Episode 1986 Scott Adams： Joe Biden's Classified Documents, And All Manner Of Government Gaslighting
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1 hour and 4 minutes
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Summary
3 Robots Read News Jokes in one day. 3 jokes that are usually a little too rough for the regular public, but I think I can read them to you. First responders say it's the worst case of gaslighting they've ever seen. A science denier in the Biden administration explains it this way: "They just do a lot of gasping for air when they hear the shit we propose." And then, finally, a fire breaks out in a giant fireball.
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Now, if you were a member of the local subscription site, you've already seen three of my Robots Read
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News cartoons that I did today. These are the ones that are usually a little too rough for
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the regular public. But I'll read them to you. I think I can read them to you.
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First one is, you know, they're all just so you know what it looks like. All of the Robots Read News
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are just the same robot sitting at a desk reading the news. The art never changes. But anyway,
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the robot says, a satanic temple heated by dozens of gas ovens was discovered in the basement of Joe
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Biden's Delaware home. Biden's spokesweasel reported that Biden was, quote, surprised to learn of it.
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Fifty current and former intel professionals have labeled it, quote, obvious Russian tradecraft.
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tradecraft. Now, also, if you were, if you happen to be on the, if you happen, if you have to be,
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I'm sorry, I'm going to change my topic here for a moment. I did the micro lesson, which I talked
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about choosing the right words. The word tradecraft is a perfect humor word. So here's a little lesson
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on writing. So this, I did a lesson on the locals channel that's a subscription, a lesson about
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picking the right words. And this is just a perfect example. The word tradecraft is unusual,
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meaning it's not often used in the sentence, but it has a funny sound. Ch and krift, you know,
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those are good sounds for humor. Tradecraft. It's also a little wonky, and it's also in the
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news lately. So it has a whole bunch of qualities that make it the right word. Tradecraft. So
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that was the, that was the first one. Yeah, let's see what else we got here.
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The second one was, a new study indicates Democrat gaslighting causes asthma symptoms in Republican
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voters. A science denier in the Biden administration explained it this way, quote,
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that's not asthma. They just do a lot of gasping for air when they hear the shit we propose.
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All right. And then finally, finally, number three, Robots Read News. Representative Eric Swalwell
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got too close to an open flame and went up in a giant fireball. First responders said it was the worst
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case of gaslighting they have ever seen. Scientists blamed climate change and, quote,
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a universe that consistently favors irony. So there you go. Three Robots Read News jokes in one day.
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Can I take the rest of the day off? Are we good? Have I done enough for today? I mean,
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that was all before 5 a.m. I mean, I don't know what you've done today, but I'm killing it.
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I'm killing it today. Probably still a little bit hypomaniacal. All right. Here's some,
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well, I like to call out when any of my followers on Twitter or on live stream, when any of them have
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like a success in their life, I like to call it out. Don't you agree that's good to do? You know,
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if somebody has like a big moment in their life, I just like to give them a little attention.
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So I'd like to do that today. I saw a tweet from a user called, on Twitter, he's called
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Den Lesks, and he announced this today. I was really happy for him. He said,
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the wife and I are very excited. We just closed escrow on a dozen eggs. So congratulations to you.
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I know it's hard to get a loan like that, but proud owners of a dozen eggs. And given the price of
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eggs, that's quite an accomplishment. And I respect the effort that you put into that.
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Speaking of inflation, apparently it's cooling off. Were you expecting that? Let me do a quick
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informal survey. Did you expect that inflation would keep going up? Or did you think it kind
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of capped and was going to start to drift down? I expected it to cap and drift down. So this,
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can anybody confirm that I said something like that earlier? Can you confirm that I said it wouldn't go
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that much higher? Yeah. It was part of the Adams law of slow moving disasters. For some reason,
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inflation, when we can all see the same problem, and we've got enough time to work on it, we're really
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good at solving stuff. It's amazing. So I don't think inflation is going to come down quickly.
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But it doesn't really need to. Because, you know, it's doing two things. It's eating up the debt,
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while it's also strangling the public. And the public needs both of those things, right? The public
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needs the debt to be a little bit strangled, because it's so high. But they also need to eat.
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So it's a tough balance. I think coming down slowly will build some confidence in the economy. And if
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you have confidence in your economy, what works out? What's the predictable outcome of confidence in
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your economy? Basically, everything's better. Just everything. So you only need to be directionally
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correct. And if inflation is drifting down, even slowly, it just has to go in that direction.
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Confidence will be up. People will invest. It will make enough money to get out of this, maybe.
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There's a new study that says sitting causes excess mortality. So apparently sitting is really
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deadly, which is scary, because I've been sitting in this chair now for...
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Okay, just kidding. I didn't die. But wouldn't that be funny if I did? I think we could all agree
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that you could laugh at that. Can I make a deal with you? I'm going to make a deal with
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all of you. In the unlikely event that my death is hilarious, like it's ironic, or like it's
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really weird, I would like to authorize all of you to enjoy it as much as you can, because
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I'm going to be dead either way. Can you agree? I mean, if I'm dead, you might as well enjoy
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it. But only if it's interesting, right? If I just die of some ordinary comorbidity, nobody
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cares about that. But if I get a blood clot, you are authorized to enjoy the hell out of
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that. You have my total approval. And when somebody calls you on it, you point them to
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this live cast and say, he said we could. He's a professional. It's okay. Yeah, I'm a
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professional. So go nuts. Well, here's what I say about this sitting thing. So now we know
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that sitting can kill you, and it can give you cardiac problems. We also saw a tweet from
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a Twitter account called The Rabbit Hole that 15% of men reported having no close friends in
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2021. In 1990, it was only 3%. So five times more lonely men than there were just in 1990.
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10% of women reported having no close friends in 2021, and that was only 2% in 1990. So we
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got sitting in chairs, less exercise. We've got probably less sun, because people just didn't
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go outside as much either, probably. So people are obese, lonely, and sitting in chairs more.
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And feeling hopeless. Yeah, isolated, hopeless. And probably doing more drugs.
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Wouldn't it be surprising if there were not a huge increase in excess mortality? How could there
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not be? Right? Now, on top of that, you've got any vaccine problems? Because no matter what you
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think of vaccinations, you call them shots. The one time I use the word vaccinations, you'll
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decide that's what I think they are. So clot birds will go crazy. Clot birds, that's for you.
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So I'm going to throw the clot birds a little treat. I'm going to use the word vaccination.
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But this time, I'm not going to correct it, because I want to see them go nuts, okay? It's
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just for them. So the vaccinations might cause some harm, but also might give some people benefits.
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So given all of those reasons, it's kind of understandable that there's a big uptick
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in deaths. Now, the exact timing of the uptick, I'm not sure if we can trust the data, of course,
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because all the data is bad. Oh, new study? Somebody says breaking. New study, 17% of kids
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suffering cardiac symptoms after, that can't be true. Really?
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If it's true that 17% of kids were having cardiac symptoms after the shot, 17%. If that's true,
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Pfizer would not only, you know, have a legal problem, they would be executed.
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Let me just say this. If it ever turned out, I don't think this will happen, but if it ever
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turned out that you actually got the name of somebody in Big Pharma, like an actual person,
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an executive, let's say, who knew that statistic and hid it, if that's not the death penalty,
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I don't know what is. Seriously. I mean, that should be a public execution. And I'm not even
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joking. That's not a joke. I don't think this will ever be true. Because I think what's true
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is I think Pharma people convince themselves they're not bad. What do you think? Do you think
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that Pharma people are literally just saying, if I lie, lots of people will die, but I can make a lot
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of money. I mean, there are people who exist of that nature. But I feel it's far more likely
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that they convince themselves it's not as bad as it looks, right? They tell themselves, well,
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these numbers look bad, but we'd better double check them. I don't want to say anything until
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they're double checked, right? You could easily see executives talking themselves out of their own
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evil, even while they do things that you and I would say, well, that's pretty evil. So I kind of
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suspect that they would have an argument. Might be a weak one. They'd probably have some argument.
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However, if it turned out that they were exactly as bad as you thought, a public execution, I mean,
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it's not in our legal code, of course, but a public execution would feel about right. You know,
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if somebody intentionally murdered, I don't know, thousands of children, nobody would complain about
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a public execution, except the really prickly people. All right. So there's that. I saw a account on
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Twitter, a woman who was suggesting that porn be banned online because it's distorting people's
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sexuality and how they act and causing people to be worse people to each other than perhaps they
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could is, I guess, the argument. To which I say, what are the people who can't have sex with real
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people supposed to do? Why would you take away the only thing they have? You realize that we're
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heading to a point where only 10 or 20 percent of humans are having sex at all. Like, I don't know
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what the percentage is in general. All right. I'm going to do a little survey.
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How many of you on, let's see, I'm not going to ask on locals because I know too many of you too
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well, but on YouTube where you're a little bit more anonymous, how many of you have not had sex in a
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month? Go. Have not had sex in a month. One month. I think it's most, I think it would be the majority
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actually. Yeah. Quite a few people. Now, I don't know what that is as a percentage because, you know,
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there's no way to know. But if I had to put a number on it, at least half, probably at least half of all
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adults did not have sex in the last month. What's your guess? I've never looked into it, but I feel
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like it's at least half. Because half of the people would be too unhealthy anyway. They're either, you
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know, they're aged out or they're unhealthy or their marriage isn't working out or, you know,
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they're too busy, something. Yeah, I think it's common for people to go to a month without sex.
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More common than people having sex. And I think that number is going to go down to like 10 or 20%
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are actually having sex with other humans. I think that's where we're heading. Slowly, but I think that's
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where it's going to go. Because the rest will just not have an option. So where we are at the moment
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is because everybody has really good information. The beautiful people can find each other and say,
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wow, you're beautiful. I'm beautiful. Let's do this. And then everybody below, you know, a certain
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level of physical attractiveness just won't have anything. So, I mean, that's where we're heading
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already. So I would say getting rid of porn would be very cruel to those who basically don't have
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anything else to take care of that particular hormonal need. All right. I saw a tweet by Steve Molloy,
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who often talks about climate change. And he said this, I think this is NASA reporting it, that climate shocker,
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not a single extreme weather record set in the U.S. during 2022 per NOAA, not NASA. What's NOAA?
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National Organization of Atmospheric Association. Or something. Something oceanic. All right.
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Whatever it is. Some governmental group has said that there was not a single weather record
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in the U.S. I don't believe that. Do you? Do you believe there was no record in the U.S.?
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That doesn't sound right. Does it? Maybe there's something like a national average or something that
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didn't set a record. But don't we set records at least in some town, like every month? Aren't there
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records set almost every day, at least somewhere? So I'm not sure what it means to not set a record.
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Maybe they have very specific things they're tracking, such as hurricanes or extreme high
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temperatures or something. But I don't know. So it says no record temperatures for rain, snow, or wind.
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I'm not buying that. But maybe on average it wasn't any worse. If it were no worse on average,
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then that's a good point. All right. Yesterday I was flipping through Instagram and I saw a video
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that mockingly suggests 9-11 wasn't what you thought. And it was a big conspiracy theory.
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They don't say who did it. Obviously our government, but nothing more specific.
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Now, what if I told you about seeing documentaries on one side? Super persuasive. Because if you only
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see one side of an argument, well, what are you supposed to think? Now, so this was a brilliant
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one side of the argument presentation. And by that I mean when it was done, I was convinced
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that 9-11 was an inside job. It was very persuasive. Now, here's the thing you need to know.
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Five minutes later, if somebody debunked that, do you know what I would say? Probably.
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Oh, well, that's a pretty good debunk. Okay, nothing there. So my level of certainty that I got from it
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is wholly unrelated to reality. It has only everything to do with the fact that documentaries,
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in this case a little video that was a one-sided thing, they're super persuasive.
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That thing was terribly persuasive. And then you put that in the context of not believing anything
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the government's told you and watching our government literally run conspiracy theories,
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I mean actual schemes that look like conspiracy theories, then they get caught. So given that
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we know our government is not above that, they have a history of doing it, the 9-11 situation
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does look different. If you pull it forward into today's context, it looks completely different.
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And the approach that this video used, which was really good, was they mocked each part of it.
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So they'd say stuff like, yes, a guy with just a satellite phone in a cave in Afghanistan
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pulled off the most complicated operation in the history of the world.
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And one of the pilots, who couldn't even pass a Cessna flying test, managed to do one of the most
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complicated maneuvers a giant jet could ever do to hit the Pentagon at exactly the time that they had
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said they were missing a few trillion dollars, and it coincidentally blew up all the records of the
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lost trillion dollars. Now, if you do a fact check on that, I don't believe, I don't believe that the plane
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hit and destroyed. Yeah, so on September 10th, they were reporting that 2.3 trillion went missing.
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Now, I'm not laughing at the tragedy. I'm laughing at the fact that if anything ever looked like a
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conspiracy theory that was true, it's got all the markings of it now. But it's funny how if you
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just looked at it in the context of 2001, the conspiracy theorists just looked nuts. If you look
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at it in the context of today, it's a pretty good theory. It's a solid theory. Now, I'm not saying it's
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true. All right. So this is one of those things that if I tweeted about it, well, actually, no, I didn't
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tweet about it. If I tweeted about it, the Klopp-Bertz would say, he believes this theory because it would be
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fun and entertaining. But the Klopp-Bertz only see things out of context. So they only see, they only
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see, yeah, this. By the way, question. I've been asked a number of times if I would do a Spaces
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event event on Twitter. And I haven't really been too interested because I've got enough going on anyway. But I did
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think it might be fun just to have people, let's see, what would you say, accost me with my own past tweets and
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ask me to explain them. Say, are you saying this or that? Because they're all easy to explain. They just take more than a
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take more than a tweet to explain. So I feel like, I feel like letting all the Klopp-Bertz just wildly, you know, pile on me
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in public would be fun. What do you think? Would that be fun?
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And I suppose I could live stream, you know, my participation. It just wouldn't be good audio.
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Yeah. Well, you know, you wouldn't have to attend. But my proposition is I would just go right into the
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snake pit. I just sort of lower myself into the snake pit and see if I can get out. I might be a little
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too cocky, but I'm pretty sure I could get out of that pretty easily. Meaning that everything I said,
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I stand by. People are pulling all of my past tweets to embarrass me. And they keep tweeting them. And I keep
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looking at my past tweets and saying, no, that's exactly what I thought. What's the problem? So, all right,
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maybe I'll do that. Maybe I'll do a spaces. Well, let's talk about those Biden classified documents. Now we know that
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there are at least two places. It was Greg Gottfeld who was saying, those Bidens like to leave,
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leave important things everywhere. We've got, you know, Hunter Biden's laptops are spread all over
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the world. And Joe Biden apparently is just dropping trade secrets or government secrets wherever he goes.
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We've got, you know, Ashley Biden's diary. I feel like the Bidens are not good with secrets. Not good with
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secrets. But here's what CNN's Stephen Collinson says. And I love the effort that the Democrats are
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putting into this. They're trying to make a, you know, do the best they can to, you know, weaken the
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criticism. All right. Listen to this sentence from Stephen Collinson. Now you should know that he's
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he's got a long track record of being a, mostly an anti-Trump opinion person on CNN. And he writes
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this, while Trump's retention of hundreds of documents and attempts to thwart their transfer
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to the National Archives as required by law appears more serious at this stage.
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Really? Really? The Mar-a-Lago documents, which we don't know what the contents were,
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seems more serious than the Biden documents that we don't know what the contents are.
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What? Doesn't it matter what the contents are? How could you say what is more? That's ridiculous.
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That is so patently ridiculous. How could you take that seriously? It's ridiculous. Now I think
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the argument has to do with Trump was resisting, you know, the government's attempts to get him
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back. But two things are worth noting. Trump was claiming they were personal property. And he was
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president. He could, he could declassify anything. Now you could argue that, you know, he shouldn't
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have or he didn't. But that's a pretty weak problem compared to whatever might be in Biden's thing. Now I
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would be equally, equally wrong if I said the Biden stuff looks more damaging than Trump stuff. Because
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they're both complete unknowns. Complete unknowns. But nobody is suggesting that Biden's documents
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were something he thought that he owned. Because he didn't have any right to declassify anything
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as vice president. Yeah. Well, here's things we know. The University of Pennsylvania got way more
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Chinese funding for the school in general when Biden opened his little office there, his think tank,
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ironically. And of course, the University of Pennsylvania says, no, no, no. Biden didn't get
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any money from China. That did not happen. What happened was when Biden showed up, there was a huge increase
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in money from China to the university, which then made it the university's money, not Chinese money.
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And then the university took the money that used to be China's money, but it's definitely not China's
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money, because they gave it to the University of Pennsylvania, which changes it from China's money
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into University of Pennsylvania's money. And then they give it to Joe Biden, which now changes it
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into Joe Biden's money. So really, nobody is to blame. Because once they gave it to Joe Biden,
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it was his money. So there's nothing to see here. All of it is so stupid. It's like incredibly stupid.
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And this is clearly how the Bidens were laundering corruption. Clearly. But it's all legal as far
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as I can tell. As far as I can tell, if you do it right, it's totally legal. And I think that's what
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Hunter Biden was doing for them. He was doing a bunch of things that were sketchy, but just totally
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legal. So here's how you legally take a bribe. You ready? I will not take a bribe from you. Come on,
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take a bribe. I will not take a bribe from you. I will not do it. All right, darn it, we tried to give
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you a bribe. So you got any relatives who need funding? Any friends or business acquaintances?
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Oh, yes, I have plenty of friends and business acquaintances who have businesses that are looking
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for investment. Yes, but that has nothing to do with me. Is one of them your brother who shares 10%
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with you? Maybe, but that has nothing to do with me. Well, maybe we'll talk to your brother and make
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an enormous investment that we wouldn't normally make. Now, would you like to do what we say?
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Don't ask again and don't put that in writing. It's obvious corruption. Now, correct me if I'm
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wrong. Trump has never even come close to anything like that, has he? Is anything in the Trump world
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even close to what is obviously corruption? Obviously. Like, obviously. You know, if all of the trips
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with Hunter weren't enough, if all the Burisma stuff wasn't, if that were not enough, I mean,
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there's no doubt anymore. The weird thing about these stories is because all the Hunter stories
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trickled out, and then this story is kind of trickling out, that it's giving us time to get
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used to it. We shouldn't get used to this. It's completely obvious corruption. Completely obvious.
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Now, I don't think you need to know anything, any extra stuff, do you? With Trump, it was always,
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if we keep digging, we're going to find something, right? They never said we found it. They said,
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if we keep digging, we're going to find, you know, some stuff. And then they dug and never found
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anything. But with Biden, do you need to do any digging? No. The public reported stuff tells the
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whole story. There's no confusion there, no ambiguity whatsoever. It's very clearly corruption.
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It just doesn't seem to be illegal, because the Chinese know how to do it in a way that is legal.
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So I don't think anybody's going to go to jail for that stuff, and probably won't even have any
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effect on re-election. That's the weird thing. Democrats absolutely won't care. Absolutely won't
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care. All right. Rasmussen is talking about the border situation. Did a poll and found out that
00:30:17.240
69% of likely U.S. voters believe the current situation with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border
00:30:24.940
is a crisis. 69% believe it's a crisis, which is even higher than it was in May.
00:30:33.400
Okay. Now, how do you get re-elected when 69% of the public thinks you blew one of the biggest
00:30:42.820
problems? I mean, border security should have been a gimme. In every other country, border security is
00:30:52.260
something they can get done, apparently. But we can't. I mean, it's the one thing you should have
00:30:57.460
been able to depend on our government to do, like just build a wall, you know, guard it. But we didn't.
00:31:05.460
So now 69% of the people think it's a crisis, and we've got a government that clearly is not
00:31:10.960
super interested in fixing it. So how in the world does he get re-elected? It's amazing.
00:31:19.360
Yeah, they blame, I guess they blame Republicans. All right. Michael Schellenberger is reporting more
00:31:26.440
on the Twitter files. Many, he said in a tweet, many think social media companies only censored
00:31:33.500
vaccine misinformation. Klopbertz, when I said the word vaccine, that's actually a quote from a tweet.
00:31:44.780
Had I used the word vaccine, you should start yelling, my God, don't you know it's not a vaccine?
00:31:52.240
My God, it's not a vaccine. Why do you keep supporting the vaccine, Scott? No, it's just
00:31:57.840
a quote. Settle down. Settle down. It's just a quote. And it's in quotes. It's a quote about
00:32:05.440
a quote. So it's like a double quote. So don't blame me. Anyway, apparently they were also trying
00:32:17.340
to censor stuff that was accurate. And they said so directly. Because some of the accurate
00:32:25.600
information was damaging to the narrative. They said it directly. It's actually in the
00:32:34.440
emails. I guess Dr. Scott Gottlieb was one of the ones asking. Now here's the context.
00:32:40.040
The context is, I think, because they were a little unclear about what the true information
00:32:46.960
they wanted to stop was. I think it's probably the anecdotes. So I think the quote true information
00:32:54.280
they were trying to block probably was lots of people saying, look at this person. They
00:32:59.840
got the shot and then they dropped dead. Because that would actually be somewhat consistent
00:33:07.160
with what the official people were saying. Which is that sometimes you're going to drop
00:33:12.320
dead. We got to do that. Because that's true with medicines and vaccinations in general. Somebody's
00:33:19.420
going to drop dead. We just didn't know. No, that's informed consent. Everybody who got
00:33:24.360
a shot should have known there was a risk of death. That's pretty basic knowledge. By the
00:33:30.820
time you got it, you should have known. But that's pretty basic knowledge. We just don't
00:33:36.980
know how many. So what do you think of this? So here's your ethical question. I think I
00:33:42.820
know which way you're going to go. Suppose you were an official in charge of trying to
00:33:47.700
save the country from this coronavirus. And suppose you knew that every time somebody put
00:33:55.060
out one of these anecdotes of this one person died after getting vaccinated, that the anecdotes
00:34:01.340
are not science are not science. They're just things people saw. We already knew that people
00:34:06.260
would have bad outcomes. And the only point of it was that maybe not having the shots would
00:34:12.300
be even worse. That was the thinking. So anyway. So I think that the moral argument for trying
00:34:24.720
to block the true stories is that they would be misleading because people can't tell the difference
00:34:32.260
between an anecdote and a study. Do you agree that individual stories of people could be terribly
00:34:40.320
misleading? And that if it caused people to make the wrong medical choice, that they would die
00:34:48.740
because of that misleading information. So do you think that the social media platforms should
00:34:54.960
err on the side of letting everything that's true be on, even if it causes massive people to die?
00:35:04.000
Should they go with free speech knowing it would kill people? I mean, it would kill people,
00:35:10.220
for sure. I don't know how many, but it would definitely kill people.
00:35:13.800
So, so most of you say with free speech and let them die. Now, is there any, is there any limit to
00:35:22.000
that? Is there any upper limit? So let's say I said a hundred thousand people died so you could have
00:35:29.580
your free speech on social media. Are you okay with that? Would you accept 100,000 American deaths
00:35:36.100
for no censorship? Right? I, I respect those answers. So I'm saying a sea of yeses on the locals platform.
00:35:45.640
Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. That, that's how serious we take free speech. How seriously. And I'm okay with that.
00:35:54.880
I'm okay with that. Yeah. I would agree with you, I guess. Because it's two impossible choices, isn't it?
00:36:00.740
You can't be, I don't think you can make the moral choice. You can't make the moral choice because
00:36:08.080
there's two immoral choices. That's it. But here's what you can do. And I, I've, I've probably modeled
00:36:17.700
this a number of times, but here's why you would choose free speech. Because that protects the system.
00:36:24.500
And that's more important than a hundred thousand lives. We've proven it a million times. If the
00:36:32.500
United States lost free speech, that's going to cost you more than a hundred thousand lives. You just
00:36:37.720
have to wait a little while. Am I right? A hundred thousand lives, unfortunately, is cheap. That's the
00:36:46.100
worst thing I'll ever say, right? It's the worst thing ever come out of my mouth, that a hundred thousand
00:36:51.640
souls, you know, dying a horrible death is cheap. But compared to losing free speech in American
00:37:00.920
specifically, probably is. It's probably cheap. Probably cheap. So I'd agree with you on that.
00:37:08.300
All right. Is it amazing to you that there's, the Democrats are gaslighting us about literally
00:37:22.060
gas stoves? Like, what were the odds that that would happen? I mean, that just feels so simulation-y.
00:37:33.080
It's like we all caused that to happen just by thinking about the puns. I feel like we caused it to
00:37:40.040
happen. Like, it wasn't going to happen on its own. But that is just too weird.
00:37:47.400
Anyway, Andreas Backhaus looked at the little study that seemed to indicate that indoor gas stoves,
00:37:56.040
of course, that's where they usually are, was causing asthma. And this is what Andres says.
00:38:04.920
He said, the gas stoves and childhood asthma research is a three-pager that does one calculation
00:38:12.300
and presents one figure based on a meta-analysis coefficient and aggregate data from nine U.S. states.
00:38:20.040
And as Andres sums it up, let's hope no policies will be based on this paper, despite the overblown
00:38:27.860
attention it is receiving. Now, do you still, are you still angry at Andres for criticizing all bad
00:38:36.340
studies? You do see he goes after just all the bad studies. It has nothing to do with the topic of
00:38:43.200
the study. He's one of the few people that I've seen go through the entire pandemic, and I can't
00:38:50.180
even identify a bias. I mean, I'm sure he has them because he's human. But I haven't seen one. I haven't
00:38:56.080
seen one. He's just a maniac about bad studies and letting you know when they're bad. Now, that doesn't
00:39:02.100
mean that this study is wrong. It just means it's not credible enough to act on. It might turn out to
00:39:10.320
be right. You know, maybe it's the first one, and then they repeat it, or they replicate it. Maybe.
00:39:16.220
Could be. But it gets back to how important ventilation is. If we had better ventilation,
00:39:22.740
the kids wouldn't have asthma. If we had better ventilation, COVID would not have been as spready
00:39:28.080
as it is. Kids could go back to school. So we really need to get serious about ventilation.
00:39:33.540
I'm going to add to my prediction that the biggest market of the future is people completely getting
00:39:43.320
rid of their classic old kind of homes and building homes that are more livable. And one of the things
00:39:50.920
you could do today that you could get right is making the ventilation way, way better. So that's
00:39:57.960
just one of the things. Yeah. Bad ventilation equals energy efficient. Yeah, there's that.
00:40:07.680
All right. Are you ready for the greatest moral conundrum you've ever heard? This one's going
00:40:19.240
to make your head just go, what? All right. So Democrats are in favor of abortion. Correct? Correct.
00:40:29.660
Democrats are very strong supporters, as am I, of the LGBTQ community. It would be hard to be more
00:40:37.980
supportive than I am. Very supportive. Republicans may be a little less so, but I think, you know,
00:40:46.120
in 2023, it's not really even the topic they care about, mostly. Now, fact check. It is widely understood.
00:40:59.020
There's a consensus view of this in the medical and, I think, social community in general, that
00:41:05.540
being gay, we'll just pick one part of LGBTQ, that being gay is something you're born.
00:41:13.260
Now, I'm sure there's some debate. Some people probably say no. But would you agree with the
00:41:20.000
setup here? The setup for my moral conundrum is that it's widely understood that you're essentially
00:41:29.280
born gay. Of course, there's an environmental factor. You know, you could imagine that there's
00:41:35.000
some gray area where the environment flips you one way or the other. But generally, generally,
00:41:41.000
most gay people are born without wiring, wouldn't you say? Now, at the moment, I don't believe
00:41:49.980
science can study a baby's DNA and determine they're gay. It's not like there's a gay gene,
00:41:57.940
you know, yes, no. It's more like a complicated, let's say, web of connections. And a variety of
00:42:08.440
connections might be able to get you to the same place. Right? So it's a little not quite
00:42:15.100
understood what exactly is happening in a person that predisposes them to be gay. But don't
00:42:25.660
you think we're going to figure that out? Do you think in 20 years we won't know that a baby
00:42:32.420
will become gay? I think we will know. I think we'll just keep honing in on it until we can say,
00:42:40.340
oh, okay, if these five factors are here, it's, you know, 95% chance it's going to be gay. Don't
00:42:46.120
you think? Oh, some of you are saying no. You think we'll never get to the point where we could
00:42:52.200
untangle the complexity that predisposes somebody to be gay? Okay. Well, some of you are going to
00:43:00.480
disagree with the assumption then. So I'll let you take a pass and you don't have to answer this
00:43:05.240
because you've, you basically, you tested out of this question by saying you don't, you really
00:43:10.860
think that won't happen? I'm really surprised that you think that's not an obvious thing that'll
00:43:16.500
happen. I think it'll obviously happen. All you have to do is take everything we know about a person
00:43:22.240
and turn AI loose on it. Just say, here's everything we know, everything, every blood test,
00:43:30.920
every, you know, chromosome, every, every part of your DNA. And then they'll just say, hey, AI,
00:43:38.780
look at all the people who have given us all this information and tell us what you can find and see
00:43:43.380
if you can predict. I would put a very big bet that you'll be able to predict with, let's say,
00:43:51.040
95% accuracy that a baby will grow up to be predisposed to be a gay man. You don't think so.
00:43:59.640
Now, is it because you think it's not genetic? You're saying epigenetic meaning a combo?
00:44:06.120
All right. Well, let me finish my, finish my question. What happens when Republicans start
00:44:15.020
aborting gay fetuses? Will abortion remain legal? You say that will not happen? No, that would
00:44:27.040
happen. Oh, that would happen. I wouldn't do it, but it's going to happen. Right? Yeah. No.
00:44:36.120
I agree with you that mostly it wouldn't happen. Mostly it wouldn't happen. But somebody's
00:44:43.380
going to do it. You don't think that there'll be, maybe it's not even Republicans. Maybe it's
00:44:48.900
not even Republicans. Maybe it's just anybody who's a bigot, anybody who thinks it's, you
00:44:53.420
know, going to cause them problems. Maybe they're selfish or something. Right? But you don't
00:44:57.580
think that somebody is going to start trying to abort gay fetuses. Right? You're way more
00:45:05.160
trusting than I am. I don't know how you got so trusting. All right. Well, I thought
00:45:12.540
you were going to agree with my assumptions, but since you disagree with the assumptions,
00:45:16.040
it turns out that wasn't much of a moral dilemma at all. I guess Republicans will just say,
00:45:21.460
let all babies be born, and Democrats will have a different view. All right. Well, okay. Let
00:45:30.200
me take a moment here to compliment my conservative-leaning audience. You know, I don't identify as conservative,
00:45:38.340
but I always appreciate people who are consistent with their view. And I just saw an amazing amount
00:45:46.460
of consistency there. So good for you. It's actually kind of impressive how consistent you
00:45:52.520
are. Even at the hardest question, you remain consistent. I do respect that, I got to say.
00:45:59.200
I respect that. So turns out that is the breaking news. I heard that Pfizer missed a deadline for
00:46:13.260
reporting the, what is it, the cardio problems from the shot on young people. Is that breaking that I
00:46:24.200
just saw? Did they just, while I was on the live stream, did Pfizer just announce the results?
00:46:31.000
Can you confirm that? Or was somebody just guessing? They did. Somebody says yes. And the results are
00:46:43.640
Breaking? Breaking? It's heart-stopping? So is that the biggest news at the moment? They're just admitting
00:46:55.960
that it's bad for young males, mostly? Is that now just something that Pfizer says right, straight out?
00:47:05.240
Wow. Okay. Well, so the note I made to myself is that if Pfizer is not giving us the results and we
00:47:18.840
don't know why, you have to assume there's a reason. I guess that was the reason. It was exactly what you
00:47:25.500
thought, huh? Yeah, I got a feeling that good news comes out right away. When you miss your deadline
00:47:31.360
for something that could be really bad, but not necessarily, I think missing the deadline,
00:47:38.620
you presume guilt. Remember, a company is not a person and the government is not a person.
00:47:47.200
Persons have the assumption of innocence. Big organizations, you have to start with the
00:47:52.960
assumption of guilt. And if they don't offer you transparency, just keep your assumption.
00:47:56.940
Just assume guilt and act as though that's just a fact. That's the only system that works.
00:48:04.760
You know, trusting big organizations who are not transparent makes no sense at all.
00:48:08.640
You couldn't have a world that way. Well, we'll talk more about the Pfizer stuff when I know more
00:48:16.600
about it. So there's another Russian general shakeup, I think the fourth one since the military action.
00:48:24.180
And in Ukraine, so the new guy, so the speculators are all speculating. So the new general was already
00:48:33.540
the top general of all the generals. But he was more of an office kind of a general. And
00:48:40.380
you're already assuming that I'm going to be biased toward one side.
00:48:47.200
Give me a minute. Give me a minute, will you? So some pundits say that one of them is getting
00:48:59.500
demoted and it's a sign of things going wrong, etc. The other take is that he's exactly the right guy
00:49:06.920
to have in position for a spring offensive that the Russians are getting ready for.
00:49:12.080
I lean toward that view, that it's a positive Russian strategy. I'm leaning against the
00:49:21.820
interpretation that it shows that Russia is falling apart. Because the person they're putting
00:49:27.840
in charge was the office person in charge of the generals who were there. And they just told
00:49:32.760
the office person to get out of the office and get to the front line, or at least get into
00:49:36.960
the war. And the thinking is that the person who, and he's still, he has the same job, so he's still
00:49:43.360
ahead of the other generals. But if that general can get the various parts of the Russian military to work
00:49:50.340
together better, which was one of the biggest issues they had, then he's exactly the right person.
00:49:57.480
And if he's ahead of the generals and he's not, doesn't have, let's say, the urgency that he should,
00:50:02.940
then putting him in the theater would certainly give him more urgency. So it's way too early to know
00:50:09.840
if this is a good thing or a bad thing, and in what way. But I'm leaning toward, it's a, it's a Russian
00:50:19.060
strong move, and they're getting ready for a big offensive in the spring. Is that what you expected
00:50:24.860
me to say? Because you expected me to say over and over again that Ukraine is winning everything,
00:50:32.180
even when the evidence suggests otherwise? See, sometimes I follow the evidence. To me,
00:50:39.640
that doesn't look like a mistake. It looks like they strengthened their chain of command.
00:50:43.680
By the way, by the way, I, I was on YouTube yesterday, and YouTube suggested a story about
00:50:56.900
Stalin. It was a story about the last days of Stalin. And, oh my God, I think we all knew that
00:51:06.960
Stalin was, you know, a Hiller-like bad character. I had no idea. I thought I knew how bad it was.
00:51:16.280
I did not know. I did not know at all. He was actually basically just a serial killer who enjoyed
00:51:25.120
killing people. He actually just liked it. He, he killed most of his in-laws.
00:51:31.280
He, he, he, he was mad at his wife because she, uh, committed suicide when she figured out what a
00:51:37.820
monster he is. So because he was mad at his wife who killed herself, he sent most of her, uh, relatives
00:51:45.200
to the gulags and shot the guys. You know, one by one, not all at once. The, the sister of one of the
00:51:55.560
sisters who went to the gulag just for being a sister and, you know, complaining that about her sister,
00:52:01.280
the one who went, had a meeting with him and, and just gave a letter from the sister that was in
00:52:06.340
the gulag, you know, asking for mercy. And so instead of giving her mercy, he transferred her to a much
00:52:13.560
worse gulag and then took the sister who complained and delivered the letter somebody new, like a family
00:52:22.380
member, and put her in the gulag and then, you know, executed her later. And that's, and that's not like a rare
00:52:31.480
story. Apparently that was every day. Like he had a huge list of people he was executing. He executed, uh,
00:52:39.040
seven hundred and fifty thousand people in like one year.
00:52:44.480
Seven hundred and fifty thousand. Twenty million he killed altogether.
00:52:53.180
as crazy as, you know, our other dictators are, I've never seen anything like that.
00:52:59.120
Because it, it did seem like he was enjoying it. It did not seem like, like he thought it was
00:53:06.240
necessary, necessarily. Well, you never know. I mean, any story about dictators is shaky.
00:53:16.000
Um, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I needed to say today. Is there any new story I missed?
00:53:23.040
We'll check out that Pfizer stuff. Oh, uh, I tweeted a long thread from a professor
00:53:29.780
Baloo. I like all of your opinion on it. Because he, coincidentally, he represents my exact opinion
00:53:40.600
of where the consensus of experts are on the data. Now, you all understand I didn't say that that means
00:53:50.780
I'm right. But my current belief, subject to change at any time, is that, um, his description
00:53:58.960
of, of whether the so-called vaccinations helped or hurt is at least consistent with the data that
00:54:05.860
we can see. And basically, he's saying that, uh, of the vulnerable group, the older people primarily,
00:54:13.320
that it was wildly successful. Like, wildly successful. Saving lives. Not in terms of infections.
00:54:22.080
But he said everybody should have known it wouldn't help with infections, you know, spread. Because,
00:54:28.620
you know, it should have been obvious. That's, that's the reason I predicted it wouldn't work.
00:54:33.880
Because, never worked before. And again, it didn't work this time. But his take, his take is that even
00:54:42.600
at the beginning, it was probably a bad idea to give the shots to young people. Young, healthy people.
00:54:49.560
And he, and he's saying that's what looks to be the case. That it was a mistake to give it to young
00:54:54.620
people. But that it was a huge success to give it to the older people. How many of you think that's
00:55:02.060
true? And again, I'm just saying that matches my current thinking of what the current thinking is.
00:55:08.920
My own thinking, my own thinking is useless, because, you know, how do I know? I'm just saying
00:55:15.740
my thinking of what the current thinking is matches that. Until Omicron. And then you think it changed?
00:55:23.880
Yeah. I'm not aware of any data that would be counter to his, his view of what the current view is. I
00:55:34.760
haven't seen any. But that doesn't mean it's not true. Now, I would agree with you on the following
00:55:41.420
statement. In the, in the context of Omicron, I don't know why anybody would get any, you know,
00:55:51.800
any additional things put in their body. I mean, I'm not. You know, I did the, I did the minimum
00:55:57.820
I needed to fly and then I'm out. So, but if you, if you were to stop today, was the shot
00:56:08.160
wildly successful at protecting old people? So far. Now that doesn't mean they won't fall
00:56:14.180
over tomorrow. So some, so this is a two movies, one screen, right? It's the, would you
00:56:23.200
agree that it's the single most important thing to know? Like if you could know one thing
00:56:29.160
for sure, wouldn't you want to know if the vaccinated had a much better chance of living
00:56:34.580
than the unvaccinated and like, and be confident of the numbers? Yeah. It's the most important
00:56:39.160
thing. And we don't agree on it. And we don't agree. All right. So I will accept anybody who
00:56:47.180
disagrees with the data because all of our data has turned down to be unreliable so far.
00:56:52.880
So if you're, if you just take the position, all of our data is fake, you're going to be
00:56:58.420
right a lot. I'm not even going to argue with you on it. But it's entirely possible that that
00:57:05.080
will end up being the historian's take on it. I think the historians are going to settle
00:57:10.920
on the vaccination saved lives, but it was a mistake to give it to the young where it
00:57:15.940
probably costs lives. I think that's where it's going to turn out. But that doesn't mean
00:57:20.540
it's true, right? That just means that's, I think that's where the historians are going
00:57:24.080
to settle. We'll never know what's true. All right. No is a default answer until proven.
00:57:31.620
Yes. Oh, let me test this logic with you. Generally speaking, would you agree with the following
00:57:38.400
statement? Don't do a medical intervention if you don't know you need it. How many would
00:57:48.820
say that's, that's just basic? Don't do a medical intervention if you don't know you need
00:57:54.200
it? Yeah. Yeah, you're all wrong, by the way. Every one of you got the wrong answer. Totally
00:58:05.020
wrong. Is there anybody who's going to disagree with you? Am I the only one? No, that's totally
00:58:11.560
bad thinking. That's bad analysis. The fog of war decision is completely different. The fog
00:58:21.260
of war decision is if you think you have a weaponized biological weapon, and that's one
00:58:31.220
of your choices. You know, it's fog of war. You don't know what this thing is. And then
00:58:35.340
on the other hand, people on your side-ish, the pharma people in the government, you know,
00:58:41.800
sort of on your side, are saying, you know, we don't know for sure, but this looks like
00:58:47.420
a better bet than this. Do you think just automatically don't put anything in your body
00:58:53.160
under any condition? All right, how about this? Suppose you get bit by a wild animal, and
00:59:03.280
you don't know if you have rabies. You don't know. Do you get the rabies shot? Yes or no?
00:59:08.840
You don't know if you have rabies. Oh, you all changed your opinion. Look at that. Every
00:59:16.060
one of you just reversed your opinion. Now suddenly, you're putting drugs into your body.
00:59:23.040
You're putting drugs into your body without knowing, without knowing if you have a problem.
00:59:29.000
Now, are you going to say to me that's a special case? You should, right? You should say that's
00:59:35.000
a special case, right? So is the fog of war. So was this. This was the most special case.
00:59:44.640
Now, it's not exactly, but let me be consistent. Analogies are not arguments. So if I were to say,
00:59:53.760
because, you know, because of one kind of shot, they treat it that way, therefore, you know,
00:59:59.220
another shot should be treated. That doesn't make sense. Analogies don't work that way, right? So if
01:00:04.960
you're saying bad analogy, yay, you should be saying that. The analogy is just to bring your mind to
01:00:12.400
something. It's not an argument. It's just to bring your mind to another place or to explain something,
01:00:16.860
right? No argument. Here's the argument. In a special case, which would be rare,
01:00:26.580
you can consider both options and you're not crazy, right? And if you're trying to avoid maybe a
01:00:34.700
Chinese bioweapon and your option is a, let's say, a drug made by people who are less likely to want
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you dead, do you take the one for people trying to kill you or the ones from the people trying to
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save you, but maybe they did it wrong or they're lying to you? Right? Yeah. So I'll just make one
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statement. If the rabies thing didn't convince you, if that didn't convince you, the only thing I want
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to tell you is there are exceptions. But as a general rule, I agree with you. As a general rule,
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don't put something in your body if you don't know it's going to help you or has a good chance.
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Yeah. And every day, every day we put alcohol in our bodies and all kinds of stuff.
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Somebody needs me to reframe a McDonald's McMuffin addiction in the morning.
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Of all the things you could eat, isn't that one of the less bad ones? At least there's an egg in there, right?
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Oh. Well, you know, the bread, but like having a little bit of bread isn't going to kill you.
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Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm not sure you need that, but if I were looking to reframe it,
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the way I would do it is that I would call it entertainment.
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So if you're eating it because it tastes so darn good, which is probably the case,
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because you have options, you know, there are other ways to eat,
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so you're probably eating it because it tastes good.
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If you're eating it because it tastes good, it's entertainment.
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So tell yourself you don't need entertainment, you need food.
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Fast food you should think of as entertainment in general.
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Right. Junk food, all junk food is entertainment.
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So if you're hungry, do you say, oh, I'm hungry, I need some entertainment?
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Get some protein first, you know, eat clean, and then go from there.
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Well, you know, unfortunately, we live in a world where
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our options are things that are terrible for us
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Or you're going to spend a lot of money and a lot of time,
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you know, growing your own organic food or something.
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Yeah, I don't think there's any food that hasn't been called bad for you at one point.
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Well, don't take my advice on eating at McDonald's.
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I'm going to guess the egg McMuffin is the least bad thing for you.
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