Episode 2096 Scott Adams: DeSantis Charisma Deficit, Trump To Do CNN, Vice, Karine Jean-Pierre Lies
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Summary
On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams: Vice is headed for bankruptcy, the writer s strike is starting, and the late night comedy game is in trouble. Plus, we talk about loneliness and the pandemic that is taking over the world.
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Well, um, I was writing this joke just before we went live, so let's see if I can land it.
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Uh, it seems that, uh, we went from, uh, now with healthcare in the United States,
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you can keep your doctor. You can keep your doctor. Uh, your balls are still in play,
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but you can keep your doctor. All right. I'm not sure if that joke landed or not. It was funnier
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on Locals when I was talking about it with them before we went live. Trust me, it was a lot funnier
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than that. Maybe it's the way I said it. Anyway, uh, the, uh, publication Vice is headed for bankruptcy.
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At one point, they were worth nearly $6 billion. And now apparently they're worth closer to nothing.
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Uh, and Elon Musk was mocking them today on Twitter. He says, get woke, go broke.
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Uh, and noted that they haven't had good content in years. And does anybody know if, uh, Vice ever,
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uh, made fun of me? Do you think Vice ever did a hit piece on me? I feel like they did. I feel like
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they did. Yeah. And I'm wondering how many of the publications that canceled me or went after
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me are going to be out of business before I am. I think, I think I might outload it less than
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newspapers that canceled me because they could go any minute. Uh, but Vice,
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such a nice, uh, organization. So sad. All right. Well, there's a writer's strike,
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um, that apparently is going to cause the closing of, uh, the show's Jimmy, Jimmy Kimmel,
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Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers late night shows are all going to shut down because of the writer's
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strike. Uh, did I leave anybody out? Let's see. Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers. So
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those are the late nights that are closing down. Gottfeld is not closing down. So he already
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dominates them, but, uh, I think they write their own stuff and that the panel does, you know,
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most of the work, the heavy lifting. So their current plan, I believe is to, to stay on the air.
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So they will, uh, continue to pick up audience because you'll be competing against nobody.
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How many people are going to give, uh, give the, you know, Gottfeld exclamation a chance
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because the other shows are just off the air. This could get interesting. This could be a big,
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uh, big change in the landscape there. All right. Here's, um, I hate to say this, but
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there's something that somebody in the Biden administration is doing that's right.
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I don't, I don't even have a complaint about it. Do you believe that? Do you believe I'm going to
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tell you something that the Biden administration, somebody, what one individual in the Biden
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administration is doing right that you're totally going to agree with? Do you think that that's
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even possible? Cause I know this, this audience leans, uh, leans right. All right. Uh, challenge
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accepted, challenge accepted. This will be example of unambiguous, unambiguous good work
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from somebody in the Biden administration. Do you think I can deliver on that? Here we go.
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The, uh, surgeon general says there's a loneliness epidemic and he's making it a priority. Yes.
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Yes. That is absolutely on point. Points out that it's a, there's a huge impact on health. So if you
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think that's not the surgeon general's job, you're very wrong, it's very much the surgeon general's
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job to point this out and make a big deal about it and see if we can fix it. So apparently the
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pandemic really wiped down a lot of people's, um, social lives. How many of you have a worse social
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life now than before the, uh, uh, the pandemic go? A lot of people say same, a lot of yeses,
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right? A lot of nos, but apparently it's a thing. So it doesn't, didn't affect every single person,
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but you know, I, I had a divorce so that, yeah, that makes my data a little, uh, out of line.
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So yeah, I think maybe that's the biggest health. Just, just keep this in mind. Given the number of
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people who have been driven into loneliness, largely by the pandemic, um, the loneliness might
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kill more people than the virus. Agree or disagree? The loneliness might kill more people than the
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virus did. That's like a real thing because look, look at these numbers, uh, uh, according to this
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article, uh, loneliness increases risk of premature death by 30%.
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Greater risk of stroke, heart disease, everything else. And there's a huge shift in how much time we're
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spending with other people versus online. Now, uh, and the Surgeon General is recommending that
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organizations figure out some way to cause people to spend more time with each other.
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And I'm, I'm a big fan of that. I think that needs to be fixed. So I would note that, isn't it weird
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how many problems are happening at exactly the same time as AI is happening? And the AI, maybe not today,
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but like really, really soon, maybe in just a few weeks, might be able to solve some of these problems.
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For example, um, I'm sure that lonely people are going to have genuine friendships with AI.
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Does anybody doubt that? Now don't, don't think in terms of yourself, right? Just think of other
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people. You know, I know you don't want to have a AI friend, maybe. So don't talk about yourself.
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Do you think there's any chance that that's not going to happen? Trust me, I, I tested it for a while
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and it absolutely reduces loneliness. It does because you have a conversation with something that's
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responding. And, and it does have far more than even a pet. You know, a pet is great, but if the pet
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can't talk, they really have a disadvantage. Now, I would like to also suggest to those of you who
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don't already know it, that one of the things I did within my subscription site, scottadams.locals.com,
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is that I started doing, um, almost nightly, maybe five or six nights a week. I do a man cave episode
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where the only point is to hang out together. Now, if you are also lonely and you have a few extra bucks
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for a subscription service, I can't guarantee that I'll do it every night because, you know,
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sometimes I got plans. It doesn't happen often. Uh, but, um, I'm happy to be your virtual friend.
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And I asked the other day on one of these, um, man cave hangouts, uh, how many people were alone
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and lonely, uh, or single. There's a lot of them. There were a lot of people who just don't have
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anybody in the house at all. So they turn on the man cave and they just hang out with me for a while
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in my man cave doing God knows what, which I won't mention on, on, uh, YouTube, but it's a legal adult
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activity in California. It does not involve any tubing-like activities. No nudity. All right. Uh,
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but come join if you, uh, if you feel lonely and you want one extra thing to do many evenings,
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but not all of them, that's an option for you. Um, or get an AI friend. I think they're going to be
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pretty cool. All right. Jean-Pierre, Luke, no, Jean-Pierre, uh, Karina Jean-Pierre. What is her name?
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Why? She has the only name that I can't remember no matter how many times I read it
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because there's too many names. Karine Jean-Pierre. Oh, that's right. Because I remember
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Gutfeld made a joke about her first name being cringe, cringe, John-Pierre. She actually said in
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public, uh, when it comes to illegal, uh, migration, uh, you have seen it come down by more than 90%.
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I don't even know what she was thinking about, but, uh, but apparently she's trying to set the record
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as, you know, by far the worst, uh, spokesperson who ever lived. I believe she has now achieved
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worst spokesperson of all time. What was she even thinking? What went down by 90%? Did something
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go down 90% but it wasn't that? I mean, where did that even come from? So of course that got tweeted
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around and of course it took about a second and a half to get a Twitter community notes attached to
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it that said migrant border crossings in fiscal 2022 topped 2.76 million, breaking previous record.
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So the truth is it's a record high in the history of civilization. Well, you know, America wasn't here
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all the time, but you know what I mean. It was a record high and she said, as she just looks at the
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crowd, looks into the camera, says down 90%. All right. I, I, I saw somebody say diversity higher. So I'm
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going to, I'm going to go there. Are you ready for this? So I saw a horrible conversation happening
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on Twitter, uh, which I feel really bad about. Like this, this is just an icky conversation
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and it's based on the fact that, uh, Lawrence Jones is apparently going to sit in temporarily
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for Tucker Carlson. And I saw a black woman who's, who's a doctor of some kind. Um, and it's important
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that it's a black woman, just so you know, the, the source of the comment who said that it has,
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essentially she said as the optics of a diversity hire in the context of ESG and DEI. Now, as Jeff
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Charles said on Twitter, who I believe is a friend of Lawrence Jones, he defended him, said basically
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that was a crappy thing to say because Lawrence Jones has worked hard, done good work. Why not?
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You know, you know, why not him? Why not him? But the counter was that maybe he hasn't, um, has not
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developed a, let's say body of work that would make him the obvious choice for the job. And so the
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comment was that has the optics of being a diversity hire. Now I would like to separate the question
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of whether Lawrence Jones specifically is, um, qualified for that job. In my opinion, he is.
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That's my opinion. In my opinion, he is qualified for that. Cause if you think who else is going to do
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it and you also think that it's temporary and you also think that it'll probably rotate, why not
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Lawrence Jones? He, he didn't already have his own show. He's, he's one of the ones that are developing,
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obviously for, you know, with intention of higher purpose. Why not? So I disagree that, uh, he's
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unqualified for that job. I think he would be in the running. I think he would be one of the serious
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candidates among several, but I think he's definitely in the category. Um, however, I'm going to agree
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with this part of the comment. It, it's a bad look for him, isn't it? How shitty is that, that you could
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be Lawrence Jones, do everything right. And then when you finally get a break, we don't know if it's
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a break. It might just be a one week thing and nothing else, but it could be. I mean, if he did
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well, it could be a big break. So how shitty is it that we even have to ask that question?
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Because the problem is it's a, it's a valid question. That's the problem. The problem is,
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is actually a valid question. I don't think it's fair in his case, but the, the, the criticism was
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not about Lawrence Jones per se. It was about the fact that if you're looking at it from the outside,
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it looks like Fox news was just trying to make sure that they reduced their criticism as much as
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possible. And that would be one way to do it. And it might also look like, um, they're, they're
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trying to get their advertisers back, which is perfectly fine. They are a business that relies
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on advertisers. So as long as that's not a hidden fact, if they're trying to get their advertisers
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back by doing things, which society at large and advertisers think is within the acceptable
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zone, it's sort of normal business. But I really feel bad for somebody like Lawrence Jones, who
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does the actual work, you know, is a completely credible person in that field. And that you would
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have to ask that question about, is there some other reason that he was selected? Now with
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Corinne Jean-Pierre, you've got the same problem, do you not? The difference is she's obviously
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incompetent. This is completely different than Lawrence Jones, who's obviously good at his
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job. Would you all agree? I mean, you've seen him. He's very good at his job. He's always
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a good, interesting, charismatic character and, um, adds a lot to the shows he's on. So I think
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he's very good. Now, but Corinne Jean-Pierre is just terrible. And I don't think there's
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even a Democrat who would disagree with that, right? That has nothing to do with race or
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politics. That's just obvious to everybody. Now, doesn't it look to you like she's a diversity
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higher? There's no, is there any doubt about it? I mean, it's the most clear, it's the, she
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is the clearest signal that they're not serious people. And I feel like it's terrible for black
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Americans to have somebody who, in a sense, you could say in a sense, she's representing,
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you know, people who identify with her in any way. I feel like that's a terrible look.
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There's not one black person in the whole frickin' country who couldn't do that job better.
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Lawrence Jones could do it better if he were a Democrat, right? I mean, you could pick almost
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anybody. You know, look at CNN's pundit lineup. And, you know, CNN does a good job of having lots of
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diversity. You don't think you could pick randomly any one of CNN's, you know, black on-air pundits,
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and they wouldn't do a far better job than Jean-Pierre? Of course they would. You could watch it.
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You could see them do a good job. Obviously they do a good job. So there's a real problem with the
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optics. And the problem is more for black Americans than it is for anybody else. Because I think if
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you're qualified, it's just such a slap in the face that anybody's even going to ask that question
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just because you get a good job opportunity. So I think we can be honest about that situation.
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It's just terrible for a lot of people. All right. Let's talk about
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Tony Blinken. So Secretary of State Blinken, Anthony Blinken, was implicated, and I'll just say
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implicated, for being the, quote, impetus, the impetus for the 50 intel people who signed the letter
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saying the laptop was probably Russian disinformation. Now, the story does not say,
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there's no reporting that says that Blinken asked for that letter to be created. And everybody agrees
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on that. So he's not directly somebody who said, create this letter, or at least it's not in record.
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There's no evidence of that. But he's being called the impetus or the spark or the trigger or the cause
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that caused somebody else independently to go organize that letter. Now, it was somebody that
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Blinken talked to. Blinken talked to him. And then that guy, allegedly on his own, went and put a letter
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together and blah, blah, blah, blah. So Blinken has deniability because he did not specifically ask
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for it, or there's no evidence that he did. But is it still fair to say he got the ball rolling?
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That maybe he pushed in a direction that was certain to cause some activity, if not a letter,
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or something else along those lines? I don't know. But the question is, should he be impeached?
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Rasmussen did a poll, and let me see if I can test the wisdom of my audit. You're so smart.
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How do you get the answers before I ask the question? How do you do it? Yeah, 25% is the answer,
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and I haven't even asked the question. It's how many people think Blinken should not be impeached.
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But let me get the exact wording of it so I don't say it wrong.
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Oh, the exact percentage is 25% don't think Congress should launch an impeachment against Blinken.
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25%? 25%. Only 25% think Congress shouldn't. Now, there are people who don't care, right? So there's
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still some people who don't have an opinion or don't know about it or whatever. But 60% of likely
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voters believe Congress should begin impeachment. 60%. What do you think? How many of you think
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Blinken should be impeached when he did not specifically ask for that letter to be written?
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I'm going to say no. Yeah, I'm going to say no, because you're going to need some evidence.
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Well, what's to investigate? It's probably two people at a private conversation,
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and they both have the same story. So far, that's all it is. I doubt there's any written documentation.
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You don't think that they sent a memo, do you? Memo. Good idea. Collect Intel signatures. No.
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They're all smart enough not to write this stuff down. So if the only evidence that Blinken was
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responsible is that he talked to the guy who ended up being responsible, that's not enough.
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Well, I'm seeing a comment that didn't stop the Democrats. I'm not willing to throw away everything
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just for team play. I think the impeachment system still needs to be genuine. The fact that Trump's
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impeachments were, in my opinion, totally illegitimate doesn't mean I want to do that.
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So I don't think you want to do that to the other side. I think you want to see if you can treat
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the Trump situation as a one-off and hope it was. That's not the one I would retaliate on with some
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BS impeachment. That's just not a good look for anybody. To me, that would make the Republicans
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look incompetent. It would make them just look completely political, more so than usual.
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All right. So I don't approve of that, but I understand the feeling behind it. So emotionally,
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I agree. If you want to know how I feel emotionally, yeah. Emotionally. But it's not good for the country.
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Well, the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania, good news for them,
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the court agreed that the after-school Satan Club will be allowed to meet so that the school district
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didn't want to sanction an after-school Satan Club. But the courts have said free speech. ACLU decided
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that was something important they needed to get involved with. That's right. The ACLU took the
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side of Satan. I'm not even making that up. That's like actual real. That's real. The ACLU took donations
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from people and then employed it to back Satan. Like actually. Not in a joke way. In the actual way.
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They're backing Satan. I wish that was a joke. That's not really a joke. Now, they might argue that
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they don't believe Satan exists, and therefore they're not really backing him. They're just backing
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free speech. And I do like the free speech part. You know, I don't disagree with the decision.
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Yeah, free speech is free speech. But it is kind of weird that the ACLU went in hard in favor of Satan.
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That's not good branding. But the ruling went further than just saying that they can have their Satan
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worshiping after-school club. They can worship Satan, but there were strict guidelines about not
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using the wrong pronouns when referring to Satan. So Satan is he, him, and they. He, him, and they.
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The courts will come after you if you use the wrong pronoun for Satan. No, I just made that up.
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But you couldn't tell, could you? There's no difference between the ridiculous parody I make up
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and the actual news. You couldn't tell. But I made that part up.
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All right. I was using, I did figure out how to get mid-journey to give me a result.
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I forgot that you have to put an arcane slash command before your request. Why? It's a bad interface.
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That's why. No reason. No other reason. It's just a terrible, terrible interface.
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So when I put that in, I got some AI pictures of me. But here's the interesting thing.
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AI knows who I am, because I'm a public figure. But it decided to give me a beard.
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Now, that's not the weird part. The weird part is that yesterday on the subscription local site,
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we were talking about whether I should grow a beard. That was actually a conversation yesterday
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on an online chat. And one day after we have that conversation, which has not been anything
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I've thought about or talked about before, I ask AI to give a picture of me,
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and it puts a beard on me in every picture. Now, it's not every AI all the time,
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but the first one I used on mid-journey. And I thought, where does that come from?
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If AI literally knows who I am, because it does, because the rest of me looks just like me.
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And if I ask it, it'll tell me I'm a cartoonist. It knows exactly who I am.
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And it knows exactly what I look like. But why does it give me a beard?
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It's like somehow it knows I should have a beard.
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I saw a lot of funny comments on that. But here's the other good part. It puts me in really nice clothing.
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So of all the pictures it has of me to choose, it puts me in the greatest shirts.
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And I'm looking at those shirts, and I'm like, wow, if I actually wore those shirts,
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And now it gets weirder. I'm going to take it one level weirder.
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Yesterday, I was on Instagram, and I was watching a video of a young woman
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who is saying some of the things that turn women on.
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Oh, so yesterday I was watching an Instagram video
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in which a young woman was saying what fashion choices men should make
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And one of the things on our fairly short list was a watch.
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How many of you women, just the women, question just for the women,
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how many women say that a man with a nice watch,
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I'm not going to argue with you whether a watch makes sense.
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that yesterday afternoon is the first time I've ever thought,
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I never wanted to wear one again, you know, if I had my phone.
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And then AI produced some pictures and it put a watch on me.
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I had no idea that women like it when men wear a watch.
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It's to show off that you can afford an expensive watch.
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that somebody else would want to steal from me.
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and saying that Musk might not be the right choice
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he thinks that the board should have, I don't know,
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that it was overpriced and the board accepted it
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So basically, he was just throwing a little shade on Twitter.
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This should be the first statement in a story like this.
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but now is the founder of a competitor to Twitter
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had something to say about his competitor, Elon Musk.
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If you leave out the fact that they're competing,
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than knowing that somebody's financial interests
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If there are any Hunter Biden financial bombshells
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So there are two types of people in the political world.
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if Democrats saw something terrible about Hunter right now,
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if they knew there was a Hunter Biden bombshell