Episode 2076 Scott Adams： Trump Talks To Tucker, Musk Dunks On BBC, Inflation, Colbert Mocks Biden
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Elon Musk has a live conversation with the BBC, and it's the most entertaining thing I've ever heard. It's better than a movie, better than most scripted interviews, and better than anything you ve ever heard before.
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Well, the funniest thing that happened yesterday.
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How many of you were lucky enough to catch the Spaces audio event?
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So it's a Twitter feature where you hear just audio.
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And Elon Musk had a Twitter Spaces event in which he was having a conversation with the BBC.
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Let's call it the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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And it was the most entertaining thing I've seen in a long time, heard.
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You put in the earbuds and you hear people just having a conversation.
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And when you hear like a personal live conversation with Elon Musk just, you know, talking to some BBC guy and having a lot of fun with it.
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It was better than the movie, better than most scripted, anything really.
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And I will borrow from David Sachs tweet in which he summarized the most interesting part of it.
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So this is a summary version, but it captures it pretty good.
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Why is there so much more hate speech on Twitter now?
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Can you give me an example of some of the hate speech you're seeing now?
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Well, people say, people say all sorts of nonsense.
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This is the, and then the BBC is, let's move on.
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You've never heard a reporter get squashed in a live conversation that hard.
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Somebody who knows media stuff better commented that the biggest mistake you could make would be letting your interview subject also record the call, but to also do it live.
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That the reporter was taking a big chance when he decided to be in a live event and challenge Elon Musk.
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Because if there's one thing we know about Elon Musk, he doesn't get embarrassed.
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You don't ever want to be in a live conversation with somebody who's not happy with you and also, and also, this is important, doesn't get embarrassed by anything.
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It wasn't just that when Musk asked him for an example of the Hays speech, he couldn't come up with it.
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Musk put his boot on this guy's head and just drilled him in front of all of us while we listened, and it was so good.
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You're saying that you've noticed that the hate speech is up, but you don't have one example?
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Just give me one example of anything you saw that looked like more hate speech.
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Well, you know, people say, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Because if it's a big story, it's a big thing, and you can see it personally, you could give me one example.
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And Musk just ground him into the dirt for that.
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It was so much fun to listen to, but it got better.
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So, this next part you're not even going to believe.
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So, then Musk starts grinding this guy down for the fake information that the BBC reported about COVID masks and vaccination side effects.
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When Elon Musk made an accusation about the BBC, he gave them specifics.
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Yeah, what you said about masks and what you didn't say about vaccine side effects.
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So, after Musk has completely just disemboweled this guy in public by showing that his accusations had no weight whatsoever,
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but Musk's accusations against the BBC have well-proven weight that they were reporting fake news on the most important event in recent years.
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Then, after thoroughly destroying this guy, Musk turns to questions from the audience.
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But the BBC guy was still there, and he kept trying to sort of chime in while Musk was looking through questions.
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And Musk was just basically dismissing him like he's not even talking.
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Like, he had so humiliated himself, the BBC guy had, that Musk reads a question that makes fun of the fact that BBC has two meanings.
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One is British Broadcast Corporation, the other is Big Black Cock, in case you didn't know.
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I probably wouldn't have said that, except that's the story.
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So, Musk says on this audio event, after he's just destroyed this guy's reputation, he says to him,
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He's just trying to get him to quote something that'll sound funny when he says it.
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He says, well, you know, I think the interview's over, maybe we should move on.
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And the funniest part is that Musk didn't quit with the BBC stuff.
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He had so demolished this guy that talking about anything serious was a complete waste of time,
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And then he just starts forcing this guy to admit that he likes Big Black Cock.
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And the guy doesn't know what to do, because it's not supposed to go that way.
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I fell asleep to that conversation after the BBC guy left.
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And the best part of it is, every time somebody tries to accuse Elon Musk of having a sophomoric sense of humor,
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he just doubles down on it and just makes it funnier.
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Every time he doubles down on his, what would you call it, puerile or whatever's the word for it,
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And the funny part is that he's not embarrassed by it.
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By far, that's the funny part, that he doesn't mind putting it right out there.
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But the other things we learned, which I did not know, is that, as you know, Twitter staff went from almost 8,000 people to closer to 1,400 to 1,500.
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And apparently, they closed one of three data centers around the year end.
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But when they went to close it, they realized that there were a lot of hardwired connections with the three.
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So that was actually one of the biggest problems for Twitter's future.
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But the other thing is that he was bleeding a few billion dollars a year with the old cost structure.
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And he says he's gotten it down to they should be cash positive, actually making more cash than they're spending within the year.
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And of course, he bought it for twice as much as it was probably worth.
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Basically, he didn't want to buy it once he found out what it was really worth.
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In a few short months, he expects it to be cash positive.
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You know, as much as Tesla is impressive, as much as SpaceX and Neuralink and all those things and Starlink, as impressive as all of those companies are individually, the fact that he turned around Twitter in one year.
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Now, of course, I couldn't get off the call because I was wondering if the BBC guy would blame me.
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Because you know that's been happening in the press lately.
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People have literally blamed me for advertisers not coming back to Twitter.
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Like, one day I woke up into the news that I had personally destroyed Twitter because one time Musk said something about Dilbert shouldn't get cancelled.
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And therefore, all the advertisers were never going to come back.
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Now, according to Musk, most of the advertisers will probably in the long term come back because it's a good platform for them to advertise.
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Some would say I didn't have anything to do with it, but that doesn't change anything.
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I guess one of the groups, I just learned this this morning.
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The BBC mentioned a group that had talked about more Hayes speech on Twitter.
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And I guess that group is the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
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And they said they saw more Hayes speech on it.
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But I learned this morning from an alert Twitter user that the same group that says there's more Hayes speech, they're primarily a climate change advocacy group.
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And they don't like that Twitter has anti-climate alarm stuff on it.
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So it turns out the least credible organization, because they have a clear bias against Musk and against Twitter's handling of climate change stuff, they're the ones who say there's more Hayes speech.
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But I think they're looking at anti-climate change stuff as hate speech, too.
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It was just a total dismantling of the credibility of the entity.
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So the Democrats, in looking at where they would hold their 2024 convention, they decided that in the entire United States, the place that would make the most sense for a Democrat convention would be in Chicago, which Joel Pollack and Breitbart helpfully points out is the murder capital of the country.
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They're literally having their convention in the murder capital of the country.
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Now, does that not tell you that they don't care about anything because they must have the elections rigged already?
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I mean, this feels like a group who isn't trying to win.
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Just consider that they're seriously looking to run Joe Biden for president and they're going to hold their convention in Chicago.
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They either have it already rigged, so it doesn't matter what they do, or they stop trying.
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It's either already rigged or they just stop trying to win.
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And the stop trying to win wouldn't make any sense at all.
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So, I'm going to use my technique, which I've recommended now.
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My working assumption is that they believe they've already figured out how to rig the upcoming election.
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I have only an observation of something that can't be explained another way.
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You cannot explain this level of incompetence in the Democrat Party unless they know it doesn't matter.
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I also think that the real reason that they want Trump to run, I think I'll be the first person I've heard say this.
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The real reason they want Trump to run is not because they think they can beat him with Biden.
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It's because they won't believe Trump when he says it was rigged.
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Because he's the only person that can rig the election right in front of him, and right in front of you, and it won't matter.
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Because you're not going to listen to Trump saying the election is rigged again.
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But imagine for a moment Mitt Romney ran for president again as a Republican.
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And imagine for a moment, just hypothetically, if Mitt Romney said, wait a minute, this doesn't look right.
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I don't believe this election was rigged, was proper.
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If Mitt Romney tells you that the election was rigged, the Democrats have a big problem.
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Because people are going to think, Mitt Romney doesn't exactly just always agree with the Republicans.
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He would actually have to actually literally believe this must be true, or he wouldn't say it.
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You know, that's the sort of impression you have.
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Now, you can imagine a bunch of other Republicans that you would put in the same boat.
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If Tom Cotton ran for president, and he didn't like the result of the election and genuinely thought it was rigged, you'd believe him.
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Because he doesn't have any history that would suggest he would lie about such a thing of that importance.
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If, and you could name, I'll bet you could name five other Republicans, Chris Christie, take Chris Christie.
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If Chris Christie ran for president, lost, but thought the election was rigged, genuinely thought it, you'd believe him.
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There's only one person who could claim the election as rigged, and you wouldn't want to necessarily back him,
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because you're going to get in trouble and get thrown in jail and lose your job.
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Trump is the only person they can cheat right in front of you.
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Everybody else, they would have to be way more clever, and I don't know if they know how to be way more clever.
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So let me be clear, I have no evidence of anything being rigged.
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However, the Democrats are sending a signal that they're not trying to compete under normal circumstances.
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It looks like they have something else going on.
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If he lost the election, but legitimately claimed it looked like there were irregularities, you would believe him.
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Because he's gotten this far and he didn't tell you any lies.
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It would be weird for that to be the first one.
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You know, Trump plays fast and loose with the fact-checking.
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So if you put him in the office again, you make him lose again, the one thing you can guarantee isn't going to happen is an insurrection at the Capitol.
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Because it's not really a free country the way it used to be.
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My hypothesis is my working understanding, without evidence, without evidence, but my working assumption is that everything is leading in one direction.
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And Trump is the only person you won't believe when he says it happened.
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Well, more to that point, but indirectly, even Colbert has mocked the president's cognitive ability.
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So you may have seen the interview where Biden was talking to Al Roker.
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And Al Roker is not what you would call the hard-hitting interviewer, right?
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He's there for the Easter egg hunt and the weather and fun stuff.
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And so Al Roker does this, you know, softball kind of, hey, Joe, how many more Easter egg hunts do you think you'll have?
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You know, trying to figure out if he's really running.
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And then Biden trips over his words in his Biden way and it becomes another viral thing.
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And more evidence why they don't want to let him talk in public if they can avoid it.
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So after they show the video, Colbert comes back and he's wearing aviator glasses like Biden.
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And I'm going to do my impression of Colbert's impression so that you can get a sense of how much he was mocking him.
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Because I've never heard Colbert go this hard, even in a funny way.
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Point is, I am mentally fit once again to run for president of the United States.
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So even Colbert used this example as someone who is demonstrating to the world that he's not mentally fit to be president.
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It's hard for me to imagine that the Democrats actually expect Biden to be the nominee.
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Do you think they're desperately trying to find a replacement and they just can't get one yet?
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And I've never liked him less than his interview that I just saw when he was...
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I kind of hate him when he talks because of his arrogance.
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He was being filmed just leaving the White House.
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So he'd visited the White House to make himself look like more of a national candidate, I guess.
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So Biden wasn't even at the White House when he visited.
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But he leaves and he's got his, you know, he's got his little jacket over his shoulder.
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And he's got that swagger and that look in his face.
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And you're just like, oh, there's no way I could look at that for four years.
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And I was actually fairly pro Newsom in terms of his skills.
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I don't see how the Democrat base can vote for the whitest person in America acting arrogant like a tall, rich white guy.
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That feels like exactly the opposite of the Democrat vibe.
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And how in the world do the Democrats keep running old white men or even, you know, not so old white men?
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How in the world do they keep doing that and getting away with it?
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By the way, did you know that black support for Democrats, just to support what I've predicted,
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that if you look at black American support for Democrats, it's at an all-time high among women.
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So black women are supporting Democrats at an all-time high rate.
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Black men are starting to desert to Republicans.
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That the black vote has bifurcated, male and female?
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Now, this supports what I've been saying, that the Democrat Party is a party of women.
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It's run by women effectively, even if they don't have the jobs that would suggest they're in charge.
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Because you can't do anything as a Democrat that women are not 100% behind.
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And I think that the Republican Party is becoming sort of the dad party.
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And it's exactly what you think in terms of why some would be important at different times in history.
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Because you know from your own life, if you have a mother and a father, that there are times when dad is the right answer.
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Dad will make sure that little rocket man doesn't send any rockets at you.
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Dad will make sure that Russia doesn't invade Ukraine.
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Dad will make sure that China doesn't go into Taiwan.
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Mom will make sure you get fed if you're hungry.
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So she's just making sure you've got your basics.
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So if you're worried mostly about your basics, then you want mom.
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If you're worried about destruction from outside forces, you definitely want dad.
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And I'm wondering if Trump could take advantage of that.
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The first thing I'd wonder is, if I were Trump, I would mock continuously the fact that the Democrats want an old white guy for their standard bearer.
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And I would just joke with the fact that he was also an old white guy.
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He'd go, look, does it make sense that we're running two old white guys for president?
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I mean, I'm glad that I'm in the race because I have something to offer.
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But why are the Democrats offering you only the same thing that I'm offering, an old white guy?
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If you want an old white guy, I'm your old white guy.
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But it doesn't make sense for the Democrats to be offering an old white guy.
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So I think, actually, Trump could embrace himself being an old white guy.
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And Biden's just a bad choice because he doesn't represent the primary.
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So if he can demonstrate the capability, he should be president.
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That would be consistent with Republican theory.
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So for them to pick Biden because he can win seems outside of their brand.
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They should pick somebody who's the right person even if they can't win.
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But I think Trump could tear them apart by mocking them for not being true to their own philosophy.
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If you say you can't even believe them to be true to their own core philosophy,
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At least you know Republicans are going to favor getting the job done over identity.
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You can count on if we have to choose between looking good and doing the work,
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we're going to do the work because we always do.
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When Republicans have to choose between looking good and doing the work,
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Even Democrats know that they will choose looking good over getting the job done.
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You say that, and you're going to get some Democrats to vote for your Republicans.
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And I didn't get to watch the whole thing, but I picked up kind of the vibe early on.
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And as you know, when I talk about Trump, if I talk lovingly about his technique,
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it doesn't mean I agree with all of his policies or that he's never done anything you don't like.
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It just means he might have done some technique that was good.
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He talked about when he was being arraigned that some of the police or officials involved were literally crying because they thought it was so unfair.
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You know, there's no fact checking that would know that that's true or not.
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But still, in terms of persuasion, you can actually picture the police crying because they had to arrest him.
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That was like his first introduction to the to the topic was that people were crying when he was arraigned.
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Persuasion wise, because that brings you right into the scene, doesn't it?
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That put you that put you next to Trump while he's being fingerprinted.
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But whatever they were doing, you know, that he had to be told to do because he was being arrested or being arraigned.
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You're just right there and you're seeing the people crying.
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You're seeing them wear like police outfits and like tears running down their cheeks.
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His visual sense of communication is just unparalleled.
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Then he sort of changed the subject from, you know, the current problem because everybody,
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I think he sold at least all the Republicans that it's an illegitimate prosecution.
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And he even used examples of people who are not his friends who said it was illegitimate.
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And then he talked about his other two problems.
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And then his phone call with the, with Georgia where he asked them to find votes.
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So he's got, so everything, everything gets a brand.
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And every time he brands something, I laugh because it always works.
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So he's got the box hoax, which I'm totally going to use.
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As soon as you hear box hoax, because those words even go together.
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Now imagine if he had chosen secret document hoax.
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If you thought it was a secret document hoax, it would still have secret document in it.
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And you say, oh, secret documents, that could be important.
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It makes you even forget about what was in the box.
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I don't know if that's his strongest work, the perfect call, but it's not bad.
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If anybody saw the interview, would you say that Tucker is clearly supportive of Trump,
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And haven't we seen reports that Tucker didn't like Trump?
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Like, secret emails that he was mad at Trump or something?
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Like, even the chemistry as they were sitting there looked perfectly comfortable.
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And then, what Tucker said was also perfectly complimentary.
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So, Tucker's take was that Biden is the most dangerous of the two presidents.
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Because Biden's the one that let the Ukraine war happen.
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But he does have a good version of events where he had threatened the big powers.
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They weren't sure that the threats were real, but 10% true, as he says.
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You know, Putin didn't believe my threats, but he 10% believed it.
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He didn't believe my threats, but he 10% believed it.
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And it's funny, because even when he talks about it, he's talking about it like they shouldn't have believed it.
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I'm seeing a comment that says, Daniel Day-Lewis is overrated.
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Oh, and then Trump says nuclear war is the biggest problem.
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And the climate change people have a problem because the climate is not acting the way it's supposed to act, according to their narrative.
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Now, we do understand that any five or 10 year period is not necessarily telling you something important, because it's the longer term trend.
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But it's still a problem if your narrative is you should be alarmed by everything is heading in the right direction instead of the wrong direction.
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California doesn't get enough rain, and it's because of climate change.
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California gets blasted with more rain than we've ever seen, and it must be climate change.
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You know, so the story is kind of falling apart a little bit.
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We're worried about climate change, but we're closing our nuclear plants.
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So Trump, cleverly, is saying the big problem is potential nuclear war.
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And then he tells a very scary story, which is also visual.
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He tells the story of how powerful the atomic weapons are, nuclear weapons.
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And he says that in Hiroshima, which, as he says, some people call Hiroshima.
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He said that granite was melted by the nuclear blast, and you can't melt granite even with a blowtorch.
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Now, that is the most visual explanation of a nuclear weapon.
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It melted granite, and you can't melt that with a blowtorch.
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He said that they found the granite looking like it had liquified.
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And I would say that Trump looked energetic and did not look like he'd lost anything to age yet.
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He did seem a little tired the night he got it rained, but you can kind of understand that.
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That was probably a bad night the night before.
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Big headline today is that inflation seems to have eased to 5%.
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And that's lowest it's been in nearly two years.
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Still alarmingly high, but not nearly as alarming as maybe you thought it could have been.
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Now, have I ever told you that economists are terrible at predicting the economy?
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What is the one thing that 100% of all economists were sure of?
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That inflation was wildly out of control, and we weren't doing anything to stop it.
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Now, that's not just because of interest rates, is it?
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Or just because the economy is slowing a little bit on its own.
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I don't understand why inflation could ever go down.
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Because our debt situation is worse, not better.
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So I guess this is more evidence that we can't predict anything this complicated.
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We can't really predict any, you know, Ukraine war.
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Somebody just said that my wife must use a diffuser on my head.
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But second of all, I don't know what a diffuser is.
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And I certainly don't know why I'd use it on my head.
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I would have to think it hurts NPR more than it hurts Twitter.
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I guess what I would add to this is that my biggest concern for the country was inflation.
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Because I think the other stuff actually we have under control.
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But inflation, I didn't even know how you could get it under control.
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I didn't even know what plan could possibly work.
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No, I'm not talking about predicting that a war happens.
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I'm talking about predicting how the war would go.
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Predicting how the war would go, people did pretty poorly on that.
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I was the only one who predicted that Ukraine would stop Russia.
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Was saying that Russia is definitely winning in Ukraine.
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And the thinking was that they have unlimited time to just grind on them.
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As long as they want to keep grinding, they still have money.
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That if you were to predict it forward, there's only one prediction.
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I think Russia will keep the Russia, you know, the primary Russia speaking groups.
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And there'll be something called Ukraine that's got less territory than before.
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So I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.
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What do you think about these Ukrainian military leaks?
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So the experts are saying a lot of it looks real.
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I guess it had stuff to do with Ukrainian military defense weaknesses and some other stuff that apparently matters.
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The experts think that the leaks were bad enough they could have gotten people killed.
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But others say that there's enough sketchy looking stuff in the leaks that at least some part of it, that at least some part of it looked like it was fake.
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And then some people say, oh, it's Russian disinformation.
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So the Russians are putting out like some fake stuff.
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I think it's a fake leak and that the Ukrainian weaknesses are probably not real weaknesses.
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In other words, it might be trying to convince the Russians to take a different strategy than the one they have.
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And it would convince them to take a weaker strategy instead of a stronger one.
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So my guess is that the documents have some real stuff in them so that it looks real, but that the things that mattered, the only things that mattered were fake.
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You don't understand anything except yes or no.
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How was your expert opinion of how Russia would do in the war against Ukraine?
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So you can say you can mock me for not being an expert, but you should also accept that I've beaten all the experts so far.
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And I fairly consistently beat the experts on a wide range of topics.
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In fact, predicting better than the experts is the only fucking reason you're here, because I can consistently do it.
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If I had to guess, and it would only be a guess, like 60, 40 kind of guess, my guess is that some part of it is fake.
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The faking is more likely coming from the Ukrainian side.
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How many would agree that there's at least, would agree that it's at least a working hypothesis?
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How many would agree that it's at least possible?
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Because once you've seen, you know, how disinformation works, you know, the Hunter laptop and everything else,
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once you see it, it's usually not the people you think who put out the misinformation.
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Usually the people who are complaining about the misinformation are the sources of it.
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What did the government and the FBI and everybody say about Russia collusion?
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That it was real, and the people who said it wasn't real were lying.
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But it turns out that the people who were in charge were lying.
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So we do have a history of the people who say those other people did this.
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It was really the people complaining who did it.
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There are a bunch of medical cures coming, which is interesting,
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because it's the same time that population is going into a decline in industrialized countries.
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But some of the medical cures coming at the same time that we don't need any more babies,
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And apparently we'll be able to routinely clean tiny cancers from our body just normal.
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Like if you've got an early cancer, you'll just be able to take some pills and just make it go away.
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Immunity from dozens of viruses with a single vaccine.
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I don't think people are going to take his advice on that part.
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Growing new organs from patients own cells and even slowing the aging process.
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So if you think we've got a problem with too many old people compared to young people,
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Like our entire system depends on the old ones dying.
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If the old ones don't die, the new ones don't inherit.
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You know, nobody gets ownership of the companies.
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We'd have to rewrite the system somehow fairly substantially.
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But I worry that we'll solve our aging and everything else,
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but we won't have any money and we'll wish we were dead.
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Do you think we'll get to the point where we can live forever
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Do you know that you fell for a hoax by the Reddit and 4chan people?
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I was literally famous for telling people not to freak out.
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In fact, my brand, the thing I was most well-known for,
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is doing a nightly broadcast telling people not to freak out about the COVID.
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because I played along with it for a long time.
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And I even apologized for the thing that never happened,
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And it made people like you think that I had changed my views.
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So, you need to check yourself, because you fell for a pretty big hoax.
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I'm going to call you the OPCs for the cope part.
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If you think that I was pro-vaccine, pro-max, and panicked about the virus,
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And it's easy to demonstrate that there are people who have comments here.
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So if you believe the opposite of reality as all of these people are telling you,
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Just look at all the other people who watched every single thing I said for two years.
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They watched every word I said, and they all have the same opinion.
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But the people who disagree, have a different opinion, didn't watch me as much.
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Do you want me to tell you why I block Cat Turd?
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Because he also believed the same hoax you did.
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He was entertaining for a while, but he was an idiot.
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So Al says, Scott, was pro-vax and pro-mask at various points?
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There were various points where I told you the pros and cons of everything that was discussed.
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There were times when I told you what the study said.
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There were times when I told you what was true from an engineering perspective about masks.
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So if you know me mostly from Twitter, you saw people like Cat Turd and various idiots
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put together the things where I talked about the pro of something.
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And then they would leave out the part where I talked about the con.
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And the reason that fooled you, do you know why that fooled you?
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It would be invisible to them that anybody could say something has a pro to it if there's
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I can say, well, there might be these benefits for these people, but there would be no benefits
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And then you would see one of those and you'd say, he says there's benefits.
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Trust no expert was the common thread to everything I said.
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Raise your hand if you believe that I'm lying about my pandemic views.
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I want you to out yourself as believing the hoax.
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There's somebody who just wants clown and emojis.
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It's the people who literally can't handle a cost-benefit analysis.
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I'm sorry that 4chan and Reddit did that to you.
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Maybe you can find some kind of way to recover from that damage.