Episode 1865 Scott Adams: Lots Of News About Democrats Misbehaving. The News Is Full Of Fun Today
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Summary
A flock of turkeys attacked my house last night, and I think they just came there to use my house as their bathroom, and then they left. I m trying to figure out why I keep falling asleep when I write, but even when I sit down to write, I fall asleep immediately.
Transcript
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a minute until after I turn it on. So they miss all this part.
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Well, well, well. Welcome to what will turn out to be one of the finest
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situations you've ever been in. I'm telling you, the news today, wow. Wow. All kinds of news,
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interesting things to talk about. Why? Because when the queen died, it made all of the fake news have
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to wait a few days. So now all the fake news is dumping because the queen situation is now
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settled down a little bit. So I just saw an important correction there on the locals platform.
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A group of turkeys is a flock, not a gaggle. Good to know. My house was attacked by a flock of
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turkeys last night, which is a true story. A flock of turkeys walked down the street,
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walked onto my house grounds, and just started shitting all over everything.
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I think they just came there to use my house as their bathroom, and then they left.
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So I spent the night, like, actually with a shovel, shoveling shit off of my driveway,
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because there were so many turkeys that attacked. Anyway, if you'd like to take your experience
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Oh, what's going on over on YouTube? I guess it's working.
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Well, here's a little update. I told you I'm doing some, I guess you'd call it body hacking,
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trying to figure out why I keep falling asleep when I write, but even when I'm not tired the
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rest of the day. It's only when I sit down to write, I fall asleep immediately. And so
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I had identified that I don't do it at a Starbucks, but then I started isolating the variables.
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Is it being at Starbucks or is it the beverage? Or is it the temperature at Starbucks? Because
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they keep it pretty low. So yesterday, my experiment continued. And so I had my same beverage and
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iced, some kind of iced coffee drink and my same banana bread. And I ate and drank them quickly
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while I was in Starbucks. And then I quickly drove home and tried to write at home. What
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do you think happened? I could write fine. So it turns out it wasn't the location. It was
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a little difference, maybe 20%. I do think that there's definitely an advantage of being in
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a cafe, coffee shop situation. I can definitely write better in those situations. But staying
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awake, just the staying awake part, it was the beverage. So I've narrowed it down. So it wasn't
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temperature. It wasn't location. It wasn't distraction. It was the beverage. Now it's the beverage plus
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the banana bread. So I suppose the next thing I would try is, yeah, getting rid of the banana
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bread. Right? So, and I point this out not because you have an interest in my health, because I
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know you don't, really. I point it out because this is such a useful process to try to figure
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out why do you feel the way you feel, and then very systematically try to change just the variables
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that you suspect, and then monitor the change. The first time I did this was to find out why
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I couldn't stay awake in the afternoon. I wrote about this in my book, How to Fail. I would
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be fine and awake until, you know, about one o'clock in the afternoon, and then I couldn't
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even function. I just couldn't even function for a few hours. And I used to think it was because
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I had just eaten. Have you ever heard that? You come back from lunch, and everybody's like
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sort of tired, and you think it's because of what you ate, and you're digesting, right? Is that
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what you thought? Well, it turns out that only happens if you eat simple carbs. So I stopped
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eating simple carbs, which I generally, in those days, I did have at least some for lunch.
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And that's fine. If you take out the carbs, you don't get the crushing tiredness. Now, that
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was just for me. Would that work for you? I don't know. But my point is that my body and
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your body are not the same. So I have to do a test very methodically by changing variables and
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then measuring how things turn out. So use that process. It will change your life. Now, I've
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described what we do here, this live stream, as a collective intelligence. And by the way, I will
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get to the news. There's lots of good news today. And so yesterday, I tested it. I was bet $50
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that I have ADHD. So I received a $50 bill in the mail. And I'm sure you're watching if you
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send it to me. And the bet was that I could keep the $50 if I can prove I don't have ADHD,
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which was a hypothesis for why I was falling asleep on my laptop. And so I asked the question
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to my Twitter followers. And I said, you've been watching me for a while. Do you think
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I have ADHD? And the answer came a resounding, no, you definitely don't. Especially from the
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people who actually have ADHD. The people who have it were very clear, you don't have it
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because you've done too many things that have deadlines. I basically hit a deadline every day
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for 33 years. There's no way in hell I have ADHD. But I do have concentration problems, but I think
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it has to do with how many things are going on. You know. All right. So do you all agree I don't have
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ADHD? But I want to add this little thought. Imagine if you didn't have access to any medical
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professions, professionals. And the only thing you had is if you had a medical problem, you could go
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on some kind of live stream like I am and describe your symptoms. And then the people on the live stream
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would say, oh, I had that same thing. And my doctor said I had X. So go look into X.
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I solved the biggest medical problem I ever had without a doctor. And it was because I searched
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around on Google until I found a victim. So I found somebody who was suffering from the same voice
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problem, which I could quickly identify because the way they talked was the way I tried to talk.
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And as soon as I knew from the sufferer that they had the same thing I had, I could say,
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I have the same thing. It's definitely the same thing. And it was. I got it confirmed later.
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So it turns out that there was no doctor who could accurately diagnose my problem until I knew what it
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was. Once I had a name for it, then I could find the right doctor who knows what that name is.
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And then they say, oh, yeah, that's definitely it. And there was no doubt about it once I had the
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name. So how many medical problems could be solved by simply asking the public?
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Now, I know what you're saying. My God, that's going to get you killed because the public's going to
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recommend all manner of dangerous treatments, which they would.
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But imagine you didn't have any health care. It would be way better than nothing, wouldn't it?
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Because lots of times the solutions are easy things that aren't going to hurt you,
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such as don't eat simple carbs in the afternoon. Well, just try it.
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Or they might say, you know, you don't really know until you get this blood test.
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Well, that would be one more thing you know. Go get that blood test.
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So it could be very dangerous. But on the other hand, having watched how many times,
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and by the way, I have also solved other people's medical problems just because they asked me.
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And it's not because I'm a doctor. It's because in some cases I had the same problem.
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For example, my old tennis player years ago had horrible allergies. And so did I.
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But I'd made mine go away with Allegra. Made a big difference. Not go away, but, you know,
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got it down to a manageable level. And so I said to him, hey, why don't you try one of these
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over-the-counter things? And then he did. It solved one of his biggest problems in the world.
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So I know there are plenty of examples of doctorless cures. But somebody says, this is comedy gold.
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Now, I'm aware that it would be risky. But it would be interesting to test it.
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If you could test it with some population, see if it helped. But only if they don't have doctors.
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So Apple is changing their iMessage app, which is the thing that allows you to send a text message
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from an Apple user to another Apple user without using the network. So it just goes through Apple's
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network. And it looks just like a text message, but it goes through Apple's network. And now the
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new operating system will allow you to edit your iMessage after it's been sent.
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Do you see any problem with that? You can edit your iMessage after it's sent.
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I immediately said, how's that going to work for couples? And it took me about five seconds to see a
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divorce attorney on Twitter say, uh-oh, now I have to warn all of my divorce clients never to use iMessage.
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Right? Because half of what you can prove in any kind of dispute is some message that somebody sent.
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Once you can edit those, the whole divorce world gets turned upside down.
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So if you're in any kind of a sketchy divorce situation, make sure the other person isn't using iMessage.
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Well, have I ever told you that, uh, Mark Twain once said that people can't tell the difference
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between good news and bad news? And there's so many examples of that. Once you hear that, you say,
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well, that's not true. Obviously, people can tell the difference between good news and bad news.
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Those are opposites. Who in the world would not be able to tell the difference between good news and bad news?
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People. Let me give you an example. The inflation rate just came out, and it's 8.3%. Good news or bad?
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Well, you could say it's bad news because it's so high. Or you could say it's bad news because the experts
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thought it would be a little bit less. So that'd be bad news. Or you could say it's good news,
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because it's less than it was last year at this time. So which is it? Is it good news because it's less
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than last year at this time? Or is it bad news because we thought it would be less? And bad news
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because it's high? Well, let's see what the stock market thinks. If the stock market is up, it's good
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news. If the stock market is down, and the stock market is in the fucking toilet. So the stock market
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decided it's bad news. Do you know what I think it is? Good news. Yeah. I mean, I read it as good news.
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Why? Because it's direction that matters. So the stock market is judging it by where it is.
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I'm judging it by direction. The direction is it capped, and it's slightly going down.
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Now, it might jiggle around there, but what is not happening is it's not going to 20%.
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Do you know how scary that would be if it were going to 20%?
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The fact that it didn't change much is some of the best economic news you've ever received
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in your life, and the entire stock market said, whoa, whoa, it's bad news. Or they thought
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that other people would think it's bad news, so they're selling before the idiots do. I don't
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know. But it's hard for me to imagine that everybody, you know, not everybody, thought this
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was unambiguously bad news. It doesn't look like it to me. To me, it looks like the beginning
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Well, apparently right about now, Congress is talking to Mr. Zatko, the Twitter security
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guy who quit Twitter, with some whistleblower complaints about their security. How interesting
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is that going to be? How much would you like to see the Republicans grill this Twitter whistleblower
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about security? Oh, it's going to be good. And you know what's interesting? I find this
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fascinating, that Twitter, being a gigantic tech company, obviously they can hire the very
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best people. And yet, the person who would know the most about their security says they
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have big security holes. Now, isn't that interesting that Twitter, a giant tech company that can hire
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the best people that they want, is not doing as good a job as all 50 state election systems
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that are operating somewhat flawlessly. But you wish that Twitter could ever reach the level
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of excellence of our 50 plus, plus, I get it. I like to say 50, but I know it's 50 plus.
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50 plus states, or 50 plus, you know, places that they have elections.
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So that's kind of remarkable, that all those elections are done so well when Twitter can't do it.
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I don't know. I don't know what to think about that. I guess Twitter's got a problem.
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Eddie Zipperer on Twitter tweeted something aggregated by RCP, Real Clear Politics, that of the final 74
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generic congressional vote polls in 2020, all 74 overestimated the Democrats. All 74.
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Now, I think what it means is overestimated how many there are. I'm not sure if it meant overestimated
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how they would vote. I think it overestimated how many there were.
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But what does it mean when all 74 errors are in the same direction?
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I don't know. It could be that they were all fooled by the same data. I mean, it could be just that.
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I love the dogs not barking stories, because it makes you mad when you hear them.
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Because you think, oh, why did I not notice that dog not barking?
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All right, here's one you didn't notice barking.
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Where's all the fact-checkers for Corrine Jean-Pierre, the spokesperson for Biden?
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So Fox News looked into the fact-checking, said PolitiFact has done just two fact-checks,
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They just stopped fact-checking right in front of us.
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What do you think it would look like if they actually fact-checked her?
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Because remember, Biden's entire proposition was,
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If the fact-checkers debunk his entire reason for being before the next election,
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Correct myself and tell you the error that I made.
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So I told you the other day that the 81 million votes for Biden
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could be completely explained by population growth.
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The other big factor is increase in mail-in ballots.
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And the increase in mail-in ballots was driven by, you know, Democrat funding and processes and a big push for it.
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But between those two things, they do explain why there were 81 million votes.
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Now, you might say, but those mail-in votes were fraudulent.
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But there's no court that said that they were a whole bunch of frauds.
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So there could be something in there about, let's say, gaming the system.
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In other words, you know, doing something to get people who were marginal voters or weren't going to vote to vote with a little encouragement.
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I don't know how much of that's illegal, how much is legal.
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Probably the number of voters is just explained by that.
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But again, I'm not there, so I don't know for sure.
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Did you see Russell Brand did a fairly major sort of correction, apology video?
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Apparently, he got taken in by the ivermectin story.
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There were a number of prominent tweets that suggested that ivermectin was approved by the NIH.
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It was on the list of things that they're testing, but not on the list of things approved.
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Now, it was interesting to watch Russell Brand handle that error correction.
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Because he embraced it fully, so fully that I think conservatives thought it was too far.
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Like, he really pushed that button as hard as you can push the button on his own error
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to make sure we knew that it was an error and that he was coming clean.
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Because he's trying to carve out a place of credibility, which is what I've tried to do as well.
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Which is why when I make a mistake as prominently as this one, I like to tell you about it.
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Because if I don't, you're not really going to trust that I'm telling you what I really think.
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So, it helps to be inaccurate and admit it, because then people will trust you more when you say,
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So, I would say that his credibility goes up because he was wrong.
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I would say his believability and his credibility goes up because he admitted he was wrong.
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And it's interesting how we all know that, but you don't see politicians doing it much.
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And it must be the difference between if you're a politician, it dogs you forever.
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But if you're a media person, maybe once you do the apology correction, people go,
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So, I think it's probably different with the political people.
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Maybe the political people just should never apologize.
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So, Fox News has made a big deal about this, and so has Tucker Carlson and some others on Fox News.
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And I'm generally very reluctant to buy into a conspiracy theory.
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But man, this one is starting to form up so solidly.
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I can't ignore that it exists as an allegation anymore.
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Which is slightly different from saying I'm agreeing with it in full.
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But the idea is that the Democrats intentionally, and intentionally is the part that I'm not entirely sure about.
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We can observe what happened, but it's the intentionality of it that I'm not entirely sure about.
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That they imported the war on terrorism, because there wasn't enough external terrorism to keep them busy, I guess.
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And they tried to turn it into domestic terrorism.
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Hey, you've got a big domestic terrorism threat, so that they could keep intact their ability to monitor everybody, basically, and control you.
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Do you believe that the Democrats are artificially pumping up the domestic terrorism threat so they can move the existing machinery from the external threat world to the domestic threat world with a good excuse?
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And that then they can use those powers to really control the public and keep power.
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So do you believe that there was a meeting where somebody had that conversation?
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Like, actually, out loud, do you believe that they said that out loud?
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If we can push this domestic terrorism thing, we can really get control of those Republicans.
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If I had to bet on it, I'd say that there are enough people who are Democrats who have some control over this process that do think that Democrats are better off.
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It feels likely that Democrats think that Democrats are better off with this situation.
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But, you know, there are lots of different individuals who are having lots of different complex thoughts.
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I'm not entirely sure that the principal sat in one room and said, here's our plan.
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We'll move the structure over to the domestic terrorism, and then we'll really clamp down on the freedoms of the Republicans, and then there's nothing they can do.
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I would not rule out that there was an actual meeting.
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Now, it's within the realm of things we've seen before, right?
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Would you grant me that it's within the realm of...
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It wouldn't be on a character for the people involved, right?
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Because after you've seen the Russia collusion thing, and after you've seen the Hunter laptop 50 intel officials,
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There's nothing that you could say, well, that's out of bounds.
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The 50 people who signed off to say that the Hunter laptop was fake, and it was Russia disinformation,
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They must have known they were lying, some of them.
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Do you think the Democrats would murder somebody if they could get away with it?
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Now, of course, that's a horrible thing to say.
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I don't think they have that I know of, but I think at this point you'd have to put it in the option set.
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So do you remember when Bannon told you that there were 30 raids on Trump supporters?
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And did you think the 30 raids meant that they went inside the homes of 30 people?
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And do you remember when I told you, no, that's too on the nose?
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So they may have been knocking on doors to serve the paperwork, but they weren't going inside.
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Because it turns out that they can use any fucking excuse to look at all of your personal information.
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They're now demonstrating that they can use any excuse to look at all of your stuff.
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And it appears that they're doing it purely for political punishment purposes.
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It looks like they're creating a situation where supporting Trump means that all of your privacy will be lost in the future.
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If you were a Trump advisor and you were to start tomorrow, wouldn't you know that all of your private information would become public?
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Would you work for Trump knowing that all of your communications that have to do with anything will become public, or at least the legal system will see them?
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That they have so polluted the well that I would never take a drink out of that well.
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I'm not sending any messages to Trump directly or indirectly, unless he sees them in the media.
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So, I feel like I'm far enough away from his circle that I won't necessarily lose all of my privacy.
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Do you think I'm close enough to the inner circle, having no official role whatsoever, but do you think I'm close enough to the inner circle that the government can ask for all of my private communications?
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I think they can, because all they have to demonstrate is that I had a conversation with somebody who was, right?
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True or false, all you would have to demonstrate is that I had communication with people who were involved.
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Because they only need to look at the other person's communication, right?
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Have I ever tweeted at anybody or DM'd anybody who was on that list?
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I can say for sure that I'm not aware of anything on this topic.
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I'm also going to surprise you by saying something that you're not going to believe.
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Prior to January 6th, I didn't really know anything about it.
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I didn't know there was going to be any ugliness.
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I may have heard there was going to be a protest, but it would have just been noise, like it wouldn't have caught my attention.
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So I didn't even know January 6th was going to happen.
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Like as it was happening, I was sort of partly paying attention.
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So I just want to say publicly, if you look at all my private communication,
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there won't be anything on there about me knowing about any kind of January 6th business.
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I can guarantee that there won't be anything there.
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Do you think the reason they're asking for the communication is so they can find stuff?
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But I don't think they expect to find anything.
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At this point, don't you think they already know that it wasn't planned as an insurrection?
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At this point, they know it wasn't planned to be an insurrection.
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If they find more email, it would just be people talking.
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Maybe we should do this, or maybe we should do that.
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But what actually happened is pretty well known at this point.
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So I do expect that they're going to come for me
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if I keep saying anything positive about Trump getting elected.
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Let me put this to the collective intelligence here.
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It would be mostly the media, not the legal system.
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If they come after me, do you think it's going to work?
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meaning they will discredit me with their base.
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So I'm going to make sure I don't get canceled from all platforms
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So I do depend on you to keep me out of jail, basically.
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Speaking of guns, I saw somebody mentioning guns.
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Visa is going to start categorizing gun purchases separately.
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Visa is going to categorize gun purchases separately.
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Your gun rights are basically toast at this point.
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if it becomes too hard for Visa to stay in business
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because the gun seller will lose their insurance
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is sort of foreshadowing that that might be happening.
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Every major element of my life I've seen in advance.
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And I had no connection to San Francisco whatsoever.
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There was literally nothing about San Francisco
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A random city out of all the cities in the United States.
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You want to live and work in Northern California.
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So I walked into Crocker Bank in San Francisco,
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I saw that as clearly as I can look at these monitors in front of me.
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started looking for what would become my first,
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You don't even have to worry about how we get there.
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I woke up and saw myself standing in front of a huge audience.
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that had anything to do with talking in front of an audience.
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I just thought I'd be working in a business somewhere.