Episode 2121 Scott Adams： I Can't Describe Today's Show. That Means It Will Be A Good One. Wink
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I was just laughing uncontrollably at a story about women being asked to masturbate in front of an MRI, and how they did it, and a new theory about AI and the future of music, and why it might be better than human music.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of your entire life and civilization
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itself. And believe me, if I could tell you what this show was about in advance without
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getting banned, I probably would have. You see, I'm just getting your interest up here.
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Oh, wow. I was laughing about something before I came on, and maybe I'll tell you, maybe
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I won't. But if you'd like this experience to be optimal, all you need is a cup or a mug
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or a glass, a tank or a chalice of dine, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill
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it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
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of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, unless you wore a
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metal butt plug into the MRI, and then this won't help at all. It happens now. Go.
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All right. Well, I was just laughing uncontrollably a minute ago, because I saw one of the memes
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on the Locals platform. Now, I don't know if the meme is based on a real story, but I'm
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going to choose to believe it's real, because it's funny. And the story was that some researchers
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were studying what the brain scan of women looked like while they were having orgasms.
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So they invited five women in to masturbate while they were in the MRI. Now, that's not
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really the story, because they got a nice picture of the brain lighting up. The funny part of
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the story is how they sold this project. How did they get a grant for that?
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Hey, Bob, I've got a wild idea. What? I think we can get money for bringing women in to masturbate
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in front of us, and we'll just put their heads in an MRI and call it science. And the other guy
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says, you're never going to get away with that. Now, watch this. And then they put it together,
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and they get away with it. And then they have to play it off like it's serious the whole
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time. And they go home to their wives and, well, here I'm being sexist. It could be that
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it's women who are the scientists, of course. So we can't rule out that possibility. But
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it's funnier to imagine it's guys. And they go home at night. So, honey, what are you working
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on? Oh, we're doing a little some brain scanning stuff, you know. Really? Brain scanning for
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what? Well, you know, we'd like to see what parts of the brain light up under certain circumstances.
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Really? What specific circumstances are you studying? Well, here's where it gets a little
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complicated. I don't know. It was funny to me. But that's not why you're here. You're here
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for the news. Here's the news. Unfortunately, AI has now succeeded in writing parody.
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The Twitter account called the Prince of Deep Fakes. I won't tell you who is the Prince of
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Deep Fakes. Perhaps it's somebody you know. But the Prince of Deep Fakes, not me. It's not me,
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by the way. But the Prince of Deep Fakes actually wrote a super prompt to create parody news articles.
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And I'm not going to say they're just as good as the Onion or the Babylon Bee. But they're in the
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neighborhood. And I did not think this could be done. I didn't think you could get this close.
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But it could be that parody of news reports is something that's a little more rules-based.
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You know, that if you've noticed an article in The Bee or the Onion, they're a little formulaic,
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but it works anyway. You know, a lot of humor is very formulaic. So maybe AI can do better for
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humor than I thought. But I wouldn't say it's up to the level of the best human humor.
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But it's surprised me how close it got. All right, I have a hypothesis. This is not a prediction.
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It's not a prediction. It's a hypothesis. Meaning we'll test it without trying and we'll know whether
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it's true or not. It goes like this. The AI music will not replace human-made music for at least hit
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records. It will definitely replace human musicians for advertising and, you know, maybe the background
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music of a video game, you know, maybe some Muzak in your elevator, stuff like that. So AI will definitely
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replace the low end of music business. But for the high end, where you're listening to it for pure
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enjoyment, here's my hypothesis. You ready? Now, first of all, I do agree that AI could match or
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surpass the skill level of the best human musicians. So this will be the part that doesn't make sense
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for a second. So I do accept that AI will be better at knowing what people want to hear
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and then producing it. Better than the best human, eventually. However, here's what my hypothesis
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speculates. You won't want to listen to it. So here's the weird part. The AI music will absolutely
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be better on every level that you can determine that things are good. It'll be better than the human
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music and you won't want to listen to it. Here's why. If you know it's made by AI, it won't trigger
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your reproductive instincts. Because my hypothesis is that music is showing off. That's what it is.
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And the best music, a hit song, is showing off the most. In other words, it's showing a genetic
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talent that you would want to mate with. It's not an accident that people want to mate with Mick Jagger.
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Right? Because when you watch Mick Jagger, even at his current age, you watch him do his thing on stage
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and you are completely certain that you couldn't do that. And you're pretty certain that nobody you've
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ever met could do that. What Mick Jagger does on stage. And so you say to yourself, he's got an extra
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gear. There's something genetically blessed about this person. And so you automatically want to mate
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with them. Guys want to compete with them, want to be them. And that music is really, really about
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activating your reproductive system. But you never are conscious of it. Right? So here's the part you
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would have to accept to think that the hypothesis has any value. That you are never conscious
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of the fact that music is all about your reproductive instinct. That's it. Same with art. Here's a
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mental experiment. Imagine if the works of Rembrandt had never been created. So let's say there had
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never been an actual Rembrandt human being. Nobody ever made Rembrandt's paintings. But then AI comes
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along and you say, hey, AI, make me some great paintings. And somehow the AI produces the exact work
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of Rembrandt. But in this mind experiment, the real Rembrandt never existed. Just his work is
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reproduced by AI. Would it be valuable? Right? The real Rembrandt's work is worth, you know, many
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millions of dollars. If the exact thing had been produced by AI, but had never been produced by
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any human before, would it be worth millions? No, it's exact value would be zero. It would actually
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be zero. How's my hypothesis sound now? About when I started, you were completely rejecting it,
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weren't you? Like the first few sentences, you're like, no, no, nope, nope, nope. AI music is going to
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be better than humans. It will be technically better. Technically it will be. But if you know
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that it's made by a computer, you will get bored with it quickly because its qualities are not
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anything that will stimulate you because you can't reproduce with the computer. What do you think?
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Your comments changed as I went because I feel like some of you got a little bit persuaded.
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But like I said, it's not a prediction. Don't confuse this with a prediction. It's a hypothesis. In
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other words, we'll be able to test it pretty quickly. I would argue that I already tested it.
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When I asked you about the Rembrandt, that was the test. If you had said, my God, yes,
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those Rembrandts are so amazing. If an AI produced them, I would like them just as much and pay just
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as much for them. No, you wouldn't. Your value you put on the art is entirely tied up with the fact
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that a human made it. Take that away and it doesn't have any value at all. So I think I've proven it
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just by that example because you would all come to the same conclusion, I think. You wouldn't pay for
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an AI Rembrandt. I know that. Now I'm going to take it a little bit further into the real world.
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When I became a cartoonist, there was an insight that I had that I executed during my career.
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And the insight was that the audience can't separate the cartoonist from the cartoon.
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That was my insight. And that they needed to know who I was in order to fully enjoy the cartoon.
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So when Dilbert was about the workplace, the reason it became famous is not because the jokes
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were good and the people liked the workplace. Do you know why Dilbert became famous?
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Because I was in the workplace. So the story wasn't, oh my God, this is a good comic.
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You know, I like to think sometimes people laughed at it. But the story was that I was doing something
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dangerous by working for a big company while mocking a big company and wasn't I going to get
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fired at any minute. And do you know what that did? It triggered people's reproductive instincts.
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Because I was doing something you couldn't or wouldn't do. You couldn't or wouldn't make a comic
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that would get you in trouble. You'd be afraid. So I was taking a risk, but I wasn't afraid.
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Indeed, I ended up being nearly fired and eventually fired. So it wasn't an imaginary risk. And people
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could sense it was a real risk. And people could sense that I was taking on the biggest powers in
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the world. Because if I got banned from one company, I probably would have trouble getting a job at another
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one. It looked like a really dangerous thing to be doing. And I think that triggers people's
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reproductive instincts, male and female. Not that the men wanted to mate with me, but they were
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identifying with it. Like, oh, shit, that's brave. When I got canceled, why did I get canceled?
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It's because the audience does not separate the artist from the art. That's a real clear example of
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that. So as soon as the artist says something they didn't like, they didn't like the art anymore.
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In fact, I heard this exact opinion. I heard somebody talk about somebody they knew, who said
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they used to like my comic, but when they found out about my political opinions, they couldn't read
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my comic anymore. See? That same phenomenon is going to come to art of all types. If you know who the
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artist is, or at least that it's a human, it makes you see the art different. As soon as you take the
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human out of it, the art has no real value except for pretty picture. Its economic value will be near
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zero. All right. Didn't see that coming, did you? All right, here's another one maybe you didn't see
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coming. I told you that in Finland, briefly, the price of electricity dropped below zero,
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theoretically, not actually below zero. But in theory, it was free for a while. And that's because
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there was more supply than demand. And that was largely because they'd opened up a nuclear site
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recently, and they had a lot of electricity. But apparently that effect is all of Europe right now.
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So at the moment, the price of electricity in much of Europe, or most of it actually, is zero.
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And it's because of nuclear energy, primarily, primarily nuclear energy. So there you go. If you
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wondered, is there any way to, you know, get to this future where we got all electric cars and
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no climate change? Yes. Yes, there is. It's a very clear path now.
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All right. As you know, I have not been reporting on or talking about too much this
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debt ceiling issue where the Congress has to decide on a budget or else the country defaults on its debts.
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We all die. Now, the reason is because I always thought it was fake.
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The dynamic of these negotiations are both sides are looking at the polls. And if the polls say
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you would benefit by holding up the process, then you do. But I heard that the polls are reversed.
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And now the Republicans look like they would come out ahead if the government closes and we default on debt.
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So the Republicans don't have a reason to compromise because the poll is currently showing that they
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would gain. The Democrats, if they're looking at the same poll information, are knowing that they
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would lose and they would be blamed for whatever happens if we don't reach a deal. So that pretty
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much guarantees it will be a deal because we're all operating in self-interest. But the reason I don't
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report on it is that it's all fake news until the last minute. The only thing that counted at all
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was the last minute. So if it's a month before the deadline and the news is telling you, oh, here's a big
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story, it's not. That's not a story. There isn't any possibility they would have agreed a month in advance
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because a month in advance, the polls are not reliable. They have to make sure that just before
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they execute, at least one side, you know, or actually both sides, know which way things are
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going to go if they don't make a deal. That's how you get a deal. So it was never a real story until
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the last 60 seconds. And maybe that's not even real. Because I got a feeling if you miss it by two days,
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the stock market takes a dump for two days and then comes right back. That's what I think.
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So I believe that this is an example of the news making something out of nothing. Not that there's
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no risk. There is. But if you were to rank that risk with all the other risks in the world, it wouldn't
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be a top 50, in my opinion. So that's sort of a semi-fake news to keep an eye on.
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If stops, what would you do if, let's say we missed the deadline and stocks go down 19%.
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I'm just picking a number. Stocks go down 19% because we missed the deadline by a day.
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What do you do? Do you sell all your stocks? Or do you buy like a motherfucker?
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All right. I'm not going to give you any financial advice. This is not financial advice.
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But historically, historically, the very best time to buy stock is when all the stocks went down for a
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bullshit reason. Now, I consider the pandemic a bullshit reason, meaning that it was a near certainty
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that we would get through it and that stocks would go up. You know, we'd recover. Because even if it was
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bad and a lot of people died, the people dying were not the people producing economic activity. The
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people dying were the exact people who were expensive. I hate to say that because they're
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human beings. But in terms of just the cold, hard cash of economics, it was obvious to me that if we
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didn't die from a supply chain problem, which I thought we could handle and we did, the things
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would go back. And sure enough, they did. So there aren't that many situations where you have a
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really obvious reason for the stocks being temporarily lower. But this would be one.
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One. This would be one. In my opinion, since we wouldn't be unable to pay, we would simply be
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disorganized and miss a deadline. I'd be a buyer. But I don't recommend that you follow my advice on
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stocks because I do not have a Warren Buffett track record. If I had a Warren Buffett track record,
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you should definitely listen to me. I do not. So don't. All right. Let's talk about target.
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So there was some murkiness on the question of whether target had intentionally targeted youth
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with their talk-friendly LGBTQ trans clothing line. And one report was, well, it's not what you think.
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And I said this on the live stream. I said, it's not what you think because they simply don't have
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children's sizes anymore. They just have small sizes and there are small adults.
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So they're not directly targeting children. But it is true that these are sizes children would wear.
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So then I saw a video of a woman go into target to actually point to the stuff. Oh, boy, was I wrong.
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Oh, man. Now, I like to take the position first of assuming innocence. So I was giving target the
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benefit of a doubt. I assumed innocence. I assumed that maybe they just got caught in a situation where
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it looked exactly like they were targeting young people, but maybe it was just a misimpression.
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And then I saw the display of an actual target store. Nope. Nope. Those are targeted at children.
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Yep. Absolutely targeted at children. No doubt about it.
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And if you want a little background on it, Twitter user Jewel Adora confirms that he has a lot of
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experience in the stores and that they have a, what's it called, a planogram or something.
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So corporate offices tell you where all your displays are supposed to be relative to the other displays.
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So there's like a map of where you put everything. That doesn't come from the local store manager.
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That comes from headquarters. So the way these things were displayed were, you know, adjacent to the
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children's sections. And they had children sizes.
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And the clothing looked like it was aimed at children. And there were some gingerbread things and
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some other kids things that are, you know, very much LGBTQ oriented. Now, in case there are any
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people who are not regulars to my live stream, I'm very much pro LGBTQ. So my, my ongoing, you know,
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belief of how things should be is that all adults should be able to do whatever they want as long
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as they're not bothering me. And LGBTQ is just more of that. I have no special feeling except that
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there are individuals doing what individuals can do. So good for them. But when we're talking about
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minors, all, all those rules are gone. Do we agree? No disagreement, right? If you're talking about
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minors, all of the adult rules don't apply. So as long as we agree with that, we're, we're in good
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shape on agreement, right? Why don't they apply? I'm not even going to explain that.
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They're, they have incomplete brains. Those are, I mean, there's nothing else to explain.
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So if you're, if you're raising kids for the benefit of the children, you make the decisions
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for them until their brains are ready to do it on their nose. That's the whole process. So
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I think it's so simulation-like that the store that's being targeted is literally called Target.
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They're actually a target. I mean, that's a little too on the nose, isn't it? It's like the simulation
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is just screaming at you. I swear, it's really a simulation. None of this is real. I feel like
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it's just screaming my, I get, I get it. I get it. The Target is the Target store. I get it.
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All right. Two on the nose. All right. Um, so it looks like Target's in trouble. Um, I did notice
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that some of the Southern stores decided to respond by moving the LGBTQ display to the back of the store
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so they could kind of hide it during Pride Month. I'll just say that again, so I don't have to explain
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the joke. They're actually going to hide the LGBTQ display during Pride Month.
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Do I have to complete it? That's actually what's happening. Now, I oppose that. I oppose that.
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Because that's just fucked up. Because that's fucked up to the adults. Because I think Target has
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every, every right, and I would say even responsibility to, you know, uh, satisfy adults
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of all types. I feel like that's part of their mission. And there are certainly enough LGBTQ customers
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to merit their own, you know, section of clothes for adults. But if you're going to take the adult
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stuff and put it in the back of the shop during Pride Month, you got some explaining to do.
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You got a little explaining to do. This is the most, uh, hilarious corporate fuck-up I've seen since
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Bud Light. You know, I've noticed that there's an overall competence problem happening everywhere.
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Maybe it's confirmation bias. But it feels like something fundamental is happening
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everywhere, from government to business. Have you tried to get, uh, tech support from any company
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lately? It's almost not a thing. It's almost non-existent. It's just like they put idiots in
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all those jobs. And that didn't used to be the case. I used to be able to get, you know, with a little
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work, you could get help from anybody. Now it's just, it feels like it's totally broken. So, uh,
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the bigger story here is the massive incompetence of, uh, Anheuser-Busch and Target,
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almost independent of the fact that it's about LGBTQ. It's just, it was horribly managed. It just
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feels like none of this was hard to do and they still got it wrong. And now the LA Dodgers,
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they've got a problem too. So there's definitely a new force in the world, which is the, um,
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uh, I think, I think conservatives have figured out how much power they have. Or they've decided to
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use it. Maybe that's the better way. I guess they always knew. But Republicans have decided to
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actively use their power. And I don't think they had before. I think it was mostly just complaining.
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But now, but now if you do something that is deeply offensive to that part of the country,
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they're going to make you pay. And probably that's the only thing that can get things back to some
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kind of balance. Because we're way out of balance at the moment. All right. Yeah. North Face.
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North Face has some, some, uh, issues. All right. I saw, uh, um, Jordan Peterson was tweeting
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that the research is adding up, um, that the people who are left-wing authoritarians.
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So authoritarians is important to the left-wing part. So we're not talking about just Democrats,
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right? So this is not about ordinary Democrats. It's about the left-wing authoritarian types of
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which we know exist. But apparently the research is showing that these are not political people.
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that it's not about politics. They actually just want to break shit because they're narcissists.
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They're just narcissists. They're actually just, uh, it's a mental illness. So although narcissism,
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I think they call a personality something, that's not a mental illness, but it really is. Um, yeah.
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So they're narcissists. So I've been saying this for a while. There's some brand of politics on the
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far left as well as the far right that should not be treated as politics. It's clearly mental illness
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in both directions. But it's just, you know, the little, the little stripe at the end.
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The people in the middle are largely almost normal, no matter what their opinion is.
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Oh, and, uh, apparently there's another issue with Target that Elon Musk has weighed in on. And, uh,
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Target is being accused of funding something, a group called GLSEN, which calls for gender ideology
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to be integrated into all classes, even math. Now, this is a Fox News report. Now, do you believe
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that Target is funding a group who is promoting gender ideology in all classes, including math?
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Well, Community Notes seems to think it's true. Apparently it's true. And Elon Musk tweeted this and said,
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is this true? Because it's almost too hard to believe, isn't it? It's almost too hard to believe.
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And so far it looks true. So Target's got some work to do. All right. Here's the scariest thing you're
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going to hear today. And the reason I couldn't describe the content of my show today.
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Um, we're going to go out on a limb a little bit here. As you know, I like to do. How would you know
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if your country had already been taken over and you were no longer a democratic republic? How would you
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know? Because it's the same question with AI, right? What if AI has already taken over? Would you know?
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So I would propose, let's forget about AI for a moment. Um, how would you know if our country was no
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longer a democratic republic and really there was just a cabal of important people who were deciding
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everything? How would you know? Well, I would suggest the following test. The test that people are in
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power and were no longer, you know, run by the people, so to speak, is that the people in power,
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could commit a crime in public and get away with it in public. You could all see it. Just everybody
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can see it. And there would be no consequences. And the second way, the second way is related.
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The second way is if the people they don't like, the people on the other side, can be observed not
00:29:26.960
committing a crime and then be successfully convicted for it. They can be proven to not be doing a crime
00:29:34.880
right in front of you. You can see it with your own eyes and your common sense. And yet they would be
00:29:40.720
prosecuted. We have, we have both of those situations. So here's an example of obvious real crimes
00:29:50.960
that somebody should go to jail for that we all know our crimes. It's been confirmed and nothing's
00:29:57.920
going to happen. So there's a hunter's laptop, the Russia collusion. Now we know from the whistleblower,
00:30:04.880
there's slow walking of the hunter investigation, which clearly that's a crime to just ignore it.
00:30:11.360
The entire Biden family crime enterprise of, you know, money from other countries, that's all confirmed
00:30:22.000
stuff. You don't have to wonder. We know it now. Black Lives Matter, of course, turned out to be a fake
00:30:31.400
organization. Good point they were making, but a fake organization. Antifa seems to be completely fake,
00:30:39.040
you know, because they disappeared as soon as the politics no longer needed them. So these things are
00:30:45.280
obvious to the public. It's obvious that these are, you know, manipulated by the people in charge.
00:30:51.920
And they can primarily do it because they control the legacy media. And as I've described, the legacy
00:30:58.480
media's purpose is to prevent you from knowing what your government is doing. It's not the news.
00:31:05.560
I don't know if they ever were. I really don't know if they ever were. But it's very clear at the
00:31:11.720
moment, and we've seen example after example after example, where the legacy news is in the business,
00:31:18.120
primarily in the business, of preventing you from knowing what the government is doing.
00:31:22.700
Now, I see exactly zero pushback on that reframing. That's exactly what you see, isn't it? There's
00:31:33.600
nobody who disagrees. Their entire job is to prevent you from knowing the news. And they do a good job.
00:31:40.300
You know, the Rasmussen poll showed that very clearly. The Democrats are actually unaware
00:31:45.400
of the biggest stories in politics. They're actually unaware. So they do a good job.
00:31:51.360
But what about, so those are crimes that one side is doing that are completely unpunished. But then
00:32:00.340
you have the other side, where people who clearly did not commit a crime are being punished or over
00:32:06.520
punished for small things. Yes. January 6. Now, not to dismiss the fact that there were some real bad
00:32:14.560
people who actually did have bad intentions. I don't care if they get, you know, prosecuted.
00:32:20.140
But I think every reasonable person can see that most of the protesters were just exercising free
00:32:27.820
speech. And they're in jail. Would that have happened if the parties had been reversed? No. No.
00:32:36.740
That would not have happened if the parties had been reversed.
00:32:38.760
How about Tucker Carlson being kicked off of Fox News? Doesn't it look like he got punished for
00:32:49.460
nothing? Am I wrong? Tucker Carlson got punished for exactly nothing. Exactly nothing. I don't even
00:32:58.340
think there was anything really even alleged. At least nothing new. I mean, everybody alleges
00:33:06.020
that everybody's telling fake news. How about Daniel Penny? Is it Penny, the guy who did the,
00:33:17.300
who accidentally, it looks like, killed the Michael Jackson impersonator? Doesn't that look to you like it's
00:33:23.860
obvious he's not guilty of anything? It's just obvious. But he will be punished. In all likelihood.
00:33:30.420
I mean, I hope he's not. How about Republicans being hunted? Just in general? Do you think Republicans
00:33:39.700
are being hunted right in front of you? And it's just obvious? Yes. Looks pretty obvious to me.
00:33:45.540
All right. So, but here's the one that I feel like was the canary in the coal mine. And I had to wait a
00:33:54.020
while and get canceled before I could say this full-throatedly and out loud. And I'm going to come at it
00:34:02.580
indirectly. You know that there are a lot of people who are in the business of killing people, like bad
00:34:08.980
people. Murderers, right? A lot of people want to kill people. And also spies like to kill people
00:34:15.780
without leaving a trace. You know, I was talking about that alleged CIA heart attack gun. You know,
00:34:23.140
a gun that would give somebody a heart attack and then the poison would, you know, dissolve and then
00:34:28.180
the dart would dissolve. And basically, we know there's a market for killing people without leaving a trace.
00:34:36.100
Would you agree that there's a market for that? If it's only the CIA, it's a market, right? If it's
00:34:43.540
only Putin, it's a market. Somebody wants that service. Have you ever heard of anybody killing
00:34:49.620
somebody without leaving a trace by holding them on their stomach and then having a five-foot-eight man
00:34:57.860
who weighs 140 pounds use one knee on his back until he's dead? Because you, apparently, we're told by the
00:35:08.260
legacy media, the legacy media has told us that you can kill, that a five-foot-eight man who weighs,
00:35:14.820
I don't know, 150 pounds, whatever he was, can kill, how big was Floyd? Six foot four? He was a big guy,
00:35:21.540
right? Do you know his actual height? I believe he was like six-two or four? Not eight, but he was a big guy.
00:35:33.060
No, he wasn't six-eight. He couldn't have been six-eight. He was over six, right? So he was a big guy.
00:35:39.220
Now, we're told from the coroner that there was no evidence on his neck of damage. I don't believe
00:35:50.900
there was any evidence of like a bruise on his back where the knee was. I don't believe his lungs
00:35:58.020
showed any sign of compression. So am I wrong that it's the perfect murder?
00:36:04.340
Is it the perfect murder? Because there would be no drugs in his body. There would be no external trauma.
00:36:15.940
And even if you were to like, I don't know, put a pillow over somebody's head, I think it would leave some kind of
00:36:23.460
some kind of trace. But you could just hold somebody in the ground. It might take, you know, three people
00:36:29.380
to hold their arms and just lightly put your knee on them. You don't even need to use both
00:36:34.260
knees. Apparently, you can have one knee on the ground and one knee sort of slightly pushing down,
00:36:41.380
and he'll die in five minutes, according to the legacy media. How many of you believe that?
00:36:50.740
I'll tell you what I saw. What my eyes told me I was seeing was no murder at all and obviously an
00:36:58.100
overdose death. To me, it was obvious. And so the legacy media managed to tell me that what I saw didn't happen.
00:37:06.900
What I actually watched with my own eyes never really happened.
00:37:14.660
Now, if the coroner report had come up with some physical damage, such as, you know, the muscles of the neck were
00:37:22.340
damaged, etc., then I would say, oh, okay, well, maybe the video is not as clear as it could be.
00:37:29.940
Video can lie. We know that. So therefore, you know, maybe I'm wrong. But if the coroner comes up with no
00:37:38.580
physical damage whatsoever, and then you see something that looks like nobody killing anybody,
00:37:44.820
and just casually talking to the witnesses who were filming it, do you think a cop killed somebody while people were filming it?
00:37:52.100
Casually? Just casually killed them while people were filming? No, that was never even slightly,
00:38:00.260
slightly possible. And we've been asked to believe this complete ridiculousness.
00:38:06.100
At the very least, it should have been a benefit of a doubt. Am I right? How they got 12 people to say, oh,
00:38:14.100
he definitely killed that guy? I don't know. I don't know how they got 12 people. It had to be peer pressure.
00:38:21.540
It had to be people thinking they would be killed if they voted any other way. So to me, that was the signal
00:38:28.180
that whoever's in charge can literally tell us anything. Because we won't believe our eyes,
00:38:35.700
and we won't even believe our common sense. So then we get this election that everybody questions.
00:38:44.660
We get an election that everybody questions. Not everybody, but a lot of people question.
00:38:49.140
And it was exactly like the, you know, when Hillary won in 2016, and all the Democrats said, hey,
00:38:57.380
that election was rigged. And everybody said, yeah, complain, complain, and life went on. But when the
00:39:03.620
reverse happened, it became an insurrection and a revolution. Now, of course, the Capitol was
00:39:13.700
protested, and there were some dangerous people there. So there was something they could work with,
00:39:18.180
right? There was a factual basis that they could do some hyperbole on and extend it to the rest of
00:39:23.620
the people. But we're in such a dark situation here. All the evidence suggests we're no longer
00:39:33.460
governed by anything like we think. It just appears that the people who have some kind of power over
00:39:41.540
the media are just making us believe anything they want. All right.
00:39:51.780
According to Rasmussen poll, 59% of the people they polled say the media is truly the enemy of the
00:39:56.980
people. 44% of Democrats agree that the media is the enemy of the people. However,
00:40:04.580
if you're saying to yourself, wow, they're agreeing with you, because you think it, right? So now you're
00:40:13.060
thinking, oh, wow, they agree with me. No, they don't. No, they don't. They think Fox News and
00:40:18.820
Breitbart are the problem. They don't think their media is the problem. Do you think this 44% of
00:40:25.300
the Democrats think that MSNBC is lying to them? No, they don't. No, they don't. They think the media
00:40:32.940
is the enemy of the people, but they're talking about Fox News exclusively. Now, I would imagine
00:40:40.300
that when Republicans say it, they're mostly talking about legacy media, and they have their complaints
00:40:45.880
with Fox News. But they're not really thinking Fox News is the problem, right? They're not thinking
00:40:52.060
Breitbart is the problem. They're thinking it's the legacy media, so-called legacy media.
00:40:59.740
All right. And as others have pointed out, and I saw a tweet from somebody who calls himself
00:41:06.940
Exit the Matrix. And this tweet said, I haven't seen anyone discussing this fact, but just imagine
00:41:14.500
how emboldened they, they being the people we assume are in charge of things, just imagine
00:41:21.460
how emboldened they are now to cheat in the 2024 election after what they've done to the
00:41:27.820
January 6th people, which was a warning, do not complain when they win again. Do you buy that?
00:41:39.040
Do you buy that January 6th was a warning to tell Republicans, you better not complain the
00:41:44.260
next time we rig the election? Well, I cannot confirm or deny, because that would be sort of
00:41:52.020
mind reading. I don't know what other people are thinking. But I do know that the effect of it
00:41:57.880
is a chilling effect on the next potential protest. It does, in fact, create a situation where the
00:42:06.640
Democrats could cheat right in front of you, get caught, and there would be no consequences.
00:42:13.940
The election would not be reversed. And even if the Supreme Court ruled, I think they'd just
00:42:19.580
ignore it. I think we've gotten to the point where they have so much control over the narrative
00:42:24.980
and the levers of power that they can do anything they want right in front of you.
00:42:31.080
Consider Russia. Putin is allegedly killing his enemies in plain sight. Do you think the Russians
00:42:43.920
are aware of that? Do you think they know he's killing people, his critics? Probably. But
00:42:50.780
he can do it anyway. Do you know why he can do it anyway? Because he doesn't exist in a democratic
00:42:57.280
republic. He can do any crime right in front of you, and his public will say, I don't know,
00:43:04.140
they told us it wasn't a crime, and I still have a job, so I'm happy. Yeah. So there's something
00:43:10.600
going on in the United States that's very Putin-like and very CCP-like, you know, Chinese government.
00:43:18.920
For some reason, we've got to the point where the Democrats can do massive crime right in front
00:43:25.280
of the public, and there's no repercussions. Only Putin and Xi can do that. I don't think
00:43:31.400
even America you could do that before. This feels new. So it does feel like there's something
00:43:38.580
going on here that's pretty important. All right. Vivek Ramaswamy is updating us on his situation
00:43:47.700
where he got banned on LinkedIn for allegedly some fake information. But he asked them,
00:43:57.460
can you give me an example of what I said that would be wrong or non-factual? And they backed
00:44:04.880
up to, oh, it was a mistake. Oh, just a human error. No, no, we never meant to ban you for
00:44:12.080
that material that we first told you was fake. Oh, just an error. Yeah, you're welcome to come
00:44:19.600
right back on. And yeah, Microsoft owns LinkedIn, in case you wondered. So how much do you trust
00:44:28.960
about that story? Nothing. All right. Can you give me a fact check on this? So this is more
00:44:37.740
to my theme that the Democrats can commit massive crimes right in front of you. I need a fact check
00:44:45.840
on this. Has any high-ranking Republican with security clearance, because there are people with
00:44:53.860
top security clearance in Congress, have any of them seen the documents that are allegedly these
00:45:00.300
sensitive documents that came in at Mar-a-Lago? And if not, why not? Wouldn't it be a simple matter
00:45:07.800
to put them in the schiff? Skiff, not schiff. Put them in a skiff? Can't you put them someplace and
00:45:15.840
have the Republicans come in and look at them and then characterize them? Because we don't, you know,
00:45:21.360
the public doesn't want to know the details, but I'd like them characterized. I would like somebody to
00:45:26.780
say, okay, we looked at them, and to be honest, some of these are troubling. Wouldn't you like to
00:45:32.520
know that? Wouldn't you like to know if Trump took something, kept it in a cardboard box at Mar-a-Lago,
00:45:39.360
and it was actually a problem? I would definitely like to know that. And I believe,
00:45:48.180
well, I'm going to go out on a limb. There does seem to be a difference between Democrats and
00:45:53.500
Republicans in Congress. And Republicans seem to be, you know, they'll exaggerate a little bit,
00:46:02.440
and maybe sometimes they'll believe a conspiracy theory that they shouldn't. And, you know,
00:46:07.240
there's a certain quality to how Republicans are wrong that's different than when Democrats are wrong.
00:46:15.120
It appears that they're lying intentionally. It seems very different. Republicans can be wrong
00:46:21.300
or it can be weasels sometimes. But I feel like the Democrats would be like Schiff. They would walk
00:46:28.940
in and look at something that was innocent, and then walk out and tell you he saw something that
00:46:33.360
was terrible. I don't think Republicans do that. I believe if Republicans went in there, let's just
00:46:40.880
pick any Republican, somebody with lots of security, let's say Rubio, does he still have top clearance?
00:46:47.600
Does Rubio have top clearance? Right? So imagine Rubio goes in there. He sees the actual documents.
00:46:55.760
Do you think that if some of them were actually really sensitive, top secret, do you think he'd lie
00:47:00.900
to you? Because he wants a Republican to win the presidency? I actually don't think he would. I
00:47:08.640
actually don't think he would. I think he would say, you know, honestly, this is something the courts are
00:47:14.440
going to have to handle because I was hoping they would all look innocent, but I'm not so sure they
00:47:19.840
are innocent. You know, based on what I looked at, I've got a problem with them. And, you know, I'm not
00:47:26.620
the one to solve it. That might be the courts or whatever. But there is something here. I think
00:47:32.540
Rubio would say that. And I'm not, you know, pro or anti Marco Rubio. I'm just saying that, yeah,
00:47:39.080
Rand Paul. Rand Paul. Does Rand Paul have top clearance? Top security clearance? Actually,
00:47:47.600
what I love, I'd love to pick our champion. That's what I'd like to do. I'd like to pick the champion,
00:47:53.640
so to speak, the Republican that you would believe no matter what they say. If you were going to pick
00:48:01.440
somebody that you knew would tell you the truth, Rand Paul would be a good choice. I would believe
00:48:08.940
him. You know, Thomas Massey. Do you believe there's any chance that Thomas Massey would lie
00:48:17.320
to you after he went into Skiff? I don't know if he has the clearance. But do you think there's any
00:48:22.840
chance he would lie to you about what he felt? I think zero. Absolutely zero. He absolutely would
00:48:30.100
not lie on that or anything else as far as I know. I mean, he has, he's got a really clean
00:48:37.060
record of telling the truth. Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz, same thing. We assume that Ted Cruz wants Trump or at
00:48:46.120
least a Republican to win. Yeah, he would tell the truth. Jim Jordan is a little bit more political.
00:48:53.880
He wouldn't be my, Mitt Romney. There you go. Mitt Romney. That's a very good choice. Because
00:49:03.440
you know Mitt Romney is not going to be in the pocket for Trump. But he's also not going to lie
00:49:09.440
about this. He would not lie to hurt Trump about this. Because this would be a lie that everybody
00:49:14.960
would someday find out is true or not, right? You'd probably get caught for lying in that. I think
00:49:21.340
that the Republicans are in an interesting situation, that you could pick several Republicans
00:49:27.380
that no matter what they said, you would actually believe them. And I don't know if there are any,
00:49:33.820
can you name a Democrat that would fit that bill? That if they saw something and said so,
00:49:39.300
you would believe them? There probably are. I'll bet there are. Yeah. Tom Cotton. Oh, Tulsi? Yeah.
00:49:47.160
Robert Kennedy. Robert Kennedy. Yes. RFK Jr. Yeah. RFK Jr. For sure. But he's not in the government.
00:49:55.320
Manchin. You know, Manchin's a tough one. Because I do feel like he's influenced by the coal business.
00:50:05.460
So you can feel the influence of industry on him. You know what I mean? Whereas if you look
00:50:17.360
at something like Thomas Massey, you don't see any influence of industry. It looks like his
00:50:23.980
own opinions. All right. Moving on. Turley. Jonathan Turley has an interesting
00:50:35.280
article. I think it was in the Hill on reparations. So California, you know, went first with the
00:50:40.800
reparations committee and came up with some absurd number that will never happen. And then Governor
00:50:46.880
Newsom said, well, go back to the drawing board or we'll think about it or delayed them somehow.
00:50:51.980
But other states are doing the same thing. So this whole reparations thing, because it looked like
00:50:58.600
it might actually happen in California. So it's starting to pop up in other states. And Turley
00:51:05.860
has, I think, exactly the same opinion on this as I do. They're never going to get reparations.
00:51:13.040
The Democrats actually got the black American supporters all worked up for something that they
00:51:20.340
can't possibly deliver. And I think the Republicans could totally take advantage of that. The fact that
00:51:27.180
that the Democrats lied to the black Americans about reparations. And you know it was a lie. Of course
00:51:33.480
it was a lie. They never planned to do that. All right. Well, DeSantis is running to the right of
00:51:41.560
Trump. But here's how you need to understand that. DeSantis is running for the nomination. And Trump is
00:51:50.720
running to win the presidency. So that makes sense. So Trump's acting a little bit more in the middle
00:51:57.880
of the road because he feels he's already got the nomination. He's already in the general election.
00:52:03.180
And that would be the right place to be. Because he doesn't want to later have to change his views.
00:52:08.740
So Trump's finding, you know, kind of a reasonable, not too extreme position. And DeSantis is trying to
00:52:17.040
find like a little bit of space to the right of him, which is sort of a hard job. But one of the
00:52:23.340
things DeSantis wants to do is get rid of that jail reform thing that Jared did, where people could
00:52:32.660
get out early if they learned a skill or they do something like that. And he just wants to get rid
00:52:39.960
of it and keep him in jail. Now, I think that's too early. To me, it seems you got to let that
00:52:47.460
experiment run a few years and see if the people who got out of jail, you know, recommitted crimes
00:52:53.180
at a rate that would be alarming. So I'm not sure that that's, I don't think he's basing this on data.
00:53:02.800
This one seems purely political to me, just because it's different from what Trump did.
00:53:07.100
And it's a way to show that he's on the right. And I would go further and say that if he won the
00:53:12.360
presidency, I don't think he would change it. Because it would be too unpopular. So that looks
00:53:18.720
like a primary kind of thing you say, not a general election kind of thing to say.
00:53:27.560
Is that conflating the criminals released? No, he's not conflating the jail reform thing with
00:53:33.960
the DA is releasing people. But has anybody heard any updates on whether that early release
00:53:44.360
stuff that Jared and Trump did, is it working? Has anybody heard whether that's a disaster
00:53:52.140
or people getting out early and then recommitting crimes?
00:53:55.600
Surdovich says it's not working. But do we have an actual study or just some anecdotes?
00:54:01.680
Actually, it wouldn't take that many anecdotes to tell you it wasn't working.
00:54:16.940
I would say that it might be premature. But even if it didn't work, I would call it
00:54:28.540
a success. So we know we have a problem with too many people in jail. So if somebody tried
00:54:38.040
something that sounds good on paper, it was hard to execute to get it done, they tried it,
00:54:44.020
they legitimately tried it, and it didn't work, I would call that a smart. I mean, yeah, I don't
00:54:56.380
Does Santa's voted for the First Step Act? Well, I think that it would be perfectly consistent
00:55:02.780
for Republicans to vote in the First Step Act, let it run a few years, and then see if it worked.
00:55:11.080
I mean, you'd have to see that as an experiment, wouldn't you? Because we've never done it
00:55:15.840
before. So if the experiment works, you do more of it. If it doesn't work, you stop doing
00:55:20.340
it or you modify it. So there's nothing I don't like about that. Even if it failed, that's what
00:55:27.840
I want to see. I want to see exactly that, more of that. All right. What program have they
00:55:38.360
ever stopped once started? All right, that's a good question. COVID payments? Special case.
00:55:48.360
All right. That's all I got for today. YouTube, I'm going to say bye. I hope this was as provocative
00:55:59.180
as you hoped it would be. Modern education predicted. Okay. Any other questions from you?
00:56:09.180
Yeah, Neuralink. Neuralink. You know, I've been noodling with the idea that for some types
00:56:19.800
of criminals, the nonviolent ones, that maybe instead of going to prison, they should lose
00:56:25.280
their privacy. What do you think of that? Imagine if you were a repeat criminal and instead of putting
00:56:34.220
you in jail forever, they say, look, we're just going to put a monitor on your ankle and we're
00:56:40.140
going to let everybody know where you are and what crimes you've committed. Imagine if you would
00:56:46.520
get that your phone gives you an alert and you find out that somebody who's committed 700 crimes
00:56:54.740
just walked into the store behind you. Get the fuck out. Just get out of that store right
00:57:02.080
away. So it might be that privacy and freedom are almost the Venn diagrams overlap a lot. Because
00:57:13.800
imagine having freedom with no privacy. Would that be freedom? Freedom with no privacy. It would be
00:57:22.640
like not freedom, wouldn't it? And so we take their freedom away if they commit a crime, but maybe you
00:57:30.900
can get to something like it by taking their privacy away. Right? Now, only if they've committed a crime or
00:57:39.480
they keep committing crimes, you know, a very specific case, you wouldn't want that for everybody.
00:57:44.120
But there just might be some way to, you know, alert everybody around them all the time. Right?
00:57:54.700
Something like that. Yeah, it'd be worth trying. And maybe only for a certain class of crimes.
00:58:00.340
Take, for example, somebody had been convicted of burglary 50 times. All right? They've burglarized a
00:58:08.500
home 50 times. But you can tell where they are now all the time. And you look at them and
00:58:15.480
beep, beep, beep. This criminal has just entered your home. You're not home. But it just said
00:58:23.280
he's in your home. Right? So you could basically weaponize the public by making sure we always
00:58:30.340
knew who the criminals were and specifically what crimes they'd committed. Because people
00:58:34.700
like to do the same crimes over and over. Isn't it worth trying? I mean, if you're not
00:58:41.420
going to put them in jail, I suppose jail might be first choice for a lot of stuff. Yeah.
00:58:48.560
Now, I would make an exception for, you know, violent crimes. Violent crimes, maybe jail is
00:58:53.420
the only solution. But for, let's say, robbery and vandalism and a lot of stuff, I just want
00:58:58.960
to see them coming. If I see them coming, I can make my own decisions how to stay safe.
00:59:12.000
Imagine if you owned a store and you knew that somebody came in and had been convicted
00:59:18.180
of shoplifting 15 times. You'd follow them around. You would just stand right next to them
00:59:26.380
the whole time they were shopping. And it shouldn't be illegal. It should definitely
00:59:31.140
not be illegal to stand wherever you want in your own store and watch anybody you want
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in your own store. So, you know, you wouldn't watch them on the camera. You'd just follow
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them around the aisle. Say, hey, I understand you've shoplifted 15 times, so we're going to
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keep an eye on you. But you're welcome to shop here. Yeah, I suppose you could get people
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falsely accused of stuff. That's always a problem. All right. Well, I'll just throw that idea
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out there because the other ideas are not working. So, YouTube, thanks for coming. See