Episode 1756 Scott Adams： Another Day Pretending To Be Good People. Join Me For a Simultaneous Sip
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the various types of trolls, and how to deal with them, and why you should be worried about them, because they are everywhere and they re everywhere. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of a cup of coffee with the master of wordplay, Professor Scott Adams.
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and welcome to coffee with scott adams it's the highlight of civilization but i think you knew that
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the perplexingly profound professor himself somebody's calling me i like it wordplay and now
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i've got my coffee goggles on i thought you were sexy before but now oh so let's talk about some of
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the things that have happened elon musk was complaining that the word billionaire is used
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as a pejorative why is it an insult to be a billionaire good question and he asked this
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question on twitter a twitter poll he said who do you trust less real question billionaires or
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politicians politicians 76 of them of people answered said they trusted politicians less than
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billionaires but 24 said billionaires they would trust even less than politicians 24 24 that's roughly a
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quarter quarter rounds off to 25 to about 25 roughly
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and if you're new to my live stream you have no idea what that inside joke was about somebody will tell
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you so um i've told you before how my news consumption is weird because sometimes i'll be consuming the
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news and then the news is about me and i'll think okay that's weird why am i consuming this news and it's
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about me so yesterday i'm reading twitter and i'm looking over at the trending trending terms and and there's my name
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and i'm like oh shit the last thing you want to do is trend on twitter really it's like the word
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it doesn't mean something good you know it always means something bad's happening
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so i was trending on twitter because of a tweet or two i did on uh bullies and here's the weird thing
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that happened i tweeted about bullies being a problem and it attracted all the bullies
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so all the people with no no awareness self-awareness whatsoever came to seriously dump on me with
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obviously the intention of making me feel bad you could tell by the tweets it was clearly their intention
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to make me personally feel bad who does that i mean seriously who who takes the time just to make
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somebody feel bad bullies right so i was noticing there were there were uh several distinct type of
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bullies and so i started to uh catalog them a little bit i thought you would uh enjoy it uh and then i thought
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i would uh it looks like a oh here we go so the first type is the bullies so these are trolls who
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just drop by to be toxic they're they're not really disagreeing so much it's not really about what you
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said they just drop by to be toxic and an example would be uh this actually happened somebody tweeted
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when i saw scott adams trending on twitter i was hoping it meant he died
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so somebody came to twitter to say in my timeline that they wish i had died
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now what causes that to happen to a person like you know what what damage did they have in their
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life that turned them into that then the other type of trolls one of my favorite groups is the
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soylent greens i call them the soylent greens because they always say whatever is the most
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obvious thing one would say in whatever situation so if there's a tweet or a story about a new food
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source what did the soil and green say it's soylent green because it reminds them of the movie it's the most
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obvious thing you would say in every situation when i do a tweet somebody doesn't like
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the soylent greens come in and say well i guess we just found out who was the the pointy here boss
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and dilbert why do they say that because it's the most obvious thing you could say oh he's a cartoonist
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he's saying something we don't like i get it he's like a character in this cartoon sometimes they come in
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and they refer to me as the creator of garfield ha ha ha ha it's almost as good as the pointy
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or boss comment or soylent green sometimes they talk about the matrix that movie but usually it's
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soylent green then you've got the bad reading comprehension trolls they need a better name for
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that the the brcts bad reading comprehensions they're the ones who misinterpret what you said
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and then they act really indignant and insulting to their own hallucination of what you said
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so an example would be so somebody's saying to me so you're saying we should give babies hand grenades
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and then they will go off on what a bad idea it is to give babies hand grenades to which i'll say
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uh no i don't think i recommended hand grenades to babies but you go do you so those are the bad
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reading comprehension trolls then there are the keiths this is based on the keith olbermann personality
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the keiths are the trolls who ignore the content of the tweet entirely and they're just there to insult
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you that's it they just came to insult you there they have no interest in the actual content of the tweet
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no no pushback no kit no context no argument uh so those are the keiths
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and uh then they're the holier than thou's you've seen them right the holier than thou's aren't going to
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comment about you know the quality of your tweet they're going to comment about the fact that you
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would even mention such a topic at such a time oh my god i'm holier than you and i certainly wouldn't
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bring up this topic now i'm holier than you and i certainly wouldn't be talking about this in public
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because i'm holier than yeah than thou so those are the types and part of the reason that i'm mentioning
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the types is because i created a little guide that i'm just going to cut and paste when the trolls come
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by because i want my trolls to spend a little time figuring out which one they are make them think
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past the sale a little bit because the sale is that you're a troll and therefore should be ignored
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but if i give them a list of what kind of troll they are but don't specify which one they are on
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the list i'll make them do homework to figure out what kind of troll they are
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so and some of the some of the bullies on twitter are actually reporting me to twitter safety
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fake reports so the trolls are actually literally literally trying to get me kicked off of twitter
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by reporting me multiple times for something that basically didn't happen
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and the troll shows it and the tweet shows it didn't happen so
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how did they throw you into talking about trolls all morning well i think the trolls are the only thing
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that's interesting that's happening today because the news unfortunately is just repeat news
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another horrible tragedy involving a gun there's not much else new to say is there like we've we've
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sort of run out of things to say if matthew mcconaughey becomes a major part of a story
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because of something he said about it there's nothing left to say about the story we should call that
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that matthew mcconaughey rule that says if you have to bring him into the story there's there's not
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just nothing left to say it's still important i'm not saying you minimize the story i'm just saying
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there's nothing new to say at all so let's get some matthew mcconaughey quotes in there
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here's how cnn in an opinion piece uh referred to this situation talk about the shooting of course
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and it talked about the fact that there were several people speaking out forcefully against
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against the tragedy i guess and so here's how this was framed in an opinion piece on cnn site
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and yet steve kerr matthew mcconaughey and beto o'rourke all serve as courageous models for a
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progressive capital w white male identity that challenges systems of oppression speaks truth to
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power and confronts the division of our current moment by publicly highlighting the gap between the
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nation's professed values and a more bitter reality that allows 19 children to be killed in such grotesque
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fashion now if i'm looking at a story about an hispanic kid who at least that's his background
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i guess who killed a bunch of other kids i'm not sure that the first place i would have gone to
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understand it as a framework for understanding it is the fact that three progressive white males
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had weighed in against the oppression of our systems i feel as if that had nothing to do with anything
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well what exactly did the ethnicity and gender of these three people have to do with anything
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and there were just three people who made a little noise they just happened to be three adult
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white males but i don't think that's the important part of the story is it the important part of the
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story is that three adult white males have the same opinion on it there's nothing here but to
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but to try to torture this story into some kind of a racial story you really have to push on that to make
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it racial don't you you really got to push on it but they did they pushed hard
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here's some context also from cnn and i'm not sure how misleading this is but it was something i didn't
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know so i'm going to tell you this from cnn i feel like there's some context missing and maybe you can
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fill it in but here's their claim that uh there are more gun deaths in texas by far
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than in any other state according to the cdc and there where there are the most guns ownership there
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is the most gun deaths and apparently it's really clearly delineated the more guns in the state
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the more gun deaths now do you believe that's first of all true now we're talking only about
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percentages so we're not talking about absolute numbers absolute numbers are just based on the
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size of the size of the state basically so not absolute numbers but the percentage of gun deaths
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as a percentage of say 100 000. so here's what they say and again maybe the maybe the data is all wrong
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because yeah so it's a per capita thing right so here's what they claim uh that
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uh the california by comparison to texas has only 8.5 gun deaths per 100 000 where texas has over 14.
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so that percentage wise that's a really big difference
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and texas has far more guns than california and less strict gun laws so but they're not talking about the
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gun laws in this case the this context is only about number of guns so forget about the laws
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just look like the number of guns so according to cnn and again this is not a credible source
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can we agree on that i think you'll be less your hair will be less on fire if i agree with you the cnn is
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not a credible source unfortunately it's not so i don't know if they're leaving out any context or not
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fewer gun laws okay thank you for that correction
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so they give the list of the the here are the states with the most guns
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they also have the most gun deaths so at the top is mississippi number two louisiana
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and going down the list wyoming missouri alabama and alaska so they have by far
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the most gun deaths and by far the most gun ownership which is actually lower than i thought
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if you were going to guess what percentage of adults live in a household with a gun so so only one
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person would have to have the gun and the other the other adults don't even have to own the gun
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personally but it's in the house what what percentage of people live in a house with a gun in it
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so it doesn't mean half of the people have guns it means that half of the people live in the house
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where at least one person has a gun which means that way fewer than half of the people own a gun
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right probably 25 percent own a gun something like that is that about right so does that track with
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what you thought it would be i thought it would be higher actually i would have guessed probably would
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have guessed i don't know yeah maybe not much higher i probably would have guessed 60 percent so i would
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have been pretty off but not terribly i guess so um what do you think of that so the correlation
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according to this article is very strong so they're not talking about gun laws right we're not talking about
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the laws just the raw number of guns per 100 000 people would do you believe that the more guns
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the more the more gun deaths do you believe that so forget about why we're not talking about why that's
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true but just to believe do you believe the raw data that where there are more guns there are more gun deaths
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a lot of you say no a lot of you say no here's why i think it might be true
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because let me ask you this question if you knew you were moving someplace where a lot of people got
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shot would you be more or less likely to buy a gun for yourself if you live in a place where people are
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likely to be shot do you buy more guns for yourself yes right don't you arm yourself more based on how
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much danger there is i would is there somebody who would say there are so many people getting shot here
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i should get rid of my gun does anybody do that the gun dangers here so much i should get rid of my gun
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some do i mean there are people all over the board on everything right but i think more often people
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are going to say i think i need a gun if i'm going to live in this place don't you think and then what
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and then they also don't distinguish what they mean by gun deaths does a gun death include the police
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shooting people in the in the midst of a crime probably probably because they don't break it out
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i mean the article doesn't say we don't count that what about suicides yeah do you think that there are
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more guns in places where people are more likely to commit suicide probably
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whatever it is that makes you have a lot of guns in the place probably makes it not a good place to
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live right so i live in a neighborhood that probably has well that's not true my neighborhood has a lot of
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hidden republicans a lot of people who who talk to me silently you know the whisper to me at the gym
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i'll go to the gym and people will say i love your show i watch it every day they actually can't say it
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out loud where i live people cannot say out loud that they watch my live stream where i live they they
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literally whisper it but there are a lot of them so a lot of hidden republicans where i live and
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uh i think we have low gun ownership relative to other places and i think the reason we have low
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gun ownership is not a lot of people get shot in my neighborhood i've never heard of one i've never
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heard of anybody getting shot in my neighborhood i meant my town yes but not my neighborhood i don't know
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maybe it's happened so i don't really i think a lot of my neighbors would say well we don't need a gun
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i live where nobody gets shot why would you need one but if i moved to oakland or somebody moved to
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oakland who did not own a gun do you think they might consider getting one i think so so i wouldn't
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i don't put too much credibility in these numbers but they're definitely a red flag meaning that if
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this is true i think you'd have to take it seriously i don't know if it's i don't know if this number is
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telling us anything useful but if it's useful i wouldn't ignore it now that doesn't mean you
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should give up your gun rights that's a different question but you should know how much they cost
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right don't you want to know how much your rights cost give me a price tag i want this right but here's
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the price now i'm willing to say out loud that i think the second amendment is worth the number of
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deaths that gun ownership probably creates i think it's worth it because if you're only looking at the
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number of people who are dying every year you're looking at the wrong thing gun ownership also keeps
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russia from attacking you and trying to conquer you right i mean imagine imagine anybody trying to
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conquer and hold territory in the united states with this level of gun ownership i feel like it's
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just impossible so you have to look at you know what is the expected value of future reduction and risk
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and then you'd have to bring that forward to today and look at how many people are dying today
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and then you'd have to include the today plus the future risk and make it one decision if the only
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thing you did is say how can we stop gun deaths today i think i would agree i'd still need more
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information but i would agree with the idea that if you took away people's guns there'd probably be
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fewer gun deaths i don't think that's crazy anyway do you and by the way let me be clear
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i'm pro-second amendment so don't take anybody's guns away but do you think if they did there would
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be fewer gun deaths i think so i think so i don't know i mean it's something you could test you could
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test it in one area and see if it worked it might be too hard to do now because there's so many guns
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so nothing nothing that you do now makes any difference maybe there's just too many guns so i think we've
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passed some point of no return i don't think you could reduce them at this point in any practical way
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all right well anyway uh let's talk about russian sanctions so apparently the russian transportation
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minister said recently that the western sanctions in russia have quote practically broken all logistic
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corridors used by the country for trade so in other words essentially there's just no way for russia to
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trade with the outside world at the moment using their normal process it's completely broken which
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was the point of the sanctions but they are they are looking at work around so it doesn't mean that
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they're dead just means that they're trying harder to do work arounds but it does look like the sanctions
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have teeth wouldn't you say it looks like the sanctions have teeth maybe not enough but they seem pretty toothy
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there's a report that uh russia is uh taking out of mothballs tanks that are 50 years old
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and moving them into ukraine to try to hold the territory that they've already uh conquered
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now what does it tell you that they have to take out of mothballs 50 year old tanks because you know
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they don't want to use a 50 year old tank because they're very explody they're easy to easy to destroy
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it's sort of like basically a death box for the person in it during war so is that telling you
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that russia is stretched thin and will have trouble holding the captured territory
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because i always thought that the hard part was keeping it the hard part isn't isn't conquering it
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because they had enough bullets and guns and bombs to essentially level the entire place which is what
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they do so there's no doubt that they could take it but i was asking the other day in the in the age of
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drones the ukrainians will have you know bigger and better and smarter and more drones every day
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they'll have more better drones at what point does it become impossible for russia to hold territory
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because if you need a tank the tank is just going to go boom because the tank is the easiest thing to
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find right because you're going to have plenty of people on the ground who just pick up the phone
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and say i'm standing right next to a russian tank can you send a drone over here and take care of this
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thing and then it will happen right and if they don't have tanks and they don't have armored transports
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how do they get their troops back and forth from anywhere i feel as if the troops will be so vulnerable
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during a what would you call it an occupation that in the age of drones you can't occupy anymore
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so this will be the test so let me put that out there as a statement of a prediction that you can't
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occupy a modern country that has access to unlimited drones they can't be done so let's test it i say it
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can't be done others would say oh but the anti-drone technology is also getting better they can just
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shoot their anti-drone thing in the air and knock it down yeah but isn't there isn't there a number
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you know isn't there a number of drones that will conquer any drone defense and can't we quite
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certainly get past the number of drones and ukraine can past the number of drones that can be stopped
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you know drones are not unlimited of course but can we get to the number that makes them a dominant force
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i think it's just a matter of time not in a year not in a year but in three years
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could ukraine have so many drones that are just you know blacking blackening the sky over crimea maybe
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i think that's i think a swarm defense or a swarm offense especially would be uh pretty powerful now i
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imagine that there will be the invention of something called uh drone hunter killer drones
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probably already exist they must already exist right wouldn't the the best drone defense be your
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own drones no that's not good because then you can't use your anti-drone technology if you were jamming
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so see i guess you can't use drones against drones too much because you can't use the jamming then
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uh drone catchers yeah they they have all that technology all right cnn is saying that that school
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and then i saw one interview with a classmate who said oh they're getting it wrong he's not a bullied
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loner he is actually he was a psychopath and he was the bully he was the one who hurt animals
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said his classmate and that he was clearly just the deranged bully bad seed but cnn is reporting it
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differently calling him a bullied loner i would say that that is fog of war reporting and we don't really
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know about this guy yet but don't you think that uh bullied people become bullies
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pretty much always if you get bullied it kind of turns you into one right do you think this kid
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might have been bullied or uh abused when he was a child in some context we don't hear about his father
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so we don't know what the deal is there but do you think he was ever bullied or abused i'm going to say
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probably probably not an excuse not an excuse but probably now apparently uh israel has much better
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experience guarding their schools what is it that israel does to guard their schools that we don't
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uh they have they have they have armed guards yeah locked doors so the first part is they have
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physical security but the claim uh from an article by i guess david hosney was was saying that their
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success is not so much that they have armed guards i think they do but it's their uh their intelligence
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meaning meaning the information that they have about their public so apparently they can identify
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the shooters before they shoot you don't think we could do that too you don't think that artificial
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intelligence could identify a uh a loner who had no friends and was interested in firearms
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do you think you could find a teenage male who didn't have friends said violent things on social
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media and had an unusual interest in firearms of a certain type of course it could of course it could
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there's there's no way you could convince me that we can't identify these people ahead of time because
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they all post on social media every one of them i don't know if you'll ever see a mass shooter who
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doesn't have a social media account i'll bet you won't there's there's a prediction for you there
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won't be another mass killer who doesn't have social media unless it's for political purposes if it's
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politics or real terrorism that's different but but what are these standard school shooter situations
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where they're trying to be famous you know christ church somebody says the christ
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church did he had not have social media is that what you're saying he did i thought he did all right
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if you ever lived in texas you would understand that physics physical security will not work
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i agree with that physical security will have a limit because
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let's say you have one guard at a door and there are lots of things behind that door don't you just
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shoot the guard first because the guard doesn't see it coming right you just walk up to the guard
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like every other kid take your weapon out bam the guard is dead first i'm not sure the guard would make
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any difference now if you had multiple guards maybe the other ones could get there faster etc but
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um but but there's a real limit to what you can do with armed guards it's better than nothing and i
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don't think there have been a school shooter where there was an armed guard at the very door that they
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went through i don't know that that's happened you know so i would i would say that probably the future
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whether you like it or not is um profiling so if it works in israel and
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then apparently the school children are taught to stay in place do you think that staying in place
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is the best strategy if there's an active shooter what do you think i'm no expert on this
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but it seems because you can imagine i think it imagines entire it depends entirely upon how
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quickly help is coming doesn't it if there's no help coming like right away i'd run but if there's
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help coming in five minutes i might i might try to you know last behind the locked door wouldn't you say
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yeah so i don't know i don't know i think every situation is different so you'd have to know the
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specifics but um so we still have this question of the police allegedly forming a perimeter and not going in
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to stop the shooter i would warn you that we're still in fog of war on this situation
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i suspect that we're going to find out something about what the police knew or didn't know that will
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change your analysis of whether they were all incompetent horrible people who should have gone in but didn't
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now maybe we'll find out it's exactly what it looks like they didn't want to risk their own lives
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maybe but maybe there's more to the story i saw a post from somebody who is a lead swat team officer
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now this is somebody who can speak to this situation with some experience which i can't
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and the swat team officer said that all the people commenting on twitter about the police who didn't go in
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have never had anybody shoot at them before and the swat team says swat team guy says until you've had
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people shooting at you you really shouldn't be the one to judge them about going in to which i say
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you know what if that didn't come from a swat team lead i might not take it so seriously
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but i'm taking it seriously and i'm going to say this do you think that the swat teams have the
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same training as a general police officer who would be guarding a school or let me ask you in a less
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kind way do you think that the school guards are the best and the brightest of the police or law
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enforcement organizations do you think they take their good people and good is young in quotes do you
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do you think they take their best performers and have them guard schools or do they say hey you'd be
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good for the swat team now remember that even the guy who was the lead of the swat team is very aware
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that once the bullets are flying it's hard to get anybody to go into a room do you think that the
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people who are guarding schools had the right training and were the right type of people to blaze into a
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gunfight the swat team people are trained to do it they're they're selected based on their you know
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presumed ability to do it so i would guess that a swat team person somebody with that training
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would have gone in or would have known not to i suppose there are two possibilities would have known
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better or would have gone in but i don't think there were any swat team trained police officers were
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there and you know it's easy for us to all say oh we would have gone in if you put me in that
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situation i would have gone in and i actually think that i think that exactly i think that if if i thought
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kids were being slaughtered i would risk my life to stop it except i've never been shot at
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i don't know what that feels like to the point of the you know the head of the swat team i don't
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know what that feels like what does my body do when a bullet zings past my head and i know that if
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i open that door there's going to be a lot more of them what does your body do because i don't know if
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my body can move do you i mean you don't know until you do it right until you're in that situation do
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you really know because i feel like you know when i imagine it i'm all brave like when i like oh i'm
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not gonna let them kill the kids on my watch i'll run in there with my gun blazing and do what has to be
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done but would i would i would i i'd like to think i would but you don't know you don't know until
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you're in the situation right i like to think that if i'd been trained probably yes if i'm not trained
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for that kind of situation i don't know honestly somebody said a parent would and i'm going to
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give you that as a stipulated truth somebody who was a parent or even not not even a parent of those
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kids but they were just actively a parent of the same age probably would go in because they would
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just see their own kid and they would just go in you know i mean in their mind they would see their
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kid even if even if their kid wasn't there so i would agree with you if you were actually a parent
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of kids that age your brain would just say go probably
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all right but i'm just saying have a have a little bit of understanding
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that humans still are humans they don't do super natural things so when we judge these people keep
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that in mind i don't mind that you have a harsh judgment of them because they do have those jobs i
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mean if that's literally your job you've got a lot of explaining to do if you're not doing it
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yesterday there's a poll that said there's a huge gap in voter excitement so republicans are far
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more excited about voting in the congressional midterms like a lot so there's a a point like excitement
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gap which should suggest that republicans will do well but as of today also from rasmussen
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it turns out that the uh that generic ballot thing where they say how would a generic republican do in
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the midterms against a generic democrat and then they say well it looks like the generic republican
00:37:39.880
would beat them by nine points or whatever so that's what it was it was a nine point difference
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that the republican had an advantage in a hypothetical match that went down to six uh almost entirely
00:37:52.520
because of independents who were uh plus 18 for republicans and now they're only plus 11. so
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basically the the news about the shooting i think just stripped off a bunch of independents
00:38:06.520
so here we were coasting into the election season with republicans just going to win everything
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one guy with a ar has completely changed the polling numbers
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just one one idiot with a gun changed the entire structure of the united states
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that just happened one guy with a gun just changed politics in the united states
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in a substantial way in a way that could change you know how we act for years
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uh so that's kind of scary it does show you that anything can happen so uh there's nothing
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about the midterm elections that's predictable except that you can't predict it all right
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the bullies are after me today um you might see that i pasted a little statement of the troll types
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so if you run into any into any of the types of trolls um you can paste that in and let them think
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what is it uh some local police officers entered the school to rescue their own children
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god the story just gets uglier and uglier doesn't it
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all right so i wouldn't think that the uh generic vote thing tells you as much as you as you think
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it does because people still end up voting for their party for the most part
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not claiming about current one number of innocent lives lost in large enough population should be
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stop publishing their names and the problem will stop i don't think so
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i used to think that if you didn't publish their names you would get less of it but i think that's
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simplistic because i think the the the people doing it know that they'll be famous
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even for the event so i don't think it's the actual remember your name part that matters to them
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i think it's just doing something that's my guess so i don't think changing the name makes difference
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i i personally am not going to mention their names because i don't like giving them any any presumed benefit
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at all but i think that's the smallest um part of it
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um that's interesting over our locals somebody's saying we should show their
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we should show their faces because usually their their face has a bullet in it
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so if you show the uh the shooter shot to death maybe that would make a difference
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the suicidal will not care if they die yeah yeah once they're suicidal i guess that's by definition
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did the buffalo coverage trigger the other guy certainly certainly do you think there's any any chance that the uh the news coverage about the other buffalo shooter
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you don't think that that encouraged this year of course it did of course yeah you only do the things you can imagine
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that's all you have to know people only do things they imagine
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if if the only news had been about stabbings probably there'd be more stabbings
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because that's what you can imagine you imagine what you've heard of
00:42:35.960
former fbi agent was chatting online with the buffalo shooter okay
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there's not much more to say about these shootings so i feel like i'm not going to
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although probably it seems like every day there's a new new reason to talk about it
00:42:59.560
all right is there anything i forgot that you need to hear about
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no i think that all shooters are influenced by all shooters i don't think it has to do with who's a white supremacist and who's not
00:43:13.720
i think just the action is enough to trigger people
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and uh elon musk tweet about it was jack off the board
00:43:32.920
a-chimp-domatic okay that's pretty good somebody got monkeypox but they're a-chimp-domatic
00:43:44.760
it feels like we never got the real story about the vegas shooter
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yeah but i think the real story had to do with something in the vegas shooter's head
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i don't i don't think there's anything beyond that
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keep talking scott kids have to wait until you're done
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uh oh do you think that beto interrupting the press conference was a win for democrats yes i do
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i do i think that um it was actually probably a successful political stunt
00:44:29.480
how did i forget to mention that that was definitely in my notes
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that they uh saudi arabia has figured out how to get a rare
00:44:39.160
earth mineral out of the ocean at an economical
00:44:50.760
so the the rare earth minerals are not rare in the sense that they're only in some places
00:44:56.120
they're actually spread all over everything it's just that it's so it's such trace amounts
00:45:02.040
that it's hard to collect it all economically so they figured out how somehow to get it out of the ocean
00:45:07.960
and to get it economically they say now uh yeah so they're not rare they're just hard to harvest
00:45:15.800
and when you do harvest them it's bad for the environment often if you use the older techniques
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and so that's part of the reason that china can do it we can't they don't have the same environmental
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restrictions so i do think that modern technology will probably find us ways to get these rare earth
00:45:34.280
minerals better and cheaper wherever they are so i don't think we're going to have to depend on other
00:45:39.720
countries after a while oh yes and then also uh japan has decided to reopen all of their closed nuclear
00:45:49.800
reactors all of them so you could not have a stronger statement in favor of uh nuclear energy than japan
00:46:01.080
opening all of their closed nuclear plants that should be the beginning and the end of the entire
00:46:07.000
conversation like if you knew that now we do uh then i think that means something
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all right you know about diablo uh diablo is coming back online right
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lithium is not a rare earth mineral i'm being told all right i gotta run and i will talk to you tomorrow