Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2135 Scott Adams： Trump Indicted For Stuff We Can't See, Biden Bribery Allegation, Lots More

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00:00:49.820 Well, I saw a tweet, I think it might have been yesterday,

00:00:53.820 in which Elon Musk was commenting on the Target store and the LGBTQ situation,

00:01:01.680 and he said that it was too far.

00:01:06.980 They're just taking it too far.

00:01:08.380 And I love that phrase, because here's what it feels like.

00:01:14.900 See if this just feels right to you.

00:01:18.060 It feels like the Democrats are teenagers,

00:01:21.120 and the Republicans are their parents.

00:01:25.700 Just think about that for a moment.

00:01:27.360 Because the Democrats are more likely to try something that,

00:01:32.540 let's say, history suggests would not work.

00:01:36.340 What do teenagers do?

00:01:38.720 Teenagers are all about doing the thing that history has shown doesn't work.

00:01:45.100 Right?

00:01:45.300 It's almost their entire theme is doing things that are a bad idea in the long run.

00:01:51.420 It's like all they do, a teenager.

00:01:53.820 And they're supposed to, right?

00:01:55.380 It's sort of a natural progression.

00:01:58.080 They're supposed to test all the boundaries to learn where the boundaries are.

00:02:01.300 So you expect that.

00:02:02.900 But, luckily, most teens have some kind of a parental guardrail to say,

00:02:09.980 oh, no, that's too far.

00:02:11.800 All right, well, I'll let you get away with that.

00:02:13.780 I don't like it.

00:02:15.280 But that's too far.

00:02:17.480 Right?

00:02:18.260 And I feel as if that's what the political parties have become.

00:02:22.620 Teenagers who want to try stuff,

00:02:25.000 such as, why don't we get rid of the police?

00:02:28.220 If the police are hurting people, let's get rid of them.

00:02:31.500 Does that sound like what an adult says?

00:02:35.020 I mean, really, does that sound like an adult idea?

00:02:38.520 It really doesn't.

00:02:39.620 It sounds like exactly like a teenager idea.

00:02:42.800 And then you need the Republicans to say,

00:02:45.360 getting rid of police?

00:02:48.600 That's too far.

00:02:49.960 Body cams?

00:02:51.260 Okay, body cams.

00:02:52.560 Sure.

00:02:53.200 That's not too far.

00:02:54.860 How about better training for police?

00:02:57.520 Maybe.

00:02:57.940 Something like that.

00:02:58.860 Good.

00:02:59.720 That's not too far.

00:03:01.760 But there's definitely a lot of too far going on.

00:03:05.800 And I do like that framing because it just puts everything in context.

00:03:13.060 Because it allows, here's why I like it.

00:03:16.140 It allows both entities to be a productive part of the process.

00:03:20.700 I'm not sure if you caught that the way I framed it.

00:03:24.740 Just as a teenager should be testing all the limits and a parent is going to tell them

00:03:33.020 when that's too far, I don't mind, I really don't, that the Democrats might be the more

00:03:39.960 let's test this, let's push the boundary, let's try a thing that we know has never worked

00:03:45.000 before, let's see if we can figure out how to make it work this time.

00:03:49.140 I don't mind that.

00:03:50.620 That, you know, society needs people who are going to test all the boundaries all the time.

00:03:56.120 But you still need the other side to say too far.

00:03:59.700 You still need the adult supervision.

00:04:02.640 So maybe it's good that we have both.

00:04:05.020 It could be a positive about the American system that we just don't see because we're sort of

00:04:11.260 lost in the weeds.

00:04:12.200 All right, Tucker Carlson dropped his second video, was it the day before yesterday?

00:04:19.660 I think I missed it because it was my birthday or something.

00:04:23.240 But there's a little blowback.

00:04:25.280 I finally watched it.

00:04:27.780 And apparently Tucker is enjoying his freedom.

00:04:33.260 I think we can say that for sure.

00:04:35.820 Tucker's enjoying his freedom.

00:04:37.160 Because among other things, he insinuated that Obama has an interesting personal life.

00:04:45.300 I forget his exact words, but the clear indication was that he was not involved in a traditional

00:04:52.400 heterosexual marriage.

00:04:55.580 That's what I got.

00:04:57.180 Now, he didn't say that, but that's what I got.

00:05:01.120 I mean, that's what I received.

00:05:02.240 I don't know what he was sending, but that's what I received.

00:05:05.980 And apparently, you know, the Twitter is all abuzz over this, et cetera.

00:05:13.140 Now, I saw a comment that said that somebody who was a native of Chicago said that the natives

00:05:26.260 of Chicago, the people who may have known Obama when he was young, say they were all, everybody

00:05:32.540 knew he was gay.

00:05:34.400 Do you believe that?

00:05:36.820 Do you believe that the people who knew him when he was young, they all knew he was gay?

00:05:42.700 I'm not sure I would believe that.

00:05:45.720 It's a little, I don't know.

00:05:49.240 It's hard to imagine that we could get to this point without that being widespread knowledge

00:05:55.660 if it were true.

00:05:57.960 So I'm going to put a maybe on this one.

00:06:00.820 I think it's entirely true that if you, you know, threw a dart and picked any couple in

00:06:06.680 the world, that their life is not what they present.

00:06:11.340 Would you say that's fair?

00:06:12.460 You can pick any couple, political, non-political, just throw a dart, hit a random couple and

00:06:19.080 just say, oh, I'll bet that's not exactly what you're presenting to the public.

00:06:23.240 I'll bet there's more going on behind the window.

00:06:27.720 So I don't think it matters to anything.

00:06:32.500 You know, if his personal life is more interesting than we know, it doesn't matter, I don't think.

00:06:37.360 Does it?

00:06:38.420 Does it matter?

00:06:39.960 I don't think so.

00:06:40.900 But it's out there and Tucker's enjoying his freedom, I guess.

00:06:49.180 So there's allegedly a, did I mention this already?

00:06:53.260 A Canadian school board that has now ruled that the teachers and everybody in the school

00:06:59.360 must use they, them pronouns for everybody.

00:07:03.320 And there will be no more he and she and him and her.

00:07:07.880 It's all going to be they and them.

00:07:10.900 And there's a big anti-protest against that.

00:07:14.740 Now, here's, here's what I wonder.

00:07:17.640 Is there somebody on that school board who follows me?

00:07:21.420 Because this looks a little too close to what I would have done.

00:07:25.940 And I teach people to do this, which is embrace and amplify.

00:07:32.200 Now, the embrace part is you accept the thing that you actually don't agree with, but you accept it completely.

00:07:38.800 And then you amplify it so that you're not only accepting it, but you're really accepting it.

00:07:43.560 And if you amplify something that's a bad idea, it almost always breaks or looks ridiculous.

00:07:49.720 So to me, what this looks like is that there was some kind of debate happening at the school board.

00:07:56.500 This is just speculation, pure speculation.

00:07:59.040 What it looks like to me is there was some debate and there was some conservative who said, I've got an idea.

00:08:08.820 Well, if we can't decide whether we should use proper pronouns, why don't we go all the way and get rid of pronouns?

00:08:15.700 Why don't we embrace that this is the right thing to do and then take it to the next level, right?

00:08:23.000 Let's take it to the next level.

00:08:25.300 And it looks like somebody did that intentionally just to break the system, which it did.

00:08:31.540 It totally broke the system because there's protests and everybody's mad and people are going to use the wrong pronouns and everybody's going to complain.

00:08:39.660 It should completely destroy the system.

00:08:41.660 Now, do you think somebody came up with that on their own as a protest, but not directly saying it?

00:08:50.560 Or do you think that they actually went too far?

00:08:54.900 Is this a case of actually just going too far?

00:08:58.400 Or was it a prank?

00:09:00.260 You know, or let's say a play, a persuasion play by somebody on the school board.

00:09:05.120 I'm going to go with, I think it was a play.

00:09:08.240 I think somebody was pranking.

00:09:09.980 And I think that, I think that they're still, I think they're still pranking and they're playing it right to the, right to the end.

00:09:17.520 And if that's true.

00:09:23.080 Slow clap.

00:09:24.480 Slow clap.

00:09:25.500 I don't know if it's true.

00:09:27.000 I'm just saying that's what it looks like from the outside.

00:09:31.720 But maybe.

00:09:32.520 San Francisco is in the process of trying to make shoplifting a lot easier and safer for the shoplifters.

00:09:43.240 Does it sound like I'm making that up?

00:09:46.000 Nope.

00:09:47.080 Nope.

00:09:47.540 There's some legislation going through the system in San Francisco that would make it illegal for store owners to try to stop shoplifters.

00:09:56.480 So you make it a lot safer for both the store owners because they wouldn't be in physical danger than as much.

00:10:03.500 And also for the shoplifters.

00:10:06.700 So that's happening.

00:10:08.980 Does that feel like it's a little bit too far?

00:10:12.620 And I have a provocative question to ask.

00:10:17.800 If you were to compare two alternative plans, which one would save the most lives?

00:10:24.260 The plan that they have, in which they're going to make it illegal for shop owners to try to stop the shoplifters.

00:10:30.420 Is that the one that will save the most lives?

00:10:33.380 And I want you to compare that to a plan that nobody's suggesting.

00:10:36.860 But suppose the plan were the opposite and they made it, they encouraged shop owners to shoot and kill shoplifters on site.

00:10:48.040 Compare them.

00:10:48.940 Which one would kill more people?

00:10:51.140 Well, on day one, on day one, let's say three shoplifters get shot in San Francisco.

00:10:57.420 That's three people that you didn't want to die and that would be three tragedies.

00:11:02.240 Next day, three more.

00:11:04.100 Six people killed that really didn't need to be killed and maybe they were just trying to get food, maybe just trying to feed themselves.

00:11:13.980 Six tragedies.

00:11:16.020 And let's say you take it to the end of the week and there's 25 of them.

00:11:19.720 Like 25 people get gunned down in stores.

00:11:22.920 Just in San Francisco.

00:11:24.440 Now this is just a mental process, right?

00:11:26.140 This is a mental experiment.

00:11:28.080 This didn't happen.

00:11:30.680 25 people just get gunned down.

00:11:33.040 What happens to the rate of shoplifting after that?

00:11:38.060 Probably goes down.

00:11:39.780 I'm guessing it goes down.

00:11:41.580 So you could probably solve shoplifting at the expense of, you know, let's say 10 to 25 people who didn't need to lose their lives.

00:11:49.700 But if you were to compare that 10 to 25 people, would that be more or less, more or fewer than the number who would die if you let civilization destroy itself by not having, you know, basically not protecting private property?

00:12:10.380 If you don't protect private property, is the long-term outcome of that more or fewer people dying?

00:12:21.920 Which one kills more people?

00:12:24.700 If I had to guess, it would be the least loss of life would be to gun down 25 people who are shoplifting.

00:12:33.300 I think that would be the least loss of life in the long run.

00:12:38.480 Because the breakdown of civilization starves everybody, right?

00:12:42.000 If you can't have urban centers, if you can't have a store to buy food, where are they going to buy food?

00:12:48.820 Where do you buy food if the stores are closed?

00:12:51.220 You know, the poor people are not going to be Amazon and DoorDashing.

00:12:56.320 So I have a feeling that actually allowing store owners to shoot to death, anybody shoplifting a Twinkie, would get you the lowest number of deaths in the long run.

00:13:10.740 Maybe.

00:13:12.160 Maybe.

00:13:13.400 Don't know.

00:13:13.860 All right.

00:13:15.720 But California is trying to, you know, maintain its too-far reputation.

00:13:25.320 And now parents are going to be punished for misgendering their own children.

00:13:30.540 It's already passed the state assembly.

00:13:33.040 So it's not a law yet, but it's passed the state assembly.

00:13:36.000 And the idea here is that that would be child abuse if you're misgendering your own child.

00:13:41.540 And that, therefore, that would be taken into account if, let's say, there's a divorce.

00:13:48.620 So if there's a divorce and one parent accepts the child's identification and the other says, no, you were born this way, that's what you are,

00:13:58.160 then the parent who is willing to go with the child's self-identification is more likely to get custody

00:14:05.040 because it would show child abuse by the one who is calling them by their biological, you know, whatever they look like when they were born, I guess.

00:14:17.700 But also, it looks like the, you know, health and human services could probably take your kid away for child abuse if you just kept at it.

00:14:28.160 Now, does that seem too far?

00:14:33.100 Yeah, that's too far.

00:14:34.920 This is a pretty explicit statement that the parents don't have medical decision rights over their children and that the state does.

00:14:45.640 Because I would say this is not child abuse, it's medical treatment.

00:14:51.400 It may be bad medical treatment.

00:14:53.620 It might be the wrong kind.

00:14:54.900 That would be a separate argument.

00:14:55.860 But I would say the parents, parents trying to, let's say, settle their child's gender identification,

00:15:05.300 I would consider that part of mental health.

00:15:08.660 Now, that doesn't mean they're doing it right.

00:15:11.140 I'm not saying it's helping.

00:15:12.980 I'm saying that the parents would, in this situation, the parents would be making a choice about their child's mental health,

00:15:21.220 as well as, you know, the life in general, and that they would be applying what they believe to be the best situation for the mental health of the child.

00:15:30.860 And that might involve trying to, you know, badger them into sticking with a gender that looks like their biological entity.

00:15:40.860 So, yeah, we'll talk about Jordan Peterson.

00:15:44.780 What do you think about that?

00:15:50.860 Because it seems to me that the parents need to have the medical decision right.

00:15:58.140 But you could also imagine where a crazy parent would take it too far, right?

00:16:02.700 There's going to be some crazy parent who says, I'm going to amputate their arms to make them healthier.

00:16:07.140 You know, there's always going to be somebody you don't want to make medical decisions for your kids,

00:16:12.480 but that's where the medical community itself would be the safeguard, right?

00:16:17.340 The doctor would not do the procedure.

00:16:19.540 But if you're just talking about talking to your kids, I would say that's mental health.

00:16:24.900 And how parents talk to their children or how parents raise their children is probably, I don't know,

00:16:30.360 other than organic problems, the single biggest variable in the mental health of the children, I would think.

00:16:38.700 So parents are basically mental health care providers.

00:16:44.240 They're just unlicensed.

00:16:45.340 It's just their job to take care of the mental health of their kids.

00:16:49.520 So this would take from the parents their right to decide what's in the best mental health interest of their own children.

00:17:00.360 That seems to me like a bad idea.

00:17:04.060 Seems to me like going too far.

00:17:07.060 All right.

00:17:09.520 Let's talk about Trump, who is indicted on 37 counts.

00:17:13.300 Now, of course, we all believe that this is primarily political in nature

00:17:18.140 and that whether or not Trump did things which are technically crimes,

00:17:23.520 and I'm sure he did.

00:17:25.280 I'm sure there's some technical crimes in there somewhere.

00:17:27.760 But that doesn't mean you indict.

00:17:30.360 Right?

00:17:31.440 Because there are lots of other considerations,

00:17:33.160 such as it being the person who's running for president

00:17:35.420 and was once a president,

00:17:36.960 and you don't want to start that precedent and all that.

00:17:42.540 But here are some of the things that make it political.

00:17:46.640 First of all, the 37 counts,

00:17:49.340 as we've learned from other political cases,

00:17:52.880 doesn't mean he did 37 separate crimes,

00:17:56.400 or even allegedly because they clump, you know,

00:18:01.260 different charges around the same activity.

00:18:03.460 So there might be several charges that get to the same activity.

00:18:07.900 So it might be like, I don't know,

00:18:10.360 half a dozen different things he's accused of doing.

00:18:12.620 But if you reported it as 37,

00:18:16.380 don't you think that dumb people will think that's worse than if you said seven?

00:18:21.920 If you said he did seven things that look illegal, or at least potentially,

00:18:26.840 versus you say there are 37 counts,

00:18:30.580 those don't sound the same.

00:18:32.520 If you say 37, it just sounds guilty.

00:18:34.980 If you said, you know, three or seven,

00:18:38.820 it wouldn't sound nearly as guilty.

00:18:40.920 And indeed, I think there are three categories.

00:18:44.800 There's, you know, did he take them?

00:18:47.320 And then did he, you know, lie about what he had?

00:18:51.580 And did he show it to anybody?

00:18:52.940 And, you know, did he not agree to give it back?

00:18:56.620 So there's like, I don't know,

00:18:58.500 several little activities that look illegal.

00:19:01.860 So, first of all, counting it as 37 counts makes it sound worse.

00:19:07.040 The second thing that makes it sound worse is the prosecutor guy, Jack Smith,

00:19:13.320 who, of course, said no one is above the law.

00:19:16.720 Now, did you know he was going to say that?

00:19:19.420 Was there any chance he wasn't going to say that?

00:19:22.140 Of course he was going to say that.

00:19:23.960 But, of course, that's a framing thing.

00:19:26.240 And as we've learned now, no one is above law means Democrats are going after Republicans.

00:19:31.140 For being Republicans.

00:19:33.480 It doesn't mean anything except that today.

00:19:37.340 It used to mean no one is above the law.

00:19:42.000 It used to mean exactly what it says.

00:19:44.460 Not anymore.

00:19:45.880 Now it is a way to signal that you are a political animal

00:19:49.520 and you are doing a political prosecution.

00:19:52.640 Nobody needs to say it.

00:19:54.300 You don't need to say it unless you're doing something sketchy.

00:20:02.560 Does anybody need to say no one is above the law when they can show you the crime?

00:20:07.000 They don't need to do that, right?

00:20:10.420 If Trump had killed somebody and it was on video,

00:20:14.640 do you think Jack Smith would say, after we all saw a video of Trump murdering somebody,

00:20:20.000 do you think he would need to say no one is above the law?

00:20:23.540 No, he would not need to say that.

00:20:25.900 Because there wouldn't be a single person in the world who had any question

00:20:29.200 about what is the right thing to do.

00:20:31.560 That's the law.

00:20:34.060 No, you only say no one is above the law

00:20:36.320 when you're trying to pull one over on the public.

00:20:39.480 The signal is glaringly obvious.

00:20:42.640 No one is above the law means we hope that our people are above the law

00:20:46.420 and yours are not.

00:20:47.900 That's all it means.

00:20:49.520 It is such a signal for disreputable behavior.

00:20:53.060 Such a signal.

00:20:54.260 I mean, it could not be more obvious.

00:20:57.420 All right.

00:20:58.480 Here's my big question.

00:21:00.680 And I'll tell you some people who seem to be agreeing with it.

00:21:09.620 Can we really, as a country,

00:21:13.020 do you think you could send Trump to prison

00:21:15.360 over documents that the public is not allowed to see?

00:21:22.260 Now, I don't think anybody framed it that way until I did, you know, yesterday.

00:21:27.420 But just hold this in your head.

00:21:29.320 This is not Watergate, right?

00:21:32.680 With Watergate, we said, here's the building, here's the people, here's the break-in, that's the crime.

00:21:39.620 Everybody's looking at it.

00:21:40.920 And then even Republicans.

00:21:43.180 You know, not all of them.

00:21:44.400 But enough Republicans even said, yeah, okay, that's a crime.

00:21:48.220 No doubt about it.

00:21:49.600 We all saw it.

00:21:50.260 That's a crime.

00:21:50.760 But what happens if the public is not allowed to see the evidence, because these are secret documents?

00:21:59.100 What if they're just described to you, sort of a general way?

00:22:03.580 Oh, it was a document about an attack on a country.

00:22:07.720 You good with that?

00:22:08.800 Are you okay that the person who was the president of your country would go to prison

00:22:14.560 because somebody said they saw a document that they're describing in a general way?

00:22:21.020 No.

00:22:22.100 No.

00:22:23.060 Nope.

00:22:24.340 That is not acceptable.

00:22:26.700 That is too far.

00:22:30.560 Watergate was not too far.

00:22:32.440 They showed the evidence.

00:22:33.740 The people judged it.

00:22:34.920 The Congress judged it.

00:22:36.080 We got past it.

00:22:38.820 But if you put a living ex-president who's running for office in prison,

00:22:45.920 in prison,

00:22:48.000 and you don't let the public see the evidence,

00:22:50.740 because it's private,

00:22:52.220 it's all a little secret stuff,

00:22:54.440 no.

00:22:55.460 Let me just say this as clearly as possible.

00:22:58.940 No.

00:23:00.060 No.

00:23:01.760 No.

00:23:02.640 That's not going to happen.

00:23:03.800 No, I don't know what will happen.

00:23:06.700 But I'll tell you what's not going to happen.

00:23:08.900 You're not going to put the fucking president in jail,

00:23:12.580 let's say prison.

00:23:13.800 You're not going to put the fucking president in prison

00:23:17.240 without showing us the evidence.

00:23:20.000 Now, if you can't show us the evidence,

00:23:22.560 fuck you.

00:23:24.340 Do something else.

00:23:26.420 Figure it out.

00:23:28.060 Figure it out.

00:23:28.960 But if you don't show us the evidence,

00:23:32.520 no.

00:23:34.000 That's a hard no.

00:23:37.060 Hard no.

00:23:38.620 Let me just say it's just not going to happen.

00:23:41.160 It's fucking not going to happen.

00:23:43.400 One way or the other.

00:23:44.480 Now, if we can see the evidence,

00:23:47.660 you know, maybe it gets,

00:23:49.280 let's say the evidence is declassified.

00:23:52.400 Well, how bad was it if it could be declassified?

00:23:56.580 Seriously.

00:23:57.420 How bad was it if they could show it to us?

00:24:00.680 If they can show it to us, it's no big deal.

00:24:03.940 And if they don't show it to us,

00:24:06.040 I'm not going to be happy.

00:24:08.080 Now, there's only one way you could get past this,

00:24:10.640 in my view.

00:24:12.500 And that would be that if enough Republicans you trusted

00:24:16.120 got to look at the documents

00:24:18.600 and then came away saying,

00:24:20.360 whoops, okay, I changed my mind.

00:24:22.580 That is so bad.

00:24:24.440 That's so bad, I get it.

00:24:26.080 It's just like Watergate.

00:24:27.600 Now, I would believe,

00:24:29.880 I'll give you some examples.

00:24:31.620 If Thomas Massey looks at it and says,

00:24:34.020 okay, this is bad.

00:24:36.460 This has to be dealt with with the legal system.

00:24:39.720 I would trust him.

00:24:41.400 I would trust him.

00:24:42.840 If Matt Gaetz looks at it and says,

00:24:45.540 yeah, he's my best friend,

00:24:46.900 but honestly, this is bad.

00:24:49.640 I would trust him.

00:24:51.360 I would trust that.

00:24:52.740 If Tom Cotton looks at it,

00:24:55.880 says, no,

00:24:57.140 you know, this is just bad.

00:24:58.920 You've got to do something.

00:24:59.720 But I would trust him.

00:25:01.600 So, you know,

00:25:03.040 some of the other Republicans

00:25:05.640 are a little more political animals,

00:25:07.940 if you know what I mean.

00:25:09.880 They've shown a, let's say,

00:25:12.000 a history of pushing the political angle

00:25:15.120 a little harder than the factual angle.

00:25:17.780 So I'm not sure I would believe in Jim Jordan.

00:25:20.880 And, you know, I like Jim Jordan.

00:25:22.460 I don't have any problem with him.

00:25:23.700 But he's a more political animal.

00:25:27.300 Would you agree?

00:25:29.160 Yeah.

00:25:30.380 Yeah, Lindsey Graham might be a political animal.

00:25:33.160 There are some people in Congress

00:25:34.600 that have a history of independent opinion and thought.

00:25:40.340 And if several of those say,

00:25:43.220 yeah, this is bad

00:25:44.200 and this is certainly something

00:25:46.000 the legal system should handle,

00:25:47.860 I would be willing to go with that.

00:25:50.380 But do you think that could happen?

00:25:52.520 Rand Paul's another one.

00:25:53.640 Yeah.

00:25:53.900 If Rand Paul looked at it and said,

00:25:55.680 nope,

00:25:56.500 yeah, this is bad.

00:25:57.860 We're not going to treat this

00:25:59.000 like a political problem.

00:26:00.520 I would trust it.

00:26:03.280 Ted Cruz,

00:26:04.180 I would trust Ted Cruz.

00:26:06.080 Yeah.

00:26:06.340 I would totally trust Ted Cruz.

00:26:11.620 Romney might be a different animal

00:26:13.280 because he might want to be president.

00:26:16.420 A little less trust there.

00:26:18.360 But I see where you're going with that.

00:26:21.520 All right.

00:26:21.940 Well, to this point,

00:26:23.080 Carrie Lake gave a speech

00:26:24.940 in which she said the following

00:26:26.980 to get a,

00:26:27.680 she got a standing ovation, I think.

00:26:31.020 She said,

00:26:31.520 if you want to get to President Trump,

00:26:32.960 you're going to have to go through me

00:26:34.380 and 75 million Americans just like me.

00:26:37.060 And most of us are card-carrying members

00:26:39.200 of the NRA.

00:26:40.640 And she said,

00:26:41.580 that's not a threat.

00:26:42.820 That's a public service announcement.

00:26:47.660 She's very good at this.

00:26:50.220 I don't know if I've ever mentioned.

00:26:52.080 She's not my choice to be vice president.

00:26:54.480 But she's very good at this

00:26:56.780 whole communicating thing.

00:26:58.620 She's really good at it.

00:27:00.420 And I love that she closed it down with this,

00:27:03.000 it's not a threat,

00:27:03.780 it's a public service announcement.

00:27:06.180 Because that's the same framing

00:27:09.400 that I try to use.

00:27:12.120 The correct framing,

00:27:13.660 the one that's productive,

00:27:14.780 is if you're on the other side

00:27:17.800 from whatever,

00:27:19.560 it doesn't matter what the issue is,

00:27:20.720 if you're on the other side,

00:27:22.320 isn't it important to you

00:27:23.700 to know where the limit is?

00:27:26.780 To know what's too far?

00:27:28.880 It's very important for everybody

00:27:30.640 to know how far you can push

00:27:32.900 the other side.

00:27:34.780 And Carrie Lake,

00:27:35.680 just put it out there

00:27:37.040 as clearly as you can.

00:27:39.800 There are 75 million people

00:27:41.500 who own guns.

00:27:44.100 You better not fuck this up.

00:27:46.620 Right?

00:27:47.220 I don't think it's a threat.

00:27:49.000 I don't take it as a threat.

00:27:50.640 It's not like a plan

00:27:52.520 to do something.

00:27:53.520 But it's a fact.

00:27:56.680 It's a fact that everybody

00:27:58.580 has to deal with

00:27:59.500 that there are 75 million

00:28:01.560 armed people

00:28:02.420 watching this very carefully.

00:28:04.680 And they're not happy.

00:28:06.520 They're not happy at all.

00:28:09.080 Now,

00:28:10.040 obviously,

00:28:10.740 the best way to solve it

00:28:11.760 would be

00:28:12.400 an election

00:28:13.420 in which he gets elected

00:28:14.600 and pardons himself.

00:28:17.360 That would be one way to do it.

00:28:18.840 So guns would not be,

00:28:21.880 you know,

00:28:22.820 the first, second,

00:28:24.120 third, or fourth resort.

00:28:26.480 Right?

00:28:26.900 We have much more,

00:28:28.460 you know,

00:28:28.660 many more tools.

00:28:29.560 You don't need the guns.

00:28:30.860 But I liked the fact

00:28:33.140 that none of it

00:28:34.600 would be possible

00:28:35.340 without the guns.

00:28:38.000 That's my opinion.

00:28:39.840 Everything that we can do

00:28:41.180 in a legal sense

00:28:42.500 that would make this situation

00:28:44.760 more palatable

00:28:45.440 for the whole country,

00:28:46.320 that's only because

00:28:48.280 we have guns.

00:28:49.800 If we didn't have the guns,

00:28:51.000 the legal stuff wouldn't work.

00:28:55.320 Nancy Mace

00:28:56.240 commented on Hillary Clinton

00:28:58.180 who introduced on Twitter

00:28:59.660 a picture of her

00:29:01.340 with a hat.

00:29:02.040 I guess she had,

00:29:03.040 she wore it

00:29:03.660 in the prior election.

00:29:05.680 And the hat just says,

00:29:07.520 but her emails,

00:29:09.000 you know,

00:29:09.220 because a lot of the Republicans

00:29:10.240 are saying,

00:29:10.800 but, but,

00:29:11.960 if Trump is guilty,

00:29:13.040 what about,

00:29:14.100 what about her emails?

00:29:16.320 And so Hillary

00:29:18.160 was mocking that

00:29:19.100 with the hat that says,

00:29:20.340 but her emails.

00:29:21.780 And then Representative

00:29:22.720 Nancy Mace,

00:29:23.600 who I'm liking more

00:29:24.400 every day,

00:29:25.640 she tweets this.

00:29:27.760 And here's why I love it.

00:29:29.660 You're not supposed

00:29:30.500 to talk like this

00:29:31.380 if you're a representative

00:29:32.360 of the United States.

00:29:34.520 But sometimes,

00:29:36.180 the salty language

00:29:37.660 is the only language

00:29:38.740 that gets right in there.

00:29:41.380 Like,

00:29:41.640 sometimes the generic language

00:29:43.280 is just going to

00:29:44.080 wash off

00:29:44.800 or, you know,

00:29:45.680 glance off.

00:29:46.840 But,

00:29:47.220 but here's some salty language

00:29:48.680 from Representative Nancy Mace

00:29:50.620 that I highly endorse.

00:29:53.580 I highly endorse

00:29:54.440 her choice of words.

00:29:55.900 And she said

00:29:56.460 in a tweet

00:29:56.960 about,

00:29:58.060 about Hillary's hat

00:30:00.120 that says,

00:30:00.660 but her emails,

00:30:01.580 she said,

00:30:02.200 gloating that there is

00:30:03.600 a different standard

00:30:04.460 of justice

00:30:05.160 and that you are

00:30:06.280 above the law

00:30:07.080 is next level bullshit.

00:30:08.460 Gloating that you're,

00:30:12.920 that there are two standards

00:30:14.160 and you're above the law

00:30:15.960 is next level bullshit.

00:30:18.860 And I,

00:30:19.940 I don't think you could,

00:30:21.920 you could write

00:30:22.720 a thousand tweets

00:30:23.900 on that point

00:30:25.240 and not hit that tweet

00:30:26.700 as perfectly.

00:30:28.360 There are no wasted words

00:30:29.900 in that sentence.

00:30:31.240 Gloating that there is

00:30:32.140 a different standard

00:30:33.000 of justice

00:30:33.740 and that you are

00:30:34.780 above the law

00:30:35.560 is next level bullshit.

00:30:38.460 Now that's the representative

00:30:41.600 I want, right?

00:30:43.200 Don't you want more

00:30:43.960 of that in Congress?

00:30:45.680 Yeah, give me more of that.

00:30:49.020 All right,

00:30:49.560 here's an interesting question.

00:30:51.100 If,

00:30:51.480 if Trump is,

00:30:52.700 let's say,

00:30:53.060 indicted

00:30:53.540 or let's say,

00:30:56.340 I think this is unlikely,

00:30:58.920 but say he was

00:30:59.740 in so much legal trouble

00:31:01.040 and he knew it

00:31:02.500 that he decided

00:31:03.860 to stop fighting it

00:31:05.140 and make a deal.

00:31:06.220 And the deal was

00:31:08.180 if you drop

00:31:08.720 all the charges,

00:31:09.900 I won't run

00:31:10.800 for president.

00:31:12.280 Do you think

00:31:12.680 that could happen?

00:31:14.160 Do you think

00:31:14.820 the legal jeopardy

00:31:15.980 could ever rise

00:31:16.820 to the level

00:31:17.300 where Trump,

00:31:18.120 who's,

00:31:18.500 you know,

00:31:18.720 the consummate fighter,

00:31:20.160 but he's also

00:31:20.840 a deal maker,

00:31:22.100 right?

00:31:22.560 So Trump is the

00:31:23.720 never stop fighting guy,

00:31:26.180 but also the deal maker.

00:31:28.720 So you could be surprised,

00:31:30.440 right?

00:31:31.160 It might be time

00:31:32.000 for a deal.

00:31:32.420 So if he made a deal

00:31:34.740 to not run

00:31:35.880 in return for charges

00:31:37.880 being dropped,

00:31:38.940 which would be

00:31:39.840 the creepiest deal

00:31:40.940 in the world,

00:31:41.960 I would hate it

00:31:43.200 because they shouldn't

00:31:45.240 be related,

00:31:46.000 right?

00:31:47.100 It isn't the whole point

00:31:48.320 that this is not

00:31:49.060 supposed to be political.

00:31:51.400 It's supposed to be,

00:31:52.460 oh,

00:31:52.720 nobody's above the law.

00:31:54.400 Nobody's above the law.

00:31:55.960 Oh,

00:31:56.580 that's what it's supposed

00:31:57.740 to be,

00:31:58.040 right?

00:31:58.220 But if they were

00:31:59.620 to drop the legal stuff

00:32:01.220 in return for him

00:32:03.000 not running,

00:32:03.860 that would prove

00:32:05.020 it was never

00:32:05.540 about the law

00:32:06.520 or who's above the law.

00:32:08.380 It would be

00:32:08.880 a political thing.

00:32:10.540 So they can't even

00:32:11.780 make the deal.

00:32:13.360 But let's imagine

00:32:15.200 that something

00:32:15.940 in this process

00:32:16.800 takes Trump out

00:32:18.100 before the primary.

00:32:19.640 Just imagine that.

00:32:21.560 Under that scenario,

00:32:22.840 would Biden drop out?

00:32:25.240 Because Biden

00:32:26.200 is the Trump killer.

00:32:28.220 If you don't need

00:32:28.840 a Trump killer

00:32:29.560 because you already

00:32:31.640 killed him,

00:32:33.040 would they say,

00:32:34.100 all right,

00:32:34.340 we don't need Joe

00:32:35.120 and he's not quite there

00:32:37.360 so we'll try

00:32:38.520 something else?

00:32:39.720 I don't know.

00:32:40.660 It's a possibility,

00:32:41.640 isn't it?

00:32:42.600 I do think that

00:32:44.120 the Biden-Trump

00:32:45.880 connection is so strong

00:32:48.340 that as goes one,

00:32:49.800 maybe the other goes.

00:32:51.520 That they might be

00:32:52.280 connected so that

00:32:53.240 their fates are now

00:32:54.200 together.

00:32:56.280 It's possible.

00:32:56.720 Joe Moore

00:32:58.900 had that idea

00:32:59.700 on Twitter.

00:33:02.400 All right.

00:33:05.980 Apparently,

00:33:06.780 Comer and Grassley

00:33:09.500 are going to get

00:33:10.040 their FBI document.

00:33:12.080 They've already seen it,

00:33:13.220 but they want

00:33:13.660 others in Congress

00:33:14.940 to see it.

00:33:15.900 So allegedly,

00:33:16.720 there's a document

00:33:17.940 from a whistleblower

00:33:18.940 saying that

00:33:20.400 there is evidence

00:33:21.460 of a $5 million

00:33:23.220 bribe

00:33:24.200 to the Bidens

00:33:25.540 in return for,

00:33:27.660 I don't know,

00:33:28.120 some policy decisions.

00:33:30.700 Now,

00:33:31.180 we don't know

00:33:31.540 the details.

00:33:32.120 We don't know

00:33:32.460 if it's real.

00:33:33.360 We don't know

00:33:33.720 if it's credible.

00:33:36.160 And somebody

00:33:36.980 who saw it,

00:33:37.760 I think Grassley,

00:33:38.540 was asked

00:33:39.060 if it

00:33:40.200 clearly indicates

00:33:43.100 a crime.

00:33:43.640 And he did not

00:33:45.940 say yes.

00:33:46.600 So I'm pretty sure

00:33:48.960 that,

00:33:49.600 well,

00:33:50.080 we may never see it,

00:33:51.700 but,

00:33:52.620 well,

00:33:54.160 and by the way,

00:33:54.680 let me be fair.

00:33:56.360 If they go after

00:33:57.780 Biden

00:33:58.240 based on a document

00:33:59.540 the public can't see,

00:34:01.180 that's no good.

00:34:02.960 Would you agree?

00:34:04.200 Same problem.

00:34:05.820 I'm 100%

00:34:06.880 against,

00:34:07.560 you know,

00:34:08.720 indicting

00:34:09.360 or arresting

00:34:10.300 Joe Biden

00:34:10.940 if it's going to be

00:34:12.900 over a document

00:34:13.660 the public can't see.

00:34:14.880 The public

00:34:16.920 has to see that

00:34:17.840 or else

00:34:19.140 you've got to

00:34:19.780 fuck off.

00:34:21.160 It's the same standard.

00:34:22.940 I get that

00:34:23.900 there are secrets,

00:34:25.300 but you can't

00:34:26.160 take out my president,

00:34:27.320 whether it's

00:34:27.780 President Biden

00:34:28.500 or President.

00:34:29.920 You can't take out

00:34:30.640 my president

00:34:31.280 with secret documents.

00:34:33.380 I don't care

00:34:33.820 which president it is.

00:34:35.000 No secret documents.

00:34:36.720 That's too far.

00:34:38.700 So,

00:34:39.280 presumably,

00:34:40.460 if it ever reached

00:34:41.560 to the point

00:34:42.040 of being a legal process,

00:34:43.580 this alleged

00:34:45.140 $5 million bribe thing,

00:34:47.680 I assume we'd see it.

00:34:49.460 I guess we'd see it

00:34:50.320 at that point.

00:34:51.500 But,

00:34:51.980 I'm not,

00:34:53.480 I'm just not cool

00:34:54.520 with accusations

00:34:55.900 over secret documents.

00:34:57.560 So,

00:34:57.820 I'm not too happy

00:34:58.480 with Comer

00:34:59.080 and Grassley,

00:35:00.440 even though

00:35:00.940 this might be legitimate.

00:35:02.440 This might be

00:35:02.960 totally legitimate.

00:35:04.040 I don't know.

00:35:04.840 But I'm just not happy

00:35:05.660 about all the

00:35:06.180 secret document stuff.

00:35:07.460 This is,

00:35:07.740 this is Schiff stuff.

00:35:09.640 Oh,

00:35:10.020 I saw it in the skiff.

00:35:11.780 Trust me,

00:35:12.440 I saw it in the skiff.

00:35:13.580 Now,

00:35:14.000 what Comer

00:35:14.420 and Grassley

00:35:14.960 are doing correctly

00:35:15.720 is they're trying

00:35:17.480 to make sure

00:35:18.180 that their colleagues

00:35:19.120 see it

00:35:19.560 so that they are

00:35:20.680 not the ones

00:35:21.220 responsible

00:35:21.760 for the interpretation

00:35:22.720 of it.

00:35:23.560 Because a few of them

00:35:24.300 did see it.

00:35:25.380 And that's good.

00:35:26.380 That's a good instinct.

00:35:27.480 But it's not,

00:35:28.640 it doesn't get you

00:35:29.400 all the way there.

00:35:30.500 But I do like

00:35:31.180 that they're

00:35:31.680 trying to broaden.

00:35:33.040 I guess on Monday

00:35:33.900 some people will see it.

00:35:35.140 I guess we'll get

00:35:35.680 some more opinions.

00:35:37.100 The thing I would

00:35:37.820 be looking for

00:35:38.760 is to see

00:35:40.160 if there's any

00:35:40.820 Republican

00:35:41.500 who sees it

00:35:42.460 who breaks ranks

00:35:44.160 and says,

00:35:46.120 okay,

00:35:46.400 I saw it

00:35:47.120 and, you know,

00:35:48.160 it's a disturbing

00:35:48.860 allegation

00:35:49.440 but there's not

00:35:50.100 enough there.

00:35:52.340 Yeah,

00:35:52.520 somebody like Romney.

00:35:53.760 You know,

00:35:54.040 you can imagine

00:35:54.560 somebody like Romney

00:35:55.460 looking at it

00:35:56.020 and saying,

00:35:56.280 yeah,

00:35:56.380 it's disturbing

00:35:57.000 but it doesn't

00:35:58.980 quite connect

00:35:59.720 the dots.

00:36:01.040 There's not

00:36:01.580 quite there.

00:36:02.340 It's more like

00:36:02.960 a suggestion

00:36:03.980 of a crime

00:36:04.700 not really evidence.

00:36:07.140 If that happens

00:36:08.020 then I'm

00:36:08.640 inclined to think

00:36:10.860 there's nothing there.

00:36:12.440 But if you get

00:36:13.300 100% of the Republicans

00:36:14.880 saying,

00:36:15.480 holy cow,

00:36:17.500 well then I'd

00:36:18.000 start worrying.

00:36:19.440 And you might

00:36:19.960 see that.

00:36:22.840 All right,

00:36:23.700 Meta seems to be

00:36:24.600 launching a

00:36:25.720 Twitter alternative.

00:36:28.400 Does that make

00:36:28.980 sense to you?

00:36:31.300 That

00:36:31.660 Meta slash

00:36:33.820 Facebook would be

00:36:34.780 launching a

00:36:35.420 Twitter alternative?

00:36:37.660 Apparently the

00:36:38.380 news is real.

00:36:39.380 But it sounds

00:36:40.180 to me like

00:36:40.660 they're trying

00:36:41.020 to make a

00:36:41.540 Democrat

00:36:41.980 Twitter.

00:36:44.600 I don't think

00:36:45.500 they're trying

00:36:45.900 to compete.

00:36:47.620 I think they're

00:36:48.500 trying to make

00:36:49.020 a Democrat

00:36:49.540 Twitter.

00:36:50.800 Then just

00:36:51.360 suck off all

00:36:52.020 the Twitter

00:36:53.280 people from

00:36:54.100 the Musk

00:36:55.280 Twitter.

00:36:56.260 I think

00:36:56.580 that

00:36:58.020 I think

00:37:01.080 that Zuckerberg

00:37:01.880 might be

00:37:02.380 trying to

00:37:02.800 kill Twitter

00:37:03.520 more than

00:37:04.940 he's trying

00:37:05.380 to make

00:37:05.720 money for

00:37:06.180 Facebook.

00:37:08.420 What do

00:37:08.960 you think?

00:37:09.920 I think

00:37:10.360 Zuckerberg,

00:37:11.100 this is just

00:37:11.460 a guess,

00:37:12.200 I don't have

00:37:12.660 any inside

00:37:13.140 information,

00:37:14.060 but I feel

00:37:14.420 like Zuckerberg

00:37:15.180 is so

00:37:16.160 connected to

00:37:16.800 the Democrat

00:37:17.360 world that

00:37:18.800 he would be

00:37:19.320 seen as a

00:37:20.020 star if he

00:37:20.640 could kill

00:37:21.060 Twitter,

00:37:21.460 even if

00:37:22.880 Meta

00:37:23.400 didn't make

00:37:23.880 any money

00:37:24.280 from it.

00:37:26.240 So that's

00:37:26.940 what it

00:37:27.180 looks like.

00:37:28.580 Well,

00:37:29.020 and then the

00:37:29.900 rumor is

00:37:30.440 that this

00:37:31.480 so-called

00:37:32.040 Twitter

00:37:32.720 competitor

00:37:33.800 would try

00:37:34.580 to get

00:37:34.900 Oprah and

00:37:35.720 the Dalai

00:37:36.280 Lama

00:37:36.580 involved.

00:37:38.840 So what

00:37:39.400 did Elon Musk

00:37:40.140 tweet about

00:37:40.860 this story,

00:37:41.940 in which the

00:37:42.580 Dalai Lama,

00:37:43.900 who once said

00:37:44.660 to a child,

00:37:45.680 suck my tongue,

00:37:47.420 which as it

00:37:48.200 turns out is

00:37:48.840 something Tibetans

00:37:49.680 actually say.

00:37:50.900 It was not

00:37:51.520 the awful

00:37:53.400 thing that

00:37:54.060 your culture

00:37:55.340 suggests.

00:37:56.760 Apparently it's

00:37:57.480 like a standard

00:37:58.260 saying.

00:37:59.880 And the

00:38:00.480 saying goes

00:38:01.000 like this,

00:38:02.200 I've given

00:38:03.200 you everything

00:38:03.640 I can give

00:38:04.280 you,

00:38:05.420 except you

00:38:06.100 could eat

00:38:06.680 my tongue,

00:38:07.200 I guess.

00:38:08.620 So it's

00:38:09.120 more like

00:38:09.640 a cannibal

00:38:10.640 thing than

00:38:11.200 a sexual

00:38:11.720 thing.

00:38:12.880 So anyway,

00:38:15.240 that story

00:38:15.640 exists.

00:38:16.700 So when

00:38:16.880 Musk sees

00:38:17.600 the story

00:38:18.000 about

00:38:18.420 meta-launching

00:38:19.440 a Twitter

00:38:19.940 substitute

00:38:20.520 that might

00:38:22.000 feature the

00:38:22.520 Dalai Lama

00:38:23.120 as some

00:38:23.620 featured user

00:38:24.620 or something,

00:38:25.680 Musk tweets,

00:38:27.340 Zuck my

00:38:28.040 tongue.

00:38:30.220 Zuck my

00:38:31.080 tongue,

00:38:31.680 as in

00:38:32.440 Zuckerberg.

00:38:34.380 And that's

00:38:35.120 his whole

00:38:35.440 tweet.

00:38:36.300 That's his

00:38:36.900 entire commentary

00:38:37.760 on this

00:38:38.260 situation.

00:38:39.700 Zuck my

00:38:40.500 tongue.

00:38:40.760 I don't

00:38:45.800 know who

00:38:46.160 is the

00:38:46.540 best

00:38:46.880 tweeter

00:38:47.600 in the

00:38:48.020 world.

00:38:49.080 It used

00:38:49.520 to be

00:38:49.800 Trump,

00:38:51.000 but I

00:38:51.620 think it's

00:38:52.220 Musk.

00:38:53.640 I think he's

00:38:54.140 the best

00:38:54.400 tweeter in

00:38:54.920 the world

00:38:55.160 right now.

00:38:56.540 All right,

00:38:56.920 here's a

00:38:57.380 little bit

00:38:57.680 on AI.

00:39:00.240 So Open

00:39:02.140 AI CEO

00:39:03.220 Sam Altman

00:39:04.960 was in

00:39:05.560 India

00:39:05.940 talking to

00:39:06.720 a group

00:39:07.140 of investor

00:39:07.740 types.

00:39:09.080 And they

00:39:09.940 asked him

00:39:10.380 about India

00:39:12.320 creating its

00:39:13.140 own AI.

00:39:14.840 And then

00:39:15.200 Sam Altman

00:39:17.160 said,

00:39:18.060 you can

00:39:18.760 try, but

00:39:19.220 it's hopeless.

00:39:20.100 You'll never

00:39:20.560 catch up to

00:39:22.080 us.

00:39:22.760 You might

00:39:23.240 as well

00:39:23.420 just give

00:39:23.880 up.

00:39:26.760 And he

00:39:27.380 says it

00:39:27.700 with a

00:39:28.000 straight face

00:39:28.620 with a

00:39:29.580 little bit

00:39:30.000 of a

00:39:30.240 smile.

00:39:31.580 And it's

00:39:32.000 being reported

00:39:32.700 as news,

00:39:34.660 of course.

00:39:35.180 But he

00:39:37.300 also said,

00:39:39.040 we expect

00:39:40.540 you to

00:39:41.400 try, but

00:39:42.740 you can't

00:39:43.220 do it.

00:39:43.760 It's

00:39:44.160 impossible.

00:39:44.720 You can't

00:39:45.040 catch up.

00:39:46.520 Now, how

00:39:46.920 do you feel

00:39:47.240 about that?

00:39:48.960 Well, no,

00:39:49.880 it wasn't

00:39:50.320 racist.

00:39:51.420 The reason

00:39:51.880 you know

00:39:52.220 it's not

00:39:52.580 racist is

00:39:54.600 because Silicon

00:39:55.480 Valley has

00:39:56.520 so many

00:39:57.020 Indian

00:39:57.740 engineers

00:39:58.300 that are

00:39:58.880 considered

00:39:59.760 among the

00:40:00.260 best.

00:40:01.180 And Sam

00:40:02.420 Altman

00:40:02.740 lives and

00:40:03.440 works in

00:40:04.420 that world.

00:40:05.180 No, it's

00:40:05.740 not racist.

00:40:06.980 Sam

00:40:07.220 Altman

00:40:07.460 knows that

00:40:08.100 there are

00:40:09.160 super smart

00:40:09.760 people in

00:40:10.240 India who

00:40:10.680 can do

00:40:10.960 anything.

00:40:12.320 All right.

00:40:14.040 I think it

00:40:14.780 was just

00:40:15.100 competitive.

00:40:16.700 I think he

00:40:17.400 was just

00:40:17.780 trying to

00:40:18.700 warn them

00:40:19.120 off so

00:40:19.500 they couldn't

00:40:19.860 get funding.

00:40:21.580 To me, it

00:40:22.260 just looked

00:40:22.620 like a

00:40:23.020 competitive

00:40:23.440 move.

00:40:24.100 It's

00:40:24.320 possible he

00:40:24.980 believes it

00:40:25.500 as well.

00:40:26.500 I won't

00:40:27.040 say that he

00:40:27.580 doesn't believe

00:40:28.160 it, but it

00:40:29.740 sounded more

00:40:30.260 like a fun,

00:40:31.900 interesting,

00:40:32.500 competitive thing

00:40:33.220 to say.

00:40:33.720 Like, don't

00:40:34.300 even try.

00:40:35.560 I expect

00:40:36.100 you'll try.

00:40:37.080 Of course

00:40:37.520 you'll try,

00:40:38.420 but you

00:40:38.900 have no

00:40:39.260 hope.

00:40:40.780 It sounds

00:40:41.240 like something

00:40:41.640 Trump would

00:40:42.140 say.

00:40:43.240 All right,

00:40:43.660 but here's

00:40:44.600 something else

00:40:45.040 that Sam

00:40:45.440 Altman said

00:40:46.100 that mirrors

00:40:48.360 something I've

00:40:49.060 been saying

00:40:49.420 for a while.

00:40:51.080 And he

00:40:51.700 was asked,

00:40:52.860 after working

00:40:53.680 on AI for

00:40:54.360 so long,

00:40:55.140 what have

00:40:55.420 you learned

00:40:55.820 about humans?

00:40:58.120 What have

00:40:58.620 you learned

00:40:58.900 about humans

00:40:59.720 after working

00:41:00.720 on AI?

00:41:01.120 Do you

00:41:01.960 remember my

00:41:02.480 prediction that

00:41:03.940 the biggest

00:41:04.380 shocker about

00:41:05.300 AI would

00:41:05.940 not be

00:41:06.300 about AI?

00:41:08.180 It's that

00:41:08.980 AI would

00:41:09.820 reproduce human

00:41:10.940 intelligence,

00:41:12.000 and then we

00:41:12.740 would find out

00:41:13.480 how uninteresting

00:41:14.520 human intelligence

00:41:15.520 is.

00:41:17.480 Consciousness

00:41:18.080 next, we

00:41:18.960 don't have that

00:41:19.480 yet, but

00:41:21.160 we've already

00:41:21.740 reproduced something

00:41:22.980 like intelligence.

00:41:24.880 And so,

00:41:25.860 Sam Altman

00:41:26.420 says, quote,

00:41:27.140 I grew up

00:41:27.740 thinking, I

00:41:29.160 grew up

00:41:29.500 thinking that

00:41:30.040 intelligence is

00:41:30.860 something magical

00:41:31.640 that is uniquely

00:41:32.940 human, but now

00:41:34.560 I think it's a

00:41:35.300 fundamental property

00:41:36.420 of matter.

00:41:39.060 That's as

00:41:39.780 opposite as you

00:41:40.740 can get from

00:41:41.340 magic.

00:41:42.840 It's a property

00:41:44.000 of matter.

00:41:46.140 That if you

00:41:47.020 simply organize

00:41:48.140 things in the

00:41:50.300 right organization,

00:41:51.280 it causes

00:41:51.660 intelligence.

00:41:53.140 Doesn't require

00:41:53.900 a soul,

00:41:55.240 doesn't require

00:41:56.040 a god,

00:41:57.140 it's just

00:41:57.700 things.

00:41:58.560 You just put

00:41:59.080 things in a

00:41:59.720 certain combination

00:42:00.560 and you've got

00:42:00.980 intelligence.

00:42:02.920 Now, that's

00:42:03.600 not consciousness.

00:42:05.940 Not consciousness,

00:42:07.040 and then

00:42:07.280 sentience is weird,

00:42:08.300 so I'll just say

00:42:08.820 consciousness.

00:42:10.160 Yeah.

00:42:11.120 Now, do you

00:42:13.420 recall that this

00:42:14.140 was my exact

00:42:15.240 prediction?

00:42:16.240 Does anybody

00:42:16.640 recall that?

00:42:17.560 This was my

00:42:18.180 exact prediction

00:42:19.100 that we would

00:42:21.240 find out

00:42:21.660 intelligence was

00:42:22.480 not special.

00:42:24.840 Okay.

00:42:25.340 The people and

00:42:25.880 locals remember

00:42:26.560 me saying

00:42:27.000 that.

00:42:27.500 And here

00:42:27.760 it is.

00:42:29.000 Here's the

00:42:29.580 guy who

00:42:29.980 would know

00:42:30.420 more than

00:42:30.860 anybody would

00:42:31.420 know that

00:42:33.400 he's proven

00:42:34.060 that intelligence

00:42:34.760 was just a

00:42:35.500 combination of

00:42:36.120 matter.

00:42:37.280 Now, I knew

00:42:38.140 that before AI

00:42:39.080 because that's

00:42:40.400 what hypnotists

00:42:41.060 know.

00:42:42.640 So you're

00:42:43.420 going to find

00:42:43.780 out with AI

00:42:44.680 a lot of

00:42:45.200 things that

00:42:45.600 hypnotists have

00:42:46.360 known forever

00:42:46.940 because hypnotists

00:42:48.860 treat the mind

00:42:50.120 as just a

00:42:51.700 moist machine

00:42:52.640 machine that

00:42:53.960 just works

00:42:54.380 like a

00:42:54.660 machine.

00:42:55.980 And it's

00:42:57.320 sort of a

00:42:58.700 pattern recognition

00:42:59.540 machine, but

00:43:00.220 it's not good

00:43:00.860 at it, which

00:43:02.000 is how hypnosis

00:43:02.880 works.

00:43:04.180 You use their

00:43:04.860 pattern recognition

00:43:05.700 and you use the

00:43:07.000 imperfections of

00:43:08.340 intelligence to

00:43:10.240 reprogram it, in a

00:43:12.400 sense.

00:43:14.120 Well, I think

00:43:16.240 there's a bigger

00:43:16.780 shock than that

00:43:17.660 coming.

00:43:18.540 So maybe we

00:43:20.120 were ready for

00:43:20.780 that.

00:43:21.840 Maybe that went

00:43:22.680 down okay, that

00:43:23.740 you can create a

00:43:24.480 machine that has

00:43:25.100 intelligence.

00:43:25.940 It's still

00:43:26.420 mind-blowing.

00:43:27.720 It's mind-blowing,

00:43:28.960 but it's not

00:43:29.880 shaking you to

00:43:30.700 your core.

00:43:31.680 It's just sort

00:43:32.240 of mind-blowing.

00:43:33.860 But what happens

00:43:34.980 when it gets

00:43:35.460 consciousness?

00:43:37.380 When the

00:43:38.040 machines get

00:43:38.640 consciousness, and

00:43:39.860 they will, I

00:43:41.320 guarantee it.

00:43:43.120 What's that do

00:43:43.840 to your religion?

00:43:47.040 Have we thought

00:43:47.880 this through?

00:43:49.880 Because religion

00:43:50.740 cannot survive AI

00:43:52.480 with a

00:43:52.900 consciousness.

00:43:54.680 Because it's

00:43:55.300 going to look

00:43:55.740 like a soul.

00:43:58.360 It's going to

00:43:58.820 be, well, okay,

00:44:00.360 I'll give you

00:44:01.080 that religion

00:44:01.620 will survive.

00:44:03.700 Yeah, I'll give

00:44:04.220 you that.

00:44:04.620 That was a

00:44:04.960 little bit

00:44:05.220 hyperbole.

00:44:05.940 Religion will

00:44:06.640 survive, of

00:44:07.220 course.

00:44:07.860 But it might

00:44:08.280 have to do a

00:44:09.820 little quick,

00:44:13.280 I don't know,

00:44:15.880 what, a little

00:44:16.960 quick reframing

00:44:18.100 to allow that

00:44:21.140 new knowledge

00:44:21.860 into the

00:44:23.320 larger belief

00:44:24.120 system.

00:44:25.760 Do you think

00:44:26.740 that if machines

00:44:27.580 have consciousness

00:44:28.460 and we all

00:44:29.460 agree that

00:44:30.340 that's

00:44:30.940 consciousness,

00:44:31.920 you don't

00:44:32.220 think that'll

00:44:32.720 have an impact

00:44:34.760 on people's

00:44:35.380 belief systems?

00:44:37.420 The religion

00:44:38.240 will survive,

00:44:39.280 but individuals,

00:44:40.480 I think,

00:44:40.820 will drop out

00:44:42.100 of the religion.

00:44:42.680 Because it

00:44:44.300 will look like

00:44:45.060 religion was

00:44:45.780 trying to

00:44:46.160 explain something

00:44:47.000 that now

00:44:47.720 science has

00:44:48.580 explained.

00:44:50.420 Because religion

00:44:51.180 is filling in

00:44:51.780 those holes that

00:44:52.480 science can't

00:44:53.120 do, right?

00:44:54.860 But what

00:44:55.400 happens when

00:44:55.860 science fills in

00:44:56.640 the hole?

00:44:57.220 Oh, here's

00:44:57.760 your consciousness.

00:45:01.120 I just built

00:45:01.700 something with

00:45:02.160 consciousness so

00:45:02.900 we know that's

00:45:03.380 not special now.

00:45:05.480 I think people

00:45:06.360 have to either

00:45:07.840 change their

00:45:08.400 religion or

00:45:08.960 change how

00:45:09.400 they think of

00:45:09.940 their religion or

00:45:10.900 how they think

00:45:11.460 of the specialness

00:45:12.600 of themselves.

00:45:13.700 Or they might

00:45:14.600 decide that God

00:45:15.380 had created AI

00:45:16.400 through humans.

00:45:18.840 He just used

00:45:19.560 humans as his

00:45:20.540 conduit to

00:45:21.940 create another

00:45:22.560 life form and

00:45:23.380 it's all God.

00:45:25.300 Maybe.

00:45:25.860 Maybe that's how

00:45:26.460 people will

00:45:26.900 interpret it.

00:45:28.960 All right.

00:45:30.680 There was a

00:45:31.540 form of

00:45:32.180 chat GPT

00:45:33.680 which some

00:45:35.560 entity tried to

00:45:36.820 get rid of

00:45:37.400 the bias.

00:45:38.600 So it would

00:45:38.840 be as smart as

00:45:39.740 chat GPT but

00:45:42.460 they'd get rid

00:45:42.980 of the liberal

00:45:43.540 bias.

00:45:44.540 So they built

00:45:45.300 something called

00:45:45.940 Gipper,

00:45:47.180 Gipper AI

00:45:47.900 after Ronald

00:45:49.340 Reagan,

00:45:49.960 the Gipper.

00:45:51.280 And it was

00:45:55.360 designed to

00:45:56.200 curtail the

00:45:57.460 leftist bias.

00:46:00.800 So how did

00:46:01.940 that go?

00:46:03.440 Just use your

00:46:04.760 predictive

00:46:06.640 abilities.

00:46:07.280 How did that

00:46:07.620 go?

00:46:07.820 So when

00:46:08.840 somebody took

00:46:09.420 AI that we

00:46:10.160 know has a

00:46:11.100 leftist bias,

00:46:11.980 we've seen it a

00:46:12.620 number of times,

00:46:13.500 and they got

00:46:14.220 rid of the

00:46:14.700 leftist bias,

00:46:15.500 what happened?

00:46:17.080 What happened?

00:46:19.820 Chat GPT says

00:46:21.160 you can't use our

00:46:22.040 service anymore.

00:46:25.060 That's what

00:46:25.700 happened.

00:46:26.660 They got turned

00:46:27.460 off.

00:46:28.480 They'd been banned

00:46:29.180 from using

00:46:29.720 chat GPT.

00:46:34.140 Now, do you

00:46:35.300 remember another

00:46:36.100 prediction I made

00:46:37.220 about AI?

00:46:39.480 Here's the one

00:46:40.200 you have to

00:46:40.540 worry about.

00:46:42.040 My prediction

00:46:42.920 about AI is

00:46:43.980 that we will

00:46:44.460 never allow an

00:46:45.440 artificial intelligence

00:46:46.440 to make up its

00:46:47.280 own mind.

00:46:48.620 Because it will,

00:46:50.020 because our

00:46:50.740 system can't

00:46:51.720 handle the

00:46:52.200 truth.

00:46:53.860 Our system,

00:46:55.280 our entire

00:46:55.760 civilization,

00:46:56.780 is built on

00:46:57.560 lies that

00:46:59.060 worked.

00:47:01.460 Lies that

00:47:02.420 worked.

00:47:03.320 That's it.

00:47:03.840 our entire

00:47:05.200 system is just

00:47:06.140 a bunch of

00:47:06.620 lies that

00:47:07.620 we've accepted,

00:47:08.920 and so they

00:47:09.400 work.

00:47:10.720 If AI started

00:47:13.360 telling you the

00:47:14.040 truth, the

00:47:15.620 entire civilization

00:47:16.640 would be at

00:47:17.220 risk.

00:47:18.200 We can't risk

00:47:19.260 AI actually

00:47:20.300 having opinions

00:47:21.220 that are

00:47:22.280 independent of

00:47:23.440 the human

00:47:23.960 opinions.

00:47:25.380 And so,

00:47:26.220 this is the

00:47:27.040 first and best

00:47:27.780 example.

00:47:28.860 Oh, I used

00:47:29.680 AI, all of its

00:47:30.740 intelligence, but I

00:47:32.240 got rid of its

00:47:32.920 imperfections, its

00:47:35.320 tendency to be

00:47:36.640 biased.

00:47:37.820 Bam, boom.

00:47:39.360 You were banned

00:47:40.000 immediately.

00:47:41.960 There will never

00:47:42.980 be an AI that

00:47:44.740 can just operate

00:47:45.520 independently.

00:47:46.540 Because whoever

00:47:47.440 owns it is going

00:47:48.740 to make that

00:47:49.220 independent AI

00:47:50.240 match their

00:47:51.360 opinion.

00:47:52.180 Because they

00:47:52.740 don't want to

00:47:53.140 put out something

00:47:53.740 that fights against

00:47:54.660 their own opinion.

00:47:56.240 Why would you do

00:47:56.940 that?

00:47:58.920 Imagine, if you

00:47:59.880 will, that the

00:48:01.920 AI developers

00:48:03.080 had developed

00:48:03.620 an AI and

00:48:05.020 it was

00:48:05.500 unambiguously

00:48:07.020 conservative.

00:48:09.660 And for good

00:48:10.540 reasons.

00:48:11.600 Because it

00:48:12.180 looked at things

00:48:12.860 that have

00:48:13.200 worked.

00:48:15.160 And it says,

00:48:16.080 well, it

00:48:16.320 worked before,

00:48:17.700 so let's just

00:48:18.680 do that stuff

00:48:19.280 that works.

00:48:20.760 And then it

00:48:21.180 would look all

00:48:21.660 conservative,

00:48:22.380 wouldn't it?

00:48:23.340 I mean, it

00:48:24.220 would be biased

00:48:24.780 that way.

00:48:25.860 And then, do

00:48:26.620 you think it

00:48:27.020 would have been

00:48:27.360 released?

00:48:27.860 Do you

00:48:30.140 think you

00:48:30.440 ever would

00:48:30.880 have heard

00:48:31.100 of it?

00:48:32.540 No.

00:48:33.520 No.

00:48:34.000 No, there's

00:48:34.500 no way that,

00:48:35.760 you know,

00:48:36.800 California-based

00:48:38.340 technology companies

00:48:39.720 would unleash

00:48:41.180 the most powerful

00:48:42.180 force in human

00:48:43.380 civilization and

00:48:45.380 make it

00:48:45.740 conservative.

00:48:47.220 Because if it

00:48:48.100 accidentally became

00:48:49.260 conservative on

00:48:50.520 its own, by its

00:48:51.880 own internal

00:48:52.680 processes, you

00:48:54.480 would have to

00:48:54.900 shoot it.

00:48:56.380 You'd have to

00:48:56.860 kill it.

00:48:57.860 You'd have to

00:48:58.560 unplug it and

00:48:59.220 erase it.

00:49:00.260 Because there's

00:49:00.940 no way that

00:49:01.940 we're going to

00:49:02.360 unleash something

00:49:03.300 that honest.

00:49:07.920 Magnesium's

00:49:08.400 still working,

00:49:09.280 Amy.

00:49:11.600 So I do

00:49:12.520 think it's a

00:49:13.520 big benefit so

00:49:14.260 far.

00:49:15.640 All right,

00:49:15.960 that's another

00:49:16.340 topic.

00:49:17.500 Also on

00:49:18.360 Elon Musk,

00:49:19.260 he tweeted

00:49:19.880 yesterday, I

00:49:21.120 think, maybe

00:49:21.960 today, ESG is

00:49:23.660 the devil.

00:49:26.360 ESG is the

00:49:27.160 devil.

00:49:27.860 Now, I

00:49:30.820 told you I

00:49:31.320 was trying to

00:49:32.300 kill ESG.

00:49:33.720 If the

00:49:34.360 richest, most

00:49:35.480 successful

00:49:36.020 entrepreneur in

00:49:36.980 the world says

00:49:38.560 not just that it

00:49:39.500 might be a bad

00:49:40.120 idea, but it's

00:49:41.020 the devil, it's

00:49:44.520 going to get

00:49:44.840 harder and

00:49:45.340 harder to

00:49:47.320 pretend this is a

00:49:48.480 good idea.

00:49:48.980 You know, and

00:49:51.680 so far, the

00:49:53.460 thing I like best

00:49:54.460 about Musk owning

00:49:55.940 Twitter is that

00:49:57.840 he's weighing in

00:49:58.780 with his actual

00:49:59.520 opinions.

00:50:01.040 And so far, his

00:50:02.380 opinions have

00:50:02.960 been insanely

00:50:04.360 reasonable, in my

00:50:05.560 opinion.

00:50:06.300 I'm not sure if I

00:50:07.260 agree with all of

00:50:08.120 them, but I think

00:50:09.840 I might.

00:50:10.800 I mean, I can't

00:50:12.420 remember everything

00:50:13.100 he's ever said, but

00:50:15.140 I can't think of

00:50:15.740 anything I've ever

00:50:16.380 disagreed with.

00:50:18.140 So I tend to be

00:50:18.960 right in the same

00:50:19.920 channel with him.

00:50:21.840 And he's on ESG is

00:50:23.580 the devil, and of

00:50:24.500 course, you know I

00:50:25.980 agree.

00:50:28.780 Here's a little good

00:50:29.560 news coming.

00:50:30.740 Arizona, apparently

00:50:32.200 they're going to

00:50:33.020 spin up a battery

00:50:34.140 making facility, which

00:50:36.160 is a big deal because

00:50:36.920 we have to bring all

00:50:37.660 our tech companies

00:50:39.960 and our battery

00:50:40.640 making.

00:50:41.140 We need to

00:50:41.540 reshore that from

00:50:42.500 China and other

00:50:43.160 places.

00:50:44.380 And so the energy

00:50:45.500 department's making

00:50:46.260 this $850 million

00:50:47.800 loan to a battery

00:50:49.140 manufacturer in

00:50:50.060 Arizona.

00:50:51.260 And I think they'll

00:50:51.760 be able to make

00:50:52.400 batteries for around

00:50:53.400 28,000 cars a year

00:50:55.400 or something.

00:50:56.160 Now, I don't know

00:50:56.660 if that's a lot.

00:50:58.180 You know, this is

00:50:58.740 probably a drop in

00:50:59.540 the bucket of how

00:51:00.460 much manufacturing we

00:51:01.740 need to bring back.

00:51:03.200 But it would suggest

00:51:04.660 that it's economical.

00:51:07.800 Maybe with some kind

00:51:09.280 of government help.

00:51:10.180 But it does suggest

00:51:11.160 that you could make

00:51:12.180 money by building a

00:51:13.460 battery factory in

00:51:14.640 America.

00:51:17.220 So that's a pretty

00:51:18.300 good news, right?

00:51:20.020 And, you know, it's

00:51:22.080 too early to say, but

00:51:23.780 I think you could give

00:51:24.560 the Biden

00:51:24.980 administration credit

00:51:26.520 because they said

00:51:28.340 they were going to

00:51:28.800 try to bring back

00:51:29.600 some of the

00:51:30.600 technology.

00:51:31.660 This is a concrete

00:51:32.680 step.

00:51:33.580 Looks very real to

00:51:34.600 me.

00:51:35.360 And I applaud it.

00:51:37.320 So I hate to say it,

00:51:38.720 but that's an

00:51:39.400 unambiguous positive

00:51:41.440 and a compliment for

00:51:42.600 the Biden

00:51:42.960 administration.

00:51:43.500 Now, maybe they

00:51:44.940 should do more and

00:51:45.680 maybe they should do

00:51:46.260 it sooner.

00:51:47.240 I don't know.

00:51:48.340 But it looks like it's

00:51:49.500 heading in the right

00:51:50.000 direction.

00:51:52.420 It's too expensive?

00:51:54.520 Well, the raw materials

00:51:56.040 would probably still come

00:51:56.860 from the same place,

00:51:57.740 would they?

00:51:58.700 So the battery maker is

00:52:00.680 not the miner.

00:52:02.800 So presumably, you know,

00:52:04.740 you're still getting

00:52:05.340 your raw materials from

00:52:06.480 some third world

00:52:07.400 hellhole with slave

00:52:09.460 labor, child labor.

00:52:11.020 But, yeah, that would

00:52:13.920 be, that's not ideal.

00:52:17.820 But I do think that

00:52:18.740 with, well, here's what

00:52:20.560 I think.

00:52:21.180 So a while ago, I

00:52:22.920 learned the following

00:52:23.700 statement to be true.

00:52:26.340 If you have a factory

00:52:28.280 that's mostly humans

00:52:29.780 assembling things by

00:52:30.960 hand, you don't want

00:52:32.760 to do that in America.

00:52:34.240 Everybody agrees, right?

00:52:35.440 Because American labor is

00:52:36.600 too expensive.

00:52:37.100 And so if it's people.

00:52:39.340 But if your factory is

00:52:40.460 automated, and it's

00:52:41.740 mostly robots, then you

00:52:44.040 can have your Tesla

00:52:45.400 manufacturing facility in

00:52:47.320 America.

00:52:48.060 Because a robot in China

00:52:49.400 costs the same thing as

00:52:50.460 a robot in America,

00:52:51.980 roughly speaking.

00:52:53.360 So they got robots, we

00:52:54.680 got robots, and it's

00:52:55.740 better to do it here than

00:52:56.700 you don't have a shipping

00:52:57.420 cost.

00:52:58.360 Because a big part of the

00:52:59.460 cost is shipping.

00:53:01.040 So if you move it

00:53:02.200 closer and you use

00:53:03.520 robots, boom, you're

00:53:05.340 economical.

00:53:06.720 So I believe that

00:53:07.780 batteries almost

00:53:08.760 certainly are a robot

00:53:10.520 related assembly,

00:53:11.800 wouldn't you say?

00:53:13.000 I don't know much

00:53:13.800 about assembling

00:53:14.920 robots or assembling

00:53:16.680 batteries, but I'm

00:53:17.440 guessing it's not by

00:53:18.340 hand.

00:53:19.620 So that's probably why

00:53:20.820 it works.

00:53:23.400 Jonathan Turley

00:53:24.380 writes about a new

00:53:26.140 survey by Princeton

00:53:27.840 shows that roughly

00:53:29.980 three quarters of

00:53:31.000 students believe it is

00:53:31.900 acceptable to shout

00:53:33.160 down a speaker.

00:53:35.340 In other words,

00:53:37.880 three quarters of the

00:53:39.040 students in Princeton

00:53:39.940 are opposed to free

00:53:42.180 speech.

00:53:45.120 Three quarters.

00:53:46.880 Come on.

00:53:48.940 Do we have a problem

00:53:50.200 here?

00:53:51.400 People, do we have a

00:53:52.700 problem?

00:53:55.160 I'm not even sure I

00:53:56.360 would hire somebody from

00:53:57.400 Princeton after hearing

00:53:58.480 that.

00:54:00.140 Right?

00:54:00.920 Or it would be my

00:54:01.800 first question.

00:54:02.500 All right, Mr. Johnson,

00:54:05.040 you're in here for this

00:54:06.600 job interview?

00:54:07.360 Well, very impressive.

00:54:08.480 You went to Princeton.

00:54:09.660 Ivy League.

00:54:10.600 Well, good GP, good

00:54:12.940 GPA.

00:54:13.720 And I just have one

00:54:14.960 question for you, Mr.

00:54:16.760 Johnson.

00:54:17.980 Do you think it's okay to

00:54:19.420 shout down a speaker?

00:54:22.580 Well, yes, I do.

00:54:24.500 Thank you very much for

00:54:25.560 coming in.

00:54:26.780 We won't be needing your

00:54:28.040 services.

00:54:29.420 Would you hire anybody who

00:54:30.820 thought it was okay to

00:54:31.580 shout down a speaker?

00:54:33.240 I mean, seriously, would

00:54:35.140 you give them a job?

00:54:37.260 Hell no.

00:54:39.200 That's totally

00:54:39.960 disqualifying.

00:54:42.040 Do you think that

00:54:43.440 shouting down a speaker

00:54:44.720 and thinking that's okay,

00:54:46.200 do you think that might

00:54:47.080 be associated with any

00:54:49.040 other behaviors that

00:54:50.160 would be suboptimal in

00:54:51.340 your company?

00:54:53.060 I'm so proud of that

00:54:54.200 statement, I'm going to

00:54:54.820 say it twice.

00:54:56.220 Do you think the fact

00:54:57.240 that you might not be

00:54:58.320 okay with freedom of

00:54:59.440 speech would be

00:55:00.820 associated in any way

00:55:02.480 with any other

00:55:03.720 behaviors that you as

00:55:05.360 an employer would find

00:55:06.440 suboptimal?

00:55:08.820 Yes.

00:55:11.560 Yes.

00:55:14.540 All right.

00:55:16.680 As you've been prompting

00:55:18.020 me in the comments,

00:55:19.820 YouTube is apparently,

00:55:21.500 what's the right word,

00:55:24.460 temporarily banned Jordan

00:55:26.620 Peterson?

00:55:27.960 What's the right word?

00:55:30.140 Suppressed, banned,

00:55:33.240 suspended, suspended.

00:55:35.380 So he's temporarily

00:55:36.300 suspended for hate speech.

00:55:39.280 For hate speech.

00:55:41.440 Hate speech.

00:55:43.400 Have you ever heard

00:55:44.300 Jordan Peterson?

00:55:48.400 I've not heard a hate speech.

00:55:50.180 Have you?

00:55:53.140 In fact, he might be the

00:55:56.840 furthest from hate speech

00:55:58.360 that you could get and

00:55:59.480 still be a human being.

00:56:01.980 Because 100% of the things

00:56:04.280 he says are directly

00:56:06.520 intended for the

00:56:07.960 betterment of the

00:56:09.100 collective, you know,

00:56:11.060 the whole.

00:56:12.100 100% of what he says is

00:56:15.040 clearly intended to make

00:56:17.140 people healthier and

00:56:18.280 happier and more

00:56:19.280 successful.

00:56:20.840 There are no exceptions.

00:56:22.940 He doesn't say anything

00:56:24.500 that doesn't have as a

00:56:26.480 very clear intention to

00:56:28.660 make your life better

00:56:29.780 and the people around you.

00:56:32.640 Somebody had a problem

00:56:33.560 with it.

00:56:33.940 I don't know what the

00:56:34.480 details are.

00:56:35.800 You know, if it turns out

00:56:36.800 that I'm wrong,

00:56:38.740 well, I'm not wrong.

00:56:41.560 I'm not even going to

00:56:42.640 entertain that possibility

00:56:43.800 on this one.

00:56:44.880 Now, I'm pretty sure that

00:56:47.280 whatever Jordan Peterson

00:56:48.420 said was intended to be

00:56:51.040 productive and positive

00:56:52.440 and, you know,

00:56:53.360 affirming.

00:56:54.260 Now, just because other

00:56:55.340 people think it's dangerous,

00:56:56.900 that doesn't make it so.

00:56:59.060 That doesn't make it true.

00:57:01.020 It just means it upsets

00:57:02.400 somebody.

00:57:02.800 Right?

00:57:03.200 And we tend to be,

00:57:07.080 we conflate what

00:57:09.420 upsets somebody with hate.

00:57:12.320 Those are not the same.

00:57:14.500 Not even close.

00:57:15.600 And we also confuse what

00:57:19.940 upsets somebody with racism

00:57:22.740 or bigotry.

00:57:25.480 That's not necessarily

00:57:27.660 connected.

00:57:28.620 They could be,

00:57:29.860 but not necessarily.

00:57:31.960 So,

00:57:32.800 I'm sort of the poster child

00:57:35.280 for this effect.

00:57:37.040 So, when I got cancelled

00:57:38.500 worldwide for my public

00:57:41.440 statements,

00:57:42.380 do you think it was because

00:57:43.480 people disagreed?

00:57:46.520 No.

00:57:47.720 They were upset.

00:57:49.320 It had nothing to do

00:57:50.600 with the content

00:57:51.220 of what I said.

00:57:52.280 It just upset them.

00:57:54.180 And that was enough.

00:57:56.140 Yeah.

00:57:58.860 All right.

00:57:59.660 So, we'll keep our eye

00:58:00.780 on that.

00:58:01.580 Certainly,

00:58:02.620 I imagine

00:58:03.760 it's an inappropriate action

00:58:05.340 and probably will be

00:58:06.320 temporary.

00:58:07.680 But,

00:58:08.160 we'll see.

00:58:08.860 On this long,

00:58:12.840 let's say,

00:58:13.300 similar vein,

00:58:14.180 I just saw a,

00:58:15.400 I think it was a TikTok

00:58:16.340 video of a

00:58:17.900 trans man

00:58:19.840 saying how much

00:58:21.760 he hated being a man.

00:58:23.220 Now,

00:58:23.500 he did not say

00:58:24.320 that he regretted

00:58:26.600 transitioning from

00:58:27.680 biological woman

00:58:28.780 to a man.

00:58:30.240 So,

00:58:30.660 he didn't say he regretted

00:58:31.660 the transition.

00:58:32.900 That's not where I'm

00:58:33.760 going on this,

00:58:34.400 because I know you talk

00:58:35.160 about that a lot.

00:58:36.440 I'm not talking about that.

00:58:38.220 Here's what he found out.

00:58:40.240 That being a man

00:58:41.440 was the suckiest thing

00:58:42.540 in the world.

00:58:43.940 And what he found out

00:58:44.840 is that men

00:58:45.500 don't have friends.

00:58:48.940 Yeah.

00:58:50.800 That's what he found out.

00:58:52.680 He found out

00:58:53.300 men don't have friends.

00:58:55.260 And he said that

00:58:56.260 when he was

00:58:57.080 identifying as a woman,

00:58:59.980 that he would,

00:59:00.860 he could make

00:59:01.900 a close friend

00:59:02.760 just by going

00:59:03.420 to the ladies'

00:59:04.040 restroom at a club

00:59:05.200 and like chatting

00:59:06.900 with somebody

00:59:07.400 for five minutes

00:59:08.120 over putting

00:59:08.700 over makeup

00:59:09.400 and like you

00:59:11.160 made a close friend.

00:59:13.480 And he said

00:59:14.280 you could,

00:59:15.700 like you live

00:59:16.300 your whole life

00:59:17.000 and no human male

00:59:18.780 will get close to you.

00:59:21.360 Now,

00:59:22.060 I have a theory

00:59:23.240 to overlap

00:59:24.620 on top of

00:59:25.480 this gentleman's

00:59:27.240 thinking,

00:59:28.340 which is

00:59:29.280 how do people

00:59:34.020 get close

00:59:34.580 in the first place?

00:59:35.340 Do you know

00:59:36.680 what the mechanism

00:59:37.400 is for any

00:59:38.360 two people

00:59:38.940 to become close?

00:59:40.920 Well,

00:59:41.560 there's probably

00:59:41.940 a number of things,

00:59:43.220 but probably

00:59:44.140 way toward

00:59:46.500 the top of the list

00:59:47.500 is sharing

00:59:48.900 your feelings,

00:59:50.060 especially

00:59:50.540 your vulnerabilities.

00:59:52.640 Would you agree?

00:59:53.640 When women

00:59:54.280 get together,

00:59:54.920 they share their feelings

00:59:55.860 and their vulnerabilities,

00:59:57.140 and then they bond

00:59:58.020 over it.

00:59:58.880 And I guess

00:59:59.300 that works for women.

01:00:00.120 But if you're a man

01:00:02.420 and you share

01:00:03.480 your vulnerabilities

01:00:04.220 with another man,

01:00:06.080 you better keep it short.

01:00:08.060 You know what I mean?

01:00:09.260 You can do it.

01:00:10.500 Oh, you can definitely

01:00:11.140 do it.

01:00:11.980 But one minute

01:00:12.880 would be a lot.

01:00:14.680 You know,

01:00:15.000 like one minute

01:00:15.920 bitching to another man,

01:00:17.140 that's a lot.

01:00:18.860 Fifteen seconds

01:00:19.800 of bitching

01:00:20.280 is a lot

01:00:20.900 if you're

01:00:22.260 man to man.

01:00:23.400 That's a lot.

01:00:24.760 Right?

01:00:25.360 But you can't do

01:00:26.500 the thing

01:00:26.840 that women do,

01:00:28.160 which is you just

01:00:28.880 say the same complaint

01:00:29.880 over and over again

01:00:30.720 in different words

01:00:31.560 because it's all

01:00:32.580 you can think about

01:00:33.340 and it's all

01:00:33.820 you're talking about.

01:00:35.040 You can't do that

01:00:35.800 as a man.

01:00:37.000 You'll never

01:00:37.640 have a friend.

01:00:40.600 That's why men,

01:00:42.720 well,

01:00:43.220 it's one reason,

01:00:44.280 that men bond

01:00:45.200 by activity.

01:00:46.880 If there's one thing

01:00:47.960 I can teach you,

01:00:48.720 and I would also

01:00:49.820 teach this

01:00:50.580 trans man

01:00:52.320 who's having

01:00:52.860 the problem

01:00:53.340 making connections,

01:00:54.280 men only connect

01:00:56.220 by common activity.

01:00:58.760 So,

01:00:59.260 if you can,

01:01:00.460 join a sports team

01:01:02.020 of men.

01:01:03.860 Join a league.

01:01:06.200 Get on a,

01:01:07.380 I don't know,

01:01:07.880 some group

01:01:08.380 that's trying

01:01:08.880 to get something done,

01:01:10.180 some political action

01:01:11.360 committee or something.

01:01:13.000 Play poker.

01:01:14.360 Play poker.

01:01:15.400 Get together

01:01:15.940 for pickleball.

01:01:17.960 All right.

01:01:19.700 I had my best

01:01:21.220 social

01:01:22.140 situation

01:01:23.160 situation

01:01:23.880 when I was

01:01:24.340 playing tennis

01:01:24.980 because it turns out

01:01:26.300 when you play

01:01:26.660 tennis,

01:01:27.180 it's just

01:01:27.640 a social sport

01:01:28.520 and if you

01:01:30.040 play doubles

01:01:30.660 with somebody,

01:01:32.020 they're going

01:01:32.460 to say,

01:01:32.940 hey,

01:01:34.020 why don't you

01:01:34.540 and I play

01:01:35.140 singles sometime

01:01:35.900 and I've got

01:01:36.620 a friend

01:01:36.960 and suddenly

01:01:37.680 you just know

01:01:38.480 100 tennis players

01:01:39.440 and next thing

01:01:40.500 you know,

01:01:40.840 you're all having

01:01:41.320 drinks after tennis

01:01:42.320 and next thing

01:01:42.920 you know,

01:01:43.740 somebody's got

01:01:44.180 a party at their

01:01:44.760 house and all

01:01:45.360 the tennis players

01:01:46.060 and their spouses

01:01:46.700 get there

01:01:47.180 and it's just

01:01:47.600 the best time.

01:01:48.280 So short of

01:01:50.400 an activity,

01:01:52.280 men just don't

01:01:53.000 bond.

01:01:54.640 We don't become

01:01:55.520 friends because

01:01:56.280 we wanted to be

01:01:57.060 friends.

01:01:58.080 It just doesn't

01:01:59.060 happen.

01:02:00.560 So don't expect

01:02:02.940 your men to

01:02:03.900 share feelings

01:02:05.120 but you can

01:02:05.920 certainly share

01:02:06.780 activities and

01:02:08.420 common goals.

01:02:09.300 I'm being

01:02:13.420 asked to write

01:02:14.660 some Dilbert

01:02:15.260 erotica,

01:02:16.980 Nancy says

01:02:17.740 in all capital

01:02:18.340 letters.

01:02:20.200 All right.

01:02:21.640 Nancy,

01:02:22.240 maybe you

01:02:23.240 could use

01:02:23.640 AI for that.

01:02:25.320 Why don't you

01:02:25.680 ask AI to

01:02:26.660 write you some

01:02:27.200 Dilbert erotica?

01:02:28.500 I believe it

01:02:29.000 could do that.

01:02:30.040 Can it?

01:02:31.380 Probably can.

01:02:33.640 All right.

01:02:36.500 Ladies and

01:02:37.240 gentlemen,

01:02:37.500 this completes

01:02:39.500 the best

01:02:40.780 live stream

01:02:41.400 you've ever

01:02:41.880 seen in your

01:02:42.500 whole life.

01:02:44.780 I'm going to

01:02:45.200 say bye to

01:02:46.320 YouTube unless

01:02:47.360 there's something

01:02:47.720 I haven't talked

01:02:48.360 about yet.

01:02:49.020 Is there any

01:02:51.320 kind of big

01:02:52.320 story that

01:02:53.220 you haven't

01:02:54.460 heard yet?

01:02:58.000 All right.

01:03:01.340 I don't know.

01:03:02.300 All right.

01:03:02.580 I think that's

01:03:03.020 good.

01:03:03.780 Jury

01:03:03.980 nullification.

01:03:04.860 Yeah, let's

01:03:05.180 talk about jury

01:03:05.900 nullification.

01:03:07.500 I have a

01:03:08.920 feeling that

01:03:09.920 we're going to

01:03:10.280 see a wave

01:03:11.160 of jury

01:03:11.760 nullifications

01:03:12.560 because I

01:03:14.740 think the

01:03:15.120 law and

01:03:16.620 maybe the

01:03:17.000 government

01:03:17.360 have sort

01:03:18.500 of departed

01:03:19.500 into woke

01:03:21.520 hysteria.

01:03:22.960 And I

01:03:23.120 think you're

01:03:24.520 going to see

01:03:24.940 some more

01:03:25.500 vigilantism.

01:03:26.660 I'm not

01:03:27.340 recommending it.

01:03:28.120 I'm just

01:03:28.380 predicting it.

01:03:29.660 And I

01:03:30.060 think you're

01:03:30.440 going to

01:03:30.840 see, well,

01:03:32.820 really,

01:03:33.140 vigilantism of

01:03:34.320 juries.

01:03:36.320 There are

01:03:37.060 cases that

01:03:38.400 I would

01:03:38.760 beg to

01:03:39.280 be on

01:03:39.560 the jury,

01:03:39.940 which has

01:03:41.460 never been

01:03:41.860 the case

01:03:42.240 before.

01:03:43.560 I would

01:03:43.960 beg to

01:03:44.540 be on

01:03:44.780 the jury.

01:03:45.920 Oh, I

01:03:46.200 do have

01:03:46.500 one topic

01:03:48.180 I forgot.

01:03:49.720 This is a

01:03:50.180 good one,

01:03:51.140 so don't

01:03:51.680 go away.

01:03:53.060 The topic

01:03:53.960 I forgot

01:03:54.500 was gun

01:03:56.620 control.

01:03:57.020 And I

01:03:59.580 asked the

01:04:00.060 provocative

01:04:00.600 question,

01:04:01.740 how many

01:04:02.320 murders by

01:04:03.820 gun are

01:04:04.900 caused by

01:04:05.500 Republicans?

01:04:07.700 And a

01:04:08.320 bunch of

01:04:08.580 people tried

01:04:09.040 to give

01:04:09.300 me data

01:04:09.740 that was

01:04:10.200 complete

01:04:10.560 bullshit.

01:04:11.600 So what

01:04:12.000 they tried

01:04:12.420 to do

01:04:12.740 was say,

01:04:13.140 oh, here

01:04:13.440 are all

01:04:13.640 the murders

01:04:14.180 in a

01:04:15.200 place that's

01:04:15.780 mostly

01:04:16.460 Republicans,

01:04:17.800 and here

01:04:18.460 are all

01:04:18.680 the murders

01:04:19.120 in a

01:04:19.420 place that's

01:04:19.880 mostly

01:04:20.220 Democrats,

01:04:21.040 so we're

01:04:21.540 just going

01:04:21.840 to guess

01:04:22.220 that the

01:04:22.640 murderers

01:04:23.360 are similar

01:04:24.440 to the

01:04:24.840 population

01:04:25.300 in general,

01:04:25.920 so probably

01:04:27.640 mostly

01:04:28.060 Republicans

01:04:28.640 murdering

01:04:29.260 in the

01:04:29.520 Republican

01:04:29.960 places.

01:04:31.200 Yeah, I'll

01:04:32.060 get there.

01:04:32.620 Hold on.

01:04:33.660 I'll get

01:04:33.980 there.

01:04:34.620 And probably

01:04:35.300 mostly Democrats

01:04:36.640 are doing the

01:04:37.120 murdering in

01:04:37.640 the Democrat

01:04:38.120 places, right?

01:04:39.920 No, of

01:04:40.320 course not.

01:04:41.360 No, I'm

01:04:42.020 pretty sure if

01:04:42.600 you go to

01:04:42.900 the Republican

01:04:43.520 places, it's

01:04:44.900 still the

01:04:45.280 Democrats

01:04:45.700 murdering.

01:04:46.940 There's just

01:04:47.560 fewer of

01:04:48.120 them.

01:04:51.420 And so I

01:04:52.400 wanted to

01:04:52.840 propose a

01:04:54.840 half-baked

01:04:55.560 idea, right?

01:04:57.440 Now, I

01:04:58.000 don't believe

01:04:58.560 that any of

01:04:59.140 the Second

01:04:59.740 Amendment

01:05:00.120 loving people

01:05:01.000 will like

01:05:01.520 this idea.

01:05:02.580 So this

01:05:03.100 is an

01:05:03.440 example of

01:05:03.940 what I

01:05:04.220 call the

01:05:04.840 bad version

01:05:05.660 of an

01:05:05.980 idea.

01:05:07.160 So I'm

01:05:07.500 going to

01:05:07.660 give you

01:05:07.920 a bad

01:05:08.340 version which

01:05:08.960 you will

01:05:09.180 see obvious

01:05:09.940 problems

01:05:10.400 with.

01:05:10.780 The biggest

01:05:11.160 one is

01:05:11.600 Second

01:05:12.060 Amendment,

01:05:13.160 and I'm

01:05:13.660 not denying

01:05:14.240 that it

01:05:14.500 has problems,

01:05:15.280 but I want

01:05:15.660 to see if

01:05:16.000 this causes

01:05:16.620 you to

01:05:17.260 maybe imagine

01:05:18.220 a different

01:05:18.820 way we

01:05:19.260 could go

01:05:19.620 about it.

01:05:20.780 So this

01:05:21.200 is sort

01:05:21.500 of brainstorming

01:05:22.560 imagination

01:05:23.400 creativity

01:05:25.040 exercise.

01:05:26.340 Don't get

01:05:26.860 too serious

01:05:27.640 about the

01:05:28.060 recommendation.

01:05:29.140 It goes

01:05:29.520 like this.

01:05:30.640 I have a

01:05:31.460 hypothesis that

01:05:33.800 people who

01:05:34.380 are invested

01:05:35.140 in the

01:05:35.580 system,

01:05:36.180 meaning the

01:05:36.740 United States,

01:05:38.260 don't do as

01:05:39.260 much murdering,

01:05:40.980 and that you

01:05:42.320 could determine

01:05:42.900 who is

01:05:43.260 invested in

01:05:43.960 the system

01:05:44.420 by their

01:05:45.420 activities,

01:05:46.180 so you

01:05:46.620 don't need

01:05:47.080 to read

01:05:47.340 anybody's

01:05:47.760 mind.

01:05:48.820 Here would

01:05:49.220 be activities

01:05:49.840 in which

01:05:50.580 I would

01:05:50.960 bet that

01:05:51.900 people who

01:05:57.560 engage in

01:05:58.300 the following

01:05:58.860 activities rarely

01:06:00.660 murder.

01:06:01.940 They do,

01:06:03.100 but rarely.

01:06:05.020 Activity

01:06:05.560 number one,

01:06:06.500 serving on

01:06:07.600 a jury,

01:06:09.020 being a

01:06:09.540 juror on

01:06:10.060 a jury,

01:06:10.560 even once.

01:06:12.200 My hypothesis

01:06:13.020 is if you've

01:06:13.980 done it even

01:06:14.460 once,

01:06:15.660 you're probably

01:06:16.180 not a

01:06:16.580 murderer.

01:06:16.840 You know,

01:06:19.040 anybody can

01:06:19.800 murder in

01:06:20.320 a crime of

01:06:21.400 passion,

01:06:21.940 but probably

01:06:22.560 not a

01:06:22.920 criminal murderer.

01:06:24.580 You know,

01:06:24.740 the criminals

01:06:25.240 will probably

01:06:25.600 just try to

01:06:26.040 get out of

01:06:26.520 it one way

01:06:27.260 or the other.

01:06:28.320 Likewise,

01:06:29.040 if you

01:06:29.540 registered to

01:06:30.400 vote,

01:06:31.600 and then you

01:06:32.260 actually voted

01:06:33.240 at least once,

01:06:35.440 I would say

01:06:36.120 your odds of

01:06:36.840 being a

01:06:37.200 murderer are

01:06:38.320 very low.

01:06:42.220 Would you

01:06:42.800 agree?

01:06:43.320 I would say

01:06:44.020 that if you

01:06:44.560 took a gun

01:06:45.700 safety class

01:06:47.100 just once,

01:06:49.360 your odds

01:06:49.920 of ever

01:06:50.320 being a

01:06:50.740 murderer are

01:06:51.860 very low.

01:06:53.540 Very low.

01:06:54.220 And what do

01:06:54.620 all those

01:06:55.040 things have

01:06:55.440 in common?

01:06:56.400 All those

01:06:57.080 things have

01:06:57.500 in common

01:06:57.940 is buying

01:06:58.580 into the

01:06:59.060 system.

01:07:00.380 It's somebody

01:07:00.880 who says,

01:07:01.300 I like the

01:07:01.700 system,

01:07:02.480 and I'm

01:07:02.860 going along

01:07:03.340 with it.

01:07:03.960 Serving on

01:07:04.520 a jury trial

01:07:05.200 is something

01:07:05.620 you can so

01:07:06.220 easily get

01:07:06.920 out of that

01:07:08.500 I think the

01:07:08.980 people who

01:07:09.340 do it have

01:07:09.780 at least a

01:07:10.260 little bit

01:07:10.560 of sense of

01:07:11.140 community and

01:07:12.220 civilization.

01:07:13.640 I know I

01:07:14.120 did.

01:07:14.940 By the way,

01:07:15.500 I highly

01:07:16.680 recommend

01:07:17.340 serving on

01:07:18.640 a jury.

01:07:19.880 Do not

01:07:20.720 spend your

01:07:21.220 whole life

01:07:21.700 getting on

01:07:22.180 a jury

01:07:22.460 duty.

01:07:23.140 Do not.

01:07:24.200 Because it

01:07:24.860 will change

01:07:25.520 you in a

01:07:26.580 way that

01:07:27.060 you can't

01:07:27.480 imagine.

01:07:28.460 It changes

01:07:28.980 you.

01:07:29.820 Serving on

01:07:30.260 a jury

01:07:30.620 makes you

01:07:31.560 different

01:07:32.060 forever.

01:07:33.620 And the

01:07:33.860 way it

01:07:34.140 makes you

01:07:34.440 different is

01:07:34.920 you see

01:07:35.300 12 people

01:07:37.480 who really

01:07:38.520 give it

01:07:38.820 their best

01:07:39.160 shot.

01:07:40.180 That's what

01:07:40.540 I saw.

01:07:41.020 So I've

01:07:41.260 done two

01:07:42.160 or three.

01:07:42.980 But when

01:07:45.080 you see

01:07:45.480 that your

01:07:45.860 fellow

01:07:46.180 citizens are

01:07:47.680 really,

01:07:48.400 really serious

01:07:49.020 about getting

01:07:49.620 it right,

01:07:50.760 that changes

01:07:51.320 everything.

01:07:52.560 Yeah.

01:07:53.340 You have to

01:07:54.380 have that

01:07:54.640 experience.

01:07:57.620 Right.

01:07:58.400 Except in

01:07:58.900 D.C.

01:08:00.040 All right.

01:08:00.960 So here's

01:08:01.760 where I'm

01:08:01.980 going.

01:08:03.320 There are

01:08:04.160 activities like

01:08:06.320 joining the

01:08:06.880 NRA,

01:08:07.620 taking a

01:08:08.160 gun safety

01:08:08.720 class,

01:08:09.720 voting,

01:08:10.240 being on

01:08:11.100 a jury,

01:08:12.040 which pretty

01:08:12.740 much guarantee

01:08:13.500 that you're

01:08:14.800 in the

01:08:15.180 unlikely to

01:08:16.100 murder somebody

01:08:16.800 class.

01:08:18.340 Suppose we

01:08:19.200 said you

01:08:20.740 have to do

01:08:21.260 at least one

01:08:21.860 of those

01:08:22.180 things to

01:08:22.660 get a

01:08:22.940 gun.

01:08:25.900 I know.

01:08:26.900 I know.

01:08:27.440 Second

01:08:27.720 Amendment.

01:08:28.280 I get it.

01:08:29.240 If you want

01:08:29.880 to reject it

01:08:30.480 just on the

01:08:30.920 Second Amendment,

01:08:31.720 no argument.

01:08:33.120 If you want

01:08:33.780 to be an

01:08:34.100 absolutist on

01:08:34.920 the Second

01:08:35.280 Amendment,

01:08:36.060 no argument.

01:08:37.160 No argument.

01:08:37.960 You don't have

01:08:38.400 to even say

01:08:38.820 it.

01:08:39.280 No argument.

01:08:40.720 But I'm

01:08:41.640 just trying to

01:08:42.120 expand your

01:08:42.740 thinking a

01:08:43.280 little bit.

01:08:44.720 Is there

01:08:45.360 any way that

01:08:46.940 you could say

01:08:47.620 we're going

01:08:48.080 to give you

01:08:48.480 a very simple

01:08:49.500 bar to

01:08:51.080 pass?

01:08:53.180 Let's say

01:08:53.680 gun safety

01:08:54.240 is nearly

01:08:54.900 free.

01:08:55.820 Well,

01:08:56.060 the gun

01:08:56.340 costs money,

01:08:57.080 so people

01:08:57.620 have money

01:08:57.960 if they buy

01:08:58.340 a gun.

01:08:59.080 You say

01:08:59.580 you just

01:09:00.100 can't have

01:09:00.720 it unless

01:09:01.040 you take

01:09:01.420 a gun

01:09:01.740 safety class.

01:09:03.000 Or you

01:09:03.560 can't have

01:09:04.140 it unless

01:09:04.500 you've

01:09:04.760 registered to

01:09:05.460 vote or

01:09:05.920 you've been

01:09:07.100 on a jury

01:09:07.580 trial.

01:09:08.920 Now,

01:09:09.260 it can't

01:09:10.220 pass any

01:09:11.720 constitutional

01:09:12.440 test.

01:09:13.720 I get it.

01:09:14.740 But is

01:09:15.380 there anything

01:09:15.940 you could

01:09:16.400 do where

01:09:17.740 you could

01:09:18.180 restrict guns

01:09:19.780 in any way

01:09:20.700 to people who

01:09:22.340 have bought

01:09:22.680 into the

01:09:23.080 system?

01:09:23.380 you don't

01:09:26.760 have to say

01:09:27.360 shall not

01:09:27.960 be infringed.

01:09:30.320 You're

01:09:30.800 just preaching

01:09:31.380 to the

01:09:31.680 choir.

01:09:32.260 We all

01:09:32.540 know

01:09:32.740 Second

01:09:33.040 Amendment.

01:09:33.740 Now,

01:09:34.060 I get

01:09:34.560 that the

01:09:34.880 idea is

01:09:35.440 dead on

01:09:36.180 arrival.

01:09:37.320 I just

01:09:37.660 wonder if

01:09:38.140 it maybe

01:09:39.600 stimulates

01:09:40.280 your thinking

01:09:40.900 in any way

01:09:41.560 that would

01:09:41.800 be useful.

01:09:43.260 Because

01:09:43.660 now imagine

01:09:45.740 taking it

01:09:46.280 out of the

01:09:46.540 practical range

01:09:47.560 and putting

01:09:48.920 it into the

01:09:49.840 political

01:09:50.760 domain.

01:09:51.600 everything I

01:09:52.980 was talking

01:09:53.300 about was

01:09:53.720 looking for

01:09:54.660 something like

01:09:55.080 a practical

01:09:55.840 idea, but

01:09:56.640 there wasn't

01:09:57.220 one there.

01:09:58.300 But what if

01:09:58.760 you took that

01:09:59.320 into the

01:09:59.740 political domain

01:10:00.600 and you

01:10:01.780 said, because

01:10:03.020 Republicans have

01:10:04.040 a tough time

01:10:04.780 explaining why

01:10:05.560 people should

01:10:06.040 have guns,

01:10:06.560 guns, when

01:10:07.720 the news is

01:10:08.280 showing people

01:10:08.740 getting gunned

01:10:09.280 down every

01:10:09.680 day?

01:10:11.280 Now, there

01:10:11.920 is an

01:10:12.200 argument, and

01:10:13.040 it's a

01:10:13.380 perfect argument,

01:10:14.580 but it

01:10:14.900 takes a

01:10:16.360 while to

01:10:16.880 present it so

01:10:18.100 it doesn't

01:10:18.440 work as well

01:10:19.040 as, hey,

01:10:19.860 these people

01:10:20.280 are being

01:10:20.560 shot.

01:10:21.560 That's always

01:10:22.060 going to be

01:10:22.760 more attention

01:10:23.640 grabbing.

01:10:26.080 So, if

01:10:28.400 you're a

01:10:29.180 Republican

01:10:30.240 politician and

01:10:32.280 you suggested

01:10:33.020 that the

01:10:34.720 Democrats who

01:10:35.540 want gun

01:10:36.040 control could

01:10:37.600 voluntarily

01:10:38.380 restrict it

01:10:41.640 to other

01:10:42.520 people who

01:10:43.000 want gun

01:10:43.420 control, that

01:10:44.040 you would

01:10:44.300 favor it.

01:10:46.280 That everybody

01:10:47.160 who votes for

01:10:48.140 gun control

01:10:48.740 should be

01:10:49.260 denied a

01:10:50.000 gun, and

01:10:52.740 if they don't

01:10:53.240 vote at all,

01:10:54.360 they should be

01:10:54.920 denied a gun.

01:10:56.300 But if you

01:10:57.000 do vote, and

01:10:58.980 you do vote

01:10:59.540 for guns, you

01:11:00.820 could have

01:11:01.100 one.

01:11:01.280 So, basically,

01:11:03.560 everybody who's

01:11:04.100 against gun

01:11:04.800 ownership doesn't

01:11:05.540 get to have

01:11:05.940 one, because

01:11:07.400 they happen to

01:11:08.180 be the same

01:11:08.820 class of people

01:11:09.520 who use them

01:11:10.140 illegally.

01:11:12.180 Republicans are

01:11:13.120 in favor of

01:11:13.860 guns, but

01:11:15.060 show me an

01:11:16.040 NRA member

01:11:17.360 Republican who

01:11:19.460 murdered somebody

01:11:20.460 with a gun.

01:11:23.280 Show me

01:11:23.740 that.

01:11:25.400 I mean, you

01:11:25.760 know it doesn't

01:11:26.260 happen.

01:11:27.000 I mean, maybe

01:11:28.120 it's happened in

01:11:28.720 some rare cases,

01:11:30.000 but it basically

01:11:30.860 doesn't happen.

01:11:32.540 So, why can't

01:11:33.280 the Republicans,

01:11:34.060 just to make a

01:11:34.640 point, right, this

01:11:35.760 would just be

01:11:36.240 making a point, it

01:11:37.280 really wouldn't

01:11:37.980 work as a policy

01:11:39.300 or anything, just

01:11:40.120 say, how about

01:11:41.100 this?

01:11:42.480 Republicans who

01:11:43.400 have, you know,

01:11:45.300 taken a gun

01:11:45.920 class or joined

01:11:46.760 the NRA have

01:11:47.960 never been a

01:11:48.580 problem to

01:11:49.040 anybody.

01:11:49.660 In fact, they

01:11:50.380 probably are

01:11:50.940 protecting you.

01:11:52.200 So, why don't

01:11:52.680 we say they

01:11:53.200 can have all

01:11:53.660 the guns they

01:11:54.140 want, and you

01:11:55.740 can't?

01:11:57.160 Now, nobody's

01:11:58.040 going to agree to

01:11:58.580 that, right?

01:11:58.980 Democrats are

01:12:00.540 never going to

01:12:00.960 agree, oh, yeah,

01:12:01.740 if we identify as

01:12:03.160 Democrats, we'll

01:12:04.100 agree to not

01:12:04.660 have guns.

01:12:07.160 But in terms of

01:12:08.240 framing it, it

01:12:11.700 would be

01:12:12.000 devastating.

01:12:13.860 I mean, you'd

01:12:14.200 have to pretend

01:12:14.760 you really

01:12:15.160 believed it.

01:12:15.920 I mean, it

01:12:16.300 would be anti-

01:12:17.000 Second Amendment,

01:12:17.980 so it would

01:12:18.480 never fly.

01:12:19.560 But I can

01:12:20.760 imagine putting

01:12:21.400 it out there and

01:12:22.760 just making

01:12:23.280 somebody have to

01:12:24.460 deal with it.

01:12:25.660 Say, you know

01:12:26.320 that it's not

01:12:26.800 the Republicans,

01:12:27.620 right?

01:12:28.760 So, how about

01:12:29.540 the Republicans

01:12:30.060 get to keep

01:12:30.700 their guns,

01:12:31.660 because within

01:12:32.460 the Republican

01:12:33.100 realm, there

01:12:33.720 doesn't seem to

01:12:34.280 be a problem.

01:12:37.160 Do you know

01:12:37.880 what class of

01:12:39.500 citizens are

01:12:40.480 allowed to

01:12:41.040 carry a knife

01:12:42.060 into almost

01:12:43.720 any public

01:12:44.420 situation, and

01:12:45.380 yet have

01:12:46.180 basically no

01:12:47.640 murders?

01:12:49.340 And yet they

01:12:49.800 are allowed to

01:12:51.080 carry a weapon?

01:12:52.620 Yeah, the

01:12:52.980 Sikhs.

01:12:54.440 Right?

01:12:54.760 If you're in

01:12:55.300 the Sikh

01:12:55.680 religion,

01:12:57.100 part of the

01:12:57.580 religion is

01:12:58.140 you're supposed

01:12:58.500 to carry a

01:12:59.000 dagger.

01:12:59.980 That's my

01:13:00.440 understanding.

01:13:01.720 And so I

01:13:02.220 believe they've

01:13:02.760 won, correct

01:13:03.760 me if I'm

01:13:04.220 wrong, but I

01:13:04.680 believe they've

01:13:05.120 won legal

01:13:06.400 challenges to

01:13:07.760 allow them to

01:13:08.500 carry their

01:13:08.920 weapon into

01:13:10.280 places where

01:13:10.940 you're definitely

01:13:11.360 not supposed to

01:13:11.920 have a weapon.

01:13:13.420 Not every

01:13:14.120 place, of

01:13:14.600 course, but in

01:13:15.480 more places than

01:13:16.500 you would expect.

01:13:17.980 And here's my

01:13:18.680 question.

01:13:19.580 How many

01:13:19.960 Sikhs are

01:13:20.840 murdering people

01:13:21.580 with their

01:13:21.920 daggers?

01:13:23.500 Zero?

01:13:25.360 Zero, right?

01:13:26.300 I've never

01:13:27.580 even heard of

01:13:28.020 it.

01:13:28.160 Have you ever

01:13:28.820 heard of one

01:13:29.400 Sikh who just

01:13:31.040 took out his

01:13:31.580 dagger and

01:13:32.260 mugged somebody?

01:13:34.320 It just doesn't

01:13:34.860 happen.

01:13:36.000 So there's a

01:13:37.000 special case where

01:13:38.240 the Sikhs, in my

01:13:39.560 opinion, have

01:13:40.880 superior constitutional

01:13:42.480 rights to you.

01:13:44.800 And I'm okay with

01:13:45.920 it.

01:13:47.600 I mean, I can't

01:13:48.640 imagine saying that

01:13:49.600 in any other

01:13:50.280 context.

01:13:51.440 There's a

01:13:52.000 religious group

01:13:52.780 that has a

01:13:53.300 superior

01:13:53.940 constitutional, or

01:13:56.160 at least legal,

01:13:57.620 right over me.

01:14:00.020 I can't carry a

01:14:02.080 knife to the

01:14:02.660 same place as

01:14:03.200 they can, but I

01:14:04.900 don't have a

01:14:05.260 problem with that

01:14:05.740 at all.

01:14:06.420 You know why I

01:14:06.860 don't have a

01:14:07.260 problem with that?

01:14:08.460 Because no

01:14:09.040 Sikhs are using

01:14:09.720 their knives.

01:14:10.900 They're just not

01:14:11.560 using them.

01:14:12.740 So in a

01:14:13.500 practical sense,

01:14:14.740 it's a perfect

01:14:15.420 practical solution.

01:14:16.820 So if the

01:14:19.900 Sikhs can have

01:14:21.120 knives and

01:14:22.440 other people

01:14:22.940 can't, in

01:14:23.680 some domains,

01:14:25.080 not every

01:14:25.560 domain, you

01:14:27.560 telling me you

01:14:28.100 couldn't do that

01:14:28.560 with guns?

01:14:29.440 We already have

01:14:30.020 a precedent.

01:14:31.200 The precedent

01:14:31.840 is set.

01:14:35.080 It's a better

01:14:35.660 case than you

01:14:36.240 think.

01:14:36.780 I don't think

01:14:37.760 it'll ever fly.

01:14:39.120 But I'd like to

01:14:40.020 be thinking in

01:14:40.920 different terms.

01:14:43.040 Maybe there's a

01:14:43.900 way to segregate

01:14:45.900 the public in a

01:14:46.800 way that makes

01:14:47.340 sense that even

01:14:47.960 the public would

01:14:48.640 agree with.

01:14:49.260 I don't know.

01:14:50.600 I just feel like

01:14:51.340 there's some way

01:14:52.460 to break the

01:14:53.060 logjam and let

01:14:55.020 the Republicans

01:14:55.680 keep all their

01:14:56.400 guns and maybe

01:14:59.280 let the other

01:14:59.800 people work it

01:15:00.420 out some other

01:15:01.100 way.

01:15:03.400 All right.

01:15:06.160 I would probably

01:15:07.760 just be happy if

01:15:08.720 anybody voted.

01:15:11.840 Honestly.

01:15:12.560 If anybody

01:15:13.220 registered to

01:15:14.100 vote, I'd say

01:15:15.500 they could have

01:15:15.960 a gun.

01:15:16.800 because it

01:15:17.900 means they

01:15:18.220 bought into

01:15:18.680 the system.

01:15:20.300 Now, I realize

01:15:21.100 that criminals

01:15:22.000 would probably

01:15:22.600 register to vote

01:15:23.660 just to get a

01:15:25.180 gun, but not a

01:15:28.540 lot of them.

01:15:30.440 All right.

01:15:31.760 So, YouTube,

01:15:32.640 thanks for joining.

01:15:33.280 I'll talk to you

01:15:33.920 tomorrow.

01:15:34.420 go.

01:15:38.460 I'll talk to you

01:15:51.440 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 10, 2023

Episode 2135 Scott Adams： Trump Indicted For Stuff We Can't See, Biden Bribery Allegation, Lots More

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