Episode 2349 CWSA 01⧸10⧸24
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1 hour and 40 minutes
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144.68405
Summary
Join me for the dopamine hit of the day as I talk about the latest in the Bob Menendez scandal, the Pennsylvania statues of William Penn and much, much more! Enjoy! Guests: Former NFL player and former NFL player's wife, Lauren Boebert, who was accused of slapping her ex-husband and now faces criminal charges. Former FBI agent Robert Menendez, who has been charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit prostitution, who allegedly conspired with his ex-wife to commit sex acts with underage girls.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you're lucky enough to be here when it happens.
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13.8 billion years since the beginning of the universe, and in all that time, this show
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But if you'd like to take this up to levels that no one can really even understand, all
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you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask
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of vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid.
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It's the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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Well, if you didn't hear, the statues of William Penn in Pennsylvania will not be coming down.
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So Pennsylvania will remain named Pennsylvania.
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Because I think if you take down the statue, because William Penn was a bad person, some say,
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what that's going to result in is they've got to change the name of the state.
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So my suggestion of changing it to Penis Sylvania is tabled for now.
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Lauren Boebert continues to do the job of the people by entertaining us with her marriage drama.
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You know, if you can't get your Congress to do the work of the people, which is first choice.
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You know, first choice is, hey, can you do the work of the people?
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But if you're not going to do that, could you please give us some marriage drama, some entertainment?
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Well, I feel better now because Lauren Boebert's ex-husband has been arrested and is facing charges,
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You remember the story where the first version was that Lauren Boebert slapped her husband or something?
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But it turns out that the real story is literally the reverse.
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Because I don't think he would be arrested if his wife slapped him.
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So once again, more evidence that everything in the news is untrue.
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Have I ever reminded you, every single day, that the news about public fingers is always untrue?
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And you probably thought, well, it's not always.
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As soon as you believe that sometimes the news about public thinkers is right on, they've got all the right context, they've shown both sides, that's never happened.
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That will never happen in the history of the world.
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Because when it comes to individuals, no one is ever neutral.
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If you see a story about a celebrity, it's going to be written by somebody who either loves that celebrity or thinks it would be fun to take them down.
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It's either biased for or against the public finger in every case.
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The sooner you learn that, the sooner you'll understand the world.
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Well, if things weren't getting worse for Bob Menendez, so he's being charged with bribery and he got caught with a bunch of gold bars from other countries, it all looks kind of bad.
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But now we find out that his ex-girlfriend participated allegedly, allegedly, participated in orgies with Jeffrey Epstein and underage girls.
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Now, apparently this has nothing to do with Menendez, you know, unless maybe, really?
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Is there anybody on YouTube who can hear the audio?
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The process for using Rumble Studio has many steps.
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It looks like I missed clicking one thing or two things.
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Don't select Locals because you're already there.
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We will know in mere moments whether this is working.
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You know, the reason I actually don't look at the comments from the other feeds because they're delayed.
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If I see the delayed comments, the whole thing's messed up.
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Ladies and gentlemen, in theory, we're back live on three different platforms here.
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There are a couple of buttons I forgot to push.
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It will be the best, the best live stream you've ever seen.
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I just want to make sure that the YouTube people and the X people can hear me.
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Can anybody confirm that we have sound on these platforms?
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So Menendez just having a bad day because his girlfriend is allegedly somebody who participated
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in orgies with underage girls on Epstein Island.
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The fact that she's alleged to have done these things doesn't really mean a lot, does it?
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You know, when it comes to Epstein Island, there have been plenty of fake claims.
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So I would say that we should give her a break and assume that although there are allegations
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when it comes to Epstein Island, don't assume anything's true.
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Mike Cernovich is, I guess his new movie is about to be out, or maybe it is out, called Meaning.
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Now, if you said to yourself, Mike Cernovich, what's he doing making movies?
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Well, maybe you didn't see his first movie, Hoaxed.
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I don't know if it was his first, but his most recent one was called Hoaxed.
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When that came out, by the way, I was in Hoaxed.
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And apparently the same crew is doing this movie called Meaning.
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And it's the only thing I've been looking forward to in terms of movies.
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It's like the only movie I've looked forward to in maybe two years.
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I can't remember the last time there was a movie, and I thought, oh, can't wait to see that.
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I assume that, I believe the content is about the meaning of life, which could not be more relevant at the moment.
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Go watch Meaning by Mike Cernovich and his crew.
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Well, have I told you too many times that what I want is a phone that does not present me with a big screen of apps?
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So when I have something in mind I want to do, I've got to crawl through the apps, and I've got to always re-sign up, and my password is wrong, and I can't figure out the interface, and they've updated us since the last time.
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And it takes me three different apps to do anything.
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And what I said was, you know, maybe AI can solve that.
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And maybe it can solve it by simply having us say what we want, and then the phone just sort of does it without bothering us with the apps.
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And now, there is a company making a product called Rabbit Phone.
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I just watched an extended advertisement for it.
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So it's this little square kind of cool-looking device.
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Or you can type on it, but mainly you talk to it.
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So you can say things like, hey, can you book me a trip or plan me a trip?
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You know, make sure it's luxury accommodations, and there's three of us.
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And then it just goes off, and it figures out which of your apps does that kind of thing.
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Because you still have to have the app in this model.
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You just have to give Rabbit your credentials once, and it'll open it for you.
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So then it'll come back with questions, and you can update it and say, change this, blah, blah.
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I'm replacing – I had this outdoor barbecue built-in area that got filled with rats.
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The rats built a home under the barbecue in the cabinetry.
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So I just had it all ripped down because there's just no way to fix it, basically.
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And I'm going to replace it with just some standard outdoor kitchen that you buy from Home Depot or something.
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It'll be one of these just metallic outdoor grills and sink and stuff.
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And I have a special need, which is I want it to be L-shaped, and I want to specify what's on each side.
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So I go to the big outdoor grill selling website, barbecue something, and they have about 100,000 – about 100,000 options.
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Because if you combine different things, probably 10 million options.
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Do you know how long it would take me to sort through 10 million options?
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It's so not doable, I'm considering not replacing my outdoor barbecue.
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Because I don't know when I'm going to have a week to spend shopping for a fucking barbecue.
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And then with each line, there's 100 different models within each line.
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And then how does that – so it's actually impossible.
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Now, the company, the company does offer, you know, some services to help you put things together.
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When was the last time you had a satisfying contact with a company's service department?
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I just look at the fact that, yeah, I get that they have a group I could call.
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And I get that they're going to, like, answer all my questions for me.
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Because I know that if I do a chat – have you ever done the chat with the service department of anything lately?
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Hi, I would like you to answer this specific question.
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Ever once – have you ever seen in a chat, one of those service chats?
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The first contact will be, it's great to see you.
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So that's what happened when I was talking to the barbecue people.
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I'm looking for something that can do A, B, and C.
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I said, I need something – I can find something that can do A on my own.
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I need something to do A, and also B, and also C.
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So I want AI to deal with their AI that's probably operating the chat.
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I assume their chat is some combo of canned responses and a person who's dipping in once
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You know, so much I don't want to deal with that that I would not even use that company.
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Now, by the way, I'm imputing them before I try, because if I called them, I'd probably
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So I want AI to solve all of those problems of dealing with other people.
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I don't want to deal with other people ever again.
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I want to be like Howard Hughes, where you couldn't talk to Howard Hughes, but you could
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talk to somebody who might be able to talk to him.
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And you know what my AI is going to say to you the first time you text me?
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And then after he says, I'd like to ask Scott if he could schedule this podcast.
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You know what I'm going to have my AI say then?
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And then the person will say, no, no, not a speaking event.
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I'm going to have my AI be the biggest asshole.
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Well, I don't know if it's because AI is going to change the nature of the smartphone market.
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But unusual whales reports that Apple iPhone sales in China fell 30% in the first weeks of 2024, according to Reuters.
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Now, I'll remind you that I do not give investment advice.
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But full disclosure, I held Apple stock for a number of years, but I got rid of it earlier this year because I no longer trust that it's the monopoly I thought it was.
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I invested in it because they had such a solid hold on the market that it was just printing money.
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But now AI makes everything kind of, I'm not sure.
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And then China makes everything, that could be trouble.
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So suddenly the certainty of Apple printing money by just upgrading to the next slightly better iPhone is not as obvious.
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I don't know if that's why sales are going down in China.
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And probably it's more, it has something to do with China.
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But I do see this rabbit phone or things like it changing things a lot.
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You know that at one point Apple was primarily or exclusively a computer-making company.
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And then they went into the music business with their iPod.
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And that's because they had a guy named Steve Jobs.
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So Steve Jobs created the company, saved them once by coming back from next computer and back into the company.
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And then he introduced the iPad and the smartphone.
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Remember how you felt the first time you knew there was something called an iPod?
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You remember when the iPad got invented and you were like, whoa, that looks really cool.
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I felt like I had to have one and I didn't even need one.
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Literally, if you had AT&T service, you couldn't hold it in your hand without your finger canceling out the antenna and dropping the call.
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So, so far, every product that Apple has made in my lifetime from the original Lisa computer, I really, really wanted it.
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I really, really wanted one of those back in those days.
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And every product they've made since then, with the exception of what was the first product I didn't really, really want from Apple?
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What was it about the watch that was different from all their other products?
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It was their first product after Jobs left, wasn't it?
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And yet it was the first product I did not crave, like just irrationally wanted it.
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You know what my emotional feeling is about the goggles?
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The most interest I would have is if I were standing in a room and somebody said, hey, put these on.
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If somebody said to me, hey, if you drive across town, I'll show you how this looks.
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Because in my opinion, they have not yet found magic without Steve Jobs.
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Would anybody disagree with that characterization?
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I don't think I wanted the AirPods the minute I saw them because they looked kind of goofy.
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Is there anybody else who stopped using AirPods because it tickles your ears?
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So we don't know what's happening with Apple, but it's a riskier business than it used to be, I think.
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Zuby had a funny comment about the British Empire.
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He was riffing off the world of statistics, showed a list of countries that have never been invaded by Britain.
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It's a comprehensive list of every country that has never been invaded by Britain.
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They had to add the Vatican to the list just to plump it up a little bit.
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So Britain has never invaded the Vatican, the Vatican City, I guess.
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But in most of the countries that they have not invaded are ones that you've never even heard of, or little ones like, you know, Lichtenstein.
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He says, I have a theory that the entire British Empire thing was really just a quest for decent weather, hot women, and tasty seasonings.
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Did you see the video of a jewelry store in Oakland in which some people came in to rob this jewelry store in Oakland?
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And the proprietor sort of saw them approaching and knew that something was up, so he had his gun ready.
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What transpired was a major gun battle in the middle of the store in which the proprietor, you know,
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I think he got off, I don't know, at least nine or more shots.
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And I think the bad guys, two of them, got off something like 20 different shots.
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One of them had a gun with some kind of extra magazine capacity, you know, an illegal firearm with, like, extra shooting ability.
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The degree that people are shooting each other is fun.
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But not only did the proprietor get the best of the exchange, so he shot one or two of them, and, you know, they managed to leave.
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But as one was leaving, he was struck by the getaway car.
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So the getaway car was trying to leave without the getawayers.
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And the guy runs out of the building, already shot, and his getaway car hits him.
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Now, to be fair, that's funnier than it is if you saw it.
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Because if you saw it, he didn't get, like, hurt too badly.
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But the bumper, you know, caught him in the leg, and he had to probably hurt a little bit.
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So what's the most shocking and fascinating story about the jewelry store in Oakland that was attempted robbery,
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The most surprising story is there's a jewelry store in Oakland in the year 2024.
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There's somebody in Oakland who thinks it's a good idea to have a jewelry store in Oakland in 2024.
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Now, that's the first part of the thing that's too amazing to believe.
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If you think that's amazing, that somebody actually thought that running a jewelry store in Oakland was a good business model,
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There were two criminals in Oakland who didn't realize that anybody who still runs a jewelry store in Oakland is,
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number one, armed to the teeth, and number two, the bravest motherfucker in America.
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Hey, I think, Rob, hey, did you realize, do you know there's a jewelry store?
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I know I don't believe it either, but we've been robbing before somebody else does because it's not going to last long.
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So we'll get our guns and get your illegal magazine thing, too.
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We're going to run in there, catch them off guard, and take all their stuff.
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If they had had maybe a business consultant, and I don't know if they're business consultants for criminals,
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but they need them because crime is a business model, too, ultimately.
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So if I were the business model, I would say, all right, what's your plan?
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You're going to knock over a jewelry store in where?
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Well, first of all, I don't believe you that there's a jewelry store in Oakland in 2024.
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So you're going to go in there with your guns and you're going to rob them.
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Anybody who's still running a jewelry store in Oakland is looking for a gunfight.
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That's not somebody who woke up and said, you know, I'd like to avoid any trouble today.
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No, that's somebody who has multiple guns and was expecting to use them exactly the way he did.
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So I wouldn't mess with that jewelry store, is what I'm saying.
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Did you hear the recent news, you know, yet again, some study that said hydroxychloroquine,
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according to a meta-study, caused 17,000 deaths because, claim these researchers, it was the wrong drug
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Do you know why you should not believe this study?
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Because it's a study and it's about the pandemic.
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So those are the two most bullshitty things in the history of the humanity.
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So right off the bat, there's a 50% chance it won't be reproducible.
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Now, if the only thing you knew was somebody did a meta-analysis, what would you know?
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It's somebody deciding what studies are good enough to include,
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and it's really deciding what's good enough to include an opinion
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Plus, there can be big studies that bias, you know, because they're bigger than the averages.
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And it was about the pandemic, and everything about the pandemic is bullshit.
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And Kennedy explained that they only used the hydroxychloroquine with really sick people,
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which is the opposite of how you're supposed to use it.
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So, yeah, if you oversubscribed the wrong drug at the wrong time to the wrong people,
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you're going to get a bad result, which had nothing to do with whether hydroxychloroquine
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could work the way people imagined it could, which is ahead of time.
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Now, I don't know if it worked or didn't work, and you know why I don't know?
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Because it's a study, because there's a meta-analysis, because it's about the pandemic.
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Those three things guarantee you don't know anything.
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But let me ask you, are you certain, how many of you would say you're certain that in the fullness of time,
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with what we know now, how many of you are certain that ivermectin was effective against COVID?
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Don't you know that ivermectin has been shown to be effective?
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Do you know how ivermectin was shown to be effective?
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They did a study that was a meta-study in the pandemic.
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Now, if you guessed it did, you might be right.
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If you guessed that maybe it worked in some cases and not others, you might be right.
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You could talk to people who anecdotally thought it helped.
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If you look at a meta-analysis, bullshit, the study, bullshit, the pandemic, everything's bullshit.
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I think there's a good chance that ivermectin work.
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So, you know, if you put a gun to my head and said, all right, you know, there's only two ways.
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I would certainly use it just because it wouldn't hurt me.
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I mean, the risk analysis is very clearly in favor of it.
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In St. Paul, Minnesota, CBS News is reporting quite giddily that they have only women on the city council now.
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So lots of people of color and all women, no men.
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If you had all women on the city council, did the news say, my God, we're going to have to add some diversity?
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We're going to need to add some diversity to this city council, right?
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Because it's the news, and the news is very interested in DEI and diversity, right?
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If it's all women, there must be some problem here.
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I mean, every time I wake up, I find that if it's all men, it's a problem.
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If there are too many Asians getting into good colleges, I'm told that's a problem by some people.
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So wouldn't this be a problem if you have only women on a seven council membership?
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The first order of business is they're going to change the name of the city from St. Paul to St. Paulina.
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Because isn't it just as, it's exactly as ridiculous as everything else in the news?
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So the chat seems to have stopped on all of the other streams except locals.
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Is there anybody at locals who can confirm the stream is working?
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Is the chat working for other people but not me?
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So as long as you chatters are happy, then I guess I'm happy too.
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But let's see if I can maybe clear that and see the comments.
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Sorry, I can't see your comments, but apparently you can see me.
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I saw a post from Peachy Keenan, who apparently is getting some DMs from pilots,
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Because, you know, people are worried that the pilots won't be good.
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And here's what some pilots are saying, that the so-called DEI diversity hires
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are, of course, newer pilots, so they would not be as skilled as the older ones.
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But as long as the new pilots are paired with some boomer who's experienced, you're probably
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going to be fine, because that's how people learn to fly.
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They fly with experienced pilots, but the experienced pilots are retiring in record numbers because
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And the question is, what happens when the people who really do have the experience are no longer sitting next to the people
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Are you going to get two people with relatively light experience?
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Now, I remind you that when I talk about the incompetence problem and the DEI hires and the diversity hires,
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I'm never talking about their genes or anything about their race.
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If everybody's trying to pull good employees from the same limited pool, somebody's not going to have enough.
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So it should result in massive incompetence if you're just trying to do DEI the way it was designed.
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If all you did is DEI the way it's designed, it should, by design, guarantee the end of the country,
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because it would drive your capability level lower and lower, because your priorities would be on looks instead of capability.
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Now, I'm quick to point out, as others do, that the whole point of DEI is that you're not picking people who are lesser qualified.
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But in the real world, and in 2024 we're allowed to say this, nothing like that's going to happen.
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In the real world, there just aren't enough people for everybody to hire to get all the capability you need.
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So it's not really possible in any practical sense.
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All right, Mark Zuckerberg did the best failure to read the room that I've seen in a long time.
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Think about your own life, whatever problems you have.
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And then consider that Mark Zuckerberg decided that posting the following message on his platform was just fun and interesting.
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And he's posting that over there in Hawaii, in his compound in Hawaii, he's growing special cows.
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The waigu and some other kind of special cows that are good eating.
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And he's feeding them only macadamia nuts that he grows on his own plantation.
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I've never heard of that before, but is that a thing?
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So he makes his own beer on his property, and they grow their own macadamia nuts.
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And then he's proud to say that his girls, his kids, they take care of the animals.
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And then he shows a big old steak in front of him on a plate as he's enjoying his meal.
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Now, I feel like those two children who are raising the cattle as their pets before they eat them are going to be vegetarians by the time they reach college.
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Let me tell you one of the big reasons I'm a vegetarian.
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I primarily do it just because I don't process meat very well.
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So for me, it's just my physical biology doesn't work with meat too well.
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My uncle had a farm nearby, so my siblings and I would work there.
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And have you ever watched an animal be slaughtered?
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You should try watching that when you're 10 years old.
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Try watching an animal be slaughtered when you're 10 years old from start to finish.
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If that doesn't turn you into vegetarian, I don't know what will.
00:42:19.240
So, anyway, I didn't realize there was a company that was almost ready to land on the moon, but they got some kind of fuel leak.
00:42:26.800
So they're going to fly around up there and try to get some stuff done, but they won't be landing on the moon.
00:42:34.960
It's Astrobotic Technology and their Peregrine spacecraft.
00:42:39.260
So there is a ton of space activity that doesn't get as much attention as SpaceX.
00:42:46.820
But there's a whole bunch of people making rockets to go to a whole bunch of places.
00:42:54.860
And I'm wondering what the DEI policy on the moon will be.
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Because if they don't have a DEI policy on the moon, I'm still looking for a place to go.
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My backup plan, in case America keeps getting more and more racist and I have to leave.
00:43:21.920
And do you think that our Congress is designed in a way that will give you good budgets to focus on your priorities?
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Do you think our government is designed to do that?
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Our government is designed to waste your money and get away with it.
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And you know it's the design because it's the only thing that happens.
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And if they keep things complicated, you, the public, won't know exactly who to blame or why.
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Because you'll be like, okay, that sounds like a good idea, but can we afford all this?
00:44:08.160
They can only keep their jobs because you don't know what they're doing.
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The moment you understood what they were doing, you'd vote in new people to do things you want them to do.
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So it's only the hiding of the useful information that allows our government to function the way it does, if you can call it a function.
00:44:25.820
So now we have the new Speaker of the House, Johnson, who has agreed to a spending level that is so high it guarantees the destruction of the country.
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I'm not saying that just this one year and that one budget will destroy it.
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But there's no effort or energy toward reducing our expenses, which are clearly ruinous, because we couldn't possibly cover it all, you know, the budget that we're racking up, the debt we're racking up.
00:44:58.880
So Congress just goes to work, and then they do the things the way their rules require and the forces are in place, and then they come up with something that can't possibly serve the interests of the people.
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And we're not really sure exactly what's going on, because people don't follow the news that closely.
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If they did, they couldn't understand the budget.
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So we have a system by design that guarantees America ends.
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Unless we change something really, really basic about the design, I don't see how we can survive.
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But it's designed to fail, and we just keep waking up every day and say, well, I guess I'll eat lunch.
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It's such a big problem that you don't know what to do about it.
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So, in my opinion, Republicans have completely failed to do the job for their constituents.
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And apparently, they're trying to not shut down the country.
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You know, they don't want the country to shut down because they haven't agreed on the budget.
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If the alternative is guaranteed failure, to me, that's a risk-reward no-brainer.
00:46:39.420
You should definitely shut down the country as long as you want, and as painful as it needs to be.
00:46:55.820
So, I guess the Iowa Republican debates are coming up, and it's only going to be DeSantis and Haley.
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Vivek Ramaswamy has a little quick ad in which he suggests that your best play would be to, quote,
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Now, he gets bleeped for the shit part, but you can tell he's saying it.
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It's a snappy little ad, and his point is, which he says, that you're only being allowed to see the two corporate darlings.
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Now, of course, you know, the rules require you to poll above a certain amount before you can be in the debate.
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So, that's what they would say would be the reason.
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But it is kind of interesting that DeSantis and Haley, according to Vivek, would be the two most acceptable Republicans.
00:47:51.760
Oh, is it CNN's rule that's not the debate rule?
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So, Vivek says, just turn it off and don't watch.
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Were any of you even a little bit interested in watching a debate between DeSantis and Haley?
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I can't imagine that would be interesting or useful or would tell me something I didn't know
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or would help the country, would make democracy richer, would grease the republic, would get us a better result,
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And I was worried about it the other day because I was thinking,
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oh, God, you're going to expect me to comment on the debate.
00:48:43.880
Now, suppose Vivek had been part of the debate.
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Because if Vivek is in the debate, it's going to get really interesting.
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You don't have to guess that because he's already approved that that will be the case.
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Have you noticed that every day you wake up and you look at the news and you say,
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uh-oh, Scott is going to have to explain what Trump really meant in this story.
00:49:20.720
It looks like Scott is going to have to explain why Trump is not a dictator.
00:49:26.720
It looks like Scott is going to have to explain that Trump doesn't really mean violence is a good idea.
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Uh-oh, so all day long, I look at the news and I'm like, oh, fuck.
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Do I have to once again explain what Trump meant?
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Trump can't explain his own opinions better than I can explain his opinions.
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Now, Trump is more provocative and he gets more energy and he definitely knows how to rile up his base better than I ever could.
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So his skills are transcendent in what he does.
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But it does cause this whole big problem of people like me being accused of terrible things because he didn't say something as clearly or as elegantly as maybe he could.
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But Vivek has been campaigning for a long time now, and any time somebody tried to do that to him, where they tried to misinterpret him, he's turned it into a news cycle and just buried him.
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We just saw a clip of President Biden giving a talk, and he was interrupted by Heckler.
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And he looked like he was shaken, but then he tried to do that thing that politicians do, like, it's okay, let them speak, but not really.
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So that gives you the impression that Biden doesn't want the alternative you heard or, yeah, just sort of an awkward thing, and that's why the protesters do it.
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Well, now I think we've seen the third example, there might be more, in which Vivek is at a public event, a protester interrupts, and then Vivek says,
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I'll tell you what, why don't you come up here and have your piece, I'll listen politely.
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And then when you've completely explained what you'd like to explain to my crowd, do you mind if I give you my view so they can compare words to that effect?
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You know, I couldn't play the clip, but I could tell that he had once again invited a climate person up to give their opinion before he debunked it.
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Well, I don't have to explain what Vivek meant when he criticized climate alarmism, because he said it better than I could possibly say it.
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That's sort of the dog not barking, because it takes a long time to realize the pattern is forming, and the pattern is no pattern.
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The pattern of no pattern is the hardest one to spot, because you're thinking, where's my pattern?
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Where's the press saying that Vivek said something crazy, or violent, or racist?
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And they know that if they do, there's going to be a whole news cycle about them being completely disgraced, bullshit professionals.
00:52:55.660
All right, so President Biden is defending his idea to tax the 55 biggest corporations in America that pay zero federal income taxes in 2020.
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Now, do all of you understand why that's a good idea, economically, to tax the big corporations who are paying no taxes?
00:53:22.660
Everybody understands why the economics of that are good.
00:53:29.540
Didn't Biden clearly explain the purpose of this and why it's good for the country?
00:53:53.460
They had cash profits, probably, but on paper, no.
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Companies that are growing quickly and investing and growing so quickly that they will be the greatest companies America ever produced.
00:54:12.580
Because the government prefers they don't in some situations.
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And they prefer they don't when the alternative is you can grow fast and become much, much stronger and bigger, have more employees paying taxes, pay lots of dividends.
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And all those things are amortized over time, exactly.
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So, eventually, the government should get its money back.
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Because at some point, you stop investing in capital assets.
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And at some point, you start becoming a cash cow.
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And that's when you pay your taxes, when you're a cash cow.
00:54:46.600
Now, Biden, I don't know if he doesn't understand it or doesn't want to or doesn't want to explain it.
00:54:52.340
But did you know that this company that's not paying any taxes, does it have employees?
00:54:59.160
If you've got a company with, let's say, 10,000 employees and you're not paying corporate income taxes, those 10,000 people got paid and they have to pay taxes.
00:55:13.140
Well, they might not be getting dividends in the early part of the company, but they will.
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Once on the company and once when the individual gets it.
00:55:27.160
So, the companies that are not paying taxes are because, at some point, our own government reasonably said, it's better if they don't pay taxes under these situations.
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Because they're growing, they're investing, and that's much more important for the country.
00:55:50.040
Now, are there also a bunch of ways that big companies can essentially avoid taxes in ways you can't?
00:55:57.640
But I think he's just sort of broadly saying, they don't pay taxes, and citizens pay taxes, so they think, oh, that's unfair.
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That's unfair because the corporation doesn't pay taxes.
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But do you know why the napkin doesn't pay taxes?
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But if the only thing you hear is that you have to pay taxes, but this napkin doesn't, the napkin doesn't have to pay taxes,
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and you say, but Scott, a napkin isn't like a corporation.
00:56:47.240
In this conversation, a corporation and a napkin are the same because they're not people.
00:56:55.520
The napkin shouldn't pay taxes, and the corporation probably shouldn't.
00:56:59.940
You could take all taxes from all corporations, as long as they pay their owners and pay their employees.
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You're going to be pretty close to fully taxed.
00:57:18.920
He's questioning Nikki Haley's citizenship because she was born to parents who were not yet the citizens themselves.
00:57:26.680
So she was born in South Carolina, which, according to our Constitution, makes you absolutely guaranteed positively an American citizen.
00:57:35.860
But because Trump questions birthright and citizenship, the idea that just being born here makes you a citizen,
00:57:43.700
he is bringing up the idea that maybe Nikki Haley isn't exactly quite as legally perfectly a citizen as other people.
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And he creates a situation for me where I have to explain why he'd say something so fucking stupid.
00:58:10.920
Maybe he's in the primary and he just knows that people will be a little racist and might make a difference.
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Do any of you support Trump's claims that Haley, born in South Carolina, is not quite perfectly a citizen?
00:58:36.280
So you support it because you want, in the future, that law to change?
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Or do you want to travel back in fucking time and change the rules so that she's illegal?
00:58:51.520
So I guess Trump is correct that there are a lot of racist, he has a lot of racial animosity, apparently, that he could capitalize on.
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So here's something that, you know, this is why I'm backing Vivek.
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In a million years, Vivek would never say that Nikki Haley is not 100% a citizen of the United States.
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And even though Haley is, you know, in the public arena and she's a politician, this is not really the kind of attack I'm cool with.
00:59:36.880
And how did he not know that this was not cool?
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There were so many of you who agreed with them, maybe it works.
00:59:48.820
The president is also arguing presidential immunity.
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This is way more interesting than I thought, the presidential immunity.
00:59:55.660
Now, the idea is that the president shouldn't be held legally liable for doing anything illegal that's roughly part of his job.
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Now, a president could still go to jail for, you know, murdering somebody if he's president.
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But if it's in the realm of his official business, Trump argues that nobody's ever been indicted or convicted, and he'd be the first one.
01:00:23.220
And that there should be a blanket, you know, guaranteed immunity if you're doing any kind of presidential business.
01:00:30.260
And he points out, in all caps, if they take away my immunity, they take away crooked Joe Biden's immunity.
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Without immunity, it would be very hard for a president to properly function.
01:00:40.380
He also says, in all caps, without immunity, it would be very hard for a president to enjoy his or her golden years of retirement.
01:00:48.980
They would be under siege by radical and of control prosecutors, much like I am, but without the retirement, which is kind of funny.
01:01:01.800
Do you think that's a solid argument, that as long as it's about his job, that there should be no criminal action?
01:01:15.680
You can think of ways that it would be abused, right?
01:01:21.080
So he was asked, hypothetically, what happens if the sitting president hires SEAL Team 6 to kill a political opponent?
01:01:38.660
Would it be okay to have a hit on a political opponent because you're in office?
01:01:45.660
Well, I'm not sure that's a good example, is it?
01:01:49.140
Because would that be official presidential business?
01:01:56.460
I would say that that doesn't count because that would not be...
01:02:01.000
Nobody would see that as a legitimate part of the presidential function.
01:02:05.120
And if it's outside the presidential function, it's just a crime.
01:02:08.820
So I think the question was wrong, but I don't think Trump's lawyers questioned the question.
01:02:13.160
Instead, they said a qualified yes, that if Trump ordered a hit on his political opponent,
01:02:22.340
his lawyer argues that, yeah, maybe in that case, there should not be any prosecution for murder.
01:02:30.560
And points out that you do have the option of impeaching him first,
01:02:35.940
which apparently if you impeach and you get all the way through the Senate impeachment process,
01:02:40.420
that apparently some say you can then break through the immunity,
01:02:46.860
but that others argue that's not true, you know, things that the Supreme Court needs to settle.
01:02:52.720
I don't know the details of the political stuff, but I would add this.
01:02:58.300
In the real world, there's never going to be a real problem with this.
01:03:03.500
Because if you were a president who did something so bad that the public said,
01:03:09.880
you know what, you really need to go to jail for that,
01:03:15.560
Like, no president wants to commit an obvious terrible crime in office
01:03:24.000
Unless they plan to stay there forever as a dictator,
01:03:28.840
it's a really, really, really bad idea to do something that everybody can see as a crime.
01:03:35.100
Do you think any president would order a hit on a political rival
01:03:46.920
Your examples are ridiculous because no president could expect to survive that.
01:03:57.240
the president orders SEAL Team 6 to kill his political opponent.
01:04:08.560
Because the system would never allow that to go on.
01:04:18.880
but you would see organized groups of Americans say,
01:04:28.700
But if a president actually organized a hit on a political opponent,
01:04:42.600
I would be in favor of assassinating my own president
01:04:53.120
I'd say, no, that's probably just self-defense.
01:04:58.720
I'm not going to convict somebody for killing Hitler.
01:05:01.860
And if the president became an obvious political murderer,
01:05:11.800
And that's why I think this is a ridiculous question.
01:05:28.780
because you still have to live in the real world.
01:05:51.500
in the United States against the political enemy.
01:06:11.020
Yeah, it would be illegal in 100 different ways.
01:07:18.880
So wouldn't it be easier to say they're blackmailed?