Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2118 Scott Adams： DeSantis Announces & Trump Pounces, Mental Illness, Trans Bans, Fear Map

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00:00:04.500 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.

00:00:09.460 Today, featuring, I know, hold on, electricity.

00:00:15.240 Yeah, yeah, today we're going to do the show with electricity.

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00:00:48.960 Ah, surprisingly delicious.

00:00:54.800 Oh, that's good stuff.

00:00:56.980 All right, I'd like to begin by putting you all into tech support for a moment.

00:01:04.360 Does anybody else have the experience lately, and I can't tell if it's an internet problem or a Scott problem,

00:01:11.600 that your internet is working fine, that you can test and there's plenty of signal,

00:01:16.600 but some of the main websites you go to just stop working in the afternoon?

00:01:21.120 Does anybody have that problem?

00:01:22.320 Is there something like, oh, okay, yes, I'm getting a lot of yeses.

00:01:28.440 I thought I was crazy.

00:01:29.800 For example, my internet can be blazing at, you know, several hundred megabits per second and I can check it.

00:01:39.420 At the same time that Instagram isn't working and then I'll go to Twitter, I'll be like, ah, Instagram isn't working, I'll go over to Twitter and Twitter won't work.

00:01:48.320 So then I'll say, well, I'll check my Gmail and it won't work.

00:01:54.620 And it can last for hours.

00:01:57.180 Are you all having, so you're all having the same problem, right?

00:02:00.040 A number of you are having this problem.

00:02:01.520 Is there some kind of common, how could there be a common element of any of that?

00:02:10.280 There must be something common.

00:02:12.860 Well, I don't know what it is.

00:02:14.760 All right, well, I'm glad it's not just me, but there are times in the afternoon where I can't use my internet at all.

00:02:21.280 And here's the weird thing.

00:02:23.300 My 5G stops at the same time.

00:02:26.700 I don't know what's going on.

00:02:28.240 So I always think, oh, if my internet's not working, I'll switch over to my 5G.

00:02:32.820 It goes down the same time, all the time.

00:02:34.880 I don't know why.

00:02:36.880 All right.

00:02:38.840 If you're not watching the new Dilbert Reborn comic, available only to subscribers here on Locals,

00:02:45.920 or if you subscribe on Twitter, you only get the comic.

00:02:50.580 And Dilbert is still trying to deal with his new Karen 3000 AI sex bot.

00:02:58.240 And I will just summarize by saying, it's still not going well.

00:03:02.760 It's not going well.

00:03:04.880 Well, I saw today a visual illusion that mirrors the Yanni and Laurel.

00:03:10.600 You know the audio illusion where some people hear Yanni and some people hear Laurel?

00:03:16.280 And you've probably seen on the internet that that illusion has been expanded.

00:03:21.760 You can have a list of something like 10 different sentences that if you're reading the sentence,

00:03:28.620 the audio that's always the same sounds like the sentence you're reading.

00:03:32.180 And then you go down to the next sentence, and the audio instantly changes in your mind, but not in reality.

00:03:39.300 In reality, it's always the same.

00:03:40.940 But in your mind, it changes to exactly the next sentence, which has nothing to do with the sentence above it.

00:03:47.000 And then you can repeat that nine times.

00:03:50.260 Every sentence you read, completely different sentences,

00:03:52.880 the audio instantly changes to the sentence you're reading.

00:03:57.800 Now, if that didn't freak you out enough,

00:04:01.420 you can do that with visual stuff as well.

00:04:05.280 So I tweeted, if you want to see it,

00:04:07.620 there's a visual illusion where if you concentrate at a dot in the center,

00:04:12.820 sometimes you see green, sometimes you see purple,

00:04:15.400 and sometimes all the dots disappear and turn into one green dot.

00:04:20.200 And all of it is based on kind of wanting to see it.

00:04:24.980 You just concentrate in one place,

00:04:27.140 and the entire visual field changes while you watch it.

00:04:31.120 Now, if that doesn't tell you

00:04:32.840 that you've always been living in a complete subjective bubble of reality,

00:04:38.360 that your bubble and my bubble do not match,

00:04:43.460 it should.

00:04:43.960 Yeah, I mean, that's about the best evidence you could ever have

00:04:49.080 that we don't live in the same worlds with each other.

00:04:52.080 We're imagining that the other has experienced something like we're imagining,

00:04:56.520 but it's pure imagination.

00:04:58.480 Your little world and mine, so different.

00:05:01.640 And we'll never know.

00:05:03.200 We will never know.

00:05:05.360 All right.

00:05:10.040 Yesterday, if you were watching from,

00:05:12.420 if you're watching my show from YouTube,

00:05:14.540 you knew that the video crapped out

00:05:17.960 just because I didn't have my iPad charged up enough,

00:05:21.480 and you missed the big reveal.

00:05:24.540 I promised you that I was going to show

00:05:26.840 that Carrie Lake's challenge in Arizona,

00:05:30.540 which said that the signature matching

00:05:33.660 had obviously not been done,

00:05:35.920 or at least not done well,

00:05:37.260 because the claim was that 274,000 signatures

00:05:42.380 were matched,

00:05:45.240 or at least looked at for a match,

00:05:48.140 in two seconds.

00:05:50.960 And I claimed that I could do that right in front of you.

00:05:56.480 274,000 signature matches,

00:05:59.000 and I'm going to do it in less than two seconds.

00:06:02.740 Do you believe I could do it?

00:06:04.980 Well, if I remember,

00:06:08.640 on this board are two signatures.

00:06:12.540 And I'd like to demonstrate

00:06:13.880 that I can do a signature match

00:06:17.580 in under two seconds.

00:06:18.720 It takes a little stretching.

00:06:24.480 It's not something you can do right away.

00:06:26.940 Let's see if I can get this.

00:06:28.940 All right.

00:06:30.160 You can set the timer.

00:06:32.240 Set the timer for two seconds.

00:06:34.200 I'm going to turn around quickly

00:06:35.300 and see if I can do a signature match.

00:06:40.060 How was it?

00:06:41.000 Was that under two seconds?

00:06:44.380 They do not match.

00:06:47.000 They do not match.

00:06:49.040 How did I do?

00:06:51.580 Pretty good, wasn't it?

00:06:53.320 I'm pretty sure I got that

00:06:54.700 in a little under one second.

00:06:57.400 Maybe a little over one second.

00:06:59.300 But two seconds was plenty.

00:07:01.680 I had plenty of time.

00:07:03.340 Now, you might be confused

00:07:05.100 because I said I was going to do

00:07:06.580 274,000 of them in two seconds.

00:07:11.080 Did I say that?

00:07:12.720 That's what the news said, didn't it?

00:07:14.480 Didn't the news say that

00:07:15.700 there were 274,000 in two seconds?

00:07:19.160 Well, not really.

00:07:20.740 No, not really.

00:07:21.940 What the news said was

00:07:23.300 per signature match.

00:07:26.760 Two seconds per signature match.

00:07:29.620 Which I just proved.

00:07:31.120 I just did it in less than two seconds.

00:07:33.660 Now, of course,

00:07:34.580 that doesn't answer all the questions.

00:07:35.960 I'm really just mocking

00:07:38.180 the quality of the news.

00:07:40.420 So I'm not making any real point

00:07:42.100 about the election itself.

00:07:43.720 I'm just mad at the news

00:07:45.300 for telling you that

00:07:46.800 what that really meant

00:07:48.300 was all 274,000

00:07:50.180 happened in two seconds.

00:07:51.880 It was two seconds each,

00:07:54.520 which is plenty of time.

00:07:56.840 Now, here's the part

00:07:58.380 I don't know.

00:07:59.000 How do you do a signature match?

00:08:03.440 Do you have to fumble around

00:08:04.920 and find two things

00:08:06.080 before you do the match?

00:08:08.320 Or are they presented to you

00:08:10.500 on a screen

00:08:11.240 and you just look at them?

00:08:13.520 Because if they're presented

00:08:14.640 to you on a screen,

00:08:15.600 let's say in a column,

00:08:16.880 where all you're doing

00:08:17.840 is seeing if this one

00:08:18.640 matches this one,

00:08:19.720 you can just take your finger

00:08:21.040 and run right down the page.

00:08:23.060 Couldn't you?

00:08:24.700 Is it on a screen

00:08:25.800 or are you looking at it

00:08:26.700 on two pieces of paper

00:08:27.740 that you have to like fuss with

00:08:29.860 and find the two pieces of paper?

00:08:32.740 Does anybody know

00:08:33.540 how that works?

00:08:35.640 It's on a screen,

00:08:36.660 somebody says.

00:08:38.160 If the two signatures

00:08:39.340 are on a screen

00:08:40.060 next to each other,

00:08:41.620 you can do that

00:08:42.840 in two seconds

00:08:43.540 pretty easily.

00:08:45.560 That's not even a challenge.

00:08:47.620 Because they're not

00:08:48.360 looking for exact,

00:08:49.940 they're not looking for,

00:08:50.840 oh, you dotted your I differently.

00:08:53.120 They're looking for

00:08:53.980 like massively different signatures

00:08:55.780 or like one's missing

00:08:57.280 or something.

00:08:58.420 They're not looking

00:08:59.320 for small differences.

00:09:01.360 Am I wrong about that?

00:09:03.260 I don't think I'm wrong.

00:09:04.740 Anyway,

00:09:05.160 so this is more a comment

00:09:06.120 about the quality

00:09:07.460 of the news coverage.

00:09:09.260 It's not a statement

00:09:10.440 in any way

00:09:11.220 about whether the election

00:09:12.240 was fair or not fair.

00:09:13.780 I have no idea.

00:09:15.500 All right.

00:09:17.360 So that's what you missed.

00:09:20.920 Let's see.

00:09:21.560 So as you know,

00:09:23.940 tonight DeSantis announces

00:09:26.640 and Trump pounces.

00:09:31.120 Yeah.

00:09:32.080 All right.

00:09:32.480 You can savor that

00:09:33.380 for a minute.

00:09:34.800 DeSantis announces

00:09:35.820 and Trump pounces.

00:09:36.940 We have both stories.

00:09:38.020 So DeSantis is going to go

00:09:39.220 on the audio service

00:09:41.220 on Twitter

00:09:41.860 called Spaces

00:09:43.160 and is going to do

00:09:44.980 an unscripted interview,

00:09:47.140 which I suppose

00:09:48.000 is the only kind

00:09:48.940 you should do,

00:09:49.800 an unscripted interview,

00:09:51.820 with Elon Musk.

00:09:53.900 Do you think

00:09:54.620 Elon Musk

00:09:55.220 is going to get

00:09:55.760 any pushback

00:09:57.260 for having DeSantis on?

00:10:00.560 Oh, of course,

00:10:01.840 because it's Elon Musk

00:10:03.000 and it's politics

00:10:03.900 and it's DeSantis

00:10:04.760 and all that.

00:10:05.940 So we must find

00:10:07.000 reasons to hate it.

00:10:08.700 Reason number one

00:10:09.580 to hate it,

00:10:10.260 Twitter has become

00:10:11.780 a right-wing echo chamber.

00:10:15.080 Right?

00:10:16.500 Except that Musk has

00:10:18.300 on Twitter

00:10:19.420 said that he'd love

00:10:20.900 to interview Biden

00:10:21.920 as well.

00:10:23.720 So there's your

00:10:25.100 right-wing echo chamber.

00:10:27.340 The guy who's being blamed

00:10:29.060 for being biased.

00:10:31.000 Literally open to

00:10:32.300 any of the major candidates

00:10:33.520 talking to him,

00:10:34.300 I'm sure.

00:10:34.920 Now, he didn't say

00:10:35.500 anything about Trump.

00:10:36.980 But would he say no?

00:10:38.740 I don't know.

00:10:39.280 It's a good question.

00:10:41.080 You might.

00:10:41.640 You might, actually.

00:10:42.820 Because there are

00:10:43.260 competitors on truth

00:10:45.300 versus Twitter.

00:10:47.580 But we'll see.

00:10:49.100 However, I think

00:10:50.040 I love everything about it.

00:10:53.020 I think DeSantis is smart

00:10:54.580 to do it this way

00:10:56.380 because it makes news.

00:11:00.420 So DeSantis gets

00:11:02.080 to make news twice.

00:11:03.960 Once because he's announcing

00:11:05.440 and twice because he's doing it

00:11:07.940 in a way that is newsworthy.

00:11:11.420 That's good technique.

00:11:14.020 I'm going to give DeSantis

00:11:15.360 some compliments.

00:11:17.840 He does consistently find

00:11:20.440 the free money.

00:11:22.240 Right?

00:11:22.680 The little things

00:11:23.960 that his base likes.

00:11:26.280 And this is just

00:11:27.600 one of those little extra...

00:11:30.280 There's just a little extra

00:11:31.440 for this.

00:11:32.560 Right?

00:11:32.800 Anybody can announce

00:11:33.820 for presidency.

00:11:35.160 Several people

00:11:35.760 have done it already.

00:11:37.000 And it's usually boring.

00:11:39.320 I don't think

00:11:40.120 there's anything

00:11:40.560 less boring

00:11:41.400 than having

00:11:42.760 an unscripted conversation

00:11:44.480 with Elon Musk

00:11:45.520 where he gets

00:11:46.580 to ask the questions.

00:11:48.380 What could be

00:11:49.620 less boring than that?

00:11:52.200 That's pretty good.

00:11:53.160 So DeSantis,

00:11:54.640 A plus for

00:11:56.000 announcement technique.

00:11:59.140 However,

00:12:00.580 when DeSantis announces,

00:12:02.660 Trump pounces.

00:12:03.460 And so he had

00:12:04.860 a little screed

00:12:06.620 today about it

00:12:07.520 in which he called

00:12:08.520 Ron DeSanctimonious.

00:12:10.880 Now he's shortened it

00:12:11.800 to Ron DeSantis.

00:12:14.280 Ron DeSantis.

00:12:17.480 Now,

00:12:18.400 I cannot hide

00:12:20.420 the fact

00:12:21.140 that Trump's technique

00:12:23.400 makes me giggle.

00:12:25.580 And he's done

00:12:26.640 this before, right?

00:12:27.700 He's announced

00:12:28.520 a nickname,

00:12:29.820 but then he's

00:12:30.720 later shortened

00:12:31.440 the nickname.

00:12:32.820 He's abbreviated it.

00:12:33.900 Then he gets another

00:12:34.580 hit for the abbreviation.

00:12:38.200 So now I guess

00:12:39.020 he's abbreviating it

00:12:39.980 to DeSantis.

00:12:41.380 And these are the claims

00:12:42.900 that Trump makes.

00:12:44.560 Now,

00:12:44.780 these are political claims.

00:12:47.620 So,

00:12:48.160 you know,

00:12:48.400 use your judgment

00:12:49.140 about the truth

00:12:50.900 of any of this.

00:12:51.880 Right?

00:12:52.020 It's all out of context stuff.

00:12:54.000 So,

00:12:54.600 you know,

00:12:55.180 I'm not claiming

00:12:56.000 any of this is true

00:12:57.220 if it were to be

00:12:59.020 considered in context.

00:13:00.100 So,

00:13:01.440 he says that

00:13:02.060 DeSantis voted

00:13:02.900 to cut Social Security

00:13:04.100 and degrade Medicare

00:13:06.060 and he wanted

00:13:07.160 to introduce

00:13:07.720 this 23%

00:13:09.120 sales tax increase

00:13:10.520 and these are,

00:13:11.480 he's a rhino

00:13:12.280 who Paul Ryan likes

00:13:14.080 and he's a disloyal person.

00:13:17.480 And so,

00:13:18.480 so Trump is basically

00:13:20.120 just emptying the,

00:13:21.520 you know,

00:13:21.840 emptying the clip.

00:13:23.180 He said,

00:13:23.780 what do we got?

00:13:25.040 Bring me the entire list.

00:13:27.340 I'm going to do,

00:13:28.040 I'm going to do

00:13:28.440 one announcement.

00:13:29.340 I'll just throw

00:13:29.860 everything in there

00:13:30.580 and see what sticks.

00:13:32.440 But my favorite was,

00:13:34.620 Trump said

00:13:35.280 about DeSantis,

00:13:36.900 he desperately needs

00:13:38.060 a personality transplant

00:13:39.400 and,

00:13:40.540 to the best of my knowledge,

00:13:41.920 they are not medically

00:13:42.820 available yet.

00:13:46.920 Now,

00:13:47.400 am I wrong

00:13:50.240 that Trump

00:13:52.120 is one of the best

00:13:52.840 humor writers

00:13:53.860 in our age?

00:13:56.660 It's just the way

00:13:57.600 he chooses his words

00:13:58.920 because

00:13:59.960 it would be one thing

00:14:01.260 to say he needs

00:14:01.940 a personality transplant,

00:14:04.620 right?

00:14:04.960 If you say somebody

00:14:05.940 needs a personality transplant,

00:14:08.180 that would be

00:14:08.880 sort of innovative

00:14:09.960 and might get

00:14:11.360 a little news,

00:14:12.300 right?

00:14:13.260 But most people

00:14:14.280 would stop there.

00:14:16.060 Oh,

00:14:16.320 he needs a,

00:14:17.000 he needs a personality

00:14:18.100 transplant.

00:14:19.620 But what does Trump

00:14:20.940 consistently do?

00:14:23.140 What technique

00:14:24.020 does Trump use?

00:14:26.040 Say it.

00:14:28.220 Say it.

00:14:29.600 He gets attention,

00:14:30.480 of course.

00:14:31.740 No,

00:14:32.160 there's more.

00:14:33.300 It's the most obvious

00:14:34.140 thing he does.

00:14:35.720 Say it.

00:14:37.500 He makes you think

00:14:38.280 past the sale.

00:14:40.840 Right?

00:14:41.220 Here he did it again.

00:14:42.020 The sale

00:14:43.080 is that,

00:14:43.820 that DeSantis

00:14:45.820 needs a personality

00:14:47.780 transplant.

00:14:49.060 So that's what

00:14:49.740 he's trying to sell you,

00:14:50.860 that he has a

00:14:51.660 boring personality.

00:14:53.620 Now,

00:14:54.300 can you imagine

00:14:55.520 any other candidate

00:14:57.700 focusing on

00:15:00.240 somebody's boringness

00:15:01.680 as a political attack?

00:15:04.940 Because

00:15:05.560 if you saw this

00:15:06.720 out of context,

00:15:07.520 you'd say to yourself,

00:15:08.680 perhaps,

00:15:09.180 and I think

00:15:10.420 even Musk

00:15:11.980 said something

00:15:12.640 like this,

00:15:13.920 that you'd like

00:15:15.180 a boring president

00:15:15.960 for a while.

00:15:17.440 You know,

00:15:17.820 a boring president

00:15:18.640 might be

00:15:19.360 exactly what we need.

00:15:21.520 How about a president

00:15:22.200 with no personality

00:15:23.220 whatsoever?

00:15:24.780 I could go for that

00:15:26.020 right now.

00:15:26.860 Right?

00:15:27.640 So there are a lot

00:15:28.440 of people who would say,

00:15:29.340 well,

00:15:29.460 that's not even

00:15:30.000 an insult.

00:15:32.620 Like,

00:15:32.860 why would you focus

00:15:33.700 on his personality

00:15:34.760 when it's the least

00:15:36.460 important part

00:15:37.180 of the process?

00:15:38.320 And the answer is

00:15:39.340 because it works.

00:15:40.920 That's it.

00:15:42.160 Trump knows,

00:15:43.320 what other politicians

00:15:44.200 don't know,

00:15:45.520 that people do vote

00:15:46.760 based on what they think

00:15:47.980 will be more fun.

00:15:49.720 I know I do.

00:15:51.940 I am absolutely

00:15:53.400 conscious of the fact,

00:15:55.320 completely conscious,

00:15:56.740 of the fact that

00:15:57.760 I'm biased by

00:15:58.540 what would be more fun.

00:16:00.120 Or funnier.

00:16:01.360 Or just more interesting.

00:16:02.920 And he knows it.

00:16:04.220 He knows that

00:16:04.880 if he's more fun,

00:16:05.940 people are going

00:16:07.080 to vote for him.

00:16:09.420 I'm sure that

00:16:10.180 helped Zelensky.

00:16:11.560 Do you think

00:16:11.980 Zelensky won

00:16:12.840 because he was

00:16:13.520 more fun?

00:16:14.460 Probably.

00:16:15.800 Probably that

00:16:16.580 and nothing else.

00:16:17.820 Probably Zelensky

00:16:18.660 only won

00:16:19.380 because he was

00:16:19.940 more fun.

00:16:21.160 It doesn't seem

00:16:21.720 like it at the moment,

00:16:22.740 but I imagine

00:16:23.820 they thought so.

00:16:25.520 So,

00:16:26.240 anyway,

00:16:28.360 and then the claims

00:16:30.880 he makes

00:16:31.400 are all

00:16:32.080 in the context.

00:16:33.480 For example,

00:16:34.300 the sales tax

00:16:35.300 increased

00:16:35.820 to 23%.

00:16:36.980 If you hear that

00:16:38.360 in a context,

00:16:40.220 doesn't it sound

00:16:40.820 like Ron DeSantis

00:16:41.680 wants to raise

00:16:42.380 your taxes?

00:16:43.780 Because at one time

00:16:44.620 he said 23%

00:16:45.820 sales tax.

00:16:47.220 No.

00:16:48.360 Now,

00:16:48.720 I don't have to do

00:16:49.500 any research,

00:16:50.860 I've done no research

00:16:52.020 on this,

00:16:52.920 to know

00:16:53.500 that that was

00:16:54.760 in the context

00:16:55.500 of lowering

00:16:56.060 your other taxes.

00:16:57.880 Did I guess right?

00:16:59.620 I'm just guessing.

00:17:01.120 But I'm guessing

00:17:02.020 that Ron DeSantis

00:17:02.880 never suggested

00:17:04.060 keeping all

00:17:05.280 your other taxes

00:17:06.060 the same

00:17:06.700 and raising

00:17:07.700 your sales tax

00:17:08.600 to 23%.

00:17:09.780 You know

00:17:10.840 that never happened,

00:17:11.720 right?

00:17:12.580 You don't have

00:17:13.060 to research that?

00:17:15.000 Of course

00:17:15.720 it never happened.

00:17:16.840 Yeah.

00:17:17.220 He was probably

00:17:17.980 in the context

00:17:18.740 of a total

00:17:22.100 tax overhaul

00:17:23.500 that would result

00:17:24.820 in lower taxes

00:17:25.700 or something

00:17:26.260 more efficient.

00:17:27.440 And I'm not saying

00:17:28.120 it was a good idea

00:17:28.960 or a bad idea.

00:17:29.760 I'm just saying

00:17:31.320 it wasn't this.

00:17:32.520 It wasn't just

00:17:33.200 keeping everything

00:17:33.820 the same

00:17:34.320 and raising

00:17:34.920 your sales tax.

00:17:36.900 So,

00:17:37.400 you know,

00:17:37.600 it's a very

00:17:38.040 political,

00:17:39.100 Trump-like

00:17:39.700 set of

00:17:41.680 complaints.

00:17:47.460 Right.

00:17:48.300 So,

00:17:48.800 but I will give

00:17:49.840 Trump credit

00:17:50.660 for one thing

00:17:51.900 in particular.

00:17:53.260 Can you do

00:17:54.480 a fact check

00:17:55.140 on me here?

00:17:56.240 I'm not sure

00:17:56.800 I'm going to pass

00:17:57.380 the fact check

00:17:57.960 on this.

00:17:58.320 But my understanding

00:17:59.760 is,

00:18:00.300 just based on memory,

00:18:02.360 that Trump

00:18:02.900 has been pretty

00:18:03.820 consistent about

00:18:04.740 not cutting

00:18:05.600 benefits for

00:18:06.840 seniors,

00:18:08.720 especially,

00:18:09.480 you know,

00:18:09.740 Medicare and

00:18:10.240 Social Security.

00:18:11.500 Am I right

00:18:11.980 about that?

00:18:13.020 I believe he's

00:18:13.960 been completely

00:18:14.760 consistent about

00:18:16.160 backing seniors.

00:18:19.080 Yeah.

00:18:19.780 And so that's

00:18:20.500 a strong attack.

00:18:21.760 Because if

00:18:22.620 DeSantis has ever

00:18:23.660 wavered on that

00:18:24.580 and thought,

00:18:25.340 oh,

00:18:25.460 we need a

00:18:26.020 grand deal

00:18:27.380 to balance

00:18:27.960 the budget,

00:18:28.580 which is not

00:18:29.080 a bad idea.

00:18:30.760 You know,

00:18:30.920 I'm not,

00:18:31.340 I wouldn't

00:18:31.820 criticize it.

00:18:32.880 If somebody

00:18:33.440 came up with

00:18:33.940 an idea that

00:18:34.620 did maybe

00:18:35.720 shave off a

00:18:36.560 little bit

00:18:36.900 from Social

00:18:37.420 Security and

00:18:38.360 Medicare,

00:18:39.380 but had the

00:18:40.860 benefit of

00:18:41.360 saving the

00:18:41.860 country because,

00:18:42.960 you know,

00:18:43.260 we get out of

00:18:43.760 our debt spiral,

00:18:45.180 that's something

00:18:46.340 you'd want to

00:18:46.840 talk about.

00:18:48.000 But if you

00:18:48.440 see that in

00:18:48.880 the context,

00:18:49.500 it just sounds

00:18:49.960 like a big

00:18:51.100 old,

00:18:51.620 you know,

00:18:52.680 tax-raising,

00:18:53.820 benefit-cutting

00:18:55.200 guy.

00:18:56.460 All right,

00:18:56.820 so I don't

00:18:57.160 know if this

00:18:57.540 attack made

00:18:58.060 any difference,

00:18:58.940 but I love

00:18:59.580 the fact that

00:19:00.180 he mentioned

00:19:01.400 the personality

00:19:02.080 transplant.

00:19:03.160 And here's the

00:19:03.640 part where he

00:19:03.960 makes you think

00:19:04.420 past the sale.

00:19:06.020 To the best of

00:19:06.740 my knowledge,

00:19:07.280 they are not

00:19:07.680 medically available

00:19:08.500 yet.

00:19:09.280 It actually

00:19:09.880 makes you think

00:19:10.560 about whether

00:19:11.000 it's possible,

00:19:11.960 which is the

00:19:14.040 hilarious part.

00:19:15.300 It's like,

00:19:15.960 wait a minute,

00:19:16.460 he's actually

00:19:16.860 talking about

00:19:17.380 this like maybe

00:19:18.040 it's possible.

00:19:20.080 All right.

00:19:21.400 So Vanity Fair,

00:19:22.640 which used to be

00:19:23.400 a respectable

00:19:24.200 publication,

00:19:25.180 some people

00:19:25.680 say,

00:19:26.640 has devolved

00:19:28.340 into just a

00:19:29.160 ridiculous parody

00:19:31.080 of itself.

00:19:32.900 And they

00:19:34.660 had,

00:19:35.260 so there was

00:19:36.340 an article

00:19:36.760 today that

00:19:38.020 had two

00:19:38.460 headlines in

00:19:40.480 it.

00:19:40.760 One of the

00:19:41.100 headlines was

00:19:41.840 that DeSantis

00:19:43.340 is going to

00:19:44.000 announce on

00:19:44.920 Twitter because

00:19:47.100 quote,

00:19:48.260 David Duke

00:19:48.900 wasn't available.

00:19:51.080 That's right.

00:19:52.360 Vanity Fair

00:19:53.140 actually says

00:19:54.220 in the headline

00:19:55.260 that DeSantis

00:19:56.660 will be

00:19:57.140 announcing his

00:19:57.760 presidency with

00:19:58.680 Elon Musk

00:19:59.500 because David

00:20:01.060 Duke wasn't

00:20:02.060 available.

00:20:03.740 And then they

00:20:04.560 doubled down

00:20:05.240 in the same

00:20:05.720 article later

00:20:06.340 saying,

00:20:08.940 oh no,

00:20:11.500 it was

00:20:11.620 somewhere else.

00:20:12.920 But there was

00:20:13.640 another similar

00:20:14.980 accusation.

00:20:17.560 And,

00:20:17.820 oh,

00:20:19.060 it also said

00:20:19.760 other neo-Nazi

00:20:21.080 sympathizers

00:20:22.000 weren't

00:20:22.480 available.

00:20:24.800 Now,

00:20:25.560 I'm starting

00:20:26.360 to have a

00:20:26.960 whole different

00:20:27.460 feeling about

00:20:28.320 Democrats now,

00:20:30.220 like the

00:20:30.760 writer of

00:20:31.360 this article.

00:20:32.700 I think

00:20:33.500 we'd all

00:20:33.880 agree that

00:20:35.100 at some

00:20:35.700 level in

00:20:36.400 the Democrat

00:20:36.940 power hierarchy,

00:20:39.220 they know

00:20:40.080 they're doing

00:20:40.540 things just

00:20:41.140 for politics.

00:20:42.580 In other

00:20:42.940 words,

00:20:43.180 they don't

00:20:43.560 believe their

00:20:44.040 own messaging,

00:20:44.940 they just

00:20:45.520 know that it

00:20:45.960 works,

00:20:46.460 similar to

00:20:47.060 Trump,

00:20:47.520 right?

00:20:47.740 He doesn't

00:20:48.140 believe his

00:20:48.560 own messaging,

00:20:49.080 but he

00:20:49.500 knows it

00:20:50.160 works.

00:20:54.080 So,

00:20:55.080 here's what

00:20:57.120 I'm starting

00:20:57.520 to feel.

00:20:58.580 When I see

00:20:59.320 people like

00:20:59.860 the writer

00:21:00.280 of this

00:21:00.680 Vanity Fair,

00:21:01.600 I don't

00:21:01.900 know that

00:21:02.240 this writer

00:21:02.780 is part of

00:21:03.360 the Democrat

00:21:04.560 power structure,

00:21:06.000 or is it

00:21:07.100 somebody who

00:21:07.600 has induced

00:21:08.880 mental illness?

00:21:10.800 Because the

00:21:11.620 Hitlerization of

00:21:12.980 the Democrats,

00:21:14.040 where they see

00:21:14.640 Hitler everywhere,

00:21:15.920 because the

00:21:16.300 media has

00:21:16.780 hypnotized them

00:21:17.780 basically,

00:21:18.580 to see

00:21:19.020 Hitler in

00:21:20.020 their closet

00:21:20.540 and under

00:21:20.940 the bed,

00:21:22.060 that to

00:21:23.040 me reads

00:21:23.740 as mental

00:21:24.500 illness.

00:21:25.640 Now,

00:21:25.920 it could be

00:21:26.520 a temporary

00:21:27.100 form of

00:21:27.700 it,

00:21:28.160 something that

00:21:28.840 passes when

00:21:29.540 the news

00:21:29.960 passes to

00:21:30.600 another form,

00:21:31.620 but at the

00:21:32.380 moment,

00:21:33.400 I don't see

00:21:34.300 it as a

00:21:34.700 political opinion.

00:21:35.780 Do you?

00:21:37.200 Do you see

00:21:37.940 that as

00:21:38.320 politics?

00:21:39.280 It doesn't

00:21:39.700 look like that

00:21:40.200 at all.

00:21:40.560 It looks like

00:21:40.960 mental illness

00:21:41.560 to me.

00:21:42.200 And I'm not

00:21:42.560 saying that

00:21:43.100 for a

00:21:44.300 hyperbolic,

00:21:45.040 I'm intentionally

00:21:46.760 trying to

00:21:47.240 not exaggerate

00:21:48.160 here.

00:21:49.060 My actual

00:21:49.920 impression of

00:21:51.360 it is I

00:21:52.260 only see it

00:21:53.020 as mental

00:21:53.480 illness now.

00:21:54.760 Does anybody

00:21:55.140 else have

00:21:55.580 that yet?

00:21:56.740 Are you

00:21:57.200 seeing it

00:21:57.540 that way,

00:21:57.840 or are you

00:21:58.020 still seeing

00:21:58.440 it as

00:21:58.660 politics?

00:22:00.980 Now,

00:22:01.460 I don't

00:22:01.680 know if

00:22:01.960 there's a

00:22:02.300 version of

00:22:02.760 that that

00:22:03.120 works the

00:22:03.520 other way.

00:22:04.820 Do you

00:22:05.120 think that

00:22:05.620 Democrats

00:22:06.180 have a

00:22:07.400 view that

00:22:08.020 there's some

00:22:08.600 stuff that

00:22:09.340 Republicans are

00:22:10.680 doing that's

00:22:11.240 not based on

00:22:11.960 their actual

00:22:12.420 opinions or

00:22:13.100 politics,

00:22:14.040 but rather

00:22:14.760 on some

00:22:15.180 kind of

00:22:15.520 mental

00:22:15.900 illness?

00:22:17.340 They would

00:22:17.760 say that

00:22:18.100 about religion,

00:22:18.860 right?

00:22:19.720 So some

00:22:20.680 Democrats,

00:22:21.740 non-religious

00:22:22.460 Democrats,

00:22:23.120 some of them

00:22:23.540 might say

00:22:24.700 the right

00:22:27.260 is crazy

00:22:27.980 because of

00:22:28.420 their belief

00:22:28.840 in God.

00:22:30.380 But I

00:22:31.980 think we're

00:22:32.420 well beyond

00:22:33.040 the point

00:22:33.560 where somebody's

00:22:35.720 religious belief

00:22:36.660 is considered

00:22:37.480 a mental

00:22:37.960 illness.

00:22:40.000 There's nobody

00:22:40.520 in the medical

00:22:41.080 community who

00:22:41.860 would say

00:22:42.160 that,

00:22:42.840 at least for

00:22:43.460 the standard

00:22:44.280 religions.

00:22:45.460 I think the

00:22:46.220 medical view

00:22:47.000 is that people

00:22:48.220 have different

00:22:48.740 filters on

00:22:49.520 life.

00:22:50.580 And if you

00:22:50.980 pick this

00:22:51.760 particular

00:22:52.220 religious

00:22:52.760 filter,

00:22:53.780 it's more

00:22:54.160 of a

00:22:54.420 lifestyle

00:22:54.920 preference

00:22:56.600 and can be

00:22:57.700 very good

00:22:58.180 for you.

00:22:59.660 Would you

00:23:00.220 compare somebody

00:23:01.200 who believed

00:23:02.320 in, let's

00:23:03.480 say, a

00:23:03.740 specific

00:23:04.200 religion,

00:23:05.840 and let's

00:23:06.440 say you

00:23:06.700 don't believe

00:23:07.100 that's a

00:23:07.480 true religion,

00:23:08.380 that's your

00:23:08.960 opinion,

00:23:09.260 is that mental

00:23:11.560 illness?

00:23:12.020 If somebody

00:23:12.620 picks a

00:23:13.040 religion that

00:23:13.560 gives them

00:23:13.960 a good

00:23:14.600 guideline for

00:23:15.920 living their

00:23:16.600 life in a

00:23:17.480 healthy way,

00:23:20.140 to me,

00:23:20.840 if religion is

00:23:23.140 a mental

00:23:23.800 illness,

00:23:24.800 you're going

00:23:25.540 to have to

00:23:25.900 show me where

00:23:26.420 it's hurting

00:23:26.800 people.

00:23:28.200 You're going

00:23:28.500 to have to

00:23:28.780 show me that

00:23:29.280 the negative

00:23:30.000 is greater

00:23:30.660 than the

00:23:31.440 positive.

00:23:32.460 Because my

00:23:32.980 observation,

00:23:33.620 this is just

00:23:34.120 anecdotal,

00:23:35.580 but my

00:23:35.940 observation is

00:23:36.700 that religious

00:23:37.240 people do

00:23:37.800 better.

00:23:38.980 They have

00:23:39.380 happier lives,

00:23:40.340 less mental

00:23:41.580 illness,

00:23:42.720 more success,

00:23:43.820 more satisfaction,

00:23:45.440 live longer.

00:23:47.160 To me, the

00:23:48.000 benefits of

00:23:48.740 having a

00:23:49.400 religious faith

00:23:50.220 are somewhat

00:23:51.840 unambiguous.

00:23:53.320 It just seems

00:23:53.920 obvious to me.

00:23:55.760 I'm saying that

00:23:56.640 as someone who

00:23:57.160 is not a

00:23:57.900 believer.

00:23:59.140 I think that

00:23:59.640 gives me some

00:24:00.220 credibility,

00:24:00.940 wouldn't you

00:24:01.220 say?

00:24:02.560 Because if I

00:24:03.340 were a

00:24:03.780 believer,

00:24:04.460 and I said,

00:24:04.840 oh yeah,

00:24:05.280 believing is

00:24:05.900 the healthy

00:24:06.260 thing to do,

00:24:07.380 well then you'd

00:24:08.020 have to say,

00:24:08.800 that's confirmation

00:24:10.040 bias.

00:24:10.960 But I'm

00:24:11.360 giving you

00:24:11.700 something that's

00:24:12.220 the opposite

00:24:12.700 of my

00:24:13.080 confirmation.

00:24:14.360 My

00:24:14.640 confirmation is

00:24:15.480 I'm not a

00:24:16.260 believer.

00:24:17.380 I'm not by

00:24:18.160 choice.

00:24:19.800 I'm not a

00:24:20.620 non-believer by

00:24:21.480 choice.

00:24:22.600 It's just

00:24:23.020 where I ended

00:24:23.560 up.

00:24:24.600 It's just

00:24:24.960 where I am.

00:24:25.760 I don't

00:24:26.120 choose it.

00:24:27.500 So if I

00:24:28.220 could choose,

00:24:29.340 I would

00:24:30.040 choose to

00:24:30.480 have a

00:24:30.720 religious

00:24:31.040 faith.

00:24:32.420 That would

00:24:32.780 be my

00:24:33.960 rational choice,

00:24:35.360 if I could

00:24:35.900 choose.

00:24:37.100 But I

00:24:37.420 can't.

00:24:37.960 My brain

00:24:38.740 doesn't have

00:24:39.500 that capacity,

00:24:40.260 I guess.

00:24:41.360 So I'm

00:24:42.400 not sure I'd

00:24:42.860 call that a

00:24:43.280 mental illness,

00:24:44.000 if it's making

00:24:44.640 you healthier and

00:24:45.420 more successful,

00:24:46.420 gives you meaning,

00:24:47.480 and all that

00:24:48.060 stuff.

00:24:49.180 But if you see

00:24:50.220 Hitler under the

00:24:50.960 bed, how is that

00:24:51.580 helping you?

00:24:53.280 It's not.

00:24:54.660 That's just

00:24:55.280 mental illness.

00:24:57.000 So that's going

00:24:57.860 to be my take,

00:24:58.640 I think, for the

00:24:59.920 rest of the

00:25:00.760 cycle, is I'm

00:25:02.200 going to try to

00:25:02.660 make a distinction

00:25:03.340 between what is

00:25:04.180 political attack,

00:25:05.920 such as Trump

00:25:06.940 making, you

00:25:07.700 know, tax and

00:25:08.920 benefit-related

00:25:09.740 claims about

00:25:10.420 DeSantis.

00:25:11.260 That's clearly

00:25:12.180 not mental

00:25:13.040 illness.

00:25:13.720 Would you

00:25:14.100 agree?

00:25:15.360 A politician

00:25:16.360 just claiming

00:25:17.220 the other one

00:25:17.900 has bad

00:25:18.840 policies, even

00:25:19.680 if it's a

00:25:20.140 lie, it's not

00:25:21.380 mental illness.

00:25:22.640 It's just how

00:25:23.560 they play that

00:25:24.080 game.

00:25:26.420 All right.

00:25:28.100 But I think

00:25:29.700 we need a name

00:25:30.420 for this,

00:25:31.080 seeing Hitler

00:25:31.420 everywhere.

00:25:31.900 It's like

00:25:32.920 Hitlerization,

00:25:35.060 or that's

00:25:36.360 not quite it.

00:25:38.300 But something

00:25:38.900 that, yeah,

00:25:39.640 TDS didn't get

00:25:40.540 it done.

00:25:41.660 Trump derangement

00:25:42.460 syndrome is

00:25:43.640 too nonspecific.

00:25:46.940 I'm looking for

00:25:47.720 something that's

00:25:48.280 more specific to

00:25:49.340 the racist

00:25:50.280 narrative.

00:25:54.900 Godwinization,

00:25:55.760 too clever.

00:25:57.780 Hitler haunting,

00:25:58.820 Hitler under the

00:25:59.460 bed.

00:26:00.920 How about

00:26:01.240 Hitler under

00:26:01.800 the bed?

00:26:04.760 Does that

00:26:05.340 work?

00:26:06.960 You got the

00:26:08.000 Hitler under

00:26:08.560 the bed

00:26:09.000 disease?

00:26:10.500 That kind of

00:26:11.200 works.

00:26:11.640 It's very

00:26:11.980 visual, isn't

00:26:12.680 it?

00:26:13.560 It's visual and

00:26:14.500 it's absurd, so

00:26:16.000 it kind of

00:26:16.340 works.

00:26:17.680 Bedtime for

00:26:18.300 Hitler.

00:26:18.880 Too long?

00:26:19.700 Yeah, it is

00:26:20.020 too long.

00:26:21.660 All right.

00:26:23.700 As you know,

00:26:24.740 if you're

00:26:25.080 following the

00:26:25.580 news, there

00:26:26.340 is something

00:26:27.240 like, I'm

00:26:28.280 going to call

00:26:28.620 it a trans

00:26:29.440 backlash.

00:26:30.040 So entities

00:26:32.380 that are

00:26:32.900 pushing back

00:26:33.740 against

00:26:34.180 trans

00:26:35.440 activism,

00:26:37.200 et cetera.

00:26:38.140 So adding to

00:26:39.240 that list is

00:26:39.840 Montana.

00:26:41.100 It's the first

00:26:41.840 state to

00:26:42.480 ban people

00:26:44.280 dressed in

00:26:44.960 drag from

00:26:45.640 reading books

00:26:46.300 to children

00:26:46.880 at public

00:26:47.420 schools and

00:26:48.100 libraries.

00:26:48.500 I don't

00:26:52.640 know.

00:26:53.880 Is that

00:26:54.420 too far?

00:26:59.580 That feels

00:27:00.360 too far.

00:27:04.840 Now, I'm

00:27:05.680 not in

00:27:06.120 favor, just

00:27:07.320 to be clear,

00:27:08.280 I'm not in

00:27:08.960 favor of

00:27:09.880 people reading

00:27:14.040 to children

00:27:14.640 if the

00:27:15.960 reading to

00:27:16.420 children is

00:27:17.160 also coming

00:27:18.600 with a

00:27:19.000 political

00:27:19.360 message.

00:27:21.520 So just

00:27:22.540 to be

00:27:22.820 clear, I'm

00:27:24.220 not really,

00:27:24.960 I'm not

00:27:25.540 crazy about

00:27:26.440 the men

00:27:28.780 dressed, well,

00:27:29.720 how do they

00:27:30.280 say it?

00:27:32.220 They say

00:27:32.920 people dressed

00:27:33.660 in drag.

00:27:34.460 Right, so

00:27:35.000 they don't say

00:27:35.520 it in the

00:27:36.120 impolite way.

00:27:37.360 So they don't

00:27:37.820 say men, they

00:27:38.440 say people

00:27:38.880 dressed in

00:27:39.340 drag.

00:27:39.620 I'm not

00:27:44.300 in favor of

00:27:45.120 people dressed

00:27:45.680 in drag

00:27:46.180 reading to

00:27:46.800 school children.

00:27:48.980 But I

00:27:50.280 don't know if

00:27:50.800 banning it

00:27:51.500 is quite the

00:27:53.440 right approach.

00:27:55.480 I don't have a

00:27:56.060 better idea,

00:27:57.420 just to be

00:27:57.940 clear, I don't

00:27:58.580 have a good

00:27:58.960 idea for this.

00:28:00.200 But I'm not

00:28:01.080 sure that it

00:28:02.780 feels like a

00:28:03.800 little too

00:28:04.240 much.

00:28:05.340 Does anybody

00:28:05.740 have that

00:28:06.120 reaction?

00:28:06.900 Or is it

00:28:07.180 just me?

00:28:08.460 Somebody says

00:28:09.060 jail.

00:28:09.620 No, it's

00:28:12.340 just me, right?

00:28:13.020 I'm the only

00:28:13.380 one having

00:28:13.760 this reaction.

00:28:15.460 Yeah, because

00:28:15.820 there's, we

00:28:18.040 always have to

00:28:18.840 walk this

00:28:19.340 balance between

00:28:21.060 over-regulating

00:28:22.360 everything and

00:28:24.080 protecting

00:28:24.560 children.

00:28:26.560 So if on

00:28:28.020 this one you

00:28:28.560 fell on the

00:28:29.100 side of

00:28:29.460 protecting

00:28:29.840 children, I'd

00:28:30.740 be okay with

00:28:31.200 that.

00:28:31.600 I mean, I

00:28:31.960 wouldn't

00:28:32.240 complain about

00:28:33.060 that instinct.

00:28:34.500 I just feel

00:28:35.340 like it's

00:28:36.520 sort of an

00:28:36.880 expensive way

00:28:37.680 to do it.

00:28:38.160 you know,

00:28:39.860 just over,

00:28:40.960 it's a little

00:28:41.820 over-regulating,

00:28:43.280 but I get it.

00:28:44.880 I get it.

00:28:45.480 I guess I

00:28:45.880 don't, I'm

00:28:46.380 not opposed to

00:28:47.040 it.

00:28:48.020 It just, I

00:28:48.560 wish there

00:28:48.840 was some

00:28:49.120 other way to

00:28:49.820 get the job

00:28:50.860 done.

00:28:51.120 All right, but

00:28:53.700 here I'm useless

00:28:54.460 because I have no

00:28:55.220 good ideas for

00:28:56.180 this.

00:28:56.680 So I'll just

00:28:57.040 point out that

00:28:57.580 there seems to

00:28:58.120 be some kind of

00:28:58.820 a backlash

00:28:59.600 coming.

00:29:01.060 Likewise,

00:29:02.040 Target, I

00:29:03.100 saw a story

00:29:04.300 about Target

00:29:05.320 and the

00:29:05.900 boycott there

00:29:06.680 because apparently

00:29:07.860 Target was

00:29:08.760 selling some

00:29:09.580 trans-related

00:29:11.120 clothing for

00:29:12.460 children, right?

00:29:14.580 Was that the

00:29:15.360 story?

00:29:16.800 It was trans-specific

00:29:18.520 clothing for

00:29:20.000 children.

00:29:20.920 So there was a

00:29:21.760 complaint about

00:29:22.480 that.

00:29:22.980 I saw a tweet

00:29:23.600 about it that

00:29:24.120 pointed to an

00:29:24.660 article in

00:29:25.180 The Hill, but

00:29:26.680 by the time I

00:29:27.300 clicked on it,

00:29:27.840 the article was

00:29:28.460 gone.

00:29:28.780 Is that because

00:29:31.040 something about

00:29:31.560 the story changed?

00:29:32.520 Did The Hill

00:29:34.580 maybe get a

00:29:35.340 fact check

00:29:35.960 wrong?

00:29:38.200 So there's

00:29:38.880 something about

00:29:39.280 the story I

00:29:39.800 don't understand

00:29:40.480 because it kind

00:29:41.620 of came and

00:29:42.120 went and maybe

00:29:44.040 it's because some

00:29:44.580 of the facts

00:29:45.240 were wrong.

00:29:46.840 Anyway, the

00:29:47.620 only part that I

00:29:48.420 think we know

00:29:49.060 is that Target's

00:29:49.840 getting pressure

00:29:50.480 to change

00:29:53.480 their approach.

00:29:55.400 So that is

00:29:56.240 yet another

00:29:56.900 example of,

00:29:59.400 I'll call it a

00:30:00.120 trans-backlash.

00:30:02.520 Now, as you

00:30:03.900 know, I'm

00:30:05.420 pro-LGBTQ,

00:30:07.860 pro-trans for

00:30:09.660 adults.

00:30:10.980 For adults.

00:30:12.460 And the kid

00:30:13.940 issue is, that's

00:30:15.860 a whole other

00:30:16.340 topic.

00:30:17.480 But for adults,

00:30:18.360 I'm, you know,

00:30:18.880 live your life,

00:30:19.840 do what you

00:30:20.200 need to do,

00:30:21.420 et cetera.

00:30:22.980 But I would

00:30:24.060 also say that

00:30:24.740 the trans,

00:30:27.100 let's say,

00:30:27.580 messaging or

00:30:28.620 persuasion was

00:30:30.740 overdone.

00:30:31.300 Is that fair?

00:30:36.040 You know, can I

00:30:37.380 be unambiguously

00:30:38.420 pro-trans because

00:30:39.940 I'm pro-human

00:30:40.720 beings?

00:30:42.020 Pro-human beings,

00:30:43.100 that gets you

00:30:43.760 everything, right?

00:30:45.020 Adults.

00:30:45.780 They're following

00:30:46.380 the law.

00:30:47.220 You follow the

00:30:47.960 law, you're good

00:30:48.520 with me.

00:30:49.580 You know, you

00:30:49.920 stay off my

00:30:50.580 lawn, you're good

00:30:52.240 with me.

00:30:52.720 I don't ask of

00:30:53.680 anything else of

00:30:54.620 you.

00:30:55.320 So, you know, if

00:30:56.180 you could put up

00:30:56.760 with me, I can

00:30:57.400 certainly put up

00:30:58.060 with your

00:30:58.460 differences of

00:30:59.400 whatever.

00:31:02.780 But I think the

00:31:03.680 messaging was

00:31:04.300 overdone.

00:31:05.460 It was just

00:31:05.880 overdone.

00:31:07.220 You know, I

00:31:07.940 think, surprisingly,

00:31:09.580 I think more

00:31:10.040 people were

00:31:10.680 already there.

00:31:12.820 The trans

00:31:13.480 community was

00:31:14.280 weirdly accepted

00:31:15.280 from the start,

00:31:16.300 in my opinion.

00:31:18.700 I mean, haven't

00:31:19.300 you all, and

00:31:20.000 you've encountered

00:31:21.080 trans people

00:31:22.760 probably your

00:31:23.640 whole adult

00:31:24.140 life.

00:31:24.540 did it ever

00:31:25.980 matter to you

00:31:26.760 at all?

00:31:28.240 Like, did they

00:31:29.000 ever hurt you?

00:31:30.520 Have you ever

00:31:30.980 been beaten up

00:31:31.800 by a trans

00:31:32.640 person?

00:31:33.760 Did the trans

00:31:34.580 people raise

00:31:35.620 your taxes?

00:31:36.820 Did they try to

00:31:37.460 take away your

00:31:37.980 rights?

00:31:38.960 I mean, it was

00:31:40.180 sort of a

00:31:40.540 non-problem, but

00:31:42.320 then I think

00:31:43.300 things went

00:31:44.980 maybe a little

00:31:45.620 bit too far.

00:31:47.000 So there's a

00:31:47.620 little bit of

00:31:48.160 adjustment going

00:31:49.120 on.

00:31:50.460 I saw one

00:31:51.580 interesting

00:31:52.860 theory, and

00:31:54.760 it was somebody

00:31:55.600 talking about

00:31:56.480 what they

00:31:56.880 thought James

00:31:57.680 Lindsay's belief

00:31:58.760 was.

00:31:59.300 So there was

00:31:59.660 mind-reading

00:32:00.220 involved.

00:32:01.400 So I don't

00:32:02.100 want to blame

00:32:02.620 James Lindsay

00:32:03.440 for what I'm

00:32:04.340 going to talk

00:32:04.740 about, because

00:32:05.600 it was some

00:32:06.480 other person

00:32:07.220 talking about

00:32:07.960 his opinion.

00:32:09.640 It's just

00:32:10.160 such an

00:32:11.040 interesting idea,

00:32:12.240 I wanted to

00:32:12.900 raise it.

00:32:14.400 So you

00:32:15.220 remember that

00:32:15.780 the summer

00:32:16.460 of George

00:32:16.980 Floyd was

00:32:19.720 a big

00:32:20.140 narrative builder.

00:32:22.100 You know,

00:32:22.260 the country

00:32:23.140 is racist,

00:32:23.900 and all

00:32:24.240 the white

00:32:24.520 people are

00:32:24.900 white supremacists.

00:32:26.880 But that

00:32:27.600 messaging is

00:32:28.560 starting to

00:32:29.160 wear thin.

00:32:31.700 It's starting

00:32:32.380 to not work

00:32:33.020 as well.

00:32:34.440 And so

00:32:34.740 there's some

00:32:35.200 thought that

00:32:36.640 we're heading

00:32:37.640 toward the

00:32:38.140 summer of the

00:32:38.920 trans activism,

00:32:40.660 and we'll

00:32:41.080 make it,

00:32:42.160 that the idea

00:32:42.880 would be to

00:32:44.700 gin up a

00:32:45.440 bunch of

00:32:45.820 trans protests

00:32:46.900 so that it

00:32:48.160 can paint the,

00:32:49.160 especially the

00:32:50.120 conservative,

00:32:51.160 religious part of

00:32:52.160 the Republicans

00:32:53.440 as a bunch

00:32:54.660 of bigots.

00:32:56.160 And that

00:32:56.680 really any

00:32:57.560 kind of public

00:32:58.420 demonstration is

00:32:59.880 not so much

00:33:00.500 about George

00:33:01.120 Floyd, and it's

00:33:02.380 not so much

00:33:02.960 about protecting

00:33:03.680 black citizens.

00:33:05.260 It's really just

00:33:05.940 political.

00:33:07.180 You know,

00:33:07.340 it's a vehicle

00:33:08.540 with which people

00:33:10.040 can wrap their

00:33:10.780 politics around it.

00:33:12.100 So it's never

00:33:12.580 about the thing.

00:33:14.000 Now, I said the

00:33:14.880 same thing about

00:33:15.480 me getting

00:33:16.000 canceled, and I'll

00:33:17.080 say it again.

00:33:17.580 nobody cared

00:33:19.480 what I said.

00:33:21.680 Nobody cared.

00:33:23.160 It's just that

00:33:24.020 there are some

00:33:24.700 stories in the

00:33:25.520 news that you

00:33:26.540 can wrap your

00:33:27.200 existing political

00:33:28.180 beliefs around

00:33:28.940 like a truck.

00:33:30.280 So it's like,

00:33:30.980 oh, there's a

00:33:31.480 truck that's

00:33:32.000 driving through

00:33:32.480 my neighborhood.

00:33:33.580 Oh, let me

00:33:34.140 throw my

00:33:34.520 politics on

00:33:35.140 there.

00:33:36.160 So everybody

00:33:36.980 who saw my

00:33:38.220 story of

00:33:39.340 getting canceled,

00:33:40.520 if they thought

00:33:41.400 that was about

00:33:42.020 me, or it

00:33:43.800 was about

00:33:44.200 anything I said

00:33:45.180 or my

00:33:45.540 opinion, or

00:33:46.640 about how

00:33:47.100 my opinion

00:33:47.660 might change

00:33:48.280 anybody else's

00:33:49.000 mind, it was

00:33:50.300 never about

00:33:50.820 that.

00:33:52.000 And none of

00:33:52.520 these stories

00:33:52.980 are.

00:33:54.080 That's the

00:33:54.700 lowest level of

00:33:55.560 understanding of

00:33:56.460 the news.

00:33:57.700 If that's how

00:33:58.360 you saw the

00:33:58.900 news, that

00:34:00.340 that story was

00:34:01.100 actually about

00:34:01.860 me, then you

00:34:03.380 missed the

00:34:03.700 whole story.

00:34:05.200 There were no

00:34:05.840 Republicans who

00:34:06.620 canceled me.

00:34:07.980 None.

00:34:08.960 It was just

00:34:09.720 Democrats.

00:34:10.640 So the Democrats

00:34:11.300 found a truck.

00:34:12.560 Oh, here's one

00:34:13.220 of those trucks

00:34:13.780 going by.

00:34:14.360 I'll throw my

00:34:15.400 politics in it

00:34:16.200 and I'll get a

00:34:17.140 little ride, a

00:34:17.940 little free ride.

00:34:19.440 So that's all

00:34:20.140 that's happening.

00:34:21.060 So the trans

00:34:22.100 activism, I

00:34:23.160 think, is

00:34:23.940 starting to fit

00:34:25.140 into that

00:34:25.580 model that

00:34:27.480 the Democrats

00:34:29.200 don't really care

00:34:30.200 about any

00:34:30.660 specific trans

00:34:32.000 issue.

00:34:32.760 They just know

00:34:33.460 they can throw

00:34:33.940 their politics

00:34:34.520 into it and

00:34:35.200 it hurts

00:34:35.720 Republicans, so

00:34:37.000 that works.

00:34:41.340 All right.

00:34:41.680 And if you

00:34:44.800 stay till the

00:34:45.340 end, I

00:34:45.840 promise you

00:34:46.400 I'll do

00:34:46.720 something that

00:34:47.340 will make

00:34:48.600 my risk of

00:34:49.320 getting extra

00:34:50.940 super canceled

00:34:52.040 much higher.

00:34:54.520 So if you're

00:34:55.540 thinking of

00:34:56.140 bailing in early

00:34:56.940 before I risk

00:34:59.380 my entire

00:35:00.000 career or

00:35:00.980 what's left

00:35:01.700 of it, the

00:35:02.780 shards of

00:35:04.020 what's left

00:35:04.420 of my career,

00:35:05.460 you're going

00:35:06.200 to want to

00:35:06.540 see that.

00:35:07.060 Hillary says

00:35:13.220 if Trump

00:35:14.140 gets re-elected

00:35:15.020 it's the

00:35:15.340 end of

00:35:15.640 democracy.

00:35:19.060 Is she

00:35:19.780 calling for

00:35:20.320 his assassination?

00:35:22.020 I say yes.

00:35:24.080 I say yes.

00:35:25.880 I say if you

00:35:26.820 are as

00:35:27.760 prominent as

00:35:28.500 Hillary Clinton.

00:35:29.400 Now this would

00:35:29.820 be different if

00:35:30.440 you were just

00:35:30.820 a citizen.

00:35:31.960 If you're a

00:35:32.460 citizen and you

00:35:33.100 say something

00:35:33.540 crazy, people

00:35:34.280 just say,

00:35:34.780 eh, your

00:35:35.800 opinion.

00:35:36.080 But when

00:35:36.960 Hillary Clinton

00:35:37.640 says that

00:35:39.440 electing Trump

00:35:40.580 would be the

00:35:41.200 end of

00:35:41.600 democracy, and

00:35:42.960 then of course

00:35:43.620 they'll use the

00:35:44.440 January 6th

00:35:45.720 insurrection hoax

00:35:46.660 to be the

00:35:47.140 evidence of

00:35:47.740 that, this

00:35:49.460 is definitely

00:35:50.100 a call to

00:35:52.440 assassinate him.

00:35:54.720 Or at the

00:35:55.580 very least, to

00:35:56.720 do whatever it

00:35:57.620 takes to keep

00:35:58.560 him out of

00:35:58.960 office.

00:36:01.500 I don't even

00:36:02.320 know how that's

00:36:02.820 legal.

00:36:03.360 I guess it

00:36:06.180 is, because

00:36:07.220 it's free

00:36:07.680 speech, blah

00:36:08.400 blah, but

00:36:09.400 it feels like

00:36:10.580 that should be

00:36:11.300 the most

00:36:11.880 illegal thing

00:36:12.800 that could

00:36:13.400 happen in

00:36:13.880 the country.

00:36:14.640 It should be

00:36:15.180 more illegal

00:36:15.800 than murder.

00:36:18.340 Because when

00:36:19.020 you murder, you

00:36:19.760 kill one

00:36:20.180 person, which

00:36:21.760 is plenty bad,

00:36:22.800 and you should

00:36:23.160 be punished for

00:36:23.760 that.

00:36:24.800 But if you

00:36:26.300 call for the

00:36:26.860 assassination of a

00:36:27.880 president indirectly,

00:36:29.000 you're calling

00:36:32.120 for something

00:36:32.580 that would

00:36:32.960 destroy the

00:36:33.600 country, at

00:36:34.540 least for a

00:36:34.960 while.

00:36:36.260 The level of

00:36:37.680 evil in this

00:36:39.820 just casual

00:36:40.580 statement, oh,

00:36:41.500 it's the end of

00:36:42.040 democracy if

00:36:42.800 Trump is

00:36:43.200 elected.

00:36:44.320 Now, here's

00:36:46.300 what a

00:36:46.860 reasonable person

00:36:47.600 who cared about

00:36:48.260 the country

00:36:48.720 would say.

00:36:50.020 He'll not be

00:36:51.680 good for the

00:36:52.140 economy.

00:36:53.500 You know,

00:36:53.960 debatable.

00:36:55.300 He won't be

00:36:57.120 good for

00:36:57.460 international

00:36:57.960 relations.

00:36:59.500 Debatable.

00:37:00.680 Debatable.

00:37:01.760 He only cares

00:37:03.340 about himself.

00:37:05.180 Debatable.

00:37:06.780 You know, I

00:37:07.260 would argue

00:37:07.780 that his

00:37:08.160 self-interest

00:37:08.780 in the

00:37:09.100 countries are

00:37:10.220 too closely

00:37:11.320 aligned that

00:37:13.260 it would be

00:37:13.600 hard for him

00:37:14.060 to get out

00:37:14.880 of that box.

00:37:17.140 But when

00:37:17.840 you say that

00:37:18.660 it's the end

00:37:19.460 of democracy,

00:37:20.980 you're really

00:37:22.600 calling for

00:37:23.140 somebody to

00:37:23.640 kill him.

00:37:24.840 Because the

00:37:25.560 end of

00:37:25.820 democracy is

00:37:26.960 a line where

00:37:28.140 nobody can

00:37:28.840 survive.

00:37:30.580 Nobody's

00:37:31.060 going to be

00:37:31.340 okay with

00:37:31.820 that.

00:37:32.720 We would

00:37:33.220 die to

00:37:33.920 stop that

00:37:34.360 from happening.

00:37:37.120 This is the

00:37:37.960 most irresponsible

00:37:38.960 thing I've

00:37:39.780 ever seen a

00:37:40.380 leader do.

00:37:41.580 No exceptions.

00:37:45.320 That's a big

00:37:46.060 statement.

00:37:47.100 Think of all

00:37:47.600 the bad things

00:37:48.240 leaders have

00:37:48.820 done.

00:37:49.080 But I'll just

00:37:49.480 say the

00:37:49.740 United States

00:37:50.400 because we

00:37:50.800 don't have a

00:37:51.640 Hitler in the

00:37:52.180 United States

00:37:52.620 yet.

00:37:52.860 can you

00:37:58.340 think of

00:37:58.660 anything that

00:37:59.140 would be

00:37:59.380 less or

00:38:01.560 anything that

00:38:01.960 would be

00:38:02.200 more

00:38:02.520 irresponsible

00:38:03.380 than saying

00:38:04.980 that somebody

00:38:05.580 who might be

00:38:06.200 the next

00:38:06.580 president will

00:38:07.880 destroy democracy?

00:38:09.860 Knowing that

00:38:10.600 people will

00:38:11.080 believe that.

00:38:12.740 That's just

00:38:13.320 about the

00:38:13.880 most unethical,

00:38:16.200 dangerous,

00:38:17.240 irresponsible thing

00:38:18.400 that any

00:38:18.960 American leader

00:38:19.700 has ever

00:38:20.260 said at

00:38:21.460 any time

00:38:22.080 and in

00:38:22.480 any context.

00:38:24.480 Am I wrong

00:38:25.000 about that?

00:38:26.580 I'm making a

00:38:27.480 very extreme

00:38:28.060 statement but I

00:38:28.780 don't think it's

00:38:29.220 hyperbole.

00:38:30.320 I don't think

00:38:30.860 there's any

00:38:31.520 public statement

00:38:32.420 by any

00:38:33.100 leader that's

00:38:34.240 ever been

00:38:34.620 more dangerous,

00:38:36.380 more irresponsible

00:38:37.280 than calling

00:38:38.340 the next

00:38:39.060 probable, I

00:38:40.180 think he's a

00:38:40.640 probable next

00:38:41.400 president, the

00:38:42.980 end of

00:38:43.320 democracy.

00:38:46.160 That's just,

00:38:48.320 I don't even

00:38:48.780 know what to

00:38:49.080 say about

00:38:49.520 that, it's

00:38:49.860 so bad.

00:38:50.860 Like you

00:38:51.280 actually lose

00:38:52.140 the ability

00:38:52.600 to speak

00:38:53.180 about it,

00:38:53.940 that's what

00:38:54.340 was happening

00:38:54.840 just now.

00:38:55.920 I was trying

00:38:56.540 to find the

00:38:57.020 right words but

00:38:58.720 it's so

00:38:59.080 enormously bad,

00:39:00.640 it's just

00:39:01.000 enormously bad

00:39:02.120 that I

00:39:03.140 couldn't even

00:39:03.740 characterize it.

00:39:05.400 It's outside

00:39:06.080 my imagination,

00:39:07.500 that's the

00:39:08.360 problem.

00:39:09.120 If something

00:39:09.580 happens within

00:39:10.300 your imagination

00:39:11.180 then you

00:39:12.580 probably already

00:39:13.140 have words for

00:39:13.900 it because it's

00:39:14.460 something that

00:39:15.020 you've considered

00:39:15.660 but this is

00:39:16.720 outside my

00:39:17.420 imagination.

00:39:18.020 that somebody

00:39:21.100 at that level

00:39:21.960 would call,

00:39:22.960 essentially call

00:39:23.740 for assassination

00:39:24.500 indirectly.

00:39:27.620 All right,

00:39:28.280 and I'm the

00:39:28.880 only one

00:39:29.160 talking about

00:39:29.660 it.

00:39:32.740 What's up

00:39:33.400 with that?

00:39:34.300 Nobody else

00:39:34.920 thought that was

00:39:36.140 worth mentioning.

00:39:37.960 What was

00:39:38.700 bigger than

00:39:39.140 that?

00:39:40.860 How did that

00:39:41.660 not become the

00:39:42.520 biggest news in

00:39:43.360 the country?

00:39:43.760 But it

00:39:45.460 won't be.

00:39:46.380 It won't

00:39:46.700 be.

00:39:48.580 All right,

00:39:49.000 it looks like

00:39:49.400 the Democrats

00:39:50.100 are trying to

00:39:50.700 save TikTok.

00:39:52.400 I saw a

00:39:53.480 tweet that

00:39:54.060 says that

00:39:55.240 TikTok's on

00:39:55.980 track to

00:39:56.980 have all of

00:39:57.420 its US

00:39:58.520 user data

00:39:59.380 hosted by

00:40:00.740 Oracle.

00:40:02.580 That's

00:40:03.100 apparently

00:40:04.340 according to

00:40:04.920 the TikTok

00:40:05.380 CEO.

00:40:06.700 Now,

00:40:07.440 do you

00:40:08.520 understand the

00:40:09.160 play that

00:40:09.940 China's doing

00:40:10.500 here?

00:40:10.720 There are

00:40:12.400 two risks

00:40:13.120 with TikTok.

00:40:14.020 One is they

00:40:14.480 get all your

00:40:14.920 confidential

00:40:15.380 information.

00:40:16.960 But the

00:40:17.340 other is they

00:40:17.980 can make

00:40:18.340 anything go

00:40:18.980 viral.

00:40:19.580 They have

00:40:19.800 a heat

00:40:20.140 button that

00:40:20.780 literally makes

00:40:21.440 something go

00:40:21.980 viral.

00:40:22.600 So they

00:40:23.140 can determine

00:40:23.760 what things

00:40:24.500 you see or

00:40:25.140 don't see,

00:40:26.280 and therefore

00:40:26.720 they can

00:40:27.380 manipulate and

00:40:28.640 hypnotize the

00:40:29.480 American public.

00:40:30.740 For example,

00:40:32.380 China has the

00:40:33.040 ability to push

00:40:33.760 one button and

00:40:35.120 turn more

00:40:36.220 American use

00:40:37.340 trans.

00:40:40.720 True or

00:40:41.180 false?

00:40:42.220 There's

00:40:42.780 literally a

00:40:43.360 button, it's

00:40:44.360 called the

00:40:44.700 heat button,

00:40:45.380 that can make

00:40:45.920 anything trend.

00:40:47.820 If China

00:40:48.840 decides to

00:40:49.500 push the

00:40:49.860 heat button

00:40:50.380 on pro-children

00:40:52.960 transitioning

00:40:53.780 content, it

00:40:55.480 will make

00:40:55.960 more children

00:40:56.580 in the United

00:40:57.040 States become

00:40:58.040 trans.

00:40:59.660 Do you

00:41:00.320 doubt that?

00:41:02.060 Now, I'm

00:41:02.720 not saying all

00:41:03.560 of them, you

00:41:04.120 know, doesn't

00:41:04.520 instantly turn

00:41:05.300 everybody trans,

00:41:06.340 but we do

00:41:07.140 know that

00:41:07.540 persuasion works,

00:41:08.900 we do know

00:41:09.440 peer pressure

00:41:10.080 works,

00:41:10.580 we do know

00:41:12.000 that social

00:41:12.480 media influences

00:41:13.320 people.

00:41:13.920 None of this

00:41:14.420 is controversial.

00:41:16.740 China can

00:41:17.400 actually turn

00:41:18.960 your children

00:41:19.660 trans.

00:41:22.500 I would

00:41:23.260 argue that

00:41:24.080 it's already

00:41:24.580 happening,

00:41:26.620 and that if

00:41:27.260 you could,

00:41:28.160 here's the

00:41:28.640 study I'd

00:41:29.140 like to

00:41:29.460 see.

00:41:30.860 Show me a

00:41:31.500 study of

00:41:32.320 trans kids

00:41:33.720 and then

00:41:34.940 social media

00:41:35.920 usage.

00:41:36.480 If you can

00:41:38.220 show me that

00:41:39.400 there are just

00:41:40.320 as many

00:41:40.740 trans kids

00:41:41.620 who don't

00:41:42.760 watch

00:41:43.120 TikTok

00:41:43.480 as there

00:41:44.940 are who

00:41:45.300 do watch

00:41:45.860 TikTok,

00:41:46.480 I will

00:41:46.820 change my

00:41:47.340 opinion.

00:41:49.060 But I'm

00:41:50.320 100%

00:41:50.980 positive.

00:41:52.560 It could be

00:41:53.020 wrong, I

00:41:53.460 suppose, but

00:41:54.180 I'll give it

00:41:55.240 1% chance I'm

00:41:56.320 wrong.

00:41:56.940 If you looked

00:41:57.580 at the

00:41:57.940 TikTok

00:41:58.300 viewers,

00:41:59.940 you would

00:42:01.060 find that

00:42:01.520 they're more

00:42:02.000 likely to

00:42:02.700 become trans

00:42:03.640 during the

00:42:04.240 time they're

00:42:04.640 watching TikTok.

00:42:06.600 Would anybody

00:42:07.220 take the other

00:42:07.800 side of that

00:42:08.240 map?

00:42:09.760 And do you

00:42:10.360 think that

00:42:10.720 that's completely

00:42:11.500 naturally

00:42:12.140 occurring?

00:42:13.760 Do you

00:42:14.060 think that

00:42:14.420 China's not

00:42:15.080 aware of

00:42:16.240 that impact?

00:42:18.200 Of course

00:42:18.960 they're aware.

00:42:20.780 Do you

00:42:21.140 think they

00:42:21.460 could stop

00:42:21.980 it if they

00:42:22.340 wanted to?

00:42:23.600 Of course

00:42:24.400 they could.

00:42:25.420 Of course

00:42:25.980 they could.

00:42:26.940 Now, here's

00:42:28.320 the problem.

00:42:29.540 We don't

00:42:30.020 know if

00:42:30.420 China has

00:42:30.940 pushed a

00:42:31.400 button to

00:42:32.280 put heat

00:42:33.220 on something,

00:42:34.100 or if they

00:42:34.780 simply created

00:42:35.520 a situation

00:42:36.200 where heat

00:42:37.380 would automatically

00:42:39.160 arise in

00:42:41.220 unproductive

00:42:41.880 places, and

00:42:43.160 then they

00:42:43.420 just let it

00:42:43.940 happen.

00:42:45.100 Because that

00:42:45.740 would be just

00:42:46.280 as destructive,

00:42:47.460 and it would

00:42:47.740 also explain

00:42:48.400 why our

00:42:49.920 version of

00:42:50.480 TikTok is

00:42:51.180 literally illegal

00:42:52.340 in China.

00:42:54.100 Because they

00:42:54.760 know that even

00:42:55.420 if they don't

00:42:55.880 push any

00:42:56.340 buttons, its

00:42:57.600 nature is to

00:42:58.900 surface bad

00:42:59.560 ideas and make

00:43:00.360 them prominent.

00:43:01.540 It could be

00:43:01.860 its nature.

00:43:02.900 That's all they

00:43:03.520 would need, and

00:43:04.120 that would make

00:43:04.520 sense why they

00:43:05.080 just don't

00:43:05.440 even allow

00:43:05.960 it in

00:43:06.340 China.

00:43:07.100 Because if

00:43:07.820 it wasn't

00:43:08.780 bad by its

00:43:09.880 nature, they

00:43:11.600 could always

00:43:12.000 control what

00:43:12.880 trended in

00:43:13.760 China, right?

00:43:16.300 If the only

00:43:17.200 concern that

00:43:17.840 China had was

00:43:18.980 any specific

00:43:19.920 persuasion, they

00:43:21.360 would just turn

00:43:21.860 that off in

00:43:22.740 China.

00:43:24.100 Oh, okay, you're

00:43:25.080 worried that we'll

00:43:25.860 turn Chinese kids

00:43:27.640 trans.

00:43:28.520 All right, we'll

00:43:28.880 just turn that

00:43:29.460 off in China.

00:43:30.660 It would be that

00:43:31.300 easy.

00:43:32.220 They can control

00:43:33.300 what content you

00:43:34.160 see.

00:43:34.380 So, anyway, so

00:43:39.720 the Democrats

00:43:40.240 appear to be

00:43:41.360 buying this

00:43:42.260 diversionary

00:43:43.100 technique where

00:43:44.280 instead of

00:43:44.780 looking at the

00:43:45.360 big risk, which

00:43:46.280 is persuasion,

00:43:47.720 they're trying to

00:43:48.380 divert us to the

00:43:49.240 small risk, which

00:43:50.280 is data security.

00:43:51.820 And if they can

00:43:52.620 get Oracle to

00:43:55.560 allegedly hold the

00:43:57.600 American data,

00:43:58.820 they can make you

00:43:59.940 forget the biggest

00:44:00.980 risk.

00:44:01.440 risk, because

00:44:02.320 they can say,

00:44:02.940 the TikTok

00:44:03.440 thing, we took

00:44:04.100 care of it.

00:44:05.040 Oh, yeah, there

00:44:05.600 was a TikTok

00:44:06.240 risk, but we

00:44:07.000 took care of

00:44:07.540 it.

00:44:07.900 No, you

00:44:08.380 didn't.

00:44:09.120 No, you

00:44:09.600 diverted us from

00:44:10.560 the real risk to

00:44:11.940 the fake risk, the

00:44:13.080 small risk, the

00:44:13.860 data.

00:44:14.680 The Democrats are

00:44:15.540 doing that,

00:44:16.720 presumably because

00:44:17.380 they like TikTok to

00:44:18.780 win elections, and

00:44:20.660 they're willing to

00:44:21.260 turn your kid trans in

00:44:22.500 the process, because

00:44:23.520 that doesn't matter

00:44:24.200 so much.

00:44:28.820 Again, this is one

00:44:29.860 of the most evil

00:44:31.420 and unethical

00:44:33.760 things you'll ever

00:44:34.580 see in your life,

00:44:35.900 the Democrats

00:44:36.600 hiding the fact

00:44:39.200 that the big risk

00:44:39.980 is persuasion.

00:44:41.820 And by the way,

00:44:42.740 the Republicans are

00:44:43.940 just a little bit

00:44:44.760 better.

00:44:46.200 You know, I've

00:44:46.860 prodded some of

00:44:47.720 the Republican

00:44:48.520 people in Congress

00:44:50.320 to mention

00:44:51.560 persuasion when

00:44:52.420 they mention it,

00:44:53.100 and a few of

00:44:53.680 them have.

00:44:55.200 So I know that

00:44:56.200 the Republicans

00:44:56.780 are at least,

00:44:57.460 you know,

00:44:57.740 mentally, they're

00:44:58.840 on board with

00:44:59.420 the fact that

00:44:59.920 there are two

00:45:00.400 risks, but you

00:45:01.640 can't find a

00:45:02.240 Democrat to say

00:45:03.000 it.

00:45:04.280 Find me any

00:45:05.300 example of a

00:45:06.220 Democrat in

00:45:06.960 Congress who

00:45:08.180 mentioned the

00:45:09.040 risk of

00:45:09.700 persuasion as

00:45:11.600 opposed to the

00:45:12.200 risk of data

00:45:12.840 security.

00:45:14.360 You'll find

00:45:15.040 Republicans who

00:45:15.900 have said both.

00:45:17.560 I don't believe

00:45:18.620 you'll find even

00:45:19.220 one Democrat who

00:45:20.780 has done

00:45:21.060 anything but

00:45:21.540 to say it's a

00:45:22.060 data security

00:45:22.660 problem and

00:45:23.320 hey, we'll

00:45:24.040 take care of

00:45:24.500 that, no

00:45:24.820 problem.

00:45:26.160 Yeah.

00:45:27.680 All right.

00:45:28.660 So I think

00:45:29.400 Trump should just

00:45:30.720 ban TikTok if

00:45:32.000 he becomes

00:45:32.440 president.

00:45:33.500 Or DeSantis.

00:45:35.300 Or as we

00:45:35.920 like to call

00:45:36.380 him, DeSantis.

00:45:38.840 All right,

00:45:39.460 even Chuck

00:45:40.060 Todd, this

00:45:40.780 made news,

00:45:41.420 it's funny.

00:45:42.340 Chuck Todd

00:45:42.940 did something

00:45:44.160 that wasn't

00:45:44.660 stupid and

00:45:45.760 it made

00:45:46.060 national news.

00:45:48.400 How would

00:45:49.000 you like to

00:45:49.440 be so

00:45:49.840 incompetent that

00:45:51.400 when you

00:45:51.720 said something

00:45:52.280 that made

00:45:52.680 sense and

00:45:53.180 made national

00:45:53.780 news?

00:45:54.960 That actually

00:45:55.560 happened.

00:45:56.800 Here's what he

00:45:57.340 said.

00:45:58.960 So the

00:45:59.460 NBC host

00:46:00.580 said that

00:46:01.880 basically that

00:46:02.740 the FBI is

00:46:03.700 looking bad

00:46:04.320 because of the

00:46:04.860 Durham report

00:46:05.500 and that

00:46:06.740 trust in the

00:46:07.560 FBI is eroding

00:46:08.480 left and

00:46:09.120 right.

00:46:09.960 And he's

00:46:10.340 saying that

00:46:10.700 even the

00:46:11.060 left doesn't

00:46:11.800 trust the

00:46:12.220 FBI and the

00:46:13.260 Durham report.

00:46:14.920 Blah, blah.

00:46:15.280 And even

00:46:15.640 suggests that

00:46:16.360 maybe you need

00:46:16.800 something like

00:46:17.280 the church

00:46:17.760 committee to

00:46:19.100 revamp the

00:46:19.940 FBI and

00:46:20.640 make it

00:46:20.940 credible again.

00:46:22.940 Now, again,

00:46:24.780 the story is

00:46:25.320 not about the

00:46:25.840 FBI because

00:46:26.860 we've already

00:46:27.300 talked about

00:46:27.820 the FBI to

00:46:28.500 death.

00:46:29.180 The story is

00:46:30.060 that Chuck

00:46:30.680 Todd made

00:46:32.080 national news

00:46:33.140 by saying

00:46:34.100 something reasonable.

00:46:36.400 I mean,

00:46:37.080 that's the

00:46:37.540 story.

00:46:39.060 He just

00:46:39.840 said something

00:46:40.360 reasonable based

00:46:41.300 on the news

00:46:42.000 and things we

00:46:43.140 all agreed to

00:46:43.780 be true.

00:46:44.200 and that

00:46:45.580 was national

00:46:46.560 news.

00:46:47.560 That is so

00:46:48.380 embarrassing that

00:46:50.120 being reasonable

00:46:50.920 makes you a

00:46:52.240 headlife.

00:46:54.960 All right.

00:46:55.680 Speaking of

00:46:56.220 unreasonable.

00:46:58.240 So you know

00:46:59.240 that the left,

00:46:59.940 of course,

00:47:00.280 has tried to

00:47:00.740 demonize Twitter

00:47:01.640 and turn Twitter

00:47:03.120 into a right-wing

00:47:04.200 garbage dump so

00:47:06.100 that nobody

00:47:06.520 believes anything

00:47:07.160 on Twitter.

00:47:08.040 And they'll all

00:47:08.920 go to TikTok

00:47:09.420 for their

00:47:10.120 political opinions,

00:47:11.480 I guess.

00:47:12.580 So here's what

00:47:13.660 the Trump

00:47:15.340 attack dog

00:47:16.140 Stephen Collinson

00:47:17.160 says in an

00:47:17.860 opinion piece

00:47:18.400 on CNN.

00:47:19.640 And by the

00:47:20.060 way, I do

00:47:20.680 read the CNN

00:47:21.620 opinion pieces

00:47:22.460 for the humor,

00:47:24.780 meaning that I

00:47:25.480 laugh because

00:47:26.460 it's so propaganda.

00:47:29.040 I mean, it's not

00:47:29.520 even pretending to

00:47:30.340 be anything like

00:47:31.040 fair.

00:47:33.020 And that always

00:47:33.660 makes me laugh.

00:47:34.820 So Collinson

00:47:36.200 says that DeSantis

00:47:37.280 is trying to

00:47:38.000 out Trump

00:47:38.580 at Trump.

00:47:41.060 What do you

00:47:41.660 think of that

00:47:42.060 approach?

00:47:42.440 I think you're

00:47:43.780 going to see

00:47:44.040 more of it.

00:47:45.640 They're going

00:47:46.120 to say,

00:47:46.840 all right,

00:47:47.200 Trump is the

00:47:48.800 worst thing

00:47:49.580 that we've

00:47:50.520 ever seen

00:47:51.100 in the history

00:47:51.740 of the

00:47:52.000 republic.

00:47:53.560 And here's

00:47:54.560 the surprise.

00:47:55.940 The guy in

00:47:56.480 second place,

00:47:57.460 even worse,

00:47:59.020 even worse,

00:48:00.580 he's out

00:48:00.920 trumping Trump.

00:48:04.300 Yeah, I don't

00:48:06.680 know.

00:48:07.120 It might work

00:48:07.660 with their base

00:48:08.300 because I think

00:48:09.540 they're worried

00:48:10.040 that if DeSantis

00:48:10.880 does get some

00:48:11.840 traction,

00:48:13.100 they're going

00:48:13.500 to end up

00:48:13.920 with a

00:48:14.280 reasonable

00:48:14.720 looking

00:48:15.200 Republican

00:48:15.700 and they

00:48:16.240 don't know

00:48:16.540 what to

00:48:16.780 do with

00:48:17.060 that.

00:48:17.740 So they're

00:48:18.180 going to

00:48:18.320 have to

00:48:18.600 turn DeSantis

00:48:19.340 into a

00:48:21.500 worse version

00:48:22.200 of Trump

00:48:22.660 than Trump

00:48:23.260 because they've

00:48:24.260 learned that

00:48:24.660 the only thing

00:48:25.400 they win on

00:48:26.160 is what?

00:48:27.860 What's the

00:48:28.440 only way that

00:48:29.020 the Democrats

00:48:29.640 win?

00:48:31.540 Fear.

00:48:32.800 Right.

00:48:33.060 They don't

00:48:33.820 win on

00:48:34.140 policies because

00:48:35.680 the majority

00:48:36.880 of the public

00:48:37.420 is not on

00:48:38.720 board with

00:48:39.160 their policies.

00:48:40.800 Policy-wise,

00:48:41.800 I think

00:48:42.100 something like

00:48:42.800 a middle-of-the-road

00:48:44.940 Republican would

00:48:46.220 have the most

00:48:47.220 beneficial policies

00:48:48.860 according to the

00:48:49.880 majority of

00:48:50.380 Americans.

00:48:51.760 So they've

00:48:54.240 got this weird

00:48:55.360 little balance,

00:48:56.180 don't they?

00:48:56.820 They're trying

00:48:57.280 to make Trump

00:48:57.920 look like the

00:48:58.500 craziest person

00:48:59.280 in the world,

00:49:00.260 but then DeSantis

00:49:01.580 comes along and

00:49:02.440 if they take

00:49:02.960 Trump out by

00:49:03.680 saying he's

00:49:04.100 crazy and

00:49:05.380 a threat to

00:49:06.120 the Republic,

00:49:06.880 you get one

00:49:07.860 of the strongest

00:49:08.740 Republican

00:49:11.260 operators of

00:49:12.380 all time.

00:49:14.520 Because although

00:49:15.220 I don't think

00:49:15.940 DeSantis can

00:49:16.720 beat Trump,

00:49:17.400 unless there's

00:49:17.940 some new

00:49:18.480 news that

00:49:19.100 comes out

00:49:19.520 that we

00:49:19.740 don't know

00:49:20.080 about,

00:49:21.000 but head-to-head

00:49:21.640 I don't think

00:49:22.140 he can beat

00:49:22.520 Trump.

00:49:23.520 However,

00:49:24.860 that said,

00:49:26.400 he's

00:49:26.740 unambiguously

00:49:27.660 one of the

00:49:28.500 sharpest,

00:49:29.440 best,

00:49:30.360 most effective

00:49:31.220 Republican

00:49:32.140 leaders in

00:49:34.260 a long time.

00:49:35.820 Would you

00:49:36.200 agree?

00:49:37.740 So what are

00:49:38.400 the Democrats

00:49:38.940 going to do?

00:49:40.100 Do they want

00:49:40.700 them some

00:49:41.160 DeSantis to

00:49:41.960 run against?

00:49:42.900 Because that's

00:49:43.440 not going to

00:49:43.800 work.

00:49:44.760 Do they want

00:49:45.480 Trump to run

00:49:46.080 against?

00:49:46.800 I don't think

00:49:47.520 that's going to

00:49:47.980 work either.

00:49:49.220 I mean,

00:49:49.420 they've got a

00:49:49.760 real balancing

00:49:50.380 act, and I

00:49:51.220 don't even know

00:49:51.680 if the Democrats

00:49:52.540 have decided how

00:49:53.420 to handle it

00:49:53.960 yet.

00:49:54.740 It's like they

00:49:55.220 have two ways

00:49:55.840 to be wrong

00:49:56.520 and no way

00:49:57.500 to be right.

00:49:59.600 Do you see

00:50:00.040 that?

00:50:00.280 They can be

00:50:01.080 wrong in two

00:50:01.780 different ways,

00:50:02.540 but they don't

00:50:02.860 have a way

00:50:03.260 to be right.

00:50:04.900 Because either

00:50:05.520 one of those

00:50:06.060 candidates should

00:50:07.140 be able to

00:50:07.620 take whoever

00:50:08.840 they run

00:50:09.280 against, in

00:50:10.040 my opinion.

00:50:10.620 I think both

00:50:11.220 of them can

00:50:11.640 take anybody.

00:50:14.160 Now,

00:50:14.420 Vivek also

00:50:16.020 makes things

00:50:16.640 interesting.

00:50:17.080 I love the

00:50:18.240 fact that the

00:50:19.260 Republican Party

00:50:20.480 has the most

00:50:21.100 diversity for

00:50:23.400 who's running

00:50:24.300 for president.

00:50:26.840 Who's going to

00:50:27.620 challenge,

00:50:28.100 so far Biden's

00:50:29.380 challengers are

00:50:30.780 a generic

00:50:32.260 white guy

00:50:33.040 and another

00:50:35.440 generic white

00:50:36.120 guy?

00:50:39.580 Who is

00:50:40.860 running against

00:50:42.200 Biden?

00:50:42.920 So,

00:50:43.380 RFK Jr.,

00:50:44.320 generic white

00:50:44.900 guy.

00:50:46.180 Oh,

00:50:46.340 Marianne Williams,

00:50:47.440 a generic

00:50:47.940 white woman.

00:50:49.500 And then

00:50:50.040 Asa,

00:50:50.740 Asa Hutchinson?

00:50:52.340 No,

00:50:53.040 he's running

00:50:53.480 as a Republican.

00:50:55.820 Wasn't there

00:50:56.480 somebody else?

00:50:58.100 Newsom's not

00:50:58.880 really running.

00:51:00.320 Bernie's not

00:51:01.100 running.

00:51:02.280 But,

00:51:02.960 so now you've

00:51:04.680 got, you know,

00:51:05.140 Nikki Haley

00:51:05.700 and you've got

00:51:06.400 Vivek,

00:51:07.020 you've got

00:51:07.400 Tim Scott.

00:51:09.500 So even though

00:51:10.120 Trump, you know,

00:51:11.180 would be the

00:51:11.840 standard bearer

00:51:12.840 probably if he

00:51:13.660 wins the primary,

00:51:15.300 that's a lot of

00:51:16.820 diversity.

00:51:18.320 That's a lot of

00:51:18.960 diversity.

00:51:20.980 Yeah,

00:51:21.240 RFK Jr.

00:51:22.280 is a generic

00:51:23.000 white guy.

00:51:23.460 I mean,

00:51:24.520 he's more

00:51:24.980 interesting than

00:51:25.720 the average

00:51:26.620 generic white guy,

00:51:27.620 but so is

00:51:28.120 Trump.

00:51:36.260 The devs are

00:51:37.100 going to say

00:51:37.380 Tim Scott is

00:51:38.060 a racist.

00:51:38.900 Yeah.

00:51:39.480 Good luck

00:51:40.060 with that.

00:51:40.660 That's probably

00:51:41.020 why they have

00:51:41.440 to turn to

00:51:42.060 the trans

00:51:43.480 issues.

00:51:44.700 The racism

00:51:45.400 thing was

00:51:45.920 sort of

00:51:46.200 wearing out.

00:51:48.660 All right,

00:51:49.240 let's see what

00:51:49.620 else Stephen

00:51:50.320 Collins has

00:51:50.840 said.

00:51:51.920 It says of

00:51:52.740 Twitter,

00:51:53.040 that's because

00:51:54.800 Twitter,

00:51:55.380 which once

00:51:56.000 offered a

00:51:56.540 platform for

00:51:57.700 democratic

00:51:58.300 movements in

00:51:59.080 the Arab

00:51:59.480 Spring,

00:51:59.900 has been

00:52:00.960 transformed by

00:52:01.900 its new

00:52:02.240 owner into

00:52:03.180 a,

00:52:03.560 wait for

00:52:04.720 it,

00:52:05.560 a febrile

00:52:07.140 circus of

00:52:08.640 untamed free

00:52:09.640 speech,

00:52:10.820 conspiracy

00:52:11.280 theories,

00:52:12.640 and unverifiable

00:52:13.640 information.

00:52:14.340 Does that

00:52:16.560 sound like

00:52:17.140 word salad

00:52:18.060 to you?

00:52:19.700 Yeah,

00:52:20.220 word salad.

00:52:21.420 I had to

00:52:21.920 look up

00:52:22.360 febrile.

00:52:24.120 Have you

00:52:24.400 ever heard

00:52:24.700 that word?

00:52:25.400 F-E-B-R-I-L-E.

00:52:28.460 Yeah,

00:52:28.720 it means like

00:52:29.200 a feverish

00:52:30.300 approach to

00:52:32.200 something,

00:52:32.700 like a feverish

00:52:33.640 excitement.

00:52:34.320 So it's a

00:52:36.740 feverish,

00:52:38.140 what is it?

00:52:41.380 It's a

00:52:42.380 feverish

00:52:45.580 circus of

00:52:46.280 untamed free

00:52:47.040 speech.

00:52:47.900 Now let's

00:52:48.540 break down

00:52:49.020 these complaints.

00:52:50.800 Untamed free

00:52:51.820 speech.

00:52:54.180 Untamed free

00:52:55.180 speech?

00:52:56.740 That's a bad

00:52:57.740 thing?

00:52:58.700 I thought

00:52:59.140 untamed free

00:53:00.080 speech is what

00:53:00.760 we like.

00:53:03.140 It's

00:53:03.780 untamed

00:53:04.380 because the

00:53:05.000 Democrats don't

00:53:05.760 control it

00:53:06.300 anymore.

00:53:07.380 The Democrats

00:53:08.220 are actually

00:53:09.060 against untamed

00:53:10.380 free speech.

00:53:12.040 Here it is.

00:53:13.340 It's right here,

00:53:14.040 it's in writing.

00:53:15.200 Opposed to

00:53:15.960 untamed free

00:53:17.140 speech.

00:53:19.720 Wouldn't most

00:53:20.520 of you run

00:53:21.240 toward untamed

00:53:22.360 free speech?

00:53:23.400 I wouldn't run

00:53:24.260 away from it,

00:53:25.040 I'd run toward

00:53:25.640 it.

00:53:26.600 That's why I'm

00:53:27.500 on Twitter.

00:53:28.700 I like the

00:53:29.540 untamed free

00:53:30.200 speech.

00:53:31.940 So what else

00:53:33.080 is bad about

00:53:33.700 besides the

00:53:34.540 untamed free

00:53:35.180 speech?

00:53:36.300 Conspiracy

00:53:36.940 theories and

00:53:37.680 unverifiable

00:53:39.180 information.

00:53:40.760 Well, thank

00:53:41.600 goodness,

00:53:42.940 Stephen

00:53:43.220 Collinson has

00:53:44.140 alerted us

00:53:44.860 that only

00:53:46.060 since Musk

00:53:46.740 took over

00:53:47.920 Twitter,

00:53:48.840 that's when

00:53:49.480 things got

00:53:50.940 bad with

00:53:51.420 conspiracy

00:53:51.980 theories and

00:53:53.180 unverifiable

00:53:54.240 information.

00:53:55.800 You all

00:53:56.520 noticed that,

00:53:57.120 right?

00:53:57.820 It used to be

00:53:58.640 there were no

00:53:59.200 conspiracy theories

00:54:00.260 theories and

00:54:01.460 there was no

00:54:01.940 unverified

00:54:02.540 information.

00:54:03.740 But as soon

00:54:04.340 as Musk took

00:54:06.120 over, I don't

00:54:07.620 know what

00:54:07.920 happened.

00:54:08.960 Suddenly,

00:54:09.980 suddenly there

00:54:10.720 are all these

00:54:11.140 conspiracy theories

00:54:12.340 that were never

00:54:13.500 there before.

00:54:15.060 And unverified

00:54:16.120 information, my

00:54:17.440 God, I didn't

00:54:18.260 even think it

00:54:18.900 existed until

00:54:20.260 Musk took over.

00:54:21.420 Now suddenly,

00:54:22.620 some information

00:54:23.460 is unverified?

00:54:24.600 Are you kidding

00:54:25.280 me?

00:54:25.520 how could we

00:54:26.280 live in this

00:54:26.760 world with

00:54:27.700 unverified

00:54:28.280 information and

00:54:29.040 conspiracy theories

00:54:29.940 and untamed

00:54:30.700 free speech?

00:54:35.680 Wait a minute,

00:54:36.380 I just turned

00:54:36.860 into that meme.

00:54:38.800 Oh my God,

00:54:39.640 I just turned

00:54:40.100 into the meme.

00:54:42.800 It's like that,

00:54:43.640 right?

00:54:44.420 I'm not wrong.

00:54:47.280 Look at that

00:54:47.940 face.

00:54:50.260 That's my

00:54:50.840 impression of the

00:54:51.500 internet meme

00:54:52.040 face.

00:54:54.560 Anyway, it's

00:54:55.300 hilarious.

00:54:57.440 So you better

00:54:58.340 stay away from

00:54:58.980 that febrile

00:54:59.860 circus called

00:55:00.700 Twitter.

00:55:02.080 You don't want

00:55:02.920 to be part of

00:55:03.500 a febrile

00:55:04.920 circus.

00:55:07.060 You know,

00:55:07.640 that's one of

00:55:08.000 the things that

00:55:08.540 my mother taught

00:55:09.740 me when I was

00:55:10.200 young.

00:55:11.680 I was probably

00:55:12.520 only, I don't

00:55:13.260 know, maybe

00:55:13.560 eight, nine

00:55:14.180 years old, and

00:55:14.760 she called me

00:55:15.220 in one day and

00:55:15.740 she said,

00:55:16.500 you should always

00:55:17.980 look both ways

00:55:19.720 before crossing

00:55:21.060 the street.

00:55:22.380 I understood

00:55:22.960 that.

00:55:24.020 She said,

00:55:24.500 be home by

00:55:25.580 five o'clock

00:55:26.220 for dinner

00:55:26.700 because you

00:55:27.660 don't have a

00:55:28.080 smartphone, they

00:55:28.740 haven't been

00:55:29.160 invented yet, and

00:55:30.060 I thought, wow,

00:55:31.000 how does she

00:55:31.340 even know that?

00:55:32.580 But yes, so I'd

00:55:33.700 be home at five.

00:55:34.640 But then she

00:55:35.200 would always throw

00:55:35.820 in, no matter

00:55:36.740 what other

00:55:37.300 advice, she

00:55:38.380 would say,

00:55:39.560 but most

00:55:40.040 importantly, stay

00:55:41.840 away from any

00:55:42.820 febrile circuses.

00:55:45.800 And I would

00:55:46.500 say, you mean

00:55:47.820 the feverish kind

00:55:49.760 of circuses,

00:55:50.380 because I had

00:55:50.760 really good

00:55:51.220 vocabulary then.

00:55:52.080 And my

00:55:53.320 mother would

00:55:53.640 say, exactly.

00:55:55.480 Stay away from

00:55:56.340 the febrile

00:55:57.280 circuses.

00:55:58.640 And I have

00:55:59.320 done that for

00:55:59.860 most of my

00:56:00.380 life, and I

00:56:00.860 think that's

00:56:01.240 paid off.

00:56:04.100 So that's my

00:56:05.040 advice to you

00:56:05.620 too.

00:56:06.440 No febrile

00:56:07.240 circuses.

00:56:09.800 Well, here's a

00:56:10.600 little surprise.

00:56:11.420 The American

00:56:12.120 economy, it

00:56:15.080 keeps surprising

00:56:16.220 on the upside.

00:56:18.120 I think we

00:56:19.160 try to do

00:56:19.640 everything we

00:56:20.320 can to kill

00:56:20.920 the American

00:56:21.440 economy, you

00:56:22.380 know, through

00:56:22.840 our politics

00:56:23.560 and bad

00:56:25.040 opinions and

00:56:25.720 stuff.

00:56:26.380 And it just

00:56:26.820 keeps going.

00:56:28.980 So apparently

00:56:29.600 the services

00:56:30.500 sector is

00:56:31.800 better than

00:56:32.260 it's ever

00:56:32.640 been.

00:56:33.980 So May was

00:56:35.040 like the

00:56:35.520 best it's

00:56:36.020 ever been.

00:56:36.780 Now

00:56:36.980 manufacturing is

00:56:38.040 not great,

00:56:39.500 but the

00:56:39.920 services sector,

00:56:41.120 you know,

00:56:41.320 stuff like

00:56:41.800 vacations and

00:56:42.680 things, there's

00:56:44.180 a lot of

00:56:44.460 pent-up demand,

00:56:45.220 it looks like.

00:56:46.280 So that's

00:56:47.000 good.

00:56:47.460 Now, inflation

00:56:48.120 did come

00:56:48.860 down, and

00:56:51.900 Donald Luskin

00:56:53.500 had a piece

00:56:55.700 on the

00:56:56.000 Wall Street

00:56:56.320 Journal.

00:56:57.620 You should

00:56:58.020 follow Donald

00:56:58.700 Luskin on

00:56:59.560 Twitter as

00:57:00.920 well.

00:57:01.260 Good follow

00:57:01.760 for economics.

00:57:05.180 And he

00:57:05.900 talks about

00:57:06.340 how the Fed

00:57:07.120 is always

00:57:07.500 fighting the

00:57:08.040 last war.

00:57:09.800 So, you

00:57:11.440 know, I

00:57:11.620 won't give

00:57:11.960 you the

00:57:12.300 economic

00:57:12.780 argument here

00:57:13.540 because you're

00:57:14.700 not all

00:57:15.000 going to

00:57:15.200 love it.

00:57:16.040 But the

00:57:16.540 point is

00:57:18.400 that people

00:57:19.240 who work

00:57:19.680 for the

00:57:20.060 Fed and

00:57:21.540 people who

00:57:22.060 are also

00:57:22.560 experts on

00:57:23.420 economics don't

00:57:25.000 have the same

00:57:25.560 opinion of

00:57:26.100 what works and

00:57:26.780 what they

00:57:27.080 should be

00:57:27.360 doing and

00:57:27.780 when.

00:57:29.380 Wouldn't

00:57:29.660 you think

00:57:30.060 that economics

00:57:30.760 would have

00:57:31.120 figured that

00:57:31.600 out?

00:57:32.640 That if you

00:57:33.340 do this,

00:57:34.120 you'll get

00:57:34.540 more inflation,

00:57:36.320 and if you

00:57:36.820 do this,

00:57:37.580 you'll get

00:57:37.980 less inflation?

00:57:39.100 Don't you

00:57:39.460 think that

00:57:39.800 that, the

00:57:41.380 most basic,

00:57:42.440 basic economic

00:57:43.800 thing?

00:57:45.120 You don't

00:57:45.440 think the

00:57:45.840 experts should

00:57:46.400 be agreeing

00:57:46.840 on that

00:57:47.180 stuff?

00:57:48.180 But they

00:57:48.820 don't.

00:57:50.320 They don't.

00:57:52.060 Like, even

00:57:52.760 the Fed seems

00:57:53.560 to be confused

00:57:54.320 about what

00:57:54.860 caused inflation,

00:57:56.320 according to

00:57:56.980 other economists,

00:57:58.660 right?

00:57:59.180 Not according

00:57:59.700 to me, but

00:58:00.240 according to

00:58:00.700 other economists.

00:58:01.680 So, what is

00:58:02.340 up with that?

00:58:04.280 Like, you

00:58:05.900 think that you

00:58:06.700 can distrust

00:58:09.260 experts, and

00:58:10.820 you think you've

00:58:11.440 reached the

00:58:12.140 level of

00:58:13.060 skepticism,

00:58:13.800 skepticism

00:58:14.040 that's

00:58:14.360 appropriate?

00:58:15.300 It's like,

00:58:15.660 oh yeah, I

00:58:16.280 don't trust

00:58:16.800 all the

00:58:17.120 experts.

00:58:17.640 No, I

00:58:18.420 live in the

00:58:18.880 real world.

00:58:19.820 I know

00:58:20.120 experts could

00:58:20.780 be lying for

00:58:21.560 a variety of

00:58:22.140 reasons, or

00:58:22.600 just wrong.

00:58:24.460 But did

00:58:25.040 you think it

00:58:25.600 would go all

00:58:27.140 the way to

00:58:28.840 all the

00:58:29.360 experts in

00:58:29.960 economics in

00:58:31.300 the world?

00:58:32.140 Can't agree

00:58:32.880 on the most

00:58:33.600 basic thing.

00:58:35.420 Will this

00:58:35.940 cause more

00:58:36.480 or less

00:58:36.840 inflation?

00:58:38.740 And so

00:58:40.420 Donald Luskin

00:58:41.120 raises the

00:58:41.860 alarm that

00:58:43.120 because the

00:58:43.940 Fed is

00:58:44.600 fighting the

00:58:45.160 last war.

00:58:46.420 In other

00:58:46.700 words, I

00:58:47.900 think his

00:58:48.260 view, if I'm

00:58:48.940 characterizing

00:58:49.480 right, is

00:58:50.160 that inflation

00:58:50.680 is going to

00:58:51.140 come down on

00:58:51.900 its own.

00:58:53.220 So if the

00:58:53.700 Fed is

00:58:54.220 goosing the

00:58:55.240 reduction of

00:58:55.900 inflation, you

00:58:56.600 can get to

00:58:57.340 disinflation.

00:58:59.520 And you're in

00:59:00.320 real trouble with

00:59:01.520 disinflation.

00:59:02.420 It doesn't

00:59:02.780 sound like

00:59:03.240 trouble, does

00:59:03.880 it?

00:59:04.360 Your prices

00:59:04.920 are coming

00:59:05.380 down.

00:59:06.580 Sounds good,

00:59:07.400 right?

00:59:07.580 What do you do

00:59:09.100 when your prices

00:59:09.660 are dropping?

00:59:10.200 How do you

00:59:12.620 act when

00:59:13.300 prices are

00:59:13.880 dropping?

00:59:15.460 How do you

00:59:15.960 act if you

00:59:16.520 think a car

00:59:17.220 will be less

00:59:18.200 expensive in

00:59:19.160 six months

00:59:19.780 than it is

00:59:20.300 now?

00:59:21.520 Yeah, you

00:59:21.920 stop buying.

00:59:23.020 You just

00:59:23.840 completely stop

00:59:24.760 buying things

00:59:25.500 because it'll

00:59:26.320 be cheaper in

00:59:26.940 six months.

00:59:28.280 If you stop

00:59:29.240 buying things,

00:59:29.860 the economy

00:59:30.320 dies.

00:59:32.140 So this

00:59:33.680 was a real

00:59:34.440 useful context

00:59:35.440 thing, is

00:59:36.740 that the

00:59:37.440 Fed might be

00:59:38.560 doing the

00:59:39.560 exact opposite

00:59:40.580 of what

00:59:41.100 would be

00:59:41.420 good for

00:59:41.780 the economy.

00:59:42.940 And the

00:59:43.240 argument is

00:59:43.960 that the

00:59:44.300 Fed didn't

00:59:44.980 cause inflation

00:59:46.220 and the

00:59:46.740 things they're

00:59:47.160 doing is

00:59:47.640 not going

00:59:47.960 to reduce

00:59:48.380 it much.

00:59:49.660 It's external

00:59:50.540 factors that

00:59:51.340 caused

00:59:51.620 inflation,

00:59:52.840 external factors

00:59:53.780 that will

00:59:54.340 reduce

00:59:54.840 inflation,

00:59:55.700 especially

00:59:56.060 the bonus

00:59:57.360 payments during

00:59:58.720 the pandemic.

00:59:59.800 Once those

01:00:00.300 stopped, it

01:00:00.860 was a big

01:00:01.160 source of

01:00:01.600 inflation that

01:00:02.160 went away.

01:00:03.320 And it

01:00:04.520 could be

01:00:05.060 that the

01:00:06.460 Fed is

01:00:07.180 pushing us

01:00:08.080 in the

01:00:08.340 direction we're

01:00:08.920 already going

01:00:09.400 to go, and

01:00:10.720 then we'll go

01:00:11.540 there too far

01:00:12.180 too fast, and

01:00:13.200 prices will

01:00:13.980 decrease, and

01:00:15.320 then the

01:00:15.540 whole thing

01:00:15.880 fucking falls

01:00:16.440 apart.

01:00:17.980 So, good

01:00:18.580 to know.

01:00:19.640 But it's

01:00:20.040 interesting that

01:00:20.740 experts are

01:00:22.100 completely on

01:00:23.040 opposite ends of

01:00:24.180 what makes

01:00:24.600 sense for

01:00:25.500 the economics.

01:00:28.100 All right.

01:00:30.440 You know

01:00:31.040 those neo-Nazis

01:00:33.280 in Charlottesville

01:00:35.100 who are

01:00:35.620 saying they

01:00:37.060 will not

01:00:37.480 replace us.

01:00:39.180 Now, I

01:00:39.440 think they

01:00:39.680 were talking

01:00:40.020 about not

01:00:41.780 just, it

01:00:42.600 wasn't just

01:00:43.120 anti-Semitic,

01:00:43.980 I think it

01:00:44.260 was about

01:00:44.520 immigration as

01:00:45.300 well, right?

01:00:46.900 And they

01:00:47.260 were concerned

01:00:47.820 that brown

01:00:49.300 people from

01:00:50.080 other countries

01:00:50.760 would be

01:00:51.360 replacing white

01:00:52.800 people in the

01:00:53.340 United States,

01:00:54.000 and apparently

01:00:54.380 it's happened.

01:00:55.500 So we've had

01:00:56.000 some prominent

01:00:56.560 examples where

01:00:57.420 white supremacists,

01:00:59.380 which used to

01:01:00.160 be a job that

01:01:00.800 only white people

01:01:01.640 held,

01:01:03.280 has now

01:01:03.820 largely gone

01:01:04.500 to brown

01:01:05.020 people.

01:01:06.980 So, I

01:01:07.740 mean, you

01:01:07.980 got the

01:01:08.800 head of the

01:01:09.860 Proud Boys,

01:01:12.540 head of the

01:01:13.200 Proud Boys,

01:01:14.180 part Cuban,

01:01:16.140 I guess.

01:01:18.440 And then

01:01:19.200 there was

01:01:19.620 the Indian

01:01:21.500 American who

01:01:22.540 had the

01:01:23.080 Nazi flag and

01:01:24.060 tried to attack

01:01:24.740 the White

01:01:25.440 House recently.

01:01:27.140 That was a

01:01:27.720 job that was

01:01:28.360 totally white

01:01:29.480 people.

01:01:30.060 They used to

01:01:30.460 do that.

01:01:31.480 But now,

01:01:32.180 now Indian

01:01:32.840 Americans

01:01:33.320 getting in

01:01:33.820 on the

01:01:34.080 white supremacist

01:01:34.880 stuff,

01:01:35.940 the replacement

01:01:36.740 is happening.

01:01:38.220 And I think

01:01:39.100 we had some

01:01:39.600 other examples

01:01:41.120 recently,

01:01:41.640 didn't we,

01:01:42.580 of brown

01:01:43.620 white supremacists?

01:01:45.880 Yeah.

01:01:47.020 So I

01:01:48.380 didn't believe

01:01:48.880 them when

01:01:49.160 they said

01:01:49.520 that immigrants

01:01:50.420 were going to

01:01:50.860 be replacing

01:01:51.460 white people,

01:01:52.120 but they are

01:01:52.560 taking the

01:01:53.020 white supremacist

01:01:53.800 jobs.

01:01:54.920 I don't know

01:01:55.380 about the

01:01:55.720 other jobs,

01:01:56.300 but the

01:01:56.520 white supremacists

01:01:57.280 are losing

01:01:57.680 a lot of

01:01:58.140 jobs.

01:01:59.220 And I think

01:02:00.300 somebody should

01:02:00.740 look into that.

01:02:01.300 Well, it

01:02:05.280 turns out that

01:02:05.840 being a

01:02:06.400 critic of

01:02:07.060 Putin is

01:02:07.940 not good

01:02:08.520 for your

01:02:08.900 health.

01:02:10.500 Russia's

01:02:11.000 deputy

01:02:11.340 minister of

01:02:12.120 science and

01:02:12.660 higher education,

01:02:13.780 who apparently

01:02:15.280 was a critic

01:02:16.300 of Putin,

01:02:17.520 died mysteriously

01:02:18.360 on a flight.

01:02:19.720 Nobody knows

01:02:20.520 why.

01:02:21.300 He just got

01:02:21.880 on the flight

01:02:22.300 and he fell

01:02:22.960 ill and he

01:02:23.600 died.

01:02:24.500 I wonder if

01:02:25.040 he ate

01:02:25.400 anything on

01:02:25.940 the flight.

01:02:28.240 A big

01:02:28.740 old coincidence,

01:02:30.020 all these

01:02:30.700 Kremlin

01:02:31.020 critics,

01:02:31.580 they just

01:02:31.860 keep dying.

01:02:34.220 You know,

01:02:35.060 it's kind

01:02:36.020 of amazing

01:02:36.520 that Putin

01:02:38.080 just murders

01:02:38.740 his critics

01:02:39.540 and apparently

01:02:41.260 he's done

01:02:41.800 enough of it

01:02:42.420 so we're

01:02:42.780 just used

01:02:43.220 to it.

01:02:44.280 Do you

01:02:44.500 remember

01:02:44.720 when it

01:02:45.000 was a

01:02:45.260 big story

01:02:45.780 that Putin

01:02:46.280 murdered a

01:02:46.940 critic?

01:02:48.240 And now

01:02:48.840 it's just

01:02:49.280 one of the

01:02:50.420 stories.

01:02:52.400 Putin

01:02:52.840 actually made

01:02:53.500 us get

01:02:53.860 used to the

01:02:54.420 fact that he

01:02:54.960 murders his

01:02:55.660 critics outside

01:02:56.800 the country.

01:02:57.280 We just

01:02:59.860 got used

01:03:00.280 to it.

01:03:01.860 Have I

01:03:02.360 told you

01:03:02.640 that before

01:03:03.060 that you

01:03:03.360 can get

01:03:03.680 used to

01:03:04.060 anything?

01:03:05.880 This is a

01:03:06.400 perfect example.

01:03:07.980 It was the

01:03:08.620 biggest outrage

01:03:09.240 and now it's

01:03:09.860 just a little

01:03:10.520 news story.

01:03:11.260 Putin's

01:03:11.580 killing another

01:03:13.040 person.

01:03:15.180 All right.

01:03:17.400 For those

01:03:18.040 of you who

01:03:18.460 are nice

01:03:18.780 enough to

01:03:19.140 wait to

01:03:19.420 the end,

01:03:20.900 I give

01:03:21.660 you the

01:03:22.140 most provocative,

01:03:24.160 dangerous

01:03:24.660 thought you've

01:03:26.660 ever seen.

01:03:27.840 I call it

01:03:28.560 my fear

01:03:29.380 map.

01:03:30.780 It's on the

01:03:31.320 back of this

01:03:31.760 whiteboard.

01:03:33.820 And I'm

01:03:35.260 going to

01:03:35.400 cause some

01:03:35.800 trouble here.

01:03:42.780 Now,

01:03:43.660 people sometimes

01:03:44.520 ask me,

01:03:45.180 Scott,

01:03:46.020 why are you

01:03:47.540 saying this?

01:03:48.820 So they

01:03:49.380 don't question

01:03:49.900 what I say,

01:03:51.280 but often

01:03:51.720 they'll say,

01:03:52.300 what's your

01:03:52.800 purpose?

01:03:53.500 What are you

01:03:53.760 trying to

01:03:54.140 accomplish here?

01:03:55.120 So I'll tell

01:03:55.820 you what I'm

01:03:56.540 trying to

01:03:56.980 accomplish,

01:03:57.900 and then I'll

01:03:58.360 explain it.

01:03:59.420 What I'm

01:04:00.040 trying to

01:04:00.440 accomplish is,

01:04:01.600 since I

01:04:02.080 find myself

01:04:02.760 in a unique

01:04:03.500 situation that

01:04:05.400 I'm already

01:04:05.980 cancelled,

01:04:07.220 I can't get

01:04:07.860 too much extra

01:04:08.900 cancelled,

01:04:09.700 it wouldn't

01:04:10.020 make that much

01:04:10.560 difference,

01:04:11.320 so I have

01:04:12.320 free speech

01:04:13.140 in a way that

01:04:14.820 you don't.

01:04:15.320 So I can

01:04:17.280 simply say

01:04:17.920 things that I

01:04:18.540 think would be

01:04:19.100 useful,

01:04:20.000 and I am

01:04:20.360 trying to

01:04:20.820 focus on

01:04:22.320 things that are

01:04:22.840 useful.

01:04:23.780 I'm not

01:04:24.380 just trying

01:04:24.760 to mix

01:04:25.340 stuff up,

01:04:26.220 not trying

01:04:26.740 to get

01:04:27.000 some extra

01:04:27.520 clicks.

01:04:28.640 Everybody

01:04:28.980 likes extra

01:04:29.660 clicks,

01:04:30.360 but that's

01:04:30.740 not why I'm

01:04:31.180 doing it.

01:04:32.040 I'm doing it

01:04:32.620 because there

01:04:32.900 are just

01:04:33.120 some things

01:04:33.820 that I

01:04:34.980 uniquely can

01:04:35.760 say out

01:04:36.200 loud that

01:04:37.540 are useful,

01:04:38.520 I only do

01:04:39.200 useful things,

01:04:40.300 that you need

01:04:41.060 to hear.

01:04:42.880 Specifically,

01:04:43.900 what I'm

01:04:44.600 going to talk

01:04:45.000 about would

01:04:45.400 be useful

01:04:45.920 for black

01:04:47.300 Americans.

01:04:47.760 It won't

01:04:49.360 feel like

01:04:49.900 it.

01:04:51.440 It might

01:04:51.960 feel the

01:04:52.380 opposite.

01:04:53.820 But here's

01:04:54.760 my general

01:04:56.600 statement.

01:04:58.580 You need

01:04:59.140 to have

01:04:59.420 good

01:04:59.720 information

01:05:00.240 to make

01:05:01.200 good

01:05:01.500 decisions.

01:05:02.740 You all

01:05:03.240 agree with

01:05:03.640 that,

01:05:03.960 right?

01:05:04.620 The better

01:05:05.060 your information

01:05:06.060 about your

01:05:06.980 situation,

01:05:07.520 the better

01:05:07.820 decisions you

01:05:08.500 can make.

01:05:09.200 I believe

01:05:09.740 that black

01:05:10.180 Americans are

01:05:11.120 crippled by

01:05:12.640 the fact that

01:05:13.220 white people

01:05:13.720 lie to them

01:05:14.360 about everything.

01:05:15.040 white people,

01:05:18.080 can you give

01:05:18.480 me some

01:05:18.800 confirmation?

01:05:19.980 White people

01:05:20.440 lie to black

01:05:21.120 Americans about

01:05:21.820 everything because

01:05:22.540 we've been

01:05:22.940 trained to lie.

01:05:24.120 We've been

01:05:24.480 trained to

01:05:24.940 hide our

01:05:25.280 true opinions

01:05:25.880 because we

01:05:26.920 would be

01:05:27.240 demonized if

01:05:28.120 we were even

01:05:28.800 just objectively

01:05:29.660 talking about

01:05:30.420 data,

01:05:31.360 right?

01:05:31.960 Even if

01:05:32.660 white people

01:05:33.840 are just

01:05:34.500 trying to

01:05:35.780 help,

01:05:37.060 trying to

01:05:37.760 help will

01:05:38.160 get you

01:05:38.500 canceled,

01:05:39.380 for sure.

01:05:40.880 All right?

01:05:41.360 So here I am,

01:05:42.400 I'm going to

01:05:42.780 try to help,

01:05:43.800 and it's

01:05:44.140 something I

01:05:44.620 couldn't

01:05:44.960 have done

01:05:45.440 except I'm

01:05:46.740 already

01:05:46.960 canceled.

01:05:48.300 So you're

01:05:49.060 going to

01:05:49.180 see one

01:05:49.500 of the

01:05:49.740 rare things

01:05:50.440 that you've

01:05:50.800 ever seen

01:05:51.320 in public,

01:05:52.640 a canceled

01:05:53.620 person telling

01:05:55.040 you the

01:05:55.380 truth.

01:05:57.340 Now, I'm

01:05:58.300 going to

01:05:58.500 prime you

01:05:58.880 a little

01:05:59.140 bit more.

01:06:00.880 This type

01:06:01.680 of topic

01:06:02.240 necessarily

01:06:03.460 is easier

01:06:04.180 to talk

01:06:04.620 about when

01:06:05.680 you talk

01:06:06.040 about groups

01:06:06.760 of people

01:06:07.320 acting on

01:06:08.120 average.

01:06:09.220 If I

01:06:09.660 say white

01:06:10.420 people,

01:06:11.700 like cheese,

01:06:13.420 you're

01:06:13.960 smart enough

01:06:14.480 to know

01:06:14.880 that I

01:06:15.360 don't

01:06:15.520 mean every

01:06:16.040 white person

01:06:16.600 likes cheese,

01:06:17.620 right?

01:06:18.480 It's just

01:06:18.760 sort of a

01:06:19.100 general statement.

01:06:20.480 If I say

01:06:21.200 black people

01:06:21.860 like hip-hop,

01:06:23.220 you're smart

01:06:24.120 enough to

01:06:24.520 know not

01:06:25.360 everyone,

01:06:26.660 not every

01:06:27.260 black person

01:06:27.820 likes hip-hop.

01:06:28.680 That'd be

01:06:29.020 crazy.

01:06:30.360 So everything

01:06:31.240 I say about

01:06:31.960 any group

01:06:32.500 is just a

01:06:33.160 generalization.

01:06:34.040 It does not

01:06:34.520 include you

01:06:35.240 or any

01:06:36.400 specific person.

01:06:37.820 The next

01:06:38.560 thing I'm

01:06:38.920 going to say,

01:06:39.440 which is very

01:06:39.960 important,

01:06:40.820 under no

01:06:41.760 circumstances

01:06:42.540 does it

01:06:43.840 ever make

01:06:44.280 sense to

01:06:44.880 discriminate

01:06:45.440 against an

01:06:46.860 individual?

01:06:48.660 In romance,

01:06:50.780 in hiring,

01:06:51.900 in your

01:06:52.140 social life,

01:06:52.880 your family

01:06:53.280 life,

01:06:54.340 any kind

01:06:55.040 of employment,

01:06:56.100 anything like

01:06:56.520 that,

01:06:57.060 giving somebody

01:06:57.860 a loan,

01:06:58.940 it makes

01:06:59.860 no sense to

01:07:00.780 discriminate

01:07:01.280 individually,

01:07:02.300 because it

01:07:02.800 doesn't help

01:07:03.260 the person

01:07:03.680 you're

01:07:03.900 discriminating

01:07:04.540 against,

01:07:05.640 it doesn't

01:07:06.240 help the

01:07:06.700 system,

01:07:07.440 you know,

01:07:07.620 the United

01:07:08.020 States,

01:07:08.780 it doesn't

01:07:09.340 help you

01:07:09.840 as a

01:07:10.520 discriminator,

01:07:11.360 you're just

01:07:11.680 cutting yourself

01:07:12.300 off from,

01:07:13.320 you know,

01:07:13.600 the beauty

01:07:14.280 and talent

01:07:15.040 of most

01:07:15.880 of the

01:07:16.080 world.

01:07:16.740 So if you

01:07:17.260 have a

01:07:17.520 situation

01:07:17.900 where nobody

01:07:18.500 wins,

01:07:19.940 how can you

01:07:20.440 possibly be

01:07:21.000 in favor of

01:07:21.560 any part

01:07:22.040 of that?

01:07:22.860 So discrimination

01:07:23.640 against individuals,

01:07:25.880 you can't favor

01:07:26.700 it on any

01:07:27.420 level,

01:07:28.560 because there

01:07:28.960 are no

01:07:29.200 winners,

01:07:29.580 it's just a

01:07:30.140 lose all the

01:07:30.760 way across.

01:07:31.720 And it's the

01:07:32.380 opposite of what

01:07:33.160 made America

01:07:33.800 great,

01:07:34.700 which is we

01:07:35.240 tried really

01:07:35.880 hard not to

01:07:36.560 be those

01:07:36.900 people.

01:07:37.480 We didn't

01:07:37.820 succeed,

01:07:38.880 but we tried

01:07:39.440 really hard

01:07:40.080 to be those

01:07:40.940 people.

01:07:42.640 So with

01:07:43.740 that in

01:07:44.100 mind,

01:07:44.980 I give

01:07:45.420 you the

01:07:46.540 fear map.

01:07:50.500 Now,

01:07:51.220 I'm roughly

01:07:52.100 dividing people

01:07:53.160 in the United

01:07:53.620 States by

01:07:54.400 income and

01:07:55.720 education.

01:07:56.760 Would you

01:07:57.440 agree that

01:07:58.000 education is

01:07:58.840 highly correlated

01:08:00.160 with income?

01:08:01.900 Again,

01:08:02.820 we're not

01:08:03.280 talking about

01:08:03.820 every person.

01:08:05.140 Of course,

01:08:05.780 there are

01:08:06.000 people who

01:08:06.380 didn't go to

01:08:06.880 college and

01:08:07.360 made a lot

01:08:07.780 of money.

01:08:08.220 Of course.

01:08:08.680 But in

01:08:09.560 general,

01:08:10.700 the higher

01:08:11.020 your education,

01:08:11.900 the greater

01:08:12.180 your income.

01:08:13.540 Now,

01:08:14.220 I'm going to

01:08:14.460 start with

01:08:15.800 a white

01:08:17.080 person in

01:08:17.820 America's

01:08:18.560 experience.

01:08:20.200 Now,

01:08:20.440 when I talk

01:08:20.880 about fear,

01:08:22.320 I'm talking

01:08:22.820 about a

01:08:24.100 visceral,

01:08:25.000 irrational

01:08:25.540 reaction.

01:08:27.160 I'm not

01:08:27.860 talking about

01:08:28.280 logic.

01:08:29.580 This is

01:08:29.920 just fear,

01:08:30.740 irrational

01:08:31.140 fear.

01:08:32.560 As a

01:08:33.340 white

01:08:33.580 American,

01:08:34.260 if I go

01:08:34.760 into a

01:08:35.180 low-income

01:08:35.800 area that's

01:08:36.520 all white

01:08:37.360 Americans,

01:08:38.520 am I

01:08:38.860 afraid?

01:08:40.620 If I go

01:08:41.480 to a

01:08:41.900 low-income

01:08:42.420 area that's

01:08:43.140 just all

01:08:43.540 white people,

01:08:44.640 am I

01:08:44.980 afraid for

01:08:45.700 my life?

01:08:46.960 Nope.

01:08:47.740 Not even

01:08:48.160 a little.

01:08:48.960 I grew up

01:08:49.720 in a low-income,

01:08:51.080 mostly white

01:08:51.680 area.

01:08:53.180 I never even

01:08:53.720 thought about

01:08:54.120 it.

01:08:55.020 I never even

01:08:55.860 thought about

01:08:56.280 violence.

01:08:57.160 I mean,

01:08:57.320 there was

01:08:57.500 plenty of

01:08:57.920 violence,

01:08:58.440 because it's

01:08:59.220 everywhere.

01:08:59.900 But I

01:09:00.340 didn't have

01:09:00.600 any special

01:09:01.200 fear about

01:09:02.360 white people

01:09:02.880 being a

01:09:03.800 white person.

01:09:05.660 Suppose I

01:09:06.260 go into a

01:09:06.820 middle-income

01:09:07.360 environment.

01:09:08.100 I get a

01:09:08.460 blue-collar

01:09:08.900 job.

01:09:09.380 I just

01:09:09.640 go to

01:09:09.920 work.

01:09:10.760 And let's

01:09:11.120 say that

01:09:12.080 my coworkers

01:09:12.680 are all

01:09:13.220 white.

01:09:14.300 Am I

01:09:14.720 afraid of

01:09:15.200 anything

01:09:15.560 special?

01:09:17.040 Well,

01:09:17.400 just the

01:09:17.780 normal

01:09:18.080 dangers of

01:09:18.740 life.

01:09:19.720 But I'm

01:09:20.120 not extra

01:09:20.760 afraid because

01:09:21.460 my coworkers

01:09:22.120 are white.

01:09:23.200 Why would

01:09:23.620 I be?

01:09:25.040 It wouldn't

01:09:25.600 even come

01:09:25.960 up.

01:09:27.520 How about

01:09:28.100 high-income

01:09:28.540 and high

01:09:29.140 education?

01:09:29.920 If I

01:09:30.280 spend some

01:09:31.220 time around

01:09:31.740 some highly

01:09:32.600 educated

01:09:33.040 white people,

01:09:34.120 would I

01:09:35.100 be in

01:09:35.560 trouble?

01:09:36.780 Well,

01:09:37.580 yes,

01:09:37.940 a little

01:09:38.200 bit.

01:09:39.680 The higher

01:09:40.520 educated

01:09:40.980 white people

01:09:41.580 are more

01:09:42.000 likely to

01:09:42.600 accuse you

01:09:43.100 of being

01:09:43.360 a racist.

01:09:44.400 Am I

01:09:44.640 right?

01:09:46.220 High-income

01:09:47.160 white people

01:09:47.820 will accuse

01:09:49.200 other white

01:09:49.780 people of

01:09:50.200 being racists.

01:09:51.180 That's where

01:09:51.480 it comes

01:09:51.800 from.

01:09:52.440 Universities

01:09:53.000 and people

01:09:54.060 who write

01:09:54.340 books and

01:09:54.800 stuff.

01:09:55.740 So as a

01:09:56.780 white person

01:09:57.260 in America,

01:09:58.440 I would

01:09:58.700 feel,

01:10:00.060 again,

01:10:00.460 it's just

01:10:00.760 a feeling,

01:10:01.760 I would

01:10:02.080 feel no

01:10:02.620 risk around

01:10:03.920 poor white

01:10:04.940 people.

01:10:06.220 There would

01:10:06.620 be a risk

01:10:07.100 because income

01:10:08.120 and crime

01:10:09.860 come together.

01:10:11.240 So there

01:10:11.580 would be a

01:10:11.940 little extra

01:10:12.300 risk, but I

01:10:12.840 wouldn't feel

01:10:13.260 it.

01:10:13.900 I've never

01:10:14.300 felt it.

01:10:15.180 In fact,

01:10:15.900 I can think

01:10:16.640 of zero

01:10:17.140 places in the

01:10:17.920 United States

01:10:18.680 that are

01:10:19.760 mostly white

01:10:20.620 that I would

01:10:21.860 have any

01:10:22.220 danger feeling

01:10:23.500 going to,

01:10:24.460 although there

01:10:24.860 would be

01:10:25.220 elevated risk

01:10:26.180 with lower

01:10:26.720 income.

01:10:28.220 In the middle

01:10:28.940 income, I don't

01:10:29.740 worry about white

01:10:30.420 people at all

01:10:31.120 at the high

01:10:31.600 income, I do

01:10:32.280 worry about

01:10:32.740 them.

01:10:33.520 At high

01:10:34.200 income, white

01:10:35.520 people I do

01:10:36.220 see as

01:10:36.620 potentially my

01:10:37.600 enemy.

01:10:38.880 Does that

01:10:39.360 make sense?

01:10:40.900 Not

01:10:41.420 necessarily my

01:10:42.280 enemy, but

01:10:43.160 potentially.

01:10:44.940 Yeah.

01:10:45.920 Now let's

01:10:46.640 say you're a

01:10:48.960 black American,

01:10:50.780 and we'll just

01:10:51.260 reverse it.

01:10:52.880 You're a black

01:10:53.740 American and

01:10:54.440 you're in a

01:10:54.900 low-income

01:10:55.420 area.

01:10:56.460 Is your

01:10:57.280 danger higher?

01:10:58.320 Probably.

01:11:00.960 Probably.

01:11:01.600 If you're a

01:11:02.560 black American

01:11:03.120 and you're in a

01:11:03.760 middle-income

01:11:04.240 environment, is

01:11:05.620 your danger

01:11:06.160 higher?

01:11:06.960 Probably not.

01:11:08.740 I mean,

01:11:09.680 probably not,

01:11:11.020 right?

01:11:11.940 How about if

01:11:12.620 you're black and

01:11:13.440 you're in a

01:11:13.740 high-income,

01:11:14.400 high-education

01:11:15.040 area?

01:11:16.220 Probably not

01:11:16.920 much danger

01:11:17.460 at all.

01:11:18.880 You'd probably

01:11:19.680 be pretty happy.

01:11:21.460 Suppose you're

01:11:22.560 a white person

01:11:23.440 and you're

01:11:24.680 contemplating going

01:11:25.580 into an all-black

01:11:26.660 area that's also

01:11:27.540 low-income.

01:11:29.040 Would that be

01:11:29.820 risky?

01:11:30.720 To be a

01:11:31.440 white person

01:11:32.020 going into a

01:11:32.840 low-income,

01:11:34.080 mostly black

01:11:34.780 area?

01:11:35.760 Well, you can

01:11:36.560 talk about the

01:11:37.180 data or the

01:11:37.800 statistics, but I

01:11:38.980 can tell you with

01:11:39.620 certainty that would

01:11:40.820 scare the shit out

01:11:41.840 of all white

01:11:42.480 people.

01:11:44.020 All of them.

01:11:46.760 Now, of course,

01:11:47.760 when I say all,

01:11:48.820 I don't really mean

01:11:49.600 all, right?

01:11:50.800 Because every time I

01:11:51.780 talk about a group,

01:11:52.620 it's never all.

01:11:53.900 It's just sort of

01:11:54.540 an average.

01:11:55.500 Yeah, white people

01:11:56.240 are scared to death

01:11:57.160 of going into

01:11:57.960 low-income,

01:11:59.320 black areas.

01:12:01.720 What about white

01:12:02.760 people going into

01:12:03.940 an environment that

01:12:05.000 had a big mix

01:12:06.840 of lots of black

01:12:08.420 people in the

01:12:09.180 workplace along

01:12:10.140 with everybody

01:12:10.840 else?

01:12:11.720 So it's not

01:12:12.300 mostly black, but

01:12:13.240 it's a good mix

01:12:14.180 of diversity.

01:12:15.600 Would a white

01:12:16.260 person have any

01:12:17.040 fear being in

01:12:18.740 an environment that

01:12:19.720 was a mixed group

01:12:21.120 versus, let's say,

01:12:22.280 all white?

01:12:23.500 Yes.

01:12:24.620 Because the fear

01:12:25.480 is that you will

01:12:26.160 be accused of

01:12:26.980 racism.

01:12:28.780 Right?

01:12:29.940 If you work in a

01:12:31.280 mixed group, the

01:12:32.120 odds of you being

01:12:32.860 a white person

01:12:33.580 being accused of

01:12:35.000 being of racism

01:12:35.620 are close to

01:12:36.660 100%.

01:12:37.400 Do you want

01:12:38.960 that?

01:12:40.040 That's an extra

01:12:40.820 risk that you

01:12:41.760 don't have to put

01:12:42.340 up with.

01:12:43.400 How about if

01:12:43.940 you're a white

01:12:44.300 person and you're

01:12:45.180 in an environment

01:12:45.760 where there's a

01:12:46.920 lot of diversity

01:12:47.660 at the higher

01:12:49.340 income level?

01:12:50.000 Well, they're

01:12:52.100 going to tell

01:12:52.500 you that you're

01:12:53.240 the problem,

01:12:54.240 that you're

01:12:54.680 supporting white

01:12:55.880 supremacy, and

01:12:57.380 you owe me

01:12:58.040 some money.

01:13:00.000 Right?

01:13:00.540 So if you're a

01:13:02.780 white person in

01:13:03.600 a diverse

01:13:04.180 environment, you've

01:13:05.140 got the extra

01:13:05.780 risk that they're

01:13:06.560 going to ask for

01:13:07.160 reparations.

01:13:08.200 No white person

01:13:09.260 has ever asked

01:13:09.960 me for reparations.

01:13:11.860 Again, this has

01:13:12.780 nothing to do with

01:13:13.620 whether the

01:13:14.280 reparations are a

01:13:15.100 good or bad

01:13:15.640 idea.

01:13:16.580 I'm just saying

01:13:17.420 from a risk

01:13:18.160 management

01:13:19.580 perspective, being

01:13:21.760 in California is

01:13:22.960 riskier than

01:13:24.340 being in Idaho.

01:13:25.920 Am I wrong?

01:13:27.100 In California, there's

01:13:28.240 a risk I will pay

01:13:29.080 reparations for

01:13:30.360 having nothing to

01:13:31.220 do with slavery.

01:13:32.260 That's a risk.

01:13:34.000 If I go to

01:13:34.920 Idaho, probably

01:13:36.080 no risk.

01:13:37.560 Probably no risk

01:13:38.720 of any reparations.

01:13:41.460 So, I will say

01:13:44.120 again, if you're

01:13:46.420 dealing with an

01:13:47.060 individual of any

01:13:49.440 color, ethnicity,

01:13:50.740 religion, gender,

01:13:52.100 you have to treat

01:13:52.980 them as an

01:13:53.480 individual.

01:13:54.320 You just have to.

01:13:55.360 It's good for you.

01:13:56.660 It's good for them.

01:13:57.860 And it's the only

01:13:58.440 thing that makes our

01:13:59.120 system work.

01:14:00.540 However, if you're

01:14:02.140 judging your personal

01:14:03.340 risk, you can use

01:14:06.200 averages.

01:14:07.820 It's not against the

01:14:08.980 Constitution.

01:14:10.180 It's not against the

01:14:11.440 law.

01:14:12.380 It's not unethical.

01:14:14.180 It's not immoral.

01:14:15.260 It's just risk

01:14:17.100 management.

01:14:18.640 It's just risk

01:14:19.660 management.

01:14:20.720 And everybody gets

01:14:21.700 to do that.

01:14:23.100 There's nothing that

01:14:24.180 took away your ability

01:14:25.420 to manage your own

01:14:26.520 personal risk.

01:14:29.260 So, I would say if

01:14:31.840 you're a white person,

01:14:33.000 there are three areas

01:14:33.900 you should have extra

01:14:35.940 concern about because

01:14:38.140 your risk would be

01:14:38.800 higher.

01:14:39.520 Anywhere there's a

01:14:40.300 high ratio of black

01:14:42.120 people in a low-income

01:14:43.180 area, anytime you're

01:14:44.760 working with a number

01:14:45.980 of black people who

01:14:46.860 have been trained by

01:14:48.080 society to see you as

01:14:49.980 the enemy and then

01:14:50.980 accuse you of

01:14:51.680 discrimination, whether

01:14:52.620 you do it or not.

01:14:53.760 And then the high-income

01:14:54.720 group, you get the

01:14:56.060 professors who will say

01:14:57.200 not only are you

01:14:58.120 discriminating at the

01:14:59.160 moment, but just by

01:15:01.100 existing.

01:15:02.400 Your mere existence

01:15:03.620 makes you an asshole.

01:15:08.080 So, should you use

01:15:10.620 your risk management

01:15:11.880 common sense to stay

01:15:14.420 away from dangerous

01:15:15.560 situations?

01:15:16.720 Or, should you allow

01:15:19.580 yourself to be in what

01:15:20.660 are obviously more

01:15:21.720 dangerous situations?

01:15:23.540 Because that would be

01:15:24.800 the moral thing to do.

01:15:27.300 Is it more moral to put

01:15:30.000 yourself in obviously

01:15:31.640 more dangerous

01:15:32.300 situations?

01:15:33.420 Not physically, but

01:15:34.380 also reputationally and

01:15:35.780 money-wise, etc.

01:15:37.080 Now, it is moral and

01:15:40.540 ethical to manage your

01:15:42.260 risk any way you want.

01:15:44.640 Any way you want.

01:15:47.760 Am I cancelled?

01:15:50.240 Did I say anything you

01:15:51.440 don't agree with?

01:15:53.980 Was there one thing

01:15:55.120 here, anything, that you

01:15:56.740 didn't agree with?

01:15:58.080 No, you agreed with all

01:15:59.040 of it, right?

01:16:02.000 You know this is what got

01:16:03.260 me cancelled, right?

01:16:04.020 So, earlier in the

01:16:07.220 live stream I said, I

01:16:08.440 didn't get cancelled for

01:16:09.440 what I said.

01:16:10.900 I got cancelled because

01:16:12.140 I was a truck going

01:16:14.020 through the neighbourhood

01:16:14.720 that wanted to put their

01:16:16.280 message on a truck.

01:16:17.660 So, I just happened to

01:16:18.420 be the truck.

01:16:19.380 And they just loaded me

01:16:20.600 up with their message and

01:16:21.440 I carried it with them.

01:16:23.100 I couldn't get it off my

01:16:24.480 truck bed.

01:16:25.920 It was too late.

01:16:27.520 That's all my fault, by

01:16:28.640 the way.

01:16:28.960 I take full responsibility.

01:16:31.100 Just to be clear, I always

01:16:33.160 take full responsibility

01:16:34.400 for my own actions and

01:16:37.260 the outcomes.

01:16:38.100 So, of course, I take

01:16:38.880 full responsibility for

01:16:40.060 getting cancelled.

01:16:41.220 But you should understand

01:16:42.400 the mechanism, which is

01:16:44.420 slightly different from

01:16:45.300 who takes responsibility.

01:16:47.920 Now, when I explained it

01:16:50.220 this way, you all said,

01:16:53.160 oh, right?

01:16:54.660 But when I explained it in

01:16:57.900 the, let's say, the

01:16:59.340 angrier, more provocative

01:17:01.160 way, where I said, you

01:17:02.820 just stay the F away from

01:17:04.460 blah, blah, blah, it was

01:17:06.800 just this story.

01:17:08.260 It was just this.

01:17:10.080 And when I explained it

01:17:11.520 without the hyperbole and

01:17:12.680 without the swearing, you

01:17:14.740 just looked at it and said,

01:17:16.020 oh, yeah, that makes sense.

01:17:17.580 Yeah, that is high risk.

01:17:18.940 Now, what's different is

01:17:20.240 it's hard to manage, you

01:17:23.560 know, in the short term,

01:17:25.180 the extra risk that comes

01:17:26.580 with low income, right?

01:17:28.120 Because low income and crime

01:17:29.880 are pretty entangled.

01:17:32.060 But I would say that at the

01:17:33.300 middle income and high

01:17:34.260 income, there's a media

01:17:36.720 poisoning.

01:17:38.320 And the media has poisoned

01:17:39.920 black Americans.

01:17:41.760 And black Americans have not

01:17:43.080 yet figured out that white

01:17:45.400 Americans really need to kind

01:17:46.640 of stay away from them for

01:17:48.200 their own safety.

01:17:49.860 Again, not individuals.

01:17:52.600 If there's an individual,

01:17:54.060 you should treat them

01:17:57.180 individually.

01:17:58.080 But if you're deciding,

01:17:59.360 should I go to an

01:18:00.180 environment where my

01:18:01.540 co-workers would be mixed

01:18:03.080 or less mixed, you are

01:18:06.900 managing your risk in a

01:18:08.360 realistic way that the

01:18:10.200 media has created.

01:18:11.440 You didn't create that.

01:18:12.840 You did not create any of

01:18:14.420 that risk.

01:18:15.820 And you do get to avoid it

01:18:17.920 if that's your preference.

01:18:21.040 Now, if somebody, a number

01:18:23.660 of people said that you

01:18:26.040 should increase your

01:18:27.580 personal risk to make sure

01:18:30.320 that there's plenty of

01:18:31.640 interaction among groups,

01:18:33.940 because in the long run,

01:18:36.140 the mixture of the people

01:18:39.040 will give you a better

01:18:39.820 outcome.

01:18:40.820 You know, you'll get used

01:18:41.480 to people and, you know,

01:18:42.860 discrimination will go away

01:18:44.040 on its own.

01:18:45.360 To which I say, I don't

01:18:46.760 think you've lived in the

01:18:47.560 real world at all.

01:18:48.420 And it's not my job to

01:18:50.680 make the world better in

01:18:51.760 50 years because I did

01:18:54.380 what you described.

01:18:56.180 My job is to not get my

01:18:58.140 ass kicked.

01:18:59.580 That's my job.

01:19:00.920 I just don't want my ass

01:19:02.020 to get kicked.

01:19:03.300 I don't want my reputation

01:19:05.620 or my money to be taken.

01:19:08.060 That's all.

01:19:09.200 So I'm just going to look

01:19:10.000 out for that stuff.

01:19:12.880 So, I'm loving the nature

01:19:16.680 of the comments, because

01:19:18.580 usually when I'm doing

01:19:19.460 my silly stuff, you know,

01:19:21.220 there'll be silly comments.

01:19:22.880 And if I do things you

01:19:23.940 disagree with, you know,

01:19:25.380 there's a big pushback

01:19:26.820 that's coming in immediately.

01:19:28.560 But this kind of scrambled

01:19:30.720 your brain a little bit,

01:19:31.680 didn't it?

01:19:32.780 Maybe in a way you liked.

01:19:35.400 But I can tell when you

01:19:36.920 get a little quiet that

01:19:38.580 there's some processing going.

01:19:40.280 So I think there's a lot

01:19:42.580 of processing happening

01:19:43.620 on this right now.

01:19:44.360 All right, that, ladies

01:19:47.040 and gentlemen, is the

01:19:48.220 conclusion of my live stream

01:19:50.360 for today.

01:19:51.820 YouTube, thanks for coming

01:19:53.100 back after I so rudely

01:19:54.560 disconnected you yesterday

01:19:56.060 because my battery died.

01:19:58.380 But I think it was worth it.

01:20:01.860 And, yeah, most of you,

01:20:05.100 I think, were on this page.

01:20:06.800 So here's a writer's trick

01:20:08.300 for you.

01:20:09.380 Here's how I describe

01:20:10.360 a good writer.

01:20:11.160 A good writer,

01:20:13.160 at least in the

01:20:13.980 nonfiction world,

01:20:15.420 a good writer is somebody

01:20:16.560 who says what you

01:20:17.440 already think,

01:20:18.840 but they say it better

01:20:20.540 than you were thinking it.

01:20:22.080 Have you ever heard me

01:20:22.740 say that before?

01:20:24.140 So that's what this was.

01:20:26.320 This was me telling you

01:20:27.560 what you already thought,

01:20:29.220 most of you, I think.

01:20:30.940 But I said it better

01:20:32.560 than you were thinking it.

01:20:33.920 So now you can think it better

01:20:35.520 because you've just seen

01:20:37.680 another way to model it.

01:20:39.080 So that's it for today.

01:20:42.020 YouTube, I'll see you

01:20:42.680 in the morning tomorrow.

01:20:43.780 Come on back.

01:20:44.940 Bye for now.

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Episode 2118 Scott Adams： DeSantis Announces & Trump Pounces, Mental Illness, Trans Bans, Fear Map

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