Episode 2268 Scott Adams: CWSA 10⧸21⧸23
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Alyssa Milano and Giorgio Milani, Bill Maher and Elon Musk, Israel shuts down Al Jazeera access to the Middle East, a woman who publicly shied away from her ex-boyfriend's sexual advances, and more!
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Human Civilization, which is
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now available only on Locals, because all the other platforms are broken today, for
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I don't know if you do this, but the Italian prime minister, Giorgio Milani, she publicly
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broke up with her partner over lewd behavior on his television show.
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I guess he's a host on some newsy entertainment show.
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And he, he was seen off camera, but the camera was on, hitting on a coworker and asking if
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he could play with his genitals while he talked to her.
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So that was the boyfriend of Italy's prime minister.
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So she dumped his ass after several years together and a child, and she's like, done with that
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I've got a feeling that's not the first time he ever flirted.
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Just in, Israel has decided to shut down some news bureaus, I think Al Jazeera.
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So they're going to shut down Al Jazeera access.
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Now, do you remember when you thought that free speech was a real thing?
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I think this is the year that I finally realized, hey, it was never real.
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Yeah, no, it turns out that nobody ever had free speech.
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The only free speech anybody has is to be uninteresting to the government.
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As soon as the government is interested, they say, well, we have free speech, but I
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have to change this one thing because there's a reason.
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How hard is it for them to come up with a reason?
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So we've always had this illusion that we had free speech because we could say things
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And then we're like, yeah, you can word it any way you want.
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So anyway, we don't have free speech in America.
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You know, as soon as a war breaks out, that's the end of free speech.
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He's basically, his advice to young people is don't go to college because it makes you
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And then he gave lots of, you know, lots of reasons such as supporting Hamas.
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But it's just interesting that Bill Maher is saying it directly and out loud that the colleges
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are broken and they're not making you better people.
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So Joe Rogan is talking about how the risk that our open borders are letting in lots of terrorists
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makes it almost kind of predictable that we're going to have some kind of terror attack that
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Now, the interesting part about that is that Elon Musk replied to an ex-post about that.
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And Musk said that given that the border is wide open as a matter of policy by the current
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administration, it is simply a matter of time before this happens, if it has not happened
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Happened meaning lots of terrorists coming in to attack the country.
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It's not like there are two things that could happen.
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In our current situation, if you allow people to come in just because they claimed asylum,
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So the weird thing about this is that it's right in front of us.
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And yet, on the ex-platform, somebody replied to me saying that it's a myth that the border is open.
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And the Axios article basically ignored the asylum part of it and just talked about how the, you know,
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the border security and fencing is better than it was.
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How do people watching this topic not know that the real problem is that people are coming in completely legally, but shouldn't?
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All they have to do is say, asylum, and come in the front door and we just say, come on in.
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And somehow, there are people who don't know that, the most important thing.
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That they don't have to sneak across the border.
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All right, so that's happening, the complete abandonment of security for the country.
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There was a big rally last night in support of the Palestinians in New York City.
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It was a big, big crowd supporting the Palestinians in Gaza.
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And I'm no expert on fundraising, but wouldn't that be the perfect place to raise funds to donate to the Palestinians in Gaza?
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I mean, I would just be collecting money like crazy because these people not only care,
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but they care enough to, like, give up their evening, Friday night, and go out and march in the weather and everything.
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Or is it possible that they don't have money, and they think that somebody else should be paying that money?
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But yeah, let's, in fact, I was thinking of organizing rallies that support the innocent Palestinians, not the Hamas.
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I should organize some big demonstrations on their behalf and collect money from all the participants.
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It puts a spin on it that sounds like the walls are closing in on Trump.
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And then all their readers read it and go, oh, oh, I got it now.
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So the latest walls are closing in story, which my smart Democrat friend I've mentioned a lot,
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my smart Democrat friend immediately texted me to say that this lawyer, Kenneth Chesbro,
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I feel like that's the way it would go if it's cheesebro.
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And he's one of the ones who was involved with the January 6th, you know, planning to see
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what they could do about it, I say without spin.
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And part of his deal is that he will, he agrees to testify in the Trump trial.
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So do you know what the Democrats say when they hear that somebody who worked with Trump
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Since we know he's guilty, we're going to start with the result, because that's how they think.
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They don't have the whole cause and effect thing worked out quite in their minds.
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So therefore, ipso facto QED, he's Trump and he's guilty.
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And he's going to be testifying about Trump, who, because he's Trump, must be guilty.
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Therefore, logically, this lawyer will have bad stuff to say about him, because that's part
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And the truth will be bad for Trump, because Trump is bad, because he's bad.
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But I'll tell you what it looks like to me, my non-TDSIs.
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Now, maybe I have a bias in the other direction.
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It looks like both Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chisbrough were way overcharged.
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And now the prosecutors are reversing it because it wasn't sustainable.
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So they just brought it down to the minimum thing that somebody would say yes to, just
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They were overcharged, so they bled down to a little thing, said they would tell the
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truth if they were on trial, which all lawyers say yes to.
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You think that there's a working lawyer who's going to say, well, if I testify, I was thinking
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This story tells you literally nothing about Trump.
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And there are people celebrating it because they learned literally nothing.
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But their TDS was triggered, so their dopamine got a hit, and they're just trembling and
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I don't think it's going to turn out the way they think.
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Well, the operations center in Washington, D.C. had to put out a long list of suggestions
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about how not to be killed or robbed if you leave the building in the Capitol Hill area.
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Apparently, it's so dangerous that you need to be given instructions on surviving walking
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They had to give them survival instructions for walking outdoors locally.
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They had to tell them how to survive just going outdoors because of all the crime.
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And among the things they're teaching them is how to surrender their goods.
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So they're being taught to peacefully give over their car to the carjackers.
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So they're actually being taught to surrender to the criminals.
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In a totally unrelated story, do you know Zuby?
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Everybody knows Zuby from the X platform and other places.
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He's a political philosopher, all-around good guy.
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He said, if you can't help someone with a victim mentality, then distance yourself from
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If you can't help someone with a victim mentality, you should distance yourself from them.
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I thought, you know, I wish I'd worded it that way while being black.
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But you know, Zuby is saying exactly what I said.
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I got canceled globally for saying what Zuby can post anytime he wants.
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I'm starting to think there might be a pattern here.
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Well, I love the story about Trump's gag order, where he's not supposed to say bad things
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about the prosecutor or the judge or the witnesses in his upcoming case.
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But apparently there was still some reference to a mean tweet that was on his campaign website.
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Now, the mean tweet had been deleted, or it was actually a truth.
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The mean truth from his truth network had been deleted.
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But apparently there was an oversight, and they didn't realize it was still on some page on the campaign page.
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And so he gets fined $5,000 for something that nobody really thought was intentional.
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Now, of course, you know, that doesn't hurt him.
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Wouldn't the more logical thing to be, hey, there's this thing that you should also take care of.
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Don't you think that's the way that should have played out?
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Given that it was obvious that it looked like an oversight, because it was taken down where you could see it easily,
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but it was left up where somebody didn't notice.
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If you gave him a day to take it down, and he didn't take it down, you could still fine him.
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But it's so obvious that this is just targeted weaponization, like even in small ways that aren't really going to hurt Trump at all.
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But it's obvious that it's just they're using it as a weapon.
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You wouldn't do this for somebody who is just an ordinary citizen who maybe didn't know that there was still something they needed to address.
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Well, now I guess the gag order is suspended or temporarily frozen because Trump is fighting it in courts.
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So the judge said, well, we'll suspend it while you're fighting it.
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So there's a little update on the George Floyd case.
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Apparently, somebody who was working on the prosecution is spilling the juice that apparently when she talked to the coroner,
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the coroner said there was no indication of asphyxiation, which would have been the murder part.
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But that the coroner worried what happens when the evidence doesn't match the narrative and people will lose their careers.
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That the coroner lied to protect himself and all the other people involved.
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So it's still one person telling you their experience and then relaying it to you.
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I never saw anything different, no matter how many times I watched it.
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And do you know why I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a murder?
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Because, because Chauvin was doing it in front of people with cameras.
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This is one of those few times when you can know for certain what was in his mind.
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What was in his mind for certain, because he was on camera, talking to the people who were filming him live.
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Because he did it calmly and coolly in front of lots of people under the power of law.
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Well, there's no way any human being acts that way if they believe they're murdering somebody in front of a whole bunch of witnesses who were filming him.
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What, was he going to change his name and run away?
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No, this is one of those few times you can be completely certain that he was not aware that there was, you know, that it looked like murder.
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Now, there's also the question that I saw somebody say, that once the suspect is taken into custody, the well-being of that suspect is the responsibility of the officers.
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And indeed, some of the other officers were warning Chauvin that there might be a problem.
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So, given that he was responsible, and given that, you know, that Floyd was complaining and the other officers were concerned, that should have been enough, say some, to make it still Chauvin's responsibility and his fault.
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I say he asked him if he was on drugs, and Floyd said no.
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Had he said yes, all of the officers would have been trained to know that the problem might be more medical than they first thought.
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Had he said, yes, I have fentanyl in my system, and I don't know how much, and I'm having trouble breathing.
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Do you think they would have treated it the same if he had not lied to them about his medical situation?
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So, people are saying, he kept saying, I couldn't breathe, which was an accurate thing he said about his health.
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But he also said something that killed him, which is he didn't have drugs in them.
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Now, do I think that Chauvin, or a different officer, could have been smart enough to still put together the facts and keep him alive?
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To me, it looked like he was charged because he was white.
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People were afraid of the reaction, and that's always been obvious.
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Now, I thought, when this new news came out, Tucker Carlson was one reporting it, making it a big deal.
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But I thought everybody knew that it wasn't a murder, and that Chauvin was just being railroaded for being white.
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I thought everybody knew that, so it didn't strike me as new news.
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Anyway, here's something that I see a lot of, that black people in particular literally don't believe white men when they tell them their own personal experience.
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So a comment on this was from somebody named Cliffside on the X platform.
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He says about the George Floyd story, he says, well, I was treated to nearly 80 hours of racial training in a one-year period, watched my employer nearly double the racial quotas,
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saw two years of hiring not a single white male, and then got laid off to make way.
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Now, I don't know if this specific thing never happened, but do you imagine this is a story of a great weirdness?
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No, this is the ordinary experience of white men in America for the last 30 years.
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It's all like this. It's like this all the time.
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Do you know why you didn't know about it? If you're black, do you know why you don't know about it?
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It's a very rational fear, so people just shut up.
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I'll tell you, the one thing that I've totally been trained off of is the idea that you can't make a whole bunch of people act one way if they know it's fake, or if they know they're all lying.
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You can't make tons of people just act the same way.
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There's always going to be somebody who will dissent.
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When money's involved, people just go the same way.
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And everybody knew that their careers and their livelihoods and their families were at risk if they said what they saw with their own eyes, which is obviously not a murder.
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He said, I almost feel pity for the BLM-era gurus, Ibram Kendi, Patrice Cullors, Robin D'Angelo, and Sean King.
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The establishment desperately wanted to summon moral figureheads for their racial reckoning, and all they could find was a rogues' gallery of intellectually vapid scam artists.
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It turns out that the leaders of the movements were largely just scam artists.
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I've got a question for people who suffer from TDS.
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Oh, probably you're all cured if you're on this platform.
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If I needed some cash, and I told you I wanted to, quote, find a bank with an ATM,
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I want to find a bank with an ATM, can I be indicted for attempted bank robbery?
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Because find, in that context, means rob the bank, doesn't it?
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Well, you, wait, you wouldn't, wouldn't you interpret it that way?
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I thought, like, find the votes, you know, means do something illegal.
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So, never, ever say to your friends you'd like to find a bank with an ATM,
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because you're just admitting you want to rob a bank.
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Now, I ask you this, how is it possible that half of the country could be convinced
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that the word find meant do a crime, but only in this one phone call,
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You watched videos of Derek Chauvin not murdering anybody,
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and people were convinced they saw him being murdered.
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It turns out you could convince half the country of actually anything.
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Half the country still thinks they have free speech.
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Quite obviously that went away a long time ago.
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Yeah, you can make people believe they see anything.
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Now, here's a question that's been bugging me lately,
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because sometimes I'll find myself getting into a, you could call it a debate,
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in which somebody will make wild TDS-related claims about Trump
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just like the most debunked, obviously not true stuff.
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all right, here's a situation where you should just trust me on this.
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but you should trust that I'm an expert on identifying somebody
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That's actually my area of, you know, special interest and expertise.
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that although you think you're operating under logic,
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You're normally actually a logical, reasonable person,
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you've departed from your normal IQ and reasonableness,
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and that there's no actual debate happening here.
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once they realize they have the medical problem,
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it's like any other emotional or psychological phenomenon.
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where the other person thinks they're having a debate.
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that my Democrat friend believed he was having a debate.
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You're having some kind of a weird psychological phenomenon.
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believe hypnotists when they tell you you're hypnotized.
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He was famous as a weapon of mass destruction guy
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how Russia is definitely going to win in Ukraine,
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which makes him look like a Russian propagandist.