Episode 1816 Scott Adams： The January 6 HOAX Has Now Been Totally Debunked. What Now？
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Sen. Tom Cotton is getting heat from Liz Cheney, and Joe Biden is not running for re-election, which leads me to wonder if maybe Joe Biden lies too. Also, autonomous killer drones might be a good idea in war, but not if they kill innocent people.
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Well, what's happening in the news that will entertain us and delight us?
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So the United Nations is trying to get together to decide
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if autonomous murderous drones should be legal in war.
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Because, you know, there's one thing you don't want to happen in war.
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But do you think it's a good idea or a bad idea to have autonomous murder robots
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that might go out and autonomously murder people?
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Isn't the alternative to swarms of murderous autonomous drone robots
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How in the world could you be angry about a tool that's designed to, you know,
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Should we use the dumb kind where you just shoot big bombs
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I feel like we have to compare this to the alternative, don't we?
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That's always the problem that we have in politics.
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We look at something as though the alternative is some kind of a perfect situation.
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Should we have autonomous killer drones or everybody live in peace?
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Drones murdering innocent people or everybody live in peace?
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I think everybody who will live in peace would be a better one.
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I think everybody living in peace would be way better
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But, suppose you compare that to the alternative.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but autonomous murder drones are going to kill leadership.
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Why would you waste your autonomous murder drones that can identify people?
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But it's kind of a tool to go after leadership, isn't it?
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In fact, I would like all of our military hardware to be designed to kill the leaders of the other countries
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And if they make stuff that only kill our leaders, but don't kill me,
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Rasmussen has a poll that says one in five voters think it would be good for the Democrats
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So only one in five think Biden, of Democrats, think, no, voters.
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So one in five voters, that could be both Republicans and Independents and Democrats,
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don't think it would be good for Biden to run for re-election?
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Now, here's my question to the people who voted for Biden.
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If you voted for Biden because you didn't want the guy who lies to be in office,
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And, you know, granted, that was his main reason for wanting to replace Trump.
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And sure enough, we just replaced Trump with another gigantic liar.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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Tom Cotton is getting some heat from Representative Liz Cheney.
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I guess Tom Cotton went on a show and said some bad things about the January 6th thing.
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But it turns out he has not watched much of the live coverage.
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So Tom Cotton, a sitting senator, can you believe that?
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That he hasn't spent really much time at all watching an obvious hoax on television?
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Well, what the hell is he doing instead of watching a hoax play on television?
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Is he wasting his time trying to stop fentanyl shipments from the cartels?
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He's trying to stop fentanyl shipments into the United States.
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Trying to stop China from owning the United States.
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Did he not spend enough time watching your fucking bullshit brainwashing propaganda hoax?
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She says, hey, Senator Tom Cotton, heard you on Hugh Hewitt criticizing the January 6th hearings.
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You admitted you haven't watched any of my completely useless bullshit propaganda.
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When you're out there wasting your time trying to stop fentanyl shipments to the United States.
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Is there any news story I can do without making that face?
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I just realized you can't talk about the news without making that face.
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Because everybody's just such a fucking idiot right now that you can't even treat it like it's serious.
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Liz Cheney thinks that Tom Cotton should spend more time watching her hoax?
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The entire January 6th thing proved there was nothing there.
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It started out, number one, that Trump attempted a planned insurrection of the United States.
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But still, he loosely planned a fucking insurrection of the United States.
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Let me accept this standard for a moment, because I think it's a useful one.
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I believe the standard of should have done more and should have done it sooner should be the new standard by which we judge all of Congress.
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I wrote a book called Loser Think a few years ago.
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And there's a chapter in it talking about how loser think-ish it is to say that something good should have been done sooner and better.
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Because you know what else should be done sooner and better?
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If it's good, it should have fucking been done sooner and better.
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Do you know what else should have been done sooner and better?
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It was a four-hour event that was completely reversed by the second day, the actual January 6th thing.
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It took them a year and a half to put on the hearings.
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This is the big critical question in the country?
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And you take a fucking year and a half to put it on television?
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How about you should have done a lot more and a lot sooner if you thought this was the most critical issue?
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If it's not the most critical issue, what the fuck are you spending your time on it for?
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Maybe you should be helping Tom Cotton stop the fentanyl flow into this country.
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Instead of wasting your fucking time with a show trial that's obviously political bullshit,
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except the Democrats that you've gaslighted so thoroughly that they will believe that monkeys can fly out of your fucking ass
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By the way, so remember I told you that reality and parody have merged?
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The January 6th thing literally devolved into a punchline in my fucking book.
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It actually devolved to the remaining claim is that he didn't do enough fast enough.
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It's literally a chapter in my fucking book about how not to be an asshole.
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Oh, let's be an asshole and say it should have been sooner and better.
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How much time did you spend trying to stop deadly fentanyl coming into the country?
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Was it because you were watching your own fucking useless propaganda bullshit?
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Is that why you didn't do a fucking thing that the American public elected you to do?
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You're not going to have to make that decision again.
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And thank you for guaranteeing Trump's return, which is nothing I wanted at all.
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I don't want a president who's too old for the job.
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Now, I think he's probably in great shape, blah, blah, blah, individual differences, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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There's a reason that we have age limits on everything, right?
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Sure, there is an 18-year-old who's smart enough, or somebody under 18 who's smart enough to vote.
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But now that the January hearings basically have cleared Trump of all wrongdoing and reduced it down to the most ridiculous charge, didn't do enough soon enough during the fog of war.
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Imagine you're President Trump, and it's January 6th.
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Now, I don't know what he heard and what he didn't.
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But in that situation, is most of the early information you get correct, or is it mostly wrong and unreliable?
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A new, you know, multivariable situation that's popping up, and you don't have direct visibility on it.
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All he knew is what people told him and what he saw on TV.
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What you saw in the news and what people told you.
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Those are the two most unreliable sources of information you could ever have in the fog of war.
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If he put Liz Cheney in that same fog of war, would she have known what to do?
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Because she also would have been in the fog of war, and people would be telling her conflicting things for four hours.
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Do you think that people were telling Trump one thing?
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I bet some people said, you know, there's a little bit of violence, but it looks like it'll be controlled.
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It's more important that the people get to speak.
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You don't think somebody was telling him to see how it played out?
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Were they right to say, wait, to see how it plays out?
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But if you'd been in that situation, would you have known to do something faster?
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Stop acting like you know that if you'd been in his situation, you would have seen the danger,
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which we didn't learn about for a fucking year and a half, right?
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How much do you think he actually knew during that tumultuous period?
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He definitely didn't know enough to know how it would turn out under each scenario.
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So did he act slowly and not do enough to stop violence?
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In my opinion, he should have done more, and he should have done it sooner.
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But if you take that to the next level and say that if you were in that situation, you
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Everything suggests that somebody in that situation would be in a really tough spot for
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Not only would you be in deep cognitive dissonance, theoretically, you know, no matter who you
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Take any normal brain, put it in the job of president, be sure that you really won, and
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It's a second term for president of the United States.
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If you put any normal brain in that situation, what would be the predictable outcome of that
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Not only would it be predictable, it's damn near guaranteed.
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Now, do you notice we never treat mental situations as medical until you need to?
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We're all willing to act like mental stuff doesn't count as like a medical problem, unless you're
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It's not, you know, necessarily because it doesn't last.
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But in this situation, there's no reasonable way to assume that he was capable of making
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And you could replace him with anyone, and they would be in the same situation.
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Anyone who had experienced what Trump experienced would not be able to make good decisions.
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In that situation, I would not be able to make a good decision.
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So, I mean, we could have gotten lucky, and maybe a good decision was made.
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But to imagine that skill, or good intentions, or, you know, anything that's happening in
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your brain would have helped you in that situation, that's a very unsupported assumption.
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Not only is it unsupported, it's the least likely possibility that you would have done a
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How many of you think you would have done a better job?
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Well, at the very least, I would have made a lot more noise about being peaceful.
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Well, at the very least, I would have really been noisy about being peaceful.
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If you're the President of the United States, how many times do you have to say it?
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If he tweets, be peaceful, and he says, be peaceful in his speech, those are the two
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Do you think he was thinking he didn't do enough?
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And when somebody said, did you tell everybody to be peaceful?
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I mean, he had everything going on, and he was in exactly the type of situation where
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It doesn't matter if it's Biden or Clinton or Trump.
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It doesn't matter the age, the person, the gender, the political party, the race.
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What matters is you put any normal brain in that situation where they're positive something
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sketchy happened that really changed the nature of not only the country, but their life in
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They gaslit him until it broke his fucking brain.
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Now, if you ask me, would I support Trump for a second run, I say unambiguously no under
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I'd like a Tom Cotton maybe, you know, DeSantis maybe.
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I'd even be fine with maybe some, you're going to hate to hear this, I could imagine being
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Under a normal situation, absolutely, I would not pick Trump as my first choice.
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But there's nothing normal about this situation.
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You needed some demolition before you could even talk about construction.
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I trust the United States and the American people to construct.
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If you knock down our building, we'll build that back.
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You knock down our organization, we'll build it back.
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I hate to use Biden's saying, but we do build back better.
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And the part that we're not good at, what's the part we're not good at as Americans?
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And if I had to say there's one thing that defines Americans, I mean, you could think of lots of things.
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But the one thing I like to look at that defines Americans is that we're willing to break our shit to build better shit.
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Like, we have less investment in the past than any society, I think.
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Obviously, I'm, you know, jingoistic American kind of point of view.
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So I'm sure you think your country does that too.
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But the point is, and there may be lots of countries that are in that situation.
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Because I'm not confident we always have the right assets to do the demolition.
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And when I see this January 6th stuff, and I see, you know, what's happened to us, I feel like we need demolition again.
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So if Trump could get back and simply destroy all these hoaxes and have a strong vice president,
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I would support him just to destroy the system.
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It feels like the response that the country needs.
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Like the country needs him to just come back and break this stuff again.
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And I don't even care if he served the whole term.
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You know, if he got, if he had a good year and broke some stuff and changed some things,
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and then a vice president took over, that'd be fine for me.
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I just had this thought, and I thought, well, this will cause some trouble.
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All right, I'm going to go through the thread, and the argument is this,
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that the most likely explanation for everything we know about the Epstein situation is that he's still alive.
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I'm saying if you look at the evidence that is presented to the public,
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it's as equally likely, actually more likely, than the other alternatives.
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It said, remember when you were sure Epstein died?
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If I were in charge of creating the illusion, I'd make sure you thought past the sale to the question of how he died.
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Because if you can get somebody to think past the sale, they get trapped in a mental loop,
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and they can't go back and check the question that mattered.
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What sources do you rely on to know that he's dead?
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So instead of looking at the things we don't know yet, let's see what we know.
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We know elaborate hoaxes are a routine part of the top echelon of politics.
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Five years ago, I literally did not know that the government was in the routine business
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of creating elaborate hoaxes with characters and plots and story arcs.
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I thought that was too complicated, and there would be too many witnesses.
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But then we watched it being done right in front of us.
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You know, I've got 12 things on a list of obvious hoaxes that the public bought in some fashion.
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So if we know that elaborate hoaxes with, like, characters and players and things are routine,
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would you buy my first assumption that as of 2022, it could be stated as a fact
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that complicated multivariable hoaxes are routine?
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Okay, so let's buy that big hoaxes are just a routine now.
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And we know, for example, that 50 ex-intel professionals were willing to lie about Hunter's laptop.
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They got 50 people to publicly lie about Hunter's laptop and risk their careers,
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but of course it didn't matter because we just forget.
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And what about the same, probably a lot of the same intel professionals were behind the Russia collusion hoax?
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This is American intelligence agencies were behind, and I don't know how much behind,
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but certainly supported the Russian collusion hoax if not created it themselves.
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These are the things we know about, and they just happened.
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Don't you assume, I think everybody assumes this,
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that Epstein had a trove of videos for blackmail?
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Well, I mean, even if it were only videos of people on the island, that'd be enough.
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Why is it that you and I have never seen any leaked video from Epstein,
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never any mention that there might exist that they found?
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And why is it that we've never seen the list of his clients?
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We have not seen what we all assume exists, a trove of blackmail videos.
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What's the most logical reason we haven't seen them?
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Could it be because people who are powerful got their hands on all of the copies?
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If you were a rich person and you had been to his island and you were afraid that he had video,
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even if you could ask him to give you the video or delete it and you watched him do it,
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If you were the rich person, would you believe that Epstein had gotten rid of all of his copies,
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Epstein would be crazy to delete all of his copies.
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I had a blackmailer myself and, you know, asked the blackmailer to delete some stuff.
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But, you know, blackmailers don't delete their material if they don't have to.
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And by the way, nobody had anything on me that I cared about.
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It's like, oh, it's just my normal, like a normal life for me.
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Being robbed of, you know, tens of thousands of dollars.
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Being targeted for every kind of crime and hippies.
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and we wonder why all of his blackmail material never came out.
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What is the most logical explanation for why we haven't seen any of his blackmail material?
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The most logical way, the most logical explanation is that he's still alive.
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Because leaving him alive is the best way to keep your secrets safe for as long as possible.
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Killing him almost guarantees that you're going to be, you know, dead from your own blackmail information that's going to come out.
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A murder, a planned murder, inside a secure prison for somebody who you know is at risk and has cameras on him and is being watched.
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To pull off the murder in the prison or to pull off taking him out of the prison and faking his death with some photos and Photoshop?
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I think getting him out of there alive would be easier.
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I mean, we assume that the guards were not coincidentally asleep.
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We assume that the cameras were not coincidentally not working.
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If you're going to assume insider involvement, well, then anything's possible.
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Just opening the door and having him walk out would be the easiest solution.
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And then, you know, fake that he, something happened.
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Now, you say to yourself, Scott's got too many people involved.
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Do you know what else had lots of people involved?
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So it turns out that the old argument of there were too many people involved, so it couldn't be a hoax, that doesn't hold anymore.
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Every hoax that has been perpetrated against the American people has had lots of people involved.
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My common sense tells me that that should matter.
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But we've seen example after example where it didn't matter for various reasons.
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I'm just saying that if I were to rank the likelihood of each of these cases, it would be this rank.
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Most likely, not guaranteed, the most likely explanation is still alive and was taken out by, you know, important people who can do that sort of thing.
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The number two possibility, this is just my opinion, is that it was a contract killing by a victim's family.
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In other words, some victim's family said, you know, for $10,000, I can give some bad person to wax this guy.
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Now, have you ever thought about that if somebody did something terrible to you and they got caught and they went to prison, but you weren't happy with prison being enough?
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Have you ever thought to yourself, how hard would it be to pay somebody in prison to kill them?
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And I think it's probably not that expensive, is it?
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If you kill this guy in prison, because you're in prison for life either way.
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Do you think there's no victim family member who could afford $10,000 and, you know, didn't know somebody who could get it done?
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I put that at the second most likely possibility.
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Then three, I would say, guard-assisted suicide.
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Meaning that Epstein himself may have bribed the guards to pretend to be asleep and turn off the cameras.
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And maybe they helped in some way, et cetera, et cetera.
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I think the least likely is that he was murdered in prison to bury his secrets.
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Because everybody thought he would be murdered in prison.
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When I use that too on the nose thing, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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It just means, well, that's a big red flag that it happened exactly the way people thought.
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If the idea was to kill him to keep his secrets buried, nobody thinks that would work.
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Because everybody assumes somebody else has a copy.
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Wouldn't you, if you were the blackmailer, you wouldn't have an auto-release copy somewhere
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that says, if something happens to me, this is going to be released?
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I mean, I'm not, I'm no Epstein, and even I would think of that.
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You're going to say to me, but Scott, what about the autopsy?
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What about that, what about that x-ray of his neck with the bone, that broken bone in his neck?
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How hard would it be to get an x-ray of somebody with a broken bone in their neck?
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Apparently that's a common thing that people break.
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Apparently there are enough people who have broken that exact bone that the medical community
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So, yeah, and if you, if you were to Google, or I'm sorry, if you say to yourself,
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but I saw a video of his autopsy, or I saw a photo of him dead,
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or there was somebody who testified that he's dead, we can't trust any of that anymore, can we?
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We can't trust photos, we can't trust videos, and we certainly can't trust people reporting to us.
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So, again, I'm not saying that Epstein is alive, I'm saying it's the only hypothesis that fits all of the facts.
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It's the only hypothesis that fits all of the facts.
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So, I guess he was at the, what's the name of that event?
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He was at the Young Republican event, and he was noting that the abortion protesters tend to be unattractive and overweight,
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and why is it that the people who are most concerned about abortion rights are the ones you at least want to impregnate?
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He said, no one wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.
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No one wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.
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So, he was asked by a reporter, is it safe to say, after the event, based off your comments,
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you're suggesting that those women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?
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And then the reporter says, well, what do you say to the people who were offended by that?
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If you do to Matt Gaetz what was done to Matt Gaetz,
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which is you take everything from him, at least career-wise,
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I mean, they removed his ability to be president, effectively.
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And what do you do when you have nothing to lose?
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And that would be the best show you've ever seen.
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But if you put me in a position where I lost everything,
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I don't know if he's going to, like, carry this ball forward.
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But there is something that Americans love about telling the truth.
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You need to go Google Bill Burr in Philadelphia when he,
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I guess the crowd was getting on somebody and he took the stage,
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And he took the stage and he spent, I think, 12 minutes
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He's just ripping them a new asshole for 12 minutes.
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the most ugly honesty anybody had ever dumped on anybody.
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But all this ugly honesty, give us some more of that.
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he's on the verge of becoming the most interesting person in the country.
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So, I think there are around 3,500 cases in the United States.
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And now we're getting some guidelines about how not to catch it.
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And I like, because I like to do helpful things on my live stream,
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I'm going to give you some tips for not getting monkeypox.
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If you see somebody who has open blisters on their body,
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If you see somebody with open blisters, take a shower,
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they have a fever, and they have open sores on their body,
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But stay away from that monkeypox-infected person,
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don't sleep in that bed until you wash the sheets.
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So, I know a lot of this will be a lot of extra effort for you.
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So, if you don't want the country to be closed down again,
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do not run over there and put your face in front of it.
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apparently there's not much chance you're going to get it.
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Over on the locals platform, that's good advice.
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rather than licking somebody who has open sores,
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Yeah, you shouldn't listen to me for anything, really.
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to federalize the Zuckerberg ballot box situation
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what, I guess, the Zuckerberg people funded privately.
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So, you know, every time somebody makes a change
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If this was worth doing, why'd it take so long?
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And if they're trying to make the elections more secure,
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Well, why would you try to make the elections more secure?
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So why would you fix something that isn't broken?
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that it works perfectly and we're going to fix it.
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They're literally building it back the way it was.