Episode 2222 Scott Adams： Free Speech Was Nice While It Lasted. Bring Coffee
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Summary
After a long weekend, the kids are back in school and the weather is not as good as it was before, but it s time to get serious. A Canadian shop teacher is going back to school and presenting, no longer as a female, but as a male.
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The weather's not as good as it was before, although I like it better.
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Speaking of serious, do you remember the Canadian shop teacher who had the enormous
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Well, apparently said teacher is going back to school and presenting, no longer presenting
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But you know what the funniest part about the story is?
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It's a story, there was a story in the Toronto Sun showing the teacher in the full prosthetics
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that we were used to seeing, and then showing the same teacher dressed as an unambiguous male
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You know, not talking about what's in the mind, but in terms of the, you know, outside.
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And through the entire article, wait for it, the entire article is about this individual
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clearly presenting now as male, as the teacher did prior to the event.
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And through the entire article, the teacher was referred to as she.
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Now that the prank, I assume it was a prank, right?
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Even after having made the point, I think, I think they still can't get off, they're still
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so stuck in the prank that they don't know that it's time to change the pronoun.
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Now, I love the fact that he didn't make the rules.
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If he sticks with it, and continues to dress the way he apparently currently is, which is a male
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presentation, and insists on being called a woman, I'm just going to love him twice as much.
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We don't know what said Canadian shop teacher is thinking, but I sure hope she is thinking
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that, to just go on with his life being called a her, and just let it ride.
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I saw Tim Poole ask if this is sort of the beginning of the hint of the cats on the roof
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But the person who spends a lot of time with him has this COVID thing, and you know, a man
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that age, a little bit of COVID, who's to say he wouldn't come down with some long COVID?
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I mean, if you were to get COVID, he might be one of the statistics, you know what I mean?
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One of the people who gets that long COVID and doesn't know how long it's going to last,
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but it might be unfair to run for president under those conditions.
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You know, the most shocking thing that I say is that there's no such thing as real news
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When people first hear that, they're like, well, that can't be true.
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But you're telling me that every time it's a public figure, the news is wrong?
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It's that at the very least, you're leaving out a key piece of information,
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which, you know, could have the effect of making it wrong.
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So yes, even if the thing they report really happened, the news is still fake.
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How many people in the press asked me why I said it, or what the intention was,
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or why I would say something so obviously, you know, out of place?
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It was a national headline for days and days and days.
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If that were news, you don't think they would ask me why I said it?
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You know, why does this not match anything you've ever done in the past?
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I'm literally the easiest person in the world to find.
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Now, Chris Cuomo asked, but that was in the context of, you know, content for the show.
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If you're actually on a show, of course you can ask.
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But if you're not a guest on the show, nobody cared.
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If you listen to Glenn Greenwald, he'll tell you directly.
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Even though House Republicans have not produced evidence of wrongdoing by Biden.
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Had they said there's no direct evidence of a crime, I would say, yeah, I think you're right about that.
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But I'm not even sure the circumstantial evidence indicates a crime that Biden himself did.
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I'm no lawyer, but if they'd said something more clear like that, I would say, well, yeah, technically, I guess you're right.
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Now, wouldn't wrongdoing include taking money for things you're not providing as a service?
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As in, if they're really not giving anything for these contacts, is that right?
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Is it right to take money for a product you're not delivering?
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Is there any wrongdoing about lying that he had no knowledge of his kid's business?
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Yeah, I don't know if there was technically a law broken, but I've never seen more evidence of wrongdoing in my life.
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I mean, the evidence seems kind of overwhelming.
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And if you thought that NBC News was real news, and you read this, wouldn't you adopt that opinion?
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Oh, well, NBC says there's no evidence of wrongdoing, so I guess we're done here.
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Yeah, if you don't know that the news stopped being real a long time ago, that would be confusing.
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I mean, there's a good argument it never was real.
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Science being the, probably the single best way to know what's real and true and at least repeatable.
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But I think you need to make a big distinction between science that is the subject of headlines
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and science that's happening in a lab and nobody knows about it.
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Science that nobody hears about, because somebody, let's say they're testing a specific hypothesis,
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it's not part of a product, it's not related to the headlines, has nothing to do with climate change,
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it has nothing to do with race, it has nothing to do with anything that we debate about every day.
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Meaning that they probably are real scientists who are doing something real
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Sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but they, you know, crawl toward the truth over time.
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But, is it my imagination, if any science is in the headlines, such as climate change,
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Isn't science just another way to launder opinion?
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I'm going to skip ad here, I wasn't planning it, but speaking of that.
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So, Anderson Cooper was talking about the new ownership of CNN and how Chris liked or licked or whatever it was.
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But, Anderson Cooper was saying that he wasn't, he didn't understand the whole thing that management wanted them to do.
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Because, Anderson Cooper said he's an anchor, he's not an opinion guy.
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Like, that's a real thing that came out of his mouth.
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That's everything that's wrong with, that's everything that's wrong with CNN, is that he actually thinks he's a news guy.
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So, when he gives you his opinions, he thinks he's telling you the news.
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Because he thinks it must be, he must think they're facts.
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I mean, I'm just guessing, I can't read his mind.
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But the logical implication of that is that he thinks the things he's saying are true and factual and news.
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Don't you wonder if he actually really thinks that?
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Because, you know, people say things they don't believe.
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Now, this is one of the reasons I've always had more respect for Fox News.
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If you ask Hannity, are you an opinion guy or a news guy, I'm pretty sure he'd say opinion guy.
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Do you think Tucker would say he's a hard news guy or an opinion guy?
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You get to Brett Baer, and you'd say, are you an opinion guy or a news guy?
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I can't really tell when people are having a mental problem or when they're just lying.
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Do you think that Anderson Cooper is unaware that other people see him as only an opinion guy?
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Here's one of the dangerous things about perception, I guess.
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Humans are pretty good at determining if somebody is mentally distraught.
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Humans are pretty good at, you know, in person.
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But in person, you can kind of tell if somebody's got a mental disorder.
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You know, if it's one of the kind that is going to affect their immediate behavior.
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So, to me, he always looked like he had a mental disorder.
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And if I were, you'd be telling me, you don't diagnose somebody you don't know.
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I'm just saying that when I look at his face, when he talks about Trump-related stuff, he looks like he's in actual mental distress.
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I'm saying that as an observer of behavior, he presents as a person with a mental disorder.
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Now, I have the same feeling about Bill Maher, but only when he talks about some Trump stuff.
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He seems to be completely mentally healthy in every other domain.
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But when you hit that one domain, there's something that happens.
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I don't know if it's just a personal problem, but it presents itself as a mental disorder.
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And I wonder if there's something like that on the right, or even something like that that I do,
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where I look like I'm rational most of the time, but there'll be something I talk about that you'll say,
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I think you've got a mental disorder there, Scott.
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No, you're going to come out, you're going to throw out some examples of where you disagree with me on policy.
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So, yeah, so any news that's in the headlines is fake most of the time.
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That science you don't hear about is probably pretty valid, you know, over time, not every experiment is going to work.
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But that if it's in the headlines, there's almost not, there's really not much chance it's real.
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You know, even the pro and the con are not really trying to be real.
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I think Vivek is the first politician who has made a legitimate attempt to be honest about the science.
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You know, maybe other people had it in their minds that they were trying to do that, but they didn't, you know, didn't come off that way.
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He's the only one who seems to be literally looking at the science as we understand it and then, you know, doing a good job of interpreting it.
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No, I feel like everybody else was just, uh-uh, climate change is real, uh-uh, it snowed today.
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And he's just, he's dismantling them, you know, through a much better process.
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Um, I saw a, uh, tweet today, because I was complaining about free speech, as I often do.
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But, uh, Frank, on Twitter, Frank Joppy, I think, uh, he said that free speech leans on the Second Amendment.
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No one is aware of it, but the USA is, uh, is the Second Amendment.
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The Second Amendment probably does protect you from the worst kind of dictator taking over.
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And anybody who makes the stupid argument that guns don't work against nuclear weapons and helicopters
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doesn't really understand how the guns would be used.
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Because they wouldn't be used against the military.
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They would just make it impossible for anybody in charge to ever go outside again.
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And people in charge probably want to go outside.
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No, it would just be impossible to show your face anywhere in America if you were a dictator.
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So, yeah, the Second Amendment is really good as one of the things that maybe helps us prevent the dictator takeover.
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But when it comes to freedom of speech, you lost that a long time ago.
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You know, let me give you the dumb argument before I give you the smart argument.
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Dale, can you explain in your own words why we have total freedom of speech in America?
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Because you can go to your closet and say anything you want.
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I could go in my closet all by myself and say anything I wanted.
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But does that really seem to you like that's freedom of speech?
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Nobody says you get to go on a social media platform.
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I don't believe the Constitution mentioned your freedom of using the X platform.
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But in a practical sense, if you don't have access to actually the tools of communicating,
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you don't really have freedom in the way that other people do in a practical sense.
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Because you can go into your closet and you can say anything you want in the privacy of your own closet.
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Yeah, but you know, that's not really the free speech that anybody cared about.
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The only kind people cared about was the public stuff.
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Well, you can say anything you want on Twitter.
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Apparently, they're anti-Semites and racists and everybody.
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But then the ADL will ban you whether you say anything bad or not, if they just don't like it politically.
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Because they're essentially a tool of the Democrats and they're destroying free speech wherever they go
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by destroying the economic model of the people trying to enjoy the free speech.
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I feel like you're just avoiding my argument as opposed to responding to it.
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Do you see the fact that while technically free speech exists, that in a practical sense, it does not?
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Those January 6th people had all the free speech they wanted.
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They have all the free speech they want, you cocksucker, while they're in jail,
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rotting for basically free speech crimes, you fucking asshole.
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Well, you don't have to get so personal about it.
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Does anybody think that we have freedom of speech in a practical sense?
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I know it technically doesn't involve Twitter or X or whatever.
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So now the Second Amendment won't protect your freedom of speech because that's already largely gone.
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What you have is the freedom to run into a buzzsaw of economic destruction
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should you say something that is not compatible with the malign powers such as the ADL and the SPLC, blah, blah, blah, and those people.
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The top two priorities of the CIA and the U.S. security state is, number one, infinitely prolong the war in Ukraine to weaken Russia.
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And two, control online political speech to banish dissent.
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He says the liberal left overwhelmingly support both.
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Now, does that feel like an accurate statement of where we're at?
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That feels like an objective description of the current situation.
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But I wonder to what extent Glenn Greenwald is being targeted by the entities that don't like he's calling them out.
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I think they trust on, I think their trust is that the only people that see Glenn Greenwald are people who agree with him already.
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If you don't agree with him, you probably never saw this.
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I think I mentioned this, but Vivek was tweeting about it.
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So, DeSantis has this $100 million monster PAC political election committee.
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And apparently they've taken credit for creating an army of trolls to create misinformation about Vivek.
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Didn't it seem like there was this weird army of trolls who were all pushing the same set of misinformation?
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And now, a number of you, I don't want to name names, but a number of you believed the trolls and decided he was a WEF guy or a Soros guy.
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But did, how many of the trolls convinced you that any of those things were true?
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Is there anybody who was fooled by the trolls to think that he was a globalist?
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Because I got a lot of people who came at me that I think are my regulars who were completely fooled by that.
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You did a good job representing your candidate.
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So, Ron DeSantis is going to be quite proud of you.
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All capitals mixing your racism with your food ideas all in one tweet.
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It turns out that people who have mental disorders will label themselves on X if you look for it.
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They'll actually put an icon to label their own mental disorder, and you can even tell which one it is.
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If you see a Ukraine flag in a bio, what do you know about the person?
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Now, they might be sane and, you know, just playing a role.
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But you should not respond to anybody with a Ukraine flag as if you're in a conversation with somebody who has a political difference.
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Same with the little, you know, the little ocean thing.
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If you see any of that, you're dealing with a mental disorder.
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And it has nothing to do with whether they disagree with you on policy.
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But, you know, the one I use all the time is the artist.
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When the artists come after me, they usually have artists in their bio.
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That's people in my profession who didn't do as well.
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Imagine being an actual artist and then looking at what made me famous.
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I'm literally the least talented artist in the entire world of art who is not named Kathy Geiswhite because she left the business.
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But of people who are actually still working, I'm by far, you know, the least talented in an art sense.
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You know, I don't exactly write like Shakespeare, who I mock.
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How would you like to be a writer who can make, like, really good, you know, English college course writing sentences?
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And then you look at my little sentences, and they all look like they're fourth to sixth grade level comprehension.
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But the ones with mental disorders really stand out.
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Well, Elon Musk is suing the ADL, the Anti-Discrimination League.
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Anti-Discrimination, no, Anti-Defamation League.
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Anybody who has anti or diss in front of their names is doing the thing that they're anti-ing or dissing.
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Well, the head of the ADL called me a Holocaust denier in public.
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What about the various entities that try to be the people who stop disinformation?
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Do you think the people who are stopping disinformation are stopping only the disinformation?
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Well, I've got a feeling that they're in the disinformation business, if you know what I mean.
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Are the fact checkers there to make sure your facts are right?
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They're there to make sure you don't know the facts.
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So, if you have on your cynical hat, anytime somebody is anti-something or diss-something or checking something, it's the opposite.
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And once you understand that, everything starts making sense.
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It's like, oh, it's the anti-discrimination people.
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Oh, they're going to discriminate against people.
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Most Holocaust deniers deny being a Holocaust denier.
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Because a lot of people are going to say no to that.
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And his claim is that the ADL, primarily, because he talked to advertisers and they named them,
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the ADL pressured advertisers that there would be problems if they did not stop advertising on X,
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which made Musk's $22 billion investment worth, you know, maybe nothing.
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So, he's speculated on the platform that even if they were only responsible for, let's say, 10% of his loss,
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Now, I saw one lawyer who seemed to be self-labeling, if you know what I mean.
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He was a lawyer, and today, in 2023, he has hashtag BLM in his bio.
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Yeah, you know, you immediately have to discount anything that comes out of that account.
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Is there somebody who doesn't know that BLM was a fake organization?
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because once you see the total evil of the ADL,
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they're just destroying lives of people because they get points.
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And it's basically a Democrat organization that, you know, does some good things.
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And they just go after anybody who's not on board with their Democrat agenda,
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and they just turn you into racists and try to cancel you.
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I can find out if there's a ghost in your house.
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Do you think there's a good chance they're going to find one?
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What do you think would happen if your literal job is to find racists?
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in a situation in which they would make more money
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by lying and exaggerating than playing it straight?
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Not it happened a few times and I can name them.
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and telling the truth just makes them have a job,
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You know, some might, you know, get to it sooner,
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but everybody in that situation is going to lie.
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guarantees that all the participants will be liars.
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You're paid for who thinks you did the best job,
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And so people are lying to get the big promotions.
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I asked you about your accomplishments this quarter.
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Yeah, I'm not sure you were responsible for this.