NBC News reports that the U.S. government is lying about Russia, even when the intel isn t rock solid, and that the CIA is doing so intentionally and intentionally to get its point across to the Russian people in order to get their point across.
00:01:30.640Well, let me tell you the story that's on my screen so I can turn it off and have it stop shining at me.
00:01:35.600So, as you may or may not know, people who are way smarter than I am say that NBC News is usually the organ that the CIA uses to get its message out.
00:01:50.800Now, I don't know if it's true or how true it is, but it looks true.
00:01:54.820If you look at the way they cover the news, the things they've done in the past and the people who are talking about them, it looks true.
00:02:03.600I mean, I can't verify that sort of thing personally.
00:02:07.100But today there's a story that is just jaw-droppingly, jaw-dropping.
00:02:15.340I don't know what else to say about it.
00:02:17.040I'll just tell you the story, and I'm not even sure I can add any commentary for it.
00:02:21.580Just know that it comes from NBC and that one of the writers here, Ken Delanian, I think he is sometimes named as, you know, one of the people in this context.
00:03:02.840So here's a story in NBC that's putting a positive spin on the fact that the U.S. government is lying, lying intentionally and for a fact, about what Russia's intentions are.
00:03:23.240And the example they use is that the United States cleverly said that Russia was planning to use chemical warfare.
00:03:33.620Apparently, there was no indication of that whatsoever.
00:03:38.060But the United States cleverly, says NBC, put out that story to maybe keep Russia from using chemical warfare.
00:03:46.380To which I say, I don't think that's what happened.
00:03:51.080I don't think that's what happened at all.
00:03:53.940To me, it just looks like we lied about Russia so that, you know, we could get more funding or support Ukraine or support the narrative.
00:04:04.680I don't really see that as a clever, preemptive CIA lie to prevent Putin from using chemical weapons.
00:04:12.440Because if that's all it took, well, if that's all it takes, you've just got to say it first.
00:04:52.000But I may have just prevented him from doing it.
00:04:56.940Because until recently, I didn't know that lying about ridiculous shit in public was exactly the same as a military defense.
00:05:04.640We actually stopped a chemical attack in Ukraine by lying about it first.
00:05:12.420Now, am I right when I told you that there's almost nothing you could add to this story that isn't more outrageous than the story itself, just by itself?
00:05:23.280I keep trying to exaggerate it to make it more wild, but it's really hard to exaggerate the fact that NBC News, commonly believed to be an organ of the CIA, is telling us that lying to you is good for you because it kept you safe.
00:06:47.780In fact, we're going to lie about more of our potential military enemies because the more we lie about them, the less likely they'll do bad things.
00:06:57.560They're actually selling it, believe it or not.
00:07:17.400They've got some kind of clever gear situation with ceramic gears that they get rid of the whole chain assembly and reduce the friction by 49%.
00:07:28.740Now, one of the reasons that I love having a lot of followers who are engineers, do you know how long it took somebody to debunk that claim?
00:07:39.140If you have, like, tens of thousands of engineers who follow your account, like I do, you can't get away with anything.
00:08:18.020If you don't have any engineers in your life, just as sort of bystanders, you know, just sort of witnesses to your life, you need to get some.
00:08:27.320You know, they say that drinking coffee is correlated with longevity.
00:08:37.060I will bet you, I'll make you a bet on this.
00:08:39.500I'll bet you that you could do a study.
00:08:41.860I would bet a lot on this, that the more engineers you know personally, the longer you'll live and the more money you'll make and the healthier you'll be.
00:11:54.020But I don't, no, I'm not going to ask for, there's a lot of advice I get that you, how do I say this?
00:12:06.360There's, there's a lot of advice about what I could do because of my, you know, Dilbert-y powers or whatever.
00:12:15.180But it's not really good advice to be using it.
00:12:20.360Being annoying to other people, just because I can, is just not something I want to, you know, include in my repertoire.
00:12:28.540You know, one of the things that you can do when you're famous is you can meet other famous people.
00:12:32.280You can, you know, somebody was saying this, I think Jordan Peterson said this recently on some video I saw, that one of the, one of the superpowers is you can call anybody.
00:12:44.180You know, if Jordan Peterson rings you up, you'll take the call, right?
00:15:30.240If something is offensive, but it sounds like, you know, maybe somebody really means it to be offensive, well, then maybe we should do something about that.
00:15:44.640I don't want to live in a world where people can insult you and hurt you with words without some pushback.
00:15:56.680But I think we should take this as a standard.
00:15:59.180That if the so-called offense is absurdist, meaning that no reasonable person could take it literally, you've got to be okay with those.
00:16:13.980Yet you have to learn, I think you have to learn that if you're so far over the line of being close to reality, that nobody should take that seriously.
00:16:23.560Let me give you an example to show you, I can turn it around on myself.
00:16:29.700A long time ago, I had a follower on my live streams, who was a, she described herself anyway, as an African-American woman and a pastor.
00:16:40.240And she interacted with me a lot, and she was a lot of fun.
00:16:45.320And at one point, she said something about white stereotypes.
00:16:49.460And I, you know, asked her what would be an example of a white person's stereotype.
00:16:56.900And I didn't really know what I was going to get.
00:16:59.400And her answer was that white people like cheese.