Episode 1895 Scott Adams: Almost Everything You Suspected About Your Government Turns Out To Be True
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 3 minutes
Words per Minute
138.9313
Summary
A new kind of battery is on the way, Alex Jones is getting a billion dollars, and Biden is doing exactly what he's been accused of doing for years: working for the betterment of the country. Also, the price of gas keeps going up, and inflation keeps going down.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another highlight of civilization.
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The only thing higher than this would be inflation, but maybe that won't last.
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All the way to pre-pandemic levels of awesomeness.
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You know, back when kids were getting good scores on the SATs and the ACTs and all that stuff,
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a long time ago, let's bring it up to that level.
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chelsea, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask,
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Fill it with your favorite beverage. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day,
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the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip.
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I feel like the news has to make everything look real bad or real good.
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But didn't inflation just stay the same as last month?
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There's nothing that would cause it to get better.
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I think getting better is sort of a next year thing.
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I think we're going to have at least a year of this.
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How about a technological change that will change everything?
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Well, NASA has come up with a new kind of battery.
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Now, you're going to hear this story a billion times.
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But this one's kind of awesome because I guess it releases its energy in the right way for airplanes.
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It eliminates 30% to 40% of the weight of the battery.
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While it can double or even triple the amount of energy it stores.
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They already built one, so they know they can make it.
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So, what happens when air travel becomes something you can do cheaply with batteries
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I think every rich person is going to have a self-flying little, what would you call it?
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You know, like the drones have four engines, four little helicopter engines.
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So Alex Jones was ordered by the court to pay about a billion dollars to the families of the Sandy Hook victims.
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Now, does that sound like a fair verdict to you?
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I mean, that doesn't sound even like a little bit like justice, does it?
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No matter what you think of what he did, that doesn't even seem in the ballpark.
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And I feel like it's just obvious that that gets overturned for being obviously a political thing.
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So Jack Posobiec has been tweeting about this, and it's like nobody can hear it, or we're pretending it doesn't matter.
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We're in this weird world where if the news decides something isn't news, it doesn't matter what it is.
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It could be, you know, Jesus could, you know, come back, and if the news decided not to talk about it, you couldn't get them to.
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So as Jack Posobiec is pointing out, that Biden is doing exactly the crime that, I'll call it a crime, but he's doing exactly what Trump was alleged to have done, which is work Ukraine for a political favor.
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He's in public without anybody, you know, nothing's being hidden.
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He's trying to get Saudi Arabia to pump more oil before the midterms, because it'd be good for him politically.
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Now, he doesn't say that last part, but it's pretty obvious.
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Now, I guess he can get away with it because he can just say, well, but it's not because of the midterms.
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And they're actually going to threaten, he said directly, that they're going to threaten Saudi Arabia with retaliation unless they increase the pumping before the midterms.
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But, of course, they leave out the before the midterms part, so they can say it's for other reasons.
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I think the theme today will be, every worst suspicion you had, it's all true.
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Whatever is the worst thing you suspected, it's all true.
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So the Alex Jones things clearly shows that our core system is a political entity, right?
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Would you say that I could say that without any real hesitation at all?
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That the Alex Jones shows that our core system isn't operating the way it was supposed to?
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Well, wouldn't that be your worst, your worst suspicion about the core system is that it's not even trying to be a core system anymore?
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I mean, I don't think it could be much more clear than a billion dollars.
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A billion dollars says we're going to make this political and we don't care if you know it.
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You know, 50 million would have been, it's a political statement, but we want to kind of hide it a little bit.
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If you earned 50 million, you'd say, well, that's outrageous.
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But, you know, it's within the outrageous realm of things that you've seen before.
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But at a billion dollars, they are signaling to the world that they're not even trying, not even trying to find justice.
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That's the worst you could assume about your own political, your own justice system.
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And then the worst you could assume is that the Democrats would try to, and successfully, right, impeach Trump over a thing that Biden is doing right in front of you at the same time.
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It's your worst suspicion that they would impeach somebody and then just do the same thing right in front of you, right in front of you.
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So there's some trial of, I guess, the guy who was being asked to confirm the Steele dossier.
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So now we've heard that the FBI offered a million dollars to Steele, Christopher Steele, if he could confirm the things in Steele's own dossier.
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And he didn't get the million because he couldn't confirm it.
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Now, what's the worst thing you'd assume about the FBI, your worst suspicion?
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Oh, my God, I think they're just a political organization, and they would do anything to get Trump.
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They were willing to pay a million dollars for this.
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But when you hear it in this context, and you know all the things swirling around it,
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it's hard to imagine that anything happened except the FBI was trying to buy dirt on the president.
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And then, of course, we know now that when the FBI knew it wasn't true, the Steele dossier couldn't be confirmed.
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I don't know how many of you think that I'd make this up.
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I just kept track of how many times before 9 a.m. yesterday, so from the time I woke up, probably 4-ish, to 9 a.m., how many times has somebody said on social media something that wasn't true about me and then criticized me for it?
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Ten times before 9 a.m. somebody said on social media something that was not even close to true about me, claimed they remembered it specifically, and then criticized me for it.
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Already today, it's up to 12, because two more times this morning.
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They have very clear memories of things that didn't happen.
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And then the weird thing happens, that people want to prove that the things I say didn't happen really did.
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So, they go into my old tweets, and they produce a bunch of tweets that don't prove anything, and they say, there you go.
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Now, do you believe me when I say that that happens ten times before 9 a.m.?
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Now, look, so, you know, we live in this world where everybody's got a subjective experience.
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Look at the, if you want to have something blow your mind, look at the Durham coverage on Twitter.
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Look at the Democrats, what they say about the Durham stuff, and then look at what the Republicans say.
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The Democrats are saying the Durham thing is proving that there was never anything there.
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At the same time, the Republicans are saying, look, they're proving all this bad stuff is there.
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It can't be true that all of this is coming out at the same time nothing's coming out.
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Two completely different worlds, and we can inhabit either one.
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Well, I guess that's the best question of the day.
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Then, so this is another example of you can get used to anything.
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So, this is an actual thing that happened, and it's a small story.
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Nobody's questioning whether the following thing happened, and it's a small story.
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The President of the United States claimed in public that his son died in the Iraq War in Iraq,
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I'll bet some of you didn't even know that story happened yesterday.
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He said it clearly and unambiguously that his son died in Iraq, which did not happen.
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He died in a hospital in America from cancer, I think.
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You don't believe that there's a video of him saying it yesterday?
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Now, I suppose it could be a doctored video, and I wouldn't even be that surprised.
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But the news is not treating it like anybody's doubting he said it.
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But I'm pretty sure even the left-leaning news says, yeah, he said that.
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So now he can't tell the difference between living people and dead people, second time.
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You know, I'd heard he'd had a stroke, but, you know, I thought, oh, well, people have health problems.
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And I thought, obviously, they think he's going to recover.
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Otherwise, there wouldn't be any serious conversation about him being in the race.
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But what is the worst thing you'd imagine about Fetterman?
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All right, the worst thing you can think of would be that his brain is really not working,
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and they're running him anyway because they just need a win.
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So we now have the Senate will be determined by someone whose brain is so non-functional
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that CNN covered the story by having their medical guy...
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So they've got Sanjay Gupta on the air holding a model of a brain
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and pointing to the parts of the brain that don't work on Fetterman.
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Actually pointing to the parts of his brain that don't work.
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It's, oh, this part where he understands language that's spoken doesn't work.
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I feel like the part that understands language,
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So just hold this idea in your head without your head exploding.
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We now have a president that everybody agrees is brain-dead.
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And the person who could be the deciding vote in the Senate
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and the Democrats actually want to give control of the country
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Because you know what the brand of the Democrat Party is, right?
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Do you know the one thing that they're most proud of if you're a Democrat?
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is you're giving all of the power in the country
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a bunch of rich old white guys running everything,
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what would you do as sort of your response to that?
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that they would run people who are old white men
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Because if you're worried about the old white men
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Now, we have to talk about Fetterman's interview.
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that the computer was also helping him form his responses.
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the computer wasn't coming up with its own policies.
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And so it was sort of a canned bunch of responses
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I had an extended one-hour conversation with Fetterman,
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I thought you could only move in one direction.
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But here's what Tucker Carlson quite brilliantly noted.
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and it took the two of them to get the job done.
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just carrying your phone around makes you a cyborg,
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If you interact with artificial intelligence enough,
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And that's what I was getting from Fetterman's interview.
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Now, it could be just an artifact of his stroke.
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was he was just repeating what the AI was saying.
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It looked like he was just reading the AI's sentences.
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they'll pick a word that you wouldn't necessarily use.
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So, in a practical sense, Costa Rica is a little
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Old folks talking about Costa Rica wrong again.
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There's nothing I said about Costa Rica that was
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You know, you're like, I get the generic trolls.
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So, the first part is that they become independent
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The next part is that you divide up the natural
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resources in some way that the disputed territories
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make sure they get a good, they get the biggest taste.
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Because they're the ones who took the biggest brunt of it
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So, they should get the biggest taste of the natural
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You make your agreement with, about Ukraine, a small
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detail on a larger agreement with Russia, that we should
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And I think that was the big thing that Trump did with
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North Korea, that made that risk go down to what we don't
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worry about today, which is he simply, he simply redefined
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We could just redefine them as not enemies because we didn't
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Have I told you the big reason that Russia and the United
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What's the main reason the U.S. and Russia are at vodka,
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I believe it's because most of the people who work for the CIA
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I think they just have too many employees working on Russia
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Or maybe just in response to the fact we have too many people.
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If you're a career CIA person whose job depends on fighting
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Say, you know, maybe these Russians aren't so bad after all.
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It's your job to say they're bad and keep fighting them.
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So we have probably just too many people we hired to fight Russia
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Now, of course, once it gets going, you do have a reason.
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But I think we're at that point where the reason that we poked them
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And the reason they poked us is because we poked them,
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And that very little of it has any strategic value to either of us.
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And by the way, I have not heard one person argue with my peace plan
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Well, I'm sure somebody disagrees, but I haven't seen anybody argue.
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But as a first draft, well, tell me what wouldn't work.
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Independent ownership of the disputed places pretty much has to happen.
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It's the only thing that will keep them from war.
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And then the space thing, I think, is just smart.
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The Russian army has to be completely out of Ukrainian territory.
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So I've proposed something that neither Ukraine nor Russia would agree to.
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Would you agree that it doesn't look good for either Ukraine or Russia to do what I suggested?
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You wouldn't do an agreement that required trust alone.
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Remember, I told you, we're going to go, who's going to enforce this agreement?
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So you could imagine that you'd say something like, we'll put UN forces in there for five years.
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Because remember, if Russia wins that territory, they're still going to be fighting, right?
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If Ukraine thought it won, then Russia would never be happy.
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So the one thing that you know doesn't work is one of the sides winning.
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Can you agree that there's nothing like one side winning,
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because the other side will just peck them to death with additional terrorist attacks forever?
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The reason we're here is that the other side wouldn't quit.
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But you can make agreements that don't require trust.
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I don't think the citizens would fight forever if you gave them their autonomy.
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The military-industrial complex wants to fight forever everywhere.
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But you can guarantee that they need to finish wars too.
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Basically, we just have to give them another source of money,
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I mean, we're going to need a lot of weapons in space, unfortunately.
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We had 20 years in Afghanistan, and we still failed.
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Yeah, there's definitely something about the industrial-military complex
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So again, I tell you that when we go to the brink, which we have to,
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the odds of an actual nuclear war are very low.
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And the reason we have to go to the brink is that if we don't,
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Going to the brink is a necessary part of the process.
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Now, does going to the brink increase the risk that you will accidentally
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We are going to a place where there will be more chance of a mistake.
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You don't get to the stage after it until you pass through it.
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So you're going to have to put your toes over the edge,
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and you're going to have to look into certain death.
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You know, I don't know if there's a preparation one could do
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Is there anybody here who doesn't have a little extra food?
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A little extra food left over from the pandemic, maybe?
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And by the way, here's a good recommendation for food.
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I'm told that white rice can be stored in a dark place
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But white rice, you can just put it in a dark place
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you can live a while on just rice and water if you had to.
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I don't know about the health pluses or minuses of it,
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but it seems to me if you had the big thing of protein powder
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and you had a big thing of rice that would last forever,
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you'd have protein and you'd have at least some bulk.
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You know, you could add your protein mixed to water.
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So, I mean, I think those would be your minimal preparations
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Now, what you have beyond that, you know, is extra.
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Because, you know, if you need food beyond a month,
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This quinoa doesn't last indefinitely, though, does it?
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Doctor, the current state of our nuclear deterrent.
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can they sue anybody for branding them as racists?
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Because, remember, I actually interviewed people
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because they wanted the statues to stay for historical reasons.
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Small plastic bags are going to be illegal in California.
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In California, you can't have small plastic bags for the grocery store, anyway.
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Well, I don't know if the 2020 election had any problems.
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I just am glad that it's the only system in America
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In California, it's illegal for doctors to disagree with politicians.