Episode 2137 Scott Adams: Trump Insults Barr, Bolton Insults Trump, Grace Insults Olberperson, More
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1 hour and 1 minute
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Summary
Elon Musk invites Alex Soros onto his social media spaces, and Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon to appear on his show, but what does that mean for the rest of the media? Also, the Fox News page has completely given up on the whole news thing, and all they do now is report the things they saw in other media.
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Well, today I'll be talking about Trump insulting Bill Barr, John Bolton insulting Trump,
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Nancy Grace insulting Keith Olbermann, sadist trolls insulting everyone, and an actress insulting DeSantis.
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Do you remember a time when we used to have news?
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Now it's pretty much just people insulting people, and then reading a page about it.
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I know a lot of you are boycotting this or that,
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but have you noticed that the Fox News page just completely stopped following news?
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It seems like they gave up on the whole news thing, didn't they?
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I mean, CNN's news is just opinion pieces insulting Trump,
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and then some things you already knew happened.
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Well, thanks for the deep investigative look there.
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So I don't know if it's, is it purely economic?
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It looks like they gave up on their investigative work,
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and all they do now is report the things they saw in other media.
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I think Fox News just does the same thing I do.
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So Elon Musk has invited Alex Soros onto his spaces.
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I don't know if he's responded yet to the offer.
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and whether, now that he's taking over for his father,
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whether he will be still funding these progressive DAs.
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because our system allows people to be as political as they want,
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I don't think it worked the way any of the Soroses imagined it should or could work.
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So I would be amazed if he could go in public and say,
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So that's why I think this Musk offer is so important.
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I love the fact that the news can be doing its celebrity insulting stuff.
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And the only thing that was important to us this week
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which is what's up with these progressive DAs ruining our cities.
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Soros on, and to actually just talk about it and probably solve it.
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it's just going to be people talking at you and you don't know who was lying.
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But I feel if Musk brings somebody on to talk about a specific topic,
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they're trying to actually solve it, which would be interesting.
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Because you wonder if Alexander Soros has the same sources of information,
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And wouldn't it be interesting to see them defend it?
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I mean, I don't think that could be any more useful or entertaining at the same time.
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Apparently Musk has also invited Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow to do their shows on Twitter,
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promising them that they would have a much bigger audience than they have right now.
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but I like Musk's instincts to make sure that he's always on the side of free speech
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So there's always so much you can do to look objective,
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objective, but at least that's in the right direction.
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It's not like you see MSNBC offering me to go on their show, right?
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And I would say that these are legitimate offers
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because Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow are completely associated with one side.
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So it's not like he's looking for the weakest member of the other side,
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I saw a tweet by Jonathan Shedler talking about a new study
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that suggests that people who publicly shame and dogpile on social media
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are not motivated by moral outrage or a desire to do good.
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the people who shame and dogpile on social media?
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It's sort of what Jordan Peterson's been saying for a long time.
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We figured out a way to boost the worst among us.
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It was, it was like we made a tool to make sure sadists could get maximum contribution into society.
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So I've got a troll who's been bugging me lately.
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And you probably say to yourself, well, why don't you just block them?
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I'm having trouble torturing him in public because he, you know, didn't understand my situation.
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So sometimes torturing a troll in public is good, clean fun.
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But, you know, don't try it at home if you're not a professional.
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People on social media are mostly broken people.
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But when I'm on social media, I'm going to go after people hard if they deserve it.
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So the libs of TikTok got a tweet about a Denver City council member, Candy C. DeBucca,
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But she was suggesting that white-owned businesses should be taxed extra to give that money to
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That open racism was not as popular as you thought.
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Now, just to clarify, peak wokeness doesn't mean there will be less of it.
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I'm trying to use persuasion by getting asked to accept things.
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Owen hopes Scott watches his show and gives his opinion.
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So peak wokeness, in my opinion, means that you can now openly mock it.
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It's just that we can now openly mock it without the same risk that you had before.
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So Trump has responded to Bill Barr, who apparently thinks some of the charges are valid, the Mar-a-Lago box and stuff.
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Well, I guess you have to gut the pig before you eat it.
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I don't know if it's his best work, but I'd like to note that all of the news today is about people insulting other people.
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But it's just the only news we have is who insulted people.
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It's a very light news day today, I have to warn you.
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We have a lot of, in this country, would you agree, red flags?
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Would you agree that you see a lot of things that are starting to develop and you say, wait a minute, that's a little bit of a red flag, isn't it?
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You know, like you see freedom of speech being curtailed and you say, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's a red flag.
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But I would like to suggest there is one red flag that's in front of all of us that's the biggest of all red flags to the point where there's never been a bigger red flag.
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The sitting president of the United States who is running for re-election doesn't feel the need to campaign.
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He's one of the least popular presidents of all times.
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The polls say that he would lose and he doesn't feel the need to campaign.
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That is the reddest of all red flags, ladies and gentlemen.
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There is nothing scarier than the guy who's behind feeling he doesn't need to campaign.
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Because if the guy who seems to be behind in the polls does no effort to campaign and he fucking wins, it's going to get ugly.
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There is no bigger red flag in the country than the guy who's running for re-election from behind is not campaigning.
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Now, we imagine that the reason is that, you know, his surrogates do it and he's doing his job and, you know, maybe he's all less of it.
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I think that under every situation, you would campaign unless you thought you didn't need to.
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You would campaign unless you thought it wasn't going to be a real election.
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You know, with actual voting making the difference.
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It doesn't look like he believes it's a real election coming up.
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And if the president of the United States is acting like it's not a real election, there's no bigger flag than that.
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That's the biggest of the biggest of the biggest.
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You cannot get a bigger red flag than the guy who's behind and president not campaigning.
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And you could try to sell us about, you know, he's busy or, you know, his health is not 100 percent, but he'd be fine for president.
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But I'm sorry, that's not the message I'm getting.
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The message I'm getting is that you've already fixed the election.
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Now, I don't have any evidence whatsoever to back up, you know, that kind of speculation.
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I'm just saying that's the message they're sending us.
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Because I don't interpret it as he's too weak, you know, physically weak.
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If he were unable, and they know he'll be unable for the next year, he would already drop out.
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Because they want as much time as possible to get, you know, a good substitute in there.
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So, I just don't know what to say about this, except they're sending a screamingly, you know, direct message to us that the election won't be real.
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All right, a Hamilton actress got on stage at some Tony Awards or some stupid award thing that we don't care about.
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And cleverly referred to Ron DeSantis, not as the governor of California, but ha, ha, ha, the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.
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Oh, how they laughed at the cleverness involved in that comment.
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But I'd like to remind you, if you believe that getting rid of Trump gets rid of the baggage, that's not a thing.
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You can eliminate from your consideration the fact that Trump has baggage.
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Because they would just transfer all their bullshit over to DeSantis, and he would be the grand wizard of the KKK on day one when he got ahead of Trump in the polls.
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There is no difference in how much baggage a Republican brings to the race.
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Because the Democrats are just going to see the ridiculous MSNBC version of all the candidates.
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And to them, it looks like they all have baggage.
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So, yeah, I would say the number one biggest reason for not voting for Trump has just been taken away by the Democrats.
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The Democrats have removed your best reason to not vote for Trump, that he's trouble, and all of his baggage will, you know, come blowing back on you because, you know, you're just trying to mind your own business and be a, you know, just be a candidate or just be a citizen.
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I mean, right now, if you wore a Make America Great Again hat, it would not be safe to go in public.
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Would you agree that most places in the country, it would not be safe to be in public supporting your choice of president?
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Now, what do you think if you wore a DeSantis hat after he became president?
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Because nobody's going to think you're a KKK wizard, right?
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They will paint him as a KKK wizard, and it will be unsafe to wear his fucking hat outside.
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You can't even fucking go outside as a Republican if you have an opinion.
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John Poulton says that Trump should drop out of the race.
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And I don't think Trump's ever had a better week.
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How would you like to be running for president and have John Poulton say that he backs your opponent?
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And I saw some pushback from Democrats saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, you have to remember that Trump actually hired Bolton, and that would be an indication of how bad he is at judging people.
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So Trump's a bad judge of people because he once hired Bolton.
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Except, did you hear how Trump described the use of Bolton?
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He was so insane, you know, and warlike that Trump used him just as a threat.
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He would just put him in the room to scare people.
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You just put him in the corner and said, you know, you better make a deal with me because, well, look at the scarecrow.
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You're not going to want to make a deal with the scarecrow because the scarecrow wants to just bomb you.
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Maybe we could work something out, but if you don't make a deal with me, look at that scarecrow.
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And he's going to get you if you don't make a deal with me.
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So I'm not sure the Democrats quite understood how Trump was using John Bolton there.
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Keith Olbermann questioned Nancy Mace, Representative Nancy Mace, when she was making some comparisons to Hillary.
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Hillary's email, getting rid of her email and destroying some devices with a hammer.
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And Olbermann said that she was hallucinating and those things did not happen.
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Now, Nancy Mace, of course, gave him the link to his own, you know, favorite network, CNN, to show him that even CNN says it happened.
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She did destroy devices, government devices, phones, I think, with a hammer.
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You know, she had people do it, but same thing.
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He acted like somehow the news hadn't gotten to him.
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A hammer was used to destroy government devices, and Hillary Clinton's server was wiped out with a program called Bleach Bit.
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And then she says in her tweet, maybe your weed is stale.
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We got your Ku Klux Klan instead of a governor.
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Who was it who said, I think RFK Jr. was backing this comment.
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Somebody said that $10 million of Anderson Cooper's $12 million annual salary is from Pfizer.
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Now, I think that was meant to be hyperbolic in the sense that Pfizer doesn't write him a direct check.
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But if Pfizer is 80% of your advertising during a show, it would not be wrong to say that 80% of his pay comes from Pfizer.
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That's not exactly how it works, because the revenue of the network comes from different places, and a lot of it is carriage fees.
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How many of you know what the carriage fees are for a network, for a cable news show like CNN or Fox News?
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If you were to order a cable service to watch TV, you would want to make sure that you've got at least the basic channels.
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Now, so you'd go to Fox and you'd say, hey, we want to carry you for free.
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And we'll let people see your show with all your advertisements.
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Now, you'd think that Fox News would say, yay, I have more customers, and they'll get to see my advertising.
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So the more customers who see me, the better, because we're selling advertising.
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But Fox News and CNN and the other news sites are so important to any cable operation that the cable company pays Fox News to be on their network.
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And that's actually, I think, where they get most of their money.
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I don't think it's advertising, and I don't think it's directly based on how many people watch it.
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Although they could probably charge more if more people watch it.
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So just know that that's where they get the money.
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It's not in advertising models so much as charging cable companies to have you on their model.
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But yet it's true that Pfizer is doing most of the advertising on Anderson Cooper's show.
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It would not be possible for Anderson Cooper to disagree with Pfizer.
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We don't assume there's any scenario in which you would say something that Pfizer disagreed with.
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Are you really watching the news when one of the biggest areas of news is pharma,
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and the guy who's reading it to you cannot say something that his sponsor would not like?
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You knew that North Korea is always trying to hack everybody's crypto.
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But apparently they're so good at it that it's funding their nuclear program.
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Like half of their nuclear program is funded by crypto hacking.
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Now, who had that on their prediction card for cryptocurrencies?
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I think the cryptocurrency would be good, except for the part where it causes a nuclear confrontation.
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Who in the world thought that crypto would cause a nuclear confrontation?
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I don't know that, but it's probably mostly Bitcoin.
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Do you believe getting rid of Biden gets rid of the BS?
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Apparently, it's good for buying nuclear weapons.
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Do you know that story about Cuba was going to put a Chinese listening post in Cuba?
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ah, they've been doing that kind of thing since 2019.
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Now, I have a theory that it's not bad for adversaries to have listening devices on each other.
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I feel like, you know, having our spy planes fly over each other might make you safer.
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Because you've got a better idea of what each other's doing.
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That always seems like a better situation, not a worse.
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Well, I hope we're not sending any secret communications through things that you can see from Cuba.
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Can you pick up secret conversations from Cuba?
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But maybe they have some way to, I don't know, decode stuff that we don't know about.
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So I guess the story is we shouldn't be too excited because it's sort of normal business.
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And don't you assume we're doing the same thing?
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Don't you assume we're sitting off of the coast of China with our listening devices?
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So I'm not terribly sure it's the worst problem in the world.
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It just sounds like the big countries all listen to each other and try to know as much as they can about the other.
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As long as we're both doing it and it's, you know, it's fairly transparent.
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Keeping an eye on each other might be better than not.
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And they got their chief propagandist, this Dean Obadiah, who likes to say anything bad about Trump.
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And he's saying that there's a big difference, oh, a big difference, between Hillary getting rid of her emails
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or even having stuff that she shouldn't have on her servers and Trump's documents.
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The difference is that Dean Obadiah read each of their minds and she, that he read Hillary's mind
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But then he read Trump's mind to find out that him keeping those documents was bad intentions.
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So how can you compare good intentions to bad intentions?
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Who compares good intentions to bad intentions?
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If you're a mind reader, if you're a mind reader, we've actually gotten to the point
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where CNN reports mind reading just matter-of-factly, without any, you know, sort of hedging it,
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well, you know, we're just speculating about this.
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If they said we're just speculating or a person in this situation, you would expect them to think
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But to simply state as a fact what the two of them were intending, that's not exactly news.
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To say that you know what a stranger was thinking and their hidden intentions?
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All right, today was a no-news day, as you could tell.
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It was literally nothing but people insulting people and misinterpreting people.
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All right, let me give you the news about Ukraine.
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There's a counter-offensive, and some stuff's getting blown up.
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I mean, why is it that the biggest news is about a highway situation?
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I think we're seeing the effects of the news business being gutted.
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I would guess that Monday is probably a day when there'd be a lot of it out there.
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There was nobody who had enough money to do an investigation
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to come up with something that wasn't just a public figure giving a public speech
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or writing something in public, and then we'd talk about it.
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Well, all we're doing is talking about what people talked about.
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Today I just talked about what people talked about.
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Well, I'm seeing a bunch of yeses over on YouTube.
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All right, we're going to say that that's not real.
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Oh, yeah, there was the four Colombian children
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Yeah, I saw some kind of thing about Lauren Southern's divorce
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I thought, we are completely and totally out of news.
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San Jose, police union executive indicted for fentanyl smuggling.
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I think that happened a while ago, though, right?
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Well, why do we care about news about the Wuhan lab leak?
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Don't you all assume that's exactly where it came from
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You know, I'm not believing the excess death reports
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because I think that the quality of data is so bad
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because there are lots of reasons that you would have excess deaths,
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Of course, they do have the option of raising their prices
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I love it, the people who believe the 4chan rumors
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You actually believe the opposite of my opinion
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and then went off imagining that you heard something real?
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Why is it that the news is not covering the excess deaths?
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you should ignore the news, the political news,
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But if both sides are ignoring it and if it's true,
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it's the biggest story in the country, wouldn't you agree?
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If it's true that the excess deaths are big and unexplained,
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So you're telling me that neither the left nor the right
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If you look on Twitter, it's all over the place.
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that at least the right would have some advantage
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The Jamie Foxx story, which if you haven't heard it,
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but the family is not revealing the nature of it.
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So this allows all the vaccine skeptics to say,
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But other people say it definitely was not that.
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And here's what you should learn from that story.
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Jamie Foxx is the least important part of the story.
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So the anti-vaxxers use them to sell their anti-vax opinion.
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The other people either ignore it or say it's not true
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Now, you know that's the same thing that happened to me.
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how many people in America do you think care about my opinion?
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it had nothing to do with what I said or what my opinion was.
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which is one reason I don't take it personally,
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And it's an opportunity to take somebody off the field.
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who believe that I was pro-vaccination and pro-mask,
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Yeah, J.P. Morgan settled on some kind of Epstein stuff,
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Will you attend and speak during the Musk-Soros spaces?
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Because I think my reputation is too toxic right now.
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whatever he may or may not think about me personally,
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The first impressions were the same for everybody.
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and you were looking to move into a new community
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and you looked at one that had a KKK headquarters,
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but you figured most of the people there would be fine,
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And that's what the ESG and the DEI and the CRT do.
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to have a negative opinion about white Americans.
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And you should stay away from any population group,
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So the advice that I give is the same for any race
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where you knew there was a bunch of anti-woman people,
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If you're LGBTQ and you have a choice of where to live,
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I wouldn't go where there's negative opinion about me.
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I would go where you can find the highest opinion,
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to make sure that you're interacting with everybody,
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If an individual black guy comes in for a job interview,
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you should absolutely look at them as an individual
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If you fall in love with somebody who's a different race,
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But if you're talking about a population group,
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you can make a safety decision based on the group.
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Because it's not discriminated against an individual.
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that says you can't make a safety decision about yourself.