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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of your entire life and civilization

00:00:12.900 itself. And believe me, if I could tell you what this show was about in advance without

00:00:18.180 getting banned, I probably would have. You see, I'm just getting your interest up here.

00:00:24.520 Oh, wow. I was laughing about something before I came on, and maybe I'll tell you, maybe

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00:00:58.960 All right. Well, I was just laughing uncontrollably a minute ago, because I saw one of the memes

00:01:11.600 on the Locals platform. Now, I don't know if the meme is based on a real story, but I'm

00:01:18.480 going to choose to believe it's real, because it's funny. And the story was that some researchers

00:01:26.160 were studying what the brain scan of women looked like while they were having orgasms. 0.98

00:01:33.020 So they invited five women in to masturbate while they were in the MRI. Now, that's not 0.95

00:01:41.180 really the story, because they got a nice picture of the brain lighting up. The funny part of

00:01:46.000 the story is how they sold this project. How did they get a grant for that?

00:01:51.400 Hey, Bob, I've got a wild idea. What? I think we can get money for bringing women in to masturbate 1.00

00:02:03.460 in front of us, and we'll just put their heads in an MRI and call it science. And the other guy 1.00

00:02:09.140 says, you're never going to get away with that. Now, watch this. And then they put it together,

00:02:15.560 and they get away with it. And then they have to play it off like it's serious the whole

00:02:19.980 time. And they go home to their wives and, well, here I'm being sexist. It could be that

00:02:25.820 it's women who are the scientists, of course. So we can't rule out that possibility. But 0.99

00:02:30.740 it's funnier to imagine it's guys. And they go home at night. So, honey, what are you working

00:02:37.720 on? Oh, we're doing a little some brain scanning stuff, you know. Really? Brain scanning for

00:02:44.460 what? Well, you know, we'd like to see what parts of the brain light up under certain circumstances.

00:02:52.180 Really? What specific circumstances are you studying? Well, here's where it gets a little

00:02:59.360 complicated. I don't know. It was funny to me. But that's not why you're here. You're here

00:03:07.300 for the news. Here's the news. Unfortunately, AI has now succeeded in writing parody.

00:03:16.960 The Twitter account called the Prince of Deep Fakes. I won't tell you who is the Prince of

00:03:24.540 Deep Fakes. Perhaps it's somebody you know. But the Prince of Deep Fakes, not me. It's not me,

00:03:31.180 by the way. But the Prince of Deep Fakes actually wrote a super prompt to create parody news articles.

00:03:41.480 And I'm not going to say they're just as good as the Onion or the Babylon Bee. But they're in the

00:03:47.860 neighborhood. And I did not think this could be done. I didn't think you could get this close.

00:03:54.780 But it could be that parody of news reports is something that's a little more rules-based.

00:04:02.420 You know, that if you've noticed an article in The Bee or the Onion, they're a little formulaic,

00:04:09.960 but it works anyway. You know, a lot of humor is very formulaic. So maybe AI can do better for

00:04:16.980 humor than I thought. But I wouldn't say it's up to the level of the best human humor.

00:04:24.780 But it's surprised me how close it got. All right, I have a hypothesis. This is not a prediction.

00:04:33.380 It's not a prediction. It's a hypothesis. Meaning we'll test it without trying and we'll know whether

00:04:40.400 it's true or not. It goes like this. The AI music will not replace human-made music for at least hit

00:04:50.860 records. It will definitely replace human musicians for advertising and, you know, maybe the background

00:04:58.040 music of a video game, you know, maybe some Muzak in your elevator, stuff like that. So AI will definitely

00:05:06.820 replace the low end of music business. But for the high end, where you're listening to it for pure

00:05:15.840 enjoyment, here's my hypothesis. You ready? Now, first of all, I do agree that AI could match or

00:05:24.800 surpass the skill level of the best human musicians. So this will be the part that doesn't make sense

00:05:32.360 for a second. So I do accept that AI will be better at knowing what people want to hear

00:05:38.840 and then producing it. Better than the best human, eventually. However, here's what my hypothesis

00:05:46.840 speculates. You won't want to listen to it. So here's the weird part. The AI music will absolutely

00:05:57.800 be better on every level that you can determine that things are good. It'll be better than the human

00:06:04.220 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

00:06:12.140 your reproductive instincts. Because my hypothesis is that music is showing off. That's what it is.

00:06:22.460 And the best music, a hit song, is showing off the most. In other words, it's showing a genetic

00:06:29.500 talent that you would want to mate with. It's not an accident that people want to mate with Mick Jagger.

00:06:37.340 Right? Because when you watch Mick Jagger, even at his current age, you watch him do his thing on stage

00:06:43.820 and you are completely certain that you couldn't do that. And you're pretty certain that nobody you've

00:06:52.300 ever met could do that. What Mick Jagger does on stage. And so you say to yourself, he's got an extra

00:06:59.580 gear. There's something genetically blessed about this person. And so you automatically want to mate

00:07:07.020 with them. Guys want to compete with them, want to be them. And that music is really, really about

00:07:14.060 activating your reproductive system. But you never are conscious of it. Right? So here's the part you

00:07:22.380 would have to accept to think that the hypothesis has any value. That you are never conscious

00:07:30.780 of the fact that music is all about your reproductive instinct. That's it. Same with art. Here's a

00:07:38.780 mental experiment. Imagine if the works of Rembrandt had never been created. So let's say there had

00:07:47.580 never been an actual Rembrandt human being. Nobody ever made Rembrandt's paintings. But then AI comes

00:07:54.540 along and you say, hey, AI, make me some great paintings. And somehow the AI produces the exact work

00:08:02.460 of Rembrandt. But in this mind experiment, the real Rembrandt never existed. Just his work is

00:08:09.660 reproduced by AI. Would it be valuable? Right? The real Rembrandt's work is worth, you know, many

00:08:17.900 millions of dollars. If the exact thing had been produced by AI, but had never been produced by

00:08:25.260 any human before, would it be worth millions? No, it's exact value would be zero. It would actually

00:08:32.540 be zero. How's my hypothesis sound now? About when I started, you were completely rejecting it,

00:08:40.780 weren't you? Like the first few sentences, you're like, no, no, nope, nope, nope. AI music is going to

00:08:47.500 be better than humans. It will be technically better. Technically it will be. But if you know

00:08:53.980 that it's made by a computer, you will get bored with it quickly because its qualities are not

00:09:00.860 anything that will stimulate you because you can't reproduce with the computer. What do you think?

00:09:09.420 Your comments changed as I went because I feel like some of you got a little bit persuaded.

00:09:16.140 But like I said, it's not a prediction. Don't confuse this with a prediction. It's a hypothesis. In

00:09:23.020 other words, we'll be able to test it pretty quickly. I would argue that I already tested it.

00:09:28.940 When I asked you about the Rembrandt, that was the test. If you had said, my God, yes,

00:09:34.220 those Rembrandts are so amazing. If an AI produced them, I would like them just as much and pay just

00:09:40.460 as much for them. No, you wouldn't. Your value you put on the art is entirely tied up with the fact

00:09:46.860 that a human made it. Take that away and it doesn't have any value at all. So I think I've proven it

00:09:55.260 just by that example because you would all come to the same conclusion, I think. You wouldn't pay for

00:09:59.740 an AI Rembrandt. I know that. Now I'm going to take it a little bit further into the real world.

00:10:06.780 When I became a cartoonist, there was an insight that I had that I executed during my career.

00:10:16.380 And the insight was that the audience can't separate the cartoonist from the cartoon.

00:10:24.620 That was my insight. And that they needed to know who I was in order to fully enjoy the cartoon.

00:10:30.700 So when Dilbert was about the workplace, the reason it became famous is not because the jokes

00:10:37.820 were good and the people liked the workplace. Do you know why Dilbert became famous?

00:10:43.820 Because I was in the workplace. So the story wasn't, oh my God, this is a good comic.

00:10:50.140 You know, I like to think sometimes people laughed at it. But the story was that I was doing something

00:10:55.340 dangerous by working for a big company while mocking a big company and wasn't I going to get

00:11:01.100 fired at any minute. And do you know what that did? It triggered people's reproductive instincts. 0.97

00:11:09.020 Because I was doing something you couldn't or wouldn't do. You couldn't or wouldn't make a comic

00:11:16.220 that would get you in trouble. You'd be afraid. So I was taking a risk, but I wasn't afraid.

00:11:24.300 Indeed, I ended up being nearly fired and eventually fired. So it wasn't an imaginary risk. And people

00:11:31.740 could sense it was a real risk. And people could sense that I was taking on the biggest powers in

00:11:38.940 the world. Because if I got banned from one company, I probably would have trouble getting a job at another

00:11:45.500 one. It looked like a really dangerous thing to be doing. And I think that triggers people's

00:11:50.860 reproductive instincts, male and female. Not that the men wanted to mate with me, but they were

00:11:56.860 identifying with it. Like, oh, shit, that's brave. When I got canceled, why did I get canceled? 0.99

00:12:05.500 It's because the audience does not separate the artist from the art. That's a real clear example of

00:12:13.180 that. So as soon as the artist says something they didn't like, they didn't like the art anymore.

00:12:18.140 In fact, I heard this exact opinion. I heard somebody talk about somebody they knew, who said

00:12:24.540 they used to like my comic, but when they found out about my political opinions, they couldn't read

00:12:29.660 my comic anymore. See? That same phenomenon is going to come to art of all types. If you know who the

00:12:37.820 artist is, or at least that it's a human, it makes you see the art different. As soon as you take the

00:12:44.060 human out of it, the art has no real value except for pretty picture. Its economic value will be near

00:12:50.860 zero. All right. Didn't see that coming, did you? All right, here's another one maybe you didn't see

00:12:59.980 coming. I told you that in Finland, briefly, the price of electricity dropped below zero,

00:13:06.780 theoretically, not actually below zero. But in theory, it was free for a while. And that's because

00:13:14.380 there was more supply than demand. And that was largely because they'd opened up a nuclear site

00:13:21.100 recently, and they had a lot of electricity. But apparently that effect is all of Europe right now.

00:13:25.980 So at the moment, the price of electricity in much of Europe, or most of it actually, is zero.

00:13:36.860 And it's because of nuclear energy, primarily, primarily nuclear energy. So there you go. If you

00:13:45.900 wondered, is there any way to, you know, get to this future where we got all electric cars and

00:13:51.660 no climate change? Yes. Yes, there is. It's a very clear path now.

00:13:59.580 All right. As you know, I have not been reporting on or talking about too much this

00:14:05.420 debt ceiling issue where the Congress has to decide on a budget or else the country defaults on its debts.

00:14:13.580 We all die. Now, the reason is because I always thought it was fake.

00:14:18.300 The dynamic of these negotiations are both sides are looking at the polls. And if the polls say

00:14:27.420 you would benefit by holding up the process, then you do. But I heard that the polls are reversed.

00:14:34.460 And now the Republicans look like they would come out ahead if the government closes and we default on debt.

00:14:41.020 So the Republicans don't have a reason to compromise because the poll is currently showing that they

00:14:47.340 would gain. The Democrats, if they're looking at the same poll information, are knowing that they

00:14:54.140 would lose and they would be blamed for whatever happens if we don't reach a deal. So that pretty

00:14:59.740 much guarantees it will be a deal because we're all operating in self-interest. But the reason I don't

00:15:05.740 report on it is that it's all fake news until the last minute. The only thing that counted at all

00:15:13.580 was the last minute. So if it's a month before the deadline and the news is telling you, oh, here's a big

00:15:20.140 story, it's not. That's not a story. There isn't any possibility they would have agreed a month in advance

00:15:28.220 because a month in advance, the polls are not reliable. They have to make sure that just before

00:15:33.420 they execute, at least one side, you know, or actually both sides, know which way things are

00:15:39.180 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

00:15:44.860 the last 60 seconds. And maybe that's not even real. Because I got a feeling if you miss it by two days,

00:15:51.820 the stock market takes a dump for two days and then comes right back. That's what I think.

00:15:57.900 So I believe that this is an example of the news making something out of nothing. Not that there's

00:16:04.140 no risk. There is. But if you were to rank that risk with all the other risks in the world, it wouldn't

00:16:11.660 be a top 50, in my opinion. So that's sort of a semi-fake news to keep an eye on.

00:16:22.540 All right.

00:16:25.740 If stops, what would you do if, let's say we missed the deadline and stocks go down 19%.

00:16:33.820 I'm just picking a number. Stocks go down 19% because we missed the deadline by a day.

00:16:39.900 What do you do? Do you sell all your stocks? Or do you buy like a motherfucker?

00:16:47.260 All right. I'm not going to give you any financial advice. This is not financial advice. 1.00

00:16:55.500 But historically, historically, the very best time to buy stock is when all the stocks went down for a 0.98

00:17:02.940 bullshit reason. Now, I consider the pandemic a bullshit reason, meaning that it was a near certainty 0.98

00:17:11.020 that we would get through it and that stocks would go up. You know, we'd recover. Because even if it was 0.91

00:17:17.340 bad and a lot of people died, the people dying were not the people producing economic activity. The

00:17:23.420 people dying were the exact people who were expensive. I hate to say that because they're

00:17:28.860 human beings. But in terms of just the cold, hard cash of economics, it was obvious to me that if we

00:17:36.140 didn't die from a supply chain problem, which I thought we could handle and we did, the things

00:17:41.660 would go back. And sure enough, they did. So there aren't that many situations where you have a

00:17:48.620 really obvious reason for the stocks being temporarily lower. But this would be one.

00:17:55.180 One. This would be one. In my opinion, since we wouldn't be unable to pay, we would simply be

00:18:01.980 disorganized and miss a deadline. I'd be a buyer. But I don't recommend that you follow my advice on

00:18:08.700 stocks because I do not have a Warren Buffett track record. If I had a Warren Buffett track record,

00:18:16.460 you should definitely listen to me. I do not. So don't. All right. Let's talk about target.

00:18:24.220 So there was some murkiness on the question of whether target had intentionally targeted youth

00:18:32.620 with their talk-friendly LGBTQ trans clothing line. And one report was, well, it's not what you think.

00:18:44.300 And I said this on the live stream. I said, it's not what you think because they simply don't have

00:18:48.820 children's sizes anymore. They just have small sizes and there are small adults.

00:18:54.300 So they're not directly targeting children. But it is true that these are sizes children would wear.

00:19:02.220 So then I saw a video of a woman go into target to actually point to the stuff. Oh, boy, was I wrong.

00:19:11.660 Oh, man. Now, I like to take the position first of assuming innocence. So I was giving target the

00:19:21.180 benefit of a doubt. I assumed innocence. I assumed that maybe they just got caught in a situation where

00:19:27.900 it looked exactly like they were targeting young people, but maybe it was just a misimpression.

00:19:34.140 And then I saw the display of an actual target store. Nope. Nope. Those are targeted at children.

00:19:43.340 Yep. Absolutely targeted at children. No doubt about it.

00:19:47.100 And if you want a little background on it, Twitter user Jewel Adora confirms that he has a lot of

00:19:57.660 experience in the stores and that they have a, what's it called, a planogram or something.

00:20:03.260 So corporate offices tell you where all your displays are supposed to be relative to the other displays.

00:20:10.700 So there's like a map of where you put everything. That doesn't come from the local store manager.

00:20:17.260 That comes from headquarters. So the way these things were displayed were, you know, adjacent to the

00:20:25.020 children's sections. And they had children sizes.

00:20:27.980 And the clothing looked like it was aimed at children. And there were some gingerbread things and

00:20:36.060 some other kids things that are, you know, very much LGBTQ oriented. Now, in case there are any 1.00

00:20:46.700 people who are not regulars to my live stream, I'm very much pro LGBTQ. So my, my ongoing, you know,

00:20:56.700 belief of how things should be is that all adults should be able to do whatever they want as long

00:21:03.020 as they're not bothering me. And LGBTQ is just more of that. I have no special feeling except that

00:21:10.060 there are individuals doing what individuals can do. So good for them. But when we're talking about

00:21:15.100 minors, all, all those rules are gone. Do we agree? No disagreement, right? If you're talking about

00:21:23.340 minors, all of the adult rules don't apply. So as long as we agree with that, we're, we're in good

00:21:29.980 shape on agreement, right? Why don't they apply? I'm not even going to explain that.

00:21:35.980 They're, they have incomplete brains. Those are, I mean, there's nothing else to explain. 0.69

00:21:44.140 So if you're, if you're raising kids for the benefit of the children, you make the decisions

00:21:50.380 for them until their brains are ready to do it on their nose. That's the whole process. So

00:21:56.300 I think it's so simulation-like that the store that's being targeted is literally called Target.

00:22:07.980 They're actually a target. I mean, that's a little too on the nose, isn't it? It's like the simulation

00:22:13.300 is just screaming at you. I swear, it's really a simulation. None of this is real. I feel like

00:22:20.460 it's just screaming my, I get, I get it. I get it. The Target is the Target store. I get it.

00:22:26.780 All right. Two on the nose. All right. Um, so it looks like Target's in trouble. Um, I did notice

00:22:36.300 that some of the Southern stores decided to respond by moving the LGBTQ display to the back of the store

00:22:45.020 so they could kind of hide it during Pride Month. I'll just say that again, so I don't have to explain

00:22:52.380 the joke. They're actually going to hide the LGBTQ display during Pride Month.

00:23:02.940 Do I have to complete it? That's actually what's happening. Now, I oppose that. I oppose that.

00:23:11.260 Because that's just fucked up. Because that's fucked up to the adults. Because I think Target has 0.99

00:23:17.260 every, every right, and I would say even responsibility to, you know, uh, satisfy adults

00:23:25.340 of all types. I feel like that's part of their mission. And there are certainly enough LGBTQ customers

00:23:31.420 to merit their own, you know, section of clothes for adults. But if you're going to take the adult

00:23:37.600 stuff and put it in the back of the shop during Pride Month, you got some explaining to do.

00:23:42.800 You got a little explaining to do. This is the most, uh, hilarious corporate fuck-up I've seen since

00:23:49.920 Bud Light. You know, I've noticed that there's an overall competence problem happening everywhere.

00:23:58.160 Maybe it's confirmation bias. But it feels like something fundamental is happening

00:24:03.120 everywhere, from government to business. Have you tried to get, uh, tech support from any company

00:24:10.320 lately? It's almost not a thing. It's almost non-existent. It's just like they put idiots in

00:24:16.400 all those jobs. And that didn't used to be the case. I used to be able to get, you know, with a little 1.00

00:24:21.360 work, you could get help from anybody. Now it's just, it feels like it's totally broken. So, uh,

00:24:28.880 the bigger story here is the massive incompetence of, uh, Anheuser-Busch and Target,

00:24:36.240 almost independent of the fact that it's about LGBTQ. It's just, it was horribly managed. It just 0.94

00:24:43.200 feels like none of this was hard to do and they still got it wrong. And now the LA Dodgers,

00:24:49.360 they've got a problem too. So there's definitely a new force in the world, which is the, um,

00:24:54.880 uh, I think, I think conservatives have figured out how much power they have. Or they've decided to

00:25:02.000 use it. Maybe that's the better way. I guess they always knew. But Republicans have decided to

00:25:07.280 actively use their power. And I don't think they had before. I think it was mostly just complaining.

00:25:13.680 But now, but now if you do something that is deeply offensive to that part of the country,

00:25:18.720 they're going to make you pay. And probably that's the only thing that can get things back to some

00:25:26.160 kind of balance. Because we're way out of balance at the moment. All right. Yeah. North Face.

00:25:32.400 North Face has some, some, uh, issues. All right. I saw, uh, um, Jordan Peterson was tweeting

00:25:42.640 that the research is adding up, um, that the people who are left-wing authoritarians.

00:25:50.960 So authoritarians is important to the left-wing part. So we're not talking about just Democrats,

00:25:55.920 right? So this is not about ordinary Democrats. It's about the left-wing authoritarian types of

00:26:02.080 which we know exist. But apparently the research is showing that these are not political people.

00:26:07.520 that it's not about politics. They actually just want to break shit because they're narcissists. 1.00

00:26:14.880 They're just narcissists. They're actually just, uh, it's a mental illness. So although narcissism, 1.00

00:26:21.520 I think they call a personality something, that's not a mental illness, but it really is. Um, yeah.

00:26:29.040 So they're narcissists. So I've been saying this for a while. There's some brand of politics on the

00:26:35.280 far left as well as the far right that should not be treated as politics. It's clearly mental illness 0.99

00:26:42.640 in both directions. But it's just, you know, the little, the little stripe at the end.

00:26:48.240 The people in the middle are largely almost normal, no matter what their opinion is.

00:26:57.360 All right. Um, let's see.

00:27:00.080 Oh, and, uh, apparently there's another issue with Target that Elon Musk has weighed in on. And, uh,

00:27:13.680 Target is being accused of funding something, a group called GLSEN, which calls for gender ideology

00:27:22.560 to be integrated into all classes, even math. Now, this is a Fox News report. Now, do you believe

00:27:29.840 that Target is funding a group who is promoting gender ideology in all classes, including math?

00:27:39.280 Well, Community Notes seems to think it's true. Apparently it's true. And Elon Musk tweeted this and said,

00:27:46.640 is this true? Because it's almost too hard to believe, isn't it? It's almost too hard to believe.

00:27:53.760 And so far it looks true. So Target's got some work to do. All right. Here's the scariest thing you're

00:28:03.600 going to hear today. And the reason I couldn't describe the content of my show today.

00:28:08.320 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

00:28:18.080 if your country had already been taken over and you were no longer a democratic republic? How would you

00:28:26.320 know? Because it's the same question with AI, right? What if AI has already taken over? Would you know?

00:28:34.240 So I would propose, let's forget about AI for a moment. Um, how would you know if our country was no

00:28:43.680 longer a democratic republic and really there was just a cabal of important people who were deciding

00:28:50.720 everything? How would you know? Well, I would suggest the following test. The test that people are in

00:28:57.920 power and were no longer, you know, run by the people, so to speak, is that the people in power,

00:29:04.800 could commit a crime in public and get away with it in public. You could all see it. Just everybody

00:29:12.400 can see it. And there would be no consequences. And the second way, the second way is related.

00:29:19.920 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 1.00

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, 0.77

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. 0.96

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, 0.83

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 0.75

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 0.84

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.

00:54:11.680 I would if I still lived in Danville.

00:54:16.440 All right.

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

00:54:52.160 live in Danville.

00:54:56.380 Does Santa's voted for the First Step Act? Well, I think that it would be perfectly consistent 0.99

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 1.00

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.

00:59:06.060 Impossible to monitor? I don't know.

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

00:59:35.620 in your own store. So, you know, you wouldn't watch them on the camera. You'd just follow

00:59:40.340 them around the aisle. Say, hey, I understand you've shoplifted 15 times, so we're going to

00:59:46.900 keep an eye on you. But you're welcome to shop here. Yeah, I suppose you could get people

00:59:57.200 falsely accused of stuff. That's always a problem. All right. Well, I'll just throw that idea

01:00:03.880 out there because the other ideas are not working. So, YouTube, thanks for coming. See

01:00:09.220 you in the morning.

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