Episode 2333 CWSA 12⧸25⧸23 Merry Christmas And Get In Here For Some Headlines Fun. Bring Coffee
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1 hour and 32 minutes
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140.43953
Summary
A story about aliens and a man who thinks whales are aliens and they might be trying to teach us how to communicate with aliens. Also, a story about a guy who thinks the world is running out of lithium and is looking for a way to make more.
Transcript
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good morning everybody and merry christmas and happy new year a little bit early well if you'd
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like your experience today to go up to levels that even santa claus couldn't understand all
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you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass a tank or chalice or stein a kinteen joker mask a
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vessel of any kind filling with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better
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it's called simultaneous sip it happens now go it's too early for eggnog much too early
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well should i read the news in a funny and not too serious way all right all right we don't want
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to get too serious today do we well before we start i should call your attention to
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the dilbert reborn comic available to local subscribers and also subscribers on x
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and i just want to let you know the theme you might know that mickey mouse came off copyright
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but not the total mickey mouse not the modern version only the version that's 95 years old
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there's a black and white mickey mouse steamboat willie
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so in honor of him coming off of copyright i have him visiting dilbert's
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boss so that's black and white mickey i have to draw him in black and white even though the comic is color
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so mickey says hi my name is mickey and the boss says get out of here
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and mickey says settle down my copyright expired i'm a free mouse disney can't sue you and boss says
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then mickey says can i get a job here or do you discriminate against black and white characters
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and the boss says that's a gray area yeah it's a it's a dad joke but a solid one i think solid
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well the new york post is reporting there was a man who was arrested because he used a laser pointer
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he was pointing at a commercial plane then at a police helicopter as you know the laser pointers can blind the
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pilot so that's very illegal so they they arrested him but the part of the story that they didn't report
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is they took his laser pointer away from him and they shipped it to zelensky in ukraine
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this is all we had left we didn't have anything left we're like well we've got this laser pointer we
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took off that guy i'll take it okay you don't like your uk uk ukraine humor early in the morning
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well here's a story that's developing i think we can see where it's heading
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i told you that uh tucker carlson suggests that he has information we don't have and that he believes
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that aliens or some kind of entity that's not human uh may have always been here as opposed to visiting
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from another planet might even have a uh a spiritual dimension so he thinks maybe could be here could
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be in the oceans could have always been here hiding in antarctica maybe i don't know but then there's this
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related story that says scientists are they think they can decode whale language so they might be able
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to use ai to decode the complexity of the whale sounds and figure out their language yeah so uh and then
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they think that if they could learn whale language it might teach them how to make a universal communicator
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so that ai could someday allow us to communicate with aliens have you put it all together yet
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have you connected the dots yeah uh i think the cat's on the roof they're trying to slowly break it to us
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that whales are aliens and they might have ships now you've got to have some good technology
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to cart a whale's ass around in a spaceship but apparently they have the good stuff anti-gravity
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so yeah whales are aliens and uh they may have already decided to conquer us because
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i don't know if you know the history of humans and whales but i swear i hope the whales don't know it
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you're gonna be really pissed have you heard of whale oil don't ask don't ask
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all right um i'm so old that you know how things change and when you think back what you used to
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think was true you're like oh my god how did we think that was true when we were kids so dumb
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here's some of the things i believed oh probably two years ago
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two years ago i thought maybe we had too much population on the planet so population growth
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was a problem and i thought we had a shortage of lithium but elon musk has set us straight we have
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too few people we need more or else the economy will collapse and as he uh he posted yesterday i think
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um lithium is one of the most common elements on earth building lithium refineries is the hard part
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that's what we need but lithium is everywhere how many of you were in the same boat that just a few
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years ago you thought we had too much too many people and not enough lithium but turns out we have unlimited
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lithium and not enough people is there anything we know that's true the most the most basic things
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you thought you knew about reality nope totally opposite not enough people plenty of lithium
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how many of you saw the most bizarre interview ever of tucker carlson interviewing kevin spacey
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but kevin spacey did it with it with the character the political character he played in that long-running
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netflix series whose name i can't remember but he played a kind of a dirty politician so he did the whole
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interview in character now you might say to yourself kevin spacey i thought he got me too'd or he got
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blamed for some terrible sex crimes with the men and you know weren't there multiple claims and how in
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the world is he being rehabilitated i i thought he was a goner house of cards was the name of the show
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yeah he was on the house of cards um but it turns out that uh now this is just what i see on the x platform
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i'll need a i'll need a fact check because i'm not positive this is true
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is it true that there were four accusers of kevin spacey i think they were all male and three of
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them died suspiciously so those cases went away and one of them dropped the charges
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is that true the three out of the four people accusing him died suspiciously and one dropped the charges
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i don't know if that's true it feels it feels too like on the nose or something right that couldn't
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be true all right i'm gonna say i don't quite believe it yet but i'll say it's a it's a story
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on social media i'm not sure i believe it i'm gonna need a little more convincing on that one better source
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i guess um but uh there's also a report that the uh there's a partial epstein flight list
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is that real because i saw a few accounts that seemed to show as they seem to be showing lists
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of people who went to epstein island i don't know if those are real they were supposed to be released
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about now but i don't want to mention anybody on it because it looks like it might be bullshit
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is it real does anybody know do we actually have the list it's fake so that so that list that we're
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seeing is one that's been out for years which we don't know if it necessarily matches the real list
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right okay so we're going to call that one bs however on the bs low credibility
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you shouldn't believe it list is kevin spacey's name now here's what you should look at look for
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if we should ever confirm that we know who flew with him look for people who are let's say famous
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celebrities who are unusually politically active that's what i'd be looking for all right but we
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have to wait to make sure that it's a real list so we don't know if kevin spacey was ever on anything
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like that that would be a rumor um there's a story that there's a big rise in threats to public officials
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can you believe it can you believe that our elected officials are getting more death threats than ever
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is that because the public got worse i don't think so
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maybe there's a reason but one of my favorite uh comics of all time
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was i can't even remember the the cartoonist i don't think the cartoon runs anymore it was a
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single panel comic and it showed a guy in jail and he was talking to his bunk mate and he had you know
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scratched a bunch of scratches on the wall and he was counting them up and he was talking about his
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own experience and the prisoner says 19 arrests 19 convictions maybe it's me
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i've been laughing about that for like 40 years maybe it's me 19 arrests 19 convictions starting to
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think the problem's on my side so yeah there are more death threats of public figures is that because
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or is there an unmistakable pattern of bad behavior that would certainly suggest there would be more death
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threats i'm going to go with the latter i i feel like we know too much about government now we're
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like a little bit smarter our eyes are a little bit more opened and maybe they're worse maybe the
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worst nerve event but i would certainly expect more death threats given our current situation not that i
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encourage them i don't encourage that so don't make any death threats but if the government is wondering
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why there are so many maybe they should examine their own behavior maybe you consider all possibilities
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well i saw a interesting and provocative post by naval ravikant and uh he has a way of saying things in a
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very succinct way and he said this argentina may prove that you can vote your way into poverty
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because and they showed some stats of south american countries and their poverty levels and it is very
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clear that it's a political problem and not a resource problem you can see that when the political
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leadership changes the economy just either goes in the toilet or who does well and it seems to be one
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to one so argentina has their new pro-capitalist president he was doing a lot of stuff and cutting
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departments and stuff i would bet on argentina recovery i would say the smart money says argentina
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is going to go well and here's the thing sometimes it's just about energy so the new president of argentina
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brings in this reformist energy which makes people say oh i'm optimistic now because of all that reformist energy
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oh he did something in the news that looks like a big deal he got rid of some departments or something
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oh reformist energy so then because there's reformist energy people create their own energy
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and that becomes a self-fulfilling issue so it will be partly what he does the new president but partly
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how people feel about it and apparently people are feeling good about it so good news from argentina
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which may maybe spread to other places well zero hedge is reporting
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that uh what is becoming evident is that the ngos the non-government organizations now these are the
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organizations that usually rich people have funded but are not directly controlled by anybody's
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government so they're like little governments but non-government because there's some rich person
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allowing them to do what they do rich people usually and apparently these ngos are now well
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known to be the organizers of the mass immigration that's happening in america and probably elsewhere
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so it's organized it's not just that they made it let's say comfortable for people who are going to
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immigrate anyway they actually created an entire travel network to inform people how to go and then
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help them immigrate from everywhere in the world now this had nothing to do with the american government
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but has a gigantic impact on the health of the united states so it's not a country
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they're non-government organizations it might be people from different countries in some cases
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now how should we respond to that well if it's just a non-government organization doing legal stuff
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and i guess it's all legal in fact you can find out you can get their documents you can find their maps
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you can find out their whole plans and they're doing exactly what i said they've created a a whole
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platform to make it easy for people to leave where they are and end up in america and and survive
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now my first problem with that is the following one of the things i've always liked about american
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illegal immigration and even legal immigration is that it was hard to get to america it was hard to
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get in legally you have to be qualified and know how to jump through all the hoops you have to be able to
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afford a plane ticket depending where you're coming from so the people we would get
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are people who could cross a very high bar they could figure out how to get here they could go
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through all the the complications to do it and they were high enough educated quality that the
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country said oh yeah we we like people like you but what happens and then also for the people coming
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over the southern border they were unusually risk-taking people because they didn't necessarily
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know how they were going to make it work i like those people but here's the problem what happens if
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it's so easy it's just easier to leave than it is to stay now you've reversed it if it's if it's easier
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to stay than it is to leave you've got a natural filter so you get all the risk-taking
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high quality people who can you know do this difficult thing getting here now you make it so
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easy and where you are is so bad that the laziest lowest qualified people say hey i might as well get
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on this bus it's free might take me somewhere better so didn't we just reverse the best thing about
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immigration then it got us the people who could pass the filter and now the filter is reversed
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and we're getting the people who couldn't who couldn't make it in their own country and probably
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can't make it as easily in our country as the people who had a harder time getting past the filter
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so that's bad but i'd like to add this following thought
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uh is there a reason we can't kill the ngo leaders under the rules of war
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wouldn't we just have to declare this an illegal invasion and part of a war and then we could kill
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them couldn't we now i don't think we should just just go murder the people in the ngos that would be
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kind of crazy i'm not saying that i'm saying we should create a legal process in which we designate
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the ngos as terrorist organizations because they seem to be working diligently for the destruction
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of the united states what would you call that well you'd say well they're not doing anything violent
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and i would say they're shipping in uh military age people that we don't know
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how does that not end up with more violence than there would have been if if they hadn't done it
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of course there are so i would say we should at least examine uh designated the ngos as terrorist
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organizations or paramilitary or military supporting or funding of terrorists or something like that
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and then we should give them warning funny warning because you don't want to kill anybody you don't
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need to kill say look if you keep organizing these immigrants we're actually going to kill you
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wherever you are in any country wherever you are you're just going to get mowed down and we're not
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going to apologize because you're ruining our country no you don't think we should be able to murder the
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heads of the ngos legally it should be under a legal umbrella with lots of warning because america is
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being destroyed that's that's not hyperbole there is some level of immigration that guarantees the
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destruction of america and the ngos are heading toward that limit i don't know if we're there yet
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i think we're below that limit but we're heading there as quickly as possible i say you have to kill
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the people behind it but give them warning and do it under a legal structure certainly nothing illegal
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so but and whoever funds it probably should be looked at as well
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oh here's something interesting let's see if we can figure it out
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you've heard that there is excess death rates in the united states but here's the weird thing
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so the pandemic is over and there's still these excess death rates so you're going to say oh it's
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the vaccination no it's this or that here's what we know apparently it's across all demographics in
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the united states and it's not as severe in europe is that enough to tell us what it is
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is think about it it's all demographics but not so much in europe can we figure it out from there
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so here's what i think it would not be if it's if it's all demographics i would say it's not lifestyle
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because there wasn't that much of a lifestyle change that would affect all the demographics the
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same so i'm going to rule out a lifestyle change such as staying home too much less active etc
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um i don't think the diet changed i don't think the diet changed in one year or two did it
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we'll get the vaccines i don't think diet changed and even if it did you would see that in some
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diet um some demographics more than others because i think we have some demographics that don't eat
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the same as others right i don't think uh seniors eat the same as young people young people don't eat
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the same as you know so we should have demographics that are not having the problem if it's food because
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it wouldn't be everything you eat everywhere all the same time it'd be like some element of the food
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the food would be bad and you'd see it in some demographic more than others so i don't think
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it's food i don't think it's anything that affects all of us all the time
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so if it's not our lifestyle and it's not the food uh what about the cove itself well europe had
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covid and we had covid but europe is doing better so it's the same covid so it's probably not covid
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hangover and then your obvious question is the vaccinations but i don't know this for sure but i
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strongly suggest that the vaccination status would be the main thing people are looking at so obvious
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so don't you think that uh we would know by now if the unvaccinated were a demographic group
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that we're doing fine don't you think it if we really knew that unvaccinated people just weren't
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having this excess death rate wouldn't we know that by now i feel like we would because it's the most
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obvious thing you look at right i don't think it's more sugar because that didn't change much
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um so i don't think it's food i don't think it's big pharma
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i don't think it's just that we got fatter although we did because that doesn't happen fast enough
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what do you think of this all right i've got two hypotheses that i don't have a lot of confidence in
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that's the that's the sketchy part here's what i think number one it's a data collection problem
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so either europe is doing a bad job of collecting death data or the u.s changed their mechanism and
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or is doing a better job or a different job so if i had to guess the fact that it's across all
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demographics and it doesn't affect europe as much that strongly suggests the data is just wrong
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that we maybe we change the way we collect it or something like that
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yeah so here's one possibility it's a bad data collection say some kind of change that affected
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all the way everybody does it maybe but i feel like we'd know that don't you think we'd know that by now
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don't you think somebody would have said hey the data collection changed i feel like that would have
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bubbled up so probably not that but there is one thing that affects uh all people in america
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in a way that doesn't affect europe what is it what is something that does seem unique to america
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loneliness now that's a hypothesis that europe has a different culture and may simply be more social
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is that true would you say that that europe is simply more social i don't know if that's true
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but if they are that would explain it because we do have a we have a loneliness problem in the united
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states and it's the only thing i can think of that is across all demographics every demographic is lonelier
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now our our shutdown in the pandemic apparently made a big difference to our permanent habits
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so another story in the news is that people are not using their cars as much we have the same number
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we actually have more cars than we had before the pandemic so the number of cars went up
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but the miles driven drop like a rock do you think that miles driven dropping like a rock is entirely
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work related some of it is so a lot of people are working at home so that increases your loneliness
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you have more you know the technology is better all the time so that increases your options
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uh humans are worth less to each other i think it's loneliness and the depression that comes with it
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um is it pharma food obesity data vaccination dehydration alcohol well well americans oh
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relative that so i think americans are drinking way less
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or actually maybe the ones who are drinking are drinking more
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but there are a few people drinking at all and more people quitting so they're less social
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uh do we have a problem here in locals looks like the locals
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comments are having a problem so i'm going to open up the locals comments on my other device that usually
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there we go all right yes i have your comments now on my other device can you see me
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i think you can see me but the comments are delayed all right so i got all your comments now
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hey john you're kind of an asshole i just want to tell you that for christmas
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i named john you're a total asshole thanks thanks for joining
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quitting alcohol is the best thing you've done for yourself good
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all right well we've already ruled out the vaccination because i think that would have been noticed
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yeah i don't know if it's depression but uh let me here's the question i was going to ask let me
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look at the comments the question is this how many of you have uh increased loneliness
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since before the pandemic how many of you have increased in loneliness
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all right i'm seeing lots of no's but there are lots of yeses
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oh my god sorry about that yeah some people got widowed
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uh yep so some of it is yeah loneliness and retirement and all that other stuff okay oh we got
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well that's my guess all right here's a sam altman prediction so he was bragging about his prediction
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he said 27 months ago he made the following prediction he said that by 2030
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so now just six years away it will become clear that the ai revolution and renewable
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plus nuclear energy are going to get us there which is near zero cost for intelligence and energy
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near zero so what sam altman's talking about is i think fusion made some breakthroughs
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and there are a lot of uh you know green energy breakthroughs and now you have the ai breakthrough
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which he suggests um and he said in a comment that at some point chat gpt will be free uh except for the
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newest version so you'll be able to get like a really really useful free one but if you want
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the really really useful one maybe that's connected to more services or something you you play it pay a few
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bucks a month so at some point most people will have free ai just think about that free ai it won't be
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the best you could buy but you know for 20 bucks a month you probably get that too and then um we're
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heading toward free energy so the answer to your question what do you do about a national debt
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that is so high you can't even imagine any scenario in which it would be paid back
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free energy would get you there if energy approached to free then the cost of all products would drop
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and suddenly everything gets fixed so it is a once in a civilization change
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only once in all of human civilization will energy costs go from real expensive
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to almost free only once it will never happen again but only once have we run up debt
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that looks impossible to pay off luckily it happened at the same time
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this is one of the things that makes me think we're in a simulation like how could that be
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how could it be a coincidence that the one time you have a crushing impossible to pay off debt
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you have a once in a ever in the history of the universe ever this you know one time change in
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yeah people are staying home more blah blah so wall street journal says that uh kids
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are preferring youtube to all other forms of entertainment i'm going to uh echo that
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although i'm no kid have have all you noticed that if you turn on youtube you'll find something very
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interesting to watch every single time have you ever noticed that it works every time
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if i have some free time and i open up youtube no question about it there are going to be
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five to ten things that is suggest all of which interest me now go anywhere else
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right x x actually works that way when i go on x i'm always entertained it's really really strange
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if i don't have a entertaining time on x but if i open netflix what are my percentage odds
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not that good maybe one in three but i'll find something i want to watch at most one in four
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and that's the same for all the streaming services
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at one point i just signed up for all the streaming services like i just had every one of them
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um and i could not find anything to watch um but once i got the youtube premium service where there's no
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commercials i always always have something fun to watch youtube is just killing everything else
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i don't want to spend a whole bunch of time looking for what i want to watch and netflix is
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is just a nightmare and if you have more than one streaming service you can't remember where you stop
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watching one thing how many times have you ever done this if you have more than one streaming service
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you'll watch a show and you'll watch a few episodes you say hey this will be my new thing i'll watch the
00:34:12.080
rest of these and then you can't remember which streaming service it was on and then you get
00:34:16.560
frustrated because you're looking for it and it's not in the first three you try and then you just give
00:34:20.960
up and you never watch it again yeah it's not just me early it's not just me yeah i give up on most of
00:34:31.120
the things i try to watch even when i like them because i can't figure out where the next episode is
00:34:37.760
and it frustrates me because i sit down and if i spend if i spend 10 minutes looking for something
00:34:44.080
to watch i'm going to give up i'm literally just going to change my mind say well that was my 10
00:34:51.360
minutes i didn't have half an hour i had 10 minutes and i spent the whole time looking for something
00:34:58.080
but you go to amazon it's like oh yeah or not amazon but youtube oh there it is thing and and also a lot
00:35:05.680
of the content is 10 minutes so i can see 10 minutes of something from beginning to end without
00:35:11.280
looking for it there's no competition youtube is just going to own everything
00:35:16.880
well apparently there's an egypt plan for solving the gaza situation
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in which they do a in broad terms uh they would end the war with israel and hamas with a ceasefire
00:35:31.120
a phased hostage release and then the creation of a palestinian government of experts who would
00:35:37.040
administer to the gaza strip and occupied west bank so the the plan would include a different kind of
00:35:43.280
government for the west bank in addition to gaza which is probably important and you know having gaza
00:35:52.080
different than the west bank gave you two problems you know wouldn't it be nice to have one
00:35:59.920
and the proposal worked out with the gulf of nations of cutter has been presented blah blah
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but it falls short of israel's goal of crushing hamas so we don't think it'll happen um it's good that
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they're talking about it now yesterday there was a brief social media bit that i can't find in the
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news so i think it's not true that saudi arabia had a plan for uh administering the west bank and gaza
00:36:29.840
is that true or not true did anybody see a story about that it was briefly on social media but i
00:36:37.760
didn't see a source i think it's not true but i'm gonna i'm gonna double down and say that the
00:36:44.400
smartest thing that saudi arabia could do is offer to administer the region uh with with israel in
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charge of all the security because it would make saudi arabia the adult in the room and it would
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position them in the strongest position not only to oppose iran because remember iran wanted to scuttle
00:37:09.040
the the growing closeness between saudi and israel and the other countries so it really was about
00:37:16.400
thwarting israel the saudi from becoming more integrated with israel and west so the best way
00:37:22.960
you could defeat iran's intentions and hamas's intentions is to make sure that when as soon as
00:37:30.560
you're done the other countries that were trying to stop getting together are not just getting together
00:37:36.560
but more getting together than they ever were contemplating before so that there's a real it
00:37:41.840
really didn't work you got to make sure that iran thinks oh crap that didn't work right so they're not
00:37:48.240
tempted to do it again so i think uh maybe maybe a saudi involvement would be the right answer uh but i don't
00:37:59.040
see any kind of answer where the palestinians are are governing themselves i just don't see it now
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as someone pointed out to me this morning um you have all these brainwashed young people
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in the west bank and gaza how in the world do you fix that an entire youth group completely brainwashed
00:38:24.400
to just want to kill israelis and jews and whatever can you fix it i'm going to give you
00:38:31.600
a weird optimistic answer to that question number one here's here's number one persuasion rule you need
00:38:38.640
to know it is way easier to brainwash a young person old people can be brainwashed but it takes more work
00:38:48.480
because they're more settled in their opinions you really have to unsettle their opinion before you
00:38:52.960
can change it young people are starting with no real opinion and certainly not strongly held so you can
00:38:59.920
brainwash them easily you can make them believe in santa claus anything right so that's what happened
00:39:08.640
so now you've got this all this weaponized you know million or so young people who are weaponized so
00:39:16.080
how in the world do you solve that well i don't know if it's solvable but you could imagine a scenario
00:39:23.360
in which let's say saudi or somebody else had control of all of the education system
00:39:30.000
so somebody had real tight control of the curriculum and what the teachers were telling the kids
00:39:38.080
then you just reprogram them now you'd have to get the 20 somethings because they're already out of
00:39:44.080
school but you can get them so here's the good news remember i told you it's simple to brainwash
00:39:51.200
young people it's really simple to unbrainwash them because you know what do you know it's easy to
00:39:58.960
convince a young person there's nothing easier to convince a 20 something or a teenager than the
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following statement you ready for this when i tell you how easy it is you're going to laugh
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it's the easiest unbrainwashing you'll ever do you ready here it comes the adults were lying to you
00:40:20.960
that's it that's it and you're done you just have to explain what they lied to you about and that's it
00:40:30.320
yeah young young people especially men all right let let's put this to the men all right because
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it's the men who are doing the fighting for the most part so we'll just say to the men
00:40:48.800
don't you think you could be easily convinced that your adult you know your elders have been lying to you
00:40:56.640
all along about anything about anything just pick a topic and i tell you your your elders were lying to
00:41:04.240
you you think i could sell that to young people it's the easiest thing there's nothing easier they're
00:41:11.840
already primed for it it's easy to convince somebody of something they're already primed to believe so if
00:41:20.000
you already believed in ghosts it would be real easy to tell you that i saw one and you'd believe it
00:41:27.120
but if you didn't believe in ghosts well good luck right i'm not really going to convince you i saw one
00:41:32.880
if you don't believe they're real but young people specifically young men are all ready to believe that
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everybody's lying it's the single most believable thing when you're a young male that you've been lied to
00:41:48.880
so you just take that approach you don't say oh here's a better way you say no they were all
00:41:54.640
illegitimate you know those hamas leaders that were in charge of your education before they all became
00:42:00.640
billionaires what yeah they all became billionaires it was never real it was just a plot to brainwash you
00:42:08.720
you know how long it would take to unbrainwash a young person under those conditions a a reasonable
00:42:16.560
person comes in and said you know i hate to tell you it was all an op they were just brainwashing
00:42:22.160
you so that they could get billions of dollars in power and really most of what they told you wasn't
00:42:26.800
even true a young person you can flip them in 10 minutes so if you're thinking oh there's no there's no
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way you can unbrainwash all those young people 10 minutes 10 minutes yep you can unbrainwash every
00:42:45.520
one of them now can you brain unbrainwash their parents uh good luck good luck with that that's
00:42:53.600
going to be harder way way harder but the kids the 20 somethings yeah you can get every one of them
00:43:00.240
every one of them all right uh bill ackman still going hard at the president of harvard who refused
00:43:11.520
to quit and i guess there's the board refused to fire her but now he says bill ackman says i have
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heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the harvard
00:43:25.120
corporation has asked president gate to resign and she has refused
00:43:32.320
who could have seen this coming i wonder what she did instead of agreeing to resign
00:43:44.800
and then the source said that she hired a lawyer and she's going to sue okay
00:43:49.920
a little bit dependable a little bit dependable a little bit dependable now
00:44:00.960
let me ask you this if you were a white man and you thought where should i go to you know go get a job
00:44:09.920
did you really have a chance of getting a job as president of harvard this latest time you really
00:44:14.960
didn't did you yeah yeah do you think you should stay away from situations in which you have a
00:44:21.920
natural disadvantage and try to find situations where you have some kind of natural advantage i would
00:44:30.880
so i wouldn't go anywhere where you're in physical danger
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or where other people have a competitive edge against you in hiring i wouldn't go any of those two places
00:44:42.160
i guess i wouldn't have been cancelled if i'd said that
00:44:55.440
all right uh the polls are saying according to the hill they looked at a whole bunch of polls 507
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polls and they found that trump is leading by over two percent against biden
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now that's remember that's two percent in the general election
00:45:11.840
and republicans win elections without winning the general you know the the general vote they just have
00:45:21.840
so that would suggest that trump probably has like an overwhelming advantage in winning the election
00:45:29.280
because if he's a two points ahead in the general that would be better than basically
00:45:36.960
any republican has done since reagan give me give me a history fact check
00:45:44.560
when was the last time if ever a republican won the election and also won the popular vote
00:45:57.760
no george bush did george bush jr win the popular vote
00:46:10.720
all right well it does happen but so far it has accurately predicted
00:46:16.640
you know anywhere that a republican won the popular vote they also won the election right
00:46:22.640
is that right let's let's check that every time the republican won the popular vote
00:46:29.360
they also won the election true and won it handily if they won the popular vote they didn't just win
00:46:37.280
the election they won it like really pop they wanted by a lot right i think that's true
00:46:42.720
so we have a situation that guarantees civil war
00:46:49.360
because either trump wins and the bad guys create a civil war to stop it or trump loses
00:46:57.760
and his supporters start a civil war because it looks rigged
00:47:03.920
it's hard to avoid the civil war this time isn't it now i'm using hyperbole i don't think there'll be a
00:47:08.720
civil war i don't think there's a civil war either way i think we just complain a lot and do what we
00:47:13.600
can in courts like always so you know that weight loss drug that's a big deal you get the injections
00:47:21.200
i think ozempic is one but there are others in the same category and apparently they really really work
00:47:26.880
and people lose weight but believe it or not this is the conversation that's happening
00:47:31.680
whether or not these shots should be considered a lifetime treatment because apparently as soon as
00:47:40.800
people take and stop taking the shots two-thirds of them gain back all the weight in the year
00:47:46.800
two-thirds so the medical community is debating whether it should be treated like diabetes which is
00:47:54.720
once you have it you have it so it's lifetime you know like a high blood pressure once you have it you
00:48:00.800
have it so you just always take the blood pressure pills now is everybody okay with that isn't there
00:48:10.240
something wrong with this uh reasoning by analogy all right so it's permanent for diabetes and hypertension
00:48:21.680
now obviously if you're if you somehow showed as non-diabetic or you somehow showed as no longer
00:48:28.480
having hypertension they'd stop but generally speaking the assumption is you're just doing it forever
00:48:35.760
isn't that different than eating because almost positive people can eat less like by you know if
00:48:43.680
they could eat less if if you lost a bunch of weight with ozempic and then you got off it so your hunger
00:48:50.400
came back it's not impossible for you to find another way to stop eating is it like a diet
00:48:56.560
you know the way everybody else does it now i don't i don't do fat shaming because i don't believe
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in free will but since it's a real thing that people can keep weight off without drugs shouldn't you
00:49:12.080
always take them off it after a year am i wrong about that i would think that 100 of the time you
00:49:19.360
say i'm going to do this for let's say two years you're going to do this for two years and then we're
00:49:24.400
absolutely taking you off the drug now if two years later it looks like you couldn't handle it
00:49:30.960
we'll talk about putting you back on but we're going to have to take you off it to see if you
00:49:36.640
have any chance at all of maintaining your weight shouldn't that be the rule that you're guaranteed to
00:49:42.720
get off it but we'll watch it and if you know if you can't figure out how to do it on your own
00:49:48.640
we'll have to put you back on because the drug itself can't be completely safe is it
00:50:00.720
so there's a there's a movement now there's a book by uh let's see book by jones somebody named jones
00:50:10.400
he was talking about the white supremacy uh founding of the country and wants to remind us
00:50:16.720
that the original exploration of the uh at least of white people by the americas was super super racist
00:50:26.000
which i didn't actually know so here's something maybe you didn't know
00:50:35.200
talks about the doctrine of discovery so back in 1493 back in columbus days
00:50:44.720
that said any land not inhabited by christians was available to be quote discovered claimed and
00:50:55.440
did you know that did you know that the christians believed that if they found land that wasn't run by
00:51:03.040
christians they could conquer it because they were christians what's that sound like
00:51:08.720
does that sound a little bit like the radical islamic thing going on right now all right so
00:51:16.320
the catholic faith and christian religions could be exalted and spread everywhere because we were the good
00:51:22.320
ones i guess uh and it became the basis of all european claims in the americas
00:51:28.240
that it was basically a christian right basically to take over anything that wasn't already christian
00:51:35.200
that that sounds worse than anything i've heard america do yet that's pretty bad yeah boy
00:51:48.640
um was it uh i think i saw vivek ramaswamy saying that you know he sort of understands why
00:51:56.160
people want to tear down statues of slave owners right you might not agree with it
00:52:02.800
but it's not without an argument it's not without an argument slave owner yeah is that the message
00:52:10.480
we want to send but as vivek says why don't we replace them with people who are the opposite of
00:52:15.520
slave owners and he mentioned two people in particular uh president john adams and president
00:52:22.560
john quincy adams who apparently were not slave owners and worked very hard against the evil of slavery
00:52:30.480
so we do have presidents in the same era as the slave owners who were working very hard on the
00:52:37.200
opposite side of things to try to free free slaves and give them legal representation and everything
00:52:43.280
else so why not build a statute to my relatives how about that huh didn't see that coming my cousins
00:52:51.840
the adams uh president i just assume i'm related some somewhere down the line
00:52:57.040
i'm not descended from them but i might be a cousin of some kind
00:53:03.840
well uh michael schellenberger has a fascinating again uh article about how the color revolution methods
00:53:13.200
that our government has used in other countries uh they used it against america to defeat trump
00:53:22.400
so the color revolution is when you do a bunch of non-violent things which collectively destabilize
00:53:28.640
the country so it could be processes in the street it could be lawfare it could be anything that's legal
00:53:35.600
but would destabilize the country that's the color revolution and as michael schellenberger points out
00:53:42.960
uh the democrats had previously proposed in both 2016 and 2020 um
00:53:53.600
no hold on uh as his publication public reported i'll just read what he said on wednesday political
00:54:01.360
operatives and journalists these are americans held a summit called the transition integrity project
00:54:08.320
or the tip in 2020 right so now a bunch of important democrats got together
00:54:15.200
and in 2020 and during that they did simulated exercises in which the players plotted how to
00:54:22.320
challenge the election results in the event of a trump victory just think about that trump is
00:54:29.760
maybe going to go to jail or not be on the ballot for challenging an election and the democrats were
00:54:37.440
planning to challenge him if he won even if it was a legal victory they were planning to challenge it
00:54:46.480
and we know that it's documented the exact thing they're they're blaming him of they were planning to do
00:54:52.400
very much planning it i mean really really planning it all right here's here and here's the punchline
00:55:02.000
in one of their simulations they had states send alternate slates of of electors
00:55:08.800
that's right they actually did uh role play and uh war games in which they did what trump tried to do
00:55:18.400
with the alternate electors and then when trump did it instead of them
00:55:25.200
they tried to put him in jail for it so the very thing that they war game that they were going to do
00:55:32.800
as soon as trump did it and by the way they tried to do it in earlier elections as well
00:55:38.480
so it was a very common thing they they actually got their illegitimate media to sell it
00:55:44.320
as an insurrection so they could put trump in jail the very thing that they knew was legal because
00:55:51.040
they'd done it before and so legal that they even war gamed it and documented it as a thing to do
00:56:04.240
and then michael schoenberger says the democrats quote insurrection narrative rests on manipulative
00:56:10.160
arguments and cynical language games and this narrative has been used to destroy foundation
00:56:15.520
of our democracy the right to vote for the candidate of your choice
00:56:21.760
now this is a case of everything is exactly as bad and rotten as you thought it was
00:56:30.160
it couldn't be more of a worst case scenario and apparently it's all documented
00:56:34.560
it's as true as anything's ever been true it's all documented
00:56:49.760
he will not be jailed and he will not be prevented from running
00:56:55.360
you know why because that's too far that's just too far there there is a line
00:57:03.360
and in case democrats are wondering where the line is there might be other lines that's definitely a line
00:57:10.160
yeah if you keep him from winning using a trick
00:57:14.720
i can't predict what happens after that i i never suggest violence of course but
00:57:23.280
things are going to get real unpredictable if that were to happen so i almost can guarantee you it
00:57:29.840
won't happen because the risk that democrats would be putting themselves to would would actually be
00:57:36.000
existential that would be an existential risk meaning the whole thing could fall apart
00:57:41.920
yeah so i don't think that's going to happen because i think nobody would take that kind of risk
00:57:48.320
but democrats might be thinking they're fighting for their lives
00:57:51.200
you know there might be somebody well lots of people so crooked that they fear a trump presidency
00:57:58.640
because he might actually put the crooks in jail and they're going to have to act in a way that's like
00:58:03.120
trying to protect their own life so i do hope his security service is up to the job
00:58:09.120
all right i saw a uh a post by mike servich said the energy felt bad and he was feeling that sort of
00:58:20.960
a negative you know cloud coming i don't feel it i actually feel like um we're in an awakening
00:58:31.440
and that the awakening will be bumpy and you know it won't be easy but that is where we had to go
00:58:41.280
so what i feel is a huge destabilization and i think maybe that's what mike is feeling there there's
00:58:48.240
a level of destabilization that i've never seen before we're definitely destabilized and things are
00:58:56.000
definitely going to change but here's my uh being too american part if there's one thing that americans
00:59:06.160
are good at consistently good at and nothing's changed like we're still those same people
00:59:13.520
we're really good at breaking our shit and then fixing it breaking is the hard part sometimes you got
00:59:21.760
to break it or else you know you can't build it back we're we're experiencing a great breaking
00:59:30.320
meaning that everything we were doing before stopped working right everything everything everything
00:59:36.800
that used to work just stopped working so we had to wait until it broke before we could really fix it
00:59:45.920
and you had to push it a little bit too and now you're seeing things breaking everywhere
00:59:50.560
remember DEI and the ESG stuff it was just sort of rolling along
00:59:58.640
and we had to break it before it could be put back together in a better way so yeah i i see a whole
01:00:07.280
bunch of things that were just sort of rolling along that now just have to be broken
01:00:12.240
uh i feel far and away more positive forces than negative forces are forming that's my feeling just
01:00:23.760
hunch but i think you can feel good this christmas i think you can feel good to me it feels like ukraine
01:00:32.800
is winding down because it has to i think uh israel did what it needed to do and the system the the
01:00:40.640
situation that was in israel was unsustainable it had to break but first you have the first something
01:00:48.080
terrible had to happen before you could do the extreme thing needed to do to maybe get something
01:00:54.000
stable this was it it was an extreme thing nobody wanted it to happen but it did so now they have a chance
01:01:01.680
of building something stable maybe with saudi or somebody else having some role we'll see
01:01:11.280
but i see two wars that are likely to wind down i don't see a war with china starting
01:01:16.160
i see china on the decline i see russia sort of should stay kind of stable once ukraine winds down
01:01:26.000
and energy's trending toward free and ai is coming and robots are gonna save us i don't know
01:01:36.320
i see a lot of positives now keep your eye on argentina because uh naval's comment is is way deeper than you
01:01:47.120
think it is because he says it so succinctly but if argentina quote proves you can vote yourself
01:01:54.160
and a poverty that might change everything might change everything if if uh by election day argentina
01:02:04.640
has already started to turn around i think trump gets elected easily don't you don't you think argentina
01:02:13.760
is a referendum on trump it's also a referendum on vivek because vivek has ideas that are that seem as uh
01:02:23.280
let's say bold i'm gonna say bold as as argentina
01:02:30.960
my cable management is yeah it is i do have cable i have terrible cable management future
01:02:38.320
yeah it's not bad enough yet maybe i think it is
01:02:43.600
no way someone stole your cat last year and you just received a box with your cat in it
01:02:55.520
that did not happen are you serious somebody sold your cat and they gave it back to you on christmas
01:03:39.200
you're worried about vivek because he's too charismatic
01:03:42.560
you know that is the problem with smart people and one of the things that trump does best
01:03:51.040
is he acts less smart than he is have you ever noticed that
01:03:56.240
one of one of trump's greatest magic tricks is to convince you he's not as smart as he is
01:04:02.240
because then you feel comfortable with him vivek has the other problem he's so obviously smarter than
01:04:08.720
all of us that you wonder if he's got a trick up his sleeve right there's an automatic distrust for
01:04:16.640
smart people bill gates has this now i'm not going to defend bill gates he can defend himself but i'm
01:04:23.120
saying that even if he had never done anything wrong and i'm not saying that i'm just saying if
01:04:28.640
he had never done anything wrong it's hard to trust him because he's too smart i think elon musk has that
01:04:34.640
problem too that if if you don't like what he's doing you worry because he's too smart too smart is
01:04:42.560
scary to most people so you need to be too smart but also clearly empathetic so the thing that vivek has
01:04:51.280
to do is make sure that he is communicating his empathy with the same power as his capability
01:04:58.720
if he gets his capability higher than his empathy he looks like a monster if he gets his empathy up
01:05:04.240
to the level of his capability it's called charisma do you get that it's a very important point by the
01:05:11.120
way let me say it again because it's so important if his capability is higher than his empathy he'll
01:05:18.080
look like a monster because he's capable of doing anything but you're not sure he's on your team because
01:05:23.440
he doesn't have the empathy but if he gets his empathy to the same level as his capability which
01:05:28.720
is extraordinary you're going to say to yourself oh we can't have anybody else he will become uh
01:05:38.640
you will become what's the word just guaranteed if his empathy and i don't think it does yet by the
01:05:46.800
way the reason the reason you're afraid of him is that he doesn't hasn't done it yet his empathy has not
01:05:51.440
achieved the same level of his capability but not because he doesn't have empathy it's exactly
01:05:57.520
because his capability is so high it's really hard to get that much empathy even if you have plenty
01:06:03.600
of empathy because he's just operating at such a high level if he gets it there and he could easily
01:06:10.960
this is more of a communication thing than a real thing if he just tweaks his communication to get his
01:06:17.520
empathy to the same level it's magic have you seen the viral videos of the fake um i'm going to say
01:06:25.440
turning a critic in the audience i've seen two of them so far i think there might be more but in both
01:06:32.480
cases the way he turned his critic was he said i'll give you the microphone and let you talk
01:06:39.360
and let and let his critic fully express everything and then where he could find places of agreement
01:06:48.240
he would agree strongly and then without losing any empathy he would tell you why his version
01:06:56.800
actually shows the most empathy and once he had done that because the person had talked themselves out
01:07:03.760
in both both cases they realized that he was coming from a place of empathy not a place of uh technical
01:07:12.320
you know republicans like this it was actually derived from an empathy position now that's not obvious
01:07:20.400
it's not obvious that all of evaq's policies are empathy based it's just that he thinks capitalism
01:07:27.680
fixes your problem better than socialism or communism and he thinks you know the truth works better than a lie
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approach it's just that he knows they have to go through a certain path to get to the best outcome and not
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everybody knows that so he he looks a little off model because people are not as smart as he is about how you get to the best place
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but given his level of uh capability could he ever bring his his perceived empathy because it's perception
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his perceived empathy to up to up to his actual empathy where his capability is if he does that he goes
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supernova supernova now i would say that's what trump gets right one of the things that makes trump so popular
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is that his empathy for regular americans is through the roof would you agree i've never seen anybody
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more consistently and here's here's the key genuinely trump is full of shit about a lot of stuff but if he's
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if he doesn't genuinely have empathy for the let's say middle class of america uh that would be the greatest
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greatest trick ever because he looks completely consistent everything he does in person every
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little act of kindness every word he picks every policy he picks they all seem to be consistent with
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a genuine empathy for americans like ordinary americans so i think i think when the democrats pick up
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what they call the cult you know what the cult is he showed empathy that's it they called him a cult
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because he showed genuine empathy like the real kind like i think it's real and believe me i'll be the
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first one to tell you trump is a showman i'll be the first person to say he uses hyperbole the first person
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and tell you he doesn't pass all the fact checks no no argument about any of that but he has completely
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sold me after decades and decades of total consistency the average americans he really loves
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and also the other thing he sells me on is i love his pirate ship i call his supporters of pirate ship
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because it's all these you know a whole lot of ne'er-do-wells and you know controversial characters
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people who've had brushes with the law you know just really edgy and out there people he embraces all of
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them as long as they're on his side and america's side he embraces all and i like it
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what i see with the democrats is that they only embrace the politically popular oh trans are very
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important let's bring in some trans because they're getting a lot of publicity trump brings in the people
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who didn't get any publicity right yeah middle middle america is not getting a lot of publicity
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but that's the ones he caters to so i think vivek can take a lesson from the master trump
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trump actually in my opinion it's pure opinion i believe he lowers his perceived capability
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by talking in a plain simple way uh you know the he says stuff like if the wind stops blowing your
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windmill won't work and you can't watch tv now nobody thinks that's really true i hope but it's just a
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simple way to say what he wants to say which is the green technology is overrated basically
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um but if vivek were to say the same thing he's going to give you the really compelling smart i
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understand this topic from top to bottom explanation and then you're going to say whoa his capability is
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way up here where's his empathy his empathy is anawak right so he's so smart and so good his perceived
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capability got out of whack with his perceived empathy but the reality is they're probably the
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same all he has to do is put him back in balance so trump lowers his perceived capability has a
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tremendous perceived empathy for regular americans and they match what happens when those two match
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your capability your empathy if it's high capability charisma that's what gets you a cult
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you don't get a cult by being good at what you do let me say this a thousand times you do not get a
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cult following for being good at what you do nobody does it's not a thing you get a cult following for
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having empathy that matches your high level of capability period there's no other way to get there
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now let's look at the president of argentina capability looks pretty high high level of capability but
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president of argentina tell me tell me your impression of his empathy high it's high because he's he's going
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after the elites for the benefit of the regular people and he's spent enough time you know being a
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interesting wild man that you think he actually cares about people and he's so diverse you know
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it's just sort of a a character who's done a lot of things that you believe he actually really cares
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about regular people and then he does high capability things whoa high empathy high capability magic
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magic magic so vivek is one twist away from magic
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trump has magic uh me president milu i don't want to say his name because i really really in argentina he
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has magic empathy and capability matched vivek still under whack but he's under whack for exactly the best
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reason not for lack of capability his capability is too high he's under whack with anybody's level of
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empathy how do you get how does anybody how could you possibly have that much empathy because he's got
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to get up to that level of capability if he does it which he could do he could absolutely do it
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but the moment he does it you know it's going to be a moment if it happens it's going to be a moment
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in american history because it's going to be fireworks like you've never seen oh damn it i was trying to
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trigger the platform but it didn't work all right let me uh check in on locals and see if everybody's still
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good there all right well okay well here's here's a very honest statement all right this is a comment
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i won't say from who people aren't quite sure whether to trust an indian yet now i hate to say it but
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that's true and that not my opinion obviously but i do think there's a a racial uh discomfort
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that people don't like to say out loud but it's a trust thing but if i could make one correction
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he's literally not an indian he's an american with you know indian heritage
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but you can't get you can't get more american than to make
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yeah he's he's like 110 american he's more american than americans
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he's the one who reminds you how to be an american that's like the most american you could be
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he's not a hindu oh some people think he's a hindu he's not a hindu he's a christian
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wait i'm saying smart people saying he is a hindu
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you're telling me he's a hindu who believes in the christian
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he's a hindu who believes that jesus christ was the son of god that's a christian
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let me ask you this do you think vivek believes in heaven or uh reincarnation
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does he believe in because i think you're talking i think he might be
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i think you're confusing his religion with his culture
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is that what you're doing i i think actually all of you are wrong
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you want to chat let's check on this for the next time okay
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should we check on it now let's check on it now let's do this in real time so here's what i think
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i think he identifies with the hindu tradition and culture in other words an influence
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so we we can check it right now if i'm wrong if i'm wrong you get to see it in real time
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does anybody want to stay and see if i'm wrong it'll be fun don't you like to see me wrong
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all right we'll find out the answer to the question and i'll say is uh
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he said i'm hindu and i'm proud of that i stand for that without apology
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uh but wait hold on so remember i said i didn't disagree that he identified as hindu
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but we're talking about his religious belief right
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we're talking about his religious belief and let's let's get into his religious
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new york times don't believe that don't want to have a news nation i could go with news nation because
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jenny mitchell she is an entomologist at iowa state university from boone iowa she is a republican
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who is currently undecided jenny all right listen thank you thanks for being here and thanks for
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coming to iowa so much we appreciate your visits so freedom of religion is a part of our constitution
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and obviously a huge part of our country what do you say to those who say that you cannot be our
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president because your religion is not what our founding fathers faced our country on
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i would say that i respectfully disagree and tell people to understand this about me i would
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rather speak the truth and lose an election than to win by playing some political snakes and
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ladders i mean if i wanted to map out my political career and really solve for that
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i could fake convert you know i'm not going to do that i'm going to tell you about my faith i'm him
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now i went to christian schools i went to saint xavier in cincinnati and i actually have been on
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the board of saint x except for hiatus to run for president and i can tell you with confidence that
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we share the same value set in common i'll tell you about my faith my faith teaches me that god puts
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each of us here for a purpose one god we have a moral duty to realize that purpose one god that
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god works through us in different ways but we're still equal because god resides in each of us
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now i had what you would call not a traditional upbringing but probably a very traditional
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upbringing right my parents taught me family's the foundation marriage is sacred divorce isn't some
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option you just prefer off a menu and things don't go your way abstinence before marriage is the way to
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go adultery is wrong that the good things in life involve a sacrifice now are those foreign values
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in this country i know it could look that way at times you turn on the television go to the movie
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theater the local dei training at a company or what they're teaching your kids in schools that could
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seem a little unfamiliar i don't think it's unfamiliar to most of us i think those are the same judeo
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christian values that i learned at saint x we get to the 10 commandments what do they say there's one
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true god don't take his name in vain observe the sabbath respect your parents don't kill don't lie
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don't cheat don't steal don't commit adultery don't covet that's when it hit me we share the same value set
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in common it's another core teaching in my faith which is that we don't get to choose who god works
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through god chooses who god works through so we get to the old testament a little bit further along
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we get to the book of isaiah if any of you are familiar with that one god chose cyrus a gentile all
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the way in persia to lead the jewish people back to the promised land and so yes i believe god put us
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here for a purpose my faith is what leads me on this journey to run for president my gratitude to
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this country is what leads me and even when we think about the founding fathers i'm a fan of history
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okay i talked about thomas jefferson earlier we'll stick to thomas jefferson he was a deist
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actually let's be honest about because the left wants to rewrite our history and tell you he was a
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slave owner an evil man no i reject that but we're not going to have anybody rewriting our history
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thomas jefferson was a deist he made the jefferson bible you know how he did it
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he didn't believe in all the parts of the new testament but he took a blade razor blade by hand
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glued it together and that made the jefferson bible which we have today john adams wrote letters to
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thomas jefferson actually became something of a hindu scholar after he left and so i think it's
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important to see our founding fathers three-dimensionally not the way that they've been rewritten
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post-1990 either and so yes do i would i be the best president to spread christianity through
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this country i would not i'd be not the best choice for that but i also don't think that that's
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the job of the u.s president but will i stand for the judeo-christian values that this nation
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was founded on that i was raised in even in the hindu faith yes i will you're darn right i will
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and as a young person picking up on that strand from earlier i think it's my responsibility
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to make faith and patriotism and family and hard work cool again in this country i think they're pretty
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cool and i think that's my job as your next president and back to the first amendment we
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will stand for religious liberty in a way that neither republicans nor democrats actually have
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that's what the first amendment says you get to practice your faith every pastor in this country
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gets to do his job without the government getting in their way that's what i'm going to keep
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the president so so here's my interpretation see if it matches yours that he believes there's one god
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what does he believe about jesus because that would be kind of i was just looking to see what he thinks
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what do hindus say about jesus he's a akira he's a light in the world or something
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interesting so what would be the difference between someone who thought there was one god
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does he believe uh any of the hindu specific beliefs such as reincarnation
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isn't that a key thing if he believes there's one god
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and you go to an afterlife but the bible might not be literal
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that's closer to a that's pretty close to trump religion
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um i'm more comfortable knowing that he's compatible with christian religion
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without being a true believer to me that's the ultimate that would be the best situation
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so uh so i will accept your statement that he's identifies as hindu can we agree on that
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would you also agree that he does not identify at least out loud with the things that hindus believe
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such as reincarnation or don't they have multiple gods
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uh how many gods 33. so he believes there's one god which he says all the time right now let me ask
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you this using his own words to describe himself he is compatible with all of the
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christian concepts and he believes there's one god and he agrees with thomas jefferson
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christian because i don't think he believed jesus was the son of god
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i'm pretty sure jefferson didn't believe in jesus did he he was a deist not a jesus lover
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all right so this is more interesting than i thought it's actually better than i thought
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i would have been uncomfortable if he said he was hindu and believed that the specifics of 33 gods and
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reincarnation i would be equally uncomfortable if he said he was a christian
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and believed everything in the bible was literally true sort of the mike johnson thing
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most of the americans who believe in anything new
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uh and you say you're completely 100 on board with the
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that's sort of the ideal situation for a president
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i don't think he could do better for better now that might it might make him hard to be elected
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so that's a separate issue but i want a president who says i like all the good parts of your religion
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but it's up to you how much you believe about the historical details but i like all the i like what it says
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so let's let's deal with what it says because we all like that part and then you individually can argue about the historical part
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he attended church so we know he believed in god he just didn't believe that the bible was
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the work of god that's why he kept some parts and threw away other parts
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all right so i wouldn't say that he's i would not call the vague um
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or say a classic hindu or a classic christian but he's he's hit a mix that's
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pretty appealing i think he found a sweet spot there now it doesn't mean it makes it easy to get elected
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just in my opinion it would be the perfect place to be
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if you're a deist you automatically don't believe in jesus right
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deists believe there's one supreme god which uh excludes jesus being a like a god-lit situation right
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no or true we get a little disagreement on that i would think a deist is just there's a god and
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so that they would not believe that jesus necessarily is god
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so you can believe in jesus but not believe that jesus is god you could believe he's the son of god
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but not god okay all right well there's some wiggle room there all right well i'm glad we've
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sorted that all out but i will i will take your correction
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correction are you listening to this part this is the part you wanted to hear i accept your correction
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on the hindu part but it's not if you'll accept my definition that he's not a classic hindu
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to me he sounds more culturally hindu and belief wise he's a lot closer to the christian model
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so i'm going to say i was 25 right and 75 wrong will you accept that i grade myself 25 right
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but 75 wrong which means you're 75 right and i'm 25 and you know you accept that
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all right we have agreement i call it a christmas miracle
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it's a christmas miracle all right everybody go have a great christmas enjoy your families
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i hope some of your families were watching and uh i might have another live stream tonight
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i don't know yet but i probably will talk to you later bye for now