Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2163 Scott Adams： Wow, The News Is Juicy And Fun Today. Grab A Coffee

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00:00:45.620 Well, if you're looking for your daily Dilbert comic, for you subscribers on Twitter and also on Locals,

00:00:54.420 if you didn't know this already, I think I've told you this before,

00:00:57.720 I have something called a calendar problem,

00:01:01.960 meaning that I can't put things on the right calendar dates pretty much ever.

00:01:08.420 I don't know why. It seems related to maybe, I don't know, being dyslexic or something.

00:01:15.020 But for some reason, this has been all my life, because I know what you're going to say.

00:01:20.020 I know what you're going to say. But it's been all my life, right?

00:01:23.320 So there's never been a time when it wasn't the case.

00:01:26.740 So the Dilbert comic for today will show up right as soon as I'm done with this.

00:01:33.340 I'll post it. But I do put the date in. Here's what I do.

00:01:37.800 A week ahead of time, I queue up all the comics to run.

00:01:43.180 So I just, it's a very simple process.

00:01:45.400 I just look at the date on the comic, and then I schedule it for that date.

00:01:50.780 How hard would that be?

00:01:52.560 If you were to do that six times, you know, let's say I do it six times.

00:01:57.860 Out of six, how many times would I incorrectly put the wrong date in when I'm just looking at the date?

00:02:04.100 I'm just looking at it.

00:02:05.600 All I have to do is type it in from looking at it.

00:02:07.880 How often out of six?

00:02:09.720 Two out of six this week.

00:02:12.160 This week. And this is with triple checking.

00:02:14.860 Triple checking.

00:02:16.180 Two out of six I got wrong.

00:02:18.000 Do you know how often I would write the wrong date on the comic itself for 35 years while I was cartooning?

00:02:26.360 About two out of five.

00:02:28.540 No matter how hard I tried.

00:02:30.700 I don't know what it is.

00:02:32.320 It doesn't apply to other domains.

00:02:35.380 It's just very specific to calendars.

00:02:37.860 Have you ever heard of that?

00:02:39.640 And when I get into a new relationship, it's the first thing I have to explain.

00:02:45.180 I can't tell you how many times I've said, all right, look, there's going to be a thing that's going to happen with us.

00:02:51.660 You're going to ask me to put something on a calendar, and I won't be able to do it.

00:02:56.060 You will not believe that I'm unable, because you'll see me functioning okay in other ways.

00:03:02.080 You won't believe that I simply can't write dates on calendars.

00:03:05.620 And then it happens.

00:03:07.420 And then it's a big fight.

00:03:08.360 I'm like, I told you.

00:03:12.100 There's no way this doesn't happen.

00:03:14.140 There's going to be more of it, not less of it.

00:03:17.000 Oh, well.

00:03:18.220 Enough about me.

00:03:19.120 CBS is reporting some big breakthrough of beaming power from space.

00:03:25.480 The big advantage would be if you could build a ginormous solar power collector up there, you could actually microwave it to Earth and use it.

00:03:37.580 And apparently this technology already works, because we could use it terrestrially to light a light bulb from a distance, et cetera.

00:03:45.520 And it was just tested.

00:03:47.260 And it was just tested.

00:03:48.320 So I guess they tested it with a satellite or something.

00:03:51.300 And it works.

00:03:52.020 So the amount of electricity you could collect from space is unlimited.

00:04:00.640 And if you can beam it to Earth so that it's never cloudy.

00:04:05.940 In other words, somewhere in the world, there's always going to be some sun, I guess.

00:04:12.120 So it might be a big deal.

00:04:15.160 Some people say it could be a big deal. 1.00

00:04:16.460 China is allegedly developing a neuro-weapon where they can beam something at your head and it'll make you stupid. 1.00

00:04:26.500 Let me say that again. 1.00

00:04:28.620 China is allegedly developing a weapon that if they aimed it at you, you would become, you know, it would be difficult to make decisions.

00:04:39.680 Oh.

00:04:40.240 And it does beg the question, how long have they been using it?

00:04:50.840 Am I right?

00:04:54.300 Do they just point it at our media?

00:04:58.000 I feel like they're pointing it at the whole country right now.

00:05:04.600 How would you ever know if they'd employed the weapon?

00:05:07.360 Can you imagine being on the battlefield and you're like there with your fellow, you know, fighters?

00:05:15.680 And you're looking over at Bob and Bob's there like.

00:05:19.380 You're like, oh, I think he was a little bit like that before.

00:05:24.260 I'm not entirely sure.

00:05:28.100 Bob, was the 2020 election rigged?

00:05:32.820 I told him it was fair.

00:05:34.540 It was totally fair.

00:05:35.360 Oh, God.

00:05:37.140 Oh, God.

00:05:40.140 Now, I'm not saying the election was rigged.

00:05:43.840 But we're going to talk about that later.

00:05:45.960 In fact, there's no evidence of it at all.

00:05:48.020 There's no evidence it was rigged.

00:05:49.840 I just want to be clear about that.

00:05:51.740 There's no evidence it wasn't.

00:05:54.180 But there's no evidence that it was.

00:05:56.780 All right.

00:05:57.120 Speaking of that, I told you the other day that Cenk Uyger, I think is his last name, notable progressive type, had agreed with the Supreme Court on two things that the political right liked more than the left.

00:06:14.440 He liked the Supreme Court on affirmative action, getting rid of it, and he liked the Supreme Court on not paying off student loans.

00:06:23.180 So a lot of people on the right were praising him, and I was one of them.

00:06:28.700 And he wanted to, he needed a little pushback on that.

00:06:32.060 So he tweeted this.

00:06:34.160 He said,

00:06:34.440 For the right wing is celebrating that I'm pointing out some left wing activists can't stand any disagreement.

00:06:42.160 Remember, your house is made entirely of glass.

00:06:45.700 The right wing is not allowed to disagree with Trump when he makes up outrageous lies about how he won 2020 election.

00:06:52.540 So I tweeted back.

00:06:56.360 I'm sure I won't get a response.

00:06:58.640 How would anyone, the only reason I'm going to read this is I'd like to model for you the best answer.

00:07:05.920 In my opinion, this is the best answer to people saying, hey, you say that election was rigged, but there's no evidence of that.

00:07:15.120 Here's how you answer.

00:07:16.600 How would anyone know an American election was not rigged?

00:07:20.300 We can only know the results are impossible to fully audit, and no confirmed rigging was found.

00:07:27.580 But rigging is guaranteed over time because the system invites it.

00:07:31.540 You don't know if it happened yet, but it's guaranteed.

00:07:36.420 That's the perfect answer.

00:07:38.980 There is no way to know because you can't fully audit the election.

00:07:42.300 You can only know for sure that it's guaranteed, either now or later, or maybe in the past.

00:07:48.640 What is guaranteed by the design of the system.

00:07:52.520 Design tells you truth.

00:07:54.780 Did I just make that up?

00:07:57.140 That sounded really smart when it came out of my mouth.

00:07:59.740 I'll have to say it again.

00:08:01.660 Design tells you truth.

00:08:05.020 Because the design is what drives behavior, right?

00:08:08.060 If you design it so there's one path, people take that path.

00:08:11.940 If you design it so there are two paths, but one looks scary and one looks inviting, people take the inviting path.

00:08:19.280 Design is truth.

00:08:21.120 The election is designed for rigging.

00:08:23.920 That's the truth.

00:08:25.560 I can't say that it was.

00:08:27.480 I can only say it was designed to make that inevitable.

00:08:32.000 It guarantees it.

00:08:33.180 Speaking of sketchy-sounding things, actually, one more thing about Cenk.

00:08:44.840 Yesterday, I sent him a compliment, and maybe I was one of the people that he may have.

00:08:51.280 You can imagine what happened when I complimented him.

00:08:54.060 Imagine the comments on my compliment.

00:09:00.380 The progressives have decided that if you get a compliment from somebody like me, somebody like me, well, that's no compliment, is it?

00:09:10.760 Well, anyway.

00:09:11.880 But I do compliment Cenk because he quite knowingly degraded his own economic opportunity

00:09:21.740 by disagreeing with his audience.

00:09:24.980 He did that intentionally.

00:09:26.720 I have massive respect for that.

00:09:28.880 Even if I disagree with him on a hundred other things, I'm not going to lose the fact that I respect that.

00:09:35.900 So I'd like to see more of that.

00:09:39.200 Tucker Carlson was on Russell Brand show and made news, as Tucker often does.

00:09:46.160 And Tucker says he got fired by Fox News right before he aired, and apparently he'd already done the interview, but it hadn't aired.

00:09:55.380 Was it the D.C. chief of police or chief of capital police?

00:10:00.940 Chief of capital police, right?

00:10:03.440 He said he interviewed the chief of the capital police and was told that the chief of the capital police,

00:10:11.180 the person who would know the most about what was going on, said the January 6th crowd was full of Feds.

00:10:20.120 It was full of Feds. 0.98

00:10:22.840 I don't know what that means.

00:10:24.580 So we haven't heard the interview.

00:10:26.380 So I don't know if full of means 20.

00:10:30.740 In your brain, how do you interpret if somebody says, oh, that big crowd.

00:10:35.340 So the crowd was thousands.

00:10:37.280 How many were in the crowd?

00:10:38.240 What's the size of the crowd?

00:10:41.740 2,000?

00:10:44.720 6,000, somebody says?

00:10:47.280 No, not 100,000.

00:10:49.140 6,000, maybe?

00:10:52.580 Does anybody know a number?

00:10:54.460 Anyway, so thousands of people were there.

00:10:57.020 How many of those would have to be Feds before you would accept the, before you would accept that there were a lot of Feds, right?

00:11:09.940 If there were thousands of people there and there were 20 Feds, just hypothetically, would that be a lot?

00:11:16.700 Would 20 feel like they were controlling events?

00:11:20.600 I don't know.

00:11:21.720 That'd be on the low end.

00:11:23.040 What if there were 100?

00:11:24.060 If there were 100 Feds, do you think that they could control the flow of the event by creating provocations or maybe breaking a window that wasn't going to get broken? 0.74

00:11:38.720 Something like that?

00:11:40.420 I don't know.

00:11:40.800 There's no way to know how many there were, but in my mind, just subjectively, as a consumer of news and somebody who has to make political decisions, it seems to me if somebody in that role is saying that it was full of them, probably more than 20.

00:11:58.620 Probably fewer than 100.

00:12:03.220 I don't know.

00:12:04.580 If I had to guess, like you put a gun to head and said, make your prediction, I'm going to say 60.

00:12:15.180 60.

00:12:18.000 Based on what?

00:12:19.140 Nothing.

00:12:19.960 Based on nothing.

00:12:21.000 It's just based on one person who should know something about it that I don't, said there were many of them.

00:12:30.020 Many could mean anything.

00:12:32.200 Right?

00:12:33.220 Right? 1.00

00:12:33.920 Fuck you, David. 1.00

00:12:35.300 Goodbye. 1.00

00:12:38.020 I'd use her own channel.

00:12:39.980 You're gone.

00:12:41.500 All right.

00:12:43.000 Let's talk about cocaine in the White House.

00:12:45.100 So, you know, the latest story, this story just keeps getting funnier.

00:12:57.180 I don't think you can get funnier than cocaine in the White House, but it just actually does.

00:13:02.220 It's getting funnier.

00:13:03.480 And so, first it was found in the library, right?

00:13:09.860 First it was found in the library.

00:13:13.460 Goodbye.

00:13:15.100 Then it was moved to some other area and then some other area.

00:13:20.140 And now they're saying that it was in a construction zone.

00:13:25.160 Isn't that convenient?

00:13:27.240 What would happen in a construction zone?

00:13:31.260 What would be different about a construction zone?

00:13:36.700 Let's say a remodel in the White House.

00:13:38.720 What would make that a unique and different place than all of the other areas?

00:13:43.180 Huh.

00:13:43.660 You know, if I were going to remodel an area, there's a pretty good chance I'd be disconnecting the video cameras.

00:13:51.880 Pretty good chance.

00:13:52.820 I mean, you have to move a wall and, you know, there's no reason for the cameras there anyway because you're just doing construction.

00:13:58.860 Yeah, the first thing I'd do is remove the cameras.

00:14:00.740 Now, isn't that interesting?

00:14:03.520 Isn't that interesting?

00:14:04.520 That of all the places it could be, it was in that non-camera place.

00:14:11.380 Now, they haven't said that.

00:14:13.220 I'm just assuming that's the next part of the story.

00:14:15.600 Well, it was in the construction zone.

00:14:18.440 Well, it took us a week to learn.

00:14:20.920 All week it took us to research until we found out that the construction workers had taken the camera down.

00:14:27.420 It took us all week to figure it out.

00:14:30.380 There was no camera because the construction worker took it down.

00:14:33.180 Don't you think that's happening?

00:14:39.760 Don't you think that's coming?

00:14:42.140 I don't know for sure if it's coming, but it feels like it is.

00:14:45.240 It feels like they're signaling it.

00:14:47.440 They're signaling it that it's coming so clearly that you're just waiting for that to drop today.

00:14:53.060 It feels like that's today's news, right?

00:14:55.500 Or would it be Monday, depending on how the news cycle is going?

00:15:00.880 But then my favorite part about it was, this is just too good.

00:15:09.760 The spokes clown, cringe Jean-Pierre, she's trying to answer this question.

00:15:17.300 And the reporters are asking directly, did this cocaine belong to anybody in the Biden family? 0.88

00:15:24.420 You know, meaning Hunter, of course.

00:15:27.220 So you would think that would be a pretty easy question, wouldn't you?

00:15:31.220 Pretty easy question?

00:15:33.180 No, no, it is not.

00:15:37.640 Stop asking that question.

00:15:39.320 No, no, there's no indication of that.

00:15:43.080 But did she say no?

00:15:45.760 She did not say no.

00:15:49.620 She had one job.

00:15:51.900 She had one job.

00:15:53.340 Just say no to that.

00:15:55.700 Just say no.

00:15:57.700 She couldn't do it.

00:16:00.860 Instead, she acts all mad like she's answered it.

00:16:05.300 And then she says it again.

00:16:07.980 Again, let me say that the Bidens were out of the White House those three days.

00:16:14.640 Again, let me say it.

00:16:16.400 How many times do I have to say they weren't there?

00:16:18.320 Well, we're asking if it was theirs.

00:16:21.000 We're not asking where they were.

00:16:23.000 We're asking who owned it.

00:16:24.860 How many times do I have to tell you they weren't there?

00:16:30.740 Okay, okay.

00:16:31.360 We know they weren't there.

00:16:32.340 Got it.

00:16:32.860 Got it.

00:16:33.780 But we're still asking, can you say yes or no to do they own it?

00:16:40.160 Because it's our understanding that the cocaine did not go on vacation with them.

00:16:44.540 It did not travel with them.

00:16:45.940 Got it.

00:16:46.560 Got it.

00:16:47.080 We're all on the same page now.

00:16:48.900 Can you tell us if the ownership of the bag, maybe they had encountered these people at an earlier time, for example, had it been their ownership?

00:17:00.360 How many times do I have to tell you that they were not there and they were not there?

00:17:09.260 Did she throw Hunter under the bus? 0.96

00:17:13.740 Totally.

00:17:14.260 She totally, the whole family just threw them under the bus. 1.00

00:17:19.120 And I think Joe must have thrown them under the bus, too.

00:17:22.000 I feel like the private conversation went something like this.

00:17:26.900 Hunter.

00:17:28.940 Hunter?

00:17:29.880 Son?

00:17:31.340 Did you leave a bag of cocaine in the White House?

00:17:35.080 No, Dad, I totally didn't.

00:17:38.720 Now what do you do?

00:17:40.940 What do you do then?

00:17:41.980 Do you believe that Joe Biden believes that Hunter Biden has always told him the truth?

00:17:49.940 Let me introduce you to something called a drug addict. 0.98

00:17:55.340 Drug addicts never tell the truth.

00:17:58.740 Is there anybody here who's been a drug addict who can confirm to me there's no such thing as the truth from a drug addict?

00:18:07.200 It's just not a thing.

00:18:09.040 It doesn't matter how much, it doesn't matter how good your character was before you were an addict.

00:18:16.020 Before you were an addict, your character could have been exceptional. 0.91

00:18:19.900 But addiction takes over your brain.

00:18:23.000 You're not the same person you were before the addiction.

00:18:25.780 The addiction is your brain. 0.60

00:18:27.740 Right?

00:18:28.100 There used to be you.

00:18:29.940 Now you're gone.

00:18:31.100 You're actually just gone.

00:18:32.340 Now there's just the addiction.

00:18:34.580 And it lives in your head where your brain used to be.

00:18:37.020 If you don't understand that about addiction, you don't know addiction.

00:18:40.980 Because I keep hearing people say,

00:18:43.720 well, the fentanyl problem would go away if people would stop doing the fentanyl.

00:18:47.340 Well, they were not in the White House for three days.

00:18:53.080 They were not in the White House for three days.

00:18:54.940 I just feel like I have to say that again.

00:18:57.320 No, you can't ask people to stop doing an addiction.

00:19:01.100 That's not what an addiction is.

00:19:03.540 An addiction is the thing that you can't choose.

00:19:06.540 That's what makes it an addiction.

00:19:08.460 If you could simply choose not to do it, nobody would be addicted.

00:19:13.000 Nobody.

00:19:13.400 It would be like the rarest thing instead of the most common thing.

00:19:18.180 All right.

00:19:18.680 So here's the problem.

00:19:21.020 If Joe Biden asked Hunter if it was his, and Hunter said, no, it wasn't,

00:19:27.160 could Joe Biden believe him, given what logically would have been their history?

00:19:34.400 When you have an addict as a son, they have lied to you.

00:19:38.480 I don't think there's any way around that, really.

00:19:40.680 And anybody who knows an addict knows that's true.

00:19:44.680 I have some people saying no.

00:19:47.840 So there are people who are, are you addicts?

00:19:51.720 Are you addicts telling me that addicts don't lie?

00:19:55.820 There's a whole bunch of people saying no.

00:19:58.260 So you believe that addicts don't lie, just sort of as a general statement?

00:20:04.560 All right. 0.99

00:20:05.120 That's ridiculous. 0.96

00:20:06.500 I'm not even going to debate that. 1.00

00:20:08.740 You just don't know what an addict is if you believe that.

00:20:11.000 All right.

00:20:12.400 So that's funny.

00:20:16.780 All right.

00:20:17.100 The Threads app, as you know, got gigantic pickup.

00:20:23.560 Lots and lots of people went over to the new meta product that's going to compete with Twitter called Threads.

00:20:29.580 And I would like to ask you this question, dear users.

00:20:33.700 Thousands of you are here.

00:20:34.940 Many of you have signed up.

00:20:36.380 For those of you who have signed up for Threads, give me thumbs up, thumbs down.

00:20:42.000 Is it good?

00:20:43.520 Did you have a good experience?

00:20:44.960 Bad experience?

00:20:47.400 Tell me what your first impression was.

00:20:49.940 All right.

00:20:53.260 I'm just looking at your comments here.

00:20:55.420 No interest.

00:20:57.140 Banned for life.

00:21:00.420 A number of people were already banned for life over there.

00:21:04.920 Zero interest.

00:21:06.040 Banned.

00:21:07.020 It turns out a lot of the people on the Locals platform tried it and they're already banned.

00:21:12.680 Not interested.

00:21:13.860 Not interested.

00:21:14.680 Don't care. 0.69

00:21:15.420 Dull.

00:21:16.700 Choice. 0.99

00:21:17.800 All right.

00:21:18.120 Well, here's what Zuckerberg says about it.

00:21:23.640 He says it's for those, the Threads is for those looking for less angry conversations.

00:21:30.240 And he framed his new offering as an open and friendly public space.

00:21:36.540 Does that sound fun?

00:21:39.320 Open and friendly public space?

00:21:42.560 Hmm.

00:21:43.960 Yeah.

00:21:45.020 Let me get right over there.

00:21:47.300 Wow.

00:21:48.120 I'll tell you that Zuckerberg sure makes me want to do it.

00:21:52.000 He's like, he's like the king of anti-marketing.

00:21:55.900 Yeah.

00:21:57.040 It's funny watching him compared to, it's impossible not to compare him to Musk because, you know,

00:22:02.580 they're going to literally have a cage fight.

00:22:04.280 So you have to compare him.

00:22:05.640 It's impossible not to, now that they have a competing product, especially, or a more directly

00:22:11.020 competing product.

00:22:11.780 So, I don't think that Zuckerberg understands what Twitter is.

00:22:19.720 Twitter is sort of the place you go to fight, isn't it?

00:22:24.720 Twitter is not about avoiding conflict.

00:22:28.240 The thing that makes Twitter, Twitter is the conflict.

00:22:31.160 At least for the political stuff.

00:22:32.560 You know, there's a whole bunch of Twitter that's probably just people tweeting their

00:22:37.820 lunch still, but I don't see that part.

00:22:39.960 I only see the political stuff.

00:22:41.920 So, on the political stuff, people are looking for a fight.

00:22:45.900 And if they're not looking for a fight, they're at least looking to, you know, raise their profile,

00:22:50.360 which is not exactly a, you know, a holy, you know, activity.

00:22:56.520 So, basically, everything on Twitter is people's worst instincts, but it's a free market.

00:23:04.280 And the free market element of it, the Wild West free market of it, is what makes it valuable.

00:23:11.400 Because you put an idea on Twitter, it's going to get beat up.

00:23:15.200 Right? 0.98

00:23:17.620 You take an idea you think is just really good, you put it on Twitter, it'll get the shit beat out of it. 0.62

00:23:24.240 If it still is living when you're done with Twitter, it might have been a good idea.

00:23:28.860 It survived Twitter.

00:23:30.800 Right?

00:23:31.380 That's a good idea.

00:23:32.460 But suppose you put it on threads and everybody said, oh, that's good, and people who said bad things got banned.

00:23:38.480 You wouldn't know anything.

00:23:40.240 It wouldn't move you forward.

00:23:41.780 It wouldn't be a free market.

00:23:42.940 It wouldn't be free speech.

00:23:44.180 It wouldn't be anything.

00:23:46.620 It would just sort of lay there.

00:23:48.680 Now, maybe I'm wrong.

00:23:51.820 Maybe there's something better there.

00:23:53.840 I will check it out, by the way.

00:23:55.480 I will take a look at it.

00:23:58.160 But I'm not hearing people who went there and looked at it coming back and saying they're hooked.

00:24:04.820 Is anybody saying, oh, man, I was on threads all day today?

00:24:09.320 Yeah.

00:24:09.600 It was bad enough I used to be on Twitter all day, but now I moved to threads, and I spend four hours on threads.

00:24:17.840 Nope.

00:24:18.280 All right.

00:24:19.780 Now, I'm going to tell you the most provocative theory that you will never hear in the mainstream news.

00:24:26.440 Do you know why you will never hear this in the mainstream news?

00:24:30.280 This will be a new reason.

00:24:31.840 Not because it's left-leaning or anything like that or right-leaning.

00:24:35.660 So not because it's political.

00:24:36.920 Because they all have spouses, and I'll tell you why.

00:24:42.600 The news can't report this because they're mostly married people. 1.00

00:24:46.960 Zuckerberg is married.

00:24:49.900 Let me tell you what's happening right now.

00:24:53.240 I'm not a mind reader, so I don't know for sure.

00:24:56.660 So this is speculation, but it's speculation based on a universal truth.

00:25:02.300 You ready for this?

00:25:03.340 If you start a social media company, your spouse, male or female, so this is not a gender thing, it's not a gender thing, male or female, your spouse will believe that they also have excellent ideas for how you should manage that in social media.

00:25:22.400 Because you know why?

00:25:24.320 Everybody thinks they're an expert on social media.

00:25:28.040 Do you know why I know this so well?

00:25:30.060 Well, I once owned a restaurant when I was single, and then I got married.

00:25:37.360 Do you know who is an expert on restaurants?

00:25:40.980 Everybody who eats at one.

00:25:42.620 Everybody who's ever eaten at a restaurant is an expert on restaurants.

00:25:46.160 That's why I started one.

00:25:47.640 I started a restaurant because I ate at one.

00:25:50.600 So I thought, well, I'm practically an expert.

00:25:53.580 Might as well start my own.

00:25:54.620 Try doing anything in your restaurant that your spouse thinks is a bad idea.

00:26:02.980 Try it.

00:26:04.200 Try to make any change in your restaurant that you just think is a good idea, but your spouse thinks is a really bad idea.

00:26:11.640 Just try it.

00:26:13.060 See how that goes.

00:26:14.660 Find out how your life goes after that.

00:26:18.020 Do you know how quickly you will talk yourself out of your excellent idea?

00:26:22.020 Because you have to go home.

00:26:25.220 Your life is going home, right?

00:26:27.920 Your life is not the product you made.

00:26:30.620 Your life is going home.

00:26:32.740 And if home is ruined by what you did over here, you can't go home.

00:26:40.100 Do you think that Zuckerberg wants threads to work more than he wants his marriage to work?

00:26:46.780 Of course not.

00:26:48.180 Of course not.

00:26:49.340 He doesn't need the money.

00:26:50.280 So, you know, he probably needs his marriage.

00:26:54.440 So I believe that Zuckerberg can't compete with Musk because Musk is single.

00:27:02.100 And Musk has wisely diversified his wives because they're all ex-wives.

00:27:07.260 He's diversified them so even if one of his exes or one of his kids complained, Musk doesn't even have to listen to his kids.

00:27:14.320 Because if one of his kids says, I don't like what you're doing on Twitter, he's got nine other kids or whatever it is.

00:27:22.200 He's got the ultimate diversification of influence over there.

00:27:26.120 Like he doesn't have to really pay attention to any of them.

00:27:30.080 But Zuckerberg does.

00:27:31.140 So let me ask you this.

00:27:33.360 Do you believe that the, let's say the censorship, let's say scope, you know, where they put the guardrails, do you think that's determined by Zuckerberg, by the people he's working with closely, or by his wife?

00:27:49.780 Who do you think determined the bounds with which threads can be provocative?

00:27:57.000 His wife.

00:27:58.160 His wife.

00:27:59.020 Do you think that she said anything specifically to him?

00:28:02.240 Didn't need to.

00:28:03.660 I mean, I don't know.

00:28:05.100 Did she need to?

00:28:06.220 No, because everybody knows their wife's opinion by this point.

00:28:10.800 He knows that he can't be Twitter.

00:28:12.580 He cannot have on his platform the same things that Musk can have on his platform, because Musk can just say it's free speech, and there's nobody to tell him he's wrong.

00:28:23.880 If Zuckerberg put the same content, you know, the same edgy, a lot of really disgusting stuff, if he put it on his platform, he wouldn't be able to go home.

00:28:36.120 There's no way his wife's going to put up with that. 1.00

00:28:39.300 Am I wrong?

00:28:42.580 And I don't think that the news will ever report this, because, first of all, it's all speculation, so it's terribly unfair.

00:28:51.060 Let me at least put this caveat there.

00:28:54.980 I don't know anything about Zuckerberg's wife, but he's pretty smart.

00:29:00.500 So if he chose her as a wife, and they've stayed together a long time, I'm guessing that she's a pretty solid human being, and we know that she's super smart, right?

00:29:09.020 We already know his wife's super smart. 1.00

00:29:10.900 So it could be that they have a situation which is completely opposite of everything I described.

00:29:19.140 So I want to put it out there that I can't know for sure, it's like a private person, I can't read his mind.

00:29:25.280 But if you were to make me bet on which of those two platforms had more freedom to do the things it needs to do, I would bet on Musk every time.

00:29:36.600 So I think that Zuckerberg is competing with one arm tied behind his back.

00:29:39.880 He can't let provocative things on the platform, but it's the provocative things that creates the energy.

00:29:48.680 So, I don't know.

00:29:49.840 We'll see.

00:29:50.740 He's succeeded more than I've succeeded, so I think it would be inappropriate for me to second-guess his business decisions.

00:29:57.600 That would be quite arrogant of me.

00:29:59.580 He's obviously brilliant at it, one of the best operators of all time.

00:30:03.420 And he might pull it off.

00:30:06.160 I think he certainly has a path.

00:30:08.760 He might pull it off.

00:30:09.780 So I have a lot of respect for Zuckerberg in terms of his business skills.

00:30:14.400 But he's just, he's married.

00:30:17.420 It matters.

00:30:19.580 All right, the jobs report was kind of lackluster, but not too bad, which is probably good for inflation.

00:30:26.260 Can anybody tell if jobs going up or down is good or bad for the economy anymore?

00:30:33.940 The most basic thing, and we're not quite sure.

00:30:37.300 Well, well, we want people to have jobs, but if the job market is too hot, it means the economy is too hot, and that means inflation, and that means the Fed will keep the interest rates high, which will tamp down on our, you know.

00:30:53.540 So basically, everything's connected.

00:30:56.260 So we can't even tell if the jobs report is good, bad.

00:31:01.900 It's not entirely clear.

00:31:03.860 But I would say it's good.

00:31:06.300 Here's my take.

00:31:07.480 My take is that it's good because it's still strong.

00:31:11.120 The unemployment's pretty low.

00:31:13.080 People are looking for workers.

00:31:15.340 And to me, it looks good.

00:31:19.120 So I think we're going to limp along without anything that looks like a major recession.

00:31:23.800 I would put my predicting about the economy as the best in the business.

00:31:29.400 Can I say that?

00:31:33.200 So I predicted, how many of you remember that for quite a while now, I predicted that the economy after the pandemic winds down would either be not a recession or a very mild one.

00:31:46.920 So I've been saying that from the start.

00:31:49.720 It looks like we're unplanned for that.

00:31:52.740 So good for us.

00:31:54.720 I heard Peter Zan, who talks about geopolitics, talking about China.

00:32:01.440 He was talking about some kind of trade war thing with minerals or some kind of component, which is less important.

00:32:10.640 The important part is that he said that President Xi in China has purged all of the competent government people.

00:32:23.320 And he says that you can't do a deal with China now because there's nobody to do the deal.

00:32:30.220 What?

00:32:30.780 Why am I only hearing that from him?

00:32:34.780 Why is he the only person saying that?

00:32:37.320 Wouldn't the rest of us know that?

00:32:39.240 So the idea is that if you wanted to do, let's say, a deal with China over some technology or microchips or something,

00:32:48.000 that they wouldn't have anybody who could understand the deal.

00:32:51.680 Isn't that weird?

00:32:52.560 That in China, they wouldn't have anybody who could make a decision who would also understand the deal because they got rid of all those people. 0.82

00:33:02.200 It used to be that the Chinese government was heavily filled with engineers.

00:33:07.280 And the engineers are the perfect ones to make a deal because, first of all, they'd understand it.

00:33:12.500 And second of all, they're just looking for what works, right?

00:33:15.540 They're not necessarily operating on animal instinct.

00:33:20.960 So maybe a lot of the people with engineering and more technical skills got purged.

00:33:29.140 Maybe.

00:33:29.940 I'm not sure I believe that.

00:33:34.440 So Peter Zayn's take on it is that China will be going through a huge incompetence problem,

00:33:43.020 like actually government incompetence, like at a massive scale because they got rid of all the good people.

00:33:49.160 Do you think that's real?

00:33:50.960 That feels like a little too much wishful thinking, doesn't it?

00:33:57.220 I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the good people were purged,

00:34:01.620 but it's hard to imagine it went that far.

00:34:04.880 Maybe.

00:34:05.860 Anything's possible.

00:34:07.700 Anyway, he sounds very convinced.

00:34:10.420 He also has a take that we're not really in much trouble if China decides to hold back on its rare earth minerals and some other stuff like gallium and stuff.

00:34:22.720 Apparently, there are other places in the world that could spin up fairly quickly.

00:34:27.540 It's just that presumably they don't need to because it's coming out of China.

00:34:33.000 So it's sort of like a two-month spin up for anything they tried to deny us.

00:34:37.880 And then Zayn's take is that China would be in worse case than we would if we got into a fight about raw materials because we have all the silica.

00:34:49.080 So they wouldn't be able to make silicon chips.

00:34:53.560 So basically, China would be computerless if they decided to fight us, but we would have two months of a little bit of problems and we'd be back to where we were. 0.86

00:35:03.400 But China would be computerless.

00:35:06.380 I can't believe that either.

00:35:08.340 Does any of that sound real?

00:35:10.640 So I don't know.

00:35:11.600 Yeah, apparently there's a special kind of sand that you need to make the chips.

00:35:17.980 We have a lot in our southeast.

00:35:22.840 So a lot of it's coming from America.

00:35:27.180 Yeah, but I think it has to be a special kind of silica.

00:35:30.020 It's not everywhere.

00:35:33.480 That's what Peter Zayn says.

00:35:34.880 So I'm going to say that I don't know enough about that to judge the accuracy of it.

00:35:41.600 Let's see.

00:35:44.560 I would say that there is a continued fast collapse of wokeness.

00:35:49.620 Would you agree that you're seeing a collapse of wokeness or not yet?

00:35:54.260 Are you seeing the collapse?

00:35:55.920 Let me give you some points.

00:35:59.180 So Clay Travis was writing today in Fox News on their website.

00:36:05.640 So the Bud Light traffic is down 30%.

00:36:09.700 Bud Light sales at 30%.

00:36:12.160 Nobody can ignore a 30% decrease in sales of a top product, you know, the number one product.

00:36:20.640 It was the number one product.

00:36:22.120 It went down 30%.

00:36:23.040 Nobody can ignore that.

00:36:24.660 But apparently, as Clay Travis was saying, it's not widely reported, but the NBA took a gigantic hit when they went woke.

00:36:39.460 Did you know that?

00:36:41.020 Did you know that NBA viewership dropped and didn't recover?

00:36:44.400 So that's two cases where wokeness just took businesses out.

00:36:53.340 He didn't mention Target, but does anybody know, have Target sales resumed to where they were or have they stayed lower?

00:37:01.500 Disney's, yeah, Disney.

00:37:03.240 Okay.

00:37:03.380 Then here's another one.

00:37:06.980 ESG.

00:37:08.280 Larry Fink, again, reiterated that he doesn't like to use it because it became toxic.

00:37:13.580 So he's worried that ESG became toxic.

00:37:18.280 Now, apparently he was surprised that overt racism in America would be considered toxic.

00:37:24.860 I don't know.

00:37:27.740 Who saw that coming?

00:37:29.580 Ah, racism is toxic?

00:37:31.800 Ah, surprise Larry Fink.

00:37:34.460 Well, he'll be delighted Larry Fink will be when he's starring in a Dilbert Reborn comic that's in the pipeline.

00:37:44.000 I'm just making sure that the mocking is complete.

00:37:48.260 I don't want to leave anything undone.

00:37:51.360 But beyond that, BlackRock, who Larry Fink is the CEO of BlackRock, they're not the only ones who think ESG is toxic.

00:38:04.480 There's another report today that other CEOs are quite pointedly avoiding mentioning it.

00:38:12.640 So it went from something you had to mention to something that people are afraid to mention.

00:38:17.240 But my favorite story, God love Fox News.

00:38:25.780 Fox News is just funny.

00:38:28.240 Like some of the stories they do, they play it straight.

00:38:32.040 You know, they play it like it's just a story.

00:38:34.140 But it's just so funny.

00:38:35.860 And here's what they had.

00:38:36.720 So Fox News had an indigenous Native American chief in Vermont said he would be open to talking to Ben and Jerry,

00:38:49.560 because Ben and Jerry are concerned about America having stolen all the land from the Native Americans.

00:38:56.300 And he said he'd be open to talking to Ben and Jerry about taking back the land under its headquarters.

00:39:01.460 Yeah, I'd be open to that conversation, Ben.

00:39:13.220 Jerry, Ben, hey, hey, Ben and Jerry, where are your homes?

00:39:19.040 Do you know nobody's ever produced a home, a picture of Ben and Jerry's, Ben or Jerry's house?

00:39:24.740 Do you think Ben and Jerry live in a yurt?

00:39:29.980 Because they love the Earth, so they're probably living in maybe a tent, possibly a tent,

00:39:37.420 so that they're not using up all the resources of the Earth.

00:39:41.720 Wouldn't you love to see a picture of either Ben or Jerry's house?

00:39:46.100 Wouldn't that be interesting?

00:39:47.600 Never seen one, have you?

00:39:49.560 Do you think they live in a nice house?

00:39:51.220 Well, it won't be nice for long, because those Native Americans were going to make a claim 1.00

00:40:00.920 for the land that they stole to build their homes on.

00:40:05.720 Anyway, I thought that was funny.

00:40:08.400 But kudos to Fox News for having that guy on.

00:40:12.620 That's the news I want to see in the summer.

00:40:14.900 This is my perfect news story for the summer,

00:40:17.380 that the Native Americans want to take Ben and Jerry's land.

00:40:22.560 You can't get any better than that.

00:40:24.700 That's like top-shelf news right there.

00:40:27.360 All right.

00:40:29.080 Also, the Dutch government just collapsed

00:40:31.160 because of their immigration policies.

00:40:35.140 The Dutch government just collapsed.

00:40:37.480 They just surrendered, basically.

00:40:39.280 So they're going to have to form a new government.

00:40:40.840 Now, I'm not saying the country collapsed.

00:40:46.160 Their government allows this.

00:40:48.560 That's the form of government they have.

00:40:50.180 It just means they have to form a new coalition.

00:40:52.220 It doesn't mean the whole country collapsed.

00:40:55.320 That sounded worse than it was, right?

00:40:58.220 The government collapsed just means they have to form a new coalition, basically.

00:41:02.380 But it's a big deal.

00:41:04.360 It's a big deal.

00:41:05.040 So, you can see it everywhere now, can't you?

00:41:11.940 You can see it everywhere.

00:41:13.040 Somebody else pointed out that, well, I've said this as well.

00:41:16.640 I think our language has now been allowed.

00:41:20.980 You can now vocally and directly disagree

00:41:24.100 and say this is a bad idea

00:41:26.520 to a lot of things that were maybe a little problematic before.

00:41:33.500 All right.

00:41:34.060 So, I think everything's heading in the right direction in terms of that.

00:41:39.800 So, the Wall Street Journal had an article by Peggy Noonan.

00:41:45.900 Now, if you don't know Peggy Noonan,

00:41:47.580 she's one of the best writers in the world.

00:41:51.380 I've often called her out as one of the world's best writers,

00:41:54.720 especially in politics.

00:41:56.900 And when I say best writer,

00:41:59.040 it doesn't mean I'm going to agree with her on all her points, right?

00:42:02.360 It just means when she writes a sentence

00:42:04.600 or makes a thought, puts a thought on paper,

00:42:07.700 it's just better than other people can do it.

00:42:10.020 She's just insanely talented. 1.00

00:42:12.880 But she wrote an article,

00:42:15.200 and I didn't read the article

00:42:16.320 because that's not part of the story.

00:42:18.740 Here's the story.

00:42:20.020 The headline of her article said,

00:42:22.540 May Trump soon reach his Waterloo.

00:42:28.260 That was the headline.

00:42:29.240 May Trump soon reach his Waterloo.

00:42:34.060 Now, does that sound like the walls are closing in?

00:42:38.480 Have they retired?

00:42:39.880 The walls are closing in.

00:42:40.940 Now, here's the thing you need to know.

00:42:46.640 When I mocked this for not being the walls are closing in,

00:42:51.420 I sort of mocked it on Twitter.

00:42:53.180 Peggy Noonan just retweeted my mocking 0.99

00:42:55.220 of the headline of her article.

00:42:58.740 Now, why did she retweet it?

00:43:01.220 Why did she do that? 1.00

00:43:03.980 Just guess.

00:43:05.420 Why would she retweet something

00:43:07.000 that would look like a criticism

00:43:08.440 of the title of her article?

00:43:11.800 To mock me?

00:43:12.660 No.

00:43:13.260 No.

00:43:14.280 Why would she...

00:43:17.000 To give traction?

00:43:19.760 PR?

00:43:20.420 No.

00:43:21.440 No, no, no, no.

00:43:23.500 All right, here's a little inside knowledge.

00:43:25.360 Inside baseball.

00:43:27.000 Headlines are not written by the author.

00:43:29.520 Did you know that?

00:43:31.100 The headline is not written by the author.

00:43:33.320 Peggy Noonan did write the headline.

00:43:34.700 No, she didn't write that.

00:43:37.380 That was the editor.

00:43:38.900 The editors put the headlines on.

00:43:41.320 So, I don't know what she's thinking, right,

00:43:44.700 because I can't read her mind,

00:43:45.940 but I could put myself in her position.

00:43:48.860 If I were in her position

00:43:50.520 and I'd written an awesome article

00:43:52.740 and then an editor had slapped the headline,

00:43:56.620 May Trump soon reach his Waterloo,

00:43:59.060 on my article,

00:43:59.880 I would definitely want that editor to know

00:44:03.840 that the internet is mocking his headline.

00:44:08.000 I would definitely want the editor to know that.

00:44:11.780 And the way I'd do it is I would just retweet what I said.

00:44:15.660 I would do exactly what she said.

00:44:17.280 So, remember I told you she's smart?

00:44:19.340 She's really smart.

00:44:20.260 So, when you're evaluating her work,

00:44:26.600 start with very smart

00:44:28.040 and then you can understand why she does what she does. 0.70

00:44:31.280 It's easy.

00:44:35.320 So, I never read the article.

00:44:36.900 I'm sure it's great.

00:44:38.320 All right.

00:44:39.000 Let's talk about DeSantis versus Trump.

00:44:42.200 Was it two days ago

00:44:43.800 I told you the DeSantis campaign

00:44:45.780 apparently has just disappeared?

00:44:47.400 And you all said,

00:44:50.220 yeah, where is it?

00:44:52.680 Well, the Wall Street Journal is also reporting

00:44:56.020 that the campaign is struggling, stalling.

00:45:00.400 They use the word stalling.

00:45:02.040 And I think that's the right word

00:45:03.060 because he's not getting much attention.

00:45:06.040 So, I'm going to tell you

00:45:07.200 something that DeSantis said

00:45:09.680 and then we're going to talk about

00:45:11.400 some of the promises

00:45:12.340 that Trump has made if he's re-elected.

00:45:15.820 All right.

00:45:16.360 Now, I wanted you to contrast

00:45:18.200 and compare these two leadership styles.

00:45:23.240 All right.

00:45:23.820 So, first, DeSantis.

00:45:26.340 So, here is him defending,

00:45:28.400 you know, this is just one part

00:45:29.440 of lots of things he says,

00:45:30.780 but he said, quote, recently,

00:45:33.260 I have the best record of defeating the left

00:45:35.680 on issue after issue.

00:45:37.340 And we will be making that case

00:45:40.600 over the next six or seven months, he said.

00:45:42.800 I'm running to win in January and February.

00:45:45.180 I'm not running to juice polling numbers.

00:45:47.600 So, he was talking about, he wasn't doing,

00:45:51.060 he wasn't gaining in the polls,

00:45:52.680 so he was dismissing the polls.

00:45:54.960 All right.

00:45:55.120 So, he has the best record of defeating the left

00:45:57.120 on issues.

00:45:58.480 That feels like a good point, doesn't it?

00:46:01.320 If he has a solid record of defeating the left,

00:46:04.160 as he says,

00:46:05.780 that's a pretty fair point for a primary.

00:46:08.400 And he's running to win.

00:46:10.540 And he's going to be making his case.

00:46:12.940 All good points.

00:46:14.500 Solid, solid executive.

00:46:17.840 All right.

00:46:18.160 Now, let's compare it to Trump's style.

00:46:22.700 These are just a few of the things

00:46:24.520 that Trump promised in his rally speech.

00:46:28.260 Trump said if he's elected,

00:46:30.560 that he would ask Congress to ensure

00:46:32.480 that drug smugglers and human traffickers

00:46:34.620 can receive the death penalty

00:46:36.520 for their heinous acts.

00:46:38.480 He also said that he would take down

00:46:41.020 the drug cartels by imposing

00:46:42.800 naval embargoes on cartels,

00:46:44.940 cutting off cartels' access

00:46:46.780 to global financial systems

00:46:48.620 and using special forces

00:46:50.580 within the Department of Defense

00:46:52.440 to damage the cartel's leadership.

00:46:56.400 Okay, he'll be doing that.

00:46:58.280 But meanwhile,

00:46:59.440 Santos will be, 0.64

00:47:01.020 he's got a good record of defeating the left

00:47:03.400 and he'll be working on it for a few months

00:47:04.940 and he's trying to win the election.

00:47:06.560 He's not trying to juice the polls.

00:47:09.500 Let's see what else Trump said.

00:47:13.080 He said that he would,

00:47:14.940 because Peter had an effort

00:47:16.060 to build these freedom cities

00:47:17.760 and flying cars.

00:47:19.740 So he wants brand new cities

00:47:21.800 that would be built

00:47:23.220 with vertical takeoff and landing vehicles

00:47:25.100 to make sure that we're the leader

00:47:27.680 in all these things.

00:47:29.060 And it would be like bringing back frontier, 0.91

00:47:31.740 frontier kind of sensibility to America,

00:47:35.140 which we've sort of lost a little bit.

00:47:37.680 But using government land

00:47:39.080 to build new communities from scratch

00:47:41.580 with flying cars.

00:47:42.660 Oh, my God.

00:47:44.660 Now, that's what Trump would do,

00:47:45.800 flying cars in new cities

00:47:47.080 and bring us back a frontier attitude.

00:47:49.880 I remind you that Ron DeSantis,

00:47:51.980 he'll be running on his record

00:47:53.680 of defeating the left.

00:47:59.440 Also, Trump said,

00:48:01.160 he'll create a special team

00:48:04.620 to rapidly review

00:48:05.800 and reverse all of Biden's equity agenda.

00:48:11.360 Now, I think DeSantis would do the same thing,

00:48:14.460 but it was worth mentioning.

00:48:18.440 Do you see the difference?

00:48:21.400 Do you see the difference?

00:48:24.020 It's like when you compare them next to each other.

00:48:27.540 Well, let me say it a different way.

00:48:28.920 If there had never been a Trump,

00:48:31.840 if Trump had never existed,

00:48:34.380 how awesome would DeSantis look?

00:48:38.680 Pretty good.

00:48:40.640 Because what he's offering

00:48:41.820 is that he keeps beating the left,

00:48:44.720 and that's what he's selling to the right.

00:48:47.140 Who would not want to buy that?

00:48:49.380 Who doesn't like to win?

00:48:51.300 Who doesn't like the guy

00:48:52.300 with a solid track record

00:48:53.540 of doing all the right things consistently

00:48:55.680 in a giant state.

00:48:59.640 It's really funny to think

00:49:01.140 how solid DeSantis is,

00:49:03.960 and he can't even get,

00:49:05.200 he just has no traction.

00:49:07.780 Trump is just such a glowing,

00:49:10.600 you know, death star 0.87

00:49:12.280 that, you know,

00:49:14.940 the little Thai fighter's looking

00:49:16.400 for the opening and the exhaust.

00:49:20.780 So, yeah, anyway.

00:49:22.460 Um, it doesn't look like anything

00:49:26.420 could stop Trump from getting nominated.

00:49:28.700 Here's what it looks like.

00:49:30.580 I believe that Vivek

00:49:32.960 will continue to make progress

00:49:34.860 against DeSantis,

00:49:36.220 probably not so much against Trump.

00:49:39.500 And if Trump gets the nomination,

00:49:42.620 who's he going to pick for his VP?

00:49:46.840 Obviously not DeSantis.

00:49:48.680 Would you agree?

00:49:50.300 I would say DeSantis

00:49:51.220 has zero chance of being a VP.

00:49:54.460 But do you remember Vivek

00:49:56.360 saying anything bad about Trump?

00:49:59.140 Ever?

00:50:00.860 Ever?

00:50:02.740 Even one thing?

00:50:07.340 What does that tell you?

00:50:08.460 And how much do Vivek

00:50:10.760 and Trump agree

00:50:11.860 on the big stuff?

00:50:13.800 How much do they agree

00:50:15.000 on the big stuff?

00:50:17.300 Completely?

00:50:18.900 Maybe completely.

00:50:20.940 Right?

00:50:21.220 They have different proposals

00:50:22.400 for, you know,

00:50:23.460 how to move forward,

00:50:24.900 which makes sense.

00:50:26.580 But I don't think they disagree.

00:50:29.460 Right?

00:50:29.980 If you ask Vivek,

00:50:31.780 what about this idea

00:50:32.900 of building these cities

00:50:33.840 and making sure America

00:50:35.580 is leading in flying cars?

00:50:38.000 What would he say?

00:50:39.720 Would he say

00:50:40.180 that's a terrible idea?

00:50:42.500 I doubt it.

00:50:43.980 Because it's actually

00:50:44.700 a great idea.

00:50:45.860 It's a great idea.

00:50:46.740 One of the best ever, actually.

00:50:47.980 And so here,

00:50:50.540 if you look at how things

00:50:51.680 are forming up,

00:50:53.820 Vivek is the perfect vice president. 0.99

00:50:56.220 Now, it's fucked up 0.98

00:50:57.680 for me to say that 0.96

00:50:58.420 because I, you know,

00:50:59.520 I'm endorsing Vivek.

00:51:01.400 So I would like him

00:51:02.840 to win straight up.

00:51:04.540 And I think that

00:51:05.580 Trump always has the,

00:51:07.380 you know,

00:51:07.800 is he going to go to jail

00:51:09.260 any minute thing?

00:51:10.040 Is it his Waterloo?

00:51:13.520 Are the walls closing in?

00:51:15.080 I mean,

00:51:15.480 Trump always has

00:51:16.300 that little element

00:51:17.040 of risk around him.

00:51:18.680 So you never know.

00:51:20.140 Right?

00:51:20.400 Anything could happen.

00:51:21.740 There's age.

00:51:22.500 There's anything.

00:51:23.120 There's just plenty

00:51:23.700 of surprises that could happen.

00:51:25.700 So at the very least,

00:51:26.980 Vivek is, you know,

00:51:28.560 a perfectly good alternative

00:51:31.280 if something happens.

00:51:33.960 But if things go

00:51:35.960 the way they look,

00:51:37.460 if you just, you know,

00:51:38.540 straight line it,

00:51:39.960 Trump gets the nomination

00:51:41.180 and then he has to pick

00:51:42.980 a running mate.

00:51:45.400 Do you think he could do

00:51:46.540 better than Vivek

00:51:47.540 as a running mate?

00:51:51.780 Does anybody think

00:51:52.860 he could do better?

00:51:55.500 I mean, think about it.

00:51:56.720 No, it's not going

00:51:57.420 to be RFK Jr.

00:51:58.320 Now, I could easily see

00:51:59.980 RFK Jr.

00:52:01.500 being asked to do a project,

00:52:03.700 you know, like something

00:52:04.420 about vaccine safety

00:52:06.060 or, you know,

00:52:07.400 reigning in Big Farmer

00:52:08.700 or something like that.

00:52:09.500 I could definitely see that.

00:52:11.160 By the way,

00:52:11.740 a Trump partnership

00:52:14.840 with RFK Jr.,

00:52:17.220 let's say if Trump

00:52:18.200 got re-elected,

00:52:19.740 I would think that would be

00:52:21.520 the best of America.

00:52:24.860 That would be we're back.

00:52:27.460 That would be the ultimate

00:52:28.840 we're back moment.

00:52:30.460 It's like, hey,

00:52:31.160 America's back.

00:52:31.980 I'm not predicting

00:52:34.260 it's going to happen,

00:52:35.800 but it could,

00:52:36.760 because they do like

00:52:37.600 each other

00:52:37.980 and they have some

00:52:38.440 common goals.

00:52:40.680 It very much could.

00:52:41.980 If it did,

00:52:43.180 that would be

00:52:43.700 just the greatest feeling,

00:52:46.360 because it would mean

00:52:47.700 that we'd finally

00:52:48.540 taken the job

00:52:52.440 over the politics.

00:52:54.460 You know, a rare thing.

00:52:56.660 That would be a case

00:52:57.640 of clearly putting

00:52:58.800 the job

00:52:59.680 over the politics.

00:53:01.240 And I think both

00:53:02.180 of those men

00:53:02.820 could do that.

00:53:04.380 I think they both

00:53:05.100 have that capability,

00:53:06.420 which is rare,

00:53:07.700 but I think

00:53:08.420 they both have it.

00:53:10.320 All right.

00:53:12.800 Let's talk about

00:53:13.840 Lindsey Graham.

00:53:15.960 He's now pushing hard

00:53:17.440 to get Ukraine

00:53:18.580 accepted into NATO.

00:53:20.980 You would not be surprised

00:53:22.280 to hear that

00:53:22.980 Thomas Massey

00:53:24.080 disagrees with that idea,

00:53:26.360 thinking that the

00:53:27.220 NATO expansion

00:53:28.760 may have been the problem.

00:53:31.240 Now,

00:53:32.300 what is wrong

00:53:35.040 with Lindsey Graham?

00:53:38.140 Is it exactly

00:53:39.520 what it looks like

00:53:40.420 that he just works

00:53:41.780 for the military-industrial

00:53:44.000 complex

00:53:44.440 and he's just

00:53:45.200 their guy?

00:53:46.060 Is that the whole story?

00:53:49.000 Is that the entire story

00:53:50.600 that he's just working

00:53:51.440 for the...

00:53:52.220 Because I don't see

00:53:53.320 his argument.

00:53:54.660 Where's his argument?

00:53:55.660 In what world

00:53:58.920 does that make

00:53:59.740 the world

00:54:00.120 a safer place?

00:54:02.420 And here's

00:54:03.320 what's wrong with it.

00:54:04.680 Now,

00:54:05.120 if I just say

00:54:06.500 I don't like his argument,

00:54:07.740 I don't like it,

00:54:08.600 but he likes it,

00:54:09.400 that's not much

00:54:09.960 of an argument, right?

00:54:11.820 All right.

00:54:12.300 Here's the argument

00:54:13.220 that absolutely

00:54:14.560 destroys

00:54:15.600 Lindsey Graham's

00:54:16.600 credibility.

00:54:17.240 You're waiting for it?

00:54:17.900 You don't take

00:54:21.440 off the table

00:54:22.180 your biggest variable

00:54:23.460 for the negotiation.

00:54:26.620 He's taking it

00:54:27.580 off the table.

00:54:29.800 Because if that

00:54:30.740 got approved,

00:54:31.760 it's never going

00:54:32.640 back the other way.

00:54:34.280 There isn't

00:54:34.840 the slightest chance

00:54:35.820 that if they get

00:54:36.660 into NATO

00:54:37.220 that we will agree

00:54:38.760 with Putin

00:54:39.340 to remove them

00:54:40.400 from NATO.

00:54:41.480 You get that, right?

00:54:43.100 Once they get in,

00:54:44.240 there isn't any way

00:54:45.160 they get out.

00:54:45.720 It's a one-way path.

00:54:47.900 But as it stands,

00:54:50.420 somebody like a Trump

00:54:51.980 could go to Putin

00:54:52.900 and say,

00:54:53.340 look, Putin,

00:54:54.360 this is over.

00:54:56.320 It's over.

00:54:57.560 Here's what you're getting.

00:54:59.080 You're going to get

00:54:59.980 maybe some land

00:55:01.040 and no NATO.

00:55:03.520 What Ukraine

00:55:04.600 is going to get

00:55:05.220 is full guarantees

00:55:06.300 of staying a state.

00:55:08.200 Because even though

00:55:09.000 they're not NATO,

00:55:10.240 even though they're

00:55:10.820 not NATO,

00:55:12.100 we'll be back.

00:55:13.820 We will be back 1.00

00:55:15.280 if you fuck 1.00

00:55:16.520 with them again. 1.00

00:55:17.040 And this time

00:55:18.540 it won't be

00:55:19.380 with light equipment.

00:55:22.200 So you can imagine

00:55:23.180 Trump very easily saying,

00:55:25.020 I got this variable

00:55:25.840 to deal with,

00:55:26.620 I got this variable

00:55:27.380 to deal with,

00:55:28.080 let's make a deal.

00:55:29.320 But Lindsey Graham

00:55:30.280 is taking away

00:55:31.140 the biggest variable.

00:55:33.560 Because if Putin

00:55:34.820 at the end

00:55:35.320 can't say

00:55:35.980 he stopped NATO,

00:55:38.480 he didn't do anything.

00:55:41.280 How could he possibly

00:55:42.460 make that deal?

00:55:43.140 How could Putin

00:55:44.880 ever agree

00:55:45.640 to a deal

00:55:46.240 that allowed

00:55:47.900 Ukraine to turn NATO? 0.51

00:55:50.080 Could he?

00:55:51.420 How could he ever

00:55:52.340 agree for that?

00:55:53.500 So to me,

00:55:54.320 it's not even

00:55:55.500 whether it's a good

00:55:56.260 or bad idea.

00:55:57.200 He's just taking

00:55:57.960 the main variable

00:55:58.980 for negotiation

00:55:59.820 off the table

00:56:00.680 at exactly the time

00:56:02.220 we should be negotiating.

00:56:03.660 Now,

00:56:05.300 I will allow

00:56:06.780 that there's one possibility

00:56:07.980 that would redeem him.

00:56:09.100 The one possibility

00:56:11.480 that would redeem him

00:56:12.560 is if he's playing

00:56:13.460 bad cop,

00:56:14.740 which is possible.

00:56:16.180 He might be playing

00:56:16.840 bad cop.

00:56:18.260 So it might be

00:56:19.040 that everybody sees

00:56:20.560 that negotiations

00:56:21.360 are getting closer

00:56:22.300 and Lindsey Graham

00:56:24.100 wants to push

00:56:25.300 the Ukraine-NATO thing

00:56:26.460 right up to the edge

00:56:27.380 so that Putin thinks

00:56:28.960 he only has a week

00:56:29.800 to go

00:56:30.280 before they turn NATO.

00:56:32.760 And then maybe

00:56:33.800 he's going to deal.

00:56:34.740 So it's possible.

00:56:36.580 Remember,

00:56:36.980 it's possible.

00:56:37.540 Remember,

00:56:37.840 Lindsey Graham's 0.96

00:56:38.400 not stupid. 0.99

00:56:39.440 Right? 0.99

00:56:40.180 We're not talking 0.99

00:56:40.720 about dumb people here. 0.99

00:56:42.100 Lindsey Graham knows 1.00

00:56:43.140 that if it becomes NATO,

00:56:45.060 that takes the variable

00:56:45.980 from negotiations

00:56:47.300 off the table.

00:56:48.880 He may be doing it

00:56:50.240 to bring it

00:56:50.700 right up to the edge

00:56:51.620 so that the negotiations

00:56:53.320 are the maximum strength

00:56:55.420 they could be.

00:56:56.200 That's possible.

00:56:57.660 I don't think so.

00:56:59.400 But I wouldn't rule it out.

00:57:02.260 All right.

00:57:04.720 He's blackmailable, 0.99

00:57:06.000 somebody says.

00:57:06.720 I don't know.

00:57:07.180 Do you think

00:57:08.880 anybody would care

00:57:09.760 if tomorrow

00:57:11.140 it came out

00:57:11.860 and I'm not saying

00:57:13.160 this is the case

00:57:14.740 because I don't know.

00:57:15.800 If tomorrow

00:57:16.640 it came out

00:57:17.240 that Lindsey Graham

00:57:18.020 was gay 0.92

00:57:18.600 and just, 0.69

00:57:20.020 let's say,

00:57:20.280 he just came out

00:57:20.800 of the closet,

00:57:21.780 would anybody care?

00:57:25.000 Anybody?

00:57:26.440 It wouldn't have

00:57:27.400 any impact

00:57:27.860 on anything,

00:57:28.380 would it?

00:57:28.940 It would just be

00:57:29.520 a news story

00:57:30.380 for about 48 hours.

00:57:31.620 Then the left

00:57:34.240 would do lots

00:57:34.820 of stories about

00:57:35.460 then why did he

00:57:36.200 do this

00:57:36.700 or why did he

00:57:37.540 do that

00:57:38.700 if he did something?

00:57:40.240 I don't know.

00:57:41.620 I just assumed

00:57:43.100 that

00:57:43.540 it's his business.

00:57:47.200 I don't think

00:57:48.020 you could be a Republican

00:57:48.820 if you care that much.

00:57:52.260 Right?

00:57:53.240 I'm not a Republican.

00:57:54.940 But could you be

00:57:55.960 a Republican

00:57:56.540 and really care

00:57:57.420 so much about somebody

00:57:58.340 as what they do

00:57:59.240 behind a closed door?

00:58:00.160 Because Lindsey Graham

00:58:03.460 is the,

00:58:04.800 if it turned down 0.96

00:58:06.620 he's gay 0.93

00:58:07.080 and I'm not saying

00:58:07.720 he is or isn't,

00:58:08.880 I have no idea.

00:58:10.180 But, you know,

00:58:10.660 that's the speculation

00:58:11.440 of course.

00:58:12.380 But if he were,

00:58:14.880 wouldn't he be

00:58:15.680 exactly the kind 0.99

00:58:17.300 of gay 0.99

00:58:17.700 that Republicans like 0.84

00:58:19.440 which is

00:58:19.920 he would just be

00:58:20.960 living his life.

00:58:22.580 Just leaving

00:58:23.080 everybody else alone.

00:58:25.480 It's not exactly

00:58:26.340 what everybody wants.

00:58:29.300 It's pretty much

00:58:30.060 exactly what

00:58:30.620 everybody wants.

00:58:31.220 Just leave us alone. 0.76

00:58:32.460 Just don't make it

00:58:33.080 our problem.

00:58:33.840 Do what you want.

00:58:35.720 Yeah.

00:58:36.220 No, I don't,

00:58:36.700 so I don't,

00:58:37.420 I don't think

00:58:37.980 he's that blackmailable. 0.99

00:58:39.740 Well, on that.

00:58:40.980 If it turns out,

00:58:42.320 because some people

00:58:42.880 are speculating

00:58:43.580 that he's blackmailable 0.99

00:58:45.320 and I would say

00:58:47.680 there's no evidence

00:58:49.540 of it.

00:58:51.720 But who knows?

00:58:54.060 Yeah.

00:58:54.820 All right.

00:58:55.140 Be nice.

00:58:56.280 Let's,

00:58:56.540 let's be less homophobic

00:58:58.260 if you don't mind

00:58:59.060 there on YouTube.

00:59:01.280 A little less

00:59:02.120 homophobic,

00:59:02.820 please.

00:59:05.180 If you don't mind.

00:59:07.180 All right.

00:59:08.220 Twitter user

00:59:09.160 onhoodwings

00:59:10.040 was doing

00:59:13.860 a rundown

00:59:14.400 of my persuasion.

00:59:17.040 All right.

00:59:17.580 So here are

00:59:18.120 a list of things

00:59:18.940 that either

00:59:19.720 I helped cause

00:59:21.500 or alternatively

00:59:24.400 I was just good

00:59:25.720 at predicting

00:59:26.200 they were going

00:59:26.620 to happen anyway.

00:59:29.300 So you get to judge

00:59:30.720 did I have any

00:59:32.520 influence on these things

00:59:33.760 and I actually

00:59:34.780 don't know.

00:59:35.880 So you don't,

00:59:36.820 you know,

00:59:37.040 I don't have any

00:59:37.620 inside knowledge.

00:59:38.420 I know what you know.

00:59:40.680 Or,

00:59:41.740 or is it just,

00:59:42.680 am I just a good predictor?

00:59:44.560 All right.

00:59:44.820 Here are some of the things.

00:59:46.780 China is now deemed

00:59:48.000 unsafe for business.

00:59:49.260 I was the first person

00:59:51.940 you heard

00:59:52.420 saying that China

00:59:53.280 was unsafe for business

00:59:54.460 and now that's

00:59:55.540 common knowledge.

00:59:57.340 Did I predict it?

00:59:58.600 Now keep in mind,

00:59:59.580 keep in mind

01:00:00.100 that when I said it 0.78

01:00:01.020 it was considered ridiculous.

01:00:02.700 Do you remember that?

01:00:04.420 That when I started

01:00:05.380 saying China 0.72

01:00:06.040 is unsafe for business

01:00:07.020 it was because

01:00:07.560 of fentanyl originally.

01:00:09.140 But when I first

01:00:09.820 started saying it

01:00:10.500 I was widely

01:00:12.040 slapped down 0.99

01:00:13.220 as that's ridiculous. 0.65

01:00:14.800 China is solid, 0.92

01:00:15.860 we'll always be

01:00:16.620 doing business with them,

01:00:18.320 it's safe enough.

01:00:19.260 And now the general opinion

01:00:21.640 of all of business people

01:00:23.240 is it's unsafe for business.

01:00:25.500 Did I do that

01:00:26.480 or did I predict it?

01:00:28.060 Keep in mind

01:00:28.820 nobody predicted it.

01:00:31.160 Zero people predicted that.

01:00:33.080 Zero.

01:00:33.680 There wasn't a single person

01:00:34.680 in the world

01:00:35.120 who predicted

01:00:36.260 what I told you

01:00:37.680 was going to happen.

01:00:39.120 Did I cause it

01:00:39.960 or predict it?

01:00:41.720 I don't know.

01:00:42.740 Here's another one.

01:00:44.080 So ESG is now

01:00:45.320 a, you know,

01:00:46.360 it's a toxic term.

01:00:47.620 Well,

01:00:49.580 I probably was

01:00:50.420 one of the people

01:00:51.540 who were

01:00:53.100 influential on that

01:00:54.340 but lots of people

01:00:55.680 had lots to say.

01:00:57.500 Did I predict it

01:00:58.820 or help cause it?

01:01:02.040 I don't know.

01:01:03.420 I don't know.

01:01:04.060 I do know that Dilbert

01:01:05.140 has completely

01:01:06.900 stopped other things

01:01:08.280 so it would be,

01:01:09.880 it wouldn't be unusual

01:01:10.800 or even,

01:01:11.640 not even a little bit

01:01:12.540 unusual

01:01:12.900 if I had stopped it

01:01:14.460 or if I'd had

01:01:15.160 some influence.

01:01:16.420 But, who knows?

01:01:17.700 I have no idea.

01:01:18.980 Here's another one.

01:01:20.480 The idea of attacking

01:01:21.840 the Mexican cartels

01:01:23.380 directly with military.

01:01:25.720 I was the first person

01:01:27.340 to say we should do it.

01:01:28.880 Everybody mocked me

01:01:30.000 and now it is

01:01:31.260 standard Republican policy.

01:01:34.460 Did I cause that

01:01:35.420 or did I predict it?

01:01:38.400 Because it was

01:01:39.180 a little bit predictable,

01:01:40.260 wasn't it?

01:01:41.460 Because as fentanyl

01:01:42.540 got worse and worse,

01:01:44.400 what else was going

01:01:45.240 to happen?

01:01:46.260 So it was predictable.

01:01:48.360 But did I cause it?

01:01:50.640 I don't know.

01:01:52.180 I have no idea.

01:01:54.100 How about

01:01:55.000 TikTok being banned?

01:01:57.940 Being banned.

01:02:00.060 I believe I was

01:02:01.440 one of the first

01:02:02.880 to say TikTok

01:02:03.820 needs to be banned

01:02:05.020 for its influence on us.

01:02:07.680 Now that's general,

01:02:08.620 that is generally understood.

01:02:10.680 It's not banned,

01:02:11.840 but I think maybe

01:02:12.660 a Republican administration

01:02:15.040 probably would.

01:02:16.900 But did I cause

01:02:18.440 the feeling

01:02:20.300 that TikTok

01:02:20.820 should be banned?

01:02:22.060 Or did I just predict

01:02:23.560 that others

01:02:24.480 would feel the same?

01:02:25.960 I don't know.

01:02:27.780 How about

01:02:28.320 the fact that fentanyl

01:02:30.600 is considered

01:02:31.460 a top concern

01:02:32.420 for Americans?

01:02:33.120 I think that was

01:02:33.640 going to happen

01:02:34.020 just because of

01:02:34.560 the death count.

01:02:35.080 So I don't take

01:02:35.840 any credit for that.

01:02:37.400 How about nuclear power

01:02:38.860 being considered green?

01:02:40.680 I'm one of

01:02:42.540 a number of people

01:02:43.580 who have been

01:02:44.800 pushing that theme

01:02:46.820 for a while.

01:02:47.840 Michael Schellenberger,

01:02:49.660 right?

01:02:50.980 Mark Schneider.

01:02:52.900 So there are people

01:02:53.580 who pushed it

01:02:54.660 harder than I did,

01:02:56.020 but for a time

01:02:57.060 I had a bigger audience.

01:02:58.240 so I could boost

01:03:03.100 their signal,

01:03:04.360 which I did,

01:03:05.100 and then other people

01:03:05.900 saw them and boosted

01:03:06.920 their signal as well.

01:03:08.140 So I know I worked hard

01:03:09.460 to get us to this point,

01:03:12.260 but I don't know

01:03:13.240 what influence I had,

01:03:14.500 if any.

01:03:16.160 Was that also

01:03:17.260 not predictable?

01:03:19.280 Wasn't it also predictable?

01:03:20.480 That eventually

01:03:22.060 we would have to call

01:03:23.240 nuclear green?

01:03:24.660 Because the facts

01:03:25.900 were all on that side.

01:03:28.360 I mean,

01:03:28.620 all of the facts

01:03:29.520 were on one side.

01:03:30.720 So predictably,

01:03:32.420 you could say

01:03:33.200 in the long run,

01:03:34.440 people come to their senses.

01:03:36.220 That's all there was.

01:03:38.660 All right,

01:03:38.820 how about,

01:03:41.220 well,

01:03:42.640 one of the ones

01:03:43.160 that I would add

01:03:44.220 was it's safe

01:03:45.000 to discuss

01:03:45.560 moving away

01:03:46.180 from areas

01:03:46.720 deemed to be

01:03:47.440 unsafe

01:03:47.940 for certain groups.

01:03:49.200 I would generalize

01:03:52.400 that to say,

01:03:53.440 I believe you can

01:03:54.280 now say in public

01:03:55.340 things that you

01:03:57.060 couldn't as much

01:03:57.980 say in public

01:03:58.720 before I got canceled.

01:04:01.700 Now,

01:04:02.220 that's not because of me.

01:04:03.660 It could be

01:04:04.220 just because the world

01:04:05.540 is heading that direction.

01:04:06.760 But I do think

01:04:07.560 that my cancellation

01:04:09.020 was one of the signals

01:04:10.780 that things

01:04:11.840 had gone too far.

01:04:14.180 Would you agree?

01:04:15.020 I think my cancellation

01:04:18.220 was just one

01:04:19.260 of the signals,

01:04:20.140 and maybe a big one

01:04:21.000 because a lot of people

01:04:21.680 noticed,

01:04:23.000 that things

01:04:23.440 had gone too far.

01:04:25.940 And you notice

01:04:26.340 the interesting thing.

01:04:27.420 I'm pretty sure

01:04:28.280 that there's no real person

01:04:29.680 who thinks I'm a racist.

01:04:31.620 Like in the real world.

01:04:33.500 You know,

01:04:33.760 on Twitter and stuff,

01:04:34.900 people will say

01:04:35.620 what they need to say

01:04:36.400 for their team.

01:04:37.340 But I don't think

01:04:38.120 anybody actually thinks so.

01:04:40.420 The way people

01:04:41.420 treat me

01:04:42.120 is that the story

01:04:44.360 was the story,

01:04:46.060 but that I'm

01:04:46.860 somewhat independent

01:04:47.920 from that,

01:04:49.160 meaning that they

01:04:49.860 don't actually think

01:04:50.860 I'm a racist.

01:04:53.500 Because I'm not.

01:04:54.960 You know,

01:04:55.260 I have a whole

01:04:55.840 long history

01:04:56.740 that would,

01:04:57.340 you know,

01:04:57.660 certainly debunk

01:04:58.800 that idea.

01:05:00.360 So,

01:05:01.000 I feel like

01:05:02.960 partly because

01:05:05.060 of my sacrifice,

01:05:07.020 accidental sacrifice,

01:05:08.360 didn't do it intentionally,

01:05:10.060 that the world

01:05:12.660 has a little bit

01:05:13.320 more free speech.

01:05:15.340 Or,

01:05:16.520 or,

01:05:17.460 was it just

01:05:18.100 going to go

01:05:18.420 that way anyway?

01:05:20.720 Maybe it was

01:05:21.340 just going to go

01:05:21.880 that way.

01:05:22.740 Because,

01:05:23.080 you know,

01:05:23.320 pendulum.

01:05:24.340 It would be easy

01:05:25.320 to just say,

01:05:26.000 oh,

01:05:26.140 the pendulum

01:05:26.540 comes back

01:05:27.260 and you would be

01:05:27.740 right 99%

01:05:28.660 of the time.

01:05:30.580 So,

01:05:31.420 those are just

01:05:32.680 some things

01:05:33.660 that I either

01:05:34.200 predicted

01:05:34.700 or possibly,

01:05:36.780 or possibly,

01:05:40.140 caused.

01:05:40.860 Don Lemon

01:05:46.860 needs a wacky

01:05:47.720 sidekick.

01:05:50.140 I would love,

01:05:51.140 you know,

01:05:51.540 I would love

01:05:52.000 Don Lemon

01:05:52.540 as my sidekick.

01:05:54.520 Well,

01:05:55.120 or just like

01:05:56.140 a broadcast

01:05:57.040 partner.

01:05:59.880 Yeah.

01:06:01.920 Andrew Tate

01:06:02.520 is in jail.

01:06:03.120 I didn't

01:06:06.720 cause that.

01:06:07.680 I did not

01:06:08.080 cause Andrew Tate

01:06:09.520 to be in jail.

01:06:11.660 But it wasn't

01:06:12.740 hard to predict

01:06:13.360 it might happen.

01:06:14.040 It is funny

01:06:18.340 how often

01:06:18.800 things go my way.

01:06:20.940 The things I want

01:06:21.940 to happen.

01:06:22.780 But no,

01:06:23.100 I didn't cause

01:06:23.720 that to happen.

01:06:24.440 And I'm not sure

01:06:25.040 that he's being

01:06:25.560 jailed for a real

01:06:27.360 crime.

01:06:28.040 So,

01:06:28.620 we'll see

01:06:29.180 if he's

01:06:29.480 being railroaded.

01:06:35.540 I don't see

01:06:36.340 Tucker Carlson

01:06:37.060 running for office.

01:06:41.940 Actually,

01:06:42.500 Tucker said

01:06:43.000 he's not political.

01:06:44.620 He said that

01:06:45.160 in Russell Brandt.

01:06:45.960 He's not even

01:06:46.800 that interested

01:06:47.560 in politics.

01:06:48.980 So,

01:06:49.380 no,

01:06:49.580 he's not going

01:06:49.980 to run for office.

01:06:52.580 Biden said

01:06:53.260 Ukraine is

01:06:53.860 running out of ammo.

01:06:54.800 Everybody says

01:06:55.360 everybody's running

01:06:56.040 out of ammo.

01:06:56.560 the thing

01:06:57.720 I don't believe

01:06:58.240 anymore.

01:07:00.500 Scott,

01:07:00.960 why didn't you

01:07:01.400 defend Alex

01:07:02.500 Jones when

01:07:03.040 he was censored?

01:07:06.220 Are you kidding?

01:07:09.520 Scott,

01:07:10.060 why didn't you

01:07:10.600 defend Alex

01:07:11.880 Jones when

01:07:12.360 he was censored?

01:07:14.260 All right,

01:07:14.500 I'm going to tell

01:07:14.960 you a little

01:07:15.380 behind the scenes

01:07:16.320 fact that I've

01:07:17.420 never said before

01:07:18.200 in public.

01:07:20.020 When Alex

01:07:20.900 Jones first

01:07:21.700 got in trouble

01:07:22.280 and the platforms

01:07:23.180 were canceling him,

01:07:25.340 Jack Dorsey

01:07:26.220 actually DM'd

01:07:27.200 me and asked

01:07:27.820 my opinion

01:07:28.360 on cancelling

01:07:29.180 Alex Jones.

01:07:32.160 Do you remember

01:07:33.200 that Twitter

01:07:34.600 did not cancel

01:07:35.580 Alex Jones?

01:07:36.400 Do you remember

01:07:36.820 that?

01:07:37.500 Eventually,

01:07:38.040 they did.

01:07:38.800 But do you

01:07:39.220 remember when

01:07:39.660 the first round

01:07:40.540 happened,

01:07:41.420 he was not

01:07:41.960 cancelled and

01:07:42.640 the news was

01:07:43.520 talking about

01:07:44.040 how Twitter

01:07:44.640 alone,

01:07:46.000 Twitter alone

01:07:46.960 didn't cancel

01:07:47.920 him?

01:07:48.080 that was

01:07:50.060 right after

01:07:50.600 Jack Dorsey

01:07:51.620 asked my

01:07:52.000 opinion.

01:07:53.340 Now,

01:07:53.580 I'm not

01:07:53.820 saying I

01:07:54.200 had an

01:07:54.500 influence.

01:07:55.440 I'm not

01:07:55.920 claiming that.

01:07:57.060 But you

01:07:57.720 just accused

01:07:58.320 me of not

01:07:58.880 defending him.

01:08:01.800 Take it

01:08:02.360 back.

01:08:05.960 Because I

01:08:06.540 don't think

01:08:06.900 anybody defended

01:08:07.620 him more

01:08:10.060 usefully.

01:08:11.880 I don't

01:08:13.060 think anybody

01:08:13.520 did.

01:08:16.020 So maybe

01:08:16.780 you should be

01:08:17.520 a little more

01:08:18.000 informed before

01:08:18.840 you make

01:08:19.360 assumptions like

01:08:20.460 that.

01:08:20.880 There's a lot

01:08:21.580 that happens

01:08:22.060 behind the

01:08:22.580 curtain that

01:08:23.820 you wouldn't

01:08:24.160 possibly know.

01:08:25.720 You couldn't

01:08:26.360 know that.

01:08:26.860 There's no way

01:08:27.300 you could know

01:08:27.720 that.

01:08:29.240 Now,

01:08:29.740 I will tell

01:08:30.160 you that Jack

01:08:30.640 and I had a

01:08:31.040 good relationship

01:08:32.480 sort of behind

01:08:33.540 the scenes.

01:08:34.880 We had a lot

01:08:35.680 of,

01:08:36.040 philosophically and

01:08:37.280 intellectually,

01:08:38.480 we had a lot

01:08:38.880 in common.

01:08:39.260 So I

01:08:42.100 don't know if

01:08:42.520 I had any

01:08:42.980 influence on

01:08:43.540 his decision.

01:08:45.500 But I do

01:08:46.360 know that he

01:08:47.000 felt that asking

01:08:47.860 me for my

01:08:48.480 opinion would

01:08:49.220 be part of

01:08:49.740 his process

01:08:50.380 for making

01:08:51.240 the decision.

01:08:52.200 And when it

01:08:52.600 was done,

01:08:53.640 he did not

01:08:54.220 ban him. 0.82

01:08:55.040 He later

01:08:55.560 did.

01:08:56.420 But, you

01:08:56.860 know,

01:08:57.100 things took

01:08:58.520 on a bigger

01:08:59.460 life.

01:09:01.620 Right?

01:09:02.320 So,

01:09:03.760 and by the

01:09:04.540 way, I like

01:09:05.580 Alex.

01:09:07.060 He's a real

01:09:07.860 engaging

01:09:08.640 fun,

01:09:10.520 warm kind

01:09:11.620 of guy.

01:09:12.080 It's a real,

01:09:13.580 you know,

01:09:13.860 just in my

01:09:14.480 brief encounters

01:09:15.460 with him,

01:09:15.980 it was just

01:09:16.300 all positive.

01:09:25.360 Alright.

01:09:26.660 I think that's

01:09:27.380 enough for now.

01:09:28.760 YouTube,

01:09:29.460 thanks for

01:09:29.780 joining.

01:09:30.880 And I'll

01:09:31.220 have you

01:09:31.820 back tomorrow

01:09:33.220 for more

01:09:34.220 fun.

01:09:34.460 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 08, 2023

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