Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 11, 2023


Episode 2258 Scott Adams： Coffee And Whiteboard With Scott


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

139.47078

Word Count

7,437

Sentence Count

631

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Evans, we talk about the dangers of using the term "Colonizer" and what it means to be a "colonizer." We also talk about Elon Musk and why he should be kicked off the chessboard.


Transcript

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00:00:06.640 good morning everybody and welcome to coffee with scott evans the best thing you've ever seen in
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00:00:45.700 Oh, it looks like I've got a problem on my live stream.
00:00:49.160 The dopamine at the end of the day thing that makes everything better
00:00:51.540 except my live stream.
00:00:53.200 It's called the Simultaneous Sip and Happens Down.
00:00:55.840 Go.
00:00:58.460 That's good.
00:01:06.940 Well, let's see what my problem is.
00:01:08.900 So it looks like Rumble's not moving.
00:01:12.840 Rumble is dead.
00:01:15.460 Stream was entered and deleted at the destination.
00:01:19.740 Streams key up.
00:01:21.120 My stream key.
00:01:23.160 Well, look at that.
00:01:24.740 Bad stream key.
00:01:25.740 All right.
00:01:29.980 The streaming key that I'm using for Rumble,
00:01:34.280 I believe it's an alpha technology.
00:01:38.100 So I'm one of the early adopters.
00:01:39.920 They may be tweaking it still.
00:01:41.480 So Rumble's not working today.
00:01:43.440 But we'll probably get that up and working.
00:01:46.720 Hey, new audio badge.
00:01:49.400 Thank you.
00:01:49.780 I love that.
00:01:50.180 All right.
00:01:53.100 So shall we talk about all the things?
00:01:56.900 It's quite a thing.
00:01:59.560 All right.
00:01:59.840 Number one.
00:02:01.620 What up, my colonizers?
00:02:03.780 That's going to be my new catchphrase.
00:02:07.100 What up, my colonizers?
00:02:09.320 Now, remember, a colonizer is a word that can only be used by white people.
00:02:13.840 It's like the N word, but for white people.
00:02:17.000 So we can call it the C word, but somebody already used the C word for that other word.
00:02:20.760 So I remind you that when people call you a colonizer, they are marking you for death.
00:02:30.540 Literally.
00:02:31.680 If somebody calls you a colonizer, they're putting you in the othering category of people,
00:02:37.500 people who can be murdered later.
00:02:40.600 And let me say it as clearly as possible.
00:02:42.980 That's not hyperbole.
00:02:44.460 That's a literal definition of where we're heading, unless something changes.
00:02:51.160 But if it becomes okay to call people colonizers, you're eventually going to get killed.
00:02:58.840 The odds are very high.
00:03:00.820 So nobody can use that word, except people who are colonizers, apparently, such as myself.
00:03:10.580 Mike Benz reminds us of this good rule.
00:03:13.320 I love this rule.
00:03:14.460 If you see an article that refers to, quote, researchers, Mike Benz says,
00:03:21.460 those researchers, they're always the CIA.
00:03:25.980 I don't know if that's true 100% of the time, but it's a good rule of thumb, as Mike Benz says.
00:03:36.160 Here's an example.
00:03:37.120 Bloomberg had an article that said, quote, researchers said that X, the platform X, was unreliable with information.
00:03:46.220 The researchers said that.
00:03:47.440 I guess those researchers looked into it.
00:03:49.240 So in your head, just translate researchers to CIA, and then you'll have a different sense of what's going on.
00:03:58.840 And of course, Bloomberg is not real news, if you didn't know that.
00:04:02.620 Bloomberg is one of the names pretty heavily associated with fake news.
00:04:08.220 They have lots of real news.
00:04:09.420 I mean, Bloomberg does have real stories, but they did a headpiece on me a few years ago.
00:04:16.000 It was just garbage.
00:04:18.220 You know, stories about public figures are always false, but theirs was really false.
00:04:23.740 All right, let's say you were a clever person, and you wanted to take Elon Musk completely out of the game.
00:04:34.860 Take him off the chessboard because he didn't like his politics.
00:04:37.880 Or let's say you wanted to get rid of the X platform, and you could do that by getting rid of Elon Musk as well.
00:04:43.960 How would you do it?
00:04:45.960 Well, here's how I'd do it.
00:04:47.380 First, I would first get my cronies to pass a law that says that you can't have a lot of disinformation on your social media.
00:04:59.380 But, you know, that's always been the case, right?
00:05:01.680 We always didn't want to have a lot of disinformation and hate speech and stuff like that.
00:05:06.400 Then I would create some watchdog groups, and I'd put my cronies in there.
00:05:12.080 And then I'd have all my friends say, hey, according to our fact-checking group, this X platform is sending out a lot of disinformation.
00:05:22.460 And then I would have my people who were also my cronies, I would have them put the X platform out of business, send them a threatening letter and say, you're full of disinformation.
00:05:34.440 And then when they ask you to prove it, you just say, well, look at these fact-checkers who are my friends.
00:05:44.420 And then you say, can the fact-checkers show me the evidence?
00:05:48.660 Change the subject.
00:05:50.620 No, but can you actually show me where all the disinformation is?
00:05:53.920 And could you put it in context so I could see if the disinformation on the X platform is better or worse than other platforms or even the local news?
00:06:04.440 Nope.
00:06:05.660 So that's how I'd do it.
00:06:08.500 So in a completely unrelated story, the EU has already sent a letter to Elon Musk telling him that according to their fact-checkers, who are basically at the same paymasters, in a sense, that they've decided there's too much misinformation.
00:06:26.740 And the EU might want to close down the X platform from their territories.
00:06:38.100 So put this under the category of everything you thought was happening is probably happening.
00:06:45.120 Like every conspiracy theory you ever thought of, every one of them.
00:06:49.440 Yeah, all the fact-checking is fake.
00:06:52.080 But in this case, even the law is fake.
00:06:56.020 They created a fake law just to get rid of X because it's the only place that there's any free speech.
00:07:02.300 There is a really strong push to get rid of all free speech.
00:07:07.520 You know, and I used to not say that.
00:07:09.520 I used to think, no, it's just political.
00:07:12.060 Nobody wants to get rid of free speech.
00:07:13.980 But it's pretty clear now that that is exactly the goal, to get rid of free speech so that the side that thinks is right doesn't have to deal with any dissent.
00:07:27.280 So it really is a huge part of the world trying to get rid of free speech.
00:07:32.700 I don't think they thought it through.
00:07:34.240 Well, the best stories that are happening lately, in terms of interesting as opposed to bloody and horrible, we'll also get to the bloody, horrible stuff, is Harvard.
00:07:47.560 So you probably heard that a bunch of Harvard students got together, put out some kind of statement.
00:07:54.960 And they were affiliated with a whole bunch of different organizations within Harvard.
00:08:01.360 But I don't think they used their actual names.
00:08:03.480 I think they wanted some anonymity.
00:08:06.100 But they came out in favor of the Palestinian view of things and opposed to Israel's actions.
00:08:17.480 Now, that is not really very popular in the country right now.
00:08:22.020 But a number of people at Harvard did that.
00:08:24.760 But it gets better.
00:08:26.520 It gets better.
00:08:27.760 So Lawrence Summers tweeted this.
00:08:30.420 I told you this the other day.
00:08:31.460 He tweeted, in nearly 50 years of Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today.
00:08:40.420 Now, remember, Lawrence Summers is, you know, he's worked there.
00:08:44.280 He's really well identified with Harvard.
00:08:48.020 And I saw this tweet in response from Nathan Kofnes, just somebody on Twitter,
00:08:52.900 who said to Larry Summers, liberal boomer Jews.
00:08:58.640 Now, the speaker is also Jewish.
00:09:01.480 You should have that context.
00:09:03.220 Liberal boomer Jews who helped create the system will spend the rest of their lives being surprised by the fact that Jews rank at the bottom of the new racial hierarchy, according to Harvard.
00:09:14.740 Then he goes on, Nathan says, I was rejected from Harvard when Lawrence Summers was president.
00:09:22.820 Maybe if he created an admission system that favored more people like me and fewer affirmative action anti-Semites, 18 years later, you wouldn't be so, quote, disillusioned and alienated.
00:09:36.000 And then he finishes it off with, but in Larry's mind, I'm sure it will remain a mystery how this could have happened.
00:09:50.400 Ouch.
00:09:52.340 Fuck.
00:09:55.280 Nathan Kofnes, you're good with your arguments.
00:10:00.380 That felt like a stake right through his heart.
00:10:04.540 Yeah.
00:10:05.920 Lawrence Summers, you caused this thing that makes you hate your alma mater.
00:10:11.500 You destroyed the most respected higher education entity in the country.
00:10:19.280 I mean, you could argue it was the highest.
00:10:21.780 Wow.
00:10:23.620 Hey, but there's more.
00:10:25.380 There's more.
00:10:26.100 There's more.
00:10:30.380 So it started with, let's see, Ian Bremmer was tweeting on October 8th.
00:10:35.320 He said, a large number of Harvard student organizations.
00:10:38.000 So this is what I mentioned before, but just with some details.
00:10:40.860 Blaming Israel solely for Hamas terrorist attacks, killing 700.
00:10:45.160 And then Ian Bremmer says, can't imagine who would want to identify with such a group.
00:10:50.920 Harvard parents, talk to your educated kids about this.
00:10:53.740 So Bill Ackman sees this tweet and, you know, adds his own thoughts.
00:11:01.800 Now, Bill Ackman is a very famous hedge fund manager, and often he says political things
00:11:08.140 in social media.
00:11:09.380 So he's sort of a big voice.
00:11:12.060 I'm not entirely sure if he identifies as Democrat or Republican, which I feel like I want to give
00:11:20.100 him a standing ovation for.
00:11:21.400 That's pretty rare.
00:11:24.340 I've actually read quite a few of Bill Ackman's opinions.
00:11:28.880 I actually don't know if he's left or right.
00:11:32.920 So good for you, Bill Ackman.
00:11:35.480 Now, I don't agree with all of his opinions, but I actually can't tell if he's least Democrat
00:11:41.620 or Republican.
00:11:42.820 And my God, that's like a national asset.
00:11:45.980 So people like him, who you actually can't tell which way you go, that really is like
00:11:52.700 a resource.
00:11:54.320 You know, that's like an asset for the country.
00:11:55.840 Even if you don't agree with him, at least you know he's not just a team player.
00:12:01.360 All right.
00:12:01.980 So Bill Ackman, who is well known to everybody in business, you know, every CEO in the world
00:12:08.000 would know his name.
00:12:09.940 He says this.
00:12:11.060 If in fact their members support the letter they have released, the names of the signatories
00:12:37.500 should be made public so their views are publicly known.
00:12:43.200 One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield, meaning, I guess, Harvard and its clubs,
00:12:49.220 when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have beheaded
00:12:55.360 babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts.
00:12:59.060 Now, I replied to this by saying, I don't know anyone who would hire a person with pronouns
00:13:10.560 in their social media bio, because it's a strong signal for trouble.
00:13:15.300 But now we have another no-go.
00:13:18.440 And I was thinking, I feel like we need Kamala Harris to sort this out.
00:13:22.700 Because the Venn diagram of people who put pronouns in their social media bios, compared
00:13:31.560 to the people who might blame Israel for Hamas murdering their children, it might be quite
00:13:38.780 a bit of, you know, Venn diagram overlap there, a little bit of overlap, possibly.
00:13:45.700 Anyway, Mehdi Hassan, of MSNBC, responds to Bill Ackman, you know, saying that they don't
00:13:55.180 want to accidentally hire anybody who supports terrorists.
00:13:58.660 Now, just hold this in your mind.
00:14:01.180 So Bill Ackman is saying, in effect, they want to make sure they don't accidentally hire
00:14:06.480 somebody who's supporting terrorists.
00:14:10.320 Does that seem reasonable?
00:14:12.080 Seems pretty reasonable to me.
00:14:13.500 Mehdi Hassan says, you don't believe in free speech?
00:14:20.680 Is any of this about free speech?
00:14:23.480 No.
00:14:24.560 It's about the content of your free speech.
00:14:26.580 The content still matters.
00:14:29.920 And Megyn Kelly responded to Mehdi Hassan by saying, maybe it's me, but it feels like an
00:14:39.040 applicant's open support for terrorism, including the decapitation of babies.
00:14:43.500 is indeed the kind of free speech an employer could consider before hiring a person.
00:14:50.180 And boom.
00:14:52.820 Mehdi Hassan.
00:14:54.500 Your game is up, Mehdi Hassan.
00:14:58.060 So we certainly have reached the peak of wokeism at Harvard.
00:15:05.380 Because this was the part we needed.
00:15:09.120 And again, Bill Ackman's like a national treasure for even doing this.
00:15:13.240 Because it takes a lot of guts to come right out and say, we should not hire people like this.
00:15:19.980 It's very close to saying, don't hire the woke.
00:15:23.100 Which I say, don't hire the woke.
00:15:25.820 You'd be a fucking idiot to hire anybody with pronouns in their bio.
00:15:30.860 Not because they're not awesome people.
00:15:32.780 Many of them are probably awesome people.
00:15:35.060 But it is such a strong signal that they're going to cause trouble.
00:15:39.280 Why would you put up with that?
00:15:41.100 So I wouldn't hire anybody with their pronouns in their bio.
00:15:44.660 But again, many of them would be great employees.
00:15:48.480 They're just going along with the trend or whatever.
00:15:51.100 But I wouldn't take a chance.
00:15:52.880 That's just such a big signal for problems.
00:15:56.520 And supporting Hamas is a pretty big signal too.
00:15:59.740 I've got a question for you.
00:16:03.940 And this has to do with the fact that most humans can't handle any topic that has more than maybe five variables.
00:16:16.400 Which is understandable.
00:16:18.020 Five variables in any topic is really, it actually is kind of hard to put your mind around it.
00:16:23.380 And I've fallen for the problem as well.
00:16:25.540 I'm not immune to that.
00:16:26.640 But when you look at Israel, I see a lot of people talking about past excellent peace deals that Israel has offered that were turned down.
00:16:37.980 Do you think that they were intentionally like really good deals?
00:16:44.480 And that when the Palestinians or whoever they're negotiating with, when they looked at them, do you think that the Palestinians thought that they were good deals?
00:16:53.000 Well, they turned them all down.
00:16:55.200 So apparently not.
00:16:57.320 But here's a real question I ask you.
00:17:00.300 Given that we know that these populations that Israel would have been negotiating with harbored a whole lot of people.
00:17:09.060 I don't know what percentage, but it was a lot of people in a raw number who want to kill all the Jews and destroy Israel as a country.
00:17:18.280 And they're going to stop at nothing to do it.
00:17:21.380 My question is this.
00:17:24.220 Israel isn't stupid, right?
00:17:26.060 So under what situation would they ever want to make peace with an entity that's filled with people who want to kill them and that entity is not trying to stop them from doing it?
00:17:38.440 In fact, it might be encouraging them, might even be funding.
00:17:41.260 Why would you want to build up a very prosperous society that has too many people in it that want to kill your people like murder your babies?
00:17:51.640 That would be stupid.
00:17:54.300 It never made sense for Israel to do a peace deal.
00:17:59.600 It never made sense.
00:18:01.180 It did make sense to pretend.
00:18:02.760 That made sense.
00:18:04.900 And it probably made sense for the Palestinians to pretend because I think they knew it wasn't going to happen.
00:18:09.680 Just speculating.
00:18:11.720 But there was only one direction this could go.
00:18:16.760 And do you know what that direction was?
00:18:18.160 Eventually, the bad guys, Hamas, would do a bigger attack and would kill enough people that Israel would finally have what it has needed all along, which is a free pass to take care of what it needs to take care of.
00:18:34.520 So, where we are now is not the terrible, terrible mistake of history.
00:18:41.600 I mean, it's horrible.
00:18:42.560 It's horrible beyond even imagination.
00:18:46.220 But it was also the only way it could go.
00:18:49.540 The design of the system guaranteed we would be here, just not what year it would happen.
00:18:57.340 The only question mark was, well, is it going to happen this year, five years from now?
00:19:01.600 But it had to happen because the bad guys were getting stronger and stronger.
00:19:06.840 And they weren't just going to sit there getting stronger.
00:19:09.640 They were going to deploy their forces.
00:19:13.340 When they did, finally, finally, at great cost, and nobody would have imagined this much of a cost, but at great cost, Israel finally got its freedom.
00:19:26.080 It's freedom to do what it needs to do, which will be absolutely horrible.
00:19:33.520 Now, if you say to me, Scott, are you making a moral equivalence between this or that?
00:19:40.100 My answer is, fuck you, you stupid asshole.
00:19:43.400 No, I'm not making any moral equivalence ever.
00:19:46.520 You don't even have to ask me the question.
00:19:51.060 No, I'm never making a moral equivalence.
00:19:54.320 I just don't do that.
00:19:56.060 I talk about things that are bad, and they might be, you know, maybe I'll talk about one side today, and maybe later I'll talk about the other side.
00:20:03.380 But no, I'm just trying to, let me take a little detour here.
00:20:09.880 Some of you have probably already noticed that if all you're trying to do is say, let's say, put your opinion into this, the Israel war situation, that if you, even if you're backing the team that you should be backing at this point, if you don't say it right, that team will destroy you.
00:20:35.420 I want to be clear about that, right?
00:20:37.840 I'm as pro-Israel as you could possibly be, and have been for as long as I can remember.
00:20:44.400 But if I say anything that's not 100% looks like it's supportive, or even if you could interpret it as, whoa, what did you leave out there, Scott?
00:20:59.360 You know, like people are just looking for ways to misinterpret you.
00:21:02.900 So I've never been in a situation where people were more looking for ways to misinterpret you.
00:21:09.840 So it's a really dangerous time to be in public, public figures.
00:21:16.540 And I've noticed it with a number of public figures who clearly do not have despicable views, but they just worded something in a certain way, a little carelessly, and man, they're getting killed.
00:21:27.920 So be really careful what you say in public, okay?
00:21:32.400 That said, there's something I do need to tell you about the war, but I'm only going to tell the people on Locals, because there isn't any way that, because that's private.
00:21:42.320 Later I'll tell them after the show.
00:21:44.080 So, because there are some things that I can't say in the general public, because the atmosphere is just too hot, right?
00:21:52.060 It doesn't change anything.
00:21:54.020 It doesn't change who I support.
00:21:55.620 It doesn't change my opinion.
00:21:57.280 It won't change your opinion either.
00:21:58.840 It won't change anybody's opinion.
00:22:00.620 So don't worry about it.
00:22:02.140 There's just a little insight that I can't say in public.
00:22:05.020 That's all.
00:22:06.200 I'll say it within the small public group after the show.
00:22:09.400 So, here's my bottom line.
00:22:14.840 It never would have made sense for Israel to make peace with its neighbors, while its neighbors were full of people who wanted to kill them and nothing was going to stop them.
00:22:22.940 The only thing that will stop them is just not being there or being dead.
00:22:26.480 And so now Israel has the freedom to make both of those things happen.
00:22:30.840 So there won't be too much left of Hamas when they're done.
00:22:34.280 All right.
00:22:34.840 Or Gaza, I'm sure.
00:22:38.020 See, I did it again.
00:22:40.200 Now watch this.
00:22:41.420 I said there won't be too much of Gaza left.
00:22:44.460 How easy would it be for somebody to take that out of context and say, oh, he's celebrating the death of women and children in Gaza?
00:22:54.900 No.
00:22:56.420 I don't want anybody to die.
00:22:59.000 I don't want anybody to suffer except the bad guys.
00:23:03.160 Just period.
00:23:04.040 But it's also a fact that there's no way to get that.
00:23:06.700 There's no way for me to have what I want.
00:23:08.360 There's no way for you to have what you want either.
00:23:11.300 This is not about what anybody wants.
00:23:14.440 None of this is about what you want.
00:23:16.640 This is just power.
00:23:19.380 Whoever exhibits the most power will get some advantage.
00:23:23.560 There's no right or wrong.
00:23:25.520 Well, there it is again.
00:23:28.460 Imagine how easy it would be to take that out of context.
00:23:31.460 There's no right or wrong.
00:23:33.080 Immediately that turns into, really?
00:23:35.320 Oh, they're equivalent?
00:23:36.740 Are you saying that they're equivalent?
00:23:38.280 No, I never say that.
00:23:42.580 I never say that.
00:23:44.460 But you see the landmines, right?
00:23:46.900 Like, even as I'm talking, you could take almost anything I say as an individual sentence and say, you know, you really didn't show enough deference to the one side that's the victims.
00:23:59.380 You just can't avoid it.
00:24:01.280 We're in a landmine situation where if you want to cross the field, just get used to the fact you're going to walk on a landmine.
00:24:10.700 You're not going to get to the other side of the field with both legs.
00:24:13.880 It's just not going to happen.
00:24:15.420 We're not in that environment.
00:24:16.460 Now, I'm already canceled, so I can handle it.
00:24:19.340 Like, I could probably take another hit.
00:24:21.680 But the rest of you, I'd lay low, honestly.
00:24:27.400 Definitely think twice before you post anything on this topic.
00:24:32.120 It's just too toxic, too dangerous.
00:24:37.220 All right.
00:24:39.000 Let me give you a whiteboard of whiteboards, the presentation that you've all been waiting for.
00:24:44.460 However, I'd like to explain how we got here.
00:24:49.560 And by the way, you could call this an opinion, but it's also just true.
00:24:56.720 I'll make sure you can both see this.
00:24:58.420 Don't worry.
00:25:01.580 All right.
00:25:02.500 So I've got two cameras, so you're not all going to see it as easily, but I'll put the photo online.
00:25:09.100 It's already on my Twitter feed.
00:25:11.720 So here's the idea.
00:25:14.460 How Fake News Destroyed the Planet.
00:25:19.120 At the moment, we're telling ourselves, oh, these people are bad, or these people are bad, and, you know, their forces, and the government's not doing enough, and, you know, why is Black Lives Matter supporting the bad guys, and all this stuff.
00:25:32.860 I think that's all a diversion.
00:25:36.400 There is one source of the problem that is destroying the planet.
00:25:41.680 There's just one.
00:25:42.980 It's fake news.
00:25:45.400 Just fake news.
00:25:46.580 Now, remember, the fake news people are also the people who built the, we're looking for disinformation.
00:25:54.160 So the fake news and the fact checkers are the same people.
00:25:58.700 That's a real dangerous situation.
00:26:01.000 It's the ultimate dangerous situation.
00:26:03.120 And, outside of the 1% of people who pay attention, 99% of the public doesn't know that the news is fake.
00:26:12.780 They actually don't know.
00:26:14.980 Now, when I say that, most people think, I know what you're saying, Scott.
00:26:19.900 You're saying the MSNBC is fake, but, you know, the ones on the right are all real.
00:26:26.320 No, I'm not saying that.
00:26:27.760 I'm not saying that.
00:26:28.860 The news is fake.
00:26:31.020 All right?
00:26:31.320 It's different kinds of fakes in different places, but it's not real news.
00:26:36.120 All right.
00:26:36.580 So the fake news told us of President Trump that he was colluding with Russia, which would make him a traitor,
00:26:44.460 that he said that neo-Nazis were fine people, which he never said.
00:26:50.800 He said the opposite.
00:26:51.900 That would make him a racist.
00:26:53.480 And then he said you could drink bleach to get rid of your COVID.
00:26:57.560 He never said that.
00:26:58.620 That was also a hoax.
00:26:59.880 But if he had, it would have been stupid.
00:27:01.540 So the fake news told the public every fucking day that there was Russian collusion, fine people hoaxed, drink bleach.
00:27:11.380 You got a traitor, a racist super guy, and if you ever elected him, it would be the end of the world.
00:27:17.040 So instead they gave us Biden, and then Biden gave us the Ukraine war, the Israel war, and open borders, which is the end of the United States.
00:27:26.980 This is actually the end of the world.
00:27:30.320 If we kept going in this direction, it is not survivable.
00:27:34.620 I just want to say that as clearly as possible.
00:27:36.320 We have a system at the moment that is not survivable.
00:27:41.960 This is an existential threat.
00:27:45.140 The fake news has reached not just annoying levels, not just influential.
00:27:55.220 It is now our biggest existential risk.
00:27:58.760 It will determine where we put our limited money.
00:28:02.240 It will determine if we spend ourselves into debt forever.
00:28:05.520 It will keep the worst people in office.
00:28:08.240 It will keep the best people out of office.
00:28:10.780 It will make countries fight each other for the wrong reasons.
00:28:15.240 It will make the nation itself turn against each other for reasons that didn't have to happen at all.
00:28:21.880 They will give you CRT, ESG, and DEI.
00:28:25.480 And these guys will tell you those are good ideas.
00:28:28.500 And they will absolutely destroy the planet.
00:28:32.680 So, every time somebody tells you the problem is something else that's not fake news, they're wrong.
00:28:44.100 Everything flowed from that.
00:28:46.500 You can't think of anything that you would identify as a problem that did not flow directly.
00:28:52.400 Directly.
00:28:53.220 Not indirectly.
00:28:53.960 But directly from fake news.
00:28:59.100 That, ladies and gentlemen, is the filter that you need to understand more than any other.
00:29:08.800 Now, how many of you had thought of it this way?
00:29:13.060 This is a reframe.
00:29:15.200 How many of you thought of this reframe?
00:29:18.680 Some of you had.
00:29:20.000 That's good.
00:29:20.420 Okay.
00:29:23.960 Yeah.
00:29:25.800 So, almost everything comes from the same problem area.
00:29:33.160 And as far as I know, the only person who's pushing back is Elon Musk.
00:29:39.360 Do you know why he's the only person pushing back?
00:29:42.280 There's an obvious reason.
00:29:44.680 Well, two obvious reasons.
00:29:46.980 Why he's the only one pushing back.
00:29:48.520 Number one, he's the richest man in the world.
00:29:54.200 Which really helps.
00:29:55.900 I can't tell you how many different ways that makes life easier.
00:30:00.540 If you hadn't figured it out, it definitely gives you some powers other people don't have.
00:30:06.480 But the other one is, he has balls of steel.
00:30:11.400 He's the only person I know who's building companies that will kill people absolutely guaranteed.
00:30:16.160 And he just does it directly.
00:30:19.080 Yeah.
00:30:19.440 Getting to Mars will kill people.
00:30:21.780 But we have to do it.
00:30:23.740 Yes.
00:30:24.520 Electric cars and self-driving cars, it's going to kill some people.
00:30:29.140 But if you stay with it, you'll get to the point where the self-driving car could eliminate almost all traffic accidents, including drunk driving.
00:30:38.560 So, he's willing to push through death.
00:30:43.960 Yeah.
00:30:44.360 Death.
00:30:45.640 Like, that doesn't even slow him down.
00:30:47.680 Yeah.
00:30:47.900 People are going to die, but we have to get to this thing.
00:30:50.100 That's leadership.
00:30:50.860 Right?
00:30:51.280 But it's also balls of steel.
00:30:53.500 So, we can't lose the X platform.
00:30:57.400 It is really the last place that anything like free speech exists.
00:31:04.680 All right.
00:31:05.320 Next story.
00:31:05.860 So, Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL is getting a lot of TV time.
00:31:17.320 You might know that he and I are not friends because he's tried to destroy me for made-up reasons.
00:31:26.080 Literally.
00:31:27.320 Tried to destroy me personally and professionally for made-up reasons.
00:31:32.800 That's just a fact.
00:31:33.920 Right?
00:31:35.860 However, given the events, the recent events, I'm on his side.
00:31:45.020 So, at the moment, you know, we have a common enemy.
00:31:48.900 So, as long as we have a common enemy, Jonathan Greenblatt, you are my friend, despite trying to destroy me.
00:31:57.560 I'm hoping you're over that.
00:31:59.660 Let's hope we can get past that.
00:32:01.380 At the moment, I'm 100% on his side.
00:32:05.980 And here's one of the things he said that I agree with him totally.
00:32:09.400 He was on MSNBC.
00:32:11.100 And after giving a very emotional and impassioned talk about how bad things are in Israel right now.
00:32:21.080 He blasted MSNBC because their script on the teleprompter referred to the Hamas terrorists as, quote, fighters.
00:32:32.000 And Jonathan Greenblatt says, quite reasonably, why are you calling terrorists fighters?
00:32:44.740 That's a good question, isn't it?
00:32:50.520 It's a really good question.
00:32:52.740 And I like the fact that he called him out on it.
00:32:55.300 And he called him out on MSNBC while he was on it.
00:33:00.560 That was, first of all, pretty strong.
00:33:03.400 Second of all, he's completely right.
00:33:05.720 He's completely right.
00:33:07.000 But the choice of words really does matter.
00:33:10.320 And that choice of words is pretty suspicious.
00:33:13.420 So I'm glad he called him out on that.
00:33:15.840 They're not fighters.
00:33:16.900 They are monsters.
00:33:19.300 They're terrorists.
00:33:20.280 And as soon as you imagine anything else, you're lost.
00:33:25.100 All right.
00:33:26.580 And so the question that I ask because of that is, will Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL try to get rid of the advertising on MSNBC?
00:33:37.660 As he did on the X platform when he thought that they were being a little anti-Semitic or a lot anti-Semitic in that case.
00:33:45.180 Probably not.
00:33:46.120 No.
00:33:46.380 He said he loves MSNBC.
00:33:48.400 He's a big fan.
00:33:50.480 But I'd ask the question.
00:33:52.560 If they were to continue calling the Hamas terrorists fighters, do you think he shouldn't go after their advertising?
00:34:03.060 I think he should.
00:34:04.100 You know, based on his own standard for that stuff.
00:34:08.520 All right.
00:34:10.020 Black Lives Matter out of Chicago.
00:34:13.060 And I haven't seen anybody else make this distinction.
00:34:16.920 But can we all agree that whenever you're talking about an organization, you're not talking about every person who's ever associated with them, right?
00:34:27.020 My guess is that most people who have associated with Black Lives Matter have good intentions, wanted to make the world a better place.
00:34:34.460 But somebody in leadership, I don't know if it's all of leadership or just some member of Black Lives Matter Chicago, has said a few things, such as all the captives.
00:34:47.860 The Israeli people who were captured were military and generals, which is absolutely not true.
00:34:54.120 You know, making it look like it isn't so bad that they have hostages.
00:34:56.900 Oh, my God.
00:34:57.500 And they're also, they put out some other things that were clearly supportive of the Hamas.
00:35:08.020 Now, there's a, I saw a tweet from a, somebody who's based on the context, obviously a Jewish woman on the X platform, who, when she saw what Black Lives Matter Chicago was putting out, their opinions about this, tweeted this.
00:35:28.060 It's, Jews marched in, Jews marched in Selma, Jews marched for George Floyd, Jews showed up for Black Lives Matter, BLM is a disgrace.
00:35:39.820 We will all still be there for you guys next time, because that's who we are.
00:35:44.820 But now we know who you are.
00:35:48.240 Okay.
00:35:49.140 So, first of all, it's a little unclear if, this is Daniela Greenbaum Davis, who's saying this.
00:35:58.060 And it's a little unclear if she's saying she doesn't think that Jews, well, she's really speaking for herself, but she says we, will be there for you guys.
00:36:07.940 Who is you guys?
00:36:09.800 Is you guys BLM?
00:36:12.260 Because she just said BLM are horrible people.
00:36:15.640 Are they going to be there for that?
00:36:18.220 Or do they mean just Black Americans will be there for Black Americans?
00:36:22.240 So it's a little unclear, but there's a punchline coming.
00:36:28.560 All right, wait for the punchline.
00:36:30.480 And by punchline, I don't mean funny.
00:36:32.940 There's just a part to the story that pulls it all together.
00:36:37.020 So Black Lives Matter Chicago is being awful.
00:36:40.220 Daniela Greenbaum Davis on the X platform says, hey, you know, Jews have supported you and now you're selling us out, basically.
00:36:48.220 Who is this Daniela Greenbaum Davis?
00:36:51.360 Let's look at the profile.
00:36:54.280 A former producer for what show?
00:36:58.900 The View.
00:37:00.680 The View.
00:37:02.660 Former producer for The View is done with BLM.
00:37:09.320 Now, if you're looking for what I'll call the turning point for wokeness, and you're going to say to yourself, man, this feels like a turning point.
00:37:22.400 Like if Harvard is now reviled, Black Lives Matter is reviled, and people who are support people from Harvard can't get jobs in some cases, have we reached some kind of bottom?
00:37:39.320 Well, here's my view.
00:37:42.460 Not even close.
00:37:45.080 Not even close.
00:37:46.680 Because people don't change their minds because the facts changed.
00:37:51.140 We don't live in that kind of a world.
00:37:53.820 People just double down with whatever they're thinking or get angry or something.
00:37:59.040 Back down.
00:37:59.420 But they don't change their mind too much.
00:38:02.000 I do believe that minds will change, but it's going to take a whole lot more.
00:38:09.500 So I think minds in America won't change until something that looks a lot like the Hamas attack on Israel, which is definitely coming.
00:38:19.480 So the number of people we've let through the borders recently, and this is, let's see, from a Bill Malusian tweet.
00:38:31.360 So internal CPB data at the border says these are the people who crossed illegally over the last two years from suspicious countries.
00:38:40.980 Now, the people, the individuals might not be specifically suspicious, but they come from places that are filled with terrorists.
00:38:51.020 So Syria, 538, Yemen, 139, Iran, 659 people, 659 illegal Iranian immigrants.
00:39:03.560 Now, I assume that means that's how many they caught, because, you know, how else would they know they came and that they're illegal?
00:39:10.980 Then, like, Pakistan, 1,600, Egypt, 3,100, Uzbekistan, 13,000, Mauritania, 16,000, Turkey, 31,000.
00:39:21.980 So these are people coming from places that have known ties to terrorism, at least people within the public have ties.
00:39:32.480 Do you know what this didn't include?
00:39:35.560 So this is the number who came in illegally.
00:39:38.820 Do you know what it did not include?
00:39:40.980 The people who walked right up to the border and said, I need asylum.
00:39:46.360 I think that's a bigger number, isn't it?
00:39:49.060 Like, way bigger?
00:39:51.240 So we're letting in some tens of thousands of people who are largely guaranteed to have within that big group some percentage of terrorists.
00:40:02.980 It took 1,000 terrorists.
00:40:03.980 It took 1,000 terrorists to bring Israel to its knees and, you know, create this massive response.
00:40:13.240 1,000.
00:40:15.380 We've easily brought in 1,000 terrorists.
00:40:17.940 Now we have a much bigger country, so it'd be harder.
00:40:19.840 But they could mess up a city pretty badly.
00:40:24.740 So if you don't think we're going to have an Israel-like situation, whether it's the cartels or, I don't know, radical Islamic something, we will.
00:40:37.540 Well, the reason we will is because we've designed the system to guarantee it.
00:40:44.200 Just as I said, Israel's situation where making peace really never made sense, so pretending to make peace was your best play, until a reaction, you know, there was a big attack and then you could get the freedom to do what you needed.
00:41:00.420 That's our situation right now.
00:41:03.920 We're basically just Israel, you know, minus a few years.
00:41:10.000 We're going to have this on our soil.
00:41:12.560 And you don't have to wonder, because we've designed a system that guarantees it.
00:41:18.300 The only thing it doesn't guarantee is the date.
00:41:21.340 So if we just keep it open and keep bringing people in from parts of the world that have big populations of terrorists, and we're not doing a good job of checking it,
00:41:30.420 there isn't any other alternative.
00:41:33.960 But it has to happen.
00:41:38.020 If you say to yourself, oh, what can we do to prevent this gigantic bloody attack, which will be the worst thing America's ever seen?
00:41:45.840 The answer is nothing.
00:41:47.880 Because we have to have the attack.
00:41:51.080 Our design requires it.
00:41:53.720 And also, so does the solution.
00:41:55.640 Because until you get rid of the wokeness, you can't fix anything.
00:42:01.420 And it will take massive amount of bloodshed before people will change their minds and say, you know what?
00:42:08.080 I really like wokeness, but I like staying alive even better.
00:42:13.420 So I say this with all knowledge of the horrific pain and bloodshed that's happening in Israel.
00:42:22.240 Nobody wants it, but it was a necessary step given the design of the system.
00:42:29.360 The design of the system in their case is that people who want to kill Israelis are living next to Israelis.
00:42:35.940 That's the design.
00:42:37.440 That design only has one direction.
00:42:39.720 It can only go the way it went.
00:42:42.320 We have to do the same thing in America.
00:42:45.340 Some of us won't survive because there will be a lot of death that happens.
00:42:53.760 But there's no other way.
00:42:56.880 You have to go through, you're going to have to go through an Israel war situation in America
00:43:02.380 before we can deprogram the people who think that letting everybody in is a good idea.
00:43:08.820 I don't see any other way.
00:43:12.460 Here's what won't happen.
00:43:14.080 We're not going to look at Israel and learn a lesson.
00:43:17.660 Do you agree?
00:43:19.560 We're not that smart.
00:43:21.340 We're going to look at Israel and say, well, that won't happen here.
00:43:24.760 Right?
00:43:26.080 It has to happen here.
00:43:28.520 And it will happen here.
00:43:30.000 I'm not trying to will it into existence.
00:43:32.320 I don't want it to happen.
00:43:33.860 But it's guaranteed.
00:43:35.860 We've designed a system that guarantees it.
00:43:38.820 We just don't know when.
00:43:40.880 So I'll be staying away from public areas forever.
00:43:46.640 Here's something that makes you scratch your head and say, is everything as rigged and terrible
00:43:52.460 and corrupt as you imagine?
00:43:54.440 And the answer is yes.
00:43:56.360 Yes.
00:43:57.080 Everything is rigged and corrupt as you imagine.
00:44:01.720 Listen to this.
00:44:02.660 So Jeff Clark tweeted this.
00:44:06.360 I think he was an attorney.
00:44:07.900 He worked for the Department of Justice.
00:44:11.800 He did.
00:44:12.940 Anyway, he said, I'll just read you the first part and then I'll summarize the rest.
00:44:18.560 He said, yesterday, the North Carolina General Assembly overruled two gubernatorial vetoes
00:44:24.540 trying to block election reform.
00:44:26.440 So in English, the General Assembly passed two laws about election reform and the governor tried to veto them.
00:44:41.600 But the assembly had such a majority that they could overrule the veto.
00:44:46.040 So, oh, oh, how interesting.
00:44:51.000 Is it a Democrat governor?
00:44:52.680 I didn't look at that fact, but kind of assumed it.
00:44:56.220 So here are the things that the governor wanted to stop.
00:45:02.940 But the assembly, by an overwhelming majority, apparently, because they overrode the vetoes.
00:45:08.000 But the majority of the assembly wanted and thought these were good rules.
00:45:12.760 Let me just give you a sense of what the Democrat governor didn't want as law.
00:45:19.920 Let's see.
00:45:24.280 Prohibits private, non-governmental funding, including in-kind donations of election activities.
00:45:31.280 For example, Zuckerberg's.
00:45:34.760 So it would make it illegal for somebody like a Zuckerman to put a ton of money in that would have any influence on the system,
00:45:42.100 at least in North Carolina.
00:45:45.040 They would, retention of election records for 22 months.
00:45:49.320 Who would disagree with retention of records, you know, keeping them longer?
00:45:53.600 Nobody.
00:45:55.060 About provides clarification to authority and restrictions for poll observers.
00:45:58.780 Oh, more clarity of how poll observation works.
00:46:03.560 Is that a problem?
00:46:05.260 Same day register and addresses are checked in returning mail will trigger retrieval of voted, regular ballots.
00:46:11.760 So just to process stuff.
00:46:13.460 Extends absency ballots for five days.
00:46:16.540 Ballot challenges for five days.
00:46:18.660 Very normal stuff.
00:46:20.800 Poll closing times.
00:46:24.120 Mixing a misdemeanor.
00:46:25.600 Crime for anyone other than the board of elections to affix a tracking code.
00:46:28.780 To absentee ballot requests.
00:46:31.780 And that seems like pretty basic stuff.
00:46:35.340 Pilot tests for signature verification.
00:46:38.700 A new process for removing non-citizens from voter lists.
00:46:42.600 Did any of that sound un-American?
00:46:46.140 Was there anything on that list that sounded like anything but a good idea?
00:46:51.200 And the Democrat governor tried to kill it twice.
00:46:57.320 Well, there were two different bills that tried to kill it.
00:47:01.000 Everything is exactly as corrupt as you think it is.
00:47:04.300 Because the effort to remove opportunities for corruption was violently disagreed with by the governor.
00:47:12.260 I mean, it's so obvious now.
00:47:17.280 It's just so obvious.
00:47:18.320 All right.
00:47:22.180 Let me counter something I saw on social media before I go private with the locals people.
00:47:27.840 Give them a little extra.
00:47:29.540 I've been seeing the argument, which is, you know, unambiguously racist, that the problem in the Middle East is low IQs.
00:47:38.700 Because the terrorists are, you know, all dumb.
00:47:43.400 So they're being sold this violent ideology and they believe it.
00:47:48.260 And the people around them are also so dumb that they let it happen and support it.
00:47:54.700 I disagree with that analysis.
00:47:57.120 And here's what's wrong with it.
00:47:59.000 You don't have to be dumb to be persuaded to do ridiculously dangerous, self-destructive things.
00:48:06.760 As a trained hypnotist, let me tell you for sure,
00:48:12.240 there's no difference between smart people and dumb people with hypnosis.
00:48:16.980 In fact, that's one of the first things you learn.
00:48:19.880 One of the first things you learn is you can't tell the difference by IQ, experience, confidence.
00:48:28.220 It's not predictable.
00:48:30.280 Smart people are just as easily hypnotized.
00:48:34.940 Do you think that Lawrence Summers knew what he was doing when he was part of changes that turned Harvard into a place that even he doesn't respect?
00:48:44.080 Do you think he understood where that was going?
00:48:48.300 Probably not.
00:48:50.120 And is Larry Summers, or Lawrence Summers, is he a smart guy?
00:48:55.260 Yeah.
00:48:56.340 You wouldn't want to compete against him on an IQ test.
00:49:00.500 He's super smart.
00:49:01.880 Like you don't get out of Harvard without being super smart.
00:49:06.760 At least when he went to Harvard.
00:49:09.940 So, yes, there's no such thing as being too smart to be influenced.
00:49:15.360 It's not a thing.
00:49:16.620 Even to the point of massive violence.
00:49:20.680 Very easy to influence people.
00:49:24.380 Michael Malice says it's easier to train a smart dog.
00:49:27.120 All right.
00:49:27.580 Since you said it, I wasn't going to say this.
00:49:32.280 When I learned hypnosis, I did learn that smart people were easier to hypnotize.
00:49:40.940 I wasn't going to say it, but Michael Malice said it, so I'll just agree with him.
00:49:45.000 And there was a theory to it.
00:49:47.360 And the theory was that dumb people were too afraid.
00:49:52.940 So they weren't sort of relaxing.
00:49:55.360 They weren't buying into it.
00:49:57.240 They were just like, oh, I think he's going to turn me into a zombie.
00:50:00.020 Now, hypnosis doesn't turn people into zombies.
00:50:04.800 But the smart people, you would say, hey, it's not going to turn you into a zombie.
00:50:10.240 It's just a process.
00:50:12.300 You could get up and walk away anytime you want.
00:50:16.160 And if you'd like, you could do your own research.
00:50:19.040 Google it.
00:50:19.960 See if anybody who's ever in the history of the world done anything that they didn't want to do while they're under hypnosis.
00:50:25.300 Now, people do interesting things, like in stage hypnosis.
00:50:29.600 But the trick for that is that some people don't mind doing weird things on stage.
00:50:34.280 So the stage hypnotist knows how to pick people who will do things.
00:50:39.000 So it has nothing to do with hypnosis.
00:50:41.340 It's that he picked the right people who would do things, basically.
00:50:43.860 That's the trick.
00:50:45.180 So they're also hypnotized.
00:50:46.960 They're the they're they're well hypnotized, but they're people who, in addition to being hypnotizable, are not especially embarrassed doing things on stage.
00:50:57.300 So the idea is that the smart people would go along with the process because they wouldn't be afraid of it, whereas the dumb people just reject it.
00:51:07.720 You know, like, I don't know about this, so I'm going to stay away from it.
00:51:11.840 Now, I would argue that something similar happened during COVID.
00:51:17.140 The lower educated people often said, where's this shot coming from?
00:51:27.880 I don't trust that at all.
00:51:30.500 End of story.
00:51:32.900 Smart people said, look, I did my own research.
00:51:37.400 I checked the data that the people who make it gave me.
00:51:41.460 I didn't need to check anything else because the people who made it, you know, they got good data.
00:51:45.320 And so I checked that data and it says everything's fine, improves my odds.
00:51:50.520 So unlike you dumb people, I used my smartness to know that this was a good risk.
00:51:56.580 And so I got the shot in 15 boosters, too.
00:51:59.960 So that, you know, and again, I don't want to overgeneralize.
00:52:05.340 You know, there were smart people who didn't get the booster.
00:52:08.000 There were dumb people who did get the booster.
00:52:10.360 But as a general statement, smart people talk themselves into it.
00:52:14.800 Would you agree with that?
00:52:17.140 Would you agree that smart people talk themselves into it?
00:52:21.020 And people who were maybe not as capable at looking at the science said, you know, I don't have the skills to look into this myself.
00:52:30.640 Not like you smart people who think you looked at the data and made up your own minds.
00:52:34.320 I don't I don't know.
00:52:35.800 Just tell me who is promoting it.
00:52:38.240 Oh, shit.
00:52:39.300 Really?
00:52:40.300 The people who are going to make billions of dollars whip this out in a few months.
00:52:44.900 No, thanks.
00:52:46.160 I'll take my odds with the, you know, weaponized virus.
00:52:49.400 I'm not sure it ever made sense to take your chance with a weaponized virus, but that's a whole other topic.
00:52:55.920 Now, thanks for joining on the platforms that work, Twitter and YouTube.
00:53:00.780 I'm going to say goodbye to you guys and talk privately to the people over at Locals.
00:53:06.740 Let's go private over here.
00:53:09.960 Bye for now.
00:53:11.060 See you tomorrow.
00:53:11.580 Bye.
00:53:11.740 Bye.
00:53:13.580 Bye.
00:53:13.660 Bye.
00:53:15.580 Bye.
00:53:15.660 Bye.
00:53:15.740 Bye.
00:53:17.740 Bye.
00:53:18.740 Bye.