Episode 1869 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About Those Migrants Going To Martha's Vineyard, Everybody Wins
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What are the odds that i would be born and many of you would be alive when computers were developed, space travel, artificial intelligence, and space travel? And what are the chances that I believe the first flying car will happen in my lifetime?
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good morning everybody and oh wow is it my imagination or are you better looking today
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than yesterday yeah sexier sexier well on that positive note how would you like the rest of the
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day to go as well as that you would and all you would need would be a cupper mugger a glass of
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thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now it's the
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feel my mitochondria are repairing themselves a little bit faster
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all systems go so would you like to hear about all the good news
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isn't it weird that i keep telling you that we're going to enter a golden age
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but you listen to the news and it's all like the world is falling apart everything's bad
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all right here's some positive things that are in the pipeline there's a company that's made some
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big breakthrough in battling autoimmune problems which could include things like lupus and ms
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some really big stuff and apparently they've got something that looks like it works really well
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now the details doesn't matter because remember the rule remember the rule when i tell you about a
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a breaking breakthrough new technology what's the rule when i tell you about a breakthrough new science
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or technology the rule is we're going to pretend it's true because most of these end up not being true
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they end up being big disappointments in the end but our agreement with each other is we'll pretend
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they're all true because it feels good if it turns out later it's not true well you're not really worse
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off you felt good for a while so we're going to take the feel good okay so it looks like there might be a
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breakthrough in lupus and ms and other autoimmune stuff um thanks to machiavelli's underbelly for
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tweeting some other good news uh it looks like a flying car will happen in my lifetime
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there's one that's being funded it's already built and it's basically a it's like sitting on top of a
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hobby drone you know if you just took one of those little drones that you can buy in the store
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and put a little uh put a little cab on top of it like a car that's what it is basically a four
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rotor four rotor situation now remember i told you the only thing we were waiting for
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you know because flying cars have been the the thing we've joked about forever the things we've been
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waiting for are here ai to make sure that the thing can stay stable and batteries that are powerful
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enough to take people long enough that's that we have everything else so the flying car might not be
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able to get licensed you know there might be government regulations and stuff but we can build it now
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it's done there there we have the technology likewise there's a company that's already built
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a functioning flying motorcycle so it's very similar to what i just described except instead of
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having a automobile cab on top of a drone imagine a motorcycle situation so you've got your motorcycle
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handles and you're just sitting on top of a drone it just is a big one and that already exists
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in the sense that they're already demoing it and driving around in space not space but in the air
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so we got flying cars flying motorcycles autoimmune disease and there's a company also working on
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fuel cells for drones which doesn't seem like a big big deal except that these fuel cells would extend
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the you know the range and the power of the drones substantially like a really big deal now it
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doesn't mean they'll catch on maybe nobody will ever buy a fuel cell drone but the fact that we can do it is
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certainly directionally interesting um i was thinking yesterday what are the odds that i would be born
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and many of you too so that i can see the following things that will only happen once
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in the history of humankind what are the odds for example the the development of the computer
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the computer was built and developed in my lifetime now how many humans will be born and die
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over the you know the course of human civilization and human i don't know biology what are the odds that i
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would be alive when computers are developed now and space travel exactly uh to go to the moon so space
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travel artificial intelligence now in my opinion artificial intelligence is also is already sentient but
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then we just get into arguing about definitions but i believe the ai will be sentient in my lifetime
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that's only going to happen once ever the first time anyway what are the odds of that what about the
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virtual reality the metaverse that's only going to happen once and it's happening in my lifetime
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flying cars the first ones are only going to happen once looks like it's going to be my lifetime
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what are the odds of that really doesn't that seem weird
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like like that that's one of the arguments for this being a simulation and for me being a player in a
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game because i can't really understand the odds of it unless i'm a player in a game and it's designed
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so i see more stuff it is a weird coincidence all right have you ever thought about all the um oh and
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also digital currency digital money crypto all in my lifetime and that's just like a small sample
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of things that are happening just in my lifetime but here are some things that um you have to stop
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and think about the things that have changed permanently because of the pandemic so i'm going
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to give you a starter list of things that permanently changed during the pandemic and then add to it
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so in the comments you probably can think of a few more so food delivery i don't think will ever be
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the same i suspect kitchens might just disappear it will just be deliver my food all the time it's
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just cheaper and easier um health care will change forever especially the online doctors on zoom
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uh working from home change forever supply chains are going to change forever decoupling from
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uh china especially um all of our energy systems will change so we'll have a complete change of energy
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i might i might be alive during nuclear fusion being developed it looks like it looks like that's
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going to happen i i suppose i might just barely be alive then but maybe um so all of our energy
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systems are being retooled trust and institutions completely different the the way the world feels
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about any official institution is completely different now that's going to have some expense
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i don't know what happens with that but that's not a nothing that's a big deal we just don't know how
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that's going to come out um and then i think also these factory built homes i don't know if it's because
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of the pandemic but um this this boom in these uh factory built homes i can sort of deliver and just
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put together now let's combine a few concepts let's combine the idea of relocating the
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the the homeless which is the wrong name for them you know we should stop calling them the homeless
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if they don't want a home because they don't most of them we should call them uh the outdoor livers
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or just the just the outdoor people because their preference is for outdoors
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right that's the main thing they want just let us be outdoors so we can have more freedom
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yeah or in a way you could call them the free in a weird way they're the freest among us are they
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not who who is more free than street people they can do all the drugs they want seem to be able to
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violate the law at will go anywhere they can trespass i don't know they see they don't have a they don't
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have a job they have to be to they don't have a boss they don't pay taxes exactly i call them campers
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campers now that would be funny that's the funniest one instead of calling them homeless call them campers
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that's just getting funnier as i think about it campers
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i'm sure somebody would say you're being insensitive
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all right so there's a whole bunch of stuff that's going to happen in my lifetime a lot of
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it accelerated by the pandemic but if what here's what it feels like uh it feels like the wheels are
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coming off doesn't it if you read the news oh no inflation is going to kill us and the immigrants will
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change the nature of the country and climate change will you know mop up whatever humans are surviving
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and the racism will put us in each other's throats and everything else is it really worse than it was
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in the 60s are any of you old enough to remember the 60s it doesn't feel worse
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does it or some of you say yes you think it's worse than the 60s i think that might be selective
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memory though in the 60s we thought that uh russia was going to nuke us there's no way i would live to
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die of old age because i get nuked yeah that's better televised well um it feels like we're in
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some big rebooting phase that's what it feels like to me in order to get to the new thing you have to go
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through a bad thing it's almost always true if you want to build a house you usually have to do
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demolition first because there's already one there usually in all the good locations right so if you
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want to get um if you want to get radar you have to have world war ii sorry that's the only way you're
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gonna get radar um no that's probably not the only way but there are a lot of things that got accelerated
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and maybe this maybe the pandemic is just a big reboot program it feels like it well mike lindell
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as you know was um what would you call it he was stopped and surrounded by fbi agents and they took
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his phone that they have now access to so mike lindell and i don't believe he's been charged with
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anything is that right there's there are no indictments against mike lindell that i'm aware of
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he's targeted but we don't know if there's any charges i suppose they don't know either until
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they look at his phone but he's uh he's retained uh alan dershowitz to sue the fbi and the department
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of justice to which i say good for you good for you you know what i you know what i think the
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government or the democrats here's what i think the democrats have totally um underestimated
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here's what the democrats i believe have totally underestimated two words mike lindell
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i feel like they underestimated him am i wrong because i don't think he's out of money he seems
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to be i don't know maybe he took a big hit with my pillow uh just by speaking out but he doesn't look
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like he's willing to quit right now the game that you play with somebody like him is you hope you can
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scare him off before he gets too serious and he was pretty serious to start but it looks like they're
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not scaring him off and he's just getting more aggressive so is he the guy you wanted to to piss off
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he obviously has skill he's got a lot of capability i mean he built a company you know really was on his
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personality if anything else so in a sense it looks like the government may have found a you know a
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worthy nemesis because i think he's going to take it to him we'll see i don't know i don't think he got
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where he is by lock do you i mean it looks like skill it looks like he's good at selling good at
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getting stuff done well we'll find out but it's an interesting uh development see if he can make
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something out of this um the other day i said that uh to persuade the government to do more in fentanyl
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we should produce pictures of 300 dead bodies every day and uh machiavelli's underbelly asked an ai to do
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that and sure enough so i tweeted this morning uh a group of bodies that looks like they died on the
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capital steps now i would improve that by making them instead of spread out on a field i wouldn't
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spread them out on the field i'd put them in an actual pile so it's the pile that actually sells the
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story it's not the number like if you just have a row of people who died that wouldn't be persuasive
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you need the pile because the pile tells you how you're treating the dead you've treated them like
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they didn't matter that's what the pile says a a group of people dead in the field says something
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bad happened well we already knew that right but if you put them in a pile it says not only does
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something bad happen but we don't care we'll just throw them in a pile and and so if we can tweak
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that i'd put them in a pile and i would take the american flags off them because that ended up being
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accidentally patriotic i think the ai wrapped all the bodies in an american flag so let's get the
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positive imagery away and put it in into just purely horror we'll see what that does
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so yesterday i did a number of reframes for republicans telling them how to sell their own
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policies better and uh i turned those into a series of little videos so each reframe has its own little
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two or four minutes whatever it is and that's on my channel if you want to go see that i was asked to
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put that into a playlist which i'll work on today so we'll put that into a playlist but i tweeted it i
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tweeted somebody else's playlist this morning so if you want to see the whole list of them just look at my
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twitter um so governor newsom my governor here in california has challenged florida's governor ron
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desantis to a debate because i guess desantis said something uh humorous and insulting about
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newsom's hair gel and uh newsom said uh you know hey desantis clearly you're struggling distracted and
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busy playing politics with people's lives meaning the martha's vineyard stuff we'll talk about that
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he goes i'll bring my hair gel you bring your hairspray name the time before election day and
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i don't know speaking of underestimated are you underestimating newsom because he's not a guy
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you want to underestimate you know that right he he really does he's got the whole package he does
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have the whole package so if you're underestimating him that's that would be a mistake he he does have
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the goods he could bring it so uh and again that's from a you know a democrat respect perspective um
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but what do you think of this idea of him challenging a governor from another state they're not even
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running against each other or will they huh or will they maybe not this election maybe the next one
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but also could be this one it could be could be this one it's hard to imagine newsom primary
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biden but it's possible it could happen it's a weird or or biden could drop down or something
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but i like the idea completely anytime two politicians uh are willing to debate in public
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and they're both capable and that's what's different about this these are two media stars
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who are super capable i would love to see that debate and especially if there's nobody else on stage i
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don't like these eight people debates do you i mean that's that's barely anything but a few sound bites but you
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could have an actual debate between two highly capable people with different opinions that would be
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very useful so i would say newsom you get the win on this one because he's asking for something that i as a
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a consumer would like to see as a citizen i'd like to see it so i don't think it's going to happen
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do you i don't think it's going to happen newsom is going to debate his um republican contender for
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california which is appropriate but no i don't think that's ever going to happen
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you know what the best news of the year is what is the best news of the year i'm going to say it's
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de santa's shipping the migrants uh the illegal immigrants as you like to say or undocumented
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pick your phrase uh up to martha's vineyard this is the only story i could think of where everybody
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came out ahead and also had something to complain about which is also coming out ahead correct me if
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i'm wrong but the the migrants themselves don't seem unhappy in fact they're probably being treated
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pretty well so the migrants are fine i would think i don't see any problem got a little attention
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it was a little exciting imagine being a migrant you just came from some horrible situation the next
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thing you know you're on tv in america and you're at martha's vineyard and you don't know where you're
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going to end up but it looks like it looks like the country has embraced you that's what i would think
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if i were a migrant i would think the country had embraced me because one party sent me on a nice trip
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to a good place and then when we got there that that place made sure i had food and a place to stay
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i don't know what happens next i'm not sure what happens after they get taken from their cages they're
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probably in i don't know what happens after that but so you've got the the republicans who were delighted
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because as a political stunt it was really good as political stunts go it exactly made the case that
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the republicans want to make they got all the attention they wanted it did deepen the conversation
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which is what they wanted i'd say the republicans won now how about the democrats they won too
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so they won because they said yes we will take care of them and then they did what their version
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of taking care of them is we just sent them off to some military base but that took care of them
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in my opinion that's not cheating i know that the right-leaning news is sort of acting like that's
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cheating oh no you didn't keep them in martha's vineyard you shipped them off to a military base
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to which i say it doesn't matter how you do it i i think the migrants won i think the democrats made
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their point they actually treated it like a sanctuary they they took care of them and they didn't
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didn't send them to jail i guess so for some weird reason the the migrants won the democrats won and the
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republicans won everybody won nobody died and nobody got injured everybody ate nobody got a sunburn
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taxpayers lost well did they i don't know i'm not even sure taxpayers lost because it costs money
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but it was money that deepened you know deepened the debate in a way that i think is productive
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actually so this is one of the most weirdly win-win-win productive things the country has ever done
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and the fact that we're you know both the republicans and democrats are accusing each other of being the
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hypocrite it doesn't get any better than that that that is that is peak awesomeness everything about
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the martha's vineyard story is good everything even the way we're complaining about it is good
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because if that's all we have to complain about we're in pretty good shape yeah i guess it's no fun
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to talk about inflation non-stop we do have real problems but this wasn't one of them and um i do love
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the republican theory that if there's a part of the country that says hey it's a sanctuary and you're
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welcome and there's another part of the country that the citizens are like maybe not so much here
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why isn't this a win for everybody if it's a sanctuary take them to the sanctuary
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and the way the way de santis has explained it i think was perfect we're not a sanctuary city
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martha's vineyard is a sanctuary city where does an immigrant want to go an illegal immigrant
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where do they want to go do they want to go to the place that doesn't want them or the place that
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says hey sanctuary come on in it's it's weirdly win-win-win even though it's a just a political
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trick it's the weirdest situation but this is the sort of thing that proves we're in pretty good shape
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the fact that this is what we're talking about and and somehow because we're all dumb we've managed to
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make this real problem which is you know the debacle at the border if you think about the border and you
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know the struggling people trying to stay alive and coming in and how we're treating that's like a big big
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hard problem but once the news put it in martha's vineyard it became a sitcom oh look it's people
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it's a fish and a water story it's a it's fresh prince of beverly hills look we took somebody who
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is not normally in a high-end environment and we put him in a high-end environment uh look at that look
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at the entertainment we got out of that uh am i right we took an actual human tragedy an ongoing
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rolling tragedy and we turned it into this little humorous sitcom and now nobody's thinking well not
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nobody that's an exaggeration it diverted our energy from a real problem to this like sitcom-y thing
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fish out of water fresh prince of beverly hills situation i don't know i think it trivialized the
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whole thing but it did it did what the republicans wanted it to do it told the story that they wanted
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to tell and it looks like de santis is going to be sending some more so we'll see more of this
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there was some fake news around this um there was some immigrant activist person in other words
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somebody who was pro-immigration who tweeted something i'm paraphrasing but something along
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the lines of the way de santis was treating these migrants according to this person was uh it was as
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if he had been driving around and throwing his trash out the windows from his car and then what did the
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people in the right said are you calling are you calling the migrants trash you hypocrite you're supposed
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to be on their side then nbc retweeted it you know that's all fake news right did you all did anybody
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get fooled by that it's just all fake news the original tweet was accusing de santis of treating
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the migrants like trash there's no other way to read that but somehow if you got fooled into thinking
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the person who tweeted it was saying that either the martha's vineyard people or the person tweeting it
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thinks that migrants are trash you really got taken by fake news and it's it's all over the right
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the the right is just leaning on this hard that's completely fake it was fake somebody said something
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bad about de santis and the people on the right decided to tell you that it was the opposite of what
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it was there was something bad about migrants that never happened and never happened it was just a comment
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but it was you know in a political environment the republicans tried to turn it into a weapon
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i was not aware of this until yesterday that uh our government is copying china
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uh not really copying but um we're apparently the u.s government is going to have its own digital
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currency at which point they can track everything now they're they're close to being able to track
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everything but only for people who have money if you're poor and you pay in cash they can't track you
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so well but if you have a credit card of any kind oh they can track the hell out of you already
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but once you have a digital currency one assumes that everything will turn digital eventually
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then you can't cheat the government you can't have an underground business you can't do any
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i don't know if you're going to want to live in that world but
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you know i'll just say it out loud people are uncomfortable living in a world where they can't
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well am i supposed to say that out loud because people don't say it that way but that's all that's
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what it is people are very uncomfortable living in a world where they can't break the law and cheat
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because people want to be able to break the law and cheat
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it's a very popular thing you know cheating on your taxes taking cash people really really want
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to do that stuff so we'll see if the government gets away with it i think they will one of the
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weirdest uh predictions i made maybe 15 or 20 years ago in my book the dilber future i predicted that
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and it sounded ridiculous but i saw this coming once you can uh you've got everybody on video
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and you can manage everybody's transactions how the hell do you do a crime anymore
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if we've got a picture of you and we've got your all of your records of where you were and what you
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spent and what you bought you can't get away with anything it this will first of all get rid of street
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mugging because there won't be any cash so there's a whole bunch of robbery that will just go away
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because it won't be cash there's a lot of crime that will go away but it's crime that we're used to
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we all think that we have a right to that kind of crime right well you know everybody cheats on
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their taxes a little bit so why can't i uh i avoid that theory because i'm a public figure
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so i'm really careful on you know my financial world to keep that keep that completely legal you
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don't want to make that mistake yeah they can steal credit cards so i suppose they can steal your
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passwords for your crypto so yeah that's what that risk is there but i'm not sure that the common
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street criminal will be still in business when you have to be a hacker to steal something
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like if all you needed was a gun there it's a lot more accessible business well here's the update
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on ukraine um so yesterday was it yesterday some of the comments here were saying that when russia took
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out that dam that it might have been a clever you know super evil move to strand part of the ukrainian
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army so it could be destroyed by the russian army that might be an overstatement as in maybe russia
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would like you to believe that that was to their favor but it doesn't seem to be true on the ground
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exactly i mean it might have made a difference but not a big difference and
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um there doesn't seem to be any narrative saying that russia has the ability to counter-attack the
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counter-attack meaning ukraine is on the offensive and one opinion i saw this morning is that russia's
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military is designed as a occupation force and not so much a fighting force
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and if that's true and i have a hard time believing that's true but if it's true then the ukrainians
00:31:26.440
are an offensive force against a basically a non-fighting force which is what it looks like
00:31:34.280
it looks like you know one one came to fight and the other came to squat and the squatters are being
00:31:41.080
killed by the people who came to fight now keep in mind that a hundred percent of anything that i
00:31:48.040
say about ukraine could be completely wrong it could be that i'm reading the wrong propaganda feeds
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i have no idea but i'll tell you what you don't see anywhere you don't see it coming from russia
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and you don't see anybody else saying it which is that the russians are making any gains now putin did
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say they're taking new territory but nobody believes that right nobody believes they're taking new territory
00:32:16.040
i don't think um so at this point the the i would say the forming consensus from the experts who are close
00:32:26.760
enough to have an opinion um are making it look like the ukrainians will be able to liberate that
00:32:34.920
that area now russia of course has options for stepping up the the risk and the danger maybe
00:32:41.400
destroying the rest of the infrastructure in ukraine with long-range weapons that would be pretty bad but
00:32:50.280
they don't seem to have the ability to fight on the ground against the ukrainian advances so what's up
00:32:56.840
with that and and i tell you again that how can you hold territory when all of your local leaders would be the
00:33:05.880
collaborators with russia they'll all be murdered because there's there's no way you could protect
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the collaborators could you how are any collaborators ever protected because they still go outdoors i mean
00:33:20.280
they still have families i just don't know how you can do it now i i understand how you could do it before
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the war had reached this level of conflict like you know russia had their little area that they controlled
00:33:33.560
and they probably just said if anything happens to one of our side really bad things are going to happen
00:33:39.320
to you but if the context is that really bad things are happening to everybody every day because that's
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what a war is then suddenly the the locals are going to say you know i'm in the middle of a war zone
00:33:53.640
and there's that collaborator over there walking through the public square i'm just going to take
00:33:59.560
that guy out so it seems to be at an all-time high right now worth doing because maybe you killed a few
00:34:09.480
collaborators the situation but now you're at a point where killing collaborators definitely could change
00:34:15.880
the situation definitely good because if any if nothing else it would convince russia that there's no way to
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hold the territory you just keep killing the collaborators as fast as possible yeah see the
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difference was that the nazis had they had another way to control populations which was collective
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punishment so the nazis could say oh you killed one of ours uh give me 500 of your men and we'll line
00:34:44.440
them up and shoot them in front of you and that would work i think but that's not the situation in
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ukraine because i don't think putin can do that like if he goes full full hitler in that very specific
00:34:58.920
way i i don't feel like he could survive it and we'd know about it so he just doesn't have the tools
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that uh you know a true despot would have working against basically his own people you know the ukrainians
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and the russians have too much in common uh putin has already done that with civilians i doubt it
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i doubt it now i don't doubt that there have been war atrocities but i don't think putin has ordered
00:35:26.600
people to line up civilians and shoot them i don't think that happened
00:35:31.960
it may have happened but i don't think he ordered it um it would be a dumb thing to order
00:35:36.760
so the texas supreme court ordered that uh social media platforms can't censor people's voice and
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i don't quite know what this means yet you know texas is big enough that the social media platforms
00:35:53.560
will have to either satisfy them or not operate in their state do you think they're going to give
00:35:59.640
up on texas because it seems like other states will follow suit since this well i mean i don't know
00:36:07.320
maybe this goes to the the real supreme court maybe gets overturned but if this holds then i would think
00:36:16.200
other states would take a look at it and then social media platforms are going to have to get pretty
00:36:21.000
serious about changing something anyway um and i saw alex berenson uh celebrating this victory
00:36:35.480
what what is your opinion of um i don't want to bring this up as a topic but i'm only interested in
00:36:43.800
the data collection part of it do you think it's possible at this point
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that all the different medical experts around the world
00:36:56.440
would say nothing about vaccinations if they were actually more dangerous in general we're not talking
00:37:03.160
about the special case of vaccinating children i don't know who's in favor of that but in the case
00:37:09.400
of vaccinating anybody you know just anybody who makes sense to get vaccinated do you think that the
00:37:17.320
all the experts in the world are seeing data that says it's more dangerous than not doing it and
00:37:23.960
yet they're all doing it or do you think that they're all seeing evidence that is working not as vaccine but
00:37:30.840
as a therapeutic and a pre-therapeutic whatever that means
00:37:35.880
so so there there here's what you would have to believe
00:37:44.040
you would have to believe that there's no whistleblower in any country in an official capacity who's
00:37:50.680
willing to say wait a minute wait a minute you're looking at this data this data says it's sketchy
00:37:56.760
why are you all saying it's not where's that person because there are plenty of people outside the
00:38:04.040
system you know the the malones etc there are lots of people outside the system who are saying stuff
00:38:11.560
like that but why nobody inside the system now your first impression is well they can't take the risk
00:38:17.720
risk they can't take the risk but it's a really big world there are always enough people to take the
00:38:25.880
risk there's no shortage of people to take the risk if you're talking about the whole world if you're
00:38:32.440
talking about a specific company or a department within a company yeah yeah maybe nobody takes the risk
00:38:39.720
risk but you're talking about all of the medical experts all the scientists in the world who have
00:38:46.360
access to largely the same information at this point you're telling me that with all those experts
00:38:54.600
if there were solid data saying that the vaccinations are injuring people more than they're helping them
00:39:00.200
you're saying that we wouldn't know that by now now we're not talking about the future that's still
00:39:05.400
unknown but but people a lot of people think that the evidence is still completely here somebody says
00:39:14.040
fear and money but here's my warning to you always there's no such thing as a hundred percent of humans
00:39:22.680
doing the same thing for anything and it's amazing how many times we make that mistake to imagine that
00:39:32.040
people would all act the same so so here's the math of it if you have one person and it's the story is
00:39:41.080
only about one person can you trust that the one person will act like himself oh probably it's one person
00:39:48.360
acting like themselves if you have two people in a story could you imagine that they would act like
00:39:55.320
in tandem together sure it's pretty easy for two people to collude three people gets a little harder
00:40:02.600
ten people harder but when you get to millions millions of people who could potentially
00:40:10.760
you know be a whistleblower or debunk or not even be a whistleblower just send down a tweet
00:40:16.120
just send down a tweet hey i'm a doctor i'm reading this study and this study is telling me
00:40:24.520
something bad you tell me there's not one doctor who's still in the system who won't put out that
00:40:30.760
tweet that would that would be different than everything we know about everything that would change
00:40:36.600
everything about reality if that were true there is no reality where millions of people are on the same
00:40:49.640
that was the this is the great barrington declaration uh are those people who are
00:40:54.840
working currently within jobs that they haven't been fired
00:41:01.800
mass delusion mass delusion wouldn't do it i don't think it would do it
00:41:07.080
see mass delusion also doesn't get everybody it's the everybody problem it's it's not the majority
00:41:14.520
problem it's the everybody problem uh so dr drew was talking about it so the trouble is
00:41:27.960
that the people who who are saying negatives about it tend to be the people who talk about things in public
00:41:37.960
but we're not seeing like you know a member of the top
00:41:42.680
medical team of some european country say you know we're all looking at the same information but
00:41:49.080
i'm looking at this differently this doesn't look good to me
00:41:55.720
anyway keep that in mind what are the odds i guess uh in pennsylvania the two uh candidates for senate
00:42:13.240
because one of the debaters had a stroke federman and we don't even know if he can debate
00:42:20.280
because his public appearances have suggested that
00:42:24.840
for health reasons it's difficult for him to form sentences how do you debate if you can't form
00:42:30.920
sentences reliably will you get a sympathy vote well apparently democrats have already said they don't
00:42:37.880
care so they democrats have said well if his policies are good we don't need him to be able to talk and
00:42:45.880
think and walk and stuff like that and and i think biden made that easy so if you think federman can't win
00:42:54.680
because he's obviously degraded you have to keep in mind that the republican the democrats have looked at
00:43:01.720
two years of joe biden who's clearly degraded and they're saying to themselves yeah that worked that
00:43:08.440
worked give us some more of that because it worked so well with biden why wouldn't it work with this other
00:43:13.960
person who can't walk and talk why not so i think the uh the room got softened up by biden
00:43:30.200
and i don't know what else we have to talk about do you is there something amiss was there a
00:43:37.400
uh yeah is that really a neck tumor he has or is that just neck fat fetterman i can't tell there's
00:43:44.920
some pictures of him looking like he's got a big old lump on the back of his neck but it might be just
00:43:51.080
a neck fat um did republican strategists reach out to me no no nor nor would i expect them to
00:44:03.960
so the trouble is if you're a strategist you think you don't need other people's advice because you're
00:44:11.880
selling advice the the people who are selling advice are not going to ask for my advice because people
00:44:19.320
can get that for free imagine being a high-priced uh consultant all right you're let's say you're
00:44:28.040
charging i don't know 100 000 per month which is probably in the ballpark right high-end strategist
00:44:35.160
100 000 per month are you going to charge 100 000 per month and then bring to the person who's paying
00:44:42.200
the bill an idea that you saw for free on twitter or youtube i mean i'm not sure how you do that
00:44:52.120
oh you know i'm charging you 100 000 per month but you know if you just watch this youtube channel for free
00:44:58.040
you'd have everything you need so let me just show you the youtube channel and you give me my
00:45:01.960
hundred thousand dollars for this month i don't know it's pretty hard pretty hard
00:45:12.920
um what about james clear i like where you're going with that comment but i don't know where it's going
00:45:29.720
scott cover the agree and topic argument on january 6 that i did on locals uh
00:45:38.920
i'm pretty tired this morning well what did i say about that
00:45:43.640
well i if i just rethink it from scratch i'll probably come come to the same place
00:45:49.320
the republicans need to say that the assault on the capitol was terrible the violent parts
00:45:55.640
and that we should move on and that we should agree that both sides should work hard for
00:46:02.600
election transparency and integrity it's a winning message because it's not like they're going to go
00:46:10.200
back in time anyway it wouldn't matter how how bad it was now the ray epps thing i've also said
00:46:21.160
we should make a national agreement the democrats and republicans independence too
00:46:31.000
now he doesn't explain everything no matter what you know about him it doesn't really explain everything
00:46:41.480
imagine if we looked into it and we were convinced all of us that he really wasn't an fbi agent it's
00:46:48.920
possible right very possible would you be willing to drop it then say all right all right we don't know
00:46:58.280
what happened but let's agree to move on if if the ray apps thing is nothing let's agree to move on
00:47:05.160
even if there's something there we'll try to we'll try to fix it for the next time
00:47:08.520
but what if you find out that ray epps actually was working for the fbi or associated with him in
00:47:15.080
some productive way then then you get to say all right we were right release all these people from
00:47:21.720
their prisons and uh and then still focus on the future so the the bad argument is there was nothing
00:47:34.520
that went wrong on on january 6th that's just a bad argument and it's maybe even worse to say oh it's
00:47:41.720
just a few few violent people i'd rather just say yeah it was a horrible thing let's let's uh let's
00:47:50.760
move on let's find out what we can about ray epps and then just move on
00:47:59.480
hmm i don't know i guess that calls into question what proof means
00:48:10.040
but i suppose if uh if he were interrogated enough you could find out one way or another
00:48:22.520
there's a streak of insanity you know it's funny that we all watch politics as if the politicians
00:48:29.400
mean it to be serious and then we debate it like they meant it to be serious
00:48:35.800
i'm way past that like it's hard to debate things that people didn't mean to be serious
00:48:42.280
as if it were serious i can't get past the fact that they didn't mean it when they said it
00:48:47.720
if you didn't mean it when you said it and it's obvious didn't mean it when you said i don't need
00:48:51.880
to debate whether it's true or false if you didn't mean it when you said it and it's obvious
00:49:01.240
uh epps could prove it by going to trial no you couldn't really prove it prove it
00:49:06.920
because you can't prove a negative you could simply show there's no evidence of it maybe
00:49:11.640
a simulated yeah so we do have uh videos now of the simulated 300 dead per day but put them in a pile
00:49:30.520
um and today we did another uh dilbert esg cartoon
00:49:35.160
and i don't yet know how many newspapers have canceled me or or censored this week
00:49:43.080
but uh things are going to get a lot dicier in the coming days
00:49:50.040
so i just wrote a series that i don't know if the newspapers will publish
00:49:59.640
dilbert's life is going to mirror my own personal experience so there's going to be an opening for a
00:50:07.720
promotion and dilbert will be one of the people considered and the boss will will tell him he's
00:50:14.440
being considered but he's being considered along with alice not alice uh tina the tech writer who has no
00:50:21.640
qualifications for the the job opening uh dave the new employee who looks black but
00:50:29.240
because he's a prankster he identifies as white just to thwart the boss and uh ashuk the uh intern
00:50:40.680
now you may have noticed that each of those three characters have something extra going on
00:50:45.960
right so they're either people of color or female and the way it's being set up is that dilbert will be
00:50:54.360
known to all evolved including the other people who are up for the job even they will know that
00:50:58.840
dilbert is the most qualified for this opening but he will not get the job so
00:51:12.520
do you do you want do you want it do you want to hear the writing before i draw it
00:51:19.880
i might read it to you let's see i don't think i can find it quickly enough but if i can
00:51:25.800
um on my little device here i will read you the ones that i think are going to get
00:51:50.120
dillbert dailies god it is there it is it's so hard to find things you ever notice that
00:52:09.000
short by modified oh god they're all they're all sorted in a some random order that doesn't look
00:52:14.920
like they can be resorted why is this so hard anyway i guess i can't
00:52:22.360
the the interface for dropbox is so bad that i can't even just like go in and see uh see my own files
00:52:33.560
they're organized chronologically it doesn't look like you can sort them
00:52:40.360
there's no way that they didn't leave me with that option
00:52:42.280
can i really not sort them it'd be crazy it doesn't look like i can
00:52:55.160
amazing all right sorry i mumbled and looked away from you for a while
00:53:01.160
um but i'll look at it on another computer and read it to the locals people after we're done here
00:53:05.800
with youtube and yes it'll be a locals exclusive
00:53:20.040
how dare you that's the punchline of an upcoming comic how dare you
00:53:27.960
all right that's all for now youtube i'll talk to you tomorrow