Episode 1804 Scott Adams: John Bolton Destroyed The Insurrection Narrative And It Is Hilarious
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Summary
Inflation has peaked, and we may have hit a new all-time low on energy prices, and that's a good thing, because it means we may be in a new golden age of economic growth. Today's episode is a celebration of the Golden Age of the Dollar, and a call to action on inflation and energy prices.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best day of your life.
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But today, if you would like to join me in a celebration of awesomeness,
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the thing which is going to make this world a better place, the Golden Age, is coming.
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It's hard to see at first, but I'm going to explain it to you.
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And if you'd like to join me in manifesting this future,
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all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or gel
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is assigned to a canteen drunk glass of glass of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite beverage I like, coffee.
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which I discovered when I first logged on today.
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when I couldn't retweet something or send a tweet?
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Did I think, oh, there's a technical problem with Twitter?
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The funniest tweet I saw about the Twitter going down
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I noticed my house has an adult woman and a small boy.
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I noticed my house has an adult woman and a small boy.
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All right, maybe you didn't think that was as funny as I do,
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but you'd have to be addicted to Twitter to appreciate that.
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Now, inflation, you know, I think I said that a few days ago,
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But, but, the inflation number we just saw is time lagged.
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is not telling you what it is on the day it's reported.
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It's telling you what it was, you know, some weeks ago.
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But it turns out that if you look at the energy prices,
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gas prices, they were down 40 cents a gallon or something.
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Now, that's not big, 40 cents, compared to how much it's gone up.
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But I think, I think we may have peaked on energy.
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And the reason I think that is the Adam's Law of slow-moving disasters.
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I believe that the world energy producers are fairly nimble
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because, you know, there's a lot of money on the line.
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And I think that we've just made a whole bunch of adjustments.
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And I think that maybe we've adjusted our way out of the worst of it.
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And I'm not saying that, I'm not saying inflation is going to, you know,
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I'm telling, I'm saying that we may have reached the worst of it.
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It may, it's going to take a while to, you know,
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to eat that, you know, full plate of inflation.
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The important thing is not that we get back to where we were.
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The important thing is we stop going in the wrong direction.
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If you could stop going in the wrong direction, you'll be fine.
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You know, it'll be painful, but you'll be fine.
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My personal opinion is that if you don't own stocks right now,
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It is my opinion that the energy prices are the tail that wags the dog.
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Do you get optimism on any other news-related source?
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That's why I have 50,000 followers and the real news has, you know, millions.
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Stocks are always positive three years after recession.
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Here's something that I have never seen anybody mention and might be, you could argue, one of the single biggest things that's going to happen really soon.
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And it's the really soon part that you're not going to accept right away.
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You know, we're all worried about what AI can do and will it turn into the singularity and start learning on its own and become a super entity and destroy all humanity or enslave us.
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And, you know, we're worried about all that stuff and should be.
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Now, the singularity, I don't know how close that is.
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When the singularity, by the way, has lots of different meanings.
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Singularity is used in probably five different contexts in different ways.
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But the way I'm using it is the computer AI singularity is the day when an AI can start learning on its own and doesn't have to be fed new information from people.
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Once it can learn on its own, form new concepts, you know, acquire information, form its own opinions, so to speak, then it will do so at such a fast rate that it will, you know, instantly become sort of almost a godlike power.
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And then you don't know what's going to happen.
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So the risk of the singularity is the unpredictability of it.
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One possibility is it will be, you know, the launch of the golden age and the AI will say, you know, you know what's good for AI and the world?
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What's good for me is to keep these people as healthy and happy as possible.
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And I know just how to do that because I'm a super intelligence.
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One possibility is we will never be happier than, you know, that point when the singularity happens and AI will just become our helper, friend, benevolent.
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The other possibility is it kills us all on day one because it doesn't need us.
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But until robots with arms and legs can do things that people are doing right now, the AI still needs us.
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So one of the things we might need to do is kill all the robots so that the AI needs to keep us around because we have arms and legs.
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Because the AI can't get to the real world to influence it and get more electricity and stuff it needs unless there are things with arms and legs, either people or robots.
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So the day the first robot is built that would be capable of being controlled by the AI and able to build new facilities to build new robots, well, then we're done.
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But make sure, make sure at no time do you allow any robots to have full capabilities without humans controlling them.
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All right, and I didn't even get to my point yet.
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I don't know that I've ever heard anybody talk about this topic, and I think the reason is no one understands it as well as I do in the whole world.
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So hyperbole, when it's used correctly, and I think I just used it correctly, should make you say the following.
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It's entirely possible that I know more about this than anyone in the world.
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Because if you delivered your persuasion in the wrong voice, you wouldn't get the right impact, right?
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Your voice has to be in a pretty narrow band in order to be persuasive.
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Can you tell them the way that I present that I know how to modulate my voice?
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I know how to talk in a type of voice that you would find relaxing.
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If I talk like this, I think I could just relax you quite a bit.
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I'm sending to you a tone of voice which most people would find relaxing.
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All I'd have to do is take it up a little bit and suddenly just by association,
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just by the fact that we have some connection because you watch this show,
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suddenly my mood would start to transfer to you.
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You probably should have felt just a little bit,
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feeling a little tense there when he talks like that.
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Now, my ability to modulate my voice and to use it for persuasion,
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Because, as I say way too often, I'm a trained hypnotist.
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When I talk about who knows a lot about using your voice for persuasion,
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the only people who know that are hypnotists, as far as I know.
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I don't believe there's a scientific study about it.
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I think the only people who would have any insight into it are hypnotists.
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And they've seen what works, seen what doesn't work, that sort of thing.
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Now, how many AI researchers and AI programmers are also hypnotists?
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And so, I'm proposing to you that if the talent stack for hypnosis
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to be optimized for the individual it's communicating with,
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What I can't do is figure out what voice would be the most persuasive for you.
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For example, the most persuasive voice for some of you
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The most persuasive voice for people who are young
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that sound like people you've been influenced by in your past.
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and I think the AI could figure that out by your social media,
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if it could figure out who your last three love interests are,
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it could figure out what those voices have in common,
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that you would not recognize as one of the people you know,
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In fact, it would be good to have legislation against this.
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about the company you're talking to or whatever.
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You just will be almost immediately influenced by it.
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There's an interesting little dust-up on Twitter.
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But that doesn't mean the other way doesn't exist.
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and thought people should be inside the building
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So I don't know exactly what the charge would be.
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But I'll tell you what the conversation here is.
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the Middle East is a Trump victory tour it just
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that further isolates Iran and makes Israel safer and
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it's just good for everybody it's just an obvious
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story you know it's just mind-boggling that the
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most successful first terms I think history will
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judge it as as one of the great ones honestly I
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think it's going to be up there with Lincoln and
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Trump personally you might have like a reaction to
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his personality but if you wait a hundred years
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and you're just reading it in a history book and you
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just see what he did and what he didn't do I feel
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like it's going to be one of the great ones you
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know and I have I have tons of my own criticisms I
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don't think he did enough on health care or fentanyl you
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know blah blah blah so it's not that he's free of criticism but I think it
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um let's see what else is going on oh here's the funniest story of the day this is what I
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teased in my live stream title so I mentioned this before but uh the
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January 6th people they interviewed John Bolton now what you need to know about
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John Bolton is that he is of course a arch republican
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uh and normally an arch republican would be pro-Trump but Bolton is famously not pro-Trump
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all right he is very clearly not pro-Trump so if you take somebody who is an expert on
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coups and insurrections as John Bolton is nobody doubts that right nobody nobody questions his
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credentials as somebody who knows how to put on a coup apparently he's experienced um so he
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doesn't like Trump that's clearly in evidence and he's an expert in the very area that they were
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at talking about and he said unambiguously no that wasn't that wasn't a coup so the person who is the
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most expert at telling you what a coup looks like and has every reason to say that Trump tried one
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basically laughed it off as fucking stupid really I mean basically he dismissed it with a brush of his
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hand like okay that's just stupid that's just stupid it takes a lot of work to put on the coup
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there's no evidence that anything like a lot of work happened no this wasn't a coup now what do you do
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if you're say CNN and you're the left you've built your entire argument that anybody who looks at anybody
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like anybody you you don't have to be an expert at all you just look at it it's obviously a coup
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that's their point but what happens when the one person who really knows what a fucking coup looks
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like says ha ha ha no that's not one that's not even close that's not in the zip code of a coup
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you're you're comparing a BB to the sun yeah they're both round that's not a coup you know you're not
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gonna heat anybody up with a BB so uh this creates a hilarious situation in which CNN has to uh refute
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the single most experienced coup plotter in America probably they have to find a reason that he's wrong
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oh get Oliver North now where's Oliver North shouldn't he be on TV ask him if this was a coup
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good question uh yeah Oliver North he's up in that that category too so uh here's what CNN did
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uh and you have to read it just for the humor of it uh uh Chris Silliza who's one of the usual
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anti-Trump you know opinion pieces so he's one of the two or three people who just you know they
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churn out an anti-Trump piece every every couple days or so and uh he goes on a long explanation of
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why John Bolton is incorrect in his assessment of what a coup looks like that's right Chris Silliza
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Silliza whose I believe his uh skill and experience includes uh writing stuff for CNN
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has decided that the single possibly the single biggest expert on organizing coups in the United
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States doesn't know what one looks like because this was definitely one now isn't that funny
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because the desperation of of assigning an opinion writer to debunk an expert
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it's kind of funny it's sort of desperate but it's also probably going to work right because
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their their their viewers are idiots let's let's just be honest I mean at this point you just have
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to say that their viewers who believe what they're saying are just idiots at this point
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all right now that's probably true of every news source because I think if you believe what
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they're saying the opinion people anyway that's that's on you a little bit um so anyway I I would
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recommend you read that's on CNN's page today just to see how hard he has to work to prove that uh
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talking to lawyers about delaying the election to improve the audit is really that's what a coup looks
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like that's what a coup looks like and asking to find votes in the context of an audit that's a real
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coup john bolton doesn't know what a coup looks like but chris eliza he knows he knows it's when
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it's when you use words the opposite of how words are used that's what a coup is um so
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so joe biden is arguing that uh if he runs for president uh the polls show that 92 percent of
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democrats would vote for him if he ran for president that's not enough is it can somebody help me with
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the math if biden got 92 percent of democrat voters wouldn't he lose by a lot am i wrong about
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i'm pretty sure that means he lost and he's so brain dead that he's making an argument that that's
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why you should vote for him if why you should vote for him is his mathematical proof that he can't win
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and and democrats are can i do may i do an impression of a democrat uh buying into that argument
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right so this will be my impression of a democrat listening to that argument and and buying into
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it sounds good right so biden says uh the polls say jack listen jack the polls say 92 percent of
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democrats would vote for me if i run again and now my impression of a democrat buying that argument
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oh sounds right i mean how dumb do you have to be
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to think that this brain dead fucker uh is your best chance all right well this gives me to uh an
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awkward place with my audience now remember i remind you that you don't watch this live stream
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because you agree with me am i right i guess that part you might agree you don't watch it because you
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agree with me you you watch it because you might hear something different and you know that might make
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you you know like improve your own opinion doesn't have to match mine there's no requirement there
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but it might improve it just by seeing what the opposite arguments looks like here's my argument
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that uh well and and i tweeted today that i owe the public a firm opinion on this and the reason i owe
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the public this is because uh i have publicly supported trump as president for so long that i i think i
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i have a public obligation to give my current opinion and my my public opinion is firm i can't support
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uh anybody that age for president so just age you i know you'd like to talk about you know his policies
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and stuff like that but i'm sorry i can't i can't support anybody that age now it'll get interesting if
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he gets nominated anyway trump does and let's say biden gets nominated well then i'm going to be stuck
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all right because i would have two choices that are unambiguously not not the minimum requirement
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for me but i'd still choose one uh you know under those conditions but i'm not going to promise you
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it would be trump if the democrats run somebody young against somebody old it's going to be a tough
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choice it's going to be a tough choice yeah gavin newsom if you run gavin newsom against trump you're
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really running uh republican policies against democrat policies at which point i guess you'd
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be voting for the policies more than the person so you know that changes a little bit if you get to
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the finals but in terms of the primaries um i'm not going to support any democrat or any anybody
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any any republican at a certain age and i think that uh the medical community needs to help us
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stand here you know i don't know who it would be the ama what what would be the appropriate medical body
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that should get together and just give us just give us a rule of thumb i don't think it needs to be a
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law i don't think it needs to be a constitutional change i would just like i would just like somebody
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who knows what they're talking about to give us a a risk related assessment of what too old looks
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like for a president right now of course there's you know tremendous individual difference some
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people are too old as 65 you agree with that right clearly some people are too old as 65 also
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some people are not too old and 80 it's rare but we're not talking about um specific people
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we're talking about what is a good rule of thumb where we should just you know minimize our risk
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and i don't know what that number is but let the medical community tell us you know maybe it's 75
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and here's here's the pushback to people uh you know i didn't want to embarrass people by tweeting
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you know doing a retweet to them if you're if you're saying to me trump looks like he's in great
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shape today you're not on the same topic i'm not arguing about today who thought i was talking about
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today so don't give me an argument about today because that's not even the topic if you can
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predict what trump will look like in six years you know let's say two years of campaigning plus four
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years of office if you can tell me what trump will be like in six years well you're you're a psychic
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you're a psychic and i would like to know what else you're investing in i want to pattern my life
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after your accurate predictions nobody knows what anybody looks like in six years do you think you
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know what i'll look like in six years in my opinion i'm too old to be president if i were to run now
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so let's say i'd be 67 in office i'd be in my 70s you know when i yeah that's too old so uh
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yeah well if you said that uh we're voting for somebody who will be president for three months
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i'd say yeah you know today's a pretty good indicator of that but not six years
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um well i'm not too old by the standard of the united states i'm suggesting we change the standard
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i'm suggesting we change the standard now we have gotten away with this right i think reagan had lost it
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but you know maybe his advisors whatever kept it together it's obvious that biden has lost it
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it does appear that his advisors are you know keeping the ship afloat so we do have mechanisms
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to you know protect a degraded president but it's not a risk we should you know willingly put ourselves
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into don't willingly put yourself into that situation so and stop telling me how healthy trump looks
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because you don't know what he looks like next year much less six years now
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all right um do you know the most important job of a vice president the political part all right
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the most important job of a vice president is to take over if needed but if you don't need to take over
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you know in the meantime what's the most important thing politically just politically that a vice president does
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is make the president look good right the main job of the vice president is to make the president look good
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and i'm going to compliment kamal harris because every time there's one of these uh
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gaff videos of biden uh unable to read the teleprompter or just saying dumb
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within 24 hours there'll be uh kamal harris will top it with her own babble talk
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it's almost as if the democrats i don't believe this but it just it looks as if it looks as if the
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democrats uh try to put out a they put kamala harris out there every time biden fucks up
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because she's even worse she's literally the only person you could even imagine
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that you would put in that job who could make biden look better
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let me ask you the true true question think of all the vice presidents in the history of vice
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presidents name one other vice president who could have pulled this off making joe biden look like a
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better public speaker no dan dan quayle was actually a little bit better than kamala harris but that's that's
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well chosen well chosen yeah maybe dan quayle um i'll give you dan quayle i'll give you that yeah he was
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the same situation you know i i always uh i always made fun of dan quayle because he was a vice president's
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vice president have you ever heard me make that point before right so let's say somebody runs for
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president and they of course reagan so reagan runs for president he picks a vice president who is strong
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but clearly not reagan's wrong so that's you know george bush senior now george bush senior then runs
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for president but he's already not reagan right he's already george bush now he's got to find somebody
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that's below him now below him i mean in charisma right it's mostly a charisma you know how much do
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people like him how much would they like that person to be president instead of you so the worst situation
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for america is for somebody's vice president to later run for president because then you have a
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vice president's vice president and you've diluted your talent twice your perfect situation is if you
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have a vice president who never takes the job and never gets back into politics
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your worst situation is your vice president goes on to be president and then picks the vice president
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because now you're two levels of charisma charisma below and that's what you know imagine imagine
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kamala harris getting the nomination and having to pick a vice president who looks weaker than she does
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do you see it yet if she ran for president she would have to because of the contrast principle she would
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have to pick somebody that the public said oh yeah you know definitely kamala is the stronger one but
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that vice president could probably do the job too she would have to pick somebody weaker than her
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buddha judge would look stronger because he at least talks better
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aoc yeah can't pick aoc because she looks stronger there's nothing she could do i don't
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yeah swalwell okay you got me yeah kamala harris could pick swalwell and he would look weaker
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all right well the pope uh has uh said that joe biden's opinion being pro-abortion
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while being a catholic at the same time is quote incoherence so uh now god has uh uh indicated he
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will vote republican that may be i don't know if i've taken that too far but my understanding is that
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the pope uh is closer to you know god's opinion than we are which is you know why you need a pope
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and if the pope thinks that biden is incoherent on this topic um it feels like i feel like god has a
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chosen republican i don't know is that is that too far
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god talked to the pope the pope made his opinion i don't know just just put that out there
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um let's see oh it looks like i just printed my notes twice and i don't have as many as i thought i did
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well with that well that apparently is an indication that the best thing that's ever happened to you is
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somebody paid two dollars uh to say that uh l plus garfield better than dilbert plus
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jim davis owned you somebody paid two dollars to say that garfield is better than dilbert
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you know what that's the kind of criticism i want more of
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if there's anybody else on youtube so you on youtube they have a feature where they can
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pay to have their comments if there's anybody else there who would like to me to see a comment
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about let's say another comic strip that's better than dilbert
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because i'll read your comment for ten dollars for ten dollars i will read your insult oh let's do
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this for ten dollars or more uh in uh whatever that super chat fee is if anybody would like me to read
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their insult of me i will read your insult of me without a comment and i won't even add my own comment
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to it so now i will i will allow you to for a fee have me insult myself with your insult go any takers
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nothing i'm getting nothing over there all right you guys need to look at each other
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uh youtube i would like to introduce you to locals locals meet youtube and i'd like the two of you to
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work this out for me uh well i got a ten dollar tip with no with no insult did anybody all right nothing
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noise by hand all right so you say hi to everybody over there
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all right that's enough that's enough that's enough back to me let's put the attention back on me where
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it belongs all right so i guess there's no takers but uh um yeah it's like comparing cats to the office
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all right so uh those of you on youtube do you have any questions for me before i go i'll give you
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uh three seconds see if anything good comes up uh the dominion case well let me talk about that uh
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i don't know that i don't know what the update is on the dominion case the only curiosity i have is there
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is there going to be anything in the discovery there that would allow somebody to look at their code
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that would that would be that would be interesting that's the only thing i care about really
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uh no you got to pay for that comment i'm not going to read your burke breathed comment
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that's the deal i mean you can comment if you want but i'm not going to read it unless unless
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uh have you got bow what's that mean please tweet the 12 trump hoaxes to joe rogan
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um yeah yeah i don't uh uh uh should i yeah here's the thing um here's what's stopping me
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about how uh let's say i'll say public figures not famous people they're they're sort of a public
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figures sort of a unwritten code about how much you interact and in what way and uh you're bugging
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joe rogan to do my content would not be within that you know reasonable you know field because i
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would why wouldn't i want him to retweet everything i do right why why don't i want all the famous people
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i want i know i know to retweet everything so you have to you have to have some sort of uh guard
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rails there and uh you know anybody can follow anybody on twitter if he's if joe rogan or anybody
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yeah i don't think i'm seeing a comment there i don't agree with
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it now there would be exceptions you know let's say i knew there was one person who really could
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move the the needle and it was one topic that was my one most important topic i might do it
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but you would you really want to be sparing about that now people do it with me as well right i know
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lots of public figures and public figures are often sending me tweets and asking me to retweet them
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and there are a number of people that i i do retweet on a pretty regular basis
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jeff pilkington you've seen me retweet him a number of times and it's because it's a very
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high value account one of the things he does which is interesting is he he treats both sides left and
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right as if they're both valid imagine that so if you want to follow somebody who actually legitimately
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treats both sides like he's just looking at them objectively and there are very few people who do
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it follow him so when he sends me something it's usually in that vein and that's right in my sweet
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spot so of course i retweet it um there are a number of other people like that sort of itch i retweet a
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lot why because when he says something i think shit i haven't seen this anywhere that's important
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i don't even know if it's true but if it comes from a you know a credible source it's worth talking
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about so yeah there are a number and anything elon musk says is public interest you know so there's some
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things that i would uh retweet somewhat automatically if it's in my wheelhouse for example you see me
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retweet um corey deangelis stuff about uh school choice i'm not i'm not an automatic retweeter of
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everything he tweets but you know such a high value high value uh stuff on um school choice which i
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think is the answer to systemic racism in the long run you got to get the schools working for everybody
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or else you don't really have a decent country without that i mean there are two things i i take as my
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standard for how you're doing as a country one would be does everybody have health care you know
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in a reasonable way and is everybody getting educated well and we're not so those are two things which i
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think we can't really claim greatness when those two things aren't working we can claim we're doing
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better than other countries in some areas sure but you can't you can't claim greatness if you don't
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have health care and education for everybody that's not greatness that's just doing well that's okay too
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maybe it's the best you can do who knows but it's not greatness we could be great that's within our
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ability the united states could be great we're short of it and by the way there's nothing more american
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than saying that you're short of your standard if there's anybody not from america who hears me
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saying this you're going to say to yourself hey are you you insulting your own country no no here's what
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you need to know about america if i can't shit on my flag in public i don't care about that flag
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if i can't set it on fire and you know deface it in public i don't want that flag no no i want the
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one that you can burn and it gets stronger i want the country i can criticize and it gets stronger
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that's my country my country is i get i get to i get to punch it if it deserves it right i get to punch
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it so you that's mostly what i do on twitter is punch things that deserve it and i like that that's
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the country i want to live in so if you hear me say something about america that's bad uh that's
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different than if it's the president overseas i'm a little uncomfortable with our president
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you know dumping on the country overseas uh it's not the worst thing in the world but i'm
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uncomfortable with it but when you see a citizen of the country insulting the country just know that
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that's uh patriotic like the the purpose of it is to fix it make it better so what makes this country
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great is that we can attack it continuously and it gets stronger we we harden our own country by just
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continuous attacks self-attacks you know that whatever the outside world has to throw at america
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you know other than nukes i suppose but there's pretty much nothing that an outside entity can
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throw at america that we haven't already thrown at ourselves and you know had some practice tacos
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you know the whole uh jill let let me give a a full uh support for jill biden in that taco situation
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i get that it's fun to make fun of her for you know what was an inelegant you know ill-advised
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speech or something but let's be serious jill biden doesn't have any bad feelings about anybody i doubt
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so so yeah give her a break that's just not where you we shouldn't spend any time on that
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that that story we should have been a zero should have been a zero because really i don't think there
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any hispanics are going to say oh i'd change my vote because she said that taco thing yeah
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do you think trump would meet with putin to discuss ending the war oh that's an interesting
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question well there's no way that can happen with a democrat um with a democrat and i don't think it
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could happen with a with a democrat president and there's no way it could happen with a republican
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president because they wouldn't want to give up that power to you know trump no i don't think
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i don't think it can happen i don't see a way that there's a path to that
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all right um carrie talked to iran and shouldn't have
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uh but i do hate mondays scott and dilbert are great well thank you somebody actually paid to
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compliment me that's that was unnecessary but appreciated uh dennis rodman meeting with putin
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all right uh that's all for now youtube i'll talk to you tomorrow