Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 27, 2022


Episode 1848 Scott Adams： The FBI Has A Taint Team？ And Rob Reiner Has Some Explaining To Do


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The FBI has a team called the Taint Team, and they are here to help you become a fascist if you're a butthole or a dick. Also, Mar-A-Lago has nuclear secrets that could destroy the world if anybody saw them.

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00:00:00.000 Uh, da-da-da. 0.82
00:00:03.540 Good morning, everybody, and congratulations for making it to the highlight of civilization.
00:00:10.220 Coffee with Scott Adams, it doesn't get any better than this.
00:00:13.640 Even though it might, it might, I'm joking, it could.
00:00:17.740 It could actually get better than this.
00:00:19.360 It's hard to believe, but possible.
00:00:22.240 Now, is anybody here feeling a little low on the fascism scale?
00:00:26.900 Would anybody like to take it up to a full semi-fascist state?
00:00:32.980 Then all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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00:00:55.240 Go.
00:00:56.900 Have you ever heard that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing?
00:01:06.780 It's true.
00:01:08.420 Did you know that if you take a little bit of Botox, which in a larger dose would be a poison,
00:01:15.400 but if you take a little bit of Botox, it can make your wrinkles go away, right?
00:01:19.660 So something could be really bad for you if you get a lot of it, but if you get just the right amount, it could be good.
00:01:27.160 And so that's why you should not dismiss being a semi-fascist.
00:01:30.860 I think we could all agree that taking an overdose of Botox would be a bad idea, too.
00:01:43.640 But if you get just the right amount, it gives you a little flavor.
00:01:48.420 Just a semi-fascist.
00:01:50.520 Just enough.
00:01:51.940 Just enough.
00:01:52.560 Well, if you didn't know, that's what Biden has called many of the Trump supporters.
00:02:01.040 He's called them ultra-mega-semi-fascists.
00:02:05.160 Ultra-mega-semi-fascists.
00:02:08.300 Which, again, is just the right amount.
00:02:12.420 Semi.
00:02:14.380 All right.
00:02:16.140 So I read yesterday that the FBI has something called a taint team.
00:02:21.600 T-A-I-N-T. 1.00
00:02:24.700 The taint team.
00:02:27.040 Now, you're probably saying to yourself, Scott, you're making that up.
00:02:31.260 They don't really have a team called the taint team.
00:02:34.980 No, they do.
00:02:36.200 They really do.
00:02:37.800 It's called the taint team.
00:02:39.700 Now, if you're wondering what does it take to qualify for the taint team,
00:02:44.100 well, I don't know for sure, but based on the name,
00:02:48.240 you don't want to be a butthole. 0.99
00:02:51.520 If you're a butthole, you cannot be on the taint team. 1.00
00:02:54.540 If you're a dick,
00:02:56.420 now, if you're being a dick, you can't be on the taint team.
00:02:59.860 But if you're somewhere between a butthole and a dick,
00:03:03.840 you're perfect for the taint team.
00:03:07.300 The taint team is ready for you. 0.98
00:03:09.560 Now, just a clarification.
00:03:12.680 The taint team has nothing to do with Andrew Taint.
00:03:16.940 Andrew Taint has been canceled by social media and quite effectively canceled, I would say.
00:03:22.420 He's been erased from history.
00:03:25.800 But that's pronounced differently.
00:03:28.500 Andrew Taint is pronounced and spelled differently.
00:03:32.400 That's T-A-T-E, and that's pronounced taint. 0.68
00:03:36.160 And that's different than the FBI taint team, pronounced taint.
00:03:40.600 So keep those straight.
00:03:44.060 Well, you know those Mar-a-Lago nuclear secrets that were going to destroy the world if anybody saw them?
00:03:51.180 It turns out it's not so much about nuclear secrets.
00:03:57.200 It's, you know, we haven't ruled out nuclear secrets.
00:04:03.380 We haven't ruled it out.
00:04:06.080 But it's probably not so much about that.
00:04:09.840 Now, today the news is it's more about, because the affidavit got released with redactions,
00:04:15.060 it seems to be more a problem of documents.
00:04:17.940 It's a document control problem.
00:04:21.680 Not so much a problem that they were secure documents,
00:04:25.920 not so much a problem that they were secret,
00:04:28.540 although they might have been.
00:04:30.060 We don't know.
00:04:31.080 But it's really a problem of documents.
00:04:35.180 Now, you knew this was bad, didn't you?
00:04:38.540 As soon as you heard this story, you said to yourself,
00:04:41.060 Oh, God, this is bad.
00:04:43.100 This is bad.
00:04:44.480 Mar-a-Lago documents.
00:04:45.940 But now that we've gotten to a little bit closer to the bottom of it,
00:04:50.720 people, I was worried about the pandemic.
00:04:55.720 I was worried about a nuclear war with Putin over Ukraine.
00:04:59.960 I've been worried about the supply chains.
00:05:01.760 I've been worried about the food, the fertilizer.
00:05:05.540 I've been worried about inflation.
00:05:09.020 But nothing, nothing comes to the level of documents.
00:05:15.940 People, I don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't panic you.
00:05:23.360 Trump had documents.
00:05:27.480 I know.
00:05:28.520 I know.
00:05:29.440 Calm down.
00:05:30.220 Calm down.
00:05:31.620 If you need any kind of therapy, you should get it.
00:05:36.460 You might need to talk to a professional.
00:05:37.960 But Trump, and this is almost confirmed.
00:05:43.040 I mean, I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but he...
00:05:47.840 I'm getting emotional.
00:05:52.080 I try not to.
00:05:54.680 But I care about my country so much.
00:05:57.660 People.
00:05:59.240 People.
00:06:01.340 He had documents.
00:06:02.360 He had documents.
00:06:11.740 I'm sorry.
00:06:13.340 I'm sorry.
00:06:16.940 Oh, I love my country so much.
00:06:19.400 And to see it be destroyed right in front of me.
00:06:25.980 America.
00:06:27.180 Come back.
00:06:28.300 Come back.
00:06:30.420 Documents.
00:06:30.900 Documents.
00:06:31.900 He had documents.
00:06:32.740 Documents.
00:06:48.020 Documents.
00:06:48.740 People.
00:07:02.660 Let's try to soldier on.
00:07:05.100 Be strong.
00:07:06.800 Be strong.
00:07:08.780 We can do this if we stick together.
00:07:13.800 Documents.
00:07:14.280 Well, Michael Schellenberger is reporting that the French minister, Barbara Pompili, reportedly
00:07:25.360 she said in March that she told the U.S. Energy Secretary Granholm.
00:07:30.900 So she told Granholm that if the United States wants to help, you have to increase your production
00:07:40.140 of energy if you're going to help us.
00:07:43.560 So France, the French minister asked our energy guru to make more energy.
00:07:53.900 That's the only way to help France.
00:07:55.240 And Granholm said that she would.
00:07:59.540 And then she didn't.
00:08:01.700 Then we did not.
00:08:02.820 The United States did not.
00:08:05.080 Now, I get that.
00:08:05.800 Yeah, that was probably for liquid gas, I'm assuming.
00:08:10.180 Now, is that embarrassing to you as if you're American?
00:08:17.080 That's deeply shameful to me.
00:08:20.940 Because do you remember Lafayette?
00:08:23.140 You know, Lafayette, we are here.
00:08:26.100 You know, Lafayette helped the Americans win the Civil, win the Revolutionary War.
00:08:33.540 And then was it General Patton, who when he landed, he said, Lafayette, we're here, repaying
00:08:41.380 the favor.
00:08:41.780 You know, we do have a special relationship with France.
00:08:46.660 And France is basically having a, not basically, but it's a gigantic security problem.
00:08:53.920 It's not just, you know, food and electricity.
00:08:57.480 It's war.
00:08:59.360 And we're going to let France down in an emergency?
00:09:04.960 What?
00:09:06.380 Are we really doing this?
00:09:07.820 Is the United States, did the United States turn down a direct request from France?
00:09:15.720 From France.
00:09:18.020 Really?
00:09:18.700 Are they going to help us the next time we're fucked?
00:09:22.460 Would you expect them to?
00:09:26.240 You know, reciprocity is a pretty important deal.
00:09:31.600 It may be one of the most important things in the world.
00:09:34.060 And we're just going to ignore reciprocity as one of the most important elements of all
00:09:40.080 our security.
00:09:43.520 This is maybe the worst thing that I've heard of that we've done in a long time.
00:09:50.660 We've done some bad things.
00:09:53.600 Am I having the wrong reaction to this?
00:09:55.860 Because this isn't a regular country that we're talking about.
00:10:01.860 You know, we're not talking about, oh, Ecuador, we've made you a promise and we didn't keep it.
00:10:06.420 This is France.
00:10:09.560 France we have a different relationship with.
00:10:11.700 Am I wrong?
00:10:12.960 Did something change in the last hundred years that nobody told me about?
00:10:16.780 France and the United States have a blood bond.
00:10:19.940 We help them in this situation.
00:10:22.680 Am I wrong?
00:10:23.460 In this situation, we help France.
00:10:30.020 If that's changing, don't expect them to be here when we need help.
00:10:35.340 Good Lord.
00:10:37.020 I mean, this is the most basic thing you would do for an ally.
00:10:41.080 They ask you directly for energy, which you could produce.
00:10:46.100 You know, we could just produce more.
00:10:48.540 And we decided not to do it.
00:10:50.500 After promising them that we would.
00:10:53.960 That's just the skeeviest thing ever.
00:10:56.560 We should be very embarrassed about that.
00:10:58.160 All right.
00:10:58.360 But let's get to the fun story.
00:11:01.240 So Bill Maher had on his show Rob Reiner.
00:11:04.760 And have you wondered to yourself what the hell is wrong with Rob Reiner?
00:11:08.740 Because you've seen his tweets.
00:11:09.860 And his tweets look as if he's in some kind of weird bubble where information is not reaching him except, you know, from the left.
00:11:20.640 And so now we have a confirmation.
00:11:24.080 This actually happened last night.
00:11:26.920 It answers all of your questions.
00:11:28.700 Are you ready?
00:11:29.080 Now, didn't you think?
00:11:33.000 I've got to pause here for a minute.
00:11:38.140 Sorry.
00:11:38.720 I've just got to pause for a moment.
00:11:42.060 There is a way to identify NPCs.
00:11:45.980 Everybody who says the word meathead during this conversation probably is an NPC.
00:11:52.700 Why?
00:11:53.080 Because it's the most obvious thing you would say in this conversation.
00:11:57.720 Oh, that's why they called him Meathead, his character, when he played a character long ago.
00:12:03.200 Oh, Meathead.
00:12:04.980 So you can identify all of the NPCs because they're just going to say Meathead the entire time I'm talking about this.
00:12:11.860 Meathead.
00:12:12.540 Meathead.
00:12:14.020 All right.
00:12:15.640 Oh, my God.
00:12:16.660 You're so boring.
00:12:18.100 Anyway, this actually happened on Bill Maher's show with Rob Reiner.
00:12:21.860 So Maher was saying, talking about the, I think it was about the laptop being suppressed.
00:12:32.380 So Maher said, it's a little bit of a thorny question because once you go down this road, this is sort of where we are in this country.
00:12:40.200 The other side is so evil that anything is justified in preventing them from taking office.
00:12:45.360 Is it?
00:12:47.440 Bill Maher asked.
00:12:49.060 So Bill Maher asked Rob Reiner my question.
00:12:52.660 You remember my question?
00:12:54.320 If you see me tweeting it like a fool for the last couple of weeks.
00:12:58.360 My question was, if you really believe what you say you believe, why wouldn't you do anything to stop Trump from getting an office, including rig an election?
00:13:06.820 And I've been saying, why is there no, there's not even a Republican asking that question.
00:13:13.900 It took Bill Maher to ask the question in public.
00:13:16.720 He's the only one.
00:13:18.540 So Bill Maher, let me give you a sitting ovation for asking the only question that was important, I think.
00:13:27.460 The only important question was, have we reached a situation where you would expect the Democrats to cheat on an election?
00:13:34.360 Of course you would.
00:13:36.820 I would.
00:13:38.020 Now I'm not saying I have evidence that happened, but under the current situation, of course you would expect that.
00:13:43.340 Of course you would.
00:13:44.360 Because I would.
00:13:45.540 If the situation were reversed, and I believed, I really believed, I were stopping some kind of Hitler monster, I would rig an election. 0.93
00:13:55.320 Wouldn't you?
00:13:57.260 Wouldn't you?
00:13:58.280 I mean, seriously.
00:13:58.880 And you have to ask that question.
00:14:00.960 Because that's a very important part of the context of everything we're talking about.
00:14:05.720 All right, so Bill Maher, to his everlasting credit, asked exactly the only question we should be asking is, if it's gotten that bad, you know, what is there that you wouldn't do?
00:14:16.980 And then what did Rob Reiner do when he asked the only important question?
00:14:23.340 He dodged it.
00:14:24.580 And he changed the topic.
00:14:26.600 To that January 6th stuff was bad, wasn't it?
00:14:30.180 He couldn't even handle the question.
00:14:31.900 And then when Maher said they buried the Hunter Biden story before the election, because they were like, quote, we can't risk having the election thrown to Trump.
00:14:47.140 We'll tell them after the election.
00:14:49.620 And so now you all know that that's true, right?
00:14:52.040 There's no doubt in the news about whether the laptop story is, first of all, true.
00:15:00.740 It really belonged to Hunter.
00:15:02.360 And second of all, it's also completely true that 50 current and ex-intelligent officials lied and said it was Russian disinformation.
00:15:13.220 Now, that's just well-known information, right?
00:15:15.780 Is there anybody here who didn't know those two facts?
00:15:18.260 Is there any person here who didn't know those things to be true, that it was really Hunter's laptop, and that really the government colluded to say that it wasn't, to change the result of the election?
00:15:31.640 That's just, we all know that, right?
00:15:33.440 There's not a single person here who doesn't think that's true, right?
00:15:37.420 Because I don't believe that's in question.
00:15:39.680 I believe that's now just a fact that both sides would say is a fact.
00:15:43.900 Here's what Rob Reiner said to that.
00:15:45.640 And we know for a fact that that's what they did.
00:15:48.920 Reiner responded, he actually didn't know that.
00:15:53.160 He was hearing it for the first time.
00:15:56.180 And Marr yelled, of course.
00:16:00.140 You don't follow this?
00:16:02.560 Marr was actually finding out that Rob Reiner wasn't following this story, the biggest story, or one of them, in the news.
00:16:11.180 And yeah, he tweets about it.
00:16:12.500 He's very involved in politics.
00:16:13.680 And the size of this story, and Rob Reiner had not heard about it, like heard about the full story.
00:16:22.660 And then Marr said, oh, then Reiner said, I don't know what they did.
00:16:28.100 So he admitted it.
00:16:29.780 He was not familiar with the story.
00:16:32.520 And then Marr quipped, I know because you only watch MSNBC, which is exactly the correct answer.
00:16:39.640 So Marr called him out for being in a bubble and not knowing something that even other people in the bubble know is true.
00:16:47.000 Like he's within a bubble within a bubble.
00:16:49.620 I don't think, that's not fair.
00:16:50.960 I don't think Bill Marr's in a bubble.
00:16:52.740 I think Bill Marr is actually able to move between bubbles.
00:16:56.060 Yeah, and Zucker confirmed that the FBI asked Facebook to tamp down on the story.
00:17:07.640 So now, does this not answer your question?
00:17:12.580 So you think you have a political divide in this country, but we don't.
00:17:16.440 You just found out what's happening.
00:17:21.120 We don't have a political difference in this country.
00:17:24.240 We do have differences of opinions, but everything that you think is this great divide where we're at each other, it's all because of news bubbles.
00:17:34.880 The news business has created all of it.
00:17:37.400 None of this is real.
00:17:38.780 None of this is real when you meet your neighbor, right?
00:17:44.100 You and your neighbor are fine.
00:17:45.560 It's just that people have been completely hypnotized by one bubble.
00:17:49.940 And by the way, it would be just as bad if you somehow only watched right-leaning media, right?
00:17:56.980 I'm not saying that the left is the one that's wrong and the right is always right.
00:18:00.500 I'm saying that whichever bubble you stay in, you're lost.
00:18:04.220 You're lost if you can't get out of your bubble.
00:18:06.120 And Rob Reiner confessed on a national show that he doesn't follow the news that he comments on emotionally.
00:18:16.720 It's exactly what you thought, wasn't it?
00:18:19.800 Or did you think there was something else going on?
00:18:23.140 Did you think he was well-informed and lying?
00:18:25.180 Or did you think this was exactly what it looked like?
00:18:29.540 He didn't know the news.
00:18:31.620 You think he knew.
00:18:33.840 So some people are saying he knew when he was lying.
00:18:35.900 I don't think so.
00:18:37.340 Because if he knew, he would have played it differently.
00:18:40.400 He would have tried to excuse his behavior.
00:18:44.520 But he didn't.
00:18:45.440 He just said he didn't know.
00:18:46.980 That's different.
00:18:49.060 Well, we now have a very clear pattern, which is when the Democrats are going to do something super criminal,
00:18:56.500 they will blame the Republicans of doing that same thing.
00:19:01.100 Because it makes your own crime completely invisible.
00:19:04.880 It's a psychological trick to make your own crime invisible.
00:19:08.880 So when the Democrats were colluding with Russia to create this Steele dossier,
00:19:14.520 what was the accusation?
00:19:17.300 The accusation was Republicans are colluding with Russia.
00:19:20.920 So while the Democrats were literally, and this is now a fact, colluding with Russians,
00:19:26.660 not Russia necessarily, but Russians,
00:19:29.260 they were literally colluding with Russians,
00:19:32.080 and they created this narrative that the Republicans were doing it.
00:19:36.340 Now, of course, things get gray,
00:19:39.000 because Manafort was, in fact, doing a sketchy deal with a Russian.
00:19:43.240 Basically, Manafort was selling a rich Russian guy worthless information.
00:19:48.980 How much does internal polling, how much is that worth to a Russian?
00:19:54.780 Pretty much nothing.
00:19:57.000 And that's what Manafort was accused of giving a Russian guy.
00:20:00.560 Internal polling.
00:20:02.360 That's no value at all.
00:20:04.380 None.
00:20:04.760 It was probably just so the Russian could say that he had some information when he talked to Putin,
00:20:10.460 so he could be, like, more of an insider or something.
00:20:12.620 That's probably all it was.
00:20:14.380 Now, that really happened, and Manafort has to pay for that, and he is.
00:20:19.820 So now we've seen the pattern.
00:20:21.620 So if they're going to collude with Russia,
00:20:23.300 they will accuse you of colluding with Russia.
00:20:28.540 And now, with January 6th,
00:20:38.100 the January 6th to many Republicans looks like it was an insurrection, right?
00:20:44.900 Because there was a, you know, the laptop story was suppressed,
00:20:50.400 and I would think you could call that insurrection,
00:20:53.500 because it changed the nature of the vote, probably.
00:20:56.820 It probably changed the nature of the vote.
00:20:59.340 So what do the Democrats say when they stage a successful insurrection?
00:21:05.480 Because it was successful.
00:21:07.440 Biden actually won because of the,
00:21:11.660 probably won because the 50 intel agents said it was Russian disinformation.
00:21:16.740 It probably made the difference.
00:21:18.000 We don't know for sure.
00:21:18.820 But, so, they stage a successful insurrection,
00:21:22.860 and then the first thing they do to cover their crime
00:21:25.360 is to blame the Republicans of an insurrection.
00:21:29.120 So the Republicans who were trying to stop
00:21:31.260 what they thought was an insurrection,
00:21:34.320 meaning that they thought the vote was rigged,
00:21:36.800 and I'm not saying it was rigged,
00:21:38.280 I'm saying that's what they thought.
00:21:39.320 So now we see two major cases where the Democrats did a crime
00:21:45.860 and then very publicly accused the Republicans of that same crime.
00:21:51.660 But if you do the accusation big enough,
00:21:54.220 it actually erases your ability to see that they're the ones
00:21:57.760 who committed that same crime.
00:21:59.000 And it works.
00:22:02.460 We're watching it work right now.
00:22:04.240 It works twice.
00:22:07.640 Well, let's talk about canceling those student loan debts.
00:22:10.420 So, remember when Biden said that the cuts would be paid for?
00:22:17.440 And then that got redefined for,
00:22:19.440 well, what we mean by paid for
00:22:21.520 is that we saved money in other ways unrelated to this,
00:22:26.300 and so that gives us some money to spend
00:22:28.520 because we would have spent more in those other ways,
00:22:31.520 but we didn't.
00:22:32.280 So, therefore, free money.
00:22:38.480 Now, isn't this exactly where Democrats get money?
00:22:43.580 Let me explain a Republican who needs money.
00:22:47.340 I'm a Republican.
00:22:48.800 I need some money.
00:22:50.120 What will I do?
00:22:52.160 What are my options?
00:22:54.160 Let's see.
00:22:54.600 I could get a job.
00:22:56.280 I could work.
00:22:57.600 I could work and I could make myself some money.
00:23:00.220 That's what I'm going to do.
00:23:01.060 I'm going to go work and get myself some money.
00:23:03.620 So, that would be a Republican plan.
00:23:05.420 Here's a Democrat.
00:23:06.460 Needs money.
00:23:07.140 Needs money.
00:23:08.740 Who already has some money?
00:23:12.700 Suppose I could get that money from them without working.
00:23:16.740 Wouldn't that be cool?
00:23:18.420 All right.
00:23:19.040 I'll try to do that.
00:23:20.840 I mean, it's a totally different...
00:23:23.180 The mindset is that somebody has my money
00:23:25.620 and I have to go get it.
00:23:27.800 Democrats actually believe
00:23:29.400 that other people have your money.
00:23:32.440 Oh, I have money.
00:23:33.660 It's just that somebody else is holding it right now.
00:23:36.100 I got lots of money.
00:23:37.780 If you would just take it out of your pocket
00:23:39.640 and put it where it belongs back in my pocket,
00:23:41.860 I'd have all my money.
00:23:43.620 But you're holding all my money now.
00:23:46.260 Give me back all my money that you earned.
00:23:48.240 And this feels like more of that
00:23:52.640 because they're trying to find a correlation
00:23:55.940 between it's possible for me to take money from you,
00:24:01.220 therefore it's free.
00:24:04.500 That's the summary of what their actual explanation is.
00:24:07.900 They're saying that since it was possible
00:24:09.640 to change the budget in other ways
00:24:12.220 that would have reduced it by $300 billion more,
00:24:16.120 but now they can take some of that back.
00:24:19.180 So they're taking back the thing that wasn't real.
00:24:22.680 Basically, it's all about finding free money.
00:24:25.720 So they use words.
00:24:27.780 They use words to create a structure
00:24:30.640 that makes it right for them to transfer money
00:24:33.280 from wherever it is into your pocket to somewhere else.
00:24:37.220 Yeah, it's called theft.
00:24:38.140 Well, and of course you know that Pelosi a year ago or so
00:24:43.460 said that Biden can't do that.
00:24:46.080 He doesn't have the authority.
00:24:47.960 I guess he can delay debt, but he can't cancel it.
00:24:50.860 Only Congress can do that.
00:24:53.740 So what's going to happen now?
00:24:56.880 What's going to happen?
00:24:58.200 So Biden signs the executive order.
00:25:00.960 Pelosi is on record of saying that's illegal.
00:25:03.100 He can't do that.
00:25:04.820 What happens?
00:25:05.740 Has anybody gamed this out yet?
00:25:08.920 Does Pelosi change her mind?
00:25:12.000 Or does she go against Biden and try to get it done
00:25:16.320 and she probably wouldn't succeed, actually,
00:25:18.880 because the Republicans would hold tough in the Senate?
00:25:22.220 So what happens now?
00:25:25.580 I mean, to me, it feels like it can't happen.
00:25:29.960 Like, I don't think it's going to happen.
00:25:31.680 I don't think that cancellation is going to happen.
00:25:34.500 What do you think?
00:25:36.440 And then somebody said that there can't be a lawsuit
00:25:39.000 unless somebody has standing.
00:25:40.940 How in the world do I not have standing?
00:25:44.680 Don't I have standing?
00:25:48.000 Because it seems to me that somebody is just taking my money
00:25:51.600 and giving it to somebody else without legal process.
00:25:54.620 If somebody takes my money and gives it to somebody else
00:25:57.880 without legal process, don't I have standing for a lawsuit?
00:26:02.220 That seems like the simplest, most exact explanation
00:26:05.760 of what legal standing would be.
00:26:09.140 I think so.
00:26:11.280 So how many of you think this is actually going to happen?
00:26:13.880 I'm going to go on record with my prediction
00:26:16.560 that there will not, in the end,
00:26:19.480 be a successful debt relief for...
00:26:23.760 And I think maybe they'll be just as happy...
00:26:28.120 Why'd you go all racist on me?
00:26:32.060 What's up with that?
00:26:34.920 I'm going to get rid of you.
00:26:35.960 All right, well, that's happening.
00:26:52.400 Is this my imagination, or did this actually happen?
00:26:56.260 Did all of this smart Democrat pundits
00:26:59.280 suddenly go silent on Mar-a-Lago?
00:27:02.380 Because I see people still talking about it on Twitter,
00:27:07.400 but if you were to take all the Democrats,
00:27:09.920 the left-leaning people who talk about politics,
00:27:12.800 and you were to rank them,
00:27:14.980 I'd say I'd put somebody like David Axelrod
00:27:17.560 at the top of the rational people.
00:27:20.700 I'd just like to use him as my example.
00:27:22.640 I don't think he says crazy things.
00:27:25.140 He says things that are clearly for his team,
00:27:28.220 but they're fairly transparent.
00:27:29.820 You know when he's doing it.
00:27:30.860 He's not crazy.
00:27:33.100 But, you know, there are some that'll just say anything.
00:27:37.000 Just any crazy thing.
00:27:39.220 And those are the ones that are still talking about
00:27:41.000 Mar-a-Lago being a bad thing.
00:27:43.520 But I feel like all of the left-leaning critics
00:27:46.740 who are sort of in a slightly credible situation,
00:27:54.000 they're just backing off.
00:27:56.000 Now, Dershowitz did weigh in
00:27:57.940 and said it looks like there was enough for an indictment.
00:28:01.200 But you all know that that doesn't mean anything, right?
00:28:04.260 An indictment can easily be gotten
00:28:06.280 just because somebody says,
00:28:07.540 well, we think there's something there,
00:28:08.800 we better go look.
00:28:10.720 So getting an indictment doesn't tell you anything
00:28:12.700 about whether there was a crime.
00:28:13.980 Axelrod said Obama was lying when he was anti-gay marriage.
00:28:22.600 Yeah.
00:28:22.800 So that's an example of where Axelrod is credible.
00:28:26.320 So what we know now from this affidavit
00:28:37.000 is that it did not establish that Trump was unresponsive.
00:28:42.980 So the reason that the FBI says they had to go in there
00:28:48.020 is that Trump was unresponsive.
00:28:49.860 Now, he might have been.
00:28:51.220 I'm not saying he was or it was not.
00:28:52.940 But the documents apparently don't establish that.
00:28:56.260 So that would, if it's true,
00:28:57.500 it would have to be established with some other evidence.
00:28:59.820 But then, of course, there's this enormous gray area
00:29:04.480 of what does it mean to be unresponsive or uncooperative?
00:29:08.460 Because I doubt it was completely uncooperative
00:29:11.460 because they gave some boxes back.
00:29:13.500 Don't you think it was more like there was a dispute?
00:29:16.380 As in, we think you should give us these things back,
00:29:20.160 and then they said,
00:29:20.980 well, we think that the law says we don't have to.
00:29:24.160 I'm not so sure that that was just being unresponsive.
00:29:27.160 Maybe it was just being,
00:29:29.580 I have a different opinion about whether you could have this.
00:29:33.180 Maybe it was just that.
00:29:34.360 I don't know.
00:29:35.120 But I think it's not going to be as simple as
00:29:37.260 ignore their phone calls or something like that.
00:29:45.460 So I think the story has gone now from
00:29:49.380 he's got nuclear secrets to
00:29:51.040 he did not handle documents correctly.
00:29:54.480 And I guess there's some laws about that, too.
00:29:57.160 Now, I guess it's legal for him to have photocopies
00:29:59.500 of everything there.
00:30:01.580 Isn't that weird?
00:30:07.180 That he legally, apparently, he could have had photocopies
00:30:11.080 because he could have declassified the material.
00:30:14.420 So he could have all the information in any way he wanted.
00:30:17.280 He just couldn't have the originals.
00:30:18.580 So was this really only a debate about the originals?
00:30:24.080 Because I do think the government probably owns the originals.
00:30:27.120 I don't know.
00:30:28.780 So if it turns out that's all it was,
00:30:31.600 was a debate about whether he could have copies or the originals,
00:30:36.920 that's sort of close to nothing, isn't it?
00:30:39.920 That's about as close as you can get to nothing.
00:30:42.160 I mean, I get that they need to take care of that stuff,
00:30:46.500 but it's pretty close to nothing.
00:30:51.040 All right.
00:30:53.500 Here's some good news for you.
00:30:55.140 I saw this in a tweet by Navin Cabra.
00:30:59.140 Apparently, we're on our way to very soon
00:31:02.020 having more students in the U.S. studying computer science
00:31:05.240 than all of the humanities degrees put together.
00:31:08.420 How about that?
00:31:11.040 I bet you didn't see that coming.
00:31:12.680 So between science degrees and computer science degrees,
00:31:15.720 which are both on a steep upward curve,
00:31:19.880 the social sciences are on a steep downward curve.
00:31:24.880 So it looks like things work out.
00:31:27.600 Maybe if you wait, things just work out.
00:31:30.340 Things adjust.
00:31:32.160 So that's good news.
00:31:34.520 Until the computers learn to program themselves,
00:31:37.380 at which point all of those degrees will be worthless.
00:31:42.060 And then you're going to wish you had an English degree.
00:31:46.260 Actually, I don't know what the computers will do better first.
00:31:49.960 My job or computing.
00:31:55.720 All right.
00:31:56.080 Here's a tweet that can only be tweeted by a woman 0.99
00:32:00.580 and get away with it.
00:32:02.760 Okay?
00:32:03.360 So I'm going to read the tweet,
00:32:04.640 but the thing you have to know
00:32:06.560 is that it was a woman.
00:32:10.460 All right?
00:32:11.000 Because if I said this, I'd get in trouble.
00:32:13.800 But a woman can say it. 1.00
00:32:15.680 All right?
00:32:16.000 So the woman is, I think, Gael Keiko.
00:32:21.740 She's got a JD.
00:32:22.860 So it's a pretty serious professional woman
00:32:27.460 who's got some credentials.
00:32:29.420 And she tweeted this.
00:32:31.180 The reality is we are living in a matriarchal society. 1.00
00:32:34.840 Men are not the leaders.
00:32:36.300 Women are. 1.00
00:32:37.440 We're not going to war.
00:32:39.240 We meaning women.
00:32:40.800 We're not going to war hunting for food
00:32:42.960 nor hand-building houses to survive.
00:32:45.880 We exist in a narration.
00:32:48.400 Women are the narrators, 1.00
00:32:49.600 and their appeals or entreaties affect men far and wide.
00:32:54.440 So basically, if I could paraphrase this,
00:32:58.360 women are the actors 1.00
00:32:59.900 and men are just the supporting players.
00:33:03.780 Now, there's a version of this that I used to say,
00:33:07.920 which was maybe men make the money, 0.80
00:33:13.100 but who spends it?
00:33:14.000 Who spends most of the money in your household
00:33:17.920 if you have a traditional household?
00:33:21.580 Don't the women make most of the spending decisions? 1.00
00:33:27.000 I think most of my money has been spent by women. 1.00
00:33:32.360 Yeah.
00:33:32.740 I mean, obviously, both of you are going to decide
00:33:35.340 on the house and the car and stuff like that.
00:33:37.460 But isn't it true that the woman has spending authority 1.00
00:33:41.140 that's not calculated into who's getting what abilities?
00:33:49.320 So here's why I thought this was interesting
00:33:51.960 on a meta level.
00:33:54.200 Because not only is...
00:33:56.120 I hope I'm pronouncing it right.
00:33:57.600 G-Y-A-L. 1.00
00:33:58.980 How would you pronounce that?
00:34:00.320 G-Y-A-L? 0.96
00:34:02.740 G-Y-A-L? 0.96
00:34:03.580 Or G-Y-A-L? 1.00
00:34:05.500 Right?
00:34:05.880 I'd say G-Y-A-L. 1.00
00:34:06.680 But her point is made because I couldn't tweet that.
00:34:13.040 So this is something a woman can say in public. 1.00
00:34:15.900 And, you know, she gets a little pushback, but it's fine.
00:34:18.760 But if I said that, it would haunt me for the rest of my days.
00:34:22.180 Am I wrong?
00:34:23.720 If I had tweeted that idea,
00:34:26.100 it would haunt me for the rest of my days.
00:34:28.400 I would be practically cancelled for it.
00:34:31.040 So her point is made.
00:34:32.540 She can say this, but I can't.
00:34:34.580 It's a matriarchal society. 1.00
00:34:36.680 And generally speaking, women have a greater freedom of speech. 0.95
00:34:41.320 Wouldn't you say?
00:34:42.640 It's not even close.
00:34:47.640 G-Y-A-L, you say?
00:34:49.360 G-Y-A-L? 0.96
00:34:50.260 Maybe.
00:34:55.720 Because men allow it.
00:34:57.360 Yeah.
00:34:58.280 Why do men allow women to be in control? 1.00
00:35:03.220 Let me get that.
00:35:04.000 Why do men... 0.94
00:35:06.480 Well, you say sex.
00:35:07.760 That's part of the answer.
00:35:10.360 No.
00:35:10.960 That's almost the answer.
00:35:12.940 Partial credit.
00:35:14.560 Why do men let women get away with whatever they want, basically? 1.00
00:35:20.060 It's because men can't use violence.
00:35:22.960 Violence is taken out of the equation.
00:35:24.480 If men could use violence, then men would be in charge in all their relationships with women. 0.93
00:35:31.020 But we can't.
00:35:32.520 I'm not saying we should.
00:35:34.080 I'm not arguing for violence.
00:35:35.840 Don't mistake that.
00:35:37.940 I'm just saying that you take a situation which biology had created,
00:35:43.160 which is, there's a big one and a small one.
00:35:45.380 The big one's usually in charge until you develop civilization and laws.
00:35:51.800 And as soon as you put in the civilization and the laws, which have many benefits, many benefits,
00:35:58.300 it puts women in charge. 1.00
00:36:00.700 So women in relationships are in charge. 1.00
00:36:04.060 Women who are not in relationships, far less in charge. 0.98
00:36:07.700 Now, I know what some of you are saying.
00:36:13.700 You're saying, damn it.
00:36:15.440 Damn it, Scott.
00:36:16.740 You just need to get a better woman. 1.00
00:36:18.980 And then the woman will recognize your patriarchal rule. 1.00
00:36:23.600 To which I say, you're right.
00:36:25.520 I wouldn't argue that point.
00:36:27.380 If you can find somebody who's compatible with you in that way, that would be terrific.
00:36:31.560 Go do that. 0.52
00:36:33.420 I'm just saying that the normal situation, not what it should be,
00:36:36.700 not what you should do, not what I do, has nothing to do with us individually.
00:36:41.700 I'm just saying, in general, men are completely neutered because they can't use violence.
00:36:48.560 And shouldn't.
00:36:49.660 And shouldn't.
00:36:50.980 But as long as the situation is that the men, their primary tool is taken away from them,
00:36:56.960 but women's primary tool of having control of the sexual resource, that is not taken away. 1.00
00:37:04.460 So if one person has a weapon and the other doesn't, who's in charge?
00:37:09.380 It's not a hard question.
00:37:11.120 If only one person has a weapon, it's the one in charge.
00:37:18.560 All right.
00:37:21.120 It's all because of man buns, if somebody says.
00:37:23.480 Yes.
00:37:24.100 Man buns ruined everything. 1.00
00:37:31.300 Women theoretically protect the family with men's resources. 1.00
00:37:35.500 That's true.
00:37:36.980 You both protect the family with both of your resources.
00:37:40.980 What about porn?
00:37:42.260 Takes away from women. 1.00
00:37:43.180 Yeah.
00:37:43.820 So porn is a way that men try to regain power. 0.99
00:37:47.480 And what do women say about porn? 1.00
00:37:52.220 You miserable loser using that porn.
00:37:55.540 Do you know why women hate porn? 0.89
00:37:57.320 It's competition.
00:37:58.680 Takes their power away.
00:38:00.200 Because a guy can just say, all right, well, if I'm not getting sex, I always got porn.
00:38:04.880 So it's sort of a power equalizer.
00:38:10.160 So women reasonably don't like it. 1.00
00:38:17.740 You're describing males, not men.
00:38:20.860 Not men. 0.69
00:38:24.640 The whole, you know, if you're man enough, everything will work out.
00:38:30.540 That's not a thing.
00:38:32.360 If you're man enough and you're lucky enough or smart enough to find a woman who is happy 1.00
00:38:38.760 with that situation, well, that's great.
00:38:41.520 But you can't just man your way to make every situation work.
00:38:46.760 You're not going to alpha every woman because they don't need to be alpha. 0.99
00:38:52.440 They'll just say, well, good luck getting sex.
00:38:57.180 And I'll take half your money if you've got a complaint.
00:39:02.360 And Erica says, it's because I'm beta.
00:39:06.840 Erica, you are operating at the lowest.
00:39:09.320 This is a different Erica.
00:39:10.440 Not the Erica we like.
00:39:12.600 This would be a bad Erica.
00:39:14.380 Apparently there's a doppelganger Erica who says dumb things on YouTube. 1.00
00:39:19.840 So not the one who says smart, clever things on locals,
00:39:22.880 but there's a dumb one on YouTube.
00:39:28.000 So...
00:39:28.400 Dark Erica.
00:39:36.320 So the NPC take is that whatever my opinion is,
00:39:40.440 is because there's something wrong with me.
00:39:42.140 The lowest level of thinking is that the cause of my opinion
00:39:48.540 is some personal problem I have.
00:39:51.580 Now, I'm not saying that that's not true,
00:39:54.100 but it's true of everybody.
00:39:55.640 You know, your personal situation always filters out through your opinions.
00:40:00.620 So that's true.
00:40:01.840 But if that's all you have to add,
00:40:04.200 that your personal experience might have something to do with your decisions,
00:40:07.340 you're not really adding much.
00:40:08.540 So, if you want to be an NPC,
00:40:12.340 here's how to contribute in any argument.
00:40:16.360 Somebody says,
00:40:18.200 I think the corporate tax rate should be lower.
00:40:22.300 What you do is go into the comments and say,
00:40:25.400 well, you would say that because you're ugly.
00:40:28.860 Or, five years ago you tweeted something I disagreed with,
00:40:32.740 so, so, duh.
00:40:35.120 Yeah, that's the NPC way to go.
00:40:38.620 Go after the person.
00:40:39.880 Don't go after the argument.
00:40:41.340 Because if you go after the argument,
00:40:42.800 you'll be instantly revealed as being empty and useless.
00:40:47.040 So you have to go after the person.
00:40:49.620 Very important.
00:40:56.280 Will you get a picture of the kid's loan you paid off?
00:40:58.880 Advice about women coming from you is hilarious.
00:41:06.120 David, did I give you advice?
00:41:08.420 Did you hear...
00:41:10.440 Oh, you mean advice about women?
00:41:12.560 Did I give anybody advice?
00:41:14.680 Did you hear that?
00:41:16.400 Did anybody hear any advice that I just gave?
00:41:19.320 Because David did.
00:41:20.840 David heard me give advice.
00:41:24.460 So, you're hallucinating.
00:41:26.120 And you see how he phrased it?
00:41:31.500 He phrased it that it's something wrong with me.
00:41:35.280 That's the NPC approach.
00:41:37.700 You didn't have any problem with what I said.
00:41:40.100 You had a problem that it was me.
00:41:43.200 So, check yourself, NPC.
00:41:45.180 If you thought you were real, you just found out you're not.
00:41:49.000 Because the real people would say something about the argument,
00:41:51.900 or maybe something additive, something funny.
00:41:56.020 But if you're an NPC, all you can say is,
00:41:58.720 there's something wrong with the person.
00:42:00.820 There's something wrong with the person who said that.
00:42:04.140 Something wrong with the person.
00:42:05.240 So, did you see that Trump truthed or, you know, he posted a redacted page
00:42:24.740 and the only thing unredacted was make America great again?
00:42:29.860 And you saw some other people do the joke where everything was redacted
00:42:34.600 except the words, orange man bad.
00:42:37.600 Where did you see that joke first?
00:42:41.440 Where did you see that joke first?
00:42:43.140 That's my joke.
00:42:44.640 I did that the last time we were dealing with some redaction.
00:42:47.620 I think other people did it too.
00:42:49.340 It's not like I was the first one to think of it.
00:42:52.500 But somebody asked me if that's the greatest response Trump ever had,
00:42:56.000 to which I said, it's not really original.
00:42:59.680 It's funny.
00:43:01.220 It wasn't original when I did it either.
00:43:06.980 All right.
00:43:10.360 What about women and the hot food thing? 1.00
00:43:12.460 What about it?
00:43:18.940 All right.
00:43:21.180 Yeah, the one with Biden trying to climb up the redacted lines on the document,
00:43:25.580 that was really well done.
00:43:31.960 I was just watching, who was it, Jamie?
00:43:36.960 Who's the actor, musician, played Ray Charles?
00:43:41.400 Jamie?
00:43:42.960 Why don't I remember his name?
00:43:45.100 Jamie Foxx played Ray Charles.
00:43:47.320 I saw a clip about him talking about how he said that attractive people are not billionaires.
00:43:57.700 Attractive men, I think.
00:43:59.420 Attractive men are not billionaires, usually.
00:44:02.260 And his reason was that if you're attractive, you don't need to be a billionaire.
00:44:06.860 Because the only reason you would acquire that many resources is to compensate for not being attractive.
00:44:11.660 Because the only thing people care about is their mating instinct.
00:44:16.100 And I thought, okay, that's exactly right.
00:44:18.760 That is exactly right.
00:44:20.640 The less attractive you are, if you're a man, this is for men, 1.00
00:44:25.360 the less attractive you are, the harder you work to have something to compensate for that.
00:44:29.700 I can tell you absolutely that when I was 11 years old,
00:44:34.920 I looked in the mirror and said, I'm going to have to have a good job.
00:44:40.200 Truly.
00:44:41.460 Truly.
00:44:42.540 At 11 years old, I could tell, okay, I'm going to need a really good job
00:44:46.140 to compensate for this shit.
00:44:50.700 That's a true story.
00:44:52.460 And from about that age, I said, I'm going to really have to kill it in order to have options.
00:44:57.320 And so I worked hard to try to kill it.
00:45:01.800 But you don't think everybody has that realization fairly early?
00:45:06.640 Because you do notice really early that the attractive kids are getting away with more, right?
00:45:11.960 Especially the attractive females. 1.00
00:45:13.880 You notice that from the earliest age.
00:45:16.260 The attractive ones get away with murder. 1.00
00:45:18.760 They notice it too.
00:45:20.280 They know they don't have to work hard to have a good life.
00:45:22.660 They really don't.
00:45:23.420 If they can keep their looks, they can coast.
00:45:27.800 That's how it works.
00:45:32.760 Being good-looking works against guys as they age?
00:45:36.360 Really?
00:45:37.000 I don't know about that.
00:45:38.760 I don't think being good-looking works against anybody.
00:45:41.160 You've never turned a woman's head except away in disgust, somebody says.
00:45:52.400 Do I think Joe Biden knew about the raid?
00:45:56.740 I don't know, and I'm not sure I care.
00:46:00.620 I'm not sure that's important.
00:46:02.720 You know, you could easily imagine that they didn't tell him it was going to happen
00:46:08.180 so that he wouldn't have to say he knew, you know?
00:46:10.620 I mean, I'm not sure it matters.
00:46:18.320 You know, it's possible that there are a lot of things that Joe Biden doesn't know.
00:46:21.920 That just might be one of them.
00:46:23.060 I'm the best.
00:46:30.640 Thank you.
00:46:34.300 Talk about Sam Harris.
00:46:35.920 I haven't listened to his new podcast about Trump yet, but I think I will do that.
00:46:41.760 I will key that up this morning.
00:46:46.540 Yeah.
00:46:47.580 I don't know.
00:46:48.040 How much does it really matter if...
00:46:50.040 Does it matter if the Biden administration knew what the FBI was doing?
00:46:53.440 Because my assumption is that the FBI is working its own game.
00:47:00.720 I don't think that the FBI is taking orders from Biden.
00:47:05.480 I think it might be the other way around.
00:47:07.760 What do you think?
00:47:09.140 Because, remember, the FBI has interfered with both Democrat and Republican candidates.
00:47:14.580 In recent years, they've interfered with both Democrats and Republicans,
00:47:18.940 which suggests that they're playing their own game,
00:47:22.240 that they're in it for their own, you know, retention of power.
00:47:25.800 So I don't think that they necessarily tell Biden anything, unless it helps them.
00:47:30.720 I don't think it has to do with Biden.
00:47:34.940 I think they...
00:47:36.060 I think that Trump was too dangerous to have in the job for the FBI.
00:47:40.460 And so they made sure he wasn't in the job anymore.
00:47:51.160 Yeah.
00:47:51.840 Working independently.
00:47:53.120 Right.
00:47:53.280 So I'm not sure there's that big difference between having a conversation with somebody
00:47:58.520 versus just knowing what they would like you to do.
00:48:02.020 You know, when people talk about the Russian troll farm,
00:48:05.900 they did not say Putin ordered them to interfere in the election.
00:48:11.320 They don't say that.
00:48:12.020 They say it's likely that there was a billionaire who wanted to put himself in good standing with Putin
00:48:18.440 and simply had an idea of what Putin might want him to do.
00:48:23.100 And so he used his troll farm to, you know, do some memes in the election.
00:48:27.700 Then probably went to Putin and said,
00:48:29.280 Hey, look what I did for you.
00:48:31.020 You know, we're buddies.
00:48:32.480 You and me.
00:48:33.620 I'm helping you.
00:48:34.640 You help me.
00:48:35.500 I think that was the whole game.
00:48:36.760 And those memes were completely useless, and they actually attacked both sides,
00:48:42.940 Hillary and Trump.
00:48:44.680 But they helped Trump more than Hillary.
00:48:47.160 It's just there was no impact, really.
00:48:53.100 Hey, Tango, I see that callback.
00:49:02.140 Yeah, Zuckerberg said blocking the laptop story fit the pattern.
00:49:06.760 But the FBI told them that there was going to be a big Russian disinformation dump coming.
00:49:13.400 So when it fit the pattern, that wasn't an accident,
00:49:16.220 because the FBI established the pattern and then said,
00:49:19.500 Hey, watch out for this pattern.
00:49:21.400 So by the time that Facebook saw the pattern, they had been well-primed for it.
00:49:25.680 So I think that was a pretty specific case of the FBI staging an insurrection.
00:49:33.680 I would call that an insurrection, wouldn't you?
00:49:38.820 If the FBI tells social media to tamp down a story that would change the nature of the election,
00:49:45.860 that's an insurrection.
00:49:48.000 What else would it be?
00:49:50.180 Or a coup?
00:49:52.520 I mean, to me, the evidence is right there.
00:49:55.040 Now, why is it that you can't see that the FBI getting Facebook to clamp down on that is an insurrection?
00:50:05.660 Do you know why we can't see it?
00:50:07.220 I mean, if you're on the other side of the politics, you can.
00:50:10.060 But do you know why the Democrats can't see that?
00:50:12.720 It's because of the trick they use where they accuse the other side of their crime.
00:50:18.600 As long as your accusation of the same crime is bigger and getting all the attention,
00:50:24.560 it's literally invisible that you did the crime, even when it's completely in evidence.
00:50:29.700 So the evidence of the Democrats doing something horrible is not even in question.
00:50:37.200 Is there anybody who's doubting Zuckerberg's account?
00:50:43.120 I don't think so.
00:50:44.280 There's nobody who says that Zuckerberg's lying.
00:50:46.900 There's nobody who says, no, the FBI did not do that.
00:50:49.520 We did not warn you that there was some disinformation coming.
00:50:53.180 It's all right there.
00:50:54.660 So this evidence is not even in doubt.
00:50:57.880 So just think about this.
00:50:59.640 The evidence that nobody questions paints a clear picture of insurrection.
00:51:06.580 Clear.
00:51:07.720 There's no gray area there at all.
00:51:09.400 They were trying to affect the election by getting the media to suppress a major story about a candidate that was true.
00:51:17.060 It was a true story about probably sketchy dealings with Ukraine.
00:51:23.840 Now, compare the story that is absolutely true and everybody knows it's true.
00:51:27.300 There's not even any question about the facts.
00:51:30.420 Compare that with, say, the January 6th allegations where everything's sort of sketchy.
00:51:36.240 Meaning that two-thirds of the people who were there definitely were there to try to save the republic and not overthrow it.
00:51:43.900 And that nobody brought weapons.
00:51:45.560 I mean, I'm sorry.
00:51:47.240 There were weapons in attendance.
00:51:48.660 But the so-called insurrectionists did not use guns for their insurrection.
00:51:54.200 So what kind of an insurrection is that?
00:51:57.000 So you've got two competing stories.
00:51:59.860 One is a known fact that the FBI threw the election.
00:52:05.380 It's not even a question.
00:52:08.840 There's no dispute about that fact.
00:52:12.540 And yet we ignore that because there's this bigger thing that's ambiguous.
00:52:16.980 As long as the bigger ambiguous thing is drawing all our attention, it's actually invisible that we have all the facts we need to put the entire FBI in jail.
00:52:28.040 The leadership of the FBI, anyway.
00:52:30.200 They should actually be in jail.
00:52:33.120 And it's visible to you.
00:52:35.340 So they've created a cognitive screen so you just can't see it.
00:52:39.720 Now, when I say you, I don't mean you specifically.
00:52:42.980 Some of you can see it.
00:52:44.480 But you need to get a lot more of the citizens to be able to see it, and they'll never be able to.
00:52:49.940 It's just hidden behind the lookalike allegation that's just bigger and sexier.
00:52:59.540 It's really kind of amazing to watch it play out in real life.
00:53:04.560 To see that you can fool, what did Lincoln say?
00:53:10.160 You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all the time, or something like that.
00:53:18.460 That needs to be revised.
00:53:21.040 To you can fool half of the people all the time.
00:53:24.580 You can fool half of the people all the time.
00:53:29.040 Anything the Republicans say, their base will believe.
00:53:32.020 Anything the Democrats say, their base believes.
00:53:34.780 And you can do it every time.
00:53:36.860 When was the last time the Democrats, let's say the leadership, had an idea that was so bad that even the Democrat base said,
00:53:46.040 that doesn't even make sense.
00:53:47.880 I'm out.
00:53:49.140 All right, I like all your other stuff.
00:53:51.420 But this new thing, whatever the new thing is, hypothetically, this new thing, that's too far.
00:53:56.340 I can't get on board with that.
00:53:58.400 Have you ever seen that?
00:53:59.340 That doesn't happen.
00:54:01.420 It doesn't happen because half of the public can be fooled every time.
00:54:09.140 Half of the public can be fooled every time.
00:54:12.000 So Lincoln wasn't so smart.
00:54:20.180 I think I've upgraded Lincoln's thing.
00:54:23.360 Half of the public can be fooled every time.
00:54:26.120 It's a different half.
00:54:27.460 It's not always the same half.
00:54:29.800 Now, if you think it's only the left who can be fooled, you're not really catching the point here.
00:54:34.300 The point is, Republicans could say absolutely anything, the leadership, and their base would believe it.
00:54:42.360 Because there's no exceptions.
00:54:44.680 You've never seen the Republicans say, at least in modern times,
00:54:47.980 have you ever seen a Republican leadership say something,
00:54:50.440 okay, this is going to be our narrative, and the base rejected it.
00:54:54.580 Oh, my God, that's a crazy narrative.
00:54:56.520 Even though I'm a Republican, I have to reject that.
00:54:58.960 It doesn't happen.
00:54:59.660 Half of the public can be fooled every time.
00:55:11.880 I'm not going to argue the definitions of insurgent versus insurrection versus coup.
00:55:18.900 Since everybody knows what I'm talking about, I'm not going to get into a definitional debate.
00:55:29.660 Oh, here it is.
00:55:32.760 You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
00:55:37.220 but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
00:55:40.860 You can fool half of the people all the time.
00:55:43.840 Much, much shorter.
00:55:46.520 I think mine is better.
00:55:48.240 It's a better summary.
00:55:52.200 All right.
00:55:52.780 All right.
00:55:52.820 We rejected it when Republicans said Trump wasn't presidential.
00:56:07.660 Why do you think you did that?
00:56:11.860 I hate to say I'm the reason for that, but I probably am.
00:56:15.000 You know that the transition of Trump from it's just a joke to Trump as a serious candidate.
00:56:25.520 That was probably me.
00:56:27.940 You know that, right?
00:56:30.280 Because I'm the one who framed him as strategically and persuasively brilliant,
00:56:35.520 which has proven to be quite correct.
00:56:37.440 So if he had not been proved, if I had not redefined him quite publicly as being somebody
00:56:45.560 who had skills that you didn't recognize, I don't think it would have happened.
00:56:50.620 Because the narrative, there had to be a narrative to counter the narrative that he was just a
00:56:54.820 crazy clown looking for publicity.
00:56:57.220 And I reframed that.
00:56:59.480 That was me.
00:56:59.940 Well, so I see that some of you are rightly skeptical of my claim.
00:57:11.340 That's the sort of claim where you should start with skepticism.
00:57:15.240 Can we agree?
00:57:16.900 If you heard anybody say what I just said, or any version of anything like that,
00:57:22.000 your starting point should be, I don't think so.
00:57:25.500 I don't think so.
00:57:26.740 But let me ask you.
00:57:27.660 There are enough people watching here who watched from the beginning.
00:57:32.340 I'll ask you the question.
00:57:34.460 Do you think that I, specifically, am primarily the reason that Trump was taken seriously by
00:57:42.680 Republicans?
00:57:45.440 And so there's going to be a mix of answers.
00:57:49.140 So everything from F no to yes, certainly.
00:57:52.600 Yes, 100% yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:57:54.920 There are no's, a few no's, probably, mostly yes's, right?
00:58:00.140 So while we can't, there's no way we can, there's such a difference here.
00:58:05.480 On the YouTube is more no.
00:58:07.620 So the people who know me best and have followed me the longest are on the locals platform.
00:58:13.300 There's quite a difference.
00:58:14.720 Yeah, quite a difference in your answers.
00:58:16.260 For the people on YouTube, you probably have followed less.
00:58:21.800 I would say if you read Winn Bigley, my book, your opinion might change.
00:58:31.860 You're smarter.
00:58:34.020 Your ego is very strong today, NPC.
00:58:37.440 So Ralph has shown himself to be an NPC.
00:58:40.300 So his comment to my comment that I influence things is that my ego is big.
00:58:46.860 What does that mean?
00:58:48.480 It means he's an NPC.
00:58:50.300 Because he could have debated the point.
00:58:53.060 Oh, I don't think that made a difference.
00:58:54.900 Or maybe it was something else that made a difference.
00:58:57.400 But instead, he had to go for my ego.
00:59:00.920 There had to be something about me.
00:59:03.380 NPC, right?
00:59:04.160 So every time you see that, just say, oh, NPC.
00:59:08.000 And then don't answer.
00:59:10.160 Because anybody who's operating on the NPC level, they're just scenery.
00:59:13.500 You should ignore them.
00:59:16.620 You saw Ann Coulter say it first?
00:59:18.800 Not what I said.
00:59:20.380 I think Ann Coulter was predicting it based on illegal immigration being such an important topic.
00:59:28.260 Which she was right about.
00:59:29.780 She was right about that.
00:59:30.700 But I was the one who said he's about persuasion.
00:59:33.960 And that, I think, made the difference.
00:59:39.640 All right.
00:59:43.220 Let me ask you this.
00:59:44.140 How many of you did I save from TDS?
00:59:47.560 Is there anybody here who had TDS and I talked them out of it?
00:59:52.900 I'm seeing yeses.
00:59:58.140 I had some yeses and nos.
01:00:00.700 I had some yeses and nos.
01:00:04.480 No?
01:00:06.200 All right.
01:00:06.680 Well, a lot of people did get talked out of their TDS.
01:00:09.680 But maybe not you.
01:00:11.540 Maybe not you.
01:00:12.620 Because some of you were already talked out of it.
01:00:18.580 All right.
01:00:19.100 Well, it looks like I did convince a number of people.
01:00:20.920 I did ask once in a poll if I changed people's vote for Trump.
01:00:27.900 And I think 1,500 people immediately said yes, that they voted for him because I changed their minds to do so.
01:00:34.240 And that's just how many answered the poll.
01:00:36.660 Imagine how many people did not answer the poll.
01:00:41.360 I figure at a minimum I moved 50,000 votes.
01:00:47.060 Would you say?
01:00:47.880 I think I controlled about, not controlled, but I think I influenced about 50,000 votes.
01:00:53.760 That would be my guess.
01:00:54.560 Minimum.
01:00:55.540 Could be a quarter million.
01:00:57.640 But I think minimum of 50,000.
01:01:01.980 All right.
01:01:03.460 Diamond and Silk.
01:01:04.380 I haven't seen them lately.
01:01:11.640 All right.
01:01:14.500 FBI took the fake because too far.
01:01:16.840 All right.
01:01:26.840 Just looking at your comments now.
01:01:28.840 All right.
01:01:29.120 That's all for now.
01:01:30.640 I'm going to go do something else.
01:01:32.720 And I will talk to you all later.
01:01:38.460 Bye for now.