Episode 2089 Scott Adams： Tucker, Tate, Lemon, Digital Currency, Court Packing, Bud Light, More Fun
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Summary
Tristan Tate and the Tate Brothers are back in court in Romania, and the media seems to have no idea what to make of it. Is it a government spy operation? Or is it something else going on? And what does Tucker have to say about it?
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So, Tucker Carlson and the news and stuff like that, but I'd like to suggest a theme for today's live stream.
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When all the news coincidentally seems to fit a theme.
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But first, I would like to do a demonstration of the wisdom of my audience, the smartest audience in the history.
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They're answering the question correctly before I've asked the question.
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I'm just blown away at how smart my audience is.
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Well, now that you know the answer, let me ask the question.
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According to a Rasmussen poll, what percentage of Americans...
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I think it's likely voters, but something like that.
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But what percent of these Americans are not concerned about domestic spying?
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Yeah, it turns out that 74% of likely U.S. voters are very concerned.
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And then half of them, half of the people are very concerned.
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But 25% not concerned one bit about the government watching everything you're doing.
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So pat yourself on the back if you got that one right.
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I'm going to keep quizzing you until you get one wrong.
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I'm just going to keep asking questions until I can find anything you guys don't know.
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Have I ever told you that all news about public figures is fake?
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So I'm going to tell you a bunch of news about public figures.
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It might be that all of the facts are accurate.
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So I might be telling you all accurate facts based on the news.
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But how often are all the accurate facts that you hear in the news a complete and accurate picture of what was going on?
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And I'm saying this based on my own experience.
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I've been a public figure in the subject of news for 30 years.
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So a tweet from Tristan Tate, one of the Tate brothers.
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And I guess they got brought back into court in Romania.
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And things are getting really sketchy over there.
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But would you agree that whatever we're hearing about Romania and the Tate brothers is probably inaccurate?
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Do you think we know anything about what's going on?
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Let me tell you this tweet just to give you a sense of how little we know about what's happening.
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He says, they, meaning Romania, they charged me yesterday with, quote, inciting violence toward others.
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And then he says, I thought it was a human trafficker.
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They don't have any, so they make something else up.
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Now, I'm not going to uncritically assume that the defendant is telling the truth.
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But do you think that Romania is acting in a way that sounds like just a government looking to handle crime?
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There's something else going on there, isn't there?
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Don't you feel like there's something else going on?
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Now, do you think that one way to characterize the Tate brothers' problems is bad behavior toward women?
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I mean, there's some other allegations swirling around, but it seems like some kind of behavior regarding women.
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Not women in general, but the women who may have worked with him in his operation.
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I'm not saying I know what's true, but those are the accusations that women are accusing them of being bad men who do bad things.
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So, Tucker Carlson and Fox News are going to part ways, but apparently it's only the show.
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I guess his contract will probably be paid out, the news is saying.
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So, Tucker Carlson is having a terrible day where he just learned that he gets to spend as much time as he wants with his family and doing whatever he wants.
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And instead of working and being the subject of everybody's hate, he'll just make $20 million a year from staying home.
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He must be, I'll bet he's crying himself to sleep.
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But, given that we know absolutely nothing about this situation, and it wouldn't surprise me if Tucker doesn't know why he was fired either.
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Because it's all what's in people's heads, right?
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I mean, whatever happened there, we'll never really know.
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But don't you think it's some kind of average of what people have in their private thoughts?
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You know, there's some executive who has a private thought about this or that.
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There's another executive who has a private thought about this or that.
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There's Murdoch and the Murdoch kids who have different thoughts about different things, and then some decision gets made.
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So, you're going to see all kinds of reasons for him getting fired, but none of them individually seem to rise to the level of, really?
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That's the reason you're getting, that they got rid of the show?
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So, the Daily Beast has helpfully put together a list as, have other media, and they've got their own ideas.
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But among the many, many, many things that Tucker Carlson did, he used the C word a lot.
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And there's something about his comments about Sidney Powell.
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Now, it's a little unclear if the C word was used in conjunction with a conversation about Sidney Powell, or if those were just different topics.
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Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but when you use the C word at work, that really angers men.
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You use that C word in front of a group of men and nobody else, and those men will be like, hey, hey, don't use that word.
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So, I'm just assuming that men complained about his use of that word.
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Is there anybody who hasn't never made a disparaging remark about management?
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I'm doing a live stream, which is almost entirely people who want to see me.
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And even most of you have made disparaging remarks about me.
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But everybody makes disparaging remarks about everybody.
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What's different is that his emails may have been surfaced.
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His communications may have been surfaced during that lawsuit.
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So, maybe some of those executives saw some discouraging or disparaging remarks.
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Then the Daily Beast also says it's something about his January 6th conspiracy coverage.
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Now, do you think that there was anybody at Fox News who said out loud, the problem is his January 6th coverage?
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But this sounds like just something that the Daily Beast would make up because they want it to be true.
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Oh, Tucker is also accused of a former producer has a lawsuit that says it was a sexist environment.
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Now, he's not being accused of any Me Too stuff.
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So, and that's the sort of thing that men he worked with probably complained a lot about.
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So, I can imagine Tucker talking to the guys and the guys are like, whoa, whoa, Tucker, that's a little bit sexist.
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Oliver Darcy says it's related to ex-producers' lawsuit for his rampant sexism.
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And then Oliver Darcy has seen that and throws this in.
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What would be an example of anti-Semitic behavior?
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Now, I would understand if they said he had anti-Semitic words, like words.
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I could imagine somebody doing that, not necessarily Tucker, but you could imagine a person doing something that's anti-Semitic.
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Did he start a little holocaust of his own there?
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Was his behavior to overtly discriminate against Jewish employees or Jewish guests?
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Seems like if they had a specific, we might have heard it.
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Does that sound like just something that was made up by CNN?
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Remember, 100% of stories about famous people are not true.
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Now, I only see this stuck in in the CNN report.
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Even the Daily Beast, which is no friend of Tucker's, doesn't mention anything about any anti-Semitic thing.
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Do you know that when I got canceled, the ADL, somebody from the ADL came after me.
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Just kind of tack on to the story a little bit.
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Well, you know, maybe he did something anti-Semitic, too.
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Well, he said some bad things that had nothing to do with us.
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But we think we can maybe tag on a little bit and get a little juice from this, too.
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So that's probably ridiculous, but it's a serious accusation.
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But if you don't hear this from other entities, it sounds like it's just a CNN little jab.
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So a lot of men were mad at Tucker, at Fox News, that's for sure.
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And maybe something about the advertisers wanting to stay away from Tucker's show.
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It did seem to me that Tucker did not have the A-level advertisers.
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And, you know, I've always wondered how Fox News even makes money.
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When I see the advertisements that they run, I think to myself, how many pillows can you sell?
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I don't really even understand their business model.
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Because when I look at, if I look at a commercial on one of the major networks, you know, it's going to be some big pharma company or something.
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And you say, oh, I understand how they make money.
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That big pharma company is paying them a lot of money to advertise.
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But Fox advertisers don't look like they even have money.
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I just don't know how the, honestly, I don't know how they make money.
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Like, literally, I don't understand how they do it.
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Then RFK Jr. said it was something about not long after RFK Jr. was on the show and talking about big pharma.
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So RFK Jr. thinks it might be something about big pharma pushing back.
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Of all those reasons, which ones do you find compelling?
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Knowing that we'll never know, all right, it could be that the real reason is some reason that's not even in the news, right?
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So, some say big pharma, some say lawsuits, potential lawsuits.
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Some say it's a Ray Epps story, the January 6th stuff.
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You think it was Kennedy, you think it was Dominion, you think it's J6, some say insurance.
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All right, what if I taught you, let's see if you remember this lesson.
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What does it mean when everybody has a different opinion of why it happened?
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What can you conclude from the fact that all the observers have a different opinion?
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Because like I say, I'm sure it was a group decision.
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You know, even though Murdoch could make the decision himself, I'm sure it was a group.
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But I don't think that they each knew what was in the minds of the other.
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But maybe their actual secret thoughts were for themselves.
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And they just made the argument that was fit for other people to hear.
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So, I've got a feeling it was just a bunch of people who had a bunch of problems.
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And when the bunch of problems reached the level where it was higher than the benefit,
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It could be that Carlson was too friendly, not friendly, but too beneficial to Trump getting elected.
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Because if Tucker kept going at the January 6th thing, then that would make Trump stronger.
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But I'll tell you, the spot that he's in, so the people who have been in that spot was, let's see, Bill O'Reilly was there in that 8 p.m. spot.
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So, Glenn Beck, Megyn Kelly, and O'Reilly, and now Tucker.
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So, if you had to come up with a name for what you would call that 8 o'clock block, I would call it the kill me block.
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You know, if you go there, you might as well just kill me, right?
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So, who did they have as a guest host in the kill me slot last night?
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Just imagine that you live in a simulation and everything is meant to be a joke.
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You don't know it, but it's like a physical joke that's being played on us.
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I just said it was a simulation messing with us.
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Now, the speculation also is, what's going to happen to Tucker?
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Now, there are two lines of thinking, and they're both worthy of exploring.
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One says that Tucker is a singular personality.
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He's bigger than Fox News, and wherever he goes, if he goes independent, he could become the Joe Rogan of independent people or something like that.
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But even Joe Rogan depends on advertisers, doesn't he?
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It's going to be a little bit tough for Tucker to find advertisers, because he couldn't find it for his show.
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So, I mean, if Fox News can't get you an advertiser, it'd be hard to scrounge one up on your own.
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Yeah, Mike Cernovich accurately points out that Tucker is sort of a target for lawsuits.
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So, unless you've got some big organization behind you to pay your legal bills, it's too risky to be in business the way Tucker does business.
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Maybe. Maybe. But, you know, if you're making Joe Rogan kind of money, you can also buy Joe Rogan kind of insurance.
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And Tucker does make Joe Rogan money, so he can buy insurance.
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I don't know if he can buy, you know, $100 million worth of insurance, but maybe he can. I don't know.
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So, some say he's going to go the independent route.
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Now, others say, and I think they're not wrong, that Fox News is the star, and the 8 o'clock spot is the star,
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and you could put it in anybody good, and they would have huge ratings, because it's about the platform.
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You know, I've been telling you for years that whatever you want to say to complain about Fox News,
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there's one thing that they do consistently well and have for years, which is their producers really produce.
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You know, CNN looks poorly produced to me, as does MSNBC.
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But Fox News consistently looks like the producers, the people behind the curtain, are just a higher level of operators.
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So, they can put it on a show, and maybe it's the show is the star, and they can put in interesting people,
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and, you know, picking the right celebrity or the right personality is part of producing.
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So, I'm going to say that their 8 o'clock hour is going to do fine.
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Now, it might take them a while to find their footing,
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but I think they're going to put in somebody who's as interesting, you know, maybe not on day one, but as interesting.
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And you're going to tune in, because it's 8 o'clock, and the TV's on, and you're just going to watch it.
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That's what happened when they got rid of, not got rid of, but, so, after Glenn Beck, after O'Reilly, after Megyn Kelly,
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So, I'm going to say that from the perspective of Fox News, probably it looks like a pretty good decision.
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If I'm just going to do the business decision, the things that have been listed as the potential problems for Tucker,
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if any subset of that is true, yeah, that's pretty good reasons.
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Now, because, remember, they would have confidence that they can fill that slot, eventually,
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with somebody who makes them just as much money, and they wouldn't have the problems, they wouldn't have the lawsuits.
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But if you based it on their history, it was a smart business decision, which is not to, I'm not trying to not support Tucker.
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I'm just saying you can see it from a business perspective, and the risk was higher than the return.
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Do you think that he will go off and start his own thing that's bigger than his old audience?
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Well, I saw reporting that says that none of the three people I mentioned did.
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So, Megyn Kelly's doing well, but doesn't have the same size audience.
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Glenn Beck, obviously, is doing great, and The Blaze, but probably a smaller audience.
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And O'Reilly has got his own thing, but a smaller audience.
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So, do you think Tucker will go on to just have a nice, solid, respectable podcast?
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There are a number of entities that would try to get him.
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You know, they're trying to hit some kind of middle ground reporting.
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I don't know if anybody has enough money to pay him what he needs, but he could make a fortune as a podcaster, obviously.
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I would guess that his cancellation, if you want to call it that, feels a lot like mine did, which is everybody else thinks it's worse than it is for you.
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And you're thinking, oh, well, it's a good thing I spent my career up to this point building a bunch of skills.
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Because if you have a bunch of skills, as Tucker does, he's got a ton of options.
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I mean, I wish things didn't happen that were bad for anybody.
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If I had to guess, this following week will be more fun and interesting and stimulating for Tucker than the week before.
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Because he was just sort of going to work and grinding out the same show after show, which had to be a lot of work.
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Let's talk about, oh, AOC talked about deplatforming works and it is important.
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So, AOC is very happy about Tucker being deplatformed.
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Oh, also, some people think it's the war in Ukraine because Tucker was anti-war in Ukraine.
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Some say it's about the presidential election because you want to remove players from the field.
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That's why we'll never hear there was one thing.
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And if you do hear that it was one thing, I wouldn't believe it.
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So, Don Lemon, now, I don't know if this is true, but I like to think it's true.
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Every once in a while, you like to think that people do smart things.
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If CNN was getting ready to fire Don Lemon and then the unexpected news about Tucker Carlson
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hit, wouldn't the smartest thing for them to do is immediately fire Don Lemon so that
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his news is tagged on to Tucker's news but it's behind it?
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If they didn't do that intentionally, I'll be very disappointed because it would be one
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You know, they like to announce bad news on a Friday before a three-day weekend.
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You know, assuming that they were ready to go, you know, they'd already made it or almost
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a decision to fire him, that was just such good timing.
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Do you think his diva-like behavior was bothering the men?
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Do you think the men were saying, that Don Lemon, he's acting so diva-like?
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Based on the reporting, there were a lot of women in the reporting who seemed angry at
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Tucker Carlson was accused of being misogynist.
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And now Don Lemon, gay man, is being accused of being misogynist.
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Working with women is going to put you in jail and get you fired.
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Basically, if you're working with women, and there are a bunch of them, the odds that one
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of them will sue you or call you a misogynist is nearly 100%.
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So it seems to me that the obvious future of all men in public life is to eventually be
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Because if you took 100% of any type of person, so this has nothing to do with being women,
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If this sounds anti-woman, just you can remove the woman from the story and replace any demographic.
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If there are 100 of them, you're going to have some bad ones.
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And if those bad ones have this easy way to take out the men they work with, it's going
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So you're seeing the complete inability of men and women to work together for long.
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If you put men in any environment and you wait long enough, they're going to do some
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So men and women working together just doesn't work.
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I hate to say it, but in 2023, men and women working together absolutely is too dangerous.
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Because some of the women are going to complain, and then that would have to be taken seriously.
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Do you remember when the Me Too movement was everywhere and people were getting Me Too'd
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But didn't we get one or two Me Too stories per day?
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And the closest we've come is wasn't there some NBC executive who admitted he had a consensual
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It just seemed like there was an affair and that was against the rules.
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So, oh, and it might be a little bit racist, too, the Don Lemon stuff.
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Not that Don Lemon was fired because management was racist.
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Rather, that Don Lemon was being called a racist.
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And Don Lemon was being called a racist because when he interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy, he said
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something along the lines of that Ramaswamy couldn't speak about the post-Civil War history
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So Don Lemon was a racist, misogynist, as were basically all men in all of our stories.
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Can we have a story that's not about men and women fighting and the men losing?
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Here's one that just has nothing to do with that.
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Elizabeth Warren wants to pack the courts so that they can get what they want without
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having to worry about the majority of the Republicans.
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So at least that has nothing to do with, you know, women blaming men for stuff, right?
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It's a woman blaming the men on the Supreme Court for abortion decisions, basically.
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I don't think they were going to pack the court until there was an abortion question.
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Do you think guns are maybe sort of have a gender split, too?
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So here we have Elizabeth Warren trying to destroy the most important part of the republic,
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If I could come to earth as some kind of a god and tell America how the one thing they have
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to do right, imagine I just appear as an angel.
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Ah, I have come to earth to tell America you can do almost everything wrong and recover.
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I just want to ask you, just do one thing right.
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It's the only thing that could destroy everything.
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I understand that they have a goal of having the Supreme Court make different decisions.
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But if it were the other way, I wouldn't want to destroy the court to get those specific decisions,
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especially if it's something that got sent to the state, like abortion.
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But to me, this looks like a decision she doesn't like.
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And so she's going to do something to destroy the entire civilization.
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So those men won't make that bad decision anymore.
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She wants to destroy, not wants to, but her proposal has a pretty high risk of destroying the republic
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and maybe all of human civilization as a consequence of that.
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His theme is that he will be telling lots of lies about Trump.
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So he's going to start with the January 6th lies.
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So he's basing his campaign on lying about Trump.
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I wouldn't expect much more than that, actually.
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Do you think that the Democrats are feeling trapped?
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Do you think that Trump can finish off Biden this time if it turns out to be Trump versus Biden, which is sort of looking like?
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I thought Trump was going to make easy work of Biden the first time, except for, you know, the, the, let's say the changes to the voting system because the pandemic just made everything different.
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But don't you think Trump has more to work with this time?
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Well, if you elect Biden, he will do these bad things.
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So there are specific things to talk about, right?
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Well, many of you think the system is rigged and that Trump can't win.
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Do you think that the Republicans will do an adequate job of making sure that they're monitoring elections better?
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I don't think the Republicans did anything useful.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if the campaign makes no difference to the outcome.
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Don't you think you could see a campaign that clearly indicates one person is going to win, but then the other person wins and you wouldn't be surprised?
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Because we don't believe the system at this point.
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So I have no evidence that the election system is rigged.
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I only have a brain which tells me that if anything can be rigged, it will be.
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And do you think that the election is something that can be rigged?
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But yeah, it's a rigable system, so therefore it will be, just eventually.
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We don't know if it happened yet or in the future.
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Isn't that convenient that Tucker Carlson, the primary person who pushed back on January 6th,
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disappears right before Biden announces that he's running and it's all going to be about January 6th stuff?
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That's a lucky coincidence for Biden right there.
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Speaking of January 6th, in a story that reminds me of it,
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apparently a bunch of left-wing protesters descended on Montana's Capitol,
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disrupting proceedings in the State House of Representatives.
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This was in support of transgender lawmaker Zoe Zephyr, a Democrat.
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Now, what happens when protesters, they disrupt a government proceeding?
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So the next part of the story is that every one of those left-wing protesters were rounded up and put in jail.
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Well, so what else can you even say about that story?
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That you just have to shake your head because you live in such a corrupt country that the Democrats can make this coherent story that only applies to this one situation?
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But no, that's not going to apply to other situations.
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And do you think that the trans movement is more about left-wing men or left-wing women?
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Who do you think are the primary backers of the trans movement, besides the trans themselves?
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No, men might be transitioning more often, but who are the non-trans people supporting?
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So this would be a case of women complaining about men.
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So, you know, you all know the Bud Light story, so I don't have to tell you that.
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But apparently Bud Light increased sales in some of their other beverages at about the same rate that Bud Light decreased sales.
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In case you're wondering, the Budweiser boycott probably didn't make any difference.
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You know, Budweiser doesn't like it, and they're paying some expensive people to figure out, you know, how to make their brand good.
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And I don't know if you saw the clip of Joe Rogan laughing hysterically at Budweiser's new commercial.
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Because they tried to change the commercial into America and patriotism and Clydesdales.
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And it was just so over-the-top pathetic that Rogan was just using it as a joke to laugh at it.
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It feels like they've lost their way a little bit, but I don't think they're going to lose their money.
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Let's talk about a U.S. digital currency, which you all want me to talk about, but you're not going to like what I have to say.
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So that's why I've been avoiding talking about it, because you're not going to like it.
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The government is looking at creating a digital currency, not yet to replace cash, but we assume that that's the direction it's going.
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So what you want me to say is that we should stop this immediately, because as soon as the government can control your money and everywhere you spend it,
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they can just turn the knob on and off, and they can control you, and that's an unlivable future.
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So we must stop them from doing digital currency, and I just can't make that argument.
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Because unfortunately, there's another argument that's bigger than that, which is there's nothing you can do to stop digital currency.
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Do you seriously think you can stop digital currency from replacing cash?
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We absolutely are going to have digital money that the government can control and can control you.
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I can complain about it, but it's not going to be different.
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But no, cash will not be the way we pay for things in 100 years.
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It's just going to be digital, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I'm saying I don't complain about things I can't change.
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Now, we might want to figure out how to safeguard our life in that situation.
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We will be completely without privacy, and we will be completely controlled.
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It's not my first choice, but there's nothing you can do about it.
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I suppose complaining could make people think of better alternatives, but I don't think there's going to be one.
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Now, I don't think it will be as different in the future as you think it will,
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because how many of you already pay for things digitally anyway?
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How many of you are still writing checks or giving cash to people?
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Don't you pay on Venmo or Google Pay at least, let's say, half or more of your transactions?
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For the little stuff, you know, the little services and stuff?
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You need to pay somebody cash, and you won't have the cash with you,
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And then you're going to say, well, I have this thing called Venmo I've never used.
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And then the person will say, yeah, that works.
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I think we're just going to sort of drift into it from convenience,
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If you think of a better spin on that, let me know.
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So over in Haiti, where crime is rampant and the gang members are practically running society over there,
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A mob in the Haitian capital pulled 13 suspected gang members from police custody.
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They actually took the gang members from the police and set them all on fire,
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Put a tire on them, pour gas on them, and set them on fire.
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So the law-abiding public in Haiti is so fed up that they actually attacked the police
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to take custody of their prisoners to murder them in public.
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Now, that's some serious citizen action right there.
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Now, I'm not going to say that's a trend, but I don't hate it.
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It looks like citizens might have to do what they need to do.
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And I'm predicting a wave of vigilante action in the U.S.
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What do you do if you're in a high-crime area and there's no police?
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I hear bad things about people who try to stay away from potential trouble.
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But, I don't know, I think there's going to be a lot more vigilantism.
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Also, a lot more mass shootings, because there's so many young men with no purpose.
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So I think you're going to see a lot more of that.
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All right, here I'm going to agree with Ibrahim Kendi.
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So I saw on Twitter, people are tweeting around, Paul Graham had it,
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the average income of people by ethnic groups in the United States.
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And what it showed is that the Indian immigrants, who are now Indian American mostly,
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and then there are various Asian Americans behind them who have high incomes compared to the rest.
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hey, that means that if black people are not doing as well as Indian Americans and Chinese Americans, etc.,
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that must be something wrong with black culture.
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So what is it about these Asian and Indian cultures that allows them to succeed?
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And the critics say, it must be something with black culture.
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Now, Ibrahim Kendi says, no, it's systemic racism, and it's not culture.
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Well, I'm going to agree with one of the points that Kendi said, especially,
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Do you think that the Asian and Indian American immigrants
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are coming here with the same disadvantages of a freed slave?
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I feel as if the people we're getting are often technically proficient,
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They're going to be doctors and technologists and engineers of all kinds.
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Are we not getting the cream of the crop from some countries
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because of the way we set up the immigration process,
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whereas the black Americans were brought in on slave ships, many of them,
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So there's no filtering mechanism, at least that kind of filtering mechanism.
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How many of you think that's not a valid point from Kendi,
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that the immigration filters differently from different countries at different times?
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There are people actually saying that that's not valid.
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Now, keep in mind, I'm not saying that's the only thing that's causing differential.
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I'm not saying it's the only thing, but there's no way that's not a valid point.
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You don't think that we have different filters for different countries
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Do you think you would get the same result from Indian Americans
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compared to people flowing across the southern border,
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and the other group is people who can figure out
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how to buy an airplane ticket to get to America.
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There's no way those two are going to have the same income in 10 years.
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I feel like when I say Kendi, you just want to disagree with him.
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You would be far more credible if you allowed him the points
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which is the immigration paths make a difference.
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I'm sure there's a cultural difference that makes a difference.
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our poor powers of observation sure looks like it.
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I just don't have any scientific evidence that would back that point.
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And I would definitely back Kendi for saying that there is systemic racism in the school system,
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And every time you put black people and white men together,
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So all of this is obvious hyperbole when you double cancel before it.
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But there is a real problem of people working together now.
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It's actually dangerous to be around other people.
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It's actually dangerous to be around other people.
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I'm going to get a little dopamine hit from canceling you.
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I don't want to be around anybody who gets a dopamine hit from canceling me.
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Did you see AOC's glee when Tucker Carlson parted with Fox News?
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Like watching her little video of how happy she was.
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Don't be around anybody who would be that happy if something bad happened to you.
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Don't be around somebody who would be happy and get a dopamine charge just for seeing something bad happening to you.
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and it sums up to something that looks like a uniparty.
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we definitely have a uniparty when it comes to war.
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Your kids have canceled you because you're afraid of woke culture.
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So here's something I'm no longer going to entertain.
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Please do not ask me to comment on people from different political parties running as one party.
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I'm not going to comment on RFK Jr. maybe being on the ticket with Trump.
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I continue to use AI with no success whatsoever.
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Where it saved you time and made you some money or something?
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Charging higher fees for people with good credit scores.
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Well, the Democrats are consistent in ignoring human motivation.
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So the story about people with higher credit having to pay extra to pay for people with bad credit
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The story about Elizabeth Warren wants to pack the court as if the Republicans won't repack it when they take charge.
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But each of these ridiculous ideas has the same problem.
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If you ignore how humans are and how they normally are and how they normally act,
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Using mid-journey for film production right now.
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Well, I'll bet you spend extra time and don't get any extra benefit from it.
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Democrats announced their 2020 foreign nominee.
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At Biden's current rate of decline, what do you expect by next year?
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Is he going to be even a little bit functional?
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If Trump just ran against Kamala by just not mentioning Biden, by saying he's irrelevant.
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He could actually just say, all right, I'm running for president against Kamala Harris.
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And then people would say, no, no, Biden's the top of the ticket.
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And then you just look at him and you go, right.
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You actually, he could just pretend Biden isn't running.
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Imagine Trump running for president by simply acting or playing as though Biden is not in the race.
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And just say Kamala Harris whenever he talks about their candidate.
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Just don't even act like he's part of the process.
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Say Joe Biden is babbling with his dementia, making some claims about January 6th and the good people hoax.
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But it looks like I'm really running against Kamala Harris.
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So if you think Kamala Harris can do a better job than me, vote Democrat.
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So Susan Rice resigned, which is making people speculate that she could be a vice presidential running mate.
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Wouldn't Susan Rice be the Obama handler, like the one that Obama would use to handle Biden?
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If you were going to predict what Democrats want to happen, I think what they want to happen is Susan Rice to replace Kamala.
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Kamala, but ideally they'd like to replace Biden, I guess.
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Oh, someone says that Susan Rice was not left enough, so she got pushed down for not being left enough.
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Well, not being left enough might be a perfect vice president.
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Because you don't want somebody who's too left.
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She's horrible for this country, some people say, that Susan Rice.
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What are the odds that there would be two Rices?
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Well, could Obama transition and then run again?
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I don't think I have anything else left to say, so we're going to end this conversation now for YouTube.