Episode 1784 Scott Adams： The Wokeness Pendulum Is About To Turn Around. That Changes Everything
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Summary
Sean Penn will be making a celebrity appearance on the January 6th hearings, and it's a good thing it's Sean Penn, because it will make them look even more ridiculous and ridiculous than they already do. Plus, a new conspiracy theory about the election.
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Because today the news served up little golden nuggets for us, you know, some days it's just
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turds, it's nothing but turds, but today, nuggets, golden, here's the first one, did you think
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there was any way that the January 6th hearing committee could make themselves look more absurd
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and less credible? Were you thinking to yourself, well, I don't think there's anything they could
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do, I mean, really, I'm going to brainstorm a little bit, but like, what, they could wear
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clown faces? I don't know, that wouldn't change much. What could they really, really do to look
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more ridiculous and less credible than they have already looked? And then I look at the news
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today and it turns out that Sean Penn will attend the January 6th hearings. So, well, I guess
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fuck me, apparently there was a way to be more ridiculous. Now, let me be fair, I like
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Sean Penn, and I actually like the fact that he's an activist. He does seem to put his own
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body and reputation and probably money of some amount in two causes. So I would say he's not
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like the regular Hollywood people, right? I like the Hollywood people who are, you know,
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really putting their sleeves up and getting involved. That's why I like Melissa Milano,
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even though I disagreed with practically everything she said. I always had full respect for her because
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she was a full participant who also happened to be famous for something else. Those kind
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I like because I think I'm, you know, a minor version of that. So I want to defend myself,
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I suppose. But if you're actually trying to help, we should be happy about it. It doesn't matter
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that you also were a good actor at one point. That said, the way the public will view the January
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6th thing when you add a professional actor is that it's theater. Am I wrong? What does your brain say
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when you say, well, today's broadcast will be the January 6th hearings and this episode will feature
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Sean Penn. Sean Penn will be making a celebrity appearance on the January 6th hearings. Those will
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broadcast on all the major networks. Am I right? It's just the association is the only thing that
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could have made it look more ridiculous. Even though, like I said, I respect Sean Penn. He does
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the work. All right. There's a, I saw a Clay Travis tweet in which he was tweeting a video. I'm not sure
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who made it, but it was 10 minutes of Democrats saying elections had been stolen. 10 minutes. But he's
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to the clips, you know, the clips are very short, but it's just, yeah, everybody from, uh, you know,
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Hillary Clinton to everybody, you know, lots of pundits saying that, uh, the election had been stolen
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in some election in which a Republican won. You know, it was more than one election. And when you see
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10 minutes of it, solid Democrats saying this election was stolen,
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it just reminds you who controls the propaganda machine in this country. It's got to be the left
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because it is just generally true that whoever loses thinks the election was stolen.
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And it's always been that way. It's just always been that way. When you lose, you're like,
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I think that election was stolen. So maybe it's not a left or right thing. But they sold us to,
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sold it to us as, uh, if you say it and you're on the right, you're supporting the insurrections.
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Well, I did a long thread yesterday on an idea that I'd already shared on a live stream here. So
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you've heard it. The idea was that Trump, uh, instead of running for president,
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starts a media, uh, let's say debate centered media entity in which he would host debates
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on major topics. And it would just be a big event and it would support truth social. And it would
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allow him to run air cover for somebody like DeSantis, just as an example. And
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it's interesting. If you look at how people responded to the tweet, there were a lot of
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people who liked it. You know, they would check the heart, but very few people would retweet it.
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Why is that? I think average people are afraid of Trump or Trump supporters. I think an average
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person who is a Trump supporter who sees this idea and says, yeah, actually Trump would be even
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better as the person who helps us beat the fake news monopoly. Like that, that would be a higher
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calling than president, which is sort of a rerun in his case. So a lot of people responded to the
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idea by saying, yeah, I like it enough to hit the like button, but I'm a little concerned about
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retweeting it because it suggests that Trump would have a higher role than even being president.
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But it would be different than being president. So, and I'll tell you one of the things that's sort
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of emerging in my understanding of things is that a lot of Trump supporters just want revenge.
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or, or as one person put it, vindication, basically just to see Trump win to say, okay, he probably won the
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other time too. You know, so here we go. I told you Biden was a mistake. You know, now, now I'm, I'm right.
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So a lot of this is about being right, getting revenge, you know, vindication, ego.
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And I want to contrast that with something that I've said publicly a bunch of times, that when I
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supported Trump in 2016, it was because privately, I don't think I said it as much during 2016,
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but after the fact, I'll tell you, privately, I wanted him to break everything
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because I thought we were just becoming a constipated nation. I thought the Republic,
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the Republic was just constipated. It just couldn't do anything anymore, but we're really good at fixing
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stuff. Am I right? We're really bad at like improving things that have ossified. But if you break the
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shit out of everything, we can put things together better, better than maybe anybody, any culture,
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all right, I'm going to be a little, you know, American centric here. But I think America could
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probably put things back together better than anybody. We're really good at creating. But you
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can't create if your atmosphere is that everything's stuck. And that was the world that called Trump,
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basically. I don't think Trump decided to be the president. I think the world called him.
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Because it said everything's stuck. We need somebody who will just break the shit out of everything.
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And then we'll fix it. So I think he did that to some extent, right? And maybe some people would want
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more of it. But I think for sure he broke the news, meaning that there was a fake news industry
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that was really controlling the people, almost like that movie, The Matrix. I mean, I felt like we were
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in The Matrix because we believed the news. And we didn't quite understand how illegitimate it was.
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And then Trump comes along and he basically, you know, pulled up the cover and said, all right,
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look what they're doing to me. You can see it right in front of your eyes. Look what they're saying
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about me right now. And then look with your own eyes. Here's the transcript. I mean,
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he never said those words. But that was the effect. The effect was he proved to us
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that everything we knew about everything was wrong. Because it came from the news.
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So he did break everything in terms of our mental models. Would you accept that?
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He didn't break the systems, which is probably a good thing. He broke all the ways we think
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about them. Right? The way you think about the world is really different. Because of just,
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you know, the conflict he brought, the, you know, the, the mental destruction, that he was like,
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he was like a psychological bulldozer. And it didn't matter what the, what you were thinking
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before he got there. He just bulldozed your thoughts away and then said, hey, how about this idea? And
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you might have loved it and you might have hated it. But all of your other stuff got bulldozed away.
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And now you were talking about his stuff. So it was a really fundamental destruction of the
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American mind. And maybe global, I don't know. But far more than the American mind.
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So I got what I wanted. I wanted destruction. He delivered it. Now the second part is, can we fix it?
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That's what my idea was about. My idea is that if we could form some kind of a system or a model
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in which you could have good information delivered to the public without the propaganda, in other words,
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a fair debate with experts. But here's the important part. It has to be interesting. It has to be
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provocative. It has to be entertaining. We've never really had anybody who could do those two things.
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You know, Trump could bring the seriousness and the entertainment at the same time. Name one other
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person who could do that. Nobody. All right. I'll shortcut that. Nobody could do that. He's the only one.
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And that's the thing that needs to get fixed. Because if we don't understand stuff such as,
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you know, is nuclear energy good for us or bad for us? Imagine if we'd had, let's say, more effective,
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fair news for the last 20 years. Do you think we would have an energy problem right now
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if the news business worked? I would say no. Because if the news business worked,
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it would have been a long time ago that people said, you know, we really should keep these nuclear
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plans running. We figured out how to keep the nuclear waste on the site that produced it. Because,
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I mean, that can't be that much worse than, you know, what was already there. At least in people's
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minds, it's not that much worse. And so it solved the psychology of where does this waste go.
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That was solved. How many people knew it? You don't have to take it to, you know, some Yucatan
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mountain or something. Just store it on site. And how about the danger of the nuclear plants?
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We were all 20 years behind in our knowledge of it. We thought that the, let's see, is it version 2,
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Gen 2. I think Generation 1 is the only one that's had meltdowns. And we're on Generation 3,
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which has never had a meltdown. Never. Nowhere. So the technology that we use for nuclear power now
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has already solved the big problems. And it's been a while. It's solved them for a while.
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So if the news had been telling us that from the start, instead of saying, hey, look at Greta,
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because this is more interesting. Wouldn't we have electricity now? Oh, shit. I'm looking at the
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comments. Roe got overturned. Well, did that just change my show? Yeah, I assume you can confirm that
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over on YouTube. Oh, over on the Locals platform, the comments are faster. Roe was just overturned.
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All right. Well, then you weren't even listening to what I said, were you? Wow. Live, live streaming.
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This is kind of cool. Now, can somebody tell me in the comments, so I don't have to look at it
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myself, was the actual ruling the same as the draft? The actual and the draft were the same? Does
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anybody know yet? Or is it too soon? Alito was the majority opposing? What?
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Let's see. Just looking at your comments. Too early to know? All right. Well, that's interesting.
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The opinion is on 213 pages. I guess we'll find out if any of it changed.
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Wow. So they pick a Friday. And when does the Supreme Court session end? Pretty soon? Or is this it?
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Okay. And what was it? Five, four. Next week it ends? Okay. So it happened just as people
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said it would. All right. So one of the things... Six, three? It was a six, three decision. Okay.
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I guess we expected that, right? So that's interesting. So here are some of the things we've learned
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from that. Number one, when you see a draft opinion that looks that complete, maybe it's
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the actual opinion. Or it will be. The second thing is, did that just guarantee that the Democrats
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will keep power? So now the Democrats have the Supreme Court two issues, right? They've got the gun
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issue. The New York Supreme Court decision about concealed carry in New York, making it okay to do a
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concealed carry in New York, according to the Supreme Court. Now, and then this. So these are the two
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things that, of course, you know, conservatives would want a lot. But it's going to be expensive
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because it might affect the election. Do you think this will affect the midterms and then 2024?
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So the states still have laws on abortion. So the states can do what they want now. That's the point of
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taking the federal government out of it. No effect on midterms? I don't know. We'll find out.
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Scott sounds a tad disappointed. About what? Do I sound disappointed? About what?
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I'm not sure which topic you're on that I allegedly sound disappointed in.
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Maybe I just sound disappointed. But now, I feel like it would be ridiculous to talk about anything
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else. Because this is the only thing anybody's going to talk about today. I have such a good
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show planned. But now it's irrelevant, isn't it? Because you only want to think about that.
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Wrong on this, Scott. Only 19%. I don't know what 19% is.
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James is saying, Scott doesn't care about abortion as an issue. No, that's not true.
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Now, let me clarify. It's always hard to summarize somebody else's opinion if it's even a little
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bit complex. Because nobody's going to like your summarization. My opinion of abortion is not that
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I don't care. My opinion is I'm not a person who should be part of the decision. In other words, I think
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that I make the decision-making process worse by participating. Now, if you think that you make
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it better by participating, then you have every right. I wouldn't talk you out of it.
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I'm just talking about my own moral, ethical decision. Now, somebody's saying that I'm being
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a coward. No, I'm being consistent. Let me explain it in the simplest way. The reason I don't
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participate in that question is the same reason I wouldn't want a woman to tell me if boys should
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get vasectomies or if boys should be circumcised. So let me explain it. If there's a question
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that is specific to men's bodies, I don't fucking want to hear a woman talk to me about it at
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all. Stay away from my body. How about the men will decide what we do with our bodies? Because
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we have more appreciation. This is some kind of hypothetical situation. How about you stay the
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fuck away from our bodies with both of your opinions and your tools, and I, in turn, will stay the fuck
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away from your body? Is that not fair? How's that not fair? So if somebody says that, you know, like I'm
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afraid to get into the issue? Seriously? You think that's bothering me? Not at all. I'm just trying
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to be consistent for the first time, you know, that you've ever seen it in your life. Maybe that's
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why it throws you. When people are consistent, people are like, oh, I don't know what I'm seeing
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here. Well, what if the baby is male? That's an interesting debate point, but I'm not really
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sure worth focusing on. Somebody says, as a father, I don't agree. My wife should be able to abort my
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child. Okay. And then jump right in there with your opinion. And by the way, if I were in that
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situation that was described, then maybe I would think I had something to say about it. Maybe. I
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don't know. I'm not in that situation. So at the moment, I'm not, and I don't plan to be. So
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take myself out. All right. Here was an article in the Wall Street Journal, and Brit Hume summarized
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it this way. And I was going to say this in public too. And I have to chastise myself because
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the only reason I didn't is that I thought I would be mocked. Now, I'm not really driven
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by embarrassment. But I just didn't want to bother. You know, the trolls come in. I'm like,
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I don't know. It's like extra work. So I'm chastising myself for not doing something that
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was worth doing. I just didn't want the extra work. But Brit Hume did. And he tweeted about
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the Wall Street Journal article. He said, and this is about January 6th. He said, far from
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proving Trump nearly blew up our democracy, the testimony has shown his effort collapsed
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because Republican officials who voted for him refused to go along. Now, that's pretty
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close to what I've been thinking. And it goes like this. What did you learn from the hearing
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so far? I learned something that I didn't know. And let me ask you, did you know this?
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What I learned from the hearings is that Trump had no fucking support for keeping office if
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the system, even if it were flawed, even if flawed, every Republican in the room, his own
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family. He didn't have support from his own family. You know, as soon as you saw that Don
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Jr. was saying, shut this shit down, that should have been the end of the conversation.
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Right? You know, as soon as you saw Ivanka said, well, I thought Bill Barr was probably right
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about that. We should have been done talking about this completely. Trump didn't even have
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the support of his children. And you know why? Because his children are smart. And they
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agreed with every other Republican, apparently, who was close to him and had any power. Nobody
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wanted any part of it. Now, that's what I learned. Now, you did learn that there were lawyers,
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lawyers, keyword lawyers, who were providing him an argument for keeping power.
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That's what lawyers are. They're the people who give you the argument that will allow you
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to get what you want. It's their job to tell you how to weasel the system. It's not their
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job to not weasel. They're paid weasels. And I say this with complete respect. Because if
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they do a good job of it, that's why you hired them. You know, you could hate what Mark Goliath
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as folks did, changing some election rules before the election. But it was legal. And it
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was kind of awesome. You could hate how it turned out if you're on the other side. But
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if it made a difference, that's why you pay lawyers. Because they can get some stuff done.
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So what I got out of it that I literally didn't know, is that the base of support for Trump
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keeping power was so weak, it was basically non-existent. And we spent four years listening
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to Democrats say that it was sort of a fact that Trump had the support that was sort of
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fanatical. And it was Republicans who would suddenly violate the Constitution to keep their
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hero worship guy in power. And the Democrats sold that primarily to each other. Because I
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feel like Democrats believed it because they were telling each other. But let me ask you this.
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How many of you who are Republican, so you have to be Republican to answer this question, right?
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How many of you who are Republican would have ever supported throwing the Constitution away
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to keep Trump in power? Now, I get that you wanted more visibility on the election.
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Separate issue. You know, demanding visibility on election, demanding audits, demanding a delay
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to make sure who won. How many of you, if let's say there had been a delay, and let's say that
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somehow the election had been audited, and let's say you were satisfied that the audit actually did
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prove that Trump lost. And let's say you knew it. You're like, oh, well, I was pretty sure he won,
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but this is a very credible audit. People even audited the audit, and now I'm sure he lost.
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Hypothetically, let's say that happened. And you're a Republican. Do you really want him to keep power
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anyway? Because you like his policies? I feel like that's not one Republican anywhere ever. Like, none have
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ever been born who would ever have that feeling. And yet the Democrats sold that like that was just
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obvious and observable. I mean, just look at it, they would say. Look at those big crowds. They're
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chanting, they're wearing his hat. They'll do anything he wants. Not even close to true. Not only was it
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not close to true, but didn't you all know that? I'm not the only one who knew that, right?
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You all knew that. You all knew that zero Republicans would support a man over the Constitution. You knew
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that. Because that is almost the definition of what a Republican is. A Republican is somebody who's
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going to favor the, you know, the Constitution over just about everything. Like, that's the whole
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frickin' point, right? So, it's amazing that they sold that. And it's equally amazing, I think, and I credit,
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you know, Britt Hume for pointing the sound, having, you know, more guts than I did, that that's actually
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the only thing I got out of it. The only thing I got out of it is how right I was that there was never any risk
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of an insurrection. Because, because what if, you know, now that we know, even if these insurrectionists
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had, you know, what, taken control of a room, a room in a building with no weapons, and that, like,
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even if they succeeded and said, this is our room, we take over the country, you need every one of
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those advisors to Trump, or at least most of them, to at least say, yeah, yeah, good on you for
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violently, or in some cases, getting into our Capitol. I don't think any of them said that.
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Has there been one, one person who's not a lawyer who was really trying to literally do an
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insurrection? There's zero evidence of that, right? So if you ask me, the January 6th thing has proven
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to the country that there was, not only was there no insurrection attempt, but it was never even
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possible, and everyone knew it. That's what I'm getting. Are you, you know, of course, it's my
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biased lens on this, but that's not that bad, is it? I mean, is that unbiased, or is that closer to,
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closer to neutral? I don't know, I feel like it's neutral, but I'm also aware of the fact that I
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would have a bias there. I don't know. It's hard to judge myself, and I don't think you're necessarily
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a better judge either, but it's hard to know if that's an objective opinion, isn't it? What do you
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think? I don't know. This is one of those situations where I'm completely aware that I would not be
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able to judge my own opinion. I think that the January 6th proved that there was no risk,
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but I could be wrong. All right. There's big news about, you know, people making fun of Biden
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in his little cheat sheet. Did you see that item? So we had a little cheat sheet for some event,
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and on it was, you know, one bullet point at a time saying what was going to happen and then also
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what parts he was supposed to do. And he's being mocked because they would, the sentences, some of
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them started with uppercase emphasized you. You introduced the speaker. You go to your seat and
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sit down. Now, he's being mocked for that. I have to defend him on this. I have to defend
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him. If you've spent any time doing public events, this is what you want. He's just well prepared.
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I'm just going to give an A plus to his staff. You know, this is complete, this story is completely
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backwards. This story should have been, Biden has a good staff. This is exactly what I want
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you to give to me if I'm running for president or I'm president. I want my staff to give me this.
00:30:59.200
Let me tell you why. Right. Prior to Biden walking into that room, how much thought did he give to
00:31:07.540
the event? He should have given none. That would be the right amount. Because if he's just going to go
00:31:14.600
in and say some words and leave, you know, it's not a debate. He should put the least amount of
00:31:20.340
effort into that as possible. And his staff has done literally everything, you could tell by this
00:31:28.240
cheat sheet, to make his thinking zero. Now, the way you've interpreted this is, the way you've
00:31:37.060
interpreted it is that he's so incompetent and his staff knows it that they have to, like, treat him
00:31:41.980
like a baby. Possible. Possible. But let me tell you that when any time any, like, famous person
00:31:53.100
or a public figure has lots of events, do you know what the support people would try to do really,
00:32:00.240
and they'll really try hard? They'll try to remove all of your other thinking. It's a service.
00:32:06.040
They try to remove all of your thinking so that you can only think on things that, you know, your brain
00:32:12.300
is important for. So the part where it says, you take your seat, here's why that's important.
00:32:21.320
If you saw on there, take your seat, would you interpret it as, oh, I'm supposed to tell everybody
00:32:27.100
to take your seat? Or would you interpret it as, you just go take your seat and somebody else will
00:32:33.740
take care of the opening remarks? You actually do need to be that clear. It's very important that
00:32:40.160
his notes said, you take your seat. That really does help. So this story is completely backwards.
00:32:47.720
All right. And the reason I defend Biden every now and then is because you have to understand it's
00:32:54.880
both sides doing this nonsense. Now, here's the defense. The defense could be this. Trump wouldn't
00:33:05.080
need that, right? Trump didn't need it. I'll bet Obama didn't need it. But it would be useful.
00:33:12.640
I would need it. I wouldn't say I would need it, but I would find it useful. If somebody gave
00:33:17.800
it to me, I'd say, oh, good job. But Trump was a different character. Trump could go into any room
00:33:24.720
without preparation and somehow make it work, right? And that was his specific skill. You could throw
00:33:31.760
Trump into any room, any room. It doesn't matter what's happening. And he makes it work. So he wouldn't
00:33:39.180
need to have the, you know, the perfection. He could just say, who says this? All right, you're up here
00:33:44.800
next. And then he would just, you know, orchestrate it and everything would be fine. And if he didn't
00:33:50.000
like the way other people were orchestrating it, Trump would have said, no, you do this
00:33:54.180
over here. All right, well, I'll read this. You do that. And he would have just, he would
00:33:59.240
have turned it into what he wanted to do. So you never had to tell him what to do because
00:34:05.060
he's, you know, such a micromanager. He would just do what he wanted to do anyway. So I defend
00:34:12.660
Biden on that. All right. I'm watching the collision, I guess, of wokeness versus Title
00:34:22.120
IX. Now, Title IX is what gave young female athletes the same resources for sports as boys
00:34:31.900
have. And so it's been hugely successful. So female sports are like way up since before
00:34:41.120
Title IX. And it's been, you know, an entirely positive thing. So could we all agree? I'm
00:34:49.880
not sure if you do, actually. I guess I'll find out. Do we all agree that Title IX did what
00:34:55.760
it was trying to do? It promoted female sportsmanship and stuff? And that it worked? Yes? Yeah, say
00:35:07.300
yes. I mean, I'm sure that probably conservatives or somebody else argued against it back in
00:35:13.280
its day. But it worked. All right? So here's another thing I'm in favor of. Wokeness. You
00:35:20.260
don't like it so much. My complaint with wokeness is it just goes too far. And it's sort of unforgiving.
00:35:27.880
So, but I don't have a problem with referring to people in the way they would like to be referred.
00:35:32.220
I consider that just good manners. But wokeness, which I like, not the extreme version, and
00:35:40.880
Title IX, which I like, have a little bit of a problem, don't they? Because it's hard to
00:35:48.700
be in favor of both of them. Here's why. Athletes are the opposite of wokeness. When you say,
00:35:59.800
hey, hey, let's have a system that really supports worshiping the best athletes, because that's
00:36:10.480
what sports do. It ends up being about the good athletes, right? It's really reward goes
00:36:16.360
to the good athletes. Here's the problem. What makes somebody a good athlete? It's kind
00:36:22.800
of how you were born. Now you're going to say, no, it's not just how you were born. It's
00:36:27.880
also hard work and practice and all that, to which I say, do you know what makes a person
00:36:34.700
work hard? And it's probably the way they were born. Sorry, it's probably all the way
00:36:44.740
you were born. I have a good work ethic, meaning that I'm willing to work hard to get what I
00:36:56.060
want and always have been. I was born that way. I worked hard in first grade. I mean,
00:37:00.780
just always. There's no way in hell I learned that. I was just born into it. And there's
00:37:07.580
no way in hell people who just don't have that learn to be lazy or something. It's just
00:37:13.360
part of what you're born with. It's just your chemistry. My chemistry makes me stand up.
00:37:18.540
Some other people's chemistry says, stay on the couch a little bit longer. Mine won't let
00:37:22.680
me. It's not like I thought it through and decided that standing up was better. I just
00:37:27.900
have different chemistry. So it says, Scott is jealous of athletes, to which I say, of
00:37:34.420
course, of course. I would be jealous of anybody who had any gift that I didn't have. I mean,
00:37:40.220
it's not going to change my life, but in the conceptual way, I wish I'd have those things
00:37:45.240
as well. So that would be a fair statement. But here's my problem. Wokeness is about treating
00:37:53.980
everybody with the same level of respect. Here's my own definition. Treating everybody
00:37:59.680
with the same level of respect, no matter what their situation is. Is that fair? That wokeness
00:38:07.100
is about treating everybody with the same level of respect and access, of course, no matter
00:38:13.240
how they were born, what their situation is. So that captures everything from LGBTQ to any
00:38:21.440
racial stuff, religious stuff, handicaps, or different ableness, whatever is the better
00:38:28.660
term. So here we have some people supporting a system which worships people's genetic superiority,
00:38:38.980
which is Title IX, and really anything involved with sports, not just Title IX. And then at the same
00:38:44.920
time supporting the thing that's the opposite of that, which is, no, no, no, it's not how you're born,
00:38:49.940
like we're all equal value. They are opposites. And what I like about this is that if you can hold the
00:38:58.780
opinion that we should be worshipping athletes, but also we should be woke, you don't make any sense
00:39:05.360
at all, I don't think, to me. So here's my point of view. I feel that I'm consistent. And the consistent
00:39:15.800
thing is, I think everybody's the same value. People are suited for different functions. Some people can
00:39:24.540
lift heavy objects. Some people can write Supreme Court decisions. So, you know, definitely people are
00:39:31.520
suited for certain functions. But my own view is everybody has the same worth. And if you had any other
00:39:36.780
view, it's just, it just makes everything not work. So it's just a practical view. And I take that to
00:39:45.720
athletes. They're fun to watch. But worshipping him is like worshipping luck. Because they didn't ask to be
00:39:52.680
born that way. They were just born with a certain set of gifts, including the opportunity to use them, luck,
00:40:00.020
including the hard work that's probably genetic. I saw a video in which some doctor was saying
00:40:12.680
that the triple vaxxed are the most likely to die from COVID. What do you think of that? Do you think
00:40:20.680
that's true, first of all? That the triple vaxxed are the most likely to die from COVID. So that's pretty
00:40:28.420
scary, right? And there's a related story that the people who get cancer treatments, I don't know if
00:40:37.180
you know this. This might be breaking news for some of you. But the people who get cancer
00:40:41.080
treatments are the most likely to die from cancer. Did you know that? The people who get cancer
00:40:50.020
treatments are the most likely to die from cancer. Do you know why? It's because people who don't have
00:40:59.660
cancer don't get cancer treatments. If you didn't see that coming. With vaccinations, here's the
00:41:08.700
question one must ask. And maybe it's been answered, but I didn't see it. Who is most likely? Not in every
00:41:15.360
case. Not in every case. We're only talking statistics. We're not talking individuals. As soon as you tell me
00:41:21.780
about the individual who made an individual decision, we're on a different topic. You're talking about
00:41:26.620
individuals. I'm talking about the average. Only the average. Completely, selectively, exclusively
00:41:32.520
the average. And when you try to, I know you're going to, I know you're going to say, but I know a
00:41:38.520
person. No, no, no, no. Different topic. On average, who's likely to get triple vaxxed? Would it be somebody
00:41:49.340
who's at high risk? Yes. Old people. Overweight people. People with five comorbidities. They're
00:41:59.660
vaxxing the piss out of themselves because they think their odds are better that way. Now, who is
00:42:06.000
most likely to die from COVID? Whether they're vaxxed or not, it's got to be the old people and the fat
00:42:12.900
people and all the same people who have been dying before, right? So should you be alarmed that the
00:42:20.580
people who are triple vaxxed are also the ones dying at the highest rate? I think that's just what
00:42:27.400
you'd expect. If the vaccinations worked really well, but not 100 percent. So let's not call them
00:42:36.040
vaccinations. Let's call them shots. So if the COVID shots were 100 percent effective, you know,
00:42:44.120
that'd be terrific, but they're not. All right. Enough about that. So just beware your statistics
00:42:53.860
because it's entirely possible that the shots are helping people, but they're still dying
00:43:01.580
more than they should. Maybe. I don't know. I mean, how would I know? All right. Here's a provocative
00:43:11.100
tweet that I tweeted today that got way less pushback than I was expecting, but I think it hasn't broken
00:43:17.200
out of my bubble yet. You know, there's some tweets that get a positive response because your followers
00:43:23.120
see them, and then you get one non-follower who sees it and says, oh, I take that a little differently,
00:43:29.880
and then it leaves your bubble, and then the trolls come in. I mean, that's sort of the pattern.
00:43:35.720
But the trolls hadn't come in yet when I tweeted this. I said, if things get much worse in the U.S.,
00:43:41.580
men will take back leadership of the country. Now, I'll explain myself so you know the context of
00:43:49.080
that in a moment. But it was meant to be provocative, right? Obviously. It was meant to provoke.
00:43:54.220
But it's also a real point, and I'll tell you the real point in a moment. But here's the thing
00:44:00.180
to surprise me. The number of women who agreed with it. And the number of women, women, who said that
00:44:10.060
it was a big mistake to give women the right to vote. Now, I think they're half kidding, but maybe
00:44:16.800
half not. I don't know. I can't tell. You know, I can see that some of the comments, some women are
00:44:23.540
saying I agree. Now, I'm not going to go that far, of course. But here's what I meant when I said if
00:44:31.040
things get much worse in the U.S., men will take back leadership of the country. Number one, because
00:44:37.420
I'm very woke, let me specify that when I say men, I don't mean their genitalia, right? When I say men,
00:44:46.600
I mean, there's a male way of being that encompasses a certain set of traits. But you could be a woman
00:44:53.860
who has those traits. You could be identified as anything you want, and also have those traits. So it's the
00:45:00.060
traits I'm talking about. But I hope you'll appreciate that I made every topic about trans. Can you give me a
00:45:08.460
hand at home? I made this about trans, and I promised I would. And there's one thing that the January
00:45:16.460
6th, if I hadn't mentioned this before, one thing that the January 6th hearings is missing, not enough trans
00:45:25.500
angles on that. In fact, I don't think it's even been mentioned once in the whole January 6th. And I would like
00:45:34.440
to point out that the committee, the congressional committee, has no trans members. Zero. So that's a little bit on
00:45:45.440
now. Democrats. All right. But what I was saying was, when I'm talking about if things get much worse in the U.S., men will
00:45:54.540
take back leadership. When I say men, just put that into sort of mom and dad traditional stereotypes. It's just a way to
00:46:03.480
shorthand it. So it doesn't really mean gender. But here's what I mean. Traditionally, would you say that it's often
00:46:13.460
true that in a household, mom seems to be in charge? Like mom is making the calls, you know, you know, what are the kids
00:46:22.460
eating and who's doing what when? Fairly typical, right? Now, I'm not saying it should be that way. That's not the
00:46:29.460
point. I'm just saying, on average, it seems like mom is mostly in charge in the house. But will you go with me the
00:46:37.920
extra mile and agree with the following? The reason mom can be in charge is because dad
00:46:45.820
already did his job. Dad kept you safe enough that you could go about your business. Dad's job is to
00:46:56.680
keep the mongol hordes from coming and raping and killing you. And if mom is making decisions about what
00:47:04.040
you're having for dinner, dad did his job, right? And again, dad doesn't mean male or female. I'm just
00:47:11.940
saying, you know, the relationships tend to have a protector and then, you know, maybe an operator.
00:47:19.240
You know, the operator seems to be in charge, but they can't do shit. The operator is dead unless
00:47:26.580
dad kept you safe. So what's happening in the United States right now? What's happening in America?
00:47:33.940
Is dad doing his job? Is dad keeping you safe? Fuck no. Fuck no. Dad is gone. We're like a single
00:47:46.760
mom country now, are we? It's like the country turned into a single mother situation. Dad is just
00:47:54.880
fucking gone. Do you know why dad is gone? He got insulted out of the house. Wasn't appreciated.
00:48:03.940
Said, fuck it. I don't need this. I think I'll just go do some drugs. Not appreciated.
00:48:11.820
Here's a related trend that I see in California. I don't know if you've seen it there. Do you know
00:48:19.560
anybody who's an American-born person, male or female, who won't even date somebody who was born
00:48:26.540
and raised in America? Have you seen that? I've seen it. And it feels like it's, or I'm seeing some yeses.
00:48:35.920
And there's a reason, isn't there? Do you know what the reason is?
00:48:40.000
Men are appreciated. That's it. Every other culture appreciates men. It's only an American
00:48:51.040
culture that demonizes men. So do you know what men did? They went on strike. You just didn't know it.
00:48:59.780
The men let you take over. Again, that sounded sexist. But remember, I'm not talking about gender
00:49:07.580
here. I'm just using a shorthand for a vibe. Yeah. Dad said, fuck you. Dad said, we had a deal.
00:49:20.220
Dad said, we had a deal. You just broke the deal. So you're on your own. So dad's missing.
00:49:27.340
Now, all I'm saying is that if you don't get dad back, the whole thing falls apart.
00:49:34.220
Or somebody who's willing to be dad. What was Trump? Trump was dad. And what happened when dad
00:49:43.860
tried to come back and dad actually fixed a few things? Dad made things better in North Korea.
00:49:50.120
Dad made energy work. Dad made the economy work. Dad was helping on the border. Some say didn't do
00:49:56.700
enough, but obviously better than Biden. Right? So what happened when dad came back?
00:50:04.680
And dad did his job. And dad made you safer. What the fuck happened to dad? Well, you fucked
00:50:11.660
dad. You fucked dad again. You disrespected dad. Now, he brought a lot of it on himself.
00:50:18.100
Let's be honest. You made it easy. All right? You can't support Trump whatsoever in any honest
00:50:27.760
way without saying, well, he did make the attacks on him a little bit easy, too. Okay? So,
00:50:33.100
you know, there's no perfection going on with anybody here. Let's be honest. But he did bring
00:50:39.040
the dad energy. And it did the dad thing in many areas. But he was drummed out. He was drummed
00:50:46.560
out. Can you imagine there might be a, you know, a Trump-like figure in a different culture?
00:50:54.600
Imagine somebody who had, let's say, Trump's characteristics, but was maybe running for
00:50:59.680
election in a Central or South American country. Do you think he would have been drummed out for
00:51:06.500
just being him? Probably not. Probably not. So, it feels to me that there may be a pendulum move
00:51:20.420
here and that even, maybe even especially, women are seeing it. That they drove dad out. They made
00:51:31.140
it a bad deal to be a dad, basically. Made it a bad deal to even protect you. So, if you don't get
00:51:38.340
it back, we're in trouble. But I think the pendulum will just naturally swing back. And I do think that
00:51:44.560
you're going to see something that sexist people would describe as more of a male approach to things.
00:51:52.880
I mean, you take any, if you take any topic, don't you feel like you can sense the male versus the
00:51:59.580
female approach? I think the Democrats are basically the party of women. Well, let me test this with
00:52:06.640
you. I've said this before, but I don't know if you agree with it. I say the Democrats are the party of
00:52:12.260
women who are trying to be a bigger tent than that, and, you know, including, including a lot of minority
00:52:19.140
rights in general. But it's basically women. And then the women tell everybody else what's going to happen.
00:52:27.080
Right? I mean, even Black Lives Matter was primarily a woman-run organization. And
00:52:34.140
all right. I'm sure I had some point there that I was going to make.
00:52:45.080
So, Rafsenberger, what was he in Georgia? He was the, what was his title? Rafsenberger was
00:52:59.020
Secretary of State? What was he? Secretary of State, right. So, he was in charge of elections
00:53:05.800
there, and then the January 6th people were talking to him. And here's a quote from him
00:53:09.640
that I saw in the Wall Street Journal. And so, he was, he was in Georgia. So, he said,
00:53:17.720
in Testimony Tuesday, Mr. Rafsenberger, a Republican, said, audits of the state's election results
00:53:24.300
showed no evidence of widespread fraud. And then Rafsenberger said, the numbers are the numbers.
00:53:30.600
He said, the numbers don't lie. Oh, man. The numbers don't lie. What planet is he on? The
00:53:43.360
numbers is how you lie. That's like saying words don't lie. No, words are the things you
00:53:49.820
used to lie. Numbers are the other thing you used to lie. You know, hammers don't, you know,
00:53:58.760
anyway, you don't need any analogies. But let me clarify. All right. So, here's somebody who was
00:54:06.980
elected and was responsible for like a major, you know, fundamental part of our republic, the election,
00:54:13.640
in a key place. And he would tell us in public, the numbers don't lie. Well, you motherfucking
00:54:20.360
idiot. Video lies. Video lies. Photographs lie. Data is the biggest fucking liar we've ever met.
00:54:34.640
Politicians lie. We don't have anything that doesn't lie. All right. If you can fucking find
00:54:43.360
something in this culture that doesn't lie, trot it out. I'll take a look at it. I'd be,
00:54:50.280
I'm willing to be amazed. But don't stand in front of the public and tell me that numbers don't lie.
00:55:00.300
It used to be my job to do financial analysis to decide, you know, on business cases for investing
00:55:08.800
in things within the corporate world. You know, should we upgrade our systems or what? And
00:55:14.360
I was never under the impression that my job was to tell the truth.
00:55:22.680
I can't remember ever conceptualizing of my job as to find out what was real. It never even
00:55:29.100
occurred to me. Like, that wasn't even my mindset. My mindset was my boss would tell me what we were
00:55:35.140
going to do. And then I would make some numbers that supported it. Like, the numbers are how you
00:55:41.120
fucking lie. The numbers don't lie. Now, he might be saying, let's say I imagine he were defending
00:55:50.340
himself. He might say, no, I'm saying the data, you know, the data is accurate. Is it?
00:55:56.760
How would I know? Because a guy said so. So, a politician who lies for a living, because that's
00:56:08.280
sort of what they do. So, a guy who lies for a living told me the data is good. Oh, oh, oh,
00:56:15.420
I feel better now. The guy who lies for a living, politician, he's telling me that the numbers are
00:56:23.260
good. But I wonder if there are also any lawyers who think the numbers are good. Because they
00:56:29.300
don't lie for a living. Oh, they do. Damn it. That's right. Lawyers lie for a living, too.
00:56:35.160
So, yes, we should totally believe that all data is reliable. And in fact, all the data for every
00:56:42.360
scientific study, every political event in every other realm has been wrong. I mean, all of our
00:56:50.020
corona numbers were bullshit. But one thing we are assured by a professional liar is that
00:56:56.820
the one area, the one area where the data can be accurate is our elections. So, feel pretty
00:57:04.900
good about that. All right. Michael Malice on Twitter asks provocatively. He says, not one
00:57:13.680
person who claimed that striking down the airline mask mandate would lead to mass deaths has
00:57:20.000
acknowledged they were wrong or suffered any consequences for their bullshit. Now, I like
00:57:25.800
that point. Because there were some people with strong opinions about that. And I think at
00:57:32.600
this point, we can say conclusively, they were 100% wrong. We can also say that if you believed
00:57:40.860
it was definitely a good idea to keep masks on, on airlines, you're a fucking idiot. Anybody?
00:57:49.020
At some point, right? Early on, there was some fog or... But at some point, if you were positive
00:57:56.820
that people needed masks on airplanes to keep us safe, well, you're a fucking idiot. But if
00:58:03.760
I'm going to be fair, if you were sure that taking them off would make a difference, would
00:58:10.600
not make a difference, well, I don't think you were on such solid ground yourself. And I'll
00:58:18.620
say it for the millionth time. You could have easily tested this with one flight, like one
00:58:26.300
regular flight. Let's just say you said, all right, we don't know if taking off masks is
00:58:30.780
a good or bad idea. So what we're going to do is we're going to watch one flight, you know,
00:58:35.880
that just say, let's say it just goes back and forth between two cities, any two cities,
00:58:41.040
you know, maybe something that has a few hours involved. And we're just going to watch it for
00:58:45.440
one month. And if that one airline, and then we'll follow up with the passengers, and we'll
00:58:50.820
call them and say, did you get COVID? And if there's a higher rate of people who flew that
00:58:55.600
airline, we'll say, whoa, whoa, whoa, at least we did. It's a good thing we tested it. We
00:59:00.380
didn't let too much COVID into the world with this one test. But now we know what we need
00:59:06.200
to do. Why wouldn't you do that? It's like we keep running away from something that's so
00:59:13.540
obvious, which is, can you test it? Well, if you can test it, why are we guessing? That
00:59:20.820
wouldn't be that hard to test, would it? I don't know. It seems like it's very testable.
00:59:27.240
And you could do it at such a small risk relative to the whole pandemic, that it would be certainly
00:59:33.360
good to know. I mean, the entire flight business and travel and everything just got shut down
00:59:41.580
for something that could have been tested in 30 days, with pretty high reliability, I think.
00:59:48.700
Because if you didn't find any difference between the passengers on the no mask flight, well, aren't
00:59:55.180
you done? All right. Rasmussen had a poll, asked the American public, who we think is winning,
01:00:07.780
Ukraine or Russia? 14% say Ukraine is winning, which is interesting. I thought it would be higher,
01:00:14.280
actually. I'm not saying that Ukraine is winning. I think it's a hybrid situation going on there.
01:00:19.780
45% said stalemate. And 24% said Russia is winning. 24%. It's like close to a quarter. That's about 25%.
01:00:34.780
Anyway, here's what's wrong with the poll. I think people interpret the question too differently
01:00:46.240
in this case. In my opinion, who's winning or losing depends on what time frame you're looking
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at and what you thought was the goal. If you say the time frame is right now and Russia's goal was to
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take all of Ukraine, well, they didn't get it. If you say they had strategic objectives to take over
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part of Ukraine and degrade the rest and maybe take it over later, then they totally are winning.
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So I feel like it's a weird hybrid situation where they're winning and losing at the same time.
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I'm not sure that there's any smart way to answer that question.
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How many people thought Biden, this is also Rasmussen, how many people thought Biden is handling
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that situation well, the Ukraine situation? 31% said either excellent or good, but 44% said poor.
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That is a stubborn 31%. Do you remember people used to say that Trump, am I remembering this wrong?
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That Trump could always get like 31%. There was some like solid base that no matter what,
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you'd have that 30% or so. It looks like Biden just has that too. So something like 30% of Democrats
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and 30% of Republicans are going to back their candidate no matter what's happening. Does that sound
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about right? That about a third of partisans will back their own candidate no matter how obviously
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that candidate is failing. I thought it'd be higher actually, but that's not bad, 30%. At least it's not the majority.
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The Department of Justice actually issued a statement saying it respectfully disagrees with
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the Supreme Court ruling on concealed guns in New York, in New York. To which I say, what does that
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mean? What does it mean when the Department of Justice respectfully disagrees with the Supreme
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Court ruling? Is it just talk? Or does it mean they're not going to enforce it? Or they're going
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to enforce something that the Supreme Court says can't be enforced? What does it mean? It's sort of
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like the foreshadowing of it doesn't feel so good. I don't know.
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I saw a tweet from somebody called Natural Redhead, Danielle Caniel. And she was talking about younger
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people feeling doomed. Do you feel that? This is what her tweet said. She said, I said this to my mom
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the other day, but I don't think older adults realize how outright depressing it is for millennials
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and Gen Z to keep investing in our future when everything is headed toward a future that doesn't
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seem even remotely bearable. So if you're a young person in America, is that why you've learned
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that our future doesn't look remotely bearable? What? So I had to tweet back my helpful context.
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I'm pretty sure every generation says that, don't they? Give me a fact check just from your own
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experience. Doesn't every generation say the new generation is shit? And doesn't every generation
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think that the older generation ruined it for them so that it'll be worse? And isn't every generation
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better off? You know, maybe I'm biased. I don't know. I think so. You know, there are definitely
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things such as home ownership is worse in some cases, stuff like that. So is it true or not true
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that we're better off? See, here's the true not true part of it, because it's true and not true at the
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same time. It's true that health care is better, right? We have, you know, more pills and treatments
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and things. So if you were born today, you have way better health care. And that's a giant thing,
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right? If you were born today, if you don't have a car, well, you can Uber if you need to. You've got
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like more options. So we're probably, you know, safer from a lot of disasters than we ever have
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been, et cetera, et cetera. So I have a feeling that things actually improve just consistently,
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but we always think this is the last generation and it's going to be ruined. And maybe, maybe we'll
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be right one of these days. Here's the story that surprised me a little bit. Stacey Abrams, who
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narrowly, narrowly lost the governorship in Georgia, but is sort of a rising star in the
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Democrat Party. She's very vocal about being pro-funding police. And when someone asked her
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about it, she said, I was never not pro-police. And so she's putting forth some beefy proposals
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to raise the pay of the police locally where she is. And basically, it's just full-throated
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support to police. Now, surprising, right? Democrat. Do you think it's a presidential play?
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Because if it is, it's a pretty good one. I mean, you know, in terms of finding some kind
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of middle that she could peel off a few Republican votes? Maybe. I don't know. It doesn't look
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like a terrible idea. I don't know if it'll work. But it's also possible, let me give her
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credit, it's also possible it's just her opinion. So she's just telling you her honest opinion,
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which would be awesome. Now, I have an opinion about Stacey Abrams that I want to see if anybody
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else has this. She creeps me out, which has nothing to do with her capability. It's not because
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she's a woman. It's not racial. It's not any of that, right? There's just something about her
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smile, maybe. I think it's her smile, something. There's something, yeah, it's just off. It's like
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there's an uncanny valley sort of thing there. And I don't know. I just wondered if anybody
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else saw it. Because I wouldn't say that about too many other people. It's a weird thing.
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Some of you know that I have a nemesis named Jen on Twitter. And his tweets are always tagged
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by Twitter automatically as being affiliated with state-run media, meaning Chinese agent.
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I mean, that's how your brain should interpret it. Now, I should say that Chen says there's
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no truth to this. That he is, although he is associated with a Chinese state-affiliated
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media property, that his opinions are his own. So you can judge for yourself.
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But, so he's my nemesis. He tweets things, and we disagree on Twitter a lot. But he's
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also super talented. You know, if you ever get to have a nemesis, you want one as good
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as him. He's really good at it. Like, really good at trolling the American opinion and, you
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know, saying, me too, you know, have you considered this context? America is not so great. And
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even though I hate it, because I hate it when he's, you know, ragging on America, just sort
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of naturally have an opposition to it. The things he says are actually, oh, that's actually
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a pretty good point. It's actually useful. But he's pointing this out in a tweet. He said,
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Twitter's discriminatory policy laid bare here since the U.S. government propaganda Voice
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of America doesn't even receive such abuse. He's talking about himself being labeled as
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state-run media. And he says, Elon Musk must act to remove such McCarthyist censorship.
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You can see why I love him. He's such a good nemesis. But he's also right, which is Twitter
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is not just an American company, right? It's an international property. And if Twitter is
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going to label one country's people and affiliated people as propaganda, what would be the argument
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for not labeling Voice of America as propaganda? If it is propaganda? Because that's why we
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make it, right? I don't think we even pretend it's not propaganda. Am I wrong? Voice of America
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is explicitly, publicly a propaganda entity. Is it not? Am I overstating that? I don't think
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I am. I feel like it's designed overtly for that purpose, and we use it, and we're happy
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with it. So why wouldn't Twitter label it? I mean, we're not even hiding it. And just in
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the way that Chen doesn't hide that he's affiliated with a China state-affiliated company, he's just
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not making a big deal about it. So Twitter does. But maybe Voice of America should be labeled.
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But here's the problem. First of all, I'm not making a real practical point. I doubt
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it will ever be labeled. And I wouldn't care, either way. But you wouldn't be able to do
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that because then everything looks like propaganda. Because it is. So you'd end up labeling MSNBC
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as propaganda, and then the whole thing just falls apart. So Twitter has an impossible task of
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labeling propaganda. Now, Twitter doesn't call it propaganda. They just tell you it's somebody
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associated with a state-affiliated media. You're supposed to interpret it as they're trying to sell you
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a story. But everybody is. Like, everybody's selling us a narrative. So either label everybody
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or label nobody. Because I'm not entirely sure if it matters that he's a spy, does it? It matters if
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he's right. But usually you can check. So everybody else on Twitter is just saying stuff that often,
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you know, they can't support. Outright lies. I mean, it's the nature of the beast. But only the
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Chinese troll, alleged troll, but only the alleged Chinese troll gets labeled. And everybody else can
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just spew bullshit about everything all the time. It's a perfectly interesting question. It's either
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all propaganda or none of it. I don't know why you'd label some of it. All right. This, ladies and
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gentlemen, is a conclusion of the live stream. Have I offended any of you today? Did anybody get
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angry at any of my opinions today? Oh, I've got a few. Yes. I'm over the target. Oh, I hate that saying.
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Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I can't believe that came out of my mouth. Do you ever say something that's such a
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cliche that you want to slap yourself in the face? Like, give me a minute. There. Okay. I just deserve
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that. The things I never want to say are it's talk around the water cooler. Ugh. Ugh. Oh, I so hate that.
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And he must be over the target because he's taking a lot of heat. Like, I get it. It's a good analogy
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and stuff, but it's just a little too used. Touch base and to piggyback on that. Yeah, we should.
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By the way, if you have any of those, like, jargon lists that people say in meetings all
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the time, send those to me because I'm creating, that's going to be part of the Dave character
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in the comic strip Dilbert. So Dave is a African American character who's defining characteristic
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is you can't tell when he's kidding because he uses the buzzwords that people do, but he
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uses them so much that he's not entirely sure if he's kidding. So much so that he, even though
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he was hired by the boss because the boss wanted more diversity and he wanted to get credit
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for more diversity, but Dave came in and told them that he was identifying as white, which
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ruined everything. So Dave, the new character, would just be the guy you can't tell if he's
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joking or not. And I think I could just do those jokes all day long. Yeah. So if you just
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sat in the meeting and said, well, we're circling back with the synergy, the teamwork is operating
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at, you know, full scale, that sort of thing. Yeah, lots of excellence. Aw, thank you.
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I love you. I love you back. Now, YouTube, I'm going to turn you off now, after I turned
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you on. So think about that. And I'll see you tomorrow.