Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 15, 2022


Episode 1744 Scott Adams： Headlines And Coffee


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour

Words per Minute

144.28818

Word Count

8,796

Sentence Count

696

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

36


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 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.
00:00:08.520 I know you hear the crying babies outside, which are not crying babies, they're some kind of weird bird.
00:00:15.420 There they are, screaming birds, you got it. You got it.
00:00:19.940 So, should we talk about the news after we have our Simultaneous Sip?
00:00:24.200 Sorry to say that this is the vacation version of the Simultaneous Sip, and that means paper cup.
00:00:30.480 Paper cup. Can you believe it? I know.
00:00:36.520 So, how would you like to join me now for the Simultaneous Sip?
00:00:41.000 You can put it in any kind of vessel. That's the vacation version, quick version.
00:00:47.460 And you're ready? It's the dopamine hit of the day. It's the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:51.620 Go.
00:00:52.100 Point of order? Point of order.
00:00:59.980 I'm asked in the comments on YouTube if it would be okay to have a cold cup of coffee.
00:01:05.380 Well, if that's all you have, yes.
00:01:10.500 But I would consider it respectful to the rest of us, if you would be prepared next time.
00:01:15.960 Sure, I'm an hour late. Yeah, that's the thing.
00:01:19.000 But, next week, I'll be right on time.
00:01:22.380 Expect the same of you.
00:01:23.320 Well, I'm looking at all the important news today, and by far, the most important story.
00:01:30.620 Have you seen it?
00:01:32.180 Yeah.
00:01:32.660 There's a ruling in the UK, a judge ruled, that calling a man bald at work is sexual discrimination.
00:01:43.860 Sexual discrimination.
00:01:45.760 And I have to agree with this, judge.
00:01:48.320 When people refer to me as bald, the first thing I think is,
00:01:52.340 You sexist bastard.
00:01:55.820 Why must you mock me for my high testosterone, which causes this baldness?
00:02:01.720 Or testosterone sensitivity, which is almost the same thing, but technically different.
00:02:07.720 Huh? Why?
00:02:09.340 Well, I believe it's because people are terrible.
00:02:13.260 And that when they mock me for my follicle, let's say my follicle shortage, is that fair?
00:02:23.480 No, it's sexist.
00:02:25.000 It's sexist.
00:02:26.300 I feel like less of a man.
00:02:29.420 And the argument, apparently, actually I don't, but the argument, apparently, is that since men
00:02:36.600 are the primary gender that gets bald, primarily, but not exclusively,
00:02:43.260 that this must be some kind of a sex-gender-related insult.
00:02:48.900 And so I accept this new standard on behalf of all the bald men out there,
00:02:54.340 who, as you know, are more virile, more efficient, more aerodynamic,
00:03:00.640 and in many ways superior to all those who have good hair.
00:03:04.560 Wait a minute, that makes me a sexist.
00:03:07.180 I take it back.
00:03:08.880 I take it back.
00:03:10.600 We're all equal, no matter our hair.
00:03:13.640 That's better, isn't it?
00:03:15.500 Can I be a little more woke?
00:03:17.300 I could not be more woke than this.
00:03:19.940 All people of all kinds of follicle situations, we are all equal.
00:03:25.340 I have a dream.
00:03:27.260 I have a dream.
00:03:28.680 That one day, you'll go to the barber, and the barber will treat you exactly the same as
00:03:34.540 the people who have hair.
00:03:35.440 Someday.
00:03:38.160 I don't know how they do that, but someday, they'll do that.
00:03:41.620 Well, speaking of woke people, apparently there's a trend in Yale Law School
00:03:45.640 of angry people who want to get in the face and have unrelenting, quote,
00:03:51.540 unrelenting daily confrontations with their fellow students who identify as conservative.
00:03:57.900 Do you know why?
00:03:59.080 Do you know why?
00:04:00.940 Do you know why the woke Yale Law School people want to get in the face of those conservative
00:04:05.760 fellow students?
00:04:06.760 Because of the Supreme Court decision about, or upcoming decision, we expect, about Roe versus
00:04:13.620 Wade.
00:04:13.820 And the thinking is that these students, although they have done nothing, will someday grow up
00:04:21.140 to be just like these Supreme Court people, and you've got to get them early.
00:04:26.380 Does that seem like a pretty good idea to you?
00:04:29.860 To get them early?
00:04:32.600 See, here's the problem.
00:04:35.140 If you were going to predict which side of the Roe versus Wade question were most likely
00:04:42.520 to become violent, which side would it be?
00:04:46.060 Like, if you didn't know anything about anything, and you just heard that there was one political
00:04:50.560 side that was trying to prevent what they believed was murder of babies, that would be
00:04:55.320 their interpretation, versus another side who's saying, no, these are not human lives, so it's
00:05:04.520 a medical decision.
00:05:06.240 Now, I'm not taking a side.
00:05:08.080 If you've been watching me long enough, you know I don't have an opinion on abortion.
00:05:12.520 Abortion that I want to share, meaning let women work it out, and I'm going to accept
00:05:18.700 whatever they come up with, which I think is just a better system.
00:05:22.680 The less my opinion is part of this, the better everybody is, right?
00:05:26.820 I don't have a womb, and therefore I would rather allow my vote to be taken by somebody
00:05:33.760 else.
00:05:34.080 So, on this issue, just this issue.
00:05:38.720 So, wouldn't you imagine that the pro-life people would be the ones who were the most
00:05:45.060 worked up about this situation?
00:05:47.880 It's kind of weird that it's reversed.
00:05:49.420 But, to be fair, if I were a woman, and I could have a baby, and somebody told me that, let me
00:05:58.700 just give you one example.
00:06:00.560 Somebody told me that if I had been raped, I would have to raise the rapist baby.
00:06:07.480 Nope.
00:06:07.920 Sorry.
00:06:10.920 Sorry.
00:06:11.940 You know, this is not my opinion on abortion in general.
00:06:15.480 I'm going to give you a very narrow little opinion.
00:06:18.400 The narrow little opinion is if I got raped, and I were a woman, and I got pregnant, I would
00:06:24.180 want to kill that little fucking thing so badly that I don't know if I would care if it
00:06:28.680 were illegal or illegal.
00:06:30.300 I'd want that thing dead so fast.
00:06:32.540 Now, that's a special case.
00:06:35.220 That's a special case.
00:06:36.740 That's not my opinion on abortion.
00:06:39.220 Right?
00:06:39.600 Like, I'm telling you how I'd feel.
00:06:42.960 It's just how I'd feel.
00:06:45.080 Like, I can tell you that if I were the victim of that specific crime, there isn't anything
00:06:50.260 I wouldn't kill.
00:06:51.920 I would kill the abortion.
00:06:53.300 I would kill the person who did it.
00:06:54.900 I'd probably want to kill his family.
00:06:56.820 I'd certainly want to kill any fetus that came out of it.
00:06:59.760 I mean, I'd want to kill everything.
00:07:01.860 But that's just me.
00:07:03.060 Right?
00:07:03.480 I'm not saying you should build any kind of laws around that.
00:07:08.020 So, don't change the Constitution to be compatible with my way of thinking on this.
00:07:13.020 I'm just saying that if the situation were reversed, and somebody was telling me what
00:07:18.780 I had to do in that situation, not cool.
00:07:22.280 Not cool at all.
00:07:23.360 But, if you were to guess which side was going to be the one to get violent about this, it's
00:07:29.580 kind of, it's not exactly the way you'd expect it.
00:07:33.780 All right, let's talk about, here's a smallish story that's bigger than you think.
00:07:40.280 It's potentially world-changing.
00:07:45.040 It's just a little, tiny little story that you could imagine it, like, becoming gigantic.
00:07:50.420 And here's how this happens.
00:07:51.280 So, the story is that David Sachs has just endorsed on Twitter, endorsed Michael Schellenberger,
00:08:00.320 who's running as an independent, against Gavin Newsom for governor of New York, I'm sorry,
00:08:05.520 governor of California.
00:08:07.220 And here's why this is a big deal.
00:08:09.680 Big deal.
00:08:11.720 There are certain people in the, let's say, the tech ecosystem, who just have a little
00:08:19.540 more credibility than other people.
00:08:22.560 And David Sachs is one of them.
00:08:25.320 So, he sort of represents, let's say, and this is me talking, this is not him, so don't
00:08:31.220 blame him for anything I say.
00:08:32.440 But, he's positioned, let's say, he's the kind of person who, if he says a full-throated
00:08:42.820 endorsement of an independent candidate, there's a lot of people listening.
00:08:47.900 And the people listening are, let's say, opinion makers.
00:08:53.500 So, this is not like a regular endorsement.
00:08:56.820 I don't know if he's endorsed anybody before.
00:08:58.780 It might be the first time.
00:08:59.640 But, the argument for Schellenberger, who's the same one I'm making, because I endorsed
00:09:04.160 him as well, is that he's got solutions that are very specific, very well-researched, based
00:09:11.140 on stuff that's worked in other places.
00:09:14.180 I mean, it's just the most commonsensical, solution-based, very detailed, here's how we're
00:09:22.120 going to do it situation.
00:09:24.300 We have to try this somewhere once.
00:09:27.960 Please.
00:09:29.100 Right?
00:09:29.240 In the interest of, you know, saving America, and I think we're at that point where saving
00:09:35.160 it isn't too strong a word, would you agree with that?
00:09:39.680 Do you think we're at the point where you have to save the country?
00:09:42.520 It's not like we're just tweaking it better?
00:09:44.900 I feel like, I feel like we're in some serious shit right now.
00:09:48.460 A little more than usual.
00:09:50.540 Right?
00:09:50.680 But imagine a world in which somebody ran as an independent in our, you know, one of our
00:09:59.800 biggest states, or the biggest, I don't know, what's bigger?
00:10:04.020 Is California bigger than Texas by population?
00:10:06.880 It is, right?
00:10:07.400 What would happen if he got elected?
00:10:11.320 Because he doesn't say things that are, let's say, poison to Democrats, and he doesn't say
00:10:19.640 anything that's poison to Republicans.
00:10:21.300 Do you know how weird that is?
00:10:24.860 Imagine somebody running for a major office, getting this much attention, and he's not saying
00:10:29.960 anything that's poison to either side.
00:10:32.480 He's just got solutions that he's detailing in, you know, books, best-selling books.
00:10:38.320 He's showing you exactly what he's going to do.
00:10:40.260 Exactly.
00:10:41.300 And he's right on point with just science and things that we know work.
00:10:47.260 So how do the Democrats say no to that?
00:10:51.100 I mean, unless they're just teen people, right?
00:10:53.960 Now, I know, I know, all the money suggests that Newsom will win.
00:10:59.740 All the politics suggests he would win, right?
00:11:03.340 So he's got the machine, he's got the money, he's got the history, the inertia, everything,
00:11:09.860 basically.
00:11:10.680 But what he doesn't have is a good proposition.
00:11:15.140 What he's offering you is more of what you had.
00:11:18.440 And who in California wants more of that?
00:11:21.100 I don't know anybody.
00:11:22.960 I literally don't know anybody.
00:11:24.560 Not one person, not of any persuasion, not one resident of California wants more of whatever
00:11:32.660 the fuck we had for the last five years or whatever.
00:11:36.460 Nobody wants more of that.
00:11:38.100 Nobody.
00:11:40.240 So how does an independent who is not defending either Democrats or Republicans, and by the
00:11:47.200 way, has that ever happened?
00:11:49.420 Has anybody ever thread that needle before?
00:11:51.860 Or no, and I don't think people are understanding how smart you have to be to do it.
00:11:57.820 If you want Schellenberger to navigate this space, he's literally stepping on all the rocks
00:12:04.000 in the river that nobody has seen before.
00:12:07.060 It's like he can see the rock to get across the river without getting his feet wet.
00:12:11.560 And there are a lot of rocks, and he hasn't missed a rock yet.
00:12:15.260 It's pretty freaking amazing.
00:12:17.340 So, and the one thing that I'm puzzled by is why the national press hasn't been more aggressive
00:12:25.700 about this story.
00:12:27.220 And obviously it's because the Democrats, you know, would like to keep power.
00:12:31.780 But, and they're, you know, they're backing Newsom, of course.
00:12:35.240 But it does seem like the nature of the story is just made for the news.
00:12:39.620 Because it's a whole different approach, and it would be nationally transforming.
00:12:45.600 So here's why it's a small thing that's a big thing.
00:12:48.480 The David Sachs endorsement makes it safe for other people to do the same.
00:12:54.460 Makes it safe.
00:12:55.860 Because he's considered so rational and so respected, in, you know, the Silicon Valley tech world,
00:13:03.040 anyway.
00:13:03.440 People are aware of who's done things in that world.
00:13:06.200 That I think he's just made it safe to back the independent.
00:13:12.200 And so if you see more people of his, let's say, stature following on, this could be a big deal.
00:13:20.260 And it could have influence for national elections in the future.
00:13:23.340 Because it's a little bit DeSantis-like in some ways.
00:13:27.640 But DeSantis goes for Republican-only solutions, right?
00:13:33.560 DeSantis is a real practical guy, but he's nowhere near a Schellenberger.
00:13:38.860 Schellenberger is really about the solutions, period.
00:13:41.780 He really is.
00:13:43.120 You can't even determine his politics from his solutions.
00:13:46.860 You wouldn't be able to find it.
00:13:48.540 And that's the weird part.
00:13:49.980 So nobody else has ever pulled this off.
00:13:52.740 Schellenberger's, he's got the best, he's got the best chance I've ever seen, based on his campaign.
00:14:00.200 All right.
00:14:02.820 Have any of you seen the rumor, I think the Washington, or not, the New York Post.
00:14:08.280 I'm getting all my states wrong today.
00:14:10.380 The New York Post had an article, but it's based on, you know, rumors and blah, blah, blah.
00:14:16.060 And the rumors are that Putin might have some terminal blood cancer.
00:14:21.020 Have any of you read that in any other media in the last, say, day?
00:14:29.520 Has anybody seen that story?
00:14:31.800 I wouldn't have seen the story except it was, you know, tweeted at me.
00:14:36.780 Nope.
00:14:37.420 Yeah.
00:14:38.140 So I'm guessing that this story has not met the test.
00:14:42.100 Sounds like CIA disinformation, doesn't it?
00:14:44.820 Yeah.
00:14:46.040 But I'm going to stick with my earlier observation, that in my opinion, he looks like he's dying.
00:14:55.260 Right?
00:14:55.940 So I'm going to stick with it, just because I like to follow it through.
00:14:59.640 That way you can see, was my prediction good or bad?
00:15:03.140 It's kind of unfair to change it in the middle.
00:15:05.940 So I'm going to stick with, I think he's sick.
00:15:10.600 Maybe terminal?
00:15:11.420 Well, the terminal part, you know, how would I know?
00:15:14.600 But he looks like he's got a problem, like a pretty big one.
00:15:19.520 Yeah.
00:15:20.600 So we'll see.
00:15:21.980 It does look like disinformation.
00:15:25.600 But am I reading things right?
00:15:30.660 Does it look like we must have somebody on the inside in the Kremlin?
00:15:37.320 Now, we've said so, right?
00:15:38.660 The news has reported that there's some kind of insider that's giving the United States and Ukraine some kind of intel.
00:15:46.640 But that, too, could be CIA disinformation.
00:15:49.560 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.
00:15:56.900 Even if they're not.
00:15:58.760 Because then, you know, then they'll distrust each other and everything goes to hell.
00:16:02.140 So you can't trust anything about a rumor of somebody having a spy on the inside.
00:16:08.580 There's nothing about that that's believable, even if it's true.
00:16:12.620 It shouldn't be considered credible.
00:16:15.880 But I've got to say, independent of what the news is telling us, it sure looks like we have somebody on the inside.
00:16:24.860 Are you feeling that, too?
00:16:28.720 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.
00:16:37.180 We meaning the government.
00:16:39.020 It seems to me that the Biden administration has some information about Russia that we don't have.
00:16:45.900 What do you think?
00:16:46.740 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?
00:17:01.060 Because otherwise, it looks like mistakes.
00:17:02.860 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.
00:17:13.820 I predicted it.
00:17:16.460 And if you look at the news coverage, the news coverage has clearly changed to Ukraine is winning.
00:17:24.480 You've seen that, right?
00:17:26.440 Now, can you confirm that?
00:17:27.860 If you're watching the news, in my opinion, the coverage has changed to Ukraine is just winning.
00:17:34.860 Now, that doesn't mean it's true.
00:17:36.420 I'm only talking about the news coverage.
00:17:38.680 Am I right?
00:17:39.780 Are you seeing the same thing?
00:17:41.820 That the news is covering it like Ukraine is winning and will win.
00:17:47.980 That's different.
00:17:49.080 All right.
00:17:50.040 Because it went from, wow, they're putting up a surprisingly stiff resistance.
00:17:56.180 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.
00:18:03.260 But, you know, there is still just a stiff resistance.
00:18:05.540 And then you hear about some Russian stuff blowing up.
00:18:10.320 Today, the UK intel people estimated that Russia had lost one-third of its troops that it committed to Ukraine.
00:18:19.940 So, one-third of the troops that it put in Ukraine are already dead or wounded, I guess.
00:18:25.020 Now, do you believe that?
00:18:27.900 Do you believe that the UK and their intelligence agencies, with all of their believability and credibility,
00:18:35.360 and, of course, they'd have no reason to lie in the context of an act of war,
00:18:39.520 why would anybody lie?
00:18:41.560 What?
00:18:43.700 Thank you, Baron Von Blair.
00:18:47.460 Yeah.
00:18:47.860 So, how many people think we should believe an estimate out of the UK intelligence agency during the war?
00:18:57.180 Hmm.
00:18:58.020 Yeah, that sounds very believable, doesn't it?
00:19:00.340 No.
00:19:01.640 You know, the thing that we sometimes forget is that an intel agency's job is to lie to you.
00:19:10.160 It's literally their job to lie to you.
00:19:13.080 They're professionals, and they do it really well.
00:19:15.940 Now, their job is to protect you.
00:19:18.760 Right?
00:19:19.100 That would be the larger job.
00:19:20.320 And one hopes that they're doing it in every way that they can, and that they're really on your side.
00:19:25.920 But we don't know.
00:19:27.280 I mean, we hope.
00:19:28.780 So, in the context of protecting you, they have every moral, ethical right to lie to you.
00:19:36.140 Because we kind of hired them to do that, right?
00:19:38.640 To manage how we think about things.
00:19:40.160 Oh, by the way, did you see the, I tweeted it, I think.
00:19:45.600 There's a video ad, a TV ad, I think, probably on the internet, too.
00:19:50.360 Recruiting people for the psychological operations of the United States, the PSYOP people.
00:19:56.700 Have you seen that commercial?
00:19:57.860 Oh, my God.
00:20:01.180 Oh, my God.
00:20:03.960 Go watch that thing.
00:20:05.200 What happens when the people who are the most qualified brainwashers, because that's what their job is.
00:20:14.980 They would work in PSYOPs, so they'd be brainwashing and influencing the enemy.
00:20:18.800 That would be their very expertise.
00:20:22.320 What happens when those guys make a recruiting ad, a video?
00:20:27.440 Well, I'll tell you.
00:20:29.040 You can't stop watching it, that's for sure.
00:20:31.860 It's really long, and it's an advertisement to recruit people, so you'd think it'd be short.
00:20:37.040 But it's unusually long, and I couldn't turn it off.
00:20:40.900 I couldn't turn it off.
00:20:44.380 You could feel the skill level from the first second.
00:20:51.580 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.
00:20:58.580 Oh, yeah, I've seen enough.
00:20:59.920 I think I get to just, just one more.
00:21:01.820 So, I want to join the PSYOPs.
00:21:06.700 I mean, it's really good.
00:21:09.320 So, anyway, I had to put that out there.
00:21:14.860 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.
00:21:24.440 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.
00:21:32.180 But they're saying in the next month, Russia is just going to sit there and bleed.
00:21:37.820 What's that going to look like?
00:21:39.900 Another month of Russia just losing people, making no gains, and just bleeding.
00:21:47.020 And every day that they sit there, Ukraine is getting more drones, right?
00:21:51.220 Don't you think this, you know, the Russian forces are going to have to look up a lot?
00:21:58.140 Because there's going to be a drone over them pretty much all the time, dropping something on some part of them.
00:22:05.220 Imagine the mental state of the Russian soldiers.
00:22:09.500 Imagine their mental state.
00:22:11.800 Because they don't want to be there.
00:22:13.900 A third of them have been killed, or wounded, I guess.
00:22:16.820 And the United States just put a gazillion billion dollars in there.
00:22:25.100 That's not a good place to be.
00:22:27.460 You know, so again, I've been predicting that this is a war about tipping points.
00:22:33.820 That one of the sides is going to run out of something that is necessary.
00:22:39.080 Probably not fighters.
00:22:41.280 Probably food or ammo or something like that.
00:22:44.560 Fuel.
00:22:44.840 So, it looks like Ukraine's supply lines might be better.
00:22:50.300 Which makes sense, because they have control of most of the country.
00:22:53.860 So, you know.
00:22:56.140 Well, maybe it doesn't make sense.
00:22:57.660 I'm not sure that it makes sense that their supply line is better.
00:23:01.060 But, we'll keep watching that.
00:23:04.360 Alright.
00:23:07.140 Elon Musk continues to tweet funny.
00:23:10.680 He tweeted yesterday,
00:23:11.820 Whoever thought that owning the libs would be cheap, never tried to acquire a social media company.
00:23:19.880 That's pretty funny.
00:23:21.440 Alright.
00:23:22.400 How many of you saw Elon Musk's tweet, I think it was maybe a week ago,
00:23:27.100 in which he taught you how to change the Twitter interface from the algorithm to just the order that things come in?
00:23:36.040 How many of you saw the tweet in which he taught you to do that?
00:23:40.060 I'm going to read the tweet.
00:23:41.820 This is a civilization changing tweet.
00:23:46.800 That's not hyperbole.
00:23:48.040 I'm going to tell you a tweet that, if enough people saw it, would change civilization.
00:23:56.180 That is not hyperbole.
00:23:58.060 Here's the tweet.
00:23:59.940 From Elon Musk.
00:24:03.420 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.
00:24:10.960 He says, number one, tap the home button.
00:24:14.140 So on your app, on your phone, you tap the home button.
00:24:17.380 Then number two, tap the stars on the upper right of screen.
00:24:22.240 I never knew what they were because I never was interested to tap it.
00:24:26.600 I didn't even know that was up there.
00:24:28.180 So there's little stars on the upper right hand side.
00:24:30.840 If you tap on those little stars, you can select latest tweets.
00:24:34.720 And then Elon says, you are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don't realize.
00:24:41.480 Easy to switch back and forth to see the difference.
00:24:44.720 So I took his advice and I switched it to order of tweets.
00:24:49.860 And let me tell you something.
00:24:52.120 I feel different.
00:24:55.100 I feel different.
00:24:57.980 I was not expecting that.
00:25:01.380 I was not expecting that.
00:25:03.040 I was expecting that the tweets maybe that I've been missing I would see.
00:25:09.160 And that's true.
00:25:11.160 That's true.
00:25:13.420 But I wasn't expecting how different I felt.
00:25:17.980 In other words, there's something about the same thing is just in order that is not triggering me.
00:25:26.880 Is that real?
00:25:28.800 Or is that just a completely subjective confirmation bias situation?
00:25:35.820 Did anybody else have that experience?
00:25:38.700 It was like the dopamine button got turned off.
00:25:42.360 Now it's just interesting stories.
00:25:45.340 It used to make me, my head catch on fire every time I looked at Twitter.
00:25:50.920 And now it's just interesting and informative.
00:25:55.960 It really feels different.
00:25:58.040 Now I'm seeing other people agreeing.
00:25:59.940 But be careful because this might be just confirmation bias.
00:26:03.000 We might have expected to see it.
00:26:04.880 And, you know, so therefore we're seeing it.
00:26:06.540 I don't know if it's real.
00:26:08.300 But it's been days now.
00:26:10.100 And I feel different when I watch Twitter.
00:26:13.140 So when Elon says you are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don't realize, oh, my God.
00:26:21.200 It sure feels true.
00:26:23.240 And I saw people saying today that they were seeing the tweets from the Rasmussen poll for the first time.
00:26:31.400 They hadn't seen them in a long time.
00:26:32.500 So Rasmussen is the one that had one of the most accurate polling histories for the political stuff.
00:26:40.980 And although it has one of the most accurate records, by the way, I mean, after the fact, you can look at the predictions.
00:26:48.940 You can look what happened, who got elected.
00:26:50.840 And you can actually calculate who was the most accurate.
00:26:53.740 And they do well no matter who calculates it.
00:26:55.800 They're always in that top echelon.
00:26:57.940 And apparently they had been, you know, sort of shadow banned out of existence, even for the people who wanted to follow them.
00:27:06.560 And now people are saying, hey, I keep seeing these Rasmussen tweets now.
00:27:12.120 So, yeah, yeah, things are different.
00:27:14.980 If the only thing that Elon Musk did is threatened by Twitter, but in the process teach us how to turn the algorithm off,
00:27:22.880 it would be one of the greatest things that anybody ever did in the history of humankind.
00:27:27.940 Too much?
00:27:29.640 Too far?
00:27:31.320 No, I'm going to say it again.
00:27:32.400 I'm so proud of it.
00:27:33.780 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,
00:27:43.920 it would be one of the greatest accomplishments in humankind.
00:27:47.700 Because he would have freed your fucking brain from jail.
00:27:52.840 That's what just happened.
00:27:54.440 He freed your brain from jail.
00:27:56.140 Yeah, think about it.
00:28:00.820 Think about it.
00:28:02.140 Name something that was bigger than that.
00:28:04.860 What did you care about more, inflation or freeing your brain from jail?
00:28:09.860 Well, inflation is pretty darn bad.
00:28:12.340 But I'd rather my brain freed from jail, honestly.
00:28:15.180 So, yeah, that is one of the biggest accomplishments.
00:28:21.040 Now, not enough of us know to push the button, so it's not happening yet.
00:28:26.620 But hypothetically, if he could free your brain, it would be the most important thing that's happened in a long time.
00:28:33.720 How many of you are watching this story about the Buffalo mass shooter whose name, let me check his name, Jerky McFuck Asshole.
00:28:46.240 I think that's his actual name.
00:28:48.100 Because when they do these things, they like to become famous.
00:28:51.460 So, that's why I like to use his name.
00:28:54.740 It's Bob Jerky McFuck Face, I think, was his name.
00:28:59.120 So, remember that.
00:29:00.320 He needs to be famous.
00:29:03.460 So, Jerky McFuck Face.
00:29:06.240 Apparently, he's a white guy.
00:29:07.780 And he watched Tucker Carlson's show.
00:29:10.400 And he shot a bunch of mostly black people in a grocery store.
00:29:15.220 And he seems to be a bad person.
00:29:18.700 As in clearly racist.
00:29:21.300 Apparently, his social media shows a lot of racist stuff.
00:29:24.420 Now, I'm watching the left go crazy.
00:29:29.620 And here are the things they're saying.
00:29:31.100 Number one, he must have been influenced by Tucker Carlson to do this.
00:29:37.780 Now, I don't watch Tucker Carlson every day.
00:29:42.540 But I've seen his show a lot.
00:29:44.740 I've seen his show a lot.
00:29:46.360 And there's one thing I've never seen on Tucker Carlson's show.
00:29:51.020 I don't believe I can think of one time when Tucker Carlson said,
00:29:55.660 You know, those American citizens, damn them.
00:30:02.680 We sure need fewer law-abiding American citizens.
00:30:07.780 Is that what Tucker has been telling people on the shows that I don't watch?
00:30:13.540 Because all the ones I watch, he says he's in favor of law-abiding Americans of all types.
00:30:20.120 Every type.
00:30:21.220 Law-abiding.
00:30:22.780 Every type.
00:30:24.440 Totally in favor of all law-abiding Americans.
00:30:28.220 Black, white, male, female.
00:30:31.020 All of them.
00:30:31.760 Every one of them.
00:30:33.120 I'm pretty sure he's in favor of anybody doing anything that's legal.
00:30:38.720 You know, he might not do it himself.
00:30:40.620 Maybe he would advise you not to.
00:30:42.660 Maybe he would advise you to ignore their advice.
00:30:45.480 But I don't believe there's ever been a time when Tucker Carlson said,
00:30:50.360 You know, those law-abiding Americans of a different type.
00:30:54.720 You know, there's something wrong with them.
00:30:56.680 Got to be killed.
00:30:58.280 Nope.
00:30:58.580 Nope.
00:30:59.860 Now, you could argue with Tucker Carlson's opinion about illegal people, right?
00:31:08.180 If you don't like his opinion about illegal immigration, well, that would make sense.
00:31:14.740 But Tucker Carlson is not in favor of shooting Americans.
00:31:20.980 Am I right?
00:31:24.200 And yet the left has somehow imagined that the guy who would, well, let me put it in starker terms.
00:31:31.500 If Tucker Carlson had been in the grocery store and armed, one assumes that he's at least in favor of the Second Amendment.
00:31:39.460 I don't know if he carries a firearm.
00:31:40.640 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?
00:31:49.200 Do you think he would have said, Oh, normally I would jump into action with my legal firearm to stop this mass murder.
00:31:57.040 But, oh, I noticed the shooter's white, so I guess we'll let this one ride.
00:32:02.140 Do you think he would do that?
00:32:03.020 You know, seriously.
00:32:06.540 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?
00:32:22.980 That's pretty far away from what his message is.
00:32:26.660 But the left needs some way to make this all political.
00:32:30.680 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.
00:32:45.340 In the same way, the, you know, progressive extremists are different than normal Democrats, right?
00:32:50.180 So, then the other big issue is that he, like many of the white mass shooters, he was captured alive.
00:33:02.580 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.
00:33:11.040 How much of that is real?
00:33:15.700 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.
00:33:24.980 But you have to be careful whether your data is accurate.
00:33:31.300 Jenny Brown says, let me, let me talk to Jenny.
00:33:34.860 Jenny, Jenny Brown here on YouTube says, she's sick of Scott defending Tucker Carlson and white supremacy.
00:33:42.760 Jenny, fuck you, you ignorant bitch.
00:33:46.860 Uh, did you see me defend white supremacy?
00:33:50.140 No.
00:33:50.900 Did you see me defend Tucker Carlson?
00:33:53.720 No, fuckhead.
00:33:54.760 I didn't defend him.
00:33:55.700 I just told you what I saw.
00:33:57.520 I watched TV.
00:33:58.660 I saw things.
00:33:59.720 Images came into my brain.
00:34:01.540 Can you understand that?
00:34:02.420 Can you understand, I'm just talking about things that exist.
00:34:06.840 There's a show.
00:34:07.980 He says things.
00:34:08.960 Here's what he says.
00:34:09.900 Here's what he doesn't say.
00:34:11.600 Can you fucking understand that, you stupid piece of racist shit?
00:34:16.900 Because you're the kind of person that the world needs a lot less of, right?
00:34:20.960 I'm telling you that he's in favor of all legal Americans.
00:34:25.100 If you can't buy into that fucking concept, get off this broadcast.
00:34:29.580 You don't belong here.
00:34:31.140 You're not capable of being with regular people.
00:34:34.320 You should go crawl into some fucking hole.
00:34:37.280 All right.
00:34:38.000 That's enough of that.
00:34:41.720 Probably just a troll.
00:34:45.740 All right.
00:34:48.060 So, did anybody answer my question?
00:34:54.020 Do you feel that this trend is, or the pattern is a real one, or is it just another racist attack?
00:35:03.940 What do you think?
00:35:04.520 Is it a real trend that the black shooters get killed by police and the white ones are like, oh, okay.
00:35:15.420 Surrender.
00:35:15.900 Yeah, well, but here's the question nobody's, nobody's answer that I'm aware of.
00:35:24.100 Have they all acted the same?
00:35:27.420 Do they all surrender the same way?
00:35:30.520 Because if they surrender the same way and the black ones are getting shot, yeah, I've got a problem with that.
00:35:36.880 Don't you?
00:35:38.000 Is there anybody who wouldn't have a problem with that?
00:35:40.500 Let me ask you.
00:35:41.620 Since Jenny apparently thinks that all of you are racists.
00:35:46.660 She must be, too, if she's watching.
00:35:48.940 If she thinks.
00:35:51.580 All right.
00:35:52.380 I made my point.
00:35:53.180 I think I'm swearing more than usual today.
00:36:03.480 Are you on Prisoner's Island, or?
00:36:06.200 I'm not on Prisoner's Island.
00:36:08.260 No.
00:36:09.160 I'm very much off of Prisoner's Island.
00:36:11.840 I am now on a tropical island.
00:36:16.880 And it's not bad.
00:36:19.540 Cloudy, but it's not bad.
00:36:21.660 All right.
00:36:21.940 Let's see what else is happening.
00:36:28.180 Is there anything else happening?
00:36:29.500 I'm going to check CNN and see if I missed any stories, because all the important stories are missed.
00:36:34.000 Oh, come on.
00:36:39.020 Let's see if I can get my Wi-Fi to come back on, and then we're going to be good shape.
00:36:44.500 All right, Wi-Fi.
00:36:45.980 I tell you, it's hard to live with hotel Wi-Fi sometimes.
00:36:49.180 Once you get used to the good stuff.
00:36:54.860 All right.
00:36:55.540 Looks like everybody woke up and started using their Wi-Fi, and that's not working.
00:36:58.660 All right.
00:37:05.420 All right.
00:37:06.220 Yeah, you know, I'm not going to talk about this shooter anymore.
00:37:09.920 Are you okay with that?
00:37:11.760 Is everybody okay that we're...
00:37:13.420 Everybody's okay that we're not talking about him, right?
00:37:18.420 All right.
00:37:21.620 Here are headlines on CNN, which really tells you a lot.
00:37:24.760 California is in a water crisis.
00:37:28.520 Officials are focused on the wrong problem.
00:37:30.500 So even CNN is criticizing California's water shortage.
00:37:36.280 The water shortage in California appears to be purely a mismanagement problem.
00:37:42.080 Purely a mismanagement problem.
00:37:44.080 We're going to run out of freaking water and electricity because we're mismanaged.
00:37:50.980 That's the worst management I've ever seen.
00:37:53.860 Has anybody ever managed anything worse than that?
00:37:58.500 So what do you think of Finland and Sweden joining NATO?
00:38:02.400 That's also a headline here.
00:38:03.660 If you had asked me 30 days ago, and I probably talked about it 30 days ago, if you had said,
00:38:14.360 should Sweden and Finland join NATO under these conditions, I would have said, you're just
00:38:19.560 asking for more trouble, aren't you?
00:38:21.680 You know, didn't NATO flirting with Ukraine, and Ukraine's flirting with NATO, isn't that
00:38:28.640 why we're in this situation, or at least partly in it?
00:38:32.020 And so I would have said, you know, why don't you hold off on that NATO expansion idea?
00:38:37.600 But what about today?
00:38:40.320 If you made the decision today, would you put Finland and Sweden into NATO?
00:38:47.980 Because it's starting to look like Russia's losing.
00:38:52.540 I know a lot of you aren't on that page yet, but the way the news is treating it, the news
00:38:57.500 is treating it as if Russia is just losing.
00:38:59.440 And if Russia is losing, what is the best strategy?
00:39:06.260 Do you just keep the pressure on until they lose bigger?
00:39:09.600 Because that looks like not a bad strategy.
00:39:13.480 So I'm changing my mind, in case you're looking for my inconsistencies.
00:39:19.540 The situation has changed, or it looks like it.
00:39:23.200 At least the news is reporting has changed.
00:39:24.780 Good question here.
00:39:28.960 Sparky says, Scott, how do you know that you're not being used by Intel as a part of the term
00:39:33.440 useful idiot?
00:39:36.760 The only way that I pretend to deal with that, and pretending is the best you can do, is that
00:39:46.940 I'll give you both sides.
00:39:47.820 So, I'm not telling you that Ukraine is winning.
00:39:51.680 I'm telling you that the news is reporting they're winning.
00:39:54.280 Because I don't believe anything that comes out of Russia, and I don't believe anything that comes out of UK Intel,
00:40:03.640 that comes out of American intelligence, I don't believe anything that comes out of Biden administration, on the war.
00:40:09.280 Everybody on the same page?
00:40:12.040 If you start with the assumption that everybody's lying all the time about everything about the war,
00:40:17.300 and really that's the only logical thing to do,
00:40:19.640 if you were any of those entities, you'd be lying.
00:40:22.840 It's a war.
00:40:23.600 You have to do whatever it takes, right?
00:40:25.760 So lying is just part of the, you know, one of the tools of war.
00:40:28.900 So they're all lying.
00:40:29.780 Of course they're all lying.
00:40:30.900 Or they're leaving out, they're omitting, you know, whatever.
00:40:33.520 They're lying in some way.
00:40:34.500 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.
00:40:44.560 But I'm not.
00:40:45.520 I'm telling you the opposite of that.
00:40:46.840 So, yes, it's the right question.
00:40:49.200 But, there you go.
00:40:54.580 Yeah, keeping a race killer in the news is just a Democrat technique, yeah.
00:41:00.820 Because they want your attention to be all about that.
00:41:04.500 Oh, somebody's asking, did I see the trailer for Matt Walsh's movie, What is a Woman?
00:41:11.900 All right.
00:41:12.920 So, as you know, unlike many of my viewers, I'm the most pro-trans public figure you might ever meet.
00:41:23.960 Totally pro-anybody doing whatever they need to do, right?
00:41:27.140 So, it's not even about trans.
00:41:29.100 It's just about freedom, right?
00:41:31.020 It doesn't matter that I think somebody might make a different decision or should have.
00:41:35.980 It's irrelevant.
00:41:38.340 Don't do what you want.
00:41:39.300 It just doesn't affect me.
00:41:41.680 I wish the best for them.
00:41:42.960 And I don't think that they all make the right decisions.
00:41:46.520 But do you?
00:41:48.040 Right?
00:41:49.580 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.
00:41:58.420 They still get to make that decision.
00:42:00.160 And that's, to me, that's, you know, that's an unassailable position.
00:42:05.820 It's just not my decision, period.
00:42:08.620 So, I'm as pro as you can get to the trans community.
00:42:12.320 I think sports should be adjusted so that there's just a whole better situation for everybody, not just the trans community.
00:42:18.620 So, that's where I'm starting point.
00:42:21.200 Having said that, having said that, watching Matt Walsh go around and ask people to define what a woman is, is really good entertainment.
00:42:32.960 Okay?
00:42:33.860 Right?
00:42:34.340 So, I don't align with his provocative views on this 100%.
00:42:42.640 So, it's not about agreeing with him.
00:42:45.780 I don't have to.
00:42:46.560 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.
00:43:06.780 So, I don't see it about trans.
00:43:08.420 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.
00:43:16.560 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.
00:43:27.640 And that's just based on the trailer and things I've seen him say and tweet.
00:43:31.340 So, I will definitely watch that thing.
00:43:34.040 I'm definitely going to watch that thing.
00:43:35.200 Yeah, it's Matt Walsh from The Daily Wire.
00:43:41.940 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.
00:43:49.540 But he's always good.
00:43:51.260 Like, even the part I don't agree with, sometimes I'll be like, oh, he said that pretty well.
00:43:55.880 He's really good at what he does.
00:43:56.980 All right.
00:44:00.860 And one of the most popular public figures, I think.
00:44:09.980 So, U.S. claims, yeah, okay.
00:44:14.400 There's nothing negative about Ukraine.
00:44:17.740 Ukraine is sending images of dead Russian soldiers to their families.
00:44:21.200 Even the spin on this seems wrong.
00:44:25.680 All right.
00:44:25.920 CNN's spin on Ukraine is that they're sending images of dead Russian soldiers to their families.
00:44:31.260 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.
00:44:39.160 Is that really why Ukraine is doing that?
00:44:42.220 I feel like it's a terrorist act.
00:44:44.120 I feel like if you send a picture of somebody's dead child to the parents, that's a terrorist act.
00:44:53.780 Isn't it?
00:44:55.620 How would you define terrorism if it's not that?
00:44:59.680 That just looks like terrorism.
00:45:01.740 Now, I'm in favor of it.
00:45:05.620 It just happens to be terrorism.
00:45:08.000 Now, is anybody in favor of terrorism?
00:45:10.960 Yes.
00:45:11.740 Yes.
00:45:12.420 That's why there's so much of it.
00:45:14.620 Everybody's in favor of terrorism if the person doing this is on your side.
00:45:19.660 If the United States got conquered by, let's say, China,
00:45:24.360 and there was some American who got into Beijing and started terrorizing Beijing while we were being oppressed,
00:45:32.080 I wouldn't be opposed to that.
00:45:34.900 Yeah, it's a war crime.
00:45:36.820 But if they're doing it on your side, it doesn't feel like terrorism anymore, does it?
00:45:40.880 You know, look at the, well, I'm not going to go there.
00:45:45.940 I was going to say, the formation of a popular country.
00:45:49.480 There was some terrorism.
00:45:50.480 So, we judge terrorism differently depending on whose side it's on.
00:45:55.320 All right.
00:46:01.280 And everything about that shooter, we don't care about that.
00:46:06.380 Melania Trump teases a second term as first lady.
00:46:09.540 Interesting.
00:46:09.980 If Melania is down for a second term, that means Trump is definitely down for a second term, doesn't it?
00:46:19.440 Because I don't see Melania teasing about that unless she was sort of down to do it.
00:46:25.400 Hmm.
00:46:25.620 Very interesting.
00:46:30.740 GOP governor says that rape victims should have to carry a baby to term.
00:46:36.060 Such a losing argument, I'll tell you.
00:46:38.880 You know, separate from what is right or wrong, it's just a bad argument.
00:46:45.520 If you're trying to get elected, this is really a bad argument.
00:46:51.920 Let's see.
00:46:53.700 Which governor is that?
00:46:54.800 GOP governor, which one is it?
00:47:00.080 Let's see who would say such a silly thing.
00:47:03.180 Now, how many of you agree with that, by the way?
00:47:05.580 Because a lot of you are on the same page here.
00:47:08.440 That he will call this person.
00:47:09.960 So, Republican of Nebraska.
00:47:13.920 Republican governor Pete Ricketts.
00:47:16.720 Total ban.
00:47:18.100 Now, of course I can understand it.
00:47:20.280 Of course I understand why a pro-life person would just be pro-life permanently.
00:47:25.760 So, in terms of morality, I would say that would be the most highest moral opinion.
00:47:34.760 So, if you were going to say this Republican governor who says there should be a ban on abortions, including rape,
00:47:41.540 I would say he is taking the highest moral stand by his assumptions that the child is alive and it's a human life.
00:47:50.560 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.
00:48:01.840 Yeah, the moral standard goes both ways.
00:48:06.280 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.
00:48:20.000 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,
00:48:37.980 the First Amendment would be how you protect, in other words, freedom of religion, is how you protect abortion rights.
00:48:45.440 Let me try this argument out on you.
00:48:46.940 This is not my argument.
00:48:48.000 Everything I say about abortion is not trying to influence which way the law goes.
00:48:55.940 I keep myself out of that.
00:48:57.300 Let the women work it out.
00:48:58.860 I'll back your majority, whatever you come up with.
00:49:02.720 So, here's the argument for a religious right to abortion.
00:49:10.420 You ready for this?
00:49:11.140 If the reason that people want abortion to be illegal is based on their religious faith, that the life starts at conception,
00:49:22.100 is that not one religion trying to force another people who are not of that religion to conform to their religion?
00:49:29.440 Is that not what's happening?
00:49:33.200 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?
00:49:37.660 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?
00:49:48.140 Well, here's the problem.
00:49:51.820 We've never had religious freedom in the United States.
00:49:55.620 This is just telling us what was always true.
00:49:58.420 You've never had religious freedom in the United States.
00:50:01.780 Did anybody teach you you had religious freedom?
00:50:05.600 Because you never did, and you never will.
00:50:08.340 What you have is the freedom to have a religion that is largely compatible with Christianity.
00:50:16.700 That's it.
00:50:17.800 That's your only, that's your right.
00:50:20.080 Your right is to accept Christianity as your religion, but you could use different words for it.
00:50:26.640 You could call it moderate Islamic belief.
00:50:32.140 Because you're accepting a God, you're also saying that murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, basically totally compatible on the big stuff.
00:50:44.700 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.
00:50:55.760 Would that be legal?
00:50:58.120 No.
00:50:59.200 No, that would not be legal.
00:51:00.400 No, because it's not legal for a Christian to kill somebody.
00:51:04.720 So you wouldn't get to do it.
00:51:07.200 The only things you can do are the things that Christians say you can do.
00:51:10.620 That's it.
00:51:11.640 There's nothing else.
00:51:13.620 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.
00:51:22.540 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.
00:51:31.820 You can do all that.
00:51:33.320 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.
00:51:41.940 So, the trouble with the argument is that it acts as though we have, we've ever had religious freedom.
00:51:49.960 We never have, and never will.
00:51:52.000 So, yes, honor killings would be an example.
00:51:58.000 There have been times when that was appropriate under, not appropriate, but allowed under some religion, right?
00:52:07.140 Were honor killings ever allowed at any time by any subset of people as within their religious rights and that, right?
00:52:19.380 So, how about beating your wife?
00:52:23.000 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.
00:52:34.200 Would that be legal in the United States under the religious freedom, the First Amendment?
00:52:41.740 Would that be legal?
00:52:43.540 No, it wouldn't.
00:52:44.620 Do you know why?
00:52:45.660 Because Christians don't like it.
00:52:48.400 That's why.
00:52:49.800 That's it.
00:52:50.360 You don't have any freedom except to be a Christian, or a Christian-ish, or like them, or similar to them.
00:52:56.440 That's it.
00:52:57.640 Whole freedom.
00:52:59.640 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.
00:53:12.180 So, mostly we're on the same page by coincidence.
00:53:14.800 But then this question of whether a fetus is a human life, this gets, like, right to the religious belief thing.
00:53:23.780 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.
00:53:36.040 Because that is a genuine difference in religious belief, and the Christians are mixed.
00:53:42.280 So, in other words, even Christians don't agree on whether this is a life or not.
00:53:47.500 So, then it gets really messy.
00:53:49.720 But, let's not imagine we ever have freedom of religion.
00:53:53.660 That was never real.
00:53:55.040 That was always just a smokescreen for a Christian country.
00:53:59.660 And, by the way, I'm not a believer, if anybody's new to me.
00:54:02.640 I'm not defending Christianity beyond the fact that, as a model, it seems to work.
00:54:08.080 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.
00:54:15.260 You know, I'm in favor of religion when it works.
00:54:19.420 And it usually seems to work.
00:54:21.340 So, it's a pretty good system, in general.
00:54:22.920 I just don't buy into it, because I don't have the...
00:54:27.000 For whatever reason, I was born without the ability to be a believer.
00:54:31.280 All right, let's see what Fox News is saying today.
00:54:35.000 See if anything looks different on that side of the world.
00:54:38.320 Well, wouldn't it be great if my Wi-Fi were?
00:54:41.100 Wouldn't that be great?
00:54:42.600 Well, it's not.
00:54:43.420 All right.
00:54:45.180 Or it isn't.
00:54:46.920 No, it's not.
00:54:48.840 All right, did I miss any big stories?
00:54:52.920 Everyone knows it's a life?
00:54:55.900 I don't.
00:54:58.700 I think that's always a mistake to say everyone thinks or everyone knows anything.
00:55:03.320 I don't believe it's a life.
00:55:07.640 At least at inception.
00:55:10.520 I believe it's an organic thing that has a potential for life.
00:55:14.460 So, in my view, there is potential for life.
00:55:18.480 And there is this long, you know, consciousness growth thing that starts at almost nothing, basically,
00:55:27.720 and then goes to almost nothing, and then gets bigger.
00:55:30.600 So, I don't have an opinion of when life starts, but it's not the first second.
00:55:36.220 So, that's the only part that I feel.
00:55:39.160 Now, if you say that your religious belief tells you that the first second is life,
00:55:44.620 I'm okay with that.
00:55:45.280 I'm okay with that.
00:55:47.820 Like I said, I'm not a believer, but I'm a big proponent of belief.
00:55:54.700 And so, if your belief puts you in that camp, I think that's a perfectly moral, ethical, reasonable place to be.
00:56:02.780 It just doesn't match with my, let's say my instinct.
00:56:07.260 But just my instinct tells me that that's, you know, less than a conscious life.
00:56:15.080 But I wouldn't try to sell it to you.
00:56:21.560 How about that?
00:56:22.500 Can we make an agreement that if I stay under the question, you know, I won't give you my opinion on abortion,
00:56:29.660 that you won't argue with me about where I think life begins?
00:56:32.620 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.
00:56:37.500 What if you're stuck on Prisoner's Island?
00:56:51.860 How many of you are on Prisoner's Island right now?
00:56:55.200 If you don't know what that means.
00:56:56.640 It means that you're in a bad situation, but you're going to win.
00:57:00.420 All right.
00:57:05.840 The Worldwide Child Hepatitis, I've not heard of it.
00:57:10.100 It is not on the front page of my news sources.
00:57:15.180 Now you're talking BS.
00:57:16.840 I don't know which part.
00:57:22.740 You are not forced to be a religion.
00:57:24.680 Here, that's what it's about.
00:57:26.860 Well, you're not forced to...
00:57:28.420 Let the local voters decide when life begins.
00:57:37.940 Well, that would certainly be a political way to take care of it,
00:57:42.340 but it certainly doesn't change the way people feel.
00:57:47.240 Scott, gay marriage is recognized even though it is anti-Christian.
00:57:50.800 No, it isn't.
00:57:53.100 No, it isn't.
00:57:54.240 Because Christians say it's not anti-Christian.
00:57:56.560 See, if all the Christians were on the same side,
00:58:00.740 then I'd say, oh yeah, there you go.
00:58:02.720 There's a case of doing something that's not Christian.
00:58:06.580 But Christians believe that same-sex marriage is okay.
00:58:11.340 Not all of them.
00:58:12.900 So that would be not a case of being against Christianity,
00:58:16.580 because Christianity doesn't have a decision on that.
00:58:18.780 It's a mixed bag.
00:58:19.840 All right.
00:58:28.660 And that is all for now.
00:58:37.620 White House is lying about baby formula.
00:58:40.180 You know, the whole baby formula story,
00:58:42.700 I've been uninterested in because it all looked like bullshit to me.
00:58:46.060 Do you remember those big palettes of baby formula?
00:58:51.720 I saw somebody trying to debunk that as fake news.
00:58:55.040 I don't know what part was fake.
00:58:56.920 But I feel like the whole baby formula thing is,
00:59:00.660 the factual part is so murky.
00:59:03.320 I don't know what's going on there.
00:59:05.920 But here's a question.
00:59:08.160 Can babies only thrive if they have this special kind of baby formula?
00:59:12.040 Let's say they don't have an option of nursing in the natural way.
00:59:16.920 Is there only one way to feed a baby?
00:59:19.680 Like, you can't take ordinary food-related things
00:59:24.080 and grind them up into something that's liquidish and has age matters.
00:59:32.600 Age matters.
00:59:33.200 Not for the first few months.
00:59:34.380 So you're saying that if the first few months,
00:59:39.120 that if a newborn didn't get human milk or formula,
00:59:45.060 that there's nothing you could feed them to keep them alive and thrive.
00:59:48.300 You know, let's say healthy and alive.
00:59:50.700 Can't do that?
00:59:51.940 I mean, it must be true that you can't do that or it's hard to do it.
00:59:54.900 Not a newborn.
00:59:55.840 Interesting.
00:59:57.380 They'll suffer later in life.
01:00:01.060 Yeah.
01:00:01.540 Okay.
01:00:02.000 Well, learning something here.
01:00:03.020 All right.
01:00:04.300 I guess I'd have to be more educated on this topic,
01:00:07.120 but there's not much to say.
01:00:09.800 There seems to be some combination of bad management that got us to this point.
01:00:16.700 But I think we'll fix it.
01:00:20.660 There were a lot of infant deaths pre-formulas.
01:00:23.280 Okay.
01:00:24.400 Interesting.
01:00:26.540 All right.
01:00:27.140 Well, that's all for now.
01:00:28.540 And I think we're going to turn off the YouTube feed.
01:00:30.620 We'll talk to the local subscriber here a little bit more.
01:00:34.360 And I'll see you tomorrow.
01:00:35.260 I think I'm going to try the same time tomorrow.
01:00:37.340 So just while I'm traveling until Thursday next week.
01:00:41.680 We'll be an hour later.
01:00:42.540 We'll be right back.
01:00:42.840 Thank you.
01:00:55.640 All right.
01:00:56.220 All right.
01:00:57.360 We'll be right back.