Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2333 CWSA 12⧸25⧸23 Merry Christmas And Get In Here For Some Headlines Fun. Bring Coffee

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00:00:51.120 well should i read the news in a funny and not too serious way all right all right we don't want

00:01:01.760 to get too serious today do we well before we start i should call your attention to

00:01:08.320 the dilbert reborn comic available to local subscribers and also subscribers on x

00:01:14.800 and i just want to let you know the theme you might know that mickey mouse came off copyright

00:01:22.400 but not the total mickey mouse not the modern version only the version that's 95 years old

00:01:29.120 there's a black and white mickey mouse steamboat willie

00:01:33.760 so in honor of him coming off of copyright i have him visiting dilbert's

00:01:38.800 boss so that's black and white mickey i have to draw him in black and white even though the comic is color

00:01:46.800 so mickey says hi my name is mickey and the boss says get out of here

00:01:51.760 and mickey says settle down my copyright expired i'm a free mouse disney can't sue you and boss says

00:01:59.920 then mickey says can i get a job here or do you discriminate against black and white characters

00:02:04.960 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

00:02:16.720 well the new york post is reporting there was a man who was arrested because he used a laser pointer

00:02:22.880 he was pointing at a commercial plane then at a police helicopter as you know the laser pointers can blind the

00:02:30.160 pilot so that's very illegal so they they arrested him but the part of the story that they didn't report

00:02:36.320 is they took his laser pointer away from him and they shipped it to zelensky in ukraine

00:02:45.600 this is all we had left we didn't have anything left we're like well we've got this laser pointer we

00:02:53.360 took off that guy i'll take it okay you don't like your uk uk ukraine humor early in the morning

00:03:02.400 well here's a story that's developing i think we can see where it's heading

00:03:08.720 i told you that uh tucker carlson suggests that he has information we don't have and that he believes

00:03:17.760 that aliens or some kind of entity that's not human uh may have always been here as opposed to visiting

00:03:25.280 from another planet might even have a uh a spiritual dimension so he thinks maybe could be here could

00:03:34.960 be in the oceans could have always been here hiding in antarctica maybe i don't know but then there's this

00:03:42.080 related story that says scientists are they think they can decode whale language so they might be able

00:03:50.160 to use ai to decode the complexity of the whale sounds and figure out their language yeah so uh and then

00:03:59.440 they think that if they could learn whale language it might teach them how to make a universal communicator

00:04:06.160 so that ai could someday allow us to communicate with aliens have you put it all together yet

00:04:14.160 have you connected the dots yeah uh i think the cat's on the roof they're trying to slowly break it to us

00:04:24.960 that whales are aliens and they might have ships now you've got to have some good technology

00:04:32.800 to cart a whale's ass around in a spaceship but apparently they have the good stuff anti-gravity

00:04:39.200 so yeah whales are aliens and uh they may have already decided to conquer us because

00:04:47.200 i don't know if you know the history of humans and whales but i swear i hope the whales don't know it

00:04:55.040 you're gonna be really pissed have you heard of whale oil don't ask don't ask

00:05:02.800 all right um i'm so old that you know how things change and when you think back what you used to

00:05:13.280 think was true you're like oh my god how did we think that was true when we were kids so dumb

00:05:19.440 here's some of the things i believed oh probably two years ago

00:05:24.880 two years ago i thought maybe we had too much population on the planet so population growth

00:05:33.360 was a problem and i thought we had a shortage of lithium but elon musk has set us straight we have

00:05:42.000 too few people we need more or else the economy will collapse and as he uh he posted yesterday i think

00:05:49.440 um lithium is one of the most common elements on earth building lithium refineries is the hard part

00:05:58.080 that's what we need but lithium is everywhere how many of you were in the same boat that just a few

00:06:04.640 years ago you thought we had too much too many people and not enough lithium but turns out we have unlimited

00:06:11.200 lithium and not enough people is there anything we know that's true the most the most basic things

00:06:20.400 you thought you knew about reality nope totally opposite not enough people plenty of lithium

00:06:30.160 how many of you saw the most bizarre interview ever of tucker carlson interviewing kevin spacey

00:06:37.840 but kevin spacey did it with it with the character the political character he played in that long-running

00:06:44.720 netflix series whose name i can't remember but he played a kind of a dirty politician so he did the whole

00:06:51.440 interview in character now you might say to yourself kevin spacey i thought he got me too'd or he got

00:07:00.320 blamed for some terrible sex crimes with the men and you know weren't there multiple claims and how in

00:07:07.920 the world is he being rehabilitated i i thought he was a goner house of cards was the name of the show

00:07:14.240 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

00:07:24.400 i'll need a i'll need a fact check because i'm not positive this is true

00:07:28.480 is it true that there were four accusers of kevin spacey i think they were all male and three of

00:07:35.280 them died suspiciously so those cases went away and one of them dropped the charges

00:07:43.120 is that true the three out of the four people accusing him died suspiciously and one dropped the charges

00:07:49.120 i don't know if that's true it feels it feels too like on the nose or something right that couldn't

00:07:58.240 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

00:08:05.360 on social media i'm not sure i believe it i'm gonna need a little more convincing on that one better source

00:08:11.840 i guess um but uh there's also a report that the uh there's a partial epstein flight list

00:08:25.520 is that real because i saw a few accounts that seemed to show as they seem to be showing lists

00:08:32.800 of people who went to epstein island i don't know if those are real they were supposed to be released

00:08:38.400 about now but i don't want to mention anybody on it because it looks like it might be bullshit

00:08:45.840 is it real does anybody know do we actually have the list it's fake so that so that list that we're

00:08:54.560 seeing is one that's been out for years which we don't know if it necessarily matches the real list

00:08:59.840 right okay so we're going to call that one bs however on the bs low credibility

00:09:09.680 you shouldn't believe it list is kevin spacey's name now here's what you should look at look for

00:09:16.080 if we should ever confirm that we know who flew with him look for people who are let's say famous

00:09:24.800 celebrities who are unusually politically active that's what i'd be looking for all right but we

00:09:34.000 have to wait to make sure that it's a real list so we don't know if kevin spacey was ever on anything

00:09:38.320 like that that would be a rumor um there's a story that there's a big rise in threats to public officials

00:09:49.120 can you believe it can you believe that our elected officials are getting more death threats than ever

00:10:01.040 is that because the public got worse i don't think so

00:10:09.280 maybe there's a reason but one of my favorite uh comics of all time

00:10:15.840 was i can't even remember the the cartoonist i don't think the cartoon runs anymore it was a

00:10:22.240 single panel comic and it showed a guy in jail and he was talking to his bunk mate and he had you know

00:10:30.960 scratched a bunch of scratches on the wall and he was counting them up and he was talking about his

00:10:35.440 own experience and the prisoner says 19 arrests 19 convictions maybe it's me

00:10:45.040 i've been laughing about that for like 40 years maybe it's me 19 arrests 19 convictions starting to

00:10:52.160 think the problem's on my side so yeah there are more death threats of public figures is that because

00:11:00.960 the public had got worse

00:11:05.440 or is there an unmistakable pattern of bad behavior that would certainly suggest there would be more death

00:11:13.840 threats i'm going to go with the latter i i feel like we know too much about government now we're

00:11:21.360 like a little bit smarter our eyes are a little bit more opened and maybe they're worse maybe the

00:11:27.440 worst nerve event but i would certainly expect more death threats given our current situation not that i

00:11:33.200 encourage them i don't encourage that so don't make any death threats but if the government is wondering

00:11:40.080 why there are so many maybe they should examine their own behavior maybe you consider all possibilities

00:11:51.360 well i saw a interesting and provocative post by naval ravikant and uh he has a way of saying things in a

00:12:01.760 very succinct way and he said this argentina may prove that you can vote your way into poverty

00:12:09.760 because and they showed some stats of south american countries and their poverty levels and it is very

00:12:15.760 clear that it's a political problem and not a resource problem you can see that when the political

00:12:24.640 leadership changes the economy just either goes in the toilet or who does well and it seems to be one

00:12:30.560 to one so argentina has their new pro-capitalist president he was doing a lot of stuff and cutting

00:12:37.920 departments and stuff i would bet on argentina recovery i would say the smart money says argentina

00:12:44.880 is going to go well and here's the thing sometimes it's just about energy so the new president of argentina

00:12:52.000 brings in this reformist energy which makes people say oh i'm optimistic now because of all that reformist energy

00:13:00.560 oh he did something in the news that looks like a big deal he got rid of some departments or something

00:13:05.280 oh reformist energy so then because there's reformist energy people create their own energy

00:13:11.760 and that becomes a self-fulfilling issue so it will be partly what he does the new president but partly

00:13:20.880 how people feel about it and apparently people are feeling good about it so good news from argentina

00:13:27.200 which may maybe spread to other places well zero hedge is reporting

00:13:33.520 that uh what is becoming evident is that the ngos the non-government organizations now these are the

00:13:41.520 organizations that usually rich people have funded but are not directly controlled by anybody's

00:13:47.440 government so they're like little governments but non-government because there's some rich person

00:13:54.080 allowing them to do what they do rich people usually and apparently these ngos are now well 0.98

00:14:00.800 known to be the organizers of the mass immigration that's happening in america and probably elsewhere

00:14:07.680 so it's organized it's not just that they made it let's say comfortable for people who are going to

00:14:16.800 immigrate anyway they actually created an entire travel network to inform people how to go and then

00:14:25.120 help them immigrate from everywhere in the world now this had nothing to do with the american government

00:14:33.200 but has a gigantic impact on the health of the united states so it's not a country

00:14:41.360 they're non-government organizations it might be people from different countries in some cases

00:14:47.360 now how should we respond to that well if it's just a non-government organization doing legal stuff

00:14:55.520 and i guess it's all legal in fact you can find out you can get their documents you can find their maps

00:15:01.440 you can find out their whole plans and they're doing exactly what i said they've created a a whole

00:15:08.320 platform to make it easy for people to leave where they are and end up in america and and survive

00:15:14.480 now my first problem with that is the following one of the things i've always liked about american

00:15:21.280 illegal immigration and even legal immigration is that it was hard to get to america it was hard to

00:15:28.560 get in legally you have to be qualified and know how to jump through all the hoops you have to be able to

00:15:33.760 afford a plane ticket depending where you're coming from so the people we would get

00:15:39.200 are people who could cross a very high bar they could figure out how to get here they could go

00:15:45.520 through all the the complications to do it and they were high enough educated quality that the

00:15:51.520 country said oh yeah we we like people like you but what happens and then also for the people coming

00:15:58.320 over the southern border they were unusually risk-taking people because they didn't necessarily

00:16:04.800 know how they were going to make it work i like those people but here's the problem what happens if

00:16:10.640 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

00:16:20.160 to stay than it is to leave you've got a natural filter so you get all the risk-taking

00:16:26.080 high quality people who can you know do this difficult thing getting here now you make it so

00:16:32.000 easy and where you are is so bad that the laziest lowest qualified people say hey i might as well get

00:16:42.160 on this bus it's free might take me somewhere better so didn't we just reverse the best thing about

00:16:49.040 immigration then it got us the people who could pass the filter and now the filter is reversed

00:16:55.920 and we're getting the people who couldn't who couldn't make it in their own country and probably

00:17:01.440 can't make it as easily in our country as the people who had a harder time getting past the filter

00:17:08.960 so that's bad but i'd like to add this following thought

00:17:12.960 uh is there a reason we can't kill the ngo leaders under the rules of war 1.00

00:17:16.880 wouldn't we just have to declare this an illegal invasion and part of a war and then we could kill

00:17:25.520 them couldn't we now i don't think we should just just go murder the people in the ngos that would be 0.99

00:17:31.920 kind of crazy i'm not saying that i'm saying we should create a legal process in which we designate

00:17:38.960 the ngos as terrorist organizations because they seem to be working diligently for the destruction 1.00

00:17:45.600 of the united states what would you call that well you'd say well they're not doing anything violent

00:17:52.080 and i would say they're shipping in uh military age people that we don't know

00:17:59.280 how does that not end up with more violence than there would have been if if they hadn't done it

00:18:05.280 of course there are so i would say we should at least examine uh designated the ngos as terrorist

00:18:13.040 organizations or paramilitary or military supporting or funding of terrorists or something like that

00:18:21.120 and then we should give them warning funny warning because you don't want to kill anybody you don't

00:18:26.560 need to kill say look if you keep organizing these immigrants we're actually going to kill you 1.00

00:18:33.200 wherever you are in any country wherever you are you're just going to get mowed down and we're not

00:18:38.960 going to apologize because you're ruining our country no you don't think we should be able to murder the

00:18:47.200 heads of the ngos legally it should be under a legal umbrella with lots of warning because america is

00:18:56.880 being destroyed that's that's not hyperbole there is some level of immigration that guarantees the 0.99

00:19:03.920 destruction of america and the ngos are heading toward that limit i don't know if we're there yet 0.82

00:19:10.080 i think we're below that limit but we're heading there as quickly as possible i say you have to kill 0.63

00:19:14.560 the people behind it but give them warning and do it under a legal structure certainly nothing illegal

00:19:20.560 has anybody ever said that

00:19:27.120 i don't know how you just let them do it

00:19:30.480 so but and whoever funds it probably should be looked at as well

00:19:37.120 oh here's something interesting let's see if we can figure it out

00:19:40.240 you've heard that there is excess death rates in the united states but here's the weird thing

00:19:45.520 so the pandemic is over and there's still these excess death rates so you're going to say oh it's

00:19:53.440 the vaccination no it's this or that here's what we know apparently it's across all demographics in

00:20:00.640 the united states and it's not as severe in europe is that enough to tell us what it is

00:20:07.200 is think about it it's all demographics but not so much in europe can we figure it out from there

00:20:16.480 nobody's figured it out let's see if we can

00:20:20.800 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

00:20:29.280 because there wasn't that much of a lifestyle change that would affect all the demographics the

00:20:33.920 same so i'm going to rule out a lifestyle change such as staying home too much less active etc

00:20:42.960 um i don't think the diet changed i don't think the diet changed in one year or two did it

00:20:53.280 we'll get the vaccines i don't think diet changed and even if it did you would see that in some

00:20:59.520 diet um some demographics more than others because i think we have some demographics that don't eat

00:21:06.080 the same as others right i don't think uh seniors eat the same as young people young people don't eat

00:21:12.720 the same as you know so we should have demographics that are not having the problem if it's food because

00:21:20.320 it wouldn't be everything you eat everywhere all the same time it'd be like some element of the food

00:21:26.720 the food would be bad and you'd see it in some demographic more than others so i don't think

00:21:32.000 it's food i don't think it's anything that affects all of us all the time

00:21:38.800 so if it's not our lifestyle and it's not the food uh what about the cove itself well europe had

00:21:46.640 covid and we had covid but europe is doing better so it's the same covid so it's probably not covid

00:21:55.760 hangover and then your obvious question is the vaccinations but i don't know this for sure but i

00:22:02.800 strongly suggest that the vaccination status would be the main thing people are looking at so obvious

00:22:10.640 so don't you think that uh we would know by now if the unvaccinated were a demographic group

00:22:19.120 that we're doing fine don't you think it if we really knew that unvaccinated people just weren't

00:22:26.800 having this excess death rate wouldn't we know that by now i feel like we would because it's the most

00:22:32.880 obvious thing you look at right i don't think it's more sugar because that didn't change much

00:22:40.800 um so i don't think it's food i don't think it's big pharma

00:22:44.720 i don't think it's just that we got fatter although we did because that doesn't happen fast enough

00:22:53.440 what do you think of this all right i've got two hypotheses that i don't have a lot of confidence in

00:23:00.560 but the fact that it's across all demographics

00:23:06.480 that's the that's the sketchy part here's what i think number one it's a data collection problem

00:23:14.560 so either europe is doing a bad job of collecting death data or the u.s changed their mechanism and

00:23:23.120 or is doing a better job or a different job so if i had to guess the fact that it's across all

00:23:29.760 demographics and it doesn't affect europe as much that strongly suggests the data is just wrong

00:23:36.800 that we maybe we change the way we collect it or something like that

00:23:44.560 yeah so here's one possibility it's a bad data collection say some kind of change that affected

00:23:53.760 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

00:24:01.360 don't you think somebody would have said hey the data collection changed i feel like that would have

00:24:06.960 bubbled up so probably not that but there is one thing that affects uh all people in america

00:24:15.520 in a way that doesn't affect europe what is it what is something that does seem unique to america

00:24:24.800 that's not affecting europe as much as much

00:24:32.480 loneliness

00:24:35.360 loneliness now that's a hypothesis that europe has a different culture and may simply be more social

00:24:44.560 is that true would you say that that europe is simply more social i don't know if that's true

00:24:52.000 but if they are that would explain it because we do have a we have a loneliness problem in the united

00:24:58.640 states and it's the only thing i can think of that is across all demographics every demographic is lonelier

00:25:06.800 now our our shutdown in the pandemic apparently made a big difference to our permanent habits

00:25:13.120 so another story in the news is that people are not using their cars as much we have the same number

00:25:19.600 we actually have more cars than we had before the pandemic so the number of cars went up

00:25:25.040 but the miles driven drop like a rock do you think that miles driven dropping like a rock is entirely

00:25:32.560 work related some of it is so a lot of people are working at home so that increases your loneliness

00:25:39.120 you have more you know the technology is better all the time so that increases your options

00:25:44.880 uh humans are worth less to each other i think it's loneliness and the depression that comes with it

00:25:53.360 anybody want to offer another alternative

00:25:59.760 what what do you think it is

00:26:01.840 um is it pharma food obesity data vaccination dehydration alcohol well well americans oh

00:26:19.680 relative that so i think americans are drinking way less

00:26:24.800 or actually maybe the ones who are drinking are drinking more

00:26:28.240 but there are a few people drinking at all and more people quitting so they're less social

00:26:35.520 all right let me ask you this question

00:26:39.360 of all of you you ready

00:26:43.200 uh do we have a problem here in locals looks like the locals 1.00

00:26:48.640 comments are having a problem so i'm going to open up the locals comments on my other device that usually

00:26:53.200 works

00:26:58.240 i'm going to open up all right just a moment

00:27:08.720 oh where am i

00:27:13.200 hold on just a second

00:27:18.720 there we go all right yes i have your comments now on my other device can you see me

00:27:24.400 i think you can see me but the comments are delayed all right so i got all your comments now

00:27:35.120 uh there was a change in in data

00:27:42.480 media psyops yeah maybe

00:27:44.240 hey john you're kind of an asshole i just want to tell you that for christmas 0.90

00:27:52.480 i named john you're a total asshole thanks thanks for joining 0.94

00:28:00.720 quitting alcohol is the best thing you've done for yourself good

00:28:07.040 all right well we've already ruled out the vaccination because i think that would have been noticed

00:28:14.240 yeah i don't know if it's depression but uh let me here's the question i was going to ask let me

00:28:21.360 look at the comments the question is this how many of you have uh increased loneliness

00:28:28.480 since before the pandemic how many of you have increased in loneliness

00:28:37.760 all right i'm seeing lots of no's but there are lots of yeses

00:28:44.240 i don't know

00:28:50.800 oh my god sorry about that yeah some people got widowed

00:28:59.920 uh yep so some of it is yeah loneliness and retirement and all that other stuff okay oh we got

00:29:09.120 our comments back

00:29:11.840 well that's my guess all right here's a sam altman prediction so he was bragging about his prediction

00:29:18.880 he said 27 months ago he made the following prediction he said that by 2030

00:29:27.440 so now just six years away it will become clear that the ai revolution and renewable

00:29:33.440 plus nuclear energy are going to get us there which is near zero cost for intelligence and energy

00:29:42.240 near zero so what sam altman's talking about is i think fusion made some breakthroughs

00:29:48.560 and there are a lot of uh you know green energy breakthroughs and now you have the ai breakthrough

00:29:54.720 which he suggests um and he said in a comment that at some point chat gpt will be free uh except for the

00:30:05.760 newest version so you'll be able to get like a really really useful free one but if you want

00:30:13.200 the really really useful one maybe that's connected to more services or something you you play it pay a few

00:30:19.200 bucks a month so at some point most people will have free ai just think about that free ai it won't be

00:30:31.120 the best you could buy but you know for 20 bucks a month you probably get that too and then um we're

00:30:39.280 heading toward free energy so the answer to your question what do you do about a national debt

00:30:47.200 that is so high you can't even imagine any scenario in which it would be paid back

00:30:52.560 free energy would get you there if energy approached to free then the cost of all products would drop

00:31:01.360 and suddenly everything gets fixed so it is a once in a civilization change

00:31:10.000 only once in all of human civilization will energy costs go from real expensive

00:31:16.640 to almost free only once it will never happen again but only once have we run up debt

00:31:24.720 that looks impossible to pay off luckily it happened at the same time

00:31:31.680 this is one of the things that makes me think we're in a simulation like how could that be

00:31:37.360 how could it be a coincidence that the one time you have a crushing impossible to pay off debt

00:31:43.120 you have a once in a ever in the history of the universe ever this you know one time change in

00:31:50.240 energy prices kind of lucky people got lucky

00:31:57.360 all right um

00:32:01.520 yeah people are staying home more blah blah so wall street journal says that uh kids

00:32:07.040 are preferring youtube to all other forms of entertainment i'm going to uh echo that

00:32:16.160 although i'm no kid have have all you noticed that if you turn on youtube you'll find something very

00:32:23.840 interesting to watch every single time have you ever noticed that it works every time

00:32:30.560 if i have some free time and i open up youtube no question about it there are going to be

00:32:38.240 five to ten things that is suggest all of which interest me now go anywhere else

00:32:46.640 right x x actually works that way when i go on x i'm always entertained it's really really strange

00:32:54.400 if i don't have a entertaining time on x but if i open netflix what are my percentage odds

00:33:03.120 not that good maybe one in three but i'll find something i want to watch at most one in four

00:33:12.960 and that's the same for all the streaming services

00:33:16.320 at one point i just signed up for all the streaming services like i just had every one of them

00:33:21.120 um and i could not find anything to watch um but once i got the youtube premium service where there's no

00:33:36.960 commercials i always always have something fun to watch youtube is just killing everything else

00:33:43.920 there's there's no and here's why

00:33:49.120 i don't want to spend a whole bunch of time looking for what i want to watch and netflix is

00:33:54.560 is just a nightmare and if you have more than one streaming service you can't remember where you stop

00:34:00.000 watching one thing how many times have you ever done this if you have more than one streaming service

00:34:06.480 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

00:35:22.160 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

00:36:05.680 but it falls short of israel's goal of crushing hamas so we don't think it'll happen um it's good that

00:36:13.360 they're talking about it now yesterday there was a brief social media bit that i can't find in the

00:36:21.040 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

00:36:53.840 charge of all the security because it would make saudi arabia the adult in the room and it would

00:37:01.520 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 1.00

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

00:38:08.400 as someone pointed out to me this morning um you have all these brainwashed young people

00:38:14.960 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 0.89

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 0.73

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 0.96

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 1.00

00:39:58.960 convince a young person there's nothing easier to convince a 20 something or a teenager than the

00:40:06.400 following statement you ready for this when i tell you how easy it is you're going to laugh

00:40:11.200 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

00:40:41.040 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

00:41:42.000 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 0.94

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

00:42:37.440 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

00:43:19.840 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 0.84

00:43:32.320 who could have seen this coming i wonder what she did instead of agreeing to resign 0.88

00:43:39.520 does it involve hiring a lawyer

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

00:44:34.400 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

00:44:49.440 but that's basically what i said

00:44:52.880 basically

00:44:55.440 all right uh the polls are saying according to the hill they looked at a whole bunch of polls 507

00:45:01.600 polls and they found that trump is leading by over two percent against biden

00:45:06.720 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

00:45:18.240 to win in the key states

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

00:45:51.680 when's the last time oh it was uh bush

00:45:57.760 no george bush did george bush jr win the popular vote

00:46:07.200 bush in 04

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 0.87

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

00:49:04.720 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

00:49:56.960 anyway um

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

00:50:29.280 um

00:50:32.000 this author uh

00:50:35.200 talks about the doctrine of discovery so back in 1493 back in columbus days

00:50:41.200 um

00:50:42.000 the pope put out a doctrine of discovery

00:50:44.720 that said any land not inhabited by christians was available to be quote discovered claimed and

00:50:51.840 exploited by the christian rulers

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 0.99

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

00:56:01.360 amazing

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

00:56:40.880 let me say it again

00:56:45.920 trump will not be kept out of the election

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 0.72

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

01:03:01.920 did that really happen

01:03:10.080 i want to see if that's really happened

01:03:15.360 probably a different cat

01:03:19.840 yeah we're asking if it was dead or alive

01:03:21.680 it was alive

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

01:07:35.440 right so he's definitely has an empathy first

01:07:41.840 approach it's just that he knows they have to go through a certain path to get to the best outcome and not

01:07:48.320 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

01:07:55.520 but given his level of uh capability could he ever bring his his perceived empathy because it's perception

01:08:06.320 his perceived empathy to up to up to his actual empathy where his capability is if he does that he goes

01:08:13.920 supernova supernova now i would say that's what trump gets right one of the things that makes trump so popular

01:08:22.720 is that his empathy for regular americans is through the roof would you agree i've never seen anybody

01:08:31.840 more consistently and here's here's the key genuinely trump is full of shit about a lot of stuff but if he's 0.60

01:08:42.000 if he doesn't genuinely have empathy for the let's say middle class of america uh that would be the greatest

01:08:50.080 greatest trick ever because he looks completely consistent everything he does in person every

01:08:57.840 little act of kindness every word he picks every policy he picks they all seem to be consistent with

01:09:06.800 a genuine empathy for americans like ordinary americans so i think i think when the democrats pick up

01:09:14.320 what they call the cult you know what the cult is he showed empathy that's it they called him a cult

01:09:23.600 because he showed genuine empathy like the real kind like i think it's real and believe me i'll be the

01:09:30.720 first one to tell you trump is a showman i'll be the first person to say he uses hyperbole the first person

01:09:37.920 and tell you he doesn't pass all the fact checks no no argument about any of that but he has completely

01:09:45.280 sold me after decades and decades of total consistency the average americans he really loves

01:09:54.560 and also the other thing he sells me on is i love his pirate ship i call his supporters of pirate ship

01:10:01.600 because it's all these you know a whole lot of ne'er-do-wells and you know controversial characters

01:10:09.360 people who've had brushes with the law you know just really edgy and out there people he embraces all of

01:10:17.280 them as long as they're on his side and america's side he embraces all and i like it

01:10:23.440 what i see with the democrats is that they only embrace the politically popular oh trans are very

01:10:32.000 important let's bring in some trans because they're getting a lot of publicity trump brings in the people

01:10:37.280 who didn't get any publicity right yeah middle middle america is not getting a lot of publicity

01:10:44.480 but that's the ones he caters to so i think vivek can take a lesson from the master trump

01:10:53.600 trump actually in my opinion it's pure opinion i believe he lowers his perceived capability

01:11:00.720 by talking in a plain simple way uh you know the he says stuff like if the wind stops blowing your

01:11:07.680 windmill won't work and you can't watch tv now nobody thinks that's really true i hope but it's just a

01:11:16.080 simple way to say what he wants to say which is the green technology is overrated basically

01:11:20.960 um but if vivek were to say the same thing he's going to give you the really compelling smart i

01:11:29.120 understand this topic from top to bottom explanation and then you're going to say whoa his capability is

01:11:36.160 way up here where's his empathy his empathy is anawak right so he's so smart and so good his perceived

01:11:45.520 capability got out of whack with his perceived empathy but the reality is they're probably the

01:11:50.400 same all he has to do is put him back in balance so trump lowers his perceived capability has a

01:11:59.600 tremendous perceived empathy for regular americans and they match what happens when those two match

01:12:06.880 your capability your empathy if it's high capability charisma that's what gets you a cult

01:12:15.280 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

01:12:22.080 cult following for being good at what you do nobody does it's not a thing you get a cult following for

01:12:29.680 having empathy that matches your high level of capability period there's no other way to get there

01:12:36.640 now let's look at the president of argentina capability looks pretty high high level of capability but

01:12:46.560 empathy

01:12:49.280 president of argentina tell me tell me your impression of his empathy high it's high because he's he's going

01:12:58.160 after the elites for the benefit of the regular people and he's spent enough time you know being a

01:13:03.840 interesting wild man that you think he actually cares about people and he's so diverse you know

01:13:10.320 it's just sort of a a character who's done a lot of things that you believe he actually really cares

01:13:15.520 about regular people and then he does high capability things whoa high empathy high capability magic

01:13:26.560 magic magic so vivek is one twist away from magic

01:13:37.280 trump has magic uh me president milu i don't want to say his name because i really really in argentina he

01:13:45.040 has magic empathy and capability matched vivek still under whack but he's under whack for exactly the best

01:13:54.160 reason not for lack of capability his capability is too high he's under whack with anybody's level of

01:14:02.560 empathy how do you get how does anybody how could you possibly have that much empathy because he's got

01:14:07.840 to get up to that level of capability if he does it which he could do he could absolutely do it

01:14:14.400 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

01:14:21.920 in american history because it's going to be fireworks like you've never seen oh damn it i was trying to 0.50

01:14:30.400 trigger the platform but it didn't work all right let me uh check in on locals and see if everybody's still

01:14:38.000 good there all right well okay well here's here's a very honest statement all right this is a comment

01:14:53.120 i won't say from who people aren't quite sure whether to trust an indian yet now i hate to say it but

01:14:59.520 that's true and that not my opinion obviously but i do think there's a a racial uh discomfort

01:15:11.600 that people don't like to say out loud but it's a trust thing but if i could make one correction

01:15:21.280 um he's an american he's not an indian 0.64

01:15:31.360 he's literally not an indian he's an american with you know indian heritage

01:15:40.480 but you can't get you can't get more american than to make

01:15:44.640 yeah he's he's like 110 american he's more american than americans

01:15:49.120 he's the one who reminds you how to be an american that's like the most american you could be

01:15:57.200 he's not a hindu oh some people think he's a hindu he's not a hindu he's a christian

01:16:06.160 he's a christian

01:16:11.040 wait i'm saying smart people saying he is a hindu

01:16:19.120 now this is interesting

01:16:29.280 you're telling me he's a hindu who believes in the christian 0.97

01:16:34.000 he's a hindu who believes that jesus christ was the son of god that's a christian

01:16:41.200 let me ask you this do you think vivek believes in heaven or uh reincarnation

01:16:49.280 does he believe in because i think you're talking i think he might be

01:16:53.600 culturally he comes from a hindu background

01:16:57.280 i think you're confusing his religion with his culture

01:17:01.360 is that what you're doing i i think actually all of you are wrong

01:17:04.560 i think you're all wrong actually

01:17:15.200 you want to chat let's check on this for the next time okay

01:17:19.040 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

01:17:27.440 i think he identifies with the hindu tradition and culture in other words an influence

01:17:37.600 but that his belief of uh

01:17:41.520 religious belief is christian

01:17:44.880 so we we can check it right now if i'm wrong if i'm wrong you get to see it in real time

01:17:49.040 does anybody want to stay and see if i'm wrong it'll be fun don't you like to see me wrong

01:17:56.720 all right we'll find out the answer to the question and i'll say is uh

01:18:03.360 we make a christian or hindu what do you think

01:18:10.320 uh

01:18:15.200 i said uh

01:18:20.320 he said i'm hindu and i'm proud of that i stand for that without apology

01:18:27.520 uh but wait hold on so remember i said i didn't disagree that he identified as hindu

01:18:37.280 but we're talking about his religious belief right

01:18:42.480 we're talking about his religious belief and let's let's get into his religious

01:18:52.640 all right let's see better answer

01:19:01.200 shares the same values

01:19:02.800 how do we get a good answer to this

01:19:08.880 new york times don't believe that don't want to have a news nation i could go with news nation because

01:19:17.760 i'm trying to find a unbiased source

01:19:24.400 wait we might have an unbiased source here

01:19:26.320 jenny mitchell she is an entomologist at iowa state university from boone iowa she is a republican

01:19:37.680 who is currently undecided jenny all right listen thank you thanks for being here and thanks for

01:19:42.080 coming to iowa so much we appreciate your visits so freedom of religion is a part of our constitution

01:19:49.200 and obviously a huge part of our country what do you say to those who say that you cannot be our

01:19:55.680 president because your religion is not what our founding fathers faced our country on 0.56

01:20:00.800 i would say that i respectfully disagree and tell people to understand this about me i would

01:20:06.240 rather speak the truth and lose an election than to win by playing some political snakes and

01:20:11.760 ladders i mean if i wanted to map out my political career and really solve for that

01:20:15.760 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

01:20:20.400 now i went to christian schools i went to saint xavier in cincinnati and i actually have been on

01:20:26.080 the board of saint x except for hiatus to run for president and i can tell you with confidence that

01:20:32.160 we share the same value set in common i'll tell you about my faith my faith teaches me that god puts

01:20:38.960 each of us here for a purpose one god we have a moral duty to realize that purpose one god that

01:20:46.640 god works through us in different ways but we're still equal because god resides in each of us

01:20:54.800 now i had what you would call not a traditional upbringing but probably a very traditional

01:20:59.360 upbringing right my parents taught me family's the foundation marriage is sacred divorce isn't some

01:21:06.000 option you just prefer off a menu and things don't go your way abstinence before marriage is the way to 0.99

01:21:11.760 go adultery is wrong that the good things in life involve a sacrifice now are those foreign values 0.54

01:21:20.240 in this country i know it could look that way at times you turn on the television go to the movie

01:21:25.360 theater the local dei training at a company or what they're teaching your kids in schools that could

01:21:30.240 seem a little unfamiliar i don't think it's unfamiliar to most of us i think those are the same judeo

01:21:37.920 christian values that i learned at saint x we get to the 10 commandments what do they say there's one

01:21:42.560 true god don't take his name in vain observe the sabbath respect your parents don't kill don't lie

01:21:49.120 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

01:21:56.720 in common it's another core teaching in my faith which is that we don't get to choose who god works

01:22:01.840 through god chooses who god works through so we get to the old testament a little bit further along

01:22:08.320 we get to the book of isaiah if any of you are familiar with that one god chose cyrus a gentile all

01:22:19.200 the way in persia to lead the jewish people back to the promised land and so yes i believe god put us

01:22:26.320 here for a purpose my faith is what leads me on this journey to run for president my gratitude to

01:22:32.480 this country is what leads me and even when we think about the founding fathers i'm a fan of history

01:22:36.800 okay i talked about thomas jefferson earlier we'll stick to thomas jefferson he was a deist

01:22:42.640 actually let's be honest about because the left wants to rewrite our history and tell you he was a

01:22:46.800 slave owner an evil man no i reject that but we're not going to have anybody rewriting our history

01:22:51.120 thomas jefferson was a deist he made the jefferson bible you know how he did it

01:22:55.920 he didn't believe in all the parts of the new testament but he took a blade razor blade by hand

01:23:00.480 glued it together and that made the jefferson bible which we have today john adams wrote letters to

01:23:06.480 thomas jefferson actually became something of a hindu scholar after he left and so i think it's

01:23:10.000 important to see our founding fathers three-dimensionally not the way that they've been rewritten

01:23:14.480 post-1990 either and so yes do i would i be the best president to spread christianity through

01:23:20.480 this country i would not i'd be not the best choice for that but i also don't think that that's

01:23:26.160 the job of the u.s president but will i stand for the judeo-christian values that this nation

01:23:32.880 was founded on that i was raised in even in the hindu faith yes i will you're darn right i will

01:23:38.000 and as a young person picking up on that strand from earlier i think it's my responsibility

01:23:43.040 to make faith and patriotism and family and hard work cool again in this country i think they're pretty

01:23:52.320 cool and i think that's my job as your next president and back to the first amendment we

01:23:56.160 will stand for religious liberty in a way that neither republicans nor democrats actually have

01:24:00.320 that's what the first amendment says you get to practice your faith every pastor in this country

01:24:04.480 gets to do his job without the government getting in their way that's what i'm going to keep

01:24:08.560 the president so so here's my interpretation see if it matches yours that he believes there's one god

01:24:20.720 what does he believe about jesus because that would be kind of i was just looking to see what he thinks

01:24:28.960 about jesus

01:24:32.960 sitting on my homes

01:24:45.600 let's see who is jesus to the hindus

01:24:51.440 i think they see him as a teacher

01:24:56.880 well i guess that would be the main question

01:24:58.400 what do hindus say about jesus he's a akira he's a light in the world or something

01:25:12.080 do hindus believe in the bible 0.99

01:25:17.840 interesting so what would be the difference between someone who thought there was one god

01:25:23.600 god

01:25:25.760 and believed all the christian values

01:25:29.760 but you but was a hindu by uh self label

01:25:39.040 so here here's what i think you need to ask

01:25:43.760 does he believe uh any of the hindu specific beliefs such as reincarnation

01:25:49.600 isn't that a key thing if he believes there's one god

01:25:57.120 and you go to an afterlife but the bible might not be literal

01:26:04.480 that's closer to a that's pretty close to trump religion

01:26:12.800 it's kind of better than i thought it was

01:26:14.400 um i'm more comfortable knowing that he's compatible with christian religion

01:26:22.560 without being a true believer to me that's the ultimate that would be the best situation

01:26:28.800 so uh so i will accept your statement that he's identifies as hindu can we agree on that

01:26:38.400 uh can we agree that uh he identifies as hindu

01:26:46.400 would you also agree that he does not identify at least out loud with the things that hindus believe

01:26:54.000 such as reincarnation or don't they have multiple gods

01:27:00.240 wait how many gods do the hindus have 1.00

01:27:08.400 how many gods

01:27:13.440 let's get a number on that 33

01:27:20.080 uh how many gods 33. so he believes there's one god which he says all the time right now let me ask

01:27:30.240 you this using his own words to describe himself he is compatible with all of the

01:27:39.200 christian concepts and he believes there's one god and he agrees with thomas jefferson

01:27:46.480 that the bible uh is human made

01:27:52.080 so is thomas jefferson a christian

01:27:55.680 was thomas jeff

01:27:58.400 christian because i don't think he believed jesus was the son of god

01:28:03.520 you know that right

01:28:04.320 i'm pretty sure jefferson didn't believe in jesus did he he was a deist not a jesus lover

01:28:14.800 what about washington

01:28:15.840 all right so this is more interesting than i thought it's actually better than i thought

01:28:27.440 i would have been uncomfortable if he said he was hindu and believed that the specifics of 33 gods and

01:28:36.080 reincarnation i would be equally uncomfortable if he said he was a christian

01:28:43.280 and believed everything in the bible was literally true sort of the mike johnson thing

01:28:48.000 that doesn't make me comfortable at all

01:28:51.280 but if you say you believe in one god like

01:28:55.760 most of the americans who believe in anything new

01:28:58.640 uh and you say you're completely 100 on board with the

01:29:03.920 cultural you know aspects of christianity

01:29:06.960 that's sort of the ideal situation for a president

01:29:14.320 i don't think he could do better for better now that might it might make him hard to be elected

01:29:18.880 so that's a separate issue but i want a president who says i like all the good parts of your religion

01:29:25.360 but it's up to you how much you believe about the historical details but i like all the i like what it says

01:29:32.800 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

01:29:41.520 he attended church so we know he believed in god he just didn't believe that the bible was

01:29:50.800 the work of god that's why he kept some parts and threw away other parts

01:29:55.440 all right so i wouldn't say that he's i would not call the vague um

01:30:07.600 or say a classic hindu or a classic christian but he's he's hit a mix that's

01:30:15.200 pretty appealing i think he found a sweet spot there now it doesn't mean it makes it easy to get elected

01:30:21.680 just in my opinion it would be the perfect place to be

01:30:25.440 if you're a deist you automatically don't believe in jesus right

01:30:35.040 is that right give me a fact check on that

01:30:40.000 deists believe there's one supreme god which uh excludes jesus being a like a god-lit situation right

01:30:48.560 no or true we get a little disagreement on that i would think a deist is just there's a god and

01:30:55.440 that's the end of the story there's no jesus

01:30:57.680 so that they would not believe that jesus necessarily is god

01:31:04.320 so you can believe in jesus but not believe that jesus is god you could believe he's the son of god

01:31:11.920 but not god okay all right well there's some wiggle room there all right well i'm glad we've

01:31:18.640 sorted that all out but i will i will take your correction

01:31:23.120 correction are you listening to this part this is the part you wanted to hear i accept your correction

01:31:30.080 on the hindu part but it's not if you'll accept my definition that he's not a classic hindu

01:31:38.160 to me he sounds more culturally hindu and belief wise he's a lot closer to the christian model

01:31:48.320 so i'm going to say i was 25 right and 75 wrong will you accept that i grade myself 25 right

01:31:59.760 but 75 wrong which means you're 75 right and i'm 25 and you know you accept that

01:32:08.160 all right we have agreement i call it a christmas miracle

01:32:16.320 it's a christmas miracle all right everybody go have a great christmas enjoy your families

01:32:21.040 i hope some of your families were watching and uh i might have another live stream tonight

01:32:28.240 i don't know yet but i probably will talk to you later bye for now

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