Episode 2257 Scott Adams： Coffee With Scott 10⧸10⧸23
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Trump's speech was the best I've ever seen a politician do for an extended speech, and Biden is at his lowest point as an adult in public speaking. It's a match-up you don't want to miss.
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do the two good morning everybody and welcome to the upgraded technologically improved version of
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coffee with Scott Adams the best thing you've ever seen in your entire life I'd like to take
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it up to another level wouldn't you I know you would all you need is a cup or mug or a glass
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Attack your jealous, just die in a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Yes, at the moment, we're being held together by duct tape, literally.
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This is the highest quality this show has ever been.
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Yes, we will talk about Israel, but maybe not right first.
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Let me warm you up a little bit before we get into the heavy stuff, okay?
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Well, I don't know if you saw Trump give a speech yesterday or the day before, and I just got to tell you that I was worried that he was losing a step, and maybe he is, but he gave the best speech I've ever seen.
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Actually, not just the best for Trump, but maybe just the best thing I've ever seen a politician do for an extended speech.
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Now, there are lots of speeches where somebody has, like, a good line, you know, Martin Luther King, you know, JFK.
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It was the most relaxed, capable speech I've ever seen anybody give in public.
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But I was especially paying attention to see if when he failed the fact checking, that, you know, even I could tell, if it was ever directionally untrue.
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Anyway, I thought the contrast was striking because Biden is decomposing to the point where you wonder if Biden can even stay, you know, upright through a speech.
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So at the same time, Biden has reached his lowest lifetime capability in public speaking.
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That Biden today is at the lowest capability that he's probably ever been as an adult?
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By contrast, and I didn't think this was going to be true.
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He's peaking while Joe Biden is close to death.
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How in the world is this going to be a close election?
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Except for, I know what your answer is going to be.
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Yes, you didn't have to put it in all capital letters.
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I actually watched the whole speech for entertainment.
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I had other things to do, but I couldn't think of anything more entertaining than watching the rest of his speech.
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It had nothing to do with work or anything else.
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The other thing I noticed is that Trump seems to, smartly, this would be the smartest thing he could do, it seems like he's dialed down the dangerous part a little bit.
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You know, when you're first trying to make a name for yourself, you can be much more dangerous sounding because you don't have to necessarily execute on any things you say.
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But I think now as an ex-president, he can run on what he did compared to what's happening now.
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And he doesn't need to make you afraid or excite you.
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So he's talking more matter-of-factly, sort of like a dad who's figured it out.
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His vibe is a dad who has it figured out, and he's not wondering what to do.
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Like he knows what to do, and he's making jokes with you about why would you be dumb enough not to let him do it.
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The relaxed dad is coming vibe rather than the scary I'm going to go, you know, kill all the people and drain the swamp.
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That stuff's a little alarming to his non-followers.
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So I think he's made a good adjustment there, but I don't know if it was temporary.
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Can we agree that he has the worst luck with timing of any politician in the history of politicians with timing?
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He timed his announcement in the middle of the Israeli war.
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I don't think there was any other news yesterday, was there?
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He was the only other news, and he still couldn't get much coverage.
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You're thinking RFK Jr. is going to pull more votes away from Trump voters and make Trump not win.
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So I've decided to hold my opinion of who he would draw more from until you actually see.
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You know, I would imagine the polling companies are coming up with questions to suss out what it will look like.
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But notably, Rob Reiner, who you would imagine is as left and Democrat as you could possibly be.
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I'm not going to act like I know it's in his head.
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Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s announcement to run as an independent is a dangerous and cynical move by wealthy Republicans to put Trump back in the White House.
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I talked with Bobby and told him that what he is doing could destroy American democracy.
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So I feel like he would approve of me reading it with, you know, bringing my own skill to it.
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Here's what I want to tell you about Rob Reiner.
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Number one, I don't think anybody knows less about the world or politics, or at least the way he demonstrated.
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But I used to think that he just had something wrong with him or that he was politically brainwashed.
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I don't know if any of those things are true, but I'll tell you what made me feel a lot better about his tweets.
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If you say meathead, I'm going to stop every single time and say, swimming is the best form of suicide.
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Because swimming is really the best form of exercise.
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You like to yell his TV name because it's so amusing.
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When you look at Rob Reiner, if you think of him as performance art, which I do,
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Because I don't think a serious person would write any of this.
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What serious person would say in public that he doesn't think Bobby Kennedy Jr., wait,
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believes in American democracy or cares about it?
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That's not really an opinion of a normal person,
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but it's also not the opinion of an insane person or a hypnotized or programmed person.
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The only person who would say this is somebody who is performing.
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All I'm saying is if you read it with the frame of mind that it's performance art,
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Who in the world would say that Bobby Kennedy Jr. doesn't care about ruining democracy?
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You would have to say that if you did it for effect.
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That's something you would have to say for the effect it would have on the listener.
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So the effect he's trying to get in his performance is for us to say,
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That a Kennedy who's done nothing but work that seems directly for the benefit of the public
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and has this long legacy of, you know, of benefit to the country
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that really that person, that person doesn't believe in democracy.
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So once you see it as a performance, that doesn't bother you at all.
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You go, oh, that was pretty clever how you said that to get people worked up.
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Question we all have, or you should have, is what we're seeing happening in Israel.
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Could the, you know, the attitudes and temperaments against each other turn into violence?
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Well, I would say yes, because we're human beings and we're still part of history.
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So history suggests that this stuff could happen pretty quickly and come out of almost nothing.
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And I would suggest that we're seeing the first signs that I didn't realize that colleges
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are teaching students that they're, that some of the people in the United States are colonizers.
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And that when they use the word decolonization,
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which apparently is now becoming popular in college curriculums,
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here's what I see when somebody calls me a colonizer.
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If somebody calls you a colonizer, let's say you're a white person,
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and somebody used the N word in front of you in a, let's say, non-ironic way,
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And so my reaction to violence against me is violence.
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But I'm only describing the emotional reaction to it.
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So you could use the word colonizer if you want to,
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but you're going to get the effect of if you had called me the N word
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I can make no promises about the outcome of that interaction.
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But calling anybody a colonizer or calling for decolonization,
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because it's moving from sort of academic into the rest of the world.
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But it's a clear indication that the direction is to murder white people.
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I think there will be waves of murderous decolonizers in our future.
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Hamas has killed over a thousand people in Israel.
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there are lots of casualties on the other side as well in Gaza.
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But less reported is that Hamas also murdered Harvard.
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really trying to make a difference in the world,
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notable Harvard alum are actually disavowing Harvard for being pro-Hamas.
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that might be hyperbole to say they're pro-Hamas,
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but I've read the statements from some of the student groups,
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How many of you would hire somebody who graduated from Harvard this year?
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You would not want to bring that into your company.
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the weird thing that happened is that Harvard decided to be really,
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I do think our institutions should have some representation that looks a little bit like the country.
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they had this huge valuable asset called Harvard,
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and they opened it up to far more people who would not have had a chance to be there otherwise.
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now maybe what will happen is that there will be like a band of 10 years,
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was Iran directly or indirectly involved in the Hamas attack on Israel?
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Iran has been funding them and organizing them and encouraged them.
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whether they had a meeting about this specific event is a little less important.
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wouldn't it be nice if there was a specific meeting that you could point to?
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But that's not really even close to saying they had a specific meeting in which the Iranian officials greenlighted the operation.
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So we heard from one news outlet that they have some secret source that apparently the government of the United States does not have.
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Because the government of the United States is not confirming that there was any meeting that they know of.
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Does that sound like a legitimate story to you?
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Do you think that our intelligence people dropped the ball and they didn't realize that they need to make a more direct connection to Iran?
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here's what I'm saying and what I'm not saying.
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There might have been a meeting in which it was greenlighted.
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But do you believe that there's a news organization who had knowledge about a specific meeting in a specific time in a specific place?
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That's the sort of story you want the public to think is true because it's actually closer to the truth than whatever you had in your head.
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But whether or not there was a specific meeting at a specific time in a specific place doesn't really matter.
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how would you feel about it if you thought it were true?
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we've got to directly do something against Iran.
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but I guess we'll just keep going on the way we are.
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but it's also entirely true that the United States government would intentionally be lying of it.
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It could suggest that the military industrial complex and the intelligence services are not on the same page as Biden,
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Would you be surprised if you found out the intelligence people disagreed with the administration?
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I wouldn't be too surprised because the intelligence people tend to stay there.
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the government's changed from Republican to Democrat.
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you'd imagine that there would be disagreement between intelligence and the government.
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I'm always one of the first people to say fungible.
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it's just one of those words you like to show off with.
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I don't know if the zeitgeist has picked this up yet,
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I do talk about the fungibility of oil and cash.
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So it's one of those douchebag words people like to pull out.
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But since I'm usually one of the first douchebags,
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there's a lot of people saying fungible that didn't used to say that because
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Does it matter if Iran used the 6 billion that was allegedly released?
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Do you think they wouldn't have done this except for that money that they have
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They try to ignore fungibility as like a concept and just say that specific
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the specific $6 billion is still in the accounts and can only be used for specific
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And none of that money has actually been spent.
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but if they knew that money was coming for things,
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didn't that free up the same amount of money conceptually that at least budget
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we don't need to save money for the use of humanitarian things because
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And then do you know how the Democrats respond to that criticism?
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how did the Democrats respond when you tell them that money is fungible?
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I've never seen a Democrat have to answer the question.
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Why do you think money can only be spent for one thing?
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you don't think people can adjust even mentally their budget.
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you understand they're just as good as the dollar bills in your pocket,
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I don't think the $6 billion argument has any bearing on anything.
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So the two things we'll talk about the most are the two least important things to know the answer to.
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They waited until they got to 6 billion or thought they,
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I guess the U S or somebody still has control over it.
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Those are just TV arguments because they don't have enough footage of the actual damage happening right now.
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here's the other thing you're not hearing on the news.
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the Israeli army going door to door and having heavy losses when Israel calls it a siege?
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Why don't we just listen to what they called it?
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And they're letting people out who are non-combatants.
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So now I don't know if those people feel free to leave,
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if Hamas wants to start killing its own people to prevent them from leaving so they can use them as human shields,
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But I would imagine that Israel will now starve out the population to force them to move toward food and water.
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I was corrected on social media when I suggested that encouraging people to move toward the food and the water is the same as killing them all.
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I feel like moving people toward food and water and safety is a little bit better than murdering them.
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I know it would be an amazing hardship that I can't even imagine on the Gaza residents who are non-combatants.
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It's also true that they had a non-viable society that was supported only by donations.
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If you live in a non-viable society that's supported only by donations,
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something's going to happen and it's not going to be good.
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I support Israel and the right to defend themselves.
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But there are some arguments that just piss me off because they're just too stupid.
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And one of them is that Israel's the good guy because they allowed 18,000 workers from Gaza on a daily basis to come in and work in Israel.
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18,000 out of a million adults when they have a 70%
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it's not really a big number when the only jobs that they have are on the other side of their own border.
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Letting 18,000 people a day, not knowing exactly if any of them could be dangerous,
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it's probably a little risky, but I imagine they go through some heavy vetting before they do it.
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But 18,000 people, it's not nothing, but it's not a lot.
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So don't imagine that that's like any big gift because it's not.
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Now, what about the question about the hardship that the Israelis have imposed on Gaza?
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Because that would be the argument on the other side.
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As long as Hamas wants to hide among them and has their support, apparently, to do it,
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Israel doesn't owe them anything because it's not their job to sort out the bad guys
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And unfortunately, nobody can help, especially if they're hypnotized
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into thinking that they should be on their side, or if they're threatened, I suppose.
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Israel just has to protect itself, as everyone does.
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I saw a report that you should not believe that,
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because it was on a non-credible source, but people are tweeting it around.
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They're reporting that Israel is using some kind of phosphorus bombs
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Like, it's exactly what you were expecting to see.
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Why the fuck would Israel use illegal munitions in this fight?
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Now, if Israel had an unorganized military where they couldn't guarantee that there was control
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of all the units, well, maybe anything could happen.
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If you have command and control, and you're fighting not only for your survival,
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but for the hearts and minds, you're not going to use even one illegal munition if you have it.
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I mean, I'm guessing every military has some bad stuff they don't use.
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But it's the least believable thing you're going to see today.
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And they show a neighborhood that shows no people and could have been anywhere.
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And it shows some, like, white powder drifting up or something.
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If you had to bet on that one, you should bet against that one being real.
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So as I'm trying to get a feel for how people are thinking about the war in Israel,
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I look to see how many things get retweeted and how much.
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So if I tweet something that gets a lot of retweets, I say to myself,
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oh, I must have said something that other people were thinking too.
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So along those lines, when I did my thread on what it looks like is happening
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or why Hamas is doing it, it's already over 8 million views.
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Now, if you don't use the X profile or the X platform,
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I will tell you the 8 million views on one of my tweets.
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A really good post of mine might get a quarter million.
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And one of the things I have to correct, I have a correction.
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I gave you some incorrect news, some fake news yesterday.
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I told you that Saudi Arabia had already broken off discussions
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of normalizing relationships, relations with Israel,
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However, so I'm acknowledging my fake news there.
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However, it does put Saudi Arabia in the narrative saddle.
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If Saudi Arabia waits a little while, and then they say,
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Israel, you bastards, we can never do business with you.
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However, that changes the narrative to maybe Hamas had a point.
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That's a big, big problem to the hearts and minds.
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And this might be the only time the opposite is actually a possibility.
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Suppose the crown prince, who has so far shown himself
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meaning he'll do some bad stuff if he thinks he needs to do.
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He'll do some good stuff if he thinks he needs to.
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that there was this weird situation where Trump, Netanyahu,
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You know, by their nature, their personalities,
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And so I wasn't surprised when the Abraham Accords happened
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the strongest dealmaker of the three potential.
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and imagine what it would do to the hearts and minds of everybody
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if after the waiting a few weeks to see, you know,
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You can guarantee there will be reports of atrocities.
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I mean, the alleged but almost certainly not true
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Well, once the soldiers have guns and the bullets start flying,
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Obviously, the government's not going to sanction that.
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But just assume that any reports you see are 99% unlikely to be true.
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Anyway, so imagine if the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia said,
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I've watched how events have played out over the last month or so,
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and I've decided I'm not going to pick a winner or a loser.
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And I'm just going to go ahead and do this deal.
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And that would probably be a huge positive in the region.
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Do you think that terrorists are coming through our borders right now,
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and that it's inevitable we'll have some kind of mass event like this,
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where multiple gunmen in multiple places attack at the same time?
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Because apparently dozens of known terrorists have gone through the border.
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How do we know that known terrorists went through the border?
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Doesn't that mean there was some point where we were looking at their paperwork?
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I don't have any specific charges against you, but I do have this law that says I have to let you in.
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How in the world could we know that there are two dozen terrorists here?
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Unless we talked to them, interviewed them, took their picture, looked at their paperwork.
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If there are two dozen known terrorists in the country, can't we find them in one day just by publishing their photos?
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If you think they're terrorists and they're here illegally, I'd like to know who they are.
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Because if they live next to me, I might have to plan accordingly.
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I don't have to take matters into my own hands, but I'd like to defend myself from the presumed terrorists.
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I would agree that mass terrorist attacks in the United States are guaranteed at this point.
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You know, I often tell you that design is destiny.
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Secondly, we're designed to attract attacks because the border's open.
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So if you're predicting that it won't happen, you're not really looking at the design.
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It's built right into the engineering of our country right now.
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Do you think the border would be open if men were in charge?
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In my entire life, I've never met a man who would put up with an open border and lawlessness
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Now, you're saying, but Scott, Scott, Scott, there are plenty of Democrats who identify
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as male and do say we should keep it the way it is.
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Well, there's clearly a testosterone effect here.
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Like, I don't mean to be insulting, but when you see somebody who identifies as a man saying
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that it's okay to keep the borders porous, they're low T.
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I hate to tell you, there's nobody with a high testosterone who thinks the borders should
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We're acting like it's the Democrats who want the border open.
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Now, not Republican women, not Republican women, but it's women.
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The open border is a woman problem and a low T problem.
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And our political parties have divided pretty much along those lines.
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The high T men and the women who like men with testosterone are on one side and the low T men
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and the women who don't want strong men anywhere around them are on the other side.
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So I see this as almost a chemistry problem as opposed to a political problem.
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If our chemistry were right and our testosterone had not dropped for the last 40 years, the border would be closed.
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And by the way, this is one of the few opinions in which I have 100 percent confidence.
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Most of what I say, and I try to say it this way, I talk in terms of the odds.
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Well, you know, there's a 50 percent more chance this will happen or 99.
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Ninety nine percent chance these stories are false.
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I like to talk that way, but not in this case, because this is just direct.
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If the Democrats had the same amount of testosterone as the Republicans, we wouldn't have this problem.
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If you back this up to the root cause, it's not politics and it's not Trump.
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If it's easy to do, if it's easy to solve it, as in close the border, we know how to do that stuff.
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No man with the normal amount of testosterone agrees to that situation.
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It's a chemical imbalance, which has had a ripple effect on our border, which will get a lot of us killed for sure.
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Actually, low testosterone will kill more people probably than coronavirus.
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You know, if you had mandatory, if you had any mandatory shots, it should be testosterone boosters for Democrats.
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If the point of giving somebody a mandatory shot is to make the country safer, right?
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The mandatory, the fact that shots are ever mandatory is for the benefit of the whole.
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I mean, we want them to do well, too, but that's not the point of a mandate.
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If it were only about the one person, it'd be like cigarettes.
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Well, we recommend against cigarettes, but you're only killing yourself, so free country, go ahead.
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But we don't do that with shots because it's about the whole.
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If you want to protect the whole, give Democrat men testosterone boosters because it's the only chance we'll be able to defend the country.
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I've got a feeling that's going to be a viral clip.
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Well, I have an idea for fixing the situation with Hamas and America, too.
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And this is a recommendation for just Democrats.
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Republicans can sit this one out because you guys don't know how to solve anything.
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For the open borders, as well as Hamas, which is to open their doors and allow the Hamas people and also all the people streaming across the border to have sanctuary in their homes.
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Because we'd like them to be consistent with their opinions.
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Because they've got this problem where they want to be helpful to this group of people that they think are victims.
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And rather than arguing with them, why don't we help them get what they want, which is them personally being as close as possible to the people who they say are safe and beautiful, but others who are bastards say that they could be dangerous in some way.
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So I don't think Republicans should participate in this, but I think the Hamas people would do really well with the low testosterone men in their Democrat Party and their women.
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So that would be an excellent solution for both the cartel members who are streaming across the border and Hamas who will need some place to go.
00:47:00.520
Because Portland would say, absolutely, bring them here.
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We would, of course, have to put a siege around Portland, but that's down the road.
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Has anybody seen any news of Hamas executing any hostages?
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So they've threatened that they would kill a hostage for every, I don't know, day or something that Israel is attacking in Gaza.
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Oh, somebody says they saw a few videos that weren't real.
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Given that Hamas is probably somewhat distributed and they probably don't have a good command and control, I would say there's a guarantee that some hostages would be killed and it will be filmed.
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I think that leadership probably would not order it because it would be crazy.
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I think individuals like cells, you know, who just were through the fighting and their brains are scrambled and they're on drugs and stuff, I think they might do it and they might try to get out.
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But imagine a major news network or even a platform, a social media platform, allowed that content to be transmitted.
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Now, I'm not talking if some troll puts it on social media because that's just the individual.
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But let's say the network or the platform allowed those videos on there.
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Would that make that news network a legitimate military target for Israel?
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Not that they would attack, you know, NBC News or something.
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Presumably, showing hostages being murdered would reduce the Israeli will to fight.
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You know, the weaker people would say, no, no, we've got to do everything we can to save the hostages.
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Let's do a ceasefire and then we'll do a trade of prisoners and then we'll do some kind of a peace deal.
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So I would think that the last thing the Israeli leadership wants is for any of those videos to service.
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So it wouldn't be good for Hamas, but it also wouldn't be good for Israel.
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Hamas' leadership really doesn't want these to get out.
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I mean, if there was any remaining sympathy for them in any way, it would just evaporate.
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I don't think there's too much sympathy for Hamas specifically.
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But given that neither Hamas' leadership could possibly benefit from it, at the same time, there's no way that Israel's leadership would want you to see them.
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I feel like there's a strong impulse that no news entity would show them and social media would scrub them as soon as they showed up.
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Now, it might show up on Telegram or something, but I feel like you're never going to see one because there's going to be something like a complete news blackout.
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Now, as somebody pointed out, but Scott, that's how war works.
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I mean, the Vietnam War probably went the way it went, in part because there were cameras there.
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But I would say that recent wars have definitely been a news blackout.
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But are they videos of hostages or videos of violence that happened during the attack?
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Because people were executed during the attack, you know, execution style.
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I don't know if you could tell the difference, could you?
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Because one is an attack and one is a hostage situation in which there's a risk of them dying and being killed.
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Anyway, I'm going to predict that you won't see much of these hostages being executed, even if they are.
00:51:50.400
I suspect that Israel's calculation is that they're already gone.
00:52:06.680
Have we blamed the attack on climate change yet?
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Now, I would say that one of the biggest parts of this story may be suppressed in the news.
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It's sort of a meth that makes you zombie-like.
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So, you could just dissect a person while you're on Capcom.
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And you'd be like, okay, just having fun here, dissecting a person.
00:53:00.560
Now, when you hear about a terrorist attack of a, let's say, a cell of terrorists, maybe it'd be like a handful.
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They do an attack where they know they're not going to survive.
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You usually say, thank God this is a rare thing.
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There aren't that many people who would be willing to kill themselves for some political point that's not even going to move the needle.
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It's very unusual to get people who would be willing to do that, even though there's plenty of it.
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But, somehow, Hamas got a thousand people to go on a suicide mission at the same time.
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How do you get a thousand people to go on a mission where none of them would expect to come home?
00:53:55.180
Some of them probably did, but they wouldn't expect to.
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I feel drugs are the story that's not being told.
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I don't think you can get a thousand people to do this at the same time.
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And, by the way, if you had access to that drug, and Hamas would have access because it's all over the Middle East.
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If you had access to it, why would you not give it to your soldiers?
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It would actually be like a giant military mistake to not give it to them when they're going into an almost certain death.
00:54:42.300
You know, they did more attacking than you think people would attack.
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Somebody says the Japanese did it for the bonsai attacks.
00:54:59.440
Now, what do you think is going to happen with the siege?
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The first thing that's going to happen is you're not going to, pretty soon you won't see video.
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You'll see distant videos of, you know, things blowing up.
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And, you'll see, you know, ones and twosies of people being injured and being loaded in ambulances and stuff.
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But, you're not going to know if it really happened from this war or some other war that they just took the video from.
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But, how would anybody get a video out of Gaza?
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Because, at the moment, they don't have electricity.
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But, do you think those generators, well, actually, let me correct myself.
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I'll bet they've had poor reliance on their grid.
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So, they have probably more generators than we know about.
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I feel like they've got 30 days of generators, maximum.
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Like, there might be some hidden supplies of them or something.
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I don't feel like they have a lot of solar power over there.
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So, I don't know which internet you're looking at.
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Do you think there will be rescue ops for the...
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Because I think it would be too dangerous to go in.
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And, it's not likely anybody to survive if you attacked.
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I'd like to solve this problem with something called economics.
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What is the most valuable information in the world today?
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What is the one piece of information that somebody would pay the most for?
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I'm not talking about something that's always been true or solving an equation.
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I mean, something that's happening in the world right now.
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The most valuable information in the whole world.
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I'm going to give you partial credit because I'm not sure which leader you're talking about.
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The most valuable information in the world is where the leadership of Iran is at any moment.
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If you're Israel, you should have already the most enormous reward set up by crypto.
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Now I'm talking about the top five, you know, top five or so.
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It would have to be some kind of an app where you would have multiple reports, like you wouldn't rely on one report.
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So if somebody said, all right, I've got a $10 million reward, or it could be a $10 billion reward.
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What would it be worth to you to know where the leader of Iran was so you could take him out?
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Nobody would pay it, but that's what it would be worth.
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So the most valuable information in the world is where the Iranian leadership is, because in my opinion, Israel has a free pass to take him out.
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And it's possible that that time will pass, like they will no longer have that window, where they can take out the leadership, have something like some kind of explanation or reason for it, and not make things worse.
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It might make things worse, but they're likely to rip the Band-Aid off.
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If everybody did a truce today, and Iran still has money and is still in charge, it's just going to happen again later, except bigger and better.
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Their entire plan is that we will keep doing this forever until it works.
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If your plan is explicitly, we'll keep trying until it works, you've got to get rid of those people.
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Now, what would happen if, how would the Iranian public react, the public, if their leadership were taken out because of this?
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It would actually be, okay, I'm just taking my head.
01:01:02.280
Somebody was pointing out that it would be an act of war against Iran.
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So any military target is fair game at this point.
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And the leadership of Iran is just a military target.
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So whether or not you call that a war or not, it is what it is, and it doesn't matter what you call it.
01:01:35.500
Could you say that Ukraine is an act of war against Russia by the U.S.?
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So if you're arguing, well, what, is this an act of war or is this an act of war, you're missing my point.
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Because your label for it doesn't change anything.
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Shit's going to happen the way it happens, no matter what label you put on it.
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So label it a war, compare it to other places if you want.
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Remember when Helen Thomas used to ask Obama often?
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for today.
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