Episode 2186 Scott Adams： The Hunter Becomes The Hunted. Most Of The News Is Weird Or Funny Today
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Scott Adams talks about synchronized whales and why Trump should go big on Ballot Harvesting. Plus, a new poll that says 60% of Americans believe the president is part of an illegal coverup, and why it s time for him to get out of the race.
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Well, let's talk about the news. Do you think the news today is, oh, I don't know, important
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news? Is there a lot of important news happening today? No. Nope. Nothing like that. But we
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do have news about synchronized whales. So we have a report of whales doing synchronized
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jumping. There's a picture of three whales jumping synchronized. Now this comes on the
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heels of reports about the whales attacking sailing ships. That's right. Now they're attacking
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sailing ships and also doing some kind of military training. It looks like they're doing
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synchronized jumping, which would be their form of marching. It does appear that the oceans
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are starting to organize against humanity. I would look out for the other sea creatures
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to start joining in. It's not going to be a problem unless they form some kind of an alliance
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and start sharing weapons. But I would look out for the stingrays and the swordfish. If the
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swordfish joined with the whales, we've got a real problem. There's going to be some stinging
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and sorting. All right. Well, forget about that. I saw a Jack Posobiec tweet who says that
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Trump called on all Republican challengers to drop out of the race and divert all of their
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money to finance the largest ballot harvesting operation the world has ever seen. I didn't
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see the news story, but that really happened, right? When Trump says anything, it's almost
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like you can tell that he said it. Now I'm assuming, you know, Jack usually has the right
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information, so I'm sure he's right. But don't you love that it's not just you should do a
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ballot start. It would be simple and ordinary to say you should do ballot harvesting the same
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as the Democrats. But Trump doesn't say that. He says he wants to have the largest ballot
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harvesting operation the world has ever seen. The biggest one the world has ever seen.
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And by the way, that's exactly right. Do you think he should be going small on ballot harvesting?
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No, it should be the biggest thing that has ever done in the history of doing things. If you're
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going to do it at all, you've got to go, you've got to go balls to the wall and just do it like
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crazy. It wouldn't make any sense to just try to match them. Well, they did some of that. So
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we'll do some of that. If the, if the loophole, if you want to call it the loophole or the
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opportunity, if it exists, and if it's legal, you should do the hell out of it. Like, you know,
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Trump's right. You should do it like it's never been done before, or, or get out of the race.
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Because if you're not going to compete using all the rules, you're not really trying.
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I don't know. I don't know why this is so simple. And yet Trump is the one who keeps getting it
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right. Right? Just, just how simply you say it, it should be the biggest one the world's ever seen.
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That is precisely the right answer. The biggest one the world's ever seen.
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Well, let's talk about Devin Archer coming up and all that stuff. So Rasmussen did a poll asking
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people what they think about the Biden crime family, if I could use my own, my own term there.
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And according to Rasmussen, 60% of likely voters believe the president has been part of an illegal
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coverup to hide his involvement in his son Hunter's foreign business. 60% think he's involved in an
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illegal coverup of an influence buying scheme. 60%. How in the world could he win an election?
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I mean, seriously, how could you possibly win this election if 60% of the country thinks
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you're probably, probably doing something super illegal? All right, what else? But the most,
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the most surprising thing is, if you want to see how ridiculous this has become, guess what
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percentage of people polled say it is not at all likely that the president is involved in
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kind of a coverup of any kind of a, any kind of schemes or anything. No, here's the surprising
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part. They couldn't even get 25% to say it was okay. They couldn't even get 25%. Just imagine
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that. If I've taught you anything, it's that 25% of respondents to polls will get every question
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wrong. Maybe it's a different 25%. But it's not like this weird consistently, 25 will be wrong
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about everything. But they got it all the way down to 18%. So the, the ones who say it's not
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at all likely that Biden has been illegally covering up his role, only 18% believe it is
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not at all likely. Only 18% think it's not at all likely he's involved in an insanely important
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crime. That's really relevant to the office of the presidency. And he's going to win. So
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he's going to win without campaigning with these, with these numbers of people who believe he's
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involved in a major crime. Does it worry you at all that the Democrats don't seem to be
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panicked? That they can win without campaigning and having, you know, somebody with these kinds
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of numbers. Well, we'll talk about the numbers a little, a little bit more later. We'll get
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back to that. Um, I've got a campaign idea that only Trump could pull off. Now, you know,
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Ramaswamy could pull it off too, but it doesn't, it doesn't exactly fit his brand as well. But
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so I'll tell you what it is. You, you've seen the stats that show that, um, people who identify
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with the left have vastly worse mental health. Have you all seen that, those stats? The people
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associated with the political right, they got their problems, of course, but it's nowhere
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near, uh, the Democrats and their mental health situations. Now, what, what do people care about?
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If you said, Scott, tell me the policies and, you know, tell me what you care about. I would probably
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incorrectly tell you stuff like, oh, tax rates and protect the border and policies and my policies
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in Ukraine, right? So that would be the typical answer. What do you care about in politics? And I
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would just list those things I talk about. But do I really care about those things? Or do I care about
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how I feel right now as I'm sitting in this chair? Which one do I care more about? Climate change
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policy or my current feeling as I'm sitting here talking to you right now? I care about right now.
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I care about how I feel. Now I'm happy to report. I feel great. I feel great. I am, I'm mentally and
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physically, I'm just cooking at a hundred percent right now. I don't, I don't have a fricking problem in
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the world, honestly. Honestly, I'm going to go through the entire day without a problem. Nothing.
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No health problems, no mental problems. I won't be bored. I'll be doing some useful stuff. I'm going
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to have a great day. I don't know the details, but it'll be, you know, yesterday was great. The day
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before was pretty terrific. I don't have anything but good days. Right. However, I do note that many,
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many people, especially on the left are having mental problems. Now it's, it's not a big mystery,
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right? I tweeted that there, there are three facts of the mystery. So the three facts are that the
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people on the left are being taught that climate is going to kill them, right? The entire world that
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they live on, they can't escape it. And it's doomed. Two things you need to know about the planet
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if you're on the left, you can't get off it. You know, it'll be too long before a Yilan can get you
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a rocket right off of earth. So you're trapped on the earth and it's going to blow up with, or it's
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going to burn up with all the climate change. Then you're also taught that you are either a victim
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or an oppressor. If you're a victim, oh, I'm sorry. And if you're a oppressor, I'm twice as sorry.
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Oh my God, you're an oppressor. How do you live with yourself, oppressor? Plus, you're surrounded
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by white supremacists who are trying to kill you all. So imagine if that was your reality.
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That's sort of, you know, semi-reality on the left. Imagine that's reality. It's, it's total mental
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health, you know, creation. So here's the idea. What if, you're going to love this idea. That's why
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I'm like, I'm like creeping up to it. Because when you hear it, you're just going to say, oh, shoot,
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that's a good idea. You ready? Trump should tell you he's going to help your mental health.
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Just say it directly. Say, look, we got a massive mental health problem. And a lot of it is because
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you're believing fake news. If you believe the fake news, it's not good for you. And you should
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probably find a way to back off it, right? At the very least, you should sample the news from both
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sides. But right now you're, you're just talking yourself into mental health problems by listening
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to the clickbait alarmists who are trying to get you worked up so they can make money.
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Your mental health is because somebody else is making money off of you. I'm not trying to make
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money off of you. I want you to feel good. I want you to be healthy mentally and physically.
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And if you'd like to know how, about voting for me and I'll, I'll show you how. But just,
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but just imagine this. The, the miracle of politics, and you tell me if I'm wrong, the miracle,
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the miracle of good politics is when the politician can make you feel something in your actual day-to-day
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life, right? You don't win because you've got a concept. Oh, I've got a good concept. Your concept
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doesn't make me feel anything. So when Trump won, it's because he made people feel something
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that seemed really relevant to their daily activities. But right now this mental health
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problem is the biggest thing that people are feeling. They're feeling a gigantic mental health
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burden. You know, they also feel economic risks, etc. But you can make a case for that too. Do you want
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to feel comfortable in your economic life? Do you want to feel comfortable in how you feel about the
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risks in the world? Do you want to feel comfortable that something is being taken care of? He, Trump
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could sell you mental health. Trump could sell you mental health and you would buy it. You would
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actually buy it. Now, not every person, right? Politics is all about getting that 5% to switch
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over. But you can certainly get 5% to say, you know what? I do have a huge mental health problem
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problem. And he is offering me something that sounds like it could be a solution. If you've
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got a big mental health problem, anxiety or depression or whatever, wouldn't you do almost
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anything to just see if it made a difference? You know, if somebody said, take a walk around
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the block and it'll make you feel better, you'd think, well, I should try it because what I'm
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doing now isn't working. So I think it would be, it would be completely revolutionary for
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a politician to say, you know what? You feel bad every day when you wake up and I'm going
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to fix that. I'm going to make you feel better just directly. I'll make you feel better. It's
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very powerful. All right. Even CNN is reporting, at least in an opinion piece, Harry Enten,
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that Trump could win. Now, when CNN is saying, you know, a headline, Trump very well could win.
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Do you think that's a warning shot to the Bidens to get out of the race or Joe Biden to get out of
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race? I feel like CNN is tapping him on the shoulder as hard as they can tap. You know,
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I'm just reminding you the polls, blah, blah, blah. So the argument for why he's in better
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shape, apparently Trump is polling better now than at any time in 2020. Were you aware of that?
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In 2020, he was never polling against Biden nearly as well as he is now. So he's, he's improving in
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power. And a lot of the, a lot of polls are showing him slightly ahead, not enough to beat the margin of
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error, but consistently he's tie or ahead. You know, again, not above the margin of error. Now,
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that was never the case. Apparently that was never the case in 2020. Now, the caveat here is that
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CNN says, based on polling, that CNN finds acceptable, right? So they have their own standard
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of which ones they believe, but their own polls, the ones that they say are acceptable, are now
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showing that Trump is starting to get a bite on this, that it would be hard to shake him off.
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So their only play is to arrest him or give him some kind of legal problems. And the more they do,
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the more illegitimate they seem and probably the more support he gets. I mean, he can sell that kind
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of it. All right. Let me ask you, have you noticed that Trump has done everything right lately?
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I can't think of an exception, but hasn't he done everything right? And by that, I mean,
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he hasn't caused a new problem, right? There's not a new problem. And he said, he said newsmaking
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things that people want to hear. And I believe he's successfully running a general campaign already,
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right? So he's not just going base, base, base, base. He's actually already in the general in terms
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of his policies. I don't know what's going to stop him. It's hard to imagine anything stopping him.
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Um, you know, I, I'll remind you that I'm still supporting Vivek. I'd rather have the younger,
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you know, the younger high quality candidate if I had a choice. Um, but I would also love
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Trump, Vivek as vice president and, uh, DeSantis as attorney general or, or, uh, Ted Cruz.
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How about Ted Cruz as attorney general? Right? So the, the big, the big problem that anybody has
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with Trump as a president, well, one of the big problems is you worry that he's going to hire
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good people, right? You worry that he would hire good people, but I feel like he could hire good
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people if he wanted to. Uh, I feel like he does have that option now because it feels different.
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If he wins again, it's going to be the greatest, uh, well, it'd be one of the greatest comebacks
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of all time, but it would also validate, you know, that he wasn't so bad the first time.
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So things would look really different if Trump won again. And then, and since they don't need
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to worry about him winning reelection, maybe he gets treated differently because they don't
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have to worry about another four years. It'd be his last four years. I doubt they would really
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go balls to the wall to try to remove him before his term was over. They might. All right.
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So Devin Archer, uh, is scheduled to testify to Congress today. I understand now he's, he is,
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or was Hunter's business partner and he's got all the goods on the big guy and where the money went
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and all that stuff. Um, there's a fake news report about this. This says that the department of justice
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was trying to arrest him to keep him from testifying in front of Congress. In other words,
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going to shut him up by arresting him, but that appears to be fake news, right? So the real news
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is that the department of justice did, uh, send him a letter to report to jail, but it's a negotiated
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time. It doesn't mean today. So today he should be fine. His lawyers say, Oh no, no problem. But there
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is, there is a separate action on a separate case to which he might go to jail or he has to report to
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jail, I guess. All right. Um, all right. He's a fine governor. Yes, he is. You know, I keep seeing
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clips of DeSantis. I'll tell you, he, uh, he, he takes, he takes boring to the next level.
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And I hate to, I hate to act like being exciting should be a requirement for the job because it
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absolutely isn't. If we ended up with a president DeSantis, I would be completely happy. I wouldn't
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have a, wouldn't have a problem in the world with that. But, but when he runs against Trump,
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he just disappears a little bit, doesn't he? It's just hard to see him. The light is so
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blinding you. You just don't even notice him. Um, all right. So Devin Archer should light things
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up today. Now, given that Devin Archer, uh, I would imagine that anybody on the left or right,
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no matter what you think of Biden, don't you think that they would believe whatever Devin
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Archer says to Congress? In other words, if Devin Archer says, Oh yeah, totally corrupt situation.
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I was right in the middle of it. I was his business partner. Um, it's not hearsay. I was
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in the room. I could tell you for sure. So if it goes that way, do you think even the left
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will believe it? If his own business partner just completely rolls over and says, all right,
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I'll just tell you everything. I think 25% won't believe it, but I think we're, I think we've
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reached a weird situation. And the situation is, I believe that probably a good, I don't
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know, at least a third of the people who say they don't believe the charges really do or
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something in that order. There will be people who would never admit they believe the charges,
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but they do because they don't want their team to be wrong. So instead of saying, well, okay,
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you've convinced me that it was always a Biden crime family, how many of them are going to say,
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you know, I didn't think that was a thing, but now that you've shown me the evidence,
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it does look like it was a gigantically unethical situation, at least. I don't know if it's illegal.
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I don't think they will. I think people will say, you know, Joe Biden's getting up there in age
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and they'll just find some other reason why he's not their first choice. They'll just find some
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other reason because it's just too hard for brains to say it was right in front of me this whole time
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and I couldn't see until now. It's just hard for a brain to, to do that in public. So I think that
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we have way more, we meaning the country has way more Democrats who understand the Biden crime
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family situation. Then we'll admit it out loud. Let me ask you this. Do you think there's even
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one person in the media left or right who believes that these charges are not legitimate? You know,
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the accusations about the Biden crime family situation. Do you think there's anybody in the
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news business? No, no. The people in the news business are all completely aware of what's going
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on. It's only their customers, you know, their viewers that they're fooling, but there's nobody
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who's sitting in the, you know, the host chair of a major network who has any, any confusion whatsoever
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about what happened with the Bidens. No confusion at all. Yeah. Joy Reid, no confusion. Olbermann
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completely understands at this point. They're not going to say it, but they do. Now this brings
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us to Jim Gaffigan on Joe Rogan. Now I mentioned it before, but he's still trending. Now the,
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the take that a lot of people had is that poor Jim Gaffigan was, you know, deluded by his
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news sources and, you know, sort of a lefty anti-Trumper. And then he ran into the buzzsaw
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of Joe Rogan, who I won't, he's certainly not a pro-Trumper per se, but he simply had more
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accurate information about the very stories that Jim was concerned about. And watching,
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watching Joe Rogan explained to, to Jim Gaffigan things that the people on the left have never
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heard before was fascinating. And also interesting to hear Jim say things he thought were true
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because the news told them they were. Let me give you an example. Uh, Jim Gaffigan says,
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you know, or he seemed to indicate on Joe Rogan that it was obvious and should be obvious to everyone
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that Trump is the most corrupt president ever. And that, well, Joe, you know, Biden might have
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some issues. There's no competition between who's more corrupt. Now, what do you think he was referring
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to? And I thought to myself, corrupt, is there even one example of that? Can you give me one example
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of something Trump did that would fit the definition of corrupt? Anything? There are plenty of things you
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could say you don't like. Plenty of things. You could even say he might be impeachable for some
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of those things. But where was the corrupt part? Well, where? So, so Jim gave some examples. I missed
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this part, but I think he mentioned Trump University. Here's my take on Trump University. None of that
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sounded good to me. I've, I've never once, you know, defended anything about Trump University. But didn't we
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know that whole story before the election? That was before the election. So, in my opinion, it was probably
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a licensing deal where Trump lent his name and didn't really know exactly what was going on. He had 400
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businesses with his name on it. He licenses the name, probably checks once when he makes the deal.
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You know, it was just legitimate, makes the deal. I don't think he was auditing the classes or looking
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at the materials. So, yes, Trump is fully responsible for that and paid for it. But that was all, that was
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all known before the election. It had nothing to do with the election. And it was just a bad, I would say,
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a bad licensing deal, generally speaking. But what did he do as president? Once Trump was president,
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what would be the example of the corruption? So, Gaffigan gives this example, that Jared Kushner
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got a $2 billion contract after Trump left office from the Middle East. Do you think that's a real
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story? Do you believe that Jared Kushner got a $2 billion contract? How many think that that
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actually happened in the real world? Does anybody think that's a real thing? No, that's not a real
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thing. Is there a $2 billion story about Jared Kushner? Yes. Do you know what the story is? That Jared
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Kushner has an investment fund? And that the Saudi, you know, the big national fund, Saudi Arabia has a
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sort of a whole country fund of money that they invest. And $2 billion of that was directed to Jared
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Kushner's new fund. They didn't give the money to Jared Kushner. I think people who don't know much
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about business, imagine somebody wrote him a check. Well, you think he just deposited it, and now he's
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living on his $2 billion? That's not what that is. He's managing a fund. It's not his money.
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Other people give him money to manage. He hires people to help them manage the fund. Now,
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I'm going to get to still shady. So let me be clear. If you're saying to yourself that's still shady,
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I'm on the same page. Same page. But let's just continue talking about it.
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Did you know that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia is a good close personal friend of Jared Kushner?
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And it was the prince who made that happen? How many of you knew that? They're actually,
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they're close personal friends. Do you think that being close personal friends, I think it probably
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happened during the Middle East negotiations during Trump. I assume that's when that happened.
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How often, how weird is it or unusual that somebody would want to invest with their close
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personal friend who actually could make them a lot of money too? Is that unusual? That's like the
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most common thing in the world, isn't it? That people who know people well are more likely to go into
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business. Now, the big question is this. Do you know that the Jared Kushner thing was fully
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transparent, was announced publicly, and there's no hidden elements? Nobody is even accusing anybody
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of hiding anything. It's just right there. Now, are you comfortable? Are you comfortable knowing that
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somebody that connected to the power structure in the United States is not only good friends with the
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head of Saudi Arabia, but even they have a big investment that he's managing? Does that give you a
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problem? I don't know that that makes the country less safe. Doesn't that make us more safe?
00:28:32.600
Doesn't that make Saudi Arabia far more likely to remain our ally of sorts? And aren't we more likely to be
00:28:42.020
their ally of sorts if we have, you know, big connections and those connections are working well for
00:28:47.700
everybody? If you were the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and you wanted to put $2 billion into something
00:28:55.360
that would probably make money, but also might have a strategic political advantage, can you think of
00:29:02.340
anything better than putting money into a Jared Kushner fund? Don't you think Jared Kushner has really
00:29:08.600
good access to deals and people who can manage the fund? You don't think you would have, like, the best
00:29:14.320
access in the world to basically everything? That's exactly what I'd want in my managed fund.
00:29:22.220
So, should you feel uncomfortable as somebody that attached to the Trump White House and still
00:29:29.460
attached by family, right? Because Ivanka to Trump. So, that attached has that big a deal that looks like
00:29:38.280
you could argue is sweetheart-ish, but it's sweetheart-ish in the most transparent way.
00:29:46.060
Yeah, Saudi Arabia likes America today, not so much under Biden. And yes, they know each other
00:29:54.480
personally. And yes, publicly, we've just announced this big deal. Now, I'm not comfortable with it.
00:30:01.540
How many of you would agree? I'm not comfortable with that. That's a little, it's a little too much
00:30:08.340
connection. But it's also completely legal. It was announced when it happened, and it's completely
00:30:15.100
transparent. And it's also ordinary business. But I'm uncomfortable with it. How many would agree
00:30:21.480
with that assessment? That it's all legal, it's all transparent, but I'm a little uncomfortable
00:30:26.620
with it? All right? And if you were to factor that into any of your decisions, I would say,
00:30:34.300
that's fair. I'll give you that. If you think that that discomfort, which is real, gives you some
00:30:42.520
pause. I think it's entirely possible that Jared was not expecting Trump to have a second term.
00:30:48.720
I mean, I can't read his mind. But he may have thought this will never have any impact on
00:30:54.380
anything in politics. This is just, you know, me using my current situation in the world to build
00:31:01.060
business that makes everybody some money, in all likelihood. But now it's very, you know, it's kind
00:31:07.320
of awkward now, isn't it? So I'll give you that. I'll give you that it's awkward. But do you compare
00:31:12.980
that to the Biden crime family? Do you think those are comparable? The fact that $2 billion is a much
00:31:20.420
larger amount of money doesn't seem too relevant to the comparison. Because one is 100% legal and
00:31:27.960
transparent, and probably everybody will make money. And the other one is completely sketchy from top
00:31:34.980
to bottom. And the opposite of transparent. Those are not comparable. But the, I think the Jim
00:31:42.260
Gaffigan story, if you think it's about Jim Gaffigan, I would say that's totally unfair.
00:31:50.900
The little bit I know about Jim, because I did get to spend some time talking to him,
00:31:55.120
and I think this context is completely useful. When I spent, I don't know, probably an hour just
00:32:03.160
talking to Jim Gaffigan about politics, he listened to everything I said that was sort of the, I would
00:32:10.700
say, the Trump framing of the world. And he asked good questions. And he, you know, told me what he
00:32:18.080
thought about some things. And I gave him, you know, my context on those things. And I would say that the
00:32:23.120
entire conversation was 100% respectful, curious, and genuine. He has a genuine interest in politics.
00:32:34.600
He's genuinely curious. He's genuinely paying attention. And when I talked to him with a
00:32:39.720
completely alternative view of the world, he listened intently. And we had just a good conversation.
00:32:47.060
That was it. Now, I didn't get the sense of changing his mind to anything. That wasn't really
00:32:51.940
anybody's intention. But we had an exchange in which he was fully open. And at no point did he
00:32:58.620
say, oh, you crazy white supremacist or anything like that. He was just listening to another citizen
00:33:04.060
who had a little different information and view of things. He incorporated it. And that's all I ask.
00:33:10.380
So if you're, if you're giving him trouble, I think you're directing your fire in completely the wrong
00:33:15.780
place. I see him, and I hate to say this, but he looks like a victim of the news. And I do think
00:33:23.160
there are victims. And there may be victims on both sides. I don't know if it's just on the left.
00:33:28.800
But when you hear somebody say that Trump was the most corrupt president, and there's literally not
00:33:34.880
an example of anything that happened in office, anything. There are things you don't like, but none of them
00:33:42.380
go toward corruption at all. He's the most, he's the most checked out president of all time. So that is such a
00:33:48.780
big point. Such a big point. How, how could you possibly have the right opinion on the Biden crime family
00:33:57.440
alleged activities if you thought that Trump was way worse? That would change everything about how
00:34:05.100
you saw that situation. But it just isn't based on any facts. So I'd give Jim Gaffigan a break on that,
00:34:13.460
but it was fascinating. I loved, I mean, I loved the interaction. Wouldn't you love to see more of that?
00:34:21.000
Wouldn't you love to see a Joe Rogan or just somebody who can explain some, something clearly and
00:34:26.340
credibly? Now, one of the things that Joe Rogan has going for him is that nobody thinks he's lying.
00:34:33.620
Isn't that like a superpower? Think about how few people can fit into that situation, right? If I,
00:34:41.160
I'll just name some names of my favorites, right? These are just some of my favorites.
00:34:45.040
If Thomas Massey tweets something, it might be, might be accurate or inaccurate, you know,
00:34:51.600
because anybody can be accurate or inaccurate, but he's never lying. Like, I'm sure of it. I don't think
00:34:59.600
he has it in him. I just don't think he has any incentive. It's just nothing in his character that would
00:35:05.380
cause him to just lie about something, right? And I think there, there are a few people in that same
00:35:12.280
category. I think Joe Rogan is very comfortably in the category where he has no incentive to lie.
00:35:18.360
He has no history of ever doing it. And nobody's even accusing him of it. How useful is that?
00:35:27.100
Think about what an asset that is. Now, would you say the same, pick your favorite, pick your favorite
00:35:33.840
news host. Pick your favorite one from Fox or your favorite one from another place. How many of them
00:35:43.080
can you say, well, they might be wrong, but I know they didn't lie about anything, right? Now I'll give
00:35:49.520
you Gutfeld as someone, as best of my knowledge, I've never seen anything that even slightly looked
00:35:55.420
like he was trying to lie about anything. Not once. Tucker, probably the same thing. But you could,
00:36:01.200
you might be able to come up with some names on, on both the left and the right, who you say to
00:36:05.720
yourself, you know, I'm not sure they're always telling you the truth as they see it. But some
00:36:12.860
are definitely. Yeah. I think Bungie, you know, telling you the truth every time. Yeah. So there
00:36:20.120
should be some kind of accounting for the fact that some people are believable by almost everybody.
00:36:26.160
And that that's got to be worth something. Don't you think? Yeah. I think if you were
00:36:34.940
sort of a casual observer of politics, imagine how useful it would be to know the list of people
00:36:41.380
who could be wrong, and they might even disagree with you on priorities and stuff like that.
00:36:46.220
But they're never lying to you. Wouldn't you love to have that list? I'll put, I'll put Joe Rogan at
00:36:53.240
the top of my list. Might disagree with him. Never lied. In fact, I'll put Jim Gaffigan on the same
00:37:00.740
list. Jim Gaffigan might disagree with him. I do. He might have wrong information in some cases.
00:37:08.920
But I don't think there's any indication he's ever lied to anybody. Right? Would you agree? There's no
00:37:15.940
indication he's ever lied. So he probably is just getting different news. And that should be the end
00:37:21.540
of the story. So I don't like to see individuals get attacked for something that's clearly just part of
00:37:27.460
the system. Smirkanish, I think he's very honest as well. Yeah, no indication he's ever lied about
00:37:33.680
anything. All right. Do you remember my prediction that AI might run into a legal buzzsaw? And that you
00:37:44.660
think AI is going to take over the world, but you haven't met a lawyer yet? Because lawyers like to
00:37:50.180
stop things from happening. So sure enough, AI is, you know, the lawsuits are starting to come.
00:37:58.760
Because AI scours the intellectual property of people like me and then can create art based on
00:38:06.980
our art. And some say that's copyright and that's bad and that's illegal. Now, I don't know what is
00:38:13.540
and what isn't true or legal. And I don't know where it's going to shake out. And I'm not even sure
00:38:17.760
where it should shake out. I don't even know what's best for the world. I don't even know if the world is
00:38:22.020
better off with or without copyright in the world of AI. I don't know. I guess we'll figure it out.
00:38:28.760
I know it's bad for the artists in the short run. So, but that doesn't mean it's bad for the world.
00:38:34.660
Sometimes some industries have some uncomfortable changes or it might be one of them. But
00:38:41.460
now there's a report. So the Wall Street Journal has got a big piece that is essentially confirming
00:38:49.980
my prediction. Did anybody else make that prediction? Did you hear anybody else say
00:38:55.560
AI might be kneecapped by copyright? Was I the first one you heard? I think I was the first one.
00:39:04.160
Maybe you heard. Not the first one in the world. Jack Posobiec said it.
00:39:16.620
All right. Good news. More good news for you. Do you like good news, everybody? I know you like
00:39:23.360
good news. So here's some good news. If you are worried about vague and miscellaneous problems in
00:39:29.160
this country, you don't have to worry anymore. Because we had a lot of people who were already
00:39:34.080
working on the specific problems. So for example, we had, you know, people working on what do you do
00:39:40.540
about Ukraine? And what do you do about the border? We're not happy with the results, but we had people
00:39:46.000
working on those projects. But there were, that left a lot of stuff that nobody was working on. But
00:39:51.140
the good news is that Vice President Kamala Harris is really leaning into fighting against
00:39:57.960
miscellaneous things, such as things that would reduce your freedoms and your rights.
00:40:07.120
So if you're worried about losing your miscellaneous freedoms and rights in places that, I don't know,
00:40:13.980
I'm not sure what categories, but sort of the miscellaneous freedoms and rights. And she says,
00:40:18.760
she's fighting for you every day. So if you woke up today and you said, I feel like I have most of my
00:40:26.060
rights. Yeah, I have most of my rights, but I'm a little bit concerned about the miscellaneous stuff.
00:40:33.520
Can you be more specific? No, just miscellaneous rights and freedoms. I'm losing my miscellaneous
00:40:40.640
rights and freedoms. Kamala Harris is fighting to get them back for you. And I think she's doing a good
00:40:46.860
job because can any of you, did any of you had a problem with your miscellaneous rights today?
00:40:52.820
Anybody? Did anybody try to go to work and you just couldn't because you were lacking some
00:40:59.760
miscellaneous rights? Yeah, she's got the miscellaneous rights taken care of. So that's good.
00:41:08.180
All right. Question for you. I need a fact check on this. Fact check. Number one, did BlackRock
00:41:18.360
recently say they were going to buy a lot of Bitcoin. Did that happen? I saw that in the
00:41:25.540
news. I didn't have time to check just before I went live. Can anybody confirm that BlackRock
00:41:30.620
go heavy into Bitcoin? Somebody says yes. All right. So some people are saying yes. Now,
00:41:40.040
I'm just going to point out the timing. Apparently, the Department of Justice, I think it was,
00:41:45.920
or whoever it was, said Coinbase, which is a big exchange that has all kinds of cryptocurrencies.
00:41:52.160
You can trade one for the other. It says they have to get rid of everything except Bitcoin.
00:41:59.160
Did that happen? Did Coinbase, somebody told Coinbase that the SEC, it was the SEC, right?
00:42:08.480
So the SEC said that all crypto is bad except Bitcoin. And did this happen right after BlackRock
00:42:18.660
loaded up on Bitcoin? Does that seem like a coincidence?
00:42:29.900
And what's Bitcoin doing right now? Does that go up or down?
00:42:34.060
Bitcoin. Bitcoin's up. Point and a half. All right. Bitcoin's up. So isn't that a little suspicious
00:42:44.060
to you? That you worry that BlackRock is really running everything because they own so much of
00:42:50.720
everything and they have so much money? And then you're saying Bitcoin isn't up? I was looking
00:42:56.500
at a stock. A Bitcoin stock is up. How could a stock that holds nothing but Bitcoin be up if Bitcoin's down?
00:43:08.740
Or is it moving quickly? Maybe it's just quickly up and down. I haven't seen the change yet.
00:43:14.900
Bitcoin is flat. Interesting. It's flat, but the fund that owns only Bitcoin is up.
00:43:22.120
Okay. I have some questions about how that could work. But maybe. Maybe. So I don't know what's
00:43:30.620
happening with crypto, but it looks like there's a direction that's formed. All right. I'm almost
00:43:39.720
positive there was something else I was going to talk about that somehow I didn't. Oh.
00:43:44.340
Do you think Hunter Biden is lucky or skilled? Is Hunter Biden lucky or skilled? Because I'm going
00:43:57.940
to point out one thing that was really lucky. So if I were to ask you, you know, what kind of skills do
00:44:05.520
you have in life? You might say, oh, I'm good at pickleball and I'm good at flower arranging and stuff
00:44:13.140
like that. But if you notice that most of the, most of your hobby things you're good at don't
00:44:17.520
have any economic value, right? You're like, oh yeah, I can trim a bush like crazy. I'm so good with
00:44:25.220
my lawn care. But you know, you're not a lawn care professional, so it doesn't really help you.
00:44:30.020
So yeah, I would say you're all unlucky, right? You're unlucky because you have a set of skills.
00:44:36.840
They just don't line up with something that's going to make a lot of money. Very unlucky.
00:44:40.840
But imagine you're Hunter Biden and you happen, coincidentally, you're, you know, you're a trained
00:44:47.220
lawyer, but coincidentally, you're also a world-class painter, an artist. And isn't it lucky that
00:44:57.680
painting pictures, which could be valued at millions or zero, very subjective, isn't it sort of lucky of
00:45:06.520
all the skills you could have in the world? He got the one kind of skill that matches perfectly
00:45:15.280
a money laundering scheme for influence. Isn't that lucky? Just the only talent he had,
00:45:26.140
what was that one? Suppose he had only been talented as a cartoonist. Suppose he could draw really good
00:45:31.840
cartoons. What is the top market for a well-drawn comic that's fresh, you know, not, not something
00:45:40.900
that's historical. Oh, I'd say hundreds of dollars. Yeah, I could sell, you know, before I got canceled,
00:45:49.220
I could sell an original Dilbert art for two to $400. That would, that'd be sort of the market for that.
00:45:59.020
So isn't it lucky that his specific art was in a category that's highly monetizable? You know,
00:46:08.900
if he'd been a cartoonist, I don't know, he wouldn't make much money. If he'd been a figure skater or
00:46:14.480
if he had a, if he had, let's say, athletic skills, well, he'd be too old, so that wouldn't be useful.
00:46:21.420
What if he had great musical ability? Well, if he had great musical ability, he would only make as
00:46:29.440
much as people were willing to listen to it. So you couldn't hide anything in that case because
00:46:35.780
people would either buy it because they wanted to hear it or not. You know, nobody would be buying
00:46:39.840
a million dollars worth of his albums. So music, even if he had this great skill,
00:46:45.700
it'd be hard to monetize it. But of all the skills you could have in the entire world,
00:46:53.440
lucky, lucky Hunter Biden got the one skill that could make you millions of dollars without anybody
00:47:06.180
It's hard to imagine a luckier situation than that. Lucky, lucky. Anyway, I saw Mike Cernovich
00:47:15.420
tweeted one of my tweets on this topic, and he was sort of castigating himself for not realizing
00:47:23.040
that the question should be, has anybody ever seen Hunter make a painting?
00:47:27.400
I think there's a video of him using a straw to like blow paint on a, like a modern art piece.
00:47:38.640
Now, let me ask you this. If you were going to pretend you could make art, but you couldn't make
00:47:45.300
art, would you pretend it with a brush, which would be really hard to fake? Or would you pretend it
00:47:52.780
by blowing some paint through a straw on a painting that was largely already done
00:47:58.240
so that you could see that if somebody added like a little, you know, blow on the straw,
00:48:03.560
you know, it would fit with the composition? It's kind of interesting, isn't it? Another coincidence,
00:48:09.040
another coincidence that the only video, or maybe it's only just a photo, is the only thing an artist
00:48:15.200
who works at a, let's say, a world-class art level, as he allegedly does,
00:48:20.060
it's the only thing that you could do if you were him. He picked the only thing that you could have
00:48:27.620
done, suck some paint into a straw and blow it without thinking too much about what it's going
00:48:34.300
to look like, because the randomness is the art. It's the only thing you could have done too.
00:48:39.500
Interesting. Aren't you a little bit suspicious if he can, if he can paint? I mean, as well as the
00:48:48.900
paintings look, because the paintings he produced, to me, look like really good paintings. To me,
00:48:54.680
it looks like he has skill. Or whoever is painting it has skill, if you know what I mean.
00:49:01.320
All right. Is there any story I missed? I think I covered the synchronized whales,
00:49:09.260
Hunter's amazing talents, Joe Biden not possibly going to be the next president.
00:49:15.620
And where's Mayor Pete? Scott, you have bad taste in art, no offense. No, I wouldn't put any of it on my wall.
00:49:27.960
I'm saying that as a objective, objectively, it looks like good art to me. It honestly does.
00:49:36.060
No joke, it looks like the paintings are done by somebody who knows how to do art really well.
00:49:47.300
The other thing I'd look for is if Hunter draws any, if Hunter makes any paintings that involve
00:49:53.660
real people, count the number of fingers. Just a little suggestion. The first time the hunter produces
00:50:03.480
art with a human in it, just count the number of fingers. You know what I mean? Wink, wink, wink, wink.
00:50:09.280
And I don't mean because it's Purgosian. That's a different story.
00:50:12.760
Imagine a VP debate between Kamala Harris and Vivek. Oh, that would be too good. That alone is a reason
00:50:24.860
to have Vivek as a VP on the ticket if he doesn't get the top spot. Yeah.
00:50:31.280
Does a rising stock market and no recession get Biden reelected? I doubt it. I don't feel like
00:50:41.700
people think that Biden did anything that makes a difference to the economy. Do you think they do?
00:50:47.620
I mean, I realize it's tradition to give credit to the president, whether it goes up or down,
00:50:53.360
right? So it's tradition that the president gets the blame and the credit even when they don't do
00:50:57.720
anything. But I feel like Biden more than other people did less. You know, when Trump, when Trump
00:51:05.960
was president, you know, he would loosen up energy regulations and then a whole bunch of energy
00:51:11.140
stuff happens. And then he says, look at this energy stuff. It's part of the reason the economy
00:51:16.200
is doing well. And you say to yourself, huh, well, that does sound like that would have made a
00:51:20.920
difference. Or if he says, I negotiated this or dropped out of this treaty or this, you say, oh,
00:51:26.100
I don't really understand that. But it sounds like that would make a difference. But what did
00:51:30.560
Biden do that makes a difference? He did the infrastructure bill that nobody can think of
00:51:36.160
any impact they had on their life. So he's got a conceptual problem. And I don't think the economy
00:51:45.060
will improve enough that inflation won't still hurt. I don't think the stock market is going to make
00:51:53.740
people feel good about inflation. Because most people don't own stock, right? Most people,
00:51:58.820
most people are living paycheck to paycheck, if that. Yeah, so I don't think the economy is going
00:52:06.600
to work. I think that Trump will be able to point to a number of things that Biden did that would be
00:52:12.960
objectively and obviously bad for the economy. Maybe, arguably, they would be good for the environment.
00:52:20.300
That would be the reason he did some of them. But I think Trump can make the case it's bad
00:52:24.320
for the economy. And then people will go, okay, that's all I want to hear.
00:52:30.960
All right. I see Matt McConaughey's interview on this week. Now, you know what? No offense to
00:52:39.620
Matthew McConaughey, who I enjoy very much in movies. I hate listening to him talk about anything
00:52:48.640
that's not a line written in a movie. Although if it's his, you know, if he's just talking about
00:52:53.720
himself, he's also entertaining. But when he talks about politics, I just get the cringe attack of all
00:53:01.620
cringe attacks. Because I'm sure he doesn't understand the topics. I'm sure he doesn't understand the
00:53:07.920
topics. Now, to his credit, I'm sure he's looked into it more than the average Hollywood actor.
00:53:13.840
But he's nowhere near the level that any of you are. Right? Almost any one of you could sit down
00:53:19.980
with Matthew McConaughey and teach him things he'd never heard. I'm sure of it.
00:53:27.300
But because he's got that, you know, Hollywood actor vibe, he sells his sincerity in a way that
00:53:36.260
looks like acting to me. You know what I mean? He looks like he's playing an actor who's pretending
00:53:44.340
to be sincere. He doesn't look like a real person to me. I don't think, yeah. So I just can't listen
00:53:56.180
to him when he does his commercials or when he talks about politics. He's just hard to listen to.
00:54:00.520
But I think he's an awesome guy. I think he's, you know, good American. Glad he's interested. Glad
00:54:06.820
he's interested in politics. Certainly welcome him to, you know, be completely involved as much
00:54:12.480
as he likes. But just find him hard to listen to. All right. But a good guy.
00:54:20.500
All right. Anything else? Are there any topics I've been missing? Did you all enjoy finding
00:54:33.820
out about the UFOs? I feel like the UFO thing was a turning point. I feel like much of the
00:54:42.740
country looked at the UFO thing and they said, oh, I get it. The news is no longer even trying.
00:54:49.320
They're not really trying to sell, like, real news anymore. They're just, basically, I think
00:54:55.080
the UFO story made the difference between, you know, a tabloid makeup story thing from,
00:55:04.580
you know, the 60s or whenever the tabloids started to, you know, today. All right. Yeah,
00:55:14.460
it does seem to me like people's minds were changed by that. Just, I feel it. I just feel
00:55:20.520
like people finally understood that the stories are almost all made up in the news. The news
00:55:28.320
is almost all made up. Yeah. Yeah, it was a good way to sell commercials, I guess. Everybody
00:55:44.400
keeps telling me I should watch Tucker and Ice Cube, and I've been resisting it. You know
00:55:49.720
why? I just don't think it's news that two smart people got along. People are acting amazed. Wow.
00:56:00.720
Tucker, like, had a lot in common and really got along with this guy who you imagined would
00:56:06.500
be, you know, very different from him. Would you like to know a secret of the universe? That
00:56:13.080
in person, most people get along. The amazing thing would be if they didn't get along. That
00:56:21.520
would have been the amazing thing. The fact that they had some things in common about freedom,
00:56:26.480
basically, that's not a surprise. I just didn't feel I needed to see it. I'm sure it was good
00:56:31.760
entertainment, but watching two reasonable people agree with each other is not what I call
00:56:38.680
entertainment. That should be everybody all the time. Honestly, if I have a conversation
00:56:45.500
about politics with somebody who's just a reasonable and smart person, it never goes wrong.
00:56:52.920
The only time it did was during the height of TDS, when people actually couldn't have a regular
00:56:58.920
conversation. They were just too flipped out. Then you couldn't talk to anybody. But in a normal
00:57:05.240
situation, I think we're close to normal at the moment, if you think about it, I would say that
00:57:11.180
the TDS is the lowest it's ever been. It's still high, but it's the lowest it's ever been.
00:57:18.900
And at this moment, I think you could have a civil conversation with anybody about politics,
00:57:24.500
no matter where you came from. I mean, I'm literally canceled. You don't think I could sit down with,
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you know, the breakfast club or, you know, any black Americans and have, like, just a great
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conversation in which we largely agree on stuff. We would. We would mostly agree.
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You think that's not true? You're totally wrong. You're totally right. You could put me in any
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environment on a one-on-one in-person situation and it would go fine every time.
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Because I don't say things that are crazy. Do I? Do I think, do I say things that would trigger
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people? No. I mean, when I don't know for sure, I do what Joe Rogan did. I love Joe Rogan's discussion
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of Ray Epps. He simply said, what we know and what we don't know, and you have to leave it at that.
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That's the only respectful way to treat a fellow citizen who might, in fact, be completely innocent
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of everything, Ray Epps. You say what you know and what you don't know, and you've got to stop at that.
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And he stopped exactly at that. He gave the context, he gave the facts, and he stopped right there.
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That's as good as you can get discussing politics or anything in the news. The best you can do is to
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say what you know and what you don't know and just let it lay there. All right. Hollywood nightclub guy
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was stomped to death by a crowd. I didn't see that story. Some liberals can't admit being wrong. Oh,
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that's not fair. Is that fair? Some liberals can't admit to being wrong. Well, you're acting like
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that's a problem on one side. You don't think that's exactly the same problem on both sides.
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Do you think that's something that only liberals have? Because you'd be totally wrong about that.
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Cognitive dissonance does not go by party affiliation. It doesn't go by intelligence.
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You are not protected from cognitive dissonance by intelligence, information, party affiliation,
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training, credentials, expertise. Almost none of them help. The cognitive dissonance wouldn't
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even exist if you could reason your way past it. All right. I told a friend I made a Trump
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donation. Almost fell on the floor laughing, saying I still don't get it.
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So you had a friend falling on the floor laughing because you gave Trump a political donation.
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Well, that's somebody who's having some, probably some problems.
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But I would support your friend if your friend was simply reacting to the fact that giving money to
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politicians is a bad idea. I'm not big on donating to politics. I feel like if a politician needs my
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money to win, they're doing something wrong. Right? Yeah. I wouldn't, no, I wouldn't, I would not
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donate to Vivek or anybody else. No, donating, I think, donating made sense before social media.
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All right. Vivek is proving, as is RFK Jr. They're both proving, and Trump proved it before,
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you can get all the free attention you want. There's no limit to how much free attention you can get.
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Now, Vivek probably doesn't have the funding that he could, say, pay for a big rally.
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Because rallies must be really expensive. You've got to rent the venue and security and all that.
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So, but does he need it? I mean, that happens to be a thing that works really well for Trump.
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But Vivek doesn't need that. He's doing great on, you know, earned media. So I just don't believe
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in giving money to politicians. I just think they should do it without any money.
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If you can't do it without any money, you probably shouldn't be running things where money is involved.
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Now, if you have money, you should spend it, right? Trump can get money. He should absolutely
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spend it in smart ways. But if you don't, I don't want to hold that against you.
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All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we've done what we can do for today.