Episode 2227 Scott Adams： News, Coffee And Persuasion
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The world is running out of lithium, and Elon Musk thinks he might have the answer to it. Plus, a new report about a giant lithium discovery in the Nevada-Oregon border, and why Amazon is having trouble listing my hardcover book.
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If you are on YouTube right now and you're saying to yourself, hey, why can't I comment?
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It's because it occurred to me that the commenters were not organic.
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It looked like a bunch of people coming over to say anti-Semitic things, which probably had something to do with depressing my channel.
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So on YouTube, you can't make a comment, but it's streaming simultaneously on the locals platform.
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I'll make it private after we're done because I talk to the subscribers privately.
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But you can also watch it on Twitter right now. It's live streaming at the same time.
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So if you go to my Scott Adams says profile, you should see it right up there at the top.
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Streaming live. So YouTube, too many bad people were commenting, so you don't have an option there.
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All right. Speaking of bad people, Amazon shows my hardcover book being out of stock.
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Now, why I'm having so much trouble doing the simplest thing in the world,
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which is listing a book on Amazon.com and selling it, well, I will leave that to your speculation.
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It has nothing to do with the fact that I have a political presence, I'm sure.
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No, actually, in 2023, you have to assume that anything that you suspect is true.
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But whenever there's anything that looks sketchy and it's not transparent,
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you can't really tell what's going on and what isn't, assume it's just as bad as you think.
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There's a gigantic lithium discovery in the Nevada-Oregon border.
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And apparently it would be the biggest one in the world.
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So you remember you were all worried about running out of lithium?
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And do you remember that Elon Musk once casually said, there's plenty of lithium.
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And we all thought, no, no, all the news is telling me we're running out.
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How could this one person, this Elon Musk guy we've never heard of, why does he think we might have plenty of it?
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Well, it turns out the world is just full of it.
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But we'll see if we can make a difference there with this new finding, if it's real.
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It's a preliminary report, so it may not be as big as they hope, but it looks like it's promising.
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So I saw, speaking of Elon, a lot of the news is about Elon Musk today.
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I saw him talking about his robot business, you know, the Tesla robots, which he sure will work.
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Like, he doesn't have any doubt that they can build a proper robot that's got, I guess, AI and some lithium batteries, probably, that last a long time.
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So, but here's what Elon said, that I think I said the same thing earlier, not that I beat him to it, it was just sort of an obvious thing.
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That if his robots work, and he believes they will, and so do I, it will be his biggest business.
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All the other things are like, they're like a warm-up to the real business.
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He thinks he might be able to sell 10 billion robots.
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I don't know how many Teslas are sold every year.
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But it's nowhere near 10 billion, that's for sure.
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So there will be way more robots than there will be cars, which makes sense.
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Because there will be robots working, and robots doing security, and robots doing all kinds of stuff.
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So yes, that's why, if you look at Tesla as a car company, you would be missing a lot.
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Because it's sort of an energy company, as well as a robot company.
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And if you had to bet on cars, robots, or energy, cars would be the third one on that list for me.
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So the New York Times is reporting that universities are publicly posting their criteria for assessing DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Apparently, Berkeley will give you a lower score if you are applying.
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If you say you prefer to, quote, treat everyone the same.
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If you say you'll treat everyone the same, you get a low score on DEI.
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So I'm going to, I'm publicly announcing right now that I'm renouncing my Berkeley degree.
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I don't want to be associated with that college whatsoever.
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I don't want them to mention me as an alum in any way.
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Not that they would at the moment, since I'm disgraced.
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But they used to feature me as one of their, like, famous alums.
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I don't want, I don't want anything to do with the name of that college or anything else.
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I disavow Berkeley as a legitimate institution.
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I don't want to have anything to do with racist entities like Berkeley.
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I have a persuasion suggestion for Vivek Ramaswamy.
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But there's one little, just a little tweak I keep hoping to see him make.
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When he talks about climate change, he has a, he has a killer approach, best I've seen.
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In which he says over and over again that more people are dying from cold weather than warm.
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And if you don't net that out, you don't really know what you're even talking about.
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It's crazy to say that more people died of heat, which is also true.
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Unless you say fewer people died of cold, which we don't know is true or not in any given year.
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But generally speaking, cold is the bigger problem than heat.
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Now, Vivek pointed this out in a tweet in which he, there was some news about people in Europe dying from the heat.
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At the same time, people in Europe are being discouraged from using air conditioning.
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So part of the problem is that not everybody has air conditioning when the heat is going through the roof.
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So Vivek says, quite reasonably, you know, if you want fewer people to die, maybe a little more air conditioning.
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Because the air conditioning is not contributing to, you know, the problem as much as the direct deaths of the people are important.
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Now, here's what I would do when I made that claim.
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So I've seen him make it live in front of a number of people.
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If he's talking to a news person, I would make the claim, as he does, that more people are dying from cold than warmth.
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And it's not even close. It's, I don't know, 10 to 1 or something.
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So, but once you made the claim, here's the persuasive part.
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Usually, do you know what happens usually when he's talking to a host who believes that climate change is an emergency?
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And he makes the claim that more people die from cold than warmth.
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Here's what I would suggest that he do instead.
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Make your point and say, you know, 10 times more people die from the cold, or whatever the statistic is, and say, by the way, I would encourage you to do a fact check on that.
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Because I know a lot of people watching are wondering if that's even true.
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So you would be doing your viewers a service if you could do a fact check on that.
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You know, I have other things to say about climate change, but it's the primary point.
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So it would be great if you could fact check it for your audience.
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I mentioned this before, but because it keeps working, it's worth mentioning again.
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Trump said in his speech that his black support quadrupled or quintupled after his mugshot came out.
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Now, I don't think anybody thinks that's true, or even close to true.
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But because he said it, CNN has to fact check it.
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So they have Daniel Dale come on, and he's like, no, no, no way.
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There's no way that black support quadrupled or quintupled.
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Do you love the fact that he said quadrupled or quintupled?
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He's trying to make you think, well, was it quadrupled, or was it really close to five times?
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The answer is, of course, it was nowhere near any of those.
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But in the process of debunking him, Daniel Dale, the CNN debunker guy, the fact checker, he says, oh, no, the facts do not support that.
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We checked five polls that came out after the mugshot, and only four of the five were up.
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Now, he's careful to point out, accurately, that the amount that four out of five are up is within the margin of error.
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Do you think that the average CNN viewer hears, oh, it's within the margin of error?
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So now that I know it's within the margin of error, it's like the same as saying there were no polls at all.
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Or do they say, four out of five polls say he's up with blacks?
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It's very much like their trick of doing a correction long after the lie, because nobody reads the correction.
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So Trump could just put this out there and make them talk about four out of five polls say he's up,
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and the public's going to just hear four out of five polls.
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Why does Trump make the claim that he's way up, way up with black voters?
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He's not talking about it as if it's true, although he is, right?
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Talking about it as if it's true is how you make it true.
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Let's say you're an Elbonian voter, and you're a low-information Elbonian voter.
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You're not really paying attention to politics.
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But you catch a news report that says that Trump is way up with Elbonians,
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but there's some controversy about whether it's four or five times,
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You're like, whoa, I guess a lot of people like me must be liking this Trump guy.
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And then you get into the voting booth and you really don't know anything,
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You're like, well, I hear a lot of people are liking Trump.
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A lot of Elbonians apparently changing their mind on him.
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So I haven't looked into why, but I like to be on the team with my other Elbonians.
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So whatever the Elbonians are doing, I think I'd like to do that.
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So because politics is team sport, Trump is basically saying that, hey,
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people that you would identify are flocking to me.
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That's what makes people flock to him, if they imagine other people are doing it.
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Because, yeah, it's just a bandwagon herding the cattle kind of thing.
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Any group, if you say they're flocking to you, it's more likely to happen.
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So Trump is right on point with his persuasion, but not his fact-checking, per usual.
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So on The View, as Colin Rugg points out in a tweet,
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I'm talking about migrants, the ladies of The View.
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And here are a couple of quotes, just so you can see how silly they are.
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Quote number one, talking about all the migrants in New York City.
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They need to be spread out where this is a massive country.
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So, everybody was fine when it was just the southern states being destroyed by it.
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But as soon as some of that pain went north, oh!
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It turns out that the people who were all into their sanctuary-ness,
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And the limit was, the moment it bothered them,
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the moment it bothered the ladies on The View personally,
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But they also have this, Joy Behar wanted to get in on this conversation,
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it's only going to get worse with global warming and climate change,
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because people can't live in certain parts of this world.
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It's a level of stupidity that is beyond comment.
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Like, I could say all the obvious things about it,
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but you're already thinking them, so what's the point of saying them?
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These are the dumbest people who have the biggest platform.
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Why do the dumbest people have the biggest platform?
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Maybe those Republicans were right about a few things after all.
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So you see the ladies on The View now realize that
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Democrat immigration policy is obviously a disaster.
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You know about the New Mexico Democrat governor
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and at least for 30 days you wouldn't be able to have,
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what is it, concealed or open carry or something?
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And they couldn't even get these two people to agree.
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So here's two people who tweeted their opposition to the New Mexico governor,
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essentially suspending the Second Amendment on her own.
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David Hogg, one of the most famous anti-gun survivors of the mass shooting,
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and one of the most notable voices for gun control,
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Ted Lieu, famous critic of all things Republican, gets on Twitter, same thing.
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I like gun control, but no, we're not overthrowing the Second Amendment.
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Now, do you remember it wasn't long ago that you all gave me a hard time when I said Ted Lieu's not crazy?
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It was only like within the last month, wasn't it?
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Where I was telling you that you can't judge Ted Lieu like, you know, Adam Schiff or Swalwell or something.
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But he's not fucking crazy, as this tweet proves.
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So he's showing you that he has an independent mind and there is such a thing as too far.
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So give a shout out to Ted Lieu and also to David Hogg.
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While I would largely disagree with their other views on stuff,
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And even Cenk Uygur, you know, from the Young Turks,
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and I think he's just doing a good service for the country doing this,
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that Biden's too old and the Democrats need to get,
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But you're seeing a lot of Democrats coming out against Democrats,
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and, you know, a lot of whispers about they're not happy about Biden,
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more whispers about they're not happy, you know, with Harris being the backup.
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Or are these little anecdotes just kind of a coincidence?
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Because it feels like the utter insanity of the, you know, the leftist,
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you know, the farthest left opinions are now being a little bit obvious even to Democrats.
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And their sense of team play is being challenged.
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You know, why would you want to be on this team?
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And I want you to look for, read between the lines,
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and then I'll tell you what I think has happened and will happen.
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Because we're all just a match, but we're going to speculate.
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well, I think the vice president is naturally the one lined up.
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The vice president, Harris, is naturally the one lined up.
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Now, is that what you say when you're giving a full-throated endorsement to somebody on your team?
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Well, I think the vice president is naturally the one lined up.
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Because, you know, if you're picking the next president,
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the one thing that you're really concerned about is who's naturally lined up.
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And the filing deadlines are quickly coming to pass.
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And I think we need to move past this notion that he's not going to run.
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Let me read that again, and you tell me what attitude you're picking up from it.
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And the filing deadlines are quickly coming to pass.
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And I think we need to move past this notion that he's not going to run.
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Why did he need to mention the filing deadlines are quickly going to pass?
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Are you picking up a little bit of dissatisfaction?
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It's an interesting way he's wording it, isn't it?
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It's you better call me in the next 10 minutes or you're really fucked.
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But when I read his words, that's what I'm hearing.
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So I can only be responsible for what I'm receiving.
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I'm not responsible for what he is thinking or saying.
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And then he says, President Biden is going to run.
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And we're looking forward to getting him reelected.
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Is that what you say about a really strong candidate?
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And we're looking forward to getting him elected.
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So instead of saying we have the greatest candidate,
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And he says, I think there has been so much wallowing in the last few months
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We're not looking forward to Joe Biden being president.
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because maybe that would be the time to mention it.
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Well, I don't know why anybody would be looking to run.
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We've got Joe Biden who's done 10 great things.
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And if you think he's got any cognitive disabilities,
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And Kamala Harris, she doesn't get enough credit for all the things she's done.
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That's what you say when you think you have a coherent president
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Not reading any minds and I don't have any inside information.
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What it feels like to me is that Gavin has been maneuvering to be the substitute.
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And I think that the only person who's saying no is Joe Biden himself.
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And he has the ability, even as cognitively declined as he is by his position,
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And I think that Biden is saying no because he needs to stay president to stay in a jail
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and to keep Hunter out of jail and the rest of the family.
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Now, to me, it seems obvious that even a Gavin Newsom knows that Biden is only running
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Because the fact that even Gavin Newsom couldn't say a frickin' positive word, except that Kamala is next in line
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and they're looking forward to getting him reelected,
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not a single positive word about either one of them.
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And there's no way that the Democrats are happy that he's running.
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I think the Democrats do not want Biden running.
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And I think the conversation has probably gotten pretty tense.
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And I think it looks like Biden's going to run out the clock.
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So if Biden runs out the clock and other people don't file
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because he's just sort of keeping them from filing,
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you know, he could have a stroke the day after the filing deadline passes.
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So I saw an alarming video from an influencer on Twitter, but also TikTok.
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A TikTok influencer, a young guy named Chris Mowry.
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He was talking excitedly in his car on camera about how good Bidenomics is.
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If there's one thing that young, maybe 20-something looking guys care about
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to do TikTok videos, they're really deeply into Bidenomics.
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But thank you to Community Notes on Twitter, I mean X,
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for noting that his talent agency is paid by the DNC.
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Now imagine you're on TikTok and you see this influencer say,
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If you didn't know that he was being paid by the Democrats,
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literally paid to say this, you would think it was real.
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And if you thought that other people like you thought that Biden was great,
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You know, this guy thought about it and I'm like him.
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You know, I've got a lot in common with this person I follow.
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And if a TikTok influencer says Bidenomics is working well,
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Speaking of real opinions, an interesting development
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with our favorite person on the X platform, Rob Reiner.
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And we also know that he's very active on the X platform.
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And have you ever said to yourself, man, that guy seems crazy.
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And man, it's like he's impervious to new information.
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It seemed like, is there something wrong with him?
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Or did Trump once steal his girlfriend when they were teenagers?
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I highly recommend you follow him, if it's only for this.
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And it was to look into the impact on the election in 2016.
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And on his organization were three CIA chiefs who were his advisors.
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So Mike had said, before he knew there was any connection, he had said that, in his opinion, his experience, that Reiner was talking like a CIA asset.
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And he describes it humorously as like a cocaine-fueled, almost psychopath, immune to new facts.
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So he noticed the tell in Rob Reiner's tweeting that he just tweets like he's a CIA agent.
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And he does a little bit of research, and it didn't take much, to find out that he's actually friends with most of the CIA top guys.
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They're his advisors on this board that he created.
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He says, quote, this is in a tweet, you can literally smell it on these people.
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There's a CIA-speak, frenzied energy of a man on cocaine, endlessly and wholly unaccountable bleeding about democracy, verbal State Department print shop.
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In other words, just saying what the State Department would want you to say.
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And then he says, he runs an organization with three CIA chiefs who all serve as his advisors.
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Why is there a Hollywood producer who's good, who's got advisors in the CIA and he's running some kind of a political investigation that happens to be bad for Trump?
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All right, so Rob Reiner, as Mike says, no background in national security or foreign affairs, just a humble little Hollywood producer who just so happens to have three chiefs of the Central Intelligence Agency in his ear.
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Three of the CIA directors serving us as advisors are also on something called the Atlantic Council.
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So Mike did some research, found out that the Atlantic Council, they're sponsored by who's this company?
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I don't know if you've heard this company before.
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But I guess they're one of the sponsors of this Atlantic Council that has a bunch of CIA related people on it who are also on Rob Reiner's board, his advisors.
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So, I'm not going to make any direct accusations myself.
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I'll just point you to Mike Benz's good work here.
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Have you heard that the CIA, historically, directly and with a lot of energy, and successfully controlled Hollywood?
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Controlled how their movies looked and made sure it was all, you know, very patriotic and American and we said bad things about the bad guys and stuff like that.
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And, of course, you'd want to join the military because it's awesome.
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So, if you were going to influence Hollywood, how would you do it?
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Well, number one, everybody's heard of them, you know, so that they would seem like the smartest people.
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Even sometimes they are, but you don't think of it.
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But you think the directors are smart, don't you?
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And you also know that if you cross a director, you're not going to get work.
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So, the directors are the choke points for Hollywood.
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If you get a few of the big directors, then all of the, anybody who might someday want to work with them, or somebody that they know, because the directors know each other, they don't want to get on a blacklist.
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So, if you're an actor, you're going to fall in line immediately.
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As soon as the big directors have an opinion, you're just going to fall in line.
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So, the CIA only needs to influence half a dozen big directors, and they get the whole industry.
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That there's a choke point, and it's not the actors, right?
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You don't need to get Tom Cruise, because nobody believes actors, but directors have a different level of, you know, assumed capability and intelligence, because they've done something that's more like running a business.
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All right, now that you've heard this, I'm going to say one other name.
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All right, because I have nothing to back any kind of suspicion.
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Now, I have no indication that he has any connection with any intel people.
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There's no evidence, no evidence to suspect that he's anything but a person tweeting with an opinion.
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However, he's got a new book out that apparently is so bad.
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Let me, it was described as pure cringe, and there's a MAGA character in the book who dies of COVID for not being sufficiently vaccinated.
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Well, let me just say that there are a number of famous writers who, when they reach a certain point in their career, are still producing as much or more than they used to, because maybe they don't write all of it anymore.
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I'm just saying it's unknowable for a person like that.
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Have you ever asked yourself, why does Rob Reiner tweet the same way Stephen King does?
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Have you noticed that they, the vibe is just the same?
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I'm not accusing Stephen King of anything, because I have no information that would be, you know, suggest that.
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I'm just saying that you can't trust anything anymore.
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Here's something I did that probably will cause me more trouble than it has already.
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I tweeted that whoever controls the media controls the country.
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And at the moment, it looked like the ADL controlled the media.
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Would you say that's a fair statement based on what we know about the ADL trying to crash advertisers for the X platform?
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And it appears that that's exactly what they do.
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Their business model, so to speak, is they pressure news entities to cover the news in a way that they want.
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And the anti-Semitic thing comes out, like, really easily.
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Just anything they don't like, well, that's a trope.
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Now, immediately after tweeting this, I was accused of being anti-Semitic.
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Because people assumed that what I meant, certainly didn't say it and wasn't even thinking it,
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was that the ADL is a Jewish organization, and the media are Jewish, have a lot of Jewish owners,
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and therefore that what I'm really saying, my secret, you know, racist dog whistle,
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The Democrats, you know, the head of the ADL used to work for Obama and one of the Clintons,
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The Jewish part doesn't have anything to do with anything, except they like calling people anti-Semitic a lot.
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So, you know, I spend half of my days arguing with the trolls on YouTube
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that what they think is this major Jewish kind of conspiracy could be 100% explained,
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their observations could be completely explained,
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by the fact that Jewish people are good at school and they value education.
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So, are we surprised that there's a high percentage of them in the best kind of jobs?
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Is that the people who valued education got the jobs that you need a good education
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So, if you could run a TV news network, or a network, don't you think that would be a good job?
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So, this is another case where I didn't mention...
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Now, you're not going to believe this next part,
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but I wouldn't bring it up just to lie about it.
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That, you know, if I were, I'd rather, like, not discuss it.
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But I swear to God, it never once occurred to me that anybody would interpret that as anything about Jewish people.
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The one who literally never even occurred to them that there was any element of it in the story?
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Or the people who immediately looked at me and thought I'm an anti-Semite.
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The people who accused me are in a racial model.
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When they first said that, I was like, what are you talking about?
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Like, I had to piece it together after the fact.
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It's like, oh, you're saying that because I said, okay.
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The people who are guilty on the Democrat side will accuse you of the thing they're doing.
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Like, they were doing it, actively doing it, while accusing me of doing it.
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I didn't even know we were talking about Jewish people.
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So, I tweeted because it seems like the government is going after Elon Musk in too many different ways.
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You know, they're going after him with the ADL, which in my opinion is operating like a quasi-government entity.
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It's not technically, but it's operating like a wing of the Democrats.
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He's being sued for, if I understand this, not hiring immigrants while it would also be illegal to hire immigrants for his rocket company.
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Because the government says you can't hire anybody who's not a U.S. citizen.
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And then he's being sued for discriminating against non-U.S. citizens.
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Now, that doesn't even sound like a real lawsuit.
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So, I tweeted just as I was just thinking about it.
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It's starting to look like they just want him in jail because he's too powerful.
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And Elon Musk actually replied to that, which is not the tweet I would have expected him to reply to.
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So, yeah, I don't think he's replied to anything I've tweeted since I got canceled.
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I think he tried once and then he got piled on and it wasn't worth it.
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I mean, I can't read his mind, but I'll just tell you that he made one positive comment about not canceling humor.
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So, he hasn't commented on anything I've tweeted for nine months or whatever, whatever it's been.
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And it was about whether the Democrats are trying to jail him.
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And what he said was, in his tweet, something strange is going on.
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But he knows, like, what's actually happening in his daily experience.
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And he's even saying something strange is going on.
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Like it doesn't look organic, whatever's happening.
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And it makes you wonder if the intelligence people have decided to take him out, which is what I worry about.
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All right, let's talk about this story about Shokin.
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So, remember the Ukraine's prosecutor, General Viktor Shokin.
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So, the story, as most of you know, Biden said he got the guy fired.
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And then when it was found out that Hunter was, you know, working for Burisma.
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And that there was some note, there was some thinking that the prosecutor was a problem for Burisma.
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So, really, that's the reason that he was removed.
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Now, so, Miranda Devine of the New York Post found some documentation that showed that the European Commission,
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actually it praised Ukraine's prosecutor general Shokin for his efforts to fight corruption,
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nine days after Vice President Joe Biden demanded his ouster.
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So, while Biden was demanding his ouster, the people he said were on his side were praising him for a job well done
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So, I retweeted that story, Miranda Devine's story.
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And immediately, I saw sources that contradicted it.
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So, one of them, for example, was from Andres Bacchus, who's always been a real good source and data checker and fact checker of lots of different topics.
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But he said that the idea that there was anything, you know, sketchy going on there has been debunked.
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And he showed me a source that referred to all the people who did want that guy gone.
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So, I said, your source is a Ukrainian publication?
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Oh, yeah, sure, it's my source that's a problem, right?
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So, I thought, well, maybe there are other sources.
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So, FT had an article in which they went down and it mentioned a whole bunch of people, diplomats, who did, in fact, want him fired.
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So, by the time you're done with the article, it's like, you know, this diplomat wanted him to fire that diplomat.
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So, it was a whole bunch of people who wanted this victor, shook, and fired, just like Biden said.
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But there's also the other diplomat, who agrees with the first diplomat, unnamed.
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The entire story was about all the sources that were on the same team.
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Now, you say to yourself, but Scott, but Scott.
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These are the people who agreed with the official Biden administration policy.
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You tell me that they're not going to say that they still agree?
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If they thought he was, if these were real diplomats, and they really disagreed, or they really agreed, why would they need to be anonymous?
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And why would they, they didn't, you know, there's no indication they asked to be anonymous.
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Do you think they didn't want to be listed for agreeing with the policy that the Biden administration thinks was the right policy?
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Why in the world would that need to be anonymous?
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They were just referred to as this diplomat, that diplomat.
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Now, if you read that article and you were not a sophisticated consumer of news, you would be pretty sure that everybody wanted that guy gone.
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If you are a more sophisticated consumer, you say, it's a news article about people who said the correct thing that agreed with the administration.
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They're ambassadors, which are the people who say out loud the things that are the right thing.
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You would immediately spot this for what it is.
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So this was his comment to the Miranda Devine story that suggested that maybe not everybody agreed on his firing.
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So Andres says, quote, I'm always saddened when I see people falling for dumb stuff.
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Like the claim that the EU was satisfied with Viktor Shokin and didn't want to see him ousted.
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The reason that I followed him for so long and quoted him so often is that he never talks like this.
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Or that source is sketchy because of this reason.
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And then the best source that he gave was an obscure Ukrainian publication to support his point.
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Now, it could be as simple as he, you know, he's pro Ukraine.
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You know, if you live in Germany, maybe you've got some pretty strong feelings.
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But I'll tell you, it's really hard to know who's giving you straight information and who's not.
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Are you following the story of Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson, who was on that 70s show?
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So one of the stars of that 70s show, Danny Masterson, I guess he got convicted of, I don't know how many rapes and sexual abuses or whatever.
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But both Ashton Kutcher and Mila, what's her last name?
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I guess they'd been asked early on, maybe by the family of Danny Masterson, to write character references.
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And basically they only talked about, you know, the person they knew.
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So they were not aware of anything he might or might not have done.
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They were just talking about him in the positive way because their interactions with him were positive.
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And they just put on a video with more contrition than I've ever seen from any two people saying,
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Well, I would like to offer the following suggestion.
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If somebody asks you to write a character reference for somebody, I think your best choices are this.
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Either don't do it, which is hard to do if it's somebody you've known and, you know, had a good relationship with.
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Or, if you do it, definitely don't apologize for it.
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The apology looked worse than whatever they wrote.
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Look, I was asked to give a character reference based on what I know, not based on what I don't know.
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Everybody asked me, just tell us what you know.
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So if you've got a problem with that, it has nothing to do with the crime, because I didn't know anything about that.
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If you have a problem with people having input that is useful to the process, you better make your case.
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But I'm not going to apologize for saying what I knew and not saying things I didn't know.
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But now we have evidence that a jury has found to be conclusive, and I'm going to respect the jury's opinion on that.
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I don't take back what I said, but it's obvious that there was more to this person than what I understood.
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The apology thing makes them look a little guilty of themselves in some way that I think is unfair,
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But there's no reason to think that they did anything wrong.
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That, ladies and gentlemen, concludes the best darn live stream you've seen all day.
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I hope you found a place to comment if you wanted to.
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So if you see Vox, V-O-X, writing a story about an individual, it's not true.
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So there are some publications which you don't need to read it to know it's not true.
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There's a negative story about me and the Daily Beast today or yesterday I mentioned.
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And do you think that the Daily Beast accurately described me?
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No, they called me a right-wing or a far right-wing guy or something.
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Like, they're not even on the same planet when they start and then they go on from there.
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Anything in the Daily Beast about people is not true.
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These are not entities where you read a story and go, oh, maybe.
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I'll add those to my list of publications that you should stay away from.
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One of my critics came at me today and said, oh, so you think these sources are not good.
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You'd have to know nothing about me to think that I was okay with that.
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It says, Putin invaded likely due to Biden's Afghanistan debacle.