Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2194 Scott Adams： Better Late Than...

00:00:00.000 You're probably wondering where I was. Did you miss me?

00:00:06.000 A little technical difficulty here. Technical difficulties almost solved. Hold on.

00:00:16.000 Well, you're probably asking yourself, Scott, why did it take so damn long to sign on?

00:00:36.660 And you've never been late before. What happened?

00:00:41.640 Well, it turns out that the news was too interesting today.

00:00:46.000 I was up at four, and I had no idea what time it was.

00:00:54.220 And imagine my surprise when I looked at the clock.

00:00:57.860 So here we are. Anybody want a show?

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00:01:18.360 fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:01:20.160 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day.

00:01:22.760 The thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:24.880 It happens now.

00:01:25.420 Ah, I thought I'd do that faster.

00:01:34.140 About damn time is correct.

00:01:37.060 All right, we're going to start with the biggest stories of the day,

00:01:39.700 and then we'll work down to the smaller stories.

00:01:44.160 Biggest story of the day is comedian Wayne Brady has come out as pansexual.

00:01:49.820 Pansexual.

00:01:50.340 It has nothing to do with cooking utensils.

00:01:56.660 I'm told that pansexual means that he's attracted to penises from men,

00:02:03.780 but also penises on women and vaginas of all types,

00:02:10.540 be they on men or women.

00:02:12.660 And I'm so jealous that I did not think of this first.

00:02:18.580 It seems a little bit underwhelming to come out as gay in 2023, doesn't it?

00:02:29.800 Can you imagine somebody who, let's say some celebrity,

00:02:32.700 who comes out as gay?

00:02:33.920 It's like, hey, everybody, I'm gay.

00:02:35.900 And the old country goes,

00:02:38.640 I don't care.

00:02:40.940 No, seriously, everybody, I'm gay, I'm gay.

00:02:43.660 Yeah, whatever.

00:02:45.380 No, seriously, I'm super gay.

00:02:47.760 Yeah, whatever, whatever.

00:02:50.540 Nobody cares.

00:02:52.600 I'm bisexual.

00:02:54.480 Seriously, you can't even go full gay?

00:02:56.680 No, I'm coming out, I'm coming out as bisexual.

00:02:59.680 Not really very interesting.

00:03:02.400 Not interesting.

00:03:04.900 I'm pansexual.

00:03:07.020 Hello, you have my interest now.

00:03:10.600 Pansexual, you say?

00:03:11.720 Do you like Leah Thomas' penis?

00:03:17.100 Perhaps.

00:03:18.060 It's more about the individual, but yes, that would be perfectly acceptable to me.

00:03:22.700 I like everything in the pan.

00:03:25.500 So, anyway, Wayne Brady has owned the news cycle.

00:03:30.640 Pansexual.

00:03:31.560 If you are thinking of coming out as simply gay, save it.

00:03:37.120 Nobody cares.

00:03:37.880 Just save it.

00:03:40.560 Nobody's going to be excited about that.

00:03:42.400 You better go all the way to pan.

00:03:46.420 Dr. Jordan Peterson had an interesting tweet today about politically correct authoritarianism.

00:03:53.220 I guess that's where the government tells you you've got to be using certain languages and doing certain things to be politically correct.

00:04:02.220 And he says that our research...

00:04:04.220 The news is wonderfully subversive today.

00:04:11.040 Mostly people's commentary on the news.

00:04:13.800 But it's like a weirdly...

00:04:16.480 It's just a weird day.

00:04:17.860 But I'll give you the news and you'll see it for yourself.

00:04:19.900 So, Dr. Peterson says,

00:04:22.680 Our research indicated that the strongest predictor of politically correct authoritarianism was, in fact, lower verbal intelligence.

00:04:31.560 Then, after being dumb, you know, lower verbal intelligence.

00:04:40.620 So, after having a low IQ, the next most important factor was being a female.

00:04:48.340 I'm not saying it.

00:04:50.600 I'm not saying it.

00:04:52.100 This is Jordan Peterson's tweet.

00:04:54.660 This is not me.

00:04:55.680 Or having a feminine temperament.

00:05:01.720 So, you could be female or you could be female-ish, I guess, whatever a feminine temperament is.

00:05:08.860 And whether or not you've ever taken a politically correct course in college or school, in that order.

00:05:16.760 But the intelligence effects was the strongest one.

00:05:20.140 Now, I always say, wouldn't you want to see opinion polls that are separated by how smart people are

00:05:31.160 and, ideally, how well-informed they are in the topic that's being polled?

00:05:36.740 What does it tell us when you do a poll of the average person?

00:05:41.540 Well, the average person thinks that snow and ice cream are the same thing.

00:05:46.760 What does that tell you?

00:05:49.860 Well, the average person.

00:05:52.860 You know what's the least useful information in the world?

00:05:57.780 What the average person wants.

00:06:00.120 Or thinks.

00:06:01.220 Or believes.

00:06:02.440 Or prefers.

00:06:03.940 The average person is the least important thing.

00:06:07.740 I really, really want to know what the smart people think.

00:06:11.500 And it would be really helpful to know what the dumb people think,

00:06:14.800 so you can know what to avoid.

00:06:17.760 But, anyway, so I think it's diabolical that Jordan Peterson actually had research

00:06:23.700 showing that if you're dumb or a woman, or you act like a woman,

00:06:29.520 this is not me.

00:06:31.800 This is not me.

00:06:32.900 This is his research.

00:06:33.980 I'm just telling you what he's saying.

00:06:35.660 So don't blame me.

00:06:39.240 All right.

00:06:39.860 I just like that because it's so provocative.

00:06:43.400 It's just going to make people's heads explode, so it's fun.

00:06:48.020 All right.

00:06:48.760 As you know, I put together a long list of what types of things to look for to tell if the news is credible or not credible.

00:06:57.680 But likewise with arguments.

00:07:00.680 Wouldn't you like to know a tell for when somebody is brainwashed versus someone who's just trying to argue with the data

00:07:08.980 and is actually trying to figure out what's going on?

00:07:11.200 And I saw an example of that in the wild.

00:07:15.200 I saw somebody give some data.

00:07:17.640 Climate change was the topic, but it doesn't matter what topic it is.

00:07:20.760 The, so here's the setup.

00:07:28.980 One person on Twitter said 98% of this or whatever, so there was some statistics, but no source.

00:07:37.780 The other person debated it with an analogy.

00:07:42.660 Which one of them was brainwashed?

00:07:45.240 The person who had data but no source, at least it wasn't mentioned,

00:07:49.280 or the person with the analogy who answered a data argument with an analogy.

00:07:58.500 At the very least, the analogy person.

00:08:02.060 At the very least.

00:08:03.580 The analogy is just such a tip-off for brainwashing.

00:08:07.400 It really is.

00:08:09.260 Because if you need an analogy,

00:08:14.500 that's basically signaling I don't have any facts or logic

00:08:18.420 or causation.

00:08:21.520 I've got nothing.

00:08:22.880 I'm going to tell you a story with some words,

00:08:25.480 and I'm going to make you think that the words I'm using about a totally different topic

00:08:30.100 are going to persuade you on this unrelated topic,

00:08:33.340 because the words over here sound a little like words that could be over here.

00:08:38.200 Yeah.

00:08:38.660 That's just brainwashing.

00:08:39.600 So if somebody tells you their analogy is working,

00:08:44.220 brainwashing.

00:08:46.020 I got into that argument, and somebody went all Aristotle on me.

00:08:49.820 Apparently Aristotle's got some quote where the metaphor is a sign of genius.

00:08:56.820 Okay.

00:08:58.660 Okay.

00:08:59.140 So, that's it.

00:09:05.540 And Joe Moore had a good quote today.

00:09:08.220 He said,

00:09:08.480 analogy is the poor man's thinking,

00:09:10.660 which is funny because that's an analogy.

00:09:15.740 All right.

00:09:16.500 Is it an analogy?

00:09:17.480 Poor man's thinking?

00:09:19.200 Is it?

00:09:20.660 Sort of like that.

00:09:22.040 All right.

00:09:22.440 Here's my question to you.

00:09:26.440 Do you think that corruption in the U.S. government has reached an all-time high?

00:09:32.940 God, everything's wrong today.

00:09:35.160 I had lots of technical difficulties today, so bear with me.

00:09:39.700 As I improve the quality.

00:09:41.120 There we go.

00:09:41.840 Hello.

00:09:42.960 Much better.

00:09:45.100 Do you think that the country is more corrupt,

00:09:47.900 or that we just know it because of X slash Twitter being uncensored now?

00:09:55.640 Because I'm looking at the news today,

00:09:57.640 and everything in my feed was about the government being corrupt.

00:10:02.120 It felt like all the stories have some angle of government corruption,

00:10:05.680 or media corruption,

00:10:08.720 which I would consider the government at this point.

00:10:12.040 I don't think the government and the media are that separate entities as they should be.

00:10:17.900 Well, so I don't know the answer to the question.

00:10:22.880 It is entirely possible that governments have always been about the same amount of corruption

00:10:28.340 since the beginning of time.

00:10:30.220 You know, it could be, I don't know, just whatever.

00:10:33.140 Anytime you have a government, maybe it's 60% corrupt or something.

00:10:36.800 So I don't know if it's different,

00:10:38.940 but I do know I'm seeing a lot more of it.

00:10:41.600 I do know that my visibility to the corruption seems to be at an all-time high.

00:10:45.940 And I'll talk about some of the stories,

00:10:48.680 but you can sort of see it everywhere,

00:10:51.160 and I feel that that's the X effect,

00:10:54.100 you know, the Twitter X.

00:10:56.680 Is anybody feeling the same thing,

00:10:58.800 that you're seeing more stories of government corruption

00:11:01.960 than you've ever seen,

00:11:04.320 and it's only because of Twitter?

00:11:06.260 This is like a really, really big effect in the United States

00:11:11.760 that I don't think has been completely, you know,

00:11:16.040 sussed out for what this means for us.

00:11:18.360 Now, I would imagine that everybody who doesn't like what's on Twitter

00:11:21.440 is saying, oh, it's a bunch of right-wing stuff

00:11:24.420 because suddenly Elon Musk decided he's a right-winger,

00:11:28.220 which, again, is propaganda.

00:11:31.960 He's the least right-winger of any right-winger.

00:11:36.380 But just because he's interested in what's true,

00:11:39.660 that makes him a right-winger.

00:11:41.780 That is kind of what's happening, you know,

00:11:44.220 is basically he's interested in what's actually true,

00:11:47.180 and that looks right-wing,

00:11:49.460 which is weird.

00:11:50.200 All right.

00:11:53.800 Derek Chauvin, one of his police partners,

00:11:57.080 Tao Tao, or Tu Tao,

00:11:59.400 I don't know how to pronounce his name,

00:12:01.180 was sentenced to 57 months

00:12:04.140 for his participation in the death of George Floyd.

00:12:08.940 I'll read you Mike Cernovich's tweet that I agree with.

00:12:12.580 He said,

00:12:13.400 as these legalized lynchings continue,

00:12:16.080 meaning the lynching of the police officer,

00:12:18.780 cities become houses of horror.

00:12:22.180 True.

00:12:23.100 Does anyone believe the world would have been better off

00:12:25.540 with this man in prison,

00:12:26.840 meaning the police officer,

00:12:28.340 and George Floyd running free?

00:12:31.580 And I look on Twitter,

00:12:34.420 and I see somebody that I follow,

00:12:36.440 and I'm not going to name names,

00:12:38.720 but somebody I follow

00:12:39.820 actually bought completely into the,

00:12:44.000 I guess, the government narrative

00:12:45.640 about what was going on there.

00:12:47.280 And here's my take.

00:12:53.580 Intentional murder is the least likely explanation

00:12:56.840 of what happened to George Floyd.

00:12:59.120 It's the least likely explanation

00:13:01.180 because we're asked to believe,

00:13:03.260 see if this is wrong,

00:13:04.660 just check me on this,

00:13:05.960 have we not been asked to believe

00:13:07.860 that these police officers

00:13:09.920 casually,

00:13:12.260 casually,

00:13:13.140 intentionally murdered somebody,

00:13:16.220 or even casually

00:13:17.640 put somebody in a situation

00:13:19.680 where they were likely to die,

00:13:21.700 casually,

00:13:22.820 without any real worry about it,

00:13:24.620 in front of a group of witnesses

00:13:26.140 who were obviously filming them.

00:13:30.240 And the public of the United States

00:13:32.020 was asked to believe

00:13:33.180 that these police officers

00:13:35.480 casually,

00:13:36.700 either intentionally

00:13:38.380 or through horrific bad judgment

00:13:42.040 that was common to all of them

00:13:43.640 at the same time,

00:13:45.260 it was common to all of them,

00:13:46.860 and that that's what actually happened

00:13:48.520 in that situation.

00:13:51.120 Obviously, that's not what happened.

00:13:53.100 Obviously.

00:13:54.180 Obviously, these are police officers

00:13:55.880 who were lynched by the system.

00:13:58.040 Obviously, the jurors had no choice

00:13:59.840 because they didn't want to go into public

00:14:01.600 having not lynched these guys.

00:14:04.000 Now, we can say it today

00:14:05.400 because I'm cancelled.

00:14:07.100 You know, I'm cancelled

00:14:07.800 and Sertovich basically has no fear,

00:14:11.380 apparently.

00:14:12.140 So we can say it

00:14:13.420 because some time has gone by.

00:14:15.340 But that is the reality.

00:14:17.220 The reality is that

00:14:18.480 we were asked,

00:14:19.700 as the public,

00:14:20.840 to accept something

00:14:21.880 that was plainly not true.

00:14:23.660 We can see it for ourselves.

00:14:26.160 Now,

00:14:26.640 has anything else like that happened?

00:14:30.800 Yes.

00:14:31.660 What about the January 6th story?

00:14:35.160 January 6th,

00:14:36.220 we are asked to believe

00:14:37.380 that people who are trespassing

00:14:40.240 without weapons

00:14:42.360 had a plan to conquer

00:14:44.700 the United States.

00:14:47.120 And we were asked to believe that

00:14:48.380 like, well, it's just obvious.

00:14:49.880 It's obvious that when people

00:14:51.200 trespass and saunter around

00:14:52.940 and steal lecterns,

00:14:55.100 that that must be part of a plot

00:14:57.760 for an insurrection

00:14:58.760 to conquer the United States.

00:15:00.160 Because there's nothing

00:15:01.040 that will conquer a country faster

00:15:02.600 than sauntering around

00:15:04.580 in their capital building

00:15:05.600 for a few hours.

00:15:07.020 Oh, yeah,

00:15:07.540 that's how you conquer

00:15:08.280 a fucking country right there.

00:15:10.520 You know,

00:15:10.900 it makes you wonder

00:15:11.460 why we didn't do it to Russia.

00:15:13.340 Send in a few saunterers

00:15:14.720 until the country

00:15:16.380 is completely conquered.

00:15:18.460 That works, right?

00:15:19.440 The public has been asked

00:15:22.440 to believe

00:15:23.040 that that was actually

00:15:25.720 an insurrection.

00:15:27.740 Our government is asking,

00:15:28.940 you know,

00:15:29.180 at least part of the government

00:15:30.220 is asking us to believe that.

00:15:32.720 Is that more or less ridiculous

00:15:34.800 than believing

00:15:35.520 that the police officers

00:15:36.640 casually and in front

00:15:38.660 of filming citizens

00:15:40.440 with cameras

00:15:41.540 murdered a guy

00:15:43.080 or, you know,

00:15:44.400 allowed something terrible

00:15:45.880 to happen

00:15:46.660 that they knew

00:15:47.120 was going to happen

00:15:47.680 or should have known?

00:15:49.240 These are ridiculous things

00:15:51.040 to ask the public to believe.

00:15:53.240 Ridiculous.

00:15:54.840 How about the current news

00:15:56.760 that the big guy

00:15:58.720 who is referenced

00:15:59.720 in documents

00:16:00.640 about the Ukraine

00:16:02.140 and Hunter Biden

00:16:03.040 and all that,

00:16:03.860 that the big guy

00:16:04.640 didn't know about anything

00:16:05.760 and didn't get any money?

00:16:08.260 There's not anybody

00:16:09.340 who thinks that's true.

00:16:12.200 Anybody.

00:16:14.020 And we're acting like

00:16:15.200 maybe it's not true.

00:16:16.280 We're like just going on

00:16:18.040 with their day.

00:16:19.200 Like, oh, well,

00:16:20.140 maybe he didn't know about it

00:16:21.380 and possibly the big guy

00:16:23.780 could be anybody, really.

00:16:25.280 The big guy.

00:16:26.060 I don't even know

00:16:26.520 what you're talking about.

00:16:27.720 And yes,

00:16:28.820 maybe Hunter was verified

00:16:31.560 to have been paying

00:16:32.620 Joe Biden's bills,

00:16:35.140 but there's no evidence

00:16:37.660 that money went

00:16:38.520 into his bank account.

00:16:40.040 People.

00:16:41.100 People.

00:16:41.840 There's only evidence

00:16:42.860 that he financially benefited

00:16:44.880 in a major way.

00:16:46.760 But there wasn't

00:16:47.800 an actual bank account,

00:16:48.980 you see.

00:16:50.100 See, so for the lack

00:16:51.120 of the actual bank account,

00:16:53.140 even though we know

00:16:54.160 for sure

00:16:54.880 that the money

00:16:55.840 was flowing

00:16:56.480 in a big way

00:16:57.120 to his benefit

00:16:58.060 through the paying

00:16:59.380 of his bills

00:16:59.980 and the living

00:17:00.520 in a big house

00:17:01.140 he couldn't afford.

00:17:02.380 But no,

00:17:03.060 there's nothing to see here.

00:17:04.260 There's nothing proven.

00:17:05.560 I don't even know

00:17:06.460 what you're talking about.

00:17:07.440 After they got us

00:17:10.920 to believe

00:17:11.340 the George Floyd narrative,

00:17:13.600 after they got us

00:17:14.520 to believe

00:17:14.840 the January 6th narrative,

00:17:17.420 two fake impeachments

00:17:19.160 so far,

00:17:20.640 what else do they believe?

00:17:23.200 Today, again,

00:17:24.000 we're seeing the story

00:17:25.580 about Trump mocked

00:17:27.440 a disabled person

00:17:28.440 when he ran for office

00:17:29.620 the first time.

00:17:31.340 Now,

00:17:32.060 I believe 100%

00:17:33.840 of people on the right

00:17:34.980 have seen

00:17:36.160 the compilation video

00:17:37.300 where Trump uses

00:17:39.120 the same motions

00:17:39.940 against, you know,

00:17:41.640 Ted Cruz

00:17:42.280 and other people.

00:17:43.480 So we know for sure

00:17:44.940 that that's a standard

00:17:46.600 thing he did.

00:17:48.120 And all Republicans

00:17:49.160 seem to have seen that.

00:17:50.400 I don't talk to anybody

00:17:51.280 who's not aware of it.

00:17:53.080 But how about the people

00:17:53.900 on the left?

00:17:55.340 Do you think they've ever seen

00:17:56.340 the compilation video?

00:17:58.080 No.

00:17:58.880 Of course not.

00:18:00.260 And if they did,

00:18:01.320 what would they think?

00:18:03.380 They'd probably think,

00:18:04.340 oh yeah,

00:18:04.620 he does use this

00:18:05.400 all the time,

00:18:05.960 but this time he knew.

00:18:07.200 This time it was different.

00:18:08.540 I don't know.

00:18:08.940 What would they say?

00:18:10.700 And it occurs to me

00:18:14.120 that it would be fascinating,

00:18:18.400 I've said this before,

00:18:20.000 it would be fascinating

00:18:20.980 to have some kind

00:18:21.740 of a show

00:18:22.460 where a typical Democrat

00:18:25.100 is brought in

00:18:25.900 and is simply exposed

00:18:27.820 to real information

00:18:29.580 for the first time.

00:18:31.880 Like just sit him

00:18:32.820 in front of the compilation video.

00:18:34.160 Or have somebody

00:18:36.080 explain to them

00:18:36.780 what I just explained

00:18:37.800 on any of these topics.

00:18:39.640 Just watch what happens.

00:18:41.320 Just to see the reaction.

00:18:43.660 I would love to watch that.

00:18:45.440 Because you don't realize

00:18:46.680 how brainwashed

00:18:48.280 the public is,

00:18:49.680 which includes all of us.

00:18:51.440 Right?

00:18:51.880 If you ever hear me say

00:18:53.300 everybody's brainwashed

00:18:54.520 except me,

00:18:56.160 you should ignore

00:18:56.940 everything I say

00:18:57.860 for the rest of my life.

00:18:58.860 Because you can't tell

00:19:00.260 if you're brainwashed.

00:19:01.500 You just have to assume

00:19:02.620 you are.

00:19:03.240 You just don't know

00:19:03.900 in what way it is

00:19:04.660 and you do the best you can.

00:19:06.680 But nobody's immune from it.

00:19:08.860 It's not like it's something

00:19:09.980 that happens on one side.

00:19:11.040 All right.

00:19:17.000 So,

00:19:17.920 Vivek continues to make news.

00:19:21.560 So,

00:19:21.960 the two most interesting things

00:19:23.280 in politics,

00:19:24.380 well,

00:19:24.780 RFK Jr.

00:19:25.460 was interesting today too.

00:19:27.000 But Vivek had two

00:19:28.320 completely interesting

00:19:29.500 moments in the news.

00:19:31.480 He's just the king

00:19:32.380 of earned media right now.

00:19:34.520 I mean,

00:19:34.960 Trump,

00:19:35.540 of course,

00:19:35.900 is Trump.

00:19:36.500 You can't really ever,

00:19:37.520 I don't think anybody

00:19:38.740 will ever match Trump

00:19:39.740 for being what he is.

00:19:41.640 You know,

00:19:41.860 just a,

00:19:42.240 just a energy monster.

00:19:45.160 But man,

00:19:45.980 it's Vivek good.

00:19:46.980 Every day,

00:19:47.620 I've got a new one

00:19:48.520 where I shake my head.

00:19:49.900 All right,

00:19:50.080 this one,

00:19:50.520 I'm not sure this helped him.

00:19:52.800 All right,

00:19:53.020 this may not have helped him

00:19:54.280 politically,

00:19:55.180 but it sure got attention.

00:19:56.760 And in the context

00:19:57.980 of a primary,

00:19:59.360 it's pretty strong.

00:20:00.820 It wouldn't be so good

00:20:01.980 in the general election,

00:20:03.480 but in the primary,

00:20:04.880 it's strong.

00:20:05.300 Here's what he said.

00:20:05.960 And see if you can detect

00:20:09.480 any Trump energy

00:20:12.040 or influence in this.

00:20:14.120 And what I mean by that is,

00:20:16.020 is he treating it

00:20:16.840 like it's funny?

00:20:18.460 Because he's talking about it

00:20:20.060 a little like Trump

00:20:20.800 talks about things.

00:20:22.120 Not this exact topic,

00:20:24.220 but just listen to this

00:20:25.280 and see if you can

00:20:26.060 just feel any Trump influence

00:20:28.140 on this.

00:20:31.340 So there's a story.

00:20:32.960 He calls for a range

00:20:33.600 of proposals about stuff.

00:20:34.960 And one of them

00:20:36.540 is having election day

00:20:38.380 be a national holiday.

00:20:41.240 So far,

00:20:42.120 so good.

00:20:43.500 Does everybody like

00:20:44.500 election day

00:20:45.120 to be a national holiday?

00:20:47.060 Make sure everybody votes.

00:20:49.840 I think it's pretty basic.

00:20:52.620 I would be totally

00:20:53.560 on board with that.

00:20:55.700 Right.

00:20:56.020 But here's where

00:20:56.740 he gets controversial.

00:20:59.600 But we'll cancel

00:21:01.020 one of the other ones

00:21:02.260 and make election day

00:21:03.760 a holiday.

00:21:05.220 Wait, what?

00:21:06.380 We're going to cancel

00:21:07.180 one of the other holidays?

00:21:09.440 Wait, what?

00:21:10.580 What are you talking about,

00:21:11.560 Vivek?

00:21:12.400 Why can't I not look away?

00:21:14.140 Why can't I look away?

00:21:15.560 What the hell

00:21:16.140 are you talking about?

00:21:17.800 My hair's on fire.

00:21:19.260 What are you going to cancel?

00:21:22.540 Quote,

00:21:23.220 cancel Juneteenth

00:21:24.520 Juneteenth

00:21:25.600 or one of the other

00:21:27.340 useless ones

00:21:28.240 we made up?

00:21:33.060 What?

00:21:35.340 One of the useless ones

00:21:37.020 we made up.

00:21:38.560 What?

00:21:40.900 And that's just on.

00:21:46.100 So here's his argument.

00:21:47.640 He stands with the, quote,

00:21:48.800 presumption of time-tested traditions.

00:21:51.340 Which is a hell

00:21:53.200 of a good way

00:21:53.900 to say that.

00:21:55.740 You could spend

00:21:57.160 your whole day

00:21:58.000 trying to think of,

00:21:59.660 you know,

00:22:00.300 five words that

00:22:01.640 will, you know,

00:22:03.380 back this point of view.

00:22:05.280 The presumption

00:22:06.100 of time-tested traditions.

00:22:08.220 Now, I'm not saying

00:22:08.900 I agree with that point

00:22:10.040 or don't.

00:22:11.480 I'm saying

00:22:12.120 it's masterful.

00:22:13.440 It's just masterful

00:22:14.440 the way he words it.

00:22:16.680 But he says,

00:22:17.660 the, quote,

00:22:18.080 spirit of Juneteenth

00:22:19.260 is already represented

00:22:20.860 with holidays

00:22:21.600 such as Martin Luther King

00:22:22.780 Jr. Day

00:22:23.360 and President's Day.

00:22:25.900 He says,

00:22:26.680 we shouldn't have

00:22:27.240 redundant holidays

00:22:28.380 that celebrate

00:22:29.640 overlapping purposes.

00:22:31.680 You should have

00:22:32.280 a distinct purpose.

00:22:35.900 He says that Juneteenth

00:22:37.400 was a made-up holiday

00:22:38.980 under, quote,

00:22:39.800 political duress

00:22:40.860 following the,

00:22:42.140 well, they call it

00:22:43.140 the murder of George Floyd

00:22:44.320 because

00:22:44.980 it's the news,

00:22:46.700 so they call it a murder.

00:22:47.440 which he said

00:22:49.100 is not how

00:22:50.260 we should create

00:22:50.920 holidays.

00:22:56.340 All right.

00:22:58.620 I love,

00:23:00.200 I love the

00:23:01.020 Trump-like energy

00:23:02.180 in this.

00:23:02.840 You know,

00:23:03.040 he might not like

00:23:03.760 that characterization,

00:23:05.120 but this is

00:23:05.700 total Trump energy.

00:23:07.640 He's taken a topic

00:23:08.800 that probably

00:23:09.320 nobody really

00:23:09.960 thinks about

00:23:10.700 or cares about,

00:23:11.820 and he's made

00:23:12.580 your hair catch on fire

00:23:13.840 until you want

00:23:14.900 to debate this thing,

00:23:15.840 which has no

00:23:17.080 importance to

00:23:18.240 anybody whatsoever.

00:23:20.860 Now,

00:23:21.660 I actually disagree

00:23:23.000 with his point.

00:23:24.480 I think Juneteenth

00:23:25.300 is a

00:23:26.420 perfectly acceptable

00:23:28.480 holiday.

00:23:29.980 I'm totally

00:23:30.960 a convert.

00:23:33.480 Why?

00:23:34.500 Because it was

00:23:35.180 literally the day

00:23:36.120 that every American

00:23:38.160 was free.

00:23:40.360 How is that

00:23:41.240 not worth a holiday?

00:23:42.440 the first day

00:23:44.180 in the history

00:23:45.460 of the country

00:23:45.980 that every American

00:23:47.420 was a free citizen.

00:23:48.920 Am I wrong?

00:23:49.660 That's what it was.

00:23:51.440 I'm not wrong

00:23:52.240 about what it is,

00:23:52.940 right?

00:23:54.400 No?

00:23:55.300 Somebody says no.

00:23:56.660 I thought it was

00:23:57.500 the day that the

00:23:58.420 last state got rid

00:23:59.460 of slavery.

00:24:02.460 Am I wrong

00:24:03.240 about the history?

00:24:04.580 Oh,

00:24:04.760 somebody says

00:24:05.240 you're wrong.

00:24:07.600 I thought it was

00:24:08.420 Texas, right?

00:24:09.180 Texas was the last

00:24:10.120 state.

00:24:10.360 Okay.

00:24:12.440 Hold on,

00:24:14.860 hold on.

00:24:16.360 So we have to

00:24:17.460 do a fact check.

00:24:18.160 There are a lot

00:24:18.540 of people who are

00:24:19.040 saying that the

00:24:20.420 holiday,

00:24:21.160 or at least what I

00:24:21.820 thought was the

00:24:22.300 point of the

00:24:22.620 holiday,

00:24:23.480 was historically

00:24:24.960 incorrect.

00:24:28.540 That's when they

00:24:29.160 found out.

00:24:31.500 Oh,

00:24:31.740 somebody's saying

00:24:32.260 it's not when it

00:24:32.840 ended,

00:24:33.220 it's when somebody

00:24:33.800 found out it

00:24:34.640 ended?

00:24:36.780 Why is there

00:24:37.420 any question

00:24:37.940 about this?

00:24:42.440 This is kind

00:24:45.760 of mind-blowing.

00:24:47.300 So are you

00:24:48.300 telling me that

00:24:48.880 if I look into

00:24:49.560 this, which I

00:24:50.160 haven't done,

00:24:51.180 so if I were to

00:24:51.840 Google this,

00:24:52.980 I would find that

00:24:53.820 Juneteenth is not

00:24:54.920 based on a

00:24:55.560 historical truth?

00:24:57.720 Give me a little

00:24:58.840 context here.

00:25:00.000 Are you saying

00:25:00.500 that the story,

00:25:02.080 that that was

00:25:02.680 sort of a day

00:25:03.660 when the last

00:25:04.640 Americans were

00:25:05.740 free,

00:25:06.460 that's historically

00:25:07.580 incorrect?

00:25:12.500 I don't know

00:25:13.180 what your

00:25:13.400 argument is.

00:25:14.140 I see a lot

00:25:14.760 of people got

00:25:15.180 all upset about

00:25:15.880 this, but

00:25:16.260 actually I don't

00:25:17.200 have any idea

00:25:18.180 what your

00:25:19.420 disagreement is.

00:25:20.280 I can't tell

00:25:20.740 it in the

00:25:20.980 comments.

00:25:23.660 Huh?

00:25:27.520 So there's a

00:25:28.800 narrative that

00:25:29.660 Juneteenth,

00:25:31.560 or at least

00:25:32.140 the essence of

00:25:33.220 it, is not

00:25:34.540 true in any

00:25:35.180 sense?

00:25:35.540 In no sense

00:25:37.740 it's true.

00:25:38.600 You're not

00:25:38.960 talking about

00:25:39.400 like technically

00:25:40.200 maybe the date

00:25:41.040 is off or

00:25:41.520 something.

00:25:42.080 You're talking

00:25:42.640 about even in

00:25:43.620 concept, nothing

00:25:45.180 like that happened?

00:25:46.120 That's what some

00:25:46.660 of you believe?

00:25:48.760 Oh, this is

00:25:49.480 really interesting.

00:25:52.840 So you're

00:25:53.860 saying it's the

00:25:54.380 day they found

00:25:54.940 out, but what's

00:25:55.580 wrong with that?

00:25:57.200 It's the day

00:25:58.060 they found out

00:25:59.140 they were free?

00:26:00.520 Because Texas

00:26:01.380 didn't tell them?

00:26:02.260 Is that what

00:26:02.660 you're saying?

00:26:04.640 But what,

00:26:05.540 what's wrong

00:26:06.140 with that is

00:26:06.600 the holiday.

00:26:07.280 The day they

00:26:07.780 found out would

00:26:08.460 be the day

00:26:08.840 they were free.

00:26:13.820 Isn't the,

00:26:14.660 right, in

00:26:15.220 Texas, I get

00:26:16.040 it.

00:26:17.440 So let's see

00:26:18.300 which parts you

00:26:20.300 agree with.

00:26:21.540 This is actually

00:26:22.300 fascinating to me.

00:26:23.800 Because you know,

00:26:24.780 my major theme

00:26:27.320 here is the

00:26:28.280 left not knowing

00:26:29.140 the news.

00:26:29.640 news, and you're

00:26:31.360 telling me that I

00:26:32.060 don't know the

00:26:32.600 news.

00:26:33.540 And you might be

00:26:34.120 right, because

00:26:34.940 like I said, I

00:26:35.600 haven't looked

00:26:35.940 into it.

00:26:40.760 Ah, so now,

00:26:43.080 well, let's do

00:26:44.160 this in real time.

00:26:46.020 Let us Google it.

00:26:48.320 I know, I know,

00:26:49.260 you're going to say

00:26:49.740 Google's biased, but

00:26:51.380 I want to see what

00:26:51.860 it says.

00:26:52.200 So if I say

00:26:54.440 Juneteenth in

00:26:55.620 Google, we'll do

00:26:56.440 Bing too.

00:27:00.260 And I know

00:27:01.120 you're screaming

00:27:01.680 at me, I'm not

00:27:02.340 looking up, and

00:27:03.160 you're screaming at

00:27:03.880 me, you're saying,

00:27:04.420 but it's all fake

00:27:05.420 on Google.

00:27:06.340 I know.

00:27:07.320 Just stay with me

00:27:08.380 for a minute.

00:27:08.820 We're just going

00:27:09.220 to see what it

00:27:09.580 says, okay?

00:27:12.020 And why do we

00:27:12.880 honor it?

00:27:14.380 All right, so

00:27:14.780 this would be the

00:27:15.800 first thing that

00:27:17.000 comes up.

00:27:19.380 Key historical

00:27:20.220 event.

00:27:20.680 the day all

00:27:22.800 people living in

00:27:23.480 the United States,

00:27:24.580 including the

00:27:25.240 formerly enslaved,

00:27:26.400 were officially

00:27:26.940 granted freedom.

00:27:29.600 So that's just

00:27:30.440 not a fact, some

00:27:32.040 of you think.

00:27:34.440 It's just, it

00:27:35.380 didn't happen?

00:27:38.820 What the hell

00:27:39.920 are you saying

00:27:40.440 is the lie?

00:27:41.740 What is the lie?

00:27:43.240 And by the way,

00:27:44.580 I'm not debating

00:27:45.520 you, so this is

00:27:46.900 not a debate.

00:27:47.900 This is me

00:27:48.560 genuinely being

00:27:49.660 wowed.

00:27:50.680 by how wrong

00:27:51.840 I could be

00:27:52.360 or how wrong

00:27:53.040 you could be.

00:27:53.580 I don't know

00:27:53.920 what the answer

00:27:54.380 is yet.

00:27:56.160 But give me

00:27:57.260 anything that's

00:27:57.900 a counterargument.

00:27:59.620 All right, I

00:27:59.960 think I got a

00:28:00.460 counterargument.

00:28:03.920 Marks the day

00:28:04.580 when federal

00:28:05.080 troops arrived

00:28:07.080 in Galveston,

00:28:08.640 Texas, to take

00:28:09.480 control of the

00:28:09.940 state and ensure

00:28:10.420 that all enslaved

00:28:11.020 people were freed.

00:28:11.740 So, all right,

00:28:17.940 here's what I'm

00:28:18.380 seeing.

00:28:21.920 Here's what I'm

00:28:22.620 seeing in the

00:28:23.100 comments.

00:28:26.160 And this will be

00:28:26.920 a good test of

00:28:27.820 the bullshit

00:28:28.360 filter.

00:28:28.980 Are you ready?

00:28:29.260 Tribes refused

00:28:36.880 to release

00:28:37.280 until they

00:28:37.820 were paid

00:28:38.140 for them.

00:28:39.480 They released

00:28:40.040 later.

00:28:41.660 Candace Owens

00:28:42.340 says no.

00:28:43.480 All right, so

00:28:44.180 you've presented

00:28:46.340 me with no

00:28:47.180 argument.

00:28:49.020 You know that,

00:28:49.640 right?

00:28:50.520 So I'm going to

00:28:51.120 watch a little bit

00:28:51.800 just on YouTube.

00:28:54.260 You've told me I'm

00:28:55.140 wrong, but you've

00:28:56.020 presented no argument.

00:28:56.940 It looks like

00:29:00.580 you're arguing

00:29:01.240 about the

00:29:02.000 technicality of

00:29:04.620 the date.

00:29:05.940 I don't have any

00:29:06.760 argument about the

00:29:07.540 technicality of the

00:29:08.500 date.

00:29:12.260 So your argument

00:29:13.460 is that it was

00:29:15.820 official in the

00:29:16.900 Emancipation

00:29:17.680 Proclamation.

00:29:18.620 I'm seeing

00:29:18.960 somebody's argument

00:29:19.700 here.

00:29:20.400 Since the

00:29:20.960 Emancipation

00:29:21.620 Proclamation was

00:29:22.560 complete, you

00:29:24.460 didn't need to go

00:29:25.140 into the details of

00:29:26.300 how long it took

00:29:27.300 somebody to find

00:29:28.080 out.

00:29:29.480 Is that your

00:29:29.980 argument?

00:29:31.040 You're saying

00:29:31.560 you, oh, I

00:29:32.740 totally disagree

00:29:33.440 then.

00:29:33.820 Okay.

00:29:34.580 All right.

00:29:35.100 If your argument

00:29:35.960 is that freedom

00:29:38.220 happened with the

00:29:39.040 Emancipation

00:29:39.700 Proclamation, but

00:29:41.580 that the details of

00:29:43.060 making people free

00:29:44.080 and knowing they

00:29:44.780 were free took a

00:29:45.640 while, is that

00:29:47.320 your argument?

00:29:48.300 So that you

00:29:48.780 should only celebrate

00:29:49.620 the Emancipation

00:29:51.200 Proclamation?

00:29:52.180 Well, we don't

00:29:52.780 have a holiday for

00:29:53.580 the Emancipation

00:29:54.360 Proclamation.

00:29:54.880 Well, I guess

00:29:56.400 July 4th.

00:29:59.760 Now, so is

00:30:00.820 your problem that

00:30:01.600 it's an extra

00:30:02.400 holiday and you

00:30:03.920 don't like

00:30:04.300 holidays?

00:30:07.800 I'm totally with

00:30:08.960 Black America on

00:30:09.900 this.

00:30:11.400 I hate to tell

00:30:12.320 you.

00:30:13.020 If you were

00:30:13.780 Black, you

00:30:14.320 wouldn't celebrate

00:30:14.960 the day that

00:30:16.040 seemed more

00:30:16.700 meaningfully to

00:30:18.580 be about freedom?

00:30:20.020 I would if I

00:30:21.360 were Black.

00:30:21.840 And I would

00:30:23.520 say, I'm not

00:30:24.120 Black, and I

00:30:24.660 still think it's

00:30:25.180 a good call.

00:30:27.580 Well, could we

00:30:28.420 agree to disagree

00:30:29.280 on this one?

00:30:30.700 Because this is

00:30:31.500 really entirely

00:30:32.180 about how you

00:30:32.660 feel.

00:30:34.580 If you're arguing

00:30:35.500 the details, I'm

00:30:36.780 not having any

00:30:37.380 argument about the

00:30:38.520 details.

00:30:39.100 I'll give you

00:30:39.680 Emancipation

00:30:40.360 Proclamation.

00:30:41.600 I'll give you

00:30:42.280 that maybe some

00:30:43.000 of the Native

00:30:43.420 Americans didn't

00:30:44.300 do some freeing

00:30:45.040 of slaves until

00:30:45.720 later.

00:30:46.600 So I'll give

00:30:47.280 you that there

00:30:47.740 was lots of

00:30:48.320 stuff to work

00:30:49.280 out.

00:30:49.600 And that the

00:30:51.500 Emancipation

00:30:52.420 Proclamation caused

00:30:54.400 all the other

00:30:54.980 things to get

00:30:55.540 worked out.

00:30:56.360 So it would be

00:30:56.960 the dominant

00:30:57.460 date.

00:30:58.020 I'll give you

00:30:58.360 that.

00:30:59.280 But are

00:31:00.780 holidays about

00:31:01.560 how you feel?

00:31:03.400 Wouldn't you

00:31:03.960 say?

00:31:04.860 You know, Memorial

00:31:05.660 Day is about

00:31:06.320 how you feel?

00:31:07.660 And hoping that

00:31:08.900 you continue to

00:31:10.020 feel a certain

00:31:10.660 way?

00:31:12.060 Christmas is

00:31:12.800 about how you

00:31:13.280 feel?

00:31:13.800 I guess Halloween

00:31:14.680 isn't so much

00:31:15.340 about how you

00:31:15.740 feel.

00:31:18.080 I don't

00:31:19.060 know.

00:31:19.140 The only

00:31:19.960 reason for a

00:31:20.580 holiday is

00:31:21.100 that the

00:31:21.820 country needs

00:31:22.820 a day off

00:31:23.460 and they

00:31:24.020 feel something

00:31:24.760 about the

00:31:25.800 purpose of

00:31:26.220 the holiday.

00:31:27.120 I feel

00:31:27.540 something about

00:31:28.120 that.

00:31:28.580 I feel

00:31:28.880 Juneteenth.

00:31:30.900 If a bunch

00:31:31.700 of other

00:31:31.980 people do,

00:31:33.360 I'm fine with

00:31:34.100 that being a

00:31:34.520 holiday.

00:31:35.600 I think we

00:31:36.040 needed another

00:31:37.080 June holiday

00:31:37.740 anyway.

00:31:38.620 All right.

00:31:38.940 I think we

00:31:39.360 settled that.

00:31:40.740 Is the bottom

00:31:41.540 line that if

00:31:42.940 you like the

00:31:43.420 Emancipation

00:31:44.120 Proclamation as

00:31:45.100 your one

00:31:46.380 freedom day,

00:31:47.580 that did

00:31:48.400 cause a

00:31:49.000 ripple effect

00:31:49.640 which caused

00:31:50.420 all the

00:31:50.720 freedom with

00:31:52.080 a little bit

00:31:52.600 of hiccups

00:31:53.520 over time.

00:31:54.500 I'll give you

00:31:54.980 that.

00:31:56.100 But if people

00:31:56.740 really like

00:31:57.300 their Juneteenth

00:31:58.160 and it does

00:31:59.060 speak to them

00:32:00.020 and June's a

00:32:01.720 good time for

00:32:02.220 a holiday,

00:32:04.360 I see everything

00:32:05.560 about that that's

00:32:06.240 good.

00:32:07.520 I don't have a

00:32:08.000 problem with it

00:32:08.480 all.

00:32:11.600 Rando says,

00:32:12.460 well, I hope

00:32:13.160 your moral

00:32:13.660 superiority is

00:32:14.680 worth it.

00:32:16.060 What else is

00:32:17.100 at stake?

00:32:18.740 Was there

00:32:19.120 something else

00:32:20.100 at stake that

00:32:20.740 I don't know

00:32:21.160 about?

00:32:22.080 Was I going

00:32:22.600 to lose

00:32:22.940 money?

00:32:24.020 Would it

00:32:24.320 cost me

00:32:24.720 money?

00:32:26.760 I don't

00:32:27.120 know.

00:32:27.420 I mean, I

00:32:27.940 don't take

00:32:28.240 that day off.

00:32:29.420 I don't take

00:32:30.180 any day off,

00:32:30.820 so they're all

00:32:31.180 the same

00:32:31.520 today.

00:32:34.040 Anyway,

00:32:35.440 is your

00:32:37.680 problem that

00:32:38.220 there are just

00:32:38.620 too many black

00:32:39.360 holidays now?

00:32:40.060 some of you

00:32:41.220 being over

00:32:41.880 black holiday?

00:32:43.620 You got your

00:32:44.340 MLK and you

00:32:46.240 got your Kwanzaa

00:32:47.180 and you think

00:32:47.840 that Juneteenth

00:32:48.580 is just too

00:32:49.200 far.

00:32:50.580 Just too

00:32:51.020 far.

00:32:52.000 I don't know.

00:32:53.100 I think

00:32:53.860 celebrating

00:32:54.740 American freedom

00:32:55.800 in all its

00:32:56.560 forms can't

00:32:57.460 get enough

00:32:57.840 of it.

00:32:58.820 I can't

00:32:59.320 get enough

00:32:59.720 of it.

00:33:00.880 But I'll

00:33:01.640 acknowledge that

00:33:02.580 you might feel

00:33:04.300 that it's a

00:33:05.320 little bit too

00:33:05.900 woke or

00:33:06.380 something.

00:33:07.920 I get

00:33:08.300 that.

00:33:09.560 All right.

00:33:10.060 So we

00:33:10.540 don't need

00:33:10.840 to argue

00:33:11.140 about that

00:33:11.740 because would

00:33:13.260 you agree

00:33:13.620 with my

00:33:14.060 bottom line

00:33:15.200 feeling that

00:33:16.520 whether there

00:33:17.080 is a national

00:33:17.660 holiday or

00:33:18.260 not really

00:33:19.660 depends how

00:33:20.140 you feel?

00:33:21.760 Would you

00:33:21.940 agree with

00:33:23.800 me on that?

00:33:25.200 It's not a

00:33:26.000 law.

00:33:27.060 It's not about

00:33:27.680 money.

00:33:28.880 It's just how

00:33:29.360 do you feel?

00:33:30.720 So if you

00:33:31.340 feel different,

00:33:32.740 there's not

00:33:33.200 really an

00:33:33.540 argument,

00:33:34.060 is there?

00:33:35.560 You would

00:33:36.380 just acknowledge

00:33:36.960 I feel this

00:33:37.620 way, I

00:33:38.140 acknowledge you

00:33:38.680 feel that

00:33:39.100 way?

00:33:39.320 whoever feels

00:33:41.560 the most

00:33:42.020 wins, I

00:33:42.800 guess.

00:33:44.460 All right.

00:33:48.800 Michael

00:33:49.280 Schellenberger is

00:33:50.160 tweeting and

00:33:50.660 writing about

00:33:51.080 how the

00:33:51.480 Biden White

00:33:52.100 House, we

00:33:52.540 know they

00:33:52.880 were trying

00:33:54.900 to influence

00:33:55.840 Facebook to

00:33:56.760 censor some

00:33:57.480 content, but

00:33:58.600 what we didn't

00:33:59.260 know is how

00:33:59.900 hard they

00:34:00.420 strong-armed

00:34:01.080 them, which

00:34:01.760 I guess pushes

00:34:02.660 it into

00:34:03.260 illegal territory,

00:34:04.920 not a guess.

00:34:05.680 if the

00:34:06.440 government is

00:34:07.080 telling somebody

00:34:07.720 to censor,

00:34:09.500 that feels

00:34:10.260 pretty illegal

00:34:10.920 to me, given

00:34:13.460 all our

00:34:13.820 freedoms and

00:34:14.400 whatnot.

00:34:15.640 But anyway,

00:34:16.140 apparently the

00:34:16.740 White House

00:34:17.220 threatened or

00:34:19.500 did a, let's

00:34:20.460 say, I don't

00:34:21.160 know if the

00:34:21.500 threat's the right

00:34:22.060 word, but a

00:34:22.840 quid pro quo

00:34:23.640 with Facebook,

00:34:24.500 because Facebook

00:34:25.040 needed Biden to

00:34:26.880 force Europe to

00:34:27.680 allow data flows

00:34:28.640 into the U.S.

00:34:29.440 So there was

00:34:30.160 some issue

00:34:30.640 that Facebook

00:34:31.440 needed solved

00:34:32.380 politically, and

00:34:34.120 in return for

00:34:34.940 that, they may

00:34:35.680 have done some

00:34:36.940 extra censoring.

00:34:38.860 That's really

00:34:39.820 bad.

00:34:41.780 That's super

00:34:42.640 corrupt.

00:34:43.520 I don't know if

00:34:44.240 it's illegal.

00:34:45.460 I mean, it

00:34:45.960 looks like it

00:34:46.460 is, but I'm

00:34:48.380 no lawyer.

00:34:50.000 But it's super

00:34:51.000 corrupt.

00:34:52.480 And it's super

00:34:53.680 corrupt not to

00:34:54.520 at least be

00:34:55.500 transparent about

00:34:56.380 it.

00:34:57.480 You know, I'm

00:34:58.180 not even sure if

00:34:58.860 this would have

00:34:59.280 bothered me if

00:35:01.320 it was transparent.

00:35:03.760 Let me think

00:35:04.500 about that.

00:35:05.340 Suppose you knew

00:35:06.220 from the start

00:35:06.980 that the U.S.

00:35:08.940 had agreed with

00:35:10.160 Facebook to

00:35:11.780 help them, but

00:35:12.780 it was good for

00:35:13.420 a U.S.

00:35:13.920 company.

00:35:15.080 Would you have

00:35:15.640 problems with the

00:35:17.220 government helping

00:35:18.420 a U.S.

00:35:18.960 company?

00:35:20.560 I don't think

00:35:21.300 that's not a

00:35:22.540 problem.

00:35:23.480 But we don't

00:35:24.400 know for sure

00:35:25.060 that it wouldn't

00:35:25.640 have happened,

00:35:26.880 but the reporting

00:35:27.840 is that it was

00:35:28.580 used as a

00:35:29.300 specific threat.

00:35:30.960 So I guess you

00:35:31.900 don't need to

00:35:32.360 know if they

00:35:32.760 would have

00:35:33.040 carried out

00:35:33.480 the threat.

00:35:34.140 The threat

00:35:34.660 itself is

00:35:36.060 suppression of

00:35:36.640 free speech.

00:35:38.760 Yeah.

00:35:39.540 All right.

00:35:39.940 So that's as

00:35:40.640 bad as it

00:35:41.060 looks.

00:35:41.280 I guess the

00:35:45.760 Biden laptop and

00:35:46.940 all the

00:35:47.220 Devon Archer

00:35:47.900 revelations about

00:35:49.100 the big guy is

00:35:50.600 in my imagination

00:35:51.440 that except for

00:35:53.040 the very right

00:35:54.000 leading media,

00:35:55.160 the entire media

00:35:56.040 is ignoring the

00:35:56.820 story.

00:35:58.380 And the latest

00:35:59.240 is Jamie Raskin.

00:36:01.440 He said on

00:36:02.300 News Nation

00:36:02.900 with Cuomo.

00:36:05.160 He said that

00:36:06.160 Hunter Biden

00:36:08.720 was obviously

00:36:09.420 trying to divert

00:36:10.440 the different

00:36:10.920 kinds of money

00:36:11.720 into bank

00:36:13.440 accounts for

00:36:14.700 the family.

00:36:16.100 But Raskin

00:36:16.820 says that he's

00:36:18.480 never, but none

00:36:19.920 of that involved

00:36:20.660 President Joe

00:36:21.660 Biden.

00:36:23.000 Right.

00:36:23.360 So the money

00:36:23.940 that went into

00:36:24.480 bank accounts

00:36:25.200 went into family

00:36:26.080 bank accounts that

00:36:27.040 did not include

00:36:27.960 Joe Biden, who

00:36:29.260 may or may not

00:36:29.920 be the big guy.

00:36:31.120 I wonder who

00:36:32.180 is.

00:36:32.480 and that the

00:36:36.100 president, quote,

00:36:37.120 has never been

00:36:37.880 accused meaningfully

00:36:39.140 of any corruption

00:36:40.400 in his life.

00:36:43.980 What?

00:36:45.580 Are there actually

00:36:46.640 Democrats who

00:36:48.500 had listened to

00:36:49.280 Jamie Raskin say

00:36:50.400 that Biden has

00:36:51.460 never been accused

00:36:52.420 of any corruption?

00:36:53.220 I thought he was

00:36:55.700 famously the most

00:36:56.760 corrupt politician

00:36:58.320 we've ever known

00:36:59.240 and that everybody's

00:37:00.940 known it forever.

00:37:02.220 He's always lived

00:37:03.400 in a house that's

00:37:04.120 too big for what

00:37:04.960 his income was.

00:37:06.680 Everybody knows it.

00:37:08.880 Everybody knows it.

00:37:10.620 And now that we've

00:37:11.540 seen the entire,

00:37:13.020 you know, the

00:37:13.780 Hunter money-making

00:37:15.100 schemes and how it

00:37:16.220 works in China,

00:37:17.520 et cetera,

00:37:19.060 everybody's accused

00:37:20.100 of meaningful.

00:37:20.900 I mean, everybody

00:37:22.440 who's seen those

00:37:23.020 stories has accused

00:37:24.660 him of corruption.

00:37:29.420 And certainly the

00:37:30.700 Biden laptop thing

00:37:32.080 was corruption.

00:37:33.400 I think Biden was

00:37:34.780 behind the Russia

00:37:35.880 collusion hoax, or

00:37:37.480 at least was, you

00:37:38.600 know, aware of it.

00:37:41.080 It's amazing that

00:37:42.320 somebody could say

00:37:42.900 he's never been

00:37:43.480 meaningfully accused.

00:37:44.900 What?

00:37:45.880 But here's what's

00:37:46.620 the funny thing.

00:37:47.740 So we started out

00:37:48.720 with Joe Biden,

00:37:51.340 doesn't know

00:37:52.020 anything about

00:37:53.940 Hunter's business.

00:37:55.840 Doesn't know

00:37:56.400 anything about it.

00:37:58.200 Okay, well, there's

00:37:59.020 some memos to show

00:38:00.000 maybe he knew

00:38:00.760 something about it.

00:38:01.420 So, well, you could

00:38:02.240 say the cat's in the

00:38:03.480 tree and you can't

00:38:04.200 get him down.

00:38:05.260 But no big deal.

00:38:06.600 You'll get the cat

00:38:07.260 down.

00:38:08.360 And then we find

00:38:09.300 out, ooh, you know,

00:38:10.800 Devin Archer and all

00:38:11.940 these other documents

00:38:12.960 and the big guy, and

00:38:14.160 we got the bank

00:38:14.840 accounts and the

00:38:15.700 money, and we know

00:38:16.900 that his bills were

00:38:17.880 being paid by Hunter,

00:38:19.240 and Hunter was

00:38:20.060 mad that he's

00:38:21.040 been paying his

00:38:21.600 father's bills for

00:38:22.400 so many years and

00:38:23.420 all that.

00:38:24.660 And now the cat's,

00:38:27.480 you know, on the

00:38:28.720 roof, or not in

00:38:30.180 the tree, but he's

00:38:31.000 fallen off the roof

00:38:31.940 and he's injured.

00:38:33.980 It's going to the

00:38:34.740 vets, but we'll give

00:38:36.240 you an update

00:38:36.660 tomorrow.

00:38:37.680 He goes, no.

00:38:38.460 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:38:39.680 Yeah, Hunter was

00:38:40.320 making a lot of money

00:38:41.120 and it went to

00:38:41.600 everybody and he

00:38:42.580 certainly paid the

00:38:43.280 bills for the big

00:38:44.060 guy, whoever the

00:38:44.780 big guy was.

00:38:45.500 We're not quite

00:38:46.400 sure.

00:38:47.660 Oh, my God.

00:38:49.440 The fact that

00:38:50.680 Raskin has ridden

00:38:52.220 this scandal all

00:38:53.340 the way down to he

00:38:54.800 didn't have a

00:38:55.400 specific bank

00:38:56.240 account for his

00:38:57.000 corruption.

00:38:58.340 That's what they're

00:38:59.180 down to.

00:39:00.460 Oh, yeah, all of

00:39:01.800 the things that

00:39:02.520 looked like they

00:39:03.420 happened, happened,

00:39:04.680 but did he have a

00:39:05.920 bank account?

00:39:07.180 Huh?

00:39:07.860 Huh?

00:39:08.580 Huh?

00:39:09.740 Sure.

00:39:10.700 Sure, he may have

00:39:11.520 been doing things

00:39:12.200 with other countries

00:39:12.980 that influence policy.

00:39:14.740 We might actually

00:39:15.840 be involved in a

00:39:16.720 major war in

00:39:17.500 Ukraine, in part

00:39:19.360 because of Biden's

00:39:21.880 actions, but here's

00:39:24.060 what's important.

00:39:25.760 We haven't found a

00:39:26.760 specific bank account.

00:39:29.340 That's what he's

00:39:30.240 relying on.

00:39:30.880 That's all he has

00:39:31.420 left.

00:39:33.540 Laughably pathetic.

00:39:37.100 All right.

00:39:38.760 Then I was watching

00:39:40.040 Alan Dershowitz talk

00:39:41.560 about Jack Smith,

00:39:42.800 the prosecutor, the

00:39:43.820 Trump prosecutor.

00:39:44.740 And I didn't know

00:39:46.720 this, but oh my

00:39:48.960 God, oh my God, do I

00:39:53.200 hate my country right

00:39:54.200 now.

00:39:54.760 The government, not

00:39:55.880 the country.

00:39:57.480 According to

00:39:58.520 Dershowitz, the

00:39:59.680 Jack Smith indictment

00:40:00.960 against Trump for

00:40:03.440 inciting the violence

00:40:06.360 on January 6th, the

00:40:08.920 indictment included his

00:40:10.480 speech that is being

00:40:13.680 used as evidence of

00:40:14.960 incitement, and

00:40:16.960 omitted the part of

00:40:18.300 the speech where he

00:40:19.240 told people to be

00:40:20.280 peaceful and

00:40:21.580 patriotic.

00:40:23.140 He actually omitted

00:40:25.640 from the indictment

00:40:27.180 the most important

00:40:29.660 part.

00:40:31.400 The most important

00:40:32.860 part.

00:40:33.740 The part where he

00:40:34.940 said publicly,

00:40:36.180 directly, and at the

00:40:37.980 moment that it

00:40:38.680 mattered, peacefully and

00:40:40.720 patriotically, the very

00:40:42.300 opposite of an

00:40:43.260 insurrection, he left

00:40:46.120 it out.

00:40:47.700 And as Dershowitz

00:40:48.620 points out, more for

00:40:50.340 cleverness than for

00:40:51.800 reality, that if

00:40:53.620 Jack Smith's theory

00:40:55.500 that Trump's lying

00:40:57.720 caused something to

00:40:59.660 happen in the real

00:41:00.300 world, and that that

00:41:02.280 was bad, that the same

00:41:04.700 theory would put Jack

00:41:05.920 Smith in jail.

00:41:07.540 In other words, Trump

00:41:08.520 is being tried, or

00:41:10.740 he'll be, yeah, I

00:41:12.500 guess tried, for, at

00:41:15.140 least indicted, for

00:41:16.720 exactly the same

00:41:17.760 crime, in type

00:41:19.740 anyway, the same

00:41:20.800 crime that the

00:41:21.420 prosecutor is doing by

00:41:22.580 indicting him.

00:41:24.260 And we're watching

00:41:25.280 this in real time, and

00:41:27.680 this guy's still on the

00:41:28.680 job.

00:41:29.940 He's still employed.

00:41:33.060 Why wouldn't you just

00:41:34.120 stop everything?

00:41:35.920 If I found out that

00:41:37.620 the prosecutor had

00:41:38.600 worked all this time,

00:41:40.000 and then had an

00:41:41.320 indictment and left

00:41:42.260 out the most important

00:41:43.340 piece of evidence, the

00:41:44.700 most important part, the

00:41:46.340 exculpatory part, you

00:41:48.420 should fire him and put

00:41:49.820 him in jail.

00:41:51.180 You should be jailed.

00:41:54.020 Absolutely, he should be

00:41:55.020 in jail, based on what

00:41:58.020 we've heard.

00:41:59.120 Now, of course,

00:41:59.760 everybody gets, you

00:42:00.640 know, innocent until

00:42:01.320 proven guilty, gets a

00:42:02.280 trial, blah, blah, blah,

00:42:04.180 blah.

00:42:04.400 But, to me, this looks

00:42:06.640 jailable.

00:42:08.200 I mean, to me, it looks

00:42:09.320 like absolute corruption.

00:42:11.220 And I can't believe that

00:42:12.440 Jack Smith would do this

00:42:13.580 without the Biden

00:42:14.340 administration either

00:42:16.660 making sure in advance he

00:42:17.980 would do it or pressuring

00:42:19.020 him to do it.

00:42:20.340 So, to me, this looks

00:42:21.360 like immense government

00:42:23.100 corruption.

00:42:24.500 Maybe the worst thing I've

00:42:25.820 ever seen, possibly.

00:42:27.580 I mean, the Russia

00:42:28.160 collusion hoax and the

00:42:29.860 Biden laptop hoax were

00:42:32.260 insane, insane corruption.

00:42:35.540 But this might be a new

00:42:36.760 level, maybe taking it to

00:42:38.480 a new level.

00:42:39.420 And why did I have to

00:42:40.400 hear that from Dershowitz?

00:42:43.060 I didn't hear that on the

00:42:44.360 news.

00:42:46.620 I had to hear from

00:42:47.540 Dershowitz, who does his

00:42:49.740 own little video so I can

00:42:50.900 see it.

00:42:51.240 If I didn't have a Twitter

00:42:54.420 slash X account, would I

00:42:56.560 know that Jack Smith left

00:42:58.060 out of the indictment the

00:43:00.300 most important part of the

00:43:01.640 information?

00:43:02.360 The most important part.

00:43:03.960 How would I know that?

00:43:06.360 I would not know that.

00:43:08.140 Do you think any Democrats

00:43:09.360 at all are aware that the

00:43:11.740 indictment left out the most

00:43:12.900 important part?

00:43:14.680 I'll bet not.

00:43:15.540 I didn't know it until this

00:43:16.480 morning.

00:43:17.240 And if I didn't know it, I'm

00:43:19.000 pretty sure the left doesn't

00:43:20.180 know it.

00:43:21.240 It's just, everything in the

00:43:25.740 news is just making you

00:43:26.780 shake your head.

00:43:29.140 Let's talk about that

00:43:30.120 Barbie movie.

00:43:31.700 Bill Maher saw the Barbie

00:43:33.420 movie.

00:43:34.560 And he wasn't loving the

00:43:37.640 wokeness of it.

00:43:39.120 Apparently, I haven't seen

00:43:40.200 it, but apparently Barbie

00:43:41.720 fights the patriarchy,

00:43:43.700 including the board of her

00:43:45.900 own Mattel company, which in

00:43:48.180 the real world has seven men

00:43:50.200 and five women.

00:43:51.240 But in the Barbie movie, which

00:43:52.960 is supposedly set in 2023, the

00:43:55.700 patriarchy is in charge and

00:43:57.360 their own board is all men.

00:44:01.960 And Mattel allowed that to be

00:44:03.260 made.

00:44:04.880 And apparently boards across the

00:44:06.800 country are, you know, way

00:44:08.940 closer to being diversified with

00:44:12.040 at least male and female than

00:44:13.840 ever before.

00:44:14.500 And so Bill Maher is calling it a

00:44:17.500 zombie lie, you know, the lie that

00:44:19.460 the patriarchy is running

00:44:20.720 everything and that this movie is

00:44:22.700 based on that.

00:44:23.880 Imagine a generation of young

00:44:25.700 girls who go to the Barbie movie

00:44:28.260 and learn that they live in a

00:44:30.920 patriarchy.

00:44:32.840 When actually the opposite is true at

00:44:34.880 the moment, that the patriarchy is

00:44:37.520 pretty weak.

00:44:38.020 All right.

00:44:41.400 Speaking of Vivek, he also did a

00:44:44.220 news interview and one of the

00:44:45.640 topics was climate change.

00:44:47.700 And oh, my God, you have to see it.

00:44:50.620 It's the best.

00:44:52.160 I've never seen a political figure

00:44:54.220 handle a climate change discussion

00:44:57.120 at this level.

00:44:58.900 Well, I'm going to tell you

00:45:00.680 unequivocally that Vivek is

00:45:05.740 operating at a level that is

00:45:07.480 entirely above the rest of the

00:45:09.540 field on climate change, some

00:45:11.820 other things as well.

00:45:13.180 But let me just give you a sense of

00:45:15.360 what he did on climate change.

00:45:17.500 So the interviewer, let's say, is a

00:45:20.960 believer that climate change is a

00:45:22.860 big problem and said, how do you

00:45:25.420 explain to Vivek, how do you

00:45:26.840 explain that Florida won't even

00:45:29.380 offer insurance for homeowners, for

00:45:32.060 certain kinds of insurance, I

00:45:33.240 guess, because of climate change.

00:45:36.940 Now, what would a normal politician

00:45:39.160 do with that question?

00:45:41.120 Change the subject?

00:45:42.300 I don't know.

00:45:44.020 Vivek actually showed that he knew

00:45:45.840 more about the topic than she did by

00:45:47.660 far, went into the details of the

00:45:50.660 insurance business and why she's

00:45:53.700 wrong that this is about climate

00:45:55.200 change, told her what it was really

00:45:57.520 about, and absolutely eviscerated her

00:46:01.020 point, and that was just the first

00:46:02.900 point.

00:46:04.200 So the first thing she says of blah,

00:46:05.740 blah, Florida insurance, he destroyed

00:46:08.880 it by showing that he knew more about

00:46:11.400 the topic than any politician I've

00:46:13.800 ever seen.

00:46:14.740 I mean, he actually had a mastery of

00:46:16.880 all the parts, and he very quickly

00:46:18.920 showed you he had a mastery of it, and

00:46:20.860 he even understood all the insurance

00:46:22.360 business and all the parts.

00:46:24.240 And I just, my jaw dropped.

00:46:26.360 I was like, did I, I just watched a

00:46:29.560 presidential candidate describe details

00:46:33.780 of insurance, which was a very

00:46:36.240 important question.

00:46:37.180 I thought it was a good question.

00:46:39.240 And he did it perfectly.

00:46:40.820 Like, when he's done, you say to

00:46:42.280 yourself, okay, issue off the table.

00:46:44.860 That's what I thought.

00:46:45.760 It was like, oh, I'd never heard of

00:46:47.300 those things.

00:46:47.820 That's, that's a good argument.

00:46:49.560 And now I'm, I'm moving on.

00:46:52.600 Then, then she pointed out some, you

00:46:56.500 know, specific situation of places that

00:46:58.560 are hotter than ever.

00:47:00.440 And then Vivek, who I remind you, is

00:47:03.900 running as a Republican.

00:47:06.000 This is important to the story.

00:47:07.780 He's running as a Republican, and he

00:47:10.280 says with a twinkle in his eye, as

00:47:13.280 somebody's saying in the comments, he

00:47:14.960 says with a twinkle in his eye, if

00:47:18.560 anybody from the right had used an

00:47:21.620 anecdote to back their scientific

00:47:23.840 claims, they would be mocked.

00:47:30.020 Oh, my God.

00:47:33.060 Because it's even what Trump does.

00:47:35.140 I mean, Trump does the thing where, you

00:47:36.820 know, if it snows, he says climate

00:47:38.520 change isn't real.

00:47:40.180 And you, and I just groan when I hear

00:47:41.780 that, like, oh, I know it's popular.

00:47:44.300 I know it's funny, but, oh, I just

00:47:48.480 groan.

00:47:49.820 And then I see Vivek give exactly the

00:47:52.300 right answer.

00:47:53.260 Exactly the right answer is, you're a

00:47:55.580 fucking moron if you're giving me

00:47:57.660 anecdotes in a science conversation.

00:48:01.260 And he didn't say that, but it was so

00:48:04.460 clear from the twinkle in his eye that

00:48:07.020 he just owned her, just frickin' owned

00:48:10.860 her on live TV.

00:48:12.120 It was just a joy to watch, to watch the

00:48:15.640 Republican.

00:48:16.640 So then she's sort of challenging him on

00:48:18.580 what I imagine she thinks, I imagine,

00:48:22.120 she thought would be his conservative,

00:48:24.740 Republican, backwards, anti-scientific

00:48:27.680 opinion of climate change.

00:48:30.000 And he says, let me explain my views,

00:48:32.740 give you some context.

00:48:34.800 He says, now this is Vivek, don't argue

00:48:37.120 with me.

00:48:38.180 I agree with him, but don't argue

00:48:40.000 with me.

00:48:40.820 He said, yes, the planet's warming.

00:48:43.440 Yes, humans are part of it.

00:48:46.200 And then that's pacing.

00:48:48.600 Pacing is the part where you agree with

00:48:50.820 the big part of the argument, which he

00:48:52.520 did.

00:48:53.520 And then he said, here's where we're

00:48:55.000 different.

00:48:55.880 And then he said that the deaths from

00:48:57.740 temperature are down 98%.

00:48:59.540 And then she's like, blah, blah, blah,

00:49:04.480 more people dying of heat.

00:49:06.500 Yes.

00:49:07.440 But the net, because way more people

00:49:10.940 die of cold, so the net is that a

00:49:13.720 warmer planet saves way more lives.

00:49:16.540 And the thing that saves even more

00:49:18.040 lives is having access to fossil fuel

00:49:21.280 energy.

00:49:21.660 That's how you save a lot of lives.

00:49:26.060 Just destroyed her argument.

00:49:29.520 Now, to be fair, she did have one

00:49:33.200 argument left that she didn't use

00:49:35.020 because she wasn't up on the topic.

00:49:38.440 Right?

00:49:38.920 So what would be her best reply to

00:49:43.140 somebody saying that the warming so

00:49:45.920 far has been all positive, meaning that

00:49:49.000 the net is more people alive and we're

00:49:52.260 really good at, you know, mitigating

00:49:53.960 temperature problems now.

00:49:56.720 So the warmer means probably more

00:49:59.320 foliage.

00:50:02.620 So if a fake said there's actually more

00:50:04.460 trees and bushes than there were, I

00:50:06.740 don't know, when climate change was

00:50:09.040 allegedly not so bad.

00:50:11.640 Is it the topic?

00:50:14.200 Is YouTube just going to turn me off?

00:50:16.840 Or is that just a coincidence?

00:50:19.000 Because I'm not having a problem on the

00:50:20.960 other platform, I don't think.

00:50:22.740 Is locals having any problem?

00:50:28.360 All right.

00:50:28.880 No problem on one platform.

00:50:30.320 All right.

00:50:30.680 Well, that's a big coincidence, isn't it?

00:50:33.040 So here's...

00:50:34.480 So let me get back to that.

00:50:36.400 So Vivek says that so far the warming

00:50:38.540 has been positive.

00:50:40.140 More people are alive, fewer people

00:50:42.580 are dying of the cold.

00:50:43.720 We're mitigating.

00:50:45.200 What is the counter argument to that?

00:50:47.400 Because remember, Vivek has already agreed

00:50:50.220 that humans are causing the warming

00:50:52.780 and it is getting warmer.

00:50:55.700 What's the counter argument?

00:50:59.060 There we go.

00:51:00.040 Yes.

00:51:00.460 The counter argument is that it's a...

00:51:03.140 There's a limit problem.

00:51:05.740 The counter argument is you reach a point

00:51:07.860 where you fall off a shelf.

00:51:09.940 So that you reach a point where there's

00:51:11.500 something unsustainable.

00:51:12.740 Maybe, I don't know, the coral in the ocean dies

00:51:15.680 and causes a cascade of something, something.

00:51:18.180 I don't know.

00:51:18.800 So the argument is that it's not a...

00:51:21.700 sort of a gradual warming

00:51:24.980 and we just sort of keep adjusting to it,

00:51:27.760 but rather it's gradual until it's not.

00:51:31.120 All right.

00:51:31.720 So that's the argument from the climate alarm people.

00:51:34.740 It's going to be okay until it's not

00:51:37.580 and when it's not, it's going to be really bad, bad

00:51:40.220 and the country falls apart

00:51:42.000 and the world falls apart.

00:51:43.740 Now, I don't know that that's true.

00:51:46.660 And I think Vivek would have a counter to that,

00:51:49.260 which is it's been wrong every day so far.

00:51:53.320 Why would it suddenly become true?

00:51:55.400 And the answer is you can't get warmer forever.

00:51:58.880 You know, at some point,

00:52:00.440 at some point, isn't it disruptive?

00:52:02.820 Now, I do like the argument

00:52:06.180 that even though there are lots of ecosystems

00:52:09.100 that would be destroyed,

00:52:11.480 I think that's a given,

00:52:13.220 wouldn't there be other ecosystems

00:52:15.580 that would be enhanced?

00:52:18.280 And who's to say that the enhancing

00:52:20.540 doesn't help the poor people there

00:52:23.400 more than the degradation in this ecosystem

00:52:27.300 helps the rich people

00:52:29.120 that might be living on the beach house?

00:52:31.020 So there's nobody who's really done the math

00:52:34.340 to find out if the warming over here

00:52:37.280 is helping the poor

00:52:38.440 more than the warming over here.

00:52:41.720 So nobody really knows.

00:52:43.380 That's an unknowable thing.

00:52:46.180 But I think I just loved

00:52:48.860 the quality of this discussion,

00:52:51.180 but you can see the problem here.

00:52:54.240 Here you had one person

00:52:55.400 who knew so much more than the host.

00:52:57.520 The host didn't really have the pushback

00:53:01.400 because there is pushback.

00:53:03.120 There is.

00:53:04.960 But he didn't get it.

00:53:08.440 All right.

00:53:13.520 There's a FBI agent

00:53:15.340 who's pleading guilty

00:53:16.620 to colluding with Russia.

00:53:20.980 Well, that's no big deal, right?

00:53:23.800 I mean, you got a dirty FBI agent

00:53:25.780 maybe did a little...

00:53:27.580 Took some money from a Russian oligarch.

00:53:29.420 That's no problem.

00:53:30.100 Let's see.

00:53:30.300 Who is this guy?

00:53:32.460 Well, he's worked on other things before.

00:53:34.400 Let's see.

00:53:35.780 Oh, it's the same agent

00:53:36.920 who started the entire

00:53:38.460 Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

00:53:41.100 So he was a pivotal player

00:53:44.920 in the Russia collusion hoax

00:53:46.840 while taking money from Russia.

00:53:53.060 That's...

00:53:53.660 He's ex-FBI, yeah.

00:53:55.440 Ex-FBI, let's call him.

00:53:57.540 That's...

00:53:58.620 Yep, that's just what you thought it was.

00:54:05.640 Let's talk about Fauci and the lab leak.

00:54:07.940 Barry Weiss has more information on this.

00:54:12.140 There's a trove of emails

00:54:13.280 and Slack messages

00:54:14.260 and other documents

00:54:15.420 revealing that Fauci's

00:54:17.140 behind-the-scenes involvement

00:54:18.500 with journalists and scientists

00:54:19.980 in the lab leak theory.

00:54:22.260 And apparently there's a quote

00:54:24.080 from somebody saying,

00:54:25.000 Tony doesn't want his fingerprints

00:54:26.360 on the origin story.

00:54:28.760 So just like you thought,

00:54:31.700 the government,

00:54:32.580 or at least Fauci,

00:54:33.560 as a representative of the government,

00:54:35.360 was in fact managing

00:54:37.760 the media reporting

00:54:39.340 not to make it more accurate.

00:54:42.780 Not to make it more accurate.

00:54:45.600 It was just what you thought it was.

00:54:47.700 If you had bad suspicions

00:54:49.200 about Fauci managing information,

00:54:52.440 yep, it was exactly

00:54:53.580 what you thought it was.

00:54:57.140 What else we got here?

00:54:58.880 All right, here's the political mistake

00:55:01.400 of the day, I think,

00:55:03.480 from RFK Jr.

00:55:05.680 So he tweeted today

00:55:06.700 that he's got an economic plan.

00:55:09.020 He said it's going to help

00:55:10.160 the middle class.

00:55:11.380 He said the average income

00:55:12.400 in our country is $5,000 less

00:55:14.280 than the basic cost of living.

00:55:17.360 The issue?

00:55:18.320 Very good.

00:55:19.400 He'd like to revive the middle class.

00:55:21.380 So far, I like it.

00:55:23.260 He says, I'm going to change that.

00:55:25.020 Over the course of the next few weeks,

00:55:26.780 I'll be releasing an economic plan

00:55:29.140 that focuses on ending

00:55:30.860 the corrupt merger of state

00:55:32.440 and corporate power

00:55:33.360 to make sure Americans

00:55:35.060 can pay their bills, basically.

00:55:37.480 Now, he doesn't give any details

00:55:39.920 of his economic plan to come.

00:55:42.500 But the one thing we know about it

00:55:44.840 is that it will result

00:55:46.040 in the middle class

00:55:46.960 having a lot more cash.

00:55:51.280 How do you do that?

00:55:53.460 Here's why I call this

00:55:54.600 a political mistake.

00:55:55.680 As I tweeted in response,

00:55:58.920 it sounds like a forced

00:55:59.960 transfer of wealth.

00:56:01.600 And if that's not the plan,

00:56:03.700 I would throw in a few words

00:56:05.300 like free market.

00:56:07.680 Right?

00:56:08.620 If you don't see free market

00:56:10.360 as part of how somebody else

00:56:13.560 is going to make money,

00:56:14.780 how are they going to make money

00:56:16.160 without the economy

00:56:18.920 being better for everybody?

00:56:20.920 How are they going to make money?

00:56:22.740 They're going to have more money

00:56:23.720 when his economic plan

00:56:24.940 is it's got to be

00:56:26.400 a forced transfer,

00:56:28.020 as in somebody gets taxed

00:56:29.720 or something like that.

00:56:32.500 So, have you ever had

00:56:34.860 this situation?

00:56:37.000 Well, let me tell you

00:56:38.080 a story that happened to me.

00:56:39.520 I've told this story,

00:56:40.460 but it fits perfectly

00:56:41.560 in this case again.

00:56:42.980 So, many years ago,

00:56:44.340 I had a suspicious lump

00:56:45.860 on my throat

00:56:46.740 that could have been cancer.

00:56:49.180 And I got it x-rayed,

00:56:50.440 and I go to the doctor

00:56:51.780 who's going to finally

00:56:53.360 tell people what the x-ray said.

00:56:55.640 So, the x-ray is one process,

00:56:57.380 but then you have

00:56:58.140 a doctor's appointment later

00:56:59.400 to discuss it.

00:57:01.860 So, I'm sitting in the waiting room

00:57:04.300 with the other people

00:57:05.260 who were in my situation.

00:57:06.440 They're all waiting

00:57:07.100 for the same doctor

00:57:08.000 who has read their x-rays

00:57:10.700 to tell them if they have cancer.

00:57:13.420 So, the doctor opens the door,

00:57:15.180 and I'm like,

00:57:15.500 oh, shoot, oh, shoot, oh,

00:57:16.660 is this me,

00:57:18.140 or is this for somebody else?

00:57:19.760 And he goes,

00:57:20.340 uh, Mrs. Garcia.

00:57:22.360 And Mrs. Garcia

00:57:23.300 raises his name,

00:57:24.000 and he goes,

00:57:24.680 uh, good news,

00:57:26.040 uh, x-rays are fine,

00:57:27.420 you, you know,

00:57:28.080 you're all good,

00:57:28.900 come on in,

00:57:29.440 I'll tell you about it.

00:57:31.280 And I'm like, phew,

00:57:32.560 Mrs. Garcia got good news.

00:57:34.420 And he comes out again,

00:57:35.260 and he goes, uh, Mr. Smith.

00:57:36.940 Mr. Smith, everything's good.

00:57:38.300 Come on in,

00:57:38.700 we'll talk about it.

00:57:39.420 All clear.

00:57:40.700 I'm like, ah,

00:57:41.660 Garcia and Smith,

00:57:42.680 I'm next.

00:57:43.600 He comes out,

00:57:44.180 and he goes, uh,

00:57:44.980 Mr. Adams.

00:57:46.280 And I'm like, yes.

00:57:48.140 And he says,

00:57:49.240 could you come in my office

00:57:50.880 for a minute?

00:57:53.760 That's what RFK Jr.'s

00:57:55.520 tweet sounds like to me.

00:57:58.180 Hey, I got some news.

00:57:59.620 Can we talk about this

00:58:01.780 privately?

00:58:04.640 Do you ever get good news

00:58:06.300 when somebody wants to talk

00:58:07.760 to you privately?

00:58:09.560 No, no.

00:58:10.820 And when I went in

00:58:11.620 and talked to the doctor,

00:58:13.120 he said, well,

00:58:14.440 it's a little ambiguous,

00:58:15.900 but probably cancer.

00:58:19.140 Probably.

00:58:20.880 Right.

00:58:21.240 It was exactly

00:58:21.940 what you thought.

00:58:23.760 If somebody doesn't

00:58:24.920 give you the good news

00:58:26.040 right up front

00:58:26.680 or leaves out

00:58:27.540 an important point

00:58:28.620 that you know

00:58:29.700 should be there,

00:58:30.940 I know you should

00:58:31.840 be telling me right now,

00:58:33.520 do I or do not

00:58:34.440 have cancer?

00:58:36.500 So I had to have

00:58:37.420 another procedure

00:58:38.640 where they, you know,

00:58:39.720 did a biopsy,

00:58:40.600 and it was just nothing.

00:58:41.840 It was literally nothing.

00:58:43.140 They just pulled some fluid

00:58:44.140 out and put a Band-Aid on it.

00:58:45.280 I was as far

00:58:47.300 from having cancer

00:58:48.140 as you could possibly be.

00:58:49.520 It was more like a scratch.

00:58:52.180 I'm either dying of cancer

00:58:53.560 or possibly I got a scratch

00:58:56.280 that got infected.

00:58:58.080 Something like that.

00:58:58.980 So, RFK Jr.,

00:59:02.760 I give you this advice.

00:59:04.660 If this is not

00:59:05.600 a forced transfer

00:59:06.760 of wealth,

00:59:07.940 you really need to say

00:59:09.240 that right up front.

00:59:11.080 That's got to be

00:59:11.820 right up front.

00:59:12.620 And if it is,

00:59:15.220 I'm out.

00:59:17.540 Because this is

00:59:18.520 I got to talk to you.

00:59:19.800 I'm going to take

00:59:20.420 your money situation.

00:59:22.380 Now,

00:59:23.100 maybe it's the best way

00:59:24.860 to fix things.

00:59:26.240 Yeah, I'm always going

00:59:27.020 to listen to the argument.

00:59:28.920 But if you hide

00:59:30.460 that information,

00:59:32.080 like what's the core

00:59:33.480 of your idea?

00:59:35.080 He doesn't have to give us

00:59:35.960 all the details,

00:59:37.040 but he could say,

00:59:37.940 for example,

00:59:38.960 I found a way

00:59:40.100 to unleash

00:59:41.220 the economic engine

00:59:42.420 that will give

00:59:44.360 everybody better incomes.

00:59:45.840 Or,

00:59:47.040 I believe the solution

00:59:48.760 is better training,

00:59:50.540 and I am going to

00:59:51.520 spend a whole bunch

00:59:52.280 of money on training,

00:59:53.820 but very quickly

00:59:55.040 that will translate

00:59:56.480 into higher incomes.

00:59:58.800 I'd listen to that.

01:00:00.720 I would say

01:00:01.400 there's still going to be

01:00:03.000 some taxes involved,

01:00:04.720 but if you tell me

01:00:05.540 you're taxing me

01:00:06.420 to give direct

01:00:07.900 occupational training

01:00:09.200 to people

01:00:10.420 who would benefit

01:00:11.080 right away,

01:00:12.540 you have my attention.

01:00:14.580 I hate the fact

01:00:15.440 that you might tax me more

01:00:16.780 for the benefit

01:00:18.280 of other people,

01:00:19.400 but if that benefit

01:00:20.760 is clear and obvious

01:00:22.500 and smart

01:00:23.360 and would work its way

01:00:25.080 into the economy,

01:00:26.080 which benefits people

01:00:27.300 who already have money

01:00:28.120 like me,

01:00:29.560 I could be sold on that.

01:00:31.260 I could actually

01:00:31.900 be convinced.

01:00:33.540 But if you don't

01:00:34.620 start out and say,

01:00:35.980 you know,

01:00:36.320 trading will be

01:00:37.020 my focus

01:00:37.800 or free markets

01:00:39.660 or I'm getting rid

01:00:40.320 of some,

01:00:41.240 or even if he said,

01:00:42.760 I'm going to bring

01:00:44.460 more manufacturing back

01:00:46.120 and here's my specific way

01:00:48.040 I'm going to do it,

01:00:48.820 all good,

01:00:49.700 all good.

01:00:50.680 But don't tell me

01:00:51.880 you're going to make

01:00:52.980 somebody else

01:00:53.620 have more money

01:00:54.360 because that just feels

01:00:56.220 like your hand

01:00:57.160 is in my pocket.

01:00:58.560 So since I don't know

01:00:59.960 what his plan is,

01:01:01.300 this is not a criticism

01:01:02.340 of the plan,

01:01:03.340 it's a criticism

01:01:04.120 of the communication

01:01:05.040 of the plan.

01:01:07.440 Later I might have

01:01:08.300 something to say

01:01:08.860 about the plan.

01:01:10.960 And by the way,

01:01:11.600 this seems out of character

01:01:12.660 because this feels

01:01:13.840 like just a mistake.

01:01:16.660 And I haven't seen

01:01:17.700 him make anything

01:01:18.340 that looked like

01:01:18.920 just a mistake.

01:01:21.460 Yeah.

01:01:22.680 So we'll see.

01:01:26.420 Rasmussen did some polling

01:01:27.460 on the Trump indictment.

01:01:28.820 You will not be surprised.

01:01:30.180 The 51% of likely

01:01:32.460 U.S. voters

01:01:33.000 approve of the latest

01:01:36.040 Trump indictment.

01:01:37.680 But of course,

01:01:38.800 it's separated

01:01:39.540 by voter types.

01:01:42.220 So you got,

01:01:42.900 let's see,

01:01:44.140 69% of Republicans

01:01:46.520 disapprove,

01:01:48.620 but 77% of Democrats

01:01:50.980 approve, of course,

01:01:52.280 of the Trump indictments.

01:01:54.320 What is this polling

01:01:56.820 telling us?

01:01:57.660 You know,

01:01:59.440 I used to think

01:02:00.220 that a poll told you

01:02:01.260 people's opinions.

01:02:04.020 Does it feel like

01:02:04.980 that's what's happening?

01:02:06.620 Do you think you saw

01:02:07.460 people's opinions?

01:02:10.080 It doesn't feel like

01:02:11.180 an opinion to me.

01:02:12.940 It feels entirely

01:02:14.520 like team play

01:02:15.780 plus brainwashing.

01:02:18.520 Like,

01:02:18.900 nothing like an opinion.

01:02:21.060 You know,

01:02:21.280 opinion suggests

01:02:22.240 somebody looked

01:02:22.940 at the situation

01:02:24.100 and, you know,

01:02:25.200 put their priorities

01:02:26.060 on it and then came up

01:02:27.240 with their best case

01:02:28.500 scenario as an opinion.

01:02:30.660 Nothing like that's

01:02:31.720 happening.

01:02:32.600 This is pure

01:02:33.340 assigned opinions

01:02:34.520 so that you know

01:02:35.980 which team is winning

01:02:37.260 or would win

01:02:38.400 if their argument wins.

01:02:40.500 It just strikes me

01:02:42.320 as ridiculous

01:02:43.220 to ask opinions

01:02:44.280 of brainwashed people.

01:02:46.060 Unless you're

01:02:46.560 the brainwasher

01:02:47.260 and you want to find

01:02:47.800 out how well

01:02:48.220 you're doing.

01:02:48.560 All right.

01:02:53.580 And that,

01:02:54.480 ladies and gentlemen,

01:02:55.720 is what passes

01:02:57.800 as the news.

01:03:01.400 Is it my imagination

01:03:02.780 that everything

01:03:03.340 looks more corrupt

01:03:04.340 than ever

01:03:05.060 and only because

01:03:06.220 Twitter slash X

01:03:08.100 is not censoring us?

01:03:11.100 Is that what's happening?

01:03:14.480 You're waking up.

01:03:16.340 I'm waking up.

01:03:17.320 Which team

01:03:23.320 has the viral

01:03:24.040 YouTuber type

01:03:25.000 of controller?

01:03:27.160 Huh.

01:03:28.640 That's a good question.

01:03:30.420 Has anybody

01:03:31.080 ever studied

01:03:31.820 what goes viral

01:03:33.200 more often

01:03:34.140 on YouTube?

01:03:36.280 Because, you know,

01:03:37.700 Joe Rogan

01:03:38.380 goes viral

01:03:39.020 all the time

01:03:39.700 and he's not

01:03:41.040 being woke.

01:03:41.800 but it does

01:03:48.500 seem like,

01:03:49.260 is it true

01:03:49.820 that the most

01:03:50.740 viral stuff

01:03:51.520 is either

01:03:52.320 left or right

01:03:53.100 leaning?

01:04:00.800 You only look

01:04:01.740 at your subscribers.

01:04:02.600 Yeah, I guess

01:04:09.200 the question

01:04:10.440 is,

01:04:10.680 how can we

01:04:11.060 get in

01:04:11.460 on some

01:04:11.800 of this

01:04:12.020 corruption?

01:04:12.380 All right.

01:04:22.100 YouTube

01:04:22.660 come back

01:04:23.540 online.

01:04:24.180 Yeah,

01:04:24.840 YouTube's

01:04:25.360 back online.

01:04:25.840 So, I thought

01:04:29.340 I saw a

01:04:29.860 Ukraine story

01:04:30.800 and I thought

01:04:32.640 to myself,

01:04:33.480 have we

01:04:33.980 forgotten about

01:04:34.640 Ukraine?

01:04:37.200 Check the news

01:04:38.220 on Ukraine.

01:04:39.200 So now the news

01:04:40.200 on Ukraine

01:04:40.720 is always limited

01:04:41.880 to like one

01:04:42.760 sentence,

01:04:43.560 you know,

01:04:43.760 or one headline

01:04:44.480 with a little story.

01:04:45.220 And the story

01:04:46.280 is always the

01:04:46.860 same.

01:04:48.060 Have you noticed

01:04:48.640 that?

01:04:48.860 All the Ukraine

01:04:49.440 stories are the

01:04:50.120 same.

01:04:51.920 Somebody sent

01:04:53.320 some weapons

01:04:54.100 in one direction

01:04:55.140 and some people

01:04:58.040 got killed

01:04:58.600 and nothing

01:05:00.140 changed.

01:05:02.120 There were

01:05:02.720 some things,

01:05:03.400 there were

01:05:03.720 exploding things

01:05:04.680 in the sky

01:05:05.360 that came down

01:05:07.100 on the public

01:05:08.680 or the fighters

01:05:10.320 and people

01:05:11.980 died.

01:05:12.880 There's no sense

01:05:13.980 that anything

01:05:14.480 is changing

01:05:15.120 in the Ukraine,

01:05:15.800 right?

01:05:16.200 There's no sense

01:05:17.100 that anything

01:05:17.480 could change.

01:05:19.220 We've now

01:05:19.940 completely given

01:05:20.840 up on the

01:05:21.380 so-called

01:05:21.980 counter-offensive,

01:05:24.420 right?

01:05:25.100 Is there anybody

01:05:25.720 thinks that there's

01:05:26.460 really a Ukrainian

01:05:27.660 counter-offensive?

01:05:30.140 Here's what I think

01:05:31.080 is happening.

01:05:32.140 I think that the

01:05:32.860 news went quiet

01:05:33.860 on Ukraine

01:05:34.580 because,

01:05:35.540 fill in the

01:05:36.240 blanks,

01:05:37.240 the news went

01:05:38.320 quiet on Ukraine

01:05:39.660 because.

01:05:41.640 Go.

01:05:45.120 because of

01:05:47.140 Hunter

01:05:47.540 and because

01:05:50.660 the counter-offensive

01:05:51.580 is not working.

01:05:53.620 The two things

01:05:54.660 that the Biden

01:05:55.180 administration

01:05:55.820 doesn't want you

01:05:56.560 to hear,

01:05:58.380 the counter-offensive

01:06:00.400 isn't working,

01:06:01.220 not even close,

01:06:02.760 and Hunter

01:06:03.900 may have been

01:06:05.380 the reason

01:06:05.780 that the war

01:06:06.320 happened in the

01:06:06.900 first place.

01:06:07.360 So Biden

01:06:11.220 can win

01:06:11.780 two ways.

01:06:13.800 One is if

01:06:14.780 miraculously

01:06:16.800 somehow Ukraine

01:06:17.820 won and got

01:06:18.840 all its territory

01:06:19.460 back.

01:06:20.400 So that would be

01:06:21.260 one way that

01:06:21.880 Biden could win.

01:06:22.940 He could make

01:06:23.680 Ukraine look like

01:06:24.800 it was victorious.

01:06:26.840 That doesn't look

01:06:27.700 like it's going

01:06:28.180 to happen.

01:06:29.040 The other way

01:06:29.860 he could win-ish

01:06:31.200 is to just

01:06:33.920 hold off the

01:06:34.640 Russians so they

01:06:35.380 don't get any

01:06:36.000 more.

01:06:37.360 So they don't

01:06:38.540 get any more.

01:06:39.440 But also to keep

01:06:40.760 himself out of

01:06:41.400 the story.

01:06:42.560 To make sure

01:06:43.100 that the Hunter

01:06:43.840 part of the

01:06:44.280 story doesn't

01:06:44.900 tank him.

01:06:46.340 But he can't

01:06:47.600 get either one.

01:06:49.000 So at the

01:06:49.360 moment it looks

01:06:49.920 like Ukraine

01:06:50.500 has really no

01:06:51.300 chance of a

01:06:53.280 counter-offensive

01:06:53.920 that works.

01:06:55.000 I would say.

01:06:55.920 By now we

01:06:56.520 would know.

01:06:57.920 And the Hunter

01:06:59.880 part, because

01:07:00.640 Vivek is bringing

01:07:01.480 it up, the

01:07:03.120 Hunter part is

01:07:03.760 really kind of

01:07:04.880 awkward now,

01:07:05.620 isn't it?

01:07:06.080 Because now

01:07:07.380 you can see

01:07:07.840 the intersection

01:07:08.660 or the

01:07:09.100 Venn diagrams

01:07:09.860 between what

01:07:11.180 Hunter was

01:07:11.640 doing and

01:07:12.840 what one could

01:07:13.600 easily imagine

01:07:14.420 would be too

01:07:15.800 much influence

01:07:16.540 on Biden,

01:07:17.340 the president.

01:07:19.040 So there's a

01:07:20.140 reason that Ukraine

01:07:20.920 disappeared in the

01:07:21.900 news.

01:07:23.860 Am I right?

01:07:27.320 Tell me I'm

01:07:28.160 wrong.

01:07:28.860 That at the

01:07:29.440 very time that

01:07:30.200 everything about

01:07:30.920 Ukraine is bad

01:07:31.780 for Biden, it just

01:07:32.800 disappeared.

01:07:33.300 weird.

01:07:33.860 It's not even a

01:07:34.620 news story.

01:07:35.860 There's a

01:07:36.280 literal war in

01:07:38.320 which we're

01:07:38.920 primary

01:07:40.260 participants, at

01:07:41.580 least financially

01:07:42.360 and weapon-wise,

01:07:43.720 and strategically.

01:07:45.820 But just think

01:07:46.820 about the fact

01:07:47.520 that the news

01:07:48.780 went radio

01:07:49.480 silent on a

01:07:50.840 war.

01:07:52.160 A war.

01:07:54.540 And they're

01:07:55.200 not telling you

01:07:55.840 anything that's

01:07:56.540 true about this

01:07:57.840 at this point.

01:07:58.360 So there's a

01:08:08.000 story about the

01:08:08.560 country of Niger.

01:08:10.100 Some revolution

01:08:10.980 happened.

01:08:12.060 And I saw a

01:08:12.920 tweet that I

01:08:13.760 don't believe is

01:08:14.520 true, but it

01:08:15.920 was hilarious.

01:08:17.220 Did you see the

01:08:18.140 Victoria Nuland

01:08:19.340 story about

01:08:20.920 Niger?

01:08:22.380 So the reported

01:08:24.180 story, which I

01:08:25.040 don't believe because

01:08:25.860 it's a little too

01:08:27.480 funny, is too

01:08:28.600 funny to be

01:08:29.140 true, is that

01:08:30.940 Victoria Nuland

01:08:31.900 wanted to meet

01:08:33.060 with the

01:08:33.580 revolutionaries and

01:08:34.880 talk to them,

01:08:37.200 maybe give them

01:08:37.980 some aid.

01:08:39.320 And the alleged

01:08:40.500 story that I

01:08:41.460 don't believe, I

01:08:42.720 don't believe this,

01:08:43.560 is that the

01:08:44.060 revolutionary said

01:08:45.040 that we should

01:08:46.260 spend the money

01:08:46.880 on a weight loss

01:08:47.680 program for

01:08:48.400 Victoria Nuland.

01:08:51.200 Do you believe

01:08:51.940 that?

01:08:53.880 I don't believe

01:08:54.660 that.

01:08:55.360 I saw it in a

01:08:56.020 tweet, but I

01:08:56.500 don't believe it.

01:08:57.900 It's too

01:08:58.440 funny.

01:08:59.780 Yeah, it's too

01:09:00.560 funny.

01:09:01.000 I'm going to go

01:09:01.560 with fake news on

01:09:02.500 that one.

01:09:04.360 Let's call that

01:09:05.080 one fake news,

01:09:05.820 okay?

01:09:07.400 But if I'm

01:09:08.180 wrong, if I'm

01:09:10.300 wrong, I'd love to

01:09:11.100 believe it.

01:09:12.400 I'd love to

01:09:13.020 believe it.

01:09:14.220 But it's a

01:09:14.540 little, yeah,

01:09:15.180 it's a little too

01:09:16.780 perfect.

01:09:18.340 All right.

01:09:19.080 That's all I got

01:09:19.840 for you, YouTube,

01:09:20.720 so thanks for

01:09:21.220 joining.

01:09:21.600 Sorry I was

01:09:22.080 late.

01:09:22.820 I'll start

01:09:23.360 looking at my

01:09:23.940 clocks in the

01:09:24.740 future.

01:09:25.000 And I will

01:09:25.900 talk to you

01:09:26.680 tomorrow.

01:09:27.800 Tomorrow.

01:09:27.880 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 08, 2023

Episode 2194 Scott Adams： Better Late Than...

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