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00:00:41.320 Oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's good.

00:00:45.320 Now your day is going to look excellent.

00:00:50.280 Well, Geraldo has quit-fired from Fox News,

00:00:55.860 meaning that he was fired from the Five,

00:00:59.860 but he was still employed at the network.

00:01:01.940 But that wasn't good enough, so Geraldo has quit.

00:01:05.140 He quit-fired.

00:01:07.980 I don't think it's related to affirmative action.

00:01:12.240 Probably just a coincidence.

00:01:15.260 We'll get to affirmative action. 0.84

00:01:17.560 Did you see a news story yesterday that said aspartame causes cancer?

00:01:21.380 How many of you saw that?

00:01:26.420 And you thought that was true, right?

00:01:29.120 You saw that story and you said, well, that's probably true.

00:01:32.140 Well, I got community noted today.

00:01:36.400 It's true-ish.

00:01:40.020 What I didn't know until I read the community notes

00:01:42.620 is that there are many layers of how bad it is for cancer.

00:01:50.060 So at the lowest level, which is what aspartame was assigned to, 0.96

00:01:55.080 there's all kinds of normal things in that.

00:01:58.420 Like going to Disneyland, that could cause you cancer.

00:02:02.600 There are lots of things that are in the bottom rung,

00:02:05.220 like getting in your car, could cause cancer.

00:02:10.760 Wearing clothes, maybe, could cause cancer.

00:02:15.100 So it's the lowest level, I don't know.

00:02:17.160 So it seems like that was a very important context.

00:02:21.000 Because it would be in a level of things that you commonly experience

00:02:24.380 and don't worry about, basically.

00:02:28.440 All right, I guess we should talk about this Supreme Court decision,

00:02:32.420 affirmative action for universities and colleges has been ended.

00:02:38.680 Or has it?

00:02:40.720 Or has it?

00:02:42.260 I don't think there's any real change.

00:02:45.540 I think we're just talking about words.

00:02:48.840 Yeah, nothing's going to...

00:02:50.120 There's no indication anything in the real world will change.

00:02:53.020 Maybe. We'll see.

00:02:54.740 But it looks like all they did was change the wording.

00:02:57.660 Because the new wording, which is funny.

00:03:05.120 Let's see.

00:03:05.840 The new wording is...

00:03:10.120 This is how Harvard will skirt the law.

00:03:15.120 So Harvard said they can still consider, quote...

00:03:17.800 This is based on the Supreme Court decision.

00:03:21.140 Harvard can still consider, quote,

00:03:22.960 an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life,

00:03:27.880 be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.

00:03:32.080 And then it says,

00:03:33.380 we will certainly comply with the court's order.

00:03:36.660 We will certainly comply with the court's order.

00:03:40.140 They just tell you they're not going to change anything.

00:03:43.320 They're saying it directly, but in a Harvard way.

00:03:46.700 You know, so it sounds like...

00:03:48.020 It sounds like they're going to comply,

00:03:50.380 which they totally are.

00:03:51.960 But apparently the order gives them such a gigantic workaround

00:03:57.500 that Harvard just said,

00:03:59.700 did you just give us a huge workaround

00:04:01.520 where we can do what we're doing

00:04:02.940 the same as we've always been doing it?

00:04:06.020 Apparently the answer is yes.

00:04:07.620 There's a huge workaround.

00:04:09.440 They can't discriminate against race. 0.72

00:04:11.920 Instead, instead of discriminating by race,

00:04:14.940 they can take race into consideration

00:04:17.180 when they make their decision.

00:04:19.660 Oh, that's completely different.

00:04:21.960 Now, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:04:25.040 but when they had affirmative action,

00:04:27.620 they didn't have a goal, did they?

00:04:30.660 There was no specific thing they were trying to hit.

00:04:35.380 You know, just more of it, I guess.

00:04:37.840 So how is this different?

00:04:40.640 How in any way is this different?

00:04:42.400 Black kid writes an essay and says,

00:04:47.060 I've been, you know,

00:04:47.880 a victim of systemic racism all my life.

00:04:51.500 You're in.

00:04:53.000 That's exactly what we're looking for.

00:04:55.540 How in the world does it change anything?

00:04:57.360 Nothing changed.

00:04:58.560 Nothing changed at all.

00:04:59.700 All right.

00:05:05.180 But, so, my favorite kind of story

00:05:08.520 is when somebody's opinion,

00:05:11.760 usually a famous person,

00:05:13.380 when their opinion becomes so absurd,

00:05:16.240 but they hold on to it anyway.

00:05:18.300 When people go from having an opinion

00:05:20.280 to pretending to have an opinion,

00:05:23.100 then everything gets funny.

00:05:24.280 And what could be funnier

00:05:26.940 than watching Justice Thomas

00:05:29.300 and Justice Jackson

00:05:31.840 debating that Supreme Court ruling?

00:05:36.420 Because am I wrong in assuming

00:05:39.120 that Justice Thomas

00:05:40.320 was the Republicans' affirmative action?

00:05:43.520 Is that too harsh?

00:05:46.080 Does anybody think that

00:05:47.900 they looked at the whole world

00:05:49.440 and they, just coincidentally,

00:05:51.000 he was black?

00:05:52.540 Does anybody think that?

00:05:54.280 Or do you think he got put

00:05:55.960 at the top of the consideration list?

00:05:58.260 I'm not saying he's not qualified.

00:06:00.460 I'm just saying,

00:06:01.300 you don't think he got bumped

00:06:02.460 to the top of the list?

00:06:04.260 And I'm not, and by the way,

00:06:05.480 I'm not saying that that was wrong.

00:06:09.140 I would have no disagreement

00:06:10.700 with it whatsoever.

00:06:11.960 I do think the Supreme Court

00:06:13.480 is one place where you put a little,

00:06:16.100 you ought to put a little,

00:06:17.320 little thumb on the scales,

00:06:19.820 make sure that there's somebody there

00:06:21.700 that looks a little bit

00:06:23.440 like the rest of America, you know?

00:06:25.500 I don't think it would be

00:06:26.920 a credible court

00:06:28.540 if it was all a bunch of white men.

00:06:31.220 So, you know, there are places

00:06:32.940 where it's just necessary

00:06:34.620 to have the group look

00:06:37.500 a little bit like

00:06:38.260 the nature of the country.

00:06:40.220 It just helps your credibility.

00:06:41.600 But, we don't have to pretend

00:06:45.320 we're not doing that.

00:06:47.900 Yeah, so you have to pretend

00:06:48.960 you're not doing that

00:06:50.100 to have this weird conversation

00:06:51.840 where the two black members

00:06:54.700 of the court,

00:06:55.860 one is arguing against

00:06:57.580 affirmative action

00:06:58.440 and one is arguing for it.

00:07:01.660 The absurdity of that

00:07:03.280 is just through the roof.

00:07:05.960 Because, does Jackson believe

00:07:08.340 that she would have been picked

00:07:09.560 to the Supreme Court

00:07:10.580 if not a woman 0.99

00:07:12.120 and also black?

00:07:14.360 Does she think

00:07:15.340 there's any chance

00:07:16.040 she would be

00:07:16.380 in the Supreme Court?

00:07:18.420 But I don't think

00:07:19.360 that the Supreme Court

00:07:20.220 had affirmative action, did it?

00:07:23.180 I don't think so.

00:07:24.800 The president was not bound

00:07:26.320 by affirmative action

00:07:27.520 to pick a member

00:07:29.840 of the court

00:07:30.340 that increased its diversity,

00:07:32.220 but wanted to do it anyway

00:07:34.040 for political reasons,

00:07:35.360 which are pretty solid,

00:07:36.600 pretty solid political reasons.

00:07:40.020 So, the absurdity

00:07:41.760 is just fun to watch.

00:07:43.240 However, just a clarification,

00:07:45.800 the dropping of affirmative action

00:07:47.760 in universities

00:07:49.180 won't have any effect

00:07:50.840 on television, advertising,

00:07:54.280 or the movies.

00:07:55.560 Those will still be

00:07:56.620 entirely based on race,

00:07:58.720 like now.

00:08:01.320 All right.

00:08:01.700 let's see,

00:08:05.020 what else?

00:08:05.620 Berkeley.

00:08:07.780 So, there's a video

00:08:08.860 of a Berkeley

00:08:09.560 law school dean

00:08:11.460 explaining somebody

00:08:13.840 had their phone out.

00:08:15.800 And even as he's explaining

00:08:17.340 this in front of the group,

00:08:19.740 he says,

00:08:20.480 if I'm ever deposed,

00:08:21.580 I'm going to deny this to you.

00:08:23.060 I said this to you.

00:08:24.440 So, he actually says,

00:08:26.200 you know,

00:08:27.300 I'm going to deny

00:08:28.220 I ever said this

00:08:29.160 in front of a group.

00:08:30.840 every one of them

00:08:31.620 who had a phone

00:08:32.260 with a camera.

00:08:35.780 He's a law professor.

00:08:38.000 The dean.

00:08:39.860 I don't know.

00:08:40.660 You know,

00:08:41.480 Berkeley is my alma mater

00:08:42.800 for my business degree,

00:08:45.840 but

00:08:45.980 I've got a feeling

00:08:48.740 this isn't their best work.

00:08:53.180 But anyway,

00:08:53.780 he describes

00:08:54.640 how they can

00:08:55.300 simply

00:08:56.080 discriminate

00:08:57.120 the way they always have.

00:08:58.360 They just won't call it

00:08:59.860 affirmative action.

00:09:02.700 They'll just do it anyway.

00:09:05.240 Now,

00:09:06.400 what do you think?

00:09:09.220 Do you think

00:09:09.960 anything changed?

00:09:11.860 Who thinks

00:09:12.700 something changed

00:09:13.560 yesterday?

00:09:15.380 I don't.

00:09:16.680 Right.

00:09:17.460 I saw

00:09:18.160 Gavin Newsom

00:09:19.040 tweeted

00:09:20.460 against

00:09:21.000 the

00:09:21.940 decision.

00:09:24.200 And then

00:09:24.580 this is the most

00:09:25.280 fun part.

00:09:25.960 Michael

00:09:27.680 Schirmer,

00:09:29.240 who is

00:09:29.780 very,

00:09:30.400 very well-known,

00:09:32.660 let's say,

00:09:33.820 I don't know

00:09:34.220 what I want to say.

00:09:35.300 He's a well-known

00:09:36.220 writer,

00:09:37.160 public figure,

00:09:38.740 and

00:09:39.300 very much

00:09:40.600 associated

00:09:41.220 with the left,

00:09:42.960 I think.

00:09:43.600 Although he's more

00:09:44.280 of a free thinker.

00:09:45.220 That's unfair.

00:09:46.500 I think it's unfair

00:09:47.260 to characterize him

00:09:48.060 that way.

00:09:48.360 But

00:09:49.020 he said

00:09:52.180 he mocked

00:09:53.280 Gavin Newsom

00:09:54.140 for thinking

00:09:55.260 anything would

00:09:55.960 change.

00:09:57.340 And he said,

00:09:58.060 who do you think

00:09:58.700 is running a

00:10:00.200 university

00:10:00.680 that's going to

00:10:02.340 start acting

00:10:03.720 differently?

00:10:05.060 Name names.

00:10:07.000 Name one person

00:10:08.360 in any university

00:10:09.340 in California

00:10:10.140 who will act

00:10:11.220 differently

00:10:11.700 because of this.

00:10:14.780 And it was

00:10:15.200 a really good,

00:10:15.940 Now,

00:10:16.480 the one thing

00:10:16.920 Michael Schirmer

00:10:17.520 is famous for

00:10:18.440 is being a

00:10:19.760 rational skeptic.

00:10:22.320 Right?

00:10:22.620 So he does

00:10:23.440 stick to the facts.

00:10:25.080 He's a very

00:10:25.520 fact-based

00:10:26.420 opinion person.

00:10:28.340 And he just

00:10:29.460 says,

00:10:30.560 he just looked

00:10:31.180 at it and said,

00:10:32.040 tell me what

00:10:32.700 fact

00:10:33.240 changes anything.

00:10:35.260 Give me a fact.

00:10:36.420 Give me the name

00:10:37.100 of the person

00:10:37.660 who's now going

00:10:38.620 to change

00:10:38.980 their policies

00:10:39.660 or at least

00:10:40.380 the way they act.

00:10:41.580 Nobody.

00:10:42.800 Nobody can come

00:10:43.600 up even with

00:10:44.200 an example

00:10:44.820 of one thing

00:10:46.160 that will be

00:10:46.540 different.

00:10:47.520 Nothing.

00:10:48.660 Not a person

00:10:49.400 who will act

00:10:50.160 differently.

00:10:51.240 Not an outcome

00:10:53.140 that will be

00:10:53.640 different.

00:10:54.360 Nothing.

00:10:57.420 But everybody's

00:10:58.440 all worked up

00:10:59.120 about it.

00:10:59.740 My favorite

00:11:00.320 story about

00:11:00.940 this was a

00:11:01.880 tweet yesterday

00:11:03.220 from somebody

00:11:04.380 named Erica

00:11:06.040 Marsh

00:11:06.580 that some

00:11:09.180 people thought

00:11:09.720 was a parody

00:11:10.360 and other

00:11:11.860 people thought

00:11:12.420 it was real.

00:11:12.940 Now I'm

00:11:14.220 going to read

00:11:14.600 it to you

00:11:15.080 and I want

00:11:16.140 you to use

00:11:16.620 all of your

00:11:17.380 powers to

00:11:19.860 discern if

00:11:20.520 it's a parody

00:11:21.140 or it's real.

00:11:22.860 Now if it's

00:11:23.500 real,

00:11:24.560 you have the

00:11:25.140 second possibility

00:11:26.120 that it doesn't

00:11:27.460 mean what it

00:11:28.040 looks like it

00:11:28.560 means because

00:11:30.160 there's already

00:11:30.720 been a

00:11:31.040 clarification.

00:11:32.740 Now I'll

00:11:33.160 tell you the

00:11:33.540 clarification

00:11:34.020 after I tell

00:11:36.560 you the tweet.

00:11:37.760 So just know

00:11:38.680 that the tweet

00:11:39.300 is going to

00:11:39.820 sound really,

00:11:40.820 really bad.

00:11:42.560 Really bad.

00:11:44.600 But let's

00:11:45.000 see if you

00:11:45.300 think it's

00:11:45.660 real or

00:11:46.480 maybe something

00:11:47.180 else was

00:11:47.660 intended by it.

00:11:49.080 So here's

00:11:49.420 the tweet

00:11:49.740 from somebody

00:11:50.760 named Erica

00:11:51.640 Marsh.

00:11:52.380 It says,

00:11:53.400 today's

00:11:54.980 Supreme Court

00:11:55.540 decision is a

00:11:56.400 direct attack

00:11:57.160 on black

00:11:57.700 people.

00:11:58.700 No black 1.00

00:11:59.280 person will

00:12:00.320 be able to

00:12:01.020 succeed in a

00:12:01.860 merit-based

00:12:02.420 system.

00:12:06.020 Wait,

00:12:06.680 what?

00:12:08.660 What?

00:12:09.260 Wait,

00:12:11.160 what?

00:12:12.760 And this

00:12:13.500 is from

00:12:13.840 somebody who

00:12:14.540 is identified

00:12:15.660 online as

00:12:17.140 an ex-Biden

00:12:18.020 staffer.

00:12:18.960 I don't know

00:12:19.480 if that's

00:12:19.820 true, but

00:12:21.340 somebody,

00:12:22.220 I'll just

00:12:22.760 say somebody

00:12:23.260 credible

00:12:23.880 identified the

00:12:25.840 account as

00:12:26.440 an ex-Biden

00:12:28.320 staffer.

00:12:29.200 Now there's

00:12:29.780 more to the

00:12:30.180 sentence, but

00:12:32.300 the first part

00:12:32.960 that got

00:12:33.260 everybody excited

00:12:34.360 was this

00:12:35.240 part.

00:12:36.320 She said,

00:12:37.000 no black 1.00

00:12:37.480 person will

00:12:38.200 be able to

00:12:39.180 succeed in

00:12:39.880 a merit-based

00:12:40.460 system.

00:12:41.460 Then she

00:12:41.980 goes on,

00:12:43.040 the next part

00:12:44.000 is important,

00:12:45.000 which is

00:12:45.440 exactly why

00:12:46.280 affirmative

00:12:47.120 action-based

00:12:47.740 programs were

00:12:48.400 needed.

00:12:50.020 Today's

00:12:50.660 decision is a

00:12:51.440 travesty,

00:12:52.120 in all caps.

00:12:53.980 All right.

00:12:56.920 Do you

00:12:57.720 believe that

00:12:59.020 a Democrat

00:13:00.340 who tweets

00:13:01.000 a lot

00:13:01.420 said in

00:13:03.760 public that

00:13:05.920 if black

00:13:06.760 people had

00:13:07.280 to compete

00:13:07.780 on an

00:13:08.160 equal basis,

00:13:09.260 they could

00:13:09.980 not do

00:13:10.500 it?

00:13:11.980 Do you

00:13:12.460 think that

00:13:12.740 happened?

00:13:13.260 In the

00:13:13.600 real world,

00:13:14.140 do you

00:13:14.280 think that

00:13:14.560 happened?

00:13:15.400 Because the

00:13:16.040 Internet is

00:13:16.560 acting like

00:13:17.000 it did.

00:13:18.280 Like that's

00:13:18.940 actually what

00:13:19.580 happened.

00:13:20.180 It's a real

00:13:20.700 person with

00:13:21.880 a real

00:13:22.220 opinion.

00:13:24.400 All right,

00:13:24.760 tell me here,

00:13:25.520 how many think

00:13:26.060 that that was a

00:13:26.640 real person

00:13:27.200 giving a real

00:13:27.900 opinion, and

00:13:29.000 the way it

00:13:29.420 was read is

00:13:30.000 exactly what

00:13:30.680 was meant?

00:13:31.700 Exactly what

00:13:32.360 was meant.

00:13:33.600 A lot of

00:13:33.980 yeses,

00:13:34.460 not no's.

00:13:36.140 Those who

00:13:36.620 say no,

00:13:38.180 what would

00:13:38.600 be the tell

00:13:40.440 for it being

00:13:41.420 fake?

00:13:42.660 What are you

00:13:43.260 looking at to

00:13:44.200 decide that

00:13:44.800 this is not

00:13:45.360 real?

00:13:46.340 What's the

00:13:47.040 giveaway?

00:13:50.640 Boom.

00:13:51.920 Two on the

00:13:52.380 no's.

00:13:53.620 If this were

00:13:54.720 real, it

00:13:56.120 would be

00:13:56.480 exactly,

00:13:58.300 exactly the

00:14:00.780 worst thing

00:14:01.960 that Republicans

00:14:03.300 think about

00:14:03.980 Democrats.

00:14:04.460 Democrats.

00:14:05.320 Because

00:14:05.760 privately,

00:14:07.240 well, even

00:14:07.640 publicly,

00:14:08.380 Republicans will

00:14:09.220 say all the

00:14:09.760 time, the

00:14:11.120 Democrats are

00:14:11.800 the real

00:14:12.200 racists, and

00:14:13.820 the reason they

00:14:14.340 want affirmative

00:14:14.920 action is

00:14:15.600 because they

00:14:16.240 believe that

00:14:17.620 black people

00:14:18.160 can't compete

00:14:18.920 on an even

00:14:19.700 playing field.

00:14:21.820 So the

00:14:22.420 Republican

00:14:22.800 belief is that

00:14:23.900 the Democrats

00:14:24.840 are the real

00:14:25.460 racists because

00:14:26.580 they won't

00:14:26.980 admit that

00:14:28.540 they think

00:14:28.960 they need an

00:14:29.460 extra help

00:14:30.100 because they

00:14:31.620 think there's

00:14:31.980 some wrong,

00:14:33.240 some problem

00:14:33.840 there.

00:14:34.840 Whereas

00:14:35.320 Republicans are

00:14:36.220 saying, why

00:14:36.760 can't you just

00:14:37.220 let people be

00:14:38.060 individuals?

00:14:39.620 There are

00:14:39.920 plenty of

00:14:40.460 individuals who

00:14:41.660 will do

00:14:41.900 fine, just

00:14:43.060 like in every

00:14:43.580 group.

00:14:44.980 Individuals find

00:14:45.720 a way.

00:14:46.840 Maybe the

00:14:47.380 group as a

00:14:47.960 whole doesn't

00:14:48.480 do so well,

00:14:49.380 some group as

00:14:50.020 a whole does

00:14:50.520 better.

00:14:51.560 Do I hate

00:14:52.200 Asian Americans

00:14:52.880 because they're

00:14:53.360 really good at

00:14:53.940 school?

00:14:55.880 No.

00:14:56.360 I'm just

00:14:58.080 really, really,

00:14:59.400 really happy

00:15:00.160 that I live

00:15:01.060 in a country

00:15:01.620 where there

00:15:02.460 are so many

00:15:02.940 people who

00:15:03.440 are good at

00:15:04.000 school.

00:15:05.240 I feel like

00:15:05.840 that's going

00:15:06.200 to come in

00:15:06.560 handy, build

00:15:08.000 us some

00:15:08.420 technology, solve

00:15:10.560 some problems

00:15:11.160 maybe, start

00:15:12.700 some internet

00:15:13.300 startups.

00:15:15.120 How could I

00:15:15.860 be mad at

00:15:16.360 that?

00:15:16.600 But, all

00:15:20.100 right, so

00:15:20.360 later, after

00:15:22.140 the internet

00:15:22.580 went crazy, I

00:15:24.060 saw people

00:15:24.440 like Matt

00:15:24.920 Walsh,

00:15:26.020 apparently

00:15:27.060 buying into

00:15:27.680 this being a

00:15:28.200 real opinion,

00:15:29.460 which surprised

00:15:30.360 me.

00:15:31.380 But here was

00:15:32.580 the so-called

00:15:33.420 clarification.

00:15:35.260 Now, the

00:15:35.680 clarification is

00:15:36.640 not so clear,

00:15:38.400 which is more

00:15:40.100 evidence that

00:15:40.900 this is not a

00:15:41.580 good tweeter,

00:15:43.280 and that maybe

00:15:43.940 that's all that's

00:15:44.540 going on.

00:15:45.300 It's just

00:15:45.680 somebody who's

00:15:46.060 not a good

00:15:46.460 writer.

00:15:47.320 So here's

00:15:47.680 the clarification.

00:15:49.860 Allow me to

00:15:50.540 clarify this

00:15:51.280 tweet, which

00:15:52.300 is being

00:15:52.680 manipulated for

00:15:53.580 propaganda and

00:15:54.900 misinformation by

00:15:55.860 all caps,

00:15:57.200 ULTRA MAGA.

00:15:59.060 The intention

00:16:00.060 of my tweet is

00:16:02.020 to highlight that

00:16:02.840 prior to

00:16:03.440 affirmative action,

00:16:04.840 there existed a

00:16:05.680 supposedly merit-based

00:16:07.120 system for black

00:16:08.200 individuals to

00:16:09.420 gain admission to

00:16:10.340 colleges.

00:16:11.560 However, these

00:16:12.420 institutions employed

00:16:13.580 racial profiling to

00:16:15.240 prevent black 1.00

00:16:16.280 individuals from

00:16:17.760 individuals, why

00:16:19.260 would you say

00:16:19.660 individuals twice in

00:16:20.880 one tweet?

00:16:21.360 Anyway, to

00:16:22.040 prevent black 1.00

00:16:22.700 individuals from

00:16:23.540 attending under the

00:16:24.340 guise of this

00:16:25.500 merit system.

00:16:26.920 I want to

00:16:27.420 emphasize that my

00:16:28.140 statement in no

00:16:28.780 way suggests that

00:16:29.440 black individuals,

00:16:30.400 that's three

00:16:30.880 individuals in one

00:16:31.780 tweet, are less

00:16:32.900 intelligent than

00:16:33.600 people of other

00:16:34.220 races.

00:16:35.000 Well, I think she

00:16:36.300 made her point.

00:16:37.040 I think she made

00:16:39.800 her point pretty

00:16:40.360 well because she 0.94

00:16:41.860 identifies as white

00:16:43.200 and she just said 0.98

00:16:44.120 something that's so

00:16:45.200 dumb I can't imagine

00:16:46.280 any black person

00:16:47.060 ever saying it.

00:16:49.020 So, her point that

00:16:51.320 black people are

00:16:52.180 smarter than her, I

00:16:53.420 think she made that

00:16:54.100 pretty well.

00:16:56.260 However, let's look at

00:16:58.860 her clarification.

00:17:00.520 So what she meant to

00:17:01.620 say is that before

00:17:03.700 affirmative action, it

00:17:05.000 was allegedly, and

00:17:06.840 here's the part that

00:17:07.920 got missing, we

00:17:09.120 allegedly had a

00:17:10.120 merit-based system

00:17:10.920 before and it just

00:17:12.660 didn't work.

00:17:13.920 So she's saying if

00:17:15.000 you go back to the

00:17:15.840 system that didn't

00:17:16.640 work, what are you

00:17:17.960 going to expect?

00:17:19.380 It's just not going

00:17:20.420 to work again.

00:17:21.940 Now, she's wrong, of

00:17:23.300 course, because all of

00:17:24.880 the institutions have

00:17:26.060 institutionalized a

00:17:28.740 point of view which

00:17:29.600 will perpetuate more

00:17:30.940 affirmative action.

00:17:32.200 So she's completely

00:17:33.280 stupid and 0.92

00:17:34.420 bad writer and

00:17:35.880 not a bright

00:17:37.020 individual.

00:17:38.340 But there isn't the

00:17:39.520 slightest chance that

00:17:41.420 she meant to tweet

00:17:42.540 that black people can't 1.00

00:17:44.420 compete because there's

00:17:45.160 something wrong with

00:17:45.700 them.

00:17:46.140 There's no way she

00:17:47.180 meant to say that.

00:17:48.820 Does anybody really,

00:17:49.940 now after you've heard

00:17:50.740 the explanation, do

00:17:52.500 you really still think

00:17:53.380 that?

00:17:54.360 Really?

00:17:55.720 Because I don't think

00:17:56.720 you do.

00:17:57.620 I think if you say you

00:17:59.080 believe it, that she

00:18:00.760 meant that, you are

00:18:02.420 LARPing.

00:18:02.920 you are pretending to

00:18:04.880 have opinions, right?

00:18:06.480 You're just pretending

00:18:07.240 that you're mad. 0.54

00:18:08.340 You're pretending that

00:18:09.280 this represents Democrats

00:18:10.680 and now you're going to

00:18:12.220 channel the feelings

00:18:13.100 you've always had.

00:18:14.480 You know, nothing

00:18:14.940 changed.

00:18:15.500 It's your existing

00:18:16.080 feelings.

00:18:16.920 You'll just channel it

00:18:17.780 through this poor

00:18:18.380 motherfucker who said 0.97

00:18:20.460 some dumb shit things

00:18:21.420 online.

00:18:21.860 I would like to defend

00:18:24.540 her because at the very

00:18:28.960 least I would like my

00:18:30.100 audience to understand

00:18:31.320 and here's the thing to

00:18:33.600 remember.

00:18:34.700 Whenever there's a public

00:18:36.000 figure, or in this case

00:18:37.300 somebody who's been

00:18:38.240 turned into a public

00:18:39.240 figure, whenever there's

00:18:40.720 an individual in the news

00:18:41.900 that's getting heat like

00:18:43.380 this, it's never about

00:18:44.880 them.

00:18:45.140 LARPing is simply a

00:18:46.900 vehicle that people are

00:18:47.800 using to shove their

00:18:50.100 existing views further

00:18:52.060 into the news cycle.

00:18:53.800 It has nothing to do

00:18:55.040 with her.

00:18:56.000 She did not say

00:18:56.820 anything wrong.

00:18:57.880 She said something

00:18:58.500 unclear that caused the

00:18:59.920 problem.

00:19:00.540 But nothing wrong.

00:19:02.340 She was dumb. 0.95

00:19:04.720 I mean, her point as I

00:19:06.240 understand it with the

00:19:07.240 clarification is still

00:19:09.120 lacks context.

00:19:11.460 context, the context

00:19:12.760 being that everything's

00:19:13.640 changed since then.

00:19:14.780 We don't need the

00:19:15.780 extra, you know, legal

00:19:17.960 push or whatever it

00:19:19.000 was to make us want to

00:19:21.400 have a diverse place.

00:19:24.060 You put me in a college,

00:19:25.400 make me the dean of the

00:19:26.340 college, I'm going to

00:19:27.600 push for diversity.

00:19:29.280 I hate to say it.

00:19:30.800 I mean, because you

00:19:31.380 might not like to hear

00:19:32.180 it.

00:19:32.920 But it's necessary.

00:19:35.100 You just don't want to

00:19:35.880 be crazy about it.

00:19:37.220 Right?

00:19:37.460 You just don't want to

00:19:38.460 give up merit to do

00:19:41.440 it.

00:19:42.020 So do everything you

00:19:42.980 can, but I wouldn't

00:19:44.640 make, but I wouldn't

00:19:45.620 prevent white people 0.90

00:19:47.220 from getting jobs.

00:19:49.140 That's too far.

00:19:50.800 But if you could do

00:19:51.820 maybe a stronger job

00:19:53.660 of outreach, maybe a

00:19:55.900 better job of being a

00:19:57.000 good place to work for

00:19:58.560 all kinds of people,

00:19:59.940 you know, you could

00:20:00.460 attack the situation a

00:20:02.400 number of ways without

00:20:04.380 discriminating against

00:20:05.440 white people.

00:20:07.000 You wouldn't have to.

00:20:08.540 It just could be one

00:20:09.560 thing that could happen.

00:20:10.240 Now, so I told you that

00:20:13.520 Michael Shermer,

00:20:14.420 surprisingly, didn't have

00:20:16.440 a problem with the

00:20:17.140 ruling, but here's one

00:20:18.600 that might surprise you,

00:20:20.740 and I'm just going to

00:20:21.560 give some props to this

00:20:23.180 individual.

00:20:24.420 You know, Cenk Uyger from

00:20:27.320 the Young Turks?

00:20:29.600 A political pundit type

00:20:31.200 person, quite prominent.

00:20:32.440 He's heavily left-oriented.

00:20:36.720 You would expect him to

00:20:38.080 hate this decision,

00:20:40.080 wouldn't you?

00:20:41.180 He did not.

00:20:42.860 He agrees with the

00:20:43.920 decision completely, and I

00:20:46.000 give him credit for that.

00:20:47.180 It is not easy to piss in

00:20:49.820 the face of your entire

00:20:50.940 audience, which he just

00:20:51.980 did.

00:20:53.060 He just took a big old piss

00:20:54.740 right in the face of his

00:20:55.760 entire audience, because you

00:20:56.860 know they don't agree with

00:20:57.780 that, but he gives his

00:20:59.620 reasons, and he sticks by

00:21:01.800 it, and he's clear, and I've

00:21:03.460 got immense respect for

00:21:04.660 that.

00:21:05.300 You know, he has other

00:21:05.920 opinions that I don't like

00:21:06.900 so much, but this, he is

00:21:11.020 deeply improving his

00:21:12.740 credibility, in my opinion.

00:21:13.960 I want to read what he

00:21:17.140 said, because the way he

00:21:19.560 said it was actually my

00:21:20.780 exact opinion.

00:21:22.480 So if you want to know my

00:21:23.560 exact opinion, it comes

00:21:26.020 from Cenk, of all things.

00:21:28.820 Like, who saw that coming

00:21:29.880 today, that he and I would

00:21:31.620 be agreeing completely on

00:21:33.840 this issue?

00:21:34.640 So here's what he says.

00:21:36.140 He says, I think Supreme

00:21:37.160 Court got the affirmative

00:21:37.980 action case right.

00:21:39.420 I'm sick of the stereotypes

00:21:41.240 that attach to all minorities

00:21:43.480 because of this policy.

00:21:45.140 That's what I think.

00:21:46.200 It was necessary in the

00:21:47.840 beginning, that's what I

00:21:48.860 think, but it has become

00:21:50.240 counterproductive, that's

00:21:51.480 what I think.

00:21:52.360 But legacy admissions, which

00:21:54.460 is more unfair, meaning you

00:21:56.260 get in because your parents

00:21:57.880 went to the college, must be

00:22:00.700 banned.

00:22:01.460 And I guess he's working on

00:22:02.500 getting that banned.

00:22:03.680 Now, I don't have a strong

00:22:04.960 opinion about legacy

00:22:06.240 admissions.

00:22:08.460 Not really.

00:22:10.200 I mean, they do it to do

00:22:11.660 fundraising, and it can't be

00:22:13.460 that many people, is it?

00:22:15.180 Like, what percentage of

00:22:16.240 Harvard are legacies?

00:22:18.340 Is it just a really high

00:22:20.080 number?

00:22:21.860 I mean, if it's over, do

00:22:23.120 you think 25%, 25%.

00:22:24.940 It's funny, I was just

00:22:26.400 going to say 25%.

00:22:27.540 If it's over 25%, it's way

00:22:30.580 too much.

00:22:32.160 Because I do think that

00:22:33.200 would be too much, right?

00:22:35.420 Does anybody know what the

00:22:36.240 actual number is?

00:22:37.300 If it's 5%, why does

00:22:39.140 anybody care?

00:22:39.700 Yeah, I don't know.

00:22:43.040 So I'll just go with, if it's

00:22:44.480 5%, I don't care.

00:22:45.760 If it's 25%, it's worth the 0.99

00:22:47.560 discussion.

00:22:49.240 You think it's over 25?

00:22:51.900 If it's over 25%, but they 0.53

00:22:54.400 were also massively favoring

00:22:57.860 minority applicants, that would 0.94

00:23:00.960 leave basically no unrelated

00:23:04.620 white people any spots 0.97

00:23:06.140 whatsoever, right?

00:23:06.920 You know, once you got rid of

00:23:09.380 all the legacies, and then

00:23:11.860 you packed it with all the

00:23:13.220 minorities that you're trying

00:23:14.260 to attract, what's left?

00:23:16.600 There's probably no space

00:23:17.700 left.

00:23:20.060 So I'm hearing people say it

00:23:21.740 is 36%, somebody's saying.

00:23:24.900 Close to 40%.

00:23:25.760 Okay, then I agree.

00:23:27.360 Then I guess Cenk and I have

00:23:29.180 100% agreement on this.

00:23:32.740 Who in the world saw that

00:23:33.800 coming?

00:23:34.820 This is the craziest day.

00:23:36.920 It's just a crazy day.

00:23:40.260 Who would have seen me

00:23:41.600 unabashedly defending Biden's

00:23:45.220 staffer?

00:23:47.020 That happened today.

00:23:48.660 This is weirdly bringing us

00:23:50.080 together.

00:23:50.560 Have you noticed that?

00:23:52.380 That this decision is weirdly

00:23:55.180 causing us to unite in all the

00:23:58.120 strangest ways.

00:23:58.960 I know that we're going to talk

00:24:00.160 about where we're disagreeing,

00:24:01.780 like all the discussion will be

00:24:03.220 where we disagree.

00:24:03.980 But I feel like just under the

00:24:06.020 hood, there's something else

00:24:07.820 happening.

00:24:10.220 There's sort of a, I'd say,

00:24:12.820 a more sophisticated view of it.

00:24:18.240 Because I think that no matter

00:24:19.580 what side you're on, you could see

00:24:21.620 the current situation as

00:24:22.900 unproductive.

00:24:23.740 That's what Cenk is saying.

00:24:25.040 That's what I think.

00:24:25.700 So I like diversity.

00:24:28.720 I like wokeness a little bit.

00:24:30.920 I just don't like too much of it.

00:24:32.920 You know, when it goes too far.

00:24:35.440 So this is a good adjustment.

00:24:38.060 And I think that the, you know,

00:24:40.920 I've been telling you for a while

00:24:42.080 that the wokeness peak has been

00:24:46.000 reached.

00:24:47.340 And you can tell by the absurdity.

00:24:49.880 You know, the level of absurdity.

00:24:52.000 You know, the whole Dylan Mulvaney thing.

00:24:53.860 And so this is not just people

00:24:55.960 disagreeing about stuff.

00:24:57.860 This is just flat-end absurdity.

00:25:00.540 And once you reach the point where

00:25:01.900 all of the stories in this domain

00:25:03.780 are just absurd,

00:25:05.820 they're not even really things you

00:25:07.560 should even bother talking about.

00:25:09.020 They're just crazy shit.

00:25:10.420 Once it reaches that, then people

00:25:11.980 start to see it as crazy shit.

00:25:14.440 And then they can start moderating.

00:25:16.460 You know, you want to keep the stuff

00:25:17.680 that was good.

00:25:18.280 I don't think the wokeness thing was bad. 0.99

00:25:22.040 I think it just went too far.

00:25:23.700 And now we're going to adjust back

00:25:25.020 and keep the stuff that was good.

00:25:27.140 I like the part where we treat each other

00:25:29.120 with respect.

00:25:30.540 Let's keep that part.

00:25:32.740 Because I don't think we had enough

00:25:34.060 respect for each other.

00:25:36.000 So if what we get out of this

00:25:37.700 is more respect for people

00:25:39.580 who are different from us,

00:25:41.380 good.

00:25:42.440 But you've got to bring it back a little bit.

00:25:44.420 All right.

00:25:47.840 I loved watching Cornel West

00:25:50.000 react to this with Dana Bash.

00:25:53.760 And I'm going to tell you some

00:25:55.080 behind-the-scenes stuff.

00:25:58.140 And you can't ask me how I know.

00:26:01.460 So Dana Bash, if you didn't know,

00:26:04.060 is white.

00:26:05.540 Cornel West, a very interesting character,

00:26:09.700 is black.

00:26:11.540 Or identifies as black.

00:26:14.420 I guess I'm going to say that

00:26:17.400 because I was watching him yesterday

00:26:18.420 and I thought,

00:26:18.960 it's weird that he doesn't look black.

00:26:21.060 But he identifies as black

00:26:23.080 and I'm not going to question that.

00:26:25.220 But,

00:26:26.240 so he was very upset

00:26:28.100 about the Supreme Court ruling

00:26:29.560 and quite visibly upset.

00:26:32.740 And,

00:26:33.280 who was it who said this?

00:26:35.040 Oh, Jesse Waters said this.

00:26:37.860 Jesse Waters said this yesterday.

00:26:40.120 And maybe it surprises you

00:26:41.680 coming from him,

00:26:42.420 but also maybe he's

00:26:44.740 trying to grow into his new job.

00:26:47.560 You know,

00:26:47.920 his prominence at Fox News

00:26:50.180 is higher

00:26:51.340 because he's taken the Tucker spot.

00:26:53.740 So maybe he's just trying to

00:26:55.480 modify his game.

00:26:57.700 So he started out

00:26:58.660 his commentary about this.

00:27:00.460 The very first comment was,

00:27:02.400 we should all,

00:27:03.000 we should all understand

00:27:04.000 that this is devastating

00:27:05.400 to black Americans.

00:27:06.820 Not all of them,

00:27:08.320 but a lot.

00:27:08.840 and I actually

00:27:11.320 appreciated that.

00:27:12.460 I respected that a lot.

00:27:13.900 Because he started with,

00:27:15.560 there's a victim here.

00:27:17.400 Now,

00:27:17.620 whether you think,

00:27:18.360 whether you think

00:27:19.740 affirmative action

00:27:21.320 was right or wrong,

00:27:23.420 unrelated to the thing,

00:27:25.160 there are people

00:27:25.760 who are having

00:27:26.400 an experience,

00:27:27.480 a lived experience,

00:27:28.380 which is very negative,

00:27:29.620 and I care about that.

00:27:31.720 Because,

00:27:32.660 they're Americans,

00:27:33.620 they're humans,

00:27:34.380 they're people,

00:27:35.580 they're just people

00:27:36.160 I disagree with

00:27:37.120 on some political details,

00:27:38.880 but I don't want

00:27:39.660 to see them suffering.

00:27:41.180 I don't want to see

00:27:41.940 anybody waking up

00:27:43.480 to a bad day.

00:27:44.960 That's not on my list.

00:27:47.380 So I will also

00:27:48.600 give some respect

00:27:49.660 to Jesse Waters,

00:27:51.380 who often is,

00:27:52.140 you know,

00:27:52.440 more the joker.

00:27:53.800 But in this case,

00:27:55.060 I think he hit the target

00:27:58.160 exactly.

00:27:59.580 Start with the fact,

00:28:00.780 and I should have

00:28:01.260 done it too.

00:28:02.520 You know,

00:28:02.800 I regret that

00:28:03.400 I didn't do that.

00:28:04.000 So I thought

00:28:04.980 that was a good model

00:28:05.900 for behavior,

00:28:07.260 which is to acknowledge

00:28:08.440 that somebody's suffering,

00:28:10.660 and it's going

00:28:12.200 to have an impact.

00:28:13.640 And that might blow

00:28:14.520 back on you too.

00:28:15.720 You know,

00:28:15.960 you're not independent

00:28:17.700 from the suffering

00:28:18.820 of other Americans.

00:28:21.240 So,

00:28:21.720 having said that,

00:28:24.660 Dana Bash

00:28:25.540 talking to

00:28:26.440 Cornel West.

00:28:27.980 So Cornel West

00:28:28.600 was a good example

00:28:29.460 of a black American

00:28:30.980 having a tough time

00:28:32.800 with it.

00:28:34.000 but

00:28:34.320 I think

00:28:36.720 this is just speculation

00:28:38.940 because I can't read minds.

00:28:40.960 I suspect that a lot

00:28:42.220 of what is bothering them,

00:28:44.740 the black Americans

00:28:45.680 in particular,

00:28:46.680 is the feeling

00:28:47.520 that what's behind it

00:28:48.540 is racism.

00:28:50.240 And I don't think it is.

00:28:51.940 I really don't think it is.

00:28:53.560 But you can imagine

00:28:54.780 why they would think that.

00:28:56.180 Like,

00:28:56.500 if you were a certain age

00:28:57.560 and born in a certain time,

00:28:59.040 and you'd gone through

00:29:00.180 a lot of the real,

00:29:01.460 real racism,

00:29:02.220 you would naturally

00:29:04.340 suspect

00:29:06.160 that maybe

00:29:07.640 that's behind this.

00:29:08.760 It's just people

00:29:09.300 don't say it that way.

00:29:10.680 Maybe that's what it is.

00:29:12.300 So he was quite upset.

00:29:14.120 But what was

00:29:15.240 fascinating about it

00:29:16.360 was Dana Bash

00:29:17.280 asked him

00:29:18.340 this question,

00:29:19.600 which caused him

00:29:20.940 to melt down

00:29:21.980 into total word salad.

00:29:23.700 and she said,

00:29:26.060 what would you say

00:29:27.640 to Asian Americans?

00:29:31.860 That's it.

00:29:33.220 What would you say

00:29:34.080 to Asian Americans?

00:29:37.420 How do you tell them

00:29:38.420 they can't go to college

00:29:39.340 because they're not black?

00:29:40.760 She didn't say that,

00:29:41.580 but that's built

00:29:42.380 into the question.

00:29:44.240 Now,

00:29:45.340 would you expect

00:29:46.080 CNN to ask that question?

00:29:47.420 because that

00:29:51.000 completely

00:29:51.920 turned him

00:29:53.200 into an idiot

00:29:53.920 right in front of you.

00:29:56.320 He couldn't answer it

00:29:57.720 because answering it

00:29:59.820 would reveal

00:30:00.520 that he was a racist,

00:30:02.100 which apparently he is.

00:30:03.920 I mean,

00:30:04.480 overtly.

00:30:06.120 I mean,

00:30:06.880 his reaction to this,

00:30:09.200 I don't know

00:30:09.820 how you can,

00:30:11.320 I don't know

00:30:12.040 any way to paint it

00:30:12.880 other than

00:30:13.380 overtly racist.

00:30:14.540 He overtly,

00:30:17.080 directly,

00:30:17.920 and unambiguously

00:30:18.720 prefers

00:30:19.480 fewer Asian Americans

00:30:21.980 getting into these colleges

00:30:23.200 so that a greater percentage

00:30:24.480 of black people can.

00:30:26.560 I don't know

00:30:27.340 what to call that.

00:30:28.720 That is racist

00:30:30.160 by definition.

00:30:33.140 Now,

00:30:33.540 you could argue

00:30:34.020 that affirmative action

00:30:34.960 is racist

00:30:35.620 because it is

00:30:37.140 by design.

00:30:39.160 So,

00:30:39.580 one of the things

00:30:40.160 I would love to add

00:30:41.020 to our conversation

00:30:42.180 to fix everything

00:30:43.420 and I've never

00:30:44.920 heard anybody

00:30:45.360 say this before

00:30:46.080 directly,

00:30:46.680 but again,

00:30:47.560 this is one of the things

00:30:48.260 I can say

00:30:48.920 because I'm cancelled.

00:30:50.380 So,

00:30:50.700 let me say

00:30:51.120 what only a cancelled

00:30:52.040 person can say.

00:30:53.880 Not all racism

00:30:54.600 is bad.

00:30:58.880 There you go.

00:31:01.140 Did you like

00:31:01.860 hearing that?

00:31:02.640 Not all racism

00:31:03.500 is bad.

00:31:04.920 The problem is

00:31:05.760 we act like

00:31:06.300 it all is.

00:31:07.940 But affirmative action,

00:31:09.160 as I just said,

00:31:10.120 I thought had

00:31:10.720 an important role

00:31:12.420 in American history.

00:31:13.980 It was very racist,

00:31:15.420 but it was good.

00:31:18.140 See the point?

00:31:19.500 It was racist,

00:31:21.060 but it's good.

00:31:22.560 I'm in favor

00:31:23.420 of funding

00:31:24.060 the historically

00:31:25.000 black colleges.

00:31:27.200 Completely racist,

00:31:29.080 but I think

00:31:29.860 more good than bad.

00:31:32.060 I'm in favor of it.

00:31:34.560 I'm in favor

00:31:35.580 of TV

00:31:37.300 and movies

00:31:39.440 and commercials

00:31:40.400 and even colleges

00:31:42.920 considering race

00:31:44.860 when they make

00:31:46.320 their decisions.

00:31:47.440 I'm in favor of that.

00:31:48.860 I do think

00:31:49.520 all of those things

00:31:50.360 should have

00:31:51.760 some effort

00:31:52.500 to be like

00:31:54.360 the American character.

00:31:55.560 But it's totally racist.

00:31:59.280 Isn't it?

00:32:00.540 How can it not be?

00:32:01.380 It is by design,

00:32:03.620 overtly,

00:32:04.300 we're trying to

00:32:05.040 change the mix

00:32:05.960 of race

00:32:06.520 in this situation.

00:32:08.980 That's overtly racist.

00:32:11.240 But it's the good kind.

00:32:13.900 Right?

00:32:14.740 So I think

00:32:15.720 part of the problem

00:32:16.360 is we keep

00:32:17.280 arguing with each other

00:32:19.120 as if all racism

00:32:20.180 is bad

00:32:20.900 when in fact

00:32:22.200 there's a whole

00:32:23.160 category of racism

00:32:24.880 that we intentionally

00:32:25.900 pursue

00:32:26.480 because we

00:32:27.920 generally think,

00:32:28.860 oh,

00:32:29.000 that's actually

00:32:29.500 pretty good.

00:32:30.040 not 100% good.

00:32:32.340 Right?

00:32:32.800 Because even trying

00:32:33.800 to add diversity

00:32:34.580 to your organization,

00:32:36.160 a perfectly good

00:32:37.180 objective,

00:32:38.860 will end up

00:32:40.300 accidentally

00:32:40.980 discriminating

00:32:42.280 against white people.

00:32:43.460 Of course.

00:32:45.160 You know,

00:32:45.580 that's not the intention.

00:32:47.900 But of course

00:32:48.480 it would happen.

00:32:49.200 Of course it would happen.

00:32:50.860 So,

00:32:51.720 these are

00:32:52.140 complicated things

00:32:53.220 where you have to look

00:32:53.780 at the societal benefit,

00:32:56.100 but you also have to

00:32:57.000 look at the fact

00:32:57.580 that there are going

00:32:58.100 to be some people

00:32:58.900 who,

00:32:59.180 you know,

00:32:59.660 getting the knife

00:33:00.580 in the back.

00:33:01.960 And maybe you balance

00:33:03.200 those and say,

00:33:03.900 well,

00:33:04.200 for a little while

00:33:05.040 we'll let a few people

00:33:06.100 get knifed

00:33:06.700 for the greater good.

00:33:08.380 You know,

00:33:08.940 these are complicated

00:33:09.620 things.

00:33:11.060 But anyway,

00:33:12.660 here's what I wanted

00:33:13.580 to say.

00:33:13.920 Do you believe

00:33:15.420 that the white 0.80

00:33:16.700 correspondents

00:33:17.720 of CNN

00:33:18.300 are opposed

00:33:19.800 or in favor

00:33:21.100 of college admissions

00:33:22.720 being determined

00:33:23.480 by racial identity?

00:33:26.400 What do you think?

00:33:27.180 The white 0.76

00:33:28.380 CNN hosts.

00:33:31.120 Do you believe

00:33:31.780 that they

00:33:32.340 are opposed

00:33:33.560 to this decision

00:33:34.600 today?

00:33:38.240 Well,

00:33:38.880 let me give you

00:33:39.600 some background.

00:33:40.920 The white 0.76

00:33:41.680 CNN hosts

00:33:43.060 have,

00:33:44.600 in some cases,

00:33:45.340 children who are

00:33:45.940 trying to get

00:33:46.480 into college

00:33:47.060 and having troubles.

00:33:48.720 But in all cases,

00:33:50.060 they have friends

00:33:50.800 who are white

00:33:51.760 whose kids

00:33:53.000 can't get into

00:33:53.600 the colleges

00:33:54.100 that they want

00:33:54.740 to get into.

00:33:55.840 So that's your

00:33:56.400 behind the scenes.

00:33:58.020 Now,

00:33:58.340 I'm not guessing

00:33:58.980 about that.

00:34:00.100 I can't say

00:34:00.700 any more about it.

00:34:01.800 I'm just telling you

00:34:02.460 I'm not guessing.

00:34:04.380 Right?

00:34:05.460 The white 0.76

00:34:06.720 correspondents

00:34:07.520 on CNN

00:34:08.020 were not in favor

00:34:09.820 of affirmative

00:34:11.420 action in college

00:34:12.440 because their own

00:34:13.840 children were

00:34:14.600 impacted.

00:34:15.760 Their own children

00:34:16.620 or the children

00:34:17.540 of their best friends

00:34:18.500 or their sister's

00:34:19.900 children,

00:34:20.560 you know,

00:34:20.780 that sort of thing.

00:34:21.940 But all of the

00:34:23.240 liberals,

00:34:23.720 the liberals

00:34:24.920 who grew up

00:34:25.540 thinking this

00:34:26.040 was a good idea

00:34:26.880 just found out

00:34:28.280 it's screwing

00:34:29.140 their children

00:34:29.880 and their friends'

00:34:31.700 children's.

00:34:33.480 When Dana Bash

00:34:34.980 asked that question,

00:34:36.120 what would you say

00:34:36.740 to the Asian Americans?

00:34:39.320 That was a kill shot.

00:34:41.680 That was a

00:34:42.440 no fucking around

00:34:43.220 question.

00:34:44.720 That's not what

00:34:45.500 they do.

00:34:47.280 That's not how

00:34:48.180 CNN normally acts.

00:34:50.800 You know,

00:34:50.980 normally they take

00:34:51.820 a side.

00:34:53.040 Right?

00:34:53.160 Normally they do.

00:34:54.500 Unless it's just

00:34:55.200 a news story.

00:34:56.260 Like, you know,

00:34:56.960 if a president

00:34:57.640 murdered somebody,

00:34:59.020 they'd tell you that

00:34:59.840 even if it was

00:35:00.720 their guy

00:35:01.220 because it's

00:35:01.920 just a fact.

00:35:03.360 But when they

00:35:04.080 ask a question

00:35:05.320 in a certain way,

00:35:06.820 when they elicit

00:35:07.860 answers in a certain

00:35:09.620 way,

00:35:09.980 that's all

00:35:10.420 narrative.

00:35:12.500 So this was

00:35:13.220 clearly in the

00:35:14.460 domain of narrative.

00:35:15.500 And Dana Bash

00:35:17.740 of CNN

00:35:19.720 determined that the

00:35:22.500 narrative was

00:35:23.340 that this

00:35:24.440 screws Asian 1.00

00:35:25.160 Americans.

00:35:29.240 And she

00:35:30.160 made a black

00:35:30.700 guy try to

00:35:31.280 answer that

00:35:31.720 question,

00:35:32.300 and he

00:35:32.860 couldn't.

00:35:33.600 He had to

00:35:34.000 change the

00:35:34.400 subject.

00:35:36.020 Now, that's

00:35:37.280 the question

00:35:37.720 everybody should

00:35:38.360 be asked.

00:35:39.780 Because if

00:35:40.480 you're still in

00:35:40.960 favor of

00:35:41.360 affirmative action

00:35:42.140 knowing it's

00:35:42.700 screwing Asian 1.00

00:35:43.340 Americans,

00:35:44.880 explain it.

00:35:45.540 You tell me

00:35:47.080 why they

00:35:47.480 should have

00:35:47.820 less access

00:35:48.600 after all

00:35:49.600 their good

00:35:50.000 works and

00:35:50.520 staying out

00:35:50.940 of jail and

00:35:51.420 staying off

00:35:51.880 drugs.

00:35:52.780 We're going

00:35:53.320 to penalize

00:35:53.900 them for

00:35:54.600 doing everything

00:35:55.300 right.

00:35:56.980 Explain it.

00:35:58.320 Give me your

00:35:59.320 rationalization

00:36:00.260 for penalizing

00:36:01.940 a racial group

00:36:02.960 in America

00:36:03.500 who did

00:36:04.320 everything

00:36:04.660 right.

00:36:07.960 Good luck.

00:36:09.000 Good luck

00:36:09.580 explaining that.

00:36:11.140 All right.

00:36:12.060 So that'll be

00:36:12.660 fun.

00:36:13.080 I expect a lot

00:36:14.360 more people to

00:36:14.900 get that

00:36:15.200 question.

00:36:18.800 I also

00:36:19.580 wonder if

00:36:20.040 there's any

00:36:20.540 infighting at

00:36:22.360 CNN and

00:36:23.420 MSNBC.

00:36:24.640 Because I

00:36:25.280 feel like this

00:36:26.000 divided them.

00:36:28.100 You know,

00:36:28.440 much like

00:36:28.940 Progrosian and

00:36:30.820 Putin.

00:36:32.280 So I think

00:36:32.960 everybody's Russia 0.67

00:36:33.800 today.

00:36:34.780 Like all the

00:36:35.680 left-leaning

00:36:36.220 organizations that

00:36:37.200 they just turned

00:36:37.740 into Russia

00:36:38.340 were, you know,

00:36:40.060 don't you think

00:36:40.500 Joy Reid is

00:36:41.220 trying to find

00:36:41.820 the traitors?

00:36:42.360 I'm laughing

00:36:46.980 at my own

00:36:47.480 joke.

00:36:49.200 It's just

00:36:49.940 like Putin.

00:36:51.180 Joy Reid is

00:36:52.020 probably looking

00:36:52.800 at MSNBC

00:36:53.820 saying,

00:36:54.860 wait a minute,

00:36:56.240 I said it

00:36:56.880 was a terrible

00:36:57.700 worst decision

00:36:58.840 ever,

00:37:00.200 but that

00:37:00.940 guy,

00:37:01.740 he's a little

00:37:03.120 quiet.

00:37:04.740 He said he's

00:37:06.200 just talking

00:37:06.700 about it

00:37:07.080 factually.

00:37:07.840 I don't

00:37:09.300 feel like

00:37:09.920 he's as

00:37:10.360 sad as

00:37:10.940 he should

00:37:11.300 be.

00:37:12.640 I'm not

00:37:13.140 sure he's

00:37:13.620 on my

00:37:14.040 side.

00:37:15.760 So CNN

00:37:16.400 and MSNBC 0.81

00:37:17.400 just turned

00:37:18.020 into Russia

00:37:18.640 with Putin

00:37:19.760 looking for

00:37:20.240 the traitors.

00:37:23.820 That's fun.

00:37:24.960 I mean,

00:37:25.220 I assume

00:37:25.620 that's what's

00:37:26.040 happening.

00:37:27.560 All right.

00:37:29.600 Let's see

00:37:30.420 if I covered

00:37:31.460 all those

00:37:32.100 points.

00:37:34.580 So here's

00:37:35.400 the next

00:37:35.680 question.

00:37:36.320 So people

00:37:36.680 are asking,

00:37:37.140 will Biden

00:37:37.980 react to

00:37:39.200 this by

00:37:39.600 packing the

00:37:40.300 court?

00:37:41.060 So for

00:37:41.640 those two

00:37:42.960 or three

00:37:43.220 people who

00:37:43.640 don't know,

00:37:44.780 apparently the

00:37:45.440 Constitution

00:37:45.880 does not

00:37:46.700 specify how

00:37:48.360 many members

00:37:49.400 of the

00:37:49.780 Supreme Court

00:37:50.360 there are.

00:37:51.500 So a

00:37:52.000 president could

00:37:52.580 just say,

00:37:53.120 oh, I

00:37:53.500 think there

00:37:53.820 should be

00:37:54.040 100,

00:37:55.420 and then

00:37:55.860 appoint 100

00:37:56.860 justices,

00:37:58.040 and then

00:37:58.380 just appoint

00:37:58.920 100 Democrats,

00:38:01.160 and then the

00:38:01.900 Democrats would 0.89

00:38:02.600 just win every

00:38:03.460 Supreme Court.

00:38:05.240 Completely

00:38:05.800 doable.

00:38:06.280 apparently there's

00:38:08.900 no constitutional

00:38:09.780 obstacle to

00:38:12.140 doing that.

00:38:13.600 However,

00:38:14.940 what would be

00:38:15.500 the obvious

00:38:16.200 thing that

00:38:16.700 would happen?

00:38:17.800 The obvious

00:38:18.740 thing that

00:38:19.100 would happen

00:38:19.480 is that it

00:38:20.160 would encourage

00:38:21.480 a Republican

00:38:22.240 to win.

00:38:24.540 It would

00:38:24.760 probably help

00:38:25.280 their chances,

00:38:26.260 because it

00:38:26.620 would seem

00:38:26.940 so ridiculously

00:38:27.820 unfair.

00:38:28.660 It would be

00:38:29.020 the end of

00:38:29.440 the Republic,

00:38:30.360 because Republicans

00:38:31.400 would then say,

00:38:32.240 well, now I think

00:38:33.620 the Supreme Court

00:38:34.280 is 200 people.

00:38:36.680 I'm going to add

00:38:37.780 another 100

00:38:38.320 Republicans,

00:38:39.060 and we'll win

00:38:39.580 every time.

00:38:40.860 Well, as soon

00:38:41.680 as you get that

00:38:42.220 cycle going of

00:38:44.240 we'll make sure

00:38:45.000 the Supreme Court

00:38:45.660 is packed as

00:38:46.340 soon as we get

00:38:46.800 in, the moment

00:38:47.880 you start that,

00:38:49.100 that's the end

00:38:49.640 of the Republic,

00:38:51.040 because it takes

00:38:52.380 away the

00:38:52.760 independence of

00:38:53.540 the judiciary.

00:38:54.440 And the only

00:38:55.480 thing that makes

00:38:55.980 our system work

00:38:56.860 is the famous

00:38:58.460 checks and

00:38:59.000 balances.

00:39:00.040 You know,

00:39:00.200 the executive

00:39:00.800 can't order

00:39:01.720 the courts,

00:39:03.060 can't order

00:39:03.480 the Congress,

00:39:04.400 Congress can't

00:39:05.020 order the executive.

00:39:06.180 The fact that

00:39:06.820 they don't have

00:39:07.480 power over each

00:39:08.280 other is the

00:39:08.940 only thing that

00:39:09.580 makes it work.

00:39:10.980 You take that

00:39:11.620 out and the

00:39:12.480 whole thing

00:39:12.800 falls apart

00:39:13.400 in a day.

00:39:15.100 I mean, I'm

00:39:15.400 not talking about

00:39:15.980 something that

00:39:16.460 would fall apart

00:39:17.060 eventually.

00:39:18.380 The whole thing's

00:39:18.940 gone.

00:39:20.080 The moment you

00:39:21.020 do that, the

00:39:21.640 whole Republic

00:39:22.380 is fucking 0.93

00:39:23.120 gone.

00:39:24.720 Now, do you

00:39:25.680 think Biden

00:39:26.160 knows that?

00:39:27.600 Well, he used

00:39:28.240 to.

00:39:28.900 I mean, we

00:39:29.240 don't know

00:39:29.720 what his

00:39:30.480 mental capacity

00:39:31.240 is, but he

00:39:32.160 used to say

00:39:32.620 directly that

00:39:33.620 it was the

00:39:33.980 dumbest idea

00:39:34.740 because everybody

00:39:36.560 who's smart

00:39:37.260 and experienced

00:39:38.120 knows it's

00:39:40.000 the dumbest

00:39:40.780 idea.

00:39:42.440 So, given

00:39:43.340 that everybody

00:39:44.160 smart knows

00:39:45.000 that packing

00:39:45.460 the court,

00:39:46.740 even though it

00:39:47.200 might feel good

00:39:48.000 temporarily,

00:39:48.840 would be the

00:39:49.680 worst idea

00:39:50.560 for everyone.

00:39:52.820 So, I'm

00:39:53.520 predicting it'll

00:39:54.100 happen.

00:39:57.700 I'm just

00:39:58.420 joking.

00:39:59.540 I'm just

00:39:59.980 joking.

00:40:01.120 No, I'm

00:40:01.760 predicting it

00:40:02.340 won't happen.

00:40:03.900 But, if we

00:40:06.020 really go ahead

00:40:07.020 and do the

00:40:07.700 worst dumb

00:40:09.380 fuck thing

00:40:10.020 that a country

00:40:10.580 could ever do

00:40:11.200 to itself,

00:40:12.480 we deserve to

00:40:13.640 not be a

00:40:14.080 country anymore.

00:40:16.760 If we get

00:40:18.060 across this

00:40:18.780 bar, like,

00:40:19.960 the bar to

00:40:20.660 remain a

00:40:21.160 country is

00:40:21.720 really low.

00:40:23.600 Seal the

00:40:24.060 borders,

00:40:25.260 collect some

00:40:25.800 taxes, and

00:40:27.540 don't pack the

00:40:28.580 court.

00:40:29.540 That's it.

00:40:31.280 That's it.

00:40:32.500 You just, you

00:40:33.100 know, a little

00:40:33.560 border security,

00:40:34.760 pay some taxes.

00:40:37.240 That's it.

00:40:38.220 It's kind of

00:40:38.780 easy.

00:40:39.500 But we might

00:40:40.280 not be able to

00:40:40.920 clear the bar.

00:40:42.760 That's where we

00:40:43.500 are, 2023.

00:40:45.820 All right, let's

00:40:46.480 talk about

00:40:47.020 RFK Jr.

00:40:48.080 Boy, it's

00:40:52.580 hard to have

00:40:53.020 an opinion in

00:40:53.760 2023, isn't

00:40:54.940 it?

00:40:55.640 Because you

00:40:56.280 put your

00:40:56.580 opinion out

00:40:57.120 there and

00:40:57.480 then it

00:40:57.740 just gets

00:40:58.160 smashed to

00:40:59.480 smithereens

00:41:00.060 before the

00:41:00.600 end of the

00:41:01.140 day's news

00:41:02.140 cycle.

00:41:03.240 So, for a

00:41:04.260 full day, I

00:41:05.280 was thinking

00:41:05.700 that RFK

00:41:06.400 Jr. had all

00:41:07.540 the right

00:41:07.900 arguments and

00:41:08.680 he was doing

00:41:09.220 exactly what

00:41:11.260 I'd want

00:41:12.560 someone to

00:41:13.300 do if

00:41:14.320 their intention

00:41:14.880 was to bring

00:41:15.560 the country

00:41:16.020 together.

00:41:17.780 And I

00:41:18.500 thought he

00:41:18.740 was doing

00:41:18.980 a great

00:41:19.300 job of

00:41:19.700 it.

00:41:21.960 However,

00:41:23.820 yesterday

00:41:24.580 afternoon

00:41:25.260 happened.

00:41:27.620 A lot

00:41:28.300 can change

00:41:28.740 in an

00:41:29.020 afternoon.

00:41:30.260 So, one

00:41:30.880 of the

00:41:31.040 things that

00:41:31.400 changed was

00:41:32.060 RFK Jr.

00:41:33.360 came out

00:41:33.860 solidly against

00:41:36.020 the ending

00:41:36.940 of affirmative

00:41:37.560 action.

00:41:38.740 So, he's

00:41:39.160 solidly for

00:41:39.900 it.

00:41:41.280 That lost

00:41:42.240 him 100%

00:41:43.440 of the

00:41:44.560 right.

00:41:45.560 100%.

00:41:46.620 There won't

00:41:47.760 be a single

00:41:48.580 person who

00:41:49.840 he's been

00:41:50.420 actively courting

00:41:51.740 for months

00:41:52.400 who is still

00:41:53.720 on his side.

00:41:54.260 He lost

00:41:54.600 them all.

00:41:55.640 And they're

00:41:55.900 not coming

00:41:56.360 back.

00:41:58.320 That is

00:41:59.420 game over.

00:42:02.140 That is

00:42:02.720 game fucking 0.94

00:42:03.900 over.

00:42:04.760 Because this

00:42:05.420 is an opinion

00:42:05.940 that even

00:42:06.620 Cenk, even

00:42:08.460 Cenk disagrees

00:42:09.320 with.

00:42:10.080 Even Michael

00:42:10.820 Shermer

00:42:11.420 disagrees with.

00:42:13.680 And they're

00:42:13.940 just two who

00:42:14.940 are brave enough

00:42:15.540 to say it

00:42:15.920 in public.

00:42:16.280 You don't

00:42:17.040 think there

00:42:17.420 are a whole

00:42:17.940 bunch of

00:42:18.440 other people

00:42:18.940 who are

00:42:19.520 Democrats

00:42:20.040 who also

00:42:21.220 disagreed with

00:42:22.000 affirmative

00:42:22.360 action?

00:42:23.780 Really?

00:42:25.080 Really?

00:42:25.720 You don't

00:42:26.300 think there's

00:42:26.700 a good

00:42:27.580 clump of

00:42:28.120 Democrats

00:42:28.660 who are

00:42:29.260 maybe

00:42:29.900 silently

00:42:30.560 but secretly

00:42:32.000 pretty happy

00:42:32.760 because now

00:42:33.200 their kids

00:42:33.560 can get

00:42:33.940 into college?

00:42:35.320 Well, I

00:42:36.020 think there

00:42:36.320 is a big

00:42:36.700 group of

00:42:37.220 that.

00:42:37.420 So RFK

00:42:40.160 just traded

00:42:40.800 away 100%

00:42:42.020 of the

00:42:42.780 right-leaning

00:42:44.080 independents

00:42:44.980 and Republicans.

00:42:46.820 And what

00:42:47.340 did he buy

00:42:48.200 back?

00:42:50.000 What did he

00:42:50.660 get in return?

00:42:52.740 Nothing?

00:42:54.420 Kind of

00:42:54.960 nothing?

00:42:56.340 Because being

00:42:58.040 against affirmative

00:42:58.820 action is sort

00:42:59.720 of the minimum

00:43:01.120 buy-in to be a

00:43:02.160 Democrat.

00:43:02.460 And I

00:43:04.180 believe,

00:43:04.780 can you give

00:43:05.160 me a fact

00:43:05.780 check on

00:43:06.120 this?

00:43:06.340 Did he

00:43:06.580 come out

00:43:07.440 against

00:43:07.940 ownership

00:43:08.920 of what

00:43:10.260 he would

00:43:10.520 call

00:43:10.760 assault

00:43:11.220 rifles,

00:43:11.860 or some

00:43:12.340 people would

00:43:12.740 call

00:43:12.900 assault

00:43:13.200 rifles,

00:43:13.680 the ARs? 0.70

00:43:14.860 Did he

00:43:15.480 come out

00:43:15.820 against

00:43:16.380 those?

00:43:17.180 So if

00:43:17.880 he came

00:43:18.200 out against

00:43:18.800 the ARs,

00:43:20.780 gun

00:43:21.300 ownership,

00:43:22.640 he's not

00:43:23.260 anti-Second

00:43:24.080 Amendment,

00:43:24.600 but that

00:43:25.660 would be a

00:43:26.080 red line.

00:43:29.120 He gave

00:43:29.880 away everything

00:43:30.680 he had.

00:43:31.860 He gave

00:43:32.220 away all

00:43:32.700 of it.

00:43:33.760 Now,

00:43:34.100 on one

00:43:34.420 hand,

00:43:36.220 I kind

00:43:36.720 of respect

00:43:37.240 that he's

00:43:38.400 willing to

00:43:38.820 do that.

00:43:40.020 I kind

00:43:40.380 of respect

00:43:40.800 it.

00:43:41.860 But I

00:43:42.760 feel like

00:43:43.400 any effort

00:43:45.640 to bring

00:43:46.060 us together

00:43:46.600 is now

00:43:47.020 gone.

00:43:48.440 So I

00:43:48.900 think he

00:43:49.180 traded that

00:43:49.680 away.

00:43:50.800 And I

00:43:51.100 don't know

00:43:51.340 what he

00:43:51.540 got for

00:43:51.940 it.

00:43:52.760 Now,

00:43:53.180 maybe he

00:43:54.040 thought he

00:43:54.320 would get

00:43:54.600 some

00:43:54.960 Democrat

00:43:55.880 credibility,

00:43:57.160 because he's

00:43:57.840 running as

00:43:58.260 a Democrat.

00:43:59.720 And let

00:44:00.380 me give

00:44:01.300 him this

00:44:01.680 much

00:44:01.920 defense.

00:44:03.360 If you're

00:44:04.000 running as a

00:44:05.180 Democrat,

00:44:05.600 you can't

00:44:05.900 be against

00:44:06.320 affirmative

00:44:06.720 action,

00:44:07.720 and you

00:44:08.060 can't be

00:44:08.380 in favor

00:44:08.840 of ARs.

00:44:12.660 So he's

00:44:13.800 probably just,

00:44:15.660 he may

00:44:16.220 actually believe

00:44:16.820 these things

00:44:17.380 as well.

00:44:18.220 I haven't seen

00:44:19.660 no indication

00:44:20.220 he's a liar. 0.93

00:44:20.820 there.

00:44:21.880 But it

00:44:25.080 just turned

00:44:26.000 him into,

00:44:26.620 as Mike

00:44:27.140 Cernovich

00:44:27.500 said,

00:44:27.960 a typical

00:44:28.620 shitlib.

00:44:32.300 Cernovich

00:44:32.660 was reminding

00:44:33.520 us that he's

00:44:34.040 been saying

00:44:34.420 this for a

00:44:34.880 while,

00:44:35.440 that he's

00:44:35.900 not special,

00:44:37.020 and that the

00:44:37.640 right was

00:44:38.340 getting enamored

00:44:39.040 by him,

00:44:39.880 but he's

00:44:40.560 not special.

00:44:41.520 In the end,

00:44:42.160 he's just

00:44:42.580 run-of-the-mill,

00:44:44.500 take-your-guns,

00:44:45.460 and discriminated

00:44:46.940 against white

00:44:47.460 people kind

00:44:48.000 of the guy.

00:44:50.180 I'm exaggerating

00:44:51.100 that.

00:44:51.360 That's not

00:44:51.680 what either

00:44:52.000 of them said.

00:44:54.060 So,

00:44:54.860 it'll be

00:44:56.460 fun to watch.

00:44:57.860 And I did

00:44:58.460 a little bit

00:44:59.020 of thinking,

00:45:01.640 how in the

00:45:02.240 world,

00:45:02.760 there's nothing

00:45:03.180 we can,

00:45:03.760 there's no way

00:45:04.400 to help RFK

00:45:05.120 Jr.

00:45:05.480 on guns.

00:45:06.240 Would you

00:45:06.580 agree?

00:45:07.640 There's no

00:45:08.220 argument he

00:45:08.820 can make.

00:45:10.420 It's just

00:45:10.980 sort of over.

00:45:12.640 Anybody who

00:45:13.320 wants Second

00:45:14.060 Amendment's not

00:45:14.780 going to vote

00:45:15.100 for him.

00:45:15.820 He's just

00:45:16.420 given that

00:45:16.840 away completely.

00:45:18.500 But,

00:45:19.400 yeah,

00:45:20.040 and what it

00:45:21.100 does is make

00:45:21.740 Vivek look

00:45:24.220 better every

00:45:24.740 day.

00:45:27.100 Because Vivek

00:45:28.100 is pretty

00:45:28.800 pure in

00:45:29.640 terms of

00:45:30.180 his opinions.

00:45:31.300 They match

00:45:31.940 the right

00:45:32.300 pretty well.

00:45:33.220 But then,

00:45:33.720 on top of

00:45:34.160 that,

00:45:34.900 he's the

00:45:35.320 smartest guy

00:45:35.880 in the game.

00:45:37.180 So,

00:45:37.520 the smartest

00:45:37.900 guy in the

00:45:38.360 game,

00:45:38.800 with the

00:45:39.020 best communication

00:45:40.440 skills,

00:45:41.180 which is

00:45:41.440 crazy,

00:45:42.940 he can

00:45:43.680 sell a

00:45:45.500 version that

00:45:46.140 conservatives like

00:45:47.100 and sell it

00:45:47.700 better than

00:45:48.140 they even

00:45:48.460 think it.

00:45:49.520 You know,

00:45:49.760 this is what I

00:45:50.280 say about a

00:45:50.820 good writer.

00:45:52.200 A good writer

00:45:53.180 tells you what

00:45:54.000 you were already

00:45:54.640 thinking,

00:45:55.780 but writes it

00:45:56.540 better than you

00:45:57.060 thought it.

00:45:58.820 You ever heard me

00:45:59.420 say that?

00:46:00.740 Because what you

00:46:01.480 want is not

00:46:02.040 somebody to change

00:46:02.800 your mind.

00:46:03.800 You want somebody

00:46:04.580 who says exactly

00:46:05.520 what you're

00:46:05.920 thinking,

00:46:06.380 but the way

00:46:06.720 they say it

00:46:07.260 is,

00:46:07.540 wow,

00:46:07.740 that's better

00:46:08.140 than I was

00:46:08.540 thinking it.

00:46:09.360 I could not

00:46:10.000 have explained it

00:46:10.620 as well as that

00:46:11.280 guy did.

00:46:11.720 And that's what

00:46:12.120 Vivek does,

00:46:13.140 consistently.

00:46:13.740 He can bring

00:46:15.380 the argument,

00:46:16.980 nail it down,

00:46:18.960 you know,

00:46:19.300 and just nail

00:46:20.360 every thing.

00:46:22.260 He leaves

00:46:22.860 nothing.

00:46:23.800 He doesn't

00:46:24.440 leave any

00:46:25.040 loose edges.

00:46:26.120 Like,

00:46:26.400 you can't

00:46:26.720 pull on the

00:46:27.140 thread and

00:46:28.220 get his

00:46:28.660 argument.

00:46:29.600 There's no

00:46:30.000 thread.

00:46:31.060 He locks it

00:46:31.840 up,

00:46:32.900 and it's

00:46:33.820 probably the

00:46:34.340 best you're

00:46:35.820 going to

00:46:36.000 see.

00:46:38.860 Joe Schmoe

00:46:39.900 says,

00:46:40.300 still brown

00:46:41.000 though.

00:46:41.300 I can't

00:46:43.560 tell if

00:46:43.880 you're

00:46:44.040 serious.

00:46:45.760 Are you

00:46:46.380 serious?

00:46:48.620 I just

00:46:49.180 don't,

00:46:49.480 I can't

00:46:49.860 tell.

00:46:50.500 In 2023,

00:46:51.460 you really

00:46:51.920 can't tell.

00:46:53.060 The trolls

00:46:53.800 and the

00:46:54.560 parody from

00:46:55.280 the reality,

00:46:56.420 I just

00:46:57.080 can't

00:46:57.400 tell.

00:47:01.700 I don't

00:47:02.420 know.

00:47:03.980 So,

00:47:05.580 what else

00:47:07.340 is going

00:47:07.640 on?

00:47:07.840 I almost

00:47:12.120 don't want

00:47:12.420 to bring

00:47:12.660 this up

00:47:13.140 because it's

00:47:13.680 too fun,

00:47:15.660 but I'm

00:47:15.880 going to

00:47:16.040 do it

00:47:16.280 anyway.

00:47:17.300 I've

00:47:17.740 mentioned

00:47:18.060 this

00:47:19.220 influencer

00:47:20.000 before,

00:47:21.660 H.

00:47:22.100 Pearl

00:47:22.380 Davis.

00:47:23.560 So,

00:47:23.880 I think

00:47:24.080 she goes

00:47:24.420 by Pearl.

00:47:25.880 And she

00:47:26.680 did another

00:47:27.560 whiteboard

00:47:28.220 video,

00:47:29.920 which he

00:47:32.080 suggested that

00:47:32.900 women should 1.00

00:47:33.440 not have the

00:47:33.920 right to

00:47:34.280 vote.

00:47:34.680 and they

00:47:36.880 should

00:47:37.060 repeal the

00:47:37.620 nice

00:47:37.880 to the

00:47:38.280 men that

00:47:38.680 now I

00:47:43.040 tweeted it

00:47:43.740 or you

00:47:44.380 could just

00:47:44.720 go look

00:47:45.080 for it on

00:47:45.520 Twitter.

00:47:45.940 Just look

00:47:46.440 for Pearl

00:47:47.060 Davis.

00:47:47.600 It'll

00:47:47.720 probably

00:47:47.980 pop right

00:47:48.460 up.

00:47:49.420 Now,

00:47:50.340 I've been

00:47:51.160 following her

00:47:51.740 content mostly

00:47:52.580 on Instagram

00:47:53.100 for a while

00:47:53.760 and it is

00:47:54.780 endlessly

00:47:55.340 entertaining.

00:47:56.940 I want to

00:47:57.560 say clearly

00:47:58.180 that I don't

00:47:59.600 agree with

00:48:00.320 her views.

00:48:02.260 I want you

00:48:03.040 to hear that

00:48:03.460 clearly.

00:48:03.820 so we're

00:48:04.760 not here

00:48:05.500 to argue

00:48:05.920 whether she's

00:48:06.520 right or

00:48:06.840 wrong.

00:48:07.400 I'm not

00:48:07.860 going to

00:48:07.980 have that

00:48:08.280 argument.

00:48:09.180 I'm saying

00:48:09.660 that watching

00:48:10.940 her navigate

00:48:13.100 that sharp

00:48:14.300 edge between

00:48:15.820 going too

00:48:16.580 far or

00:48:18.480 being a

00:48:18.860 parody or

00:48:20.720 being serious

00:48:21.500 is really

00:48:23.360 hard to

00:48:23.840 tell.

00:48:24.720 And because

00:48:25.880 it's hard to

00:48:26.480 tell, it's

00:48:26.780 brilliant because

00:48:27.960 you can't look

00:48:28.480 away.

00:48:29.200 You're not

00:48:29.640 sure what

00:48:30.040 you're seeing.

00:48:32.140 You're

00:48:32.620 wondering if

00:48:33.140 at the end

00:48:33.540 she's going

00:48:33.900 to say

00:48:34.080 just

00:48:34.360 kidding and

00:48:35.720 walk it

00:48:36.320 back.

00:48:37.140 But she

00:48:37.580 doesn't.

00:48:39.200 And then

00:48:39.940 you think,

00:48:40.340 well, she's

00:48:40.660 never going

00:48:41.020 to be able

00:48:41.300 to make

00:48:41.580 this argument.

00:48:42.960 Now, again,

00:48:43.840 I'll remind

00:48:44.360 you, I do

00:48:45.440 think women 0.63

00:48:46.000 should be

00:48:46.440 voting.

00:48:48.320 But when

00:48:48.920 you listen to

00:48:49.560 her argument

00:48:50.080 and the fact

00:48:50.720 that it comes

00:48:51.160 from a woman,

00:48:51.900 which makes

00:48:52.380 it funnier,

00:48:53.480 her argument

00:48:54.180 is suspiciously

00:48:56.000 good.

00:48:57.860 It doesn't

00:48:58.920 sell me.

00:48:59.420 it's like

00:49:00.980 right up to

00:49:01.600 the edge of

00:49:02.100 something that

00:49:02.520 would make

00:49:02.840 sense.

00:49:03.600 It's like

00:49:03.980 so close.

00:49:05.440 It's so

00:49:06.080 close to

00:49:07.460 something that

00:49:07.960 does make

00:49:08.400 sense that

00:49:09.460 your brain

00:49:10.100 gets a

00:49:11.280 little turgid

00:49:13.080 just trying to

00:49:13.660 figure it out.

00:49:15.220 Is that real?

00:49:16.360 Is that real or

00:49:17.060 is she just

00:49:17.380 kidding?

00:49:17.760 I can't tell.

00:49:18.960 And so I

00:49:19.820 highly recommend

00:49:20.660 her content,

00:49:21.820 but I'll say

00:49:23.020 a hundred times,

00:49:24.560 don't assume I'm

00:49:25.400 agreeing with her

00:49:26.040 content.

00:49:26.380 It's just

00:49:27.180 brilliant content

00:49:28.060 because it

00:49:29.180 makes you think.

00:49:31.560 And I'll give

00:49:32.080 you my own

00:49:34.300 summary of it,

00:49:35.080 which I think

00:49:35.500 is unfair,

00:49:36.600 because the

00:49:37.240 details that she

00:49:38.040 puts into it

00:49:38.820 of her argument

00:49:39.880 are all

00:49:40.360 hilarious.

00:49:41.920 They're just

00:49:42.300 because you

00:49:43.180 keep thinking

00:49:43.700 it makes sense,

00:49:44.500 but not exactly.

00:49:45.940 That's what

00:49:46.440 makes humor

00:49:46.920 work.

00:49:49.960 But I would

00:49:50.900 summarize her

00:49:52.060 entire thing,

00:49:54.680 and she would

00:49:55.320 not summarize it

00:49:56.080 this way,

00:49:56.520 this is just

00:49:56.920 my summarization,

00:49:58.640 as the

00:49:59.460 problem is

00:49:59.980 that men

00:50:01.100 can't say

00:50:01.540 no to women. 0.99

00:50:04.000 And there

00:50:04.560 are a lot

00:50:04.840 of women

00:50:05.180 voting for

00:50:05.800 stuff,

00:50:06.620 and a lot

00:50:06.940 of men

00:50:07.280 saying,

00:50:07.840 all right,

00:50:08.240 that's what

00:50:08.620 you want.

00:50:09.600 But if you

00:50:10.280 took women 0.97

00:50:10.800 out of the

00:50:11.180 mix from

00:50:12.360 voting,

00:50:13.320 and men

00:50:13.820 voted for

00:50:14.500 what they

00:50:15.100 thought was

00:50:15.540 a good idea,

00:50:16.640 you'd get a

00:50:17.280 different outcome.

00:50:20.220 Maybe.

00:50:21.500 You know,

00:50:21.960 my observation

00:50:22.900 is men and

00:50:23.500 women seem 1.00

00:50:23.940 to vote about

00:50:24.460 the same.

00:50:24.860 I mean,

00:50:25.880 the polls

00:50:26.520 say otherwise,

00:50:27.420 but yeah,

00:50:30.440 actually,

00:50:31.280 no,

00:50:31.600 I take that

00:50:32.040 back.

00:50:32.280 They don't

00:50:32.560 vote about

00:50:32.920 the same

00:50:33.280 anymore.

00:50:33.920 They used

00:50:34.280 to,

00:50:34.500 right?

00:50:35.880 I think

00:50:36.420 I'm out of

00:50:36.800 date.

00:50:37.420 They used

00:50:37.920 to vote

00:50:38.220 similar,

00:50:39.140 but now

00:50:39.660 women are 1.00

00:50:40.180 more likely

00:50:40.600 to be

00:50:40.880 Democrat.

00:50:41.980 Is that

00:50:42.400 true?

00:50:42.580 So it

00:50:44.740 would be

00:50:45.000 women who 0.99

00:50:46.200 would be

00:50:46.480 more likely

00:50:47.060 to be

00:50:47.440 pushing,

00:50:48.160 let's

00:50:48.720 say,

00:50:49.620 affirmative

00:50:50.040 action.

00:50:53.000 If you

00:50:53.540 did a

00:50:53.840 poll of

00:50:54.540 men versus

00:50:55.540 women on 0.98

00:50:56.220 affirmative

00:50:56.620 action,

00:50:57.140 would it

00:50:57.320 come out

00:50:57.580 the same?

00:51:01.800 I think

00:51:02.420 more women 0.98

00:51:02.920 would be in

00:51:03.360 favor of it,

00:51:03.920 but I'm

00:51:04.120 not positive.

00:51:06.260 Yeah.

00:51:06.600 So there

00:51:07.000 are some

00:51:07.360 things that

00:51:08.120 are different

00:51:08.800 because women 0.99

00:51:10.060 are voters.

00:51:12.420 And then

00:51:12.780 Pearl's

00:51:14.220 serious or

00:51:15.940 not serious,

00:51:16.640 I can't

00:51:16.980 tell, 0.94

00:51:17.580 opinion is

00:51:18.320 that that

00:51:18.640 changes

00:51:18.960 things and

00:51:19.440 it might

00:51:19.660 be a bad

00:51:20.060 way.

00:51:21.020 I don't

00:51:21.220 know.

00:51:22.600 The reason

00:51:23.480 I disagree

00:51:24.040 with her

00:51:24.480 is not

00:51:26.260 in her

00:51:26.760 argument that

00:51:27.840 things worked

00:51:28.500 out poorly,

00:51:30.420 because she

00:51:30.800 makes a pretty

00:51:31.280 good argument

00:51:31.780 that things

00:51:32.240 worked out

00:51:32.680 poorly.

00:51:33.800 It's just

00:51:34.400 that you

00:51:34.680 can't have

00:51:36.500 full citizens

00:51:37.580 of the United

00:51:38.140 States who

00:51:38.700 can't vote.

00:51:40.100 It's just

00:51:40.400 there's no

00:51:41.180 way to get

00:51:41.540 there.

00:51:42.000 So it's

00:51:42.240 sort of a

00:51:42.640 funny point,

00:51:44.280 not really

00:51:45.300 a serious

00:51:45.900 plan.

00:51:51.420 That was

00:51:52.020 the most

00:51:52.340 sexist

00:51:52.980 comment I've

00:51:53.680 ever seen

00:51:54.100 there on

00:51:54.560 YouTube.

00:51:56.460 I was

00:51:57.020 going to

00:51:57.220 read it

00:51:57.460 because it's

00:51:57.760 funny,

00:51:58.180 but it

00:51:59.020 might be

00:51:59.280 a little

00:52:00.300 over the

00:52:00.660 line.

00:52:04.360 Switzerland

00:52:04.840 regrets

00:52:05.480 allowing it.

00:52:07.540 All right.

00:52:08.700 Let's

00:52:11.100 talk about

00:52:11.600 Purgosian.

00:52:14.380 I might

00:52:15.940 end up

00:52:16.380 being wrong

00:52:16.980 about this.

00:52:18.540 I might.

00:52:19.640 So I've

00:52:20.180 said that

00:52:20.520 you'll never

00:52:20.880 see him

00:52:21.240 again,

00:52:21.940 and that

00:52:22.620 when his

00:52:23.000 airplane flew

00:52:23.760 to Belarus,

00:52:24.300 it was just

00:52:25.580 the airplane,

00:52:27.120 and that

00:52:27.420 you'll never

00:52:27.840 see him

00:52:28.200 again.

00:52:29.020 And the

00:52:29.380 reason you'll

00:52:29.820 never see

00:52:30.160 him again

00:52:30.480 is that

00:52:30.840 Putin needs

00:52:31.540 to know

00:52:32.060 he's found

00:52:33.180 all the

00:52:33.560 traitors.

00:52:33.980 and the

00:52:34.960 only way

00:52:35.500 to know

00:52:35.880 it is

00:52:36.800 to get

00:52:37.120 it from

00:52:37.600 Purgosian,

00:52:38.580 because he's

00:52:38.980 the only

00:52:39.320 one who

00:52:40.480 would know

00:52:40.820 everybody he's

00:52:41.540 talked to

00:52:42.040 and what

00:52:42.660 agreements they

00:52:43.300 made,

00:52:43.640 etc.

00:52:43.800 So there's

00:52:45.060 a 100%

00:52:45.660 chance,

00:52:46.540 in my

00:52:46.800 opinion,

00:52:47.900 that Putin

00:52:48.460 got a hold

00:52:49.100 of him

00:52:49.420 and he's

00:52:51.360 being

00:52:51.580 interrogated.

00:52:53.280 And when I

00:52:54.120 say interrogated,

00:52:55.540 I mean he's

00:52:56.300 having a bad

00:52:56.880 day.

00:52:58.620 So today

00:53:00.160 there were

00:53:00.560 pictures of him

00:53:01.340 in St.

00:53:01.760 Petersburg.

00:53:04.180 Oh,

00:53:04.820 okay,

00:53:05.320 well I guess

00:53:05.680 I was wrong.

00:53:07.080 There are

00:53:07.360 pictures of him

00:53:07.980 getting in a

00:53:08.400 helicopter and

00:53:09.080 there are new

00:53:09.420 pictures.

00:53:10.540 And he's there

00:53:11.340 with his

00:53:11.660 bodyguard and

00:53:12.620 there's no doubt

00:53:14.340 about it.

00:53:14.840 He was cleaning

00:53:15.680 out his stuff

00:53:16.260 in St.

00:53:16.680 Petersburg,

00:53:17.280 getting on a

00:53:17.680 helicopter.

00:53:19.520 And then

00:53:20.020 somebody did

00:53:21.000 a close-up

00:53:21.720 of his hand.

00:53:24.060 And he's

00:53:24.720 got five

00:53:25.180 fingers on

00:53:25.720 his hand.

00:53:27.300 The real

00:53:27.860 Purgosian

00:53:28.580 does not.

00:53:30.240 So the

00:53:30.820 guy that

00:53:31.260 everybody

00:53:31.560 thought it

00:53:31.980 was Purgosian

00:53:32.440 was wearing

00:53:32.960 a COVID

00:53:34.680 mask and

00:53:36.460 he was with

00:53:36.960 his real

00:53:37.380 bodyguard and

00:53:39.520 they were

00:53:39.900 allowed to be

00:53:40.980 photographed.

00:53:41.620 Oh,

00:53:41.880 what a

00:53:42.160 coincidence.

00:53:43.120 How

00:53:43.480 interesting.

00:53:45.280 There just

00:53:45.740 happened to

00:53:46.080 be a

00:53:46.280 photographer

00:53:46.660 there.

00:53:47.980 Just

00:53:48.240 happened to

00:53:48.560 get the

00:53:48.800 picture of

00:53:49.800 Purgosian

00:53:50.780 getting on

00:53:51.660 a helicopter

00:53:52.160 in St.

00:53:52.620 Petersburg.

00:53:53.620 So I

00:53:53.880 guess he's

00:53:55.140 not only

00:53:55.600 free,

00:53:56.800 but he's

00:53:57.440 helicoptering

00:53:58.120 around with

00:53:58.820 his bodyguard,

00:54:00.180 no Russians 1.00

00:54:00.960 watching him.

00:54:02.040 He's just

00:54:02.480 sort of

00:54:02.820 doing his

00:54:03.320 thing and

00:54:03.700 then totally

00:54:04.760 voluntarily he

00:54:06.480 will go back

00:54:07.880 to Belarus,

00:54:09.340 of course,

00:54:10.240 where he'll

00:54:10.720 live a happy

00:54:11.280 life on the

00:54:11.800 farm with

00:54:12.320 your dead

00:54:12.680 dog.

00:54:14.300 So then

00:54:17.260 they showed

00:54:17.580 the picture of

00:54:18.120 the real

00:54:18.400 Purgosian.

00:54:19.380 He's got

00:54:19.700 one,

00:54:20.920 part of one

00:54:21.520 finger is

00:54:21.980 missing,

00:54:22.700 but the guy

00:54:23.600 who got in

00:54:24.020 the helicopter,

00:54:25.060 who is with

00:54:26.040 his actual

00:54:26.480 bodyguard,

00:54:26.960 because the

00:54:27.320 bodyguard

00:54:27.720 didn't have

00:54:28.100 a mask

00:54:28.500 on.

00:54:29.440 So you

00:54:29.760 could tell

00:54:30.060 the bodyguard

00:54:30.600 was definitely

00:54:31.120 the bodyguard,

00:54:32.640 but it was

00:54:33.600 a body

00:54:33.920 double.

00:54:35.920 It was a

00:54:36.620 body double.

00:54:39.180 Do you

00:54:39.420 still believe

00:54:39.880 there was an

00:54:40.300 insurrection?

00:54:41.720 Yes.

00:54:43.120 I believe it

00:54:44.040 was a

00:54:44.740 conditional

00:54:47.500 insurrection.

00:54:48.360 It was a

00:54:50.740 conditional

00:54:51.340 insurrection,

00:54:52.940 meaning that

00:54:53.700 I don't

00:54:54.860 know that

00:54:55.400 Purgosian

00:54:55.920 knew what

00:54:56.720 was possible

00:54:57.540 to happen.

00:54:58.820 I think that

00:54:59.460 at a minimum

00:54:59.960 he wanted to

00:55:00.620 get rid of

00:55:01.180 those generals.

00:55:04.740 But I do

00:55:05.840 think there's

00:55:06.580 no chance he

00:55:07.260 wasn't thinking

00:55:07.900 in his mind

00:55:08.600 that if he

00:55:09.800 got rid of

00:55:10.280 the generals,

00:55:10.940 or actually

00:55:11.420 he said

00:55:11.740 capture them,

00:55:12.920 it looked like

00:55:14.020 he was trying

00:55:14.500 to take over

00:55:15.120 the military.

00:55:17.160 So I believe

00:55:17.780 that when

00:55:18.320 Purgosian

00:55:19.040 says,

00:55:19.460 no,

00:55:19.840 I love

00:55:20.280 Putin,

00:55:20.740 I'm never,

00:55:21.480 you think

00:55:22.440 this is a

00:55:23.300 coup against

00:55:24.000 Putin?

00:55:24.820 Are you

00:55:25.240 kidding me?

00:55:25.760 No,

00:55:26.680 no,

00:55:27.400 no.

00:55:27.960 No,

00:55:28.280 I'm only

00:55:28.720 mad at

00:55:29.060 the military.

00:55:30.320 So I'm

00:55:30.740 going to

00:55:30.900 try to

00:55:31.160 take over

00:55:31.600 the head

00:55:32.060 of the

00:55:32.340 military

00:55:32.780 and replace

00:55:34.140 the head

00:55:34.460 of the

00:55:34.680 military

00:55:34.980 with myself

00:55:35.960 or one

00:55:37.100 of my

00:55:37.360 puppets.

00:55:38.100 So I

00:55:38.760 don't want

00:55:39.140 to take

00:55:39.400 over the

00:55:39.660 country.

00:55:40.560 That's

00:55:40.960 crazy.

00:55:41.500 I'm only

00:55:42.000 trying to

00:55:42.340 take over

00:55:42.740 the entire

00:55:43.360 military

00:55:44.220 complex.

00:55:46.620 And then,

00:55:47.020 of course,

00:55:47.740 once I

00:55:48.280 owned all

00:55:48.960 of the

00:55:49.240 military,

00:55:50.520 I would,

00:55:51.120 because I

00:55:51.460 like Putin,

00:55:51.960 I would let

00:55:52.320 him run

00:55:52.600 the country.

00:55:53.900 Of course.

00:55:55.080 Of course

00:55:55.640 Putin can

00:55:56.100 run the

00:55:56.440 country.

00:55:57.040 I just

00:55:57.440 want to

00:55:57.700 own all

00:55:58.520 the guns.

00:56:01.260 Do you

00:56:01.780 think he

00:56:02.080 was going

00:56:02.320 to take

00:56:02.600 over the

00:56:02.940 military and

00:56:04.100 then let

00:56:04.480 Putin run

00:56:05.000 the country?

00:56:06.080 Do you

00:56:06.560 think that

00:56:06.980 was his

00:56:07.360 plan?

00:56:07.660 I don't

00:56:11.480 think so.

00:56:12.000 If it

00:56:12.860 was, it

00:56:13.200 was the

00:56:13.440 worst

00:56:13.620 plan I've

00:56:14.120 ever heard.

00:56:16.040 At the

00:56:16.600 very least,

00:56:17.720 he was

00:56:17.980 trying to

00:56:18.360 control the

00:56:18.900 military.

00:56:19.840 If you

00:56:20.200 control the

00:56:20.800 military,

00:56:22.140 well, you

00:56:23.500 kind of

00:56:24.020 control the

00:56:24.560 country.

00:56:26.480 And by the

00:56:27.120 way, has

00:56:27.780 anybody said

00:56:28.500 that?

00:56:29.640 I keep

00:56:30.020 watching the

00:56:30.560 news for

00:56:30.980 somebody, I

00:56:31.580 keep waiting

00:56:31.940 for somebody

00:56:32.300 to say,

00:56:32.900 well, you

00:56:33.500 know, whether

00:56:33.820 it was a

00:56:34.160 coup or not

00:56:34.620 a coup, he

00:56:35.020 was trying to

00:56:35.460 control the

00:56:35.940 military.

00:56:36.720 If you

00:56:37.100 control the

00:56:37.520 military, you

00:56:38.040 effectively

00:56:38.440 control the

00:56:39.040 country.

00:56:41.440 I'm the

00:56:42.000 first person

00:56:42.500 to say that

00:56:42.960 out loud,

00:56:43.500 aren't I?

00:56:44.240 Which is

00:56:44.820 weird, because

00:56:45.260 it's the

00:56:45.520 most obvious

00:56:46.100 explanation of

00:56:47.760 what was

00:56:48.040 happening.

00:56:49.700 All right.

00:56:52.520 Here's my

00:56:53.120 real question.

00:56:53.860 Much like

00:56:54.300 CNN and

00:56:54.940 MSNBC after

00:56:56.200 the affirmative

00:56:56.660 action decision,

00:56:58.540 Putin really,

00:56:59.980 really doesn't

00:57:00.600 know who to

00:57:01.000 trust.

00:57:02.380 And the

00:57:03.140 magnitude of

00:57:03.840 that problem

00:57:04.440 now,

00:57:05.460 is hard

00:57:06.240 to predict.

00:57:09.780 But there

00:57:10.480 are people

00:57:10.840 who, you

00:57:11.300 know, since

00:57:11.780 the beginning

00:57:12.260 of the

00:57:12.780 Prugosian

00:57:13.440 thing, have

00:57:13.840 said, oh,

00:57:14.280 it's the

00:57:14.500 end of

00:57:14.900 Russia.

00:57:16.620 Now, I

00:57:17.520 didn't think

00:57:17.880 so.

00:57:18.520 I didn't

00:57:18.740 think it

00:57:18.920 was the

00:57:19.160 end of

00:57:19.420 Russia.

00:57:20.240 But who

00:57:23.440 knows how

00:57:23.940 bad it

00:57:24.300 could be?

00:57:26.220 Because don't

00:57:26.840 you think

00:57:27.320 that by

00:57:28.500 now, Putin

00:57:29.800 is probably

00:57:30.740 jailing or

00:57:32.560 killing people

00:57:33.360 who are

00:57:33.920 largely innocent?

00:57:35.460 Don't

00:57:36.780 you think

00:57:37.060 that's

00:57:37.320 happened?

00:57:38.240 Because he's

00:57:38.800 probably dealing

00:57:39.460 with a bunch

00:57:40.060 of people.

00:57:41.180 And if

00:57:41.500 you're a

00:57:41.860 dictator, you

00:57:42.640 take, you

00:57:43.280 know, you

00:57:43.560 jail or you

00:57:44.280 kill all the

00:57:44.980 people you're

00:57:45.500 sure were part

00:57:46.320 of the coup.

00:57:48.300 But also, and

00:57:49.660 here's the

00:57:50.000 important part,

00:57:51.400 also anybody

00:57:52.160 who knew

00:57:52.600 those people,

00:57:53.680 anybody who

00:57:55.620 was a good

00:57:56.000 friend with a

00:57:56.880 coup plotter,

00:57:58.240 probably dead

00:57:59.400 or in

00:58:00.240 jail.

00:58:00.440 people.

00:58:01.120 So the

00:58:02.860 problem is

00:58:03.420 not the

00:58:03.760 ones you

00:58:04.100 know are

00:58:04.780 the coup

00:58:05.220 plotters,

00:58:06.260 the problem

00:58:06.880 is how

00:58:07.300 much of

00:58:08.460 the cancer

00:58:09.080 you have

00:58:09.420 to cut

00:58:09.780 out by

00:58:10.800 getting rid

00:58:11.300 of people

00:58:11.640 who really

00:58:12.200 had nothing

00:58:12.580 to do with

00:58:13.040 anything.

00:58:13.500 They just

00:58:13.840 happen to

00:58:14.420 know the

00:58:14.720 guy.

00:58:16.360 And those

00:58:17.060 people are

00:58:18.220 going to

00:58:18.460 become now

00:58:19.440 radicalized as

00:58:20.700 are all their

00:58:21.220 relatives and

00:58:21.920 friends because

00:58:23.080 they're going to

00:58:23.380 say, all right,

00:58:24.120 you just got rid

00:58:24.780 of a hundred

00:58:25.200 people that

00:58:25.760 had nothing to

00:58:26.360 do with

00:58:26.600 anything.

00:58:26.900 And we

00:58:28.480 have all the

00:58:28.960 guns.

00:58:30.340 How long do

00:58:31.160 you put up

00:58:31.540 with it?

00:58:32.840 How long does

00:58:33.480 the military put

00:58:34.240 up with the

00:58:35.420 military being

00:58:36.160 abused by a

00:58:36.880 civilian?

00:58:37.860 Putin.

00:58:38.900 I don't know.

00:58:39.980 Could get

00:58:40.320 dicey.

00:58:41.540 Could get

00:58:41.940 dicey.

00:58:42.680 It also means

00:58:43.460 that Putin

00:58:43.860 probably can't

00:58:44.520 go out in

00:58:44.880 public very

00:58:45.460 much unless

00:58:46.320 it's a really

00:58:47.100 controlled

00:58:47.620 situation for

00:58:49.020 now.

00:58:49.700 Because he

00:58:49.940 probably thinks

00:58:50.540 there, let

00:58:52.400 me say it

00:58:54.040 directly, there's

00:58:55.300 no way that

00:58:56.140 Purgosian

00:58:56.600 doesn't have

00:58:57.240 an assassination

00:58:58.560 squad looking

00:59:00.560 to kill

00:59:00.980 Putin.

00:59:01.920 Would you

00:59:02.260 agree?

00:59:03.540 No matter

00:59:04.320 whether Purgosian

00:59:05.200 is alive or

00:59:06.000 dead, there's

00:59:07.580 somebody he's

00:59:08.360 already operating,

00:59:09.360 you know, he's

00:59:09.860 probably paid or

00:59:11.600 something, who's

00:59:12.700 looking to put

00:59:13.420 the decapitation

00:59:14.440 strike on

00:59:15.040 Putin.

00:59:15.840 So I feel like

00:59:16.840 there could be

00:59:17.340 another play here.

00:59:18.760 I mean, don't be

00:59:19.720 surprised if

00:59:20.500 something blows

00:59:21.240 up near Putin,

00:59:23.020 like really

00:59:24.360 soon.

00:59:25.280 Now remember,

00:59:25.740 the Wagner

00:59:26.680 group has

00:59:27.160 military assets.

00:59:29.900 In theory, they

00:59:31.760 could drop a

00:59:32.580 loitering munition

00:59:33.620 right on top of

00:59:34.660 Putin if they

00:59:35.220 knew where he

00:59:35.600 was.

00:59:37.140 Now, presumably

00:59:38.160 Putin always

00:59:38.840 travels with,

00:59:39.660 you know, even, I

00:59:40.760 imagine, even

00:59:41.360 anti-aircraft.

00:59:43.860 If Putin is just

00:59:45.000 driving from one

00:59:45.840 part of the city to

00:59:46.600 another, he's

00:59:48.220 probably got all

00:59:48.760 kinds of military

00:59:49.500 assets, you know,

00:59:50.840 the whole way, at

00:59:51.920 least now.

00:59:52.300 But would they

00:59:53.240 be able to

00:59:53.700 shoot things out

00:59:54.460 of the air?

00:59:55.620 If he's driving

00:59:56.500 down a city

00:59:57.160 street in

00:59:57.640 Moscow and a

00:59:59.480 loitering munition

01:00:00.420 appears from

01:00:01.280 over top of a

01:00:02.460 building, like it

01:00:03.360 was invisible until

01:00:04.300 it came over the

01:00:04.920 street, looks down,

01:00:07.180 has, let's say,

01:00:08.180 15 seconds to

01:00:09.440 lock on and drop

01:00:10.520 the munitions.

01:00:11.880 In 15 seconds,

01:00:14.120 can his defensive

01:00:15.300 people knock that

01:00:16.380 down?

01:00:16.600 Would there be

01:00:19.920 helicopters above

01:00:21.240 any Putin movement

01:00:23.520 so they could get

01:00:24.920 anything in the air?

01:00:26.200 I don't know.

01:00:26.780 I just don't think

01:00:27.480 the anti-drone

01:00:30.880 technology is so

01:00:32.380 good that they

01:00:33.600 could get them

01:00:34.140 all.

01:00:35.900 Yeah.

01:00:36.500 I mean,

01:00:36.760 Soleimani got 0.99

01:00:37.520 whacked and he

01:00:38.400 was obviously

01:00:38.920 looking for

01:00:39.480 trouble.

01:00:40.320 I mean, he was

01:00:40.820 looking for

01:00:41.520 potential attacks.

01:00:45.780 All right.

01:00:46.600 So, Wall Street

01:00:52.360 Journal is

01:00:53.000 reporting that

01:00:53.640 China changed 0.61

01:00:54.540 their, one of

01:00:56.620 their laws about

01:00:57.700 what espionage

01:00:59.860 is.

01:01:00.780 So if you're a

01:01:01.740 foreign entity,

01:01:02.880 let's say a

01:01:03.300 company operating

01:01:04.020 in China, you

01:01:05.620 could get arrested

01:01:07.000 for espionage based

01:01:09.220 on the new vague

01:01:10.640 standards.

01:01:12.460 And so the U.S.

01:01:15.680 counterintelligence

01:01:16.500 officials are

01:01:17.840 warning that 0.80

01:01:18.720 American executives

01:01:20.660 could get arrested

01:01:21.420 over there on

01:01:23.360 charges that would

01:01:24.520 not necessarily be

01:01:27.080 related to anything

01:01:27.980 bad they did.

01:01:28.980 They would just use

01:01:30.100 the new ambiguous

01:01:31.000 law to say, well,

01:01:32.220 you're some kind of

01:01:33.760 a spy.

01:01:34.140 So, I don't know if

01:01:38.080 I've mentioned this

01:01:38.760 before, but has

01:01:40.020 anybody ever heard

01:01:40.720 me say that China 0.91

01:01:42.700 is unsafe for

01:01:43.540 business?

01:01:46.020 And it just keeps

01:01:47.000 getting more

01:01:47.580 unsafe?

01:01:48.720 I don't know how

01:01:49.860 anybody would start

01:01:50.960 business over there.

01:01:52.700 I do understand how

01:01:53.900 somebody like Elon

01:01:54.680 Musk might be a 1.00

01:01:55.680 little bit trapped.

01:01:56.780 You know, he's got to

01:01:57.300 do business there.

01:01:58.680 He doesn't have too

01:01:59.540 many options.

01:02:00.020 But why would you

01:02:01.660 open a business

01:02:02.480 there?

01:02:04.020 Like, what American

01:02:05.020 would say, I'd like

01:02:05.820 to open a business

01:02:07.260 in China and I'll be

01:02:08.420 visiting that a lot

01:02:09.340 with my laptop that

01:02:11.940 will be hacked in

01:02:12.980 10 seconds?

01:02:14.860 All right.

01:02:17.700 That, ladies and

01:02:18.660 gentlemen, is all I

01:02:21.460 had planned to talk

01:02:22.280 about because I was

01:02:24.040 having so much fun

01:02:24.880 reading about

01:02:25.400 everybody's reaction

01:02:26.260 to the news.

01:02:28.040 Was there a story

01:02:29.740 I missed?

01:02:30.840 I didn't really get

01:02:31.740 to check the news

01:02:33.300 news.

01:02:33.740 I just was looking

01:02:34.600 at the headlines.

01:02:36.780 Yeah, we talked

01:02:37.220 about Pergoshan's

01:02:38.080 body double, just

01:02:38.980 did that.

01:02:42.920 Supreme Court just

01:02:44.000 threw out Biden's

01:02:46.040 student loan debt

01:02:47.720 relief.

01:02:53.500 Good.

01:02:53.980 So, it's looking

01:02:59.220 bad for them.

01:03:01.180 Now, do you think

01:03:01.680 the Democrats will

01:03:03.180 use affirmative

01:03:04.300 action and the

01:03:06.380 turning down of the

01:03:07.640 student loan stuff as

01:03:09.360 campaign fodder?

01:03:12.420 What do you think?

01:03:13.760 You think they will

01:03:14.500 use these as campaign

01:03:16.180 fodder?

01:03:17.640 I'm going to go

01:03:18.480 contrarian.

01:03:20.200 I think they might,

01:03:21.640 so I agree with you

01:03:22.560 that they'll give it

01:03:23.640 a shot, but I don't

01:03:24.820 think that's going

01:03:25.320 to work the way

01:03:25.880 they want.

01:03:27.300 I think that if

01:03:28.480 the, let's say

01:03:30.180 if Biden, if Biden

01:03:31.720 really makes a thing

01:03:33.340 about affirmative

01:03:33.960 action, he's going

01:03:35.380 to lose a lot of

01:03:36.160 white Democrats who

01:03:37.960 have kids who are

01:03:38.760 trying to get into

01:03:39.320 college, and he's

01:03:40.220 going to lose all

01:03:40.920 of the Asian

01:03:41.380 Americans, or 80%

01:03:42.920 of them.

01:03:44.840 So, I think it's

01:03:48.120 really dangerous for

01:03:49.080 him to push that

01:03:49.720 button.

01:03:51.400 Timing isn't

01:03:51.940 right.

01:03:52.700 20 years ago, yes.

01:03:54.640 Now, not so much.

01:03:59.320 How will they do an

01:04:00.260 end run on the

01:04:00.960 court packing?

01:04:03.340 I'd think that

01:04:04.240 Biden is smart

01:04:05.060 enough not to do

01:04:05.900 it, believe it or

01:04:06.800 not.

01:04:07.680 I think he's smart

01:04:08.820 enough not to do

01:04:09.620 it.

01:04:10.820 But if they don't

01:04:11.680 do it, it's going

01:04:12.240 to be a lot of

01:04:14.240 years of Republican

01:04:15.280 victories in the

01:04:16.060 courts.

01:04:18.100 He already did.

01:04:19.700 Did what?

01:04:20.140 Oh, Biden already

01:04:21.900 used it.

01:04:22.280 Yeah, of course

01:04:22.780 Biden's already

01:04:23.580 going to use it.

01:04:24.720 But we'll see if he

01:04:26.020 stays with it.

01:04:27.280 You know, it's a

01:04:27.780 headline, so of

01:04:28.540 course he has to

01:04:29.040 address it.

01:04:29.820 But does he make it

01:04:30.800 like a key part of

01:04:32.220 his ongoing campaign?

01:04:34.200 And I think maybe

01:04:35.680 not.

01:04:36.140 I think they're going

01:04:36.700 to poll it.

01:04:37.920 Because I saw a poll

01:04:40.020 today that said that

01:04:41.020 getting rid of

01:04:42.200 affirmative action was

01:04:43.420 hugely popular in the

01:04:45.320 country.

01:04:46.340 Is that your

01:04:47.100 understanding?

01:04:47.660 Is your

01:04:49.140 understanding that

01:04:49.840 affirmative action was

01:04:51.100 not popular and that

01:04:52.560 most people, I think

01:04:53.920 two-thirds, are happy

01:04:55.300 that it went away?

01:04:57.600 Yeah.

01:04:58.280 So he'd be arguing on

01:04:59.920 the side of one-third

01:05:01.100 of the public against

01:05:02.200 two-thirds of the

01:05:03.120 public.

01:05:03.680 That's like a bad

01:05:04.880 campaign approach.

01:05:07.640 You know, he should be

01:05:08.740 picking things that at

01:05:09.660 least 100% of Democrats

01:05:11.040 like.

01:05:12.020 And there's plenty of

01:05:12.920 that.

01:05:14.760 All right.

01:05:15.420 Well, you know,

01:05:21.140 honestly, what I felt

01:05:22.000 like is that black 0.99

01:05:22.940 Americans got a 1.00

01:05:23.840 promotion yesterday.

01:05:27.040 Did anybody have that

01:05:28.060 feeling?

01:05:29.380 It felt like black

01:05:30.180 Americans got promoted 0.99

01:05:31.460 to full citizenship.

01:05:35.400 That's what it felt

01:05:36.200 like.

01:05:37.180 And what I mean by

01:05:37.960 that is, as long as

01:05:39.300 affirmative action

01:05:40.260 existed, then the

01:05:42.980 system was treating

01:05:43.860 black Americans like

01:05:46.120 second-class citizens.

01:05:48.520 That's how I saw it.

01:05:50.180 I saw them being

01:05:50.940 treated as second-class

01:05:52.220 citizens.

01:05:53.280 Like, oh, oh, you

01:05:55.320 need a little help.

01:05:56.580 Oh, poor little guy.

01:05:58.580 Yeah, you need a

01:05:59.140 little help.

01:05:59.760 I thought it was

01:06:00.280 condescending and

01:06:02.600 counterproductive the

01:06:03.680 way, the same way

01:06:04.580 Jen thinks so.

01:06:05.500 It was a good idea for

01:06:06.620 a long time, but it

01:06:07.840 became counterproductive

01:06:09.300 because it succeeded.

01:06:11.020 Its own success made it

01:06:12.820 unnecessary, and I

01:06:13.760 think it was time to

01:06:15.000 go.

01:06:17.960 But, yeah, to me,

01:06:19.900 wait five years.

01:06:21.740 In five years, if you

01:06:23.040 see a new, let's say,

01:06:27.140 young black college

01:06:29.700 graduate, maybe you

01:06:32.980 start saying to

01:06:33.680 yourself, wow, if you

01:06:35.660 could be a young black

01:06:37.420 person who came, let's

01:06:38.400 say, from a poorer

01:06:39.980 situation, and you still

01:06:41.740 made it through an Ivy

01:06:42.580 League school, I

01:06:43.960 definitely want that

01:06:45.020 person on my team.

01:06:46.960 Somebody who could

01:06:47.920 plow through every

01:06:50.120 obstacle and still make

01:06:51.940 it work without any

01:06:52.900 help, oh, yeah.

01:06:54.820 Oh, yeah.

01:06:55.400 I'm hiring that

01:06:56.140 person.

01:06:57.280 But right now, you're

01:06:58.260 thinking, all right, I

01:06:59.540 don't know, how did you

01:07:00.080 get into college?

01:07:01.380 Somebody help you?

01:07:03.080 So, to me, it looks

01:07:04.160 like a gigantic victory

01:07:06.660 for black Americans to

01:07:09.280 be, finally, no longer

01:07:12.760 considered second-class

01:07:13.880 citizens, at least in

01:07:15.560 this minor context.

01:07:19.520 So, I don't know, always

01:07:21.000 good with the bad.

01:07:23.460 Anything else?

01:07:24.640 Yeah, somebody said a

01:07:25.500 lot of the black students 1.00

01:07:28.240 in Harvard were actually

01:07:29.560 immigrants, and they had 0.94

01:07:31.040 no slavery legacy

01:07:32.660 whatsoever, although I

01:07:36.540 suppose they might have

01:07:37.180 from other countries.

01:07:40.380 All right.

01:07:42.200 And it also puts all the

01:07:43.640 pressure on the school

01:07:48.340 unions, teachers' unions.

01:07:51.040 So, the Randy Weingartens of

01:07:52.900 the world have some

01:07:53.840 explaining to do.

01:07:55.740 You know, why can't you

01:07:56.560 prepare everybody so that

01:07:59.040 by the time they're applying

01:07:59.980 for college, affirmative

01:08:01.800 action is, like, a

01:08:03.120 ridiculous idea, because

01:08:05.180 everybody's doing fine.

01:08:07.540 But at the moment, black

01:08:09.280 people are getting

01:08:10.160 terrible educations.

01:08:13.760 So, maybe that gets

01:08:15.740 fixed someday.

01:08:20.440 All right, YouTube,

01:08:21.760 thanks for joining, and I'm

01:08:23.140 going to talk to you

01:08:23.860 tomorrow.

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