Episode 2288 Scott Adams: CWSA 11⧸10⧸23, All The Fun News And Some Fascinating Stuff
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1 hour and 11 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible that aliens have been here before, and are here to stay? Or is it just another conspiracy theory? Is it even possible that they are real? And if so, what are the odds of them visiting the United States?
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Human Civilization,
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which, I'll tell you a little bit later, has a timer on it now.
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We only have 20 million years left, so let's enjoy every moment.
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Well, I've got so many stories, I'm going to hit them all quickly.
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Number one, the Pentagon UFO chief says there's either aliens or foreign powers,
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And there was once a story about a craft of unknown origin
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that once came and hovered over a military base in the U.S.,
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except for the person who was telling the story.
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but we're only hearing it from somebody who talked to somebody who saw it.
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So there are many, many eyewitnesses and blurry photos of these UFOs.
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damn it, there's no way all these people could be wrong.
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that there's some kind of either other country,
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which even our own military doesn't think it's a foreign power.
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So it's either something peculiar or another planet or another dimension or something.
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But if you think that the evidence is good because there are so many witnesses,
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Do you remember some years ago that people were being abducted by aliens?
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You could barely go for a walk with a UFO abducting you and probing you
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Well, at the time, a lot of people thought they were real.
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But then suddenly they just sort of stop happening.
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And, you know, 10 years goes by and nobody gets abducted.
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So I would remind you of this when you're looking at this sort of story.
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There were lots and lots of eyewitnesses for Bigfoot.
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There were lots and lots of eyewitnesses for the Loch Ness Monster.
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And ghosts and the Yeti and the Jabra Kapupper or whatever that's called.
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But it doesn't matter how many witnesses there are.
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Once you learn to spot a mass hysteria, chupacabra.
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The audience can't know that I didn't say that.
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It doesn't matter how many witnesses there are.
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I'm still betting against alien ships visiting the U.S.
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that every 27 million years everything goes to hell.
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And by it goes to hell, I mean your dinosaurs disappear
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or there's mass extinctions and volcanoes and shit.
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And I guess we are 20 million years away from the next one.
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We've got 20 million years before the Earth decides to destroy us.
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Why in the world would it have a every 27 million years something happens?
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This might be the first time you've heard this.
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That's my answer to how you know there's a 27 million pulse.
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The most likely explanation is, well, there probably isn't.
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Here's a question I probably could have Googled in less than one minute.
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and I've got Neanderthal DNA, like 2% or something.
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Shouldn't African DNA be the most common DNA for every person on Earth?
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Or is there some amount of time that goes by and then your DNA is like completely erased by the new stuff?
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Is it simply that the Neanderthals came much later than the exit from Africa?
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What do you think are the odds that there are two different trees of human development?
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Do you really think it all came from one humanoid?
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When you've got all these different humanoids that we keep finding these?
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You know, there's part of me that thinks maybe there's something about nature
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that will create a humanoid if you wait a long enough time.
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Like maybe humanoids are just sort of guaranteed by evolution.
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So that you just get a few of them from different places.
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But it also seems weird that we wouldn't have any African DNA.
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Pass a law that's a requirement that everybody take a DNA test
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and they have to publicly publish their results.
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So you can check anybody's DNA anytime you want it.
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Because it would give you new things to discriminate about that were more detailed.
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there's no way I'm going to hire some bastard with an earlobe that's not separated.
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I don't want to hire those people whose earlobes are connected right to their head.
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I don't want anybody who sneezes when they go out in the sun.
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23 and me can tell you that your genes will cause you to sneeze when you walk into the sun.
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And I actually have that gene and I sneeze every time I go in the sun.
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But anyway, if we had DNA details and we would just discriminate against our DNA
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The other way that racism will be ended is that when we're all cyborgs,
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And if you're part AI, it means you can do any job.
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You just need a human being to collect the checks,
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So the only reason that you need, like, the human is so that there's somebody to pay.
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So you build a cyborg that's part robot, part human.
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It can do any job because the AI part will immediately know how to do anything.
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Because we will all be equally qualified because we'll all have AI enhancements.
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There's no way you could pick somebody out and say there's the good one
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And then the beautiful part is that once we're all cyborgs,
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we'll all be so ugly that we don't want to mate with anybody.
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I have a young friend who is telling me so that everybody he knows under the age of,
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So it's a young person who knows lots of people in their 20s.
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Do you know what he says about his peers who are in their 20s?
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And they talk about it, you know, on Twitch and stuff.
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And he also says that almost nobody in their 20s seems to be capable of holding a job.
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But he doesn't know many young people who have a job or any potential to ever have one.
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In other words, they don't like, they just don't look like people used to look.
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Well, Elon Musk went on Lex Friedman's podcast.
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I guess this is the fourth time he's been on there.
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He always makes news, but he said a few things that I agree with.
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So Musk said, if AI cannot figure out new physics, it's clearly not equal to humans.
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So he says, you know, physics is basically the real knowledge.
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And then everything beyond physics is sort of a point of view.
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It's a slight exaggeration, but you get the idea.
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That if humans can still invent or discover new physics laws, but an AI can never do it, no matter how hard it tries,
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It's just using things that humans have already discovered.
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So I've been saying, my version of it goes like this.
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My version is that AI can never be smarter than the smartest humans in each field.
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So I've presumed that there's a natural cap to how smart the smartest AI can be.
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Now, this is counter to, as far as I know, counter to every expert's opinion.
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Because it's the ultimate contrarian view that it can't get smarter than the smartest human.
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Now, part of the reason I say that is the way humans are.
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Suppose for a moment you built an AI that was so smart it actually understood the nature of reality.
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What would the humans do if they learned the actual truth of reality?
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Or they would reprogram it so it stops saying crazy shit like that.
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We would not have the ability to recognize a truth that's above our intelligence level.
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So we would deny it and we'd turn it off and we'd start wars over it.
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Now, the only thing that you could do would be...
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If the AI created a rule of physics that then we humans could go out and test and they tested
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out and it worked every time, well, then you'd have something.
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But I kind of am of the opinion that it just won't happen.
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Maybe brute force by coming up with so many different ideas that one of them works.
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The other thing that Musk said that's interesting is that he thinks that what Israel should do
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is conspicuous acts of kindness because obviously there's nothing you could do about the fact
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that too many people are going to suffer and die in Hamas, in Gaza.
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But Elon's idea is that you should literally create field hospitals to show that you're caring
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about, you know, the people and their injuries.
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Put a webcam on there so the entire world can see that Israel's caring for the people
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I'm going to disagree with Elon on this one because there's an assumption you would have
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If the people you're trying to convince are the people in Gaza, then the question you'd have
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If the starting place of the civilians, you know, the non-Hamas combatants, if the starting
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place for the women and children and the non-combatants was, you know, Israel isn't so bad, you know,
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they got some pluses, they have some minuses, then you could do that.
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Then that would be a good strategy, would be to emphasize the good parts of you and try
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to win over the people who were at least a little bit unbiased about who you were.
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And you might be able to nudge them a little bit in your direction.
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If Hamas has been in charge for a while, one assumes that the information, you know,
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situation is that Hamas has brainwashed at least all of the children.
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So the children are just a lost cause at this point.
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You know, I hate to say anything that's mean about children, but I don't know of any way
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I mean, unless you actually made it a project to deprogram them.
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You can't just hope that they read the news and they read the right part of the news.
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You can't hope that they see a video about a mobile hospital and they're going to change
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I mean, so here's what I love about Elon's opinion and what I disagree with.
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What I love about it is he's kind of, well, I don't know if you've noticed, but he's smart.
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Or, I don't know, it's one of those things I've noticed.
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But the best thing he could do is to continually push for peace and kindness at the same time
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Now, I hate to say that those two conflicting, semi-conflicting, or maybe 80% conflicting ideas
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don't make sense when presented at the same time, except they do.
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Because he's very clearly saying, you know, what would be the ideal, you know, what to
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And he knows that there's a real world situation.
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But as a leader, and Musk is a leader, you know, unelected, but he's clearly a leader in
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So for him to always consistently be on the side of life and peace is exactly the right
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So he's acknowledging the difficulty of everything.
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So in that context, recommending conspicuous acts of kindness, yeah, it's a step in the right
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In the real world, I don't think it would make any difference.
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Now, that said, I'm 100% in favor of doing it because the, you know, the base of the idea
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is providing a hospital for people who need a hospital.
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So that part, yeah, yeah, let's, let's make sure that people have hospitals.
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But if you have a weaponized public, and here's the other thing that might be flawed with Elon's
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opinion, and again, as an ideal, it's a perfect opinion, but in the real world, a little trouble.
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I don't think Israel has any intention of repopulating Gaza.
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I mean, they're acting like somebody who just got terribly attacked, and, you know, they're
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It's exactly what every reasonable person would have done in the same situation.
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But, to me, allowing it to be repopulated with a group of people who have been radicalized
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and weaponized, to some extent, I don't know to what extent, but if 20% of them are radicalized
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to want to kill you later, I wouldn't repopulate it.
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I would look for any solution that's not populating it.
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And, if I did, I would certainly have to have ironclad control over the schools, to make
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sure that the schools only taught things that are good for Israel, if that were me.
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So, I guess I disagree with the assumption that the idea is to be nice to the residents
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of Gaza, because I'm pretty sure the idea is to not be nice to them, so that they don't
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go back, and they get as far away from Gaza as they can and never come back, I think.
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I mean, if I were Israel, I would never let that be repopulated.
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And not because it's kind, and not because it's cruel, you just don't have another choice.
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Like, if there were some other choice that is far more, you know, kind to the Gaza residents,
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A publication called Jezebel, called the Pioneering Feminist Website, will be shut down.
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Now, if I could summarize the staff of Jezebel, they are sexist pieces of shit, and have been
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In fact, they were the first group to jump on my first cancellation.
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This was many years before the recent cancellation.
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In which they took something out of context, and reversed its meaning.
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It was something in which I was mocking men, and they turned it into really mocking women.
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And then when anybody looked for my name, they found their fucking story that was completely
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Because they just read something and reversed it.
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How happy am I that they're going out of business?
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Their timing is good, because I hear Hamas is hiring.
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Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively said he wants to build a wall between the United States and
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Now, let us talk about the excellence of that idea.
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Number one, have I ever told you a million times in a row that when Trump said, build a
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wall in the southern border, that it was brilliant because it was visual, and there was an argument
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But then he added the Mexico will pay for it, which was fun.
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But, you know, if you took it too seriously, maybe you shouldn't have.
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But, I feel like the Canadian border, we could actually get Canada to pay for it.
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Now, my idea would be to have a two-drink minimum for entering the United States, just for Canadians.
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You can come and go as often as you want, as long as you've got a, you know, visa, passport,
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But, it's a two-drink minimum every time you come in.
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I think that would pay for a wall across the entire Canadian border, because, you know,
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I believe that we have a mortal threat, an existential threat from Canada, because everything indicates
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So, we might have more members of Hamas in Canada at some point.
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If you straight-line it, it's a disaster in Canada.
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It looks like they're on a road to complete ruin.
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So, I wouldn't want a dictator up north, and I wouldn't want them importing a lot of people
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It's pricey, though, so, got to get that two-drink minimum going.
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So, as you know, Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney said they might want to,
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they proposed that they would be on some kind of commission to rein in the debt, debt commission.
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And Manchin has announced that he won't be running again.
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Anyway, so, Joe Manchin's not going to run for his Senate again,
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which makes sense, because Mitt Romney is not running again.
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So, they would be the two kind of centrist senators from each side,
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you know, the ones that are more likely to cross the...
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Honestly, they're just the perfect team to be looking at the debt.
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Well, yesterday, the U.S. government tried to borrow $24 billion,
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because we couldn't find anybody who wanted to buy American government debt.
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And so, the interest rate that we would have to offer somebody for these debts
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We're now at the rate where we pay $1 trillion per year in interest.
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You realize this is a fast path to complete destruction of the country,
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But, I do like this, you know, Romney-Mansion approach.
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However, there's some thought that Joe Manchin would run a third party as a third party.
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If he did that, then it doesn't make sense for him to be on this commission.
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is that you would seem somewhat independent from the current politics.
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anything he does in the commission will be poo-pooed as political.
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But, as soon as you throw in any third party people,
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Your vote will not decide who the president is.
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Your vote will not decide who the president is.
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Because if everybody does what everybody always does,
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you know, which is what the poll would seem to indicate,