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00:08:46.840This population collapse is one of the big existential risks.
00:08:51.840Well, on the plus side, some might say, there's a caravan of 15,000 people called the Poverty Caravan that's preparing to cross our border, mostly Mexican citizens.
00:09:10.840The bad news is that 15,000 poor people are crossing the border into the United States on top of the 300,000 or so that came in the past month.
00:09:54.840I tweeted yesterday, why can't the president, any president, whether it's Biden or Trump, why can't they use an executive order to close the border?
00:10:04.840Now, I get that there are asylum laws, and so the law says that we have to process them if they come in through the asylum port.
00:10:13.840But are you telling me that the head of our military cannot declare that it's a military homeland security problem and just treat it as a military security problem?
00:10:27.840Well, what's the point of having, you know, the head of your military be the president if they can't do military stuff when they need to?
00:10:37.840So I guess some Republicans went to the border and House Speaker Mike Johnson basically said the same thing.
00:10:45.840He said the same thing I did, although he's got a different spin on it, that Biden created the problem with an executive order.
00:10:54.840The reason things are so bad is the executive order to get rid of the remain in Mexico thing.
00:11:00.840Apparently, he undid that, and then that opened the floodgates.
00:11:05.840So, yes, you could use an executive order to reverse other executive orders, but why would he even do that?
00:11:13.840Like, why are you even playing around with, you know, these little laws?
00:11:18.840Just declare it a security emergency and treat it like it's a military emergency, because it is.
00:11:28.840You know, the current, if we stop today, we can absorb the people who came in.
00:11:34.840You know, there might be more crime, there might be some terrorists who got in, but we could survive with a number who have already gotten in.
00:11:43.840We're not going to die because of the ones we're already in.
00:11:46.840But, if we don't slow down the flow really quickly, we can't do it forever.
00:11:53.840You know, it's not sustainable in even a little bit.
00:11:57.840So, you know, I'm pretty sure it'll end by election day, one way or the other.
00:12:02.840But, yes, the president can do an executive order and end it tomorrow.
00:12:07.840The fact that Biden isn't doing it suggests corruption.
00:12:11.840It suggests blackmail and or corruption or both.
00:12:17.840And now Biden is suing Texas because Texas made their own law to make it illegal to enter Texas.
00:12:26.840And now the federal government is suing Texas for preventing illegal people from entering the country.
00:12:35.840Now, this is what the third or fourth time they sued Texas for trying to put up their own barriers.
00:12:41.840So I think it's the fourth or fifth time Texas tried to stop illegal immigration in their state and the federal government put their resources and time and money into stopping the stopping of the illegal immigration.
00:12:57.840Now, can you think of any reason why the federal government would do that?
00:16:14.840If you started two companies and then sold them and then went on to another company, you wouldn't say you failed because you're not still in that old company.
00:16:23.840It would depend on what you intended to do when you started out.
00:16:27.840And what I intended to do, I succeeded at.
00:16:30.840How much did I think I would be married forever?
00:17:04.840So we need to figure out some system where all these unmarried people can live some kind of fulfilling life.
00:17:13.840How many of you saw the viral video of a fake Ramaswamy disemboweling a Washington Post reporter who asked him to disavow white supremacy?
00:17:25.840Instead of taking the bait, he just eviscerated her on video and it became a sensation.
00:17:35.840Now, I posted, I can't remember if I read this to you where I only did it in the man cave separately, but here's what I said after watching that video.
00:17:49.840We saw a vague display a level of capability that we've actually never seen before.
00:19:27.840And they've said very clearly that they're going to try everything they need to do to keep them out of office.
00:19:32.840So, the hint is very thick that very bad actors might try to do something very illegal with Trump.
00:19:42.840Now, would they do that if they thought that the people who might come in behind him to replace him would be as bad as, or maybe worse, from their perspective?
00:19:53.840And the answer is, that's why, you know, George Bush Sr. had Dan Quayle.
00:20:00.840You know, the joke was it made him assassination proof.
00:24:03.840People see them as like an alternative to Trump.
00:24:06.840Whereas Vivek looks like an improved Trump.
00:24:09.840He's like Trump 2.0, meaning that he could bring you the good stuff without the provocation because he knows how to avoid it.
00:24:20.840So, I think that Vivek's numbers are artificially suppressed because Trump is everybody's first choice who would also like what Vivek has to offer.
00:24:31.840So, in my opinion, if something happened, I hope it doesn't, but if something happened to Trump before the primaries are over, I think Vivek would immediately jump to first place.
00:25:36.840It looks like Biden is going for what I call the narrow ravine strategy, which is he's taking the worst possible attack and he's going to make that his centerpiece.
00:25:48.840The worst attack is to call January 6th an insurrection and try to pin that on Trump to suppress his votes.
00:26:34.840But what's different about January 6th is how mockable it is.
00:26:40.840Because it would have been hard to mock somebody who said that Trump called neo-Nazis fine people, because then you have to kind of untangle all the ugliness of the whole event.
00:26:52.840And it just gets complicated, like, and then it turns into, well, who was there?
00:26:56.840You know, could there be any good people there?
00:26:59.840And then the, you know, the one about the bleach, again, if you tried to understand what really happened, there was a real technology at the time.
00:27:27.840And he turns to Biden and he says, you know, I would love you to explain to the American public how you connect the dots between capturing a lectern
00:27:38.840and sauntering around taking selfies and gaining control of the nuclear triad.
00:27:45.840Can you explain to us how the unarmed Republicans were planning to take over the U.S. military and control of the country?
00:27:54.840And can you explain how I thought that would work?
00:28:00.840Can you explain what you think I was thinking that would allow me to think that some people protesting in front of one building unarmed could somehow turn that into controlling the government of the United States?
00:28:14.840Mr. Biden, can you explain that to the American people?
00:30:52.840And once it becomes fully, like, just laughable, and it's right on the edge right now, but I think Trump can push it over, then that's all you need.
00:33:20.840Imagine I told you, all right, here's something you're going to invent.
00:33:23.840You're going to invent a government system where there's a government and they're elected.
00:33:28.840But separately, you're going to have a really high quality intelligence service working for you.
00:33:34.840Now, their job will be to use influence and all kinds of dirty tricks and money and bribery and blackmail to affect the elections in other countries.
00:33:45.840Now, they're also allowed to work here and they can influence our people.
00:33:57.840Well, the design of that system guarantees that the people who are trained to take over countries without getting caught and change their government without getting caught,
00:34:09.840will eventually, maybe not on day one, but eventually as different people come in, somebody's going to get the idea.
00:34:18.840Hey, why don't we just take over this country?
00:34:39.840In a normal course of things, that's how that system design should work.
00:34:46.840So on day one, maybe no problem at all.
00:34:49.840But eventually you get a J. Edgar Hoover situation where the intelligence definitely knows too much about the bad behavior of the politicians.
00:34:58.840At that point, did we get the 34-minute glitch?
00:35:22.840Anyway, let's talk about some more stuff.
00:35:27.840There's some commander in an Iran-affiliated Iraqi militia who got killed by a drone strike in Baghdad.
00:35:34.840It looks to me like Israel and maybe the United States have decided that they now have a free pass to take out all Iranian proxies everywhere.
00:49:46.840So is it my imagination or is it obvious to you that the names mentioned have that weird quality that if you were going to guess who could be blackmailed, they would be at the top of your list?
00:51:04.840I guess it was about 10 months ago Alan Dershowitz did an interview in which he was asked directly by Kim Iverson, who was interviewing him, if Epstein was working for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence.
00:51:23.840So here's what Dershowitz answered when asked if Epstein works for Mossad.
00:54:16.840If he were working for Mossad, it was a favor-for-favor situation or possibly cash in some way that we can't trace.
00:54:27.840But probably, probably he got to extract money from his victims, had some kind of cover from somebody.
00:54:37.840And by the way, even if Mossad was working with him, and I don't know for sure, that doesn't mean that there were no other intelligence agencies also working with him.
00:54:55.840But given that Dershowitz is a master of communication, I would say that if he meant to say that Epstein had never had any connection with Mossad, he would have said something like,
00:55:07.840I can tell you for sure, because I've known him forever, he's my client, I've worked with Israel, and there's no indication that he ever had any association with, worked with, did a favor for, had conversations with, met with, or any connection with Mossad.
00:55:24.840That's how you would answer it, if the answer is no.
00:55:50.840So I consider it confirmation that he worked for Mossad.
00:55:55.840I consider the names on the list confirmation, at least in my own personal opinion, that it was a blackmail operation.
00:56:04.840I would not say that Mossad is necessarily his only influence, or the only reason he did anything, but probably had some connections, probably.
00:56:44.840She wants everybody to end up in the same place.
00:56:46.840Now, that was good news for me, because honestly, I never thought I could be a fucking incompetent vice president.
00:56:54.840But apparently, I'm going to have a shot at it, because equity requires that someday I will be a fucking incompetent vice president, because everybody ends up in the same place.
00:58:13.840I know we all think that Newsom is the emergency candidate, but here's what I suspect.
00:58:20.840You know how I said we're a blackmailocracy?
00:58:23.840Can you imagine how much we don't know about Governor Newsom that maybe somebody does know?
00:58:35.840I'm concerned that the Democrats don't think Newsom can get the ball over the goal line, because there might be too much, what do you call it, research about the enemy?
00:58:50.840What's that called? Opposition research.
00:58:52.840There might be some opposition research that's sort of just sitting there waiting, because you wouldn't release the opposition research, the oppo.
00:59:01.840You wouldn't release that too early, because you'd want to make sure he was in the race before you shoot your rod.
00:59:09.840So it could be that Democrats secretly know Newsom can't get the ball in the end zone.
00:59:16.840So they needed an emergency, break the glass, last minute candidate who is name recognition, widely recognized as not a super partisan, you know, more of an entrepreneurial person.
00:59:30.840And to me, it's very suspicious that he would sell his beloved basketball team, which is exactly what you'd want to do if you're going to run for office, because he would be savaged in his business life for anything he does in politics.
00:59:47.840And you would need to come out in favor of DEI if you're going to run as a Democrat.
00:59:52.840And I want to give you this further evidence.
00:59:55.840Since I think all of you are on the same page that supporting DEI is so stupid, that how in the world could somebody like Mark Cuban, who is unambiguously very smart,
01:00:10.840support DEI when DEI is clearly stupid and unproductive and evil.
01:00:19.840So I'm going to read you his support for it.
01:02:06.840Do you think that Mark Cuban believes that if a company just tries harder and looks a little deeper, they can get equally qualified people who have been hiding or have been overlooked because your company is racist and doesn't look in the right places?
01:04:12.840But I would say that 100% of companies agree with his main point here, which is that if everything was equal, every company would like diversity.
01:04:42.840In a world that is diverse, it is absolutely an advantage if the people who use your company can look at you and say, oh, that looks like the public.
01:06:16.840If you're a high-capability employee and you see that the DEI people are bringing in lower-quality people because it's a small pool everybody's fishing from, not because they're lower-quality in general, just a smaller pool, which is math.
01:06:31.840Wouldn't you think, oh, shoot, now people are going to think I'm a diversity hire because of all the real diversity hires.
01:06:39.840They're going to think I'm one, too, and I'm not.
01:06:48.840I can't imagine that improving your morale at all.
01:06:53.840Anyway, MSNBC tried to do a hit piece on Christopher Ruffo, who, as you know, is one of the main, if not the main person fighting against DEI and CRT and ESG.
01:07:07.840And so as Christopher reposted, so MSNBC ran a four-minute segment, which is a lot on television, four minutes, recapping all of the evil things that Christopher Ruffo did, except that it reads like best of, best hits, success thing.
01:07:29.840Like, everything they mention, like, they try to act with their words like it's really bad.
01:07:37.840But then when they describe what it is, I think, well, that was really good.
01:08:45.840The fact that Trump lies as easily as he breathes doesn't change the fact that he led a violent insurrection to overthrow the United States government.
01:08:54.840American democracy will not survive with him in the White House.
01:08:58.840Now, what did he add to the public discourse with that?
01:09:16.840You're all aware that the CIA used to co-opt Hollywood power brokers to make movies and TV shows and stuff that would show the United States in a good light.
01:09:28.840And, you know, would be the brainwashing of the country.
01:09:51.840Now, I'm going to read this again, and I'm going to ask you to listen to it this time and ask yourself, is this a man who deeply believes this and just needs to say it over and over again?
01:10:05.840Or does it look like he's doing it as a job?
01:10:11.840Let me read it and see if this sounds like somebody speaking from the heart or somebody who was paid to complain about Trump nonstop.
01:10:22.840The fact that Trump lies as easily as he breathes doesn't change the fact that he led a violent insurrection to overthrow the United States government.
01:10:29.840American democracy will not survive with him in the White House.
01:16:43.840Have you ever heard of a story where DEI was cut in a company and then the company regretted it and they had to reverse their decision and add back that DEI staff?
01:17:37.840So, how many of you know that President Trump released a gigantic statement with lots of details about the election fraud he claims in the 2020 election?
01:18:35.840His claims are so extensive that you end up spending a lot of time going through them, like I did this morning.
01:18:44.840If you spend a lot of time looking through the details of one narrative, the narrative being the election was rigged, you are going to be convinced of whatever the documentary maker wants you to think.
01:19:01.840So, it is the nature of a documentary, if it takes one position, and usually they do, that they don't show you the other argument.
01:19:09.840And at the end of the documentary, you're going to be 100% convinced that whatever that documentary said is true.
01:19:15.840But, five minutes later, if you saw a documentary that took the other position, you'd be just as convinced of the opposite.
01:19:24.840Because that's how documentaries work.
01:19:26.840If you could make somebody sit for an hour, an hour, you know, to look at one point of view, they usually do walk away believing it.
01:19:34.840It's just too much of one point of view.
01:20:37.840And you say to yourself, irrationally, but you say to yourself, well, with this much smoke, you know, there must be at least one thing that's true on this big old list, right?
01:20:48.840So Trump is using both the documentary effect, because it takes so long to, you know, work with it, plus the laundry list effect, because there are so many different claims.
01:21:00.840Now, you put those together, and the effect that I had when I looked through it was, I concluded that there's a 100% chance the election was rigged.
01:21:53.840Now, I'm more and more convinced, especially when I see Trump's list of claims.
01:21:59.840I'm more and more convinced that what happened to Sidney Powell, with the whole Kraken business and the Venezuelan general who allegedly knew some things.
01:22:10.840I'm convinced that was an op, and that the purpose of it was to give her the most ridiculous claim, and then if she went public with it, it would undermine all of her other allegations, which is exactly what happened.
01:22:25.840If you mention Sidney Powell, somebody will say Kraken within five seconds.
01:23:08.840And she may have a reason not to want to out him, but she probably thinks she was set up at this point.
01:23:15.840And it looks to me like if the stuff on Trump's list of irregularities, if any of that is true, it would suggest that they had to do an op to remove from credibility anybody who was looking into it with any capability.
01:23:33.840And it looks like that's what happened.
01:23:35.840Now, I can't say for sure, but if you told me what's it look like, it looks like the election was rigged.
01:23:42.840It looks like Sidney Powell was getting too close to the truth.
01:23:46.840And they fed her a Kraken op, and she bit, and then it took her out of contention.
01:23:53.840And then nobody else wanted to follow that path because she got so completely destroyed, her career was destroyed, that nobody wanted to go down that path.
01:24:03.840So they basically poisoned the entire field, and it worked.
01:25:32.840Not only was it never audited, because all of this stuff came up afterwards.
01:25:36.840Not only was it never audited, that Trump's list of irregularities proves to me beyond any doubt, I now have no doubt, that our elections are designed, not accidental, designed to not be auditable fully.
01:25:58.840Clearly there are some things you can check.