Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 29, 2023


Episode 2276 Scott Adams: CWSA 10⧸29⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 13 minutes

Words per Minute

136.66138

Word Count

10,056

Sentence Count

723

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

71


Summary

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to see the top 100 Hamas leaders put their heads on stakes as a message to the rest of them. Scott Galloway says he was wrong about something. Matthew Perry has a long history of drug and alcohol abuse.


Transcript

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00:00:44.320 Well, would you like to hear all the stories?
00:00:51.780 Stories of the day?
00:00:53.100 That's why you come here, for the stories.
00:00:55.380 I'm going to turn this device upside down first on the locals' people.
00:01:03.040 If you'd like to say hi to the locals' people, they're right here.
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00:01:13.340 Now, first story.
00:01:17.720 I saw a speech by Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:01:20.820 He's got some things to say about Hamas.
00:01:24.920 He'd like to see the top 100 Hamas leaders' heads on stakes as a message to the rest.
00:01:34.120 Hmm.
00:01:35.440 To which I say, Vivek, decaf.
00:01:40.480 Just one word.
00:01:41.500 Decaf.
00:01:44.280 Don't really need their heads on a stake.
00:01:46.660 Too far.
00:01:47.840 Dial it back a little bit.
00:01:50.300 Just about 10%.
00:01:51.920 Heads off of stakes, but still dead.
00:01:55.640 Still dead.
00:01:56.360 Yes, we can all agree on that.
00:01:58.500 Heads on stakes, a little too far.
00:02:01.040 But I've got to say, you'll never forget it.
00:02:03.540 Talk about visual, visual persuasion.
00:02:08.500 If this were Trump, what would I say about it?
00:02:12.360 I would say you cannot get the image out of your head of heads on a stake.
00:02:18.140 And number two, the only thing you'll remember is that he was the toughest one on Hamas.
00:02:24.380 That's all you'll remember.
00:02:26.740 Like, you won't take it too seriously.
00:02:28.980 You'll just say, whoa, you know, that was stronger than anything anybody else said.
00:02:33.280 And it was visual.
00:02:34.940 So even though I have fun with it by saying he should switch to decaf, you're not going to forget it.
00:02:42.560 If you heard it at all, you're not going to forget it.
00:02:45.760 So that was pretty good persuasion branding there.
00:02:51.900 Matthew Perry has tragically passed away, drowning in a hot tub.
00:02:56.720 He had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse.
00:03:04.800 It's hard to imagine that's not part of the story, but we don't know.
00:03:09.300 He generally was not the picture of health in his later years.
00:03:15.180 He was 54.
00:03:17.140 So that was pretty alarming.
00:03:20.260 I don't have anything to say about that except it's terrible.
00:03:23.440 There's not much to add.
00:03:26.720 Scott Galloway.
00:03:30.100 You know Scott Galloway?
00:03:32.400 So he was on Bill Maher's, and I may have mentioned this, but he said that he was part of the school board for his kids' school, I guess.
00:03:42.300 And he was pushing hard for keeping kids out of school, social distancing.
00:03:47.020 And he now says he was totally wrong about that.
00:03:50.620 It was the wrong way to go.
00:03:52.460 But he asks that people maybe have some grace about it.
00:03:58.460 Because he was trying, and everybody was trying, and then some of them got it wrong.
00:04:06.120 And now he's saying, I tried, tried to keep everybody safe, got it wrong.
00:04:10.400 Now, the reaction that most of the people who believe they got it right, or would have gotten it right, was, screw him.
00:04:20.240 You hurt our children.
00:04:21.640 You must go to jail and pay for it forever.
00:04:23.920 I disagree with all of you.
00:04:25.400 And I will remind you that at the beginning, the very beginning of the pandemic, there was something I told you all, which I'm going to stay true to.
00:04:36.180 I said, there's a big old pandemic, and nobody knows what the right thing to do is.
00:04:42.500 But, unlike you and I, there are people who are going to have to make decisions without knowing what's the right decision.
00:04:49.960 When they make the wrong decision, and they will, not all of them will be right, some will guess right, some will guess wrong.
00:04:56.960 We should not hold it against them after the fact, if later we find out it was the wrong decision.
00:05:04.400 And I'm going to stick to that.
00:05:06.180 So, I think everybody who says he should be punished is wrong.
00:05:10.840 You're all wrong, in one sense.
00:05:13.440 You're not wrong in terms of how it feels.
00:05:15.840 How you feel about it is simply up to you.
00:05:18.920 But in terms of a system that you want to support, you don't want to start punishing people who are well-meaning, well-educated, well-informed, but got something wrong.
00:05:32.200 In the context of nobody knew what was right.
00:05:34.760 Now, I also said, at the very beginning of the pandemic, I said, we have basically a bunch of binary decisions.
00:05:44.140 You know, vaccination, yes or no.
00:05:46.880 Lockdown, yes or no.
00:05:48.500 So, a lot of it is yes or no.
00:05:49.960 So, in these yes or no decisions, the thing you can guarantee is that somebody will be right and somebody will be wrong.
00:05:58.400 Now, you can't guarantee that if there are millions of solutions.
00:06:01.160 But if it's either yes or no, yes, we do it, yes, no, we don't, you're going to know at some point what was right and you'll know some of it was wrong.
00:06:10.680 So, I think we should be a little bit more humble, those of us who were right.
00:06:19.440 So, if you were right about anything, somebody was going to be right because there were people on both sides and everybody was operating without complete information.
00:06:30.120 So, being right is nothing to brag about, honestly.
00:06:34.420 It really isn't.
00:06:36.160 Being wrong is nothing to feel bad about.
00:06:38.880 The only thing I would have felt bad about is people who didn't try.
00:06:42.700 If you didn't try or you didn't, you know, try to get informed or try to make a difference, well, maybe that wasn't useful.
00:06:50.560 But if you tried, you're okay with me.
00:06:56.640 And I do understand that the outcome was horrible for children.
00:07:01.160 I get it.
00:07:02.520 But I'm not going to tear the country apart by going after people who are smart and well-meaning and tried.
00:07:10.660 That doesn't help.
00:07:12.060 Who's that help?
00:07:13.260 Who's better off for that?
00:07:15.400 So, would you like that the next time, let me just ask this question.
00:07:18.680 Would you like the next time there's an emergency that all of the well-meaning, well-educated, you know, people who are very capable, Scott Galloway is a very capable adult, right?
00:07:32.700 You want the very capable adults to sit it out next time because you're all assholes?
00:07:38.160 If you're going to be an asshole to the people who tried, you're not going to get them to try again.
00:07:44.620 So, what do you want?
00:07:45.580 What do you want for next time?
00:07:46.580 You want everybody to just shut the fuck up?
00:07:51.300 Oh, you do?
00:07:52.900 That would be better?
00:07:54.120 So, the next time there's an emergency or something, just everybody just take a pass.
00:07:59.180 Because you don't want to get in trouble.
00:08:02.300 All right, well, I'm sure glad that there are people like Scott Galloway in the world.
00:08:06.120 He got that one wrong.
00:08:07.180 He says he got it wrong.
00:08:08.200 Move on.
00:08:08.600 All right, I'll take 10 of him over anybody who is criticizing him.
00:08:15.380 I'll take 10 of him over everybody who's criticizing him.
00:08:19.940 Because the people criticizing are not the systems thinkers.
00:08:23.460 You're being goal-oriented.
00:08:25.780 The goal was to get it right, right?
00:08:28.520 The goal was to get it right.
00:08:29.960 But sometimes you don't.
00:08:35.440 The system, the system is to let the smart people do as well as they can to make their best judgment, learn what you can from it, and then maybe adjust for the next time.
00:08:48.340 But if your system is to punish people who guessed wrong, that's a terrible system.
00:08:57.480 You're just going to discourage people for trying.
00:09:00.580 So, think about it in terms of a system.
00:09:03.600 Don't think of it in terms of a binary, oh, I was right, my enemies were wrong, which might be also true, that you were right and your enemies are wrong.
00:09:13.600 It doesn't help you.
00:09:15.220 How does that help you?
00:09:16.400 Not at all.
00:09:16.920 All right.
00:09:18.340 Flying cars in Italy.
00:09:21.440 There's a company that's making a product called the Jetson One.
00:09:25.680 Finally.
00:09:26.640 Flying cars.
00:09:27.860 Now, it doesn't fly that long.
00:09:29.460 I guess you have to charge it for hours to get 10 minutes.
00:09:32.340 But it's basically a bicycle that flies.
00:09:35.380 You know, like it's this tiny little thing.
00:09:36.900 You just sit in it.
00:09:37.640 It's got four propellers, like a drone.
00:09:40.180 It just flies.
00:09:44.600 For $100, somebody says,
00:09:46.760 Do you think a time will come when the rest of the world looks at Israel and thinks they're too great a liability to continue to exist?
00:09:53.880 No.
00:09:54.200 Well, that wasn't really worth $100.
00:09:57.360 No, I don't think that people will give up on Israel.
00:10:05.400 All right.
00:10:08.460 All right.
00:10:12.540 As you know, there have been many claims made about the 2020 election, but nothing has been proven to my satisfaction that there was anything illegal that would have changed the result.
00:10:23.080 But there's always drama, and there's fun.
00:10:29.080 I love what's happening in Maricopa.
00:10:33.560 So there's some kind of, you know, extra checking.
00:10:37.740 I don't know if you want to call it an audit, or is it an audit?
00:10:40.980 So there were some claims that they're still looking into, and the claims are that there were 200,000 individual ballots that were printed on some kind of unauthorized paper, which some would suggest was intentional and or, you know, a sign of something illegal.
00:10:59.960 I'm not making that claim.
00:11:01.400 I'm saying that is the claim being made.
00:11:04.380 But here's the fun part of that.
00:11:06.280 I may have some of the details wrong, so give me a fact check on this.
00:11:10.220 My understanding is that those ballots still exist, and they're in a room that's locked away.
00:11:18.520 And if we could get, if the people who want to check it could get access to the room, literally just unlock it and look at it,
00:11:26.980 that it would be really easy to see it's not the right paper stock that was the only paper stock allowed for the election.
00:11:34.240 And that would prove that there's some big irregularity.
00:11:38.000 Maybe then you could, you know, look into it.
00:11:41.100 Now, it could be they just ran out of paper or somebody made a paper mistake.
00:11:45.300 Maybe somebody didn't have access to all the paper they needed and, you know, got a second source, and they just didn't know.
00:11:53.580 Anything's possible, right?
00:11:54.960 But I love the fact that just maybe there's a room with a lock on the door that unlocking the door could answer all of your questions.
00:12:08.300 Isn't that just the greatest drama?
00:12:10.560 If only they'd just unlocked that door.
00:12:13.060 What's back there?
00:12:14.760 Now, if it's like every other Kraken, it will turn out not to be what you thought it was or hoped it was or suspected it was.
00:12:21.420 But I love the drama of it, that they exist, they're behind the door, and if you could get the key, you know, in a legal sense, if you could get the key, we'll know what happened.
00:12:33.860 I doubt that we'll actually know what happened if we got the key, but it's a fun story.
00:12:39.120 Speaking of fun stories that are actually bad, my local DA, the Alameda County DA, Pamela Price,
00:12:46.540 she made the mistake of parking her car in Oakland.
00:12:51.740 Do I need to finish the story?
00:12:55.660 You could complete the story without even knowing the rest of the story.
00:13:00.320 I'll just say the first part again.
00:13:03.100 Do we even, I'm not even sure I'm going to tell you the rest of the story.
00:13:05.740 Because the one that's in your head is so close to the real one.
00:13:10.280 Close enough.
00:13:11.560 Yeah, Alameda County DA, who is allegedly one of the Soros-type DAs.
00:13:18.460 She had a laptop she left in her car and parked it in Oakland.
00:13:21.700 Well, you know, I'm not in the habit of giving advice about crime to local DAs,
00:13:33.000 but if I had a laptop and I had a car, I would not combine the laptop and the car with Oakland.
00:13:43.060 Talk about asking for it.
00:13:44.780 Yeah, but of course she got help from the police, who told her healthfully she should go online and make a report.
00:13:57.840 If she didn't want to wait for an officer to arrive.
00:14:01.020 Because it might take so long for a police officer to arrive that they don't want her standing on the streets in Oakland.
00:14:10.260 Would you?
00:14:10.900 You might want to get out of there as soon as possible, because you're in Oakland.
00:14:18.540 Maybe online, talk to us online, rather than wait for a cop.
00:14:22.980 We don't know if we can get there in time to save your life.
00:14:27.440 Anyway, that's the news from walking distance from my house.
00:14:31.620 Well, it would take a long time to walk there, but I could do it.
00:14:34.560 I could do it.
00:14:37.460 Germany is running out of boomers.
00:14:39.000 Apparently, Germany's employment situation is terrible.
00:14:47.700 Really?
00:14:48.840 Somebody's spending another $100 to ask the same question again.
00:14:53.060 If you wouldn't mind, can you please explain why you don't believe the rest of the world will eventually consider Israel a liability?
00:15:01.980 Well, who's the rest of the world?
00:15:03.460 If you're talking about the Christian world, they're too linked by tradition and everything else.
00:15:10.300 So no, the Christian world isn't going to give up on Israel.
00:15:13.820 And the, let's say, secular people in the Christian world is the same.
00:15:20.000 You know, China doesn't care, right?
00:15:22.680 So it's basically, you know, the pro-Palestinian types will always be against them.
00:15:31.280 The left will always be against them.
00:15:33.560 The right will probably always be for them.
00:15:36.540 But no, I don't see it giving up.
00:15:39.180 Now, if you're asking, would it be wise for the rest of the world to say you're too much trouble?
00:15:45.460 It doesn't matter, because it won't happen.
00:15:49.680 It doesn't matter what's wise.
00:15:51.740 It's sort of like talking about, should Israel, you know, attack Gaza?
00:15:59.420 You could talk about it all day long, but it doesn't matter, because they're going to attack Gaza.
00:16:04.540 There's nothing you can do about it.
00:16:05.860 So there's not much to talk about.
00:16:09.980 I don't think there's any chance at all that Israel will be abandoned by its primary supporters.
00:16:16.220 I mean, if you're talking in 20 years to 50 years, I don't see it changing.
00:16:22.200 Anything can change in 200 years.
00:16:24.900 But no, what holds us together is psychology.
00:16:31.280 And the violence has never changed the psychology that I can remember.
00:16:35.860 You know, terrible things have been done to Israel.
00:16:42.140 Israel has been accused of doing terrible things back.
00:16:45.920 You know, who knows what to believe about anything.
00:16:48.500 But it doesn't seem to change anything.
00:16:51.680 So I don't think this will change much either.
00:16:55.200 All right.
00:16:58.080 So Germany's running out of boomers, but just in time to replace them with robots.
00:17:02.880 So I guess it's really hard to get people in Germany to do skilled work.
00:17:08.980 Not enough of them.
00:17:11.300 And so robots to the rescue.
00:17:15.300 I mean, it blows my mind that we're having a skilled worker shortage in the world at exactly the same time.
00:17:24.420 Well, you must have too much money, but thank you.
00:17:29.320 Somebody's paying $100.
00:17:31.200 This would be $300 they paid.
00:17:33.220 But the third $100 is just a thank you.
00:17:36.940 So thank you.
00:17:38.800 I appreciate that.
00:17:39.920 But I would encourage the rest of you, the super prompts are not ideal for the live format, because it's a little distracting.
00:17:52.060 But I appreciate it.
00:17:53.380 I always appreciate it.
00:17:54.280 But just in terms of the flow of the thing, better not to do them.
00:17:58.300 I love your money, though.
00:17:59.520 Thank you.
00:18:00.820 All right.
00:18:01.140 So let's talk about that Maine shooter, the guy who killed a bunch of people in Maine, but then he killed himself.
00:18:12.860 I've seen no media reports that there were two bullets in him.
00:18:18.040 That seems to be just an Internet rumor thing.
00:18:20.760 So I've seen nothing that would suggest there were two bullets in him.
00:18:24.900 Right?
00:18:25.820 There's nobody actually.
00:18:28.320 Now, right, yeah, there's no credible reason.
00:18:31.140 So forget about that.
00:18:35.220 We still don't know where his boat is.
00:18:38.020 Why don't we know where his boat is?
00:18:40.020 That was like a big part of the story.
00:18:42.300 I'd love to know if they ever found his boat.
00:18:44.880 I mean, maybe you just put it at a different dock and there's nothing to it.
00:18:48.320 But you kind of want to know that.
00:18:51.160 Also, wasn't it rumored at one point that he broke up with a girlfriend?
00:18:55.600 And we've heard nothing from any girlfriend.
00:18:58.200 So I think the girlfriend part was fake.
00:19:01.140 The two bullets part was fake.
00:19:02.940 And then we also know that the locals knew he was a shooter risk.
00:19:09.220 So the locals actually knew it because he had, you know, there was enough, there were enough hints and suggestions that the police actually went to his house to try to find him.
00:19:21.380 And they were not successful.
00:19:22.680 So I don't know if they gave up because they couldn't figure out where he was.
00:19:27.280 So they just thought, well, so I don't know what happened to that.
00:19:31.840 But apparently there was somewhere in the system.
00:19:35.360 They knew he was a risk and they were looking for him.
00:19:38.320 So that's interesting.
00:19:40.300 So I think the odds that we'll hear much more about that situation seem low.
00:19:48.840 Yeah.
00:19:50.660 Yeah, I don't think it's likely that it was anything except exactly what it looks like.
00:19:57.000 It was probably exactly what it looks like.
00:19:58.600 Crazy guy with a gun.
00:19:59.660 And somebody suggested that if he was a crazy, paranoid guy who heard voices, that he may have chosen the bowling alley in the bar, that he shot up because he imagined something happened there.
00:20:15.120 Like he imagined somebody was talking about him or something.
00:20:18.360 So it could be that.
00:20:20.020 I don't know.
00:20:20.600 It still doesn't make sense why he killed himself in a dumpster by his old job.
00:20:29.640 That still doesn't quite make sense.
00:20:33.140 So, and yeah, I still have lots of questions about this.
00:20:37.480 But we'll see.
00:20:40.140 All right, here's a thought experiment that I like to put out every now and then to make everybody feel bad.
00:20:47.960 It goes like this.
00:20:49.300 All right, imagine in a magical world, so this is not actually possible, but imagine it were, if somebody could tell you the real story, like all the bad stuff, behind the scenes of every major entity and political party in the United States.
00:21:08.940 So you knew what really happened, like why decisions were made and where the money came from and who's getting paid and who's corrupt and all the schemes that have tried before and all the fake news around them.
00:21:24.260 Suppose you were taught that and you knew all the bad history as well as what's happened recently.
00:21:29.600 You knew all the bad things about every part of our government and every politician, except there'd just be one exception.
00:21:38.280 The only thing you wouldn't know anything about, more than you already know, is about our election systems.
00:21:45.280 So you would be taught the full level of deep corruption in every one of our other systems, but you would learn nothing about our election system.
00:21:56.080 What would you assume about the election system?
00:22:00.900 Pretty good?
00:22:02.940 Looking good?
00:22:05.540 Well, that's pretty much the situation that we're in right now.
00:22:09.780 So even though we don't magically know about all of our other systems, we know enough, we know enough to know that there are major members of Congress who are not just maybe corrupt, totally corrupt, just the way you thought it, right?
00:22:28.760 So while I don't believe that, you know, Pizzagate was necessarily real, there is some sense that there are bad people doing Epstein Island things for real.
00:22:40.000 There really is an Epstein Island.
00:22:42.520 That was a real place, right?
00:22:45.800 So you don't have to know every bad thing that happened with every government entity and every important person to know that anything that can be corrupted,
00:22:56.660 anything that can be corrupted, hello, can you finish my sentence, anything that can be corrupted, it will be, right?
00:23:09.840 And there are still people who say, for example, we know that there was no corruption in 2020 because there were lots of challenges and none of them, you know, met the level that they would change the election.
00:23:25.760 It turns out that there were more successful challenges than you remember.
00:23:31.000 If you subtract from the challenges, Kyle Becker did a good thread on this.
00:23:35.360 If you subtract the challenges that were thrown out because of standing, and you can question whether that was even appropriate,
00:23:44.480 but standing means the people bringing the suit were not the ones who were specifically damaged by it, I guess,
00:23:51.480 or so they didn't have the standing to take it, or something like that.
00:23:56.660 I mean, that's the dumb guy's impression.
00:23:59.560 But of the ones that the courts accepted and said, okay, you're the appropriate person to bring it,
00:24:05.320 we're the appropriate people to look at it,
00:24:09.880 the pro-Trump people won more than they lost.
00:24:13.420 Did you know that?
00:24:14.140 But they were smaller improprieties.
00:24:18.740 They didn't change the whole picture.
00:24:22.060 They were just real things that really happened.
00:24:25.560 Which does not, by itself, doesn't say anything about any larger attempt,
00:24:32.080 except that there are people involved in elections who are willing to do sketchy things.
00:24:37.300 And sometimes things don't add up.
00:24:39.160 So, I think it's laughable to imagine that all of our systems in the country are broken.
00:24:50.560 We are completely aware of it, but maybe not the total depth of how broken they are.
00:24:56.560 Except for our election systems.
00:24:59.960 All good.
00:25:01.780 Election systems.
00:25:02.620 Now, which part of the, which court looked at the alleged 200,000 ballots in Maricopa?
00:25:12.180 Which one did that?
00:25:14.500 None, right?
00:25:17.800 So, can you say for sure that there was no cheating
00:25:22.000 when there are 200,000 ballots sitting in a room that are questioned?
00:25:28.060 I suspect if I had to bet on it, I'd bet that whatever is beyond that room doesn't change anything.
00:25:37.620 Because the smart bet is against every claim.
00:25:41.060 Which is different from saying every claim is wrong.
00:25:43.800 I'm just saying the smart bet is probably not a kraken.
00:25:47.980 Probably not.
00:25:49.600 But it doesn't mean there is no kraken.
00:25:52.080 It just means bet against it if you have to.
00:25:54.280 All right, let's talk about the Middle East a little bit.
00:26:00.300 I was thinking yesterday that the whole Middle East situation looks like a murder-suicide situation.
00:26:07.940 The only difference is we can't decide who's the murderer and who's the suicide.
00:26:13.400 You think about it?
00:26:14.260 Is Hamas a suicide situation and they're trying to murder Israelis but it's a suicide plan?
00:26:28.960 Or is the existence of Israel in the middle of all this hate essentially a suicide thing
00:26:37.560 and Hamas is trying to murder them at the same time?
00:26:40.960 So it just looks like, it looks like by design it couldn't possibly work.
00:26:48.640 I mean, it's like somebody created a situation that's guaranteed to be terrible forever.
00:26:55.540 And then everybody said, all right, I guess this is the best we can do.
00:26:58.680 This terrible situation that can never be better.
00:27:00.940 It's a murder-suicide.
00:27:03.060 You know, slow moving.
00:27:04.740 It's like a slow motion murder-suicide.
00:27:06.980 Anyway, and I challenged people to describe any scenario in which it works out in the long run.
00:27:20.340 In other words, what's the scenario where Israel finds something like the peace that other countries enjoy
00:27:27.540 where their neighbors are not trying to kill them all the time?
00:27:32.920 What scenario would ever get you to that point?
00:27:35.400 So the trends that we see are the population is growing faster in the countries that want to destroy Israel.
00:27:47.780 Israel's, you know, geographically in the middle of them.
00:27:51.420 So you've got a growing population of haters.
00:27:54.300 You know, even if it's only a small population within the larger population that wants to kill all Israelis,
00:28:00.620 it's still growing because the larger population is growing.
00:28:04.840 So whatever percentage they are is growing as well.
00:28:08.420 The children, at least in the Palestinian areas, appear to be weaponized,
00:28:15.420 meaning that they've been taught that it's their sacred duty to grow up and kill Jews.
00:28:21.640 Now, I don't know what percentage of them.
00:28:23.480 I don't know if it's 80% or 10% or 2%.
00:28:26.900 It's a little unclear if that's universal, but I guess it is.
00:28:32.740 If I had to guess, I'd guess it's closer to universal than not.
00:28:36.960 Yeah, it's probably 100%.
00:28:38.200 And how do you fix that?
00:28:41.000 If today, all the adults surrendered and said,
00:28:45.680 oh, Hamas didn't work, sorry, didn't mean it, we'll put down our guns,
00:28:50.380 you'd have an entire generation, which is like half of the entire population,
00:28:55.360 because the young people are about half of all the Palestinians,
00:28:59.000 who would just replace them.
00:29:01.500 And while they were replacing them as adults,
00:29:03.760 the new children would be taught to be the new replacements of those adults.
00:29:07.760 So as long as the education system is weaponizing children,
00:29:12.980 there are more children every day,
00:29:15.420 and then the power of weapons,
00:29:18.380 a weapon that one individual could use,
00:29:20.880 is getting stronger every day, right?
00:29:23.600 One person will be able to launch a drone
00:29:25.560 that does immense damage pretty soon, if not already.
00:29:30.400 So under that scenario,
00:29:32.960 what is the scenario in which everything works out in the long run?
00:29:35.880 Can you even describe a world where that happens?
00:29:40.880 I can't think about anything.
00:29:42.660 Can you?
00:29:44.220 The rapture.
00:29:46.340 To me, it always just looks like buying time.
00:29:51.380 I mean, I think Israel's going to be there for a while.
00:29:55.000 But how in the world could it,
00:29:56.940 you know, how could it survive in the long run?
00:30:00.580 Let me put it another way.
00:30:02.400 Somebody, I'll borrow somebody's example.
00:30:04.720 For Israel to survive,
00:30:08.060 it has to be able to successfully repel
00:30:11.240 every attempt to destroy it.
00:30:14.080 Forever.
00:30:15.680 That would be what survival is.
00:30:17.460 Destroying every attempt to destroy it.
00:30:20.860 But the people doing the destroying
00:30:22.640 themselves typically get destroyed.
00:30:26.500 But they only have to be right once.
00:30:30.140 So the math is really, really bad here.
00:30:32.600 Israel can be, you know,
00:30:34.880 destroy the enemies 99 out of 100 times.
00:30:38.040 But the enemy only has to get it right once
00:30:40.080 and Israel disappears.
00:30:42.320 Now, we're not there yet.
00:30:46.200 But did you see what happened
00:30:48.980 when they all just sort of ran toward Israel
00:30:51.760 individually?
00:30:53.740 Got on their motorcycles
00:30:54.800 and their little pair of planes
00:30:57.500 or whatever they were.
00:30:58.160 And it was just a bunch of individuals
00:31:01.140 who were attacking.
00:31:03.040 To me, that's always been the big risk,
00:31:05.540 is the wave of individuals.
00:31:08.040 I don't think the big risk is necessarily missiles,
00:31:11.560 although it is a really, really big risk.
00:31:13.300 I don't know if the biggest risk
00:31:15.800 is necessarily nuclear,
00:31:18.140 because it's hard to imagine
00:31:19.380 that anybody who is Islamic
00:31:22.400 would want to irradiate a holy zone.
00:31:27.700 Right?
00:31:27.880 It's a holy land for both sides, right?
00:31:29.620 So I don't really see a nuke.
00:31:33.860 It seems unlikely.
00:31:35.640 But if you just get more and more people
00:31:38.460 who are on that Captagon drug,
00:31:40.680 the drug where they can hand you a rifle
00:31:43.060 and say,
00:31:43.780 I've got an idea.
00:31:45.240 Why don't you run as fast as you can
00:31:46.720 into that hail of gunfire
00:31:48.740 and see how many people you can kill
00:31:51.040 on the other side.
00:31:52.640 Yeah, don't worry about the harm.
00:31:54.100 Yeah, don't worry about anything.
00:31:55.120 Just run and shoot.
00:31:57.200 If you have enough of them,
00:31:59.840 could they not overrun
00:32:01.240 basically any Israeli city?
00:32:03.900 So, you know,
00:32:07.740 and especially we saw
00:32:08.860 that the Israeli citizens
00:32:10.060 are largely unarmed.
00:32:12.200 So it would be, you know,
00:32:14.300 same kind of thing but bigger.
00:32:16.160 So I don't know what stops it
00:32:17.660 from happening in the future.
00:32:20.600 And I didn't see anybody
00:32:21.860 who could describe a scenario
00:32:23.380 where it does work.
00:32:25.180 I will say that from the missile category,
00:32:29.640 you know, if the, let's say,
00:32:30.760 Hezbollah's got 200,000
00:32:32.560 pretty good missiles at this point,
00:32:34.440 which should be enough
00:32:35.620 to take out an entire city,
00:32:37.820 I would think, in that sum.
00:32:40.440 But Israel's also working
00:32:41.900 on that, you know,
00:32:43.580 laser beam defense weapon.
00:32:47.600 And I can't imagine
00:32:48.720 anything else that would work
00:32:49.940 if that works.
00:32:51.800 Because there's no way
00:32:52.840 you're going to shoot a missile
00:32:54.300 to block every incoming missile.
00:32:56.820 Because the bad guys
00:32:58.020 will just have a bunch
00:32:58.860 of fake missiles.
00:32:59.600 They will make as many
00:33:01.220 fake missiles as it takes
00:33:02.700 to overwhelm your missile defense.
00:33:06.160 But if your missile defense
00:33:08.760 is lasers,
00:33:10.340 the lasers are just
00:33:11.640 meh, meh, meh, meh, meh,
00:33:13.160 and take out the missiles
00:33:14.460 as quickly as they're launched.
00:33:17.060 So then there's
00:33:18.300 this fast missile launcher.
00:33:19.900 Then the bad guys adjust too.
00:33:23.800 They're like,
00:33:24.220 OK, we can't get a missile through.
00:33:26.360 We'll put it on the back
00:33:28.480 of a motorcycle
00:33:29.280 and a bunch of us
00:33:30.580 will just make a run at you.
00:33:33.360 Something like that.
00:33:34.960 Anyway, it's really difficult
00:33:36.060 to imagine
00:33:36.720 where it all goes.
00:33:39.700 But it's,
00:33:40.440 I don't know.
00:33:42.600 Let me ask you this.
00:33:44.100 Is there any
00:33:45.000 parallel in history
00:33:48.240 where there was a little
00:33:49.940 landlocked country
00:33:51.440 surrounded by
00:33:53.120 people with bad intentions
00:33:54.820 who want to take it over
00:33:57.160 where it lasted
00:33:58.680 in the long run?
00:34:01.100 So Taiwan's lasted a while,
00:34:02.640 but there's no way
00:34:03.520 that Taiwan will always
00:34:05.020 be separate from China.
00:34:07.660 Poland?
00:34:10.420 Yeah.
00:34:11.360 Yeah, well,
00:34:13.140 OK, landlocked is
00:34:14.740 relative.
00:34:19.980 Nuclear-powered laser satellites?
00:34:21.960 Yeah.
00:34:25.700 All right.
00:34:26.720 Well,
00:34:28.180 so apparently
00:34:28.760 Kyle Bass
00:34:29.740 was posting today
00:34:31.440 that he talked to somebody
00:34:32.600 who said
00:34:32.920 the big terrorist network
00:34:34.600 in the United States
00:34:35.540 is
00:34:37.340 in
00:34:39.720 Dearborn, Michigan.
00:34:42.500 So the United States
00:34:43.460 now has a bunch
00:34:44.760 of Hamas
00:34:45.740 and Hezbollah
00:34:46.280 supporters
00:34:47.020 and
00:34:48.500 quite a few of them
00:34:49.620 and they're in
00:34:50.200 Dearborn, Michigan.
00:34:51.060 Now, the question is
00:34:52.800 how many
00:34:54.740 Islamic
00:34:57.060 supporters
00:34:59.200 would there need
00:35:00.020 to be in America
00:35:00.740 before America
00:35:02.300 was guaranteed
00:35:03.100 to turn Islamic?
00:35:05.060 The number is really small.
00:35:06.560 It's like 10%.
00:35:07.440 I think
00:35:08.840 Europe is probably
00:35:10.000 over that number, right?
00:35:12.160 So Europe is
00:35:12.880 above the number
00:35:13.860 where they can survive,
00:35:14.940 I think.
00:35:15.600 Survive as their
00:35:16.620 current form.
00:35:17.440 They would become
00:35:17.960 Islamic.
00:35:19.120 So I think
00:35:19.460 Great Britain
00:35:20.040 France
00:35:21.600 were probably
00:35:21.980 lost.
00:35:23.680 Lost,
00:35:24.300 or if you like
00:35:25.360 what it's going
00:35:26.040 to turn into,
00:35:26.640 you'd like it,
00:35:27.120 I guess.
00:35:32.500 So to me,
00:35:33.700 it looks like
00:35:34.220 there's,
00:35:35.240 I don't see how
00:35:36.180 that could be reversed
00:35:37.100 because the thing
00:35:38.320 about Islam
00:35:39.840 is it's hard
00:35:41.140 to leave
00:35:41.600 and
00:35:43.020 many of them,
00:35:45.940 well,
00:35:46.320 there's a portion
00:35:46.800 of them
00:35:47.020 that have a pretty
00:35:47.500 aggressive opinion
00:35:49.120 about things.
00:35:50.760 So watch out
00:35:51.420 for Dearborn,
00:35:52.140 Michigan.
00:35:52.660 I think maybe
00:35:53.280 the next 100 years
00:35:54.380 will be about
00:35:55.100 trying to escape
00:35:57.120 war zones
00:35:58.620 because they're
00:35:59.600 going to be
00:35:59.860 everywhere.
00:36:01.160 Well,
00:36:01.540 the good news
00:36:02.020 is that ESG
00:36:02.840 is dying.
00:36:03.340 there were
00:36:06.400 three ESG
00:36:07.280 funds launched
00:36:08.280 recently
00:36:09.660 while 13
00:36:10.540 closed down
00:36:11.300 in the last
00:36:11.760 three months.
00:36:13.160 There were 13
00:36:14.120 ESG funds
00:36:15.120 that closed
00:36:15.780 in the last
00:36:16.300 three months.
00:36:16.960 and as you
00:36:20.300 know,
00:36:20.820 BlackRock's
00:36:21.740 Larry Fink
00:36:22.720 said,
00:36:23.540 quote,
00:36:23.860 I'm ashamed
00:36:24.300 of being part
00:36:24.920 of this
00:36:25.220 conversation
00:36:26.060 talking about
00:36:27.580 ESG.
00:36:28.480 So they were
00:36:28.980 big pushers
00:36:29.580 of ESG
00:36:30.180 but it
00:36:31.320 became so
00:36:31.920 scandalized
00:36:32.660 that they
00:36:33.000 didn't want
00:36:33.380 to even
00:36:33.600 be part
00:36:34.000 of it.
00:36:35.660 Now,
00:36:36.480 it's not dead
00:36:37.200 because there
00:36:37.640 were three ESG
00:36:38.420 funds launched
00:36:39.260 even though
00:36:40.520 13 closed
00:36:41.420 but I think
00:36:42.700 you can see
00:36:43.140 the trend.
00:36:44.260 Looks like
00:36:44.620 ESG doesn't
00:36:45.300 have a chance.
00:36:45.800 Well,
00:36:47.220 Elon Musk
00:36:47.820 of course
00:36:48.520 has been
00:36:48.920 dragged into
00:36:49.520 the Gaza
00:36:50.160 situation.
00:36:51.080 I wondered
00:36:51.400 why it
00:36:51.760 took so
00:36:52.140 long.
00:36:53.300 I'm just
00:36:53.780 waiting.
00:36:54.320 It's like,
00:36:54.640 okay,
00:36:55.940 how does
00:36:56.300 this,
00:37:01.980 will the
00:37:02.860 current
00:37:03.100 fad of
00:37:03.660 being anti-Israel?
00:37:04.920 I don't know
00:37:05.500 that that's
00:37:05.920 a fad.
00:37:07.480 I don't think
00:37:08.460 that's going
00:37:08.840 to change.
00:37:09.740 I believe
00:37:10.240 that the
00:37:10.720 U.S.
00:37:11.740 educational
00:37:12.180 system is
00:37:13.300 anti-Israel
00:37:14.220 unless you
00:37:15.780 somehow
00:37:16.340 change the
00:37:17.080 entire
00:37:17.580 education
00:37:18.400 system.
00:37:20.120 What's
00:37:20.680 going to
00:37:20.880 happen?
00:37:22.280 So it's
00:37:22.720 not a
00:37:24.080 trend if
00:37:24.760 it's being
00:37:25.160 taught to
00:37:25.720 young people.
00:37:26.800 If it's
00:37:27.220 being taught
00:37:27.800 to young
00:37:28.220 people,
00:37:29.080 then it's
00:37:30.160 just
00:37:30.380 education.
00:37:32.300 As bad
00:37:33.080 as that
00:37:34.160 is.
00:37:34.380 All right.
00:37:37.380 Israel cut
00:37:42.220 ties with
00:37:43.420 Starlink
00:37:44.560 because
00:37:45.900 Musk said
00:37:46.960 that he
00:37:47.280 would give
00:37:47.860 Starlink
00:37:48.460 access to
00:37:49.880 only the
00:37:51.440 authorized
00:37:51.880 international
00:37:52.760 bodies that
00:37:53.860 were trying
00:37:54.180 to help
00:37:54.500 people in
00:37:55.160 Gaza.
00:37:55.640 So he
00:37:55.860 wasn't going
00:37:56.220 to make it
00:37:56.500 available to
00:37:56.980 all people
00:37:57.520 and certainly
00:37:59.240 not all
00:37:59.740 terrorists.
00:38:00.120 But he was
00:38:00.980 going to make
00:38:01.300 it available
00:38:01.700 to the
00:38:02.440 aid people.
00:38:04.140 But Israel
00:38:06.120 didn't like
00:38:06.600 that because
00:38:07.540 quite reasonably
00:38:08.560 they're not
00:38:10.040 sure if the
00:38:10.840 aid people
00:38:11.340 would be the
00:38:11.860 only ones
00:38:12.220 who got it.
00:38:13.520 So Israel
00:38:14.680 has basically
00:38:15.240 just closed
00:38:15.920 down everything
00:38:16.560 and make
00:38:20.040 it hard in
00:38:20.480 there.
00:38:21.360 There's a
00:38:21.920 new technology
00:38:23.180 for tunnels.
00:38:25.180 I knew
00:38:25.940 there would be
00:38:26.420 a new
00:38:26.700 technology for
00:38:27.540 tunnels.
00:38:28.140 Did I tell
00:38:28.560 you that?
00:38:30.000 Does anybody
00:38:30.420 remember?
00:38:31.040 Maybe I only
00:38:31.760 said it on
00:38:32.280 the locals
00:38:33.280 only.
00:38:34.140 I said
00:38:35.760 that you
00:38:36.040 would find
00:38:36.500 out that
00:38:37.040 Israel had
00:38:38.760 the best
00:38:39.400 tunnel
00:38:40.880 killing
00:38:43.140 technology.
00:38:44.580 And I
00:38:44.800 guess they
00:38:45.100 had been
00:38:45.320 trading with
00:38:45.980 one of
00:38:46.240 these
00:38:46.380 technologies
00:38:46.880 called
00:38:47.220 Sponge
00:38:47.860 Bombs.
00:38:49.440 Not
00:38:49.780 SpongeBob.
00:38:51.860 SpongeBob
00:38:52.540 actually lives
00:38:54.880 under the
00:38:55.300 sea in a
00:38:56.200 giant pineapple.
00:38:58.080 Almost
00:38:58.720 useless
00:38:59.240 against
00:38:59.660 tunnels.
00:39:01.420 So not
00:39:02.000 SpongeBob,
00:39:03.080 but SpongeBomb.
00:39:05.360 So apparently
00:39:06.440 it's two
00:39:07.100 different
00:39:07.400 chemicals.
00:39:08.620 You throw
00:39:09.140 this sponge
00:39:10.140 bomb down
00:39:10.940 the tunnel.
00:39:12.560 When it
00:39:13.300 explodes,
00:39:14.080 it expands
00:39:15.020 into this
00:39:15.640 big sponge
00:39:16.480 thing that
00:39:16.940 hardens and
00:39:18.180 blocks the
00:39:18.740 tunnel.
00:39:19.820 Now you
00:39:20.320 say to
00:39:20.640 yourself,
00:39:21.760 well, why
00:39:22.140 do you need
00:39:22.480 that?
00:39:22.780 You could
00:39:23.020 just bulldoze
00:39:25.040 the tunnel or
00:39:25.660 something.
00:39:26.460 Well, you
00:39:26.920 would use it
00:39:27.460 if you're in
00:39:28.020 the tunnel
00:39:28.440 trying to
00:39:28.960 clear it.
00:39:29.480 So let's
00:39:30.620 say you're
00:39:31.540 in a
00:39:31.840 tunnel and
00:39:32.500 there's more
00:39:33.000 than one
00:39:33.640 way and
00:39:35.960 suddenly you
00:39:36.580 hear the
00:39:36.960 bad guys
00:39:37.440 coming down
00:39:37.960 one of the
00:39:38.500 tunnel things
00:39:39.200 but you
00:39:40.280 still have
00:39:40.960 another tunnel
00:39:41.540 that you
00:39:41.860 could escape
00:39:42.500 to.
00:39:43.080 You can
00:39:43.680 block their
00:39:44.320 tunnel and
00:39:46.040 still do your
00:39:46.720 work.
00:39:47.840 So as you
00:39:48.440 hear the
00:39:48.700 bad guys
00:39:49.180 coming down
00:39:49.620 this tunnel,
00:39:50.160 you throw
00:39:50.480 the bomb
00:39:50.860 down,
00:39:51.240 block it,
00:39:52.200 and then you
00:39:52.660 just keep
00:39:53.220 working down
00:39:54.120 the rest of
00:39:54.540 the tunnels.
00:39:54.900 it's pretty
00:39:57.420 bad stuff.
00:39:58.780 I guess a
00:39:59.280 couple of
00:39:59.720 Israeli soldiers
00:40:00.840 were actually
00:40:01.420 blinded just
00:40:02.820 doing exercise
00:40:05.140 with it
00:40:05.800 recently.
00:40:07.340 So it's
00:40:07.920 dangerous stuff
00:40:08.720 but it's
00:40:09.300 one of their
00:40:09.580 options.
00:40:10.860 All right,
00:40:11.280 here's the
00:40:12.000 most interesting
00:40:12.920 thing.
00:40:16.280 I think it
00:40:17.900 was the last
00:40:18.600 prime minister
00:40:19.480 of Israel
00:40:21.000 had a very
00:40:22.560 long,
00:40:23.360 his name
00:40:23.780 is Naftali
00:40:26.280 Bennett.
00:40:27.760 He printed
00:40:29.140 a very long
00:40:30.060 explanation of
00:40:31.540 what the
00:40:32.000 strategy is
00:40:32.980 or should
00:40:33.380 be for
00:40:34.640 Israel's
00:40:39.100 attack on
00:40:39.680 Gaza.
00:40:40.740 Now what
00:40:41.180 he's suggesting
00:40:43.040 is a slow
00:40:44.420 squeeze,
00:40:45.940 a siege.
00:40:46.940 So instead
00:40:47.540 of going in
00:40:48.240 hard,
00:40:50.840 he's saying
00:40:51.720 squeeze it
00:40:52.380 and siege it.
00:40:53.780 Siege it
00:40:54.360 and squeeze
00:40:54.780 it.
00:40:54.960 So I'm
00:40:55.580 going to
00:40:55.740 read a
00:40:57.500 chat GPT4
00:40:58.900 summarization
00:41:00.080 of what
00:41:01.060 the last
00:41:02.980 prime minister
00:41:03.680 said of
00:41:04.440 Israel.
00:41:05.740 So just
00:41:08.320 see if it
00:41:08.700 sounds familiar.
00:41:09.840 Maybe you've
00:41:10.340 heard some
00:41:10.660 of this
00:41:10.880 before.
00:41:11.680 But here's
00:41:12.040 the idea.
00:41:13.400 So this is
00:41:13.920 chat GPT did
00:41:15.180 a not just
00:41:16.180 a translation
00:41:16.940 but also
00:41:17.860 a summarization.
00:41:20.100 So these
00:41:20.440 are not his
00:41:21.040 exact words.
00:41:21.740 So the
00:41:23.240 siege plan
00:41:24.100 would be
00:41:24.600 to suffocate
00:41:25.960 the Hamas
00:41:26.680 operatives
00:41:27.200 in the
00:41:27.980 tunnels.
00:41:28.880 So if they
00:41:29.460 can turn
00:41:29.840 off the
00:41:30.140 power,
00:41:30.740 the tunnels
00:41:31.160 become almost
00:41:31.960 impossible to
00:41:32.780 stay in.
00:41:34.140 So they
00:41:34.460 could have
00:41:34.680 an air
00:41:35.040 problem and
00:41:36.180 all kinds
00:41:37.140 of problems.
00:41:38.200 So if
00:41:38.720 they go in
00:41:39.180 hard,
00:41:40.740 well,
00:41:41.040 I'll just
00:41:41.240 read it.
00:41:43.080 Surprise
00:41:43.560 tactic.
00:41:44.280 Instead of
00:41:44.700 entering deep
00:41:45.320 into Gaza,
00:41:45.960 the plan
00:41:46.280 suggests imposing
00:41:47.780 a complete
00:41:48.420 siege on
00:41:49.240 northern Gaza,
00:41:50.040 forcing Hamas
00:41:51.440 operatives to
00:41:52.240 leave their
00:41:52.740 tunnels.
00:41:54.040 Right.
00:41:54.720 So the
00:41:55.060 first part is
00:41:55.820 you don't
00:41:56.460 have to go
00:41:56.880 down the
00:41:57.240 tunnels.
00:41:58.760 The tunnels
00:41:59.560 are already
00:42:00.100 a prison.
00:42:01.820 Do you
00:42:02.180 think that
00:42:02.660 even one
00:42:03.200 day in
00:42:03.500 that tunnel
00:42:03.960 is a good
00:42:04.800 day?
00:42:05.340 I don't
00:42:05.940 think they're
00:42:06.220 having any
00:42:06.580 good days
00:42:07.120 down there
00:42:07.580 for the
00:42:08.240 rest of
00:42:08.620 time.
00:42:09.620 So basically
00:42:10.300 they're already
00:42:10.860 captured.
00:42:12.420 Why would
00:42:12.980 you lose
00:42:13.440 any more
00:42:14.000 soldiers to
00:42:15.060 capture somebody
00:42:15.780 who's already
00:42:16.120 captured?
00:42:16.560 They're already
00:42:16.920 in the
00:42:17.220 tunnel.
00:42:18.320 They're in
00:42:18.780 the worst
00:42:19.140 place you
00:42:19.600 could be
00:42:19.860 in the
00:42:20.080 world.
00:42:21.240 There's
00:42:21.480 no place
00:42:21.960 I would
00:42:22.240 less rather
00:42:23.100 be than
00:42:23.720 in a
00:42:24.000 tunnel
00:42:24.240 in Gaza.
00:42:26.320 So you
00:42:27.040 say leave
00:42:27.500 them there.
00:42:28.200 They have
00:42:28.840 to come
00:42:29.060 out eventually
00:42:29.560 or just
00:42:30.100 die there
00:42:30.500 I guess.
00:42:31.500 Security
00:42:32.020 strip.
00:42:32.540 Establishing
00:42:33.020 a two
00:42:33.500 kilometer
00:42:33.900 deep
00:42:34.260 permanent
00:42:35.200 security
00:42:35.820 strip
00:42:36.220 along the
00:42:36.740 border.
00:42:38.620 So they
00:42:39.300 would clear
00:42:39.780 that out
00:42:40.180 with fire
00:42:40.600 power.
00:42:42.400 And I'm
00:42:43.700 not sure
00:42:44.020 the exact
00:42:44.600 purpose
00:42:45.220 of it.
00:42:45.680 if
00:42:52.400 Israel
00:42:52.760 wanted to
00:42:53.240 take the
00:42:53.560 nuclear
00:42:53.840 option
00:42:54.280 would the
00:42:54.660 U.S.
00:42:54.940 be
00:42:55.040 incentivized
00:42:55.780 to take
00:42:56.800 them out
00:42:57.240 before they
00:42:57.740 can do
00:42:58.100 it?
00:42:58.640 Are you
00:42:59.000 really
00:42:59.220 asking me
00:42:59.720 if the
00:42:59.960 United
00:43:00.200 States
00:43:00.560 would
00:43:00.820 nuke
00:43:01.220 Israel
00:43:01.700 to stop
00:43:02.260 Israel
00:43:02.640 from
00:43:02.900 nuking
00:43:03.260 somebody
00:43:03.640 else?
00:43:04.820 Is that
00:43:05.400 really what
00:43:05.780 you're
00:43:05.920 asking?
00:43:07.000 The answer
00:43:07.460 would be
00:43:07.740 no.
00:43:08.160 We will
00:43:08.640 not
00:43:08.940 nuke
00:43:09.380 Israel
00:43:09.740 to stop
00:43:10.200 them
00:43:10.340 from doing
00:43:10.700 anything.
00:43:11.020 So the
00:43:14.640 security
00:43:15.040 strip,
00:43:15.920 I don't
00:43:16.160 know its
00:43:16.700 purpose,
00:43:17.240 but I
00:43:17.620 suggest at
00:43:18.940 one point
00:43:19.440 that they
00:43:20.440 make a
00:43:20.960 security
00:43:21.380 strip
00:43:21.780 that would
00:43:23.280 allow
00:43:23.800 anybody
00:43:24.400 who's a
00:43:24.900 civilian
00:43:25.220 who wants
00:43:25.720 to get
00:43:25.980 out,
00:43:26.900 they'd have
00:43:27.240 a chance.
00:43:28.920 So at
00:43:29.500 least there'd
00:43:29.880 be some
00:43:30.720 place they
00:43:31.180 could run
00:43:31.560 to.
00:43:31.880 It's like,
00:43:32.140 oh, if I
00:43:32.840 can get to
00:43:33.260 the security
00:43:33.860 strip,
00:43:34.920 maybe I
00:43:35.440 can run
00:43:35.720 to the
00:43:35.980 other
00:43:36.120 side.
00:43:36.980 I don't
00:43:37.520 know if
00:43:37.760 it's only
00:43:38.180 for that
00:43:38.660 or if it's
00:43:39.440 just for
00:43:39.780 transportation,
00:43:40.600 but they
00:43:40.860 need that
00:43:41.180 security
00:43:41.540 strip.
00:43:42.220 It's
00:43:42.420 probably
00:43:42.740 also so
00:43:43.500 that they
00:43:43.820 can move
00:43:44.180 their assets
00:43:44.720 where they
00:43:45.120 want to
00:43:46.040 quickly.
00:43:48.580 Continuous
00:43:49.100 firepower,
00:43:49.880 so they
00:43:50.140 would just
00:43:50.460 keep pounding
00:43:51.000 things,
00:43:52.300 pounding and
00:43:52.780 pounding,
00:43:53.540 and then
00:43:54.720 here's the
00:43:55.080 next part.
00:43:56.020 They would
00:43:56.400 isolate
00:43:57.160 neighborhoods
00:43:57.880 without having
00:43:59.800 to clear
00:44:00.280 every tunnel.
00:44:02.000 So
00:44:02.260 essentially
00:44:04.260 they'd find
00:44:05.220 a neighborhood
00:44:06.040 that's easy
00:44:07.440 to conquer
00:44:08.000 with relatively
00:44:09.680 low losses,
00:44:10.540 and they
00:44:11.320 would just
00:44:11.600 conquer it.
00:44:12.960 And then
00:44:13.220 they would
00:44:13.480 look for
00:44:13.800 another
00:44:14.200 low-hanging
00:44:14.800 fruit,
00:44:15.560 and they
00:44:15.940 would conquer
00:44:16.360 that.
00:44:17.060 And they
00:44:17.320 would basically
00:44:17.800 just shrink
00:44:19.380 the battlefield.
00:44:22.720 Good idea?
00:44:24.280 Yeah.
00:44:24.780 Just do it
00:44:25.320 slowly.
00:44:26.220 Slow squeeze.
00:44:27.560 And he
00:44:28.100 actually uses
00:44:28.680 the word
00:44:29.000 squeeze,
00:44:29.600 I think,
00:44:30.100 in an article
00:44:31.220 about it.
00:44:32.560 So a siege,
00:44:33.900 squeeze.
00:44:37.100 Humanitarian
00:44:37.620 corridors.
00:44:38.380 Oh, actually
00:44:38.880 that is exactly
00:44:40.260 what I was
00:44:40.620 talking about.
00:44:42.820 So give
00:44:43.640 them a
00:44:44.100 corridor so
00:44:45.180 that they
00:44:45.440 can get
00:44:45.860 water and
00:44:46.760 food and
00:44:47.640 medicine to
00:44:48.140 the locals.
00:44:50.500 And then
00:44:51.240 evacuate them
00:44:52.220 a little at
00:44:54.860 a time.
00:44:55.240 So as
00:44:56.720 you're able,
00:44:57.900 just keep
00:44:58.440 evacuating
00:44:58.980 people.
00:44:59.840 If you
00:45:00.220 don't do
00:45:00.560 the big
00:45:00.900 push,
00:45:01.220 you also
00:45:01.540 get to
00:45:01.900 keep
00:45:02.100 negotiating
00:45:02.700 for the
00:45:04.860 release of
00:45:05.700 hostages.
00:45:07.240 You got
00:45:07.440 that?
00:45:07.680 He says
00:45:09.920 strategic
00:45:10.700 patience,
00:45:11.860 utilizing
00:45:12.320 time as
00:45:12.980 an advantage.
00:45:14.920 Who told
00:45:15.740 you that
00:45:16.120 time was
00:45:16.780 on Israel's
00:45:18.300 side?
00:45:19.780 Now,
00:45:20.240 they do
00:45:20.560 have the
00:45:21.020 issue that
00:45:21.580 they got
00:45:21.960 too many
00:45:22.540 mobilized
00:45:23.340 soldiers that
00:45:24.220 are out of
00:45:24.560 the economy,
00:45:25.340 they got to
00:45:25.680 get them
00:45:25.880 back.
00:45:26.460 But if
00:45:27.160 you don't
00:45:27.480 do the
00:45:27.880 hard to
00:45:28.440 full push,
00:45:30.020 you also
00:45:30.720 don't need
00:45:31.300 your full
00:45:31.940 military.
00:45:33.060 They just
00:45:33.400 take their
00:45:33.780 time,
00:45:35.160 siege it,
00:45:35.820 and squeeze
00:45:36.420 it.
00:45:37.680 Minimizing
00:45:39.660 collateral
00:45:40.120 damage,
00:45:41.480 of course,
00:45:42.040 that's going
00:45:42.380 to be good
00:45:42.640 for public
00:45:43.160 opinion as
00:45:44.060 well as
00:45:44.360 everything
00:45:44.620 else.
00:45:47.140 They say
00:45:47.760 this would,
00:45:48.460 well,
00:45:49.440 the ex-prime
00:45:50.520 minister says,
00:45:51.600 surprise and
00:45:52.320 deception.
00:45:53.500 So the plan
00:45:54.160 is to catch
00:45:54.680 Hamas off
00:45:55.260 guard because
00:45:55.820 they sort
00:45:56.360 of expected
00:45:56.980 a full-on
00:45:59.300 attack.
00:46:00.820 So if you
00:46:01.240 just don't
00:46:01.720 give them
00:46:02.200 the full-on
00:46:02.760 attack,
00:46:03.940 they may
00:46:04.380 not be as
00:46:04.960 prepared for
00:46:05.900 the siege.
00:46:07.680 Pressure
00:46:09.360 shift.
00:46:10.740 Transferring
00:46:11.240 the pressure
00:46:11.580 from Israel
00:46:12.100 to Hamas,
00:46:13.040 it changes
00:46:13.700 the power
00:46:14.200 dynamic.
00:46:14.800 It does.
00:46:15.740 Right.
00:46:16.220 If you do
00:46:16.640 this slow
00:46:17.520 squeeze,
00:46:18.880 there's no
00:46:19.300 question who's
00:46:20.320 in control
00:46:20.800 from that
00:46:21.200 point on.
00:46:21.640 So this
00:46:26.840 would force
00:46:27.300 the Hamas
00:46:28.020 leadership to
00:46:28.780 choose between
00:46:29.640 disarming or
00:46:31.080 facing a
00:46:31.700 historical
00:46:32.200 disaster.
00:46:33.360 Basically a
00:46:34.240 slow motion
00:46:35.200 death to
00:46:37.340 all the
00:46:37.660 Hamas
00:46:38.040 fighters or
00:46:39.380 disarming and
00:46:40.960 just surrendering.
00:46:42.260 I assume
00:46:43.160 they'll take
00:46:43.560 death, but
00:46:44.360 we'll see.
00:46:44.760 And I
00:46:46.920 like this
00:46:47.260 part.
00:46:47.640 Reduced
00:46:47.980 likelihood of
00:46:48.740 Hezbollah
00:46:49.180 getting involved.
00:46:50.620 So if
00:46:51.160 Israel did
00:46:51.880 a big,
00:46:52.960 brutal,
00:46:53.520 bloody,
00:46:54.780 head-on
00:46:56.320 attack,
00:46:57.140 that would
00:46:58.240 be a
00:46:58.540 trigger that
00:46:59.480 would make
00:46:59.900 it easy for
00:47:00.580 the other
00:47:01.240 Israel-hating
00:47:02.520 entities to
00:47:03.500 get involved.
00:47:04.160 It's like,
00:47:04.440 ah, you
00:47:04.820 went too
00:47:05.200 far.
00:47:06.060 Too far.
00:47:07.280 But if you
00:47:07.800 use the
00:47:08.260 technique that
00:47:09.260 I always tell
00:47:09.760 you my mother
00:47:10.300 taught me,
00:47:11.160 that you can
00:47:11.620 get used to
00:47:12.200 anything,
00:47:12.520 if you
00:47:14.160 simply keep
00:47:15.060 squeezing and
00:47:16.780 the news on
00:47:17.600 a Tuesday
00:47:18.120 sounds exactly
00:47:19.120 like the
00:47:19.600 news on
00:47:20.100 Monday,
00:47:21.220 it's hard
00:47:21.640 for anybody
00:47:22.800 to say,
00:47:23.340 ah, you
00:47:23.900 went too
00:47:24.260 far, because
00:47:26.020 today is just
00:47:26.820 like Monday.
00:47:28.480 You blew up a
00:47:29.420 few buildings,
00:47:30.320 you squeezed
00:47:31.040 it a little
00:47:31.740 bit more.
00:47:34.540 We don't
00:47:35.260 really have a
00:47:35.800 trigger to
00:47:36.260 go.
00:47:37.480 It's sort
00:47:37.880 of like it
00:47:38.780 turned into
00:47:39.280 just background
00:47:39.900 noise.
00:47:41.200 So if they
00:47:41.720 can do that
00:47:42.400 and they
00:47:42.600 can keep
00:47:42.940 other people
00:47:43.400 out of
00:47:43.660 the fight,
00:47:45.160 pretty good
00:47:45.820 strategy.
00:47:50.660 It's
00:47:51.100 aligned the
00:47:51.860 return of
00:47:52.340 the Israeli
00:47:53.100 hostages
00:47:53.700 with the
00:47:54.440 end of
00:47:54.760 Hamas's
00:47:55.220 power,
00:47:55.500 yeah.
00:47:56.000 And the
00:47:57.020 longer they
00:47:57.620 hold the
00:47:58.060 hostages
00:47:58.760 while the
00:47:59.860 siege is
00:48:00.340 going on,
00:48:01.900 the less
00:48:02.900 power they
00:48:03.340 have.
00:48:06.880 Compliance
00:48:07.360 with international
00:48:08.100 laws so that
00:48:08.960 they can make
00:48:09.400 sure that
00:48:09.720 Israel is
00:48:11.160 doing the
00:48:11.800 thing that
00:48:12.240 would look
00:48:12.720 the most
00:48:13.200 humane but
00:48:14.960 also might
00:48:15.600 be the
00:48:15.880 most effective.
00:48:17.600 So that's
00:48:18.080 sort of a
00:48:18.540 twofer.
00:48:19.620 You would
00:48:20.100 want to be
00:48:20.520 the most
00:48:20.900 effective but
00:48:21.620 usually that
00:48:22.160 means the
00:48:23.540 most casualties.
00:48:25.580 But this is
00:48:26.200 a strategy
00:48:26.720 that's the
00:48:27.220 most effective
00:48:27.940 and the
00:48:28.880 least
00:48:29.040 strategies,
00:48:30.040 at least
00:48:30.440 the least
00:48:31.080 casualties.
00:48:33.140 Now that
00:48:33.780 assumes that
00:48:35.780 there's some
00:48:36.300 point where
00:48:36.780 the civilians
00:48:37.380 can mostly
00:48:38.080 be somehow
00:48:39.460 released from
00:48:40.820 the battle
00:48:41.560 zone.
00:48:42.440 If they
00:48:43.000 can never
00:48:43.400 be released,
00:48:44.180 it ends
00:48:44.540 the same
00:48:44.940 everybody's
00:48:45.440 dead.
00:48:46.480 But much
00:48:47.460 better chance
00:48:48.180 under
00:48:48.580 international
00:48:49.200 law,
00:48:49.620 especially to
00:48:50.220 get them
00:48:50.480 out this
00:48:51.080 way.
00:48:52.140 So basically
00:48:52.780 they want to
00:48:53.380 strategically
00:48:53.840 weaken and
00:48:54.560 isolate Hamas,
00:48:56.260 keep them
00:48:56.780 alive as
00:48:57.620 their symbol
00:48:58.180 of hate.
00:48:59.100 I mean,
00:48:59.320 actually keeping
00:48:59.960 Hamas alive
00:49:00.740 for a little
00:49:01.200 bit, that
00:49:02.620 might not be
00:49:03.140 bad.
00:49:03.940 You know,
00:49:04.680 make sure that
00:49:05.320 we don't forget
00:49:05.940 them.
00:49:06.120 If Hamas
00:49:07.300 got beaten
00:49:08.040 in a week,
00:49:09.480 a month
00:49:10.460 later we
00:49:10.980 wouldn't
00:49:11.240 remember them.
00:49:12.660 But making
00:49:13.140 us think
00:49:13.620 about them
00:49:13.960 from three
00:49:14.500 years to
00:49:15.000 five years,
00:49:16.620 that's an
00:49:18.640 interesting
00:49:19.000 strategy.
00:49:21.540 So this
00:49:22.900 plan hits
00:49:23.460 the right
00:49:23.840 psychology,
00:49:25.360 international
00:49:25.900 law,
00:49:27.800 military
00:49:28.380 effectiveness,
00:49:30.220 gets some
00:49:31.180 of their
00:49:31.420 workers back
00:49:32.140 to the
00:49:32.660 regular day
00:49:33.280 jobs,
00:49:33.820 and would
00:49:36.120 be, I
00:49:36.760 think,
00:49:37.080 completely
00:49:37.480 effective.
00:49:40.300 So,
00:49:41.840 does that
00:49:42.920 plan sound
00:49:47.160 familiar?
00:49:49.540 Does that
00:49:50.180 sound like
00:49:50.660 any plan
00:49:51.240 that you'd
00:49:51.720 heard from
00:49:52.040 anybody
00:49:52.320 before?
00:49:54.420 Doing the
00:49:55.260 slow squeeze
00:49:56.300 siege?
00:50:01.300 Right,
00:50:02.060 Jim Davis,
00:50:02.660 he talks
00:50:03.000 about this
00:50:03.420 all the
00:50:03.720 time.
00:50:06.000 All right.
00:50:07.860 It's old
00:50:08.600 news.
00:50:09.360 It's old
00:50:10.100 news.
00:50:12.140 There's
00:50:12.660 nothing I've
00:50:13.180 ever talked
00:50:13.700 about in
00:50:14.020 my life
00:50:14.460 where somebody
00:50:15.040 didn't say
00:50:15.620 two things.
00:50:16.940 One,
00:50:18.020 it's impossible,
00:50:19.020 it's a bad
00:50:19.420 idea.
00:50:20.400 Two,
00:50:21.000 it's already
00:50:21.740 being done.
00:50:23.020 I always
00:50:23.780 hear both
00:50:24.280 of those
00:50:24.620 things.
00:50:26.040 Already
00:50:26.560 being done.
00:50:27.780 And it's
00:50:28.360 impossible.
00:50:28.720 golds at
00:50:35.360 $2,000.
00:50:35.900 $2,000.
00:50:42.660 All right.
00:50:43.340 I just
00:50:48.560 saw the
00:50:48.940 best military
00:50:49.880 idea I've
00:50:50.480 ever seen.
00:50:52.160 Require all
00:50:52.940 the people
00:50:53.440 in Gaza
00:50:53.820 to get
00:50:54.120 vaccinations.
00:50:56.820 All right.
00:50:57.420 Well,
00:50:57.600 that's just
00:50:58.260 messed up.
00:51:00.580 That's
00:51:00.880 messed up.
00:51:03.200 All right,
00:51:03.760 ladies and
00:51:04.200 gentlemen,
00:51:04.520 those are
00:51:08.700 my comments
00:51:09.260 for today.
00:51:09.880 Is there
00:51:10.060 anything I
00:51:10.440 missed?
00:51:12.380 Anybody else
00:51:13.080 want to ask
00:51:13.780 a question?
00:51:15.740 We talked
00:51:16.420 about Starlink
00:51:17.180 in Israel.
00:51:18.320 Yeah.
00:51:19.000 I mean,
00:51:20.980 I'm not
00:51:22.660 sure it
00:51:22.980 makes that
00:51:23.380 much difference
00:51:24.120 whether Starlink
00:51:25.800 is there.
00:51:27.720 You know,
00:51:28.040 if it's only
00:51:28.500 authorized for
00:51:29.420 the aid
00:51:30.240 people,
00:51:30.780 I don't know
00:51:31.120 how it could
00:51:31.460 be that bad,
00:51:32.200 but anyway.
00:51:34.900 Israel has
00:51:35.940 to be
00:51:36.360 sort of
00:51:36.920 absolutist
00:51:37.760 at the
00:51:38.440 moment.
00:51:40.260 I'll give
00:51:40.940 you a
00:51:41.360 Maui update.
00:51:43.480 Maui update.
00:51:45.020 Now,
00:51:45.180 the Maui
00:51:45.520 update,
00:51:45.960 unfortunately,
00:51:46.700 doesn't have
00:51:47.240 any of the
00:51:47.880 behind-the-scenes
00:51:50.040 stuff,
00:51:51.080 but the
00:51:51.600 locals,
00:51:52.780 let me say
00:51:53.540 this for Maui,
00:51:54.280 the locals
00:51:54.880 are begging
00:51:55.660 for people
00:51:56.260 to come
00:51:56.820 visit Hawaii
00:51:57.940 for the
00:51:58.460 places that
00:51:59.060 were unaffected.
00:52:01.380 Begging.
00:52:02.860 Now,
00:52:03.220 I don't know
00:52:03.700 how hard
00:52:04.280 it is to
00:52:04.760 get a
00:52:05.000 place,
00:52:05.900 but for
00:52:06.720 the parts
00:52:07.160 of the
00:52:07.400 island that
00:52:07.840 were not
00:52:08.200 affected by
00:52:08.760 the fire,
00:52:10.300 the restaurants
00:52:11.600 are open,
00:52:13.280 the hotels
00:52:14.240 are looking
00:52:14.640 for business,
00:52:15.620 I think,
00:52:18.380 but I'll
00:52:20.620 give you
00:52:20.960 one warning.
00:52:22.880 Some of
00:52:23.340 the,
00:52:24.500 there are a
00:52:25.180 lot of
00:52:25.420 locals who
00:52:26.100 are still
00:52:26.380 put up in
00:52:26.800 hotels,
00:52:27.700 so you
00:52:28.580 could end
00:52:29.060 up at a
00:52:29.500 facility that's
00:52:30.260 got a lot
00:52:30.640 of locals
00:52:31.100 in it,
00:52:31.580 as well
00:52:31.960 as gas,
00:52:33.360 if that
00:52:33.740 matters to
00:52:34.180 you.
00:52:35.320 Might be a
00:52:36.580 little different
00:52:37.120 vibe to
00:52:38.360 it.
00:52:39.520 But
00:52:39.760 Hawaii is
00:52:42.940 open.
00:52:45.220 Maui is
00:52:45.860 open for
00:52:46.260 business,
00:52:47.000 just not
00:52:47.660 the Lahaina
00:52:48.400 part.
00:52:49.440 So there's
00:52:50.320 tons of
00:52:50.780 parts that
00:52:51.320 were not
00:52:51.620 directly
00:52:52.040 affected.
00:52:53.580 And let
00:52:54.680 me put it
00:52:54.960 this way,
00:52:55.240 the locals
00:52:56.160 are mostly
00:52:56.720 back to
00:52:57.200 work,
00:52:58.180 the hotel
00:52:59.820 service people,
00:53:01.160 but they're
00:53:01.720 not getting
00:53:02.200 tips.
00:53:03.760 The reason
00:53:04.440 they're not
00:53:04.760 getting tips
00:53:05.380 is because
00:53:06.200 they're handling
00:53:07.320 a lot of
00:53:07.780 locals,
00:53:08.680 because the
00:53:09.060 locals are
00:53:09.540 there,
00:53:10.280 but also
00:53:11.180 there just
00:53:11.660 aren't enough
00:53:12.180 guests.
00:53:14.060 So the
00:53:14.620 employees in
00:53:17.560 the service
00:53:18.000 industry are
00:53:18.600 just getting
00:53:19.040 killed,
00:53:20.480 because they're
00:53:21.860 getting base
00:53:22.460 pay.
00:53:23.380 If you know
00:53:23.860 what base
00:53:24.320 pay for a
00:53:24.920 server or
00:53:25.540 bartender is,
00:53:26.380 you know how
00:53:26.920 dire that
00:53:27.440 is.
00:53:28.420 Yeah,
00:53:28.660 base pay.
00:53:29.680 It's like
00:53:30.040 below minimum.
00:53:31.480 It's way
00:53:31.920 below.
00:53:32.420 It's way
00:53:33.040 below minimum
00:53:33.660 because they
00:53:34.420 assume that
00:53:35.260 there are
00:53:35.740 tips.
00:53:38.180 So it's a
00:53:38.980 dire situation
00:53:39.780 employment-wise.
00:53:41.260 So if anybody
00:53:41.940 was thinking
00:53:42.740 of going,
00:53:44.040 if you had
00:53:44.560 any consideration
00:53:45.480 of going
00:53:46.080 there,
00:53:47.320 you'd be
00:53:47.740 doing a
00:53:48.420 solid service
00:53:49.200 to the
00:53:49.760 people in
00:53:51.840 Maui.
00:53:52.820 So I would
00:53:53.300 encourage you
00:53:53.940 to take a
00:53:54.420 look at it.
00:53:54.920 What is the
00:53:59.060 baldy take
00:53:59.700 on Dean
00:54:00.220 Phillips?
00:54:00.860 Well,
00:54:01.340 I appreciate
00:54:01.920 your description
00:54:04.820 of me as
00:54:05.540 the baldy
00:54:06.640 take,
00:54:07.540 but I do
00:54:08.040 accept that.
00:54:08.880 I do
00:54:09.120 accept that.
00:54:11.760 The whole
00:54:12.580 Phillips thing,
00:54:14.000 running for
00:54:14.820 president against
00:54:15.560 Joe Biden,
00:54:16.760 I don't know
00:54:18.820 what he expects
00:54:19.520 to accomplish.
00:54:20.300 I don't
00:54:22.980 see how he
00:54:23.940 could ever
00:54:24.260 win the
00:54:25.440 nomination.
00:54:28.320 But there
00:54:30.100 is definitely
00:54:32.340 need for a
00:54:33.700 backup.
00:54:35.400 The odds
00:54:36.080 of Biden
00:54:36.560 getting the
00:54:37.300 nomination and
00:54:38.380 then failing
00:54:39.680 physically before
00:54:40.660 the election
00:54:41.160 itself is
00:54:41.760 really high.
00:54:43.200 Really high.
00:54:44.060 So if the
00:54:45.360 Democrats don't
00:54:46.840 have at least
00:54:47.700 one normal
00:54:49.000 person just
00:54:50.820 sort of sitting
00:54:51.540 there hanging
00:54:52.000 out who's
00:54:52.520 not Kamala
00:54:53.120 Harris,
00:54:54.280 they're in a
00:54:54.760 lot of
00:54:55.020 trouble because
00:54:56.540 I think their
00:54:57.080 odds are not
00:54:58.560 looking good
00:54:59.100 right now.
00:54:59.940 So it makes
00:55:00.900 perfect sense
00:55:02.060 as a backup
00:55:03.620 plan.
00:55:04.720 He doesn't
00:55:05.040 have any chance
00:55:05.720 if Biden's
00:55:06.780 reasonably healthy.
00:55:07.520 What was the
00:55:10.680 other question
00:55:11.220 about, oh
00:55:12.400 Pence dropped
00:55:13.040 out.
00:55:13.920 Yeah, Mike
00:55:14.360 Pence.
00:55:15.980 Do you know
00:55:16.380 what I thought
00:55:17.360 about when I
00:55:18.640 heard that Mike
00:55:19.220 Pence dropped
00:55:19.800 out?
00:55:21.720 I was suddenly
00:55:22.780 reminded, oh
00:55:23.780 yeah, Mike
00:55:24.220 Pence is running
00:55:24.820 for president.
00:55:27.180 I don't know
00:55:28.000 who's going to
00:55:28.520 get his half
00:55:29.040 of 1% support.
00:55:31.140 Who knows?
00:55:32.560 Who knows?
00:55:34.000 But that was,
00:55:35.480 I think a few
00:55:36.460 more will drop
00:55:37.220 out.
00:55:37.520 Pretty soon.
00:55:38.580 The people
00:55:39.280 who are sub
00:55:39.780 2% probably
00:55:41.900 need to do
00:55:43.140 something else.
00:55:45.360 Am I related
00:55:45.920 to John Adams,
00:55:46.800 the president?
00:55:47.820 I'm not a
00:55:48.600 descendant of,
00:55:50.200 but we probably
00:55:51.240 meet in England
00:55:53.020 at some point,
00:55:54.920 I assume.
00:55:55.540 I assume all
00:55:56.080 the Adamses are
00:55:56.940 related in England
00:55:58.260 if you go back
00:55:59.500 far enough,
00:56:00.080 but I'm not
00:56:00.660 sure.
00:56:04.200 So let's
00:56:05.060 see, Mike
00:56:05.600 Pence is out.
00:56:06.480 who's your
00:56:10.980 least trusted
00:56:15.180 candidate now?
00:56:16.480 How do you feel
00:56:16.900 about Nikki Haley?
00:56:18.800 Does she feel
00:56:19.620 like a military
00:56:20.960 industrial complex
00:56:22.240 choice?
00:56:24.700 Or is she just
00:56:25.660 good at what she
00:56:26.240 does?
00:56:26.540 I'm not going to
00:56:31.980 repeat that word
00:56:32.740 you just used.
00:56:34.820 All right,
00:56:35.160 rhinos.
00:56:37.460 Yeah,
00:56:38.020 she,
00:56:38.380 I think Nikki
00:56:38.980 Haley creates a
00:56:40.960 lot of,
00:56:41.800 she has a Trump-like
00:56:43.240 approach in the
00:56:45.200 sense that people,
00:56:46.960 when people are
00:56:47.660 angry,
00:56:48.140 they're really
00:56:48.580 angry at her.
00:56:49.660 Have you noticed
00:56:50.200 that?
00:56:50.480 When I look at
00:56:52.440 Mike Pence,
00:56:53.400 I say,
00:56:54.000 well,
00:56:55.100 wouldn't be my
00:56:55.760 choice for
00:56:56.220 president,
00:56:57.120 but I don't
00:56:57.520 hate him.
00:56:59.240 You know,
00:56:59.540 I don't hate
00:57:00.000 him,
00:57:00.500 but I think
00:57:01.120 people have
00:57:01.560 these really
00:57:02.180 vicious feelings
00:57:03.200 about Nikki
00:57:03.860 Haley for a
00:57:05.520 variety of
00:57:06.040 reasons,
00:57:06.380 I guess.
00:57:08.500 Don't know
00:57:09.140 what that's
00:57:09.520 all about.
00:57:09.920 what about
00:57:14.020 Romaswamy?
00:57:15.180 Oh,
00:57:15.520 and then there
00:57:15.940 was a weird
00:57:16.820 video of Ron
00:57:19.340 DeSantis in some
00:57:20.680 campaign event.
00:57:21.540 He was walking
00:57:21.960 across the stage
00:57:22.880 and apparently
00:57:24.120 his boots were
00:57:26.180 so large that
00:57:27.760 like half of the
00:57:28.860 boot was bending
00:57:29.560 as he walked.
00:57:31.240 So people were
00:57:32.200 laughing that his
00:57:33.280 boots were twice
00:57:34.540 the size they
00:57:35.160 needed to be.
00:57:36.300 I don't know if
00:57:37.000 that was just
00:57:38.160 fun.
00:57:39.920 Crispy
00:57:43.280 Cream
00:57:43.840 Christie.
00:57:50.000 All right.
00:57:56.220 Did Dave
00:57:58.080 get fired?
00:57:58.720 No,
00:57:58.920 Dave is still
00:57:59.820 there.
00:58:04.280 Ramakami.
00:58:04.840 I like that
00:58:10.180 most of the
00:58:11.000 Vivek attacks
00:58:12.000 are fake
00:58:12.720 news.
00:58:15.280 That should
00:58:16.080 tell you
00:58:16.520 something about
00:58:17.200 something.
00:58:18.780 Like,
00:58:19.120 almost all of
00:58:19.920 the Vivek ones
00:58:21.000 are just fake
00:58:21.520 news.
00:58:22.420 I don't think
00:58:22.960 any of it's
00:58:23.380 real,
00:58:23.720 actually.
00:58:24.140 I think
00:58:24.380 actually 100%
00:58:25.220 of it is fake
00:58:25.800 news.
00:58:26.940 But people
00:58:27.860 like to fake
00:58:28.320 news.
00:58:28.640 Yeah,
00:58:29.860 when I see
00:58:30.680 DeSantis,
00:58:31.800 my first
00:58:32.360 thought was
00:58:33.060 the same
00:58:33.420 as Pence.
00:58:34.580 I just
00:58:35.060 forgot he
00:58:35.500 was running.
00:58:37.200 When was
00:58:37.600 the last
00:58:37.860 time you
00:58:38.160 saw a
00:58:39.080 DeSantis
00:58:40.600 campaign
00:58:41.600 news event?
00:58:44.060 Like,
00:58:44.540 why is he
00:58:45.000 still running?
00:58:46.380 Is he just
00:58:48.040 there in
00:58:48.680 case Trump
00:58:50.000 goes to jail
00:58:50.800 or something
00:58:51.260 happens?
00:58:52.040 Is he the
00:58:52.440 backup plan?
00:58:53.060 Yeah.
00:58:53.120 Vivek is
00:59:00.600 big pharma.
00:59:02.980 Why would
00:59:03.980 you say
00:59:04.300 Vivek is
00:59:04.960 big pharma?
00:59:06.860 Because he
00:59:07.560 had a pharma
00:59:08.100 company that
00:59:08.700 he doesn't
00:59:09.020 have anymore?
00:59:12.080 Do you
00:59:13.080 think he's
00:59:13.500 going to
00:59:13.720 go be a
00:59:14.260 CEO of
00:59:14.980 big pharma?
00:59:18.680 He's not
00:59:19.320 going to
00:59:19.500 take a
00:59:19.820 job.
00:59:23.120 How is
00:59:24.640 he connected
00:59:25.260 to big
00:59:25.640 pharma?
00:59:28.660 You might
00:59:29.420 want to
00:59:29.680 look into
00:59:30.060 that a
00:59:30.380 little bit.
00:59:40.260 What's
00:59:40.780 that?
00:59:42.440 Oh,
00:59:43.040 people on
00:59:43.460 Twitter are
00:59:43.980 claiming
00:59:44.260 Netanyahu
00:59:44.840 controls
00:59:45.540 Hamas.
00:59:47.500 Well,
00:59:47.860 that's just
00:59:48.400 dumb.
00:59:49.800 I saw
00:59:50.320 Ian
00:59:50.620 Bremer,
00:59:51.000 who's
00:59:53.160 well-connected
00:59:54.220 in the
00:59:54.960 sense that
00:59:55.360 he understands
00:59:56.040 the entire
00:59:56.600 field.
00:59:57.920 And he
00:59:59.520 had a
00:59:59.820 quote that
01:00:01.840 I'm going
01:00:02.200 to paraphrase
01:00:02.860 it, but it
01:00:03.280 sounded like
01:00:03.780 Netanyahu
01:00:04.400 had said
01:00:04.880 in 2019
01:00:05.700 that the
01:00:09.140 best way
01:00:09.940 to thwart
01:00:11.800 the Palestinians
01:00:12.600 was to
01:00:13.440 support
01:00:14.380 Hamas.
01:00:15.740 Something like
01:00:16.340 that.
01:00:17.000 It was like
01:00:17.700 a cynical
01:00:18.960 plan to
01:00:19.720 support Hamas
01:00:20.800 because it
01:00:22.500 was really
01:00:23.140 a plan to
01:00:23.740 make the
01:00:24.180 Palestinians
01:00:24.680 look bad.
01:00:26.360 What's the
01:00:26.960 problem with
01:00:27.320 that?
01:00:30.600 Who has
01:00:31.280 a problem
01:00:31.580 with that?
01:00:33.640 And what
01:00:34.180 would it
01:00:34.420 be?
01:00:36.200 Isn't that
01:00:36.840 just like the
01:00:37.500 most obvious
01:00:38.060 statement in
01:00:38.700 the world?
01:00:40.200 So there
01:00:40.880 was this
01:00:41.200 one time
01:00:41.680 that Netanyahu
01:00:42.420 said something
01:00:43.220 that was
01:00:44.040 100%
01:00:44.760 obvious,
01:00:45.960 and everybody
01:00:47.200 thought the
01:00:47.720 same thing.
01:00:48.180 and so
01:00:49.740 he's a
01:00:50.100 bad guy
01:00:50.520 because he
01:00:51.040 thought exactly
01:00:51.680 what you
01:00:52.020 think.
01:00:53.740 What's the
01:00:54.440 argument
01:00:54.740 exactly?
01:00:56.020 Is it
01:00:56.720 not completely
01:00:57.580 obviously
01:00:58.140 true that
01:01:00.040 supporting Hamas
01:01:01.080 for the last
01:01:01.880 several years
01:01:02.600 was guaranteed,
01:01:04.580 guaranteed,
01:01:05.180 to make
01:01:07.280 Gaza, you
01:01:08.540 know, poor
01:01:09.160 and terrible
01:01:09.700 and not
01:01:10.760 really a
01:01:11.520 threat, at
01:01:12.200 least in a
01:01:12.800 big military
01:01:13.340 sense, but
01:01:13.900 a terrorist
01:01:14.380 threat, yes.
01:01:14.960 Now, I'm
01:01:17.180 not even
01:01:17.540 sure it
01:01:17.840 was the
01:01:18.080 wrong play.
01:01:19.500 Now, obviously,
01:01:21.420 you could argue,
01:01:22.500 well, supporting
01:01:23.480 them created
01:01:24.800 this October
01:01:26.360 7th thing, but
01:01:27.700 I feel like it
01:01:28.260 would have
01:01:28.460 happened anyway.
01:01:30.440 Was there
01:01:30.940 something that
01:01:31.600 Israel could
01:01:32.640 have done
01:01:32.940 differently that
01:01:34.400 would have
01:01:34.680 made October
01:01:35.380 7th not
01:01:36.080 happen?
01:01:36.480 I don't
01:01:36.720 think so.
01:01:38.080 So if
01:01:38.760 Netanyahu
01:01:39.320 was sort
01:01:39.860 of cleverly
01:01:41.480 in a
01:01:42.080 three-dimensional
01:01:42.840 chess kind
01:01:43.540 of way saying,
01:01:44.260 the worst
01:01:45.440 thing for
01:01:45.840 the Palestinians
01:01:46.540 in terms of
01:01:48.440 their, you
01:01:48.940 know, aggression
01:01:49.460 against Israel
01:01:50.220 is to support
01:01:51.540 the worst
01:01:52.320 leaders, because
01:01:53.540 that would
01:01:53.800 make them
01:01:54.200 ineffective.
01:01:56.080 You know
01:01:56.560 what would
01:01:56.760 be the
01:01:57.200 worst thing
01:01:57.920 that could
01:01:58.220 happen to
01:01:58.620 Israel, in
01:02:00.000 my opinion?
01:02:02.720 Gaza being
01:02:03.580 super
01:02:04.160 prosperous.
01:02:06.980 The worst
01:02:07.840 thing that
01:02:08.200 could happen
01:02:08.700 was Gaza
01:02:09.880 being prosperous,
01:02:10.860 or the
01:02:11.120 Palestinians in
01:02:11.920 general being
01:02:12.400 prosperous, because
01:02:13.620 the more
01:02:13.980 money their
01:02:14.560 enemies have,
01:02:15.540 the more
01:02:15.920 of it is
01:02:16.420 going to
01:02:16.620 get funneled
01:02:17.280 to the
01:02:18.480 percentage of
01:02:19.180 them that
01:02:19.580 would want
01:02:19.960 to be
01:02:20.160 violent.
01:02:21.560 So,
01:02:22.260 unfortunately,
01:02:24.340 keeping the
01:02:25.220 Palestinians in
01:02:26.240 a relatively
01:02:26.920 low economic
01:02:28.580 situation is
01:02:30.300 probably the
01:02:31.160 only way that
01:02:31.620 Israel can
01:02:32.100 survive.
01:02:34.140 I'm not
01:02:34.780 saying it's
01:02:35.260 moral or
01:02:36.340 good or
01:02:36.740 bad, it
01:02:37.280 might be
01:02:37.560 just the
01:02:37.920 only thing.
01:02:39.040 And if
01:02:39.320 there's only
01:02:39.660 one way to
01:02:40.260 survive, it's
01:02:41.160 hard to
01:02:41.540 criticize it.
01:02:49.060 The Gaza
01:02:49.900 experiment is
01:02:50.840 over.
01:02:51.440 Well, Gaza
01:02:51.940 will never be
01:02:52.740 an independent
01:02:53.540 state again.
01:02:55.920 I feel like
01:02:56.380 Gaza will
01:02:57.960 just be some
01:03:00.320 kind of
01:03:00.680 special zone
01:03:01.600 of some
01:03:02.040 sort.
01:03:03.420 In the
01:03:03.900 short run,
01:03:04.600 it won't be
01:03:04.980 part of
01:03:05.280 Israel, but
01:03:06.420 it will never
01:03:06.840 be some
01:03:07.780 self-governed
01:03:09.340 Palestinian state.
01:03:10.300 I would
01:03:11.660 say that
01:03:11.980 the two-state
01:03:12.600 solution is
01:03:13.440 absurd at
01:03:15.460 this point.
01:03:16.500 Would you
01:03:16.860 agree?
01:03:17.800 Does anybody
01:03:18.160 think a
01:03:18.660 two-state
01:03:19.160 solution could
01:03:19.800 ever work?
01:03:24.540 How would
01:03:25.220 it?
01:03:26.480 See, here's
01:03:27.280 everything you
01:03:27.780 need to know
01:03:28.240 about a
01:03:28.620 two-state
01:03:29.120 solution.
01:03:30.160 You ready?
01:03:31.280 There's one
01:03:31.940 variable you
01:03:32.700 need to know
01:03:33.300 about a
01:03:34.520 two-state
01:03:34.960 solution.
01:03:35.500 There are
01:03:35.660 lots of
01:03:36.000 variables
01:03:36.420 involved.
01:03:37.580 There's
01:03:37.820 only one
01:03:38.180 that matters.
01:03:40.300 The
01:03:40.500 Palestinians
01:03:41.020 weaponized
01:03:42.120 their own
01:03:42.720 children.
01:03:44.860 There's
01:03:45.380 nothing else
01:03:45.840 to say.
01:03:47.440 Once they've
01:03:48.020 weaponized their
01:03:48.700 children, you
01:03:50.060 can't help
01:03:50.600 them, and
01:03:51.680 you can't
01:03:52.120 let them
01:03:52.460 prosper, because
01:03:54.700 they're
01:03:55.240 weapons.
01:03:56.520 They're
01:03:57.040 literally
01:03:57.380 weapons.
01:03:58.220 So they
01:03:58.600 might be
01:03:58.920 children.
01:04:00.080 They're
01:04:00.320 definitely
01:04:00.560 children, but
01:04:02.000 they're also
01:04:02.480 weapons.
01:04:03.920 And if you
01:04:04.700 treat them
01:04:05.080 like children,
01:04:05.760 you die.
01:04:06.980 If you
01:04:07.440 treat them
01:04:07.840 like weapons,
01:04:08.600 that's not
01:04:09.900 good for
01:04:10.260 them, but
01:04:10.860 it is what
01:04:12.140 it is.
01:04:14.120 So, yeah,
01:04:17.020 the last
01:04:17.960 thing you'd
01:04:18.320 want is a
01:04:18.820 big old
01:04:19.260 rich country
01:04:21.440 next to you
01:04:22.060 that also
01:04:22.580 wants to
01:04:23.080 destroy you
01:04:23.720 more than
01:04:24.080 they want
01:04:24.380 anything in
01:04:25.620 life.
01:04:26.600 That would
01:04:26.860 be your
01:04:27.360 worst
01:04:27.680 situation.
01:04:30.300 I'm
01:04:30.800 actually
01:04:31.060 wondering if
01:04:31.900 Gaza will
01:04:33.640 ever be
01:04:34.140 repopulated.
01:04:34.900 because here's
01:04:37.420 what it
01:04:37.640 looks like.
01:04:39.220 It looks
01:04:39.920 like the
01:04:40.500 idea is to
01:04:41.600 get rid of
01:04:42.780 every building,
01:04:44.100 at least in
01:04:45.020 the bad parts
01:04:46.100 of Gaza.
01:04:47.280 Once there
01:04:47.900 are no
01:04:48.160 buildings there,
01:04:49.660 what's anybody
01:04:50.580 going to go
01:04:51.080 home to?
01:04:52.600 Then you
01:04:53.060 say, we're
01:04:53.700 going to
01:04:53.880 announce this
01:04:54.380 big rebuilding
01:04:55.100 program, but
01:04:56.680 Israel will
01:04:57.320 not fund it
01:04:58.080 because we're
01:05:00.040 not happy with
01:05:00.700 you.
01:05:01.040 But the rest
01:05:01.580 of the world
01:05:01.900 can.
01:05:03.020 The rest of
01:05:03.460 the world can
01:05:03.800 fund it, and
01:05:04.600 then Gaza
01:05:05.400 will be
01:05:05.780 rebuilt.
01:05:06.800 But since
01:05:08.080 Israel controls
01:05:09.040 the security,
01:05:10.780 and I think
01:05:11.340 always will,
01:05:12.760 Israel can
01:05:13.380 say, you
01:05:13.860 absolutely can
01:05:14.960 fund and
01:05:15.600 rebuild Gaza.
01:05:17.440 Here are all
01:05:18.260 the obstacles
01:05:19.060 which you
01:05:19.640 must pass.
01:05:21.800 Number one,
01:05:23.080 the ownership
01:05:23.720 of the building
01:05:24.480 has to be
01:05:25.480 approved by
01:05:26.080 us, so we
01:05:27.420 make sure it's
01:05:27.940 not a Hamas
01:05:28.580 supporter.
01:05:30.180 And then they
01:05:30.940 can't find
01:05:31.320 anybody.
01:05:32.620 They go,
01:05:33.120 okay, we're
01:05:33.480 still looking
01:05:33.880 for somebody
01:05:34.380 who Israel
01:05:35.300 will say
01:05:36.040 is not a
01:05:37.220 Hamas
01:05:37.620 supporter.
01:05:39.020 And then
01:05:39.360 they can own
01:05:39.880 this building
01:05:40.440 and they can
01:05:40.920 build back,
01:05:41.760 but they
01:05:42.620 can't find
01:05:43.000 anybody.
01:05:44.580 So I
01:05:45.160 think that
01:05:45.720 Israel will
01:05:46.800 use a
01:05:47.400 Dilbert
01:05:47.880 approach to
01:05:49.020 keep Gaza
01:05:49.860 undeveloped.
01:05:52.200 There will be
01:05:52.740 a plan to
01:05:53.320 develop them,
01:05:53.940 there will be
01:05:54.220 money to
01:05:54.700 develop them,
01:05:55.400 but nobody
01:05:55.980 will get
01:05:56.440 building approval
01:05:57.580 because they
01:05:58.620 can't pass the
01:05:59.320 test of not
01:05:59.920 being terrorists.
01:06:00.580 And why
01:06:02.460 would Israel
01:06:03.420 allow even
01:06:04.340 one building
01:06:05.180 to be
01:06:06.140 rebuilt in
01:06:06.720 Gaza if
01:06:08.200 somebody that
01:06:09.280 was their
01:06:09.660 enemy was
01:06:10.260 going to be
01:06:10.640 the rebuilder
01:06:11.340 or the
01:06:11.640 owner or
01:06:12.200 even the
01:06:12.580 tenant?
01:06:15.040 So I
01:06:17.000 think what
01:06:17.420 they'll do
01:06:17.880 is keep
01:06:18.460 them in
01:06:19.000 permanent
01:06:19.820 camps, and
01:06:22.360 I think that
01:06:22.820 they'll make
01:06:23.180 the expense of
01:06:24.040 those camps
01:06:24.580 somebody else's
01:06:25.440 problem, as
01:06:26.740 in if the
01:06:27.300 international
01:06:27.760 community doesn't
01:06:28.620 want to feed
01:06:29.040 them, too
01:06:29.560 bad.
01:06:30.960 Why is that
01:06:31.660 our problem?
01:06:33.120 So I think
01:06:33.580 Israel wants
01:06:35.160 to have a
01:06:36.820 permanent
01:06:37.220 situation that
01:06:39.200 says, that's
01:06:40.360 what Hamas
01:06:40.920 bought you.
01:06:42.360 See these
01:06:43.100 camps where
01:06:43.680 you're living
01:06:44.120 in misery?
01:06:45.760 That was
01:06:46.400 Hamas.
01:06:47.460 Now, of
01:06:47.760 course, half
01:06:49.140 of the world
01:06:49.580 is going to
01:06:49.940 say, no,
01:06:50.560 that was
01:06:50.900 Israel.
01:06:52.040 But Israel's
01:06:52.960 got a strong
01:06:53.480 argument there
01:06:54.140 that there
01:06:54.680 would be no
01:06:55.200 camps if
01:06:56.000 there were
01:06:56.700 no Hamas.
01:06:59.560 All right.
01:07:06.780 Anything
01:07:07.340 else?
01:07:09.920 Israel's
01:07:10.480 withdrawal in
01:07:11.400 2005 was an
01:07:12.600 obvious mistake.
01:07:13.540 Why?
01:07:15.080 Why was
01:07:15.860 Israel's
01:07:16.420 withdrawal from
01:07:17.280 Gaza mistake?
01:07:19.140 You think
01:07:19.740 this was not
01:07:21.900 going to
01:07:22.160 happen?
01:07:22.420 I mean, they
01:07:24.300 lost, what,
01:07:25.320 15, what's
01:07:26.840 the death
01:07:27.220 count?
01:07:27.500 1,500?
01:07:29.720 How many
01:07:30.480 would they
01:07:30.840 have lost?
01:07:32.500 I don't know.
01:07:33.480 They might
01:07:33.780 have lost
01:07:34.120 people a
01:07:34.540 different way.
01:07:36.460 I do think
01:07:37.540 that sometimes
01:07:38.220 you have to
01:07:38.680 make things
01:07:39.140 worse before
01:07:39.860 you can make
01:07:40.440 them better.
01:07:41.540 If what
01:07:42.340 Netanyahu
01:07:42.900 was doing
01:07:43.580 was allowing
01:07:45.520 Hamas to
01:07:46.600 show the
01:07:47.100 rest of the
01:07:47.700 world what
01:07:49.440 Netanyahu
01:07:50.080 and the
01:07:50.780 leaders already
01:07:51.360 knew, that
01:07:52.560 it's not just
01:07:53.140 a difference
01:07:53.800 of opinion,
01:07:55.220 that one
01:07:55.660 group is just
01:07:56.300 murderers.
01:07:56.800 They want
01:07:57.740 to kill
01:07:58.020 you all.
01:07:58.920 The only
01:07:59.540 way that
01:07:59.940 the world
01:08:00.300 could understand
01:08:01.220 what Hamas
01:08:01.900 was, really
01:08:03.340 understand, is
01:08:04.920 to let it
01:08:05.360 happen.
01:08:07.100 Now, you
01:08:07.780 could say,
01:08:08.360 therefore, you're
01:08:09.020 a terrible
01:08:09.380 leader if
01:08:10.460 you created a
01:08:11.100 situation where
01:08:11.820 you knew this
01:08:12.420 would happen,
01:08:13.600 to which I
01:08:14.160 say, compared
01:08:15.380 to what?
01:08:17.100 Compared
01:08:17.540 to what?
01:08:19.220 Should they
01:08:19.720 let Hamas
01:08:22.660 keep building
01:08:23.320 and getting
01:08:23.720 stronger until
01:08:24.740 their attack
01:08:25.240 would be
01:08:25.560 successful?
01:08:26.800 I hate
01:08:27.760 to say
01:08:28.160 it, but
01:08:29.060 what happened
01:08:29.720 was the
01:08:30.060 best-case
01:08:30.460 scenario.
01:08:33.480 Hold that
01:08:34.120 in your
01:08:34.320 head.
01:08:35.260 Try to
01:08:35.820 digest that
01:08:36.500 thought, that
01:08:38.020 the Hamas
01:08:38.660 attack on
01:08:39.260 Israel, as
01:08:40.880 horrible as
01:08:41.480 it was, one
01:08:43.700 of the most
01:08:44.100 shockingly
01:08:45.060 horrible things
01:08:45.900 in your
01:08:46.940 entire lifetime,
01:08:48.340 was the
01:08:49.780 best-case
01:08:50.220 scenario.
01:08:51.300 Because it
01:08:51.860 was the only
01:08:52.260 thing that
01:08:52.640 authorized them
01:08:53.300 to take care
01:08:53.860 of a problem
01:08:54.420 that had to
01:08:54.860 be taken
01:08:55.220 care of.
01:08:56.340 There was
01:08:56.560 no long
01:08:58.140 term, there
01:08:59.580 was no way
01:09:00.080 that Gaza
01:09:00.760 could just
01:09:01.220 build up
01:09:01.780 unfriendly
01:09:03.140 powers and
01:09:04.900 just keep
01:09:05.320 getting stronger.
01:09:06.400 That wasn't
01:09:07.080 going to
01:09:07.280 happen.
01:09:08.340 So when
01:09:08.860 you look
01:09:09.160 at, I
01:09:10.460 think the
01:09:10.760 problem that
01:09:11.120 we all
01:09:11.460 have, looking
01:09:12.040 at the
01:09:12.300 Middle
01:09:12.460 East, is
01:09:13.900 that we
01:09:14.540 fantasize
01:09:16.340 that there
01:09:17.740 is a
01:09:18.400 non-violent
01:09:19.820 solution.
01:09:20.380 solution, that's
01:09:22.160 pure fantasy.
01:09:23.700 There are no
01:09:24.220 non-violent
01:09:24.760 solutions.
01:09:25.700 You're choosing
01:09:26.340 among horrible
01:09:27.380 alternatives.
01:09:29.140 Horrible
01:09:29.660 alternatives.
01:09:31.180 And if you
01:09:32.120 would argue
01:09:32.480 to me that
01:09:33.120 even as bad
01:09:34.060 as the attack
01:09:34.720 was, it
01:09:36.060 puts Israel
01:09:36.760 in a much
01:09:37.220 stronger position
01:09:38.200 because now
01:09:39.220 they can
01:09:39.520 finally do
01:09:40.140 what they
01:09:40.440 needed to
01:09:41.740 do all
01:09:42.100 along, but
01:09:42.640 they didn't
01:09:42.900 have the
01:09:43.180 trigger for
01:09:43.800 it.
01:09:44.000 So if
01:09:45.840 you tell
01:09:46.200 me that,
01:09:47.300 oh, that
01:09:48.600 Netanyahu, he
01:09:50.080 created a
01:09:50.720 situation where
01:09:51.580 it would get
01:09:52.040 worse, maybe
01:09:54.340 he fucking
01:09:54.980 did.
01:09:56.580 And maybe
01:09:57.300 he's the best
01:09:57.900 leader that
01:09:58.400 they've ever
01:09:58.840 had.
01:10:00.320 Can't rule
01:10:00.960 that out.
01:10:02.000 Now, by the
01:10:02.360 way, I don't
01:10:03.120 know if it was
01:10:03.560 a good idea or
01:10:04.280 a bad idea.
01:10:05.140 I'm just putting
01:10:05.820 out the general
01:10:07.380 idea that you
01:10:08.860 don't know
01:10:09.320 either.
01:10:10.760 You don't
01:10:11.280 know.
01:10:11.940 You don't
01:10:12.660 know that
01:10:13.660 making it
01:10:14.120 worse wasn't
01:10:14.820 the best
01:10:15.200 thing they
01:10:15.560 could do
01:10:16.000 because their
01:10:16.800 other
01:10:17.080 alternatives was
01:10:17.960 maybe half
01:10:18.820 the country
01:10:19.240 disappearing or
01:10:20.000 something.
01:10:21.300 The depth
01:10:23.420 of how bad
01:10:24.140 it could have
01:10:24.820 been is
01:10:25.980 unfathomable.
01:10:27.680 I mean, it's
01:10:28.040 full-on
01:10:28.720 Holocaust.
01:10:30.220 What they
01:10:30.640 had was an
01:10:31.780 absurdly
01:10:32.620 horrendous
01:10:34.040 terrorist attack
01:10:35.100 that affected
01:10:36.020 the entire
01:10:36.620 nation with
01:10:37.220 PTSD and
01:10:39.040 might have
01:10:39.440 been better
01:10:41.500 than the next
01:10:42.080 best scenario.
01:10:43.660 Unless you're
01:10:44.460 fantasizing that
01:10:45.380 everybody just
01:10:45.980 decided to be
01:10:46.660 nice all of a
01:10:47.300 sudden, the
01:10:48.740 alternative is
01:10:49.820 Hamas would
01:10:51.080 have gotten
01:10:51.360 stronger before
01:10:52.140 they eventually
01:10:53.020 attacked again.
01:10:54.260 Might have had
01:10:54.800 missiles, might have
01:10:55.620 had better drones,
01:10:56.840 might have had
01:10:57.280 God knows what.
01:10:59.400 So this premise
01:11:03.440 agrees with some
01:11:04.360 intelligence analysts
01:11:05.360 that I listen to.
01:11:06.040 Oh, well that's
01:11:07.060 good.
01:11:08.380 Have you noticed
01:11:09.200 the ability to
01:11:10.040 simply beat the
01:11:11.980 experts just
01:11:12.760 because you
01:11:13.180 watch the
01:11:13.560 news a little
01:11:14.000 bit?
01:11:15.580 Have you seen
01:11:16.200 how many times
01:11:16.860 that can be
01:11:17.360 done?
01:11:18.140 How many times
01:11:18.760 can the
01:11:19.120 experts be
01:11:19.820 beaten just
01:11:20.960 by somebody
01:11:21.560 who is paying
01:11:21.980 attention to
01:11:22.540 the news?
01:11:24.100 No expertise.
01:11:25.780 Yeah.
01:11:26.940 But there are
01:11:28.160 some general
01:11:28.720 principles that
01:11:29.500 just apply to
01:11:30.180 every situation.
01:11:31.660 So if you're
01:11:32.120 aware of general
01:11:33.280 principles about
01:11:34.240 how human
01:11:35.480 beings typically
01:11:36.440 work, you can
01:11:38.580 bring that to
01:11:39.140 almost any
01:11:39.620 situation.
01:11:40.920 And the one
01:11:42.760 that I always
01:11:43.420 bring is you
01:11:44.660 forgot to look
01:11:45.380 at the
01:11:45.620 alternative.
01:11:47.120 How many
01:11:47.480 times do I
01:11:47.980 say that?
01:11:49.240 I say it over
01:11:50.140 and over and
01:11:50.620 over on all
01:11:51.240 situations, and
01:11:52.140 this is another
01:11:52.700 one.
01:11:53.460 So if your
01:11:54.000 analysis of
01:11:54.820 Netanyahu was
01:11:56.240 he did a thing
01:11:57.080 that intentionally
01:11:57.980 created the
01:11:59.860 situation where
01:12:00.720 Hamas would do
01:12:01.440 this horrible
01:12:01.920 attack, you
01:12:02.860 might be right.
01:12:04.620 You might be
01:12:05.420 right.
01:12:06.660 Now argue that
01:12:07.760 that wasn't the
01:12:08.380 best case.
01:12:09.920 You can't.
01:12:11.560 No way to
01:12:12.260 know.
01:12:13.600 But I'll tell
01:12:14.460 you one thing.
01:12:15.160 If I'm in a
01:12:16.060 situation where I
01:12:17.020 have an unsolvable
01:12:17.960 problem, what's
01:12:18.940 the first thing
01:12:19.460 I do?
01:12:20.740 If I have an
01:12:21.560 unsolvable
01:12:22.300 problem, what
01:12:23.920 do I do?
01:12:26.040 Shake the
01:12:26.660 box.
01:12:28.320 Shake the
01:12:28.920 box as hard as
01:12:29.560 you can.
01:12:30.360 You have to
01:12:31.100 create a
01:12:31.600 different situation.
01:12:33.700 And the
01:12:34.260 different situation
01:12:35.080 might be
01:12:35.640 chaos.
01:12:36.480 you might
01:12:38.240 need chaos
01:12:39.080 to get to
01:12:40.880 the better
01:12:41.200 situation.
01:12:42.920 So we
01:12:43.700 don't know
01:12:44.080 what would
01:12:44.640 have happened
01:12:45.160 if Netanyahu
01:12:46.420 had had a
01:12:47.000 different strategy.
01:12:48.100 But I'll tell
01:12:48.760 you it
01:12:49.360 wouldn't have
01:12:49.900 been crazy
01:12:50.820 if his
01:12:51.600 strategy, and
01:12:52.360 I don't know
01:12:52.700 if it was
01:12:53.160 really, it
01:12:54.000 wouldn't have
01:12:54.420 been crazy
01:12:55.200 to invite
01:12:57.160 some amount
01:12:59.520 of danger to
01:13:00.460 avoid some
01:13:01.900 far, far
01:13:02.620 bigger amount
01:13:03.380 of danger.
01:13:03.800 That's all.
01:13:05.740 All right, so
01:13:06.360 that's all I'm
01:13:06.720 going to give
01:13:07.020 you for
01:13:07.280 today.
01:13:08.300 YouTube, thanks
01:13:09.020 for joining.
01:13:10.360 You were very
01:13:11.060 awesome today, by
01:13:11.900 the way.
01:13:12.640 I do appreciate
01:13:13.500 the super
01:13:17.020 chat questions,
01:13:18.820 and they were
01:13:19.580 reasonable
01:13:19.900 questions.
01:13:22.120 Normally, the
01:13:22.920 super chat
01:13:23.480 questions are
01:13:24.220 maybe a little
01:13:25.500 off-topic and
01:13:26.240 stuff, but those
01:13:26.900 were perfect.
01:13:27.960 Those were good
01:13:28.400 questions.
01:13:28.840 I appreciate them.
01:13:29.880 Thank you,
01:13:30.400 guys, and
01:13:30.840 ladies, and
01:13:32.360 binaries,
01:13:32.880 non-binaries
01:13:33.640 too.
01:13:34.440 Bye for
01:13:34.840 now.