Episode 2074 Scott Adams: How I Destroyed Twitter Ad Model (Per The News), Soros Motivation Mystery
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 19 minutes
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140.3194
Summary
The Dalai Lama and a young boy try to kiss on the cheek, and the boy wants to suck on his tongue, so the Dalai Lama gives him a kiss instead. Does that make him gay? Is the Dalai allowed to have a sex life in the modern world?
Transcript
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Well, would you like to see the Dilbert comic that's running on the Locals platform?
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To see what kind of jokes I would do after I'm canceled.
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Well, you're just beginning to see the beginning of it.
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Because I still had some in the pipeline when I got canceled.
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So some of the ones you've seen are the uncancelled version.
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But here's one that definitely would not have run in newspapers.
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And it features Dave the engineer talking to the boss.
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Now, Dave's a new character, a black engineer, whose main characteristic is that you can never
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Because he's very woke, but you're not really sure if he's serious.
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Dave turns around and says, according to critical race theory, the problem is you.
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And Dave says, that's what the smart people tell me.
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Now, there was no way I could run that in newspapers.
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And in fact, every comic this week, this coming week, will be a comic that could not run in newspapers.
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So if you're wondering when it would get spicier, well, your wait is over.
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By the way, I don't target anybody or do anything racially insensitive or anything like that.
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I just do things that wouldn't be in newspapers.
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There's nothing hateful or inappropriate about any of it.
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Did you see the video of the Dalai Lama and a young boy?
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So the young boy came up to the Dalai Lama at some public event and said, can I hug you?
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And the Dalai Lama said, yes, but first give me a kiss right there on his cheek.
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And then he says, give me another kiss on my lips.
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Now, at this point, I'm saying to myself, huh, maybe a cultural difference.
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I don't want to judge it because it might be just a cultural oddity, something I'm not
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So the little boy gives him a kiss on the lips.
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And then the Dalai Lama says, and I swear I'm not making this up.
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The Dalai Lama sticks out his tongue and asks the little boy to suck on his tongue.
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And do you know what the media's reaction to that was?
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The media was just, I think we'll just describe it this time.
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I don't think we're going to weigh in with an opinion on this one.
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I don't know how you would interpret this any other way than that you wouldn't want the
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I would not leave the Dalai Lama around my kids.
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I'm just saying I wouldn't leave them around my kids.
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Has anybody ever noticed what happens to heterosexuals when you put them in jail and they can't have
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Well, they become gay while they're in jail because they take what they can get.
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How are we surprised that people who are not allowed a heterosexual sex life would devolve
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It's the most well-demonstrated male effect in the world.
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The men are unusually flexible once their other options run out.
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I mean, if you said you didn't see it coming, I would say you should have.
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Yeah, the Dalai Lama seems to be associated with Democrats.
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And so if a Democrat tells a young boy to suck his tongue, that apparently is just news that
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That's just some news, according to the Democrats.
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Apparently, there is a thing called Corporate Equality Index.
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Now, if I can make one request, don't Google the letters CEI.
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And the theory here is that the reason these big corporate entities like Budweiser are doing
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things which maybe to you look like bad marketing, such as the Dylan Mulvaney situation with Bud Light,
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But really, what's happening is these big companies have to get their CEI score.
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It's hard for me to act like an adult sometimes.
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So, I guess most of the big companies have a good 100% CEI score.
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But apparently, this is yet another example where entities can run big corporations.
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So, a big corporation, a big corporation doesn't run itself anymore.
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It waits for these little interest groups to start pestering it, and then it does whatever
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So, now they have an ESG score, a CEI score, probably a DEI score.
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It's all, you know, CRT is sort of beneath a lot of that.
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Does it look like we took a good idea and ruined it?
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Pretty much all of the wokeness falls into the following category, in my opinion.
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Good ideas that are implemented the way a Dilber company would implement something.
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It's a terribly good idea to say, hey, let's treat each other as, you know, individuals.
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And then you create all these little organizations, and you just make everything worse.
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You're making them hire people that they didn't want to hire,
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because they were looking for talent, not diversity.
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the engine upon which all of our happiness depends.
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If you destroy the free market engine, and they are,
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But I think that we're missing one kind of three-letter outside measurement.
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I believe that we now need one for straight white males.
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So there should be a, there should be like a grade that you give big companies for how they treat straight white males.
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Because if you're, if you're a member of the LGBT community, the CEI rating is apparently exactly what you need.
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And it doesn't mean what you think it means if you look up a CEI.
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So what would be wrong with having a straight white, straight white man grade for these corporations?
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Because wouldn't you want to know that if, if you were a straight white man,
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wouldn't you want to know what companies to not work for?
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Apparently, you know, three quarters of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies have a 100% LGBTQ CEI score.
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But suppose you said, whoo, it looks like they're going to definitely favor the LGBTQ people for promotion.
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Looks like the comments are broken again on locals.
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I don't want to curse, but it's really going to be hard.
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Oh my freaking God, can this technology get any fucking worse.
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All right, it looks like maybe, nope, looks like the comments are broken.
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I don't know if you can see the comments, but I can't see them.
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All right, well, I'll carry on without locals' comments.
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It's, oh, now I'm going to, actually, I'm going to close it and reopen it, see if that helps.
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It's just so disturbing that I can't get through this without a major technical hiccup every time.
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But you do have good servers over there on YouTube.
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And now it looks like the stream is dead itself.
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I don't know if they can see me, but it's dead on my side.
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All right, well, we're going to press on with just YouTube.
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And we'll pretend like locals works, which apparently doesn't.
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It looks like they've got a new version that just crapped out.
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All right, let's talk about, anyway, did anybody disagree with me on having a score for big corporations for straight white men?
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So I'm going to give Bud Light a score of 50 out of 100.
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So I continue to be fascinated by the George Soros story.
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And, of course, I've been asking people, can you tell me what his motive is?
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What is George Soros' motive for the money he donates, which appear to many of us to be a huge mistake, at least for the United States?
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Because it does stuff like get elected DAs who don't put people in jail, and then your city becomes a crime-infested, you know, rat's nest, and then you have to move away.
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So here are the many, many reasons that people gave me why they're sure that George Soros is doing bad things intentionally.
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One theory is that in his childhood, he was protected by the Nazis, because when he was a kid, he helped them round up the Jews or do something, or at least identify the assets owned by Jews during World War II.
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So some people say it must be some kind of an effect from his childhood where he's really kind of racist and kind of a Nazi.
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Now, here's your tip for spotting a mass hysteria.
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One way to spot a mass hysteria is that there are lots of different interpretations of what's going on.
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So, do you think it's likely that what's going on is that George Soros is actually identifying with Nazis, and that's why he's trying to destroy the free world?
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I'm going to say that one's probably not right.
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So, in other words, he's trying to crash the United States, but he'll make financial bets against the United States, so he'll make money if we go down.
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Do you think that he wants to crash the economy of the country he lives in, as do his children?
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If you said he was trying to crash some country where he doesn't live, I would say, well, he's done that before.
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But has he ever tried to crash the country he depends on for his own life?
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How about he wants to usher in globalism, and it's really about globalism and open borders.
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That the reason he wants prosecutors who don't put enough people in jail is because he wants globalism and open borders.
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What has globalism and open borders got to do with bad district attorneys?
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How about that he's evil, and that the answer is demons.
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He is just an evil demon, and the world has some evil demons.
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And they're satanic, and they just walk among us and do evil things.
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Now, that's a bad explanation of the Mike Cernovich view on it, which he tweeted yesterday, I think, that it was just a case of evil.
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Now, I do think that that filter on life can be useful, that just some things are evil.
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Because you don't want to argue about the reasons for stuff, right?
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You don't want to have to argue about, well, he seems to be acting evil, but maybe he has a reason.
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Maybe it's just better to call it evil, and then you know what to do about it.
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That's more of a religious filter, so that one doesn't fit me so well.
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Now, I think that you do need to know his motivation.
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Because if you don't know his motivation, you don't know what's happening or why.
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You don't know if there'll be more of it, and you don't know if you can stop it, right?
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If he's just evil, then there's nothing you can do short of something illegal.
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According to Elon Musk, who weighed in on this question on Twitter,
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and he said that it's his understanding that the son of Soros is the de facto head of the group.
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So in other words, you would have to believe that the father was either a secret Jewish Nazi,
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seems unlikely, but that he also extended that down to his son,
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and that his son, who did not live through the situation that George Soros did,
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Well, unless he passed the craziness down to his son,
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Because you've got two complete different individuals
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So it's not crazy, evil demons, unless both of them are.
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If you have the demon filter, well, two demons.
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And to me, it's very curious that there would be two completely different individuals,
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who would have the same weird destructive impulses.
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But when I asked, well, what's the son's motivation?
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I said, which moves the question to his son's motivation.
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Why would the son of Soros want to make America unlivable?
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Because it feels like Soros' money is making America unlivable
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because the cities are impossible because of crime,
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because of the DAs he got in office, et cetera.
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in terms of why the son's motivation would be so similar.
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some amount of ivory tower pseudo-intellectualism is probably to blame.
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In other words, they came up with a theory that the thing that they're doing is actually good for the country.
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That is very close to, or if not identical, to my hypothesis.
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And here's the first thing I'd like to point out.
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Don't you assume that people like Elon Musk know the actual reason for stuff?
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Well, we're looking at these people, we're guessing.
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But don't you assume that somebody in Elon Musk's position would have your preferred knowledge about other billionaires?
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And that he would know exactly why Soros is doing what he's doing.
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And if it were some other weird reason, he'd know it.
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But his interpretation is exactly like mine, but I'm going to put my own words on it.
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My words are that the Soros family, they have some things they need to, let's say, repair reputationally.
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Would you agree that George Soros should repair his family's reputation before he dies?
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Because he's got the whole Bank of England betting against the pound thing.
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He's got the story about helping the Nazis in World War II.
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So even though he was a kid, so personally I give him a pass for that,
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the way he responded on 60 Minutes sounded weird.
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So people are like, well, we're not even sure he was sorry about that.
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So I believe that the Soros family, their biggest priority is rehabilitating their reputation
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However, I apply the Dilbert filter to this situation.
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The way I got rich with the Dilbert comic is making fun of people who had good intentions and bad implementation.
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You can't really have a big entity without some kind of management.
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But if you do too much of it, you've got micromanagement.
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Or if you let your management happen by third parties like CEI and ESG,
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well, that would be an example of bad management because there are too many chefs in the kitchen sort of thing.
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So everything I write about is a good idea that went wrong.
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Now, you could say pseudo-intellectualism, but the pseudo-intellectualism is sort of the good intention part.
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The good intention is, and let me give you, and by the way, I'm going to give you another theory after this that's even more fun,
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which might even be right, but my current working theory is that they're trying to do the right things
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and they're trying to, for example, not have an excessive number of black Americans in jail
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And probably they said to themselves, hey, we can make America better by having fewer black people in jail.
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And the fastest way to do that is to not jail them for non-violent crimes.
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Now, that doesn't mean it's going to work, but that would be a noble idea, wouldn't it?
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that they think climate change is a real problem and they're really trying to help.
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It's just that the things that happen because of that maybe aren't as helpful.
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Are you listening to some alternative where my mouth is moving,
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So, one possibility is that the Soros have good intentions.
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They're trying to rehabilitate the family name or at least do what's right with the world
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Because one of the reasons that rich people do charity is so you don't kill them and take their money.
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but it's really good to defend yourself by showing that you're doing something good for the world.
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Then people go, oh, okay, I hate that they have billions and I don't have billions,
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So, but I'm going to give you one more theory that I've not heard from anybody.
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Imagine that you thought, and this is just about the district attorney part, not other parts.
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Imagine you thought that the biggest problem in the world is that too many,
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not the biggest one, but a big problem is that too many black people are being locked up
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So, suppose that was your view, because that's my view.
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That's pretty close to my view, is that we use the prison system
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to basically take black people out of the public.
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It looks like there are a whole bunch of white people
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who were doing smaller crimes and bigger crimes.
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And so the prison system grew up as an illegal way
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to take black people out of the population and put them in jail.
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Now, I don't know if any, I don't think anybody had that thought.
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Like, I don't think anybody was in a meeting and said,
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hey, let's do something to take black people out of the public.
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I don't think it was intentional, but it happened.
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Now, suppose you were Soros and you said to yourself,
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But the thing that needs to be changed is too deep.
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In other words, you'd have to change the school system,
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you'd have to change maybe something about single parents,
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maybe something about welfare, something about training.
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Like, there are just too many big things that would need to be fixed.
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So, what would you do if you thought you had to fix this situation,
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Well, one thing you might do is break the system.
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it's going to have to do the big things to fix itself.
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If you don't break it, it'll keep limping along the way it is.
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So, we had a limping system of taking people that we had completely failed,
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we gave them no structure, gave them no education,
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So, society completely fails a class of people,
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the only way you can fix it is to make it worse.
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The only way you can fix it is to make it worse.
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it becomes really obvious that everything will fall apart.
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Now, those of you who say this is mind reading,
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They give their money to organizations that sound like they're good organizations.
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And then that organization does something messed up.
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If you looked at all of the things that Soros gives his money to,
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That'd be a pretty strong argument for just evil.
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Or that he's trying to break everything to make money somehow.
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But suppose, suppose you looked at his entire portfolio,
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and you found that, I don't know if this is true, by the way,
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but suppose you found that 80% of it was just feeding poor people,
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like hiring DAs that don't want to prosecute crime.
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that's a little too much into the political interference realm.
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Would it change your mind if you knew that 80% of what he was doing
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Unless it's just a way to hide the evil, but that seems weird.
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I think the Dilbert hypothesis is the strongest one.
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But if it turns out he's doing good things and bad things,
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then I'd say the bad things are probably accidental,
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And they may also think that temporarily having higher crime is okay.
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so that the poor people who have turned to crime
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but his best guess is that they're trying to do something useful
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gave them some bad ideas about what works and what doesn't work.
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if they can make a temporary goal of more equity.
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Whereas the Republicans are more likely to say,
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because that's the military-industrial complex,
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This is very consistent with AOC and the Democrats.
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Like maybe she wants to impeach Clarence Thomas,
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or maybe she wants to impeach the federal judge who just ruled
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But she's decided that impeaching judges would be a good
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So this is once again, AOC has a goal instead of a system.
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The goal is to get rid of these judges that she thinks are
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abusing their power, but if you were to do that, it would
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destroy the system of an independent judiciary.
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Now, how is it that she continuously doesn't see that she's
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Inability, total inability to see consequences.
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Lastly, there's some conversation about UBI, universal basic income,
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And the idea is that robots and AI will take away so many jobs.
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We might need AI, or I'm sorry, we might need UBI to keep people alive.
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Cernovich had an interesting quote about this on Twitter.
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It did nothing but increase alcoholism and obesity.
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Do you think UBI would do nothing but exacerbate people's bad habits?
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One of the big complaints with marijuana is that you'll do it and you'll become lazy.
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And you won't get done what you need to get done.
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That marijuana makes you more of what you already were.
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If you were lazy to begin with, oh, it'll make you lazier.
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But if you were ambitious, naturally, it will make you more ambitious.
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It just sort of exacerbates or accentuates what you already were.
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Now, during the pandemic, the people getting the UBI, many of them had low-end jobs where the UBI was better than the job.
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Probably, those were not necessarily the go-getters.
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But if you said, I'm going to give a MacArthur Genius Award to somebody, but you don't have to do anything for us.
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It's just we're giving you money because you're so smart.
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We think you'll do smart things with it, but we're not going to tell you what to do with it.
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And, in fact, a number of MacArthur recipients, the thing that made them a MacArthur recipient is that they were ambitious.
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In other words, they came to the attention of the MacArthur people because they'd done such good work and probably worked hard all their life.
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And now they said, let's give you some money to see what you can do with it.
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So those people, I believe, give free money and work harder because that's who they were.
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Now they've got this extra resource so they can put some extra work in, too.
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Lazy people will just be destroyed by it because they need a reason to get up and go to work.
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And ambitious people will say, well, I've got a little freedom, a little more freedom to write that book I wanted, a little more freedom to do that startup I wanted, learn that thing I wanted to learn, go back to school.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, is there any topic that I didn't talk about?
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Lots of good news on Monday, or at least interesting news.
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Yeah, UBI is not the same as grants or scholarships, but it still demonstrates the point.
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Let me, apparently I have to do another notice for the dumb people.
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Oh, there might be some bad people who are also trans.
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Anything you say about trans does not apply to 100% of them.
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But anything you say about them does not apply to all of them.
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So no, the fact that Riley Gaines got attacked by a bad trans person doesn't mean anything about the trans community.
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It's just like every other group has some bad people in it.
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If you don't treat people as individuals, well, what are you doing?
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Now, by the way, if this seems inconsistent, I say you should treat every person as an individual.
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At the same time, I say maybe you should stay away from large communities of people who have it out for you.
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Because even in that large community, if I met an individual, I would treat them individually.
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One is a statement of risk that's not dependent on any one person.
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And one is a statement about how do you treat one person.
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Oh, I saw somewhere that I was described as, there was some hit piece about me recently, I was described as a member of the intellectual dark web.
01:15:51.220
See, the trouble is, people have a hard time identifying me, because I'm left to Bernie, but I have a conservative audience, for the most part.
01:16:01.860
Not every person, not every person in the audience is conservative.
01:16:05.440
When I say I have a conservative audience, I do not mean 100% of them are conservatives.
01:16:21.220
Yeah, I never liked that intellectual dark web, because that would call me an intellectual, and that's never been the case.
01:16:45.680
Let's have a congratulations for this, I think, a gentleman.
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I don't know if you had a problem, or you're just trying to have less of it in your life, but congratulations.
01:17:01.360
Because if you've had a lifelong drinking habit, whether you're addicted or you just like it, it's not easy to stop.
01:17:13.820
You know, if I don't do anything else in my life, except apparently I've influenced a fairly large number of people to stop drinking.
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If that's the only thing I accomplished in my life, that's solid.
01:17:46.300
If you're telling me that you've been off drugs or alcohol, use all caps.
01:18:09.780
Well, I'm very impressed with many of you in the audience.
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And I'm not going to tell you that you should never drink.
01:18:40.700
And here we have somebody who's not had a drink for three minutes.
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I'm looking at all the number of years going by.
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I wonder if I have the least drinking followers of anybody.
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Now, I realize I'm not hearing from the people who are continuing to drink.
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But there are a lot of people on the locals' platform, especially, telling me they quit.