The gears of the machine are turning and we're all able to see what's really going on in the world way differently than we did last year. Joe Biden has a weed pardon, and dad's coming home. Scott Adams talks about Trump being called a dictator.
00:03:16.160But it's good to know I got a pardon from Joe Biden, so I'm definitely going to endorse him and vote for him now, because I got this weed pardon.
00:03:26.120He's also giving out big raises to federal employees.
00:03:30.860I wonder if an election year is coming up.
00:03:35.060He's going to have to bribe so many people to get reelected.
00:04:38.960Or is it just because it was Christmas, so they said it less?
00:04:42.920I felt like we went big through this, like, wave of dictator, dictator, and it made no difference.
00:04:48.860And did you see there was a post, it was probably on Truth, but it made it over to Axe, from Trump, in which he had one of these, you know, these graphics that shows your social media, what words are common to your social media experience.
00:05:06.560And the words that he published about himself were, had, like, dictator as one of the big words.
00:05:13.840So even Trump is just reading it like a joke.
00:05:16.440And I think, I think that once the other side realized we were going to treat it like a joke, yeah, word cloud.
00:06:18.020Well, IBM is being sued by America First for race discrimination against white people and Asian Americans.
00:06:26.040And it's based on James O'Keefe and his OMG business.
00:06:32.740He had a undercover video of the CEO of IBM.
00:06:37.280Now, if you didn't remember, America First is a group that Stephen Miller put together that creates basically lawfare on behalf of Republicans.
00:06:50.740Because, as you know, Democrats have done a good job of using lawfare against Trump and various other people on the right.
00:07:04.620So now there's an entity, Stephen Miller's entity, that will initiate lawsuits wherever it makes sense, I guess.
00:07:12.660So do you remember how Mike Benz and others told you that what the Democrats did is they would create all these non-government entities that would coordinate with each other to make it look like a small thing was a big thing or to make it look like somebody had support for their thing?
00:07:33.580So in other words, on the Democrat side, all these fake fact checkers and fake watchdogs and fake think techs, right?
00:07:42.920And it's just this whole constellation of NGOs and everything, not part of the government.
00:07:47.980But if you were a journalist and you wanted some support for your bullshit story, you could say, well, this fact checker says this is not true.
00:07:59.760But the fact checker is sort of artificial and astroturf.
00:08:05.060So as part of the Democrat strategy, you'd have all these non-government entities that look semi-reasonable to the people who aren't paying attention.
00:08:14.680So it looks like there's a big, you know, obvious movement in one direction or another.
00:08:21.440Well, apparently the Republicans have caught on because now you've got this, you know, the OMG group is kind of a watchdog group.
00:08:29.760with their undercover videos, but they wouldn't be nearly as effective if you didn't have separately Stephen Miller's group, which is going to sue those people.
00:08:40.940Not all of them, but, you know, that might sue some of them.
00:12:32.260New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI because it says that the AI trained itself on New York Times material, perhaps even more than other material.
00:12:46.600So New York Times thinks that their material maybe was a little bit of an extra focus of the training and that that's unfair.
00:12:54.220And it's a copyright violation, they're trying to say.
00:18:09.580Quote, I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outbursts caused by my, for any unintended outbursts, doesn't, the sentence doesn't make sense.
00:18:22.140I think there's a translation problem.
00:18:25.780It wasn't my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any pain that I might have caused.
00:18:31.640And then he said, I am committed to starting with myself to learn from this experience in order to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future, he added.
00:19:28.580Quote, I am committed to starting with myself to learn from this experience in order to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future.
00:19:37.700Not a fucking chance he wrote that himself.
00:20:27.880So, I mean, the fact that he approved it probably suggests that he does feel that a sincere apology was appropriate.
00:20:38.900So, I feel like his head might be in the right place, that he didn't want to offend people and he feels bad about it and he's sorry about it, probably.
00:20:52.320But I would say the technique of the apology is so PR professional that I think he lost that X-factor reality, credibility part.
00:21:06.680So, we'll see if any more comes of that.
00:21:10.700Well, Bjorn Lomborg tells us that the hurricanes have become, at least the one setting in the U.S., have become less frequent in the current years.
00:21:20.580That would be the opposite of what climate change predicted.
00:21:32.260Do you now all understand that there's no such thing as a complicated climate model that can predict things such as hurricane rates in the future?
00:22:12.520But I don't know if it's because I'm in a bubble that I think that the belief in climate model predictability has now gone to practically nothing.
00:22:24.180Does it seem like belief in models has decreased?
00:24:04.440But if you travel to the Midwest or upstate New York or Texas, it certainly looks like more than half of the people are obese.
00:24:14.960But if you go to L.A. and you do a bunch of, let's say, a media tour, you can spend all day in Los Angeles without seeing an overweight person.
00:24:28.020You know, you'll see people with eating disorders all over the place.
00:24:32.480But I remember one day I went to a breakfast meeting with some Hollywood types, producer types.
00:24:40.820And I remember what they ordered for breakfast.
00:24:45.080It was like, it was just like the size of, you know, two coins on a plate.
00:24:50.640I mean, literally, the entire mass, if you had, like, scooped up all the mass of the entire size of the breakfast and just squeezed it a little bit, it would have been the size of an acorn.
00:30:23.740What's the smartest thing to do if you don't know?
00:30:29.360Should you go research and do your own research and study the science?
00:30:33.560I would recommend against it because I wouldn't trust any of the science about food because I think the food industry has a little bit too much control over food science in the same way pharma has a lot of control over pharma science.
00:30:50.380So I would just take it out of your diet and see if you feel different.
00:31:13.320Now, you could test it by taking it out for two weeks, put it back for two weeks, see if it's different, and if it really is, then go back to getting rid of it.
00:31:48.220Well, part of it is the Gen Z, I think, is drinking far less.
00:31:52.600Part of it is people like me, and by far I'm not alone, but I'm one of a whole bunch of public figures who now say publicly and often that they don't drink even one drink.
00:32:10.380I've never heard so many people say just casually, in casual conversation, I don't drink, as in I don't drink at all.
00:32:19.820I've never heard so many people say it as I have in the past year.
00:32:22.760And maybe, oh, you know what, maybe Trump is the reason.
00:32:27.200Do you remember when men wore hats in the 60s, and then JFK came along and he didn't wear a hat, and then the whole hat business disappeared?
00:32:39.020Could it be a coincidence that in the age of Trump, a very famous non-drinker, that drinking goes down?
00:32:49.600Now, what I haven't seen is that there's a Republican versus Democrat difference.
00:32:54.220If you saw Republicans drinking less, but not Democrats, then you might think it's Trump, but that hasn't been tested.
00:35:51.600See, I haven't seen the movie, so I think this is the essence of it.
00:35:55.560So it's a black guy who's getting too much credit for being a black guy, and not enough credit for just being a good author.
00:36:05.580So it's basically, it's a comedy, it looks like.
00:36:09.220And it looks like it's a broad attack at wokeness.
00:36:12.340And the people shown are white people who are just a little too happy about promoting the black woke book that was actually not even a real book.
00:36:25.700So what's interesting about this is I can't imagine this content ever could have been a movie three years ago.
00:36:33.920So it does suggest that there's a shift, because this got greenlit in Hollywood.
00:36:42.220Now, it's only a partial win, because it's still a movie that primarily features black people looking good and white people looking like assholes.
00:36:51.660So it's only a partial win, but the partial win is that the black hero of the movie is sort of condemning the wokeness and mocking it himself.
00:40:52.280The Wall Street Journal board is saying that DEI is being rolled back.
00:40:58.040So the Wall Street Journal doesn't have any problem having their board, you know, which represents sort of their brand in a way, come out and say the DEI is bullshit and it's being rolled back.
00:41:22.060Axios is reporting that the anti-DEI movement is expanding in politics, business, and academics.
00:41:31.180So on one day, the Wall Street Journal and Axios both reporting that DEI is being pulled back and it's bullshit at the same time that Hollywood is doing an anti-wokeness movie.
00:41:46.780Like, I know there's going to be some challenges.
00:41:51.960There might be some black swans and some things you don't like, but there's a lot that's looking good in terms of trends, a lot.
00:42:03.840Kyle Becker reports that the Air Force is fighting back against their, I guess, the new rules is they can't be racist anymore.
00:42:12.700And they really, really want to be racist, but they're not allowed.
00:42:17.320So here's a statement from the Air Force Academy.
00:42:22.140It says, if we lose our limited window to reshape the racial diversity of each incoming class, it would affect our ability to meet the warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.
00:42:51.660Word thinking is where you try to make some kind of point by putting words together where the grammar works, and you read the sentence, you go,
00:43:01.220Okay, I know what all those words mean, and it looks like your grammar is okay, but I have no idea what you're saying, because there's no logic to it.
00:43:10.840But listen, this is a phrase that was the best.
00:43:14.980It would affect our ability to meet our warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.
00:43:22.160There's no such thing as a warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.
00:43:51.620No, it's somewhere down the list after your warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.
00:43:58.100All right, the fact that the Air Force has to weakly and stupidly and incompetently defend their racism is a real good sign, because they couldn't do it.
00:48:35.820Like, why are they even calling it infringement?
00:48:40.740When you hear what they're complaining about, there's no infringement even in the story.
00:48:45.380It's like, it's so ridiculously, obviously, just going after Musk.
00:48:49.280And, they're blaming him for failing to counter illicit content and disinformation, a lack of transparency about advertising, and, quote, deceptive design practices.
00:49:03.400And, they vowed to permanently shut it down if the platform doesn't immediately ban alternative media.
00:50:09.420Well, if they don't have a legal means to do it, and they don't, they create outside entities, and those outside entities can act in all their lawfare, outside entity ways to help them attack.
00:50:24.200In this case, they're obviously weaponizing the EU.
00:50:29.800Do you think the EU would be making these actions against Musk if the United States government, specifically the Democrats, had not asked them to do it, or even threaten them to do it?
00:50:50.460No, this is clearly, obviously, the gears of the machine showing that it's an illegitimate attack by the EU-European Union, and it's purely political, and it's anti-free speech, and it's anti-ethical, moral, anti-everything that's good.
00:51:49.720So somebody, I guess some people are getting banned from X for breaking the law, which is supposedly the, I think, the only line that Elon Musk says you can't cross.
00:52:34.780So let's try to, let's try to, let's say, move the fog into this issue.
00:52:42.600So let's say somebody says, suppose somebody said, which people did say, the response to Gaza from the IDF should be total annihilation of Gaza.
00:52:56.520Is that a case of asking for civilians to be murdered?
01:02:21.660But just suffice to say that Colorado is trying to keep Trump off the ballot, and Michigan Supreme Court wasn't having any of it, so he'll be on the ballot in Michigan.
01:02:35.680Now, I'm going to put this in my Gears of the Machine case.
01:02:43.660Do you think, if it were obvious that Trump were an insurrectionist, and it's obvious that that's reason to keep him off the ballot, don't you think Michigan would have kept him off, too?
01:02:54.500I mean, the fact that there's one state who says, oh, no, this is bullshit, and then there's another state that's trying to keep him off the ballot.
01:03:03.260If the only thing you knew is that one state said it was okay, and another one said, we don't think it's okay, what would you do?
01:03:12.780You would try to keep him on the ballot.
01:03:14.880But if there's even one state who looked at it carefully and said, yeah, I think he needs to be on the ballot, I think that destroys the argument for another state that says the opposite.
01:03:26.140Because we always want to err on the side of letting the voters decide, right?
01:03:33.760So if there's one state that says, let the voters decide, and there's another that says, we don't want the voters to decide, the Supreme Court, and indeed the citizens themselves, should, as one, say, in that situation, where there's that disagreement, you have to let the voters decide.
01:03:56.320You just can't let the court decide in that situation.
01:03:59.840But I think we're heading in that direction.
01:04:01.100Well, Vivek Ramaswamy says he's going to make some news January 15th, that must be when the Iowa caucuses, you call the Iowa caucuses, right?
01:04:56.600He must be getting a good, he's probably getting a really good reception there, and so he's got a feeling in his stomach.
01:05:01.680But at the same time, he's stopped doing TV ads for his campaign because he thinks they're kind of stupid and unproductive.
01:05:12.140But when you stop doing TV ads, even though the reason he's doing it is that they're stupid and unproductive and he can put the money in better places,
01:07:51.020The truth is that NASA treated them like everybody else, and they did a real good job.
01:07:55.440But the sort of DEI version of it, where the ladies are the oppressed heroes that somehow persevere against all this discrimination, sort of a fake version.
01:08:10.800But did you know that the Department of Education paid to have it distributed to all the classrooms so they could learn history?
01:10:47.300So, we're telling you that they got the God thing wrong and that what you need to be doing is, you know, be nice to your neighbors and that's what God wants.
01:10:57.040So, you could definitely reprogram youth.
01:11:28.540Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the best live stream you've ever seen.
01:11:38.400And would you agree with my themes that we can see the gears of the machine more clearly than ever before?
01:11:46.100For example, we can see that the Biden crime family was doing exactly what we thought it was.
01:11:52.340We know that the 50 people who signed the laptop letter were part of an intelligence op on the public.
01:12:00.860We certainly can see that clearly now.
01:12:03.480We know that all the woke stuff was bullshit from the start and really just a power grab and a grifter kind of a thing.
01:12:13.240We know that ESG was how some rich white people tried to make themselves look like heroes, but was never good for the country, any part of the country.
01:12:24.660And we've seen that even the election integrity is coming under some, let's say, pretty rigorous questions at the moment.
01:12:40.620So although there is no proof that the election was rigged, here's something that nobody's ever argued with me about.
01:13:35.500Because, you know, you might say to yourself, common sense requires that you couldn't possibly know if somebody cheated and got away with it.
01:13:43.620All you would know is that you didn't catch it.
01:13:46.000So you might say to yourself, no, we only don't know if anybody did.