Episode 2160 Scott Adams: Let's Talk About All The Fake News, False Flags And Absurd Narratives
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1 hour and 3 minutes
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142.28723
Summary
Trump looks better today than he ever has before, and it's all down to one thing: the environment. The environment is just serving him up another President Trump, it looks like. And that's the theme for today's theme: The environment, just by chance, is serving you up another Trump.
Transcript
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Well, Ben and Jerry's is, as you know, a very activist kind of an organization,
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It's high time we recognize that the U.S. exists on stolen indigenous land and commit to returning it.
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Ashley St. Clair saw that tweet and tweeted it herself with this comment.
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You stole the milk from cows to make your ice cream. Checkmate.
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You stole the milk from cows to make your ice cream. Checkmate.
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That's as close as you can get to a perfect joke.
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And what makes it perfect is it walks right up to the line of reality.
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Because you know that they're probably vegetarians, right?
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But Ben and Jerry probably like to protect the animals.
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And here they've been taking the animals' milk and selling it for profit.
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The zeitgeist is that thing that we all feel, but we haven't talked about it.
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There's an energy forming, and it's in a certain direction, but you haven't...
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Nobody's quite talking about it yet, but it's in all of our minds.
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The other day I tweeted just a little video of Trump insulting Joe Biden in a speech.
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Did you hear how many people are showing up at his rallies?
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Your mental menu until he's the only thing on the menu.
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Some of it is the environment is just serving him up.
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The theme for today is the environment, just by chance, is serving you up another President
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It just feels like the entire energy of the country is starting to form around it, and
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We'll just talk about the headlines, but watch how this thesis comes together.
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Well, here are some things that I think you would all agree that Trump looks better today
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As France is burning, do you think Trump is looking good on immigration?
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He is at the all-time peak of looking right on immigration.
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He has never been this high on immigration before, not even close, in my opinion.
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What about the stain of January 6th that was over him?
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Did that work out just the way the Democrats hoped?
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Because we live in a country where we don't trust that the people who are rounded up really
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We saw Hunter Biden getting a sweetheart deal, while January 6th people got the opposite.
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67% of voters believe it is likely that Hunter Biden received favorable treatment from the prosecutors
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Two-thirds of voters said Hunter got a sweetheart deal.
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At the same time, the January 6th people, probably some of them still rotten in jail for not much.
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Now, of course, some of them did terrible things.
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How many people do you think don't think Hunter got a favorable treatment?
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Let's say if you can get it within three points.
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Yeah, 28% think it was a perfectly reasonable deal.
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All right, if you're new to the live stream, there's a running joke that we've been doing for months
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that for any important question, 25% of the respondents will have the dumbest fucking answer you've ever seen in your life.
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It's just very consistent that 25% are just wrong about everything.
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Which, to me, is one of the funniest things that's happening.
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Because even nature is fucking with the Democrats now.
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You know, it's bad enough that you lost 67% of the general public.
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And the Democrats would say, hey, it's getting warmer because of the CO2.
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And then the last few years didn't really serve up what people were expecting.
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If you follow the hashtag climate scam on Twitter, you're going to see a whole bunch of claims of people who purport to have data claiming that there's no such warming.
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But at the same time, and I say this so I don't get demonetized, there are experts still claiming at the same time that the evidence shows warming exactly like they expect.
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There's your totally reliable news of the day that if you look at the data and you listen to the people who really have looked into it, they'll have completely opposite opinions of what even the data says.
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Forget about the hypothesis you put on top of it about warming.
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The experts, or at least the Twitter talking experts, can't even agree if it's getting warmer.
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Are the glaciers melting, staying the same, or getting bigger?
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Well, as of this morning, the people who looked into it on the Internet can't agree.
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They can't even agree if the glaciers are getting bigger or smaller or anything.
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So I still think that CO2 probably adds to warming.
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I just don't think the projections about it are necessarily credible.
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However, this situation is very Trump-friendly, isn't it?
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Imagine if we go another year without anything that looks like significant warming.
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By the way, let me say it carefully, that would not disprove climate change.
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You could have five or even ten years of not much warming or even a little cooling, and that would not, I want to be very careful about that, that would not disprove climate change.
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It would certainly make you scratch your head, right?
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It would make you look a little more closely at the other numbers.
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But it doesn't get quite to the level of disproving it, because you would need a much longer time period to do that.
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Because even the pro-CO2 people, the people who are saying it's behind the warming, even they don't say it's the only factor.
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So the other factors could bounce it around, but the idea would be over time it's definitely going to trend up, even if a few years is down.
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I don't know what's true, but in the context we're talking about it today, I will say that that situation is more friendly to Trump than at any time in the past.
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That there's never been a moment in modern American, let's say the last 20 years, there's never been a moment when the external facts were friendlier to skepticism.
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Would you say that the data is supporting the skeptics, albeit temporarily and albeit not proof of anything?
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But it just happens to be moving in their direction at the moment.
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But does that look like it's friendlier to a Trump administration?
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Because people actually do believe he could end it in a day.
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Do you think the Democrats believe that Trump could end the Ukraine war in a day?
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Now, I will, if you remove the hyperbole, if you remove the hyperbole, he doesn't literally mean a day.
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It's within the realm of possibility that he could do it in one day.
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Because you just have to agree to a ceasefire and then work out the details.
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I mean, if I had to bet on it, I wouldn't bet anything happens in one day ever.
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Do you think they doubt that Trump could end it?
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I think that they grudgingly, and not all of them, of course, right?
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Some are so dug in that they would never say he could do anything.
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But there's got to be a solid 25% of Democrats who are saying to themselves,
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well, Biden definitely is not getting us out of this war.
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So you don't think that 25% of Democrats kind of prefer peace?
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No matter how hypnotized or brainwashed they are about Ukraine.
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You don't think 25% are solidly holding out with independent thought,
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and they have an anti-war bias, and they're thinking,
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Everything's going his way right now, like in a very substantial way.
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How about Hunter's laptop and the corruption that we all saw there?
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It just proves everything about Trump was right, right?
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How about the cocaine that was just found in the White House?
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Do you think Trump looks better now that they found cocaine in the White House?
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It's like one of these weird, not really an important story.
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It's probably the least important thing that's happening in the world,
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But in our minds, it just makes the non-drinking, non-drug-taking Trump look like a superstar.
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You let a bunch of degenerates in the White House with their cocaine?
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Wall Street Journal, and then, of course, Biden himself is decomposing right in front of our eyes.
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So everything's looking friendly for Trump at the moment.
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I think on the economy, the economy might be a jump ball.
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I think on the economy, people will just retreat to their parties.
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Because there is an argument for Biden being good on the economy.
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Because we're coming, you know, even inflation is slightly coming down.
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But directionally, directionally, things will look like they're improving.
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Now, we do have a potentially insolvent insurance and banking industry,
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But anyway, the situation, I think, is ambiguous enough.
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You could argue that Trump could do better in X ways.
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And you could argue that Biden actually did pretty well, given the situation.
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You could argue that neither president has anything to do with anything.
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We just have a strong free market, and it handled it.
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So I think that economics is going to be a jump ball.
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So that's not going to favor Trump substantially.
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All right, here's a story that feeds into this theme.
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The Wall Street Journal is talking about how there's a growing Republican consensus
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Here is a sentence from the Wall Street Journal reporting today.
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There is a simple reason the idea of military intervention keeps cropping up.
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It is popular, and not just with the Republicans.
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In an NBC poll taken in late June, sending troops to the border to stop drugs
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was the single best-liked of 11 GOP proposals tested with Republican primary voters.
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And it was the only one that gained support from a majority of all registered voters.
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Now, of course, it could turn into a horrible debacle, depending on how it gets executed, if it does.
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I mean, it still requires a Republican president.
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So by no means does it mean any of this is going to happen.
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Recently, a friend told me that another friend of theirs died from fentanyl overdose.
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How many of you have heard that story recently?
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Have we reached a point where most of the country knows somebody who died of fentanyl?
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So I said, how many people do you know who have died of fentanyl overdose?
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So I guess there's a U.S. district court just ruled that this might be a big deal.
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That governments can't coerce social media to censor news.
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Now, I don't know how this will actually play out in the real world.
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I'm not sure the government has to twist any arms.
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Hey, Mark, you know, it'd really be nice if your platform, you know, just had a little
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And then Mark says, oh, that's what my side wants.
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Or is that just somebody knowing what team he's on?
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I'm not sure that this ruling makes any difference.
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Do you think the ruling will make any difference at all?
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How many of you have figured out that you need to listen to me to figure out what the news really is?
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Well, he might be alive, but he's definitely under Putin's control.
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Putin would have been silly to kill him right away.
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Good dictatoring is you capture him, you interrogate him, you find out who's working with him.
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And when you're completely sure that you've tortured him to the point where he's really given you everybody,
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So we assume that Putin is a high-level operator in the dictatoring.
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So his dictatoring probably included this very obvious move.
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Have you seen the news embarrassingly admit that they had been fooled into thinking he went to Belarus
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We said he went to Belarus, but it turns out it was only his plane, as far as we know.
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How long do we have to wait, without seeing a picture of him, before we can admit he's not in Belarus?
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You probably saw in the news that there's a Ukraine-built nuclear power plant that Russia has control of now.
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So they control that territory and they control the plant.
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And the Ukrainians say that the Russians have planted explosives on the top of it
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and they're planning to blow it up or to missile it or drone it.
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It's called the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
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Do you all believe that Russia will attack a nuclear power plant on the territory it controls?
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It's going to blow up a multi-billion dollar asset of their own, one that they use on their own territory that they've captured.
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We finally learned what it looks like, how they do it, and how the news will cover it.
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And the hilarious thing about this is that everybody spotted this at the first minute.
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It's like, well, the Russians, they seem to have put explosives on the top of the nuclear power plant.
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You know they're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant.
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They're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant.
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Is it a fucking coincidence that that would be the red line?
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In order to give the Ukrainians massive NATO support, all it would require is for Putin to do something careless or stupid with a nuclear asset.
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All right, let me just lay down some probabilities.
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If this thing goes the way it looks like it's going to go, and there actually is a false flag attack that we can all see, like we just assume it's a false flag, it's President Trump.
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If Ukraine tries to do that to the United States, give us this false flag thing, or maybe it's our military.
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One way or another, the American support will disappear.
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Putin's going to do this because they know that we'll think it's a false flag, and then they'll reduce support.
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We're going to figure it out, and we're going to hold responsible anybody who was behind it.
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Like, maybe in the short run in some way, but no way.
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Let me just say, if there's anybody that's allegedly on our side, allegedly on our side who does that, they have to die.
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I don't care if you're the president of the United States.
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I mean, with the courts, not talking about a revolution.
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I think the courts and the law, they don't, but they should support executing anybody who would do a false flag to start a nuclear war.
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The reparations task force in California continues to abuse, and they've added to their claims that they would like to drop the law.
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They want to get rid of the law that makes it a crime to urinate in public.
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So they would like millions of dollars per person, and they would like to urinate in public.
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Now, we're not quite there, but you can see the logical endpoint here, can't you?
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The logical endpoint, we're almost there, is that the reparations task force would like to recommend,
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and I feel like they're just sort of crawling up to it, you know, cats on the roof, they don't want to break it to us all at once.
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But what they really want is for Californians to pay black Californians a massive amount of money,
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and then let the black Californians piss on them.
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So it's not good enough that you just give money.
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You want to give money and then have them piss on you in return.
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So right now it's just they want to urinate on sidewalks, I guess.
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But, you know, obviously that's going to be, you know, scaling up to eventually they'll just be whipping it out
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He shows an example of AI making a Pixar-style movie just from a script.
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Now, not from Pixar's script, I don't think, but just from some other script.
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Now, I don't think they're quite at the point where you could feed a script into it
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and a movie comes out the other end that you'd want to watch.
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But we're very close to a Dilbert movie that requires me to do little or no work.
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Now, I don't know if anybody would watch it, but the technology to make it just from a script is very high.
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Maybe less than one year, AI will be able to make a full movie with hitting all the beats
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I continue with my prediction that humans will not want to watch AI-generated art of any kind.
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And the reason is that we enjoy art made by humans because of our knowledge that came from humans.
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If you take away your knowledge that a human made it, it'll lose all interest.
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Because when we're reading it, we're not just reading it for entertainment.
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There's some connection with the creators that's important to the process.
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You know that somebody wrote it, somebody acted in it.
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As soon as you take away all the human elements, you would just be watching a computer's daydream.
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I want to see that if I see a movie that's like, ah, this is the best movie,
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I think about the director, I think about the writers, I think about the skill of the actors,
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So when I see a great movie, I'm thinking about the talent of the humans who put it together,
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Even though I don't necessarily conceptualize it that way when I'm watching it,
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So I've been re-watching, in my opinion, the best television show of all time called Modern Family.
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So I'm starting from the beginning to re-watch it.
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As I'm watching Phil Dunphy say the funniest things you've ever seen on television,
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And that's what makes me, like, really engaged.
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If an AI had written the same joke and had a CGI that looked just like Phil Dunphy, the character,
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Even if it was just the same, I think it would be flat.
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And I think that would be true with music, humor, movies, and probably books.
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It might be that we just lose interest in all of those forms of entertainment
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because people stop doing it and computer-based stuff isn't interesting.
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We just might just stop being entertained in the same way.
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You know, the most likely place this will end up is that the same creators that are creating now,
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For example, instead of replacing me to make Dilber,
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it's far more likely that I will use an AI tool with my art director
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I should be able to create comics with my art director.
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But there's still going to be lots of trial and error.
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because the humans are the only thing telling you
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The human can say, try this, try this, try this,
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but only the human can tell you if it's working
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That Biden actually had a task force some time ago.
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that they'd be working on trying to pack the court even today,
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even after Biden's own people said don't do it.
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Like, I don't really even know what's going on with him.
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Because he doesn't even seem slightly interested
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and he's doing what a lot of Democrats want him to do,
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It looks like there's something else going on with him
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he's intentionally picking the worst possible things.
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That's not something I just say about Democrats.
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But Nadler, he doesn't look like a real politician.
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He looks like he wakes up trying to hurt the country.