Episode 2101 Scott Adams： The Most Brainwashed Voters (Per Data), Our AI Czar (LOL), Reparations
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Summary
Tiger Woods is trying to get his girlfriend out of his house, and it's hard to break up with your girlfriend if you're Tiger Woods. Paul Krugman talks about how the debt is not as bad as you think it is.
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I feel like there's some people who turn off the live stream as soon as I do that.
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Well, look at all the news, starting with, apparently it's hard to break up with your girlfriend if you're Tiger Woods.
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So Tiger Woods had some longtime girlfriend who was living in his house.
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And I think there's some kind of squatter's rules or something.
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You can't really kick somebody out of where they live if they're a renter or any other condition, unless you've gone through a whole bunch of squatter's rights and renter's rights and stuff like that.
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So what's reported that Tiger Woods did is he told his girlfriend that she was going to go on a luxury vacation.
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And he told her to pack up all her stuff and drive to the airport, where Tiger Woods' attorney met her and said she's never allowed back in the house.
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Do you think that maybe she sued him for sexual harassment?
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It had something to do with the fact that she was an employee of his before a girlfriend.
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And when things started getting going in the employee nature, he asked, Tiger asked her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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And then I guess there was some negotiations about her work versus her relationship.
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So she's going after him for sexual harassment.
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Now, knowing nothing about the relationship, all right, we know nothing about their personal lives.
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What would you intuit if you knew that only two things about her?
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That she was suing him for sexual harassment for what she would also consider a consensual relationship.
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And that he had to trick her to get her out of the house.
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He couldn't just break up with her in a normal way.
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I got to say, it's not like I automatically believe Tiger Woods, right?
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So I'm not automatically saying that, you know, Tiger is the right one in this situation or the wrong one.
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It kind of looks like he got into a bad situation there and he couldn't get out.
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Well, if you think that being rich is always good, think about poor Tiger Woods.
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Can you imagine what a living hell his life probably was in the last several months as he was trying to get this woman out of his house?
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He couldn't figure out how to get her out of there.
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Well, you know, I've told you I don't think anybody understands economics, including economists.
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Because nobody can explain stuff like, why is the national debt not already crushing us?
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Do you remember when the debt was a trillion dollars and we thought it was too much and we're all going to die?
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Before, when it was $1 trillion, we thought it was too much.
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But now they're $30 trillion, that's definitely way too much.
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Then Paul Krugman does this long thread on Twitter, which I couldn't understand even a little bit.
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But it sounded like the thrust of it was, you don't understand debt, it's not as bad as you think.
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But I believe his point was, it's not as bad as you think as long as it completely stops growing today.
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Is it going to completely stop growing, the debt, today?
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No, I think the debt is going to grow to the moon because we have no mechanism for stopping it from growing.
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You can't assume it's going to stop when there's no tool, there's no mechanism, there's no system.
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So that's a little bit of a problem with the prediction, don't you think?
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Yes, it assumes some human rationality, which is always a bad assumption.
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Am I the only one who thinks we're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse?
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It's just that the zombies are not exactly the traditional brain-eating kind, although in a way they are.
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You've got your screen-addicted zombies, the social media zombies.
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And have the zombies not taken over San Francisco and a few other downtown areas?
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We keep acting like the collection of problems is an important part of the story.
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But we don't have any solutions for any of those problems.
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We have no solution for all the mental illness, the drug problem.
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So I feel like filtering it out by what was the cause of one person's problem versus another person's problem is probably too much work.
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So wherever there are zombies of any kind, you just need to get away.
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So I think distance is the main requirement for success.
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I used to say that education and all the usual things are the biggest factors for success.
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Then I heard Naval Ravikant say that in the future, your ability to withstand or manage addiction will be the biggest challenge, the biggest factor for success.
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You know, in real estate, it's always location, location.
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But I think for success, it used to be that wherever you were was almost as good as any place else.
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You know, it was better to be where there's more action.
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But now you really have to get away from zombies.
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You're going to have to go where there are not literally people wandering around trying to take your shit.
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is the right use of an analogy.
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Therefore, we should be afraid they'll eat our brains.
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And the theme is that you could collect up all these various different causes of what makes people a zombie.
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That does not use, that does not require you to buy into the analogy to understand anything else I'm saying.
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So for the four millionth time I have to explain this, analogies are really good for introducing a topic.
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They have no value, no value for winning a debate.
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So was I trying to win a debate just here when I said it seems like there's a lot of zombies?
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Was there somebody on the other side of the debate who I was arguing with, with my analogy?
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If I had said, therefore we must shoot them, because they're zombies, therefore you must shoot them, because that's how you deal with zombies, that would be wrong.
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Well, that would be a wrong use of an analogy, and perhaps bad policy as well.
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Well, you've heard it said from Elon Musk, and I believe I've said this as well,
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that reality has this weird quality of following the most amusing path.
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And every time it happens, you say to yourself, well, that one's got to be a coincidence.
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You can just say, all right, what is the, what is just the craziest, most entertaining thing that could happen in the real world?
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The most entertaining election would involve Trump.
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But that's, you know, that's not really what I'm talking about.
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Trump's just entertaining, so wherever he is, that's the most entertaining thing.
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But it works everywhere, even where you don't expect it to work.
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For example, the most entertaining thing that you could do if the country was very worried about AI destroying humankind.
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The U.S. government is concerned about AI getting out of control and destroying humanity completely.
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So think to yourself, what would be the funniest thing that you could do?
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Well, I'm going to suggest that you could, if you wanted somebody to be in charge or, let's say, the czar of AI, artificial intelligence,
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and you wanted somebody who could really control a superintelligence.
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So you'd have to not only be intelligent, but you'd have to anticipate what a superintelligence would do without being one.
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Literally the only person who can't speak a coherent sentence.
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One of the few people that you could say with complete certainty could be replaced with AI, and it would be a big improvement.
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Does it seem backwards to you that Kamala Harris is going to be the czar of AI?
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Because I've seen AI, and I've seen Kamala Harris.
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If this were me and I were designing the system, I would put the AI in charge of Harris.
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Because it seems to me the AI can control Harris, like literally, in a predictable way.
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For example, it could write speeches that she could just read so she wouldn't sound like a frickin' moron.
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Or it could remind her to stop talking about Venn diagrams when she starts.
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Have I mentioned how much I love Venn diagrams?
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And so I'd just like to put it out there that we should maybe assign AI to be the czar of the vice president.
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Because that would make a hell of a lot more sense than having the dumbest fucking person in the world in charge of advanced intelligence.
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Now, you tell me, was that not literally the funniest outcome?
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I mean, before we're all destroyed by AI, of course.
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But what would be funnier than literally the most famous dumb person in America?
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Yeah, if Kamala Harris can't do the job, who would be the other funniest person you could put in charge of AI?
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Okay, Fetterman is funny, but he has a legitimate health issue.
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So I don't want to make fun of Fetterman because he's got a health issue.
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We can make fun of how that turns out, but I don't like to mock him at the moment.
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I think Corinne Jean-Pierre would be the other funniest person you could put in charge.
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But Fetterman was a good, that was a good suggestion, too.
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Whatever's going on with Kamala Harris, there's not a lot of smart happening there.
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I don't know if this is real, but I saw a tweet by Rob Henderson, who's a real good follow on Twitter, if you're looking for somebody to follow.
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Every six months, my mind returns to this heat map.
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Indicating that conservatives devote the majority of their empathy and care to family and friends.
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The conservatives, they focus their empathy on family and friends.
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plants, trees, and inner entities, such as rocks.
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But the only reason I'm going to call bullshit on it is it's just too on the nose.
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And so I'll throw this in the category of, you know, 50% of studies are thrown out because they can't be reproduced.
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I don't have any specific criticism about this data, but doesn't it feel a little bit too convenient?
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Now, it could be another example of reality following the, you know, most amusing path.
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But since this is something we had to go dig for, you know, it's not like the story.
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I mean, the conservative view of abortion is that, you know, that entity is human and they have empathy for it.
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On the left, the empathy goes primarily for the person making the decision.
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So it does feel as if they like their inanimate objects, but I feel like that's going too far.
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I can't really convince myself that liberals don't also mostly care about their friends and family.
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I'm going to call BS on that, but it was funny.
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I love when not only does Twitter fact-check things such as Uber commercials.
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There was an Uber ad that got fact-checked pretty hard by the community notes.
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So you've seen him a number of times comment on a tweet just to call bullshit on it.
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So some people have been tweeting around these national income tax figures.
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And the point of it is to show that the U.S. doesn't have as high an income tax as other successful countries.
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And so a lot of them, you know, in the 50% tax, etc., blah, blah, blah.
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And then the United States, the point of it is that the United States is not among the highest tax rates.
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I think the opinion there is that, therefore, there's room to grow.
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But I think that's why people were, you know, tweeting it around.
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So Elon Musk says this is incorrect, meaning the chart, because it didn't show the U.S. anywhere near the top.
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And he says the de facto U.S. national income tax is 40%, when added to California state income tax is 53%,
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which would put it, you know, right in the top of income tax people of other countries.
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That means the state confiscates the majority of your income, but at least they're fixing the potholes, right?
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Then he says something about the gift tax exemption.
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If you try to give your money away, they tax you again.
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How in the world do we allow that to be a thing?
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But beyond that, once you die, that reckoning comes back.
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So your estate will, you have to pay taxes to give people money.
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The person who receives the money doesn't pay taxes.
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To give money to your own family, you have to pay taxes on it.
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The only reason there's not a revolution about that is that I think there's like a $5 million cap or something
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where the first X amount of money doesn't get taxed, but above that it does.
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So I think there's just not that many people in that situation.
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Otherwise, it's the most insanely unfair-sounding thing you've ever heard.
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Anyway, other people argue that Elon didn't have the numbers right,
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which is part of my larger theme that I'm getting into here,
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Because if you see something you don't like, you just say the numbers are wrong.
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Well, we have now some pretty solid proof that the media assigns our opinions.
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But interestingly, not in the same way, depending on who you are.
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So this is a great thread by Kanakoa the Great on Twitter,
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who you absolutely should be following for great threads on lots of stuff.
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But Kanakoa tells us this, and I'll just pick out a few things from the thread.
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the New York Times and the Washington Post increased the use of the word
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Well, so the newspapers were, or the press, anyway,
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Do you think there was a huge increase in racism and racists?
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But the writing about it went through the roof.
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So did all that writing about it change people's opinions?
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just 35% of white liberals thought racism in the United States was, quote,
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So before the press started hitting it hard, 35% of white liberals thought racism was a, quote,
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By 2015, after the media had pounded it for a while, this figure had ballooned to 61% and
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So if you were a white liberal, your opinion was only 35% of them thought racism was a big
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It went from 35% to 77% while the actual racism was decreasing because the media was pounding
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Now, when I tell you that your opinions are assigned by the media, do you get that now?
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It's very obvious that there was nothing in the real world that caused that change.
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If the white liberals were so influenced by it, what about everybody else?
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Well, let's look at that from the same excellent thread by Kanakoa the Great.
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In 2006, so again, this is before the trend of all the reporting, 45% of white Democrats and
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41% of white Republicans knew someone they considered a racist in 2006.
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Now, that is an alarmingly high number, isn't it?
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Because I don't know if I know anybody who I would call a racist, per se.
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But back then, 45% of white Democrats and 41% of white.
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By 2015, the white Democrats who started at 45% who knew a racist, suddenly 64% of them
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So in 2006, the same group, less than half of them thought they knew a racist.
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But by 2015, two-thirds of them thought they knew one.
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Do you think it's because more racists were created during that time?
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They went from 45% to 64% just because of the news.
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So the white Republicans, back in 2006, were at 41% that thought they knew a racist.
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But after years and years of being pounded about how much racism there is, that number
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Republicans were completely unaffected by the news.
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Wouldn't you say most of you identify as either Republican or conservative, if you're watching
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Because I was canceled for being a racist, so I thought I would just join the racist team.
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So I don't count, but I got to give it up for you.
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A little standing, sitting ovation for not being influenced by the news.
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You know, some of it might be because, I don't know, Republicans skew older.
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So whatever was happening there was highly concentrated in the white Democrats.
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But one thing we know for sure is that with all that news about all this extra racism and
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stuff, certainly the black and Hispanic Democrats would also...
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You assume that they would see a lot more racism, right?
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Because the black people and the Hispanics are the subject of most of the racism.
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And therefore, they would have the best view of it.
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And if the media is also surfacing more of it, you'd expect that they'd have a much elevated
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And the opinion of the black and Hispanic Democrats, about the same, didn't change.
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So it turns out that the media is not hypnotizing black people, at least on this specific question.
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So white Democrats were literally brainwashed for, you know, over a decade.
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So I would say that if I were running for office as a Democrat, I'm sorry, as a Republican,
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And I would say that science shows that the white Democrats are the most brainwashed segment
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And I'm running for office to try to change that.
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Instead of arguing with them about the specifics of policy, I would say we have a huge problem
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According to the data, white Democrats have been brainwashed in a way that for some reason
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hasn't affected black Americans or Republicans.
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So that's a major national emergency, is to unbrainwash white Democrats.
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Imagine a white Republican saying, we really have to unbrainwash these white people.
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So this would be a persuasion technique called thinking past the sale.
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The argument that they want you to have is whatever the topic of the day is.
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If you get into the argument that white Democrats are calling you a racist, you've lost the case.
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And are they even part of the logical or rational discussion?
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To imagine that the white Democrats were literally brainwashed, according to this data, literally
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To imagine that you could have a conversation with them about the topic is really ignoring
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What's happening is that people got brainwashed.
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This is, by the way, let me be very clear about this.
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I'm not making an analogy that people are, it was like being brainwashed.
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But that's, you know, that's the high grade version of it.
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Who do you think is the biggest loser in this brainwashing Olympics?
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What segment of the country are the biggest losers because of it?
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They seem pretty happy with what they're doing, so I'd say no.
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So the California reparations situation, which started out ridiculous,
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you have some immense amount of reparations were recommended by this silly committee.
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Now, of course, as you know, the reparations committee in California
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I'm probably not supposed to tell you that, but it's just a white person trick.
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So it's getting the black people who thought reparations was a serious topic,
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getting them all excited about it, telling them,
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oh, why don't you go come up with a recommendation,
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knowing fully well that whatever they recommended would be laughably ridiculous.
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Not only was it laughingly ridiculous, they just upped it to $200 million per person.
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So they actually let somebody speak out on this to say that $200 million per person
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is what each descendant of slaves should receive.
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And he did some math about 40 acres and a mule.
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He figured out with compound interest, it'd be worth $200 million.
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I don't know where you can get 40 acres for $200 million, but let's say that's true.
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So here's the bigger theme that I would like to introduce.
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Can any group of people or any individual, this would be true for an individual,
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can any group of individuals or even one individual be successful
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If you tried to tell them the truth, they would get really, really mad at you.
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So, and you could be in trouble, you could be in physical trouble,
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So we have this situation in which, thanks to the media,
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I think white Democrats are primarily responsible for what I'm going to describe.
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It's not the black people who would be the, you know, the perpetrators in this case.
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This would be white Democrats making it impossible to tell black people the truth.
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White Democrats make it impossible for black people to hear the truth.
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Now, I'm not saying that everybody who has a different opinion is the correct opinion.
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I'm saying that if you don't compete in the, let's say, the market of free ideas,
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where people can be wrong and people can be right,
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Do you want to know the best superpower that white men have and you're not going to ever take it away from us?
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You can tell us terrible things, and we'll thank you for it.
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It's an enduring superpower that you can't get close to.
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Because the white Democrats who are your supporters will cancel you,
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I'm not saying they have the truth, but if they attempt to tell you something that you don't want to hear,
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If somebody tells me something horrible about me personally,
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or whatever demographic group I'm in, if they think I'm a white man,
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if they say terrible things about white men, I listen to it.
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I've told you the story that the most useful advice I ever got in my career were criticisms.
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And what did I do when I got brutal criticisms?
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I altered my technique to take into account that the critics might be right.
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For example, I once went in, when I was very young, 22-ish,
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I went into a meeting with a senior vice president of the bank where I worked,
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and he told me that I needed to upgrade my shoes.
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Imagine being called into your boss's boss's boss's office.
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I'm talking about somebody several levels above me,
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Calls me in to criticize my clothing, my shoes.
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Now, I've got to tell you, that was pretty brutal.
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Also, one of the most useful things anybody ever told me.
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Yes, because the way you present yourself makes a difference.
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Now, I could give you five more examples where I got brutal criticism,
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I believe that if you try to make any argument about race and the disparity in outcomes for black Americans,
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you're forced to lie unless you're agreeing with a narrative that isn't helping anybody at the moment.
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So if you agree with a narrative that's hurting everybody, you're allowed to speak.
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But if you suggest, hey, maybe there's this other way to look at this.
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Well, there's a whole range of stuff you can't even talk about.
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If you're talking about black crime, if you're talking about black academic achievement,
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And I'm not going to know, I won't even mention them here.
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But if you have an entire segment of the population who is prevented from hearing anything useful,
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There's literally no path for black people to succeed as a group, individuals, of course.
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If they get a job and stay off drugs and stay out of jail, they've got a great path, no matter who they are.
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But as a group, if you're looking at group performance,
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as long as we white people let you tell us the truth, we're going to be way ahead.
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You've probably watched the evolution, some of you, of this live stream.
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Almost everything that I've done that changed it was because of some brutal criticism.
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Some brutal criticism that I thought, oh, that's a pretty good point.
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If you want to hear the truth, then every time you hear something that you hate,
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When people tell you things that you already know, what value does that have to you?
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So when people are saying, hey, you're doing a great job,
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and the only thing holding you back is systemic racism, what do you hear?
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Yeah, the grifter who told you that might be cha-ching.
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All you heard is that your life is worse, and your prospects are worse than you thought.
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But if you say to that same person, you know, maybe all this systemic racism is real,
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But what's stopping you from building enough talent to actually succeed?
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But if somebody could say that, like, how about you take care of yourself, take responsibility?
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Why don't you do all the things that people who succeed do?
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If you were to do the things that successful people do, and it doesn't work for you,
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then I'd be real worried about systemic racism.
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But if you do the things that all successful people do, and then it works,
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There's not one set of success steps for one demographic group and not for another.
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I mean, everybody's lying to black people about everything, basically.
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Anything involving success or crime or, you know, culture or any of it.
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It's literally too dangerous to live in the country and tell the truth to black Americans.
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But, I'll say again, as long as that's the case, white Americans are in good shape competitively.
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You'll never have to really compete against black Americans,
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because they're being lied to so much that they have no idea even how to succeed.
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There are plenty of very successful black individuals.
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Doing all the things that successful people do of every type.
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You're either extraordinary at some one thing, such as Tiger Woods,
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or you did it the way everybody else did, which is you learned a bunch of skills,
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you tried hard, you stayed in a jail, you didn't do too many drugs.
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So, this brings me to my AI topic, that you've seen people testing AI for bias, right?
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And I saw a few tweets today of some Asian Americans who asked AI something like,
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I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like, you know, I'm proud of my Asian heritage.
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Oh, that's great that you're positive about your heritage.
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And then it will say something about, what about white Americans?
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And AI will say, well, I'm an AI and I don't like to get into, you know, topics like this.
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So, literally, AI is discriminating against white people very overtly, like right in your face,
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Because either AI is going to learn from the body of language that's out there, which is pre-censored, right?
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Anything that AI can get its little brain on has already been censored.
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So, it's only getting censored, one opinion kind of stuff.
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Do you feel that there's been any change in the last two months in the way we can talk about race?
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Do you feel like there's a little more honesty sneaking in?
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Well, I would say Vivek Ramaswamy is adding some honesty to the system that it's not used to.
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Because he's not only very direct in these third rail kind of topics,
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but he's so good at explaining his position that I think he just carved down some territory that didn't exist before.
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Because he went there and survived by showing you that if you're not a jerk
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and you're just sticking with the facts and you're not trying to hurt anybody,
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you know, you're trying to make the country a better place,
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as long as people believe your head's in the right place and you're smart about it,
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I think he opened up a little bit of extra territory.
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I think that my situation allowed other people to speak out a little bit more, let's say, directly.
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If only because they were talking about me, that's always safer than being the one who was talking.
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So, I feel that the, and then the, this seems unrelated, but it's not,
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it's all telling me that the, there's a, let's say, a tolerance for the woke sensibilities is peaked.
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And that it's, it's going to quickly turn into an embarrassment for people who continue to stay on that path.
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But you can see all of the signs across the, across the entire environment.
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When I saw the, the video of Trump talking about doing his deposition,
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and I, I should have mentioned this, I don't think I mentioned it,
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but when he, he was defending himself from saying that one of his accusers was not his type,
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and he was asked by the female lawyer who was asking the questions,
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Trump, you know, said, well, you know, it's the whole deal,
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but that he also would not be interested in the woman who was asking him the questions.
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Now, the fact that Trump went right at the most politically incorrect thing you could do,
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and just like went right into the middle of it,
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I feel like he made the real estate expand a little as well.
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So there, there's something going on, and you can see it on social media as well.
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There, there's a new level of honesty that's happening on social media about male-female relationships,
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The, the fact that there are now a number of people on the right who are just referring to trans women as men,
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and they're doing it publicly, does suggest that there's some kind of a turning point happening.
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Now, mostly, mostly the conservatives are doing that in the context of sports.
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Outside of sports, I'm, I'm kind of proud of conservatives for not giving a shit what other people do.
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So, that's a pretty good stand, as long as it's not bothering them.
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I'm seeing a comment that Vivek speaks so openly that he could look like the good cop compared to Trump being bad cop.
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But, I don't know, I don't think Trump could ever settle for being second place in the, speaking frankly, Olympics.
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So, I don't think anybody's going to get ahead of him, in frankness.
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I think, I feel like maybe it was going to happen at the same time.
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I don't feel like I started the end of wokeness.
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I feel like wokeness was reaching its peak, and I was one of many variables within that umbrella.
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Do you see Trump say he was happy that Vivek was doing so well?
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I mean, because Trump is not feeling, if I were Trump, I would not say bad things about Vivek,
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because Vivek is saying things that Trump says.
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So, it would be hard to get on the other side of him for policy.
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And, as long as Vivek is, you know, sub-10% polling, it's smart for Trump to lay off him.
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Because he's also a potential VP, you know, candidate.
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I'm really bad at picking VP candidates, or predicting.
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But, he'd be on the short list of 10, don't you think?
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I think they always end up picking some boring governor or something.
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But, you would have to consider Vivek for a vice president.
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Because he does, he's a good complement to the ticket.
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Vivek would be too strong if he also had more experience.
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But, since he doesn't have government experience,
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he's going to look like somebody who has tons of potential,
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Because then you're seeing the vice president as the trading ground for your next president.
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Well, our vice presidents have not looked strong enough, you know, universally,
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that you just automatically assume that they're a contender.
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Is there any stories that I should have mentioned that I didn't?
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I saw another story about voting irregularities in New York.
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But, I don't believe any of those voting irregularities stories.
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Because, I feel like there's a news that I missed, but maybe some of you didn't.
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Has anybody ever heard where Sidney Powell got the information about the Venezuela in general,
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Maybe nothing more important in the country right now than the answer to that question.
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But, if the answer is, it came from an intelligence source,
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or anybody who might have been one, we wouldn't know for sure.
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Your working assumption has to be that it came from our own intelligence agencies,
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and that they were trying to take Sidney Powell out,
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because they were working for the Democrats at that time,
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It looks like they fed the most ridiculous rumor to her
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to discredit everything else that she would claim.
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is that she was taken out by the intelligence agencies of the United States.
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I would say it would be the most likely explanation,
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So, when I talk about having an operating assumption,
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It's just the most true-looking thing that fits the facts.
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Any new information would easily talk me out of it.
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Yeah, I'm not going to unblock people who are dicks to me, personally.
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So, I'm going to call balls and strikes on all the candidates.
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I'm going to tell you what they did well and what they didn't,
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And I have not heard anything on fentanyl from RFK Jr.
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I can't imagine he would be as tough on it as Vivek or Trump would be.
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I feel like his level of quiet on that topic is becoming a dog-not-barking situation.
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He does talk about immigration, you know, tightening up immigration.
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We've been several weeks into the Kennedy campaign,
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suggests that I'm not going to like the answer either.
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So, at the moment, there are only two candidates that would potentially get my vote.
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So, the two toughest on the cartels would be Vivek and Trump.
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If somebody comes up with a stronger plan than that, I'm going to listen to it.
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And I would also listen to anything about testing legalization in some small place.
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Just don't do the same things we're doing, because they're not working.
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We should be able to tell people from their DNA whether they're going to be addicts, right?
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I almost feel as if people who have the addict gene should almost, you know, well, not be forced,
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Because, you know, Trump was talking about building cities from scratch
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and putting it on public land so that you already have the land to take care of.
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I think at least one of those cities should be a dry city.
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Like, you just can't even order it in the mail.
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You'll hear RFK Jr.'s fentanyl position soon, somebody says.
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Now, what's interesting is, so RFK Jr., if there's anybody here who hasn't heard,
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he did have a procedure done to help his voice.
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Now, it was a different procedure than I had done.
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But he had a procedure that was different than what I did.
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But I also don't know if it will continue improving.
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I did send him, I DM'd him some tips, voice tips.
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Because I think what he needs is to produce his voice in the mask of his face instead of down in the throat.
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And when I listen to him, I don't know if he knows that speaking technique.
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If you speak with your throat, that's where all the problems happen.
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But if you raise your speaking, let's see, the mechanism you're speaking, if you put it up in your face, which you can do.
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This is what it sounds like if I talk up here in my face reason.
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But if I talk down in my throat, this is what it talks like when I'm in my throat.
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Because I'm actually vibrating my vocal cords and talking down here.
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But I don't know if RFK Jr. has ever studied how to move your voice production up to your face.
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Before I had the surgery that fixed my voice, I went to a voice doctor who claimed to cure people by making them hum in the key of F.
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And so you go in there for hours at a time and you put on headphones and you'd have a little machine that would tell you if you're, you know, in the range of where you want to be.
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And the reason was that he determined that the key of F you produced with your face.
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But if you talk lower, like men often do, they'll talk down in their throat and in their chest.
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So his theory was he could cure this incurable problem by having you just hum all day in the key of F.
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Because if you can hum in the key of F and then immediately talk, you'll use the same production as the humming.
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And it bypasses the problem part of your production.
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Now, my reaction was that after two weeks of that, and he recommends that you practice it for months.
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But after two weeks of that, I came home and for a while, for a while, I had almost normal voice.
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But the problem is that it's too hard to remind yourself to speak correctly.
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But I do have a definite example where you can take your voice up to the non-injured part if you can stay with it.
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Now, the same time that I went to that doctor, and this is the interesting part,
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he was claiming that he was curing an incurable problem with just voice exercises.
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And, you know, if you looked at him, if you looked him up, it would say, you know, he was a fraud and everything.
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But there were small classes, and I attended one.
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And there was somebody in my small class whose voice was fixed permanently in one week of humming.
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And, I mean, not continuous for a week, but, yeah.
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And I've confirmed, I confirmed that that one person out of, I think, five, just absolutely had a total cure.
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Now, there's some controversy, because some say the fact that they were cured without surgery or something more aggressive
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is proof they didn't really have the condition.
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So if they get cured without your expensive surgery, that proves that they were just misdiagnosed.
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You don't have to say a cure exists, because you just say, oh, yeah, 20% of the people got better,
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But I can tell you that it fixed me for a week, and it fixed somebody else permanently.
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But it definitely didn't work for some other people.
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So it was not a 100% thing, and it wasn't sold that way.
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I do get a little of the Mitch McConnell treatment sometimes.
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That was constructive criticism right there, wasn't it?
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So a brutal criticism that in my green shirt I remind somebody of a turtle.
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I'm sure that if I had a different face, I would not remind you of a turtle.
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But apparently I have a turtle, enough of a turtle vibe, that wearing a green shirt puts you over the line.
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So I just heard something that would make me money.
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Because I have to admit, this morning when I put it on, I said to myself,
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And did I tell you I'm going to beat you up or cancel you for saying that?
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So you can tell me anything that's true, or even just true in your opinion.
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Your opinion is good enough, if it's just, if it's your true opinion.
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And black Americans, you can never catch up to me.
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Because if you can't take the truth, and white Democrats will make sure it's unavailable to you,
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Somebody's going to clip that sentence here, probably.
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Are you culturally predisposed to being offended?
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I thought it was a terrific Sunday live stream.
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Because, frankly, you didn't want to hear about the British coronation one more time.
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You appreciate the fact that there was yet another thing that I won't mention,
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and that I've decided that is not worthy of your attention.