Episode 2311 CWSA 12⧸03⧸23 Gaslighting, Persuasion, Bribery, Blackmail & Other Government Functions
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you don't know if you should colonize or gaslight.
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Well, those questions will be answered and many more.
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But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels
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a tank or a gel or a sign, a canteen jug or a flask,
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You heard about the big Tesla Cybertruck rollout,
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But there's some news that there was some crazy guy
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who was planning a mass casualty attack on the event.
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They caught him, so he did not do anything like that.
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what could have been the coolest thing that ever happened.
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Imagine this mass shooter showing up at the Tesla truck rollout.
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You have a whole bunch of trucks because it's a rollout,
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You have lots of Tesla trucks and lots of people.
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And everybody immediately jumps inside a Tesla truck.
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And then finally, you know, law enforcement takes him down.
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There's just like bullet holes in all the cars,
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But instead, they just caught him before he shot any bullets
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and you ever get in an argument with another vehicle,
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If you get in an argument with another vehicle,
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voted to be expelled by his former colleagues from Congress.
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on four of his colleagues for ethics complaints
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about the George Santos story one way or another.
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But now that I know he's a fellow disgraced person,
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Wouldn't you love to see me host a Christmas party
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That's the answer to black empowerment in America,
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to have two parents who are really strong about education?
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If you assume 50% odds for having a good versus a bad parent,
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I think they had less control than maybe you think.
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They had the same philosophy of, you know, pro-education.
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And I'm not sure they controlled all those things.
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How lucky am I that my mate has the same philosophy on parenting.
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So there's a whole lot of luck involved, right?
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You'd prefer a system where the luck is removed
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That's the trouble with, the trouble with the parenting situation
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is that you can't choose them and it's not a manageable process.
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You know, you can hope for it and you can advise people what to do.
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And unfortunately, if you ever introduced an alternative,
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Because if what you're trying to sell as Republicans is the family unit,
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because the family unit works so well if it's done right, you know,
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if you've got a little religious stuff, you've got attention to education,
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But it's just not achievable by probably at least half of the public.
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Do we just ignore them because the thing we want them to do is unavailable to them?
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For example, let's say you were two parents who never went to college
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people who were there all the time who were very pro-college
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and could sell it to your own children better than you could.
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who could sell to your children what you're not good at selling.
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So you need an extended structure just to cover all your black holes.
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Childcare is this big nightmare because it's just so hard if you're low income.
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How do you afford childcare and also go to a job?
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But suppose you had a network of people and some of them were like,
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You always mow my lawn and I like kids and I'm retired.
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How about I let the kids go over to my house while you're working?
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So you can imagine an informal, I don't want to say tribe,
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because then I think you get other implications.
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But I think it's some kind of voluntary, virtual, tribal situation
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So I think there's something the Republicans are missing.
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Because I think the Democrats are seeing that the traditional family unit
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So now Republicans are offering an impractical solution
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and your option, we don't want the government to help you too much either.
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A good offer would be, we're really, really going to sell this family thing hard.
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But if that isn't working for you, we suggest that you self-organize
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I don't know what it looks like, but it's not addressed.
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Anyway, Wall Street Journal reports, and I quote,
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the U.S. companies have lost momentum in promoting black professionals into management.
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I wonder if there's an alternative way that headline could have expressed that
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Instead of saying, U.S. companies have lost momentum in promoting black professionals
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into management, would that be identical to anti-white racism has peaked?
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Because what is it that was promoting black applicants into upper management?
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If you were working hard on it, who was not being promoted to?
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Because it's not like they created more jobs just so they could promote black applicants.
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Who was not being promoted while there were a higher percentage of black people being promoted?
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I would say the healthiest thing for black professionals and black Americans
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is that we become honest and practical about what works and what doesn't.
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Everybody is better off in a system that's honest.
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If you do these things, go to college, stay out of jail, don't do drugs,
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If they tell you that the reason you're being held back is systemic racism,
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I very much agree that it exists, but it's not what's holding you back.
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Systemic racism has held back literally zero people
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Do you know what the workaround is to systemic racism?
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The people around you are largely terribly incompetent, whoever they are.
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You know, forget their race, gender, ethnicity.
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How hard is it to stand out when your competition is largely incompetent?
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Do you know how much I would care about systemic racism if somebody came to me
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Am I going to say, you know, you're clearly the best applicant.
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You show so much serious attention to learning and character and staying in a jail
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and you don't do drugs and you've got a nice religious base.
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You know, it's not necessary, but it's nice that you've got that structure in your life.
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Am I going to say to myself, you know, but you know, a little systemic racism.
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There are so few qualified people who do just the basics right.
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You're not really competing against, you know, the best of the best.
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You want to hear the advice I gave one of my stepkids recently?
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Had nothing to do with, you know, I'd love to say I had an influence.
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Immediately went off and got herself a job without any prompting.
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Because, you know, she doesn't get everything for free.
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And just total high character individual, high initiative.
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And, of course, being, you know, a certain age, you're worried about how you'll do in the world.
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And about once every two weeks, I have to have this conversation.
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There are very few people who have anything you have, you know, in terms of character.
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So that's the story I'd be telling a black teenager if there was one in my life that needed some advice.
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You know, it has nothing to do with black or white or male or female.
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So if you want to be the best one in whatever category, your odds are basically 100%.
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You have to decide that you'll do the things that put you in that top 20%, but it's not hard.
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There's a very clever and persuasive moving video of the percentage of military suicides.
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And it starts out as a pie graph, and then it's animated over time.
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So you see, as the years go by, the part of the pie that's the suicides, you know, seems to keep getting bigger.
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Because nowhere on the pie chart did I have the raw numbers.
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If you're looking at data in the news, if they show you the percentage of something without the raw numbers, it's propaganda.
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If they show you raw numbers, but they very clearly leave out percentages of, you know, how important this is as a percentage, that's propaganda.
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So if you see either one of them without the other, percentages without raw, or raw data without the percentages, that's propaganda.
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Now, was it also telling you that there's a problem?
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I'm not arguing with the general statement that suicides are alarmingly high in the military.
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But whether or not they've moved into alarming territory is hard to say.
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Now, I don't want to mock a specific person, so I'll only tell you their job title.
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So in response to me saying this, that either the percentages of the raw data, if you leave it down as propaganda, somebody who is a medical doctor, according to their profile, suggested that maybe the reason that the suicides go up after a period of battle is that because the PTSD is high.
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So that, you know, you've got a battle, you expect maybe there's high suicides when there's a war going on.
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And the doctor speculated that maybe PTSD is part of it.
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Do you know what the other reason that there would be a higher percentage of suicides when the war is over?
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What would be another reason that there would be a higher percentage of deaths and suicide, not raw numbers, but percentage, when the fighting is over?
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Okay, am I really going to have to explain this to you?
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When the war is over, something like zero people die from getting shot.
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But the suicides are relatively constant, no matter what's going on, because it has more to do with individuals than what they're doing.
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So your percentage of suicides looks like it's high, only because the number of people getting shot went to zero.
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Now, are there other things going on, such as PTSD?
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But if you don't understand the most basic math, that if you take out a whole bunch of data from the pie, the pie will change, even if the data on the thing that looks like it's now a big part of the pie was exactly the same.
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Look at the comments that you saw from your fellow citizens, and how many of them immediately knew, oh, it's just because fewer people are shot.
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A lot of people are fooled, and we're talking about the most well-informed, in my opinion,
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my livestream crowd is the most well-informed about spotting bullshit in the news, because it's all we do.
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If you missed this one, just keep in your mind it's not because you're dumb.
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This is intentionally misleading because it works.
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So it's easy to fool people, even people who are well-informed and fairly savvy about how they get fooled.
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So this one should be shocking to you if it fooled you, because it's such a basic trick.
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Always look for percentages without raw data and vice versa.
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But that said, are there not a hundred reasons why military suicides should be higher than the average?
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Fentanyl, maybe it looks like suicide sometimes.
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If you have a volunteer military, what would you expect about the mix of people who are joining?
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Number one, males have more suicide than women.
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So to the extent that the military is mostly men, the percentage of suicide in the military should be five times the average.
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I can tell you for sure that although I consider myself mentally tough, I don't consider myself mentally tough for something that would happen in an actual military conflict.
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Like, I think I know myself well enough to know I would be permanently damaged by that, even if I survived physically.
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Very much like the, you know, the October 7th attacks.
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The people who were, you know, near the violence but maybe didn't personally get hurt, they're still PTSD forever.
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Even after being in the military, there's a pretty high gun ownership rate because they're comfortable around guns.
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So if you have guns readily available and you're having that bad day, that's a pretty bad combination.
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And let me be very careful about what I say next.
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So I want to make sure this part doesn't get lost.
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I'm just saying that when you're looking at it, make sure that you have, you know, all the moving parts in your head.
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So we're watching as, so the latest attack on the country, I guess, from the Democrats, is that misinformation about the economy is the latest threat to democracy.
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And so the Democrats, the Biden supporters specifically, are trying to tell us that the economy is good.
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We just don't realize it because we're poorly informed.
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And once we're well informed, we would understand that we're not paying more.
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So I guess it looks like Bidenomics is trying to make a distinction between do you have a job?
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Now, to be fair, I've told you for a long time that as long as employment is good, you're going to be okay.
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But everybody can see that the prices are way higher.
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Yeah, maybe it came down a little bit, not as much as it, you know, it could have been.
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But the Bidenomics is, no, no, you don't see it.
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So now we have at least three different things that Democrats are gaslighting us with.
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Now, remember, I used to complain all the time when people said that they would complain about gaslighting from Republicans or Trump.
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Gaslighting is telling you that you can't believe your own eyes and your own experience.
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It's a subset, but it's different than persuasion, which is, you know, people are persuading you and, you know, you understand the concept.
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But telling you that you don't see something you see is gaslighting.
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It's persuasion with almost the intention of making you insane and not believe what you see about anything.
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So now we're seeing that Biden and his gang are making us believe the economy is better than it is.
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We're literally watching people screaming across the border of the cities.
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Now, some of that is based on a trick of language.
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Here's how Mayorkas can say the border is secure.
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The people who come in and then we process them.
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And then we give, you know, we say, come back for your court hearing.
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He's operating within the existing rules of the country.
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That if you say you're here for asylum, we don't know how to check it right away.
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So we give you this court date that's way in the future.
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And then you get in the country and you probably stay.
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Now, to most ordinary people, we would call that an insecure border.
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But if you're a bureaucrat, you say, well, wait a minute.
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Congress gave me the rules of how to secure a border.
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And then I followed the rules for securing the border.
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Congress told me what to do to secure the border.
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And then I secured the border exactly as I was asked to do.
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But if you say, are millions of people getting across the border that you wish would not?
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Millions of people are coming into the border who are not citizens.
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But it's a secure border because the process by which they come in is the actual process the country has approved.
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You're only talking about the ones who apply for asylum.
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We still have video of people streaming across the border in the insecure places.
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Oh, the illegal part is about the same as it has always been even under Trump.
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And under Trump, you said you had a secure border, didn't you?
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I mean, Trump keeps saying that when he was in charge, he secured the border.
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So if we have the same situation, you know, there's a bunch of, there's a legal part.
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That's not insecure because that's legally following the law.
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And then there's this other part that's completely illegal.
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But no more than when Trump was in charge and you called it a secure border.
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But they don't, they don't even give you the respect of explaining why they say it's secure.
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They just say it's secure when you're watching people stream across the border.
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And then the third area, besides the economy and the border, is Biden's age.
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He said he would take Biden at age 100 over, over Trump or something.
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Now that's clearly, that's the most clear gaslighting you'll ever see.
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His brain is working like a, a well-oiled clock.
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I know that they can be, you know, sometimes crazy.
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I know that sometimes they can be George Santos.
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I'm not, I'm not defending Republican politicians.
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Do they ever say the thing you can obviously see doesn't exist?
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You, I suppose if you're a Democrat, you'd say, well, what about January 6th?
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I'm just going to say something out loud because I think I can now say it.
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Because you don't want to say things that are, that would incite violence.
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There's nothing in what I'm going to say that's a recommendation or encouragement.
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You can, you can, you can note that something is dangerous without encouraging it.
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Regardless of what the legal system decides on, Trump is unjailable.
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Because I don't want to be, I don't want to be kicked off of any social media.
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I don't encourage violence under any conditions.
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Unless they find something on him that doesn't look like absolute political bullshit.
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Now, could they, could they cripple his business?
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I don't know that the public would have the same reaction to a, a business issue.
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But if you put his physical body in jail, not going to happen.
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He said, what was his, he said, he said that Elon Musk was testing his patients.
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Uh, because he may not be an anti-Semite, anti-Semite.
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But when someone tweets what they tweeted and he tweets, quote, you've spoken the actual truth.
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So that's Bill Maher saying that, um, he might not be anti-Semitic, but what he said looks anti-Semitic.
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Now, my take on this is that, uh, you've got two people in this situation.
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And I'd like to point out that one of those two people, uh, is a fucking idiot and the other one is building rockets to Mars.
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You know, just, just in case you want to get the lay of the land.
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And by the way, Dave Rubin, you know, tried to correct, uh, Maher on this on the show.
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But literally no one, including Bill Maher, believes that Musk was talking about all Jewish people when he was complaining.
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And the ADL has been the subject of much of his criticisms.
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It's obvious that he was talking about the ADL and maybe, maybe some other folks who were like-minded.
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In no way was he making a sweeping statement about Jewish Americans or Jewish people in general.
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Why, why pretend it, why pretend something else is happening?
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You know, what, what is the point of pretending when you know it's not true?
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And we don't really expect, uh, Bill Maher, of all, of all people, to complain about something that was, wait for it, politically incorrect.
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What, what Elon Musk said was not technically untrue.
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There are groups within the Jewish community who had a certain point of view, just as there are groups within the Jewish community who had the opposite point of view.
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It was just politically incorrect because he said it in a, in a way that could be interpreted in the worst possible way.
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So of all people, Bill Maher essentially complaining about political incorrectness.
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Well, uh, a Gallup poll finds that, uh, although Americans, Americans in general approve of Israel's action in Gaza, that there is much disagreement among the younger Americans.
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So there's a big difference between older and younger Americans on Israel.
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I mean, it could be also, uh, college education, but I don't think this effect is limited to college.
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You're saying young people, so it's probably, you know, pre-college as well.
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So, do you think TikTok is the main reason for this?
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So, I'm pretty sure this is a TikTok effect, but you know what's the great thing?
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I, I finally figured out why they named it TikTok.
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It says they're destroying your country, and you don't know it until it's too late, and
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So, Bill Ackman was noting that, on the X platform,
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that one of the most respected technology investors in the world, he calls him,
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a guy named David Frankel, is talking about the TikTok risk.
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And, you know, he's basically saying, if David Frankel thinks there's a TikTok risk,
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And I say, in addition, if Bill Ackman says there's a risk, you should take that seriously.
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Because now you have two non-political people, they have no contact with politics directly,
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Bill Ackman and David Frankel, who would be two of the most respected business minds,
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who are saying, you know, pretty directly, I think, TikTok's, you know, an inappropriate
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If you say, TikTok is super dangerous, do people get excited enough to act on it?
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Because something's dangerous never gets us to move.
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You need more than it's dangerous, because we're in a world where everything's dangerous,
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So just being dangerous according to smart people isn't going to make anybody do anything.
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And this won't be enough either, but it's in the right direction.
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And I said that Congress must be owned by China to some degree, because the case for
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banning TikTok is both obvious and critical to the survival of the United States.
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So the first thing I'm doing is ramping up the perceived risk.
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It's not a risk of, oh, some people will get the wrong idea.
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And so I said, TikTok is a bigger risk to America than Russia, climate change, Iran, and the next pandemic combined.
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Now, if there's an actual nuclear war, that could be worse.
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But the actual risk or the chances of a nuclear war are really low.
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The odds that TikTok will destroy America are 100%.
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The odds of us starting a nuclear war are really, really low.
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But I would agree if it ever happened, that would be the worst outcome.
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It's just that the odds of it are almost vanishingly small.
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There's no way Russia wants to nuke us when the end of the Ukraine conflict is kind of obvious.
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So if you know how the war ends, the risk of nuclear conflict is completely off the table.
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And it's obvious that the Middle East is not heading toward a nuclear confrontation.
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It's obvious that the next pandemic will probably be bullshit.
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And climate change is likely something we'll mitigate and figure out how to handle just fine.
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So if you don't understand that it's worse than climate change, Russia, Iran, and the next pandemic, then you don't understand what's going on.
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And the only reason Congress hasn't banned it that I can think of is that too many members are bought off by China money.
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And not only is there no other explanation, but nobody's offered one.
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Because they say things like, oh, data security is not such a big problem.
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Because the influence is the big problem, not the data security.
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So if you're arguing about the data security, you're avoiding the problem.
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So there's not even anybody who actually addresses the problem and says we should keep it anyway.
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The closest you can get to that is Vivek, who says, all right, I'm going to use it because it's the only way to reach young people.
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But he also thinks, you know, I believe he thinks we might be better off without it.
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Like he's going to use it because he can't kill it?
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But he should kill it as soon as he's president if he gets a chance.
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There's some information now that says that Google was serving up brand search ads through porn sites.
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So apparently Google search is doing a worse job than X for keeping their brands away from bad content.
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There was never a problem with content and ads being matched on X.
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It's not even about Elon Musk, except that he's, you know, a powerful force for free speech.
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A user on X called Maze, M-A-Z-E, a good account to follow, by the way,
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tells us that the ADL once had no problem with Twitter, back when it was Twitter.
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So in 2018, just five years ago, a little bit more, the ADL analyzed a year of Twitter, when it was Twitter, for anti-Semitic tweets.
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They found 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets by 3 million unique handles in the English language.
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But they said, this report is not about bashing Twitter.
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We knew that it was a cesspool of FBI and Democrat, you know, finger on the scale.
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But under that conditions, you know, a little bit of anti-Semitism.
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Ah, you know, ah, there's a little bit everywhere, really.
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I mean, you know, who doesn't have a little bit of anti-Semitism?
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So the ADL trying to pretend to be a credible organization as opposed to, obviously, just an attack dog for the Democrats, who also do some good stuff.
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Protect Jewish people from unfair discrimination?
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Speaking of Israel, Israel's UN ambassador is slamming Soros for donating to pro-Hamas groups.
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The UN ambassador from Israel is slamming Soros for being anti-Israel.
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You know, when people say that George Soros is doing bad things, don't we usually call that anti-Semitic?
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If you criticize George Soros, aren't you sort of automatically anti-Semitic, aren't you?
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So I'm wondering if MSNBC will cover this story, and will they accuse Israel of being anti-Semitic?
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Now, I'm sure it wasn't long ago that if you criticize the ADL or George Soros, you are automatically anti-Semitic.
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Do you know who else criticizes the ADL and George Soros?
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Now, Israel doesn't criticize everything the ADL does.
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But there are members of Israel who have been quite critical of the organization.
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When the UN ambassador to Israel criticizes George Soros for funding pro-Hamas entities, what should that trigger in the news?
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Think MSNBC will get Alex Soros on to explain why his money is going to pro-Hamas organizations?
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How about he will not be invited on to explain why his money is going toward, you know, prosecutors who are letting people out of jail for the minor crimes and destroying the cities and pro-immigration beyond what we want and pro-Hamas organizations?
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There will, here's my prediction, there will not be one news entity that successfully gets him on air to ask him tough questions.
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And he's the most important person in the country.
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Because they're really good at funding things that make a difference.
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They're very capable, whatever it is they're doing.
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If you never see the press interview Alex Soros, you don't have a free press.
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And if they interview him and they don't ask him any important questions, you know, it's going to be more like,
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And he'll be like, I think they should settle it.
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You know, it's going to be something like that.
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But now, I understand why Fox News or Breitbart can't get Alex Soros to sit down for an interview.
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Presumably, you would just say no, because it would feel like a hit piece.
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Why can't CNN get him to sit down for an interview and ask real questions?
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I'm pretty sure Jake Tapper is not anti-Israel or anti-Semitic.
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Don't you think he would have a personal interest, which would match the national interest, which is ideal, to get Alex Soros to explain why he's acting in a way that even Israel doesn't like?
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Even if he had the instinct to do that, do you think he'd be allowed to put that on TV and actually ask the really hard questions?
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I mean, this would be a baseless accusation I'm making, because it's just pure speculation.
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But the fact that we've never seen it, and it's been the most obvious thing that should be on the news for now years.
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For years, it's the most obvious thing you should do.
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And then we have a report that Israel has destroyed 500 of an estimated 800 tunnels in Gaza.
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How do we know how many people were in those 800 tunnels, or the 500?
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And do they make sure there's no, let's say, hostages in them first?
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Is it possible they've already killed most or all of the remaining hostages?
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Because Hamas would still say they were alive, you know, to use them as a bargaining chip even if they weren't.
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But how do you do a death estimate in Hamas if you're blowing up tunnels?
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If you don't know who's in the tunnel, or do they clear them all before they blow them up and all they're doing is making sure the tunnel can't be used?
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Or are they blowing them up with people inside them?
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But if they blew up 500 tunnels, I would say that there's no way we'll ever have anything like an accurate death count.
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I mean, I'm not even sure that Hamas knows who was underground and who escaped and, you know, who's hiding in southern Gaza and who dressed as a woman and got out.
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I can imagine that Hamas does not have good communication among its various parts at this point,
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because the communication would be too easily discovered.
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Ladies and gentlemen, are there any stories I have not covered in my amazing one hour of the tour of the news and everything you needed to see?
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You know, I do have a lot of curiosity about how Israel always agrees to give up, like, ten of their people for one of their people.
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You know, because there are lots of hostage negotiations that happen.
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One is that maybe they arrest far more people than they really needed to just so they have people to bargain with.
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It might be that they legitimately think, you know, their people are worth...
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Certainly, certainly their people are worth more to them than their enemies are worth.
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The leader of Hamas, his name is literally Sinwar.
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Yeah, I did notice that Greg is pushing the envelope a little bit lately.
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Give us more of the lay of the land, like with Bill Maher and Mosk.
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Tucker knew that he was saying things that could get him fired, and so he wasn't surprised what happens.
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When I observe Greg, I think he chooses his spots better.
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He says provocative things, but they don't seem to cross the line.
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And also you can tell when he's just pushing buttons, because that's part of his job.
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And that looks different than what Tucker was doing.
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One of the things that I keep hearing is that the Cybertruck looks way more amazing in person than it does in pictures.
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Now, if that's the case, I haven't been close to one in person.
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So I don't yet have an opinion, because I'd want to be close to one and I'd want to drive one.
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To me, it feels, this is a terrible analogy, but it feels a little like the Hummer used to be.
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You know, before gas prices were too high, if somebody would get a Hummer.
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It's like, if you're a vehicle person, you know, if you're really a car person, this would be the one to have.
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I mean, if you were going to add one vehicle to your, you know, three sport car collection, you would have to add this.
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It beat a 911, or 911, what do you call the Porsche?
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So if you're a car person, you just have to own this vehicle, I think.
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You know, I want one vehicle that does what I need to do.
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Now, when I look at it, it looks like there's poor visibility.
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My number one things are easy to park and good visibility with at least cameras and ideally through windows.
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Because those tend to be the things that bother you most in the day to day.
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So, I generally would not buy the first production run of a car that radical.
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You know, I mean, if I had the money and I really cared about cars, I probably would.
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So let me tell you what public figures have to worry about.
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When I first made money doing Dilbert, I'd been driving, you know, used cars for a while.
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But when I got my first good car, like an expensive car, it was a BMW M3.
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And in the first day, somebody keyed the entire side of the car, fuck you, from the back bumper
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Now, at the time that happened, I was working like three jobs.
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You know, I was writing a book, doing Dilbert, doing my day job.
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I'd waited all my life for the first time to be able to buy a car that I really wanted.
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I bought the car I could afford that was good enough.
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So the first time I could buy a car that like, you know, you could feel it.
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The experience was completely ruined because for the first two months, that's how long it
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took me to find time to take it to the shop, for two months, everywhere I went, feeling
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good about my car, people would pull up to me on the other lane and they'd be like, and
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I'm sad about it, but I can't do anything about it right now.
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But time goes by and a number of years later, I got a new car.
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So I could experience, you know, the first week of owning a car that really means something
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I'm still like, I got PTSD from getting keyed on my very first day.
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And I take it to the gas station, park it at the gas station, go to fill it.
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And I got rear-ended at the gas station, parked in front of a pump.
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Have you ever been rear-ended at a gas station?
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They were effectively, physically destroyed the first day.
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Anyway, the point of it was, you asked, would I get a Cybertruck?
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If you're a public figure, you don't want to get a Cybertruck unless you're going to drive
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it around your neighborhood and hide it in your garage.
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You don't want to take the Cybertruck to buy groceries.
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It's basically, unless you just want people to hate you and to think about how they can
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destroy your stuff, it's just basically, it paints a target on your back.
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So my criteria for buying a car is it has to be safe, you know, safety first.
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But on top of safety and function, I don't go for thrill.
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I want to park in the parking lot and nobody notices.
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So my X5 does that because where I live, there's a lot of cars in that category.
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Your car has to align with your neighborhood, correct?
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But I can't imagine taking a Cybertruck and parking it at an airport.
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And I get that it's hard to key it, but there must be something you can do to it that's bad.
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By the time you get your Cybertruck, there will be many on the road.
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So I'd say it's on my short list, but I'd have to know a lot more about it.
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And I'll have to see how people like it the first year.
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I'm just assuming there will be a number of minor recalls and stuff because it's a new vehicle.