Episode 1826 Scott Adams： Will Democrats Run Paul Pelosi And Hunter Biden As Their Dream Ticket？
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It's another sign of the golden age. Nobody is offended by anything anymore. I don't even know the last time I heard about anybody being offended personally. We're no longer in a world where people are offended, we're just pretty sure other people are.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another spectacular live stream, possibly the highlight
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's another sign of the golden age. I'm going to make the
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following pronouncement. Nobody is offended by anything anymore. You probably didn't notice.
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It kind of snuck up on you. And you think it's true, right? You think it's not true. You think
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that people are offended all the time by language and insults? Nope. What has happened is people
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are pretty sure that other people could be offended, and they're defending those people.
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But we ran out of people who are offended. I don't even know the last time I heard about
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anybody being offended personally. Now, when people say they're offended, really, it's just
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language. They're just saying, oh, I'm offended that you called me bald. Well, not really.
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I get called bald fairly often, and I can't remember the last time I felt offended. You
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know, maybe I didn't like it. Maybe it's not the message I wanted to take forward about myself,
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but offended? I don't know. It just feels like it's an opinion happening in somebody else's
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skull. Can anybody remember the last time you were offended? Sometimes you just don't
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like what people are saying, but offended? Well, you just think there's something wrong
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with the person who said it, right? So I just think we should recognize that we're no longer
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in a world where people are offended. We're just pretty sure other people are. Do you know
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what it means when you think somebody else is offended? Think about it. Think about it
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what it means for the people who say that. Well, I'm not offended, but on behalf of those
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other people, I'm going to defend them. What's that really saying? It's really kind of offensive,
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isn't it? It's kind of offensive that somebody thinks they need to defend me, for example, or
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you or somebody else. Why is somebody else telling me that I'm so weak that I'm going
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to be offended? Right? If you're offended by language, you're kind of weak. Now, if the
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language has a real-world impact on you and you're complaining about that, yeah, by all
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means, it has a real-world impact. But if I'm protecting you because I think you're going
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to be offended, I kind of think you're weak, don't I? I'm not sure that I want that. Well,
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here's some fake news. It wasn't on the real news, but it was on the social media. But it's
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fake that Elon Musk was considering building a private airport in Texas, near where he lives.
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But Elon responded to that by saying that he lives five minutes from the Austin airport,
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who would be dumb to build his own airport. Kind of would be. Because if you have a private
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jet, it just sits there at the public airport until you're ready to use it. Now, you do have
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to compete for a runway. He said that they could use another runway. So probably there are times
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when he has to wait 20 minutes to fly or something. I don't think it's a big deal if you're five minutes
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from an airport and you have a private jet that's just sitting there. You've just got to wait your
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turn to use the runway, right? I can't imagine that he'd need to build his own airport in that
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situation. Seems like it'd be a waste. So I believe him when he says that's fake news.
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So as I've told you, Stephen Collinson is the person who writes opinion pieces for CNN when there's
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really no substance to write about, but you still have to say something bad about Republicans or Trump.
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He'll jump into the breach and find something there. And here's how the start of his opinion
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piece on CNN starts today. Quote, Liz Cheney has posed the question with which America may have to
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wrestle for months to come. Here's the question. If there is evidence that ex-president Donald Trump
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committed crimes in seeking to overturn the 2020 election, what message will send if he's not
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charged? Stephen Collinson wants you to know that's a big question we should wrestle with.
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Yeah, I'm going to stop thinking about war with China, supply chain, inflation. Let me think about
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the hypothetical that the committee that has been investigating for however long has so far found
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absolutely nothing that looks even slightly like a crime. But if they did, in the imaginary world,
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if we could find a hypothetical imaginary world in which Trump did commit a crime in the imaginary world,
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well, that America would have to wrestle with it in that imaginary world,
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do you see where we're at? We're at a point where he has to propose speculative hypothetical crimes
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because the January 6th committee didn't find anything. Do you think that Collinson would
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simply say that if there was any evidence, if any evidence had been presented,
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if any evidence existed already, do you think the January 6th committee would have said,
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you know, we're going to save the good stuff for last? Would they do that? Do you think we
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would get to this point and have no evidence that even... Remember, this is not me saying there's
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no evidence. That wouldn't mean anything to you. This is his biggest critic essentially admitting
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with his hypothetical question. I think that's how you'd have to interpret it. He's admitting that
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there's no evidence of Trump committing a crime. They've actually turned a complete lack of evidence
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into a hypothetical crime. All right, here's another one. Hypothetically, if Stephen Collinson had
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murdered a prostitute, how would you feel if no charges were filed? I'd feel bad about that. I
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don't know about you, but if Stephen Collinson has ever... And there's no evidence he's ever done
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this, by the way. I don't want to suggest there's any evidence he ever has or would murder a
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prostitute. But if he did, if he did, I think we all have to wrestle with the question of what would
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happen if he didn't get charged? What would happen? That's all they have. There's a great piece by
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Joel Pollack in Breitbart today in which he's noting that there's a lot of stuff moving in the
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right direction in this country. What could be a better endorsement that things are moving in the
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right direction? Then the biggest issue, there's nothing there. Our biggest issue is that so-called
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insurrection that turns out not to be an insurrection and it wasn't an insurrection. It was just people
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getting a little worked up over something that was bad, but not as bad as they say. All right.
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Alex Jones apparently lost his case there in court, so he's got to pay $4.1 million to the parents of the
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San Diego parents. Now, let's check the fake news on this. The CNN reported today that Jones has made, you
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know, dozens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, they say, peddling his conspiracy theories.
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And so $4.1 million would be a drop in the bucket because, according to them, at one point he was making
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over $800,000 a day in 2018. Now, let's compare that CNN reporting that he has tons and tons of money
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to the fact that he's declared bankruptcy, which doesn't mean he's out of money. That just means he might need
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time to generate the cash to pay any debts. With the fact that I asked my digital assistant
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what Alex Jones' net worth is, and it's pretty close to the $4.1 million. Amazon says $5 million if you use
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their digital assistant. Now, what do you think? Do you think Alex Jones' net worth is closer to $5 million,
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in which case this $4 million would take him down, you know, quite a bit, 80%. Is he already being
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charged 80% of his entire net worth, or does he have tons and tons of millions left over? You have
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no idea. No idea. But Alex Jones has said that it was a mistake. He doesn't believe what he said
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about the Sandy Hook thing being fake, and he apologized unreservably. In my opinion, it was
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just a direct apology for a mistake. Now, he does claim that he didn't know he was wrong.
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What do you think? Do you think Alex Jones knew it wasn't true, or do you think he thought it was
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when he was reporting it? What do you think? I actually don't know. I don't know. I really don't
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know. Because there are plenty of people who are educated and well-informed who believe ridiculous
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conspiracy theories. Look how many people believe that President Trump said that you should maybe
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think about drinking bleach. A lot of well-educated, well-informed people literally believe that,
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like actually believe it. So if you tell me that Alex Jones, who appears to be, you know, a capable
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communicator, somebody who's built a big entity that, you know, made a lot of money, apparently,
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so how can he be so capable and yet believe something that's so ridiculously untrue in your opinion?
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But you just have to look around. Almost everybody that you know is believing something
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just as ridiculous. But sometimes you don't notice because you believe it too.
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Right? If you believe it's true too, you don't notice that people are believing ridiculous things
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all the time. So is it possible? I mean, I can't read his mind. I don't know what he believed.
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I really don't. But I would say this is a genuine mystery, in my opinion. I think it's a genuine
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mystery of what he really believed. I have no way of knowing. Well, China suspended some
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diplomacy and some, you know, various things that we were dealing with them in international
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relations. And I guess that's a real, they're trying to be tough and respond to Nancy Pelosi
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going to Taiwan. And I feel like nothing good came out of this. Am I wrong? On one hand, you
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want to protect the right of any American, especially high-ranking American politician, to travel wherever
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they want to an allied country. So on one hand, it's just, you know, preserving her, I guess,
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right to do so. But nothing good came of it. It just made China more angry and they're going
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to stop talking to us about some things that might matter. So I don't know, it looks like
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a loss. Yeah, it looks like we didn't gain anything at all. On the other hand, if China
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is going to be a dick and stop talking to us about anything productive, I think we can
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go in and kill their fentanyl dealers in country. Now, I know it's really hard to get CIA assets
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into China. It's probably pretty hard. But if we can, I think we should just take out their
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fentanyl dealers, just murder them, where they are, as terrorists. I think we could
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deter, in fact, I think we could declare China a terrorist state as long as they're sending
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us fentanyl. We should talk about it. Well, why would we consider saying that the cartels
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are terrorists if we're not considering the people who send them their weapons part of the
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terrorist organization? In this case, weapons being the fentanyl. So I think we should
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declare the fentanyl production facilities and anything that helps them, maybe including
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the government, if the government is helping them. I don't know if they are. Just declare
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them terrorists and then declare our intention to kill them. We should also start sending home
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Chinese-born or Chinese-resident students that are in the United States. Just kick out 10 a
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week, 10 a day, whatever it takes, until they're all gone. So if we're going to be that way,
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let's be that way. Looks like maybe we are going to be that way. New Cold War, which I know.
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So here's a story that I keep seeing on the Internet, but I believe there is nothing to it.
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How many of you believe the following thing to be true? And I'm telling you in advance,
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I see no evidence to say this is true. I believe this is completely made up. But I've seen it a
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number of times on Twitter, so I'll tell you what it is. You tell me if you think this is true.
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Do you think that all-cause mortality is way up, meaning people who are not elderly are dying from
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things that they weren't dying from two years ago, that the baseline of just ordinary non-COVID-related,
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as far as you know, non-COVID-related deaths are way up for basically everything. Do you think
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that's true? Because you've seen things on Twitter that say it's true, right? But try Googling it.
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You can't Google it. There's no news story that supports it. If you can find any credible source,
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please tweet it at me, because I didn't see any. And I looked. I looked for it. The only place you
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can find it, though, is on sketchy sources on Twitter. Now, I know you're saying the ethical
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skeptic, some of you would say he's not a sketchy source, but I don't know who he is.
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And I've seen a lot of stuff out of him that I don't understand, meaning he prints a lot of stuff
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that I look at, and I go, I don't even know where the data come from, where it came from, or how to
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interpret it. You're lying. What am I lying about? Somebody's accusing me of lying. Lie? Why would I
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lie about any of this? What would even be the point of it? I hope you're not talking to me.
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I need at least an incentive to lie. I mean, what would be my reason? I can't even think of one.
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Anyway, I looked around, and I could not deduce that was true. I did see a video of somebody who
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claimed to be an insurance company CEO making the claim that there's no other explanation
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exception, except that the vaccinations must have caused some autoimmune problem that makes
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every other kind of disease seem worse for a while. Except the name of that insurance company
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wasn't even in the video. Right? I mean, are you going to believe somebody who says they're
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insurance company executive, and they don't name the company? And what about the other executives?
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Do they say the same thing? Is there anybody who's actually associated with an actual company
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that I've heard of that would say all-cause mortality is up, and we don't know why?
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And secondly, we really don't know why? If you just made everybody fatter and more sedentary,
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and then made them worry more, wouldn't they die of everything more often? Am I wrong? I mean,
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I'm no doctor. But just take the baseline health of people, and don't change anything except you
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make them way fatter, exercise way less. And I'm going to throw in another one. Spend two years
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avoiding germs. What's that do to your immune system? Spend two years avoiding germs pretty well.
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Well, let's say you successfully avoided germs. Because I didn't get, you know, during the COVID
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lockdown, I didn't get any other illness. Did you? Did anybody catch a common cold during the pandemic?
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I didn't. Did anybody catch a common cold? I feel like we have an entire civilization
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that just took its own immune response down by avoiding germs for two years. So we're getting fat.
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We were more sedentary. We had more to worry about. We didn't have the same social benefits we had.
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We had more fentanyl. There's more crime. And we probably avoided germs maybe too much for two years.
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It might have weakened our ability to fight the next group that come along. I'm saying germs as,
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you know, a general word for, I'm just saying germs as the general word for anything that
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affects your autoimmune system or your immune system. So I'm going to call BS on this until
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somebody gives me a real source. All right, here's this little fucking asshole, Sir Croth.
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Scott Adams, the most desperate pro-vaxxer on the internet. First of all, I'm not pro-vaxx. Second
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of all, you're uninformed. Thirdly, you're defaming me like a cunt. So stop doing it. And thirdly,
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or fourthly, you're gone. Boom. All right. You have to get a little bit higher level of interaction
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than you're coping. You're coping. No, I'm not coping. God damn. Fucking idiots. All right,
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let's get back to some positivity. So a question asked of Kirby in the government, in the Biden
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administration. He was asked by FBN's Edward Lawrence. This is the question. It's a good
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question. Given the aggression we're seeing from China, and the FBI director saying that China is
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the number one threat to the U.S. in the next 10 years, would Biden caution companies from expanding
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in China? That's a good question, isn't it? If the Biden administration is saying China is our
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biggest threat, wouldn't the Biden administration also be responsibly acting to caution companies not
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to expand business? And the answer was that private companies make their own decisions.
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Since when? Since when? Since when do private companies make their own decisions? How about this new tax
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plan that the Congress is, looks like they'll probably pass, that would raise the minimum tax on
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corporations? Was that the corporations deciding to pay more taxes? Or was that the government telling
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companies what to do? It's the very thing they do all the time? So that's a dumb answer. And it's an
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avoiding answer. If we think that China is our number one threat, our government should be warning us
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against it. In fact, I would say that would be pretty basic to their central mission. I would say the
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government's central mission is to find out what's happening in the rest of the world and warn us about
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it, and tell us where to do business and where not to do business. That's exactly what they should be
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doing. I want more of that, not less. Totally. Now, if they told me not to do business in a place that didn't have
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any reason not to do business, then I would say, oh, well, that's inappropriate. I want to do business with
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this country. You don't have any good reasons. Don't tell me not to do it. But if they know that the United States is
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likely to continue pressuring China and vice versa, if we know that, don't you think a little bit of a heads up to
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our corporations is appropriate? A little bit of a heads up. And the question was not, will the government
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make it illegal to expand in China? That wasn't the question. If the question had been, should the
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government make it illegal to expand, then I think the answer, we're going to let corporations decide,
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would be appropriate. But I think at least a warning would be fair. And what do you think about
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this question of whether private companies will make their own decisions? Let's say the government
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doesn't get involved. Is it still true that private companies make their own decisions?
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I would add a caveat to that. Private companies do make their own decisions as long as I'm not
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interested. If I'm interested, and I am in the case of China, then they're not going to make their own
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decisions. I'm going to make China so toxic that they can't decide to work there. So you have to ask
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yourself, what is free will and what's their own decisions? There's some gray area here. Because
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I do think that I can pollute China enough in terms of people's opinion about how smart it would be
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to do business there. I do have the platform. I have a big enough platform. And because I'm the Dilber
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guy, I have enough of a track record of telling businesses what they can't do. I've been doing it
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for years. For probably 30 years now, I've been telling corporations what they can't do.
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And then they stop doing it. Do you know how many companies have told me that they stopped a policy
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because they saw it getting mocked in a Dilber comic? A lot. A lot. It's not a random, rare thing.
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A lot. The entire business management, business book market fell apart when I started mocking it.
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I don't know if there's anything in the business anymore that I've mocked that has survived.
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I mean, even dress codes. Dress codes have largely gone away. I mean, I was mocking those in the 90s.
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You know, cubicles started to go away. I mean, pretty much anything I mock ends up, you know,
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being at risk. So no, the companies do not have their own say about China. I will make it so difficult
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to do business in China because of the risk. It's a real risk, by the way. I'm doing you a
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patriotic, positive thing here. So there's no negativity to this. I will make it impossible.
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What about ESG? The only reason that ESG still exists in business is that I haven't taken it on yet.
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But when I do, I give it six months, and then it's going to get really embarrassing.
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Now, Dilber doesn't have the same clout it used to have, right? In the 90s, I could pretty much
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take something out in a week. Right now, it would take a little while. But mockery is a really
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powerful force in the corporate world. No CEO wants to be on the receiving end of mockery.
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It's really terrible. Now, I was waiting for this comment. What took you so long? Somebody
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at YouTube said, I'm drunk with power. I was looking for a little more pushback. I was looking
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for somebody to say, Scott, you're dreaming. You can't actually cause corporations to... Yeah,
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I can. I actually can cause corporations to act differently. That is absolutely demonstrated
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in my history. And there's no reason to believe it wouldn't continue happening.
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Okay. So I'll only use my powers for good. Speaking of power, Ron DeSantis has suspended
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a Tampa state attorney for being too woke. I guess the attorney wasn't going to act on
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the state's new abortion restrictions. And DeSantis suspended him without pay for basically
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just not doing his job. What is the point of hiring a state attorney who doesn't believe
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the laws of his own state? No matter what you think about the abortion laws, no matter what
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you think about social justice and wokeness, no matter what you think about any of that,
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if a person gets hired to do a job and then says, I'm not going to do it, I don't think there's
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any question about whether they have to go. I love this. All right. The other thing we
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learned is that DeSantis claims that he was not aware that his staff turned down the invitation
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to be on the view. Now, I think he agreed with their decision. But what kind of staff turns
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that down without talking to the boss? Do you believe that? Do you believe that DeSantis's
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staff turned down an invitation to the view in very news-making language without checking
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with it? It's possible. It's possible. Because, you know, bureaucracies and big companies and
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blah, blah, blah. It's possible. But I would probably fire that staff. No, no, no, no. Somebody's
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saying that's a smart staff. No, no, no. You have to fire them. He should fire them. Because
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they made a decision that was his decision and that wasn't theirs to make. Because he may
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have played it differently. Right? He may have said, you know, this is one time that I might
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want to go into the belly of the lion. I'm strong enough now that I can survive that.
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I'm, you know, I'm quick enough that I can make this work. I think they took that option
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away from their boss and they should be fired for that. Like, if somebody did that to me,
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I'd at least demote them, whoever made the decision. Can you imagine having, would you put
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up with the risk of that happening again? If your employee made that decision for you and
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presented it as your decision and did it flamboyantly, it's the flamboyant part that's, that's cause
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for termination. Yeah. If you do, if you make a decision on my behalf flamboyantly without
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checking on me, oh, you're so fired. You're so fired. Right? How many people have ever managed
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employees would agree with me that that's a firing offense? I want to see if anybody agrees.
00:29:43.680
Now, you'd have to take the entire situation into effect. So I'm oversimplifying it. It's not the
00:29:49.720
only variable in play. But if it were the only variable in play, that's a firing offense. Yeah.
00:29:54.560
I guess some of you agree with me. So I think we could, we can all, there's no inconsistency. You can
00:30:02.340
like DeSantis and still say maybe that was a staffing problem. You know, it's not like there's anybody
00:30:09.740
at his level who doesn't have staffing problems. You know, I mean, I say the same thing about Cuomo.
00:30:15.160
Yeah. I think Cuomo took a lot of heat for maybe a staff mistake about the nursing homes. I get he
00:30:23.120
may be, he's the one who signed off on it, blah, blah, blah. But he was advised. You know, somebody
00:30:28.520
presented him the option. I just think everybody has staffing problems. I'm not sure exactly how much
00:30:34.040
you can assume is the top boss's actual problem or, or they caused it. So here's a question that I want
00:30:44.860
all of you to start asking your Democrat friends, just for fun, just for fun.
00:30:54.240
The question is, if you could rig the, if you believed, let's put it in, I'll just paraphrase
00:31:01.400
one. If you believed a racist were coming into office for the presidency, and you believe this
00:31:09.520
was definitely a terrible racist, and you had the option of rigging the election, let's
00:31:16.020
say you're in a position to do so. If you had the option of rigging the election to keep
00:31:20.460
a known racist out of office, would you do it? And if you say no, that you wouldn't do
00:31:27.860
it, what the hell is wrong with you? Are you a coward? Or are you not a patriot? Because
00:31:36.520
I would. Let me say it as clearly as possible. If there was somebody running for president
00:31:42.460
who was a confirmed, known racist, or I believed it to be true. I mean, I could be wrong. But
00:31:50.320
let's say I believed it to be true, because I'd accepted what the news told me. If I believed
00:31:55.500
it to be true, and I was in a position to stop that person from coming to office, pretty
00:32:02.000
sure I'd do it. Especially if I thought I had a chance of getting away with it. We all
00:32:08.680
like to think that we would have shot Hitler if we had a chance, but people aren't that
00:32:12.740
brave, really. I feel like if I could get away with it, and I could stop a racist from coming
00:32:19.040
to office, I feel like that would be the patriotic thing to do. I remind you that we are a nation
00:32:26.960
of laws created by the biggest lawbreakers the world has ever known. So do you do what
00:32:35.300
they say or what they did? Because the founders were the biggest lawbreakers. A revolution.
00:32:41.960
A revolution is about as hard as you can break the law. You can't break the law any harder
00:32:47.200
than that. We were created by lawbreakers. That's our DNA. And our DNA says completely clearly,
00:32:55.120
correct me if I'm wrong, if you're an American, read your own DNA. Doesn't your DNA say, follow
00:33:05.660
the law, totally follow the law, unless things go too far, and then break the law? Right?
00:33:14.940
Now, nobody says that directly, but it's in your DNA. Everybody follow the law unless there's
00:33:21.360
some weird situation that just has gone too far. And then you pick up your rifle if you
00:33:27.560
need to. You break the law. You cheat. You do what you need to do. Like, you're not protected
00:33:34.420
from the obligation to protect your country because there's some legal way that the other
00:33:41.280
team is doing it. Your obligation to your family, your country, doesn't go away in a real emergency.
00:33:51.100
That doesn't go away because there's some law in the way. No, the law is the least important
00:33:56.640
thing if you have a genuine emergency. The genuine emergency says, do what makes sense. It
00:34:03.880
doesn't, a genuine emergency doesn't say, do what is legal. It's the opposite. A genuine
00:34:11.260
emergency says, always do what makes sense. Period. No, you never get out of that side of that
00:34:17.100
bubble or you're in trouble. So I feel like that's a fair question to Democrats. If they
00:34:27.040
didn't cheat in 2022 under their belief that Trump was literally some kind of a racist,
00:34:34.640
white supremacist dictator monster, if they didn't cheat, they need to explain that. And
00:34:40.880
if they're not willing to cheat in 2024, they need to explain that, why they're not on the
00:34:45.520
side of the country. Right? Now, they might be mistaken in their beliefs. I believe they
00:34:51.860
are. But they're not acting on their beliefs in a way that you would even imagine could be
00:34:57.180
slightly patriotic, slightly positive, even slightly worthy of praise. There's a real character
00:35:05.980
problem if they're not willing to act on their beliefs. Or maybe it's telling us those are not
00:35:12.180
real beliefs. Right? I've said this before. If you're standing in the middle of the street and you see
00:35:19.380
a truck coming at you and it doesn't look like it's going to stop, and you don't get out of the way,
00:35:26.660
that's somebody who doesn't believe there's a truck because they didn't get out of the way.
00:35:30.800
But if you get out of the way, well, that means you believe the truck was there. Right? So if
00:35:38.120
you're not acting on the thing you believe on, there's just something going on. So if they said
00:35:44.360
Trump was a big old racist dictator who was going to destroy the world, they say that very clearly
00:35:50.880
and often. If they were not willing to act on it, what's wrong with their character? And I think you
00:35:57.040
could guess that directly. Isn't your character defective? Like, why don't you do something about
00:36:04.420
that? So the analogy, let me teach you how to use analogies. An analogy should tell you exactly one
00:36:16.920
point. It is not trying to be the same as the subject you're talking about. The one point from my
00:36:25.340
analogy is that people will act on what they think is true. Will you accept that somebody standing in
00:36:32.360
front of a moving truck will act based on what they believe is true? Is that really a truck coming
00:36:38.180
at me? Don't fucking tell me the analogy is wrong if you don't know how to understand an analogy.
00:36:45.340
There's just one minor, thin little thing that an analogy tries to do. And if you go beyond that and
00:36:52.940
say, well, those are not exactly the same thing, well, then you should not be in this conversation
00:37:00.280
at all. Now, if I may criticize myself, why am I using an analogy when I know they don't work
00:37:09.320
because there are too many people too dumb to process them? Case in point. Somebody who's too
00:37:15.720
dumb to process an analogy. I keep making the assumption that my audience is smarter and you
00:37:25.380
can handle that. But some people sneak in on YouTube who don't understand how analogies work.
00:37:30.740
Oh, your analogy is not exactly the same thing as the thing you're comparing it to.
00:37:36.380
If it were the same thing, then there wouldn't be any point. Let me give you an analogy of the way
00:37:46.260
this gentleman would like you to see them. I'd like to talk about this little power pack. It's a little
00:37:56.380
extra battery. I'd like to make an analogy by comparing this to this identical one because that's a good
00:38:04.140
analogy. So we'll compare this to this identical one. And everything I say up to this one will be true
00:38:08.840
to this one. What is the point? Right? No. The analogies are supposed to be different.
00:38:17.080
All right? If you don't get that part, you should find a less challenging podcast. All right.
00:38:26.540
All right. Rasmussen tells us that the midterms are narrowing just like everybody told you would
00:38:37.480
happen. Did I tell you that by the time Election Day comes along that the polling that said at one
00:38:44.840
point Republicans had a nine-point advantage of a generic Republican against a generic Democrat in
00:38:52.400
the midterms? Nine points. And then for a while it hung around eight. And it dropped to five,
00:38:58.400
but five is still pretty big. And now it's down to three. So we went from nine to three.
00:39:04.800
I'll get rid of you for just being a jerk. Goodbye. All right. So why is it that it's narrowing?
00:39:27.180
Why is it that I knew it would narrow, that the lead would narrow, and then it did? Why is that?
00:39:33.420
That's an honest question. Why? Why was it such a big gap, and now it's narrowing? Is it the media?
00:39:45.020
Because it seems to me the January 6th thing fell apart. The January 6th thing showed apparently
00:39:52.260
no crime for Trump and no insurrection planning. So he has a free path to the White House. You would
00:40:01.760
think that all of these things would make Biden less popular. Here's what I think it is. There was a Rob
00:40:10.760
Reiner tweet that said, provocatively, that Biden has accomplished more in his term so far than any
00:40:21.000
president. He's been president in 60 years. And I read that and I thought, actually, you know, I think
00:40:29.900
it's a little hyperbolic, but it's directionally probably true. If you look at the legislation
00:40:35.980
that Biden has done, if you look at the impact he's had on things, I would say he's accomplished a lot
00:40:44.080
for his base, or he's on the cusp of doing so, assuming his latest legislation gets through.
00:40:50.260
If you were to just look at his legislation, it looks like he will have his name on some pretty
00:40:56.640
big pieces of legislation. Right? Now, don't confuse accomplishment for things you want.
00:41:05.700
I'm saying things his base wants. I feel like he has moved the bar on some things that his base
00:41:14.760
wants. So we've got gas prices coming down at the moment. That should make a difference in the vote.
00:41:21.740
We've got inflation is bad, but we also might get used to it. It's weird, but you can get used to
00:41:31.820
something that just sort of lays there in the baseline. And I worry that although inflation may
00:41:36.920
stay high, if it starts drifting down at all before the midterms, that will be enough. If inflation,
00:41:45.140
say inflation's, you know, 9.5 percent today, whatever it is, it's in that range. Now, let's say that
00:41:53.480
drifts down to 6 percent. Still way too much, right? But let's say it drifts down to 6 percent
00:42:01.020
before Election Day. It's going to take all the energy out of it. Because you're going to think
00:42:05.500
to yourself, well, it looks like it's under control. And it could easily drift down a little
00:42:10.820
bit. It wouldn't take much. It just has to directionally look like it's going down. So I
00:42:15.340
think that Biden's got legislative successes. At least the news will report it that way.
00:42:24.160
Ukraine seems to be a stalemate, so we just stop thinking about it.
00:42:28.100
His disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan happened so early in the term that we're already forgetting
00:42:34.980
about it. Employment looks pretty good. Employment looks pretty good. And he's starting to do some
00:42:44.720
Trump-like things like build a little bit of the wall and maybe promoting the Abraham Accords that
00:42:50.400
he had been a little negative on. So if you take the fact that he's, first of all, triangulating,
00:42:55.580
in other words, he's quite consciously, it seems, accepting some points of view that are a little
00:43:02.920
bit Republican that I just mentioned. So I would say that it's all of those things.
00:43:12.100
I would say that basically he's just sort of getting everything trending in the right direction,
00:43:17.960
probably by luck. Probably by luck. But I feel it, too. I was saying it the other day. In my opinion,
00:43:25.960
our country's moving in the right direction. We're decoupling from China. That seems real.
00:43:34.140
I think nuclear is now getting the attention it deserves. I think that we're starting to look at all
00:43:39.620
of our energy sources a little bit closer to not crippling one to benefit the other. That looks
00:43:46.980
good. We have more people being covered by health care. If you don't mind the expense of that, that
00:43:53.040
looks good. I don't know. I see a lot of things moving in the right direction. And I feel like that's
00:44:01.220
probably the reason. The reason that his poll numbers are improving is that I feel like other
00:44:06.840
people feel it, too. Now, you might say, but what about Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan? I feel like that's
00:44:14.640
popular, right? It might, in fact, you know, increase our risk with China. But I feel like it's popular
00:44:22.940
in the United States. Is it not? Is it not popular? So stop watching CNN. I watch both. I watch the left
00:44:35.100
and the right. If you're not watching the left and the right. All right. So we're all getting
00:44:44.100
used to being screwed? No. No, I'm not saying that at all. You know, the inflation's a real
00:44:50.360
problem, and I don't have a solution for that, nor does anybody else. Stop watching MS and
00:44:57.860
B's. You know, everybody who's telling me to stop looking at the news on the other side,
00:45:02.260
does that feel like good advice? It's literally the basis of this show is I'm looking at the
00:45:08.200
news on both sides and trying to tell you when being on a team is less smart than looking at
00:45:14.800
the issue. Like, it's exactly what I'm trying to do is look at both sides. No, I'm not going
00:45:19.340
to stop doing that. If I didn't look, who would? So you think it's pollster corruption? I disagree
00:45:27.460
because there are too many polls that are looking to watch this. If you see Rasmussen and also a lot
00:45:38.100
of polls that are clearly left-leaning start to agree that the gap is narrowing, I wouldn't worry
00:45:45.000
about pollster corruption in that situation. But if you saw Rasmussen saying there was a nine-point gap
00:45:52.680
when the sketchier pollsters started saying there was no gap, well, I'd worry about that. But I think
00:46:00.300
you're going to see all of them moving, you know, a few points apart, but moving toward the same answer,
00:46:06.080
I think. Yeah, let's talk about Brittany Griner. So we've got this American basketball player
00:46:17.200
who had some weed, and in Russia, that's a pretty bad offense. She got nine years for some weed. And
00:46:26.560
she wasn't selling it. She was using it for her own purposes. Now, obviously, I say obviously,
00:46:33.480
I can't confirm it. But to me, it's obvious that Putin is using this as a negotiating thing.
00:46:42.680
And if it looks like that's what's happening, given that we've offered some, I think we've
00:46:49.240
offered an arms dealer or something in return, I feel like we should just, you know, grab some
00:46:54.940
Russian that they care about and just trade him back. I mean, if it's literally going to be
00:46:59.860
a hostage situation, well, let's just take a hostage. You know, they did. Yeah, if Russia
00:47:08.720
takes a hostage, we can take a hostage. I mean, we would need some, you know, bullshit reason
00:47:13.220
for why we're doing it. You know, Lavrov would be top of my list. I know you can't arrest a
00:47:19.720
diplomat. Or can you? Scott, do you like golf? I hope that's a joke. But how hard do you think
00:47:31.800
we should go on Russia to release Brittany Griner? Now, she knew what was illegal. She probably
00:47:40.620
didn't know it was a nine-year thing. I wouldn't have known that. I mean, I wouldn't have imagined
00:47:45.820
it would really happen. It's hard to imagine it. Like, your head has a hard time holding
00:47:50.360
that as a possibility. But it was real. How hard should we go? So some are saying, no, that's
00:47:58.480
her own problem, right? No. Well, I would agree with you that she made her own bed. And when
00:48:09.680
people create their own problems, they have to answer for it. However, that's not really
00:48:15.940
the context here. The context here is that Putin just took an American hostage. And that's
00:48:23.320
not good. If Putin takes an American hostage, we have to respond in kind. I don't know what
00:48:29.600
that looks like. But we're going to need to take somebody hostage that we don't already
00:48:33.360
have to trade them back. So I'd say take a hostage. They did. All right. So jobs looks
00:48:49.920
good. Employment is up. Added half a million jobs. We thought it would be half as many as
00:48:56.420
that. Unemployment still looks not bad. Who thinks it's a good idea to take drugs into
00:49:10.420
a foreign country? Well, I'm not going to excuse Brittany Kleiner's mistake. I'll just point
00:49:15.740
out that she is a young person, and she is American. And she didn't get arrested because
00:49:23.420
of her drugs. I mean, maybe that was the reason she got arrested, I guess. But I don't think
00:49:30.120
the nine-year thing is political. And I think we have to treat it that way. I think it's just
00:49:37.420
an act of war. I realize it's compatible with their laws, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But
00:49:43.120
it's obvious in this context, it's obvious it's just an act of war. What would Trump do in
00:49:51.920
this situation? Because I feel like Biden is just being kind of quiet about it, maybe
00:50:00.120
quiet diplomacy? What would he do? You think Trump would do nothing? I don't know. I think
00:50:11.420
Trump likes saving celebrities. I think for Trump, saving a black woman would be too irresistible.
00:50:21.620
I think Trump would be, he would throw everything on it. Am I wrong? Do I not know Trump or something?
00:50:30.820
You don't think, you don't think Trump would throw everything at this? Because it would look so good.
00:50:39.220
You know, it would be counter to his narrative. It would be pro-American. It would be right on,
00:50:44.540
right on message. In fact, if you want her to be released, I think Trump's your best shot.
00:50:49.580
Yeah. Yeah. I think he, I think all it takes is making it a priority. I'm not sure there's much
00:50:58.260
more nuance to it than that. I think if Trump just said, hold on, stop everything. Just stop
00:51:05.760
everything. If you don't give her back, you know, we're going to send, you know, Ukraine shit,
00:51:12.980
you'd, you'd never want them to have or something like that. Something like that. All right. Uh,
00:51:21.620
he's already working on it. You think? Maybe he is. Maybe Trump is already working on it,
00:51:28.920
but I don't think China wants Trump to succeed. So, uh, they're not going to do it when he's out
00:51:34.980
of office. That's for sure. I don't think so. Why didn't Trump legalize marijuana? I don't know.
00:51:42.980
But my only assumption is that he's just so anti-drug that he just can't get there.
00:51:50.800
That's my guess. But I don't know. I don't, it's just pure speculation because I can't read his mind.
00:51:56.220
But there's no, um, I don't believe there's any argument he's ever made. I'm not, I've never heard
00:52:01.640
him make an argument one way or the other about legalizing marijuana. Yeah. I think he just doesn't
00:52:08.380
like any of that business period. And, you know, while I disagree with him on that point,
00:52:15.120
uh, it's not a, it's not a terrible position to take, but I think it would be consistent with
00:52:21.620
Republicans to at least get the federal government out of that business. So why he didn't do that,
00:52:27.960
that I think would just be a mistake. How about that? Can I, can I just say that's just a clean
00:52:36.620
mistake on Trump's part to not at least make some motion to legalize it because he always
00:52:43.840
had the cover that it's up to the States and that would be the most consistent thing any Republican
00:52:48.780
ever said. So, uh, there are several topics which I would say Trump failed completely at.
00:52:58.980
He failed completely at fentanyl, completely, right? There's no, I can't give him any,
00:53:06.340
I thought he took a run at it, but he failed, right? I'll give him credit for taking a run at it.
00:53:12.300
Uh, I think he failed on healthcare. I think he failed on prescription drugs.
00:53:17.600
Um, I think he, he didn't get the wall built. You know, you could say that was his failure.
00:53:24.740
That was Congress maybe. Um, yeah, I would say there's all kinds of things that he just
00:53:34.240
unambiguously failed at, but compared to the alternative, you know, what was the other
00:53:41.320
candidate going to succeed at all that? I don't know. Maybe.
00:53:47.600
Um, Scott is messing with your heads now? Well, I'm not trying to do that right now.
00:53:58.100
Uh, completely disagree with marijuana. Well, it's up to Congress to change the laws,
00:54:07.120
correct, but the leader of the United States should be weighing in. And if Trump had said,
00:54:14.220
I will sign it if you send it to me, I would have loved to hear that, but it didn't happen.
00:54:21.680
All right. Uh, I have standards when it comes to Trump, but none for Joe. What, what the fuck
00:54:38.060
are you talking about? How did you watch this podcast and say that I have standards for Trump
00:54:44.200
and not for Biden? Because I've never criticized Biden? Biden hasn't fixed the border. He messed up
00:54:52.860
energy. Have you missed me criticizing Biden? Are you kidding? Really? You're what? You're a member of
00:55:03.400
the local subscription service, which means you've have enough interest in my content that you subscribe
00:55:10.320
to it. And you've never heard me criticize Biden. I just gave Biden a long list of kudos. Did I? I just
00:55:22.420
said he did things for his side. Are you disagreeing with the factual statement? Because the people on his
00:55:30.920
side are saying, thank you for that. We like this bill. We're going to vote for it. Right?
00:55:41.640
Oh man, you guys got to grow up. You got to grow up. So somebody on YouTube is saying I'm sounding
00:55:47.800
pro-Biden. You know, you're too fucking dumb to be on this podcast. You're sounding pro-Biden today.
00:55:54.000
All right. I'm going to delete you. Honestly, if you think this is pro-Biden,
00:55:58.060
you're too dumb to be with us. Let's just increase the IQ, get rid of those people.
00:56:05.460
Anybody else? Does anybody else think that saying the good and the bad of both people
00:56:09.880
is taking sides? Is anybody so fucking stupid that they think showing the pros and cons of
00:56:16.660
something is taking a side? Anybody? Because I'd like to get rid of some more idiots.
00:56:22.100
I really don't want to be talking to people who are too dumb to understand that. Right? If you
00:56:28.800
can't understand that, you are too fucking dumb to be here. Just go watch. I won't name names.
00:56:41.460
I was just going to name names, but I don't think I will. Because I'm mad at some of you. I'm not
00:56:47.900
mad at them right now. Yes. In all capitals. So to Wall Street says in all capitals. You did say
00:56:57.480
things are going in the right direction. Yes. Because that's what the data says.
00:57:05.960
All right. So I'm going to hide you from this channel. Anybody else? If you'd like to prove.
00:57:18.960
All right. Here's another. I'm looking at all the ones in all caps. The ones in all caps are the good
00:57:23.420
ones. Dwayne Case says, when Scott... I have to yell talk it because it's in all caps. When Scott
00:57:31.920
talks Ukraine, it makes me enraged. But I'm respectable of alternative opinions. Why'd you
00:57:38.160
put that in caps? Okay. That one's acceptable. All right. So that's acceptable. Even with the
00:57:47.520
capital letters, I'm going to let that go. Because he's angry at what I'm saying, but he's at
00:57:53.640
least accepting that an alternative opinion might have some value. Okay. Very good. For a moment
00:58:00.380
there, I was going to go off on you, but that was... You pulled me back from the edge.
00:58:07.620
Carl. Carl writes in all caps. Here's a sentence in all caps. Carl. Carl.
00:58:17.160
Carl. I don't care about the Breonna Taylor cops. Isn't there a story about the Breonna Taylor,
00:58:27.240
the cops who killed her, falsified some paperwork? If they did, then they need to pay for that.
00:58:39.000
I mean, I don't generally like to spend too much time on the individual crime stories. I feel
00:58:44.880
like there's not enough there. And the news handles that. All right. Put a cap in it.
00:59:00.320
Butter your bacon, I'm being told. All right. What about loud noises? All right. Some of you,
00:59:11.360
some of you, I think, come just for the blocking. Is it my imagination or the top three spokespeople
00:59:21.360
for the Biden administration incapable of speaking, at least coherently? Their current spokesperson,
00:59:31.080
Corinne Jean Pierre, is she one of the worst that we've seen? I think she's one of the worst,
00:59:38.760
just in terms of communication skills. I think she's one of the worst. Biden is terrible. And then
00:59:43.920
Kamala Harris is a nightmare. But have we ever seen the three top speakers for the administration
00:59:53.140
having no communication skills whatsoever? I mean, just being terrible at it.
01:00:00.700
Christopher Wray and Cruz. Is Tom Cruise going after the FBI?
01:00:21.800
Who's really running things? Yes, we do wonder.
01:00:33.400
Sometimes the trolls are just energy. Sometimes I feed on them. My mascots, I call them.
01:00:43.800
Stocks are down. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Carrie Lake was a confirmed winner in Arizona.
01:00:51.680
Can somebody explain to me why they thought that the Carrie Lake primary might be rigged?
01:01:03.580
The thinking was that the Democrats would cleverly try to get the less qualified Republican elected?
01:01:11.120
I don't know. Do they bother rigging that when they could just rig the ultimate thing?
01:01:16.180
If they were going to rig, which I'm not alleging.
01:01:34.840
Yes, Blake Masters looks like he has a good shot for the Senate.
01:01:37.900
Do you think democracy has been redefined to mean bureaucracy?
01:02:09.480
So, I think we're going to make it short today and go do some work.