Episode 2216 Scott Adams: Lots Of Rumors, Mind Reading, Laundry List Persuasion & Assigned Opinions
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1 hour and 15 minutes
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149.62775
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about a new segment called "Skewed Science" and talk about some interesting things in the news, including a new study about whether or not drinking alcohol makes other people look better, and some other stuff.
Transcript
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Well, let's talk about all of the things in the news.
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I don't know why, it just feels like it's better.
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So one of my regular segments is science, which is a little bit sketchy.
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There was a study to see if beer goggles is a real thing.
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The studies find out if drinking alcohol makes other people look better.
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And they decided at the end of their study that it did not.
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That people who drink alcohol, it doesn't change their impression of the sexiness of the other person.
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It's just that they're more likely to approach the person.
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Now, this study was done by, let's see, look at the details.
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This study was done by a whole bunch of people who have never had a drink of alcohol.
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Now, it doesn't actually say that, but you can infer that by the fact that 100% of people who have had alcohol know this is wrong.
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100% of people who have ever tried this thing called alcohol,
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they're pretty sure the science is not exactly right, if you know what I mean.
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Now, have you ever heard people give their keys to success?
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But they're basically, you know, go to school, build a talent stack, stay off drugs, stay out of jail.
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But that's basically, if you get the five right, you're probably going to be good.
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There's a study that says that adult education decreases your risk of dementia tremendously.
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In other words, using your brain keeps it healthy, and not using your brain allows it to atrophy.
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Did you need a study to know that if you exercise a muscle, the muscle might get stronger?
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However, if you exercise your brain, the brain might become more capable.
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But it's good to know that you have a lot of control over your dementia.
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My book, which is screaming up the charts, and a huge success in changing lives.
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Every day, people are telling me it changed their life in some substantial way.
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Somebody tells me it had a major impact on their life already.
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And, of course, I still make the Dilbert comic for subscribers on Locals and on X.
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Now, the reason I do this, in part, you know, other than keeping myself interested because it's stuff I like,
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You know, I get up every morning and I have to look through all the news and keep my brain working.
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So, I'm basically doing a long-term longevity play.
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And the two things that I want to get right for longevity, and this would be true for you too,
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continuous learning in whatever form you want to do it.
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But the other things are, you know, obviously your diet and your sleep.
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And Dr. Huberman says, get some sun in the morning and work in your relationships.
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Do you remember in school where they said, well, if you get these...
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You know, half dozen things right, your life will be probably good.
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They don't really tell you that directly, do they?
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They kind of suggest it maybe indirectly in a number of ways.
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But they don't really ever say, here, if you get these eight things right.
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Imagine a chart where on the left are all the things you have to get right.
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You know, make sure you take care of your diet, you know, stay in school, get a talent stack, right?
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So each of those things is on a matrix listed on the left.
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And then on the top, for every one that you don't have, let's say one is crossed out,
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Or better, a photograph of the home you're going to live in, right?
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So if you're doing all the things on the stack, the picture shows that you live in a nice big house.
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If you have one wrong on the stack, it's still a nice house, but it's, you know, it's down to the level.
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If you get two wrong, you're living in an apartment, you know, two bedroom apartment.
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If you got three wrong, you're living on the street, or something like that.
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A list of things you have to get right, and then the house you're going to live in,
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based on how many of the lists you actually accomplished.
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Now, I would say that I do everything on the list.
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So if you were to make a list of the things that you should do, you know, that you would recommend people do,
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Now, the exception would be, I might smoke a little legal substance in California.
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So you could argue that that's holding me back, but the evidence doesn't seem to suggest that.
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So my result, my result in life, should be completely predictable from doing the eight or so things that you should do to succeed.
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You know, fitness, for example, I'm pretty serious about.
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So now you know all the things you need to do to be successful.
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You know, your relationships and your son and your body and all that.
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Here's what you don't want to do, according to a study, that didn't need to be done.
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I could have handled this under sketchy science.
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Let's see if you could have known this without the study.
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If you talk about your poor mental health on social media, it could have an impact on future employers.
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That if you say online you have mental problems and your employer sees it, they're less likely to hire you than somebody who is smart enough to shut up about it.
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Now, it doesn't mean that the person they hired has fewer mental problems, if there's anything I've taught you.
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It's that we're all basket cases, but some people hide it a lot better.
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You know, once you get to know somebody, you start digging down, you're like, oh, I didn't know that.
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Now, you might say, but Scott, you put your insanity online every single day.
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Right, because I can do this for a living, and I can get canceled and still make a living.
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If you can get fully canceled and still make a good living, then do whatever you want.
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If you're not me, and you can't make a living after being completely canceled worldwide and still make it work, don't do it.
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There's a story that I didn't need to read, that the TikTok ban, some people want it, but it looks like nothing's going to happen.
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What do you think are the details of the story about the TikTok ban not being popular enough in Congress to pass?
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There's nothing you need to read about that story.
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Is it going to be blah, blah, somebody's in favor of it, and blah, blah, somebody isn't, and blah, blah reasons?
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There's nothing that you need to know about a story about TikTok, except the only reason it's not banned, there is no other reason, is that Congress is owned by China.
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Or enough of it is, you know, not every person, of course.
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This, TikTok is the one thing you don't see reasons for one side, because the reason is obvious.
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I mean, the fact that Fox News is running TikTok ads, what does that tell you?
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That tells you the war has been fought, and China won.
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If Fox News is running TikTok ads, then that's a complete victory.
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And they don't allow TikTok in China, because they wouldn't want their children's minds to be controlled, at least not in that way.
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So, amazingly, China controls our government in a substantial way, and they control it enough so that the people who are mostly parents themselves, or were at one point mostly grandparents and great-grandparents, I guess.
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But these are people who are actually parents who are selling out children for whatever they get from China, I guess.
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Well, there's yet more information that China is becoming uninvestable.
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More smart people saying, it looks uninvestable.
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But they're doing a good job destroying our culture and our children and our families via TikTok.
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Now, some of you are saying, but, but, but, I don't have TikTok.
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If TikTok has enough minds, those minds will influence you directly or force you to do what they want.
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They just have to have enough of the country under their control.
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Now, I don't know if Congress ever figured out that TikTok is a mind-controlled tool.
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I don't even know if they ever figured that out.
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There should not be a loud noise in my house right now.
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Anyway, either my dog just sneezed really loudly, or I'm going to be the victim of a home invasion any moment.
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All right, so, the CNN insurrection hoax, now, and I guess the media insurrection hoax, not just CNN,
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is coming full circle so that Jamie Raskin, Democrat, is saying that because of this insurrection,
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which they're trying to sell to the country as real, it's obviously not real, January 6th as an insurrection.
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Is there anybody here, is there even any one person here who thinks that January 6th was an insurrection?
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Is there anybody who thinks that was an actual insurrection attempt?
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So, I don't think there's anybody who would be watching this live stream who actually believes that.
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You have to be pretty deep into the brainwashing before that even makes a little bit of sense.
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See, that's the one that I wanted to brainwash a Democrat in public.
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I want to bring a Democrat in and say the following.
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Well, you and I both agree that there were some dangerous people there who probably wanted to overthrow the government.
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Definitely under 1% of the people who were there were serious about anything bad.
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Would you agree that the 99% of them, if they thought it was an insurrection,
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they would have brought their weapons because they're Republicans?
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And can you explain to me the mechanism by which they would overthrow and control the country via trespassing without weapons?
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All right, on week two, where are they getting their food?
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I mean, just explain how the occupying without weapons, one building, causes them to own the nuclear triad.
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Because it would be pretty easy to demonstrate that they've been brainwashed, on that topic especially.
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Anyway, so the bad guys in the government are trying to do the...
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Well, insurrection has been proven, even though Trump is not even being charged with anything like insurrection.
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All that evidence and the legal system decided there was not enough there to act.
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And keep in mind, you can get an indictment for anything.
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And they still couldn't get an indictment for any kind of an insurrectionary treason charge.
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So they can get an indictment for a ham sandwich, as the famous saying goes.
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Because you can't convince real people that an unarmed insurrection involving trespassing is actually an insurrection.
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And I feel sorry for Democrats, because I don't think they know that.
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There are some characters that the Democrats trot out when they need to just lie grotesquely.
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When they're doing normal spin, you can get anybody to go on CNN.
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Or, you know, should we shut down the government until we have a budget?
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You can get any senator, any person in Congress, to get in front of a camera and say,
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Oh, our side is smart, that other side is making a big mistake, as they always do, right?
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So you can get anybody to say something that's just a narrative spin.
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But you cannot get every Democrat to go on camera and lie through their teeth while you know they're doing it.
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That's something that not all the Democrats can do.
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So, when you see the small number of Democrats come out on a given topic,
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that's your signal that all the honest Democrats said,
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Couldn't do it today, but sure, I'd love to do it.
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And so the ones they send out, remember these names.
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Jamie Raskin, Swalwell, Schiff, Nadler, Carl Bernstein, and then Brennan and Clapper used to be the go-to.
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So if you see Goldman, Raskin, Swalwell, Schiff, Nadler, Bernstein,
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and then John Brennan and Clapper, I think, got retired because their lying was on the laptop thing.
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People said, all right, that's really over the top.
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But given that they always, it's always the same little crew that appears when you need to tell the big lie,
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you know, like the really big one, like January 6th was an insurrection,
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You know, the big ones, you try to help these guys.
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Now, don't you think I could find a, you know, a normal Democrat in Congress
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who would just not want to talk about this stuff because they know it's BS?
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So it's very helpful to know the players because then you know the story is false
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because they only send these players out when they know the story's false.
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I don't want to talk about masks except to make sure that everybody is ready to attack
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Now, it's hard to attack the government for requiring them
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You know, those are tough to attack because I like our health care organizations.
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But if there's a for-profit corporation, especially,
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and I tweeted that, you know, we should make sure that we focus all our hate
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and protest on the first one that goes forward,
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So if you're wondering, are there enough people
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who would be willing to boycott and attack the first corporation
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2.6 million people, and I only have a million followers.
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So that means it left my bubble and, you know, got a lot bigger.
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So if you see 2.6 million, that means you're hitting a chord.
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If I say something that's just a real clever idea,
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But if I tweet something that would cause people
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that's 2.6 million, and that's the indicator of that.
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So I'd be pretty worried if I were the first corporation.
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I think it was Charles Gasparini in New York Post,
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They're still going to try to work that stuff in there.
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make it look like they're not Gasparino, sorry.
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I saw some data that showed there are big differences
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So they seem to be backing off of their own requirement,
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I just don't like BlackRock forcing them to do it.
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Probably a few that I don't even know the names.
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is, you know, considered a right-winger like Trump.
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He says that Russia is 100% going to win that war
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In World War I and II, nobody ran out of soldiers.
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And so, well, you say Germany ran out of soldiers,
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but I don't think that's why they ultimately lost.
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Wouldn't you say it's more that we just had more?
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I think because America was unmolested by the war,
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But we actually have a population bubble problem.
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We don't have enough young people like we used to.
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But he says that Russia is not running out of money.
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working around the boycotts or the bans and stuff.
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You know, I've considered all the possibilities.
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when things clarify after the fog of war is lifted,
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It looks like they're not going to run out of weapons.
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It looks like they're not going to run out of things to shoot.
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and apparently the Russian citizens like Putin.
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One of the things we forget in the United States
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is that the Russians don't think like Americans.
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if we had a strong country that stayed together
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you know, they don't see all the death and stuff.
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that there's nothing that's bothering Russia right now
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because there's nothing to stop him from waiting,
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You know, we're all using these words like this.