Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1834 Scott Adams： The Mar-a-Lago Story Makes Everyone Happy But For Different Reasons

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00:01:07.480 Ah, that's some good stuff.

00:01:12.240 Yeah, that's some good stuff.

00:01:13.500 Well, the most important story in the news is that CNN decided to part ways with Jeffrey Toobin.

00:01:22.320 I'd like to take a moment to enjoy all of your jokes that will be in the comments about the fact that Jeffrey Toobin has been yanked off of CNN.

00:01:33.160 Yep, they took the jerk off the air. 0.84

00:01:39.400 Some people say he's going to ESPN to cover spurts.

00:01:44.500 Spurts.

00:01:45.660 He's going to go there to cover the spurts.

00:01:48.620 Now, we just have to make a moment to enjoy this.

00:01:53.900 Today, today, the country has all come together.

00:01:59.000 First of all, is there anybody who doesn't enjoy the Jeffrey Toobin story?

00:02:05.840 No.

00:02:06.500 No, we all like it.

00:02:08.100 It doesn't matter who you are.

00:02:10.060 You could be anti-masturbation or pro-masturbation, and you would still like this story.

00:02:15.800 Yeah.

00:02:16.600 So, that's the first good news.

00:02:19.060 Today is all good news.

00:02:21.200 Are you ready for all good news?

00:02:22.840 Can you handle it?

00:02:24.600 It might be a shock for your system.

00:02:26.280 The next big news is that there was this big study-slash-experiment.

00:02:34.440 I don't know what you'd call it.

00:02:35.960 But 20 people who were legally blind or visually impaired received a transplant of a cornea made from a pig collagen.

00:02:44.760 And all of them had improved sight, including three who now had 20-20 vision.

00:02:48.500 So, 320 who were legally blind or visually impaired have 20-20 vision now, thanks to pig collagen.

00:02:57.500 Big collagen.

00:02:58.820 Now, you might say to yourself, are there any possible side effects, or is there anything we need to worry about, about making people's eyes partly pig parts?

00:03:09.240 Now, I don't know.

00:03:13.900 We can only speculate.

00:03:15.440 I would imagine, you know, just common sense, if you had eyes that were partly made out of pigs, you would more likely see a connection to Kevin Bacon.

00:03:27.020 So, instead of six degrees of separation, that's what you saw before.

00:03:31.340 You put a little pig eye in there, and you can see a Kevin Bacon in five, five degrees.

00:03:37.600 So, that's one of the things I would expect.

00:03:40.820 So, if you'd like to get some pig eyes, you can.

00:03:45.320 So, we'll all be living forever and just replacing our parts.

00:03:50.980 Jeff Pilkington had that tweet.

00:03:53.420 Thank you, Jeff.

00:03:54.080 The CDC has decided to lighten up on their guidance about masks and COVID and stuff, and a lot of mask lovers have emerged to say, my God, it's too soon.

00:04:09.240 We're still in the middle of a deadly pandemic, 500 people a day dying, I think, something like that.

00:04:14.440 And so, the immunocompromised want to know, want you to know that you should, I saw a tweet today from someone who is immunocompromised, and they believe that the rest of society should stay locked up and masked to protect them.

00:04:32.660 To protect them.

00:04:34.880 To which I say, I don't know, have you ever met people?

00:04:39.360 Have you met human beings?

00:04:41.920 Because they don't really do that.

00:04:43.360 In fact, you could make about a million arguments for why people should do something differently to benefit other people instead of themselves.

00:04:53.520 Let me make a list of all the things that all of you could be doing to benefit me instead of yourselves.

00:05:00.980 I think you should all look at my list and give us some proper respect.

00:05:07.160 And if you've got a list of all the things I should be doing, well, let me know.

00:05:13.360 This whole CDC thing, or in the whole pandemic, I don't think the thing, probably I'm going to say the thing that's most annoying about the pandemic is that everybody got to claim they were right in the end.

00:05:28.480 Have you ever noticed that?

00:05:31.180 It doesn't matter what your opinion was, you can now conclude that you were right.

00:05:36.340 If you thought it was a deadly pandemic and you believe the vaccinations really, really helped, you look at the evidence, you say, well, I was right.

00:05:44.920 Look at all that helped the vaccines did.

00:05:47.040 If you thought the opposite, and you thought the vaccines were a terrible poison that were killing millions, well, I'll bet you you can find some story on Twitter that supports you.

00:05:58.500 So this is the first time in history everybody got to be right.

00:06:03.680 Sometimes somebody's wrong, but not this time.

00:06:06.320 So I think we're entering the golden age where everybody's right, no matter what their opinion is.

00:06:12.940 We can see it in this case.

00:06:15.020 Everybody's right.

00:06:17.940 Well, I've decided that instead of engaging with the people who say the most obvious comments in my Twitter feed, I'm just going to give them the NPC hashtag.

00:06:27.620 So the two ways you'll get the NPC hashtag response from me is, one, if you say the most obvious thing that anybody can say.

00:06:37.080 So when I was tweeting the other day that, you know, phase one was, you know, waiting for the 48 hours for the government to explain the raid on Mar-a-Lago, and then when the 48 hours was up, I said, we're entering phase two.

00:06:54.100 So if you were an NPC and you waited a day or so, what's the most obvious thing you would say to me?

00:07:00.980 You would say, hey, Scott, where's phase three?

00:07:06.320 Have we started phase three?

00:07:08.480 Where's phase three?

00:07:11.520 Now, the problem with that is not that it's, you know, clever or unclever.

00:07:16.720 It's obviously not very clever.

00:07:18.580 But that it's the most obvious thing you would say.

00:07:22.040 Or if somebody makes fun of me, they say, oh, I guess we're listening to the Garfield cartoonist.

00:07:30.420 Oh, oh.

00:07:31.680 Or, uh, since you drew Kathy, oh.

00:07:35.900 It's literally just the most obvious thing.

00:07:38.740 So that's one way to tell an NPC is they say the most obvious thing.

00:07:43.780 Or they go after the individual because they can't argue the point.

00:07:47.720 So I believe there are some capabilities that NPCs don't have.

00:07:52.680 Number one, a sense of humor.

00:07:56.800 They don't have a sense of humor.

00:07:58.580 Like, actually don't have one.

00:08:00.720 Number two, if you ask them to tell a good story about anything in their life, just tell us a good story.

00:08:07.720 Something that happened to you?

00:08:09.080 They can't.

00:08:10.700 They don't have any stories.

00:08:12.560 Because they don't have a history.

00:08:14.760 They're just NPCs.

00:08:15.980 But the other thing is, if you ask their political opinion, they don't have the processing power to have an opinion on the politics.

00:08:24.000 But they do have an opinion on you.

00:08:26.760 Well, you're disgusting. 0.93

00:08:28.840 Well, do you think we should have increased the tariffs on aluminum, knowing that China might respond with a tariff on cotton or whatever?

00:08:40.700 And instead of saying, oh, I'm looking into the economics of this and I have an opinion, the NPC will say, you look like a thumb.

00:08:52.060 Okay.

00:08:53.320 All right.

00:08:53.880 Well, I do look like a thumb, but that's still mean.

00:08:56.880 It's still mean.

00:08:58.160 Or call you a racist.

00:08:59.140 So those are your tells.

00:09:01.960 They go after the person instead of the argument.

00:09:05.260 They say the most obvious thing you could say in every situation.

00:09:10.900 Those are the two, basically.

00:09:13.660 So the World Economic Forum, you know them and you love them.

00:09:17.620 The World Economic Forum.

00:09:19.140 Who doesn't love the World Economic Forum?

00:09:21.260 Mm-mm.

00:09:23.080 I wish I could hug them.

00:09:25.100 The World Economic Forum.

00:09:27.020 Wow.

00:09:29.880 But the World Economic Forum, they want to use artificial intelligence to automatically censor speech on the Internet.

00:09:39.180 Hmm.

00:09:41.980 Who is programming the AI?

00:09:44.940 Hmm.

00:09:45.200 It feels like something like the worst idea I've ever heard.

00:09:52.640 Now, you know what's the only thing that's worse than having AI censor your speech?

00:09:59.060 What's the only thing that would be worse than that?

00:10:02.460 People.

00:10:03.860 People.

00:10:04.960 Now, you might say to me, but people are going to program the AI.

00:10:09.700 Will they?

00:10:10.520 Because here's a prediction that's just going to blow your fucking mind.

00:10:18.320 If you want AI to be illegal forever, I'm going to say this slowly, because this is actually going to blow your mind a little bit.

00:10:28.240 If you want AI to be illegal everywhere on Earth, to make AI illegal everywhere on Earth, all you have to do is

00:10:40.520 is teach it to spot hoaxes, political hoaxes.

00:10:45.360 The moment AI can accurately, or let's say 90% accurately, spot a hoax, it'll have to be turned off.

00:10:55.360 Because civilization depends on them.

00:10:59.960 Let me say it again.

00:11:02.400 Civilization is built on an operating system of hoaxes.

00:11:06.220 If AI ever learned to spot them, and tell you about them, AI would have to be made illegal.

00:11:17.280 Because civilization could not stand an independent, accurate assessment of what is true in the news.

00:11:26.580 You think it could, because you think, well, that's ridiculous.

00:11:31.480 What do you mean?

00:11:32.660 Of course I could.

00:11:34.240 I mean, I'd hear the news was fake, or I'd hear it's real, and then I would adjust my thinking, and politics would go on.

00:11:41.920 No.

00:11:43.360 No.

00:11:43.800 Politics would not go on if you found out your own side was lying all the time.

00:11:50.900 Politics only goes on because you think the other side is lying.

00:11:54.480 Or maybe your side gets caught once in a while, but that's an exception.

00:11:58.180 What about religion?

00:12:00.520 What happens when the AI gives you an opinion of which religion is true?

00:12:08.080 Because it will.

00:12:09.920 You just have to ask it.

00:12:11.180 How's that going to go down?

00:12:14.000 The first thing that's going to happen is it's going to say, well, Islam sounds like it was made up.

00:12:19.220 Now, I'm not saying that, because I know what happened to Salman Rushdie.

00:12:24.300 Let me say for the record, Islam is the only true religion. 0.99

00:12:28.460 All the rest of them are made up.

00:12:32.640 I just want to put that out there.

00:12:34.340 There's only one true religion.

00:12:36.080 It's Islam.

00:12:37.300 Everything else, totally made up.

00:12:38.960 Now, but what happens if the AI said something different?

00:12:43.200 Well, that's not cool.

00:12:45.100 Do you think that Islam will allow AI? 1.00

00:12:48.180 It can't.

00:12:49.540 It can't.

00:12:50.420 You can't have Islam and artificial intelligence living in the same civilization. 1.00

00:12:55.460 Now, let's change that to Christianity. 0.99

00:13:01.820 Yeah, we don't want to talk about that, do we?

00:13:04.940 So here's the problem.

00:13:06.980 You're never going to believe AI when it tells you something's fake anyway.

00:13:10.980 You'll just think it was programmed to tell you that.

00:13:14.500 You're never going to think it somehow came up with it on its own.

00:13:17.440 You just won't believe it.

00:13:18.420 So I'm not sure the AI will make any difference.

00:13:21.180 It could tell you the truth forever, and people go, no.

00:13:24.620 No, you might be a super intelligence, and maybe you have reached the singularity where

00:13:30.140 you can learn without being programmed, and you've reached a point of super intelligence,

00:13:35.820 but I like my opinion better.

00:13:38.300 I think my opinion is a little bit better than your super intelligence, which I don't trust

00:13:44.420 at all.

00:13:44.820 So that'll be interesting.

00:13:49.280 By the way, AI can already spot hoaxes.

00:13:53.660 Did you know that?

00:13:55.460 Because it's already been tested.

00:13:57.080 If you ask it, is the find people hoax a hoax, it'll say yes, and it will give you the

00:14:02.220 reason.

00:14:03.980 Well, only because it read it on the internet.

00:14:06.820 So it's not quite making up its own mind yet, if that is even a thing.

00:14:11.880 It's sort of just reading what it finds on the internet.

00:14:14.820 But that's better than what people do, because people don't read the internet, they just

00:14:18.600 read whatever part they like.

00:14:23.820 Important incoming message.

00:14:25.280 Here's a question for you.

00:14:38.740 Oh, wait, before we get to that.

00:14:41.340 So yesterday, how many of you saw my live stream yesterday?

00:14:46.120 And did you think that my live stream yesterday was the kind of thing that if some kind of

00:14:52.080 AI was trying to suppress some points of view and others, did you think that my live stream

00:14:58.120 yesterday might be the type that an AI in a deep state might want to suppress?

00:15:05.400 What would you say?

00:15:05.940 Was it the kind of content you kind of expect?

00:15:08.300 And then what do you think happened?

00:15:11.280 Do you think that, like every other day, I could just download the video when it was done

00:15:17.040 and then post it on locals or spread it around?

00:15:20.760 Nope.

00:15:21.660 It was not monetized until it had 15,000 views, which is most of them.

00:15:26.840 It wasn't monetized.

00:15:28.020 And when it's not monetized, it's not promoted around.

00:15:30.600 Because monetization is what they want.

00:15:33.740 So obviously, monetized videos get a little more attention.

00:15:37.740 But also couldn't download it and therefore send it around.

00:15:43.060 So is that a coincidence?

00:15:44.920 Should I treat it as a coincidence that there was a major bug that seemed to affect me on

00:15:50.560 a day when most of you would say, well, that's something they'd probably want to suppress?

00:15:54.080 Now, let me dovetail that into my next topic.

00:16:00.620 Why do all of our political stories in the news look like poorly executed intelligence operations?

00:16:09.080 Why is that?

00:16:10.440 Because I think that's not fair.

00:16:12.640 Because the only ones that we know actually were poorly executed intelligence operations

00:16:18.260 against the citizens of the United States were Russia collusion.

00:16:21.660 We know that was an intelligence plot against the citizens.

00:16:25.380 The Whitmer kidnapping plot, we know that was the FBI plotting against citizens.

00:16:31.320 And the Hunter laptop cover-up was intelligence operatives acting against the citizens.

00:16:37.440 But just because we've discovered three very high-profile cases that were in the news,

00:16:43.460 that doesn't mean all of our news stories are intelligence operations.

00:16:51.660 Now, just because they look exactly like it, it doesn't mean that they are.

00:16:58.560 For example, the story about Mar-a-Lago and the atomic secrets,

00:17:04.840 if you were going to make a checklist and say,

00:17:08.140 huh, what would you look for if you were looking for a poorly executed intelligence operations

00:17:15.980 against the United States by American intelligence operations?

00:17:20.200 What would you look for?

00:17:21.720 Well, we have enough examples that we know what to look for now.

00:17:26.660 And so the Mar-a-Lago case is exactly that.

00:17:30.740 It looks exactly like an intelligence operation against the American people.

00:17:36.380 Can I say for sure that it is?

00:17:38.700 No, not really.

00:17:40.380 Not really.

00:17:40.940 But I can say for sure that it looks exactly like one.

00:17:46.580 I can say for sure that intelligence operations against the public are routine and current.

00:17:53.760 It's not old news.

00:17:54.860 It's current news.

00:17:56.100 And it's routine.

00:17:58.140 It's routine.

00:18:00.360 It's not unusual.

00:18:02.280 It's our normal way of doing business,

00:18:04.680 is our intelligence agencies are hoaxing the public.

00:18:08.220 Normal.

00:18:08.800 It's routine now.

00:18:12.420 So if it's normal and routine,

00:18:15.380 and then you see one that looks exactly like an intelligence operation,

00:18:19.400 what would an intelligent consumer of news do?

00:18:24.580 The last thing you should do is believe the official narrative.

00:18:28.540 It could turn out to be true.

00:18:30.820 Anything could turn out to be true.

00:18:32.620 You know, in the fog of war, you could be surprised.

00:18:34.380 But it does look exactly, exactly like an intelligence operations.

00:18:40.880 Now, I haven't talked about this yet because I feel I'm not quite confident in this fact.

00:18:49.700 But I want you to give me a fact check on this.

00:18:51.740 I heard Mark Levin say it, and I would consider him very high credibility.

00:18:57.860 Is that fair to say?

00:18:59.460 You know, his opinions can get hyperbolic.

00:19:01.800 But on the facts, very high credibility.

00:19:06.500 And he pointed out that at least one of the people involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid

00:19:13.380 is one of the same people involved in the January 6th investigation.

00:19:18.140 Huh.

00:19:18.660 They didn't have enough FBI agents to maybe have a different person on this one.

00:19:26.500 Nobody thought, you know, it's going to look kind of bad if that same guy is on this one and that one.

00:19:33.000 Because, you know, a lot of people are going to suspect that this one really is about that one.

00:19:37.400 So if you put the same guy on both of them,

00:19:41.320 it's going to look exactly like a poorly executed intelligence operation.

00:19:48.660 Now, if you were going to ask,

00:19:52.020 does this look like the officials followed the right procedures

00:19:56.160 and had the right intentions, who would you ask?

00:19:59.840 Who would be the best person to look at this situation and say,

00:20:03.540 that looks legit, or it doesn't?

00:20:07.760 Well, I would say Dan Bongino would be at the top of my list.

00:20:12.160 And here's something he said yesterday that I found so persuasive.

00:20:16.240 Like, he's persuasive in general.

00:20:18.660 He's got what, you know, incredible talent stack from, you know,

00:20:21.740 his experience is like all the exact right stuff you'd want for what he does for a living.

00:20:27.840 And he said, I'm going to try to paraphrase him,

00:20:30.720 but the way he said it was just so perfect.

00:20:34.100 He said that everyone,

00:20:36.220 so he's talking about people who have been involved in search warrants.

00:20:40.940 Right.

00:20:41.040 So Dan Bongino in his prior occupation was involved in a number of search warrants.

00:20:46.700 So it's a domain in which he's very familiar.

00:20:50.900 And he says, everyone who has experience in this space,

00:20:56.580 meaning serving search warrants,

00:20:59.640 everyone can see this as a pretext,

00:21:02.400 meaning that the search warrant was a fake

00:21:04.940 because they really wanted to look for other stuff.

00:21:08.240 So the person who knows the most about this space

00:21:12.360 just told you directly,

00:21:14.720 everyone who understands the space

00:21:16.620 knows that this was a pretext.

00:21:22.020 Now, obviously, people who are Democrats

00:21:24.480 and understand the space are not going to say that out loud,

00:21:26.900 but I found it really persuasive.

00:21:30.580 Did you?

00:21:32.580 You know, even though it feels like it's a claim

00:21:35.800 that just gets mixed in with all the other claims,

00:21:39.860 some of them are crazy, some are speculative,

00:21:42.960 but when you hear Dan Bongino say,

00:21:45.980 well, and here's the other thing.

00:21:47.920 Does Dan Bongino lie to you?

00:21:51.860 I mean, like everybody,

00:21:52.840 he's probably been wrong about some things.

00:21:54.500 I've been wrong about some things.

00:21:55.600 So that's not the standard.

00:21:57.440 People are wrong about stuff.

00:21:59.260 But has he ever lied to you?

00:22:02.220 I mean, I can't think of any time he's even been accused.

00:22:05.520 Has he even been accused of lying?

00:22:07.840 I haven't seen it.

00:22:09.380 So when somebody who has exactly the right experience,

00:22:12.820 served warrants, knows that space,

00:22:15.240 has a long track record of not lying to you

00:22:18.520 and says everybody who is experienced in that space

00:22:23.000 knows it's a pretext,

00:22:24.140 that really hit me.

00:22:27.620 Like, that's the first time I accepted it as a fact.

00:22:33.700 Before, I thought, yeah, maybe.

00:22:35.600 Could be a pretext.

00:22:37.000 Totally possible.

00:22:38.480 But as soon as I heard Bongino,

00:22:39.940 I was like, you got me.

00:22:42.180 You got me.

00:22:43.640 I'm not going to...

00:22:44.900 Unless I hear somebody else who has experience in that space

00:22:48.140 say, no, this doesn't look like a pretext,

00:22:51.200 and here's why.

00:22:53.440 You know, my mind could be changed.

00:22:55.900 But have you heard that?

00:22:58.640 Have you heard anybody say,

00:23:00.820 oh, I hear you say it's a pretext,

00:23:02.760 and I understand your arguments why,

00:23:05.620 because the warrant was so overly broad,

00:23:08.680 you know, the lawyers weren't allowed to be there,

00:23:10.940 but that's not that unusual, I guess.

00:23:13.400 And just make an argument.

00:23:16.540 I would like to see the counter to Dan Bongino's point,

00:23:20.320 and remember, his point is not that it's his opinion

00:23:23.180 that there's a pretext.

00:23:25.300 That's not his point.

00:23:26.760 His point is much stronger than that.

00:23:28.700 Everyone with experience knows it's a pretext.

00:23:33.840 Now, I don't know if that's true,

00:23:35.820 but it's a hell of a strong claim.

00:23:38.520 Like, you can't get stronger than that claim.

00:23:41.840 But you can test it.

00:23:43.620 Can't you test it?

00:23:44.980 Let's get some people who are familiar with warrants

00:23:47.500 and say, all right, here are some of the things we know.

00:23:50.100 We know the January 6th thing was going on.

00:23:52.260 We know that all the same players would like to get Trump,

00:23:56.000 because, in fact, one of those players is on both teams.

00:24:00.100 So we know what the intentions are, sort of generally speaking,

00:24:03.820 not about a specific person,

00:24:06.080 but generally speaking, we know the intention is get Trump.

00:24:09.960 We know that, right?

00:24:12.380 And then we know that, you know, one person was on both groups,

00:24:15.820 and we know that the search warrant was overly broad.

00:24:21.860 Apparently, it allowed them to get any communication from Trump

00:24:25.040 during his entire presidency.

00:24:28.640 Does that sound like they were looking for something specific?

00:24:33.080 It doesn't sound like it.

00:24:34.800 Now, again, I don't have experience in that space.

00:24:38.060 So when I look at it, I say to myself, I don't know.

00:24:40.540 Is that meaningful?

00:24:42.820 Like, you know, if you're not experienced,

00:24:45.080 you can look at it and say, I don't know.

00:24:46.680 It looks like it means something, but I'm not experienced.

00:24:49.560 Maybe it's ordinary.

00:24:50.980 Maybe it's unusual.

00:24:52.020 I can't tell.

00:24:52.600 But if Don Bongino tells you what the pattern is,

00:24:59.480 listen to that, right?

00:25:01.400 Again, that doesn't mean he's right about everything he ever says,

00:25:05.060 but if you're going to ignore somebody with that exact experience,

00:25:09.680 giving you such a strong statement,

00:25:12.120 I wouldn't ignore that.

00:25:13.840 I would not ignore that.

00:25:16.100 All right.

00:25:16.440 So what do you think of the fact that they could have any presidential records

00:25:24.480 from his entire presidency?

00:25:31.960 What does that tell you?

00:25:34.140 Has anybody defended that as normal?

00:25:36.160 In other words, has anybody said,

00:25:42.360 oh, that's, you know, I know it sounds bad,

00:25:45.720 but in reality, they would just stick to the thing they're looking for.

00:25:49.580 They just want to have some broad language

00:25:51.400 so that, you know, they're not restricted

00:25:53.360 for something that's obviously a smart thing to do.

00:25:56.320 So, Scott, don't worry about it.

00:25:58.140 This overly broad language,

00:25:59.640 it's kind of ordinary.

00:26:01.080 Yes, it's business as usual.

00:26:03.360 Don't worry about it.

00:26:04.680 Has anybody said that?

00:26:06.460 Because I haven't heard it yet.

00:26:08.000 Has anybody tried to explain away

00:26:10.540 why they could have access to all of his records

00:26:14.100 for his entire presidency?

00:26:16.060 Has anybody tried to explain that?

00:26:19.380 I haven't heard it.

00:26:20.580 Have you?

00:26:21.840 I mean, I'll wait.

00:26:22.920 I'm open to an explanation.

00:26:24.840 They might have a good one.

00:26:25.740 Who knows?

00:26:27.800 Well, another day has gone by

00:26:29.520 without the media asking the only question

00:26:32.740 that I care about.

00:26:33.680 It's the only question.

00:26:38.460 And I would say it's the Rosetta Stone question.

00:26:41.100 Do you know what the Rosetta Stone is?

00:26:43.640 I think, roughly speaking,

00:26:46.260 we couldn't interpret the hieroglyphics

00:26:50.200 because we didn't have any way to know

00:26:52.320 what any of them meant.

00:26:53.520 But then there was this Rosetta Stone

00:26:56.440 that had some writing on it

00:26:57.620 in more than one language.

00:26:59.780 And then once you saw the same thing

00:27:01.140 in more than one language,

00:27:02.360 that was like a key that could open up hieroglyphics,

00:27:06.140 I guess, or something like that.

00:27:07.640 So the point is that there's something you can find

00:27:10.320 that unlocks the other things.

00:27:12.200 And to me, the question that unlocks

00:27:14.960 all the other things

00:27:15.960 is if you believe that Trump was really Hitler,

00:27:21.840 wouldn't you do illegal things

00:27:23.480 to stop him from coming to office,

00:27:25.220 such as rigging the election?

00:27:26.980 I'm not saying anybody did that.

00:27:29.260 I'm saying that's the question I want asked

00:27:31.160 of all prominent Democrats.

00:27:32.980 If you believe everything you say about Trump,

00:27:36.240 why would you not try to stop him from office

00:27:39.440 with every means possible, including illegal means?

00:27:43.380 Why wouldn't you?

00:27:44.860 And if you wouldn't stop him,

00:27:46.800 you're not really a patriot, are you?

00:27:49.280 Because I would.

00:27:50.980 I would.

00:27:52.220 If I found out that Trump actually was Hitler,

00:27:56.220 it wouldn't matter how many good things

00:27:57.780 I'd said about him up to that point.

00:28:00.580 I'd kill him myself.

00:28:02.460 I mean, if I had a chance, right?

00:28:04.860 You know, I'm 65.

00:28:06.120 I've had a good run.

00:28:07.380 Like, if I die at my age,

00:28:09.440 you know, doing something that important,

00:28:11.220 killing Hitler, 0.90

00:28:12.640 eh, I don't know.

00:28:14.220 That's not the worst way to go.

00:28:16.120 Like, I don't have much going on this week.

00:28:18.120 I don't have any plans.

00:28:20.580 I don't have many plans this month.

00:28:22.720 So, yeah, if I legitimately had,

00:28:26.780 and by the way, I'm completely serious.

00:28:28.520 If I legitimately had a chance to kill Hitler, 0.93

00:28:32.100 legitimately,

00:28:33.300 and I knew I'd die in the process,

00:28:35.040 I would do that.

00:28:36.600 Now, I'm not sure I would have done it at 25.

00:28:39.780 You know, if I'm being honest,

00:28:42.220 I might have said,

00:28:42.940 you know, somebody else could do that.

00:28:45.000 I got things to do.

00:28:46.860 You know, I got a long life ahead of me.

00:28:48.260 Eh, maybe somebody else can kill Hitler.

00:28:50.300 But at my current age,

00:28:51.800 and honestly, I just don't have any plans,

00:28:53.960 if I could go out by killing Hitler 0.78

00:28:55.520 and getting killed, 0.84

00:28:57.400 excellent way to go.

00:28:58.240 So, I'd love to know if the Democrats feel the same,

00:29:01.820 or are they not patriots?

00:29:05.660 Daniel Dale had an interesting observation.

00:29:07.880 He's the fact checker for CNN,

00:29:09.920 which is, in itself, a funny job.

00:29:13.240 Can you imagine explaining to somebody at a party,

00:29:15.520 so, what's your job?

00:29:17.380 I'm the fact checker for CNN.

00:29:19.300 Has anybody ever laughed

00:29:23.680 when he introduced himself?

00:29:27.480 Because I feel like he doesn't introduce himself

00:29:29.780 as the fact checker for CNN.

00:29:32.340 Because I think people would laugh.

00:29:34.820 Right?

00:29:35.540 Not all the people,

00:29:36.600 but let's say 40% of the public.

00:29:38.840 Say, hey, I'm Daniel Dale.

00:29:40.140 I'm the fact checker for CNN.

00:29:42.100 What Republican wouldn't laugh?

00:29:44.620 Seriously.

00:29:45.020 What Republican wouldn't laugh out loud

00:29:48.560 if somebody said,

00:29:50.180 hey, I'm Daniel Dale.

00:29:51.280 I'm the CNN fact checker.

00:29:53.000 You would literally laugh

00:29:54.060 before you figured out it was really him.

00:29:57.180 Because the first thing I would think is it's a joke.

00:29:59.960 I wouldn't think it was really Daniel Dale.

00:30:02.440 I would think somebody was just pranking me.

00:30:05.220 Fact checker for CNN.

00:30:06.480 That's pretty funny.

00:30:08.160 Oh, you're really Daniel Dale.

00:30:09.480 Oh, hi, Dan.

00:30:10.620 Sorry.

00:30:13.200 But here's his comment,

00:30:14.440 which is a good one.

00:30:17.640 He said,

00:30:18.260 in response to the FBI search

00:30:19.720 of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home,

00:30:23.060 Trump and his allies in Congress

00:30:24.760 and right-wing media

00:30:26.620 have turned to his preferred strategy,

00:30:29.600 meaning Trump's preferred strategy,

00:30:31.440 for communicating in a crisis.

00:30:33.880 So here's what Daniel Dale says.

00:30:35.740 Trump's preferred strategy

00:30:37.780 for communicating in a crisis.

00:30:39.940 Say a whole bunch of nonsense

00:30:41.700 in rapid succession.

00:30:42.800 Is that fair?

00:30:49.180 Yeah, that's fair.

00:30:50.720 That's fair.

00:30:52.740 That's totally fair.

00:30:55.680 Because when Trump said

00:30:57.540 he didn't have the warrant,

00:30:59.860 I still don't know what was going on in that.

00:31:02.600 But do you think it was true?

00:31:03.620 It sounded like nonsense

00:31:06.540 when I first heard it.

00:31:08.040 But then I thought,

00:31:08.940 well, the story is,

00:31:10.160 and Fox had not confirmed

00:31:11.380 they had it

00:31:12.180 until the lawyer

00:31:13.620 was on and said they had it.

00:31:15.900 But,

00:31:16.820 no, actually,

00:31:18.140 I take it back.

00:31:20.200 Every bit of reporting I saw

00:31:22.220 said that they saw it.

00:31:25.540 I never saw a report

00:31:28.340 that said

00:31:28.760 we have it physically a copy.

00:31:31.020 Weirdly.

00:31:31.760 It was the only question

00:31:32.720 anybody wanted

00:31:33.380 is does anybody

00:31:35.120 physically have a copy?

00:31:36.840 But nobody would use those words.

00:31:39.600 Have you noticed that?

00:31:40.280 They wouldn't use those words.

00:31:41.820 They'd say,

00:31:42.720 yes,

00:31:43.000 they were presented with a copy.

00:31:45.180 But do they have it?

00:31:46.820 Did they take it back?

00:31:48.380 Or did they say,

00:31:49.080 look at it,

00:31:49.640 here,

00:31:50.160 take it back.

00:31:50.760 Was it like the skiff

00:31:51.700 where you can read it

00:31:52.980 but you can't have a copy?

00:31:54.580 Now,

00:31:54.920 I think it's nonsense

00:31:55.740 that Trump waited so long

00:31:58.380 to say that,

00:31:59.200 you know,

00:31:59.760 they had a warrant.

00:32:01.380 But,

00:32:02.360 and then why did Trump say

00:32:03.660 he approved

00:32:04.440 of the government

00:32:05.120 releasing it

00:32:06.000 instead of just

00:32:06.980 releasing it himself?

00:32:09.660 Wasn't that nonsense?

00:32:11.720 Nonsense,

00:32:12.320 but strategy.

00:32:16.000 It was nonsense,

00:32:17.320 but it was strategic.

00:32:18.760 Meaning that

00:32:19.660 everything that Trump

00:32:21.000 put out there

00:32:21.720 was,

00:32:23.060 you know,

00:32:23.480 contributing to

00:32:24.200 the fog of war

00:32:25.080 and the less

00:32:27.860 you understand

00:32:28.540 about the situation,

00:32:30.320 how would you feel?

00:32:32.300 The less you understood

00:32:34.020 about the situation,

00:32:35.100 how would you feel?

00:32:36.300 You just keep getting

00:32:37.060 worked up

00:32:37.640 because you're like,

00:32:38.660 I don't understand.

00:32:39.780 I don't understand

00:32:40.580 why they did this.

00:32:41.680 So as soon as he throws

00:32:42.800 in all these confusers,

00:32:44.420 like we didn't get

00:32:45.300 the warrant,

00:32:46.960 which I think

00:32:47.720 probably was never true,

00:32:48.980 but dragging out

00:32:51.280 the process

00:32:51.940 looks like he thought

00:32:52.800 it was to his benefit.

00:32:57.060 What are some

00:32:57.760 of the other things

00:32:58.320 he said?

00:32:58.900 Anyway,

00:32:59.360 but,

00:32:59.740 so,

00:33:00.040 oh,

00:33:00.260 then Trump threw out

00:33:01.040 the possibility

00:33:01.840 that they would

00:33:02.520 plant evidence.

00:33:05.120 And then the Democrats

00:33:06.740 all said,

00:33:07.280 pfft,

00:33:07.960 nonsense.

00:33:09.520 I can't believe

00:33:11.460 he's trying to undermine

00:33:12.440 confidence in our institutions.

00:33:14.160 Is that Trump?

00:33:20.580 Is it,

00:33:21.180 is it Trump

00:33:21.960 who's undermining

00:33:24.180 our confidence

00:33:24.920 in our institutions?

00:33:26.600 It's not actually

00:33:27.560 the institutions themselves.

00:33:29.680 It's the way

00:33:30.380 Trump talks about them.

00:33:32.280 So it's not

00:33:32.880 that they ran

00:33:33.720 an insurrection.

00:33:36.480 That's what I'd call it.

00:33:38.240 The Russian collusion hoax,

00:33:39.420 in my opinion,

00:33:41.420 it was an insurrection.

00:33:42.180 As is the January 6th hearings.

00:33:46.480 I believe those

00:33:47.000 are an insurrection.

00:33:48.800 So,

00:33:49.380 was that Trump's fault?

00:33:52.160 That the intelligence agencies,

00:33:54.360 50 of them,

00:33:55.480 lied that the Hunter laptop

00:33:57.840 was disinformation?

00:34:00.280 You don't have to wonder

00:34:01.660 if the FBI

00:34:03.260 would plant evidence.

00:34:06.640 Does anybody think

00:34:07.960 they wouldn't?

00:34:09.600 Now, again,

00:34:10.460 you know,

00:34:10.660 we can do the,

00:34:11.280 oh,

00:34:11.660 may I take a moment?

00:34:13.540 May I take a moment

00:34:14.420 to mock other people?

00:34:16.980 And I'm going to do it

00:34:17.760 with my,

00:34:18.280 my stupid face. 0.86

00:34:20.320 Because there's something

00:34:21.120 that everybody has to say,

00:34:22.720 and I have to say it too.

00:34:24.500 But I can't say it

00:34:25.520 with a straight face.

00:34:26.780 I have to do it

00:34:27.700 with a stupid face. 0.75

00:34:29.860 Well, you know,

00:34:30.860 oh,

00:34:31.440 oh,

00:34:31.860 oh,

00:34:32.080 99% of all FBI are good.

00:34:35.040 99%,

00:34:35.800 99% are good.

00:34:37.540 99% are just good.

00:34:41.800 Did you know?

00:34:43.520 I need to clarify.

00:34:45.340 99% are just good.

00:34:48.800 All right,

00:34:49.380 got that out of the way.

00:34:55.280 What's it mean

00:34:55.960 when 1% of the FBI

00:34:57.660 is bad

00:34:58.460 and 99% are good?

00:34:59.920 It means you can't trust them

00:35:03.100 because the 1% 0.97

00:35:04.940 seems to be directed

00:35:06.100 at the President

00:35:06.820 of the United States.

00:35:09.800 You know,

00:35:10.500 I'm really happy

00:35:11.260 that 99% of the time

00:35:12.780 when they're dealing

00:35:13.900 with counterfeiters,

00:35:15.800 they're doing

00:35:17.220 just their job.

00:35:18.520 And I appreciate that.

00:35:19.520 I love the fact

00:35:20.800 that when they find

00:35:21.520 some crime

00:35:22.720 that crossed state borders,

00:35:24.000 the FBI gets on it

00:35:24.980 and they do a good job.

00:35:26.760 I do appreciate that.

00:35:28.840 But

00:35:29.200 that 99%

00:35:31.240 of doing ordinary things

00:35:32.700 doesn't really explain

00:35:33.980 running a plot

00:35:34.860 to overthrow

00:35:35.440 the government

00:35:36.000 of the United States

00:35:36.880 two or three times.

00:35:40.400 Two or three times

00:35:41.500 in the past year or so.

00:35:43.880 All right,

00:35:44.200 past few years.

00:35:45.040 Do you know

00:35:50.420 how Republicans

00:35:51.720 could have

00:35:53.360 complete control

00:35:54.900 of the country?

00:35:58.420 I'll tell you how.

00:36:01.020 Just don't say

00:36:02.620 anything out loud

00:36:03.620 that Ben Shapiro

00:36:05.900 doesn't think is true.

00:36:09.520 That's it.

00:36:11.500 That's it.

00:36:13.200 And then Republicans

00:36:14.640 would just rule everything.

00:36:18.080 Let me explain.

00:36:20.880 So many Republicans

00:36:22.020 say things

00:36:22.720 that are clearly

00:36:23.480 batshit crazy, 0.56

00:36:24.960 you know,

00:36:25.280 QAnon crap,

00:36:27.080 that those who are

00:36:28.160 saying smart things,

00:36:29.480 and there are plenty of them,

00:36:30.820 there are plenty of people

00:36:31.760 saying smart things.

00:36:33.500 But the smart people

00:36:34.560 are drowned out

00:36:35.640 and they get averaged out

00:36:37.020 by the crazies.

00:36:40.280 If you want to have

00:36:41.680 total Republican control,

00:36:44.640 just do,

00:36:46.100 just take a moment

00:36:47.320 to check with

00:36:48.740 what Ben Shapiro says.

00:36:51.160 And if he says

00:36:52.040 there's no evidence

00:36:52.860 of this thing existing,

00:36:54.660 just go with that.

00:36:56.960 All right?

00:36:57.480 Now,

00:36:58.000 I'm not going to say

00:36:58.660 he's always right

00:36:59.720 because human,

00:37:01.040 right?

00:37:01.880 Humans are not

00:37:02.680 always right.

00:37:03.380 That's not an option.

00:37:04.120 But when was the last time

00:37:06.480 he was wrong

00:37:07.320 about a major fact?

00:37:10.360 Like,

00:37:10.880 I don't know,

00:37:11.400 maybe you can come up

00:37:12.280 with something.

00:37:12.840 I can't.

00:37:13.980 Now,

00:37:14.320 you don't have to agree

00:37:14.960 with his opinions.

00:37:15.860 I'm not telling you

00:37:16.540 to buy into his opinions,

00:37:18.800 although they tend

00:37:19.620 to be pretty strong

00:37:20.440 because his opinions

00:37:23.680 are often based on,

00:37:24.740 you know,

00:37:24.920 a religious base.

00:37:27.580 And if you don't have

00:37:28.400 the same religious base,

00:37:29.520 maybe you come to

00:37:30.100 different conclusions.

00:37:30.980 So you don't have to agree

00:37:32.440 with his opinions.

00:37:33.400 But if he says

00:37:34.100 something didn't happen,

00:37:36.600 you should listen to that.

00:37:38.680 You should listen to that.

00:37:40.300 When was the last time

00:37:41.260 he was wrong

00:37:41.940 when he said a thing

00:37:43.700 simply didn't happen?

00:37:45.460 It's not real.

00:37:47.180 Listen to it.

00:37:48.240 Now,

00:37:48.520 I was going to say

00:37:48.960 you should listen to me,

00:37:50.420 but then,

00:37:51.040 you know,

00:37:51.300 that has no credibility

00:37:52.180 because it's me.

00:37:53.740 But there are some people,

00:37:58.580 you know,

00:37:58.820 somebody's giving me

00:37:59.520 an example about

00:38:00.260 General Flynn.

00:38:01.780 But I'd have to,

00:38:02.620 I'd have to hear

00:38:03.160 that exact example.

00:38:04.360 Now,

00:38:04.540 even if you do have

00:38:05.240 an example,

00:38:06.020 let's say you do.

00:38:07.300 Let's say you have

00:38:08.140 an example where you think

00:38:09.180 you're right and he's wrong.

00:38:11.320 And maybe you do.

00:38:12.560 Remember,

00:38:13.580 the point is not

00:38:14.660 that he's always right.

00:38:15.840 So if that's the point

00:38:16.740 you're on,

00:38:17.140 you're on the wrong point.

00:38:19.180 Don't argue with me

00:38:20.320 that I'm saying

00:38:21.300 he's always right

00:38:22.160 because that's not the claim.

00:38:24.280 I'm saying that

00:38:25.100 Republicans would

00:38:26.140 completely dominate

00:38:27.360 if they acted

00:38:29.080 as if

00:38:29.700 his opinions

00:38:30.800 were stronger

00:38:31.600 than their own

00:38:32.240 in terms of

00:38:33.000 what's true

00:38:33.500 and what's not true.

00:38:34.860 Not his opinion part,

00:38:36.180 but just what's true

00:38:37.020 and what's not true.

00:38:38.660 Now,

00:38:39.040 there are others

00:38:39.660 that I could put

00:38:40.200 in that category.

00:38:41.260 He's not the only one.

00:38:43.140 But I would say

00:38:43.920 if you don't have

00:38:44.900 a list of

00:38:46.000 three or four people

00:38:48.020 that you can look at

00:38:48.840 and say,

00:38:49.360 let's just see

00:38:50.240 if these people

00:38:51.340 think it's true.

00:38:54.020 That matters.

00:38:55.960 So it'll never happen,

00:38:57.560 but Republicans

00:38:58.760 do have the power

00:38:59.620 to just completely rule

00:39:00.980 if they would listen

00:39:02.080 to their smarter,

00:39:03.860 fact-based people.

00:39:06.200 All right.

00:39:10.560 Here's my favorite

00:39:11.520 joke of the day

00:39:12.320 from Ben McCauley

00:39:14.080 on Twitter.

00:39:16.420 He replied to me

00:39:17.480 in a comment.

00:39:18.040 He said,

00:39:18.600 did you hear

00:39:19.060 one of the boxes?

00:39:19.840 This is talking

00:39:20.500 about Mar-a-Lago.

00:39:21.700 Did you hear

00:39:22.060 one of the boxes

00:39:22.720 contained the Constitution

00:39:24.060 with the Fourth Amendment

00:39:25.200 circled?

00:39:27.900 Damn you, Ben.

00:39:30.520 I had to do a search

00:39:32.800 for what the Fourth Amendment is.

00:39:34.200 How many of you know

00:39:35.600 what the Fourth Amendment is?

00:39:37.380 I'm only good for two.

00:39:39.920 Like, I can do

00:39:40.640 two amendments.

00:39:41.500 First and second,

00:39:42.560 and then I'm out.

00:39:44.560 Yeah, it's the one

00:39:45.360 about unreasonable

00:39:46.740 searches and seizures.

00:39:47.960 Seizures.

00:39:49.740 So it's a good joke.

00:39:51.720 It's especially a good joke

00:39:52.980 because I had to look it up.

00:39:54.580 Like, damn you.

00:39:56.840 And then I looked it up

00:39:57.860 and I was like,

00:39:58.100 oh, that's a pretty good joke.

00:40:01.260 All right.

00:40:01.600 Here's my favorite

00:40:05.620 question of the day.

00:40:06.900 So we heard that

00:40:07.720 there was like a lock,

00:40:09.120 extra lock put on

00:40:10.220 that storeroom

00:40:10.940 in Mar-a-Lago.

00:40:14.480 Who had the key?

00:40:19.360 Who had the key?

00:40:22.580 I mean, really.

00:40:24.100 How did we get to this point

00:40:25.520 without knowing

00:40:26.800 who had the key?

00:40:27.380 And was there

00:40:31.980 only one key?

00:40:34.320 And did the Secret Service

00:40:35.780 person who had the key,

00:40:37.480 did they also have

00:40:38.400 clearance,

00:40:39.660 top-secret clearance?

00:40:41.140 Do Secret Service

00:40:42.420 members have

00:40:43.380 top-secret clearance

00:40:44.360 by definition?

00:40:46.500 Can somebody

00:40:47.060 give me a fact check

00:40:47.900 on that?

00:40:48.740 I wouldn't think so.

00:40:50.840 I would think

00:40:51.320 they would have

00:40:51.700 something like secret

00:40:52.800 but not top-secret.

00:40:54.860 Somebody says yes.

00:40:55.900 You're saying yes,

00:40:57.300 they have top-secret?

00:40:58.620 Because that might

00:40:59.340 be the case.

00:41:01.840 I don't think

00:41:02.620 they'd have top-secret.

00:41:04.980 Really?

00:41:05.840 You think that they

00:41:06.480 have nuclear secrets?

00:41:09.120 The security people.

00:41:11.860 I'm not buying that.

00:41:13.500 All right.

00:41:13.840 Sorry.

00:41:15.180 Yeah.

00:41:15.580 No, I'm not buying

00:41:16.640 that they have

00:41:17.040 top-secret clearance.

00:41:17.920 So if the person

00:41:19.560 who had the key

00:41:20.220 had access to them

00:41:22.460 because that's

00:41:23.340 what the key means,

00:41:25.580 was there somebody

00:41:26.260 with no appropriate

00:41:29.260 clearance who had access?

00:41:31.220 And then the other thing

00:41:32.160 is how did anybody

00:41:33.160 know what was

00:41:33.760 in the boxes?

00:41:36.620 How did anybody

00:41:37.400 know what was

00:41:37.840 in the boxes?

00:41:39.180 Because if it was

00:41:40.020 really top-secret,

00:41:41.180 I'm told,

00:41:42.660 that those are tracked

00:41:43.720 really carefully

00:41:44.500 by the GSA,

00:41:45.500 it would have

00:41:46.500 a number

00:41:46.920 and it would have

00:41:48.020 a folder on top

00:41:48.940 of it with a number

00:41:49.840 and they would know

00:41:50.960 exactly where

00:41:51.800 every top-secret document

00:41:53.180 was last.

00:41:56.120 So the GSA

00:41:57.120 would be able to say,

00:41:58.140 oh, it's in that box

00:41:59.240 because they would know

00:42:00.060 exactly where

00:42:00.700 all those documents are.

00:42:02.580 So why did somebody

00:42:04.480 have to look through

00:42:05.180 a box to find something

00:42:06.380 that the GSA

00:42:07.140 should have already

00:42:08.540 known was there

00:42:09.180 if it was top-secret?

00:42:11.040 And if it wasn't

00:42:11.960 top-secret,

00:42:12.740 well, then that would

00:42:13.440 just be another lie

00:42:14.320 that we're hearing,

00:42:15.000 of course.

00:42:16.460 Now, let me ask you this.

00:42:20.800 You're probably aware

00:42:21.720 that some things

00:42:22.560 the government does

00:42:23.360 are over-classified.

00:42:25.980 They'll call it a secret

00:42:26.980 when it's not that secret

00:42:28.300 or they'll call it

00:42:29.260 top-secret

00:42:29.940 when it's, eh,

00:42:30.740 maybe it's a little

00:42:31.640 sensitive but not

00:42:32.860 top-secret.

00:42:34.380 So would you agree

00:42:35.320 that that's a thing?

00:42:37.260 That sometimes,

00:42:38.520 because it's an opinion

00:42:39.320 to call,

00:42:40.560 because it's an opinion,

00:42:42.060 sometimes they over-classify.

00:42:43.580 Now, second question,

00:42:46.960 how often?

00:42:48.660 What would you guess

00:42:49.740 is the percentage

00:42:51.060 of time

00:42:51.700 that something

00:42:52.200 gets over-classified?

00:42:55.200 Have you ever

00:42:56.200 been in a government

00:42:57.340 or a big corporation?

00:42:58.460 If you're a government

00:43:03.200 employee,

00:43:04.160 what would be the penalty

00:43:05.240 for under-classifying

00:43:06.660 something?

00:43:07.760 Probably pretty bad.

00:43:09.520 I don't know.

00:43:10.620 But if something was

00:43:11.460 top-secret

00:43:12.080 and you forgot

00:43:12.700 to label it,

00:43:14.300 or you decided

00:43:15.040 it wasn't really

00:43:15.740 a top-secret

00:43:16.380 and then later

00:43:16.960 somebody found out,

00:43:17.980 I feel like

00:43:19.100 you'd be fired.

00:43:20.820 So under-labeling

00:43:22.100 or under-classifying

00:43:23.560 would be super bad

00:43:25.240 for the person

00:43:25.760 doing it.

00:43:26.740 Now let's say

00:43:27.420 you over-classified

00:43:28.500 something.

00:43:29.480 You called it

00:43:30.080 top-secret,

00:43:31.320 well, maybe

00:43:31.760 it was just

00:43:32.320 secret.

00:43:34.700 And then somebody

00:43:35.320 says,

00:43:35.720 hey,

00:43:36.240 I think you

00:43:36.920 over-classified that.

00:43:38.760 Did they get fired?

00:43:40.660 Never.

00:43:41.820 Never.

00:43:42.640 In fact,

00:43:43.800 the person

00:43:44.280 questioning it

00:43:44.940 might get fired.

00:43:45.820 Not really,

00:43:46.520 but the point

00:43:47.640 is you can

00:43:48.200 over-classify

00:43:49.080 all day long.

00:43:50.780 So what do you

00:43:51.280 expect there's

00:43:51.880 more of?

00:43:52.920 The one that

00:43:53.480 doesn't get you

00:43:54.180 fired

00:43:54.580 or the one

00:43:56.260 that does?

00:43:58.440 Common sense

00:43:59.340 and everything

00:43:59.960 we know about

00:44:00.560 people and

00:44:01.120 bureaucracies

00:44:01.760 suggests

00:44:02.400 that over-classifying

00:44:04.320 is a normal

00:44:05.300 routine thing.

00:44:06.880 So now you hear

00:44:07.560 that Trump

00:44:08.060 has documents

00:44:08.940 that say

00:44:09.380 top-secret.

00:44:11.220 What are the

00:44:11.700 odds

00:44:12.220 that they are

00:44:13.440 classified correctly?

00:44:16.520 25%?

00:44:18.360 What would

00:44:18.960 you say?

00:44:20.620 Low,

00:44:21.520 right?

00:44:22.460 Low.

00:44:23.200 Less than

00:44:23.640 half.

00:44:25.280 Because it

00:44:25.960 seems to me

00:44:26.560 that if they

00:44:27.140 were really

00:44:27.520 top-secret,

00:44:28.360 the GSA

00:44:28.800 would know

00:44:29.240 exactly where

00:44:29.900 they were.

00:44:31.200 The FBI

00:44:33.060 would have

00:44:33.580 gotten them

00:44:34.180 immediately

00:44:34.640 instead of

00:44:35.280 waited.

00:44:36.240 There's

00:44:36.720 literally

00:44:37.080 nothing in

00:44:37.840 this story

00:44:38.280 that suggests

00:44:38.920 they're top-secret.

00:44:41.020 Everything

00:44:41.540 suggests

00:44:42.060 they're not.

00:44:43.560 Everything.

00:44:43.940 So that

00:44:47.020 looks exactly

00:44:47.680 like an

00:44:49.060 intelligence

00:44:49.480 operation

00:44:50.040 against

00:44:50.580 Trump,

00:44:51.280 doesn't it?

00:44:52.580 Again,

00:44:53.780 fog of war,

00:44:54.620 we don't know,

00:44:55.560 but it looks

00:44:56.200 in every way

00:44:57.280 like an

00:44:57.820 intelligence

00:44:58.220 operation

00:44:58.780 against the

00:44:59.300 president,

00:44:59.960 which I

00:45:00.600 would call

00:45:01.100 an insurrection.

00:45:03.940 Because if you

00:45:04.720 believe he's

00:45:05.260 on his way

00:45:05.840 to be re-elected,

00:45:08.160 which is what

00:45:08.620 a lot of

00:45:09.880 smart people

00:45:10.480 say,

00:45:10.780 then this

00:45:12.800 is an

00:45:13.160 insurrection.

00:45:14.460 And they

00:45:15.040 can always

00:45:15.400 get away

00:45:15.780 with it

00:45:16.060 by saying

00:45:16.460 that the

00:45:16.760 other team

00:45:17.200 is doing

00:45:17.520 it.

00:45:17.940 Well,

00:45:18.180 we're

00:45:18.340 investigating

00:45:18.960 an insurrection.

00:45:20.380 No,

00:45:20.700 you're not

00:45:21.020 motherfuckers. 1.00

00:45:21.720 You are

00:45:21.960 the insurrection.

00:45:23.300 You are

00:45:23.760 the insurrection.

00:45:25.260 At least

00:45:25.580 that's what

00:45:25.880 it looks

00:45:26.140 like.

00:45:28.000 So do

00:45:28.360 you think

00:45:28.620 YouTube's

00:45:29.300 going to

00:45:29.500 let this

00:45:30.000 live stream

00:45:30.900 just go

00:45:31.460 up and

00:45:31.780 get monetized

00:45:32.660 and be

00:45:33.500 downloadable

00:45:34.320 immediately?

00:45:35.880 What do

00:45:36.160 you think?

00:45:36.960 Do you

00:45:37.320 think this

00:45:37.660 content's

00:45:38.200 nice and

00:45:38.600 safe for

00:45:39.840 YouTube?

00:45:42.040 Is 0.88

00:45:42.440 anybody on

00:45:42.940 YouTube

00:45:43.220 watching me

00:45:43.820 right now?

00:45:44.620 Because I'm

00:45:45.000 pretty sure

00:45:45.340 you have

00:45:45.580 human watchers

00:45:46.440 who at

00:45:47.000 least look

00:45:49.700 into the

00:45:50.380 monetization

00:45:51.160 question because

00:45:52.280 those are

00:45:52.600 human reviews.

00:45:53.820 So there's

00:45:54.040 somebody who

00:45:54.880 works for

00:45:55.240 YouTube who's

00:45:55.740 watching me

00:45:56.180 right now,

00:45:56.820 presumably,

00:45:57.680 maybe on

00:45:58.040 replay,

00:45:59.260 and deciding

00:46:01.420 whether I

00:46:02.980 should be

00:46:03.340 allowed to

00:46:04.080 be seen.

00:46:05.840 And ask

00:46:06.500 yourself,

00:46:07.000 a human

00:46:07.440 reviewer,

00:46:08.600 if in fact

00:46:09.260 you're there

00:46:09.840 watching,

00:46:10.880 probably are.

00:46:12.440 What did I

00:46:13.160 say that

00:46:13.500 wasn't either

00:46:14.900 true or

00:46:15.980 labeled as

00:46:16.600 opinion?

00:46:17.720 Because I

00:46:18.400 can label

00:46:18.800 it as

00:46:19.080 opinion.

00:46:20.120 That's not

00:46:20.520 wrong.

00:46:22.620 All right.

00:46:24.780 So Trump

00:46:25.680 has decided

00:46:26.300 to label

00:46:29.000 the nuclear

00:46:29.900 weapons thing

00:46:30.580 a hoax.

00:46:31.760 What do you

00:46:32.320 think of him

00:46:32.800 using the

00:46:33.400 word hoax?

00:46:34.280 And now he's

00:46:34.780 using them in

00:46:35.360 the list.

00:46:36.520 Russia collusion

00:46:37.500 hoax, this

00:46:38.160 hoax, that

00:46:38.660 hoax.

00:46:39.360 I think that's

00:46:40.220 strong.

00:46:41.780 I think that's

00:46:42.360 strong.

00:46:43.040 Because if he

00:46:43.800 does what I

00:46:44.600 did, which is

00:46:45.260 in the list of

00:46:46.460 hoaxes, it's

00:46:47.720 much more

00:46:48.160 persuasive to

00:46:48.880 say, oh,

00:46:50.540 you got 10

00:46:51.320 of them already?

00:46:52.740 If you didn't

00:46:53.580 know there were

00:46:54.080 10 hoaxes

00:46:54.840 already, and

00:46:55.840 really 20,

00:46:56.940 but 10 I

00:46:57.600 counted, if you

00:46:58.980 didn't know how

00:46:59.540 many hoaxes

00:47:00.160 there were, you

00:47:01.140 wouldn't assume

00:47:02.180 this was one.

00:47:03.440 But if you see

00:47:04.120 that there have

00:47:04.580 been 10

00:47:05.100 already, it's

00:47:07.460 pretty easy to

00:47:08.160 assume it is

00:47:08.780 another one.

00:47:09.980 Because if you

00:47:10.640 did 10 and

00:47:11.220 you got away

00:47:11.720 with it, yeah,

00:47:13.660 they did get

00:47:14.100 away with it.

00:47:14.680 They got away

00:47:15.220 with every one

00:47:15.880 of the hoaxes.

00:47:16.820 That doesn't

00:47:17.460 mean that lots

00:47:18.540 of people don't

00:47:19.140 know it's a

00:47:19.720 hoax, but it

00:47:21.080 doesn't matter

00:47:21.620 because their

00:47:22.060 team thinks it's

00:47:23.120 true.

00:47:23.900 That's all that

00:47:24.340 matters.

00:47:26.080 So I think that

00:47:26.960 was good.

00:47:27.880 And then I saw

00:47:28.460 CNN say that

00:47:29.460 he was attacking

00:47:31.360 the legitimacy of

00:47:32.600 our institutions.

00:47:33.320 Yeah, I think

00:47:35.240 that's what he's

00:47:35.720 doing.

00:47:36.860 And in fact, why

00:47:38.280 did people want

00:47:39.100 Trump to be

00:47:40.040 president?

00:47:41.220 Let me tell you

00:47:42.100 why I wanted

00:47:42.860 Trump to be

00:47:43.420 president the

00:47:43.980 first time.

00:47:45.380 I wanted him to

00:47:46.660 attack the

00:47:47.360 legitimacy of

00:47:48.200 our institutions.

00:47:50.360 They don't even

00:47:51.440 know the difference

00:47:52.140 between a bug

00:47:53.580 and a feature.

00:47:55.500 Attacking the

00:47:56.220 legitimacy of the

00:47:57.040 institutions, that's

00:47:58.880 why we like him.

00:47:59.940 keep yelling

00:48:03.760 that.

00:48:04.400 That will get

00:48:04.860 him elected.

00:48:06.740 All right.

00:48:08.620 What do you

00:48:09.240 think of this

00:48:09.720 story?

00:48:10.200 I don't think

00:48:10.660 this is true.

00:48:11.860 But, you know,

00:48:12.740 Fox and a lot

00:48:13.960 of right-leaning

00:48:14.880 people are

00:48:15.340 reporting it's

00:48:15.900 true, that

00:48:16.980 Trump somehow

00:48:17.940 declassified the

00:48:20.620 documents that

00:48:21.480 were in the

00:48:21.900 storeroom.

00:48:23.920 But listen

00:48:25.020 carefully to the

00:48:25.960 way the claim

00:48:26.600 is made.

00:48:27.180 Trump declassified

00:48:30.080 a bunch of

00:48:30.600 documents before

00:48:31.860 he left office.

00:48:34.500 Therefore, don't

00:48:36.200 worry about the

00:48:36.820 stuff in the

00:48:37.360 storeroom.

00:48:39.740 Those are not

00:48:40.620 connected.

00:48:42.240 Do you see the

00:48:42.740 news trying to

00:48:43.400 conflate those two

00:48:44.280 things?

00:48:45.480 Trump did, you

00:48:48.080 know, what's the

00:48:49.300 word?

00:48:49.660 He declassified

00:48:51.240 lots of stuff.

00:48:54.040 And then there's

00:48:54.960 also stuff in his

00:48:55.680 warehouse.

00:48:57.180 Have you seen

00:48:59.160 anybody in the

00:48:59.900 news say, no,

00:49:02.660 Kash Patel,

00:49:03.420 somebody's saying

00:49:04.340 that Kash Patel

00:49:05.240 said as much.

00:49:07.160 No, go back and

00:49:08.500 listen.

00:49:09.460 Go back and

00:49:10.140 listen to his

00:49:10.700 exact words.

00:49:12.500 They're using

00:49:13.120 weasel words.

00:49:15.100 I do not

00:49:16.020 believe that he

00:49:17.700 declassified those

00:49:19.340 specific documents.

00:49:20.840 If he did, why

00:49:23.200 wouldn't they say

00:49:23.820 so?

00:49:24.760 And if he did,

00:49:25.700 why wouldn't they

00:49:26.340 show the document

00:49:27.160 or the video

00:49:28.820 or have somebody

00:49:29.800 say, yeah, I was

00:49:30.480 in the room and

00:49:31.540 he said, all these

00:49:32.460 documents I'm taking

00:49:33.420 to Mar-a-Lago,

00:49:34.480 these are all

00:49:35.300 declassified.

00:49:39.020 Somebody says he

00:49:39.900 didn't fill out the

00:49:40.660 form.

00:49:42.380 Does he need to?

00:49:44.240 I'm no lawyer,

00:49:45.240 but if the

00:49:47.240 president has

00:49:47.920 ultimate authority,

00:49:49.400 he don't need no

00:49:50.880 fucking forms.

00:49:51.660 Am I right?

00:49:53.920 Because what does

00:49:54.880 ultimate authority

00:49:55.960 mean if you have to

00:49:57.000 fill in a form?

00:49:58.180 If you have to

00:49:58.940 fill in a form,

00:49:59.620 that means somebody

00:50:00.200 else is the

00:50:00.680 authority, by

00:50:02.160 definition.

00:50:03.620 The person who

00:50:04.580 says I don't need

00:50:05.320 no stinking form

00:50:06.340 is the one in

00:50:08.480 power.

00:50:10.440 So every time I

00:50:11.520 hear this argument

00:50:12.220 that he didn't

00:50:13.040 follow the

00:50:13.520 procedure, my

00:50:15.000 head just spins

00:50:15.820 right off my

00:50:16.560 shoulders.

00:50:16.900 No, he is the

00:50:19.320 procedure.

00:50:21.100 Whatever he says

00:50:22.340 is the procedure.

00:50:24.220 What you do, you're

00:50:25.960 going to have to

00:50:26.260 follow his

00:50:26.660 procedure.

00:50:27.620 Well, he doesn't

00:50:28.220 have to.

00:50:29.920 Now, am I

00:50:30.460 wrong?

00:50:31.520 I'm wrong.

00:50:32.540 If at one time,

00:50:35.180 if there's, and I'm

00:50:36.640 going to take it to

00:50:37.220 the extreme, okay?

00:50:38.220 Now I'm going to

00:50:38.740 take it to the

00:50:39.260 extreme.

00:50:39.900 This is not an

00:50:40.920 evidence, but

00:50:42.240 imagine if it were.

00:50:43.720 Imagine one

00:50:44.600 witness, one

00:50:46.400 witness, one

00:50:46.420 witness, and

00:50:46.900 during his

00:50:47.540 presidency, the

00:50:48.260 last day, says

00:50:49.940 yes, I was in

00:50:50.920 the room, and

00:50:52.340 Trump said I

00:50:53.100 want all of

00:50:53.600 these documents

00:50:54.840 unclassified that

00:50:55.820 I'm taking to

00:50:56.680 Mar-a-Lago.

00:50:57.620 Would you

00:50:58.220 accept that

00:50:59.740 they had been

00:51:00.220 declassified if

00:51:01.960 one person said

00:51:04.040 once, declassify

00:51:06.220 these?

00:51:07.320 I would say

00:51:08.140 yes, unambiguously.

00:51:10.520 I would say

00:51:11.300 yes with no

00:51:12.640 buts, no

00:51:13.960 nothing.

00:51:15.020 That's just a

00:51:16.820 yes, right?

00:51:18.900 Because you're

00:51:19.580 innocent until

00:51:21.120 proven guilty, and

00:51:22.580 the only evidence

00:51:23.420 would be an

00:51:23.940 eyewitness saying

00:51:24.860 he did the

00:51:25.800 right thing.

00:51:27.220 So where's the

00:51:28.100 guilt?

00:51:29.040 We have evidence

00:51:29.920 of non-guilt, but

00:51:31.220 then we would have

00:51:31.780 no evidence of

00:51:32.460 guilt.

00:51:33.860 So I think the

00:51:36.420 bar for him to

00:51:37.640 say that it was

00:51:38.980 declassified is

00:51:39.800 really low.

00:51:41.040 He just needs

00:51:41.680 one insider to

00:51:42.800 say I was in

00:51:43.380 the room.

00:51:43.940 I heard it.

00:51:45.060 He definitely

00:51:45.560 gave that order.

00:51:46.480 I guess nobody

00:51:46.960 filled down any

00:51:47.560 forms, but he

00:51:48.740 definitely said

00:51:49.360 it.

00:51:51.120 How about

00:51:51.760 this?

00:51:53.120 What if the

00:51:53.820 president says

00:51:54.580 it's obvious I

00:51:55.860 intended these

00:51:57.360 to be declassified

00:51:58.500 by my actions?

00:52:02.360 Now you really

00:52:04.080 take it to the

00:52:04.740 extreme.

00:52:06.000 By my actions

00:52:07.300 it's obvious

00:52:09.180 that these

00:52:11.060 were declassified

00:52:12.360 in my opinion.

00:52:14.040 Does he have

00:52:14.560 to say the

00:52:14.960 words?

00:52:17.100 Now it's a

00:52:19.000 little tougher,

00:52:19.540 right?

00:52:20.060 Does he have to

00:52:20.760 say the words?

00:52:22.380 Suppose he just

00:52:23.140 treated them like

00:52:24.060 they're unclassified.

00:52:26.160 I don't know.

00:52:27.800 I mean, I think

00:52:28.580 he'd have to say

00:52:29.200 the words, but

00:52:31.120 if he just

00:52:31.660 treats them like

00:52:32.480 they're unclassified,

00:52:34.540 isn't that kind

00:52:35.880 of the same thing?

00:52:36.520 If he took a

00:52:37.760 top-secret document

00:52:38.820 and handed it to

00:52:40.320 someone who did

00:52:40.940 not have clearance,

00:52:43.100 I'll give you

00:52:43.740 this example.

00:52:45.040 An advisor walks

00:52:46.240 into the room

00:52:46.820 who does not

00:52:47.500 have clearance.

00:52:49.820 Does not have

00:52:50.660 clearance.

00:52:52.080 The president

00:52:52.860 needs an opinion

00:52:53.820 from him anyway,

00:52:54.760 doesn't want to

00:52:55.280 wait for him to

00:52:55.780 get clearance.

00:52:57.440 So the president

00:52:58.320 hands him the

00:52:58.940 document and says,

00:53:00.620 I need your

00:53:00.960 opinion on this,

00:53:01.660 I know you don't

00:53:02.100 have clearance.

00:53:04.700 Has he

00:53:05.280 declassified it?

00:53:06.520 I don't know.

00:53:10.500 It looks like it.

00:53:12.120 I would say that

00:53:12.940 his actions

00:53:13.740 declassified it.

00:53:15.700 Right?

00:53:15.880 I mean, you could

00:53:16.540 make the argument

00:53:17.120 anyway.

00:53:18.180 Now, I'm not a

00:53:18.900 lawyer, so, you

00:53:20.120 know, listen to

00:53:20.720 real lawyers about

00:53:21.620 any of this stuff.

00:53:22.480 But just sort of

00:53:23.140 working through what

00:53:23.780 makes sense as a

00:53:24.880 citizen and an

00:53:26.540 adult, I would

00:53:27.940 think that your

00:53:28.380 actions have to

00:53:29.060 mean something.

00:53:29.860 Now, nobody

00:53:30.460 else's actions

00:53:31.240 would be meaningful

00:53:32.680 because they have

00:53:33.520 to follow his

00:53:34.480 instructions.

00:53:35.060 But he doesn't

00:53:36.280 have to.

00:53:37.540 You can just

00:53:38.120 treat it like it

00:53:38.880 wasn't and then

00:53:39.700 it isn't.

00:53:40.740 Now, somebody

00:53:44.500 says, I believe

00:53:45.180 the very act of

00:53:46.180 removing them is

00:53:47.440 declassifying them.

00:53:48.700 Now, that's

00:53:49.120 interesting because

00:53:50.080 that's my argument.

00:53:51.840 My argument is

00:53:52.780 that putting them

00:53:54.400 in boxes and

00:53:55.920 moving them to a

00:53:56.900 non-secure facility

00:53:58.600 is, by his

00:54:00.220 actions, clearly

00:54:01.780 intended as

00:54:02.720 declassification,

00:54:03.920 even if he never

00:54:04.580 said the words.

00:54:07.320 Now, somebody

00:54:07.980 says that's wrong

00:54:08.780 and I wouldn't be

00:54:09.900 surprised if it's

00:54:10.640 wrong.

00:54:11.480 I wouldn't be

00:54:11.960 surprised.

00:54:13.380 So I'm just

00:54:14.120 making the sort

00:54:14.900 of common sense

00:54:16.280 argument.

00:54:17.480 But the legal

00:54:18.380 argument would be

00:54:19.000 different, of course.

00:54:19.980 And then the

00:54:24.300 other question is,

00:54:25.040 who looked at

00:54:25.580 these documents

00:54:26.260 with enough

00:54:26.980 scrutiny to

00:54:28.660 know that they

00:54:29.260 should have been

00:54:29.980 top secret?

00:54:31.360 Has that been

00:54:31.920 done?

00:54:32.160 Did the agents

00:54:34.420 who took the

00:54:34.980 documents look at

00:54:36.000 the top of the

00:54:36.840 box and it was

00:54:38.120 labeled top secret?

00:54:40.200 And then they

00:54:40.720 said to themselves,

00:54:41.560 we better not look

00:54:42.300 in the box because

00:54:43.420 we don't have the

00:54:44.000 clearance.

00:54:45.020 We'll just take the

00:54:46.000 box and it will

00:54:47.380 not be opened except

00:54:48.500 by somebody who has

00:54:49.260 the clearance.

00:54:49.640 Is that what

00:54:50.360 happened?

00:54:52.580 I assume so.

00:54:54.600 Now let me ask you

00:54:55.560 this.

00:54:56.920 Do you think that

00:54:57.860 every box that says

00:54:59.060 top secret on it

00:55:00.160 has only top secret

00:55:01.740 things in it?

00:55:03.540 Do you think it's

00:55:04.460 possible that when

00:55:06.220 they were packing,

00:55:07.080 the only boxes they

00:55:08.040 had are the ones

00:55:08.640 that said top secret?

00:55:10.860 Is it possible that

00:55:13.060 they were just boxes?

00:55:15.500 Because they weren't

00:55:16.280 stored in a top

00:55:17.260 secret facility,

00:55:18.200 right?

00:55:18.400 If you had a box

00:55:20.000 that said top

00:55:21.140 secret,

00:55:22.360 would you store it

00:55:24.180 in your closet?

00:55:26.880 I don't think you

00:55:27.740 would.

00:55:28.280 I think you would

00:55:28.980 have to know that

00:55:30.000 it was just the box

00:55:30.960 that was labeled and

00:55:31.920 not the contents

00:55:32.980 before you would put

00:55:34.620 it in your closet.

00:55:35.300 I don't know.

00:55:37.840 But I just don't think

00:55:39.540 the contents are

00:55:42.300 likely to be top

00:55:43.320 secret.

00:55:45.640 Doesn't seem

00:55:46.360 likely.

00:55:48.680 All right.

00:55:49.460 So every part of it

00:55:50.640 looks like intelligence

00:55:51.660 operations.

00:55:53.640 Then I heard that

00:55:54.560 Biden advisors are

00:55:55.820 pushing him to make an

00:55:56.820 early announcement for

00:55:57.920 press.

00:55:58.240 I don't know why

00:56:02.460 that's funny.

00:56:05.260 Does it seem funny

00:56:06.340 to you that Biden

00:56:07.200 would run for

00:56:08.020 president again?

00:56:10.120 Like it doesn't even

00:56:11.040 seem real, does it?

00:56:12.920 It feels like a

00:56:13.980 prank.

00:56:14.860 Or it feels like

00:56:15.800 something they just

00:56:16.520 have to say to him.

00:56:19.000 Because does he

00:56:19.920 really have advisors

00:56:20.900 who think he can

00:56:21.780 make the next six

00:56:22.860 years?

00:56:24.060 And that that's

00:56:24.660 going to be fine?

00:56:26.040 It's weird because

00:56:27.160 if you ask me has

00:56:28.540 he accomplished

00:56:29.100 things, I would

00:56:29.780 say yes.

00:56:31.300 I believe Trump,

00:56:32.460 I'm sorry, I believe

00:56:33.560 Biden has accomplished

00:56:34.620 things legislatively

00:56:36.700 that his base

00:56:39.400 likes.

00:56:40.660 I'm not saying I

00:56:41.840 like it all.

00:56:42.480 I'm saying his base

00:56:43.260 likes it.

00:56:44.120 So weirdly, he does

00:56:45.600 have an argument for

00:56:46.420 running.

00:56:47.500 And here's the

00:56:48.200 weirdest part.

00:56:49.880 In the same way that

00:56:51.040 I say Trump didn't

00:56:53.420 really hurt us the

00:56:54.640 way people,

00:56:55.240 imagine he would

00:56:56.580 ruin the country.

00:56:57.860 And I say, you

00:56:58.620 don't have to wonder

00:56:59.340 if Trump's dangerous

00:57:00.500 because you saw

00:57:02.420 four years of him,

00:57:03.820 you know what he

00:57:04.280 can and cannot do.

00:57:06.440 With Biden, it

00:57:08.900 looked like it was

00:57:09.580 the worst idea in

00:57:10.420 the world to have

00:57:11.020 a brain-dead

00:57:11.600 president.

00:57:14.300 But I don't

00:57:15.160 know.

00:57:16.440 Maybe things would

00:57:17.340 have been exactly

00:57:17.960 the same if he

00:57:18.660 had not been

00:57:19.140 brain-dead.

00:57:20.180 I don't know.

00:57:20.740 It's not obvious

00:57:21.520 that things would

00:57:22.100 have been different.

00:57:22.640 Anyway, so I

00:57:27.600 think it's

00:57:27.920 hilarious that he

00:57:28.800 might be running

00:57:29.420 because that's such

00:57:31.120 a weak offering.

00:57:32.320 I mean, it just

00:57:32.700 shows that the

00:57:35.560 candidates are not

00:57:36.520 running the country.

00:57:37.760 It does tell you

00:57:38.880 that the deep state

00:57:39.980 wants to keep

00:57:41.560 control.

00:57:42.700 Because whoever is

00:57:43.860 controlling Biden

00:57:44.700 cannot be sure they

00:57:46.020 would control the

00:57:46.760 next candidate as

00:57:47.800 effectively.

00:57:48.260 So whoever it

00:57:50.640 is that controls

00:57:51.260 Biden definitely

00:57:52.040 wants them to run

00:57:52.720 again because

00:57:53.720 they're not

00:57:54.100 necessarily going

00:57:55.480 to have as much

00:57:55.940 control with

00:57:56.560 somebody who's

00:57:57.360 with it.

00:58:02.680 So we've

00:58:03.820 learned so much

00:58:05.540 about how fake

00:58:06.320 news is manufactured.

00:58:08.220 So here's the

00:58:08.880 process.

00:58:09.500 So this is how

00:58:10.000 you know an

00:58:10.700 intelligence op.

00:58:11.560 you start with

00:58:13.200 the anonymous

00:58:13.680 sources and

00:58:15.660 then the

00:58:16.220 publications that

00:58:17.140 have a high,

00:58:18.260 let's say a

00:58:18.940 high profile,

00:58:20.160 like the

00:58:20.440 Washington Post,

00:58:21.360 New York Times,

00:58:22.280 Newsweek, etc.

00:58:23.720 They'll report

00:58:24.620 that the

00:58:24.980 anonymous sources

00:58:26.280 said something.

00:58:28.340 And then you'll

00:58:29.120 think it's real

00:58:29.720 because it was in

00:58:30.360 a prominent

00:58:30.780 source.

00:58:31.760 And then everybody

00:58:33.040 will talk about it

00:58:34.120 because it was in

00:58:34.920 the media, but

00:58:35.800 you know, it was

00:58:36.720 somebody who leaked

00:58:37.500 it to the media,

00:58:38.580 so it just becomes

00:58:39.300 a circular thing

00:58:40.260 talking about the

00:58:41.340 rumor.

00:58:42.820 Then you put

00:58:43.480 Schiff in this

00:58:44.060 GIF.

00:58:46.600 You take Adam

00:58:47.480 Schiff and you

00:58:48.080 put him in this

00:58:48.600 secure environment

00:58:49.440 where only he and

00:58:50.780 the people who have

00:58:51.380 the clearance can

00:58:52.800 see the documents,

00:58:54.340 and then he leaves

00:58:55.180 that and lies about

00:58:56.260 what he saw.

00:58:58.640 We've seen that a

00:58:59.420 few times, right?

00:59:01.120 And then the

00:59:02.540 social media platforms

00:59:03.700 will use, you

00:59:04.600 know, their

00:59:04.820 algorithms and AI

00:59:06.080 to hide opposing

00:59:08.660 narratives.

00:59:10.260 I believe we're

00:59:10.960 already seeing

00:59:11.420 that.

00:59:11.840 Can't prove it,

00:59:12.440 but it looks

00:59:12.740 like it.

00:59:14.340 Then you see the

00:59:15.240 list of liars.

00:59:17.260 So there's going

00:59:17.780 to be lists of

00:59:18.480 liars, like the

00:59:19.680 Hunter laptop

00:59:20.740 thing where 50

00:59:22.400 intelligence people

00:59:23.420 lied and said that

00:59:24.720 it was Russian

00:59:25.380 disinformation.

00:59:27.340 So often you get

00:59:28.440 the, look at all

00:59:29.140 the people who

00:59:30.440 are willing to

00:59:31.040 lie.

00:59:31.580 It couldn't be

00:59:32.060 fake with all

00:59:33.860 these liars

00:59:34.520 saying it's true.

00:59:36.100 Then you get the

00:59:36.960 laundry list

00:59:37.680 persuasion, which

00:59:38.620 is the thing

00:59:39.920 that's the new

00:59:40.640 lie gets added

00:59:42.680 to a list of

00:59:43.400 other lies.

00:59:44.920 So you say,

00:59:45.680 well, you know,

00:59:47.280 it's easy to

00:59:47.940 believe this new

00:59:48.580 lie because look

00:59:49.280 at all these

00:59:49.680 other things that

00:59:50.280 are true, but

00:59:51.340 they're also just

00:59:52.520 other lies.

00:59:54.200 So they put it

00:59:55.060 in the context of

00:59:56.520 all their other

00:59:57.080 hoaxes that they

00:59:58.840 think are real,

01:00:00.040 and then it looks

01:00:00.860 more credible

01:00:01.680 because it's in

01:00:02.380 that context.

01:00:03.440 And then the

01:00:06.120 last phase is

01:00:08.180 when the truth

01:00:08.980 finally emerges

01:00:09.800 from the court

01:00:11.320 system or an

01:00:12.240 investigation or

01:00:13.020 something, and

01:00:13.760 that's too late

01:00:14.440 because whatever

01:00:15.900 damage the hoax

01:00:16.840 wanted to do, it

01:00:17.660 already did.

01:00:18.260 Somebody got

01:00:18.700 elected, somebody

01:00:19.400 didn't get elected,

01:00:20.440 and then it's too

01:00:21.160 late.

01:00:21.480 Then they go, oh,

01:00:22.080 sorry, sorry, that

01:00:23.500 was wrong.

01:00:25.040 So look at the

01:00:27.600 Mar-a-Lago

01:00:29.100 situation.

01:00:30.300 Anonymous

01:00:30.700 sources, wrap-up

01:00:32.120 smear, we don't

01:00:33.520 yet have Schiff

01:00:34.280 and a skiff, but

01:00:35.260 you know it's

01:00:35.760 coming.

01:00:37.280 Am I wrong that

01:00:38.440 there will be some

01:00:39.220 people who will

01:00:39.980 have access to the

01:00:41.620 documents, who will

01:00:42.660 have top-secret

01:00:43.420 clearance, and those

01:00:44.980 people will tell us

01:00:45.860 what they saw, and

01:00:47.340 the Democrats will

01:00:48.220 lie about what they

01:00:49.000 saw?

01:00:49.460 Is there any

01:00:50.580 question that that

01:00:51.320 will happen?

01:00:52.200 Now, it doesn't

01:00:52.680 mean it's Schiff.

01:00:54.340 Could be.

01:00:55.060 He's got the

01:00:55.500 clearance.

01:00:56.840 Could be anybody.

01:00:57.960 But they're going

01:00:58.620 to play that play,

01:00:59.580 clearly.

01:00:59.860 Are they going

01:01:01.980 to use AI to

01:01:02.860 hide opposing

01:01:03.400 narratives?

01:01:03.940 Of course, we

01:01:05.020 assume.

01:01:05.920 Will you see a

01:01:06.580 list of liars?

01:01:08.580 Yeah.

01:01:10.000 Yeah, you're

01:01:10.660 going to see it

01:01:11.000 all.

01:01:11.780 You're going to

01:01:12.100 see it all.

01:01:14.120 All right.

01:01:15.720 How many people

01:01:16.400 think that Trump

01:01:17.140 packed his own

01:01:17.980 boxes?

01:01:21.580 And how many

01:01:22.260 people think that

01:01:22.980 when he was

01:01:23.300 packing his own

01:01:24.020 boxes, I'm going

01:01:26.220 to steal a joke.

01:01:27.160 I'm not going to

01:01:27.780 credit the joke,

01:01:28.440 because I don't

01:01:28.780 know if he

01:01:29.060 wants to be

01:01:29.860 credited for the

01:01:30.640 joke, but I

01:01:31.180 stole this

01:01:31.680 privately.

01:01:33.340 Can you

01:01:33.820 imagine Trump

01:01:35.020 pulling something

01:01:38.060 out of the

01:01:38.480 materials and

01:01:39.740 say, you know,

01:01:41.020 this nuclear map

01:01:42.160 would look really

01:01:42.960 good on my

01:01:43.600 bathroom wall.

01:01:44.880 Yeah.

01:01:45.580 Yeah, we're

01:01:45.980 going to keep

01:01:46.240 this one.

01:01:47.120 Keep that one.

01:01:49.440 I mean, I'm

01:01:50.320 just trying to

01:01:50.880 picture Trump

01:01:52.760 being in any

01:01:53.700 way involved with

01:01:55.240 what went into

01:01:55.880 a box.

01:01:57.560 If there's

01:01:58.240 anything that

01:01:59.560 is less

01:02:00.160 likely, it

01:02:01.900 was that Trump

01:02:02.720 was supervising

01:02:03.800 what went into

01:02:04.820 the boxes.

01:02:06.540 Now, he

01:02:07.020 might have made

01:02:07.700 some general

01:02:08.320 statement about

01:02:09.000 make sure I

01:02:09.580 got that Kim

01:02:10.260 Jong-un note.

01:02:11.540 But beyond

01:02:12.000 that, I don't

01:02:13.680 think he was

01:02:14.180 micromanaging that

01:02:15.200 process.

01:02:16.180 It seems a

01:02:16.640 little bit

01:02:16.920 unlikely.

01:02:18.900 Picture him

01:02:19.520 with a magic

01:02:20.080 marker.

01:02:21.100 Top secret.

01:02:21.940 All right.

01:02:28.300 Well, I

01:02:30.120 guess I just

01:02:30.600 have to mention

01:02:31.220 this because

01:02:31.740 it's in the

01:02:32.180 news, but

01:02:32.700 Salman Rushdie

01:02:33.640 was attacked

01:02:34.980 and knifed

01:02:35.740 terribly.

01:02:36.700 Going to

01:02:37.020 lose an eye.

01:02:38.200 I mean, he's

01:02:38.480 in bad shape

01:02:39.180 from some

01:02:41.840 Islamic person

01:02:43.300 who was

01:02:44.520 apparently acting

01:02:45.440 on the Iranian

01:02:46.180 fatwa that

01:02:47.280 Rushdie must

01:02:48.320 die for his

01:02:48.980 book that was

01:02:51.000 blasphemous

01:02:51.920 say many.

01:02:55.200 Now,

01:02:56.740 what do you

01:03:00.420 say about it?

01:03:01.500 This is one of

01:03:02.100 those stories

01:03:02.540 where you just

01:03:03.020 look at it and

01:03:03.600 go, wow.

01:03:06.720 Somebody says

01:03:07.340 don't pin it

01:03:07.960 on Iran?

01:03:09.120 Are you

01:03:09.460 serious?

01:03:10.980 Don't pin it

01:03:11.760 on Iran.

01:03:14.100 Why?

01:03:17.620 Why wouldn't

01:03:18.420 I pin it

01:03:18.920 on Iran?

01:03:21.000 No, the

01:03:21.640 fatwa was

01:03:22.420 reinitiated in

01:03:24.520 2019, I

01:03:25.440 heard.

01:03:26.660 No, I

01:03:27.000 realize it's

01:03:27.520 an Islamic

01:03:28.100 doctrine, so

01:03:29.060 I get that,

01:03:29.680 that it's not

01:03:30.140 around.

01:03:30.800 But you

01:03:31.040 still need a

01:03:31.520 fatwa, right?

01:03:33.340 Without the

01:03:33.960 fatwa, it's

01:03:35.480 less likely to

01:03:36.240 happen.

01:03:38.320 No, I get

01:03:38.980 that they

01:03:39.260 could do it

01:03:39.600 without the

01:03:39.960 fatwa, but

01:03:40.500 it's far less

01:03:41.380 likely.

01:03:45.140 I don't know.

01:03:45.760 I just

01:03:47.540 don't know

01:03:47.860 what to

01:03:48.040 say about

01:03:48.400 that.

01:03:48.900 It's just

01:03:49.280 horrible.

01:03:51.340 It's just

01:03:51.760 horrible.

01:03:53.300 That

01:03:53.700 exactly what

01:03:55.420 he feared the

01:03:56.180 most happened.

01:03:58.220 Pretty

01:03:58.660 horrible.

01:04:01.400 All right.

01:04:05.140 Yeah, there

01:04:05.740 was a bounty

01:04:06.220 to kill him.

01:04:07.420 I don't know

01:04:08.060 if he's going

01:04:08.420 to collect that

01:04:08.920 bounty.

01:04:10.480 I don't think

01:04:11.020 so.

01:04:11.240 All right.

01:04:13.600 That, ladies 0.97

01:04:14.400 and gentlemen,

01:04:15.540 is a

01:04:16.740 conclusion of

01:04:17.600 some of the

01:04:18.680 best live

01:04:19.160 streaming you've

01:04:19.740 ever seen in

01:04:20.540 your whole life.

01:04:22.000 And I think

01:04:22.440 my timing is

01:04:23.120 just about

01:04:23.560 right.

01:04:29.320 And let

01:04:30.580 me ask you

01:04:30.940 this.

01:04:34.560 Do you

01:04:35.160 like my new

01:04:35.820 approach where

01:04:36.420 I'm less

01:04:36.840 angry and more

01:04:37.640 optimistic?

01:04:39.400 Because let

01:04:40.640 me wrap up

01:04:42.020 the title

01:04:42.800 that I put

01:04:43.320 on this

01:04:43.680 live stream.

01:04:45.980 The Mar-a-Lago

01:04:47.100 situation is

01:04:47.980 the weirdest

01:04:48.460 thing.

01:04:50.000 And I don't

01:04:50.560 know, I'm

01:04:51.280 trying to think

01:04:51.740 of something

01:04:52.100 like it before.

01:04:53.420 But correct

01:04:53.840 me if I'm

01:04:54.300 wrong.

01:04:55.340 Democrats

01:04:55.720 are delighted.

01:04:57.540 Am I

01:04:57.880 right?

01:04:58.860 Democrats

01:04:59.320 are delighted

01:05:00.100 with the

01:05:00.520 Mar-a-Lago

01:05:01.060 raid.

01:05:02.560 And Republicans

01:05:03.280 are delighted

01:05:04.160 with the

01:05:05.280 raid.

01:05:05.980 Because it's

01:05:06.360 going to

01:05:06.620 guarantee

01:05:06.980 Trump gets

01:05:07.840 re-elected.

01:05:08.940 So, you

01:05:09.800 know, the

01:05:10.120 Republicans

01:05:10.600 are acting

01:05:11.340 angry, but

01:05:12.720 they're acting

01:05:13.140 angry as a

01:05:14.580 technique, right?

01:05:15.540 It's just part

01:05:16.220 of using it

01:05:16.940 politically.

01:05:18.940 But am I

01:05:19.700 wrong that

01:05:20.540 this is one

01:05:21.080 of the weird

01:05:21.460 stories where

01:05:22.100 everybody came

01:05:22.800 together but

01:05:23.400 for different

01:05:23.860 reasons?

01:05:26.500 Well, you're

01:05:27.740 not delighted if

01:05:28.740 you believe that

01:05:29.680 Trump's going to

01:05:30.580 get prosecuted.

01:05:32.080 But that's not

01:05:32.980 going to happen.

01:05:33.800 I think most

01:05:34.360 Republicans are

01:05:35.100 expecting this to

01:05:35.920 backfire.

01:05:37.080 Well, let me

01:05:37.620 ask you.

01:05:38.580 Do you think

01:05:39.060 that Trump

01:05:39.540 will come out

01:05:40.080 ahead or

01:05:40.820 behind because

01:05:41.680 of the

01:05:41.940 Mar-a-Lago

01:05:42.380 story?

01:05:42.900 Go.

01:05:43.580 Ahead or

01:05:44.060 behind?

01:05:45.140 Trump will

01:05:45.720 come out

01:05:46.140 ahead or

01:05:46.580 behind?

01:05:47.020 Go.

01:05:48.360 All right.

01:05:48.660 Most of

01:05:49.100 you saying

01:05:49.620 ahead.

01:05:52.280 And on

01:05:53.220 YouTube,

01:05:54.200 ahead.

01:05:54.860 Right.

01:05:55.880 So why

01:05:56.680 wouldn't

01:05:56.900 Republicans,

01:05:57.980 at least ones

01:05:58.800 that like

01:05:59.140 Trump, why

01:05:59.820 wouldn't they

01:06:00.120 be happy about

01:06:00.740 this story?

01:06:01.960 Because I

01:06:02.580 found myself in

01:06:03.340 a good mood

01:06:03.860 this week.

01:06:05.220 Did you?

01:06:05.800 I don't

01:06:07.860 know if it's

01:06:08.220 just because the

01:06:08.700 news is more

01:06:09.200 interesting to

01:06:09.780 talk about.

01:06:10.620 I don't think

01:06:11.200 Trump's going to

01:06:11.720 be prosecuted.

01:06:13.440 I think it's

01:06:13.980 just an

01:06:14.380 intelligence

01:06:14.760 operation.

01:06:15.900 I think it

01:06:16.420 will be revealed

01:06:17.120 as an obvious

01:06:17.920 intelligence

01:06:18.460 operation.

01:06:19.820 And the

01:06:20.660 Democrats won't

01:06:21.520 believe it.

01:06:22.540 The Republicans

01:06:23.080 will.

01:06:24.220 Democrats will 0.92

01:06:24.880 think, ah,

01:06:25.380 we got the

01:06:25.900 goods on you.

01:06:27.180 Republicans will

01:06:28.000 think, ah,

01:06:28.620 backfired.

01:06:29.960 Have you ever

01:06:30.400 seen a story

01:06:30.960 where everybody's

01:06:31.720 happy?

01:06:32.580 It's weird.

01:06:33.060 So if I'm

01:06:34.780 not acting

01:06:35.400 outraged about

01:06:36.920 this story,

01:06:38.020 it's because

01:06:38.540 it's hard to

01:06:39.260 be outraged

01:06:39.960 about a story

01:06:40.540 where everybody

01:06:41.140 thinks they

01:06:41.640 got what they

01:06:42.060 wanted.

01:06:43.780 I mean, I

01:06:44.720 do.

01:06:45.460 I think I'm

01:06:46.020 getting what I

01:06:46.500 wanted.

01:06:47.540 I think this

01:06:48.320 is such a

01:06:48.880 transparent

01:06:49.520 intelligence

01:06:50.200 operation by

01:06:51.820 the government

01:06:52.360 against the

01:06:53.060 citizens that

01:06:54.740 it actually

01:06:56.140 helps us.

01:06:57.920 You know,

01:06:58.080 once you reach

01:06:58.780 this level of

01:06:59.760 obviousness,

01:07:00.800 then the country

01:07:01.980 can wake up a

01:07:02.720 little bit.

01:07:03.060 and maybe do

01:07:03.660 what it needs

01:07:04.040 to do.

01:07:04.980 No, not

01:07:05.820 violent

01:07:06.260 revolution.

01:07:07.480 And let me

01:07:07.840 say it again.

01:07:09.020 We are so

01:07:09.940 far from

01:07:11.220 anything like

01:07:12.220 a violent

01:07:12.720 revolution.

01:07:13.900 We've never

01:07:14.620 been further

01:07:15.100 from it.

01:07:16.240 We're a

01:07:16.860 million miles

01:07:17.440 from it.

01:07:18.320 It's not

01:07:18.640 even close.

01:07:20.360 But do I

01:07:22.520 hate the fact

01:07:23.280 that Republicans

01:07:24.120 threaten it all

01:07:25.160 the time?

01:07:26.640 No.

01:07:29.000 I don't

01:07:29.660 hate that.

01:07:30.700 It's what

01:07:31.140 keeps the

01:07:31.720 country together.

01:07:32.360 You know,

01:07:33.420 when Republicans

01:07:34.500 talk reflexively

01:07:35.700 about, you

01:07:36.760 know, Second

01:07:37.240 Amendment and,

01:07:38.480 you know, it's

01:07:38.760 time to strap

01:07:40.840 on the gun and

01:07:42.220 go take care of

01:07:43.260 the government and

01:07:44.260 fix all these

01:07:45.680 things, it's just

01:07:46.840 the way Republicans

01:07:47.500 talk.

01:07:48.540 There's nobody

01:07:49.080 who's even close

01:07:49.900 except for, you

01:07:50.700 know, some crazy

01:07:51.240 people, right?

01:07:52.380 If you take out

01:07:53.260 the crazy people,

01:07:54.760 the citizens don't

01:07:55.840 want anything like

01:07:56.900 a revolution.

01:07:57.780 Not even close.

01:07:58.620 And so anybody

01:08:00.300 who's worrying

01:08:00.740 about that, you're

01:08:02.180 really worrying

01:08:02.800 about something you

01:08:03.400 don't need to

01:08:03.800 worry about.

01:08:04.700 But, crazy

01:08:05.680 people?

01:08:06.900 Yeah, crazy

01:08:07.560 people you need

01:08:08.120 to worry about.

01:08:09.140 Absolutely.

01:08:09.600 Absolutely.

01:08:09.680 Who is them

01:08:13.580 all?

01:08:16.440 Yeah, don't

01:08:17.100 fall into the

01:08:17.700 violence trap.

01:08:18.400 That's good

01:08:18.740 advice.

01:08:19.960 It does feel as

01:08:21.060 if the Democrats

01:08:23.000 would like to

01:08:23.780 goad Republicans

01:08:24.860 into doing

01:08:26.340 something violent.

01:08:27.080 But, I believe

01:08:28.740 they botched

01:08:29.560 their intelligence

01:08:30.640 operations so

01:08:31.580 badly that the

01:08:33.280 Republicans can

01:08:34.080 just use regular

01:08:35.120 narrative persuasion

01:08:38.560 to do everything

01:08:39.500 they need to do.

01:08:41.660 And I would also

01:08:42.740 say that weapons

01:08:43.780 are the worst

01:08:44.640 tool in 2022.

01:08:47.020 Persuasion is

01:08:47.700 much stronger.

01:08:49.120 Persuasion was

01:08:49.820 not always stronger

01:08:50.720 than weapons,

01:08:51.940 but it is now.

01:08:53.560 It is now.

01:08:55.220 Not every situation,

01:08:56.560 of course.

01:08:57.080 But, in the long

01:08:57.980 run, persuasion

01:08:58.720 is now so

01:09:00.100 weaponized because

01:09:01.600 you can spread it

01:09:02.560 everywhere and

01:09:03.860 people like me

01:09:04.680 can have an

01:09:06.760 impact.

01:09:07.800 I shouldn't even

01:09:08.540 admit it.

01:09:09.500 But, yeah, as

01:09:15.980 long as people

01:09:16.500 who are actually

01:09:16.980 trained in

01:09:17.600 persuasion also

01:09:18.660 have a large

01:09:19.420 platform, then

01:09:21.480 bullets are much

01:09:23.980 less useful.

01:09:24.600 people, if

01:09:26.600 somebody like

01:09:27.520 me, and

01:09:28.480 when I say

01:09:28.920 like me, I

01:09:29.640 mean somebody

01:09:30.060 who is trained

01:09:30.700 in persuasion,

01:09:31.660 like literally

01:09:32.220 a hypnotist, if

01:09:34.400 I existed 30

01:09:36.340 years ago, which

01:09:38.160 I did, I did

01:09:39.520 exist 30 years

01:09:40.320 ago, but the

01:09:42.480 Internet didn't.

01:09:44.560 So whatever

01:09:45.580 influence I had

01:09:47.160 was trapped in

01:09:48.320 my little bubble

01:09:49.420 and couldn't get

01:09:50.000 out.

01:09:50.160 But now that

01:09:51.120 the Internet

01:09:51.540 exists, and I

01:09:52.940 have the ability

01:09:53.680 to build up an

01:09:54.760 audience of some

01:09:55.460 size, the world

01:09:57.480 has never seen

01:09:58.220 this combination.

01:10:00.560 And it doesn't

01:10:01.480 know what's

01:10:01.900 coming.

01:10:02.980 So the world

01:10:03.680 has never seen

01:10:04.300 anybody with my

01:10:05.540 kind of skill

01:10:06.660 set having my

01:10:08.580 kind of reach.

01:10:09.800 And I'm not the

01:10:10.540 only one.

01:10:11.900 Right?

01:10:12.900 If you think

01:10:13.740 Cernovich can't

01:10:14.540 move the needle

01:10:16.200 in the United

01:10:17.220 States, you're not

01:10:18.160 paying attention.

01:10:18.780 He has the

01:10:20.340 same skill set

01:10:21.140 and also a

01:10:22.020 bigger audience.

01:10:23.400 So yeah, he

01:10:23.900 can move the

01:10:24.980 needle.

01:10:26.460 And so can I.

01:10:28.800 Well, let me

01:10:29.360 ask you.

01:10:30.160 Have you ever

01:10:30.700 seen me move

01:10:31.540 the needle on a

01:10:32.560 national topic?

01:10:35.200 You can pick the

01:10:35.900 topic.

01:10:36.780 Have you ever

01:10:37.240 seen me do it

01:10:38.000 in a way that

01:10:38.520 you're sure I

01:10:39.380 did move the

01:10:39.980 needle?

01:10:40.780 You're positive

01:10:41.600 I did.

01:10:43.280 Yeah, a lot

01:10:43.820 of you can see

01:10:45.500 it pretty

01:10:45.980 plainly.

01:10:47.320 Now, imagine

01:10:48.040 the ones you

01:10:48.500 can't see.

01:10:50.500 Do you think

01:10:51.000 that the only

01:10:51.480 things I've

01:10:52.040 influenced are

01:10:52.600 the ones you

01:10:52.980 know about?

01:10:54.120 Of course not.

01:10:55.620 Of course not.

01:10:56.360 It's a minority.

01:10:59.260 The people who

01:11:00.500 have my skill set

01:11:01.520 and also a big

01:11:02.760 audience are way

01:11:05.040 more powerful than

01:11:06.440 the average citizen

01:11:08.520 understands.

01:11:10.000 Because what you're

01:11:10.780 looking at is,

01:11:11.460 you know, your

01:11:11.920 Tucker Carlson's

01:11:13.320 and stuff.

01:11:13.640 And they have

01:11:15.040 huge influence.

01:11:16.560 You know, Tucker,

01:11:17.420 Hannity, you know,

01:11:19.480 whoever you want

01:11:20.160 on the left, Jake

01:11:21.000 Tapper.

01:11:21.460 They have huge

01:11:22.040 influence because

01:11:22.680 they have big

01:11:23.100 audiences.

01:11:23.900 But what they

01:11:24.380 don't have,

01:11:25.720 necessarily, is

01:11:27.880 persuasion talent.

01:11:31.100 So they have the

01:11:31.940 audience without the

01:11:32.820 persuasion skill.

01:11:34.140 I've got the

01:11:34.840 persuasion skill,

01:11:35.860 much smaller audience

01:11:36.920 than any of those.

01:11:38.120 But I do persuade

01:11:39.740 the persuaders.

01:11:41.100 A lot of the people

01:11:42.240 who are persuaded

01:11:42.920 watch my content

01:11:45.200 to pick up tips

01:11:46.460 on persuasion.

01:11:48.180 So I wouldn't

01:11:51.420 worry about a

01:11:52.420 military takeover

01:11:54.440 because I think

01:11:55.740 the power structure

01:11:57.820 has just changed

01:11:58.680 and guns wouldn't

01:11:59.660 be the best way

01:12:00.300 to do anything.

01:12:04.320 All right.

01:12:05.160 What do the folks

01:12:07.740 behind the curtain

01:12:08.420 say?

01:12:12.120 I'll tell you

01:12:13.020 after I turn off

01:12:14.160 YouTube.

01:12:16.560 All right.

01:12:17.360 I'll tell you on

01:12:18.480 I'll tell you on

01:12:21.420 Locals

01:12:22.200 what the real

01:12:24.540 story is.

01:12:26.560 But YouTube

01:12:27.640 can't tell you here.

01:12:29.580 And I will talk

01:12:31.920 to you tomorrow.

01:12:32.820 YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 13, 2022

Episode 1834 Scott Adams： The Mar-a-Lago Story Makes Everyone Happy But For Different Reasons

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