Episode 2255 Scott Adams： Coffee With Scott
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Summary
In this episode of the show, I talk about the difference between wanting something and deciding on what to do with it, and how important it is to be able to see the pluses and minuses of both options before you decide. I also talk about a new app that lets you see the Greek ruins like the Parthenon as they were before they were ruined.
Transcript
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working. Well, well, well, it might be working.
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Can everybody hear me on your various platforms here today? I don't see anybody complaining
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about the sound yet. I think I upgraded the sound. It should be better today. All right.
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All right. How would you like to take your experience up to levels which have never been
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seen before? Well, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker, chalice, and a canteen
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jug or flask of a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the
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Ah. Now, before we get into all the ugliness, because, of course, we're going to talk about
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Israel. I have a few topics before that. But I wanted to share with you something I shared
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in the man cave last night with my subscribers on Locals. It's the difference between wanting
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something and deciding. And you'll see this distinction in a lot of places, and it's really
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important to have. When you want something, you can see the pluses and the minuses of going
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after it. But you're seeing the minuses pretty strongly. And you say to yourself, ah, you know,
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I tried to do something, but it was hard, so I gave up. But when you decide to do something,
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it doesn't matter how hard it will be, because you've already decided.
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And I noted there was an example of that, as I'm playing with my technology here, I wanted
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to be able to livestream on multiple platforms using third-party software. But the first several
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times I tried it, I probably tried it, I don't know, five to ten times. And always I ran into
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some problem or complication. And I said, ugh, it's too much. Too much work, too many problems,
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not going to do it. So that's when I wanted to do it. I kept running into a problem and quitting.
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For years, actually. Every now and then I just keep trying. But after YouTube did the last set of
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sketchy things, now I don't know what's real and what they're doing or what I just imagine they're
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doing. But whatever it was, it was sort of the, it was the too far level. And then I decided.
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And it's amazing how easy things are when you decide. Because the problems don't look like
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problems anymore. They look like something you're going to solve. So as soon as I decided
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that no matter what it took, no matter how hard it was, no matter how embarrassing or frustrated
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it became, I was going to make it work on multiple platforms, which it is right now. And it's just
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astonishing how easy it became. As soon as I realized that there was no alternative, I had
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already decided. And then I just knock up the problems or, you know, line up the problems and
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just knock them down. So today I probably solved the sound problem. I turned up my light a little bit.
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I've got another camera ordered. I've got to do laptop ordered. So I'll have a better resolution
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to the camera. So there's nothing that will stop me at this point. And so my advice to you
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is that when you find a situation and you're having trouble with it, ask yourself this. Is it something
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you want? Or is it something you decided? And then you'll know what's going to happen. You can predict
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your own actions after that point. All right. Here's some fun stuff that we'll talk about Israel.
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There's a new app that lets you see the Greek ruins like the Parthenon as they were before they were
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ruined. So you hold your phone up and, you know, with your eyes, you're seeing behind it the real
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ruins. But whatever you're pointing at, the app will turn it into the original version.
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How cool is that? Imagine that being everywhere where you can walk down any town. You could just
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hold your phone up and maybe dial it in to see what it looked like at any time in history. It's like,
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what did this look like 500 years ago? Oh, wow. Cool. Now that is a cool app. I'm all about that.
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Another application I saw that blew my mind, but I'm having trouble believing it. So Brian
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Romelli took advantage of, and this is so clever, it just kills me. I wish I'd thought of it.
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He took AI, the large language model versions of AI, which is good at recognizing patterns of words
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and knowing what would come next in a certain pattern. And he applied it to redacted confidential
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documents. You know, the kind where half of the page is redacted, you know, it's covered up with black.
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And the AI apparently can accurately tell what's covered up because of the pattern of the other words
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that are not covered up. Apparently he's done numerous tests and he says we're in an all new world.
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Now, there are two parts to the story. Number one is that security and privacy may have been
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breached. So it might not be useful to have redacted things, but there's a way bigger
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thing to the story. How in the world does it know what those words are that are covered up
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by the other words that are not even in the same sentence, apparently? Because I don't
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think you could tell from the sentence itself. You probably have to tell from all the other words
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around it. That says something about human intelligence that you're not going to want
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to think about for too long. Because it certainly suggests that we're programmed and there's not
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much free will going on. If you can tell from the words you can see what must have been the words
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that you can't see, then how much free will did you have? It's just something to think about.
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All right. Governor Newsom declined or rejected a law that would have made psychedelics decriminalized.
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So, are you surprised? Governor Newsom of California, very progressive place. And he turned down a new law
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that would have decriminalized psychedelics. Now, I did not see his reason for why, but I'm going to speculate.
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It was probably just the details. There was probably something in the law that's not obvious
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that was, you know, unacceptable. So, I don't think he turned it down because he has a problem.
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I'm just guessing. It's just speculating. I doubt he has a problem with the risk and benefits of
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psychedelics. Because I'm sure he's pretty well informed. And I believe that the support for it
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is something like 60%. And in California, it's probably higher. So, it's weird that he would do that
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while we imagine he might want to be president because the public likes that one. They like it to be
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decriminalized. So, I'm going to say it could be Big Pharma. It's possible Big Pharma got to him.
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But I think it's slightly more likely there was something wrong with the law. There might have been a
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poison pill in there. Something else that they wanted that he didn't think was cool. So, keep an open mind on that.
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I just don't believe that Newsom would have said no to psychedelics, given what we all know about them
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at this point. It had to be a trick. All right. China's Communist Party has expelled the former
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chairman of the state-owned Bank of China for being a big old criminal scumbag and doing lots of illegal
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things. So, that was the state-owned Bank of China. They had a vote, was a crook. And so, they just
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kicked him out of the Communist Party. How bad are things in China? I feel like China is so corrupt
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that, I don't know, how can they possibly go forward? I feel like corruption alone would just
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kill them. I just don't know how they could compete with us. Not that we don't have any corruption, but
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it seems more rampant there. Now, I've got a prediction, and this is also a test. It's a prediction
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slash public test. As you know, there were some prominent deaths recently in the United States
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of people who had criticized me on the X platform not long before they died. One was murdered with
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guns, another murdered with knives. Now, of course, I don't think there's any causality there,
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just a weird coincidence. But you never know, so let's test it. So, I'm predicting that President
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Xi of China is going to have a major health issue in the next six months. Major health issue,
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President Xi in the next six months. Because I think the level of stress that President Xi
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is experiencing is probably unlike anything he's ever experienced. And that's pretty predictive
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of bad health. So, we'll see. Am I psychic? Am I causing things to happen by my
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mental telekinesis? Well, let's find out. If President Xi goes down in the next six months,
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I'm not predicting his death. I'm only predicting a major health problem. So, we'll see.
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All right. So, you know, our borders are basically open at the southern border. Well,
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everywhere, I guess. The borders are basically open. And guess how many people that are categorized
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as special interest aliens? No, not the kind from other planets, but the people illegally coming
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into the country. How many are called special interest aliens, meaning they came from someplace
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that has such a high terrorism rate that we would not normally let them in the country at all?
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People who would be too dangerous to be let in the country, 86,000 of them in the last two years.
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86,000 in the last two years. How many fighters have attacked Israel in the last day or so?
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About 1,000. So, about 1,000 people is throwing Israel into chaos. But 86,000 people, any one of them
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who could have been terrorists, have come across our border in the last two years. Do you think
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they're organized? Do you think that there's any large group of people who came here specifically
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to be sleepers until it was time to go? How could they not, really? It's really hard for me to imagine
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a scenario in which there are not at least a few thousand people who are here to destroy the country.
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There's no way to know. But wouldn't it be weird if out of 86,000 people who all came from countries
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who are high likelihood of wanting to destroy the United States? And you think that none of them
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are terrorists? I would think it's thousands. We may have thousands of people who are just waiting
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for the signal. Now, how much damage could thousands of people do if they were among the public
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and they just wanted to go out and do whatever the worst terrorist thing, you know, an individual
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could do. Pretty bad. Pretty bad. If they're smart and organized. All right.
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Mike Zirnovich pointed out that in a tweet, he just said, I think it was today,
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and like that, no other social media platform is relevant, only X. You know, that's exactly what
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my experience was. I looked at the news, but the news appears to be behind
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the social media platforms. And so I could just stay on the social media, and if it pointed
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to a news thing I wanted to see, I could just go see it. But you don't really get a sense
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of what's going on by looking at the news sites today. You really would have to get, you know,
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the whole lay of the land from social media. So this is a really, let's say, a clarifying
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day for our media enterprises. Because we no longer have regular reporting like we used
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to. The citizen reporting and the citizen videos are most of the story. So basically,
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if you have what the government is telling you, press releases, and then you have video
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on the ground, you're 80% of the news right there. The other 20%, I'm not even sure we'll
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see any other 20%. It's going to be what the governments tell you, and then what the video
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shows you of the people who are actually there. And that's about all we'll know.
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Well, anyway, the big shocking part of the Israel situation, now being attacked directly by Hamas,
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is that it's a pretty good preview of America. So if you were to say, what's the root cause
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of why Israel's at war? The root cause is that one group has been trained that another group has
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their stuff, and they need to give it back at any cost. Right? One part of the population in that
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part of the world has been trained that the other part has their stuff, and that the other part are
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not as worthy as you are, because they're oppressors. Now, let me say, because I know there are going to
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be people on both sides of things, there are going to be people on both sides of things, of course,
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there's a story in the other direction. Right? We're not going to do, I'm not going to do who's
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equivalent, and who's worse than who. All right? I'm not going to do that. I don't do that. Let's just
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say there are some things that have happened in the Middle East, in the last few thousand years,
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they're not exactly what you wish would have happened, and maybe you wouldn't have done it that way.
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But it is what it is at this point. You know, we're starting from this point. So there are two
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groups that have stories about each other. But the more alarming story is that one has a story
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that they must go get their stuff back. And specifically, their stuff is their land and
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whatever wealth they would have had if they'd stayed on their land. That would be their version.
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But of course, Israel has its own versions. To me, this looks exactly like what we're heading toward,
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because CRT and ESG and DEI are teaching Americans that one group of Americans has the stuff that they
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stole from the other group of Americans. What's the logical outcome of that? It's Israel. It's where
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one group gets militarized and tries to destroy the other group. I don't know how it could go any other
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way. Could it? If one group is continually propagandized, that there's a there's a group
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nearby, like walking distance, there's another group that's within walking distance, and they have
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all your stuff. And they're bad, and they're oppressors, and they stole it. Right. So you're
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going to watch Israel do, probably, the only thing you can do in that situation that makes sense.
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You have to get away from those people who want bad things to happen to you. Now, that doesn't mean
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that every person who's, you know, not an Israeli citizen, it doesn't mean that most or even any of
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them are bad. It just means that it's a population you can't live next to, because there's a very
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predictable outcome. So my guess is that Gaza will have to be at least dominated and occupied forever, and maybe
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even eliminated. Not in terms of the people, but eliminated in terms of a real estate destination, place
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that people live. So they might be expelled. I think the whole thing will be turned into more of a prison
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camp than it already is. You know, some have said there are only two exits from Gaza. One of them is
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heavily guarded by Israel, apparently not as heavily guarded as it could be. And the other is heavily
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guarded by Egypt, and neither of them are friendly in a complete way. So some have said that Gaza is
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already a prison camp. I think it'll become more of one. So that would be the obvious, the obvious way that
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Israel is going to go. It will degrade the leadership there and their military assets, and then it will just
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take complete control. And it will live with that, whatever that looks like, because there's no other choice.
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I've heard some people who are angry today say that Israel should just basically wipe out
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all the people in Gaza. But let me remind you, there is one country on earth that can't really do a
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holocaust on somebody else, right? Israel is not going to perpetuate an actual holocaust on other people.
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They can't, right? Now, maybe physically they could, but there's no way Israel would ever survive as a viable
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country if they invalidated the primary software upon which Israel was founded, which is, you know, never again
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you can't have another holocaust. Now, obviously, they're trying to prevent a holocaust on themselves. That's the
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number one thing that they're fighting to prevent right now. But they can't defend themselves by
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creating a holocaust on somebody else. There's no way that's a survivable situation for anybody. So
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they don't have that option. And maybe that's good. You know, some of you are going to argue with me, but
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it's not really an option. But they do have an option of closing up Gaza forever and just saying, hey,
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we can't make this our problem. Yeah, good luck. So I think that's what's going to happen.
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Here's the update. I've heard some estimates of 600 dead in Israel.
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Can we be perfectly matter of fact about the real world without the bullshit? Let me give you some
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real world truth. If all 600 of those people were adult males,
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Right? 600 adult males dying for anything, whether it's war or anything else. We just don't get that worked up about
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because we're used to it. And men are seemingly more expendable. Like just psychologically,
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we're used to sending young men to war and them not coming back.
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However, that's not what's happening in this situation. By now, have you all seen the video of the
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Israeli woman who was either unconscious or dead and nearly naked in the back of a truck with the
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Hamas fighters? Have you all seen that video? Some say she's German.
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Some say she's a German Jew, I'm saying here. Well, regardless,
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regardless, that video is going to have an effect. And we've seen other videos that appear to show
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And there might be some children, but I haven't seen any, you know, confirmed reports. Now, first,
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first thing is, don't believe any videos you see coming out of this situation. Don't believe
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any videos you see. Right? So, you know, we're definitely going to get pranked and hoaxed
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by a number of videos. Some of them will be older ones. Right now, there's an older video
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of Iran chanting death to America, which yesterday I heard was them doing it right now. And then today
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I find out, oh, no, that's old videos three years ago. So just be careful. There's going to be a video
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of other wars that people try to tell you is this one. And there will be videos of very old stuff that
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they try to tell you is happening now. But here's the point. If the way that people come to think of
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this is that the Hamas came over and kidnapped and raped women and took them back as hostages,
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all the rules are gone. So let me say this as clearly as possible. I'm not I'm not telling you
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my preference. This is not my preference. I'm just telling you as a basic matter of human nature
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that when you if you were killing a whole bunch of adult men, both sides might be able to work that
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out. Like later, they could maybe potentially maybe not these two sides. But as a general statement,
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if two sides have killed a bunch of men on each side, mostly men, you can get over it. But if Hamas came in
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and took women, whether they were citizens or soldiers or not, we're not going to look at that the same.
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That is now a whole different thing. And when you reach that level of risk and that level of evil
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and self-defense is involved for Israel, here's what you need to know. There are no rules in self-defense.
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And what these latest videos and the actions of Hamas have done have removed any reason for Israel to act
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morally or ethically based on somebody else's opinion of what is moral or ethical.
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They have complete freedom now, except for a Holocaust, right? They can't do something that
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definitely looks like a Holocaust. There's no way they can do that. But they can do what they need to do.
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Whatever that is, short of the Holocaust. And it's not going to be pretty. So I would say that,
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you know, of course, international law is a big factor. And if you violate it, you might have to pay.
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But they're not going to have to worry about their moral or ethical standing anymore.
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That question has been answered. If your women and children are going to be dragged away to be raped,
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if you act in this way, and maybe less likely if you act in this way, you don't have to wonder which way it's
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going to go, right? You don't have to wonder which way it's going to go. Once Hamas brought women into
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the equation, there's only one way it goes, which is Israel is going to solve this,
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whatever it takes, short of the Holocaust. They won't do that.
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But I do think they'll turn Gaza into a permanent prison camp, basically.
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You know, they won't present it that way, but that's basically what it's going to be.
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And it has to be. I don't see any option, do you? Does anybody see any alternative? It's not like
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you can make peace. So if making peace isn't one of the options, and the Holocaust isn't one of the
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options, there is only one thing that can and will happen. Am I wrong? If you're wondering where this
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will end up, why are you even wondering that? It's not going to end up as a Holocaust. They're not
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going to be able to really to bulldoze it, because there's no place for the people to go.
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They might prefer to do that, but they're not going to do it. So my guess is that Israel just got a lot
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bigger. And that's not a bad strategy for Israel. If every time Israel is attacked, you know, let's
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say a big serious attack, they simply take the land of the attackers. It's a pretty good national
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strategy for growth. So there's that. All right. I did see that video from the leader of Iran saying
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that that sole death to America really only applies to the leaders. It doesn't apply to the people.
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They don't have a beef with the people, only the leaders, which is actually not that different than
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what we say here about the Iranian people. Iranian people are awesome. I don't know if you know any,
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but if you ever want to meet some awesome people, the Persians slash Iranians, great people. You'll be
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very happy if you make the acquaintance of any. I recommend it. So it's actually not about the
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people. The people in America don't have any beef with the people in Iran, and maybe it's the same way.
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Back. That's a very interesting situation. All right. But it does make me wonder if Israel has now a
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free shot at the president of Iran, whose name I'm trying to avoid saying, because I can never get,
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I can never keep straight my Khomeini's and my Kamanis and Kamanis. How do you say his name?
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The Ayatollahs? Oh, well, they do have a president, but they also have an Ayatollah. That's correct.
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death conversion for infidels? Yeah. That's only Ali Khamenei. Thank you. Is that Khamenei? Is that the
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pronunciation? Or is it Khamenei? It's Khamenei? All right. Well, I'll have to learn that in the next few days.
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But would you say that Israel has a free pass to take out the leadership of Iran?
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I think so. Now, the only reason not to do it would be strategic.
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Yeah. It would be strategic. But let me be very clear. If this were America,
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and we knew that there was an individual who was primarily involved in funding it,
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we would kill him. You think we would care that he's the head of another country?
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No. We'd kill him right away. If there were boots on the ground on our homeland,
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like actually armed people running around gunning down our citizens, and we knew where the person with
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the wall it was, no, we would kill him right away. I hope so. Don't you? Do you think we would
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hesitate to kill him if we knew that he was a cause of boots on the ground? Now, it's different if
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there's not boots on the ground, right? If stuff is blowing up, you're like, we'd sure like to kill
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this guy, but it's going to cause more trouble than it's worth. But at the moment, what would be more
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trouble than a war on your territory, which is what Israel is experiencing? It can't get worse.
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Can it? So I've got a feeling that Israel is going to first get rid of the immediate threat. They're
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going to chase down the people in their country. Then they're going to lock down Hamas after
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killing as many of them in place as they can. They're going to put a wall around it. And then I think
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they're going to take a run at Iran, the leadership. Because if they don't, I don't understand why
00:30:01.420
not. Because they have moral and complete, it's pronounced, Khameneh.
00:30:08.540
I'll go with that. All right. And again, don't assume you're seeing my opinions. Okay. I'm telling
00:30:27.340
you what seems likely, and I'm just describing it. All right. Basically, everything that's happening
00:30:33.820
there is bad. And I'm not sure that there are a lot of good guys, right? There's a lot of stuff I
00:30:40.780
could criticize everywhere. So I'm just telling you what's going to happen. You know, that taking sides
00:30:48.620
is kind of sketchy at this point, although obviously we're taking sides with Israel. But that doesn't
00:30:54.860
mean we would necessarily agree with 100% of what they do. So let me make a distinction. While I might not
00:31:03.020
agree with 100% of what Israel is about to do, I do agree that they have the ethical and moral
00:31:10.860
free pass. I might not agree with it, but I'm not going to say it's immoral or unethical.
00:31:19.100
They've got to do what they've got to do. When it comes to self-defense,
00:31:22.140
you do what you've got to do. And that's the situation you're in.
00:31:30.780
The chat. You see a lot of crazy chat people? Well, here's the first thing I would ask everybody
00:31:36.780
to do. Try to dial down your bloodlust a little bit. Because I feel like the bloodlust isn't helping
00:31:45.500
anybody. So even if you think it's the only solution, just remember that word solution.
00:31:54.780
It's got two meanings. So don't do the bad one. All right, let's talk about the
00:32:02.060
conspiracy theories. Number one, do you think any of this was a diversion from Ukraine,
00:32:13.980
or a recognition that Ukraine wasn't going to be the big old wallet that it used to be
00:32:20.220
for the military industrial complex? Do you think they're connected?
00:32:23.900
I'm going to say no. They're connected because all the news is connected. But I don't think
00:32:31.900
they're connected strategically or that anybody had a plan. I'm not seeing enough to suggest that
00:32:40.940
these are connected, except that they're big events, so one will distract from the other,
00:32:45.740
etc. But think about what happened since a week ago. A week ago, Ukraine had this unlimited money
00:32:55.820
flow from the United States, which is now at least temporarily stopped, because they don't have any
00:33:01.100
ability. Congress doesn't have the ability to do anything, because they don't have a speaker. So they
00:33:05.980
don't have access to money. And they were just pushed completely off the headlines in terms of
00:33:11.100
attention. So they just lost all of their attention and all of their money. Now, who would have been
00:33:21.180
able to predict that attention would be taken away? Russia. Russia could predict it. Do you think Russia
00:33:32.380
is helping to start trouble in other places? Because it would help them in Ukraine? Well, it seems like
00:33:41.980
they should be doing that. That would be an obvious play. If they can get America's money and attention to
00:33:48.540
go somewhere else, that'd be a good play. But to me, it really looks like maybe it was just the time that
00:33:56.620
they were going to do this thing anyway. So I'm not sure that Russia was behind it. But I wouldn't be
00:34:03.180
surprised if they had some encouragement about it. I don't know. But I need a fact check. Isn't Israel
00:34:11.500
good with Russia? I thought Russia tried to try to play both sides in the Middle East. Hey, we don't hate
00:34:19.740
you Palestinians. We don't hate you Israelis. So I don't see Russia as being an enemy to Israel.
00:34:29.580
I don't see Putin being an enemy to Israel. So I don't know that Putin would want to start trouble
00:34:35.500
in Israel because doesn't Putin have his own Jewish population he has to worry about?
00:34:41.900
That's the thing, right? My understanding is that Putin has always said the right things
00:34:48.700
when it comes to Jews and Israel. Because he needs to not make any more enemies.
00:34:58.460
So I'm going to say that it probably wasn't Putin. I don't think he was behind it.
00:35:03.740
Now let's talk about the six billion. Now, the smart people will tell you that even though the six billion
00:35:10.860
was earmarked for something specific, money is fungible, as we like to say, so if they got six
00:35:18.540
billion that they didn't know they were going to get, then that would free up six billion they were
00:35:23.340
planning to spend on those same things. So in theory it creates six billion, even if they don't spend
00:35:30.780
that six billion. But do you think that six billion is the reason that happened now or that it really
00:35:39.980
made any difference at all? My bet is it didn't make any difference at all, unless the point of it
00:35:47.420
was to embarrass Biden. If the point of it was to just stick a finger in Biden and say,
00:35:53.580
la la la, you're such a bad leader, you negotiated a terrible deal, your own people should get rid of you.
00:36:00.140
But why would he do that? He's going to end up with Trump.
00:36:02.540
Trump. So you wouldn't expect Iran to want to embarrass Biden because they can get what they
00:36:08.700
want from him. And Trump would probably be worse. Or whoever is the Republican.
00:36:17.180
So I'm going to say that the six billion did in fact give them more money for anything they wanted,
00:36:24.940
but probably it didn't make a difference. The GDP of Iran is around 360 billion.
00:36:35.900
They got six billion that they weren't expecting. Yeah, it's around 360 billion.
00:36:42.300
Now that's the GDP. It's not how much cash they have to spend, but it gives you a sense of scale.
00:36:48.700
The six billion is real money, but they could have done this without the extra six billion.
00:36:54.060
So how about the two-state solution? The two-state idea was that someday, should peace ever be
00:37:06.220
agreed, that Israelis and Palestinians could live side by side, having divided up the land that was
00:37:12.620
in the speech. I would say that's done. So I think Israel comes out ahead because their best
00:37:22.780
situation is to not have a two-state deal if one of the states is trying to kill them actively.
00:37:29.820
You know, if they had a real peace, then a two-state solution would be ideal. But there are too many
00:37:34.540
people within the state who want their demise and are willing to kill themselves to get it. You can't
00:37:41.100
really live next to them. So I think the idea of living next to them is over. Would you agree?
00:37:49.900
I think that forever the two-state solution of living side by side with any group that would support what
00:37:57.900
is happening, which is the attack? It's just not going to happen anymore. So there will be plenty of
00:38:08.060
Palestinians living in that area, but they just won't have their own country. There's no way that can
00:38:12.780
happen now. And so some would say that Israel's new approach to this, because it's self-defense,
00:38:22.540
it's not anything else, is sort of a get the fuck away from them. Something like that. Because it's a
00:38:31.900
group of people who have been brainwashed into thinking that they must kill the Israelis.
00:38:38.620
So if you can't defeat them, and you can't kill them all, and you can't brainwash them, and you can't,
00:38:45.820
those options do not exist, your best option is to get the fuck away from them as far as you can.
00:38:52.220
So, I mean, there's not much they can do, but they can certainly make sure that they don't have their
00:38:57.340
own country on their border. So they will definitely make sure there's never a Palestinian country
00:39:05.260
that shares a border with them. I think they'll make sure that's happening.
00:39:09.100
Now, do you think Hezbollah will get involved? I think they may have fired some missiles or
00:39:16.380
something. But is Hezbollah going to start storming across the border? So if you're not familiar with
00:39:23.500
the situation, you know, Gaza's this little band of land that has Hamas in charge. But Hezbollah is up
00:39:34.700
in Lebanon. So they're kind of surrounding Israel. And Hezbollah apparently is way more armed than Hamas.
00:39:45.260
And, you know, they always act like they're just building up their army for some eventual
00:39:50.140
big wave. What happens if it's now? If Hamas is streaming over, allegedly a thousand fighters have gotten in.
00:39:59.180
A thousand. That's a lot. And if Hezbollah comes across. And then I saw some videos that have low
00:40:10.060
credibility, but maybe that there were people in Jordan, the men who were lining up to march and to
00:40:19.980
help the Hamas attack. So could it be that what will really happen is that it will inspire the others
00:40:28.220
who wanted to attack but didn't quite have a plan to do it? Would it inspire a three-pronged attack?
00:40:35.340
And could Israel be overrun? Are there enough people all around them that even weapons won't help?
00:40:52.140
Yeah. I don't think many Jordanians would do it, but you could always find some little group of people
00:41:02.860
And then the next question is, is all of this just to make it harder for
00:41:07.340
Israel to have the Abraham Accords and to make peace with Saudi Arabia? Is all of this to keep
00:41:14.700
Saudi Arabia from making peace? You know, formal peace with Israel? Could be. Could be.
00:41:25.180
Possibly. It would make sense. So of all the conspiracy theories, that one makes the most sense.
00:41:31.740
Because the timing is suspicious. It's like, oh, really? Why now? Well, this would be the perfect
00:41:37.820
time to do it. If you wanted Israel and Saudi Arabia to have a reason not to make peace.
00:41:45.020
But I feel like the Palestinians have not read the room correctly, or Hamas at least. Because here's how
00:41:53.900
I read the room from a distance. And obviously, I have no expertise in the Middle East.
00:42:00.940
But from a distance, it looks like Saudi Arabia is just done with the Palestinian problem.
00:42:07.900
I think they're just like, you're on your own, guys. I don't think Saudi Arabia is going to blink.
00:42:13.740
Because the crown prince for whatever flaws you would like to attribute him for murdering his
00:42:19.580
critic, that's a big one. But he seems completely rational. And he seems dedicated to making Saudi
00:42:28.780
Arabia a place of peace with their neighbors. I think he's the real deal in terms of a leader
00:42:36.140
who's trying to do what makes sense and is rational and is not crazy for Saudi Arabia.
00:42:41.740
So having a leader that rational at the same time as a Netanyahu is probably the best case scenario.
00:42:50.620
Because Netanyahu is a very rational guy. You could make a deal with Netanyahu. And I think
00:42:59.260
the crown prince is likewise a very rational person who just wants what's good for his country. And what's
00:43:06.860
good for the country is that they're not at war. It's just obvious. So I think they are two people
00:43:12.140
who can make peace. Yeah, Egypt. I don't know enough about Egypt to have an opinion. But
00:43:21.980
I don't think the Abraham Accords are going to fall apart. Because I think that this attack on Israel
00:43:27.180
is so far above the line, or it's just all over the red line, that nobody's going to be confused or
00:43:38.780
not understand if Israel goes hard at it. Everybody's going to understand that.
00:43:45.100
Like, how could Saudi Arabia ever have peace while the Palestinians are making problems left and right?
00:43:59.740
Well, this is also part of my larger point that Trump looks better every day. He's not in office.
00:44:08.700
How many of you have had the thought, and I know this is racist. I know this is racist. But how many
00:44:16.780
of you have had the thought that Trump was right to ban all Muslims until he could, quote,
00:44:28.300
Now, it's racist. It's definitely racist. But do you remember my rule about self-defense?
00:44:37.180
If you're doing it for self-defense, you can be as racist as you want.
00:44:40.460
Can I say that directly, without being canceled? I'm completely opposed to racism.
00:44:52.140
I oppose it. Certainly at an individual level, I oppose it maximally. You shouldn't be treating
00:44:59.180
people by their race or their religion or their gender, all those things. Religion, etc.
00:45:05.180
I said religion twice. However, that would apply to normal times, and that would apply to following
00:45:14.780
the law. So generally, if you break the law, you're going to have to pay for it.
00:45:21.500
That does not conflict with the fact that when it comes to self-defense, there are no rules.
00:45:28.700
If it's self-defense, you do what you have to do, and then you deal with the fallout because of it.
00:45:34.860
Now, the fallout might be you broke the law, and that's a pretty big fallout. But there's no
00:45:41.660
moral or ethical problem with being completely racist to protect yourself.
00:45:50.940
Now, you're going to say to me, Scott, what about the Japanese internment camps?
00:45:56.780
Totally evil. Would you agree? I do. Yeah, I actually know people who are in the camps.
00:46:03.500
Like, I know them personally. Spent a lot of time with them.
00:46:09.980
Totally evil. And in retrospect, in retrospect, was there any real risk?
00:46:17.100
Probably not. There was probably, you know, maybe some, but like trivial.
00:46:22.460
So the reason it looks so extra evil, the Japanese internment camps, is not just because it was racist,
00:46:32.140
super racist, but because it wasn't necessary. There was no indication it made anybody safer.
00:46:39.580
Now, that's just a gigantic fuck-up, right? That's wrong on every level. It did not make you safer.
00:46:47.900
It was super racist. And, you know, it broke the law, broke the constitution, broke everything.
00:46:55.420
Now, suppose it had kept us safer. It didn't. But suppose it had.
00:47:05.820
Well, that's where it gets complicated, doesn't it?
00:47:08.780
If there were no, as far as I know, there was nobody in the American Japanese population
00:47:15.180
who were trained to want to take stuff from the white people or, you know, the Americans, let's say, of all races.
00:47:24.940
They were not educated to be our enemies. They were never propagandized to be our enemies.
00:47:31.500
They wanted to be here. They wanted to be American. They were actually propagandized to be our friends.
00:47:38.380
And so they acted that way. Right? They wanted to be part of the melting pot.
00:47:45.740
Now, that group of people who wants to be part of the melting pot and have not been propagandized to be your enemy,
00:47:52.460
putting them in an internment camp is the height of evil. It's the height of evil.
00:47:58.540
Because you can't even imagine there's a positive element to it. There's no argument for it at all.
00:48:04.540
They've been trained to be part of the melting pot. You can't get worse than that in terms of national behavior.
00:48:13.260
However, in the Middle East, there are countries in which there are big pockets of people
00:48:19.900
who have been propagandized, brainwashed into thinking that Americans, among others, are the enemy.
00:48:29.180
Under that situation, with no regard to people's religion or their genetic makeup,
00:48:37.420
because that's not part of the question, are they part of a class of people who have been propagandized,
00:48:43.420
meaning that the only thing that's wrong with them is the lessons they've learned?
00:48:48.460
Nothing wrong with their skin color. Nothing wrong with their DNA. Nothing wrong with their chromosomes.
00:48:53.660
Right? There's nothing wrong with their culture per se, except for this specific part.
00:49:00.860
Under those conditions, can you be completely racist?
00:49:06.460
The answer is yes. Absolutely. You can be completely racist if, at the same time,
00:49:15.500
that's not the thing you're going after. Let me say that more clearly. You can be completely racist
00:49:21.740
if that's not your intention. If your intention is just self-defense, and it could be demonstrated that
00:49:29.020
there's some large percentage of the population that has been trained, actually propagandized and
00:49:35.980
trained to be your mortal enemy, yeah, you can block all of them. You can block the whole country,
00:49:42.780
even if they're all the same whatever ethnic group. No problem with that at all.
00:49:47.500
Now, if there's no law against it in the United States, let's say, then you wouldn't be breaking the law.
00:49:56.780
You would be protecting the country. You don't know how much, but some. And it would be self-defense.
00:50:07.500
Where it goes wrong is if you say it's all Muslim countries. Because then you've got a problem.
00:50:16.620
Because I don't believe that all Muslim countries are so similar that they would have large populations
00:50:22.620
of people trained to be our mortal enemies. I mean, if I go to, you know, any one of
00:50:31.180
X number of countries, am I going to find that everywhere? Now, you might have to say, well,
00:50:35.340
there's always one or two. But, yeah, well, you know, I know what the Koran says. But we also know
00:50:43.580
that there are a zillion perfectly good American Muslim people who are not looking to kill anybody.
00:50:52.060
Right? So it doesn't matter what the Koran says. It matters what the people believe.
00:50:56.620
And if they believe that the Koran is a book of peace, fine. That's all good.
00:51:10.940
Israel is going to teach us that you should never discriminate against people for their race or
00:51:16.860
ethnicity or religion. And in fact, Israel does a real good job of being an open society
00:51:22.860
in which if you're a low risk person, they're not going to care about your religion or your ethnicity.
00:51:28.860
You just have to be a low risk situation. And they're going to teach you that if it's a high risk
00:51:36.380
situation, that your ethnicity and your religion are going to be irrelevant. And it might look like
00:51:47.020
discrimination. But that's not the intention. The intention would be just self-defense.
00:51:53.260
Now, would a lot of innocent people get killed? Yeah. In every war, lots of innocent people get killed.
00:52:01.900
But there's also not much you can do about it. All right.
00:52:04.940
So I would say that Trump's view that in the early days after, certainly when there was a lot of
00:52:16.300
terrorism going on, his view that we should at least close the border for everybody who might be in
00:52:23.340
the category of a problem until we can figure out who really is a problem was perfectly good
00:52:35.020
As commander-in-chief, that was exactly the right decision.
00:52:38.140
It was racist, but it was also allowable under that specific condition.
00:52:46.860
And by the way, just to clarify, I was completely against
00:52:50.860
the rounding up of the Japanese Americans. These are not comparable.
00:52:57.340
One group was not trained to be our enemies. So that was pure racism.
00:53:07.340
All right. Nikki Haley won the news cycle by being the toughest.
00:53:12.140
I think one of the things that Nikki Haley gets right is that if you're running as a woman
00:53:19.980
for a job that's never had a woman and its commander-in-chief is the big part of the job,
00:53:25.500
that you've got to make it look like you're the toughest person in the room.
00:53:31.580
So I think she cranks it up to 110, you know, when maybe 95 was the right level.
00:53:37.500
But in terms of getting attention during the election cycle, she said this, among other things.
00:53:47.740
This is not just an attack on Israel. This was an attack on America.
00:53:51.580
So that's pretty extreme. But then she says to Netanyahu directly,
00:53:57.820
finish them. Finish them. She says it twice. Finish them. Finish them.
00:54:04.860
Now, what does that sound like? It sounds like kill them all. But that's presumably not what she means.
00:54:11.740
I think she means finish them as a political and military power. But the way she delivered the line,
00:54:22.700
she delivered the line like she was Arnold Schwarzenegger saying, I'll be back.
00:54:27.900
It was chilling. And I said to myself, okay, you just sold me that you're not going to be soft.
00:54:38.940
Completely sold. Because these are strong, strong words. Finish them. Because finish them is unambiguous,
00:54:46.300
isn't it? That doesn't mean give them a black eye. That means we're now going to change the situation
00:54:52.940
forever. And by the way, Israel says that. They're going to change the reality for 50 years.
00:55:07.500
All right. So I would say she won on being the toughest there.
00:55:14.300
I think Vivek has a problem. Because although his opinion on Israel was reasonable and defendable,
00:55:24.380
which is at some point we should wean them off of American aid. I think that's more complicated
00:55:33.020
because our aid is to help them buy our own military assets. So it's not exactly like direct aid.
00:55:41.260
It's more like fascism on the American side. It's more like fascism because the government is acting
00:55:51.180
like a marketer for, you know, for the military or the military contractors.
00:55:58.940
But anyway, Vivek, just because he said we should figure out a way to let Israel pay its own way,
00:56:05.900
because they're a big successful company, or they're a successful country economically.
00:56:12.140
He's going to look like he is weak on this. He's not. But when you compare it to finish them
00:56:20.060
to, well, you know, maybe they should be on their own, you know, that they don't have the same.
00:56:25.740
So regardless of what is the reality of their opinions, that never matters for politics.
00:56:30.620
The reality is, how are we going to, how are we going to shortcut them, right? If every time you
00:56:37.660
talk about Nikki Haley from now on, you remind people, she said, finish them. She's the tough one.
00:56:44.220
Well, then she wins. And if every time they talk about Vivek is like, oh, but he wanted to,
00:56:49.900
you know, reduce support to Israel, which is not exactly what he's saying. He's saying they don't need it,
00:56:56.220
which is different than reduce, you know? So it's going to be harder to defend.
00:57:03.820
But all that's going to matter is what Trump says, probably. Biden just said the standard stuff
00:57:09.580
presidents say. Has Trump said something that's not obvious, like Israel has to hit back, blah, blah, blah.
00:57:17.980
Has Trump done anything that wasn't just, you knew he was going to say exactly that?
00:57:22.460
I don't think so. I think everybody's acting on model right there.
00:57:31.500
Sam Harris, there's an audio of him, I think he did it a while ago, in which he was comparing
00:57:38.620
the morality of what Israel does with its power to the morality of what their enemies do with their
00:57:46.860
power. And I started to wonder after listening to it, if Sam Harris has always been dumb and I just
00:57:53.980
didn't realize it. Maybe I just didn't realize it. Because here was his argument.
00:58:02.620
He argues that you can tell how evil somebody is, I'm paraphrasing now, by if they had the power,
00:58:10.700
if they had all the power, what would they do with it? Now, he suggests that if the Palestinians had all
00:58:16.860
the power, at least the militant ones, that if they had all the power, they would literally just kill
00:58:23.660
everybody in Israel, at least all the Jews. Now, I don't know that that's true, but they do talk like
00:58:30.460
that. So I'm going to say he's not wrong about that, because that's the way they talk. But he points
00:58:39.020
out that it's not the same on the other side. That Israel has, you know, the military dominance,
00:58:45.260
but they are not wiping out the Palestinians. So therefore, you cannot make a moral equivalent,
00:58:50.940
because if the Palestinians had the power, they would kill all the Israelis.
00:58:55.100
They say it kind of directly. Israel does have that kind of power, that if they wanted to,
00:59:01.580
they could. But they don't do it. Therefore, that's more moral.
00:59:06.780
That's one of the stupid fucking things I've ever heard in my life.
00:59:10.220
Do I even have to give you an argument for that? Or are you all just nodding your heads like,
00:59:14.700
that's pretty stupid? It's just stupid. Israel can't wipe out a civilization.
00:59:22.140
That's not one of the options. You can't look at them and say, well, they haven't done a Holocaust
00:59:30.540
themselves. Of course, it's not an option. So to act as if Israel has the option, and so because
00:59:39.740
they didn't use that option, you can tell something about them. It's not an option. Now, I will say
00:59:47.820
that if they had the option, I don't think they would use it. But that's a separate, separate
00:59:53.660
argument. Right? I don't think they would. But it is not true that one of them has the power and one
01:00:01.500
does not. Neither of them have the power to completely kill all the other people.
01:00:06.060
In a realistic sense. They have the military power, but not realistically.
01:00:14.460
I've decided to call MSNBC the anti-white news. Because that's all I see when I watch MSNBC.
01:00:23.260
MSNBC is just a hundred different reasons to say white people suck. It's just anti-white people news.
01:00:29.660
I feel like that's just what I'm going to call it from now on. Yeah, I did call it MSNBC. But it's
01:00:37.740
funnier to just call it the anti-white news because that's what it is. Anyway, did you know that in
01:00:46.620
Sweden there are 61 no-go zones because of the Islamic extremists who live there? There are 61 places
01:00:55.420
that unless you're Islamists, you can't go there. 61. And apparently there are a number of people in
01:01:04.380
the city of Melmo in Sweden shooting off fireworks celebrating the Hamas terror attack.
01:01:13.740
So that's Sweden. So Sweden went the opposite direction of Trump and said, hey, we're not a
01:01:21.500
bunch of racists. Come on in. And now they have 61 no-go zones. So they got what they wanted there.
01:01:34.140
Minneapolis and Detroit are no-go. Yeah, we have our own no-go zones for different reasons, I guess.
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RFK Jr. looks like he's set to announce on Monday a third-party run. And it's going to change
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everything. For a while, you're not going to know who's the likely winner. Now that all the smart
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people are saying he's going to take votes away from Trump, which makes me think that's not true.
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Do you know why? Because all the smart people say it's true. Am I the only one who, as soon as all
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the smart people say it's true, immediately my brain says, well, I can eliminate that possibility.
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Whatever it is, it's not that. It's going to be something else besides that. Because all the smart
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people think it. Here's what I think they haven't factored in.
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They haven't factored in people's real-life choices.
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I think people are saying, if you're a Democrat, let's just work through this. If you're a Democrat,
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you want to win first, because you don't want Trump. So you want to win, win, win. Winning is all you care
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about. And you think that if RFK Jr. gets in the race, you couldn't directly vote for him and win.
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You would just let Trump win. But what happens when it becomes obvious that Trump would beat Biden?
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And that Biden has no chance. Let's say even with RFK Jr. in the mix. Because I think there might be
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more regular Democrats than you think, who would like to go to something less controversial.
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How would you like to have a president that there's a strong crossover that the other party
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doesn't hate him completely? At the moment, you could pick any Republican at random,
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and you could say, what do you think of President Biden? And they're going to have something negative
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to say. But could you ever imagine a president, and RFK Jr. might be one, in which maybe only 80%
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of Republicans say he's terrible? That would be a big improvement. Because that would still give him
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a lot of operating room, right? So I don't know. I don't know. When's the last time we had that?
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If abortion is a top issue, is RFK pro-abortion? He is. So RFK is pro-abortion. So he would certainly
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lose all Republicans who have that as a top issue, or anywhere near the top. But it's also a state
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issue. So it could be that people will just say, ah, as long as he doesn't want to do a federal law,
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I think Republicans would say, well, let's leave it to the state. We're good with that.
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So he has a way to get there. He does have a way to win. He has a path to victory. And if you don't
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believe that, I don't think you're paying attention. He definitely has a path to victory.
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But even more than that, he has a path to being the kingmaker, the person who could decide to stay
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in or to get out. And that might be the choice of who wins. So that's pretty interesting.
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Yeah. I do think that RFK Jr. is such a threat to the Republican people in power that they would
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do everything they could to stop it. But it's going to be interesting. And you know what the
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funny thing is? I keep hearing people criticizing RFK Jr. because he's just going to screw up everything
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for Democrats. Like he might just ruin the whole Democrat game. And I thought to myself,
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there is nobody who has more legitimate moral and ethical right to screw up everything than he does.
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Like he's the guy, he has absolute right to just destroy the system and then, you know,
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maybe help rebuild it. But I don't mind destroying our stuff because we're good at rebuilding.
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Some of our stuff needs to get destroyed. Demolition phase before rebuilding.
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All right. Is there even a Democrat party anymore?
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You know, I feel like the Democrats that have the most power have morphed into a criminal enterprise,
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which I don't see on the Republican side at all. There are clearly individual Republicans
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who do bad things that are illegal. But it doesn't look coordinated. It looks like the Democrats have
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literally created a structure where their own people can have key jobs and then the corruption can be,
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you know, unchecked. That's what it looks like. So I would say that RFK Jr. is going to look like
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the only Democratic Party. That could be the frame that we start hearing is that RFK Jr. is running as a third
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party. It's called Democrat. That would be strong. I'm running as the only Democrat, but I can't,
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but I can't call myself that. I can't call myself the only Democrat because the party has this control
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and they're stopping people from competing. But I tell you, I'm not part of the criminal enterprise.
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If you want a real Democrat, I'm going to offer you that option. The rest of what they're calling
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Democrats are essentially a criminal organization. And you should be destroying them, not voting for
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them, if you're a real Democrat. It's just, I think he's got a killer argument.
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So we'll see. There's a report by the Nonprofit Society of Actuaries. We've been waiting for this,
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right? Trying to figure out about the excess deaths. Don't you want to know if the insurance actuaries
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are going to charge people differently if they've been vaccinated versus unvaccinated?
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Right? Because they're the ultimate, I would say, the jurors on what was more dangerous than what.
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Because the insurance companies, in theory, are just going to try to make money, right?
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They're not making money from pharmaceuticals. They're not making money from selling masks.
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They just want to know for sure who is more likely to die. That's all they need. We just need to know
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who's more likely to die. And then we'll do the rest. We'll just charge based on that.
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And their current thinking is that there were 34% more deaths. These would be the excess deaths above
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the expected baseline. So 34% more in the ages 35 to 44, you know, the core of life in the last three
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months of 2022. So around the time the vaccinations were rolling out, excess deaths started to climb.
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Is that because of that? Well, the problem is there are lots of reasons why there would be excess deaths.
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We know there's more suicide. We know there was more overdoses. We know that people were less
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healthy. They got much fatter. So there's a whole bunch of reasons people should be dying.
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And it would have started about the same time as the vaccinations, because the lockdown started
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before the vaccinations. So we don't know that's the reason. But what would be this? This is a test
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of your analytical abilities. Okay. If the one thing you know for sure, and I don't know this for sure,
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but suppose the one thing you knew for sure is that right around the same time as the vaccinations,
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which as I remind you, was also the same time we were getting fat and overdosing and committing suicide.
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So we had several reasons that happened about the same time. If you knew there was a substantial
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difference in the excess mortality, right around the time vaccinations were rolled out. But as I said,
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those other things were happening too. Could you conclude with a high degree of certainty
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that the vaccinations were the problem? Yes or no? With a high degree of certainty.
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I see yeses. I see noes. Well, here, most of the noes are correct. All right, the noes are correct.
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Here's what you would want to study. The vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. And that's it.
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You can't study the average people. That will tell you nothing because there are too many things going
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on. But if you were to study separately vaccinated versus unvaccinated and by age group, because you
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would want to separate that by age group. If that analysis caused the actuaries to say, oh,
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that's real. And we're going to charge based on whether you're vaccinated or not vaccinated.
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Because remember, they can charge more if you smoke cigarettes. Am I right? They do, right? If you
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smoke cigarettes, they'll charge you more, won't they? For life insurance. And it's not it's not really
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easy to check up on that. I mean, they could, but it's not easy. So couldn't you also
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charge more for people who are either vaccinated or unvaccinated, depending what your actuarial
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numbers determined was more dangerous? Yeah. So the only thing I want to teach you is that looking
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at excess mortality, even if it started at the same time as the vaccinations, it doesn't tell you what
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you think of this. It might. It doesn't not tell you that. It's just not, it's not something you
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should rely on. But if you actually saw numbers that you could think were accurate about the
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vaccinated versus the unvaccinated, that would tell you everything, I believe. I mean, you'd probably
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want to control it for age and obesity and stuff. But basically, just look at those two groups. Now,
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has anybody done that analysis? I haven't seen it. Have you?
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Why would nobody have done the one analysis that actually would make you confident you knew what
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was happening? What, is it too hard? You think it's too hard to study that? I doubt it. It's not too hard.
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That info was reliable. They didn't ask and assumed unvaccinated if unknown. Okay. I don't know about that.
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And the other thing I would teach you is don't compare the United States to any other country.
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So as soon as you say compare to Sweden or compare to Africa or anything, none of that works.
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None of that works. We don't collect data the same way. There's just nothing that's the same. It's just
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too different in too many ways. It won't tell you anything. So that, ladies and gentlemen,
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concludes my comments for today. I feel sorry for you and feel sorry for Israel especially,
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and also the innocent people in Gaza who are going to pay a big price.
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But you're going to hear the same arguments just over and over all day long today.
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I hope I gave you something that was a little bit different,
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but it's going to be, it's going to feel like a lot of the same all day long.
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I'll tell you one thing that the situation in Israel, let's call it the war. Does this war have a name yet?
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The Gaza war or something? It's going to get a name. They're going to name it.
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But I'll tell you one thing it did. Yeah, let's, let's not call it World War Three.
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One thing it did is it put our other problems in perspective, didn't it?
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When you, when you imagine, what would it be like to know that armed terrorists are on your border
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and running through your city, just gunning people down, and that they might be there for days?
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It might last days. I mean, how long does it take to catch a thousand people? Some of them are going
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to go to hiding and then just come back out as soon as the heat goes down, right? So it made,
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a lot of my other problems seem completely unimportant. In fact, when I was putting together
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my notes for today, you know, if you were here at the beginning, you know, I started with,
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you know, just some scientific things and things like that. I didn't want to talk about those today.
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Like I did it to wait for people to get on the live stream and I did it. So you didn't hear just
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non-stop negativity today, but I wasn't interested. I mean, normally I'm totally interested. Oh,
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new scientific thing, you know, new little study, new poll. They all interest me. But in the context
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of watching Israel being overrun, or at least attempted to be overrun, none of it feels important.
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Like Israel feels important today. Nothing else does. Even in Ukraine, I barely thought about it.
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No discussion about what leads to this. Well, I think we all know what led to it. Don't we?
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Yeah. I mean, there's no mystery about what led to it.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say, uh, say goodbye on this platform. I hope my
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sound and lighting were better than yesterday. Thanks for joining. And I will see all of you
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tomorrow. And I'll talk to the locals people privately.