Episode 1848 Scott Adams： The FBI Has A Taint Team？ And Rob Reiner Has Some Explaining To Do
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1 hour and 1 minute
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Summary
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.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and congratulations for making it to the highlight of civilization.
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Coffee with Scott Adams, it doesn't get any better than this.
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Even though it might, it might, I'm joking, it could.
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Now, is anybody here feeling a little low on the fascism scale?
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Would anybody like to take it up to a full semi-fascist state?
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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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Have you ever heard that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing?
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Did you know that if you take a little bit of Botox, which in a larger dose would be a poison,
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but if you take a little bit of Botox, it can make your wrinkles go away, right?
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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.
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And so that's why you should not dismiss being a semi-fascist.
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I think we could all agree that taking an overdose of Botox would be a bad idea, too.
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But if you get just the right amount, it gives you a little flavor.
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Well, if you didn't know, that's what Biden has called many of the Trump supporters.
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So I read yesterday that the FBI has something called a taint team.
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Now, you're probably saying to yourself, Scott, you're making that up.
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They don't really have a team called the taint team.
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Now, if you're wondering what does it take to qualify for the taint team,
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well, I don't know for sure, but based on the name,
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If you're a butthole, you cannot be on the taint team.
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now, if you're being a dick, you can't be on the taint team.
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But if you're somewhere between a butthole and a dick,
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The taint team has nothing to do with Andrew Taint.
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Andrew Taint has been canceled by social media and quite effectively canceled, I would say.
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Andrew Taint is pronounced and spelled differently.
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And that's different than the FBI taint team, pronounced taint.
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Well, you know those Mar-a-Lago nuclear secrets that were going to destroy the world if anybody saw them?
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It turns out it's not so much about nuclear secrets.
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It's, you know, we haven't ruled out nuclear secrets.
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Now, today the news is it's more about, because the affidavit got released with redactions,
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Not so much a problem that they were secure documents,
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As soon as you heard this story, you said to yourself,
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But now that we've gotten to a little bit closer to the bottom of it,
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I was worried about a nuclear war with Putin over Ukraine.
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I've been worried about the food, the fertilizer.
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But nothing, nothing comes to the level of documents.
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People, I don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't panic you.
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If you need any kind of therapy, you should get it.
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I mean, I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but he...
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And to see it be destroyed right in front of me.
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Well, Michael Schellenberger is reporting that the French minister, Barbara Pompili, reportedly
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she said in March that she told the U.S. Energy Secretary Granholm.
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So she told Granholm that if the United States wants to help, you have to increase your production
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So France, the French minister asked our energy guru to make more energy.
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Yeah, that was probably for liquid gas, I'm assuming.
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Now, is that embarrassing to you as if you're American?
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You know, Lafayette helped the Americans win the Civil, win the Revolutionary War.
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And then was it General Patton, who when he landed, he said, Lafayette, we're here, repaying
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You know, we do have a special relationship with France.
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And France is basically having a, not basically, but it's a gigantic security problem.
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And we're going to let France down in an emergency?
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Is the United States, did the United States turn down a direct request from France?
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Are they going to help us the next time we're fucked?
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You know, reciprocity is a pretty important deal.
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It may be one of the most important things in the world.
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And we're just going to ignore reciprocity as one of the most important elements of all
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This is maybe the worst thing that I've heard of that we've done in a long time.
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Because this isn't a regular country that we're talking about.
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You know, we're not talking about, oh, Ecuador, we've made you a promise and we didn't keep it.
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Did something change in the last hundred years that nobody told me about?
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France and the United States have a blood bond.
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If that's changing, don't expect them to be here when we need help.
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I mean, this is the most basic thing you would do for an ally.
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They ask you directly for energy, which you could produce.
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And have you wondered to yourself what the hell is wrong with Rob Reiner?
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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.
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Everybody who says the word meathead during this conversation probably is an NPC.
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Because it's the most obvious thing you would say in this conversation.
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Oh, that's why they called him Meathead, his character, when he played a character long ago.
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So you can identify all of the NPCs because they're just going to say Meathead the entire time I'm talking about this.
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Anyway, this actually happened on Bill Maher's show with Rob Reiner.
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So Maher was saying, talking about the, I think it was about the laptop being suppressed.
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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.
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The other side is so evil that anything is justified in preventing them from taking office.
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If you see me tweeting it like a fool for the last couple of weeks.
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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?
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And I've been saying, why is there no, there's not even a Republican asking that question.
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It took Bill Maher to ask the question in public.
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So Bill Maher, let me give you a sitting ovation for asking the only question that was important, I think.
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The only important question was, have we reached a situation where you would expect the Democrats to cheat on an election?
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Now I'm not saying I have evidence that happened, but under the current situation, of course you would expect that.
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If the situation were reversed, and I believed, I really believed, I were stopping some kind of Hitler monster, I would rig an election.
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Because that's a very important part of the context of everything we're talking about.
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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?
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And then what did Rob Reiner do when he asked the only important question?
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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.
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And so now you all know that that's true, right?
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There's no doubt in the news about whether the laptop story is, first of all, true.
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And second of all, it's also completely true that 50 current and ex-intelligent officials lied and said it was Russian disinformation.
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Now, that's just well-known information, right?
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Is there anybody here who didn't know those two facts?
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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?
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There's not a single person here who doesn't think that's true, right?
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I believe that's now just a fact that both sides would say is a fact.
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And we know for a fact that that's what they did.
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Reiner responded, he actually didn't know that.
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Marr was actually finding out that Rob Reiner wasn't following this story, the biggest story, or one of them, in the news.
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And the size of this story, and Rob Reiner had not heard about it, like heard about the full story.
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And then Marr said, oh, then Reiner said, I don't know what they did.
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And then Marr quipped, I know because you only watch MSNBC, which is exactly the correct answer.
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So Marr called him out for being in a bubble and not knowing something that even other people in the bubble know is true.
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I think Bill Marr is actually able to move between bubbles.
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Yeah, and Zucker confirmed that the FBI asked Facebook to tamp down on the story.
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So you think you have a political divide in this country, but we don't.
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We don't have a political difference in this country.
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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.
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None of this is real when you meet your neighbor, right?
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It's just that people have been completely hypnotized by one bubble.
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And by the way, it would be just as bad if you somehow only watched right-leaning media, right?
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I'm not saying that the left is the one that's wrong and the right is always right.
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I'm saying that whichever bubble you stay in, you're lost.
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You're lost if you can't get out of your bubble.
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And Rob Reiner confessed on a national show that he doesn't follow the news that he comments on emotionally.
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Or did you think there was something else going on?
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Or did you think this was exactly what it looked like?
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So some people are saying he knew when he was lying.
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Because if he knew, he would have played it differently.
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Well, we now have a very clear pattern, which is when the Democrats are going to do something super criminal,
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they will blame the Republicans of doing that same thing.
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Because it makes your own crime completely invisible.
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It's a psychological trick to make your own crime invisible.
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So when the Democrats were colluding with Russia to create this Steele dossier,
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The accusation was Republicans are colluding with Russia.
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So while the Democrats were literally, and this is now a fact, colluding with Russians,
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and they created this narrative that the Republicans were doing it.
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because Manafort was, in fact, doing a sketchy deal with a Russian.
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Basically, Manafort was selling a rich Russian guy worthless information.
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How much does internal polling, how much is that worth to a Russian?
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And that's what Manafort was accused of giving a Russian guy.
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It was probably just so the Russian could say that he had some information when he talked to Putin,
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so he could be, like, more of an insider or something.
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Now, that really happened, and Manafort has to pay for that, and he is.
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the January 6th to many Republicans looks like it was an insurrection, right?
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Because there was a, you know, the laptop story was suppressed,
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and I would think you could call that insurrection,
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because it changed the nature of the vote, probably.
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So what do the Democrats say when they stage a successful insurrection?
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probably won because the 50 intel agents said it was Russian disinformation.
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and then the first thing they do to cover their crime
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is to blame the Republicans of an insurrection.
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So now we see two major cases where the Democrats did a crime
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and then very publicly accused the Republicans of that same crime.
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it actually erases your ability to see that they're the ones
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Well, let's talk about canceling those student loan debts.
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So, remember when Biden said that the cuts would be paid for?
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is that we saved money in other ways unrelated to this,
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because we would have spent more in those other ways,
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Now, isn't this exactly where Democrats get money?
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I could work and I could make myself some money.
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I'm going to go work and get myself some money.
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Suppose I could get that money from them without working.
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It's just that somebody else is holding it right now.
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between it's possible for me to take money from you,
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That's the summary of what their actual explanation is.
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that would have reduced it by $300 billion more,
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So they're taking back the thing that wasn't real.
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from wherever it is into your pocket to somewhere else.
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Well, and of course you know that Pelosi a year ago or so
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I guess he can delay debt, but he can't cancel it.
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Or does she go against Biden and try to get it done
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because the Republicans would hold tough in the Senate?
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I don't think that cancellation is going to happen.
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And then somebody said that there can't be a lawsuit
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Because it seems to me that somebody is just taking my money
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and giving it to somebody else without legal process.
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If somebody takes my money and gives it to somebody else
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without legal process, don't I have standing for a lawsuit?
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That seems like the simplest, most exact explanation
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So how many of you think this is actually going to happen?
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Is this my imagination, or did this actually happen?
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Because I see people still talking about it on Twitter,
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the left-leaning people who talk about politics,
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But, you know, there are some that'll just say anything.
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And those are the ones that are still talking about
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But I feel like all of the left-leaning critics
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who are sort of in a slightly credible situation,
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and said it looks like there was enough for an indictment.
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But you all know that that doesn't mean anything, right?
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So getting an indictment doesn't tell you anything
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Axelrod said Obama was lying when he was anti-gay marriage.
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So that's an example of where Axelrod is credible.
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is that it did not establish that Trump was unresponsive.
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So the reason that the FBI says they had to go in there
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But the documents apparently don't establish that.
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it would have to be established with some other evidence.
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But then, of course, there's this enormous gray area
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of what does it mean to be unresponsive or uncooperative?
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Because I doubt it was completely uncooperative
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Don't you think it was more like there was a dispute?
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As in, we think you should give us these things back,
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well, we think that the law says we don't have to.
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I'm not so sure that that was just being unresponsive.
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I have a different opinion about whether you could have this.
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ignore their phone calls or something like that.
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Now, I guess it's legal for him to have photocopies
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That he legally, apparently, he could have had photocopies
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because he could have declassified the material.
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So he could have all the information in any way he wanted.
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So was this really only a debate about the originals?
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Because I do think the government probably owns the originals.
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was a debate about whether he could have copies or the originals,
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That's about as close as you can get to nothing.
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I mean, I get that they need to take care of that stuff,
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having more students in the U.S. studying computer science
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than all of the humanities degrees put together.
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So between science degrees and computer science degrees,
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the social sciences are on a steep downward curve.
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Until the computers learn to program themselves,
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at which point all of those degrees will be worthless.
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And then you're going to wish you had an English degree.
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Actually, I don't know what the computers will do better first.
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Here's a tweet that can only be tweeted by a woman
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The reality is we are living in a matriarchal society.
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and their appeals or entreaties affect men far and wide.
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Now, there's a version of this that I used to say,
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Don't the women make most of the spending decisions?
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I think most of my money has been spent by women.
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I mean, obviously, both of you are going to decide
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But isn't it true that the woman has spending authority
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that's not calculated into who's getting what abilities?
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But her point is made because I couldn't tweet that.
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So this is something a woman can say in public.
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And, you know, she gets a little pushback, but it's fine.
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But if I said that, it would haunt me for the rest of my days.
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And generally speaking, women have a greater freedom of speech.
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Why do men let women get away with whatever they want, basically?
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If men could use violence, then men would be in charge in all their relationships with women.
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I'm just saying that you take a situation which biology had created,
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The big one's usually in charge until you develop civilization and laws.
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And as soon as you put in the civilization and the laws, which have many benefits, many benefits,
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Women who are not in relationships, far less in charge.
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And then the woman will recognize your patriarchal rule.
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If you can find somebody who's compatible with you in that way, that would be terrific.
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I'm just saying that the normal situation, not what it should be,
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not what you should do, not what I do, has nothing to do with us individually.
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I'm just saying, in general, men are completely neutered because they can't use violence.
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But as long as the situation is that the men, their primary tool is taken away from them,
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but women's primary tool of having control of the sexual resource, that is not taken away.
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So if one person has a weapon and the other doesn't, who's in charge?
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If only one person has a weapon, it's the one in charge.
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It's all because of man buns, if somebody says.
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Women theoretically protect the family with men's resources.
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You both protect the family with both of your resources.
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Because a guy can just say, all right, well, if I'm not getting sex, I always got porn.
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The whole, you know, if you're man enough, everything will work out.
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If you're man enough and you're lucky enough or smart enough to find a woman who is happy
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But you can't just man your way to make every situation work.
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You're not going to alpha every woman because they don't need to be alpha.
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And I'll take half your money if you've got a complaint.
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Apparently there's a doppelganger Erica who says dumb things on YouTube.
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So not the one who says smart, clever things on locals,
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So the NPC take is that whatever my opinion is,
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The lowest level of thinking is that the cause of my opinion
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You know, your personal situation always filters out through your opinions.
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that your personal experience might have something to do with your decisions,
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I think the corporate tax rate should be lower.
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Or, five years ago you tweeted something I disagreed with,
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you'll be instantly revealed as being empty and useless.
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Will you get a picture of the kid's loan you paid off?
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Advice about women coming from you is hilarious.
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He phrased it that it's something wrong with me.
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If you thought you were real, you just found out you're not.
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Because the real people would say something about the argument,
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There's something wrong with the person who said that.
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So, did you see that Trump truthed or, you know, he posted a redacted page
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and the only thing unredacted was make America great again?
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And you saw some other people do the joke where everything was redacted
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I did that the last time we were dealing with some redaction.
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It's not like I was the first one to think of it.
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But somebody asked me if that's the greatest response Trump ever had,
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Yeah, the one with Biden trying to climb up the redacted lines on the document,
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I saw a clip about him talking about how he said that attractive people are not billionaires.
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And his reason was that if you're attractive, you don't need to be a billionaire.
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Because the only reason you would acquire that many resources is to compensate for not being attractive.
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Because the only thing people care about is their mating instinct.
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The less attractive you are, if you're a man, this is for men,
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the less attractive you are, the harder you work to have something to compensate for that.
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I can tell you absolutely that when I was 11 years old,
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I looked in the mirror and said, I'm going to have to have a good job.
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At 11 years old, I could tell, okay, I'm going to need a really good job
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And from about that age, I said, I'm going to really have to kill it in order to have options.
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But you don't think everybody has that realization fairly early?
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Because you do notice really early that the attractive kids are getting away with more, right?
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They know they don't have to work hard to have a good life.
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Being good-looking works against guys as they age?
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I don't think being good-looking works against anybody.
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You've never turned a woman's head except away in disgust, somebody says.
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You know, you could easily imagine that they didn't tell him it was going to happen
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so that he wouldn't have to say he knew, you know?
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You know, it's possible that there are a lot of things that Joe Biden doesn't know.
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I haven't listened to his new podcast about Trump yet, but I think I will do that.
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Does it matter if the Biden administration knew what the FBI was doing?
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Because my assumption is that the FBI is working its own game.
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I don't think that the FBI is taking orders from Biden.
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Because, remember, the FBI has interfered with both Democrat and Republican candidates.
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In recent years, they've interfered with both Democrats and Republicans,
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which suggests that they're playing their own game,
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that they're in it for their own, you know, retention of power.
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So I don't think that they necessarily tell Biden anything, unless it helps them.
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I think that Trump was too dangerous to have in the job for the FBI.
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And so they made sure he wasn't in the job anymore.
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So I'm not sure there's that big difference between having a conversation with somebody
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versus just knowing what they would like you to do.
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You know, when people talk about the Russian troll farm,
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they did not say Putin ordered them to interfere in the election.
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They say it's likely that there was a billionaire who wanted to put himself in good standing with Putin
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and simply had an idea of what Putin might want him to do.
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And so he used his troll farm to, you know, do some memes in the election.
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And those memes were completely useless, and they actually attacked both sides,
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Yeah, Zuckerberg said blocking the laptop story fit the pattern.
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But the FBI told them that there was going to be a big Russian disinformation dump coming.
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So when it fit the pattern, that wasn't an accident,
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because the FBI established the pattern and then said,
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So by the time that Facebook saw the pattern, they had been well-primed for it.
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So I think that was a pretty specific case of the FBI staging an insurrection.
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I would call that an insurrection, wouldn't you?
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If the FBI tells social media to tamp down a story that would change the nature of the election,
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Now, why is it that you can't see that the FBI getting Facebook to clamp down on that is an insurrection?
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I mean, if you're on the other side of the politics, you can.
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But do you know why the Democrats can't see that?
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It's because of the trick they use where they accuse the other side of their crime.
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As long as your accusation of the same crime is bigger and getting all the attention,
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it's literally invisible that you did the crime, even when it's completely in evidence.
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So the evidence of the Democrats doing something horrible is not even in question.
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Is there anybody who's doubting Zuckerberg's account?
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There's nobody who says that Zuckerberg's lying.
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There's nobody who says, no, the FBI did not do that.
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We did not warn you that there was some disinformation coming.
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The evidence that nobody questions paints a clear picture of insurrection.
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They were trying to affect the election by getting the media to suppress a major story about a candidate that was true.
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It was a true story about probably sketchy dealings with Ukraine.
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Now, compare the story that is absolutely true and everybody knows it's true.
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Compare that with, say, the January 6th allegations where everything's sort of sketchy.
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Meaning that two-thirds of the people who were there definitely were there to try to save the republic and not overthrow it.
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But the so-called insurrectionists did not use guns for their insurrection.
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One is a known fact that the FBI threw the election.
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And yet we ignore that because there's this bigger thing that's ambiguous.
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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.
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So they've created a cognitive screen so you just can't see it.
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Now, when I say you, I don't mean you specifically.
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But you need to get a lot more of the citizens to be able to see it, and they'll never be able to.
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It's just hidden behind the lookalike allegation that's just bigger and sexier.
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It's really kind of amazing to watch it play out in real life.
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To see that you can fool, what did Lincoln say?
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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.
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To you can fool half of the people all the time.
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Anything the Republicans say, their base will believe.
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Anything the Democrats say, their base believes.
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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,
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But this new thing, whatever the new thing is, hypothetically, this new thing, that's too far.
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It doesn't happen because half of the public can be fooled every time.
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Now, if you think it's only the left who can be fooled, you're not really catching the point here.
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The point is, Republicans could say absolutely anything, the leadership, and their base would believe it.
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You've never seen the Republicans say, at least in modern times,
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have you ever seen a Republican leadership say something,
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okay, this is going to be our narrative, and the base rejected it.
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Even though I'm a Republican, I have to reject that.
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I'm not going to argue the definitions of insurgent versus insurrection versus coup.
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Since everybody knows what I'm talking about, I'm not going to get into a definitional debate.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
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but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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We rejected it when Republicans said Trump wasn't presidential.
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I hate to say I'm the reason for that, but I probably am.
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You know that the transition of Trump from it's just a joke to Trump as a serious candidate.
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Because I'm the one who framed him as strategically and persuasively brilliant,
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.
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Because the narrative, there had to be a narrative to counter the narrative that he was just a
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Well, so I see that some of you are rightly skeptical of my claim.
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That's the sort of claim where you should start with skepticism.
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If you heard anybody say what I just said, or any version of anything like that,
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your starting point should be, I don't think so.
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There are enough people watching here who watched from the beginning.
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Do you think that I, specifically, am primarily the reason that Trump was taken seriously by
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There are no's, a few no's, probably, mostly yes's, right?
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So while we can't, there's no way we can, there's such a difference here.
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So the people who know me best and have followed me the longest are on the locals platform.
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For the people on YouTube, you probably have followed less.
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I would say if you read Winn Bigley, my book, your opinion might change.
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So his comment to my comment that I influence things is that my ego is big.
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Or maybe it was something else that made a difference.
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Because anybody who's operating on the NPC level, they're just scenery.
00:59:20.380
I think Ann Coulter was predicting it based on illegal immigration being such an important topic.
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But I was the one who said he's about persuasion.
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Is there anybody here who had TDS and I talked them out of it?
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Well, a lot of people did get talked out of their TDS.
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Because some of you were already talked out of it.
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Well, it looks like I did convince a number of people.
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I did ask once in a poll if I changed people's vote for Trump.
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And I think 1,500 people immediately said yes, that they voted for him because I changed their minds to do so.
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Imagine how many people did not answer the poll.
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I think I controlled about, not controlled, but I think I influenced about 50,000 votes.