Episode 1929 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About Trump's Announcement, War With The Cartels And More
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1 hour and 19 minutes
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142.10553
Summary
TikTok, the video game app that allows you to interact with other people on the internet, has been making millions of dollars in the U.S. market. The FBI is concerned about TikTok, but they don t know what to do about it.
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ever experienced. Do you think we'll be talking about Trump's announcement? Oh yeah. Trump announces
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and the media pounces. You like that? Trump announces and the media pounces. Very proud of
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you can do it. Take your game up a level, Stephanie. All right. Well, we'll talk about Trump, but let me
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give a few minutes for people to come in. The FBI's Director Wray says the FBI is, quote,
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extremely concerned about TikTok operating in the U.S. No, they're not. No, they're not. Do you know
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what extremely concerned looks like? The pandemic. Extremely concerned is when you stop all travel
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from China because there is a virus over there. We're extremely concerned. We're all going to wear
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masks and take vaccinations. And that's extremely concerned. World War II. Extremely concerned
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about Hitler. So concerned we mounted a, you know, an army ourselves and attacked. That's what
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extremely concerned looks like. Do you know what extremely concerned does not look like? Oh, I'm
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extremely concerned. That's what it doesn't look like. Extremely concerned would be, at the very
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minimum, turn it off. Turn it off. And then figure out if you should turn it back on. You don't leave
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it on when you're extremely concerned. You turn it off first. Figure out if there's a problem. Maybe turn
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it back on. Maybe. But it's just a fat lie that they're extremely concerned. They're not.
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Now, here's what I believe is why they're not extremely concerned. I believe that Republican
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and maybe just government people, ignorance is really killing us. Because I believe this is a case
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of ignorance. And this is what I mean. I believe when the FBI thinks of TikTok as a threat, they think
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of the data privacy part of the threat. Ooh, China will find out too much about our citizens. Which is
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true. But that's not the threat. The threat is that they can program our brains directly through
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their product. Do you think that the director of the FBI even understands that? I say no. I would say
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his actions and his words suggest he doesn't even know what the threat is. He literally doesn't
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know what the threat is. Because I would say that out of 100 people, only two out of 100 would
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understand the threat. Now, most of my audience does because I understand the threat. So I explained
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it to you. But who explained it to Director Ray? Who talked to Director Ray, who has my level
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of persuasion experience? And said to him, oh, you're missing the big show here. The show
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is that they're programming our minds. It's not about data privacy. I mean, it's also about
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data privacy. That's not unimportant. But data privacy is something I would be extremely concerned
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about, but maybe not doing that much about it. Right? Doesn't that sound like he's only
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extremely concerned about some data privacy? If the question was, you know, they're programming
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our brains, or if they're not actively doing it, you know, they could turn it on at any minute.
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They just turn a button, you know, figuratively speaking, and we get more of something or less
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of something that TikTok users do. Why in the world does he pretend not to understand that?
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Now, let me ask you, have you ever heard anybody in the government say what I just said? That the
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real problem is that they're programming us? I haven't heard it. I've only heard data privacy,
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which means that our policy is based on ignorance. I'm not wrong. I'm not wrong. Anybody who understood
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the problem would have turned it off immediately? Do you know who understands the problem?
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Trump. Trump does. Do you know why Trump understands the problem? Because he understands persuasion.
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He knows how he does it. He knows that if his message were on TikTok, it would be more effective.
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He tried to ban it. Now he got it shut down. And I, you know, that's on him a little bit too.
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But trust, but Trump actually understood the risk. Do you know what? So that's what extremely
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concerned looks like. Trump was extremely concerned. He tried to turn it off. That's what extremely
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concerned looks like. I'm not wrong. Right? A little bit concerned is talking about it. Extremely concerned,
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you try to turn it off. There's no argument there. Ivermectin continues to entertain. I did not think
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that the ivermectin story could be as deep as it is or last as long. But listen to these two stories at
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the same time. Okay? Now, nothing about what I say will be pro or anti-ivermectin. I'm past that
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conversation. We're just going to talk about how it's being handled in the news, right? So at the same
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time, the Daily Beast is calling out Dr. Simone Gold. She was part of that group of rogue doctors.
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Have I ever mentioned my opinion of rogue doctors?
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The problem with rogue doctors is that for everyone that's, like, right and, you know,
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sounding the alarm and we should really listen to them, those exist. There's going to be five who are
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frauds. Maybe ten. Maybe ten who are frauds for every real one who really got the right answer first.
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So how do you know? How many of you believe that this Dr. Simone Gold and her organization were genuine?
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Because it turns out that they're being called a COVID disinformation organization. Of course,
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that has to do with their claims about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine in particular. But apparently
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they raised a ton of money and his founder, Simone Gold, used some of that money to buy a mansion
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where she lives with her 20 years younger underwear model boyfriend. She took a hundred thousand
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dollar private jet trip and she actually went to jail for a January 6th protest where she was accused of
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not using her medical training to help an injured policeman. Did that really happen?
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There's, there's, there's a report that she was near somebody who got injured and just kept protesting
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instead of helping an injured person. She is a doctor. I don't know. It's not illegal, didn't break any laws,
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but. So how many of you thought that Dr. Simone Gold and their hydroxychloroquine little organization,
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how many of you thought that they were legitimate? Is anybody saying, oh, shit, I thought they were real?
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Anybody? Oh, a lot of us. A lot of us. Now, to my credit, I never thought they were real.
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Can you confirm that for me? The people who've been watching me since the beginning,
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can you confirm that I always called bullshit on that group? Confirmed, right?
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Now, I'm not saying the hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin who work or don't work. I'm just
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too bored with that conversation. It'd be great to know the answer someday, but I'm bored with that.
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But I did call bullshit on it. So I get the win on that. Will you give me the win?
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Will you give me a clean win on calling that bullshit? Yeah. Now, but I want to be clear,
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I didn't call bullshit on the drugs. I don't have a firm opinion on that. I have a, let's see,
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statistical opinion, but I don't have any certainty about it. All right. So at the same time that we
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found out that one prominent group pushing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were apparently more about
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the fundraising than the science. At the same time, we find out that this, that exchange, FTX,
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apparently they were the major funder of an ivermectin study that debunked ivermectin.
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Could this be any more interesting? How in the world did this FTX get connected to every,
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every ugly thing in the world? Like, it's just connected to everything you don't like one way or
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another. Now that doesn't mean, that doesn't mean the study was flawed. A lot of people said it was
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flawed. I'm no expert there. But don't you have to ask some pretty big questions when a fraudulent
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organization does a study that debunks something that, if it had been proven the other way, would
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have been, you know, this huge game changer? Yeah. You gotta, you gotta raise one eyebrow on that. One
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eyebrow up. All right. All right. Let's talk about Twitter 2.0. I guess that, that's what Musk,
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I think Musk is calling it that. So at midnight, I guess he sent out last night, he sent out the
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staff an email to everybody that they have until 5 p.m. Thursday to decide if they want to be part of
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Twitter 2.0. Now, Twitter 2.0 will require, as Musk said, long hours and a focus on engineering. So it'll be
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kind of a big sacrifice and very, very difficult. What do you think of that? Good management,
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bad management? Because we all get to watch, you know, one of the great entrepreneurs of our time
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doing what he does. Now, Twitter apparently had a culture that was maybe at a little bit of odds with
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the, um, let's say the, um, let's say the, the startup mentality. So Twitter had gone past the
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startup mentality and they were in sort of a comfortable situation, even though they weren't
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making money, oddly enough. And I saw this, uh, in a, in a related story. Are you watching, uh,
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Musk fire his own employees on Twitter? Oh my God. It's, it's horrifying.
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At the same time, it's electrifying. At the same time, it's fascinating. At the same time,
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it's educational. It is everything. It's like, it's, it's funny. It's horrible. It's, it's everything.
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But here's what I took from it. There were a number of employees who thought it would be safe
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to insult their, the owner of their own company somewhat rudely in public. What caused them to
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think they could do that? What was it that caused the Twitter employees to think that they'd be safe
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They found out quickly that was not the case. I don't know because we can't read their minds,
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but let us speculate just for fun, for entertainment. Don't they think, don't you think they thought
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they were kind of protected in terms of free speech? They thought they had free speech, but other people
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didn't. Right? They thought they were free to say that because it was their opinion. It was their
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honest opinion. So they thought, well, I can put my honest opinion anywhere I want because we got this
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free speech and stuff. But it turns out that, you know, companies don't have free speech per se for
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employees. And they found that out. Musk trained them. Now, I do love the fact that Musk is making a very
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obvious big, you know, psychological message that the old way is dead and you can only stay under the
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new assumptions. I think he's doing a really good job in communicating his priorities.
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I don't know if it'll work, but I do think he needed to do it. I would agree with, at least from the
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outside, it looks like he couldn't just take the existing staff and make them do new things. They're
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sort of old dogs who needed to learn new tricks. So I think it was a combination of putting in new
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blood plus, you know, weeding out the ones who think they have some kind of entitlement, I guess.
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So he got rid of their free lunches because they weren't eating it much and it was expensive.
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And the other thing he did was he's bringing back,
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uh, can you give me the names? Uh, the two people, the two people who he fired from Twitter,
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he hired back, uh, Ligman Johnson, Ligman Johnson, but they were, they were pranksters.
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So they did a prank where the media thought they were two fired Twitter employees, but it was just
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a prank. They just stood outside the headquarters with boxes, like they had just cleaned out their,
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their desks, which is fricking hilarious. All right. So, so, so, so Musk actually posed with a
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picture with the two of them with his arms around them saying, welcome back to Twitter.
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Now you're definitely getting a, uh, advanced course in how to do marketing without a marketing
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department. So has he proven for sure that firing the Twitter marketing department was a good move?
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Can we give him that? Can we now say, oh yeah, well, you know, because traffic is way up.
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Attention on Twitter is way up. He's probably attracting engineers at this point. He's probably,
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some people say, oh, that could be interesting now. I'll go there. I don't know. Yeah. If you judge it
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by how angry the employees say they are, it would look like a mess, right? But that's not how you judge
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things because he's, he's intentionally by strategy, uh, putting pressure on them.
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And that's capitalism and it's a free market. And, you know, they should be fairly employable. If
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they're working at Twitter, that should make you fairly employable somewhere else. Or maybe it works
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the other way. I don't know. Um, but watching Musk fire people for their opinions is the ultimate karma
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completes the loop, right? Because Twitter was under the, you know, the company was sort of under the
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operating assumption that they didn't have to apply by free speech because they were a private company
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or they were a, you know, a company. They weren't the government. And now Musk is informing them that
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those same rules apply to them, that he can fire any employee he wants because it's a private company.
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Now it's private. So I don't know. Karma's really doing its thing. Let's talk about Trump and his
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announcement. Um, I missed the first few minutes because I had some technical difficulties last
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night, but somebody told me he used the phrase golden, golden age. Did he, did he say that the first
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two years were a golden age? You know, what's interesting about that? It might have been a hundred
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percent of us would go back to that, wouldn't we? Because it was pre-pandemic. So, you know,
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you can't say it's all about Biden. It's the pandemic as well, but golden age. Huh?
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It's a catchy phrase. I wonder where he got it. Um, I, when I watched the presentation,
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I said to myself, he is clearly keeping his energy low or he has low energy. Now he raised his energy
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later. So it looks like it was intentional. And I was waiting for his critics to say low energy
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and low energy Jeb. How long did it take his critics to say it was a low energy Jeb speech?
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About a minute. Yeah, I think CNN pundit and MSNBC pundit, uh, both said low energy. Now, what did you
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think? Those of you saw it, did it look low energy to you? Or did it look like he was trying to be more
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serious? Did it look like low energy or strategy? Go. Low energy or strategy? Serious or just low energy?
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I think it was both. But on top of that, I think he might have had some problem that day.
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I think he might have been a little sick. Did anybody? He looked nervous, yes. But the nervous
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part didn't make sense. Here are some things we can speculate. Speculation number one, he was a little
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under the weather. Do you think he's been getting much sleep in the past week or so? I doubt it.
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Imagine what his life was like before making the announcement. Imagine the conversations with his
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wife. Imagine the conversation with Don Jr., with Eric, with Ivanka, with Jared. And how many of them
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were saying, dear God, do not run. Please, please, for the good of the family, the family can't handle
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this. You know, just, just take your win for the first term and go away. Do you think that the family
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was, yeah, we're on your side, let's do this? Now, I think they were all treating him respectfully,
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but I don't think he was getting his family on his side in a way that he wanted. When he introduced
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his family, he introduced Eric. Right? I think Eric was the family member in attendance.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Eric had the least role in his last election. Right? I mean, he was
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involved, but he had the smallest role. But he was the only one at the announcement. Now, we do have
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reasons why the others didn't come. Apparently, Don Jr. was on a hunting trip and there was a weather
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problem and he couldn't get home. Does that sound true to you? Do you think Don Jr. was on a hunting trip
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and he couldn't get home? Could be. Yeah, it could be. Because if you follow him on Instagram,
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his hunting trips tend to be things like, you know, fly somewhere and then you take a little,
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like a little aquatic plane into the bush in Alaska and, you know, hunt bears and take your little plane
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back and stuff. So he does do, he does do the kind of trips where if you were going to get stranded
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for a few days because of weather? Yeah. Yeah, but it's actually a perfectly
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understandable thing. Now, well, let me take it to the next level.
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If your father were going to announce for the presidency, wouldn't you check the weather forecast
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Would you take that risk? Would you take the risk that maybe you couldn't get back?
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We'll see. I mean, Don Jr. retweeted the announcement. So he's showing support on online.
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It is plausible. It's plausible. But you have to ask the question. I can't imagine that the family
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is too keen on him running again. It's hard to imagine they would be. But Ivanka issued a
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very well-written statement about why she wasn't there. And I'll tell you, Ivanka just nails it every
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time. Her statement was, you know, very supportive. You know, unambiguously supportive. Not the kind of
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bullshit where you think they're using weasel words to support. It was just full support. You know, loving
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and support. But she said her kids are a certain age. And then she mentioned the age of the kids. And
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they're like 6 to 11 or something. They're in that range somewhere. That's exactly the age where you
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don't want to be gone. Right? Well, really, there's lots of ages you don't want to be gone.
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But that one's really a critical one, isn't it? That's like a really important one. So I'm all
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on board on Ivanka not sacrificing her family for the good of the country. Can we agree? I think she
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would be a huge asset. But I don't think I want her to do that. I want her to take care of her kids.
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She earned it. I mean, she did way more than anybody would be expected to do in the first
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administration. Ooh, text me while I'm doing my show. How important is this? Oh, okay.
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I wanted to keep it classy rather than rally-wise. Yeah, it looked like you wanted to keep it classy.
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All right. So let's analyze his persuasion. Do you think that his energy that he showed
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was good persuasion? Because here's what I saw. I saw that even his critics were having trouble
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doing the, it's a dark, scary speech. The biggest problem with Trump is that he scares Democrats.
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Am I right? He scares them. Because he talks like, you know, they think, oh, no, it's Mussolini.
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When they see him talking, and I will, you know, kick everybody's butt, and I will make everything
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great, and we will go to glory. They say that's a fascist. But if he talks like Chuck Schumer,
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yeah, well, we're going to look at the budget really hard, and we're going to take a look at this
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and try to get some bipartisan support, right? So he basically did his impression of a boring politician,
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because that's what the public seems to want. I think, so, so number one, I don't think it was 100%
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intentional. I don't think his energy level was 100% intentional. I do think he meant to keep it
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professional. So that part was intentional. But the energy looked like there was something going
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on with him in his personal life. Would anybody disagree? Did anybody pick up, there's just
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something going on in his personal life? Maybe the announcement himself, maybe some, maybe sick,
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maybe something else. Yeah. Maybe old. At first I thought it was age, but when he got off the
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teleprompter, he, his energy picked up, and then he was closer to his regular self.
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Now here's another speculation. Did it seem like he was having a hard time seeing the
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teleprompter? I felt like he couldn't see the teleprompter. Can you think of a reason that
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would be true? I can. Why would he not be able to see the teleprompter in that event when in all the
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other events he could? Not age. That's possible. It's possible he needs glasses and won't wear them.
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But I have another possibility. I believe that the professionals who do the, you know, the technology
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at Mar-a-Lago are not the same as the professionals who help a president or a campaign. I think he's
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relying on less qualified assistance at the moment, especially because he was home. I mean,
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he was literally home. So whatever. So here's my guess. I think they put the, uh, maybe you'll find
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the sound, but it looks like the teleprompters were maybe too far away or maybe, you know,
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too wide or something. Maybe they had some, you know, glare on them or something. But he looked like he
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was struggling to read it. And at one point I thought he read it wrong. Like he said something
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that I didn't even think made sense, but he was reading it. So I don't know. That's what it looked
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like. I guess we have some questions here. But some said he had no new policy suggestions,
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but he did say, uh, execute, uh, execute dealers, drug dealers. And he did say war on the cartels.
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Isn't that new? Isn't that, uh, that's pretty new. And isn't it the most important issue?
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So did he manage to come up with something bold and new on the most important issue in the country,
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in my opinion? And it was, it was reported as he didn't say anything new. Did that actually happen?
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Yeah. He just said attack Mexico and it was reported as nothing new. So here we go, right?
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Here we go. It's like, first of all, uh, Daniel Dale from CNN did a fact check on, on Trump,
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but he was, you know, he, of course, the fact check, everything is false. Basically everything
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Trump said was not true, which I picked up as well. Did you pick that up? That most of what
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Trump said was not true. You could all tell, right? I mean, I don't know what was true, but pretty much
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the vast majority of his claims were so out of context or just completely made up.
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I mean, yeah. Now compare that to Biden's lies. They're a little bit different. You know,
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when, when, when Trump is, you know, slinging his bullshit, it sounds like a salesperson and it sounds
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like, you know, big, big first offers and it sounds like he's negotiating with the public. And I feel like
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I, I feel it in context. The context is, you know, who Trump is, you know, he overclaims and then you
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just bake that into your thinking. But with Biden, he's just lying. It feels, it feels like a lower
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level. Like they're both lying about everything, stipulated, stipulated. They're both lying about
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everything. As presidents do. But I do think, but I think one does it with a salesman's flair and
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one with a politician's flair and it feels different. All right. Let's talk about, well,
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we'll get back to fentanyl in a minute here. He didn't really have any visual persuasion this time,
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did he? It was visual in terms of he had American flags behind him and blah, blah, but I'm talking
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about a visual for his message. Build the wall. You could see the wall. He would just say it's a big,
00:29:43.800
beautiful wall with a door in it and you just would see it. He didn't really have anything that
00:29:49.880
you could see, right? I mean, war on the cartels is a little more concept-y. You can kind of see it,
00:29:56.040
but yeah, he needs, he needs more of a visual. All right. So the other thing I have a complaint of
00:30:04.120
is he talked about bringing America back to glory. He wants America to go back to glory. He said it
00:30:11.160
twice, maybe three times. That is a terrible word. Yeah, get rid of that word. What does that sound like
00:30:19.320
when you hear it? Glory? It sounds like a fascist. It sounds like a fascist talk. We'll bring our,
00:30:28.840
we'll bring our country to glory. The Roman Empire, the Third Reich to glory. Now, who doesn't know
00:30:37.640
that sounds that way? Like that? I feel like he's off his game a little bit there. That's not a word you
00:30:44.200
should use three times. That's a word you should use zero times. So get rid of glory. That's just,
00:30:51.640
that's a distraction. Yeah, there's a million ways to say that without that word.
00:30:58.680
All right. Here's how the critics are talking about his speech. I heard this a couple of times,
00:31:07.080
that Trump is, quote, a twice impeached insurrectionist. It's not an exact quote. But
00:31:15.480
didn't you hear people saying twice impeached and then January 6th? He's a twice impeached insurrectionist.
00:31:26.280
It's, I guess that's going to be their go-to play. Because I don't think they all thought of it
00:31:31.000
spontaneously. Maybe they did. I predicted that he might tease a Carrie Lake just by mentioning
00:31:39.720
her. He didn't mention her, did he? I didn't catch every minute. Did he mention Carrie Lake? I don't
00:31:44.360
think so. Nope. He didn't mention anybody by name who was a competitor or in the race, did he?
00:31:51.720
I don't think he was naming names. Oh, he did mention Herschel Walker, right? Yeah, I caught that. Okay.
00:32:01.080
Yeah, I don't think he wanted to distract attention from himself. Maybe that was the right call.
00:32:07.960
It would have been more exciting if he had teased a vice president, but it might not be a mistake to
00:32:14.200
put the attention on himself at this point. I could see that.
00:32:18.040
Here's an MSNBC opinion. It doesn't matter who said it. I would give credit to whoever said this,
00:32:27.960
but it doesn't matter. It's the MSNBC opinion. And this is from a written piece. But it's no surprise,
00:32:35.160
Trump is trotting out the same old trash. The core of his appeal, after all, includes a refusal to admit
00:32:41.960
failure. Is that a core to his appeal? It's a feature. It's a feature. But is it? Is it in the
00:32:54.040
top three? Is that what his supporters think? You know, I really like it when he's wrong and he doesn't
00:33:02.120
admit it. That's what I like. Yeah, I'm not, I don't care about all the things he accomplished in the
00:33:09.320
economy. But boy, yeah, it's that not admitting when he is wrong thing. I don't, does MSNBC really
00:33:19.240
think that? Like that's the core of his appeal? And then they talked about him saying that, quote,
00:33:28.120
I think if they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be, report that like
00:33:35.000
that was serious. Like he actually said that as a matter of fact. Oh yeah, if I, if they win,
00:33:41.880
I should get all the credit. If they lose, it should be their fault. It was clearly a joke
00:33:48.200
when he said it, clearly. It could not be more clearly a joke. But they reported it like he just
00:33:54.600
said it like it was serious. And here we go again. All right.
00:34:02.200
And then they said he included in his speech the usual racist dog whistles.
00:34:07.880
Did anybody hear any racist dog whistles? Do I have a hearing problem? Do I need to get my hearing
00:34:15.240
checked because I'm missing the whistles? What would be an example of a racist dog whistle in the speech?
00:34:23.720
Glory? I didn't, I didn't hear any. No, I didn't hear all of it, but I didn't hear any.
00:34:32.760
All right. You didn't hear it either. Yeah. America. But, but the MSNBC people can just like slip
00:34:40.040
that into a, an opinion piece without any kind of, uh, exclamation, explanation.
00:34:47.720
All right. Let's talk about fentanyl because it has a lot to do with, uh, Trump. Um,
00:34:57.640
all right. So he, he said he'd wage a war on the cartels. And also he wanted death penalty for the
00:35:05.320
dealers. I think he was, I think he meant the fentanyl dealers and the big ones, but I'd like
00:35:10.520
him to clarify that a little bit better. Somebody says, stop making excuses for his narcissism.
00:35:17.320
So, uh, Tyrannus, whose name actually has anus right in it. Do you think that was his
00:35:26.680
narcissism when he smiled and said, I'll take credit if they win and it's their fault if they lose?
00:35:32.760
You think that was actually narcissism? Yeah. You think, you think your therapist would
00:35:37.320
say, well, that's something I got to work on. Look at that narcissism. Or would they say,
00:35:47.080
Well, you decide. So since, uh, Trump does not say what wage war on the cartels means,
00:35:53.160
there's no reason to think it means any more than we're already doing. Don't you think, uh,
00:35:57.960
you know, the border control people think they're waging war on the cartels by seizing people as
00:36:05.080
they come across and stuff? I don't know. They probably think they're already doing it.
00:36:08.920
So I don't know what wage war on the cartels means, but I have some suggestions.
00:36:15.400
I have some suggestions. I heard somebody complained that if we attack the cartel operations,
00:36:21.720
that the Mexican government would, you know, we can't do that because the Mexican government
00:36:26.440
would see it as an act of war. To which I said, are you even fucking listening to me? Yes.
00:36:35.000
I am, I am promoting an act of war against the Mexican government because they're owned by the
00:36:42.120
cartels. And I also don't care what they think. What are they going to do? Attack us? Is the Mexican
00:36:49.480
army going to invade the United States? No, they're just going to be really unhappy and say things about
00:36:54.360
it. That's it. The Mexican government is not relevant to this conversation. As soon as you
00:37:00.280
imagine they're a regular government, like, you know, with a government we should listen to and
00:37:05.160
respect and all that, it's not that. They're owned by the cartels, obviously, because the cartels
00:37:11.720
couldn't operate the way they do if the government had any control. Yeah, the Mexican army, it must be
00:37:17.960
owned by the cartel, obviously. Otherwise, the Mexican army would, you know, take out the cartel.
00:37:26.760
So here's how I would do it. I'd drop a mother of all bombs on one cartel operation
00:37:33.560
and then I'd tell them that's one so they know there's more coming. Now, is the mother of all bombs
00:37:40.920
the right size munitions for this job? No. No, it would be enormously oversized. Would it kill
00:37:50.680
innocent civilians? Yes, ones that are around the fentanyl lab. I'm sorry. Oops. Yeah. I mean,
00:38:00.200
nobody wants to kill civilians. You know, I'm not a heartless monster. Nobody wants that. But it's a war.
00:38:07.400
And if you're in a war and you're standing next to a war asset, you better get out of the way.
00:38:14.040
So I would drop a mother of all bomb on whatever is a good target and let them know that's the level
00:38:21.320
that's coming. That's the level that's coming. Because if you send in some people with guns and
00:38:28.360
some people shoo people, the cartel says, well, we have guns. We'll just get better guns and we'll
00:38:34.440
fight you. You want to drop a bomb on them so there's nobody to shoot back.
00:38:40.040
Who are they going to shoot at? The plane that flew away? You want to make sure they have no
00:38:46.040
response. There are just fewer of them. And then just keep doing it. And then other people said,
00:38:52.120
Scott, Scott, Scott. When did, let's talk about the death penalty. So Trump also said death penalty.
00:38:58.520
We assume he means the bigger fentanyl dealers, but that can use some clarification.
00:39:04.840
Now, somebody said, Scott, the death penalty doesn't stop murder. So why would it stop fentanyl?
00:39:11.960
What do you think of that argument? The death penalty does not deter murder, which I believe is true.
00:39:24.120
Well, I will see your analogy, which is useless. And I'll top it with my own analogy, which is useless.
00:39:32.040
But at least it's, you know, equals your analogy. It works with terrorism. The reason we haven't been
00:39:39.160
attacked, I think, or at least part of the reason, is that killing the leaders actually works.
00:39:44.920
Killing the people who are good at it means that they would have to be replaced by people who are not
00:39:51.080
so good at it, or at the very least, less experienced, right? Do you think that 9-11 would have happened
00:39:58.280
without Bin Laden? Probably not, right? And maybe he trained some people. But if you take out the,
00:40:07.800
you know, top 10 terrorists from every organization, what is the 11th best terrorist good at?
00:40:16.120
Probably not running a terrorist organization, if you're the 11th best terrorist in the group,
00:40:22.200
right? Paul says, you're joking, right? No. No. You take any organization and get rid of the top 10 best
00:40:32.280
people and what's left. Take Congress. Take Congress and get rid of the top 10 effective people in
00:40:39.080
Congress. What do you have left? Nothing. There's nothing left. You've got Fetterman, right? Do you
00:40:46.760
want Fetterman, you know, basically, you need to kill the top guys until you get down to the Fetterman level
00:40:53.800
of cartel members? You know, once you're down to Fetterman level, you can maybe ease off a little bit
00:41:00.360
because he's not going to work that well. All right. Let's see. What else?
00:41:10.120
But I also say that we should try because maybe killing all the cartel, you know, competent people
00:41:17.400
wouldn't make any difference. You should still do it because they're murderers.
00:41:24.360
I was arguing that a small fentanyl dealer, you know, somebody who sold a few pills to a friend
00:41:29.240
or something, should not be executed. But then I revised that. I said, if you do it twice,
00:41:37.800
yeah, just you should be executed. If you do it once, that's probably just you doing a favor for a
00:41:44.600
friend. Oh, I bought some extra pills. Here's some for you. I mean, that's what the lowest end
00:41:50.040
dealing looks like. Just somebody wants to pay for their own drugs. So they buy a little and sell it
00:41:55.800
to some friends. Like, I don't want to kill that guy unless he gets caught twice. The second time he
00:42:02.040
does it, yeah, kill him. Kill him. That's where my head's at.
00:42:06.440
Let's see. And I'd also like to point out that killing people who, killing people to reduce the
00:42:19.960
murder rate, the data doesn't suggest it works. But I'm not a criminologist, so I'm going to need a
00:42:28.920
little fact check on this. How many people are murdered by people who have already been executed?
00:42:33.880
Is it a lot? The people who have already been executed, do they still kill a lot of people after
00:42:40.760
they're dead? As ghosts, perhaps? Because don't people who kill people often kill more than one?
00:42:48.520
I mean, I'm not talking about a mass murder. But if you're a person who's killed one person,
00:42:55.400
I feel like you might do it again. So I would think that 100% of the people who were
00:43:01.400
likely to kill more than one person didn't do it after they died. I don't know.
00:43:10.920
Why do you think there hasn't been more action on fentanyl from our government?
00:43:15.400
What's your theory? Why there's not been more action on fentanyl by our government?
00:43:20.440
I believe it's, I don't think it's money and corruption, believe it or not. I mean,
00:43:28.600
I would easily go to that. You know, I always go to corruption when things don't make sense.
00:43:35.080
Well, it must be corruption. Otherwise, they'd be doing something else.
00:43:38.280
In this case, I'm going to offer you another hypothesis. Republican ignorance. I believe it's
00:43:45.320
Republican ignorance, specifically Republican. Here's what I mean. If you randomly pick somebody
00:43:52.920
in Congress, a Republican, and say, what are we going to do about this fentanyl? What would they say?
00:43:58.520
What would the typical Republican in Congress say they're going to do to battle, build the wall?
00:44:04.840
Right. So because they have this build the wall mentality, which would never stop more than five percent,
00:44:13.720
they're blinding themselves to anything that might work.
00:44:17.160
Now, they also want the wall for political reasons.
00:44:20.920
So the Republicans don't want to deal with fentanyl, because if they deal with fentanyl,
00:44:25.960
they can't argue for the wall, which they would want for other reasons as well. Immigration, for example.
00:44:31.720
So the Republicans have trapped themselves in a situation where they need to argue wall, wall, wall,
00:44:39.960
and it takes their ability to be effective on fentanyl completely off the field.
00:44:44.680
The Republicans have failed completely, failed completely, because they think the wall will
00:44:49.720
make a difference. Now, you want to know a Republican who's not poorly informed? Because it's not all of them.
00:44:57.880
And I know some of you are not his fans. Dan Crenshaw. Dan Crenshaw apparently understands the topic.
00:45:07.800
Do you know how I know that? Because he's acting exactly like a person who understands the topic.
00:45:14.040
He's introduced some pretty severe penalties for the cartels and dealers, I guess, on fentanyl.
00:45:22.120
So there would be higher penalties. There would be federal penalties, so he could bypass the soft,
00:45:27.880
local prosecutors. Because the local prosecutor is going to let you out of jail for too easy stuff.
00:45:33.880
So the first part that's good, he'd make it federal. That sounds smart, doesn't it?
00:45:40.520
Wouldn't you agree? Putting a federal crime on that, that feels like a good move.
00:45:45.400
I don't argue with that. He wants to go after the financial institutions that are hiding the cartel
00:45:53.960
money. We haven't already done that. All right, I'm disappointed that there's something we could
00:46:01.160
have done that we didn't do already. But if Crenshaw thinks there's something to do there,
00:46:06.360
he's probably looked into it. By the way, do you know that Crenshaw is really smart?
00:46:10.200
Even if you disagree with him. He's really smart. So keep that in mind.
00:46:19.960
Yeah, stiffer, stiffer crimes, revoking naturalized citizenship and green cards for those convicted of
00:46:27.880
stuff, stuff. So all of that's good. Do you know what's not on his list? Did you see what's missing?
00:46:36.680
Build the wall. That's how I know that Dan Crenshaw actually understands fentanyl.
00:46:45.240
Because nowhere here he said, build the wall. Because he knows that's not the answer.
00:46:50.120
So when you see the smart people acting, you can identify them right away. Not smart. I'll say
00:46:55.880
well-informed. The well-informed Republicans will not say the wall is an answer. It's just poorly
00:47:01.480
informed. Does anybody disagree? Right? It's just the Republicans are the problem.
00:47:08.840
Because they're wall-obsessed and they can't get past it. And politically they need the wall,
00:47:13.560
so it's wall, wall, wall. So they are the problem. Trump could possibly break that logjam.
00:47:20.520
There is an experimental vaccine for making fentanyl not affect people.
00:47:36.280
So the simulation really hates us. Imagine, if you will, that there was one solution to the
00:47:42.760
fentanyl problem. Just one. And it was a vaccine.
00:48:01.240
Really? Why? Why? Why? Why does it need to be a vaccination? It couldn't be a pill?
00:48:11.320
It couldn't be a pill. It couldn't be treatment. It couldn't be consulting. It couldn't be a
00:48:18.040
criminal action. It couldn't be military action. It had to be a vaccination. Really?
00:48:23.160
Now, it might have some potential. I mean, vaccination raises all the red flags that it should. But
00:48:32.520
apparently they've figured out how in mice, they haven't tried it in humans, but in mice it seems
00:48:38.040
to turn off just the fentanyl love. So even if a person took it and they became immune to fentanyl,
00:48:47.240
presumably there would still be painkillers that worked on them. Different kinds. Because you
00:48:53.240
don't want to make somebody immune to painkillers. That would be a bad idea. So apparently it's so
00:48:59.640
specific. But, but, it's a vaccination. How long would they have to test this thing before you'd put it
00:49:10.120
in your body? I mean, you wouldn't have to. But it does, it does start to suggest that there might
00:49:18.680
be a suite of things to offer to addicts. You might offer them drug counseling. You might offer
00:49:25.240
them the vaccination as long as they can refuse. You know, well-informed refusal.
00:49:30.040
Yeah, so there might be ways to go to get people help. Anyway, that would be a game changer if that
00:49:41.240
really made a difference. All right. If the government doesn't do anything about fentanyl,
00:49:49.960
and it looks like they won't, you know, because I don't know what are the odds of Trump getting
00:49:54.280
elected and then carrying through on war on the cartels? 20%. If you had to put the odds that
00:50:00.920
Trump first gets elected, so, you know, maybe you say that's a 50-50, I'm not sure where you are on
00:50:07.000
that. But then he has to get elected, but then he actually has to do what he said. So he has to
00:50:12.600
actually, you know, get enough people in the government to say, let's go hard at the cartels.
00:50:17.000
20%? Maybe 20, 25? I don't know. But if the government continues not to be effective, here's
00:50:27.760
what I think is going to happen. I think there's going to be fentanyl vigilantism. Fentanyl
00:50:34.120
vigilantism. And it could take several forms. Now, I'm not recommending it, because vigilantism ends
00:50:41.520
up killing the wrong people, too. So it's a bad idea. I'm only predicting it's likely.
00:50:47.000
If the government continues to do nothing. Scott's against vaccinations now. All right,
00:50:56.260
chick girl, you stupid cunt. You get to be hidden on this channel for being an asshole. Good job.
00:51:07.440
Here's what the vigilantism would look like. For everyone who deals fentanyl, there's at least
00:51:13.920
one person who would like to narc them out but doesn't want to get caught. There will
00:51:19.680
be a website where you can anonymously name fentanyl dealers. And I think people would use
00:51:28.760
it. Don't you think? Because, yeah. Now, I'm not recommending it, because it has all the dangers
00:51:38.100
you can imagine in that kind of a system. You know, people would, trolls would be putting, you know,
00:51:43.100
people's names on it. It'd just be a mess. But you could imagine it happening. Couldn't you imagine it?
00:51:49.300
If I lived in a neighborhood where the fentanyl dealers were, like, killing everybody in my block,
00:51:55.620
I'd put that name on the list. If it were anonymous, and I trusted that. Now, do you think that will
00:52:02.480
happen? It's the obvious thing that would happen. That the public doesn't necessarily have to kill
00:52:07.640
these people. All they have to do is name them. It'll take care of itself. Won't it? Because there's
00:52:16.420
always going to be somebody who wants to go take care of business. I don't think they should,
00:52:24.180
but it's going to happen. All right. Here's another idea. How about if the penalty for dealing fentanyl
00:52:35.320
is to lose your privacy forever? That you would be like a pedophile. That if you ever got convicted
00:52:45.780
for fentanyl, you'd be put on the, it'd be like the pedophile list. Anybody could find that if they
00:52:52.740
live near you? Anybody could know if you should be hired? Yeah, being a fentanyl dealer, if you knew
00:53:03.380
you were doing it, I suppose it might be different if you didn't know you were doing it. Maybe you just
00:53:09.120
ostracize them. Maybe you say, yeah, we're not going to kill you, but you're sure as fuck not
00:53:15.300
going to live next to me. If you put a fentanyl dealer in my neighborhood, I'd probably vandalize
00:53:22.680
their house. Maybe every week. Maybe it would be my new hobby. Yeah. I mean, sometimes information
00:53:34.040
is all you need. The public will take care of it. There are enough parents who lost a child.
00:53:41.220
They'll just go kill these people, which I don't recommend. It's a bad idea, but it's going to
00:53:46.840
happen. How about this one? This is more speculative. What happens when drone technology gets better
00:53:56.620
and you can operate a drone from anywhere through, let's say, you know, Starlink or something? So you
00:54:06.100
can sit on your couch in Maryland and operate a drone in Mexico, like a small one. Now that would
00:54:14.220
require somebody locally to launch it, but maybe you could control it from anywhere. Do you think that
00:54:22.820
people will be using drones to murder cartel operatives in Mexico while sitting on their couch
00:54:30.500
in America because nobody will know whose drone it was? Could you randomize the drones so that even
00:54:38.700
the people who launched them don't know exactly who's operating them? They might know the pool of
00:54:44.520
people who could operate them because maybe you signed up for something, but nobody would know because
00:54:49.060
it's an encrypted signal, let's say. Let's say nobody could know who was actually controlling
00:54:54.780
it. Do you think it's technically impossible to make it anonymous? Again, I'm not recommending
00:55:04.840
it. I'm predicting. The ones who say no, what would make it impossible? Because you've got
00:55:15.060
the signal that goes all the way from America to everywhere through Starlink, so you could
00:55:20.020
reach it through the internet, and you could weaponize it, and you could just have somebody
00:55:28.220
locally launch it. That's all possible. Yeah. So some of you say it's not possible. You know,
00:55:38.800
the people who say stuff like that is not possible end up being wrong, don't they? I usually bet on the
00:55:46.300
it is possible people. I don't know if it's possible, but it might be. Unfortunately, it would work both
00:55:52.160
ways, so the cartels would be using drones to attack America, but, you know, so that's bad.
00:55:58.180
Apparently, the GOP has gained among all minority groups, which means all they lost was white women.
00:56:11.440
That's it, right? They lost white women? They didn't lose white men, did they? I don't know.
00:56:19.820
Oh, women between a certain age. Let me ask you this. What is the most hated demographic group in America
00:56:32.040
right now? What is the most hated demographic group? Is it white men or white women?
00:56:40.040
I think it might be a toss-up. It's a bad time for white people. Somebody says, Johnny Guitar. He says,
00:56:53.720
the Jews. That's a joke. We are not anti-Semitic. As a callback to EA. Yeah, hated by whom? This is the
00:57:05.760
exact right question. I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of dislike going around.
00:57:14.180
But it might be white women who are the most disliked at the moment. They may have taken over
00:57:18.960
for white men who have ruled that category for years. How in the world does the left explain that
00:57:31.060
the left is supposed to be the diversity party? How do they explain that all the diverse people
00:57:39.320
are moving to the other party? Here's how I explain it. It's really obvious now that the
00:57:48.540
Democratic Party is the woman party. I've been saying it for a while, but it's pretty obvious
00:57:54.320
now, isn't it? Now, the first time I said it, maybe four years ago, five years ago, do you remember
00:58:01.860
those on Locals especially? Do you remember me saying that the Democrats are the woman party?
00:58:08.040
And I don't feel like I sold that, like nobody was agreeing with me when I said it.
00:58:13.520
What do you think today? After the midterms, it's clear that the women are in charge.
00:58:18.440
It's a woman party. It's a woman party. And if you're male and black, do you think they have
00:58:24.580
anything for you? At least if you become a Republican, you'll be respected. You can at least bank that.
00:58:36.940
Do you know what is the best success strategy for a black man in America? The number one best
00:58:44.580
guaranteed success formula for a black man in America? Identify as Republican.
00:58:51.640
Now, of course, that would have its own social backlash and stuff. But is there anything that
00:58:57.620
white Republicans like better than a black Republican who's doing it for the right reasons?
00:59:05.100
Like, he's not pretending. They love it because it makes them feel smart, right? When people join your
00:59:11.440
team, you feel like, ah, I guess I was on the right team. Look at that. I guess those diversity
00:59:17.660
people and Democrats were the wrong team. If they were the right team, things would be moving
00:59:23.380
the other way. But you're coming my way? I like that. And I don't think I've ever seen a black
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Republican man to fail. I feel like they all succeed. Because, you know, they've got the right
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strategy and there's nothing really stopping them. So that's what I'd do. Speaking of that,
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so Instagram has become a cesspool of bad relationship advice. Like, really bad relationship advice. Some of
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the worst stuff you'll ever see in your life that is distributed with great confidence. Now, here's
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something I saw today. And I do not necessarily think this is true, right? I'm only reporting what
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somebody on Instagram who got a lot of attention said. There's apparently some kind of app where a
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woman can calculate her odds of finding the right man. Or it might be just a census app. So it might
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not be for that purpose, but it could be used for that. But so there's a man on Instagram, I didn't
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catch his name, and he was doing the calculation. He goes, all right, you're a woman in America,
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right? And you're looking for a man, let's say, between 28 and 45, right? You're looking to get
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serious. So you put in, all right, it's got to be a man, first sort. Got to be, you know, under 45.
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I'll take any race, no restrictions, so I have the biggest possible pool. Well, I'm going to limit
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the men who are under 5'9". This was the gentleman's example. He goes, yeah, you know, women like taller
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men, so we'll eliminate it under 5'9". Then we'll also eliminate the obese, because, you know,
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women are not looking for an obese guy, according to this guy. And you want, the women want somebody
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who can make over 100K a year and is not married. So how many, what percentage, what are the odds
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that you can find this guy? He's young, he's any race, he's tall, he's thin, he makes over 100 a year,
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and he's still available. 5.6%. 5.6%. And there's a theme going on, there's a theme on Instagram,
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anyway, of both women and men telling women that they set their standards too high. Have
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you all seen that? It's like, it's just all over Instagram. Men and women saying the same
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thing. Women, you're setting your standards way too high, and you don't have anything to
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offer us. I mean, both the men and the women are saying that women don't have anything to
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offer. What am I getting? I'm not getting loyalty, I'm not getting money, I'm not getting
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protection, I'm having, I get some kids that get taken away from me. What's in it for me?
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And it's hilarious to watch women try to answer the question. Ah. And then part of this theme
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or not, I saw another video where an older couple were jokingly reading advice from the
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50s on how to be a good wife. And the advice from the 50s was, you know, it was all this
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old sexist stuff, you know, make sure you take off his shoes when he comes home, and don't
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talk loud because he's had a tough day, and don't tell him any of your problems, he's got
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enough, all this stuff. And the people reading it are sort of laughing like, you know, ha ha,
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this would never work today, and all that. And I'm thinking to myself, okay, the specific
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example is maybe not, you know, not taking the shoes off or something. But if both the
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couples are not thinking, how can I make that other one happy, and actually putting in the
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work every day to do it, it's not going to work. So I've got a feeling they were laughing
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as something that worked. It had lots of, you know, problems of its own in that sexist
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time. So it's not something I'd go back to, but I think they might be missing the, throwing
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out the baby with the bathwater there. So I was curious, there was a story about what
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celebrities lost money with this FTX thing. And one of them was Stephen Curry. I would love
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to know how much. You know, anybody puts it in crypto, I don't know how much they had.
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Yeah, I guess Tom Brady actually invested in the company itself. So we have learned that
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people who are great athletes and actors are not so good at making investment decisions.
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Now, I will take all of that back if it was, you know, 2% of their wealth or something. Because
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putting 2% into some crypto thing, that's not crazy. That's not crazy. But if it was a lot
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of money, they need some better advisors. A little bit better advisors. Question on Ukraine.
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How is it possible that Russia taking out power plants as winter is approaching in Ukraine,
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how is that not a war crime? Is it a war crime and we just know that we can't do anything about
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it, so nobody's treating it that way? You know, why isn't The Hague or somebody saying
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it's a war crime? No way? Power plants are military assets, but, you know, really? You know, if you're
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taking out the power plant for Kiev, that's a military asset? It's a military asset if you're sending in
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your ground troops. But if you're not sending in your ground troops to, you know, conquer it and then
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turn the power back on, then it's just a war crime, isn't it?
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We did it in Iraq, and I'm saying that it does make sense for an active invasion.
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In an active invasion, yeah, anything that gives any, the military, any ability you take out.
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But they're not really actively invading, you know, the bulk of Ukraine. I feel like that's
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just got to be a war crime, right? NATO attacked civilians in the east, somebody says.
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Dual-use facilities, not necessarily a war crime.
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Nah, really? The civilian power plant is dual-use? I mean, I get it. You know, there might be a base
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there or something, but, I don't know. I feel the people who suffer would not be the military,
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because the military could operate, you know, independent of a power plant, but civilians cannot.
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No more of a war crime than something, well, I think if you're not aiming at military people,