Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2235 Scott Adams： The Gears Of The Machine Are Visible Now. Yikes!

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00:00:49.000 Well, I'd like to start with some fake news.

00:00:52.900 Fake news is the good appetizer, isn't it?

00:00:55.120 You start with the fake news, and it's like fun and light, and then you get to the good stuff.

00:01:00.700 Well, one of the fake news update, fake on the side of, let's say, the right-leaning newsosphere.

00:01:09.160 Do you remember, a lot of you saw on X platform,

00:01:13.840 that there was a gentleman who was killed by two people in a car

00:01:20.340 who hit him when he was on his bicycle intentionally and killed him.

00:01:25.000 And tragically, he died, and he was a retired police guy, police chief.

00:01:32.540 Anyway, the controversy is that the page of the Las Vegas local newspaper said it was a bike crash.

00:01:40.840 So how many saw that and said, my God, my God, the media is calling this a bike crash.

00:01:46.920 It was obviously a murder.

00:01:48.700 You know, where's the racial element to this and all that?

00:01:51.760 Well, it turns out that was fake news.

00:01:54.220 Fake news.

00:01:55.380 Fake news in the sense that when the paper first got the report,

00:01:59.660 they didn't know much about it, so they called it a bike crash, and they knew he was dead.

00:02:03.540 As soon as they found out it was something else, they reported it was something else.

00:02:09.120 So they weren't trying to hide the news.

00:02:10.860 They just didn't yet know the news.

00:02:12.880 The first report seemed to be more of a fog-of-war situation.

00:02:18.760 So there you go.

00:02:21.660 You may have seen the weird story of an F-35 in the United States.

00:02:27.700 It was flying around, and the pilot ejected, for reasons we don't yet know.

00:02:31.980 And the plane continued flying on autopilot.

00:02:37.420 And as of a moment ago, they don't know where it is.

00:02:44.260 Does any of this sound real?

00:02:47.520 It doesn't really sound real, does it?

00:02:49.800 And there's a picture, there's an accompanying picture of a, probably an F-35,

00:02:55.760 that's doing barrel rolls on its own. 0.97

00:02:59.420 Really.

00:02:59.800 On autopilot, it does barrel rolls.

00:03:03.520 Do you believe that they got a really clear picture of an F-35 doing a barrel roll,

00:03:09.940 and that that's the missing airplane?

00:03:12.420 How about no?

00:03:15.040 How about no?

00:03:16.500 I think it might be entirely made up.

00:03:19.400 But I'm not sure.

00:03:20.960 It's just stock footage.

00:03:22.540 Yeah.

00:03:23.120 Anyway, so the video's clearly not real.

00:03:25.280 Whether or not the F-35 is really missing.

00:03:32.120 It's in Lake Marion?

00:03:34.020 Maybe.

00:03:35.780 Maybe.

00:03:37.360 But we'll keep an eye on that, the missing F-35, an $80 million plane.

00:03:41.600 In other news, it turns out we know where the Epstein client list is.

00:03:52.000 You might not have caught that part of the news because you got distracted.

00:03:55.060 But the Epstein client list has been located.

00:03:58.220 It's, oh, it's on the F-35.

00:04:03.440 Oh, okay.

00:04:05.360 All right.

00:04:06.120 Yeah, it's on the F-35.

00:04:08.080 But they'll find it any minute now.

00:04:10.380 I'm pretty sure they're almost going to find it.

00:04:13.840 They're looking hard.

00:04:15.060 Everybody's looking for it.

00:04:16.080 But as soon as they get it, we're going to see what's on that list.

00:04:19.640 That's for sure.

00:04:22.260 There's a study that is totally credible.

00:04:26.700 Totally credible.

00:04:28.740 It says that women prefer funny and good-looking men.

00:04:32.820 Well, yeah.

00:04:37.540 You know, if there's one thing I can tell you from my experience,

00:04:41.960 that long before I was successful as the Dilbert guy,

00:04:48.360 oh, did the women want me for my sense of humor and my good looks. 1.00

00:04:53.020 Yeah, it was, I swear I was beating them off,

00:04:57.220 which was what I was doing when I wasn't beating myself off.

00:05:02.760 And, oh, my God, it was just a nightmare.

00:05:06.320 It was like Night of the Living Dead.

00:05:07.940 I would walk down the street, and people would see me,

00:05:10.340 and they'd say, I bet he's funny.

00:05:13.280 And they'd just start following me.

00:05:15.360 And they'd be like, look at that funny guy.

00:05:18.000 Can I get a piece of that?

00:05:21.140 Tell me a joke, funny guy.

00:05:22.840 Oh, oh, I'm so wet.

00:05:26.080 That's the best dad joke that ever made me close to orgasm.

00:05:29.340 Let me tell you.

00:05:30.480 Let me tell you.

00:05:31.340 Yeah, the women, they love the funny guys. 0.99

00:05:34.200 They love it.

00:05:37.280 So you believe that science, right?

00:05:41.340 Well, it's interesting that they complicated it with

00:05:45.880 they also like good-looking men.

00:05:48.560 So they like funny men, but especially if they're good-looking.

00:05:53.740 Do you know what Norm MacDonald said about this scientific observation,

00:05:57.840 even though he's deceased?

00:05:59.660 He said that, turns out women just laugh at whatever handsome guys say. 0.98

00:06:08.880 Uh-huh.

00:06:10.560 Now we have the truth.

00:06:13.060 If you've ever been in the company of a really good-looking guy,

00:06:16.920 and any female,

00:06:19.200 anything that good-looking guy says is pretty hilarious.

00:06:22.580 Am I right?

00:06:23.740 Pretty hilarious.

00:06:24.660 Oh, my God, did you say that?

00:06:27.480 Oh, ha, ha, ha.

00:06:28.700 Pass the salt.

00:06:30.000 Are you kidding me?

00:06:31.120 Pass the salt.

00:06:32.000 Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:06:35.100 You're so funny.

00:06:36.320 You're so funny.

00:06:37.640 Oh, God, you're so funny.

00:06:39.680 Can I touch you?

00:06:42.220 Yeah.

00:06:43.200 So there's your science.

00:06:46.500 So can I give you this advice?

00:06:49.040 Trust the science, people.

00:06:52.760 Trust the science.

00:06:55.020 Because it's so accurate and believable and totally credible.

00:07:00.340 And do you know when you should trust the science?

00:07:03.960 There's one time you should trust the science.

00:07:07.340 And then there's another time you should not.

00:07:10.420 Don't trust the ugly scientists.

00:07:14.120 No, no, no.

00:07:14.940 The ugly ones cannot be trusted.

00:07:16.640 But if you see, like, a really handsome scientist or, you know, a hot woman scientist,

00:07:22.500 yeah, that's science.

00:07:23.880 That's the real stuff.

00:07:25.400 I tell you, if a beautiful woman who's a scientist tells me something is scientific, 0.99

00:07:30.840 I'm going to say, oh, yep, oh, something like that.

00:07:35.580 That's how I talk.

00:07:36.960 Oh, anyway, so science.

00:07:41.020 Have I taught you that when we learned that AI could be created, artificial intelligence

00:07:49.300 could be created out of nothing but the prior word patterns of human beings, a lot of people

00:07:56.800 said, hey, that's not real intelligence.

00:07:58.420 That's like some fake kind.

00:08:00.560 And I said, no, that's how humans work.

00:08:04.220 Humans use words in sentences that they believe are reasons, and they're not.

00:08:12.520 It's the same reason we use analogies instead of arguments.

00:08:15.700 We think the analogy is some kind of logic or reason.

00:08:20.180 It's not.

00:08:21.380 It's just a different situation.

00:08:23.720 So if you're using an analogy to make your point, that's sort of word thinking.

00:08:29.080 It's just something to remind you of something else.

00:08:31.400 That's it.

00:08:31.820 It doesn't, there's no logic to it.

00:08:34.660 And I'm going to give you the best example.

00:08:38.340 Well, the best example would be abortion. 0.61

00:08:45.160 And I did a little experiment last night on the man cave video that I do at night for subscribers

00:08:52.000 on Locals.

00:08:52.560 And, you know, somebody was, one of the members was giving an opinion on abortion and using

00:09:01.740 words like this.

00:09:03.780 Is it a life?

00:09:05.740 You know, are we talking about a life?

00:09:07.840 And, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:09:09.260 And, of course, that's word thinking.

00:09:11.740 That's trying to win the argument by having your preferred definition of a word be the preferred

00:09:18.200 definition.

00:09:19.760 And if another person has a different definition of the word, you're not really having a debate.

00:09:25.140 You're trying to be a dictionary.

00:09:27.200 That's completely different than logic or anything.

00:09:29.640 You're just trying to win with the word.

00:09:31.080 I'll give you the best example of this I saw today.

00:09:36.360 Somebody named Jonathan Perkins tweeted on September 15th, obviously in support of trans

00:09:44.200 people, wrote, trans women are women, but didn't write it once.

00:09:49.800 You know, wrote a whole bunch of times to really drive it in.

00:09:53.760 Trans women are women. 0.90

00:09:55.000 Trans women are women. 0.90

00:09:56.160 Trans women are women. 0.90

00:09:57.140 Like 20 times.

00:09:58.060 Trans women are women. 0.90

00:09:59.060 Now, that is what's called word thinking.

00:10:04.320 Trying to win an argument by making you accept the definition that they've accepted as the

00:10:10.220 word.

00:10:11.040 That's not an argument.

00:10:13.540 That's just trying to be a dictionary, right?

00:10:16.600 If you're trying to be a dictionary, you're not even part of the reasoned conversation.

00:10:21.600 So, Riley Gaines, who you might know as the award-winning, I guess, award-winning, would

00:10:30.780 that be the right thing?

00:10:31.960 A champion, a champion swimmer who is railing against people who were born male swimming as

00:10:40.820 women. 0.81

00:10:41.100 And she tweets, in response to trans women are women, written 15 times, she tweets, hot

00:10:50.960 dogs are dogs, 15 times.

00:10:54.460 Hot dogs are dogs.

00:10:55.740 Hot dogs are dogs.

00:10:59.380 Now, yeah, it was perfect.

00:11:02.240 So, Riley Gaines, in addition to being a champion swimmer, I'm starting to learn, is actually

00:11:11.060 very smart.

00:11:12.800 Have you noticed that?

00:11:14.900 She's not just a champion swimmer, and she's not just outspoken, and she's not just good 0.54

00:11:20.800 at tweeting.

00:11:21.820 She seems to be unusually smart.

00:11:24.700 I'll just keep an eye on that.

00:11:25.840 But she called out, you know, she used her own way, but yeah, she called out somebody 0.99

00:11:32.600 for word thinking.

00:11:33.700 Word thinking has no role in anything.

00:11:37.580 All right, interestingly, you're following the Russell Brand story, I'm sure.

00:11:41.920 He's been accused by four anonymous people, coincidentally, at exactly the same time that

00:11:48.820 he's making a big dent in the national consciousness, in a way that's not really friendly

00:11:55.700 to the Biden administration, although he's by no means a right-wing person, or even close

00:12:00.360 to it.

00:12:02.760 But Elon is backing him, so Elon Musk tweeted, I support Russell Brand.

00:12:07.360 That man is not evil.

00:12:11.620 That's pretty full, that's a full-throated endorsement, or support.

00:12:18.240 Do you know what Elon Musk said when I got canceled?

00:12:21.240 He said, we shouldn't cancel humor.

00:12:26.180 We shouldn't cancel, he said, we shouldn't cancel humor.

00:12:29.800 No, he weighed in right away.

00:12:31.560 He said, we shouldn't be canceling humor.

00:12:34.540 But when he supported Russell Brand, he said, the man is not evil.

00:12:40.480 Well, I'm not going to make anything of that.

00:12:42.380 That when he supported Russell Brand, he said, the man is good.

00:12:50.260 And when he said something about my case, he said, humor is good.

00:12:56.160 If I were married to Elon Musk, I would be divorcing him right now, which apparently is

00:13:03.900 a very financially advantageous thing to do.

00:13:06.460 So, yeah.

00:13:12.460 No, I don't think it means anything.

00:13:14.100 That's just sort of a funny observation.

00:13:20.620 Somebody else pointed out that there was a woman who had a theory that Russell Brand has

00:13:25.540 known since the beginning of Me Too that his day would come.

00:13:30.140 And so he's been carefully cultivating a right-wing audience that would accept whatever he said

00:13:35.540 about it uncritically.

00:13:38.720 And here we are.

00:13:39.780 And he planned the whole thing.

00:13:41.620 He knew that he would be attacked as Me Too and he couldn't survive on the left.

00:13:46.240 But if he found a home on the right, he would be insulated against his Me Too accusations.

00:13:52.680 I don't know.

00:13:54.340 I don't think people are that smart.

00:13:57.420 I mean, he is really, really smart.

00:13:58.900 But I don't think he made up years of opinions to cover up the potential for that.

00:14:06.100 I mean, if he did, he's smarter than we think, and that would be pretty impressive.

00:14:10.520 But I don't know.

00:14:11.840 That's a little too clever.

00:14:14.240 It doesn't quite fit my sense of how people work.

00:14:19.300 But, hey, who knows?

00:14:23.120 It seems far more likely that it's not a coincidence that he's being taken down because it seems

00:14:28.580 like all of the powerful voices on one side of things are all being attacked in pretty

00:14:37.040 much the same way.

00:14:38.300 It's all sex or racism.

00:14:40.680 Racism or sex. 0.53

00:14:42.100 It's all the same stuff.

00:14:44.640 All right.

00:14:44.980 Well, the Senate has decided to relax.

00:14:48.040 It's a dress code.

00:14:50.140 Everybody's pretty sure it's about John Fetterman dressing like a hobo, and they want that to 0.60

00:14:57.680 be okay, I guess.

00:14:59.160 So I suspect that most of them will still wear suits, but at least the law has changed so

00:15:04.940 that Fetterman can run.

00:15:07.040 Now, do you think this is all because of Fetterman?

00:15:11.760 I'm going to check your conspiracy theories.

00:15:13.860 Is it all because of Fetterman, you think?

00:15:17.220 Maybe.

00:15:18.340 I'm going to say maybe on Fetterman, but here's what I think.

00:15:23.500 I think that they're holding out hope that Representative Boebert could run for the Senate.

00:15:32.900 I'll just let that sit there for a moment.

00:15:36.700 So you can complete your own joke in your head?

00:15:40.320 Yeah.

00:15:40.820 They're just hoping that Boebert would someday run for Senate.

00:15:43.240 So this is sort of like the Russell Brand thing.

00:15:47.160 They're planning maybe a dozen years in advance, because it might be a long time before she

00:15:51.780 runs for the Senate if she ever does. 1.00

00:15:53.700 But you've got to play the long game, and the Senate is good at that.

00:15:57.340 So, I mean, she might be 75 by the time she's there, but, you know, still, they're holding out hope.

00:16:05.200 It's a very lonely body of people, and they don't have a lot of hotties in the Senate, and maybe they'd like to get one. 0.99

00:16:12.200 So I'm just putting that out there.

00:16:13.400 Now, the good news is that finally I can run for Senate.

00:16:20.280 People have been saying, Scott, why don't you run for Senate?

00:16:23.940 Well, two reasons.

00:16:25.400 One, dress code.

00:16:27.320 And two, I don't like to commute.

00:16:29.400 So if I could do it by Zoom in my pajamas, boom.

00:16:36.540 I feel like I'm running the country right now, and I don't have a dress code, so what difference would it be?

00:16:42.580 It'd be very similar.

00:16:44.100 Very similar.

00:16:45.920 All right, let's talk about your tells for fake news.

00:16:49.140 I've got opinion pieces here from Stefan Collinson, Dean Obadiah, and Glenn Kessler.

00:16:58.220 Kessler's at the Washington Post.

00:17:00.060 The other two are writing for CNN.

00:17:02.380 Do you recognize those names?

00:17:04.860 Anybody recognize those names?

00:17:07.460 So remember, if you know the players, everything makes sense.

00:17:11.700 If you don't know the players, it looks like news.

00:17:15.060 All right, these are not the players who tell you news.

00:17:18.000 These are opinion pieces, first of all.

00:17:20.500 But they're sort of special purpose pundits.

00:17:26.800 So let's see what Stefan Collinson says.

00:17:30.660 Says the front runner for the Republican nomination, talking about Trump, is a twice impeached ex-president

00:17:36.660 who is facing four criminal trials and has, here's the important part,

00:17:41.460 has never shelved his attempt to overturn the American democratic system of fair elections.

00:17:48.000 Now, that's stated in an opinion piece, but that's stated as fact.

00:17:54.260 Is that a fact?

00:17:55.760 Would you say this is how you would word it?

00:17:58.740 That he tried to overturn the American democratic system of fair elections?

00:18:02.040 Or would another way to say that be he didn't think the elections were fair and he was trying to make them fair?

00:18:09.680 So the reality is the opposite of this, as far as we can tell.

00:18:14.900 Trump thought the election was unfair and wanted it to be rechecked so that he could get a fair result,

00:18:21.640 which he believed would show him the winner.

00:18:23.360 Do you think that the facts have shown that he has not given up his attempt to overturn the American democratic system of fair elections?

00:18:33.240 Does anybody think he was trying to do that?

00:18:37.200 This is word thinking.

00:18:39.600 Because Stefan Collinson can put words in this sentence, those words will be picked up by the readers.

00:18:46.320 Do you think the readers will think through the entire situation and then on their own,

00:18:53.640 they would come up with the opinion that he was trying to overthrow, overturn the American democratic system of fair elections?

00:19:01.480 Is that something that the Democrats on their own would have come up with that interpretation?

00:19:09.320 If the news had always just shown them the facts, but not the interpretation, would they have come up with that?

00:19:16.320 Or would they say, oh, he's a sore loser, so he did what he could to make sure that the election was really what it was?

00:19:25.940 And maybe he shouldn't have, but it didn't work out, so there we are.

00:19:31.640 Now, I don't think that the watchers would come to that opinion on their own.

00:19:37.340 They'd probably just say, oh, there's always a protest after an election if you don't win.

00:19:41.700 Right?

00:19:42.280 There's sort of always a protest after an election if you don't win.

00:19:45.080 And somebody thinks there's something up.

00:19:48.020 It happened when Trump won.

00:19:53.080 It probably happened before.

00:19:56.700 All right.

00:19:58.300 How about Dean Obadiah?

00:20:00.620 He's going to deal with the question of Biden's age.

00:20:05.460 So do you think Dean Obadiah is going to write a balanced opinion?

00:20:09.120 Well, his take is that maybe Biden is old, but you've got to look at how old and how many gaffes Trump is making.

00:20:21.060 So you know the argument against Biden is largely based on a series of gaffes, right, and acting strange in public.

00:20:30.100 But Dean Obadiah is here to remind you that Trump has done many of those same things, and just recently.

00:20:38.560 So here are some of the things that are being compared to Biden's gaffes.

00:20:44.040 You ready?

00:20:44.320 Trump did a 40-second pause during one of his speeches, which his supporters generously interpreted as he was emotional and needed a pause.

00:20:59.260 But Dean Obadiah points out that if Biden had glitched for 40 seconds, that you'd say that's a cognitive problem.

00:21:11.340 Did it look to you like Trump glitched?

00:21:16.640 Did he glitch like McConnell, or was he clearly just waiting, and there was something going on in his head, but he knew exactly what he was doing?

00:21:25.480 Now, it didn't look like a glitch to me at all, but if you hadn't seen either one, and you're reading this opinion piece, you'd say to yourself,

00:21:38.020 oh, yeah, old people do stuff. 0.99

00:21:40.340 It's probably about the same.

00:21:42.160 It wasn't even close to the same.

00:21:44.360 No, he didn't glitch.

00:21:45.840 He paused for dramatic effect, and it worked really, really well.

00:21:52.180 Here's another one.

00:21:53.120 Now, twice Trump referred to Obama when he meant, I think once he meant Clinton and once he meant Biden.

00:22:02.560 So he said Obama instead of one of those two people, who basically, some people say, are being run by Obama.

00:22:11.500 Now, I don't know what is the most common gaffe in politics, but if I had to nominate the most common gaffe in politics,

00:22:22.060 it would be saying Obama when you meant somebody else.

00:22:27.000 It's the most common mistake in politics.

00:22:30.260 How many times have you heard people who are clearly not too old say Obama and then can correct themselves and say Clinton?

00:22:36.960 All the time.

00:22:42.320 All the time.

00:22:44.680 Yeah.

00:22:45.240 And even the spokesperson for Biden had said Obama when she was talking about her own boss.

00:22:52.860 Does anybody think that Biden's spokesperson has cognitive decline?

00:22:58.140 No, I think she started that way.

00:23:00.660 It's not cognitive decline.

00:23:02.260 It's just the most common thing that people get backwards.

00:23:08.060 Then the other thing that Trump got wrong is that he was worried that we're heading toward World War II,

00:23:14.020 when obviously he meant III.

00:23:16.620 But Dean Obadiah reports this as he doesn't know what year it is,

00:23:20.420 or that he doesn't know that World War II happened.

00:23:23.080 Does that sound like what happened?

00:23:24.400 Has anybody ever confused World War II with the hyperbole that World War III is going to happen?

00:23:32.040 It's probably the second most common thing that people get wrong.

00:23:37.100 I've seen it.

00:23:38.480 You've seen it too, right?

00:23:40.180 When they're talking about, well, this might launch World War III,

00:23:43.360 but they were just thinking of two before they upped it by one,

00:23:47.740 and then they say two accidentally.

00:23:48.980 So, yeah, this is a pretty hard stretch.

00:23:56.080 This is the type of opinion piece that the more respectable people would never write.

00:24:03.560 So you have to invite somebody whose specialty is writing just really stretches,

00:24:10.800 stretches of the imagination.

00:24:12.200 All right, how about Glenn Kessler,

00:24:17.280 who wants to make the case that Biden fired that Shokin guy in Ukraine, 1.00

00:24:23.260 or got him fired,

00:24:24.660 for good reasons that other people thought were good reasons,

00:24:27.480 and everybody agreed, and so there's nothing sketchy here.

00:24:30.440 He just got rid of a bad prosecutor.

00:24:34.040 And one of the things that Glenn Kessler mentions

00:24:37.420 is that the French and the Germans agreed with Biden.

00:24:42.760 So we know the French and the Germans agreed.

00:24:45.880 Really?

00:24:47.120 What were their names?

00:24:49.020 Which French person?

00:24:51.600 Did they?

00:24:52.540 Did they agree?

00:24:53.800 And there were other people in the Biden administration who agreed with Biden.

00:24:59.580 You mean the people who were all fully aware that this was his grift?

00:25:04.340 Yeah, the people who were fully aware of what Biden's grift were,

00:25:09.160 were in favor of him getting rid of the person who might be stopping the grift,

00:25:14.720 some people say.

00:25:16.040 I don't know what's true.

00:25:18.320 Yeah, that's...

00:25:19.720 When you look at how weak the other people are,

00:25:23.540 there's no reference to the other people

00:25:25.480 except the people who knew that Biden was in on some kind of Ukraine grift.

00:25:29.880 Scott spins the crimes of criminals.

00:25:36.000 Which criminal are you talking about?

00:25:39.360 You don't even know what you're talking about.

00:25:41.500 I'm not even sure if you know what topic you're on.

00:25:44.580 So I would say that if they send Glenn Kessler out

00:25:49.040 to support the fact that everybody agreed with Biden on firing Shokin,

00:25:53.780 the minimum that that would require would be

00:25:56.360 at least one name of one person

00:25:59.640 who is not under the Biden sphere of influence

00:26:04.540 who actually agreed.

00:26:07.460 Just one.

00:26:08.200 You don't think an article like that

00:26:10.600 should have at least one person with a quote?

00:26:12.780 Or even a quote.

00:26:14.540 How about a quote from a well-established

00:26:18.260 French or German politician

00:26:20.840 to say exactly what they said

00:26:23.440 so we could read it ourselves?

00:26:25.300 Yeah.

00:26:26.140 So now that you know the names,

00:26:28.320 Stefan Collinson, Dino Badiah,

00:26:30.880 Glenn Kessler,

00:26:32.580 Phil Bump,

00:26:34.160 those are the names you should know

00:26:35.900 that they're telling you the opposite of what's true

00:26:38.800 so you can actually read them as the real news.

00:26:41.760 The fact that what is not mentioned

00:26:44.480 is more prominent than what is mentioned

00:26:46.880 tells you exactly what's going on.

00:26:50.180 It's not real news.

00:26:51.620 It's not even real opinion.

00:26:53.820 All right.

00:26:55.040 RFK Jr. has a pandemic-related conspiracy theory

00:26:59.200 that many people believe,

00:27:02.540 but I'm having a problem with it

00:27:05.280 because it's a little bit too James Bond villain for me.

00:27:09.880 And it would go like this.

00:27:11.920 That roughly speaking,

00:27:13.460 roughly speaking,

00:27:17.240 that the people who created the COVID virus

00:27:20.700 are the same people who created the vaccine,

00:27:23.900 and it's all one big plan.

00:27:27.340 So that the trial runs

00:27:30.760 were some part of a,

00:27:33.940 you know,

00:27:34.220 and the predictions of a pandemic

00:27:37.080 were all part of a major plan

00:27:39.680 to use the pandemic

00:27:40.780 to take away freedoms.

00:27:43.680 And the freedoms they wanted to take away

00:27:45.420 were freedom of speech, mostly.

00:27:48.140 But basically a massive,

00:27:50.580 a way to roll out

00:27:52.080 a massive censorship program.

00:27:55.340 Basically put a lock on the country.

00:27:59.840 So here's what's wrong

00:28:01.580 with that theory.

00:28:07.280 I think they could have done it

00:28:08.840 without the pandemic.

00:28:11.140 I don't think they needed the pandemic,

00:28:13.260 did they?

00:28:14.840 Because it turns out

00:28:16.440 that all of the entities

00:28:17.760 that sort of played along

00:28:20.180 were their own entities.

00:28:22.020 So related to this

00:28:27.340 is a far better analysis

00:28:30.520 from Mike Benton's.

00:28:33.540 I keep mentioning

00:28:34.240 that you should follow him.

00:28:35.560 Oh my God,

00:28:36.280 am I having my brain

00:28:38.520 unlocked by his analysis?

00:28:40.260 So he knows how the CIA operates.

00:28:44.940 And he goes through,

00:28:45.960 I tweeted it,

00:28:46.820 and you absolutely have to watch it.

00:28:48.640 If you don't watch

00:28:50.480 the Mike Benton's

00:28:51.720 40-minute explanation

00:28:54.040 of how the CIA

00:28:55.320 has set up these cutouts

00:28:57.280 to make you think

00:28:58.460 real things are happening,

00:28:59.520 but it's all operated by the CIA,

00:29:01.040 if you haven't seen it,

00:29:02.800 you have no idea

00:29:03.780 what's happening in the world.

00:29:05.460 You would have no idea

00:29:06.600 who's actually running things.

00:29:10.100 But here are some things

00:29:13.400 that Mike Benton teaches you,

00:29:14.980 and there's a lot more.

00:29:15.860 If you see the government

00:29:17.660 refer to some academics

00:29:19.880 that they're working with,

00:29:21.760 they're not academics.

00:29:23.780 They're cutouts,

00:29:25.600 meaning that they're people

00:29:26.820 that are funded by the government

00:29:28.460 to give the government

00:29:30.340 what it wants

00:29:31.140 because the government

00:29:32.480 can't do something

00:29:33.420 legally itself.

00:29:34.720 Do you know what the government

00:29:35.500 can't do legally?

00:29:37.220 Censor people.

00:29:38.900 They can't do it directly.

00:29:40.800 So they hired groups

00:29:42.260 of fake academics

00:29:43.860 who did have jobs

00:29:45.100 at universities,

00:29:46.180 but the academic part

00:29:47.820 was really just convenience.

00:29:50.620 So they can launder

00:29:51.900 the government's censorship

00:29:53.860 through these seemingly

00:29:55.900 independent academics.

00:29:57.880 And then the other trick

00:29:58.700 is that when they say

00:29:59.780 that the academics

00:30:00.560 are there to study

00:30:01.660 misinformation,

00:30:03.620 that is a smokescreen.

00:30:05.520 They're not there

00:30:06.340 to study it.

00:30:07.520 They're there to stop it.

00:30:09.980 And they're going to tell you

00:30:11.300 what the misinformation is.

00:30:12.600 You don't get to decide.

00:30:14.480 So somebody else

00:30:15.600 that the government

00:30:16.580 pays to do this

00:30:17.820 and has to keep

00:30:18.840 the government happy

00:30:19.680 because that's where

00:30:20.240 the money comes from,

00:30:21.520 they create an organization

00:30:22.960 that says that this

00:30:24.900 and this and this

00:30:25.680 are misinformation.

00:30:27.540 And then they work,

00:30:28.520 those entities,

00:30:29.420 work with the platforms,

00:30:30.600 and they say they do,

00:30:32.120 to get them to stop

00:30:34.140 the misinformation.

00:30:36.080 Now the platforms

00:30:36.800 don't want to get in trouble,

00:30:38.340 so it's easier for them

00:30:39.840 to go along

00:30:40.480 because they don't want

00:30:41.160 to cause trouble.

00:30:42.600 So the government

00:30:43.840 creates these cutouts

00:30:45.780 and funds them

00:30:46.760 to say what the government

00:30:47.760 wants them to say

00:30:48.600 to block and censor people.

00:30:52.100 And then they go

00:30:52.920 to the platforms

00:30:53.680 and they say,

00:30:54.400 hey, we're these

00:30:55.000 independent academics.

00:30:56.560 We're just trying

00:30:57.320 to make the world

00:30:58.000 a better place

00:30:58.780 and we're going to make

00:30:59.820 a lot of trouble for you

00:31:00.820 if you don't do

00:31:01.360 what we say.

00:31:02.540 And apparently

00:31:03.040 all of the platforms

00:31:04.300 conformed.

00:31:05.260 All of them.

00:31:05.820 Basically everything

00:31:07.200 except X, I guess.

00:31:09.140 So, and that was

00:31:11.220 before Musk owned it,

00:31:13.040 so even then probably.

00:31:16.160 So apparently

00:31:17.980 the censorship

00:31:18.660 included the 2022 election.

00:31:23.560 You see it yet?

00:31:25.760 The government

00:31:26.780 actually created

00:31:28.040 a CIA-led entity,

00:31:30.500 a mass structure,

00:31:31.720 to keep you from knowing

00:31:33.720 that the election

00:31:34.600 had some critics,

00:31:37.440 shall we say.

00:31:39.640 Yeah.

00:31:43.600 Amazingly.

00:31:45.160 Amazingly.

00:31:47.620 What are we looking at here?

00:31:53.100 So, anyway,

00:31:54.500 you should look at,

00:31:56.620 yeah, so here are the,

00:31:59.900 here are the keywords

00:32:01.700 to look for

00:32:02.640 to know that it's

00:32:03.520 a government cutout.

00:32:05.680 Look for academics.

00:32:07.400 When you see academics,

00:32:08.660 that should be a flag.

00:32:11.140 They're not so much

00:32:12.040 academics as they are

00:32:13.120 people paid by the government

00:32:14.280 to do what the government

00:32:15.080 wants.

00:32:16.300 Look for studied,

00:32:17.700 look for they studied

00:32:18.940 something.

00:32:20.220 It means they're

00:32:20.740 stopping that thing.

00:32:22.440 And look for conversations

00:32:24.020 with the major platforms.

00:32:26.160 Do they have conversations?

00:32:28.300 I don't know.

00:32:28.680 When I have a conversation,

00:32:30.900 the people that I've talked to

00:32:32.340 don't immediately change

00:32:33.620 all of their activities.

00:32:36.260 That feels like a little bit

00:32:37.540 more than a conversation,

00:32:38.860 doesn't it?

00:32:39.720 There must have been

00:32:40.580 some kind of

00:32:41.400 pressure on them.

00:32:45.860 Anyway.

00:32:51.380 I saw,

00:32:52.180 did I see a real tweet

00:32:53.820 the other day

00:32:54.840 of Musk

00:32:56.260 saying that the

00:32:57.340 Soros organization

00:32:58.440 appears to have

00:33:00.020 the intention

00:33:00.520 of destroying

00:33:01.140 civilization?

00:33:03.220 Did you see that?

00:33:05.000 And I believe

00:33:05.820 he was called

00:33:06.260 anti-Semitic

00:33:07.060 for that.

00:33:09.580 But what about

00:33:10.420 the fact that

00:33:11.160 that's exactly

00:33:11.860 what it looks like

00:33:12.620 to all of us?

00:33:13.900 If there's an

00:33:14.720 organization

00:33:15.320 trying to fund

00:33:16.940 people who elect

00:33:18.240 criminals

00:33:18.740 and a jail

00:33:19.420 and mass

00:33:20.440 immigration in,

00:33:21.760 how else

00:33:22.780 could you describe

00:33:23.640 that except

00:33:24.320 an intention

00:33:25.000 of destroying

00:33:25.800 the world?

00:33:27.060 It looks like

00:33:28.100 intentionally

00:33:28.680 destroying the world.

00:33:30.160 Now,

00:33:30.740 if there's an

00:33:31.720 argument in favor

00:33:32.740 of it,

00:33:33.840 why don't I know

00:33:34.820 it?

00:33:36.040 Why don't I know

00:33:36.900 the argument

00:33:37.420 on the other side?

00:33:39.760 I mean,

00:33:40.380 I've looked for it.

00:33:42.120 I can't find it.

00:33:44.920 But why is it

00:33:45.520 so well hidden

00:33:46.180 if it's such

00:33:47.560 a dominant narrative

00:33:48.540 that's affecting

00:33:49.280 the entire country?

00:33:50.280 I've never even

00:33:51.260 seen the argument

00:33:52.180 for why it's a good

00:33:53.740 idea to let

00:33:54.420 everybody in

00:33:55.220 and open

00:33:57.120 the jails,

00:33:57.860 basically.

00:33:59.080 Now,

00:33:59.360 I've heard it

00:34:00.100 said that

00:34:00.700 you don't want

00:34:03.140 to put a lot

00:34:03.660 of black people

00:34:04.400 in jail

00:34:04.840 over minor crimes

00:34:06.320 because then

00:34:07.860 they forever

00:34:08.880 will have

00:34:09.300 a criminal record

00:34:10.920 and what are

00:34:11.360 they going to do

00:34:11.820 but become criminals

00:34:12.780 because their

00:34:13.940 options are limited.

00:34:15.440 But there's

00:34:16.220 nobody in the world

00:34:16.980 who thinks

00:34:17.420 that's working.

00:34:19.080 Do they?

00:34:20.520 To me,

00:34:21.180 it looks like

00:34:22.400 that almost

00:34:24.480 all the crime

00:34:25.260 is repeat

00:34:25.940 criminals.

00:34:27.780 Right?

00:34:28.140 If you're

00:34:28.760 treating the

00:34:29.460 consistent repeat

00:34:30.780 criminals

00:34:31.380 exactly the same

00:34:33.000 as the one

00:34:34.200 black guy

00:34:34.860 who stole

00:34:35.620 a candy bar

00:34:36.300 once,

00:34:37.940 what are we

00:34:38.960 talking about?

00:34:39.620 That's not even

00:34:40.240 sensible.

00:34:41.240 I'm completely

00:34:42.100 on board

00:34:42.780 with not

00:34:44.980 ruining somebody's

00:34:45.900 life because

00:34:46.660 they shoplifted

00:34:47.580 when they're 19.

00:34:49.260 I'm totally

00:34:50.280 on board with

00:34:50.820 that.

00:34:52.340 But if you

00:34:53.160 shoplift

00:34:53.580 every day

00:34:54.360 and it's

00:34:55.300 power tools,

00:34:57.140 I'm not

00:34:57.880 going to let

00:34:58.220 you out on

00:34:58.740 that.

00:35:00.100 That's a

00:35:00.720 whole different

00:35:01.480 thing.

00:35:02.320 So clearly

00:35:03.060 at this point

00:35:03.780 the Soros

00:35:04.440 organization

00:35:05.040 knows what's

00:35:05.860 actually happening

00:35:06.840 which would

00:35:07.920 be very

00:35:08.500 different from

00:35:09.100 whatever

00:35:09.460 idealized

00:35:10.440 plan they

00:35:11.840 have.

00:35:12.880 So why

00:35:13.880 don't they

00:35:14.240 adjust their

00:35:14.800 plan?

00:35:16.320 Why have

00:35:16.740 they not

00:35:17.180 said,

00:35:17.580 oh,

00:35:17.680 that was a

00:35:18.100 mistake,

00:35:18.560 we will

00:35:18.900 correct and

00:35:20.520 we should

00:35:20.820 only be

00:35:21.200 going after

00:35:21.720 the non-repeat

00:35:23.460 offenders.

00:35:24.660 Or not

00:35:25.300 going after.

00:35:25.940 So the only

00:35:26.380 ones that we

00:35:26.840 should be

00:35:27.180 lenient with

00:35:27.800 is the

00:35:28.160 non-repeats,

00:35:29.540 but definitely

00:35:30.200 not the

00:35:30.580 serial criminals.

00:35:33.260 But they

00:35:33.980 don't seem

00:35:34.380 to be doing

00:35:34.800 that.

00:35:36.540 And so

00:35:38.280 it does

00:35:39.300 look like,

00:35:40.620 unless they

00:35:41.100 have a better

00:35:41.600 explanation for

00:35:42.520 their activities,

00:35:43.640 it does look

00:35:44.340 like their

00:35:44.800 intention is to

00:35:45.820 destroy the

00:35:46.440 country.

00:35:46.720 Am I

00:35:48.420 wrong?

00:35:49.480 What else

00:35:50.220 could it

00:35:50.520 be?

00:35:51.040 If you

00:35:51.440 could give

00:35:51.760 us any

00:35:52.180 other

00:35:52.460 explanation,

00:35:53.300 I'm sure

00:35:53.900 I would

00:35:54.180 listen to

00:35:54.580 it.

00:35:55.280 And I

00:35:55.520 would fully

00:35:56.140 value the

00:35:58.300 argument.

00:35:59.540 I might

00:35:59.980 disagree,

00:36:00.820 but I

00:36:01.260 would give

00:36:01.560 it full

00:36:01.980 respect,

00:36:03.240 because it's

00:36:03.720 so important.

00:36:05.240 And there

00:36:05.700 must be smart

00:36:06.360 people who

00:36:06.840 are in

00:36:07.080 favor of

00:36:07.440 it.

00:36:08.080 But the

00:36:08.460 fact that

00:36:08.840 there's no

00:36:09.320 argument in

00:36:10.460 favor of

00:36:10.980 it that is

00:36:12.840 in the

00:36:13.320 news,

00:36:14.340 don't you

00:36:14.800 think that if

00:36:15.600 Soros had a 0.93

00:36:16.640 good argument,

00:36:18.040 CNN would

00:36:18.620 be telling

00:36:19.020 you what

00:36:19.340 it is?

00:36:21.040 Right?

00:36:22.680 If there

00:36:23.340 were a good

00:36:23.880 argument for

00:36:24.500 the open

00:36:24.900 borders and

00:36:26.360 for the

00:36:26.960 run-up in

00:36:28.520 crime in

00:36:29.020 the cities

00:36:29.440 that's

00:36:29.800 completely

00:36:30.300 intentional,

00:36:31.520 CNN would

00:36:32.100 tell you that

00:36:32.660 it's working

00:36:33.100 out.

00:36:34.400 And MSNBC 0.81

00:36:35.220 would be

00:36:35.660 saying,

00:36:36.040 yeah,

00:36:36.920 maybe the

00:36:38.220 right-wing

00:36:39.040 mega-extremists

00:36:40.080 don't like

00:36:40.560 it, but

00:36:40.860 it's totally

00:36:41.900 doing what

00:36:42.420 they hoped

00:36:42.760 it would

00:36:43.020 do.

00:36:43.900 Where's

00:36:44.220 that?

00:36:45.200 Soros 0.94

00:36:45.640 doesn't even

00:36:46.400 have the

00:36:46.800 support of

00:36:48.380 the left-leaning

00:36:49.580 media, but

00:36:50.940 they definitely

00:36:51.380 take his

00:36:51.780 money, right?

00:36:53.900 He's one of

00:36:54.520 the major

00:36:54.900 funders of

00:36:55.680 Democrat

00:36:56.240 stuff.

00:36:56.860 They take

00:36:57.300 his money,

00:36:57.960 but they

00:36:58.480 don't support

00:36:59.180 anything he

00:36:59.960 wants to

00:37:00.440 do, which

00:37:01.420 means that,

00:37:02.500 can you

00:37:02.780 imagine that?

00:37:04.220 How much

00:37:04.660 more money

00:37:05.200 could they

00:37:05.540 get if they

00:37:05.940 supported him?

00:37:07.420 But there's

00:37:08.160 nobody in the

00:37:09.760 news business

00:37:10.420 who will even

00:37:11.320 say it's a

00:37:11.820 good idea that

00:37:12.560 this Soros

00:37:13.080 money is

00:37:14.000 having the

00:37:14.340 effect it's

00:37:14.840 having?

00:37:15.160 Nobody.

00:37:16.180 Have you

00:37:16.500 ever heard

00:37:17.120 anybody support

00:37:17.860 him?

00:37:19.320 Anybody.

00:37:20.680 Anybody on

00:37:21.340 the left or

00:37:21.800 the right?

00:37:22.840 If there's

00:37:23.560 nobody on

00:37:24.220 the left or

00:37:25.000 the right who

00:37:25.880 can see any

00:37:26.680 positive in his

00:37:27.560 actions, then

00:37:29.260 he is destroying

00:37:30.020 the world.

00:37:32.240 What else

00:37:32.920 could it be?

00:37:34.660 What else

00:37:35.260 could it be?

00:37:36.420 Now, by the

00:37:36.960 way, I say

00:37:37.620 that with

00:37:37.940 hyperbole,

00:37:38.860 because I

00:37:39.860 would rather

00:37:40.360 hear the

00:37:40.820 argument and

00:37:41.540 then I know

00:37:42.020 what I'm

00:37:42.320 really dealing

00:37:42.740 with, but

00:37:43.620 there doesn't

00:37:44.200 seem to be

00:37:44.720 an argument

00:37:45.180 that anybody

00:37:46.300 on the right

00:37:46.900 can articulate,

00:37:48.360 but of course

00:37:48.960 they would see

00:37:49.800 themselves as

00:37:50.540 a nemesis.

00:37:52.320 But the

00:37:52.860 people on the

00:37:53.360 left who are

00:37:53.900 taking his

00:37:54.640 money can't

00:37:56.440 explain why

00:37:57.220 he's good for

00:37:57.820 the world.

00:37:59.500 Not even,

00:38:00.160 you can't get

00:38:02.180 Glenn Kessler,

00:38:05.540 Stephen

00:38:05.940 Collinson,

00:38:06.640 or Dean

00:38:07.080 Obadiah to

00:38:08.700 write an

00:38:09.420 opinion piece

00:38:10.080 that supports

00:38:10.700 Soros. 0.78

00:38:11.980 Or at

00:38:12.560 least those

00:38:12.960 specific things

00:38:13.720 he's doing.

00:38:15.340 Just think of

00:38:15.900 that.

00:38:16.620 You can't

00:38:17.120 even get the

00:38:17.740 professional

00:38:18.560 misinformation

00:38:19.400 people to

00:38:21.100 misinform you.

00:38:22.660 Even they

00:38:23.160 won't do it.

00:38:24.240 Because they

00:38:24.620 can't see an

00:38:25.660 argument for it.

00:38:26.380 There's no

00:38:26.680 argument.

00:38:29.120 All right.

00:38:30.640 You want to

00:38:31.080 hear some more

00:38:31.720 about the

00:38:32.440 absolute fuckery

00:38:34.020 of the thing

00:38:34.600 that you think

00:38:35.140 is news?

00:38:37.380 Is it my

00:38:38.200 imagination,

00:38:38.960 or was

00:38:39.280 health care a

00:38:40.120 big issue?

00:38:40.700 before?

00:38:41.900 Did somebody

00:38:42.420 solve it?

00:38:43.660 Did somebody

00:38:44.140 fucking solve

00:38:45.000 health care

00:38:45.500 while I wasn't

00:38:46.100 watching?

00:38:46.720 Or did we

00:38:47.280 just stop

00:38:47.760 talking about

00:38:48.340 it because

00:38:48.720 Biden hasn't

00:38:49.420 done a

00:38:49.780 fucking thing?

00:38:50.540 Now, I think

00:38:52.220 he added some

00:38:52.800 people to

00:38:53.240 Obamacare, but

00:38:54.040 did that fix it?

00:38:55.340 Are we all good

00:38:55.920 now?

00:38:56.820 Are the costs

00:38:57.920 not spiraling

00:38:58.940 out of control?

00:39:00.120 And suddenly

00:39:00.740 the entire news

00:39:01.680 industry doesn't

00:39:02.400 care anything

00:39:03.200 about health care.

00:39:04.200 Suddenly it

00:39:04.780 doesn't matter

00:39:05.340 at all.

00:39:05.740 He reduced

00:39:09.260 the price of

00:39:09.820 insulin, which

00:39:10.500 I think

00:39:10.860 Trump tried

00:39:11.480 to do

00:39:11.900 and got

00:39:12.900 reversed, and

00:39:13.600 then Biden

00:39:14.100 reversed the

00:39:14.960 reversal or

00:39:15.600 something.

00:39:16.860 Yeah.

00:39:19.880 But the

00:39:21.140 health care

00:39:21.640 story tells

00:39:22.540 you as

00:39:23.020 clearly as

00:39:24.500 you could

00:39:24.800 possibly see

00:39:25.720 that the

00:39:26.840 news is not

00:39:27.460 real.

00:39:28.940 Because health

00:39:29.780 care didn't

00:39:30.420 get better.

00:39:31.620 They just

00:39:32.080 stopped talking

00:39:32.720 about it.

00:39:33.180 That's all

00:39:34.180 that happened.

00:39:35.140 They just

00:39:35.480 stopped talking

00:39:36.020 about it.

00:39:38.700 All right.

00:39:40.500 I have a

00:39:41.280 prediction for

00:39:41.940 you.

00:39:43.700 That we're

00:39:44.480 getting to the

00:39:45.120 point where

00:39:45.540 there's enough

00:39:46.240 reasoned

00:39:48.180 scientific pushback

00:39:49.480 to climate

00:39:50.580 change that it

00:39:52.460 might disappear

00:39:53.240 from the news

00:39:54.120 without anything

00:39:55.960 changing.

00:39:57.520 What do you

00:39:58.240 think?

00:39:59.900 And I feel

00:40:00.480 like it's,

00:40:01.300 I'm feeling

00:40:02.160 the first,

00:40:03.180 whiff of

00:40:04.440 it.

00:40:05.540 The same

00:40:06.500 way that the

00:40:07.060 health care

00:40:07.500 thing was

00:40:07.980 the biggest

00:40:08.380 thing in

00:40:08.740 the world

00:40:09.100 until they

00:40:09.700 decided it

00:40:10.340 wasn't,

00:40:11.820 I feel like

00:40:12.460 the Schellenbergers 1.00

00:40:14.900 and the

00:40:16.300 Epsteins,

00:40:17.500 not the

00:40:18.920 island Epstein,

00:40:20.080 Alex Epstein,

00:40:21.500 that they're

00:40:23.640 doing such a

00:40:24.580 good job of

00:40:25.700 laying down

00:40:26.360 the counter

00:40:27.020 argument that

00:40:28.700 I think it

00:40:29.440 might just

00:40:29.860 disappear.

00:40:30.740 I think they

00:40:31.180 might just

00:40:31.540 stop talking

00:40:32.060 about it

00:40:32.660 because it

00:40:33.180 doesn't

00:40:33.420 work.

00:40:34.860 And then

00:40:35.200 we're going

00:40:35.840 to pretend

00:40:36.320 that everything

00:40:37.560 they said

00:40:38.060 about it

00:40:38.580 were just

00:40:39.420 going to

00:40:39.740 act like

00:40:40.300 the biggest

00:40:41.820 problem in

00:40:42.260 the world

00:40:42.580 just disappeared

00:40:44.060 because they

00:40:44.580 stopped talking

00:40:45.100 about it.

00:40:46.240 Or maybe it

00:40:47.080 was never

00:40:47.400 the biggest

00:40:47.780 problem.

00:40:49.080 Yeah,

00:40:49.260 Vivek is also

00:40:50.340 a big part

00:40:51.160 of, you

00:40:52.160 know,

00:40:53.000 punching through

00:40:53.880 the narrative

00:40:54.360 there.

00:40:55.260 All right,

00:40:55.560 so that's my

00:40:56.140 prediction that

00:40:57.160 there will be

00:40:58.500 a time in

00:40:59.060 the future

00:40:59.520 and I'm

00:40:59.900 going to

00:41:00.020 give it

00:41:00.240 a date

00:41:00.700 one year.

00:41:04.880 So before

00:41:06.000 the election,

00:41:07.480 one year

00:41:08.080 from now,

00:41:10.000 no, that

00:41:10.520 would be

00:41:10.780 still in

00:41:11.100 the election

00:41:11.480 cycle, so

00:41:12.140 they might

00:41:12.440 still be

00:41:12.880 trying to

00:41:13.240 scare people.

00:41:14.520 It'll probably

00:41:14.940 take longer.

00:41:16.240 I think it'll

00:41:16.680 be four or

00:41:17.220 five years

00:41:17.780 before it

00:41:18.300 goes away.

00:41:19.300 But it's

00:41:19.660 just going

00:41:19.940 to disappear.

00:41:22.360 All right.

00:41:24.840 Over in

00:41:25.480 Ukraine,

00:41:26.140 nothing to

00:41:26.720 worry about

00:41:27.140 here, but

00:41:27.700 seven deputy

00:41:28.500 defense

00:41:28.960 ministers were

00:41:29.720 dismissed.

00:41:30.780 That's seven

00:41:31.460 of eight.

00:41:33.540 I wonder

00:41:34.240 why.

00:41:35.560 Seven deputy

00:41:36.940 defense

00:41:37.400 ministers.

00:41:37.920 And there's

00:41:38.260 some rumors

00:41:38.740 about corruption.

00:41:40.660 Huh.

00:41:41.880 Is it

00:41:42.480 possible that

00:41:43.980 seven deputy

00:41:44.760 defense ministers

00:41:45.800 did not get

00:41:46.540 fired just

00:41:47.880 because they

00:41:49.520 were incompetent,

00:41:50.780 but maybe

00:41:51.760 they were

00:41:52.140 making some

00:41:52.760 money on the

00:41:53.420 side?

00:41:55.040 Oh, what

00:41:55.480 are the odds

00:41:55.960 of that?

00:41:57.860 Yeah.

00:42:00.120 So, there's

00:42:01.600 that.

00:42:03.060 All right, let's

00:42:03.460 talk about

00:42:04.000 Trump on his

00:42:05.320 interview with

00:42:07.120 Meet the

00:42:09.420 Press.

00:42:10.580 And was

00:42:11.540 it a woman 0.97

00:42:13.040 named Welker

00:42:13.840 who was the

00:42:14.720 host, if I

00:42:15.600 have that

00:42:15.880 right?

00:42:16.880 Anyway, so

00:42:17.500 one of the

00:42:18.040 big pieces of

00:42:18.980 news that came

00:42:19.520 out of that

00:42:19.880 was that Trump

00:42:21.260 was asked

00:42:21.760 about a

00:42:23.320 national abortion

00:42:24.500 ban, a

00:42:25.840 federal ban.

00:42:27.420 And he

00:42:28.440 said that he

00:42:30.260 wanted to help

00:42:30.940 the country

00:42:31.380 negotiate some

00:42:33.580 kind of

00:42:33.980 compromise where

00:42:35.240 everybody would

00:42:36.100 be happy and

00:42:36.840 they'd love him

00:42:37.400 for it, or

00:42:38.360 something like

00:42:38.880 that.

00:42:40.120 Now, Matt

00:42:41.520 Walsh didn't

00:42:42.980 like that because

00:42:43.900 it looks like a

00:42:44.760 compromise on

00:42:45.700 something you

00:42:46.140 should never

00:42:46.500 compromise on.

00:42:47.760 In his view,

00:42:49.140 why are you

00:42:49.560 compromising on

00:42:51.120 killing babies?

00:42:51.860 I'm summarizing,

00:42:53.520 but that's the

00:42:54.100 basic idea.

00:42:55.220 Why would you

00:42:55.620 ever compromise

00:42:56.440 on killing

00:42:57.080 babies?

00:42:59.060 So this is

00:43:00.200 not my point

00:43:00.760 of view, just

00:43:01.560 to be clear.

00:43:02.740 I'm characterizing

00:43:04.240 somebody else's

00:43:05.380 point of view,

00:43:06.200 which is, why

00:43:07.260 would you ever

00:43:07.680 compromise on

00:43:08.640 baby killing?

00:43:09.940 That would be

00:43:10.440 the last thing

00:43:12.080 you would

00:43:12.320 compromise on.

00:43:15.200 And Seth

00:43:15.960 Dillon made a

00:43:16.760 similar point by

00:43:17.620 saying, now we

00:43:18.920 know who among

00:43:19.660 us would have

00:43:20.400 compromised on

00:43:21.340 slavery instead

00:43:22.680 of fighting for

00:43:23.460 its abolition.

00:43:24.900 Whoa.

00:43:26.360 Hitting us with

00:43:27.280 the slavery

00:43:27.780 analogy.

00:43:30.220 So here's the

00:43:32.080 thing.

00:43:33.200 In both cases,

00:43:35.600 I think there's

00:43:37.660 a similar thing

00:43:38.340 going on.

00:43:40.520 I think we

00:43:41.440 did find out

00:43:42.260 who among us

00:43:43.420 would have

00:43:43.720 compromised on

00:43:44.600 slavery when

00:43:46.900 the union was

00:43:47.620 formed.

00:43:48.000 And the

00:43:50.680 answer is, all

00:43:51.640 the people who

00:43:52.300 were good at

00:43:52.880 long-term

00:43:53.400 planning would

00:43:55.420 have compromised

00:43:56.000 on slavery

00:43:56.740 because it was

00:43:57.980 the only way to

00:43:58.520 get there.

00:44:00.400 The other

00:44:01.100 possibility wasn't

00:44:02.060 there.

00:44:04.000 We wouldn't

00:44:05.000 have been one

00:44:05.480 country.

00:44:06.340 So the other

00:44:07.140 country would

00:44:07.700 have just had

00:44:08.180 their slavery

00:44:08.660 and nobody

00:44:10.300 would have been

00:44:10.700 there as a

00:44:11.200 counterpoint to

00:44:11.820 it.

00:44:14.080 Likewise,

00:44:14.440 Trump knows

00:44:16.560 that whatever

00:44:17.080 happens will

00:44:17.700 be something

00:44:18.140 like a

00:44:18.620 compromise.

00:44:20.000 And so

00:44:20.480 being the

00:44:21.260 practical person

00:44:22.220 he is,

00:44:23.620 he would

00:44:23.980 rather say,

00:44:25.000 let's focus

00:44:25.420 on the

00:44:25.740 process of

00:44:27.160 how we

00:44:27.520 would negotiate

00:44:28.260 a compromise.

00:44:30.580 That's kind

00:44:31.340 of perfect.

00:44:32.460 If he can

00:44:33.080 make you think

00:44:33.640 about the

00:44:34.100 process,

00:44:35.520 about negotiating

00:44:36.660 where is the

00:44:38.020 end, is it

00:44:38.640 this many

00:44:39.120 months, is

00:44:39.780 there a ban

00:44:40.200 of some

00:44:40.520 kind, is

00:44:41.640 there any

00:44:41.960 limits,

00:44:42.500 whatever.

00:44:42.720 If he

00:44:43.440 can make

00:44:43.760 you think

00:44:44.220 about the

00:44:44.800 negotiations,

00:44:46.460 he's already

00:44:46.940 made you

00:44:47.320 think past

00:44:47.800 the sale.

00:44:49.860 The sale

00:44:50.620 is, should

00:44:51.300 it be

00:44:51.500 negotiated?

00:44:52.900 But he's

00:44:53.220 making you

00:44:53.620 think about

00:44:53.980 the details

00:44:54.580 of the

00:44:54.880 negotiation and

00:44:55.780 whether there

00:44:56.260 should be a

00:44:56.640 negotiation.

00:44:58.540 And so

00:44:58.880 your brain is

00:44:59.840 already negotiating.

00:45:01.620 He does it

00:45:02.360 all the time,

00:45:03.340 and it's

00:45:03.620 perfect.

00:45:04.260 He also

00:45:04.760 says that

00:45:05.960 he's going

00:45:06.300 to reach

00:45:06.620 an agreement

00:45:07.660 that everyone

00:45:08.480 will love.

00:45:11.040 Now, you

00:45:11.660 know that's

00:45:12.060 impossible,

00:45:12.720 right?

00:45:13.100 There is

00:45:13.620 no possibility

00:45:14.440 you could

00:45:15.420 compromise on

00:45:16.420 abortion and

00:45:17.620 have everybody

00:45:18.160 love it.

00:45:19.440 But do you

00:45:20.000 think he

00:45:20.300 doesn't know

00:45:20.800 that?

00:45:21.560 Of course

00:45:21.960 he knows

00:45:22.280 that.

00:45:23.260 Do you

00:45:23.740 think he

00:45:24.080 wants you

00:45:24.440 to focus

00:45:24.900 on the

00:45:25.340 fact that

00:45:26.020 you won't

00:45:27.080 all love

00:45:27.620 it?

00:45:28.460 Of course

00:45:28.860 he does.

00:45:29.820 He wants

00:45:30.300 you to be

00:45:30.640 thinking about

00:45:31.160 that.

00:45:32.020 If you're

00:45:32.480 thinking about

00:45:33.000 whether you

00:45:33.420 love it,

00:45:34.320 again, you're

00:45:35.420 thinking about

00:45:36.040 whether or

00:45:36.600 not there

00:45:36.960 should be

00:45:37.220 a negotiation.

00:45:39.920 It's his

00:45:40.540 classic trick.

00:45:41.360 He does it

00:45:41.720 all the time.

00:45:42.180 It's perfect

00:45:42.780 persuasion.

00:45:44.620 And so I

00:45:45.920 would answer

00:45:46.300 the question

00:45:46.720 this way.

00:45:47.740 Now we

00:45:48.180 know who

00:45:48.520 among us

00:45:48.960 would have

00:45:49.260 compromised on

00:45:50.100 slavery instead

00:45:50.900 of fighting

00:45:51.340 its abolition.

00:45:53.780 Everybody who

00:45:54.620 is good at

00:45:55.100 cost-benefit

00:45:55.820 analysis would

00:45:56.660 have.

00:45:58.380 The answer

00:45:59.160 is not

00:46:00.320 your moral

00:46:01.020 strength.

00:46:03.900 Your moral

00:46:04.620 strength would

00:46:05.220 get you the

00:46:05.680 opposite of

00:46:06.220 what you

00:46:06.480 wanted.

00:46:06.780 your moral

00:46:09.020 flexibility

00:46:09.660 would get

00:46:11.040 you eventually

00:46:11.800 what you

00:46:12.240 wanted, but

00:46:13.440 also all of

00:46:14.300 the other

00:46:14.640 things in

00:46:15.160 the meantime,

00:46:15.800 like coherence,

00:46:17.060 a country that

00:46:17.800 works, less

00:46:18.960 division, etc.

00:46:20.820 So this is not

00:46:22.800 a question of

00:46:23.900 morality, because

00:46:27.440 Trump's morality

00:46:28.440 probably would get

00:46:29.400 you to the same

00:46:29.920 place as the

00:46:30.600 people who are

00:46:31.040 his critics are.

00:46:32.060 It would just

00:46:32.520 take longer.

00:46:33.040 But you

00:46:34.760 would have a

00:46:35.200 way to get

00:46:35.640 there.

00:46:36.720 If you want

00:46:37.380 to do it the

00:46:37.820 immediate way,

00:46:38.480 you probably

00:46:38.820 just don't have

00:46:39.420 that option.

00:46:40.580 So why would

00:46:41.220 you spend a

00:46:42.460 lot of time on

00:46:43.020 something that

00:46:43.500 wouldn't make

00:46:43.900 any difference?

00:46:45.200 So Trump's

00:46:45.720 being practical,

00:46:47.060 and of course

00:46:48.360 this is getting

00:46:48.840 a lot of

00:46:49.140 pushback, but

00:46:50.420 I would say

00:46:50.980 that focusing

00:46:52.200 on the process

00:46:53.480 is exactly the

00:46:54.540 way a president

00:46:55.260 should go.

00:46:58.780 And I would

00:46:59.280 add this

00:47:00.380 suggestion.

00:47:02.260 The best

00:47:02.740 answer for

00:47:03.300 Trump is that

00:47:04.180 imagine a

00:47:05.360 president saying

00:47:05.980 this.

00:47:07.520 You don't

00:47:08.060 want your

00:47:08.480 president making

00:47:09.300 your personal

00:47:09.840 health care

00:47:10.300 decisions for

00:47:11.040 you.

00:47:13.800 Right?

00:47:14.900 Who's going to

00:47:15.460 disagree with

00:47:16.020 that?

00:47:16.540 You don't want

00:47:17.200 your president

00:47:17.760 to make your

00:47:18.560 personal health

00:47:19.220 care decisions.

00:47:20.400 But I'm going

00:47:20.940 to add something.

00:47:22.400 You also don't

00:47:23.420 want your

00:47:23.760 president to make

00:47:24.600 your personal

00:47:25.400 life and death

00:47:26.500 decisions.

00:47:27.620 Because that's

00:47:28.240 what it is.

00:47:28.960 It's a life and

00:47:29.680 death decision.

00:47:30.660 It might be in

00:47:31.380 some cases the

00:47:32.160 life of the

00:47:32.600 mother because

00:47:33.500 she might need

00:47:34.040 to protect her

00:47:34.780 own life in

00:47:35.920 rare cases.

00:47:37.640 But it's

00:47:38.260 certainly about

00:47:39.520 the life of

00:47:40.420 something that

00:47:41.100 some would

00:47:41.580 call a human

00:47:42.920 and some would

00:47:43.600 call a pre-human

00:47:44.880 in some way.

00:47:46.520 So you could

00:47:47.100 argue about the

00:47:47.820 words to put on

00:47:48.640 it, but we're

00:47:49.300 all looking at

00:47:49.840 the same thing.

00:47:51.160 So the question

00:47:51.780 that's hard to

00:47:53.340 disagree with is

00:47:54.260 do you want your

00:47:55.240 president to make

00:47:56.160 your personal

00:47:56.780 health care decisions?

00:47:57.800 decisions?

00:47:58.420 No.

00:47:58.860 Do you want the

00:48:00.740 president, who

00:48:01.560 doesn't even know

00:48:02.360 you, to make

00:48:03.860 your own personal

00:48:04.860 life and death

00:48:06.320 decisions?

00:48:07.700 Life and death.

00:48:09.140 Do you want the

00:48:09.560 president to decide?

00:48:10.520 The president

00:48:10.860 doesn't even know

00:48:11.520 you.

00:48:12.340 The president

00:48:12.840 doesn't know

00:48:13.340 anything about

00:48:14.020 your situation.

00:48:16.500 Now, that's not

00:48:17.440 to say that the

00:48:18.320 laws should not

00:48:19.220 be strict.

00:48:20.580 The laws will

00:48:21.620 end up where

00:48:22.080 they end up.

00:48:22.660 But it's very

00:48:24.480 smart for the

00:48:25.280 president, whoever

00:48:26.200 the president is, to

00:48:27.780 say, I'm going to

00:48:28.640 help you guys, you

00:48:29.900 guys meaning the

00:48:30.600 public, I'm going to

00:48:31.900 help you reach a

00:48:32.760 situation which is

00:48:33.700 stable for the

00:48:34.480 country, and I do

00:48:36.760 have preferences.

00:48:38.120 I do have

00:48:39.020 preferences, but my

00:48:42.900 preferences should not

00:48:44.160 lead your life.

00:48:47.080 The only thing I'm

00:48:48.140 going to help you

00:48:48.540 do is make sure

00:48:49.300 that your life and

00:48:50.140 death and your

00:48:51.120 personal decisions are

00:48:52.260 decided by the

00:48:53.200 public as best as

00:48:55.060 possible, and not by

00:48:56.580 a president.

00:48:58.340 Now, I think that's

00:48:59.780 strong.

00:49:00.920 I think that's

00:49:01.840 strong persuasion.

00:49:03.440 But, if you're very

00:49:06.160 much in favor of, you

00:49:07.520 know, no compromise,

00:49:09.700 you're going to end

00:49:11.180 up with nothing.

00:49:12.860 You'll end up with a

00:49:13.800 Democrat president.

00:49:15.900 So, if the moral win

00:49:18.520 is more important than

00:49:20.420 the actual win, then

00:49:23.340 that would be the way

00:49:23.920 to go.

00:49:24.960 Now, I'll say this, I've

00:49:26.520 said it a million times

00:49:27.540 and I'll say it again.

00:49:29.840 Trump is a business

00:49:31.060 person who's been

00:49:32.740 making business

00:49:33.700 decisions for his

00:49:35.160 whole life.

00:49:37.160 If your job is a

00:49:38.560 writer or a humorist,

00:49:40.680 and you've been mostly

00:49:41.540 writing for your life

00:49:42.720 and talking, you're not

00:49:45.880 really, you don't have

00:49:47.620 the same decision-making

00:49:49.600 qualifications.

00:49:51.860 And I say this often.

00:49:54.560 Decision-making is a

00:49:57.040 skill.

00:49:58.700 It's not something that

00:50:00.020 you're purely born with.

00:50:01.900 If you've studied

00:50:02.720 economics or business,

00:50:04.980 you've been taught how to

00:50:06.020 make decisions.

00:50:07.180 You've actually been

00:50:07.880 taught.

00:50:08.880 I've sat through classes

00:50:11.000 where they teach me to

00:50:12.840 focus on the long run by

00:50:14.800 doing something called a

00:50:16.000 discounted cash flow

00:50:18.440 analysis.

00:50:19.760 And that forces you to

00:50:21.140 always think about the

00:50:22.060 long run or the complete

00:50:23.360 picture, I would say,

00:50:24.200 the complete picture, and

00:50:25.700 don't focus on the

00:50:26.520 initial investment.

00:50:27.820 The initial investment

00:50:28.920 is, do I buy this

00:50:29.920 computer for half a

00:50:31.000 million dollars?

00:50:32.380 If that were your only

00:50:33.420 decision, the answer is

00:50:34.400 no.

00:50:36.220 Right?

00:50:37.140 Because you lose half a

00:50:38.860 million dollars.

00:50:39.960 But there's a point to

00:50:41.080 the computer, and if you

00:50:42.260 look at 10 years, well, not

00:50:43.620 10 years, but if you look

00:50:44.500 at three years, maybe it

00:50:45.840 made sense.

00:50:47.080 Yeah.

00:50:47.480 So if you're looking at

00:50:48.660 business people having a

00:50:51.160 different approach to

00:50:52.440 something than writers, who

00:50:55.860 are you going to believe?

00:50:57.000 Well, not believe.

00:50:57.740 Who would you trust as a 1.00

00:50:59.460 better grasp on decision

00:51:00.860 making?

00:51:02.000 A lifetime business person

00:51:03.680 who operated at a high

00:51:04.580 level, or a lifetime

00:51:06.020 writer?

00:51:07.520 Now, of course, writers also

00:51:08.700 have to make plenty of

00:51:09.660 decisions about their own

00:51:10.620 life and their families,

00:51:11.860 and they run a business as

00:51:13.780 well, but it's a very

00:51:14.900 bit different scale.

00:51:17.020 The complexity and the

00:51:18.940 long-term planning of real

00:51:21.200 estate.

00:51:22.380 I mean, when Trump does a

00:51:23.980 project, he's probably

00:51:24.800 thinking 20 years.

00:51:27.220 Right?

00:51:28.620 You wouldn't do a building

00:51:29.800 unless you had a sort of a

00:51:30.900 20-year mindset.

00:51:31.780 So I think I would trust the

00:51:35.620 people who learned how to

00:51:37.500 make decisions over the

00:51:39.540 people who were doing

00:51:40.380 something else during that

00:51:41.480 time.

00:51:44.760 All right.

00:51:48.280 And, of course, comparing it

00:51:49.900 to slavery is an analogy

00:51:52.520 which is not what good

00:51:54.060 decision-makers do.

00:51:56.420 Have you ever heard Trump do

00:51:57.740 that?

00:51:57.980 I'm trying to think if I've

00:52:00.380 ever heard him argue with an

00:52:02.180 analogy.

00:52:04.380 And my first impression is

00:52:06.140 no.

00:52:07.440 Can you do a fact check on

00:52:08.640 that?

00:52:09.040 Does anybody remember Trump

00:52:10.680 ever making an argument with

00:52:12.280 an analogy?

00:52:14.720 I don't think I've ever heard

00:52:16.100 it.

00:52:18.460 Now, that's a shocker, isn't

00:52:20.020 it?

00:52:20.300 Because that is a real

00:52:23.300 endorsement of his

00:52:27.180 analytical abilities.

00:52:29.120 If he can stay away from

00:52:30.620 analogies, and I think he

00:52:32.940 does, actually.

00:52:33.900 I don't think he uses

00:52:34.760 analogies.

00:52:36.620 And the reason is that you

00:52:37.860 don't use an analogy,

00:52:39.480 is although in the legal

00:52:40.760 system, you know, precedent

00:52:42.040 does matter.

00:52:43.180 But in arguing what is

00:52:44.860 rational, an analogy is just

00:52:47.740 somebody else's situation.

00:52:49.060 It doesn't have a bearing

00:52:51.160 on the one you're looking

00:52:52.000 at.

00:52:52.540 But people who don't know

00:52:53.900 how to do analysis, imagine

00:52:55.180 it does.

00:52:56.260 So this point about who

00:52:58.040 among us would have

00:52:58.800 compromised on slavery, the

00:53:01.860 answer is all the smart

00:53:02.800 people.

00:53:04.940 Unfortunately, that's the

00:53:05.900 answer.

00:53:06.700 All of the smart people.

00:53:08.120 Because they would have

00:53:08.940 known it was the only way to

00:53:09.960 end it in the long run, and

00:53:11.340 also have a strong country in

00:53:12.640 the meantime.

00:53:13.000 Jesus used parables.

00:53:19.900 A parable is a story trying

00:53:24.280 to give you a way to act in

00:53:26.020 the future.

00:53:27.160 Yeah, that's not trying to win

00:53:28.200 an argument with an analogy.

00:53:30.280 It's pretty different.

00:53:33.160 The snake story?

00:53:35.340 Was the snake story an

00:53:36.780 analogy?

00:53:37.140 I think if you, here's the

00:53:42.380 thing, the snake story is made

00:53:44.300 up, right?

00:53:46.020 An analogy is a real thing

00:53:48.280 that you're comparing to

00:53:50.140 another real thing.

00:53:51.400 If somebody makes up a story,

00:53:53.980 that's a story.

00:53:55.740 Story is persuasion, and story

00:53:59.280 gives you a mental model to hang

00:54:01.760 your facts on, but it's not an

00:54:03.920 analogy.

00:54:04.280 All right.

00:54:14.800 What's happening?

00:54:15.740 My AI is malfunctioning?

00:54:18.920 Yeah, you can always tell the

00:54:20.220 people who are in cognitive

00:54:21.600 dissonance, because they go

00:54:23.760 immediately personal.

00:54:26.340 So if I say something smart, and

00:54:28.560 you see somebody saying, what

00:54:30.180 happened to your brain?

00:54:31.180 That means that the cognitive

00:54:34.340 dissonance.

00:54:35.160 If I say something that has a,

00:54:38.380 let's say, a logic error, then

00:54:42.140 people say that.

00:54:43.260 Well, you're forgetting this

00:54:44.420 variable.

00:54:46.080 Or, have you considered also this

00:54:48.440 other factor?

00:54:50.020 That's what they say when they

00:54:51.500 disagree.

00:54:52.780 When they're experiencing

00:54:53.900 cognitive dissonance, they say,

00:54:55.700 what's wrong with your brain?

00:54:57.580 What happened to you?

00:54:58.340 Well, it's pretty consistent.

00:55:02.020 All right.

00:55:04.580 What if you say something dumb,

00:55:06.200 like we should compromise on

00:55:07.700 abortion? 0.89

00:55:08.700 Well, Luo, I didn't say that,

00:55:10.260 did I?

00:55:11.340 Did you hear me say that?

00:55:13.100 Did you hear me say what you

00:55:14.500 should do?

00:55:16.740 Nope.

00:55:18.340 No.

00:55:18.740 No.

00:55:19.460 No.

00:55:19.980 You haven't heard my opinion on

00:55:21.400 abortion.

00:55:22.120 I think women should work it out. 1.00

00:55:23.560 That's my opinion.

00:55:24.200 So, if you're anything but that,

00:55:27.000 that is actually your imagination,

00:55:29.720 and you're having an argument

00:55:30.700 with your imagination.

00:55:33.220 Right?

00:55:33.980 Now, no, I never said you should

00:55:35.520 negotiate it.

00:55:37.000 I said that if you want the

00:55:38.640 country to stay together, that

00:55:40.480 would be the path.

00:55:42.120 If you want us to be forever

00:55:43.620 divided, then you would fight it

00:55:46.140 to the death.

00:55:47.600 So, you get to pick your two

00:55:49.260 approaches, but I didn't tell you

00:55:51.480 which one to pick.

00:55:52.220 Like, if you want to die for

00:55:54.520 your moral, you know, if you

00:55:57.760 want the country to fall apart

00:55:59.900 for your moral victory, you do

00:56:03.440 have that option.

00:56:04.660 I didn't tell you you shouldn't

00:56:05.760 do it.

00:56:06.700 If it's that important to you

00:56:08.040 that you would destroy everything

00:56:09.160 for it, I don't know.

00:56:11.840 I can't tell you what's important.

00:56:14.020 You have to decide that on your

00:56:15.240 own.

00:56:15.420 No, our ancestors didn't need

00:56:25.760 analogies to get a message

00:56:27.100 across.

00:56:28.080 They needed stories, maybe, but

00:56:29.560 not analogies.

00:56:30.320 All right.

00:56:38.920 Well, that's got a lot of action

00:56:40.200 on here.

00:56:41.780 All right.

00:56:45.700 Against women getting the right 1.00

00:56:47.020 to vote in America.

00:56:47.920 I'm asked, did I ever read any

00:56:52.860 of the opinions of people who

00:56:54.080 were against women getting the

00:56:55.540 right to vote in America when it

00:56:57.500 was first being debated?

00:56:58.520 And some of the reasons were

00:57:00.340 compelling.

00:57:05.440 You know, I'm, of course, I'm

00:57:08.940 opposed to taking away anybody's

00:57:11.840 right to vote.

00:57:13.660 But the arguments are funny.

00:57:17.040 Like, if you're going to follow

00:57:18.920 along.

00:57:19.440 And I don't know that we would

00:57:21.560 have much of a different outcome

00:57:22.960 if women didn't vote. 1.00

00:57:25.640 I'm not sure exactly what would be

00:57:27.280 different.

00:57:28.520 Yeah.

00:57:33.780 No, I don't even ask.

00:57:40.980 All right.

00:57:43.820 Yeah.

00:57:45.660 Pearl thinks women should not vote. 1.00

00:57:48.180 It's pretty funny.

00:57:48.720 All right.

00:57:50.820 How about only taxpayers?

00:57:57.080 Well, I've said that before, that

00:57:59.780 your vote should be in proportion to

00:58:03.100 how much taxes you pay.

00:58:07.340 So, I mean, it should be.

00:58:11.080 Yeah, the other model was what the

00:58:14.680 Constitution originally had, which was

00:58:16.280 property owners.

00:58:17.040 You know, the argument for property

00:58:20.040 owners is way stronger than the

00:58:22.020 argument for women not voting.

00:58:24.700 Am I wrong?

00:58:27.420 Because the property owners, as long

00:58:29.600 as everybody has a chance to own

00:58:31.260 property, like you wouldn't want a law

00:58:33.400 that limited new people from owning

00:58:35.240 property.

00:58:35.660 But as long as everybody has a way to

00:58:38.020 own property, then it should be only

00:58:40.660 people who own property should vote.

00:58:43.400 Do you think that property owners would

00:58:45.740 vote for letting criminals out to rob

00:58:49.660 again?

00:58:50.920 No property vote.

00:58:52.280 A property owner is not going to vote for

00:58:53.720 that.

00:58:54.300 There's people who don't own property and

00:58:56.060 hate people who do.

00:58:56.840 If you hate people who have property, you

00:58:59.480 do the things that are being done now.

00:59:01.460 You let in mass immigration, and you let 1.00

00:59:03.820 all the criminals out of jail.

00:59:05.760 That is anti-property.

00:59:08.440 Now, let me spin this into a related

00:59:11.500 topic.

00:59:12.920 Does anybody have the problem that there's

00:59:15.280 a young person in your life, and you're

00:59:17.800 trying to be a mentor or advise them, but

00:59:20.600 you don't know how to advise them what to

00:59:22.620 do in the land of robots?

00:59:25.700 You know, when AI and robots are running

00:59:27.840 everything, I try to think of a job to

00:59:30.240 recommend that wouldn't be taken over,

00:59:32.940 obviously, by a robot or AI.

00:59:35.640 And here's the best that I've come up with

00:59:37.660 so far.

00:59:38.260 You ready?

00:59:40.380 There's one thing that AI and robots will 0.83

00:59:42.660 never be able to do.

00:59:44.400 I hope.

00:59:46.180 It's actually possible that they could do

00:59:48.380 it, but it's your best bet, and it goes

00:59:51.040 like this.

00:59:52.700 They won't be able to own property.

00:59:55.700 They won't be able to own property.

00:59:59.080 If you own property, you can rent it, sell it,

01:00:02.240 make money from it.

01:00:03.680 If you don't own property, you only have

01:00:05.920 labor, and it's going to take all of your

01:00:08.380 labor away.

01:00:09.840 So I would say that your only defense

01:00:12.060 against AI and robots is to own property

01:00:15.180 any way you can, because your property is the

01:00:18.660 only thing they can't compete with.

01:00:20.160 And one of the properties that you could own

01:00:22.140 is a robot.

01:00:23.660 So I'm looking forward to having a robot, or a

01:00:26.840 little fleet of robots, and that I rent them

01:00:29.220 out like temporary workers.

01:00:31.580 Right?

01:00:32.340 So I'm going to use robots.

01:00:33.880 I'm going to own them, because it's ownership

01:00:35.820 that's the only thing that will be worth anything

01:00:37.700 in the future.

01:00:38.160 So I think ownership will be the prime way anybody

01:00:43.380 makes money in the future.

01:00:44.860 You've got to own real estate, or assets, or

01:00:47.580 something.

01:00:48.320 You've got to own something.

01:00:49.140 A business.

01:00:50.020 You could own a business.

01:00:53.040 So look for ownership.

01:00:55.920 Boom.

01:00:56.220 Yeah, I don't think, I don't want to talk about

01:01:01.460 that a millionth time.

01:01:11.820 Every adult owns some form of property at some

01:01:14.500 point.

01:01:19.380 All right, so have we found that F-35 yet?

01:01:26.220 Yeah, I did contact Pearl.

01:01:31.800 You know, it was interesting.

01:01:33.060 The reason I had trouble contacting Pearl is

01:01:35.960 that I followed her, and I got automatically

01:01:38.100 unfollowed before she could DM me.

01:01:42.040 So.

01:01:45.640 All right.

01:01:47.600 All right, that's all I've got for now.

01:01:49.360 Have you heard of the Pegasus bug?

01:01:52.840 Russia has, I think Russia was developed by 0.71

01:01:55.860 Israel or something.

01:01:57.020 It's a bug that, it's a program that can get on

01:01:59.740 your phone, and they can monitor everything in

01:02:01.920 your phone.

01:02:04.800 Did you know that that's a real thing?

01:02:06.720 And apparently, I don't know, some thousands of

01:02:08.800 people have it on their phone and don't know it.

01:02:11.320 Now, the people who have it on their phone tend to

01:02:13.060 be influencers.

01:02:16.160 So, what are the odds that I have Pegasus on my

01:02:18.920 phone right now?

01:02:20.640 It's pretty high, isn't it?

01:02:23.000 Pretty high.

01:02:23.600 If you said that Russia made sure that the top

01:02:28.300 thousand political opinion people had it on their

01:02:31.880 phone, I'm definitely in the top thousand.

01:02:34.820 Am I not?

01:02:36.560 If you were a Russian, you wouldn't put me in the 1.00

01:02:38.820 top thousand of people whose phones you wanted to

01:02:40.980 listen to?

01:02:41.780 I think you would.

01:02:43.560 I mean, I think I'd be in the top 50.

01:02:46.160 But top thousand, for sure, if they could get me,

01:02:48.840 they would.

01:02:49.160 So, there's no way to prove it, apparently.

01:02:53.560 You can't spot it.

01:02:56.420 Yeah.

01:02:57.900 So, it might be...

01:02:59.320 I suspect that somebody is deeply into my

01:03:02.100 communications.

01:03:04.120 Let's just say there's an indicator...

01:03:07.860 Well, I'll just tell you.

01:03:09.080 There's somebody reading one of my messages

01:03:11.080 with one person.

01:03:13.700 And I'll just tell you to scare you.

01:03:19.240 I can watch the new message indicator disappear

01:03:22.060 while I'm looking at it.

01:03:24.980 While I'm looking at it.

01:03:26.640 I did that this morning.

01:03:29.240 New message indicator comes on in my DMs.

01:03:33.180 And then I actually filmed it.

01:03:35.520 And I said, watch, this is going to disappear

01:03:37.700 without me touching the computer.

01:03:39.240 And I just filmed it.

01:03:42.000 Boop.

01:03:43.140 Twice.

01:03:44.560 Twice in a row.

01:03:46.500 I watched the new message indicator disappear.

01:03:49.740 Now, only on one account.

01:03:52.000 It's only on one account.

01:03:53.880 So, you tell me that nobody's reading that message

01:03:55.880 before I read it.

01:03:57.460 What do you think?

01:04:00.300 What else would it be?

01:04:02.060 Do you think there's a bug that affects

01:04:03.740 the new message indicator

01:04:07.400 after it's been up there for a minute?

01:04:11.560 Now, if you told me it never went on

01:04:13.740 in the first place,

01:04:15.360 I'd say, well, it could be a bug.

01:04:17.380 But you're telling me that a new message indicator

01:04:19.440 shows up,

01:04:20.520 but only for one person,

01:04:23.320 and then it disappears within a minute?

01:04:28.700 Yeah.

01:04:29.520 I'm pretty sure somebody's in my communications.

01:04:35.240 Yeah, no, it couldn't be anything about the person.

01:04:37.400 In terms of technically?

01:04:40.340 Because what would the person have to do with my phone?

01:04:44.660 You know, it's my app on my phone

01:04:46.480 that sees it as a new message.

01:04:50.200 It can't be something that's happening

01:04:51.760 on somebody else's device.

01:04:56.340 Yeah.

01:04:56.820 All right, so that's not fun.

01:05:04.760 What is deja vu if we're a simulation?

01:05:08.840 I don't know.

01:05:09.560 It could be anything.

01:05:13.520 Macedonian teenagers?

01:05:16.440 Yeah, so the message turns to a read message

01:05:19.400 from an unread message

01:05:20.580 while I'm looking at the list of messages,

01:05:22.840 but without touching the computer.

01:05:25.360 I'm not touching it.

01:05:27.780 Yeah.

01:05:30.340 Anyway,

01:05:31.260 so,

01:05:32.960 I would remind you

01:05:34.380 that there's no such thing as

01:05:36.140 privacy.

01:05:40.060 Privacy

01:05:40.620 is the same as being boring.

01:05:43.680 That's it.

01:05:44.280 If you're completely uninteresting,

01:05:47.160 you accidentally have privacy.

01:05:49.140 If you're doing anything interesting,

01:05:51.780 somebody's in your shit. 0.97

01:05:53.420 Every time.

01:05:54.740 You just have to live your life

01:05:56.040 like you're fully transparent.

01:05:59.660 Now,

01:06:00.140 I'm pretty sure I've been living my life

01:06:02.040 like somebody's reading all of my messages

01:06:04.860 for pretty much my whole career,

01:06:07.880 I think.

01:06:08.300 The only thing I would put in a message

01:06:12.460 that I didn't want,

01:06:14.580 you know,

01:06:14.780 that would be, like, embarrassing,

01:06:15.960 would be, like,

01:06:16.740 flirting or something like that.

01:06:22.900 Put a tracker.

01:06:24.140 What's a tracker?

01:06:25.520 That's not a thing.

01:06:29.860 You have multiple stalkers.

01:06:31.800 Willie Brown said

01:06:38.540 the E in email

01:06:39.300 stands for evidence.

01:06:42.760 All phones are already trackers.

01:06:44.940 What?

01:06:51.760 As far as not the cure,

01:06:53.160 scans all data

01:06:53.820 and checks the device is infected.

01:06:57.660 Well,

01:06:58.100 I don't think that works on the iPhone.

01:06:59.960 I think that's,

01:07:00.600 that Pegasus checking thing

01:07:03.600 is for,

01:07:05.240 I think it might be

01:07:06.660 only for Android.

01:07:10.940 Someone started

01:07:11.800 a 4chan poll thread on me.

01:07:15.880 So,

01:07:16.920 what are they going to talk about me?

01:07:20.100 Why would you need

01:07:21.000 a new thread on me?

01:07:31.100 Yeah,

01:07:31.680 Pegasus is in iOS,

01:07:33.560 but I think the solution

01:07:34.760 doesn't work for iOS.

01:07:37.160 But I'm not positive about that.

01:07:39.100 One million child march.

01:07:56.000 What?

01:07:57.920 No,

01:07:58.420 I don't use Q.

01:08:06.940 Roomba could be hacked?

01:08:08.120 Wow.

01:08:14.500 Can Boebert recover?

01:08:16.080 She's already recovered.

01:08:17.520 Nobody cares about Boebert.

01:08:20.320 Nobody cares that she vaped. 0.89

01:08:22.540 Nobody cares.

01:08:24.920 All right,

01:08:25.620 that's all I got for you,

01:08:26.800 YouTube,

01:08:27.460 so I will talk to you

01:08:28.940 tomorrow.

01:08:31.080 Thanks for joining.

01:08:32.580 Bye for now.

01:08:33.300 Bye.

01:08:34.900 Bye.

01:08:35.960 Bye.

01:08:36.920 Bye.

01:08:37.520 Bye.

01:08:41.260 Bye.

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01:08:43.680 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 18, 2023

Episode 2235 Scott Adams： The Gears Of The Machine Are Visible Now. Yikes!

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