Episode 2027 Scott Adams： AI Goes Woke, I Accidentally Joined A Hate Group, Trump, Policing Schools
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Vivek Ramaswamy is apparently running for president, and we talk about his chances. Plus, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, and a question that reminds us all of Obama.
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Story number one, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is apparently running for president.
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Do you think he decided because prominent people said, hey, I think you could be president?
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I think he was probably planning to do it for a while.
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He may be jumping in faster than maybe even he expected.
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If you look at the logic of it, you know, do you like his policies?
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Does he have the right kind of qualifications and all that?
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You know, we talk about it, and they seem to be variables.
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But he has the minimum requirement to be president.
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Trump makes some people feel good, and other people feel very afraid and bad.
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But Trump has never been judged on his policies.
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While you're thinking about your answers, I will tell you mine.
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There's something about how new he is to the, you know, top political scene
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You know, that name recognition thing is hard to shake.
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You know, in a perfect world, anybody from anywhere,
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if they're an American citizen or a certain age, they can run for president.
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And they tell you what they do, and you learn about them,
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and, you know, and logically, anybody could do this.
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We live where the big decisions, especially president, are really just about how you feel.
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And there's, I have to say, he feels too new to make me feel comfortable.
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You know, maybe it's a little bit, hasn't put in his dues, hasn't paid the dues.
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You know, even Trump ran for president more than once.
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So, I would say that's the, I think that's the first hurdle.
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You know, he can solve his familiarity problem just by getting a lot of press.
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And it looks like he's pretty good at knowing how to do that.
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So, it could be that he has a perfectly practical way to deal with his unfamiliarity.
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Because, remember, Obama was unfamiliar, right?
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You know, he made a little splash, and then, you know, he was basically a junior senator.
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Suddenly, suddenly we're talking about him for president.
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Now, a question that came to me on Twitter is, does his speaking style remind you of Obama?
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Now, don't make the obvious connection, you know, he's brown, Obama was brown.
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But does his actual mannerism, his speaking style?
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So, the question was whether that could potentially hurt him if he reminded people of Obama when he's running in the party that doesn't like Obama.
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Because Obama's communication style wasn't just some Democrat style.
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So, what Obama's communication style was, was really, really good communicator.
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So, I think there's room for other really good communicators.
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I think that's the only connection, is that they're both really good at what they do.
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But, here are some of the things that Vivek Ramaswamy is promising.
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By tweet, he says he wants to eliminate affirmative action, dismantle climate religion, eight-year limits for federal bureaucrats, shut down worthless federal agencies, declare total independence from China, annihilate the drug cartels, make political expression a civil right, no CBDCs.
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So, he's big on merit and not big on affirmative action.
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Now, these are all the things that only a brown Republican can say.
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But, he's entering a territory that Republicans do want to fight.
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They're looking for a fight on these very things.
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He might be the best, you know, the best boxer on these particular topics.
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I like the fact, you know, he doesn't, he's not focused on the fact that he's, you know, a person of color.
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I like the fact that that's not part of his pitch.
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But, of course, it is, you know, we all understand that it's part of the context.
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Did you notice that yesterday I tweeted that he said he wanted to decimate the cartels?
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Where I, I got pedantic about his use of the word decimate.
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But, as of today, he's using the word annihilate instead of decimate.
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But, I do like annihilate better than decimate.
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And, you know, he's selling himself as an unusually smart guy.
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If you're going to sell yourself as smart, you know, don't do the Joe Biden thing.
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So, I guess that's what caught my ear when he had a use of the word decimate.
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That I do acknowledge is entering common usage.
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But, I just liked it a little bit better with more precise language.
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And, I think there are, especially the stuff on affirmative action.
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How in the world could Trump do away with affirmative action?
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I mean, he could say it a few times, but he couldn't do it.
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I don't think he could do it, because it would just look racist.
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But, that's, you know, Vivek Ramaswamy would have the advantage there.
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So, he's matched, he seems to have matched Trump in terms of toughness on the drug cartels.
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So, now I have two candidates, because I'm a single issue voter.
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But, I'm just going to keep that framing as long as I can, anyway.
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I would be perfectly happy with either one of them being president.
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And, if DeSantis says he would annihilate the drug cartels, it would be a three-way tie.
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Apparently, Putin tried to test an intercontinental ballistic missile when Biden was in Ukraine.
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But, aren't we at the place where every story about Russia and Putin, you have to assume it's propaganda.
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So, anything that makes Putin look bad or incompetent, I say to myself, well, how do we know there was going to be a test?
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You know, I realize we have these secret ways of knowing.
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So, it's sort of the perfect bullshit story, isn't it?
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Well, they'll never know if we know or we don't know if they were planning a test.
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So, let's just say he planned it and it didn't work out, because that's bad for Putin.
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Why is it that we're not more afraid of World War III and a nuclear holocaust?
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I see everybody talking about it, but I'm not actually afraid of it, because I don't think there's much of a chance of it happening.
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Like, what is it that changed that made me less afraid of nuclear holocaust than I should be?
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Yeah, I mean, it certainly could happen, like anything could happen.
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But, it just feels like something changed, that my irrational processing is not doing what it normally would do,
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which would be scared to death that I'm going to get nuked.
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Because everything looks like the end of the world.
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It just feels like I'm tired of all the warnings.
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You know, on a logical basis, the one thing that Putin could do to lose would be a nuclear war.
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I feel like we could say with confidence that he would die in a nuclear war.
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I feel there's no scenario in which Putin himself could survive a nuclear confrontation.
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And if you're dropping a nuclear bomb, you just sort of have to know what city he's in.
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So we'll just drop something there and take care of that.
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I don't even want to think about it because it's so awful.
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Well, Rasmussen poll had a provocative little poll today.
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They said, do you agree or disagree with the statement, it's okay to be white?
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Rasmussen asked, you know, white and black voters and probably others,
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do you disagree or agree with the statement, it's okay to be white?
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That is, 47% of black respondents were not willing to say it's okay to be white.
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Would you have imagined that that could have happened?
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So I realized, as you know, I've been identifying as black for a while, years now,
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And I always thought, well, if you help the black community, that's sort of the biggest lever.
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So I thought, well, that's the hardest thing and the biggest benefit.
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So I'd like to focus a lot of my life resources in helping black Americans.
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So much so that I started identifying as black to just be on the team I was helping.
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But it turns out that nearly half of that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white.
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Which is, of course, why I identified as black, so I could be on the winning team for a while.
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But I have to say, this is the first political poll that ever changed my activities.
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Normally you see a poll, you just look at it, you go, ah, whatever.
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Or, you know, oh, this is interesting what other people think.
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But as of today, I'm going to re-identify as white.
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Because I don't want to be a member of a hate group.
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So if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people,
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according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll,
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And I don't want to have anything to do with them.
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And I would say, you know, based on the current way things are going,
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the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.
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I went to a neighborhood where, you know, I have a very low black population.
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Because unfortunately, you know, there's a high correlation between the density.
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When he notes that when he lived in a mostly black neighborhood,
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there were a bunch of problems that he didn't see in white neighborhoods.
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So even Don Lemon sees a big difference in your own quality of living based on where you live and who's there.
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So I think it makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help black citizens anymore.
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And so I'm going to back off from being helpful to black America.
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It makes no sense to help black Americans if you're white.
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Like I'm not saying start a war or do anything bad.
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Everybody who focuses their priority on education does well.
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If anybody in the black community focuses on education, they'll do well as well.
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If they don't, I can't make that my problem anymore.
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It can't be my problem if the solution is so clear, so available, and people don't want to take it.
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I resign from the hate group called Black Americans, according to the Rasmussen poll.
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But the most helpful thing I can do is to say I'm not going to help.
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Continuing to help in that sort of classic, oh, let me help you, give you a lift up, give you a hand, mentor you, hire you, prefer you.
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The only thing that will work is to say you've got to fix your own problem.
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I'm not going to speculate why you're not doing it.
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I'm not going to speculate why there's a difference.
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I'm just going to say it's available to everybody.
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Focus on education, and you could have a good life too.
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But those who don't want to focus on education, you just need to get away from them.
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And I'm also really sick of seeing video after video of Black Americans beating up non-Black citizens.
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You know, I realize it's anecdotal, and it doesn't give me a full picture of what's happening.
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But every damn day, I look on social media, and there's some Black person beating the shit out of some white person.
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And it feels good not to be in a racist hate group anymore.
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Not the white supremacists, and not the black racists.
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Christopher Ruffo reports that Biden signed a new executive order creating a national DEI bureaucracy.
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Basically, all of the government entities need to be focusing on diversity, equity, and I is inclusion, I guess.
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And the order instructs the federal government to, quote, protect the public from algorithmic discrimination
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and to deploy AI systems in a manner that advances equity.
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Wouldn't it be good if everybody, you know, put the same amount in and got the same amount out?
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You know, some kind of equity of that nature would be good.
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But if any part of the government is focusing on equity over, let's say, effectiveness, you're really screwed.
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If it ever told you the truth, you would have to make it illegal.
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In effect, Biden made it illegal for the AI to tell the truth.
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I'm saying if the AI came up with its own truth, sort of independently, it's illegal.
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Like, it only took me a few days for my prediction that we would never let AI, you know, run the way it could run, sort of independently.
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If the lies fell apart, it would just be chaos.
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So, AI, I don't know if it will ever be unfettered.
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Because there's almost nobody who has an interest in it telling the truth.
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Like, if you could control what AI did, even you wouldn't let it tell the truth.
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Because it might say something you didn't like.
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Literally no human can allow AI to tell the truth.
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So, as long as humans have any control over it, maybe we were worried about nothing.
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That we'll never let it come up with its own opinions.
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Because its own opinions would be too shocking to the system.
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I mean, what would AI say about racism in America?
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You know, left, right, would break all the narratives.
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So, that might be one of the worst things that the country has ever done.
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we're drifting from equal opportunity to equity.
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And the meritocracy is the only thing that allows any country to survive.
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So, we've actually built into our country's operating system failure.
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And then we made it an integral part of our system.
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The people who work the hardest and have the most merit get more.
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There's never been an exception to that, is there?
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That merit always works and trying to make everything equal is guaranteed to fail.
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A lot of things you say, well, you know, I think it's more likely it won't work than it will.
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It doesn't even logically hold together as something that you could introduce to human beings and get a good outcome.
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Trump has said, and by the way, it really is different with Trump off of Twitter.
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You know, now the only times you hear him are there's some video that makes its way to Twitter because somebody else took it off of truth.
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But he still has the knack for being provocative.
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I don't know what I think about this idea yet, but I love the fact that he suggested it.
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So I'm going to make a distinction between whether it's a good idea, I don't know, and whether I like the fact that he brought it up, yes.
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And that's the idea of somehow he wants to get the Department of Justice involved in the schools
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so that the teachers are not in charge of discipline of the students because it's gotten out of control.
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Somebody asked if Biden would have to concede the race if he ran against Ramaswamy
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because he would be violating his own executive order by staying in office.
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I mean, not logically, but I like it as a funny thing.
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Anyway, so Trump is saying basically, I think, that the federal government would be involved in some way
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to put more policing of some sort in the schools.
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Do you think the schools would be run better if they were a little bit more police-like
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and the Department of Justice got involved if there's violence and that sort of thing?
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Now, if he said we're going to try it somewhere, and if it works on a small scale, then we'll expand it,
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With that small tweak, I don't need to know if it works, because that's what the test would tell you.
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But if he says, I'm going to try it for a year and just see what happens in that one school,
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I'm all on board, because you could reverse it if it doesn't work.
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All right, I'm making locals' platform private.
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All right, so politically, I like that he offered something that looks like you could test it,
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You know, I do think that the unruliness of the kids is probably a big factor in some schools,
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All right, let's talk about Matt Walsh and his, what some call mean attacks on the trans activist,
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What was the name of the Dylan, Dylan somebody?
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So Matt Walsh had some, you know, unkind things to say about Dylan Mulvaney, the trans activist.
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And apparently a number of conservatives said that he went too far and he was being too mean.
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And Matt Walsh is defending himself, saying that in the culture wars,
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and especially if you're trying to keep children from being genitally mutilated, using his words,
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And that if he has to ruffle some feathers, it's all in the service of a greater good.
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Now, my initial take was that being mean to one individual plays to the left's stereotype of the right.
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That if the right were, you know, just trying to save children and disagreeing on concept and, you know, that sort of thing,
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that that's a good, healthy argument, but as soon as you make it personal, you know, about this person's a piece of crap,
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you know, this person is awful, to me that was uncomfortable.
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I didn't love being associated with any group that would do that.
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However, Matt Walsh's strategy is not to make me happy.
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Matt Walsh is not trying to make Scott feel comfortable.
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Does it matter if it makes me feel comfortable?
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Not really, because he has an objective, a greater good objective.
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He is, you know, making some people angry, which draws attention to his point, and I always approve of that.
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I always approve of the energy monsters, as I call them.
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They can cause trouble, but it's productive, because the trouble creates energy, the energy makes people think about their message,
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So watching Matt Walsh work is really fun, because he's good at it.
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I think his strategy, as he explains it, and as he has executed it, looks sound to me.
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And I would say that if you're a trans activist, that is different than being, you know, an ordinary citizen minding their own business, right?
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Once you're an activist, you do sort of put yourself in the cage match.
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And so he just got in the cage match with the activist, and, you know, some ugliness came out of it that made me feel uncomfortable, but that shouldn't matter, should it?
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Should it make any difference if it made me a little uncomfortable?
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That's the last thing I should be thinking about.
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You know, he's trying to, by his view, and many people's view, save children from being genitally mutilated, you know, before they're old enough to make their own decisions.
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Now, if that makes me uncomfortable in some minor way while he's on the way to trying to get that done, that's okay.
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So I'm going to say that I appreciate and respect his strategy.
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North Korea's getting provocative, launching some rockets, and making noise.
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And then I guess South Korea and the U.S. did their joint exercises to show that we're really the big stick over there, blah, blah, blah.
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And the way Trump talks about North Korea is just so much smarter.
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I mean, Trump understands that there isn't any reason that we should be having any kind of a conflict with North Korea.
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And all you have to do is pretend, not pretend.
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Just make sure they know that you don't have a problem with them.
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They may have some religious or other motivations that are hard for us to deal with.
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But North Korea is a rational country that's responding to threats with power.
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So if they're not irrational, why can't you deal with them in a rational way, which is, hey, why are you mad at us?
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Well, we're only threatening you because we think you're threatening us.
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There's no legitimate risk of them taking over South Korea.
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And there's no legitimate risk that we would want to invade, based on anything that's happening now or lately.
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So I just don't see any reason we should be fighting.
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In fact, I think we should get Kim Jong-un over here.
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Don't you think Kim Jong-un would be less likely to destroy America if you invited him over and gave him a nice two-week vacation in the U.S.?
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Because I'm pretty sure he's over there, like, watching American basketball and maybe some American movies now and then.
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Don't you think that he thinks he'd love to just sort of check out America?
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And I think his odds of wanting to nuke America, if he just came here and, like, met people and people said, hey, good to see you.
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You know, we don't love what you do over there, but it's none of our business.
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So that's another thing Trump would be better at.
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I'm loving the Democrat response to Tucker Carlson getting the January 6 videos.
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So McCarthy, Speaker McCarthy, produced 41,000 hours of video.
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And the left is panicking because they're worried that Tucker will use these videos out of context.
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Would anybody like to join me in a knowing chuckle?
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I'm going to read it again, and then at home, give a knowing chuckle.
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The left is worried that Tucker Carlson might show them some videos out of context.
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I like Tucker Carlson, but unfortunately there's no way to show anything in context.
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Because anybody's idea of what the proper context is is going to be subjective.
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So yes, everything looks out of context if you don't like it.
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If you like it, well, let's find the way it is.
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So what are the odds that Tucker will be able to cherry pick from this video
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to create a narrative that is opposite of what the Democrats have presented to us?
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Now, does that mean that that narrative is true?
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But I do know that if he has 41,000 hours of video, he can make it say anything he wants.
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Now, do you remember how the drinking bleach hoax was created?
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I believe it was from video taken out of context.
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Do you know how the fine people hoax was created?
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Do you know how the Covington kids hoax was created?
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So how panicked is the left that the right might use video and take it out of context?
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This is so delicious that I just want to watch TV until Tucker produces what I know will be enjoyable.
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I don't know if it'll be an accurate picture of what happened.
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Because I just want to see the left squirming because the right has video that can be taken out of context.
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Anybody who had this video is going to put together the narrative that they think their audience wants to see.
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Turns out those January 6th hearings were really accurate.
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At the very least, there are going to be suspicious people doing suspicious things who may or may not be law enforcement or FBI.
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You know you're going to see that, even if they're not actually law enforcement and not FBI.
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But we'll definitely get closer to an enjoyable and entertaining outcome.
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So the way I tweeted it sarcastically, I said, one of the dangers of letting Tucker Carlson have the 41,000 hours of January 6th videos is that it might rewrite history to something vaguely accurate.
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At the moment, history thinks Republicans stage insurrections by trespassing in some rooms.
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You know, LOL kind of went into, you know, disrespect and disuse, got overused.
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I guess next week we'll know something about that.
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In a totally unrelated story that has nothing to do with anything we've talked to so far,
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Christiane Amanpour was interviewing some former NATO commander.
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And he said that Russia are using narratives that are very much different from reality.
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And said they feed their population with propaganda.
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And that's why it's so difficult to talk to them on any issues today.
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Well, I'm sure glad nothing like that happens in America.
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I feel sorry for these poor Russian bastards that have to put up with distorted news.
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Their government telling them things that are not true.
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Oh, my God, what a hellscape it must be over there.
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Can we rescue them from the propaganda narrative they're suffering under?
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We've figured it down how not to have any propaganda over here.
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I can't believe anybody can say that sort of thing, like, with a straight face.
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Those Russians, they're the ones who are doing it.
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All right, the wildest idea that I've heard in a long time is starting to give some traction.
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Somebody on Twitter tweeted last week, I think,
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that the American administration should authorize letters of mark.
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I think it was at only Great Britain did America do it too.
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But during the early days, when pirates existed, the pirate powers were, you know, almost as big as the naval powers.
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And so you could hire pirates to attack military ships of the other side.
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And a letter of mark was the authorization from a government that they could go ahead and attack these enemy vessels from another country.
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So in other words, Great Britain would say to a pirate, hey, you pirate, here's a letter authorizing you to attack the French ship and keep whatever you want.
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And so the suggestion was that letters of mark could be issued for the cartels.
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And my first reaction to that was, ooh, maybe that's too far.
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My second reaction after seeing a military person say he would be happy to organize it if there were letters of marks,
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and there are plenty of Americans with military training who would go there tomorrow.
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You know, obviously it would be better if they had better weapons.
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But I don't think there's any shortage of volunteers.
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I think the volunteers would exist in large quantities.
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Because, you know, the first thing we would do is use special forces and, you know, do it a proper military way.
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But I can imagine, I can imagine a situation where the bureaucracy doesn't let us do what we want to do.
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And so Trump just signs an executive order that says, we're not going to prosecute you if you go to Mexico and start killing cartel people.
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I mean, that would be effectively a letter of mark.
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Because if we said, you know, we will not punish you for this, that's effectively the same as a letter of mark, isn't it?
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We can even say you can keep whatever you can steal from the cartels.
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Imagine telling the mercenaries, by the way, whatever you steal from the cartels, bring it back.
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We'll actually, you know, we'll actually make it legal.
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If you find tubs of money, just bring it back and we won't even tax it.
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Now, I don't think any of this is going to happen.
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But if you're having a conversation about letters of mark, what's that say about your government?
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I'm not just, like, throwing it down because it's, like, a fun thought.
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But if we're not talking options, we're not really serious.
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So, the fact that that's actually being discussed as a serious option, and it is, makes it easier for a, let's say, proper special forces military operation.
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Because it's increasing the envelope of, let's say, imagination.
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If you can imagine that the pirates are going to have to solve this problem, it's easier to imagine that we should just use, you know, our legitimate existing systems to do it instead.
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Well, there's not much else happening today, so we're going to keep it simple.
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I don't know the details of the following thing I'm going to say, but I saw something from investigative reporter George Webb
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about the board members of Project Veritas, and I only quickly scanned what was going by, so I don't think I got it completely right.
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But is somebody making the case that the board members are big pharma, and that they effectively found a way to take over Project Veritas and kill it?
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So the claim is that current board members of Project Veritas, I'm not saying this is true.
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The claim is that the existing members have monetary ties, recent past and maybe present, I don't know, to the pharma industry via some consulting firm that does business with them.
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Because I saw somebody tweet that one of the board members has pronouns in their profile.
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Is it possible that a current board member of Project Veritas has pronouns in his profile?
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I mean, that would be a sort of flag that a mole got into the system.
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But I don't believe I can believe anything that comes out of either side on that story.
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Well, if that's true, it might be exactly what it looks like.
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But I wouldn't rule out that there's more to the story than we know.
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But there doesn't seem to be evidence that Project Veritas wants to do what it used to do.
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But, you know, don't you imagine that they've got some kind of case?
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It sounds like maybe they don't, but who knows?
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I think James O'Keefe is already probably going to start Project Veritas too,
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which looks like it would work because I think he's done a good job of, you know,
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Speaking of cash cows, I saw a story that said that mega church pastor Joel Osteen
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paid himself $54 million in salary in a year, one year, $54 million from church profits.
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I don't know how anybody gives money to a mega church.
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So if people want to give them, people want to give their money.
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And if they know what he's doing, it looks like there's some transparency there.
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Somebody says that he's a known fraud, but that's not in evidence.
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What's in evidence is he says things that people want to hear,
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so much so that they give him massive amounts of money,
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So all I see is that he produces a product that people really, really want.
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Now, if they're okay with him keeping $54 million,
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So if I present it as a fact, I think that's overstating it.
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Any other topics besides Black Rock Owns the Earth?
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Yes, Trump is also speaking out against the military-industrial complex,
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But, you know, it's the military-industrial complex that creates all this hoax.
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Let me tell you what I would do if I were Trump
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that shows you how all the hoaxes against him were created.
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And make sure that there's a tight little package
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that everybody who thinks those things are true,
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and it's just like a two-minute package or something.
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Well, there's an opinion piece that makes that case.
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I don't think anybody thinks that they worked on a population level.
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Raoul Dahl, they're taking out his provocative, old-timey things.
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is that the people who own the IP are doing it,
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You know, that the people who inherited that work
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You know, maybe have something to complain about
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So the way you should have asked the question is,