schellenberger is really about the solutions, period.
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You can't even determine his politics from his solutions.
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Schellenberger's, he's got the best, he's got the best chance I've ever seen, based on his campaign.
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Have any of you seen the rumor, I think the Washington, or not, the New York Post.
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The New York Post had an article, but it's based on, you know, rumors and blah, blah, blah.
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And the rumors are that Putin might have some terminal blood cancer.
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Have any of you read that in any other media in the last, say, day?
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I wouldn't have seen the story except it was, you know, tweeted at me.
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So I'm guessing that this story has not met the test.
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But I'm going to stick with my earlier observation, that in my opinion, he looks like he's dying.
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So I'm going to stick with it, just because I like to follow it through.
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That way you can see, was my prediction good or bad?
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It's kind of unfair to change it in the middle.
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Well, the terminal part, you know, how would I know?
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But he looks like he's got a problem, like a pretty big one.
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Does it look like we must have somebody on the inside in the Kremlin?
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The news has reported that there's some kind of insider that's giving the United States and Ukraine some kind of intel.
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Because one of the best things you could do to an enemy is tell the enemy that one of their top lieutenants is giving you secret information.
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Because then, you know, then they'll distrust each other and everything goes to hell.
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So you can't trust anything about a rumor of somebody having a spy on the inside.
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There's nothing about that that's believable, even if it's true.
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But I've got to say, independent of what the news is telling us, it sure looks like we have somebody on the inside.
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And the reason is, because I don't think we would do the things that we've done so far unless we knew more than the public knows.
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It seems to me that the Biden administration has some information about Russia that we don't have.
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Now, it might be wrong, it might be right, but doesn't it seem like their decisions are hard to explain without a better understanding, well, without them having extra information?
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But why would it be that their mistakes have so far produced something that looks like a stalemate in Ukraine, which very few people predicted, except me.
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And if you look at the news coverage, the news coverage has clearly changed to Ukraine is winning.
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If you're watching the news, in my opinion, the coverage has changed to Ukraine is just winning.
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That the news is covering it like Ukraine is winning and will win.
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Because it went from, wow, they're putting up a surprisingly stiff resistance.
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And then it went to, you know, this is, I guess we should mention that in a few towns, they took back a couple of towns.
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But, you know, there is still just a stiff resistance.
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And then you hear about some Russian stuff blowing up.
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Today, the UK intel people estimated that Russia had lost one-third of its troops that it committed to Ukraine.
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So, one-third of the troops that it put in Ukraine are already dead or wounded, I guess.
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Do you believe that the UK and their intelligence agencies, with all of their believability and credibility,
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and, of course, they'd have no reason to lie in the context of an act of war,
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So, how many people think we should believe an estimate out of the UK intelligence agency during the war?
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You know, the thing that we sometimes forget is that an intel agency's job is to lie to you.
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They're professionals, and they do it really well.
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And one hopes that they're doing it in every way that they can, and that they're really on your side.
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So, in the context of protecting you, they have every moral, ethical right to lie to you.
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Because we kind of hired them to do that, right?
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Oh, by the way, did you see the, I tweeted it, I think.
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There's a video ad, a TV ad, I think, probably on the internet, too.
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Recruiting people for the psychological operations of the United States, the PSYOP people.
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What happens when the people who are the most qualified brainwashers, because that's what their job is.
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They would work in PSYOPs, so they'd be brainwashing and influencing the enemy.
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What happens when those guys make a recruiting ad, a video?
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It's really long, and it's an advertisement to recruit people, so you'd think it'd be short.
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But it's unusually long, and I couldn't turn it off.
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You could feel the skill level from the first second.
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Like, as soon as it gets you, it grabs you by the throat, and then you're like, I think I can't turn it off.
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And the UK intel says that under the current conditions, Russia is unlikely to dramatically accelerate its rate of advance over the next 30 days.
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So, in other words, the thinking is that over the next month, remember, this was supposed to be over in, you know, two months or something.
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But they're saying in the next month, Russia is just going to sit there and bleed.
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Another month of Russia just losing people, making no gains, and just bleeding.
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And every day that they sit there, Ukraine is getting more drones, right?
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Don't you think this, you know, the Russian forces are going to have to look up a lot?
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Because there's going to be a drone over them pretty much all the time, dropping something on some part of them.
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Imagine the mental state of the Russian soldiers.
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A third of them have been killed, or wounded, I guess.
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And the United States just put a gazillion billion dollars in there.
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You know, so again, I've been predicting that this is a war about tipping points.
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That one of the sides is going to run out of something that is necessary.
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So, it looks like Ukraine's supply lines might be better.
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Which makes sense, because they have control of most of the country.
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I'm not sure that it makes sense that their supply line is better.
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Whoever thought that owning the libs would be cheap, never tried to acquire a social media company.
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How many of you saw Elon Musk's tweet, I think it was maybe a week ago,
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in which he taught you how to change the Twitter interface from the algorithm to just the order that things come in?
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How many of you saw the tweet in which he taught you to do that?
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I'm going to tell you a tweet that, if enough people saw it, would change civilization.
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He's teaching you how to change Twitter's feed so that you see things in order of tweets instead of Twitter deciding what you see.
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So on your app, on your phone, you tap the home button.
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Then number two, tap the stars on the upper right of screen.
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I never knew what they were because I never was interested to tap it.
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So there's little stars on the upper right hand side.
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If you tap on those little stars, you can select latest tweets.
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And then Elon says, you are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don't realize.
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Easy to switch back and forth to see the difference.
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So I took his advice and I switched it to order of tweets.
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I was expecting that the tweets maybe that I've been missing I would see.
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In other words, there's something about the same thing is just in order that is not triggering me.
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Or is that just a completely subjective confirmation bias situation?
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It was like the dopamine button got turned off.
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It used to make me, my head catch on fire every time I looked at Twitter.
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But be careful because this might be just confirmation bias.
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So when Elon says you are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don't realize, oh, my God.
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And I saw people saying today that they were seeing the tweets from the Rasmussen poll for the first time.
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So Rasmussen is the one that had one of the most accurate polling histories for the political stuff.
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And although it has one of the most accurate records, by the way, I mean, after the fact, you can look at the predictions.
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And you can actually calculate who was the most accurate.
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And apparently they had been, you know, sort of shadow banned out of existence, even for the people who wanted to follow them.
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And now people are saying, hey, I keep seeing these Rasmussen tweets now.
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If the only thing that Elon Musk did is threatened by Twitter, but in the process teach us how to turn the algorithm off,
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it would be one of the greatest things that anybody ever did in the history of humankind.
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If the only thing Elon Musk did is he never bought Twitter, but in the process he taught you how to use that menu choice to turn off their algorithm so it stops brainwashing you,
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it would be one of the greatest accomplishments in humankind.
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Because he would have freed your fucking brain from jail.
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What did you care about more, inflation or freeing your brain from jail?
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But I'd rather my brain freed from jail, honestly.
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So, yeah, that is one of the biggest accomplishments.
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Now, not enough of us know to push the button, so it's not happening yet.
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But hypothetically, if he could free your brain, it would be the most important thing that's happened in a long time.
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How many of you are watching this story about the Buffalo mass shooter whose name, let me check his name, Jerky McFuck Asshole.
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Because when they do these things, they like to become famous.
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It's Bob Jerky McFuck Face, I think, was his name.
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And he shot a bunch of mostly black people in a grocery store.
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Apparently, his social media shows a lot of racist stuff.
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Number one, he must have been influenced by Tucker Carlson to do this.
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And there's one thing I've never seen on Tucker Carlson's show.
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I don't believe I can think of one time when Tucker Carlson said,
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We sure need fewer law-abiding American citizens.
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Is that what Tucker has been telling people on the shows that I don't watch?
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Because all the ones I watch, he says he's in favor of law-abiding Americans of all types.
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I'm pretty sure he's in favor of anybody doing anything that's legal.
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Maybe he would advise you to ignore their advice.
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But I don't believe there's ever been a time when Tucker Carlson said,
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You know, those law-abiding Americans of a different type.
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Now, you could argue with Tucker Carlson's opinion about illegal people, right?
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If you don't like his opinion about illegal immigration, well, that would make sense.
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But Tucker Carlson is not in favor of shooting Americans.
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And yet the left has somehow imagined that the guy who would, well, let me put it in starker terms.
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If Tucker Carlson had been in the grocery store and armed, one assumes that he's at least in favor of the Second Amendment.
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But if he were armed, and if he were in that grocery store, you don't think he would have taken out the shooter because he was white?
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Do you think he would have said, Oh, normally I would jump into action with my legal firearm to stop this mass murder.
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But, oh, I noticed the shooter's white, so I guess we'll let this one ride.
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I mean, how stupid do you have to be to think that someone who's 100% consistently in favor of legal, law-abiding Americans would somehow inspire someone to go kill legal, law-abiding Americans?
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That's pretty far away from what his message is.
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But the left needs some way to make this all political.
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Now, there's definitely something going wrong with how he was activated by right, let's call it a right-leaning, extreme right-leaning politics, I guess, which is very different than a right-leaning politics.
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In the same way, the, you know, progressive extremists are different than normal Democrats, right?
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So, then the other big issue is that he, like many of the white mass shooters, he was captured alive.
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And there appears to be some kind of trend of black mass shooters being murdered even when they're, even when they're, uh, surrendering.
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Now, I am in favor of when you observe what you believe to be a pattern to call it out, especially if it looks like a pattern of discrimination.
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But you have to be careful whether your data is accurate.
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Jenny Brown says, let me, let me talk to Jenny.
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Jenny, Jenny Brown here on YouTube says, she's sick of Scott defending Tucker Carlson and white supremacy.
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Can you understand, I'm just talking about things that exist.
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Can you fucking understand that, you stupid piece of racist shit?
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Because you're the kind of person that the world needs a lot less of, right?
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I'm telling you that he's in favor of all legal Americans.
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If you can't buy into that fucking concept, get off this broadcast.
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You're not capable of being with regular people.
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Do you feel that this trend is, or the pattern is a real one, or is it just another racist attack?
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Is it a real trend that the black shooters get killed by police and the white ones are like, oh, okay.
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Yeah, well, but here's the question nobody's, nobody's answer that I'm aware of.
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Because if they surrender the same way and the black ones are getting shot, yeah, I've got a problem with that.
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Is there anybody who wouldn't have a problem with that?
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Since Jenny apparently thinks that all of you are racists.
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I'm going to check CNN and see if I missed any stories, because all the important stories are missed.
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Let's see if I can get my Wi-Fi to come back on, and then we're going to be good shape.
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I tell you, it's hard to live with hotel Wi-Fi sometimes.
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Looks like everybody woke up and started using their Wi-Fi, and that's not working.
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Yeah, you know, I'm not going to talk about this shooter anymore.
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Everybody's okay that we're not talking about him, right?
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Here are headlines on CNN, which really tells you a lot.
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So even CNN is criticizing California's water shortage.
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The water shortage in California appears to be purely a mismanagement problem.
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We're going to run out of freaking water and electricity because we're mismanaged.
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Has anybody ever managed anything worse than that?
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So what do you think of Finland and Sweden joining NATO?
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If you had asked me 30 days ago, and I probably talked about it 30 days ago, if you had said,
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should Sweden and Finland join NATO under these conditions, I would have said, you're just
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You know, didn't NATO flirting with Ukraine, and Ukraine's flirting with NATO, isn't that
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why we're in this situation, or at least partly in it?
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And so I would have said, you know, why don't you hold off on that NATO expansion idea?
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If you made the decision today, would you put Finland and Sweden into NATO?
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Because it's starting to look like Russia's losing.
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I know a lot of you aren't on that page yet, but the way the news is treating it, the news
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And if Russia is losing, what is the best strategy?
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Do you just keep the pressure on until they lose bigger?
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So I'm changing my mind, in case you're looking for my inconsistencies.
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The situation has changed, or it looks like it.
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Sparky says, Scott, how do you know that you're not being used by Intel as a part of the term
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The only way that I pretend to deal with that, and pretending is the best you can do, is that
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So, I'm not telling you that Ukraine is winning.
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I'm telling you that the news is reporting they're winning.
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Because I don't believe anything that comes out of Russia, and I don't believe anything that comes out of UK Intel,
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that comes out of American intelligence, I don't believe anything that comes out of Biden administration, on the war.
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If you start with the assumption that everybody's lying all the time about everything about the war,
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and really that's the only logical thing to do,
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if you were any of those entities, you'd be lying.
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So lying is just part of the, you know, one of the tools of war.
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Or they're leaving out, they're omitting, you know, whatever.
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So, if I were a useful idiot, I would be telling you that one of those stories was true, and one of them was not.
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Yeah, keeping a race killer in the news is just a Democrat technique, yeah.
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Because they want your attention to be all about that.
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Oh, somebody's asking, did I see the trailer for Matt Walsh's movie, What is a Woman?
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So, as you know, unlike many of my viewers, I'm the most pro-trans public figure you might ever meet.
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Totally pro-anybody doing whatever they need to do, right?
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It doesn't matter that I think somebody might make a different decision or should have.
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And I don't think that they all make the right decisions.
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The fact that you think that other people are making wrong decisions about this very basic identity stuff, that doesn't mean they don't get to make the decision.
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And that's, to me, that's, you know, that's an unassailable position.
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So, I'm as pro as you can get to the trans community.
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I think sports should be adjusted so that there's just a whole better situation for everybody, not just the trans community.
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Having said that, having said that, watching Matt Walsh go around and ask people to define what a woman is, is really good entertainment.
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So, I don't align with his provocative views on this 100%.
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But as a form of entertainment, which is asking a perfectly legitimate question under the current circumstances, and then watching people not be able to deal with a fairly simple question on a topic that they seem to care a lot about, but don't understand maybe even the topic, is really funny.
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If you see it as a film about trans people, then maybe it's, you know, it's going to affect you one way or the other negatively, probably.
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But if you see it as a film about how people form opinions, and how well they can think through simple questions, it's actually really funny.
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And that's just based on the trailer and things I've seen him say and tweet.
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So, I'm not sure that I agree with Matt Walsh on more than, I don't know, half of what he says, maybe, something like that.
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Like, even the part I don't agree with, sometimes I'll be like, oh, he said that pretty well.
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And one of the most popular public figures, I think.
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Ukraine is sending images of dead Russian soldiers to their families.
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CNN's spin on Ukraine is that they're sending images of dead Russian soldiers to their families.
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But the way they're spinning it is so that the families can pick them up or so they'll be better informed of what happened.
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I feel like if you send a picture of somebody's dead child to the parents, that's a terrorist act.
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How would you define terrorism if it's not that?
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Everybody's in favor of terrorism if the person doing this is on your side.
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If the United States got conquered by, let's say, China,
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and there was some American who got into Beijing and started terrorizing Beijing while we were being oppressed,
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But if they're doing it on your side, it doesn't feel like terrorism anymore, does it?
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You know, look at the, well, I'm not going to go there.
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I was going to say, the formation of a popular country.
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So, we judge terrorism differently depending on whose side it's on.
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And everything about that shooter, we don't care about that.
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Melania Trump teases a second term as first lady.
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If Melania is down for a second term, that means Trump is definitely down for a second term, doesn't it?
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Because I don't see Melania teasing about that unless she was sort of down to do it.
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GOP governor says that rape victims should have to carry a baby to term.
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You know, separate from what is right or wrong, it's just a bad argument.
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If you're trying to get elected, this is really a bad argument.
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Now, how many of you agree with that, by the way?
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Because a lot of you are on the same page here.
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Of course I understand why a pro-life person would just be pro-life permanently.
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So, in terms of morality, I would say that would be the most highest moral opinion.
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So, if you were going to say this Republican governor who says there should be a ban on abortions, including rape,
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I would say he is taking the highest moral stand by his assumptions that the child is alive and it's a human life.
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So, you can't argue with that part, but morality has a little bit of wiggle room if you define it as not being alive, which many people do.
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Because if you define it as not yet alive, then it would be highly immoral to force someone who is alive, the mother, to do something this radical for something that isn't alive, if that's what your assumption is.
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So, since the only question is whether it's alive or not, don't you get down to the, by the way, there was, I saw a lawyer, it was a woman who was arguing that the First Amendment is how you protect,
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the First Amendment would be how you protect, in other words, freedom of religion, is how you protect abortion rights.
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Everything I say about abortion is not trying to influence which way the law goes.
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I'll back your majority, whatever you come up with.
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So, here's the argument for a religious right to abortion.
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If the reason that people want abortion to be illegal is based on their religious faith, that the life starts at conception,
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is that not one religion trying to force another people who are not of that religion to conform to their religion?
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Now, I'm going to argue the other side, so don't worry that I have a point of view that you've seen yet, right?
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But just as an argument, if you said to me, well, my religion says I can do this, your religion says I can't, is your religion not guiding me now?
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We've never had religious freedom in the United States.
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You've never had religious freedom in the United States.
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Did anybody teach you you had religious freedom?
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What you have is the freedom to have a religion that is largely compatible with Christianity.
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Your right is to accept Christianity as your religion, but you could use different words for it.
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Because you're accepting a God, you're also saying that murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, basically totally compatible on the big stuff.
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Now, let's say you wanted to have a religion that was satanic in nature, and that your religion said that you can kill human people for sacrifice.
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No, because it's not legal for a Christian to kill somebody.
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The only things you can do are the things that Christians say you can do.
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So, as soon as you say, hey, you're violating my religious beliefs, my first statement is, you never had a, not religious beliefs, you never had any religious freedom.
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You have the freedom, you have the freedom to be exactly like a Christian, but use different words for it, and, you know, wear different clothes, and, you know, have a different book.
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But if your religion says you can kill people, oh, oh, hold on, no, then we're going to go back to the Christian religion as your guardrail there.
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So, the trouble with the argument is that it acts as though we have, we've ever had religious freedom.
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There have been times when that was appropriate under, not appropriate, but allowed under some religion, right?
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Were honor killings ever allowed at any time by any subset of people as within their religious rights and that, right?
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If there were a religion that said, yes, you can beat your wife, but, you know, don't use a stick that's any bigger than your thumb, but otherwise you can beat your wife, perfectly fine.
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Would that be legal in the United States under the religious freedom, the First Amendment?
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You don't have any freedom except to be a Christian, or a Christian-ish, or like them, or similar to them.
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Now, usually we don't even notice, because we pretty much all the major religions believe in one God, or at least they believe that murder is wrong.
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So, mostly we're on the same page by coincidence.
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But then this question of whether a fetus is a human life, this gets, like, right to the religious belief thing.
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And so, if you're going to argue that religious freedom lets you take this, let's say, take this entity, whether you want to call it a life or not, then you've got a problem.
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Because that is a genuine difference in religious belief, and the Christians are mixed.
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So, in other words, even Christians don't agree on whether this is a life or not.
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But, let's not imagine we ever have freedom of religion.
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That was always just a smokescreen for a Christian country.
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And, by the way, I'm not a believer, if anybody's new to me.
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I'm not defending Christianity beyond the fact that, as a model, it seems to work.
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You know, a lot of people are Christian, and they have good outcomes, just as many people are Muslim, and they have good outcomes as well.
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You know, I'm in favor of religion when it works.
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I just don't buy into it, because I don't have the...
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For whatever reason, I was born without the ability to be a believer.
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All right, let's see what Fox News is saying today.
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See if anything looks different on that side of the world.
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I think that's always a mistake to say everyone thinks or everyone knows anything.
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I believe it's an organic thing that has a potential for life.
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And there is this long, you know, consciousness growth thing that starts at almost nothing, basically,
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and then goes to almost nothing, and then gets bigger.
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So, I don't have an opinion of when life starts, but it's not the first second.
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Now, if you say that your religious belief tells you that the first second is life,
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Like I said, I'm not a believer, but I'm a big proponent of belief.
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And so, if your belief puts you in that camp, I think that's a perfectly moral, ethical, reasonable place to be.
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It just doesn't match with my, let's say my instinct.
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But just my instinct tells me that that's, you know, less than a conscious life.
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Can we make an agreement that if I stay under the question, you know, I won't give you my opinion on abortion,
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that you won't argue with me about where I think life begins?
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Because I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to make that any kind of a point that you should act on.
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How many of you are on Prisoner's Island right now?
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It means that you're in a bad situation, but you're going to win.
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The Worldwide Child Hepatitis, I've not heard of it.
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It is not on the front page of my news sources.
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Well, that would certainly be a political way to take care of it,
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but it certainly doesn't change the way people feel.
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Scott, gay marriage is recognized even though it is anti-Christian.
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Because Christians say it's not anti-Christian.
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See, if all the Christians were on the same side,
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There's a case of doing something that's not Christian.
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But Christians believe that same-sex marriage is okay.
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So that would be not a case of being against Christianity,
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because Christianity doesn't have a decision on that.
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I've been uninterested in because it all looked like bullshit to me.
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Do you remember those big palettes of baby formula?
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I saw somebody trying to debunk that as fake news.
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But I feel like the whole baby formula thing is,
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Can babies only thrive if they have this special kind of baby formula?
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Let's say they don't have an option of nursing in the natural way.
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Like, you can't take ordinary food-related things
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and grind them up into something that's liquidish and has age matters.
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that if a newborn didn't get human milk or formula,
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that there's nothing you could feed them to keep them alive and thrive.
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I mean, it must be true that you can't do that or it's hard to do it.
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I guess I'd have to be more educated on this topic,
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There seems to be some combination of bad management that got us to this point.
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There were a lot of infant deaths pre-formulas.
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And I think we're going to turn off the YouTube feed.
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We'll talk to the local subscriber here a little bit more.
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I think I'm going to try the same time tomorrow.
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So just while I'm traveling until Thursday next week.