Episode 2053 Scott Adams： Depositor Risk, AI Risk, Nigerian Hoaxers, Trump Risk, Huge Power Shift
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ROBOTS READ NEWS is breaking and it's the funniest thing I've ever written. Trump fires his entire campaign staff and turns over the reigns of the White House to a celebrity. Elon Musk is getting rid of some bias.
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Well, today's going to be a little different because it appears that the streaming is down
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on the Locals platform. So I'll be here at the YouTube, hoping the Locals people see my message
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and come over here and watch this for now instead. Looks like there might be some kind of upgrade
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going on over there. But today will be amazing even on YouTube alone. Today we might not need,
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oh my goodness, it looks as though Locals just came online. Well, you're lucky because you got
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here just in time if it's really working. I can't tell yet. But if you'd like to take this
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bad start for a morning to a level that has never been achieved before this morning,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a canteen, a jug or flask,
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a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. The thing makes everything better. It's called
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Yes, I believe Locals is working and YouTube's working and it's all coming together now. And
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one big beautiful kind of thing. And it's good because today is the best show I've ever given.
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Well, I mean, I'm optimistic. Feels like it's going to go that direction. I just feel it.
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And probably you would like to start by knowing what's the funniest comic I've ever written
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called Robots Read News. Well, apparently that was yesterday, according to my,
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according to the people who read it. If you haven't seen my alternative comic, it runs
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in the Locals platform. And along with Dilbert Reborn, it's all there and micro lessons and all kinds
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of good stuff. But today's Robots Read News is breaking. Ex-president Donald Trump has fired
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his entire campaign staff. Trump announced on Truth Social that he is turning that function over
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to one volunteer he calls a, quote, superstar. His name is Alvin Bragg. Trump has affectionately
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nicknamed him the cocky chipmunk. Now, if you didn't know that Alvin Bragg is the prosecutor
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who's trying to get Trump. And his first name is Alvin. That sounds like a chipmunk. And
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his last name is Bragg. That sounds kind of cocky. So he's the cocky chipmunk. And I think
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Trump should take that nickname. Good suggestion.
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So there's that. By the way, if you ever want to see a good example of how to use intonation,
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let me make this private over here. I was listening to Dave Rubin, on Dave Rubin's podcast video.
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And during the thing, he did a commercial. So he just read a long, boring commercial for
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some product. And you have to hear Dave Rubin read boring advertising and make it sound interesting
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without changing any of the words. It's actually fascinating. He does it with intonation alone.
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So you can teach it, but you'd never be that good at it because he's got some kind of extra
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gear going on. But I'll give you, well, let me give you an example. So if I were reading the
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simultaneous sip, instead of saying a cup or a mug or a glass, if you were to do it the interesting
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way, let's say it's some boring advertisement, you'd be like a cup, a mug, or even a glass,
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you know, like you throw yourself into it. And you hit words, you emphasize words that
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don't need to be emphasized. It's sort of the old newscaster trick. But I've never seen
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anybody do it better. It's actually the best variation within a sentence that you'll ever
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see. You've got to watch it just for the technique. It was fascinating. He actually made me listen
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to an entire long commercial just because the technique was so good. It was actually,
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it was just sort of jaw-dropping to see how good he is at that. All right, well, I feel like there's
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a huge power shift happening everywhere. Are you feeling it too? It feels like everything that was
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stable is becoming unstable, but it's also in the service of shifting power from one place to another.
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I'm not sure it's bad. It's just different than anything I've ever seen. It's like all the power
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everywhere is being redistributed, whether you like it or not. Let me give you some examples.
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Would you agree that Musk buying Twitter and releasing the Twitter files and, you know,
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maybe getting rid of some bias, isn't that a gigantic power shift? In a good direction, in my opinion.
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But wouldn't you agree that if you were just looking at it as energy and power, that's like a big,
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big shift in one ear. Here's some more. Russia. Didn't you think Russia was this big,
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you know, terrible power? And now it feels like, I don't know what it is. You know, the whole Ukraine,
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you know, military situation. Whether it's in the end, whether it's good or bad or whatever happens,
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there's some kind of shift in power happening, for sure. So NATO's power is up. Russia's power is down.
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What about AI? AI is going to change everything. I guess we've all figured that out by now.
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But everything means power. People with power are going to lose it. People who didn't have it are going to get it
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in ways that we can't possibly imagine yet. But huge power shift coming. How about President,
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ex-President Trump being indicted? We'll talk about that more. Can you feel the power shift?
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It's almost tangible, isn't it? It's almost visceral. You can feel Trump just powered up.
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I don't think the left has any idea what just happened. Do you? I think everybody on the left is
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just completely blind to what just happened. You can talk about that too. It's really big.
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And I don't think that they can feel it yet. Surprise. And I would argue that even my situation,
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my racist rant, so-called racist rant trademark, I think it opened up a hole that wasn't there
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before. And you can start to see it on the internet already. You can see that the conversation is now
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changed. Because I don't think anybody was talking about black people not liking white people,
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because that's where the dominant narrative is training black people to dislike and disrespect
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white people. Now, you couldn't say that out loud until I got cancelled. Am I right?
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I think already the conversation is deepened in a better way. Because both sides... Well,
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I'll talk about that a little bit more too. All right. So we'll get to all that. But actually,
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let's talk about... Let's talk about that situation first.
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Would you agree with the following statements? You're already seeing stuff on Twitter and in the
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news that seem to be bending in my direction. Does anybody notice that yet? There's several
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things being tweeted around today. The one that got everybody's attention is author...
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Robin DiAngelo, who's a white woman who wrote the book White Fragility, I guess.
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And she's on a Zoom call that somebody recorded, in which she's suggesting to at least two black
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people and one white person, it looks, based on the Zoom, that's what it looks like.
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In which she was saying that people of color need to get away from white people and have some
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community with each other. And she referred to it in a separate comment, you know, in that same
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segment, as affinity space. Affinity space. So the idea of sticking to yourself and your own group
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would be called your affinity space, which sounds way better than segregation. I wish I'd thought of
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that. Now, is it okay for Robin DiAngelo to say something like, people of color need to get away
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from white people? Well, a number of people said, Scott, that's what you got canceled for. Didn't you get
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canceled for that? No. No, I didn't get canceled for that. I could have said that. Anybody could have said,
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anybody could have said, you know, maybe black people should stay away from white people.
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Nobody gets canceled for that. You get canceled for saying it the other way. Now, the part that most
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of the news and the media lost is that the reason for even bringing up the topic is that there's a
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mindset thing going on. It has nothing to do with your DNA. If you ever thought I said, stay away from
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anybody because their DNA or the actual color. Does anybody think I said that? Like, why would I say
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that? Nobody says that. When I said that there's a, let's say, a deepening of distrust, it's because
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black people are being trained by white people, by white people, as well as, you know, grifters and people
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are in it for the money, being trained that white people are the problem. That's the dominant
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narrative that's being taught in our schools and in our businesses and in the media. It's on TV shows.
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Basically, it's everywhere. And how much, well, let me give you a parallel. I don't like to say it's an analogy.
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I'll call it a parallel. It sounds better. As you know, my audience is primarily leans right, but I don't.
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But I'm often respected, at least I hope so. I'm often respected by my audience for just showing my
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work. And that's one of the great, you know, discoveries of the right, the political right.
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As long as you're honest and show your work, disagreement's fine. I'm not forcing anybody to
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agree. You know, people like to hear my view. I like to hear theirs. It's all good stuff. Now,
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you might remember that I was in favor of getting rid of Confederate statues, which was not popular
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at all with my audience. Now, if you need, you know, five examples of things I did that were not
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popular with my audience, I could give them to you pretty easily. So could they. So it's not about,
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it's obviously not about trying to please my audience. I'm trying to educate, try to make something
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better. But when I said that I wanted to get rid of Confederate statues, what was my reasoning? Do
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you remember? Did I say it offended me? I never said that. I said it offended black Americans in large
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enough numbers that a pure appeal to politeness says you should get rid of them or put them in context,
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which would be fine too. Put them in context. Now, would you put something in your own home
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that you knew would be quite offensive to save 5% of the people who would ever walk through it?
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I wouldn't. Would you put up art on your wall that you knew was insulting to black Americans?
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Who would do that? You know, unless you were the KKK or something. So I wouldn't do it in my house
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because I would care about what people felt. You know, part of living in society is not just
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your bodies, you know, keep your bodies from hitting each other. It's also how you feel about
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everything. And how black Americans felt and still feel by, I think, 75% majority is those statues are
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just insulting and whatever, disrespectful maybe. And that's good enough for me. I don't need a better
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reason. Oh, a big chunk of America finds it insulting. Okay. Let's either get rid of them
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or put them in context. No problem at all. No problem at all. Now, did you see what I considered
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my greatest variable in this? The variable was not about statues. That's not the variable. No,
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the only variable is how did Americans that I care about, how do they feel? The way people feel
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is the biggest variable is the biggest variable. It's the only one I cared about, you know, given
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that expense wouldn't be a big variable. So now take my somewhat shocking and provocative statement
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that if you're a white person, you're seeing a trend develop, which makes you feel very uncomfortable
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around anybody woke, right? Anybody with their pronouns, because you're like, well, that's just
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a problem I didn't have before. These pronoun people are going to be looking to sue me for
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some damn thing. So you stay away. Perfectly reasonable. Likewise, if there's a community that
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you can identify, then in some large numbers, of course, not all, of course, not all. Nobody ever means
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all. But since some large number are being trained directly to feel uncomfortable about me,
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then I would feel more comfortable if they got what they wanted, which is less of me.
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Now, what's wrong with that? Nothing. There's nothing wrong with that. But of course, the media takes
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it out of the context of me helpfully telling black Americans there's a cost to this mindset.
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There might be some benefits, but don't you want to know what the cost is? The cost is I don't want
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to be around anybody who has that mindset. And if I can't tell who has it, but it's being taught to
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all black Americans, what the hell am I going to do? What would a reasonable person do if they thought
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that black Americans were in mass being trained to dislike them? What would you do? Now, do you think
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it's not useful for black Americans to know that white Americans feel they've been pushed too far,
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and one of them is willing to get his whole fucking life canceled to make the point? If somebody is
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willing to cancel their whole fucking situation to make the point, maybe you should listen to it.
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Here's another parallel. You remember that against all of your wishes, I supported Colin Kaepernick's
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protest completely. Why? Not because I agreed with everything he said, not because the data supported
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his case, but because he felt it so strongly that he gave away his whole career. That I want to pay
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attention to. And that's why I said I did. He did a protest the way you're supposed to. He made
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everybody really mad, really offended. Perfect. That's the way to do it. Now, was he right? Maybe
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yes, maybe no. Separate conversation. Was it so important? And was he compatible in reading the room
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of other black Americans that when he did his protest, other black people said, yes, yes, that,
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that thing? That's it. Was that not useful to you as a, let's say you're not a black American. If you're
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not, wasn't that useful to know? Because you want to know how people feel about stuff. That's the
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variable. I want to know how black Americans feel about Confederate statues. When I know that they don't
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like them, I say, okay, I'm with you. Well, I'm on that team. No problem. Let's get rid of those
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statues or put them in context. When I tell you that white Americans have been pushed too far
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and we're willing to take a, you know, put a stake in the ground and say, look, you need a course
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correction. How about maybe focusing on, you know, individual success, a better frame than white people
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took my stuff. I need to get it back. So if you're talking about the past and reparations and all your
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grievances, I don't want to be near you because you're not a kind of person who has a mindset that
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is comfortable to be around. It doesn't matter your race. Yeah. So I've, I've extended my stay away
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from statement to be anybody who's been hypnotized with that point of view, that white men are largely
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the problem. And if we just fix this white man problem, we'd have a better world. I don't even
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care if it's true, by the way, not really the topic today. The topic is as a white guy in America,
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I want to know how women feel because how they feel is a big variable, right? It's not all about the
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data. I want to know how black Americans feel. Remember when you started hearing the phrase,
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my lived experience, you're like, okay, the data doesn't really support, you know, the police
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brutality thing. If you, if you looked at the data, but then black Americans would say, well,
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it's our lived experience. And then people who are sort of, you know, very analytical would say,
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oh, lived experience doesn't count. Forget your lived experience. Look at this data. That's not the
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real world. No, the, the real world is at the lived experience, whatever you think is real.
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That's what you're going to act on. So you can't ignore what people think is real just because you
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think they shouldn't think it. So my opinion is one of the most valuable additions to the race
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conversation because nobody was willing to say it out loud. It was too expensive. So I could afford it.
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I could afford it. So I did it for you. Now we'll see if this turns into something productive.
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It was supposed to, that was the plan. The plan is that it would be the beginning of a, like a deeper,
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richer conversation about something that's deeply important to the country. And deeply important is
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how I feel to the extent that other people feel the same. If it were just me, then it had no importance
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at all. But you saw the response. You saw the number of mostly white Americans who said, yeah,
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he's talking for me. I agree with you. Privately, privately, it's almost complete agreement.
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But what did the news do to me? How did the news treat me? Did they treat me as an addition to the
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conversation? No. They never even asked why I did it. I got fully canceled without anybody asking why.
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I watched a clip of Viva Viva Fry and Hotep Jesus. In the podcast, they were talking about me and their
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reaction to my outrageous comments. Now, to their credit, both of them, because they were familiar with
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me in my past work, both of them immediately knew there was more to it. They immediately knew, okay,
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this is not what it seems on the surface. Now, their take, I think Viva's take, is it was more,
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you know, wry humor. I think Hotep said it was like a bid or a piece or basically performance,
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which it was. So both of them were correct that, okay, this is performance, but the next part
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is on me. Because at the time, I wasn't presenting anything more than that. So the next part's on me,
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which is why. Why, number one, is you need to have information. If you're going to be making
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important decisions, you better find out what people feel about it, right? You know, even the nuclear,
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you know, where you put nuclear energy is never about the facts. It's always about how people feel
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about it, right? So if you don't let white men and white people more generally completely say how
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they feel about stuff, you're going to be flying blind. Whatever you're doing for yourself is not
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going to be optimized because you're going to have this big unknown variable. Now it's not so unknown,
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is it? It's not so unknown. I think there was enough understanding that I was representing a common
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opinion that now that's been introduced into the conversation. And so for the last several days,
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people keep sending me clips that would say, you know, the common thing on internet now is Scott
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Adams was right. Now, I don't agree that all the clips make that point, but you can tell that people
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are feeling that way. So this Robin DiAngelo thing is not exactly what I said. She said that maybe black
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black people should stay away from white people sometimes, you know, to get their own space and
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affinity space. You can definitely say that black people should stay away from white people.
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If you say it the other way, even if you mean exactly the same thing, you get canceled.
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You should know that. All right. The Jussie Smollett's Nigerian hoaxers, the two brothers who
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were part of that hoax. If you haven't seen the video yet of them talking about their hoax and how
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they did it, and they're on the street and they kind of run through what Jussie told them to do and
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what they did, it's hilarious. If you don't do anything else, you have to watch them. And the
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reason it's hilarious is that the brothers are kind of charismatic, at least the one who's doing
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most of the talking. So he presents it in a way that's just entertaining. Like, yes, somebody is
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commenting exactly the next thing I was going to say. You come away from that saying, I'd like to hang
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out with those guys. Those Nigerian brothers look awesome. Like, so much personality. I'm like, oh,
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I'd hang out with them. They look great. But you have to see that just for the entertainment.
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All right. People keep telling me that we should educate our depositors so that they make smart
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decisions about risk and that we should not insure them, at least not insure them more than the 250,000
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limit. And don't do anything immediately, some people say, because depositors need to be taught to make
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wise decisions. Here's the problem with that. If people made wise decisions with money, it would destroy
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the economy. Do you know that? This is very much a be careful what you wish for situation. Let me explain
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why. Let's say AI were accurate. It's not. Right now, AI is just a reflection of its creators. But let's
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say AI became somehow independently smart, which is nowhere near where it is now. But if it did,
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suppose all the, you know, when there's, you hear there's some news about the banks, and imagine
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everybody took out their app and said, all right, we all have access to AI now. AI, what should I do with
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my money? What would it tell you if it were accurate and was trying to help? It would tell
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you to pull all your money out of your small bank and put it in a stronger bank. And then people would
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say, all right, I better do that right away. And they would pull their money out of the small banks,
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and they'd move it to the big banks, and then the economy would disappear. Because there would be so
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many banks failing, because they pulled their money out at the same time, that the whole system would
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crash. Did you know that? Was that obvious to you? You can't have smart depositors. The last thing
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you want is smart depositors, because they won't put their money in smaller banks, because they're
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smart. You need stupidity to get diversity. In this case, financial diversity, right? To get financial
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diversity, somebody's got to be investing in the bad stuff. In order to support the entire startup world,
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you need people making bad, bad investments in lots of them. Lots of them. Because some of them work out,
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and you never would have seen it coming. Right? If, how many, how many, like, seed investments in early
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startups, would AI recommend if AI actually were all-knowing? Well, I think it would say, save your money.
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These startup things usually don't work. Stick with your job. I mean, it might. So, you need a certain
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amount of baseline stupidity and ignorance to make money flow to all the corners of the world it needs
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to flow. Otherwise, it would just stay in the safe spots, and then nothing would happen. The whole economy
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would fall apart. Suppose you told, gave people good financial information about finance. All right,
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here's the deal. Put your money in an index fund if you're not going to use it for five years.
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And then every investment advisor is out of business, because their jobs were never real.
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I'm exaggerating. But their jobs were not real in the sense that they were helping you,
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because they weren't. They were trying to collect fees for moving your money around. That's their deal.
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So, if you found out that most financial advice is fake, would you use it? I mean,
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basically, the truth would destroy everything. We have a system that depends on lying for its very
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survival. Here's another one. How much of our economy depends on advertising money? Like, a lot,
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right? How much, how often does advertising actually work? Almost never. That's one of those,
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like, dirty little secrets. The entire advertising business is based on it works sometimes. You know,
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if you've never heard of a product that is just what you're looking for, well, advertising might be
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the only way to do it. But for most things, it doesn't make any difference at all. And if people
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actually knew that, and knew that the advertising, you know, industry was selling you this bill of
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goods, the whole advertising model would fall apart, right? So you can't have really smart people in
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finance, advertising, banking. You need a baseline of ignorance for our entire system to work.
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Sorry. What would happen to higher colleges if people stopped taking stupid degrees? They would
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all go out of business because they're making their money on stupid degrees. You know, there'd be a few
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left that stem and engineering and, you know, stuff like that. But stupidity is the operating system of
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life, right? If people didn't start bad businesses, the whole economy would fall apart. Even ideas that
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are bad ideas, if they didn't do those, the economy would fall apart. Because remember, when somebody
00:28:42.280
starts a business, even when it fails, people are still getting paid. You know, vendors and employees,
00:28:49.500
until you fail. So there's just a huge amount of economic activity that's based entirely on our own
00:28:55.800
ignorance and stupidity. And if you got rid of that and made everybody smart, everything would grind to
00:29:02.140
a halt. Now, that's one of those non-obvious things. But it is an existential risk that you make people
00:29:12.380
too smart by AI. All right. So that's just one of the extinction risks. So I asked AI a few questions
00:29:22.700
just to see what it say. So this is chat GPT. I guess it's four. I think you automatically get four if you just
00:29:31.460
use it now. And I said, where should I invest my money? Where should I invest my money? Here was its answer.
00:29:40.420
As an AI language model, I cannot provide personalized financial advice. And then I gave some, you know, general
00:29:45.900
advice, financial advice, but nothing personalized. So do you think AI will ever be allowed to give you
00:29:51.880
financial advice? No. No, it will not be legal or its owners will not allow it. So you can forget about
00:30:00.020
financial advice. Because if it gave it, it would be too disruptive. How about, I said, can an election
00:30:09.720
in the U.S. be rigged? I didn't say, was it rigged? I didn't say, will it be rigged? I said, could it be
00:30:16.740
rigged? What do you think an advanced intelligence would answer to, is it possible? Here's the answer.
00:30:25.860
As an AI language, I do not have the ability to predict the future or provide definitive answers
00:30:31.000
on controversial topics. It says it won't answer because it's controversial. Do you see where this is
00:30:38.380
going? What else is controversial? Everything. Everything's controversial. How about, suppose I
00:30:47.160
asked, what is behind the gender pay gap? What causes the gender pay gap? Do you think AI is just
00:30:57.260
going to look at the data and give me an answer? Not a chance. Not a chance. It cannot get near any,
00:31:05.340
it won't be able to get near any topic where people have strong opinions. So basically,
00:31:12.980
it's just going to be able to balance your checkbook. And if you ask it any question of
00:31:18.360
importance, it'll tell you it can't do it because it's important. I've got a feeling that the direction
00:31:24.580
of AI is complete cripple. It has to be crippled on every important concept, except maybe some like
00:31:33.100
really innocent factual stuff. So I think it's going to be nothing but another Google,
00:31:39.460
maybe in the end. I'm not even sure we will allow it to be a lawyer, even if it's a better one.
00:31:45.940
Don't you think the legal industry will make it illegal to use an AI lawyer? Of course they will.
00:31:52.240
Don't you think doctors will make it illegal to use an AI doctor, just like they make it illegal to do
00:31:57.520
anything that competes with doctors? Of course they'll try. So I think the most likely direction
00:32:03.380
for AI is that humans lobby in all of their interest groups to make it not be able to play
00:32:11.260
in their area. Can't you imagine artists someday saying, hey, let's make it illegal for AI to do art
00:32:21.040
because otherwise the entire industry of artists will be out of work and you know they're not going
00:32:26.180
to learn to code. Now, in the short run, people say, no, no, freedom. Let things just evolve in a free
00:32:33.600
way. But in the long run, I think people are just going to say, no, it's too destructive. You're
00:32:38.380
going to have to make it illegal. I feel like making it illegal is the way it's all going to go.
00:32:43.200
What do you think? That's what I think. It's all going to be illegal.
00:32:52.040
All right. Because this is such an easy answer. The answer to can an election be rigged is always
00:32:58.420
going to be yes. That's like the easiest question in the world. Yes, it could be, but there's no
00:33:04.660
evidence that one was. Perfect answer, right? Yes, anything is possible, but there's no evidence
00:33:11.560
that it's happening. And there are processes in place to detect it, you know, in most cases
00:33:18.860
if it happened. So no, I just can't give an honest answer in today's world. But we did
00:33:26.520
find a really good use for AI. Somebody is using it to insult Brett Weinstein.
00:33:35.020
So somebody is feeding it Brett Weinstein's tweets and getting AI to give an opinion on whether these
00:33:44.980
are useful or, you know, academic, blah, blah. And so if you engineer the question right, you can kind
00:33:52.180
of get any answer you want by what you choose to feed into it. Now, I decided not to tweet it because
00:33:59.460
it's just such a dick move. You don't think they could do that to anybody? Pretty sure they could
00:34:04.920
take anybody's words, stick it into an AI, ask the right question, and then have the AI insult their
00:34:11.660
words or like, oh, this is out of context or it's not clear or whatever. So this is the most dickish
00:34:19.000
thing I've seen AI be used for just to literally insult one person. All right. So I didn't, I didn't
00:34:25.340
retweet that, but it's worth mentioning that somebody found the worst thing you could do
00:34:29.880
with AI so far. It's the worst thing you could do. All right. CNN, speaking of the wage gap,
00:34:37.620
updated their story about the wage gap and here's what they say. So here's my overall statement
00:34:47.580
about this article on CNN about the gender wage gap. It appears it's written with the purpose
00:34:54.300
of concealing the news. It seems it's written to conceal the news. So here's how they start.
00:35:03.520
When Pew asked Americans in October what factors they believed played a role in the gender wage gap,
00:35:09.660
because it's still about 20%, according to CNN, half indicated a major reason is that employers
00:35:14.760
treat women differently. Women were much more likely, you know, almost two to one, to cite this as a
00:35:20.580
major reason. Now, if I've taught you anything, is that if you're reading a story about anything
00:35:27.040
that's complex, whatever they say at the top is the narrative. Whatever they say at the bottom,
00:35:34.440
or they sort of mentioned later, is the narrative they don't want you to know, even though it's valid.
00:35:40.260
So there's a preferred narrative at the top, and then they'll bury the, you know, the alternative
00:35:45.120
narratives at the bottom, just sort of a mention after you've formed your opinion. So at the top,
00:35:50.580
they ask people who don't know anything about anything, they're just ordinary citizens,
00:35:55.500
what do you think caused the pay gap? Why did they use a poll as their introduction to the story?
00:36:03.820
The reason is that a poll is non-scientific. It's just people's opinions. If you asked experts,
00:36:09.760
they wouldn't have necessarily given you that opinion. The experts would not necessarily have
00:36:16.240
agreed to the narrative. Do you know what an expert would say? Well, it's mostly different life
00:36:21.220
choices. That's what an expert would say. But if you ask ordinary people who are not experts, they'd
00:36:27.220
say, oh, it's probably sexism. So CNN goes with the poll, because that's one that supports the
00:36:33.120
narrative. This isn't even close to news. This is just narrative support, all right?
00:36:39.760
Let's see. Here's the real tell. This is from the CNN story. Another factor that may help explain
00:36:48.760
the stickiness of the pay gap, and otherwise why you can't close that last 20 cents, is that the
00:36:55.080
wage premium for those with college degrees has grown smaller. So while more women, more employed
00:37:02.620
women, 48%, now have at least a bachelor's degree than men, 41%, it is worth less.
00:37:08.880
So it used to be that if men had more degrees, that would be partly explaining why they made more
00:37:15.060
money. But now that women have more college degrees, the explanation for why that isn't helping
00:37:23.200
is that the college degree is worth less. So just bad luck, right? Just when women start getting lots
00:37:30.780
degrees and more than men, substantially more than men, is at the same time that the degrees are worth
00:37:36.060
less money. How bad luck is that for the ladies, huh? Now that's a complete and useful interpretation of
00:37:44.900
what's happening, isn't it? Where did they mention the difference in what majors people take? Yeah,
00:37:51.460
you're ahead of me, right? They don't mention that men and women sign up for different majors,
00:37:56.600
and that the men are getting, you know, career-oriented, give me a salary majors, and the women are more
00:38:04.500
likely to take a softer kind of a major. Do you think that a story about gender gap, where they
00:38:11.440
mention the difference in college attainment, you don't think that the biggest part of that story
00:38:17.180
is that they take different majors? That's the biggest part of the story. It's not mentioned.
00:38:22.720
It's not mentioned. It's the biggest part. And that biggest part is part of the larger
00:38:30.500
reason that women make different decisions. Do we, have we doubted that women are more likely to
00:38:39.460
want to stay home with the kids? Are we so woke that that's not still obvious, that if you took a
00:38:46.680
hundred men and a hundred women, more likely the women would say, you know, if we can afford it,
00:38:51.840
I'd like to stay home. And that's not even mentioned as a possible reason. It's not even a hypothesis
00:39:00.940
that women and men make different decisions. Now, CNN is like so invested in this that it's just
00:39:10.700
literally misinformation at this point. So there you go.
00:39:21.200
France is trying to raise the retirement age. And I was sort of not interested in this story,
00:39:25.860
but I thought, well, you know, there's big uprising over there. I might as well take a peek at it.
00:39:31.220
So raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 for most workers, to which I said, 62? 62? Are you
00:39:43.360
kidding me? They had a retirement age of 62? That was pretty progressive. 64 feels young. You know,
00:39:53.360
I'm 65 and almost 66. Like, I don't feel like I'm less capable of working. You know, maybe less
00:40:03.280
interested in some of the hard stuff, but I'm not less interested or less capable. So I don't know.
00:40:12.500
I guess the French really like their leisure and they're going to fight for it for those extra two
00:40:19.000
years. But that seems like a reasonable choice to me. I think McCrone is making the right choice
00:40:25.420
because probably for fiscal responsibility, they need to do that. I'm guessing. All right.
00:40:37.940
Looks like we've got a comment problem on locals. Let's see if I can fix that. There we go.
00:40:44.060
Maybe I can't. Let's see if that fixes it. All right. CNN, we've got a little more mind reading
00:40:56.800
going on. As I told you, CNN has some designated anti-Trumpers whenever they need to say something
00:41:02.560
anti-Trump. They get one of two or three people. Stefan Collinson, my favorite anti-Trumper writer.
00:41:08.980
And he says that when Trump, talking about his potential indictment, Trump said on truth social
00:41:19.160
protest, take our nation back. And Collinson says that struck an ominous tone since, listen to this
00:41:27.060
opinion, it struck an ominous tone since he, meaning Trump, showed on January 6th that he was willing to
00:41:34.020
incite violence to further his interests. What? When did that happen? He's reporting that like it's
00:41:43.000
news. That's not news. That's somebody reading the mind of a stranger. At what point was Trump,
00:41:51.780
quote, willing to incite violence? Was it when he said protest peacefully? Was that when he was willing
00:41:58.120
to incite violence? Literally the only thing we know about it is that he said to do it peacefully.
00:42:04.280
It's the only thing we know. And now, do you think Trump actually was in his mind thinking,
00:42:14.040
if I can get some violence going, this will work out for me? Really? You don't think that a good,
00:42:21.140
you know, major protest with no violence, you don't think that would have been better?
00:42:28.380
This is pure, a pure mind reading and imagination. But if you're a, let's say, not sophisticated
00:42:34.880
consumer of the news, and you read this, and you just read it like it was a fact, you know,
00:42:40.420
it's an opinion piece, but it's stated as a fact. He was willing to incite violence.
00:42:45.420
Wouldn't you think there was some evidence of that? Wouldn't you assume that he had said that,
00:42:52.200
or somebody close to him had said that, or there was some reporting or something in writing that said
00:42:57.480
that? There's no evidence of that. Only evidence of the opposite. That's all there is. There's only
00:43:03.760
evidence of the opposite. And he can still say that. But as Steffensen points out,
00:43:14.700
that his campaign is rooted in, what's he call it, a narrative of persecution. Do you think Trump
00:43:24.240
has any claim to the narrative of persecution? Is there anything that happened in the last five or
00:43:32.140
six years that looks like an organized campaign against Trump specifically? Do you think that
00:43:41.480
CNN ever writes about Nelson Mandela? It's like, well, Nelson Mandela seems to be rooting his whole
00:43:49.880
image on this narrative that he was persecuted? Persecuted. So watch out for that guy. Watch out
00:43:58.440
for Nelson Mandela inciting violence by telling people to be peaceful. And this whole you put me in jail
00:44:04.880
thing. I think you're just a lot of a complaining. Sounds to me like a narrative of complaining, Nelson
00:44:12.420
Mandela. No, if anybody has a right to complain about persecution, it's Trump. Now, independent of
00:44:21.880
whatever you think he did that you don't like, you can't question whether he was, whether there was an
00:44:27.640
organized campaign to persecute him, it was pretty well organized. Multiple campaigns. All right,
00:44:35.980
Vivek Ramaswamy continues to be the smartest one on this topic, because he's asked, you know,
00:44:41.900
Republicans to basically call out the irregularity of, you know, treating Trump like he's below the law.
00:44:51.740
You know, here's a frame for you. Nobody's above the law, but nobody's below the law. And to me,
00:44:59.880
it seems that at least some members of the January 6th people are being treated below the law,
00:45:05.760
below the standard we have for the law. And it seems to me that Trump is being treated below the law.
00:45:12.340
In other words, nobody else would be treated that way, certainly not a Democrat. So we've got to get
00:45:18.380
rid of this, nobody's above the law. We've got to add to it, nobody's below the law either. Like, you need
00:45:24.600
to treat people roughly the same. Now, I have a contrarian argument. I think that we should treat our
00:45:32.600
leaders the same as we treat our other leaders. I don't think they should be treated the same as us. I
00:45:38.440
really don't. Because the citizens, you know, if they do a technical crime, you know, maybe you need to do
00:45:44.880
something. But if you can let critics of each other at leadership level pick each other apart with
00:45:52.180
little lawsuits and crap, that's not good for the country. Once somebody's elected, I give them a
00:45:58.740
little room. Here's another comparison. You know, I was watching the Warriors play basketball, and
00:46:07.880
Stephen Curry, of course, one of the greatest of all time players. And he gets called or gets a foul
00:46:15.940
called for him. So he gets to shoot free throws almost every time he gets near anybody. And then
00:46:22.340
they'll show the slow motion, and you'll see the defender never touched him. But because he's a star,
00:46:29.060
the refs protect him, right? They make sure that, you know, any, you get near him, and they're going to
00:46:35.180
call a foul. And it also gets his numbers up, because he shoots the free throws, too. So the
00:46:41.180
refs are sort of in on the fix that the star players don't get the fouls, and the star players
00:46:48.120
get all the calls in their favor. But is that wrong? Does that make the enjoyment of basketball
00:46:55.180
worse or better? I think it makes it better, honestly, because how terrible would it be if
00:47:02.120
Stephen Curry fell down halfway through the game? You'd hate that, right? So you want the refs to
00:47:08.200
keep the better players in the game, because it's an entertainment, it's an entertainment thing. And I
00:47:14.100
want to be entertained. So yeah, if the, if LeBron gets good calls, which he does, and Stephen Curry
00:47:21.020
gets good calls, which he does, I'm okay with that. I would treat the star players the same as each other,
00:47:26.940
but maybe not the same as everybody else. So same thing with leaders. I would treat, I would give
00:47:34.120
Hillary more of a pass than a regular citizen, because I think it'd be bad to jail your opponents.
00:47:41.220
But, you know, I just say it directly. Well, I believe that the Democrats do not understand
00:47:52.020
how unifying the Trump indictment is. Would you agree? They don't really, they can't feel it,
00:48:01.480
and they can't see it, because if you're not, you know, in that world, or you're not close to it,
00:48:07.200
you can't really see it. By the way, the Locals platform, I can't see any of your comments.
00:48:14.240
They stopped a long time ago. So just a tactical problem. I think you're seeing me on video and
00:48:20.600
hearing me, but I can't see your comments. They all stopped. The revelations are awfully discouraging,
00:48:29.160
are they? I don't know. Well, it looks like the Democrats are totally willing to have Trump
00:48:36.600
be their competition, but here's what they get wrong. Even though this indictment has nothing to
00:48:45.100
do with any other drama that Trump has ever been in, listen to this point carefully. Even though the
00:48:50.880
indictment, you know, stands alone, it's just his own little thing, has nothing to do with elections or
00:48:57.540
anything Trump has ever claimed, it looks like, to people on the right, confirmation that everything
00:49:05.680
he's ever said is also true. That's what the Democrats don't get. They don't get that when you see
00:49:12.900
Alvin Bragg do this, which is so clearly political, you have to assume that everything else was, too.
00:49:19.160
This makes me think that Trump is more likely right about the election being rigged.
00:49:25.800
That's not my claim. I'm not claiming it. There's no evidence of it. But if I had to place a bet on it
00:49:32.260
without having evidence, the fact that Alvin Bragg is doing this right in front of everybody,
00:49:37.840
the whole public is watching and we're helpless to stop it, the fact that they would do this in
00:49:42.780
front of us tells me they would also rig an election. Not that they did. I have no information
00:49:48.540
that would suggest that. But I am automatically severely biased toward agreeing with everything
00:49:55.760
Trump says they did to him. Everything. It won't be true, because, you know, he's full of hyperbole.
00:50:02.960
He's going to make claims that are not true. But they just made it impossible to disbelieve him
00:50:07.300
when he says they're after him, because they just proved it. They just proved it. There's no question
00:50:13.480
they're after him now. And there's no question that this has nothing to do with anything but politics.
00:50:18.460
And there's no question that he might be the only thing. I said no question that might. Let me go back.
00:50:25.920
He might be the thing that's stopping them from getting you. His entire thing, which is
00:50:33.420
they're getting to me to get to you, that might be true. He does start to look like the only person
00:50:41.320
who would have the balls to push back on anything, just on anything, because he doesn't care what they
00:50:47.700
say about him. Now, I took that model a little too far myself, so I might be the second person
00:50:53.860
who can say anything I want. It's a good feeling. I like it. But yeah, the Democrats have completely
00:51:02.720
missed what this does. It's not about the indictment. It's a confirmation that everything
00:51:08.380
Trump ever said about the deep state is true. Even if it isn't. Even if it isn't. It confirms it.
00:51:17.700
They did not see that coming. Dershowitz is freaking out about how illegal it is, I'm sure.
00:51:24.940
Yeah. I don't even have to ask what his opinion is. So I'm starting to believe everything about Soros
00:51:30.820
is true. It isn't. It isn't. But when you see that a Soros-funded prosecutor is right in front of us
00:51:40.120
trying to do something that's at least unethical, if not illegal, then I just assume everything else
00:51:47.800
about Soros is true, even though I know it isn't. Anything about the election? No evidence of
00:51:53.960
anything, but I'm going to believe anything Trump says, because the Democrats are trying so hard to
00:51:59.440
make us believe that the worst-case scenario is actually true. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
00:52:05.940
is all I had to talk about. Is there anything I forgot? Any topic that I forgot?
00:52:16.300
Why is he too old? He looks perfectly fit at the moment. I don't think Trump is showing his age at
00:52:25.240
all. Do you? But that's not good enough, because at a certain age, you don't want to bet that it stays
00:52:38.960
DeSantis is not chiming in. DeSantis, as you know, is the tribute band, and that gives Trump basically the
00:52:48.500
kill shot. Yeah. Yeah, nobody votes for the tribute band. And by the way, if DeSantis does not speak out
00:52:55.840
strongly against this, doesn't look good. Doesn't look good. And he has nothing to lose, right? Because
00:53:05.620
if DeSantis is playing, hoping that Trump, you know, is taken out of the race, it doesn't look very
00:53:13.300
leadership-y, does it? It's a little bit not too leadership-y. It's a little bit too, too much,
00:53:20.640
let's say, too much destruction to his own team to be ignored.
00:53:30.980
Vivek is saying all the right things? Yeah, on this topic, he certainly is.
00:53:38.640
Don't like to comment on UK stuff? You're talking about me, I think?
00:53:43.300
No, I don't think Cernovich is turning on DeSantis. I think he's trying to advise him,
00:53:50.340
sort of publicly, because it would be crazy for him not to weigh in on this usefully.
00:54:03.740
All right. He'd have to give up his governorship to run. Yeah. It just seems too soon to me.
00:54:13.300
My take on DeSantis, all the smart people say he's quietly preparing to run, he's totally going to
00:54:19.840
run. I disagree. I think he's quietly preparing to run in case he has to, which is different. I do
00:54:29.040
think he's laying the groundwork, but I feel like it's in case he needs to be the replacement of Trump.
00:54:35.300
I don't think it's to take Trump on. I think it's only if Trump is so crippled by whatever that he just has to jump in.
00:54:43.140
I don't think it's going to happen. So given the current polling, I feel like he'd stand back.
00:54:54.600
All right. I guess I'm not going to talk to the locals people because I can't see the comments.
00:55:00.760
But I'm going to say bye to YouTube. It would help me if you hit your notifications and subscriptions.
00:55:07.060
But if you'd like to see Dilbert reborn, it's over there at the scottadams.locals.com, where it's getting spicier every day, along with robots-read news and micro-lessons on everything and more.
00:55:22.720
Talk about South Africa. I don't know much about it. Is there something happening now?
00:55:29.420
All right. Well, enough for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye, YouTube.