Episode 1978 Scott Adams： Representative Gosar Talks To AOC. Not Much Else Going On Today
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This is probably the least important live stream I've ever done, but possibly the funniest. It has to do with something that happened in the headlines today, but before we get to that we need to be on exactly the same level, and to do that all you need is a cup of coffee.
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and today will be probably the least important
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live stream I've ever done, but possibly the funniest. Possibly. I've got a joke that I've
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been saving for you that I think you'll appreciate. It has to do with something that happened in the
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headlines today, but before we get to that, I need to prime you. We need to be on exactly the
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same level, and to do that, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes
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everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go.
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Well, you know, I like to tell you about technological breakthroughs that are going to change the world,
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and I saw one today. This is real. This has already been created, and it's a commercial product.
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So sometimes I'll tell you stories about, oh, something happened in a laboratory, and maybe
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in 20 years it'll be a product. This is an actual product. You can buy it now. It's a propeller-driven
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showerhead and removable. You know, it could be handheld as well. And what they did was they put
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a fan behind the water pressure so that you're not depending on just the water pressure from
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your pipes. It shoots out what water you have. Now, the benefit of this, of course, if you
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can make a small amount of water act like it's a lot of water, you can see that that would
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be very huge for women who want to use it for masturbation. No, actually, also, it's good
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for the environment, a secondary benefit, I hear. The secondary benefit is it reduces water
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by 50%. Now, who saw that coming? Reduced water usage by 50% and actually makes your experience
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better. So, good news there. All right, absolutely my favorite story today. It's not good news,
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but it's going to be funny news. And funny news is better than good news. Well, maybe that's
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just me. But Jordan Peterson tweets, he says, breaking. The Ontario College of Psychologists,
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of which he must be a member, has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social media
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communication retraining, where there are experts for, among other crimes, retweeting Pierre
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Pauliev and criticizing Justin Trudeau and his political allies. Do you suppose that the
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Ontario College of Psychologists don't really understand who they're talking to? Does it seem
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to be like there's a major disconnect between what they're demanding and the person they're
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demanding who does it? Do they understand that there are 8 billion people in the world? 8 billion
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people. There's exactly one of them who's going to destroy them for saying that. There's only
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one person in the world who can actually destroy them. And I think it's going to happen. Now,
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if you know anything about Jordan Peterson, you know he's not going to comply. But what we don't
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know is what form of non-compliance he will choose. And I would like to suggest, embrace, and amplify.
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Anybody? So, Dr. Peterson, if you're listening to me, this is my suggestion. Tell them you would
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be happy to participate voluntarily and enthusiastically under the condition that their organization is
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Ah? Ah? Ah? Are you with me? I'd like to see a breakdown of your organization because I don't
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think it would be fair to be judged by a non-diverse entity. Ah? Ah? Are you with me? And how about
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I believe that your process is so important? I'd like permission to record it and let the world in
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on this training, which I think is so valuable that it should be something that everybody should be
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exposed to, not the lucky few psychologists who get the benefit of these resources.
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I would like everybody to be aware of this excellent program, but only, only if you can guarantee that
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you're a diverse group and I can count on you representing all forms of Canadian society. Anything less would be
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Now, the other way he could play it is simply resisting, but I imagine they would lift his
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certifications or, you know, they would try to punish him professionally, and it might work.
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I don't know if they've noticed, but he's a gazillionaire, and I don't think he needs his certifications
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anymore. I'm sure he would like to keep them, and I'm sure he wouldn't want some government entity to
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yank him away for a stupid reason. But I don't think it's exactly essential to his lifestyle anymore.
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Would you agree? If there's anything that he would be willing to give up at this point, you know,
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I mean, emotionally and maybe at a conceptual level, it's an insult, but won't have any real effect on
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his business, I can imagine. I don't know how many individual clients he's still seeing.
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I got the sense he's, you know, more a, more a public figure now. But we'll keep an eye on that.
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But Dr. Jordan Peterson, embrace and amplify. We would love that show. Oh my God, would we love that show.
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All right. Damar Hamlin, the football player who took the hard, the, took the hard hit and went down.
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He's still on life support. And they're still trying to figure out how to get his lungs going,
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et cetera. So we're, we're hoping the best for him. But have you noticed it made the whole world crazy?
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Made the whole world crazy. Did you watch Tucker last night? Tucker Carlson? He was angry that there
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were so many doctors who were sure it was one kind of thing, this comoditis, whatever it is.
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Now, I didn't see anybody do that, did you? I thought Tucker may have set up a straw man.
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I didn't see anybody who said, short of actually a medical diagnosis, I didn't see any doctor say,
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it's definitely this thing and definitely not these other things. But, but Tucker acted like
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that was happening in a, in a widespread way. Did anybody see that? You, you saw several people say
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that they were sure what the cause was. I don't think you did. I think you might've misinterpreted
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that. There might've been a lot of people saying there's no evidence of let's say vaccine related
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problems. I bet you saw people saying there's no evidence of one, one versus another, but check
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your false memories. I think it's a false memory because I don't believe there's any, any doctor
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who would say in public without examining a patient. I don't think any doctor would say that
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in public. Do you? So I think you might've imagined that they had certainty when they couldn't
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have possibly. Yeah. It couldn't have possibly. Do you know what percentage of your total memories
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are false memories? What do you think? What percentage of all of your memories are false? I don't know
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the answer, but it's way more than most people think. Yeah. Most people would say, well, that
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seems like a rare thing that would happen. It's not rare at all. It's like a, it's a common
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way we operate. Do you know why we have false memories? Does anybody know why we have false
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memories? Cause that's a weird thing, isn't it? Why would you have evolved a sense to fool
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you consistently, but just all day long, just fooling you about what's real? Well, um, there
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might be an ordinary biological explanation, but I'll tell you the more obvious explanation.
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The more obvious explanation is it would be probably impossible to create a software simulation
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of this reality and have everybody remember everything correctly because that would mean
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that my subjective story in the simulation would have to be consistent with yours and with
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all other 8 billion people. The complexity of that model would be so overwhelming that probably
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don't, no computer could do it. Now it might be an advanced civilization who could, but it's
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unlikely that you could ever handle that level of complexity. And this also makes the assumption
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that our, our hypothetical creators were something similar to we are now because we're very close
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to being able to create exactly that kind of simulation. So somebody not too far from who
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we are now, maybe what humans are in a hundred years, essentially the same as now, but plus a hundred
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years. Um, right. So see if, see if this point makes sense. So first I want to see if it makes sense,
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like if I'm communicating it right. And then I'll ask you if you agree with it. If you're a programmer
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and you say to yourself, I want to build this simulation, but my computer couldn't handle every character
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being consistent with the truth of every other character, it's just too complicated. So instead I'll have
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everybody living almost like a little bubble reality that only sometimes needs to be consistent with
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other people just on the big stuff, you know, like what is the law? The big stuff, but on the individual
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stuff, like who said what yesterday? Did you say that? Or did you say the other thing? Were you there?
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Or were you not there? You know, that sort of thing that, that all, that all turns into just illusions.
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So each character in the simulation can have its own illusion and it never needs to be consistent
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and you don't see it in normal life. In normal life, you're just going about your business and
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other people have different ideas in their head than you do of what, what is real, but you don't
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notice. Like there's somebody walking around in the, in the store who believes that God is talking to
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them right now, like having an actual conversation, but you don't. So you're, it's total different
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realities. So that reality in mind don't need to ever correspond. We don't need to make them fit.
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They could just be different forever. And then your computer code can be quite simple.
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Each character is a little bubble. They don't have to be consistent with the other characters,
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except in just the biggest stuff. It's, it's, it's, it's totally the most likely explanation.
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Doesn't mean it's true, but if you had to bet on it, by far, that's the most ordinary, common,
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obvious explanation of why our memories are routinely false. So you'd be one thing, I would call it just
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a mistake if we were sometimes had false memories, but you're almost your entire memory of your,
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uh, your childhood at this point is mostly false. You know, it's been reiterated by, um, not reiterated,
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but it's been modified by photos of your childhood that you saw. Try having this experience. Sit down
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with a childhood friend and discuss a specific event with a childhood friend or a family member.
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Watch how different they are. And it could be this different. Hey, do you remember Bobby when you
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threw that rock through the neighbor's window? And then Bobby looks at you and says, that was you.
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You threw the rock through the window. I did. And you'd be like, what? How could you possibly,
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how could we disagree on that? No, you threw the rock. No, you did. You, your disagreements would be
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that fundamental. All right. So, uh, what are we talking about? DeMar Hamlin. So this is just
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another two worlds thing. So part of the world has decided that there's some certainty about what
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happened. And another part of the world has decided there's a different certainty. And another part
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has decided, how would you know, I'm still in the, how would you know category. So, so there are
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people who are yelling at me, but Scott, don't, you know, it could have been just the blow itself,
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but that would be rare, but rare things happen. That doesn't rule it down at all. Um, but it could
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have been, it could have been maybe some vaccination injury made it more likely that there would be
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cardiac damage with a hit to which I say, maybe why, why would I rule that out? Can you imagine me
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ruling that out based on what? I have no information who would rule, rule in or out anything. So I'm
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completely open. We'll see what happens. I wouldn't be surprised. So let me, let me say
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this as directly as possible. If, if a week from now, the doctors say, you know, we looked into it
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and it looks like our best hypothesis is it's vaccine injury. Now, I don't think that's likely to happen,
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but if it did, I want to tell you now that I'm mentally prepared to accept that. So what I'm not
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going to do, so by the way, this is a lesson in cognitive dissonance. In order to protect myself
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from cognitive dissonance, which, which this would trigger me, if you're sure of something and then
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you get proven wrong in front of other people or even in front of yourself, you'll, you'll be
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triggered. So I want to make sure that even if, uh, things go away, I don't expect, I won't get
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triggered because I'm saying in public that wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't surprise me. So
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whatever it turns out wouldn't surprise me. Now, let me ask you this. If it turns out that he's
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vaccinated, of course he is, uh, cause the professional athletes are, but if it turns out he also had COVID
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in the past, does anybody know that? Do any of you know, if he's actually had COVID because the
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shots wouldn't prevent it? You don't know that, do you? Think about the fact that you don't know
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that. Just think about that, that we got to today and you just think about the fact that we got to
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today and nobody knows if he's had COVID. Doesn't matter. You think it doesn't matter if he's had
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COVID? Have you heard of long COVID? Do you know what it could cause? Cardiac issues, right?
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Potentially. Now, some of you are going to say, no, there is proof that long COVID does not cause
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any problems and it's not real. No, there's no proof of that. And by the way, I'm not, I'm not saying,
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I'm not saying that long COVID is real or causes anything particular. How would I know? How would
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I possibly know? Cause I don't think science knows. So how the hell would I know? Right?
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So, so I want you to, I want you to just hold this in your mind. Right? And by the way,
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I have to confess, I heard this from somebody smart. So this is not my, this is not my own
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realization. And I, I'm not going to name names just because I don't have permission to talk about
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a private conversation, but just think about the fact that you went through more than 24 hours with
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this story. And it never occurred to you to wonder if he had COVID before because long COVID would get
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you into the same risk category as, as the vaccine itself in the sense that you can't calculate the
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risk. I'm not saying they're the same only in the sense that you can't calculate either one. So you'd
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just be guessing. Martina Novotrilova. Yeah. So, so of course, because the news likes to serve up a
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confirmation bias, Martina Novotrilova, who was very, very pro vaccine, has double cancer.
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That's not, this isn't funny. Right? So my point is, it's very unlikely it's because of what she was
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saying in public, they got her double cancer. I'm sure it's a coincidence. But of course,
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once again, if I turned out to be wrong about that, I'm prepared to say, yeah, you know, that was a
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possibility. So people are saying, wait a minute, the most outspoken pro vaccine person just got double
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cancer, two different cancers at the same time. I don't know how often that happens.
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But it doesn't mean it happens rarely. I just don't know how often it happens. And then
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Djokovic, who refused, famously refused the vaccinations, is perfectly healthy. So what does
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that prove? It proves nothing. It's just two, two athletes. It just proves nothing. All right.
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Um, there's big news about, there's a video of a representative Gosar, who is identified with the
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far right. He's one of those, uh, one of those 19 or so Republicans who were resisting Kevin
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McCarthy for a speaker. And there's a video of him, uh, chatting away with AOC. And everybody was like,
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oh, what's happening? How can they talk? It's like fire and water. They cannot be in the same
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place. Now they have a history because Gosar did a, I guess he spread a meme showing him murdering
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AOC and Biden. Now I don't, I don't remember seeing the meme, but it couldn't have been too
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serious. Right. It couldn't have been that serious. Uh, but I would, you know, I don't disagree with
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AOC if she says that a representative spreading a meme that shows that we're getting murdered is too
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far. I think that would be a reasonable opinion. All right. Free speech still allows it. But I think
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if she wants to, you know, scold a little bit on that, that's maybe not the worst thing in the
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world. You know, maybe you need a little pressure to keep people civil. Pepsi man spent $2 to say
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that Ben Garrison owns me. Uh, that was, that was $2 well spent there. I didn't know NPCs had
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money. I just found that out. All right. Who pays me, who pays me money to tell me that, that
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somebody owns me. You know, I would invite the rest of you. If you'd like to mock me and be sure
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that I saw it, you can do a super chat on YouTube that allows you to pay money to guarantee that your
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cutting insults are, uh, are noted. And that would really show me. I mean, if you really want to,
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if you really want to dunk on me, you do it that way. You dunk on me with money so that it shows you
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mean it. Otherwise, I don't know if you mean it. I mean, how can I take you seriously? Put some money
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behind it, damn it. Put a little money behind it. Let's see you really insult me. Come on, come on.
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Come on, come on, you bastards. Come on, bring it on. All right. I guess it was only one of them.
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All right. Um, another story. Oh, but we're not done with AOC and Gosar. And I saw somebody tweet, uh,
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they were looking for a body language or a lip reading expert so that we knew what they were saying.
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Okay. Well, fortunately I'm here for you because I'm both. And I examined the video and, uh, I determined
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that, uh, AOC really wanted to get away. So AOC starts out, uh, Gosar is sitting on her right and he's
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sort of, he's leaning in. So Gosar is totally leaning in and frankly, maybe getting a little too close to
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her personal space, but he looked like he was just friendly and political. It didn't look weird,
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but she looked like she was very uncomfortable. Like she, she didn't turn toward him. Had she been
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comfortable, she would have, she would have opened up and turned toward him, but she stayed facing the
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other direction and just turning her head. And at some points, you know, her face looked, you know,
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uncomfortable. And at one point she did like this little mouth thing, like, you know, God,
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why am I listening to this guy? It was sort of like this, you know, just, this is a little mouth
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thing. It was sort of like dismissing him and he's chatting away. But then you keep watching.
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I'm not going to, I'm not going to take the L unless you pay me money. Pay money, you cheap
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bastard. If you want to keep complaining, how can I, how can I pay attention to you otherwise?
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Put your money behind it. Put your money behind your mouth. If you want to say, uh, idiot Ben
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Garrison, uh, owned me. I'd like to see you pay for that. Come on. All right.
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I'm sure there's at least one more dumb person who will pay for that. Uh, I'd like to see
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if I can, like, encourage him. All right. But, um, so Gosar tweeted because once it became
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a headline, he tweeted what he was saying to AOC and, uh, his, his tweet was funny. It goes,
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uh, so then I says, quote, the combustion engine was actually a miracle of engineering that people
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take for granted today. That's pretty funny. Good line. Uh, but I have another theory based
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on my, uh, lip reading and my knowledge of, uh, representative Gosar. I don't know if you
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know he's a dentist. So prior to being a representative in Congress, he was, uh, a dentist, still is
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a dentist, I guess. And, uh, uh, uh, I read his lips and it said he was, uh, he was offering
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to fill AOC's cavity. He was offering to fill her cavity. Okay. Come on. That was worth you
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attending today. That, that was your payoff. All the rest of it is filler. That was just one
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good joke to make it worth you coming today. There you go. One good joke. Um, some people
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say that, uh, the, the dentist was talking to her because she looked sad and, you know,
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um, no, I ruined the joke. I was going a different direction. Let me back up like I hadn't said that
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last few sentences. I forgot how the joke goes. You know, representative Gosar seems sad, but that
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makes sense for a dentist because dentists are often looking a little down in the mouth.
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Yeah. Dentists often look down in the mouth. All right. If you're not American, that's a famous
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American saying. Looking down in the mouth means you're sad. Um, so, uh, and it's interesting
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that, uh, a person who does cosmetic dentistry for a living, uh, is being blamed for a meme
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about, uh, capping AOC. Capping her. Okay. That was, that wasn't my leading joke. I'm now
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down in the list a little bit. We're, we're in the, the lesser puns. Maybe I should just, should
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I pull out now? Should I back up, stay, stick with my winner and just, just get out? Yeah. Quit.
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Good. I, that is good advice. You don't always give me good advice, but that's good advice.
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Pull out. Quit. Cut your losses. All right. Speaking of that, uh, you saw, you might've seen
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the story about the Ukrainians pulling off a massive successful strike on a base of Russian
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soldiers who were all huddled indoors, um, in some building that they had, had been for
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some other purpose. So they, I think it was a high Mars probably system just destroyed the
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entire base. Uh, Ukrainians say it killed hundreds. The Russians are emitting 89. And
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this is interesting that the Russians say that the way the Ukrainians identified the place
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to attack is that the soldiers were, um, against orders were using cell phones. Do you believe
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that? Do you, do you believe that's actually how they were found? Maybe. I have to think
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that you can't really tell the difference between a Ukrainian and a Russian when you walk down
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the street. Do you think that's true? Do you think, do you think where the Russians are camped out for
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the winter? Do you think that area, if a Ukrainian citizen walked by in the snow and with a snow hat on
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versus a Russian citizen with his snow hat on, could you tell the difference? I mean, and is there even
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any documentation that you could check? It's not like everybody's being stopped in the street,
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right? They don't look different. Come on. Somebody say they look different. No. So don't you think
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that the Ukrainians have totally infiltrated the Russian positions with citizens, right? Because
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there are citizens sort of all around where the Russian troops are, are there not? So it seems obvious
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to me that the Ukrainians have eyes on the ground. Do you think the Ukrainians couldn't notice where
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hundreds of troops sleep every night? All they have to do is find one troop, like one soldier,
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say, I found him, and then just follow that one soldier until it's bedtime. And then they know where
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it goes to sleep. And then you call in a strike, right? I feel like there could be nothing easier
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than identifying the indoor places that soldiers are camped for the winter. Am I wrong about that?
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It would be the simplest thing you could do, right? Because all the soldiers have to come out of that
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building during the day, and all you have to do is watch where they go at night. You could pick any one
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of them and just follow them. And you wouldn't even have to follow them all day. You would just have to
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wait till like five o'clock at night, you know, when it's getting dark, and just follow one. And you
00:29:24.740
don't think that they have aerial, you know, aerial surveillance? Dr. Ben is just yelling, you're wrong,
00:29:31.260
at Caps. All right, but here's my larger point. Regardless of how they're spotting the soldiers,
00:29:38.680
do you think that given that the Ukrainians can send a high Mars missile to exactly where they want,
00:29:49.500
anywhere in that occupied territory, won't they eventually take out all of the barracks?
00:29:58.820
Like all of them? Because here's my assumption. There's no way that the soldiers can spread out.
00:30:08.680
Because they can't sleep outdoors, because of the weather. If you can't sleep outdoors,
00:30:14.380
you're going to be clustered in large groups, indoors. I don't see how you can avoid that.
00:30:21.140
So it seems to me that the Ukrainians are going to be able to pick out all of the above ground
00:30:28.100
buildings anyway, and just pick them off all winter long. That seems like a really, well,
00:30:34.300
building. Yeah, yeah, I suppose they could be distributed and force people to let them in their
00:30:40.040
homes. But I don't, I don't expect the Russians to be that capable. The Russians have so far shown
00:30:46.280
that they just do what they always do. And I think they would just keep doing what they always do until
00:30:50.660
they're all wiped down. They don't seem to adjust. So we'll see. All right, so I'm going to make a prediction.
00:30:58.300
Prediction. Prediction. The Russian troops' barracks will be exposed, and there will be multiple attacks
00:31:06.320
over the winter. Because it would be the most devastating thing to attack. All right. For one
00:31:14.480
thing, it causes the news to get back to, back to the homeland. Where if Ukraine attacks, you know,
00:31:21.740
if they attack an anti, let's say they attack Russia's artillery position, there's nobody in Russia
00:31:30.440
who cares. Oh, Russia lost an artillery position. Well, but if you hear that several hundred of your
00:31:38.320
Russian young men just got wiped down for no good reason, that makes you feel different. So the Ukrainians
00:31:46.760
have a strategy that, to me, looks like they will win the winter. So let me make the prediction
00:31:53.820
this way. Ukraine will win the winter. Scott Ritter is having a belly laugh. That's right.
00:32:01.960
You know Scott Ritter, well, I'm not going to say it. But let's just say you should check the
00:32:10.580
affiliations of all your sources. Doesn't Scott Ritter write for a Russian publication, RT?
00:32:15.800
Okay. So you would be taking Russia's national magazine as your counterpoint? Okay. Fact check
00:32:26.620
that for me. Well, Missouri carried out, this is the headline in CNN. CNN didn't know how to
00:32:34.020
handle this story. It's a little awkward. It's a little awkward, but I'll tell you how they
00:32:38.080
handled it. So Missouri carried out the first known U.S. execution of an openly transgender
00:32:45.140
person Tuesday. And they noted two things. The first thing CNN noted is, besides the fact
00:32:53.760
it's the first trans person to be executed, they noted that it's very rare for a woman to
00:33:00.380
be executed for murder. Very rare for a woman to be executed for murder. Hardly ever happens.
00:33:06.860
So that was worth noting, because the rarity of women being executed for rape, especially.
00:33:13.140
So part of the crimes were rape and murder. But the number of women who have ever been
00:33:18.920
prosecuted and executed for rape, as CNN quite helpfully noted, quite helpfully noted, very
00:33:25.840
rare, very rare that women have been executed for rape. It's good to know. That's good context.
00:33:31.920
It's totally insane. Now, the insane part, the insane part is how CNN is trying to handle
00:33:42.600
it. Because they're trying to make a point about the first woman, because that's a big thing
00:33:49.180
they do. First woman this, first woman that. You know, hardly any women. So anyway.
00:33:58.060
Oh, that's rare. So I'm pro-trans, but I'm glad that they've reached a level of equality
00:34:06.480
where they can be executed possibly at the same rate as everybody else. Because you're not
00:34:12.840
really, you're not really in any kind of a fair system if you're not executing, you know,
00:34:20.360
any of your downtrodden minorities. You got to get that, you got to get the ratio up. So
00:34:26.960
they're, they're being killed by the state at roughly the same level as, you know, white
00:34:32.220
men and black men and women. I'd like, I'd like the state to be killing people at something
00:34:39.360
in parity. Because it does, it seems unfair. There's just not enough killing of the, of some
00:34:47.640
groups needed a lot more killing. Now you might say, well, we would do more killing, but they
00:34:54.040
would have to commit more crimes. I think that's short term. That's short thinking. Shoresighted.
00:35:00.240
Well, the Twitter files are back in the news. And as Elon Musk tweeted, the U.S. government
00:35:05.940
agency demanded suspension of 250,000 accounts, including journalists and Canadian officials,
00:35:13.540
in what I think they were trying to get rid of Russian interference. But then when Twitter
00:35:19.780
looked at the accounts, or Chinese interference too, some foreign interference, but, but Twitter
00:35:28.960
found, you know, very few accounts that actually looked like there were problems. But one of the
00:35:33.960
criteria that Twitter was using is if you were following at least two Chinese diplomats,
00:35:43.540
diplomatic accounts, then you got, you got flagged for, you know, maybe removal. But I don't think
00:35:49.780
Twitter used that rule. I think that's what the, was it the GEC? It appeared based on DHS data. So two
00:35:59.880
government agencies involved directly and indirectly. And imagine that. Imagine if you followed two or more
00:36:08.040
Chinese diplomatic accounts, you would be put on a list to maybe be banned from Twitter. Now, you know what
00:36:17.320
I said when I saw that? Damn it, Chen! Chen! Chen! Now, if you don't know, I have a favorite nemesis
00:36:28.380
named Chen on Twitter. Now, Twitter puts a little notification on his account that he's affiliated
00:36:36.520
with the Chinese government. Now, he says no, that he's a citizen just with his own opinions,
00:36:44.660
but Twitter labels him as affiliate. Now, I follow him because I'm fascinated by him, because he's so good.
00:36:52.340
He's like really, really good at being, let's say, an advocate. You know, I don't, I don't want to
00:36:59.240
characterize him beyond that. But as an advocate, he's just a really good tweeter. He tweets really
00:37:04.380
well. So I follow him, and we've had some humorous interactions because of his affiliation with
00:37:10.800
Chinese government. But think about it. I was, I might have been one follow away from being
00:37:17.540
labeled a Chinese spy. Now, I'm not sure if his account qualifies as being diplomatic. Probably
00:37:27.760
not. But you could so easily, you could so easily end up on a list for completely the wrong reason.
00:37:35.540
I mean, I mean, and let me ask you this. Do you think that I got shadow banned because I follow a
00:37:42.960
known Chinese operative on Twitter? Maybe, right? If they were looking into the accounts that followed
00:37:52.360
two or more diplomatic accounts, you could imagine that the algorithm might suppress people who had
00:37:58.620
a little too much Chinese government following going on. And that might have been me. So I might
00:38:05.060
have accidentally got myself into a, you know, algorithmic shadow ban. There's no confirmation that
00:38:10.600
that happened. But, you know, it's a weird world. Could have happened. All right. And it's a super
00:38:23.600
slow news day. Is there anything happening? Oh, we didn't talk about McCarthy. So Congress is noodling
00:38:32.640
about who to make their Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, the leading candidate. Trump actually
00:38:40.180
endorsed McCarthy today from his truth account. So the Trumps are on board with McCarthy and
00:38:48.540
the, um, the small group of Republicans who are, who are trying to oppose it, uh, may end
00:38:58.380
up with getting, getting a Democrat elected to the, uh, role that the Republicans believe they
00:39:05.000
won. So let's see, who are the resistors? We've got Representative Matt Gaetz.
00:39:10.180
We've got Andy Biggs of Arizona, uh, and some other people, uh, Bobert, et cetera. Yeah, Bobert
00:39:18.800
is in there. And let me ask you this. What do you think of Matt Gaetz's strategy? So Matt Gaetz
00:39:27.000
seems to be the primary name who's opposing McCarthy being just put in, and Chip Roy as well. Um, what
00:39:35.920
do you think of the strategy? Who owns Adams? Let me, let me stop here. Here's a critic
00:39:45.480
who I'm going to, uh, agree with. So I don't disagree with all my critics. So this one is
00:39:52.260
saying, who owns Adams? That's exactly the right question. That's exactly the right question.
00:39:57.540
You should look into it, right? That you should ask that question about everybody. Okay. Um,
00:40:06.820
here's what I think of Gaetz's strategy. I don't think it's understood. I don't think people
00:40:13.300
know why he's doing it. Why do you think he's doing it? Do you think it's because he doesn't
00:40:18.940
want McCarthy to be the speaker? Some say attention. Some say to improve what appointments
00:40:26.100
he gets so he could, to push right, to get leverage, to negotiate for something. But you
00:40:34.180
know, they've been offered things that they turned down. So it's almost as if they're not
00:40:37.760
negotiating for special benefits. Apparently they're not that interested in committee assignments.
00:40:45.620
I'm not sure that's true, but drain the swamp, wants to be king. All right. I'll give you my,
00:40:54.180
uh, best case scenario. Uh, Gaetz was sort of, uh, let's say he had a couple of accounts against
00:41:06.500
him. One is he was too close to Trump, which could be politically disastrous after January 6th. And
00:41:14.940
the second was he was accused of some, uh, I don't know, trafficking or something, which he's been
00:41:21.120
cleared of. So he's, he's a politician who probably wants to stay in politics, who was pushed down to
00:41:29.420
the lowest level of, uh, let's say, I don't know, credibility or, or political viability or something.
00:41:38.220
Yeah. Sexual impropriety he was, he was accused of, but that all went away. So innocent until proven
00:41:46.060
guilty, same standard. So here's, here's what I think. And none of us can read his mind. So let's
00:41:54.800
agree that we don't know. Right. But I'm going to take the point of view that he's, uh, a very good
00:42:02.200
persuader and a very good strategist. Now, if that's not true, then what I'm saying wouldn't
00:42:09.600
make any sense at all. But here's what I think. I think he found, uh, just Gaetz himself. I think
00:42:16.620
he found a path toward credibility. I think he's rehabilitating himself, uh, by picking, by picking a
00:42:25.900
fight that only, only the outcasts can fight. Boebert's kind of similar. Boebert's a little bit
00:42:34.220
of an outcast, but she can take on a fight that you can't because she can take the bow, you know,
00:42:40.120
the slings and arrows and a regular person doesn't want to. Matt Gaetz can take any, any blow at this
00:42:47.080
point, you know, any arrows, any, any attacks because it won't get worse. Right. The, the most
00:42:54.920
dangerous person is a person who's backed into a corner. And I would say that Gaetz was politically
00:43:01.040
backed into a corner where he had nothing to lose. So he can go big. Gaetz can go big. He can simply
00:43:09.520
take a bigger risk than a normal politician, not by choice. It wasn't his choice to be in this
00:43:15.800
situation. It's just, he ended up there. So instead of just, uh, weakly going away because his political
00:43:23.440
fortunes got diminished, you know, just say, Oh, I think I'd like a job in the private sector.
00:43:29.980
He has decided to go right at it. And in my opinion, his strategy for his own career
00:43:37.080
is really good. Really good. That's different from agreeing with what he's doing. Right.
00:43:43.960
We'll talk about that. But in terms of raising his profile as the strongest voice for the slightly
00:43:51.700
more right, you know, slightly more combative part of the Republican party, it's a pretty good play.
00:43:57.840
It's a good play because there was a, there was a void there. There wasn't a credible, good voice.
00:44:06.320
There was more right than the party, you know, a little bit more right. And he is really good
00:44:12.960
at communication. If you saw his speech, I tweeted around. And as I said in the tweet,
00:44:18.640
forget, forget about personalities and forget about the policies and the politics for a moment.
00:44:24.820
And just look at the skill level that Matt Gates brought to his little speech he gave, uh, on Congress
00:44:31.920
about who should be speaker. It was tremendous. It was, it was like a double plus, triple plus.
00:44:39.080
It was as good as you've ever seen. Now, if he, if he establishes himself as that person who's a little
00:44:48.220
bit more right than the Republican base or the Republicans Congress, not the base, he might be
00:44:55.280
closer to the base. I don't know. But he becomes that person and then he doesn't, and then he does
00:45:01.360
an unusually good job of it. Suddenly his past, his past problems start to dissipate. Now it gets
00:45:10.360
even better. He is now publicly disagreeing with Trump because Trump said today, yeah, let's get
00:45:17.020
it over with to elect Kevin McCarthy. And Gates is still resisting. So this is the best thing Gates
00:45:24.420
could have ever done. He's doing something that's popular with the base, which is being tough on his
00:45:29.360
own Republicans. That's very popular right now. And he's also disagreeing with Trump in public on a
00:45:35.660
very big issue. So he's got some distance now because he also had to get rid of, he's, uh, Trump's lap
00:45:43.020
dog, right? So he's definitely not Trump's lap dog because he's disagreeing on a really big issue. So
00:45:51.720
politically, this is one of the most clever plays that you'll see. And I'll tell you, if you
00:46:00.300
underestimate Matt Gates's political instincts, that would be a mistake. Like, I don't know how far
00:46:08.500
he'll go. And I'm not saying, you know, I back him in all things or anything like that. But just in
00:46:13.380
terms of skill level, if you underestimate him, that's a big mistake. It's the same thing I say about AOC,
00:46:19.340
right? You can dislike AOC for political reasons, blah, blah, blah, but don't underestimate her.
00:46:25.480
That's just a mistake. So I think it's a brilliant play. Secondly, I would agree with, uh, uh, Tucker
00:46:35.180
Carlson's take on this, that this, this fight that the Republicans are having with each other
00:46:41.200
feels like the right fight, doesn't it? Isn't that the fight you want? Because we act like,
00:46:47.020
we act like disagreeing is always bad. It's not always bad. It's what drives the system.
00:46:53.160
So you see a bunch of people honestly disagreeing. I think it's an honest disagreement. I think this
00:46:58.520
is coming from the right place. They're, they're playing it down in public. Thank you. Thank you for
00:47:04.340
doing this in public. Transparency high, uh, disagreement high, probability of settling it
00:47:12.180
one way or the other. Good, good. It's not doomed in any way. This is, this is the best.
00:47:19.160
Literally, this is the best of America right now. This is exactly what I want to see. Now it's ugly.
00:47:26.720
It's messy, but that is our system. It's ugly and messy. That's what Tucker said. So I'm mimicking
00:47:32.700
him a little bit, right? So I don't know. We, you know, we can find something to complain about
00:47:38.180
anything, but it's really hard to find something to complain about the system. You can complain
00:47:44.420
about the outcome, but the system looks kind of solid at the moment. The free speech is happening,
00:47:50.560
right? All the members of Congress do not seem, they're not holding back. They're saying exactly
00:47:56.440
what they think. The public sees it all. And I love the fact that there's infighting within a party
00:48:03.520
because that's what makes any party better, right? That's how they, that's how they improve.
00:48:08.880
It's all good. To me, this is just all good news. However, it turns out. And I like the fact,
00:48:15.040
I know you hate it, but Matt Gaetz actually said directly, yes, I will accept a Democrat,
00:48:21.900
Hakeem Jeffries as the Speaker of the House if that's, if that's my alternative. If my alternative
00:48:28.800
is to bend to the Republicans, I will bend all the way to a Democrat Speaker, if that's what you want
00:48:35.760
to do. Now, does he mean it? Does he mean it? Don't know. Don't know. The fact that you don't know
00:48:46.560
if he means it is what makes it work, right? If you're sure he didn't mean it, it wouldn't work.
00:48:53.400
But I believe he sold it. In my opinion, he sold it, at least to the public. You know, maybe,
00:48:59.700
maybe the members of Congress are a little more savvy. But he sold it to me. I actually believe
00:49:06.020
that if they don't get their way, they will allow Hakeem Jeffries to be, to be in that office.
00:49:14.320
I think it's possible, right? Now, if that happened, I think Gaetz's political futures would
00:49:22.800
be in real trouble, real trouble. So I think he's saying it for effect, and it's working.
00:49:28.660
So it's a really good thing to say for effect, because there's no point in bluffing if you're
00:49:33.940
going to say it's a bluff, right? They basically asked him, wait a minute, are you bluffing?
00:49:39.220
Well, what's he supposed to say? Yeah, yeah, oh, you caught me. I was hoping nobody would ask.
00:49:44.160
But now that you've asked, yeah, I don't want to lie. It's just a bluff.
00:49:49.920
Now, I think it's a bluff. I do think it's a bluff. But he totally sold it, as at least possible.
00:50:07.680
Uh, which is what Trump wanted with January 6th. All right.
00:50:19.120
I don't know what some of these comments are referring to. They're all confusing.
00:50:26.720
Um, but there's nothing else that's interesting about that. It's probably, probably be settled
00:50:31.560
today, I guess. All right. Did I miss any stories? Anything else happening?
00:50:36.380
Uh, I didn't see Fetterman get sworn in. Some people say he wasn't looking good, but I think
00:50:53.660
Thoughts on McCarthy? You know, how many of you have a strong feeling about whether McCarthy
00:51:00.040
would be a good Speaker of the House? Do many of you have strong feelings about that? Because
00:51:05.020
I'm not sure how you would get a strong feeling about that. Like, how would you know he would
00:51:11.860
be better than Jim Jordan, or whoever's, whoever's up for it? How would you know? I feel like
00:51:20.100
that's unknowable. Now, again, I hate to copy Tucker Carlson again, but let me, let me credit
00:51:27.260
him for the good opinion. He basically showed, he gave a nuanced, um, opinion on Twitter.
00:51:35.020
And I think that's exactly right. And the nuance is that Kevin McCarthy is really good
00:51:40.900
politically, and you need that. He, he did the work to be in this position. I don't like
00:51:47.380
to use the word earned it, because that has no place in politics, in my opinion. But we
00:51:53.060
understand what he means, right? He did the work to be the person that should be considered.
00:51:57.860
That, that's, that's worth saying. I just don't think it should be the deciding factor. And,
00:52:03.240
uh, apparently he's great at fundraising. He's great at fundraising. The, the, uh, the Claw Adams
00:52:12.680
people, uh, like, what, what would cause you to spend time doing this? Like, what, was that
00:52:22.040
comment useful enough that, like, that was worth, I think I'll go over there and start
00:52:28.240
some rumors and put them on this feed? Like, did that pay off? Did he get a little, like,
00:52:33.440
a little dopamine hit from that? Yeah. Yeah. Clop Burt. Matthew, the NPC says, Clop Burt.
00:52:42.160
You know, Matthew, uh, that's interesting, because in my 33 years of doing Dill Burt and drawing
00:52:49.800
Dog Burt and Rat Burt, you're the first person who ever thought, I can own him by putting Burt
00:52:57.400
on the end of another word. Yeah, nobody's ever thought of that before. I think I'll put Burt
00:53:02.940
on the end of a word, and that'll be a real clever way to, to mock him. Is it because you
00:53:09.420
couldn't spell, uh, Garfield, Matthew? Could you not spell Garfield, the other NPC comic,
00:53:17.740
or NPC comment, comment that people make? What's, what's the matter? Yeah, you had to go for
00:53:24.020
the, the most obvious NPC one, Matthew? All right. Bo Burt, yeah. I know you want me
00:53:38.280
to swear, but we don't need to do that, do we? Do we, YouTube sensors? Your plant died yesterday?
00:53:50.880
All right. I'm just wondering, how many people come over here just to say clot? There, there's
00:54:07.420
a whole cohort of people who, I think they're masturbating when they do it, but I don't know,
00:54:13.620
that's just a guess. They come over here, and they get insane amount of fun from writing,
00:54:20.320
clot, cloth burps, clot atoms, vax atoms, clot, clotting, clot clot, how about clotting, and
00:54:30.760
clopper? And they'll do it the entire program. And I think to myself, there must be some payoff
00:54:38.300
for that, right? There, there, there must be a payoff for it, because they wouldn't do
00:54:46.480
it. Uh, I'm just finding all the people to hide. When did you start believing long COVID
00:54:55.240
was real? Never. Never. Never. When did you start, uh, believing, uh, when did you start
00:55:06.520
being an NPC? So, you'll notice that the NPCs always have the same problem. They think there
00:55:12.960
are two worldviews, and if they don't recognize you fitting into the one, you must be in the
00:55:17.960
other. That was the payoff. Oh, okay. So, I got an answer. So, the, uh, the trolls say
00:55:29.080
the payoff was giving them attention. So, somebody's happy that I called them out to give them attention.
00:55:35.520
Now, is your life that small? Is your life so small that bothering a celebrity, or let's
00:55:45.600
say a public, a public person, uh, is bubbling, bothering a public person to disrupt the quality
00:55:53.200
of the, uh, experience, did that give you actually like a little thrill? So, making, making a whole
00:56:00.980
bunch of lives a little less good was actually gave you a thrill. Because you know, if that's
00:56:07.540
true, and apparently you're admitting it is, as read here, so there are more people coming
00:56:13.580
in to do it. Now, if that's true, and obviously it is, you should examine, uh, how much you
00:56:20.060
suck. Because, I'm, I'm going to say this directly. Those are people I wish would just
00:56:25.580
not be here. I was going to say something that would get me banned on social media. But let's
00:56:33.760
just say, if a, if a, if a, if, if a meteor killed you all, uh, I would not feel as badly
00:56:41.860
as I do about Damar Hamlin, who seemed like an awesome guy, and we all feel bad that he's
00:56:52.100
in a bad situation. The, the trolls, however, seem to live, they, they feed on other people's
00:56:58.920
unhappiness. If you feed on other people's unhappiness, I would think evolution will eventually
00:57:06.440
get rid of you, but that's not up to me. And still, still the, the trolls are, are coming
00:57:16.860
in to say clot. That's the lowest level of entertainment I've ever seen. Uh, now my feed
00:57:34.740
on YouTube is just filled with people, uh, with trolls. So I can, I can see how many there
00:57:40.000
are. All right. Clank or clot? Oh, it's all the, is it all the sticks and hammer people
00:57:53.680
coming over to be trolls? You know, I would love to actually have a conversation with one
00:58:01.340
of the trolls. Would you? Like to actually see a real person and say, what exactly were
00:58:07.100
you trying to get out of this? Like, what, what was the payoff here? Cause I'm actually
00:58:11.880
kind of curious. Did, did you hear somebody built a robot that operates on organic matter?
00:58:24.800
So that started the rumor that it's, it's going to eat people for fuel, which apparently
00:58:29.760
it could. All right. All right. Well, there's nothing else happening today. So YouTube, I'm
00:58:40.460
going to turn you off and all of your trolls and go talk to the nice people on the, uh, the
00:58:45.600
locals platform where you should all be to see the extra special stuff. Bye for now. Best