Episode 1965 Scott Adams: Today Is All Fake News About The Fake News. And That Means Good Sipping
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1 hour and 47 minutes
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145.71765
Summary
On this episode of the podcast, I talk about why I left YouTube and why I think the government might be behind the demonetization of my feed. I also talk about ice baths and nipples that are too big for ice baths.
Transcript
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the excellent economics of absolutely free cryotherapy?
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Yes, how many of you can get free cryotherapy just walking outdoors right now?
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I've got an image in my head now that'll never go away.
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Okay, I had something to do with somebody she knows who took an ice bath,
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and when he was done, his nipples were six inches long.
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Now, I cannot confirm or deny that that's true.
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I can only tell you it was a comment I just read.
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All right, so yesterday I decided to move my live stream off of YouTube
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and on to Rumble because if you're following my saga,
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we know now that Twitter had a big influence by the government, the FBI,
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and we know that they were doing some kind of throttling.
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its relationship with some creators left many questions.
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So I think it was yesterday or the day before I got demonetized
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But it doesn't demonetize when people are most interested in...
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It doesn't monetize when people are most interested in watching it,
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Which is, they have an advertising model, YouTube does,
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what they think the advertisers want them to do
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is managing their advertising stream of income,
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in the context of what we've learned about Twitter
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I have to assume that whatever YouTube does to me
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because there's a little bit of setup involved.
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Like, how would those specific FBI agents know that
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Why would the rank and file not believe their own
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management, if their own management says there's
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So there's no direct evidence that the FBI agents
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who were directly dealing with Twitter were even
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It's too, the whole thing is too dirty to allow
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But the other thing we learned is that they do it
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Don't you think those other platforms have some
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And then I'm going to, here's a real question I asked
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So if this is normal business, then the FBI has also
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contacted Truth Social and is working on a regular
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basis with Truth Social to let Truth Social know,
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and this is very handy for Truth Social, if anything on
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their platform has violated the Truth Social terms of
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Does Getter, does Rumble, is FBI inserted with all the, let's
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You would say maybe right-leaning, but free speech as well.
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Do you think the FBI has just as much, or they're trying to,
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Did they try it with Rumble and Rumble said, no, get out of here?
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Just think about the fact of how obvious that question was.
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Now, for TikTok, we assume that they're not, because it's a
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I mean, that's a good enough reason to say TikTok would be
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But do you know what we found out about Twitter recently as well?
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We found out that our intelligence people were, with the
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understanding and agreement of Twitter, were running fake
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accounts on Twitter to influence foreign countries.
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So Twitter and the FBI were working together, fully knowing what
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each was doing, to build fake accounts on Twitter that would look
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real and would influence people in the Middle East in particular.
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Now, how many of you think that that should not happen?
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Do you think that our intelligence agents should work with our
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Yeah, I think you could argue either way on this one.
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So now, this is confirmed, is my understanding.
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This is a confirmed, nobody's questioning the facts of this, that our
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intelligence did run ops on Twitter to persuade, you know, and the
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persuasion would be illegitimate, because it's not real people, to
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illegitimately persuade other countries and other publics in those
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So if the United States, with all of our awesomeness, and I think you'd
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agree that our government is way more ethical and nice than the Chinese
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I mean, our government, they're straight shooters, right?
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So if they're using the platform in their country to influence other
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countries, it makes you wonder why nobody in China thought of that, huh?
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It was so obvious to our intelligence people that influencing a social media
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platform was how you influence other countries.
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And yet those dumb old Chinese, like a billion Chinese, and nobody thought of it.
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Of course China's doing the same thing on TikTok.
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You think we're the only ones who thought of it?
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The fact that we're definitely doing it to China, using Twitter, in other words,
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we're influencing in a way that's good for the United States and maybe not so good
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Like, are we so fucking stupid that we're supposed to sit here and go, oh, well, yeah,
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of course our intelligence people thought of it.
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Because the most influential thing in the world is our social media.
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But there's a billion people in China who are all so fucking dumb that they never thought of it.
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And so, citizens of the United States, you should be perfectly happy having TikTok in your country
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I tell you again, there is literally nobody in the United States government
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on the side of keeping TikTok available in the United States.
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And we know that social media is used by the country that owns it to influence other countries,
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Is there anybody here who thought we didn't do it?
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But why do we act like maybe it's not happening on TikTok?
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So we have a government that completely abandoned its job on the omnibus bill.
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The omnibus is how they abandoned doing their job, because they didn't have to make any decisions.
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We look at the border, and what are they doing on the border?
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Well, there's no debate, because there doesn't need to be one, because everybody's on the same side.
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What do you say about a government where everybody has the same opinion, and yet they don't act on such an important thing?
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This is different from not doing your job well.
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We know where, I'm sure we know, where the fentanyl is being produced.
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And yet the people who are producing the fentanyl sit there undisturbed.
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Do you don't think we could solve that problem?
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But we're not doing it poorly, and we're not doing it well.
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All I see is that the people who already existed, the Border Patrol people being overwhelmed, that doesn't look like trying.
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So, have you ever seen a situation quite like this, where Congress actually just stopped doing the job of Congress?
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And if you don't pay attention to each of these individual issues, and you don't realize that they stopped making decisions, they just stopped.
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Did you hear Tucker the other day on his show, he said unambiguously, and I believe he would know this, right?
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So he didn't give his sources or name any details.
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But this would be one thing that you would know that a Tucker Carlson would know for sure.
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And he laughed and said, I'm not guessing, I know that for sure.
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And I'll bet that anybody in this position knows it for sure.
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They may not say it, but I'll bet they all know it for sure.
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They might even know the specific examples, probably.
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So, something needs to happen, and I don't know how it can, because usually we use the government to fix the government.
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And it looks like the government just stopped trying.
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Normally, in that situation, you'd expect the public to rise up and maybe demand something.
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Except the media keeps the public from rising, because it just keeps us divided and fighting about bullshit.
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We're fighting about wokeness and pronouns and shit.
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So, we don't have any mechanism for making Congress work.
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You need a credible, well-run debate show where the public can learn what's true via the debate without having to depend on the fake news or bullshit on social media or the government, which are three entities we know will lie to us.
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Now, a debate will also be maybe two liars, but if you do it right, you'll very quickly find out what's true and what's not.
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Because the ideal debate format would be a strong host who will interrupt.
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Because otherwise, somebody will just keep going on, and they're not addressing the fact.
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You need unlimited time, so people aren't running out the clock.
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And you need the people who are debating to have sitting right next to them with a laptop open a fact checker.
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One debater will say, and everybody knows X is true.
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I don't believe it's true that everybody would agree with that fact.
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And the fact checkers go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And maybe you edit it so that the time, you don't have to wait for the fact checkers.
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So if you're watching it, you're watching a recorded version.
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And the fact checkers say, oh, here's a source that says it's true.
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And then the debaters have to debate about whether the quality of those sources is good.
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Now, they might get hung up on, like, one little part of the debate and just go way down that well because they can't even decide on that one thing.
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But you need to have an open-ended as long as it takes model.
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You need an interrupting host to interrupt a lot.
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Would you agree with that fact before he goes on with his point?
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If you don't have an interrupting host and you just let people, like, talk for two minutes each or whatever, that's for a different purpose.
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That would be like a good college debate or something because you're trying to make it fair.
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But if you're actually trying to find out what's true versus what's not true, you need an interrupting, aggressive host to cut them off the moment they've departed the point, which they all try to do.
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I see no way of educating the public so that the public could fix their government because the government won't fix it themselves.
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There's no obvious system in place that would move the needle in any way.
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It would have to be also provocative because nobody would watch a debate show if it were boring.
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But if you had the right host, like me, for example, it would be interesting no matter what.
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Like, even if you hated me, you'd still watch just to be mad at me.
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Lee Fang, latest to write about the Twitter files.
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He's the one who said that U.S. Central Command was using Twitter to influence other countries.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted this about Tucker's claim that the CIA was involved with the Kennedy assassination.
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So this, remember, this is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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And he says, the most courageous newscast in 60 years.
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The CIA's murder of my uncle was a successful coup d'etat from which our democracy has never recovered.
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So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is completely accepting the CIA involvement in his uncle's death.
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I'll say, I've not always agreed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but I'm no longer doubting his braveness.
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But here's what Tucker did say, and I'm going to question your interpretation of it.
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He said that he talked to a source that he doesn't tell us.
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But in this one case, we're not relying entirely on the source, are we?
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Because we're also relying on Tucker to have vetted the source for us, which is a big, that's a big trust, right?
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So if he's not good at vetting the source, well, you're in trouble, if you believe him.
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If he's good at vetting the source, then he's adding some credibility.
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Like it might be somebody he knows personally, has known for a long time.
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It might be somebody he knows is a straight shooter.
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So you have to put your credibility on Tucker, which is one level, like, extended from the source.
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So you're already in a little sketchy territory, right?
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But let's say that you believe Tucker would not lie about a thing like that.
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There's nothing about Tucker that would suggest he would tell you some kind of direct lie.
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Or even if it was a sketchy claim, that he would, like, spin it so it sounded more believable than it was.
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But what was the exact thing that he quoted his sources saying?
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Quote, yes, comma, I believe the CIA was involved in the killing of Kennedy.
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Yes, I believe the CIA was involved in the killing of Kennedy.
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Those two words tell you that this person does not have direct information.
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And when he says the CIA was involved, that could mean absolutely anything.
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So it sounds like a source who was telling the truth, they were telling the truth.
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And it's probably also true, probably also true that in some way, the CIA had some involvement.
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Which doesn't mean they knew it was going to happen.
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I mean, it might have been some tangential involvement.
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Yeah, and maybe the shooter was a CIA agent at one point.
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But that doesn't necessarily mean that's why the assassination took place.
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So involved is doing a lot of lifting here, right?
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So, does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. know more than Tucker knows?
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Don't you think that the Kennedy family knows a little bit more than you do about the whole thing?
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So, Tucker saying that somebody who won't tell you about, believes something, was involved in something, has the evidential value of zero.
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How old is the guy who has knowledge of it 60 years ago?
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And then Tucker made the claim that I think is accurate, that all of the heads of the CIA must know the truth.
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And he said that that would include Mike Pompeo, who he says, you know, Tucker says he has a friendly, good feeling about, but that that would implicate Pompeo as one of the people who's hiding from you the truth.
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Do you think Pompeo would know that the CIA was, you know, directly behind the assassination?
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Do you think he would know that from having been there and then decided not to tell you?
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Because what it might do is throw the CIA into such disarray that you couldn't possibly lead it if the first thing you did was tear it apart that way.
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So it could be people making just practical, real-world decisions that, damn it, they'd love you to know, but it would be so destructive to the CIA that, for the good of the country, you don't want to destroy the CIA.
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You could imagine a head of the CIA having a complicated opinion about this.
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And there might be a sources and methods issue, too, right?
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There is nothing funnier than Trump's tax returns being available, and here's what we found.
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You know the ridiculous claim that Trump was making?
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That he was waiting for the audit, and the audit was taking forever?
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Like, he didn't want to release his tax returns until they'd been audited?
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Apparently, the auditor sent one guy aside to it.
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They've been working on his tax returns since 2015, and here's the funny part.
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They're nowhere near being close to have examined them.
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The people who prepare the taxes are high-end accountants.
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The people who audit them are low-end functionaries, and they don't even understand them.
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The auditors were so under-trained that they asked Trump's tax preparers if they did it right,
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and the tax preparers said some version of, oh, yeah, we did this so right.
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The audit was one untrained guy asking Trump's accountants if they did it right,
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and them saying, yeah, we totally did this right.
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And then the remaining stuff is a whole bunch of things for which they have questions about,
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and they don't seem to have any answers that would be illegal.
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There's absolutely nothing in his tax returns so far.
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Now, I'm not saying that they won't find anything.
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You'd have to assume that the accountants took some, you know, obvious deductions.
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But if they're good accountants, they also took some gray areas.
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Do you know why a good accountant would take a deduction in a gray area?
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If there's an argument to be made, you don't go to jail.
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If you have high-paid accountants, and they say to you, you know, I could see that an audit would kick this up,
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There only has to be an argument from a qualified person, and then the IRS says, well, we don't allow it, so there's going to be a penalty because we didn't allow it.
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But if you have the right accountants, they take those deductions, because it's always better to take your chances.
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And if you have to pay back a 10% penalty for a few years, it's probably still a better bet than not taking it all.
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Because we can see in this specific case that the auditors, they don't even penetrate entire topics within it because they're too complicated.
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So there'll be, like, specific deductions of, like, hundreds of millions of dollars that change everything.
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And the auditors are like, ah, I don't even know how to evaluate that.
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Because you would need a specialty for each of these pockets, and the auditors are not specialists.
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So it was actually true that it was taking years to get audited.
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And it was all because the IRS didn't have the capability.
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And literally not one confirmed illegal thing in all of that, from 2015 until now, haven't found a single thing that's sort of an obvious problem.
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And yes, those accountants should have taken every one of the gray areas.
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So all they found so far is he has good accountants.
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Oh, turns out Trump hires really good accountants.
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Everything else is, you know, if we looked into this area, maybe we'd find something wrong with it.
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Maybe there'd be something wrong if we looked into it, and if we understood it, but we don't.
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Let's talk about Arizona and Maricopa and Carrie Lake's situation there.
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I have a conspiracy theory I'd like to put into the mix.
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Now, I don't have direct evidence that this is true.
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Do you remember when Sidney Powell was making her ridiculous claims about the voting machines?
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Now, just for a historical context, I did believe that she would have a kraken.
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In other words, I did believe that when she stood in front of the public and said, oh, I have the goods,
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I believe she was credible, and she would not have made that claim unless she had the goods.
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Don't you love it when I tell you I'm 100% wrong?
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Don't conflate that with a related claim that the voting machines themselves were rigged.
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When I heard that claim, if you recall, I said on moment one, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
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I confirm that when she came up with the Venezuelan general story, I said, no, no, no, no.
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Like, from the first moment, I said, that's not true.
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Where do you think the rumor that the voting machines and there was a Venezuelan general came from?
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Is that the sort of thing that, let's say, you'd hear from who?
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Now, why would somebody start a rumor that the election was rigged when those very people would want you to believe the opposite?
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Why would they start an election that was rigged when they totally don't want you to think that?
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Because if they can draw all your attention to the thing that is obviously bullshit, that's all you'll remember.
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And every time that another claim is made, they'll say, uh-huh, is it a Kraken?
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So that's what I'm going to add to the conspiracy theories.
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Because if they knew they had been caught red-handed, this would be a speculation, right?
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If the Democrats knew they had been caught red-handed, how would they handle it?
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They're totally going to get caught rigging an election, hypothetically.
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They would create a false flag that would draw all your attention to a ridiculous claim of election fraud that could be easily disproven, would discredit Fox News totally, which is what's happening right now.
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And they would never have to answer for it, because it would take all the energy to the thing that was bullshit.
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Now, who even has information about a Venezuelan general?
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Who in the government would have information about a Venezuelan general?
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There's only one fucking place that could have come from.
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I mean, directly or indirectly, that's somebody who deals with other countries on behalf of the United States.
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And her claims, among others, are that, from witnesses, that a lot of the ballots were printed at the wrong size.
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So I guess the paper was the right size, but you can print on the paper a ballot that's skinnier or fatter.
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And if you tell your machine to print the wrong kind, they won't be counted through the machines, and it blows up the system, which is what happened.
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Now, why do you think, or what do you think was the cause of all those misprinted ballots?
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Well, the people who run the elections say, oops, we made a mistake.
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Because, apparently, only an administrator could make that change, and all the machines had been tested the day before.
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Maybe they had, like, test ballots, and they ran them through the machine, but the test ballots did not match the actual ballots.
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Was there anybody double-checking to see that the ballots had been printed, and that those ballots could go through a machine?
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Well, here's where it gets a little sketchy, doesn't it?
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It feels like it's the sort of thing that should have been checked.
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Your common sense says they would have checked the printing, they would have checked the machines,
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and then they would have checked the printing with the machines.
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And that all of that would have been done the days before the election,
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and then once those things are checked, then nobody can touch the machine again, right?
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So do you think elections match your common sense, obvious process?
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Well, let me give you a little more information of something that happened in Maricopa.
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Now, this is based on witness testimony, that when the individual precincts gather up all the ballots,
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they don't count how many they have before they send them.
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They don't count how many they have before they send them.
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Now, if I had asked you, hey, it's up to you to develop a system,
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would you have ever imagined that could be true?
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In the past, I thought, I wonder if they just compare the local totals to the total totals
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I said, I'm not going to raise that in front of the public.
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Why would I not ask that question in front of you?
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Because it would make me look like a fucking idiot.
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The most obvious basic maintenance of security in an election would be
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you count them at every step that anything can be counted.
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Not just that step, but every transfer from the physical ballots to the machines,
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from the pile that's counted to another source,
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Every time you move them, you move them with a count.
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But experts actually testified that it was their process to not do the one thing you would need
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But knowing that you sent all the ballots to be counted,
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Now, tell me a second reason why they wouldn't do it.
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One reason would be it gives them an opportunity for fraud.
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I don't think laziness is a factor because when they hire people,
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they tell them what to do, and they do all the other stuff.
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You know, being a poll worker is like a lot of work.
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I mean, the poll workers look like they're really in there for the right reasons
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but if you don't do that, you really didn't have an election you could trust.
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The only thing you could say for sure is that there were a bunch of ballots
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Likewise, you cannot say the election was rigged or not rigged.
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The actual process was don't control the number of votes.
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So I think that people who are election deniers
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we had a government that chose not to have an election.
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there was something like an election that happened.
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You can just have something that didn't happen.
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that our government is doing a good or bad job,