Episode 1923 Scott Adams： TikTok Determined Election Outcome. I'll Put A Stake in Its Heart Today
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In this episode of the highlight of civilization, I explain why the midterms were one of the best weeks in America's history, and why we should all be thanking the people who voted for us. I also discuss why we need to stop bitching about Americans.
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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And if you were a subscriber on the local platform,
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under the Scott Adams community, you would have heard a cool little behind-the-scenes snippet
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that they're all excited about. But they're never going to tell you.
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No, you'd have to be a subscriber. Now, let's say you'd like to take this experience up a notch,
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and I'm going to blow your fucking minds today. Are you ready for this?
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Today isn't going to be normal. There's something that's going to happen today.
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You're going to see it from the beginning. But to get you ready for that,
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apparently MSNBC is talking this morning about the possibility
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Now, is it my imagination, or does anybody else watch MSNBC for the comedy?
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I would never turn on MSNBC for anything but a laugh.
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I'm not, it's not just a clever way to insult them.
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I turn on MSNBC because I know I'm going to have a laugh.
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If I watch, if I watch CNN, let's say today, they've moved more to the middle.
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Does CNN make me laugh today when, when they're more mainstream?
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I often will disagree with the people on there, but I'm not laughing at them, right?
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But MSNBC, you turn that on and you can't, you can't help but laugh.
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It's so ridiculous and they're so in a different world.
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Anyway, in my opinion, America just had one of its best weeks ever.
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But I feel like we just get so caught in every little drama and problem that you miss it.
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Like you miss the forest for the trees sort of thing.
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Let me describe what the best week in America looks like.
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It looks like a midterm election where people were very engaged, very engaged, and turnout was excellent.
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And I think they were reasonably well-informed compared to, you know, what they usually are.
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The thing that we all wanted was a little less government, wasn't it?
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And so they just blocked up the government, so it's going to be some kind of a deadlocked, hard-to-get-anything-done situation.
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You know, it feels to me, it feels to me like we got what we needed, which is not complete inactivity,
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but we're forcing the government to be less partisan because they won't be able to do anything, just nothing.
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Unless they agree with each other a little bit.
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So I feel like this was exactly the thing we needed.
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And what else happened was we're not bitching about the integrity of the election as much as, you know, we might expect.
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We're still talking about Arizona, but that's a wait and see.
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Honestly, this is one of the best weeks America's ever had.
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Americans bitching about Americans is our best look.
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But man, you give me an election that people trust, so far, so far they trust it.
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Give me an election people, and an outcome that the people really did want.
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They did want the government to act like a government.
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Do you know what a good business deal looks like?
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If you were to be non-partisan just for a moment, just imagine yourself just an observer who doesn't care which way it goes, the system is really strong.
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All right, and I would argue that even the badness we're seeing in Arizona with the late vote count and the machines breaking, do you think that's all bad?
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Is it bad that Arizona literally just embarrassed itself in front of the whole country?
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Arizona finally crossed the line from a little bit of a problem to, what the fuck are you guys doing?
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Everything was like, well, that could be better.
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No, we're not talking about that could be a little bit better.
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We're not talking about, oh, nobody saw that problem coming.
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And now the spotlight is on this one fucking piece of garbage, you know, management of a system.
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We're putting all of our energy and hatred on it.
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It might take, you know, Carrie Lake getting elected.
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Let's give him a big hand for the school choice thing topic being as prominent as it has been.
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Apparently, as he's reporting in Texas, 10 out of 15 spots on the state school board appeared to be going to Republicans.
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So, apparently, the school choice approach was a winner.
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And, you know, Corey is the biggest name behind that.
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He actually turned that topic into an actual politically potent topic.
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I mean, you can't do better than it mattered, right?
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Like, you caused an election to go a different way.
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I saw a lot of people confused or angry about the fact that everything is going the wrong way.
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75% of the country say things are going the wrong way.
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And then we re-elected almost all of the incumbents.
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75% think things are going wrong, but we re-elected all the incumbents.
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One is everybody thinks that the problem is not their person.
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Well, I'm a Democrat, and my representative is a Democrat, so the problem isn't my state.
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But those other states, those other states should do something differently to fix things.
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People think their own incumbent is the good one.
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And part of the problem is that the length of time you've served in Congress gets you more power.
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Because you're willing to re-elect your fossils because they've been there a long time, so they have power.
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I'm sure there's a benefit to it, but I don't know what it is, obviously.
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Well, Joel Pollack seems to be one of the few people who is noticing maybe the biggest thing that happened in the midterms that I'd completely missed.
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I think Kyle Becker noted it as well in a tweet that the Republicans won six million more votes than the Democrats did.
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So, all of those polls you saw that said the Republicans are going to win by, you know, five or six percent or something.
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I forget what Rasmussen's final generic poll thing was, but I think the generic poll at Rasmussen was right about exactly where it came out.
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Because they were hovering around that five or six percent range, and that's exactly what it was.
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The trouble was that doesn't translate into what people are doing in specific places, you know, because that has to do with the funding and the exact, you know, the exact candidate and all that stuff.
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So, weirdly, weirdly, the red wave totally happened.
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You know, and so you read more about that in Breitbart.
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But I feel like that's one of the biggest conceptual facts that we all needed to understand to figure out what happened.
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Can we now say that the Democrats outplayed the Republicans in this election?
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Just in terms of legal, completely legal, decisions about how to phrase it, how to fund it?
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But I'm going to say that the Democrats were more capable.
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But I'm glad to see that you're all willing to say, okay, that's on us.
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You know, what's the thing I like best about conservatives?
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Even if I could disagree with you on 50 different things, you own your shit.
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Here are all the reasons given for why the red wave didn't work out the way a lot of people thought.
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By the way, there were people who did predict there would be no red wave, right?
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I'm trying to surface the people you should listen to next time.
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He said candidate equality will determine the Senate.
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Geraldo bet Jesse Waters $1,000 on the red wave and won, right?
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I'm only saying that because I always see a lot of anti-Geraldo comments on my feed.
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And I feel like Geraldo is like a national treasure because he's capable of playing on both sides.
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And I love the fact that he took the opening that safe.
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So here are reasons why Republicans didn't do as well.
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How many of you think Lindsey Graham was an idiot for pushing abortion hard when he did?
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Now, my understanding is he just sort of automatically does that same bill every year or something.
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So I think he was just sort of on autopilot saying, I do this all the time.
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But I feel like it was a huge mistake, wasn't it?
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I don't know what percentage of the outcome we can attribute to that.
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Now, on one hand, it was also transparent and honest, right?
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In some cases, there were bad candidates, as we all talk about, Fetterman, etc.
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But I think the candidate quality disappears when the election is so close that that one candidate will determine who controls Congress, right?
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So I think candidate quality only matters when it's not that close.
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So, I mean, team voting is going to explain 95% of every election.
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You know, you're only playing with the 5% that are willing to change.
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Apparently, the Democrats were 100% successful in funding the least viable candidates on the other side in the primaries.
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They intentionally promoted the worst Republican candidates in the primaries.
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So once it became the general election, their candidate was running against the worst of all the alternatives.
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It's actually a really good strategy in hindsight.
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It's a good strategy because in the primaries, it doesn't take much money.
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So if you can get that worst person, you know, over the line, you're done.
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And I would put that in the category of the Democrats that outplayed the Republicans.
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I'm going to give the Democrats a full compliment.
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We talked about the red wave that happened, but it wasn't in the right places.
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So that would suggest that the Democrats have funded the right places.
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And the Republicans probably funded the wrong places.
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Now, I'm not sure that's true because it's a little more complicated than that.
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We're also hearing that the GOP did not have a positive message about changing things.
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Is there somebody who didn't know the GOP likes to reduce taxes?
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Is there somebody who wonders if the GOP is big on fossil fuels and all energy, you know, when we need it?
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Is there somebody who thinks that the GOP is ambivalent about wokeness?
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Why do you even have to ask what the GOP plan is?
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The clearest, cleanest message of all time is what do the Republicans plan to do?
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And I heard them getting criticized for not having a positive plan.
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It's true they didn't talk about their positive plan.
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But it's definitely not true they don't have one.
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Their plan is so amazingly clear that I don't know how you can miss it.
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But you could argue the same thing about the Democrats.
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In the comments, which of those do you think are the biggest ones?
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Abortion, quality of the candidates, the team play thing, of course.
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You don't have to say that one because team play is, of course, the big one.
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The Dems funding the worst people, the red wave being in the wrong place, funding the wrong places, I guess.
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Somebody's saying ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots.
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Which is, you know, everything's legal if you're ballot harvesting in the right places.
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I don't think I said it out loud, but correct me if I ever said this out loud.
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But when I saw the Supreme Court ruling against Roe, and then I saw Lindsey Graham doing his, you know, attempt at legislation on abortion, I said to myself, you just threw away all of your advantage.
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I thought the Republicans threw away everything.
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I thought it was years of work, and they just flushed it down the toilet right in front of all of us.
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So, to me, the election went exactly the way it should have.
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If your party makes a mistake that big, and it doesn't affect the election, I don't know what to think.
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That looked like the biggest, most obvious mistake anybody ever made.
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Now, the Supreme Court, you couldn't help, right?
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But the Lindsey Graham thing was such an obvious self-owned that, I don't know, it's hard to explain it.
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He was honest, consistent, and has a moral standard that he's pursuing.
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All right, now I'm going to tell you the real answer.
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All of those reasons you gave, they're all wrong.
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Young unmarried women were the dominant folk, okay?
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And those young unmarried women, they were getting their news from Fox News?
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Were the young single women watching a lot of television?
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By the way, could somebody give me a demographic on that?
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So what would be a large media kind of a platform that young women tend to gravitate toward, more than other people?
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TikTok is the primary communication to young single women.
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Have you ever seen anything on TikTok about border security?
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Now, I'm not on TikTok, so I have to ask this question.
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Are there enough people watching here that you can even answer this question?
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So I don't know if any of you know this, but how many TikTok users have seen an abortion-related TikTok?
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Have you seen any abortion communication on TikTok?
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It's a Chinese company, which means the Chinese government can tell this company to do anything they want.
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The group of Americans that controlled the election outcome are the group of Americans that China controls through TikTok.
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This is exactly what I've been telling you was going to happen.
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Just as when Lindsey Graham did the abortion thing, I said, uh-oh, Republicans are fucked, obviously.
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Allowing TikTok, a Chinese company, controlled by China, to be the primary channel for the most important group of voters in the United States, do you see any problem there?
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And it will stay legal as long as Democrats find an advantage in it.
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So the Democrats have no reason to take China's influence out of the election.
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The biggest group of people in America watching TikTok are young, single women.
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Why is TikTok, if you, why is that app still working in America?
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I'm going to drive a stake through TikTok's fucking heart.
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This is not the hint of a suggestion of maybe something could go wrong.
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This is something already went fucking wrong right in front of you.
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It controlled the entire fucking fate of the country.
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On the Locals platform, I taught them a lesson about cognitive blindness.
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And cognitive blindness is where you talk about one thing,
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they're blind to things that are completely obvious.
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but your mental frame just moved off it for a moment.
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Is there anything else to fucking say about it?
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We do not have proof that they consciously affected our elections.
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because I actually like the result of the midterms.
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Now, ask yourself if your elected representatives are going to do anything about this.
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If they don't, you don't have any elective representatives.
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An elective representative would get rid of fucking TikTok tomorrow.
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You're just seeing them, you know, get elected and shit.
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We could not be more obvious or more bipartisan.
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Well, I suppose it's not bipartisan if one side likes it.
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Show me one fucking person who disagrees with this.
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And you're not going to see any action on this today, I predict.
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Let's talk about fentanyl also coming from China through the cartels.
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Now, do you know why we're not giving Ukraine our best weapons?
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because that would allow them to attack inside of Russia.
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so they can, you know, do defensive stuff near their border.
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The answer is because there's a price tag on it.
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He said if you give them the good stuff, it's nuclear war.
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What's the price of giving them the 60-mile stuff?
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And Putin says, well, I'll fight really hard against the Ukrainians.
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And then we send Ukraine a bunch of 60-mile HIMARs.
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This is what we're going to take from you and keep forever.
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But we're going to take it and we're going to keep it forever.
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How about we say, we're going to give Taiwan high Mars with 600-mile range,
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I would say to China, we're going to arm Taiwan until it can destroy your whole fucking mainland.
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All we're asking, all we're asking is stop the fentanyl.
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but there is something that China wants that we can take from them.
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There's something we can take from them, and we have not put a price on it.
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Because there's no greater risk because of fentanyl than the other stuff they were doing.
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The price to the cartels is we should give them the date they'll disappear.
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If we see one ounce of fentanyl come across the border,
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all of your operations will disappear in 24 hours.
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And then you say, all right, if you rebuild them,
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But if we don't put a price on it, you're going to get the result you have.
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Who in our government is even serious about fentanyl?
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And all of you saying, oh, Carrie Lake, she's tough because she wants to work on border security.
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The magic trick on fentanyl is you're looking at the border, and that's just misdirection.
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What about legalizing alternatives to fentanyl?
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In my opinion, legalizing fentanyl itself for recreational use would be stupid because it's too dangerous.
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They want the high that the fentanyl gives them.
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So if you said, all right, you can't have this fentanyl because it's going to kill too many people, but we would normally never do this, but we're going to make, let's say, Oxycontin or heroin legal.
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And, you know, maybe there's some restrictions.
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But I asked this question, I said, how many would you agree with testing?
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Keyword here is testing in one place, the legalization of alternatives to fentanyl.
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Is there somebody here who wants to argue that point?
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Is there somebody here who really wants to argue that testing is bad?
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Because Michael Schellenberger convinced you that it didn't work in San Francisco, right?
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And some other places with the open needle exchange situation.
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There are probably a hundred different ways you could test some variant of that.
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One would be you can have the free drugs, but you have to submit to some kind of conditions.
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And why the fuck did San Francisco do it in the middle of the city?
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The worst place you could do such a thing, right?
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But are you telling me there's no other way to do a limited test?
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What you should take away from Schellenberger's reporting on the open-air drug things that didn't work,
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what you should take away from that is what doesn't work.
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So if you think that I'm saying reproduce the things we already tested that didn't work, no.
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If you put them in one place, it's fine with me.
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Actually, I'm going to embrace and amplify you.
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Somebody said, oh, Scott, test it in Pleasanton.
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You know, test it in my town with all the drug addicts.
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hand out pills that are fentanyl replacements for free.
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Because there are definitely addicts in Pleasanton, plenty of them.
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And those addicts would have one place they could go to and get a free, controlled pill
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than something that might or might not have fentanyl in it and they don't know.
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I guess part of your opinion about why it would differ is how well you know actual addicts, right?
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I know actual addicts, like the real kind, the no-joke kind, like real, real addicts.
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If you talk to a real addict, they will tell you they would stop fentanyl and harpy
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if something's legal and available and safer and an alternative.
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And so if you said to them, okay, you can go buy your own illegal fentanyl and maybe die,
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or you could have it for free in this nice little storefront,
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but you might, you know, maybe some of your privacy would be lost or something.
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If you ever disagree to testing something small, you're always on the wrong side.
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If you say it's been tested, so you don't need to test it again, just be careful you're looking at the same test.
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Because those open-air addict things, that's not what I'm talking about.
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I'm talking about literally saying, all right, this one pill that's a pretty good substitute for fentanyl will just make this one pill available.
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You just have to come get it and then go back to where you are.
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You know, don't hang around the neighborhood, but you can get the pill here and go wherever you are.
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And so the people who say, why are you getting tough with China and Mexico?
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If somebody is trying to kill you intentionally, you kill them back.
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It's not that you have better ways to do stuff.
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Rasmussen did a poll and asked if people thought that media coverage of the election was balanced.
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What percentage of the general public do you think said that the media coverage was balanced?
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I swear, there are so many geniuses on this live stream.
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Yeah, it's 26%, which is roughly, some people would call that almost a quarter.
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So everybody's going to be talking about whether the Trump candidates won or lost.
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And I heard somebody say that Carrie Lake and Vance were Trump candidates and they won,
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so that shows that being a Trump selection is a good thing.
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To which I said, I don't think that had anything to do with why Lake and Vance won.
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Do you think Trump was a factor in Carrie Lake and Vance?
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And J.D. Vance spoke about fentanyl, so he's already my favorite politician.
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But I think that when you hear J.D. Vance talk and you hear Carrie Lake talk, isn't it obvious
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that they're just operating at a higher level than other candidates?
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It just screams from the screen, these are not your regular candidates.
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They would be popular whether they were Democrats or anything else.
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They seem to have the right level of empathy and hard-nosedness.
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Anything you say about the Trump connection is interesting, but you're burying the lead,
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So it sounded like she was confident that the...
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because it was the same day votes that are not counted, you know, the day of election, and those usually favor the Republicans.
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You have two choices for a Republican president, DeSantis and Trump.
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Assume they're both in the primary, DeSantis or Trump.
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I'm seeing about two to one DeSantis on the locals' platform, and I'm seeing about two to one.
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So do you think Trump can win in a general election against any Democrat?
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I would say that DeSantis couldn't lose, but Trump might win and he might lose.
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I think DeSantis, it would be almost impossible for him to lose.
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With the current situation, which could change a lot between now and Election Day.
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See, I feel as if the country is looking for a person who doesn't say provocative things all the time.
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Yeah, greater entertainment value with Trump, that's for sure.
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I think the Republicans would have similar foreign policy, no matter who it was.
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Has anybody made the point that bodily autonomy is one of those things you shouldn't mess with?
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You know, it's funny how many times bodily autonomy was on the midterm election.
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Yeah, people are still concerned about vaccinations, bodily autonomy.
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There's a lot of bodily autonomy stuff that's bubbling up.
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All right, Russia has announced that it's leaving Kursan, which is a key city in that disputed area.
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They had once claimed that that was now permanently Russia, but apparently permanently only lasted a few months because they're already withdrawn.
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Now, the Ukrainians are wary that it's a trick.
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They think it might be a trick to lure them into urban fighting, which sounds like the worst trick ever.
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Has anybody ever lured another military into an urban area so that they could attack them better in the urban area?
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I mean, I'm not a military expert, but they have escape.
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They would always have an escape route, wouldn't they?
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So it makes sense that Ukraine doesn't trust Russia about anything, but to me it looks like actually a retreat.
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Here's the interesting side note, and this is a huge coincidence, by the way.
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I don't want you to read into this any more than the story has.
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Just the same day that Russia announced they were pulling out of Kursan, the military leader in Kursan had, this is an amazing coincidence, an automobile accident that killed him.
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Yeah, he died in an ordinary automobile accident on the last day of Kursan.
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And here, even weirder, later that night he was given a medal, you know, an honorary medal.
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So he was not only honored for his service, but damn, what bad luck he had to die on the very day that they were withdrawing.
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Putin just killed him and gave him a medal so it didn't look too obvious.
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You schedule their medal ceremony, you kill them right before the medal ceremony, and then people are like, well, could it have been him?
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You're like, well, he seemed to like him if he was giving him a medal, and then he just kills him.
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I don't know if this is more evidence that Ukraine is going to get back a bunch of territory and win or not,
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but one of the things is that the Russian military, in its attempt to leave,
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are discovering that most of the bridges for leaving have been blown up by the Ukrainians.
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So you've got the Russians all bunched into a gigantic traffic jam trying to get out of town,
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and they're just sitting there while the Ukrainians are shelling them.
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So somehow Russia found a way to take a bad situation and make it worse.
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You know, it looks like they're really pounding us in Kursan.
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Let's bring all of our military outdoors and put them into a really crunched little area
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and leave them there for a long time within range of all of their weapons.
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This morning I looked at a Twitter exchange between Mark Cuban and Elon Musk,
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in which Mark Cuban was making some suggestions about what he didn't like about the changes,
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What matters is that you watched, we just publicly watched Mark Cuban and Elon Musk,
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you know, two of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time,
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negotiate like features of a product that we all know and use.
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And then, you know, Elon Musk said himself that Twitter's going to make a bunch of mistakes in the coming months,
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but they're sort of feeling their way toward something better.
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They're happening so quickly, which is part of the story.
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But I believe everybody can pay $8 and get a little check, right?
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So I think Mark Cuban was saying that that made the verification thing kind of useless
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because now he doesn't know, you know, which people are prominent
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because it does help to know which people are the prominent voices to pick them out quickly.
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But it did have some advantages, as Mark Cuban was pointing out.
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Anyway, so I tweeted out to people who are not familiar with business practices
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that if you don't know that you're watching, you know, one of the greatest entrepreneurs,
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A-B test features in public, if you don't know what you're watching,
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you think it looks, you know, disjointed and maybe he doesn't know what he's doing.
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But if you do know what you're watching, it's exactly right.
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And with software, moving fast and breaking things is exactly what you want to do.
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If it were hardware, you know, it's a little harder to change hardware,
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so you don't, maybe that's more of a measure twice, cut once.
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With hardware or big, you know, investments, you want to measure twice and cut once.
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With software, because it's so easy to change it,
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you want to, you know, cut twice and measure once.
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It sounds all backwards, but you do, you can catch your mistakes and fix them so quickly
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that getting it wrong fast actually moves you ahead.
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How many people on Twitter have noticed that the trolling is down?
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I did notice it, and I didn't know if it was just because I haven't been provocative lately.
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Now, I would think that the original blue checks, you know, the old-style blue checks like me,
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I would think we would notice it first, because we get more troll action than the rest of you.
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I would say my troll ratio is way down, way down.
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I'm going to give you an update on my personal medical situation,
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not because that should be important to you, but because of what it might teach you.
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So, I'm going to make this useful to you, even though it sounds all self-referential.
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I was on blood pressure meds, and their side effect almost killed me,
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I didn't know it was the drug until I got off it.
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And it made me so sore that I could barely walk across the room.
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So, my doctor came back from a vacation, so I got to catch up.
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And she did something that I think you should all do.
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So, she looked at all of my medications, because, you know, at a certain age, they start to creep up.
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So, I've got, you know, one thing for acid reflux, and another thing for blood pressure, another thing for asthma.
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And she agreed with me to take me off of all blood pressure meds, because my lifestyle changes were sufficient.
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And then she said, you know, how often are you taking your asthma meds?
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And they're working well, because I don't have any asthma symptoms.
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And, you know, I don't know, maybe 20 years ago or something, my doctor put me on these everyday asthma stuff.
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So, here I was with a pretty bad asthma problem, you know, if it were triggered by certain things.
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And here I am taking this asthma meds every day and completely eliminated the problem.
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And then she said, you don't need to be on that.
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Well, she said, no, if you're not having any symptoms, that means you don't need any asthma medications.
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And I said, but I thought I was not having symptoms because of the medication.
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One of the side effects of the asthma meds is muscle soreness.
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Now, I had experimented with it, and it didn't change anything.
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So, I've been off asthma meds before just to test, and I didn't feel any different.
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But I thought it was, you know, I just got lucky.
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But I'm, so now I'm completely off of asthma meds, and I'm completely off of blood pressure meds.
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Now, if you haven't done a medicine review, especially if you're a certain age, if you haven't done a medicine review with your doctor, because remember, this doctor was not the original one who put me on asthma meds.
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I was just continuing, because they told me to.
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You know, I was just doing what the doctors told me.
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But you need to check in, because I'm guessing, just a guess, that when I was prescribed to do it every day, that probably was the recommendation.
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And then the recommendation changed, but nobody checked with me until now.
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I like my doctor a lot, which is why I waited for her to return.
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And I did not know how many ordinary medicines cause muscle soreness.
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Do you know what happens to your life when you have muscle soreness?
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Do you know what happens when you're less active?
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You exercise less, and then the spiral happens, right?
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I feel like I could run a marathon right now, and I can't even run, you know, two miles.
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But my body is like 100%, and all I did was get rid of two meds that I did not know were causing any problems.
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Yeah, I don't have a cat in the house at the moment.
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The thing I promise you is that you'll hear things on this live stream that you don't hear on other platforms.
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Did you see anything today that you're not expecting to see anywhere else?
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You haven't heard the TikTok thing anywhere else.
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Yeah, I noticed that a lot of you enjoy interacting with each other in the comments.
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So, it's partly about the live stream, but it's partly about, you know, it's like a little club.
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You get to talk to people who have something in common.
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The weight of glasses on the bridge of nose and sinuses.
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I did have my sinuses, you know, roto-rooted out a year and a half ago.