Episode 2068 Scott Adams： Banana-Free Republic, Trump Arraignment, Dave Portnoy In The Barrel, More
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Summary
Dilbert's new co-worker Dave makes a joke about him, and the rest is downhill from there. Scott Adams explains why the dollar is more stable than anyone else's economy, and why it's a good thing.
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the documents I threw away, which means it doesn't exist, unless I dig through my garbage.
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Well, I know what you're thinking today. You're saying to yourself, if Dilbert is only showing
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on Locals and you say you're doing edgy stuff, you say, that's what you say, how edgy is it?
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Well, I'll give you a hint. So this week features the new co-worker, Dave. Here's Dave.
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Dave is black, but the joke with Dave, the new engineer, is that he's black, but he only
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makes fun of woke stuff. So he pretends to be woke and he pretends to pull people's legs,
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So Dave, Dave says in the first panel, he's talking to the boss. He says, why did you exclude
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me from mandatory sensitivity training? And the boss says, you don't need it. You're fine
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the way you are. And Dave says, is it because everyone will be talking about me? And the boss
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All right. Now, do you think I could have run that in a regular newspaper? Nope. Nope. Because
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the rest of the week is on this sensitivity training topic. And no, I could have not run
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All right. I got a question for you. How many are panicked about the U.S. dollar being lost
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as the reserve currency? In other words, the currency that people like to do international
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trade because they think it's a strong unit. And if you trade in it, you can always turn
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it into whatever else you want it to be. I feel like this was a big concern that's not
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a concern at all. My current thinking about it is it wasn't even important enough to really
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make a headline. So a number of, you know, semi-large countries and larger ones are agreeing
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to trade in their own currencies. And I don't think that's going to catch on. So I was looking
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at what the experts are saying. And here's the main thing you need to know, the one takeaway.
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Yeah. Mr. Floyd says, the dollar will fall, Scott. Now, the risk is, so let me say the
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risk. The risk is that if people want fewer dollars, because they don't need to own them
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to do trade, that there will be less demand, and then the value will fall, and then inflation
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will soar. But all of that requires that people would prefer holding other currencies. This
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is the key to understanding the whole thing. In order for people to stop using the dollar
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for their international trading, they have to think that the dollar is less stable or
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less secure than whatever else they were going to use. And at the moment, there's nothing
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close. So at the moment, the dollar is still the, you know, the one that people want to own.
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Now, they could trade gold, but that's not so easy, right? You're not going to ship gold
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around. I suppose you could ship promises to gold or something like that, but I don't
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know how much of that goes on. So there's not enough gold, somebody says. So at the moment,
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it looks like that was another fake problem, meaning that what makes the dollar valuable is
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that the economy of the United States looks like it's more stable than anybody else's economy.
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Anybody who looked more stable than us would probably go down if we went down. In other
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words, if the United States went down, it wouldn't help you much if you had Swiss francs or something,
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because everything would be a mess by then. So that's my current feeling, is that the reason
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it's not a headline everywhere is that it's not that big a risk. Yet. It's possible it could become
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one. But only if the economy of the United States became so weak that people said, oh,
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I don't want to hold those dollars because the United States is so weak. We're not there yet.
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As long as we have the biggest military, we might not ever get there. But, but, yeah.
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Two thirds of the world is going to be on bricks. They can. But just being on bricks doesn't mean they
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wouldn't trade in dollars also, does it? Correct. Can you give me a fact check on this? The countries
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that are moving away from the dollar, that's just an extra option, isn't it? It's not making them unable
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to trade the dollar. And they're still going to prefer the dollar, even if they have an option
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of owning some weaker currency. Why would they take the weak currency? Well, what would possibly make
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a company take a weak currency? If it's the only option, but I'm saying it's probably not the only
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option. Okay. Well, we'll look into that. Here's a warning of the future. The German Federal
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Office of Justice is going to fine Twitter because they say, quote, the internet is not a lawless space,
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says the justice minister. Do you remember a prediction I made that if Google became too
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independent and too useful, that it would become illegal? The only reason that that Twitter
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can't exist is because it's sort of a fair fight. You know, the left and the right are fighting out.
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Well, it looks like kind of a fair fight. But if Twitter becomes the thing that is fact checking
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the fake news and it starts doing it reliably, imagine a world, and we could be less than a year away
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from this. Imagine a world where if somebody wants to fact check something, they go to Twitter instead
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of the fact checkers. Because Twitter will put a context note on tweets. We might be heading there.
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And that really is dangerous for whoever's in power. And so maybe countries might follow Germany's
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lead and try to find legal reasons to make Twitter illegal and actually just put it out of business.
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So I think the biggest risk to Twitter is not that they don't have positive cash flow. I mean,
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that's a big problem. But at least Elon Musk owns them so they could manage it if they need to.
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The biggest problem is that Twitter will become too honest and too useful through just by adding
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context to the news. And then it's going to be illegal. Because I don't think the people in charge,
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let's say they're Democrats, in this country would allow it. I think they'd find a reason to make it
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illegal. All right. So keep an eye on that. Yeah, we'll talk about Trump, of course.
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Um, I saw a Rasmussen poll that said, uh, 60% of likely US voters believe violent crime in America
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is getting worse. Which means that 40% don't think that. 40% of America does not think violent crime
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is getting worse. No, this one's not a 25 percenter. Uh, by 18% think the crime problem is getting better.
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Well, it's sort of close. It's getting close to 25%. It's sort of in the ballpark. Um, and 21, uh,
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percent say, uh, it's about the same. Now, when I read the statistics, I imagined myself standing in
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line to vote. Just, just play the scene in your head. And you, you strike up a conversation with
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the person next to you, who's going to also vote just a stranger. And, uh, you say, well, you know,
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I'm really worried about the increase in violent crime in this country. And the person behind you
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says, what? And you say, yeah, you know, the violence increasing in this country, you know,
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there's the bail reform and et cetera, criminals are out, they're doing more crimes. And the person
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behind you says, that's not happening. You go, no, it is happening. In fact, it's a big reason I'm
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in line to vote. And the person behind you says, no, I think actually the crime is reducing.
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It looks to me like it's going down. How would you feel knowing that you were,
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the two of you were wasting your time? You were just canceling out each other's vote.
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And the person behind you is canceling your vote is a fucking idiot. So your vote would be
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canceled by the dumbest person you've ever met, who's standing behind you in line, just canceling
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your vote. So you stand there for two hours to vote, knowing it made no difference. No difference.
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Now it would make a difference. Of course, every vote counts, you know, technically, but it would feel
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very demoralizing to know that you were in line with somebody who was actually voting.
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who hadn't noticed that crime is getting worse. That would not feel good, would it?
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Anyway, this is, this should be the biggest story. And it did make some news. But the reason this
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isn't the biggest story, I don't understand. I guess it's because Trump's in the news, of course. But
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Democrat Senator Joe Manchin is hopping mad at the Biden administration. Because if you remember,
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Manchin reluctantly went along with the, what was euphemistically called the Inflation Reduction Act,
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you know, an enormous legislation that was supposed to do a bunch of good things. And Manchin negotiated to
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make sure that before he joined in, and he was sort of a deciding vote, that Biden would promise him that
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the money would be used in a way that made sense. And so he was promised that, says Manchin. Manchin voted for it.
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And then the responsibility for how to spend it in detail, gets farmed out to the various
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administration entities. And apparently, according to Joe Manchin, those entities are using the money in
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exactly the way Biden said it wouldn't be used. Exactly what he didn't vote for. So Joe Manchin,
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prominent Democrat, is calling out the Democrats for a bait and switch, the size of which we've never
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seen before, I think. I mean, maybe you could come up with an example where something like this has ever
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happened. But the President of the United States ran a bait and switch, so egregious,
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that a prominent Democrat is saying, this is way over the line. This is horrible for America.
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They lied to me. They lied to me. Which means they lied to the country. Right? Because Manchin is part of
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the communication of what was in and what was out. This is the worst thing in America right now.
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By a mile. Name something that's as bad as this. This is the biggest news. And I saw it in one tweet.
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If I missed one tweet, I wouldn't even know it was a thing. One freaking tweet. They were saying that,
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some are saying that Manchin is lying, and that he didn't know, that he did know how it's going to be,
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I don't think so. I mean, maybe I'm a bad judge of character, but I saw him talking and he looked pissed.
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Right? He did not look like he was acting. He looked pissed. Like the real thing. You can't
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really act that well. That was genuine anger. Yeah. He got screwed, and he's calling him out.
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Now, I don't know if he's going to become a Republican. That's a lot to ask.
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But how is this not the biggest news? How in the world is this enormous, enormous thing of great
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consequence to the country? It's a tweet. You know, it was on Meet the Press yesterday,
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so it was news. But it's not a headline today. So that's amazing to me. So let's see, what are we
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concentrating on instead? There's this gigantic story, the main headline, that Trump once put a
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payment that no one cares about in the wrong column in terms of, you know, financial reporting.
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And there was no victim. No victim. Nobody was worse off. But there was a payment that might be in the
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wrong category. And we're going to pay attention to that instead of the fact that the entire country
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had been baited and switched on the most significant piece of legislation in a long time.
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That's where we are. All right. Well, the continuing reverberation of Marjorie Taylor Greene in her 60
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Minutes appearance in which she suggested that Democrats are pedophiles. And she backed that up by
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saying that their support of trans training for kids and trans exposure to kids in schools and such
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is sexualizing kids. Now, you could argue that point, which is not my intent today. You could say,
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well, that's hyperbole. That's sort of stretching a point to, you know, make that word fit. Maybe.
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But I'm totally in favor of it, as long as Democrats want to call anybody who supports a Republican a racist.
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I'm all in. They're all pedophiles, if you'd like to call them that, because I'm done arguing that
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somebody is or is not a racist. That's the trap. The trap is to get you to argue that you are or are not a racist.
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Here's what MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene did. She caused Democrats to have to defend themselves as not
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being pedophiles. Thank you. That is the correct response. Does she believe that Democrats are all
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pedophiles? No. Of course not. Nobody does. Literally nobody. Will that stop people from saying
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Democrats are pedophiles? I hope not. I hope not, because it's the right attack.
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Although I'd love to see that modified into something closer to, you know, maybe something
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closer to, you wouldn't want to have Democrats watch your kids. So we'll see if that catches on.
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All right. Here's the thing that the Washington Post doesn't understand and the rest of the media.
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Every time you give Marjorie Taylor Greene attention and you say, no, no, no, that's so unfair to call
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the Democrats pedophiles, you're reminding the public that somebody has an argument that they're
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pedophiles. The more they say it, the truer it becomes in the minds of people who are watching.
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So they can't help themselves because it's just too delicious and they have to jump in. So they're
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they're basically, you know, boosting her signal. And she is an energy monster. The more energy you
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give her, the stronger she will get. And they haven't figured this out yet because it doesn't
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work that way with everyone. Right. That's a Trump thing. It's a Marjorie Taylor Greene thing.
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There are a few, few people who have fit in this category, but not many. She's definitely one of them.
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She's an energy monster. But the Washington Post tried to reframe her comments about the Dems being
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pedophiles as really a basically a dog whistle against trans people.
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Did anybody see a dog whistle about trans people? I'm pretty sure she was only talking about children.
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And if you're trying to make that about trans rights, you're trying too hard. That's a little
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bit too much work to defend yourself. So that's a losing play. If the Democrats are going to defend
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what Marjorie Taylor Greene would call sexualizing children, have at it. You should talk about that
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all day long. Let's hear more about how she's wrong that they're sexualizing children.
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Now, again, I'm being very careful. I'm not weighing in on the argument itself. I'm talking about just
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the persuasion, just the repetition, just what gets put in your mind at that level. And the Democrats
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are losing badly to her at the moment. She's absolutely in control of this conversation.
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Energy monster. So, all right. I remind you, I'm not agreeing with anything or everything
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that Marjorie Taylor Greene has ever said or will ever say in the future. That's not what
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I'm about. I'm just describing what she's accomplishing, basically.
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All right. Here's Mehdi Hassan, who I believe is an MSNBC person. Is that true? I think he's
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associated with Democrats, I think. And he tweeted this. He says,
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Thanks, Leslie Stahl and 60 Minutes. The day after their softballs and normalization,
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Greene is not just doubling down on her, quote, Democrats are the party of pedophiles smear,
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but also suggesting Biden is one himself, with horribly edited videos of him. Horrific.
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To which I imagine Marjorie Taylor Greene would say, thank you for your attention. Thank you for your
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attention to this point. Thank you for boosting the signal. Well, I think that CNN has finally gotten
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the message that the use of the walls are closing in on Trump is not the insightful comment that it
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once was. And so with great interest, I've been watching how they would modify their, their comments
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because we like to laugh at them when they say the walls are closing in on their headlines.
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So I'd like to give you what CNN now has a headline that apparently is a replace of the walls are closing
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in on Trump. All right. Here's their backup, their B plan. Instead of saying the walls are closing in
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on Trump, the headline on Trump, the headline on CNN website today was, Trump is losing his capacity
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to control his fate. What does that sound like? Losing his capacity to control his fate. That's a little
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bit like, I feel like he's being squeezed. It's like he's being put in a tight position. What would be
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another word for that? It's like, it's like almost there were walls of some sort. And in a way,
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it's like they're closing in on him. Or as I like to say, he's losing his capacity to control his fate.
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Well, I would like to agree with Glenn Beck and Greg Guffeld. And I think a few other people
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made this same point. Would you say this is true or not? The first time I heard it,
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I thought it was hyperbole. But today, when I thought about it, I realized it had already become
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a part of me. Now, usually that makes no sense when you say it became a part of me. But watch how it's
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true this time. The first time I heard, oh, Trump is a symbol. And I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know,
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we always treat him as a symbol. And then I'm watching the news today as he's actually going to
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be indicted. Maybe there's a mugshot. Is there a mugshot? I don't know. But maybe. And today,
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I felt differently about it. Here's how I felt about it today. I felt I wasn't being put in jail.
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It was absolutely personal. Did anybody else have that impression? That when he's actually in the,
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you know, the Department of Justice facilities, when he's physically under their control,
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physically under their control, they're not just talking about him. They're not just talking to
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his lawyers. They have physical control of the former president of the United States. Physical control.
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That's personal. I feel that personally. I feel that in my body, in my brain. I feel it in my heart.
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I feel that in my pancreas. That is completely personal now. And I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't
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expecting that when the change was from, from a, you know, conceptual thing to the Department of
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Justice run by the Democrats have physical control of Trump. Physical fucking control.
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That is completely different. It doesn't feel like it used to feel. And I'll tell you one thing.
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It changes my behavior. Here's what the Democrats and a lot of Republicans are saying.
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They're saying that the real trick is they want Trump to win the primary, but be hobbled in the,
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in the general election. And I would agree there might be some people thinking that.
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There might be some Democrats thinking that. But here's where their calculation went wrong.
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It's personal. It's personal. This isn't political anymore. This is beyond, this is not politics
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anymore. This is personal. And people are going to act differently. So, so let me, let me say
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with some certainty. If Trump gets the nomination, I'm still backing Vivek Ramaswamy, because I think
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age is important and Vivek has the strongest, strongest, clearest communication of what he
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wants to get done that matches my preferences. But I think, I think in all likelihood, if you
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just sort of gave me down, the chances are that Trump is ahead in the polls and he, and he
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takes it. If he does, I'm going to register and vote for him for the first time. So I'm
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going to change my behavior. You know, I'm going to change my behavior because it's personal.
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It's personal. I'm not going to go vote for Trump. I'm not going to go to save Trump. I'm
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not going to go to put Republicans in office. I'm not going to go there to punish Democrats.
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I'm not going to go there to get good policies. It's personal. It's personal. I'm going to go
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there to stay, keep myself and a fucking jail. Because if you put him in jail, he is the only
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thing standing between the government and me. Now, some of you are a lot safer, I assume,
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but I'm not. I'm not. You don't think they could put me in jail for some fucking thing?
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Absolutely. They can. I'm going to vote to stay in a fucking jail is what I'm going to vote for.
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I'm not voting for Trump, not voting for Republicans, not voting for policies. I'm going to vote to stay
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out of fucking jail because that's how I feel. So if that's how you wanted me to feel,
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congratulations, assholes. That's how I feel. You fucked up bigger than anybody's ever fucked up
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in their whole life. The Democrats have no idea what's coming. And I don't want to see a protest,
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frankly. I don't want to see anybody risking themselves. I just want you to take care of
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yourself. I just want you to take care of yourself. That's it. Protect yourself. Do what
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you got to do. I'm not talking guns. I'm not talking revolutions. I'm talking about, you know
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what you got to do. This time, do it. This time, fucking do it. Right? Decide. Don't think about it.
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Don't talk about it. Just decide. It's time to decide. Now, if they let him out, you know, and the
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whole thing turns into nothing, then I'm going to say, all right, you know, back to politics as usual,
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pick your side, et cetera. But if they take him out, if this actually either doesn't allow him to run
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or they put him in jail, God forbid, that's a different game. And I don't think they quite
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understand the level of fire that they're playing with. They do not understand. Don't tell them.
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Don't tell them. All right. So there aren't going to be, the judge ordered that there aren't going to
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be cameras in the proceedings. Is my head going to explode right now? Really? You're going to take
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physical fucking custody of the former president of the United States with 80 million supporters,
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and you're not going to show us on the fucking camera what you're doing? You better show that
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shit. We need to see all of it. You need full transparency. This is not like any other case.
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This is not a criminal situation. This is the fucking future of the Republic. You better show
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Secondly, apparently there might be some kind of a gag order. I don't think we know that.
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That would prevent Trump from talking about the proceedings.
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Rejected. Fucking rejected. Rejected. If there's a gag order, I want him to violate it.
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Please. I want him to violate it. And if he goes to jail, game on. You can't gag the fucking
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president of the United States. Former president. Possible future president. You can't fucking gag him.
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You can't turn the cameras off. You can't. Unacceptable. Un-fucking-acceptable. We got to see it.
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We got to see the whole thing. Un-fucking-acceptable. Gag order? Fuck you. Fuck your gag order. Fuck your gag order.
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If he has one, I hope he violates it in the first second. I want to see him violate the fuck out of that gag order.
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What about the alleged... So do you think there'll be a mugshot? Or do you think he'll be an exception?
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Mugshot or exception? What do you think? Probably mugshot. Some say exception.
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Yeah. Do you know why they would make an exception? If they make an exception, do you know why? Because it would help him.
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Yeah. If that mugshot exists, you know the Republicans are going to use it more than the Democrats, right?
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The Democrats think, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I can't wait to get that mugshot. You know what? I can't fucking wait to get it either.
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I can't fucking wait to get that mugshot. I don't care what expression he's got in his face. I don't care if he's sad or happy.
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I want to see that mugshot. Because that's going to put him into the presidency if anything does.
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So I withhold the ability to change my prediction later based on a different theory.
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You've heard Elon Musk say this. You've heard me say it before then.
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Reality tends to follow the path of greatest entertainment.
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What would be the path of greatest entertainment, good or bad?
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I'm saying you might hate it or you may love it, but it would be the most clicky, you couldn't take your eyes off it, entertaining thing.
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Between now and the election in 2024, Trump is running.
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Let's say that he's not taken out by any legal processes.
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That big old thing we were promised that was going to be news about the 2020 election and how it was allegedly rigged, but no evidence of that scale ever came to pass.
00:32:18.780
Well, we've kind of been beaten into submission a little bit, assuming that all the things that have been proposed or alleged have either been ruled out or rejected by the courts or they weren't big enough or just didn't pan out for some reason.
00:32:36.620
So you're kind of beaten down and you expect that there would be nothing else between now and the next election.
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However, I don't want to give you the details, but there are a number of, let's say, signals that are emerging that definitely are the possibility that there's something out there really big that is close to being uncovered.
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Now, I'm not going to be the idiot who predicts it, because, you know, I'm more famous for saying that 95% of all election fraud claims, at least, like a floor, would be 95% of all of them are false.
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So if I were to bet against my own prediction that 95% of all election claims are false, I would be a little foolish.
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However, if you believe that the most entertaining option is where reality bends, then the most entertaining option is we've all been wrong and there is a kraken.
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Let me give you just maybe a little hint of where one might be.
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So I want to be very clear, because I know there's some idiots who watch.
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To the idiots, I'm not predicting necessarily that any of this will pan out as actual, you know, election fraud that's on a big scale.
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Apparently there's, and I'll try to get this story right, there's a system that a number of states use.
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It's called the ERIC system, E-R-I-C, stands for something.
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And it's a system that keeps track of who's moved from one state to another.
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So if you're trying to make sure you're, if you're trying to make sure that your voter rolls are accurate, one of the things you want to know is who's recently moved, and maybe who has not, I don't know, re-registered or whatever.
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Because the last thing you'd want to do is send a bunch of ballots to somebody's wrong address, and then you've got a ballot that somebody maybe could fill out illegally.
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So it's very important to know who has moved recently, and this ERIC database is one of the things that does it.
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Do you think the ERIC database, which is very important to the integrity of the elections, do you think that it's run by a prominent Republican?
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Do you think a bunch of Republicans put that together?
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It turns out it's run by a fairly well-known Democrat.
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Zuckerberg had something to do with it, maybe funding or something.
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And here's a more interesting fact from Rich Barris, who says that the ERIC system is completely unnecessary because the data already exists, and even he has it.
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So even Rich Barris here on Twitter, you've seen him talking about a lot of election stuff.
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Even I have the information of who's recently moved by states.
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The ERIC system doesn't even have a purpose, unless the purpose is to make it more likely that Democrats win.
00:36:16.460
And there's an allegation that's sort of bubbling up that the ERIC system might be the primary way that fraud is accomplished.
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And it's not something you would have looked at.
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In other words, it's not part of the election process, per se.
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So if you were looking at the election, it would be hard to detect that anything was wrong.
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But if you looked at how we got to the election, maybe there is.
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Now, I think I've done a poor job of explaining what it is and the risk.
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So if you're interested, you should read on it.
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But the only point I want to make, the only point to make here, is that there might be something that is really big that makes a difference to elections, and you didn't know about it.
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So I'm not going to say that that's the thing that's going to be the Kraken.
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I'm just going to say there are a couple of things.
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I think there are at least two other things that are bubbling up now through Cary Lake or other things.
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So the main reason I would predict it is not because I think it's likely we'll find election fraud.
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But if the prediction of reality following the most entertaining path,
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if that happens, it's going to play out that way.
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So really, it's just a way to, I'd say it's a way to see if that hypothesis of things following the most entertaining path works.
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Now, I have a hypothesis why that hypothesis would work.
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What would be the mechanism that would cause reality to follow the most entertaining path?
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Because I have a view of reality that we think things into reality.
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That the thing we focus on actually forms into reality ahead of us.
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So the more you're thinking about something bad, the more likely it's going to happen.
00:38:45.140
The more you're focusing on a good future, the more likely that's going to happen.
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And I believe that a whole bunch of people are thinking about election integrity in 2020.
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And so we might actually think it into existence.
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And again, entertaining means it brings our attention to it.
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So we might be just thinking it into existence.
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I've been trying out my new attack on the woke by simply saying good performance.
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Because my theory is that the wokeness is not about anybody that they're complaining about.
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When they complain about me, it's not ever about me.
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It's about them showing themselves in a certain way.
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So instead of arguing on the merits, where I might say, no, that's not true.
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Because you're just repeating yourself as a cannibal all the time.
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You're making the Marjorie Taylor Greene trap mistake.
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The more you deny it, the more it sounds like it's true.
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So instead of denying anything from woke people, I'm simply going to call them out this way.
00:40:12.860
Roy Graham said to me, Scott, oh, this is because I posted a tweet that asked people if they'd be comfortable having a Democrat babysit their children.
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And 75% of the respondents, mostly Republicans and troublemakers, said that no, they would not be comfortable with a Democrat watching their children.
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Allow me to do a public service address for the stupid people who may have wandered in here by accident.
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But there might be some stupid people still on YouTube.
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So when people answered that they wouldn't want a Democrat to babysit their kids, that doesn't mean every Democrat.
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See, I have to talk stupid so the stupid people will know I'm talking to them directly.
00:41:10.220
No, because if they, let's say, let's say maybe their mother was a Democrat.
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Do they mean that they wouldn't trust their mother watching their child?
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All right, so that was just for the stupid people.
00:41:40.220
So Roy, talking about that Twitter poll I ran, he said,
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Scott, what, in all capitals, what is the point of posting this to generate hateful responses, which you will get a lot?
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I'm not going to talk to him about his point, because his point is not about the point.
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Okay, Roy, that was an excellent performance in telling us how awesome you are compared to me.
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I am not going to talk about the details of your criticism.
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I'm only going to talk about the quality of your performance.
00:42:44.800
If you want to have an actual discussion, we'll talk about actual real things.
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But if you just want to perform, I'm just going to grade the performance.
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Nope, we're not going to talk about your dumb ideas.
00:43:03.900
Speaking of performance, the most important news in the entire world is that there was a guy who said something bad about a woman's basketball player who did something that he considered classless.
00:43:22.860
Huge, huge, huge story is, so the story is about Dave Portnoy, Barstool, founder, Trump supporter, which is probably the key to this, Trump supporter.
00:43:39.260
So in a women's basketball game, you've probably all seen the news, a white player mocked a black player, a white woman by pointing to the future ring that she was going to win.
00:43:52.360
Again, if they won the game, but I guess the game didn't go their way at the end, and the black player, again, coincidence.
00:43:59.740
Coincidence that one of them was white, coincidence that one of them was black.
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It's just basketball players on different teams.
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And the other one mocks her back by pointing at her finger.
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But of course, the one that Dave Portnoy happens to see, because I think it was toward the end of the game, and he makes a comment that she's an effing idiot for doing this mocking thing.
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Does anybody care what Dave Portnoy thinks about one female player's hand gesture?
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Did anybody in the world bother to make a big deal about it?
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Is it because they care what this one person thinks about one person's hand gesture?
00:45:04.820
He's actually one of the people who might actually change votes because he's outspoken and pro-Trump.
00:45:12.860
This is everything about taking players off the board and performing while you do it.
00:45:21.920
There are two points, but none of them have anything to do with what he did or said.
00:45:27.820
The only thing is, can people perform, let me tell you how I'm better than Dave Portnoy.
00:45:44.360
See, if you added singing and dancing to it, I think it'd be a better performance.
00:45:50.840
And otherwise it's just trying to take him off the field because he's a Trump supporter.
00:45:57.820
And I was looking at who gave the best woke performance.
00:46:02.520
I think it was Shaquille O'Neal, who said something about his mother.
00:46:10.620
We do not need to know about the issue because nobody cared.
00:46:16.460
We only care about the quality of your performance.
00:46:19.680
And Shaq, we're going to give you the Academy Award for that.
00:46:21.980
Well, as I've said a number of times, the Democrats are really the party of women
00:46:28.340
in the sense that women are the dominant, let's say, opinion-making force within the Democrat Party.
00:46:39.340
Would you agree, first of all, that women are the dominant policy-making force?
00:46:44.500
It's not all women in charge, like they're not necessarily all the senators,
00:46:48.940
but they're the primary influence in the Democrat Party.
00:46:53.900
And somebody said to me, why are you against that?
00:47:13.340
No, I don't think that's necessarily, not on the surface.
00:47:19.120
I'm not saying that women can't dominate a party.
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Is it my imagination, or most trans people who transition from male to female,
00:47:41.940
most of them are probably lean Democrat, wouldn't you say?
00:47:49.220
For the stupid people, for the stupid people, I don't mean all of them.
00:47:53.620
I don't mean every trans person is actually a Democrat.
00:48:07.820
And I thought that this is a continuation of a theme, that the Democrats are the party
00:48:18.560
But here's the part that I thought was the best part.
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That conservatives seem to be concerned that their opponents are removing their own balls.
00:48:37.220
Because, I don't know, this is just the way I play it.
00:48:42.480
If I saw that my opponents in any realm were removing their balls, I'd say, carry on.
00:48:58.440
I'd like to just stand to the side and carry on.
00:49:11.040
If he would get rid of those, it'd be a better world.
00:49:18.740
I just thought it was funny that Republicans are concerned that their opponents are removing
00:49:44.180
There's lots of stuff to work out with sports and bathrooms and stuff like that.
00:49:49.680
But that doesn't change the fact that I'm pro-anybody who's an adult living the life
00:50:00.080
Yeah, the children's stuff is a separate category, and I'm not even going to pretend those are
00:50:19.680
Well, did you ever think that the Democrats are trying to create a banana republic?
00:50:32.960
Does that seem ironic, given the number of Democrats who are removing their bananas?
00:50:46.200
The Republicans are, I'm sorry, the Democrats are trying to turn us into a banana-free republic.
00:50:54.200
We don't want anything that looks like a banana or anything that looks like one.
00:51:07.700
But if it looks, you know, sort of like a banana, nobody wants it.
00:51:13.180
Did you see Megyn Kelly unload on Leah Thomas, the trans athlete swimmer?
00:51:34.560
She said that Leah Thomas, who, if you don't know, is a born-as-man transition to a woman
00:51:41.720
and is now winning a bunch of swimming titles by beating the people who were born as biological women.
00:51:54.920
And that we're praising, this is her opinion, that Leah Thomas is being praised for something that's just a sexual kink,
00:52:04.700
which, according to Megyn Kelly, is dressing in women's clothes.
00:52:08.140
And that not only does what Megyn Kelly would call he enjoy the dressing in women's clothes,
00:52:17.760
but probably enjoys being in the locker room with naked women.
00:52:28.660
I am, however, interested in why it's not a valid point.
00:52:34.420
Meaning, how can anybody tell if somebody's acting on a sexual fetish
00:52:39.480
or there's some kind of deep lifestyle identity situation that you would treat differently?
00:52:59.860
That it's a sexual fetish maybe to remove your, or to have genitals or something?
00:53:18.160
Now, as somebody crudely pointed out, an erection would answer the question of whether it's a sexual turn-on.
00:53:39.160
So that makes it a little extra suspicious, doesn't it?
00:53:45.760
Now, I would imagine if you were trans, you would say, no, it doesn't.
00:53:52.360
So I'd like to acknowledge that that would be a legitimate opinion.
00:54:00.080
So I had the following feeling about it when I heard Megyn Kelly.
00:54:08.860
Can we take a moment to just register how brave that was for Megyn Kelly to state that opinion loudly and proudly?
00:54:24.340
Maybe it's easier to be a woman in this conversation.
00:54:34.360
It could be because people said, oh, I want to cancel you, except...
00:54:45.140
How do you rule out that Leah Thomas potentially is just enjoying the show?
00:54:56.240
Now, in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty, you have to act as though there's no crime.
00:55:05.640
It wouldn't even be a crime, would it, technically?
00:55:14.860
Would it be a crime if you did not genuinely think you were a woman?
00:55:21.420
It would totally be a crime if you pretended to be a woman just to have access to the women's locker room.
00:55:36.980
Because this depends 100% on what's happening in a person's head, how they're conceiving of what they're doing.
00:55:56.440
So then you'd have to ask the question, if you can't tell there's a crime, isn't it wrong and unethical to call it out as maybe a crime?
00:56:14.200
Yes, we cannot read minds so there wouldn't be no way to know.
00:56:20.260
You know, I was hoping that the Leah Thomas thing would be the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak, that more biological men would pretend to be women.
00:56:36.300
There's some weightlifter who holds the record for women's weightlifting that's basically a guy who wanted to prove a point, so he identified as a woman just to win the contest.
00:56:47.680
I thought that that would be so massively done that the whole thing would fall apart.
00:56:53.680
But apparently there are not enough people like me.
00:56:57.520
There are not enough people like me to play practical jokes on the system until it breaks.
00:57:09.380
Yes, I think Martina Novotrilova had the best opinion, which is, by the way, very close to mine.
00:57:29.420
The born-as-men should not compete against the born-as-women.
00:57:33.960
But she does say that a third category should be created.
00:57:42.480
The open category would be anybody who identifies as anything who just did not fit comfortably in one of the other two categories.
00:57:55.460
Now, of course, it's expensive to create a new league.
00:58:00.520
You know, if you were a school system and you were, let's say, required to do it, you might have five people who would, you know, you wouldn't even maybe have a basketball team.
00:58:12.620
But maybe it doesn't have to be school against school.
00:58:16.620
You know, maybe several schools could get together and say, you know, all trans athletes who were born male, those are the problematic ones, can play against each other.
00:58:31.380
You don't have to be trans, but it would be a league where you could be if you want to.
00:58:38.620
Actually, I could imagine myself playing in the trans open league.
00:58:44.480
If I were to play soccer in high school and you said you could be on the men's team, or you could pretend to be a woman, I suppose.
00:58:54.920
I couldn't be on the women's team, so I could be on the men's team, and I would be competing against the best male players.
00:59:06.800
I'd be playing against the best male players, so I'd probably sit on the bench.
00:59:11.000
If I joined the trans league that wasn't just trans, it's anybody who wanted to play, I would play against people who were, you know, I'd end up in some league that's similar to my skill set.
00:59:26.480
There'd be some women in it who were good at soccer.
00:59:29.140
There'd be some trans athletes in it, of course.
00:59:31.240
And I'd be playing on an even field with people I was competitive with.
00:59:42.740
I don't know how practical it is to form a new league.
00:59:49.700
And I've often said that the male and female binary is only good for the top athletes.
00:59:58.560
The top female athlete, yay, gets a college scholarship.
01:00:02.960
The worst female athlete doesn't get on the team or sits on the bench.
01:00:16.760
Who, the lowest athlete doesn't get on the team or sits on the bench.
01:00:27.220
And if trans could fit comfortably in that league,
01:00:29.820
because the only thing that matters is how well you play, not anything else,
01:00:43.200
Ladies and gentlemen, is there any other big story that I missed?
01:00:51.560
Is there anything I'm ignoring that you think I should not have?
01:01:04.740
Yeah, Finland has joined NATO, which nobody cares about.
01:01:08.040
Does anybody imagine that Finland joining NATO would make a big difference to anything?
01:01:16.220
I mean, Russia won't like it, but was Russia going to attack Finland?
01:01:28.140
It looks like something to talk about, but not something that matters.
01:01:32.360
BRICS is growing, but again, as long as the U.S. economy is strong,
01:01:43.720
I just saw a comment that I don't know the story behind,
01:01:46.840
but the comment said that Greg Abbott, governor of Texas,
01:01:51.220
wants overdose deaths by fentanyl to be murder,
01:01:55.580
which would mean that the dealer would be guilty of murder.
01:02:04.720
I would say that dealing fentanyl beyond some scale, right?
01:02:13.860
But if you're a professional mass fentanyl dealer,
01:02:22.220
If there's somebody who's moving product to 10,000 people,
01:02:26.980
and I assume there's some big dealers who are moving to 10,000 people,
01:02:45.640
A mass fentanyl dealer, the big ones, just the big ones,
01:02:58.380
Here's, oh, we've got another dumb person entering the box.
01:03:02.160
So Mike Kaye, I'll need to talk to him like a dumb person to respond to.
01:03:12.700
So, could I take a moment just to talk to the dumb person here?
01:03:15.820
Mike, Mike, you're thinking about addiction like you're thinking about M&Ms.
01:03:37.180
Mike, if people could just stop taking fentanyl,
01:04:26.120
Does everybody appreciate it when I give the special announcements to stupid people?
01:04:43.560
I guess you don't want to be on the receiving end.
01:04:51.720
I've noticed that all the dumb people like to signal their, who they are.
01:06:10.040
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