Episode 2067 Scott Adams： MTG On 60 Minutes, Keith Olbermann Goes Racist, Bud Light, More
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1 hour and 5 minutes
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139.9997
Summary
A company sells a product that tastes like piss, causes auto accidents and domestic abuse, and has as its main ingredient a slow-acting poison that makes you drive your car off a cliff and beat up your spouse. The real problem is not that the product tastes like crap, it s that it s a slow acting poison that s destroying civilization itself.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization and also a highlight
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of your life so far. Now, no matter how exciting your life has been, it could always be better.
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dopamine. At the end of the day, I think it makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous
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I'd like to add a new sponsor to the show. Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan, come on over here.
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Okay, how many thought he was actually in the room? She, sorry. How many thought that Dylan,
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she was in the room? You believed it for a moment, didn't you? Yeah. For a moment, you thought,
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maybe it's possible. But no, no. And I apologize for the mispronoun, but I insist that in return
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for my trying to use the right pronouns, when possible, that you forgive me when I use the
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wrong ones accidentally. That's got to be the deal. That has to be the deal. I'll do my best.
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All right. Speaking of Dylan Mulvaney, do you think it's true that Dylan is the spokesperson for Budweiser
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Light? Because, as was just pointed out to me, I haven't seen Budweiser say anything about it.
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Do we know for sure if it was April Fool's or real?
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Because there's now, like, there's a boycott effort going on. So some say it's real, but others are saying
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April Fool's. We actually don't know, do we? Isn't that interesting that we don't? Fox is reporting it real,
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somebody says. But would they know? I mean, could they be wrong? So Budweiser, has Budweiser even confirmed
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it? Has anybody seen Budweiser say, yes, this is our new advertising? Bud Light Partners. But I wonder
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if the story was wrong. All right. I'm going to say there's a question mark next to the story,
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but we're going to treat it like it's true. I mean, it's in the news.
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Two signs of the time. Every now and then, I like to give you a signpost or two to tell you where
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you're at in the long arc of human civilization. So here are two signs of the times. Number one,
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a company sells a product that tastes like Clydesdale piss, causes auto accidents and
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domestic abuse, and has as its main ingredient a slow-acting poison. So that's a sign of the
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time, number one. Number two, the public calls for a boycott over their choice of a trans person
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as a brand ambassador, because that's the real problem here. Yeah. The real problem is not that
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the product tastes like piss and makes you drive your car off a cliff and beat up your spouse.
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No, no. It's not a problem that it's a slow-acting poison that's destroying civilization itself.
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The real problem, the real problem is their choice of brand ambassadors.
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Just putting that out there. I have no comments. That's just two things that are true.
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However, when you're going to pick a brand ambassador, there are lots of variables which
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you must consider. Variable one, is this person going to help us sell our product?
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And number two, is there anybody who would not buy your product just because of the way you
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advertised it? And I would say that a very, very bad way to advertise would be to pick something that
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you know will cause some people, maybe a lot of them, to not buy your product. That's like as hard as
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you can fail in the advertising world. And while I'm sure that they would like to show themselves as a woke company,
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I'm not sure they made the best advertising choice. It looked like a social choice, better than a business choice.
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Because I would say the first rule of advertising is don't make an advertisement that says,
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not only will I not buy your product because of that advertisement, but I'm going to organize
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a boycott against you. You cannot fail harder than putting on a commercial that causes social media
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to say, boycott. That's the worst you can do. There's nothing lower below that. Well, maybe put your
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whole company out of business, but you could get there. However, there's one other problem that
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cartoonists are highly qualified to judge. And that is, don't associate a brand ambassador if there
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are too many wordplay opportunities. Yeah. People don't think of that. It's like when you name your
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child. You know, don't name your child something that's easy to make fun of. Am I right? Yeah.
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Yeah. So you have something you have to think about. How will people make fun of it? But as
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ultra mega Laurie says on Twitter, no thanks to Tranheiser Bush. Tranheiser Bush. See, there's your
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first wordplay. They should have seen that coming. They should have, okay. Should have seen it coming.
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Now, this is why they need to hire a cartoonist. They should say, Scott, we're thinking of the
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following, you know, promotional campaign. Do you see any problem with it? And I'd be like,
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okay, so what's your slogan? King of beers. King of beers. I'm seeing a problem here.
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Seeing a problem here already. Because somebody is going to take beers and replace the B with a Q
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because they're assholes and it's going to be the king of, that's no good. So I'd say, no, no. You
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don't want to open up this opportunity for bigotry. And then I'd say, all right, so you want to put the
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face of the new brand investor on the can itself. Somebody's going to say Tran on a can. Somebody's
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going to say Tran on a can. That's what you have to watch for. And sure enough, they are. Now, as a
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cartoonist, I would have seen all of these coming. And I would have, you know, and I would have even
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seen some of the, let's say, darker ones that you've suggested in the comments. Yes, I would have
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thought of those two. I wouldn't mention them. I wouldn't say them. But there we are. And I'm not
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sure that you should call the product Bud because Bud seems like sort of male oriented. I don't know.
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So that's the exciting story there. So John Fetterman's out of the hospital and talking about
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his depression. And apparently he says he's been treated successfully. So his depression
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is either minimized or gone or something. But here's a question I have for you. Correct me
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if I'm wrong. But if somebody is treated for depression and they're a senator, wouldn't you
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want to know if their brain has been modified by an antidepressant? Is that something that the
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public should not be aware of? Because here's my take. It's just purely scientific. This is not based
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on politics. There's no politics in this comment. Wouldn't matter who it was. If I voted for somebody
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who was not on antidepressants, I would say, well, that's who I voted for. You know, they presented
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themselves a certain way. I judged that. And then I voted for it. And then they go on antidepressants.
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In my opinion, that's a personality altering action. And if the personality is a big part
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of what you're voting for, because it's the personality that tells you how they'll act in
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the next situation, right? You don't care what they've done so far. You care what they'll
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do next. That's all you're voting for. You're not voting for the past. And the biggest factor
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on how people will act is how they've acted before. And if the way they've acted before
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has been erased because it's now a new brain, right? The brain plus an important modifying chemical
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is kind of a new brain. And I would say that the history of the old brain is now erased
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because you can't be sure that they would act the same way they would have had they been
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depressed. Now, I don't think it means that they would act worse. Let me be clear about
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that. It could be that having a depressed candidate is way worse than having somebody who's been
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treated for it. It might be way worse. So I'm not saying one is worse or better. I'm saying
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it's such a big, big variable. Yeah, don't worry. We took your senator who's voting on whether we go to
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war or not, and we modified the senator's brain. But don't worry about it. What? Can I have some
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details about how you modified the brain of the person who will vote on the question of whether
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I live or die? Nah, personal. It's personal. Wait, how personal is that? This is the brain that is
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deciding if I live or die, you know, collectively. Ah, it's none of your business. Does anybody else see
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that this is a problem? I feel like that should be disclosed. I feel like if somebody goes on
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a brain-modifying drug, the polling should know. I mean, only for your top politicians. I mean,
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I might care less if it's a mayor of a city or a state legislator or something. But if you're in
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the federal government, you're a senator or a president, yeah, I think we ought to know. If a
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president went on an antidepressant, you don't think that would be news? I mean, useful news,
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news you could act on, news that would change your vote? Maybe. It might make you support them more.
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But it would change your vote for some people. It would change the vote.
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Anyway, here's an update on my mascot. As you know, Keith Olbermann has been my mascot for years,
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and it's been very entertaining, and he's done a great job. If I'm being honest, he's done a great
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job as my mascot. But today, he's been called out for being a racist. They didn't say sexist,
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but I think that's implied. And what he did was he criticized a young woman who was a college
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basketball player, and she did something mocking an opponent on the other team, and he called her
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a black woman for being an idiot. Well, let me tell you, if you criticize a black woman for doing
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something unprofessional or unsportsmanlike, in my mascot's opinion, you will be called a racist.
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You should be called also a sexist, but I think they forgot that part. And so I saw a tweet by
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Ashley Bell. Ashley is, if you go by the profile picture, would be a black male, who said,
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calling a young, educated black woman an idiot for mimicking her opponent is more than unfortunate.
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There's a learning moment for you here if you choose to take it. The media of which you belong
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can help end these stereotypes or push to perpetuate them.
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So there you have it. Using the standard, which I believe is now the standard we all accept,
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if somebody who is black and female does something that you don't like and you call out the activity,
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just the activity, just the mocking part, then you are guilty of being obviously a racist. And I think
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it goes without saying, a horrible sexist. A horrible sexist. And so it saddens me to say this.
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I have to cancel Keith Olbermann as my mascot, because I don't want to be associated with this blatant racism
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and sexism for having one time said that somebody's hand motions were inappropriate.
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If that's not racist, I don't know what is. Can we agree? Would you agree that if somebody makes a hand
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motion that you disagree with, that mocks an opponent and you criticize them, but the person you criticize
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is black? That's racist. That's racist. All right. Let's play by the rules. I don't make the rules. I
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just play by them. So this racist, sexist piece of crap, who used to be my respected mascot. I'm canceling
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him. And so I need a new mascot now. And you know, because it's social media, people act badly.
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And this is terrible. But there's a link to a story about Keith Olbermann being very bad in bed.
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And I'm not claiming it's true. It's just lots of reports. Lots and lots of reports.
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So I have an idea about ending the war in Ukraine.
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If anybody like it. Now, remember, war is often absurd.
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You know, you could trace back the historical reasons why a war started. But once it gets going,
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there's something that's purely absurd about it after a while, isn't there? Like, typically.
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And the Ukraine, Russia thing is probably more absurd than most things. Number one, we don't really
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have a good reason to be fighting. Oh, there's reasons. I could list them. You know, you don't
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need to remind me what they are. I could list them. But they don't feel strong enough, do they?
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Okay? Does anybody else have that feeling? It's like, okay. I get it. I understand what happened.
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I understand why that caused what happened. And then that caused what else happened. I get it.
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But it doesn't feel like a good enough reason. It just feels a little bit absurd. And so I'm going to
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suggest, yeah, you don't have to tell me the reasons. You don't need to remind me of the reasons. I'm
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aware of them. I just feel like, collectively, they're not strong enough. Like, clearly, there was a better
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way to handle this. Would you agree? Would you agree there was a better way to handle it on both sides?
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That either side could have made it go away by acting differently? I think so. Some would say,
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no, you disagree. All right. But whether or not you disagree that it's absurd, I give you my
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solution. Are you ready? So you know, there's been fighting over this Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
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Bakhmut. And the Russians say they control it legally. Well, we're legally in control.
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The Ukrainians say, well, that's nice that you're legally in control. But are you aware that our army
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is still there? Are you aware that our army is still there? And I guess the Ukrainians still control
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some portion of Bakhmut. And the Purgosian, the head of Wagner Group, tried to do a photo shoot,
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you know, photo opportunity, where he was shown raising a flag to show that they controlled it.
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And the Ukrainians mocked them. He said, you're raising a flag over rubble.
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What? You got some rubble? And we're still here, by the way. Not only do you only control some rubble,
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but you didn't even get rid of the Ukrainian army yet. That's hardly a win.
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But here's my suggestion. It looks like Bakhmut is where they're bleeding each other.
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So the Russians are getting, you know, blood of men and supplies and ammunition.
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The Ukrainians are probably suffering in a similar way. I don't know who has more of what,
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it's hard to tell. But here is my suggestion for ending the war in the most humane way. You ready?
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Bakhmut is already thoroughly destroyed. There's just nothing left. It's just rubble.
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They seem to want to both fight over that rubble. The Ukrainians definitely want to control that
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rubble. The Russians, they want that rubble more than anybody. Here's my suggestion.
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Decide the entire war on the battle for Bakhmut. Just decide. All right, we'll do it here. Whoever wins in
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Bakhmut, you get to keep, you know, the parts you've already captured. And we'll just call peace right
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there. If Ukraine wins, we'll take Crimea back. And we'll, you know, all the disputed regions will
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take back. If Russia wins, they get to keep all the regions that they've already conquered. But the
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only place you'll fight is in Bakhmut, because it's already destroyed. It's basically, it's like one
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battlefield that no innocents will be killed. So here's the argument. Unless the way you want to
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win the war is by attacking civilians, which the Russians have done. They've attacked, well,
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they've, they've attacked more of the infrastructure, which directly affects the civilians. So,
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oh, no, you say my idea is silly. You say my idea is absurd. And it is. My idea is absurd.
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And that's the point. That's the point. Imagine if we, imagine if that suggestion were raised. It won't
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happen. But imagine if that became like a headline. Why don't you just fight it out in Bakhmut, winner
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take all? Just fight it out there. Because here's the thinking. Whoever can win and control Bakhmut is
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probably going to win the whole thing. Yes or no. Whoever, if you said we're just going to decide on
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Bakhmut, whoever would win that probably would win the whole thing. Not guaranteed. Not guaranteed.
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There's no guarantees of war. But probably. Why would you say no? Why would you say no? Because
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Russia would go after the whole infrastructure and take down the whole country? That would be... See,
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I think they would, but then they'd stretch their forces, right? So if Russia stretches their already
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stretched forces, remember, they can't even capture Bakhmut. Bakhmut seems to be the limit of their power
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right now. If they could capture more than that, I think you'd see a lot more action. It looks like
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that's all they have. And so imagine an absurd solution to an absurd war, which is not crazy.
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And it's not that the solution would work or that it would hold. What it would do is show,
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hold on. You haven't heard the punchline yet. Hold on. If you say my idea is so stupid
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that it should not be considered, then you're understanding the idea. You are understanding
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the idea if you say that's absurd, it's stupid, all these reasons, it's dumb, it's never been done,
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it's unprecedented, Putin would laugh. All of those things, true. That's why it's a good idea.
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It's a persuasion idea. It's not a war idea. Here's why. If you actually engaged Russia with
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this idea, it would show how absurd the war itself is. It would also highlight that there are no better
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ideas. There are no better ideas. If the best idea is... I was going to swear, but I'm holding back.
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If the best idea was frickin' stupid, but you also came to understand it as the best idea,
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it would change how you thought about the whole war. And it would make it harder to push the war,
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for Russia anyway. It would make them harder to push a war if the other side was suggesting
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an absurd way to end it. Absurd. Believe it or not, it would help, because it would clarify the absurdity
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of the whole enterprise. All right. It'll never happen. It's just a sort of a thought experiment.
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So RFK Jr. says out loud that he's thinking about running for president.
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And I gotta say, that's an interesting prospect. You know what would be good for America?
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Just really good for America? Would be a strong Republican candidate running against RFK Jr.
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instead of Biden. Because that would be an actual contest. And I don't think that RFK Jr. comes from
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the crazy wing of the left. My guess is, I don't know, but my guess is he's closer to a realistic
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center. But he also has this weird quality that he agrees with a lot of Republicans on vaccinations,
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specifically the COVID stuff. And that won him a lot of fans. A lot of fans on the right,
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just for that one take. I think he earned his place on the national stage. What do you think?
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Whether or not you want to vote for him, separate question. But I think he earned his place.
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What do you say? So I would give him a lot of respect for what he's done so far.
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Interesting. Yeah, you don't have to say you'd vote for him. But wouldn't you prefer him over
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Biden? Let me ask you that. Would you prefer RFK Jr. over Biden if that were your only choices?
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Yeah, yes. Absolutely. Because the one thing that JFK Jr. signals very clearly is that he's not on the
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take. If there's anybody who's more clearly signaled that he can't be bought, it's RFK Jr.
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Nobody's ever signaled that as strongly as he does. I mean, he could be wrong about anything,
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but he signals it really strongly that he can't be bought because of the vaccination stuff. If he
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could be bought, he would have been bought. You don't think somebody tried? Of course they did.
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Of course they did. Apparently he can't be bought, at least not on vaccinations. So this is a really
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positive impact. Now let's talk about his voice. Here's an update you might not be aware of. But he did
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have a procedure to help with his voice. And I've listened to his recent speeches, and it does seem to
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have helped. It's not a complete fix. It might improve more, you know, as he gets used to whatever
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the medical procedure was. So it might improve. It might improve. But it's serviceable. You know,
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it works now. He can say things. You can listen to him. He can communicate. And you can get used to it.
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So I'm not sure. Do you know that RFK Jr., he thanked me personally for helping him get his
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voice problem fixed? How many of you were aware of that? Because I've mentioned it a few times.
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It's just, it's strange to be in my position, because you touch so many things that become
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part of history, just sort of accidentally touching them. But the back story is I had a voice problem for
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three and a half years where I couldn't speak. Something called a spasmodic dysphonia. I don't
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know if that's why he has. But I had made some suggestions of surgeries he could get that might
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help. He told me he looked into it, you know, just by DM. He told me he looked into those surgeries,
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decided not to get the surgery that I got, which was surgery in the neck. That's what this scar is.
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But he did a different procedure. I won't mention it because that's his business. But he did a
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different procedure and got some benefits. And it did make a difference. So, isn't that weird how
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that could have changed history? Such small little things. I was just trying to, you know, help somebody
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who had a, maybe a similar problem. I wasn't sure. Just trying to help somebody. May have changed the world.
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How weird that is. That is so weird that it could have changed the world accidentally. All right.
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How would you like to talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene appearing on 60 Minutes?
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Well, if you haven't seen it, I haven't seen the whole interview. I'll probably go back and watch it.
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But I'm going to play a clip in which Marjorie Taylor Greene is challenged by 60 Minutes Leslie Stahl
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on the question of calling Democrats pedophiles. Oh, no. Imagine being on 60 Minutes and being,
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like, trapped on that question. It's like, oh, what am I going to do now? I did say those things. Now I have
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to explain why I said those outrageous things on 60 Minutes. What will I do? Well, let's see what
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Marjorie Taylor Greene did. I think she says that are over the top like the Democrats are a party of
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pedophiles. I would definitely say so. They support grooming children. They are not pedophiles. Why would
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you say that Democrats? Democrats support even Joe Biden, the president himself supports children
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being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to
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children. Wow. Okay. And things she says that are over the top like the Democrats are a party of pedophiles.
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Oh, no. Oh, no. Marjorie Taylor Greene just got invited into their house with a flamethrower.
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I am such a fan right now. I'm such a fan. I was sort of on the fence. I was a little bit on
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the fence about MTG. Oh, I was a little bit on the fence, but not anymore. Oh, that's so funny.
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All right. Let me tell you what I'm laughing about. So if the case is not obvious, you may be laughing
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at your own joke. So first we have to talk about her point. All right. So the point she made is if
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the Democrats, including Joe Biden, are in favor of trans-related, let's say, activities with children,
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that the trans topic, this would be Marjorie Taylor Greene's opinion. All right. So this is not my
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opinion. There's no my opinion in this. I'm just explaining her opinion. So she's making the point
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that the trans situation by its nature, if you put children into that environment, it's a sexualized
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environment. And if you're intentionally putting children in a sexualized environment,
00:30:31.080
she's going to call you a pedophile or a groomer. Now, do you accept that as a logical argument?
00:30:40.040
Is that logical? Oh, a lot of people say yes. All right. That's why it's funny, because a lot of
00:30:45.640
people are going to say yes. So to Republicans who watched this, was it not your impression that she
00:30:54.600
just dunked on Leslie Stahl and that her answer was sort of perfect? I'm not saying true, not technically
00:31:04.680
true. I'm not saying that. But in a political sense, in a persuasion sense, yeah, it was perfect.
00:31:12.680
Now, the fact that she didn't back down, she didn't blink, she didn't hesitate, she didn't hum,
00:31:19.880
she didn't pause, she didn't say, uh, well, uh, uh, she didn't stammer. She just looked right in her
00:31:26.600
eyes and said, Democrats, including Joe Biden, are in favor of putting children into these trans
00:31:33.960
situations. That's a pedophile. It was kind of amazing. It was kind of, it was just sort of an amazing
00:31:41.620
moment. Now, here's the part that I've been laughing about all morning. I'm not sure if you
00:31:47.620
caught this. It's not why she said, and it's not just that Leslie Stahl did the eye roll, which we'll
00:31:54.580
talk about. It's that MTG, by going on such a large platform, and by going right into the belly of the
00:32:02.340
beast, going right into their living room with her, her fire, you know, her fire thrower,
00:32:07.780
flame thrower, you can't ignore it now. It can't be ignored. So before it was just something that
00:32:15.620
people said on social media, you know, she said it on social media, maybe in a speech, but you can
00:32:22.280
ignore it. Now 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes has created this as news. Before it was just stuff crazy people
00:32:32.440
are saying. Now it's news. And do you know what is the best part of this? For the rest of time,
00:32:40.840
Democrats are going to have to answer the question, are they pedophiles?
00:32:45.080
standing ovation. I don't like to give too many standing ovations because it cheapens them. But
00:32:59.800
Marjorie Taylor Greene just paid back Democrats for the fine people hoax. She just paid them back.
00:33:08.440
How sick are you if, for those of you who have ever been, let's say, Trump supporters,
00:33:16.600
how sick are you of having to defend whether you're a racist just because you're a Republican?
00:33:24.200
Are you tired of it? Are you sick of it? Do you wish you had something, something you could do that
00:33:31.720
with felt like payback? Well, you got it. And let me tell you, I have been completely against
00:33:40.920
calling Democrats pedophiles and groomers, completely against it. I'm completely in favor
00:33:49.240
with this argument, with MTG's argument. I would stick to that and say, hey,
00:33:55.320
I wouldn't want my children around you. That's it. Now, I'm not going to use the P word or the G word
00:34:04.680
if I'm tweeting. Because on social media, I think that's too far. I don't like using those words. And
00:34:11.080
I don't think it's good for your Twitter account either. You probably get suppressed if you use words
00:34:16.280
like that. So I'm not really in favor of using groomer or pedo. Here's what I suggest.
00:34:24.920
I ran a Twitter poll, highly unscientific, in which I asked my followers, who, of course,
00:34:32.760
lean right, even though I don't. Just to remind you, I'm more left-leaning. But my followers are
00:34:39.160
clearly conservative types, mostly. And I asked this question on Twitter.
00:34:47.640
Would you be okay with a Democrat babysitting your child?
00:35:01.080
That's the right question. That's the question that prevents you from looking absurd.
00:35:12.120
Because the suggestion is in the question. But there's more than that. This is good persuasion,
00:35:18.440
because it allows the user to imagine several interpretations. If I say I wouldn't let a Democrat
00:35:25.000
babysit my kid, your first thought might be, oh, because they might try to touch them or something.
00:35:33.320
Or your first thought might be, no, they're going to teach them woke stuff. Or no, they're going to
00:35:39.640
teach them that I'm a racist. The parents are racists. Because that actually happens. That's like a real
00:35:44.760
thing. But it allows people to think of all the ways that somebody could damage your kid.
00:35:51.240
It also brings it right into your house. If I say, hey, it looks like they're damaging people you don't
00:35:57.720
know. People you'll never meet, they might be damaging them. You might care. But you won't care
00:36:03.160
the way you will if you think it's your house. That you care about a lot. So if you imagine somebody
00:36:09.800
in your house, this is the persuasion part. You make it visual in the mind. Then you imagine your own
00:36:15.960
child. Even if you don't have one, you can imagine having one. And you put that Democrat in your mind
00:36:22.600
in the same room alone with your child. And you could think of a lot of things that could go wrong.
00:36:27.880
Couldn't you? You could think of a lot of things that could go wrong leaving your child with a Democrat.
00:36:34.840
Now, of course, does anybody mind if I do a special, just a little notice for the stupid people?
00:36:45.400
Because every now and then, this is like the smartest audience in the world. But every now
00:36:50.120
and then somebody will accidentally get over here and there'll be a stupid person watching. So this
00:36:55.960
will just be a message for the stupid people. And I'll try to talk it in stupid language. So the rest of
00:37:03.480
you just talk among yourselves. This will just be for the few stupid people who wandered in here.
00:37:09.560
When I say Democrats, I never mean every one of them. I never mean every one of them.
00:37:19.800
When I say something about a race, like white people, I do not mean every white people. I do not mean that.
00:37:27.240
If I say Elbonians like to play chess, I don't mean every Elbonian likes to play chess. I don't mean everyone.
00:37:36.280
So what would be not helpful would be for you to tweet at me, he thinks everyone
00:37:44.680
is dangerous to children. That's the end of my notice for the stupid people.
00:37:50.360
I will return to my normal persona for the rest of you.
00:37:59.080
All right, here's what else is funny about the Marjorie Taylor Greene thing.
00:38:03.400
You saw the eye roll from Leslie Stahl. I'd play it again, but I'd rather do an impression of it myself.
00:38:11.640
So after Marjorie Taylor Greene gives a full-throated support of her opinion, Leslie Stahl does
00:38:27.480
What would be a reaction you would expect from somebody who
00:38:34.040
was a very experienced news person, a person who interviews people for a living,
00:38:45.480
If somebody says something that you disagree with, and you've got decades of experience in
00:38:52.440
this exact situation, what would you expect? You know what I would have expected?
00:39:05.480
That's what I would have expected. I would have expected some kind of counterclaim.
00:39:09.720
Well, I see what you're saying, but have you considered x?
00:39:13.720
Or, I hear what you're saying, but how does that make sense with this variable?
00:39:20.120
Or, could you explain that more, because what I thought I heard was this?
00:39:25.720
Wouldn't you expect something like that? But instead it was...
00:39:34.520
What would you call that reaction? Is there a word for that reaction?
00:39:44.920
Cognitive dissonance. It's cognitive dissonance. It's not just one of the tells.
00:39:53.880
It's the big one. That was the most obvious signal for her brain was broken that I've ever seen in
00:40:04.760
my life. Here's how I interpreted it. Now, I'm not a mind reader, right? So if I talk about what
00:40:10.680
Leslie Stahl is maybe thinking, can I do a little... I have to pause again. There might still be some stupid
00:40:18.840
people watching. Anyway, now I'm not going to do that.
00:40:26.840
So I think that was a tell for cognitive dissonance, and here's why. I think that Leslie Stahl recognized
00:40:38.040
some connecting logic in what Marjorie Taylor Greene was saying, and did not want to get involved in it.
00:40:45.080
She didn't want to ask more questions, because she definitely didn't want to hear the answers.
00:40:51.320
Know what I mean? Because if she had gone at it factually,
00:40:56.440
to say, all right, explain that. Here's why you're wrong. Do you know what it would have been?
00:41:01.800
It would have been more of Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about the sexualization of children in the
00:41:09.560
trans, let's say, arena. And Leslie Stahl wouldn't have had a fucking thing to say about that.
00:41:19.320
Right? She would have been trapped. I think she knew she was trapped.
00:41:24.120
I think Marjorie Taylor Greene led her into a narrow ravine. And once she got into that narrow ravine,
00:41:32.440
and she looked up and saw all the snipers, she thought, oh, fuck.
00:41:38.120
That's what it looked like to me. Now, of course, we're all reading our own experience into it,
00:41:46.120
right? So it's possible that the only thing she was thinking is, you crazy,
00:41:50.600
you crazy biatch. And I'm sure the Democrats will interpret it as her just scoffing and dismissing
00:41:58.840
her. But to me, that scoffing and dismissing was because she couldn't handle the topic.
00:42:04.520
There was only one person in the room who was capable of just even discussing the topic.
00:42:11.480
And it wasn't Leslie Stahl. She took a pass. She bowed out. She's like, I'm out of the room. I'm out.
00:42:19.560
Yeah, no, that was a complete win for MTG. So in summary, I would not call the Dems,
00:42:26.040
pedos and groomers. I would just say, I wouldn't let them babysit my children.
00:42:31.560
And I tried that out with a critic of mine. Some critic came at me this morning for something.
00:42:39.800
And I just replied, I wouldn't want you babysitting my children.
00:42:45.480
That's usually the end of the conversation. And by the way, I'm quite serious about this.
00:42:53.000
I wouldn't want, given the brokenness of the woke philosophy, I wouldn't want a child of mine to be
00:43:03.240
around it. I would consider that poison for their success. Because the woke philosophy is a backwards
00:43:11.160
looking, victim blaming, bullshit, useless thing that will someday go away. Whereas I would rather
00:43:20.200
let my child be taught how to succeed, you know, how to, how to, you know, make it work even though
00:43:28.520
there's adversity, you know, how to push through problems, how to be an optimist. That's what I want
00:43:35.560
them to learn. I don't want to learn that they're racist because they're white. I don't want to learn
00:43:40.600
that they're pieces of crap because they're, you know, they like Donald Trump or something.
00:43:46.440
So no, I legitimately, no joke, would not want a child to be around a Democrat who bought into the
00:43:56.200
entire wokeness campaign. But this brings us back to RFK Jr. I've never heard a thing he's ever said
00:44:06.000
that sounded extra woke. So I don't know where he stands on a lot of stuff. I guess it's an open
00:44:11.960
question. But he doesn't scare me at all. If, if RFK Jr. wanted to babysit my kid,
00:44:20.280
I'd be totally okay with that. Totally okay. Yeah. I mean, I would trust him. So it's not every
00:44:26.040
Democrat, but you get the point. All right. And this goes to my other framing that I'm liking as
00:44:37.240
days go by, that woke is a performance, not an opinion. Has anybody got to use that yet?
00:44:43.960
Where if somebody comes at them with a woke argument, you can say, yeah, that was a very
00:44:47.800
good performance. I don't, I don't take seriously any of the woke stuff. That's just performance.
00:44:53.160
But your performance was excellent. Good performance. I wouldn't even address the content of it.
00:45:00.200
I think we should stop addressing the content of those complaints. We should just say good performance.
00:45:07.720
Because here's where we're going wrong. We, we who don't like the over-wokeness. I like a little bit
00:45:14.200
of wokeness. I like calling people what they like to be called, for example. But if you go over-woke,
00:45:20.440
you're into crazy town. And if somebody's in crazy town and they're just performing, for example,
00:45:26.280
the person who at least presents themselves as a black man, who called Keith Olbermann a racist,
00:45:35.240
because he had a problem with what somebody did with a hand gesture, which had nothing to do with
00:45:40.040
race, of course. Do you think that person had a serious point about Keith Olbermann being a racist?
00:45:47.880
Do you think they even believed in their own mind that they had a good point? Because there was no race
00:45:53.960
involved in the story at all. It could not have been more race-free. It was the most race-uninterested
00:46:00.600
story there ever was. And still this guy came up with an argument that Keith Olbermann was a racist.
00:46:06.520
That's performance. You see that, right? That was not a real opinion. That was a performance
00:46:13.880
of somebody who wanted to, you know, show themselves in a certain way. So,
00:46:17.800
I strongly suggest that you at least test the performance frame. Instead of dealing with any
00:46:27.560
of the argument, none of it. Just don't deal with any of it. Just say, excellent performance.
00:46:31.800
Your wokeness score is a 9 and a 10. Good job. And just move on. Because you cannot take that
00:46:39.480
seriously as a topic. It just can't be taken seriously. Some of it, right? Some of it I like.
00:46:46.120
But if it's the absurd stuff, just congratulate them for the performance. Move on.
00:46:52.600
All right. Fun stuff on Twitter. I often talk about reality fitting a three-act play.
00:47:00.760
The first act is something bad usually happens. The second act is the fun and games part,
00:47:06.520
where you've worked through that initial bad part, but now you're doing some series of things which
00:47:13.080
are interesting and funny. That's what makes the movie. Later, there's a third act where somebody
00:47:18.040
gets into such terrible trouble you can't even imagine how they could get out. Twitter is in its
00:47:22.920
second act. The first act was Musk overpays for Twitter by 24 billion dollars or whatever it was.
00:47:32.520
So that's the first act. And then he finds out that under the hood, it's just twigs and beer and
00:47:43.000
wokeness. It's just like there's nothing good in there. It's just amazing it runs. He fires 75% of
00:47:51.240
the staff, makes the entire left hop and mad. So this is all the first act. This is just the upheaval.
00:48:01.560
So the first act is all the bad upheaval stuff is happening. Second act is happening now.
00:48:09.240
So Musk has gotten control of Twitter. He's gotten rid of, sounds like a lot of the troublemakers.
00:48:16.840
He's got a lean, you know, kind of lean machine. Oh yeah, it has some problems. Maybe some performance
00:48:24.600
hiccups, etc. But they get worked on. And he's got some new features. He's got a subscription model
00:48:31.000
that's looking promising, etc. So he's got sort of a handle on it. It's still bleeding cash.
00:48:36.040
But he's got a little handle on it. Here's the fun part. Twitter's context notes have started
00:48:44.520
reliably fact checking the news. Oh, it is game on. It is game on. Let me tell you just a few things that
00:48:56.200
have happened recently. So first of all, the New York Times refused to get verified,
00:49:03.560
which Musk, first of all, dunks on them, because they push their own subscription service so hard.
00:49:09.960
So he goes, well, that's highly hypocritical, given that their entire business model depends on
00:49:15.480
subscriptions, right? So if they're pushing their subscription, and they're complaining because
00:49:20.520
he has a subscription model. As if Twitter is not a gigantically useful business tool for the New York
00:49:29.240
Times. They must get a tremendous amount of traffic from Twitter. It's a business. And he wants to charge
00:49:35.320
them for the value they got from his business. And they're like, oh no. So that's the first thing.
00:49:42.600
So I enjoyed that, because it made the New York Times look like idiots, basically. Or at least
00:49:48.840
inconsistent. Then later, Musk tweets also about the New York Times. He goes, the real tragedy of
00:49:58.760
the New York Times is that their propaganda isn't even interesting. Their propaganda isn't even
00:50:07.400
interesting. I love the fact that now that he's got, you know, Twitter to have his back,
00:50:16.840
meaning that the context notes will be fact checking these entities. Yeah, they do look like propaganda
00:50:23.640
now. All right. But he also had this comment about Twitter itself. Elon Musk did. He said,
00:50:34.440
you could literally film a Walking Dead episode unedited in downtown San Francisco. This is where
00:50:40.840
San Francisco politics leads. And Twitter was exporting this self-destructive mind virus to the world.
00:50:49.000
With other, with some exceptions, other tech companies are still doing so.
00:50:52.280
Wow. Wow. Wow. That's about the most truthful and insightful tweet you're going to see.
00:51:06.840
Yes. Twitter was responsible for a mind virus that destroyed a city. That actually happened. Now,
00:51:15.640
not by itself, but if you said it was the biggest element of it, I wouldn't be surprised. It might
00:51:22.600
have been the biggest element of a mind virus. And I love that he sees this as a virus. The mind virus,
00:51:29.400
the wokeness and the craziness. It is a mind virus. That's exactly what it is. And so he
00:51:35.720
he took over the company and he removed the virus. Now, that is some baller billionaire
00:51:43.560
shit right there. That's some good stuff right there.
00:51:50.840
But the Reuters, I think it was Reuters who did a story that said that Tesla had failed to meet
00:51:57.720
some benchmark he had given for production of vehicles. And so the Reuters tweets the story that
00:52:05.720
Tesla fell short of its goal. A context note is immediately attached to it.
00:52:15.400
Yes. And and Elon Musk tweets, deceptive headline backfires on on Reuters. He puts it in quote,
00:52:22.920
deceptive headline backfires on Reuters, because it turns out it wasn't true. They had actually
00:52:28.840
exceeded their their goal. And Reuters did a headline saying they had missed it. It was
00:52:35.240
literally opposite of the truth. But on Twitter, instantly flagged and instantly corrected. And
00:52:43.000
even better yet, instantly publicly mocked by the guy who owns Twitter.
00:52:47.480
Can I be happier? I can't be I can't be happier than this. That's everything I wanted. Everything
00:52:59.240
I wanted was for Twitter to start fact checking the fake news. And they did. You know what I'm waiting
00:53:06.440
for? I'm waiting for I'm going to whisper this. OK, this is a Joe Biden whisper. I'm waiting for
00:53:15.160
Joe Biden to do a speech mentioning the fine people hoax again. Please. Just one more, Joe. Can
00:53:24.120
you give us one more? Fine people hoax. Now that Twitter is poised to call bullshit on that. I want
00:53:34.440
to see Twitter put a note the next time Biden has that, who says that, because I think they're ready
00:53:41.240
to do it. I think they might be poised. And it's going to be glorious. Same with the drinking bleach
00:53:47.880
hoax, right? It's going to be glorious. That's act. That's act two. What is act three? If I had to
00:53:56.040
guess, the government will try to close down Twitter somehow. I think the Democrats will try to
00:54:03.160
take Musk out of the game somehow. I think they'll fail. And then Musk will turn Twitter into what he's
00:54:10.920
wanted to turn it into, the app that does everything, which could be worth $250 billion,
00:54:18.680
which would change the news, get rid of the woke virus, and make him 10 times or maybe five times
00:54:27.800
his investment. That would be a good act three with an act four. All right. I feel vindicated
00:54:37.880
about an early opinion that this so-called restrict act was not about banning TikTok, which was the
00:54:44.600
whole point of it, but was a way for the government to get more power over more things in general.
00:54:49.800
And I called it down as I guess a Trojan horse. But I'm happy to see people who are smarter than me
00:55:00.760
by a lot on stuff like this. David Sachs is saying it's a bait and switch. Basically,
00:55:06.920
they're trying to make it illegal to use a VPN. If you're not technical, don't worry. It just means
00:55:14.200
that you can, what's the best way? A virtual private network is a, let's say it's an app you
00:55:19.800
could put on your phone or your device, and you are not as easily identifiable. It takes away your
00:55:29.560
identity. So the point is that you could use a VPN to get to a website that would be banned otherwise,
00:55:38.040
right? Because you'd be coming in as if you're from another country, for example. So let's say America
00:55:42.760
bans TikTok. If you used a VPN to pretend you were coming from, not from America, then presumably,
00:55:50.600
technically, you could get in. So this law tries to block the use of VPNs, at least in this context,
00:55:57.880
which is a big problem, right? This is not what we signed up for. When the public said,
00:56:04.600
and a lot of the public said, ban TikTok, they did not say ban our VPNs. The VPN is what you use to
00:56:11.000
protect yourself from the fucking government. This is exactly the worst thing that could happen.
00:56:17.400
It's the worst, worst thing that could happen. Instead of banning TikTok, they ban your fucking VPNs.
00:56:26.680
It couldn't be worse. If anybody votes for this, they have to be dead to you. Republican or Democrat,
00:56:33.640
anybody who votes for this monstrosity, this is beyond the pale. I don't usually get worked up
00:56:41.480
about little political stuff. Usually it's just news and it's fun. But this is too far. And the fact
00:56:48.840
that they're doing this right in front of us, they're not even, I mean, they're hoping that
00:56:53.960
we're dumb enough not to notice that it was never a TikTok ban. But the fact that they're trying to get
00:57:00.360
away with this through this back door, absolute scum. Yeah. You cannot respect this as a difference
00:57:09.720
of opinion. Would you agree? This is not about a difference of opinion. This is not politics.
00:57:17.240
This is not policy. This isn't anything. This is the government just fucking you.
00:57:23.880
There's no other way to look at this. Like, I get their little argument and blah, blah, blah,
00:57:28.280
might protect you in some way. I don't care. If you are a fucking law about banning VPNs,
00:57:35.720
let's call it that. Let's debate that. Right? Let's debate that. But if you're going to hide
00:57:42.520
this fucking thing in a TikTok ban that's not really a TikTok ban, and TikTok would probably
00:57:47.400
find a way around it anyway. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's terrible. Well, I saw the Machiavelli
00:58:00.680
account that often has deep fakes has helpfully created a well-labeled deep fake. So you can
00:58:08.760
tell it's a deep fake. It's labeled that. Of Mark Warner, one of the main authors of this abortion
00:58:16.040
bill. Well, it's not about abortion, but you know what I mean. And he's got Mark Warner basically
00:58:23.960
explaining his own bill in his own words as a deep fake, but, you know, being a clown about it.
00:58:30.040
Good job. And I think part of what Machiavelli is showing, well, I know for sure, because he says
00:58:37.240
it directly. He's trying to warn people what's coming. It's not about the meme. And he says it
00:58:43.320
directly. It's not about the meme. I'm showing you that you need to be afraid of this. You need to be
00:58:50.200
aware of it. You need to see it coming. We need to figure out how to deal with it, that the news is
00:58:55.720
going to be fakes. And I think that's very helpful. And it's very ballsy. It's so ballsy.
00:59:02.920
Because I think he's already been, you know, he's had some trouble on Twitter already. But this was
00:59:09.080
the perfect application of that. I like the application of having somebody who's doing
00:59:15.160
something sketchy have their deep fake explain it to you. That's strong. That is strong persuasion.
00:59:24.200
I like that. All right. But I'm also happy that the internet dads, as I like to call them,
00:59:32.040
are stepping up to call this out. All right. What else we got? Ladies and gentlemen,
00:59:43.160
that's about all I have. Is there any story I missed? Anything you wish I talked about?
00:59:47.320
I've been noticing that there are a lot of stories that don't make the front page of either Fox News or
00:59:54.920
CNN. And yet pundits talk about them, which is weird. That's different from before. It used to be
01:00:03.320
that everything, if it was a story at all of any substance, it would at least be on one of those
01:00:10.040
two sites. But there's a lot of stuff that's not on either site now, which is making me wonder
01:00:21.160
Have we ever seen the full list of what accounts on Twitter are allegedly boosted and which ones are,
01:00:32.680
well, I guess just the boosted list? Was that even real? Because it was a story of, I don't know,
01:00:38.120
15 or so accounts that like cat turd that apparently were boosted. I don't know if that story is real.
01:00:44.840
What do you think? Because if they had some of the list, why don't we have the whole list? Because
01:00:51.960
it's not that extensive. Maybe 30 people. I don't know. Will we see Epstein's client list? Probably not.
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All right. There's no organic way that cat turd could be relevant. Agreed.
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So I blocked cat turd. That's an account on Twitter. I blocked cat turd a long time ago. I
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forget why, but I'm sure I had a good reason. But I've never understood why that account got so big.
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To me, that was always a mystery because I didn't see value there.
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You know, I understand why, you know, Jack Posabic has a big account. I understand why,
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you know, Mike Cernovich has lots of followers. But I never understood cat turd.
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Like that did look like there was something artificial going on there, but I didn't understand it.
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Dutch farmers revolt is never discussed. Yeah, I haven't discussed that.
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And I'm not current on it. But it looks like there might be some pushback that's working. I think that's the current situation.
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Paris protests. Are the Paris protests being intentionally kept out of the news? I've seen those claims.
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Oh, Finland, Finland decided to, or Finland's in NATO? Is that official yet? Finland's in NATO?
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Oh, here's a question I have for you. I've seen stories about James O'Keefe, a number of them, positive and negative, on Twitter.
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But usually all I see is somebody referring to it. I have no idea what the story is.
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There's some James O'Keefe story that is not in the news, because I looked for it.
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And quick search on social media was people referring to it, but I couldn't find the actual allegation.
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Oh, Russell Brand was on Bill Maher last night? No, I didn't see that.
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They voted their prime minister out for what reason?
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If you say Paul Towne again, I'm going to block you.
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and I'm not going to look into it, because you yelled it in caps too many times.
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Finland voted in a conservative, so that's why that's news.
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took the money illegal wiretaps FBI handler sponsored by Misraeli,
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All right, we'll get rid of all the Paul Towne references.
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By the way, I was perfectly willing to look into
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Oh, there's lots of people who want me not to talk about it.
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All right, I'm definitely not talking about it now.