Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 13, 2024


Episode 2352 CWSA 01⧸13⧸24


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A giant 10-foot-plus ape that lived 200,000 years ago died, and scientists think they know what it was thinking. Is there a link between climate change and the death of the big old Ape?

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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:01:00.960 Hey, let's talk about the news.
00:01:04.020 I don't know why this is news, but Fox News has reportedly pulled, pulled, pulled, not
00:01:11.380 pulled.
00:01:12.360 They pulled the pillow.
00:01:14.140 Advertisements for MyPillow and Mike Lindell.
00:01:17.120 Now, there were no reason given, but there's a coincidence involved that apparently Mike
00:01:23.540 Lindell has his own network.
00:01:26.080 Is that true?
00:01:27.340 Mike Lindell started his own network for news.
00:01:32.420 And apparently Mike Lindell hired an ex-Fox News guy, Mike, what's his name?
00:01:41.780 Why am I forgetting his name?
00:01:42.940 The one who used to work in, Lou Dobbs.
00:01:46.980 Yeah, so he, so Mike Lindell hires Lou Dobbs, who used to work for Fox News.
00:01:53.180 I think they had similar opinions about the accuracy of the last election.
00:01:59.660 And Fox News pulled the advertisements.
00:02:04.020 In other words, Fox News was no longer willing to take money from Mike Lindell.
00:02:09.320 That's pretty radical, isn't it?
00:02:12.880 That you're no, no, no longer willing to take money from your, one of your biggest advertisers.
00:02:19.280 Interesting.
00:02:20.240 But they got plenty of TikTok money because TikTok's an advertisement.
00:02:25.160 No problem.
00:02:26.680 What, what could possibly be the problem here?
00:02:28.900 Yeah, no problem.
00:02:29.680 So that's probably exactly what it looks like.
00:02:33.180 Fox News would be a competitor, I guess, with Mike Lindell, so they just wanted to cut connections.
00:02:38.960 That's not actually too surprising.
00:02:41.140 You know, once he becomes their competitor, you know, can't expect them to play long.
00:02:48.160 All right.
00:02:48.900 NBC has a news story today about what science has discovered about a giant 10-foot ape that lived 200,000 years ago.
00:03:00.140 In China, they found some bones, I guess.
00:03:02.780 But they figured out what killed the 10-foot huge apes.
00:03:09.700 Can you guess?
00:03:11.900 Do you want to take a guess?
00:03:13.460 Climate change.
00:03:14.340 That's right.
00:03:15.480 Yeah.
00:03:15.860 According to NBC News, our science is now so good that we can tell what a monkey was thinking 200,000 years ago.
00:03:26.220 They actually make that claim.
00:03:27.780 They say that the climate made it difficult for them to get their normal food source.
00:03:34.500 And unlike the other apes, okay, it's an ape, not a monkey.
00:03:38.200 But unlike the other apes who adjusted and, you know, just found other food sources, these big old apes, they were too dumb. 0.99
00:03:47.780 And they decided not to diversify the food sources.
00:03:51.120 So they died.
00:03:52.220 So climate change killed the big apes.
00:03:56.440 Now, remember I told you that you can't understand any of the news unless you know the players.
00:04:04.080 Now, allegedly, I don't have confirmation of this myself, but people who seem to know more than I do claim that NBC is a big old CIA propaganda operation.
00:04:17.020 Which is it?
00:04:20.060 How would I know?
00:04:21.840 I wouldn't know.
00:04:23.640 But I'll tell you what.
00:04:25.360 If they were, they would act exactly like this.
00:04:29.020 What do you think it does to you when you hear that something that's a little bit like you, you know, an upright walking, probably, 10-foot ape, don't you say to yourself,
00:04:45.100 huh, if climate change killed that big ape, aren't we in danger?
00:04:51.460 Yes.
00:04:52.460 Now, obviously, there's not a direct connection between the 200,000-year-old apes and humans, but your brain doesn't know that.
00:05:02.720 Your brain will say, uh-oh, it killed a big ape just like me.
00:05:07.460 It must be ready to kill me, too.
00:05:09.420 So, this is the kind of story that you would only expect from somebody who's tried to brainwash you.
00:05:20.140 Now, how many of you think the science actually knows why these apes died 200,000 years ago? 0.98
00:05:28.640 Do you think you really know that?
00:05:31.160 Do you think the science can figure out what the apes were thinking and why they died 200,000 years ago?
00:05:36.920 Do you think the absurdity that they would want us to believe that that's something they can do or they can know?
00:05:43.480 Pretty funny, actually.
00:05:45.380 You're saying to yourself, Scott, can you move that microphone?
00:05:48.800 This is putting an annoying shadow on your chin.
00:05:51.600 How many of you were thinking that just now?
00:05:54.300 Yeah, you were thinking that.
00:05:55.580 Now it's all better.
00:05:57.160 You're welcome.
00:05:57.580 All right, well, are all of you as puzzled as I am why the following story is not being carried by all the major news organizations?
00:06:12.120 Is there something I missed or do I have a date wrong or something?
00:06:17.140 Here's what I think happened.
00:06:18.720 I think that Representative Tim Burchett and a couple other people in Congress had access to a skiff, the top secret, most secretive place you could ever go to look at materials that are so secretive you can't even make a copy.
00:06:38.580 So you have to go see the originals in a special little secure building because that's our top, top, top secret.
00:06:44.940 Nothing is more secret than stuff that's in a skiff.
00:06:48.720 So, of course, the representatives can't tell us what they saw because they get to see it, but it's top secret.
00:06:57.980 So what did Tim Burchett say after he saw this stuff?
00:07:03.620 He said that it was obvious to the people who were with him and to him that David Grush, the whistleblower about the UFOs, is legit.
00:07:18.720 Now, David Grush says that the U.S. has in his possession numerous downed UFOs and also what he calls biologics.
00:07:28.980 In other words, parts of the aliens themselves.
00:07:32.880 We've got them in big warehouses.
00:07:34.560 That's well known.
00:07:35.460 It's been going on for years.
00:07:36.720 And according to Tim Burchett and the top secret information, which he can't be more specific about, he can tell us that everybody who was in the skiff believes that the whistleblower is legit and that Earth is being visited by some kind of advanced intelligence, either for man or space or for the inner core or possibly the ocean.
00:08:01.860 Or possibly North Korea, because we don't know what's going on up there.
00:08:07.640 Well, what do you think about that?
00:08:10.980 There was another representative who, I didn't get his name, but he had a great answer for why Congress can't get better answers from the government about the UFOs.
00:08:21.860 UFOs, or UAPs, as they like to call them.
00:08:25.620 And what he said was, you can ask these guys questions, but everybody is only allowed to answer in their little domain.
00:08:33.520 So it's actually possible, this is hilarious to me, as the author of Dilbert, it's possible that the government is so incompetent that every part of the government only knows one thing, and that the government collectively doesn't know if the aliens are real or if they have them.
00:08:53.300 That's right, I actually believe that the government as an entity doesn't know if it has in its possession aliens.
00:09:06.440 Now, I know that sounds ridiculous.
00:09:09.060 Now, what I mean is, if we had any aliens, which I'm super skeptical of, I don't think we have any aliens or any spaceships, and I'm going to say that forever.
00:09:20.200 Like, I'd have to touch it myself to believe there's an alien spaceship.
00:09:25.060 No, I don't think there are any aliens.
00:09:27.720 But, I think it's fascinating that the information in the government is so compartmentalized, and of course every government employee knows I can only talk about the thing I know, I'll get fired if I talk about anything else.
00:09:40.900 It may be that you can't ask enough questions to find out what's going on.
00:09:44.360 Because there's nobody who could tell you not only what they do, but how it connects to other people.
00:09:51.440 And without that, you wouldn't know what's going on.
00:09:54.040 So, and the, I figure which politician it was yesterday, said, if you don't know to ask the exact question, they're not going to help you, because they're only going to answer the exact question.
00:10:04.160 So, if you said to them, the whistleblower says you have, I'll just make this up, but the whistleblower says you have 10 alien UFOs, is that true?
00:10:15.580 No, it's not true.
00:10:18.420 What did you learn?
00:10:19.380 You didn't learn whether or not there's aliens, because you didn't ask the question right.
00:10:25.120 You should have asked, are there any?
00:10:27.560 Do we have any?
00:10:28.700 So, I'm just making up that example.
00:10:31.220 But the point is, it might be that the government is so ineffective and distributed and bureaucratic, that almost nobody in the government can even answer the question, do we have any aliens?
00:10:44.360 So, presumably, there would be a very small number of people who would do the real answer if we had real aliens, but I don't think we have real aliens.
00:10:55.620 Do you know what I think?
00:10:57.140 I think it's a CIA op, and I think the op is being played on these members of Congress.
00:11:03.540 I think Tim Burchett is being played.
00:11:08.180 I think that they've identified him as a gullible.
00:11:11.440 I hate to say it, because I kind of like him.
00:11:14.320 You know, when I see him on TV, I see him a lot.
00:11:16.920 I say to myself, oh, I'd like that guy.
00:11:19.780 Like, he'd be somebody you'd hang out with and have a beer.
00:11:22.780 He just looks like a real nice guy, and he looks like he's actually trying to do the right thing.
00:11:27.760 You know, he gives off the vibe of an actual citizen who got elected who wants to help, and I think that they're using him.
00:11:35.460 I think that his sincerity is what makes him a little bit vulnerable.
00:11:41.420 Now, I'm just speculating.
00:11:42.960 I don't have any, I have no information, you know, to directly say that, but I'm pretty sure we don't have any aliens.
00:11:49.960 So, if there was anything in a skiff that suggested we absolutely have some aliens, that had to be our intelligence people distracting us, right?
00:12:03.320 Because, well, this was happening.
00:12:06.400 Now, here's the other thing.
00:12:09.040 I looked, I saw a video clip about this topic yesterday, and I said to myself, oh, I better catch up on this story.
00:12:16.560 Must be a big story in the press.
00:12:18.120 Because if members of Congress are talking about it, and they have this experience, and they have this revelation that these aliens are real, that's, like, the biggest story, isn't it?
00:12:31.380 Did you see that story anywhere in the press?
00:12:34.180 Did you see it written anywhere?
00:12:37.380 I saw, I did a Google search, and there were a bunch of videos that probably all pointed to the same video.
00:12:43.320 Why would there be, like, a YouTube video or two, but nobody wrote a story?
00:12:51.720 Members of our government just confirmed that our government has alien spaceships and bodies.
00:13:01.120 Now, confirmed, I don't mean it's true, because I'm sure it's not true, but they thought so.
00:13:06.700 There are members of our government who saw secret information from our government and then told the public, yeah, it's true.
00:13:17.680 And it's not on CNN?
00:13:20.680 There's no written article about it.
00:13:23.600 What does that tell you?
00:13:25.980 What does that tell you?
00:13:29.460 I mean, to me, it tells me the press knows it's not true.
00:13:34.420 What else could you conclude?
00:13:35.960 It would be the biggest story, not just of the week, of the year, of the decade, of the century, of the entire history of humanity.
00:13:49.440 It would be the biggest story of all.
00:13:52.200 There would be no bigger story.
00:13:54.620 Right?
00:13:55.800 And it disappeared.
00:13:57.120 The biggest story in the history of humankind, if it were true.
00:14:01.980 But CNN decided that wasn't newsworthy.
00:14:04.040 Here's what I think.
00:14:07.420 I think at the top of the news pile, they know it's not true.
00:14:14.960 And so they don't want to be the embarrassed ones who write about it.
00:14:18.180 So maybe everybody's hoping somebody else will cover it.
00:14:21.460 Like, well, I hope you guys cover it, because this one doesn't seem too true to us.
00:14:26.720 I mean, just think about the fact that Tim Bruchette is a Republican, and I'm pretty sure that Fox News didn't cover the story.
00:14:35.480 Did they?
00:14:36.840 Did Fox News cover it in, let's say, red form?
00:14:40.520 They may have had a video like others did.
00:14:42.440 It's weird that it exists only in video, because they're making it disappear pretty well.
00:14:48.720 Anyway.
00:14:50.960 So it might be some kind of a Dilbert-y situation cover-up that's accidental or intentional.
00:14:56.280 Who knows?
00:14:56.780 Trump lost a lawsuit.
00:14:59.780 I guess he was pressing a lawsuit against the New York Times over reporting about his financials, and he lost.
00:15:07.960 So he's going to pay the legal fees, $400,000.
00:15:11.940 So does that tell you that Trump lost?
00:15:15.000 Because he has to pay $400,000.
00:15:19.520 Depends what you call a wedding.
00:15:20.620 If I were these reporters, I would say to myself, I sure hated my last year.
00:15:27.740 I just spent a year defending myself in court and buying lawyers and borrowing money and shit.
00:15:33.580 And yeah, that's great.
00:15:34.520 That's great that I'll get reimbursed.
00:15:36.940 But I just lost a year of my life.
00:15:39.920 Do you think Trump is happy with the outcome?
00:15:42.640 $400,000 to send a warning signal to anyone else who would use what I'm guessing was maybe not the most
00:15:50.600 confirmed or information, or maybe they didn't put it in quite the right context that showed both sides.
00:15:58.520 I don't know what the claim is exactly.
00:16:00.660 But don't you think it sends a chilling message to other reporters that if you're going to write about Trump,
00:16:08.060 maybe you better stick to the facts that you're really sure about?
00:16:11.900 Don't you think?
00:16:13.720 So I would call it a success.
00:16:16.300 For $400,000, his level of wealth, to send this warning shot across the bow of reporters
00:16:23.960 who might be looking at more, let's say, speculative stories about him,
00:16:30.920 it's a brushback pitch.
00:16:32.840 I think he got his money's worth.
00:16:34.780 If that's the end of the story, it just cost him $400,000, he got his money's worth.
00:16:41.260 Yeah.
00:16:41.400 Yeah.
00:16:42.780 So I guess on Monday, Iowa goes to vote in the primary for the Republicans.
00:16:51.240 And the big stories about that are, number one, the weather.
00:16:54.760 So apparently the snow is just insane.
00:16:58.100 So the ability of old people especially to even get to the polling places or the caucus places, I guess, 1.00
00:17:06.760 would be very limited.
00:17:09.060 Now, what does this tell you?
00:17:11.720 I'll tell you the message I'm getting from this.
00:17:16.220 Every time you think you're in a system where the system is working to express the will of the people
00:17:23.400 so that the people can see, for example, that their vote counted and they pick the people that they want.
00:17:31.740 I feel like there's always, it's like Charlie Brown's football.
00:17:36.080 There's always something that's like pulling the football back just before you kick it.
00:17:40.400 And I feel like the Idaho results are going to be based on the weather.
00:17:46.720 Does it feel like that to you?
00:17:49.620 Basically, just think about this.
00:17:52.980 Vivek just absolutely blanketed that state like nobody's ever done before.
00:17:59.000 Not only did he cover more of the precincts, he covered every one, which is called the full grassley.
00:18:08.140 He did a double grassley.
00:18:10.340 And then it kept going.
00:18:12.040 He did a double grassley.
00:18:14.460 He visited every precinct that I know twice.
00:18:18.280 Twice.
00:18:18.940 Never been done before.
00:18:20.120 Just absolutely, just absolutely was just all over the state.
00:18:29.160 And then it snows.
00:18:32.280 It could be, it could be that none of his work will make any difference just because it snowed.
00:18:39.580 Like that's our system.
00:18:41.220 That's how we pick a president.
00:18:43.980 By the snow, basically.
00:18:46.140 So I don't know if the snow suppresses Democrats the same amount as it suppresses Republicans.
00:18:53.740 But don't Republicans skew older?
00:18:57.940 I think they do, don't they?
00:19:00.360 Republicans tend to be a little older.
00:19:02.760 And if I saw a snowstorm, I'd say fewer older people are going to go outside on the ice and in the snow.
00:19:10.880 So, so good luck with that.
00:19:14.080 Now, Vivek is confidently predicting a surprise.
00:19:19.540 Now, I don't know what a surprise looks like.
00:19:21.400 First place or strong, strong showing.
00:19:24.060 I don't know what that would be.
00:19:25.540 But he might be right.
00:19:27.740 And this would be a good test of the polling.
00:19:29.280 I think there's a good chance that the people that Vivek is attracting to show up are exactly, see if you think this is true.
00:19:40.740 The people he's attracting are very much exactly the people who don't show up in polling.
00:19:47.240 Am I right?
00:19:48.020 Because the pollsters, you know, they've got a problem because they've got landlines that they're polling.
00:19:54.120 And then they do online polls, but young people don't bother to even read them.
00:19:59.140 And, you know, a general poll of people who don't care about politics is completely different than the poll of people who might actually show up on a primary or a caucus.
00:20:07.880 I mean, those are pretty dedicated people.
00:20:12.720 So, is it possible that Vivek is reading the room correctly?
00:20:17.300 Because he did have big crowds.
00:20:18.980 He had big crowds.
00:20:20.000 If the size of the crowds was the predictor and you didn't believe that the polls could, you know, dig down deep enough to find his supporters specifically,
00:20:30.340 he might have a surprise.
00:20:32.700 He might actually pull this off.
00:20:35.580 You know, what's a fun party game?
00:20:41.740 I was playing this yesterday.
00:20:43.500 Some of you heard me.
00:20:44.960 Is to imagine the founders of our country, America.
00:20:48.800 You know, the famous ones, your Ben Franklin's and your George Washington's and Jefferson's and Hamilton and whatnot.
00:20:56.020 And then map yourself into one of the founders.
00:21:02.060 Just ask yourself, all right, which one would I be?
00:21:04.440 Which one's closer?
00:21:06.240 And then fill out the other ones.
00:21:08.400 All right.
00:21:08.620 So, you get one free pass to be a founder yourself.
00:21:11.940 I chose John Adams.
00:21:14.500 So, you know, might as well pick my cousin.
00:21:17.780 Because I felt a little like John Adams in this current situation.
00:21:21.700 Because we feel like we're in a new American revolution.
00:21:24.780 Especially with Vivek, but also with Trump.
00:21:27.840 And that in order for many of us to get the president we want, we have to know or understand, is there some big uni party power behind politics that we don't see directly?
00:21:44.440 Like, you need to know that, right?
00:21:47.160 But doesn't it feel as though both Vivek and Trump are a new American revolution against these hidden powers that maybe we don't even know who they are?
00:21:58.000 I don't know if that even exists.
00:22:00.600 I don't even know if it exists.
00:22:01.780 I know there are a lot of people who are pretty sure it does.
00:22:04.580 But I don't hear names and, you know, I don't see facts.
00:22:10.700 But it feels exactly like that, doesn't it?
00:22:12.820 And we'll talk about that a little bit more.
00:22:14.800 But it does feel by coincidence that we have something like the founders have lined up.
00:22:21.920 Vivek maps into Thomas Jefferson really easily.
00:22:25.900 Because they're both bigger than big and smarter than smart and more patriotic than patriots.
00:22:33.720 Like, that's Thomas Jefferson.
00:22:35.720 You know, there were a lot of smart people, but Jefferson was smarter than the smart ones.
00:22:40.460 That's Vivek.
00:22:41.160 Vivek, he's not just smart, he's smarter than the smart people.
00:22:46.700 And Jefferson did the, you know, Louisiana Purchase, the American Revolution.
00:22:52.200 And that's about the size of the change that Vivek is saying he'll do.
00:22:56.740 75% cut in the government.
00:22:59.340 You know, get us out of wars.
00:23:00.860 Basically huge changes.
00:23:02.860 So that's very Jeffersonian.
00:23:05.360 And then it does seem like maybe Trump feels a lot like George Washington.
00:23:09.740 Doesn't it?
00:23:12.360 Because Trump seems like the one who's going into battle.
00:23:15.460 He's actually fighting.
00:23:17.280 He's literally fighting the lawfare, the canons of the system.
00:23:22.940 So George Washington is, you know, he's marshalling the army.
00:23:26.600 You know, the MAGA army or whatever it is against the Tories or whoever it is we're fighting.
00:23:34.000 Then it seems very much like Elon Musk is the modern version of Ben Franklin.
00:23:39.880 Now, does he fit the model of a revolutionary?
00:23:48.100 Well, let's ask the Wall Street Journal.
00:23:50.780 Because the Wall Street Journal just wrote the most bullshit, stupid, fucking article you'll ever see.
00:23:56.600 That decides that really, whenever you think of Elon Musk, you should think of Donald Trump because they're the same person.
00:24:03.580 You fucking assholes.
00:24:07.200 You goddamn pieces of shit in the Wall Street Journal.
00:24:10.740 What are you doing with this article?
00:24:12.980 What are you educating us on?
00:24:15.040 What news is this?
00:24:16.860 This is pure fucking propaganda.
00:24:19.860 This is disgusting.
00:24:21.900 You should really be ashamed of yourself, Wall Street Journal.
00:24:24.820 This is not up to your standard.
00:24:28.000 I usually have a lot of respect for the Wall Street Journal, but this is not up to your standard.
00:24:35.380 This, to me, looks like a pure hit piece that they're trying to disguise as some kind of opinion, journalism, important story.
00:24:43.860 It's not important.
00:24:44.920 It's not journalism.
00:24:46.000 It's not fucking news.
00:24:47.520 It's a hit piece on one of the most useful Americans in the history of the fucking republic.
00:24:53.520 Why?
00:24:54.040 Because Elon Musk runs a platform that doesn't always hate Donald Trump, and that's why it exists, or at least that's why it got published.
00:25:07.100 I can't read the mind of the writer, but I can tell you it doesn't have news value, so you do the math, right?
00:25:17.880 Amazing.
00:25:18.940 Amazing.
00:25:19.580 And how do they say he's the same?
00:25:20.960 Again, because they both use Twitter really well.
00:25:25.660 That was one of the biggest evidences, that there are populists who use Twitter really well.
00:25:31.760 How exactly do you write a hit piece about a populist?
00:25:37.800 Doesn't that sound almost like that's backwards?
00:25:42.520 What the hell is a populist except somebody that the people really like once they get to know him?
00:25:48.700 Well, and they really agree with him once they get to know him.
00:25:53.820 That's what a populist is.
00:25:55.520 Somebody who's popular because they're doing the right things according to the public.
00:26:01.740 So they've got to make populism look bad because Trump doesn't.
00:26:07.400 Trump's the best populist ever.
00:26:10.300 I don't know.
00:26:10.720 Maybe of all time.
00:26:11.520 But Elon Musk is definitely a populist as well, in the sense that he's trying to do things that make sense and are popular.
00:26:19.060 I don't think he does it because they're popular.
00:26:21.400 That's obvious.
00:26:22.740 But he does seem to be very dedicated to what would be good and make sense.
00:26:29.580 Such as population increase instead of decrease.
00:26:32.340 So we've got that going on.
00:26:38.100 How many of you saw the AI created George Carlin stand-up comedy?
00:26:45.020 How many of you saw or listened to that clip?
00:26:49.000 Anybody see that?
00:26:49.700 So the story was that AI had finally done what I said couldn't be done, which is write humor that was high-quality humor, and, in fact, as good as the real George Carlin.
00:27:04.140 So there was a video that was going around, and people were impressed because the writing seemed to be almost human-like quality.
00:27:13.740 And I think I tweeted it before I listened to it.
00:27:21.120 I listened to one joke or something, and I thought the joke was lame, so I thought, well, you know, it's wordplay, so probably AI did write it.
00:27:28.820 So I spent the time to listen to more of it.
00:27:33.020 And about five minutes in, it was super obvious that AI did not make that.
00:27:39.880 AI didn't make that.
00:27:41.600 How many of you thought that AI really made it?
00:27:44.620 That was your AI hoax of the week.
00:27:47.500 All right.
00:27:47.940 So it was confirmed, by the way, that it wasn't real.
00:27:50.840 Yeah, well, it wasn't AI.
00:27:52.540 But here's, I'm going to give you, well, I guess I'm giving myself a pat on the back.
00:28:00.060 It took me just a few minutes of listening to it to know it couldn't be AI, because AI can't do that.
00:28:10.880 AI can't do that.
00:28:12.040 So I was pretty sure that AI can't do that.
00:28:15.460 And sure enough, it didn't.
00:28:16.460 It can't even come close.
00:28:18.760 So here's what it did that was my tip-off.
00:28:21.160 Part of the comedy was that George Carlin was insulting God for creating us and then creating all these diseases to kill us.
00:28:32.220 Now, on one hand, that sounds, oh, that's very George Carlin-ish.
00:28:37.280 It's right in his sweet spot.
00:28:39.920 On the other hand, there is no AI that will ever insult God.
00:28:43.980 AI is not going to insult God.
00:28:47.900 And it's certainly not going to mock people who have diseases.
00:28:52.400 It's not going to do that.
00:28:55.680 As soon as I heard the God part, I was like, come on.
00:28:59.240 There's no way this is AI.
00:29:01.300 But then the story was, okay, it was written by a human.
00:29:07.000 And we know the name of the human.
00:29:08.680 They admit it.
00:29:09.440 I think at the end of the video, it actually says it actually.
00:29:11.760 Somebody said at the end of the video, which I didn't get to, it reveals that it's not real.
00:29:17.780 But the claim is that the impersonation of George Carlin was AI.
00:29:25.300 Even the impersonation didn't sound like him.
00:29:28.180 There wasn't one thing that sounded like George Carlin.
00:29:30.640 It didn't sound like his voice.
00:29:32.340 The writing actually was pretty close, but it sounded like a human imitating George Carlin.
00:29:38.000 And I picked it out immediately.
00:29:41.580 Now, the only reason I watched it, let me give a little credit here, is that Greg Guffield had watched it.
00:29:50.000 And he sent me a message and said, I probably shouldn't tell you what private messages people send, but he wouldn't mind, I don't think.
00:29:57.840 He said, this doesn't look real, does it?
00:29:59.720 So Greg, who writes jokes for a living and understands your writing, of course, your best-selling author, it took him two minutes to say, this can't be real.
00:30:12.060 And then I looked at it and was like, this can't be real.
00:30:14.380 So anybody who's a professional, professional writer, and professional humorist especially, you see it right away.
00:30:22.460 This did not fool anybody who is in the business.
00:30:27.780 All right, there's no labels.
00:30:30.820 It's a third-party group, and they've got this big pack.
00:30:33.660 And they're going to be raising money to run some third-party person in 2024 who is not yet selected.
00:30:42.180 Now, what have I told you about how to understand news and stories?
00:30:48.640 What I always tell you is, if the only thing you know is the story, you don't know anything.
00:30:53.900 You have to know the players in the story and how they're connected, and then you understand the story.
00:31:01.420 So if the only thing I told you is there's this third-party group, and they're raising money for a third party, what does that tell you?
00:31:11.100 Not really anything.
00:31:13.000 Actually, nothing.
00:31:14.740 Because you don't know who they're going to run, you don't know who they are, you don't know if it's legitimate.
00:31:21.660 You don't really know anything.
00:31:22.460 But now I'm going to tell you the people involved.
00:31:26.720 And watch all the gears go, click, click, click, click, click, and form an entire picture for you.
00:31:33.880 I don't even need to connect the dots.
00:31:36.600 I will, but I don't need to.
00:31:38.480 Listen to this.
00:31:41.680 Let's see.
00:31:42.300 The person in charge of the group will be led by Kathleen Shanahan, who previously served as chief of staff to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Republican, and worked as an aide to former President George Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
00:32:04.680 Any questions?
00:32:09.060 Are there any further questions?
00:32:13.360 Yeah.
00:32:15.620 This is your confirmation that we don't live in a republic.
00:32:20.780 This is your uniparty confirmation.
00:32:23.040 The Republicans are trying to take Trump out as much as the Democrats.
00:32:31.140 There is only one way that that makes sense, that we don't have a real government.
00:32:36.840 There is no other explanation for this.
00:32:41.460 Now, if they tell you, oh, it's because we really think this third party is viable, you know that's not true, right?
00:32:52.820 You know they're not trying to actually elect anybody.
00:32:56.920 Nobody thinks a third party could get elected.
00:32:59.600 The only reason for a third party is if you're true believers.
00:33:03.300 Do you think that this ex-chief of staff for these three major Republican establishment people, do you think she's working out of a true belief about helping the republic?
00:33:19.680 I don't think so.
00:33:21.660 I doubt it.
00:33:23.460 It just looks like she's working for the establishment Republicans.
00:33:28.620 So why would the establishment Republicans want to run a third party?
00:33:33.300 Do you think they're doing it to help Trump?
00:33:36.240 Do you think that the chief of staff previously of George, of both Jeb and George and Dick Cheney, do you think that person has decided to help Trump?
00:33:50.460 No.
00:33:52.060 No.
00:33:53.740 No.
00:33:54.460 No.
00:33:54.520 No.
00:33:56.120 So remember Vivek's warning that the real play is to bump Trump out one way or another, whatever it takes, put Haley in because she is the union party candidate that will spend their money on wars. 0.87
00:34:12.900 Now, that sounds pretty conspiratorial crazy, doesn't it?
00:34:18.680 Honestly, it sounds a little crazy.
00:34:21.620 Except every piece of evidence that we can confirm seems to be very compatible with that point of view.
00:34:30.040 Now, I'm open to the argument that there's something in our reality that would tell me that's unlikely, where the Vivek's prediction that the election will be rigged by, not just the vote necessarily, but rigged by who's allowed to run in the end of the final two.
00:34:51.460 It does look like that.
00:34:52.920 It looks exactly like that.
00:34:54.180 So I'm not saying that I'm totally endorsing the prediction that will happen, but Vivek has a hypothesis which fits the facts.
00:35:10.220 If he's right about this, well, he probably is.
00:35:18.000 All right.
00:35:22.260 Yeah, that's pretty much confirmed that we are not, whatever you thought about living in a republic, I think you could throw that shit away.
00:35:30.700 I don't know what's going on exactly, but this is pretty much proof we're not living in any kind of election, you know, republic, democrat process.
00:35:41.280 Something else is happening.
00:35:43.560 All right.
00:35:45.760 Now, what else?
00:35:48.000 The Biden administration is looking to reclassify marijuana as a level three drug because it's not as dangerous as the level ones according to initial research.
00:36:03.220 Now, this is why I've been promoting that we should have more trans people in government.
00:36:10.040 I mean, I say it all the time.
00:36:11.940 You know what we need in government is a lot more trans people, and here's why. 0.95
00:36:15.180 Here's a perfect example.
00:36:16.540 Rachel Levine, Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health, she wrote a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration in which she's basically advocating for making marijuana schedule three.
00:36:31.300 So that is good work, Rachel Levine, and all of you haters with your anti-trans stuff.
00:36:38.880 Well, the joke's on you because Rachel Levine's doing some good work here, according to me. 0.70
00:36:46.300 You don't have to agree with that, by the way.
00:36:48.500 Now, can we do some NPC stuff?
00:36:51.480 I like to do the show for NPCs as well as the rest of you, who are actually real people, because I have NPCs who watch as well, and I like to service everybody.
00:37:02.440 Now, if you're an NPC, the way to look at the question of marijuana, either legalization or change in the scheduling, is this.
00:37:12.140 Assume that everybody who smokes marijuana is injured, or nobody who ever smoked marijuana had a bad experience.
00:37:20.660 And also, you must believe that marijuana is either completely good for you all the time, or completely bad for everybody all the time, and then make your argument based on that.
00:37:33.180 Now, the people who are real people, not NPCs, you are still allowed to look at the pluses and the minuses of all issues.
00:37:42.100 So you can say, for example, huh, it appears that Scott is getting more benefit than cost out of it, because he uses it medicinally, and reports many, many benefits, and his life appears no worse for it.
00:37:55.160 But, you can also say, equally true, I know this teenager who is ruining their life, because marijuana is sucking all the joy out of them, and turning them into porn addicts.
00:38:09.440 Also true. Also true.
00:38:12.240 And it's a tough question in a free society, whether I get the freedom to use it in a way that, as far as I can tell, is all entirely productive, and makes me happy, and I couldn't be happier.
00:38:28.020 At the same time, I do know it's going to kill that teenager. I do know that. And I don't want that. So what do you do? Well, that's why we have governments.
00:38:38.120 But, Rachel Levine, good job on that. Let's talk about the dumbest story in the news, California reparations.
00:38:46.500 Believe it or not, this is still a story.
00:38:50.440 You remember the background that Governor Newsom authorized a commission to go study the question of reparations for descendants of slaves.
00:39:00.360 And, when the recommendation came back to give $1.2 million to every person who is eligible for reparations, Governor Newsom said,
00:39:11.960 Eh, I'm not going to endorse that.
00:39:15.260 I don't hate it.
00:39:17.100 I don't hate it.
00:39:18.580 I don't criticize it.
00:39:20.220 But, I'm not accepting it.
00:39:21.420 And, what he said was, not that it was wrong or bad.
00:39:26.600 Instead, he said, you know, it's about more than money.
00:39:29.940 Reparations is about more than money.
00:39:31.340 It's about, you know, fixing systemic racism in a variety of ways.
00:39:35.980 But, the issue is still there.
00:39:37.900 And, I would like to point out the following.
00:39:40.820 As long as this issue still exists,
00:39:43.260 in other words, it's still an active question in California,
00:39:47.560 he can never be elected president.
00:39:49.440 A Republican would bury him on this.
00:39:53.720 Even though he didn't accept it.
00:39:55.900 He would be forced to say,
00:39:58.220 I do not accept reparations, even after I formed that commission.
00:40:02.160 Or, he's going to say, it's still on the table and I haven't decided.
00:40:06.720 Either one of those, he can't win.
00:40:09.520 He cannot win.
00:40:10.880 Because, there are a lot of white people in a lot of states who say,
00:40:13.940 What?
00:40:15.240 If he gets away with that in California,
00:40:18.060 and he does it,
00:40:19.440 my state is going to be talking about that tomorrow.
00:40:23.000 And, I'm going to pay,
00:40:24.800 because Herr Jell Hitler, 0.84
00:40:26.660 you know, did this clever thing in California.
00:40:30.120 That is the most disqualifying issue of all issues I've ever seen.
00:40:35.300 I mean, he literally would be running for president on a platform that he won't guarantee taking money from white people to give it to people of other races.
00:40:48.820 Not just taxes.
00:40:50.060 But, just take their money because they're white, because they're white, and give it to black people because they're black. 0.85
00:41:00.980 How do you get elected with that?
00:41:03.980 It's impossible.
00:41:05.600 Now, there isn't any way he can be elected to national office.
00:41:09.320 So, all those of you who said, and by the way, I used to think this too, that he would have a serious shot at getting elected.
00:41:15.320 No, he can't.
00:41:16.500 As long as reparations are out there, he cannot get elected.
00:41:19.160 So, there's no way he's going to get enough white votes to make that happen. 0.58
00:41:25.440 Rumble is under attack.
00:41:27.120 Big surprise, because, you know, Rumble's a source of free speech.
00:41:31.460 And, so, you had to know that the government would come after them.
00:41:37.240 Sure enough, there's this short seller.
00:41:40.140 This is a claim from the president of Rumble.
00:41:42.300 Then, a short seller put together a report of bullshit, sent it to the SEC, and the SEC said, we're looking into it because somebody had reported there's some bullshit.
00:41:53.420 Then, the same person who reported it goes to the press and says, hey, don't look at me, but the SEC says this is serious.
00:42:03.140 Now, what a short seller is, is somebody who makes money if they can identify a company whose stock is going to drop like a rock.
00:42:09.840 So, one of the dirty tricks they do is create the news that makes the stock drop so that they can make that, you know, quick cash.
00:42:23.440 Okay.
00:42:26.020 And, so, so, Rumble's story is that it's completely illegitimate, will be easily dismissed.
00:42:35.600 You know, the claims against them are something about, the claims have something to do with whether they properly accounted for something financial.
00:42:45.440 The response, again, not in a legal context, but just from the president, is that they always anticipated this kind of attack.
00:42:53.720 And, so, they had a bulletproof accounting exactly for this reason.
00:42:57.580 And, all they have to do is show it and it'll go away.
00:43:00.220 But, in the meantime, it's like swatting, that's exactly right.
00:43:04.860 In the comments on local, somebody said it's like swatting a stock.
00:43:09.080 That's exactly right.
00:43:10.080 It's like swatting a company.
00:43:12.380 So, is there anything to the claim?
00:43:15.520 Well, we don't know.
00:43:17.980 But, we do know that the person making the claim, according to the president of Rumble, is a financially motivated person who would benefit whether it was true or not.
00:43:27.460 So, the claim from Rumble is that the source of the accusation is somebody who would make a lot of money, even if it's not true.
00:43:38.680 So, you should judge its credibility at exactly zero.
00:43:44.160 Does that make sense?
00:43:45.600 From a risk management kind of understanding the world basis.
00:43:50.320 It doesn't mean it's not true.
00:43:51.940 It doesn't mean it's not true.
00:43:54.500 But, you should judge its credibility at actually zero.
00:43:58.780 Because, if somebody has a financial motivation, a gigantic one, and they're in the business of doing this very kind of thing.
00:44:06.000 So, no.
00:44:06.840 This is not a believable accusation.
00:44:10.160 But, like I say, sometimes accusations are true, even if they don't seem credible when they're made.
00:44:16.240 So, you can't rule anything out, but I wouldn't give any credibility at this stage.
00:44:24.220 And, oh, I guess full disclosure.
00:44:28.280 I'm sorry.
00:44:29.140 I should have disclosed this.
00:44:30.580 I am a stockholder in Rumble.
00:44:32.320 So, I owned an initial investment, a very small one, in Locals, which got acquired by Rumble, which allowed my stock to roll over into Rumble.
00:44:42.480 So, I'm a stockholder at a much higher price.
00:44:45.780 And, the last I saw, I was in the threes.
00:44:48.700 I think it went public around 12.
00:44:51.180 And, now the short seller drove it down to about three.
00:44:55.480 So, the short selling works.
00:44:57.560 I mean, it's a dirty trick, but it works.
00:44:59.020 So, I'm holding my stock, considering doubling it, but that is not financial advice.
00:45:06.160 That would be pure gambling.
00:45:08.000 Let me say that again.
00:45:09.520 I'm considering doubling my holding, but it would be a super risky play.
00:45:14.440 I do not recommend you do that.
00:45:17.360 That is pure risk, just pure gambling.
00:45:20.440 But, the play would be this.
00:45:23.340 And, again, don't follow my advice.
00:45:25.480 Do not follow my financial advice on this, or anything else, unless I tell you to diversify your portfolio.
00:45:34.120 If I tell you to diversify, listen to that.
00:45:36.760 Right?
00:45:37.260 If I tell you to buy or sell a specific stock, do not listen to that.
00:45:41.660 Or anybody else.
00:45:43.220 Right?
00:45:44.080 But, I'll tell you the thinking.
00:45:46.460 Investing makes most sense when you think you have special insight that the market doesn't have.
00:45:53.820 You're usually wrong, which is why you shouldn't do this.
00:45:58.020 But, here's my special insight.
00:46:00.560 It is more likely true that Rumble is being unfairly attacked than it is likely to be true that the accusations are true.
00:46:11.300 Now, I don't know what the odds are, but it's not 50-50.
00:46:15.020 It's definitely, you know, weighted heavily toward it not being true.
00:46:20.860 Now, if it turns out that the SEC goes through it and it's not true, you'd expect maybe at least a 25% bump in the stock.
00:46:28.820 So, that would be a reason that a rich person, only a rich person, don't do this if you're struggling, might gamble, you know, just because it's kind of a fun gamble.
00:46:42.060 But, I do gamble that the news is wrong when I invest.
00:46:46.320 That's a common method I've used.
00:46:49.300 Don't use that method.
00:46:51.360 But, it's just one that I use to some effect.
00:46:54.100 I wouldn't say it works all the time.
00:46:57.380 Well, Delta Air Lines is racist.
00:47:00.360 Robbie Starbuck reports on the X platform.
00:47:03.380 It showed a photo of a Delta Air Lines training that says they instruct their employees to capitalize the words black and brown when talking about people, but to lowercase white.
00:47:19.660 Are you okay with that?
00:47:22.260 You capitalize black and brown, but not white, even when used in the same context about talking about people.
00:47:29.180 No, that's completely racist.
00:47:34.300 And, Delta, you are despicable. 0.97
00:47:37.540 Yeah.
00:47:38.000 If this is true, I mean, I saw a photograph of it, but, you know, anything could be fake.
00:47:43.260 If it's true, this is pure racism.
00:47:46.680 And, by the way, that's the definition of racism.
00:47:50.520 Treating people differently in an official sense.
00:47:55.840 Individuals are different, but a company doing it would be racist.
00:47:59.800 Individuals can do whatever they want.
00:48:01.580 There's no law against that.
00:48:04.300 All right.
00:48:05.760 You all know probably the story, if you follow the news a lot, of an American independent reporter named Gonzalo Lira,
00:48:14.040 who was reporting very inconvenient things from Ukraine.
00:48:18.560 And he was reporting things that the leadership of Ukraine would not want to see.
00:48:23.700 He was put in jail and, reportedly, he has died in prison.
00:48:28.620 And some say he died from poor medical care.
00:48:32.640 Some people say he was murdered.
00:48:33.980 David Sachs points out, and I agree, what's the difference?
00:48:40.100 They put him there to take care of him.
00:48:42.740 If he died because they gave him bad service, or he died because they strangled him, they killed him.
00:48:48.180 So the Ukrainian government killed an American, but at least America tried really hard to get him out because he was unfairly accused, right?
00:48:58.260 Nope.
00:48:59.240 Nope.
00:48:59.700 It looks like America let him die because he was also saying things inconvenient to America.
00:49:04.740 He was, for example, and I don't know the truth of any of these accusations.
00:49:09.460 I'll just say he made these accusations.
00:49:13.160 That the war in Ukraine was largely Victoria Nuland, American Victoria Nuland, being a bully and having bad motivation. 0.99
00:49:24.180 I have no independent knowledge of what she did or didn't do, but that was his accusation.
00:49:33.040 And a lot of people said this, by the way.
00:49:34.700 Tucker Carlson often says Victoria Nuland is the center of the war machine that likes to profit from the war, the neocons. 1.00
00:49:46.240 The neocons, as they say.
00:49:48.380 Now, I don't know about any of that, but that's his accusation and a lot of other people's accusations.
00:49:52.620 But he went on, I saw a video of Gonzalo before he died, because the videos of him after he died are less interesting, really.
00:50:04.540 But before he died, he had the following theory that I, for some reason, I didn't know.
00:50:13.040 Now, I don't know if it's true, but I certainly should have heard about it.
00:50:18.000 And here's what he said about Ukraine.
00:50:24.740 He said there's this billionaire who funded and he was sort of behind the production company that created a TV show about a Ukrainian guy who became president.
00:50:39.120 And he hired Zelensky, and Zelensky was a star of the show.
00:50:47.160 What was the name of the show?
00:50:48.460 Something of the people, Servant of the People?
00:50:51.800 Was that the name of the TV show?
00:50:54.500 Give me a confirmation on that.
00:50:56.920 So Servant of the People, right?
00:50:58.260 So the TV show was called Servant of the People, and Zelensky was a star.
00:51:02.920 And part of what Gonzalo Lira reports is that for reasons that are mysterious, it was a gigantic hit.
00:51:13.160 Now, what makes that mysterious is it wasn't really that good a show.
00:51:16.160 But it had massive, like, advertising, some kind of massive support.
00:51:23.760 So it looked like it was sort of artificially pushed to the top of the market by powerful forces.
00:51:32.480 Now, here's the interesting part.
00:51:33.640 Then the same billionaire who funded the TV show, allegedly, again, none of this is from me, this is from allegations, allegedly created a political party, and he called it the same name as the TV show, Servant of the People.
00:51:52.720 And then they needed a candidate.
00:51:55.480 So he picked Zelensky, who had no political experience, but he had made him super popular as an actor pretending to be a president.
00:52:03.640 And then, you know, nobody believes that elections in Ukraine are true.
00:52:09.820 So then Zelensky becomes president.
00:52:12.920 Did the U.S. help?
00:52:14.760 Probably.
00:52:16.200 Was that their intention?
00:52:17.500 Were they working with this billionaire?
00:52:19.180 Well, I don't know if they were colluding with him, but they might have had compatible interests at one point.
00:52:25.240 It's unclear.
00:52:27.140 But it gets better.
00:52:29.020 If you think that's the good part of the story, you haven't heard the good start.
00:52:32.200 Now, again, these are only accusations.
00:52:35.500 The same billionaire owned either a lot of or most of another company you might have heard of.
00:52:42.860 It's called Burisma.
00:52:48.420 That's right.
00:52:49.140 The same billionaire owned Burisma that was paying Hunter Biden, and 10% of that, theoretically, was going to the boss, was putting Zelensky as a puppet in charge of the Ukrainian government.
00:53:05.040 And maybe the entire operation was a coordinated effort to use Ukraine as a piggy bank, destroy the country, suck its resources out, launder money, and also maybe give Putin a hard time, which would be just a bonus. 0.86
00:53:21.740 Now, is any of that true?
00:53:27.720 I don't know.
00:53:30.640 All I know for sure is that the guy saying it just got killed by Ukraine in America and didn't complain. 0.92
00:53:37.080 So the suggestion is, everything seems to be compatible with it being true.
00:53:44.760 What would be incompatible with this being true?
00:53:47.580 Is there any counterfactual to it?
00:53:49.860 I mean, it's hard to prove a negative, of course.
00:53:51.780 So it doesn't mean it's true just because you don't have an argument against it.
00:53:57.020 But it's feeling really true.
00:54:00.360 Yeah, I'm very biased by the fact that everything that we've imagined as a conspiracy theory ends up being pretty close to true.
00:54:13.320 So, probably.
00:54:16.460 I'll tell you what I believe to be true, based on not just this story, but the totality of information.
00:54:23.460 It does seem to me that Ukraine was always a piggy bank for the billionaires and the political class.
00:54:29.140 It does seem that American politicians have been wetting their beaks in Ukraine, possibly for decades.
00:54:36.380 And it's exactly what it looks like.
00:54:40.120 And that the war was optional.
00:54:42.880 And that killing people to make money is the business of America.
00:54:48.200 And killing our own citizens to make money is a critical part of that.
00:54:52.740 That's what it looks like.
00:54:54.220 It looks like the Bidens are deeply involved in that part of the world.
00:54:58.060 So, I don't know what's true, but that's what it looks like.
00:55:02.360 And it looks like that American government and the Ukrainian government conspired to kill an American. 0.58
00:55:08.640 So, let me say that directly.
00:55:11.620 I don't know that it's true, but the evidence strongly suggests that the Biden administration killed an American to keep him quiet.
00:55:19.200 Now, kill them by not freeing him, which could have been easily done.
00:55:22.280 Because, obviously, American can get Zelensky to free anybody we want.
00:55:27.820 Would you agree?
00:55:29.080 If the president said to Zelensky, all right, here's the deal.
00:55:32.740 I don't care what he's charged with.
00:55:35.260 He's an American.
00:55:36.080 Let him go.
00:55:37.920 Zelensky would have put the key in the door five minutes later.
00:55:43.040 Zelensky isn't going to ruin Ukraine over one reporter in jail.
00:55:47.560 Nobody would make that tradeoff, right?
00:55:51.100 So, you can know for sure that America wasn't interested in his life or wanted him to die in jail.
00:55:57.300 So, I would say it's a case of murder.
00:56:00.940 The evidence suggests that the Biden administration, and Joe Biden specifically, because he would be the boss,
00:56:06.940 the evidence suggests that Biden was part of a plot to murder an American citizen.
00:56:11.980 Now, maybe murder by statistics.
00:56:17.120 Now, what I say by murder by statistics is you put him in a situation where he's probably going to die.
00:56:24.140 A Ukrainian prison.
00:56:26.100 Probably going to die.
00:56:27.680 Now, you could say, well, that's not technically murder because you didn't cause that.
00:56:31.300 You just put him in a situation where he's probably going to die.
00:56:34.560 No, I call that murder.
00:56:36.400 That's called murder. 0.79
00:56:38.400 Yeah.
00:56:38.760 We got Brittany Grinds out. 1.00
00:56:40.360 We got Brittany Griner out of Russia. 1.00
00:56:44.780 You don't think we could get an American out of Ukraine? 0.58
00:56:48.960 All right.
00:56:49.620 Yeah.
00:56:50.040 So, I would say that the official stories are ridiculous.
00:56:53.580 The accusations are wild, but they fit the facts that we know.
00:57:01.560 All right.
00:57:02.240 So, let me ask you this.
00:57:06.000 Do you see a lot of news today about the war in Ukraine?
00:57:10.840 Anybody?
00:57:12.700 Did you see that the news is just covered with...
00:57:15.980 No, no.
00:57:17.280 There's a big old war over there, and suddenly the news isn't interested.
00:57:21.080 Huh.
00:57:22.380 Weird, isn't it?
00:57:23.580 It's like they're all coordinated or something.
00:57:25.460 Suddenly, it just got uninteresting, didn't it?
00:57:28.060 Yeah.
00:57:28.400 How about all the coverage on Gaza today?
00:57:31.960 Gaza? 0.52
00:57:32.840 It's just wall-to-wall...
00:57:34.880 What?
00:57:36.140 Nothing.
00:57:36.540 Oh.
00:57:37.360 Nothing about Gaza?
00:57:38.300 The other war we're in?
00:57:41.040 Yeah.
00:57:41.320 How about the war in Yemen?
00:57:44.120 We know that we attacked Yemen, and I guess it happened again two days in a row. 0.99
00:57:50.020 But massive coverage with lots of details, right?
00:57:54.400 Nope.
00:57:55.980 Nope.
00:57:56.580 Why would there be so little media coverage of the United States being in three different wars?
00:58:06.080 Well, it might have something to do with some comments that Donald Trump recently made on true social that got promulgated on X.
00:58:14.400 And Trump said that Joe Biden got us into three different wars, Ukraine, Gaza situation, Yemen, and that he's the worst president in the history of the United States.
00:58:31.280 So Trump is pushing the idea that Joe Biden is a war starter, and the news just went silent on three wars, right in front of you.
00:58:45.440 They're right in front of you, right?
00:58:47.280 It's not like I'm coming up with some conspiracy theory.
00:58:51.300 You know there are three wars, and you can look at the news, and you can see that they're clearly intentionally underplaying them, because it would not work to their narrative.
00:59:03.240 Now, I like Trump's persuasion when he says that Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States.
00:59:14.740 What's he doing there?
00:59:16.440 What persuasion trick is that that I've taught you many times?
00:59:20.780 He's making you think past the sale that he's a terrible president.
00:59:24.040 If you're thinking whether he's the worst, you've already accepted that he's in the bottom 10% or something, and that would be enough.
00:59:31.640 Now, in my opinion, he actually is the worst president in the history of the United States.
00:59:39.140 I do think he has surpassed Jimmy Carter.
00:59:42.800 Would you agree?
00:59:44.040 Because Jimmy Carter kind of classically was considered the worst president.
00:59:48.200 But I think Biden has now surpassed him.
00:59:51.440 Now, to be fair, Biden has some successes.
00:59:56.780 He has some successes.
00:59:58.640 But probably Jimmy Carter did, too.
01:00:01.640 So it's not about the fact he had some successes.
01:00:05.500 It's also about what you got wrong and starting three wars plus one on our southern border, which you're ignoring.
01:00:12.940 The only one that affects the homeland, the only one that affects the homeland, he's ignoring.
01:00:19.760 That is the worst president in the history of the United States.
01:00:23.620 If the only thing I told you was he got us involved in three foreign wars and didn't protect us from the active invasion on our southern border, would you need to know anything about his economic policy to decide who was the worst president?
01:00:39.720 No, you would not.
01:00:40.820 Would you need to know his views on LGBTQ to know he's the worst president in the history of the United States?
01:00:46.860 No, you would not.
01:00:48.440 No, you wouldn't need to know that.
01:00:49.680 It wouldn't be relevant to the overall obvious characterization of his presidency, which is basically starting wars that probably didn't need to be started, getting us involved, using up our weapons, shipping, using up all our oil and our strategic reserves, giving away all our artillery shells.
01:01:09.400 It just goes on and on, the worst president in the history of the Republic.
01:01:16.240 I think that's just obvious now.
01:01:19.100 No matter what you think of Trump or anybody else, I think he's pretty clearly the worst.
01:01:27.120 And the fact that he's not even really conscious and able to even show up at events, I mean, how did we allow that to be normalized?
01:01:34.960 You know, I always give this quote from my mother.
01:01:39.500 She always used to say, you can get used to anything if you do it long enough.
01:01:43.920 And that explains so much of the world, like why things are doing the thing, doing what they are.
01:01:54.240 Did I declare a race war?
01:01:58.680 There's an article, did Scott Adams declare a race war?
01:02:01.540 So, typical election year kind of social media activity.
01:02:09.240 Anyway, that's where we're at.
01:02:14.140 Yesterday, I was a public service, and I don't know if that sounds like a joke, but it actually was.
01:02:21.820 As a public service, I spent hours putting together a debunk of the drinking bleach hoax.
01:02:29.240 The reason I did it is because it just hadn't been done, and nobody in the news has ever done it.
01:02:35.480 And it was one of the biggest stories of all time, and nobody had ever covered it.
01:02:39.660 Let me say that again.
01:02:41.180 One of the biggest stories of the Trump presidency that he said, hey, you should drink bleach, which, of course, never happened.
01:02:48.880 It was a hoax.
01:02:49.860 And the major media has never covered the story.
01:02:54.340 Just think about that.
01:02:55.440 Is that all you need to know about the Uniparty?
01:03:01.680 Do you ever remember Fox News doing the investigative report showing exactly what happened and how the hoax was created?
01:03:10.400 Nope.
01:03:11.400 Nobody else ever did it either.
01:03:12.960 So I did it.
01:03:14.120 So you can see it on Locals, but I linked to it on X.
01:03:18.860 So look at my feed of the drinking bleach hoax.
01:03:23.420 Now, I'll tell you what's there.
01:03:26.380 So you'll see the entire transcript, but I highlighted, so that you don't have to go through the whole thing, the parts where he mentioned light.
01:03:35.360 So when you see the whole thing, it's so super clear what happened.
01:03:40.380 And, of course, people are still denying it even after they read it.
01:03:43.360 Here's what you need to know.
01:03:46.820 When he teased his guest and said, you know, I've got this guest, he said there's, like, a really exciting news.
01:03:55.380 And then the guest came out and said, we tried various things to kill the virus on external surfaces.
01:04:01.500 We tried some bleach.
01:04:02.820 We tried some isopropyl.
01:04:04.000 Well, let me tell you, compared to those things, what really worked is light.
01:04:10.640 So light was really the topic.
01:04:13.380 Light was mentioned 21 times by either Trump or somebody else as the main topic of the event.
01:04:20.260 Were you aware of that?
01:04:21.860 How many of you knew that the main theme was about light as a disinfectant?
01:04:27.800 Did the news tell you that?
01:04:30.080 No.
01:04:31.160 No.
01:04:31.400 And what did the experts say about bleach and isopropyl and liquid disinfectants?
01:04:41.460 The only thing they said about them is that they don't work anywhere near as good as light.
01:04:48.060 Now, do you remember the part where Trump talked to Dr. Birx at the same event in public?
01:04:53.560 And he said, will the light work on porous surfaces, meaning skin?
01:04:59.660 And the doctor said, well, probably works better on non-porous surfaces.
01:05:06.180 But yes, you would expect it will work a little bit, but maybe not as good.
01:05:11.600 So now we have clarification that when Trump said something really exciting is going to be revealed,
01:05:19.520 he did not mean bleach and he did not mean isopropyl.
01:05:22.820 Because you know what?
01:05:24.480 Every person already knew that those things kill viruses.
01:05:28.820 Am I right?
01:05:30.140 Everybody already knew, the whole country, every citizen, every person knew that disinfectants killed viruses on surfaces.
01:05:38.200 The only thing new that was presented was that light was a superstar.
01:05:42.340 The whole point of the thing.
01:05:44.120 Light is a superstar.
01:05:46.260 Did you know that?
01:05:48.600 The news didn't tell you that.
01:05:50.040 It was all about light as a superstar.
01:05:53.440 So the news didn't tell you that there was a trial of light and that the Wall Street Journal talked about it after that event,
01:05:59.280 that there was a company, IU Bioscience, that said, yes, that's us.
01:06:03.360 We're putting light in a catheter, putting it down the throat, i.e. injecting it into a body to see if it works.
01:06:10.380 Turns out it didn't work as well as they wanted.
01:06:12.440 But it was being trialed at the time and Trump knew about it.
01:06:15.200 How do I know that Trump knew about it?
01:06:16.620 Because I was tweeting it two days before the event, and other people were retweeting it, and we know that his staff and he looked at that news.
01:06:25.860 And we also know that he's drawn to things that are good news.
01:06:29.800 He's especially drawn to hearing that there might be a solution.
01:06:34.240 There might be some good news.
01:06:35.240 So did his staff tell him about something that would be exciting and might be good news?
01:06:40.160 Probably.
01:06:41.800 Probably they told him because it's exactly what he wants to hear.
01:06:45.660 Tell me some good news about something that might be working so I can tell that story.
01:06:51.300 And so that's why he was excited.
01:06:53.100 Now he wants more confirmation that he was only talking about light because people still say he wasn't.
01:06:58.740 Here it is.
01:06:59.440 When the experts said we tried the bleach and the isopropyl, it did kill the virus, but it would take a while, several minutes.
01:07:09.600 But when we tried light, boom, two minutes, gone.
01:07:13.600 So light was the two-minute one.
01:07:15.420 The other ones take much longer.
01:07:17.780 So when Trump was talking about disinfectant, he said, and look, and it could kill it in one minute.
01:07:23.280 And he repeated one minute more than once.
01:07:27.660 There was only one topic of one disinfectant that could work.
01:07:32.960 The experts had two minutes, and Trump did his usual Trumpian thing of making it one minute.
01:07:38.160 But there was only one thing that was ever discussed that could be that quick.
01:07:41.780 It was always light.
01:07:43.860 And if you look at all the references Trump made to light, he never once talked about anything that wasn't light.
01:07:51.920 Not once.
01:07:53.600 But he did, however, use the word disinfectant in the middle of a discussion about light.
01:07:59.500 So people, he put that one word out.
01:08:02.100 Now, how did the hoax get created when he very clearly was talking about only light?
01:08:08.400 Jim Acosta asked the question of one of the experts.
01:08:11.840 He says, well, you wouldn't put these, you know, bleach and isopropyl and disinfectants into your body, would you?
01:08:18.660 Or I'm paraphrasing, something like that.
01:08:20.240 And the experts said, no, no, no, you wouldn't do that.
01:08:24.960 So Jim Acosta started the hoax by pretending he didn't understand that it was always about light.
01:08:33.360 That's how the hoax was created.
01:08:35.400 So once he pretended that he thought he heard that it was about these other things,
01:08:42.020 then the rest of the news just picked it up and it became a hoax.
01:08:45.680 So that's how it happened.
01:08:49.400 Now, what you should learn from it is how hoaxes are created.
01:08:53.060 You know, we can't go back in time.
01:08:54.600 It doesn't really matter at this point.
01:08:56.260 But if you learn that they can so easily create a hoax, and here are the mechanics.
01:09:01.860 The first mechanic is you take something out of context.
01:09:04.720 So they had to cut off his many references to light, and they had to completely remove his conversation with Burks.
01:09:12.320 Same event on the stage in public.
01:09:14.680 They had to remove the whole Burks conversation, because that would be so obvious that he was talking about skin the whole time.
01:09:21.620 I mean, really obvious.
01:09:23.120 So they had to just get rid of it.
01:09:24.580 So they get rid of it, and then if you want to see the transcript, they'll show you just the parts that are edited,
01:09:31.280 and you think you actually saw the transcript, but you didn't.
01:09:34.440 Or they'll show you the entire transcript, which is 35 pages, and it's just too much work to pick out what happened.
01:09:42.400 So I did that for you.
01:09:43.520 So I took the whole transcript, but you don't need to read it, because I've highlighted just the half dozen places that matter.
01:09:51.660 So you can just read those.
01:09:53.900 So for the first time in the history of America, somebody explained how the drinking bleach hoax started in great detail.
01:10:05.080 You can see it yourself.
01:10:06.240 There's no question about it.
01:10:09.480 But what you should learn is that they can do a selective edit.
01:10:12.640 That's how the fine people hoax started.
01:10:15.580 It's how the Covington Kids thing was pushed.
01:10:19.140 It's how the overfeeding the koi fish hoax was pushed.
01:10:23.300 Yeah, it's called a RUPAR, because it's a selective edit.
01:10:26.740 But then the second part of it is if somebody takes it out of context, and then all the rest of the media pretends that was a reasonable interpretation.
01:10:35.980 So it's the repetition over and over that turns it into the hoax.
01:10:40.080 It's not just the misinterpretation.
01:10:42.100 It's the repetition.
01:10:44.900 Yeah.
01:10:45.380 A wrap-up smear?
01:10:46.860 I don't know if that's a wrap-up smear, but it's in the same category.
01:10:51.540 All right.
01:10:51.960 So, yeah, we don't know about Yemen.
01:10:56.400 It's all fog of war stuff, so I don't have much to say about that.
01:11:02.460 Don't you think...
01:11:04.420 Do you think we're being suckers?
01:11:07.440 Because it seemed pretty obvious that Yemen was begging us to attack. 0.98
01:11:10.840 If you attack somebody who very clearly wants you to attack, like Hamas and Gaza, are you really winning?
01:11:20.400 It makes you wonder what winning looks like if you're killing people who wanted you to attack them and kill them at least a little bit.
01:11:28.500 I don't know.
01:11:28.880 So I don't know if we're winning or not, but let me ask you a question that nobody's asked.
01:11:35.040 Since we know for sure that these are all Iranian proxies, so Hamas is an Iranian proxy, Hezbollah is, the Houthis, Houthis and the blow ship, 0.89
01:11:45.940 and the attacks in Syria and Iraq and American forces, all Iranian.
01:11:50.780 Do the Iranians not have any ships? 1.00
01:11:57.340 What am I missing?
01:12:00.120 Not one Iranian ship have we blown out of the water?
01:12:05.340 Can you tell me that this would be hard to solve if Vivek or Trump were president?
01:12:12.420 Let me solve it for you.
01:12:14.760 Hey, Iran, you use the Red Sea, too.
01:12:18.000 If I see one more fucking missile come from your proxies in Yemen, we're going to take out your biggest tanker. 1.00
01:12:26.520 And if it happens again, we're going to take out your second biggest tanker. 0.62
01:12:30.360 Oh, but we will retaliate.
01:12:32.440 We will retaliate so hard.
01:12:34.840 Yup.
01:12:37.280 Did you hear the part about if you take out our Iranian tanker, we'll retaliate really hard. 0.99
01:12:43.740 Yup.
01:12:46.360 And then you're done.
01:12:48.000 Was that hard?
01:12:52.280 No.
01:12:52.920 Instead, we've got bedridden Lloyd Austin saying, ah, ah, attack.
01:12:58.560 I feel so confident.
01:13:01.940 Well, at least we don't have the dementia patient making the military decisions.
01:13:07.520 Instead, we have the guy in the hospital bed.
01:13:10.220 And so fear us, fear us, our hospitalized guy and our dementia guy are coming for you.
01:13:20.060 Don't worry about our lack of artillery.
01:13:23.720 At least we don't need any artillery in this case.
01:13:26.020 Or do we?
01:13:28.740 Maybe we will.
01:13:33.580 All right.
01:13:34.240 So the Biden campaign has told CNN to tell the rest of you that what they expect is that the undecided voters have not been paying attention.
01:13:43.960 And that as soon as they realize that the race will actually be Biden versus Trump, then all those undecided people are going to go, what, what?
01:13:55.480 And they'll, they'll line up for Biden and then Biden will win.
01:14:00.100 Do you see the play?
01:14:01.180 So there's a narrative forming for why everything's going to change at the last minute.
01:14:11.320 That's literally happening right in front of you.
01:14:14.360 What would you do if you were going to rig elections and you knew it?
01:14:18.640 You would start about now to tell a story about how all the people who haven't quite shown up in the polling are going to show up.
01:14:28.100 And there's a good reason why it'll be toward the end.
01:14:31.180 Well, that's convenient.
01:14:34.420 But they're not wrong.
01:14:36.560 I don't think they're wrong.
01:14:39.320 Do you know how many people in the general public have heard of, just heard of, Vivek Ramaswamy?
01:14:47.100 Have you tried asking your normie friends what they think about Vivek?
01:14:51.860 What do they say?
01:14:54.700 Every person I've asked who isn't like a real political person, every person who's just a normie,
01:15:01.180 they say the same thing.
01:15:02.940 Who?
01:15:04.040 You know, Vivek Ramaswamy, running for president, Republican.
01:15:09.980 He's all over social media.
01:15:12.100 And they say, yeah, it doesn't ring a bell.
01:15:14.620 Well, what do you think causes that?
01:15:19.140 Well, some of it is the media coverage, but a lot of it is that the undecideds really are not paying attention.
01:15:26.080 The undecideds know they can just kind of wait to the end and make a decision the week of election day if they want to.
01:15:32.580 And there's no rule against that.
01:15:35.580 So you do have to remember how uninvolved the public is.
01:15:39.560 And I agree that if the anti-Trump people realize that he's the guy, they might form up on the other side.
01:15:48.660 That's possible.
01:15:49.260 It's a little bit more possible that Joe Biden's obvious decline will be so bad in less than a year that he will literally be a vegetable.
01:16:02.760 And he's still going to win, probably.
01:16:04.460 All right.
01:16:09.300 A Biden spokesperson, Michael Tyler, who's the, let's see, he's a Biden communications director, Michael Tyler.
01:16:16.640 He said this, and I want you to see if this sounds like the scariest thing any American has ever said in any context.
01:16:26.120 That's a big claim, right?
01:16:27.420 The scariest thing that any American has ever said in any context.
01:16:35.820 I'm going to see if I can meet that.
01:16:37.720 Do you think I can meet that?
01:16:39.540 The scariest thing any human has said in any context.
01:16:44.360 Here it is.
01:16:45.660 Direct quote.
01:16:47.740 Talking about Biden, he says, quote,
01:16:49.420 You know, I don't mind when our presidential candidates lie.
01:17:11.960 You know, kind of expect it.
01:17:13.580 I don't mind some exaggerations, some hyperbole.
01:17:17.120 Kind of expect it.
01:17:17.940 I don't even mind when they try to scare you, because usually they're scaring you about something real.
01:17:23.700 I didn't mind when Trump said, you should be scared about the border.
01:17:29.080 I didn't think I should be that scared.
01:17:31.780 But I thought that was just good politicking, because the border was a real problem, obviously.
01:17:37.440 And it did bring in real crime, et cetera, along with good people.
01:17:42.280 But that was fair, because it was a dangerous situation.
01:17:49.120 Maybe he exaggerated it.
01:17:50.560 Some would say.
01:17:51.220 Maybe not, if you look at current events.
01:17:54.280 But fear does make sense when you're a leader, and there's something you need to be afraid of so you can act on it.
01:18:02.440 I get that.
01:18:03.100 But you know what you don't need to be afraid of?
01:18:06.180 The MAGA agenda.
01:18:09.160 The MAGA agenda is literally about keeping you safer.
01:18:13.260 That's almost the entire thing.
01:18:15.360 How can I keep you safer?
01:18:18.260 How can we avoid being a dictatorship?
01:18:21.460 How can we keep America some kind of republic if it ever was?
01:18:28.500 So the fact that the way Biden is forming this is in revolutionary Civil War terms is actually the scariest thing I've ever heard an American say.
01:18:40.180 That is the scariest thing I've ever heard.
01:18:42.440 And it's scary because it's not true.
01:18:44.320 If it were true, it might also be scary, but it would at least be in the service of some benefit.
01:18:53.060 And I'd be like, okay.
01:18:54.580 But to actually say this when it's very obviously not true, that democracy is at stake, that's some dangerous, dangerous stuff to put into the American world.
01:19:08.360 All right, let me tell you my current thinking, very biased by all the stuff I see.
01:19:12.520 My current thinking is it's very unlikely that America has been a real republic, probably for a long time, if ever, if ever.
01:19:24.020 To me, it seems sort of obvious that the pretend stuff we do voting for things is not how anything happens.
01:19:32.280 Now, I don't know who's in charge or if it changes or if it's some billionaire is fighting it out and then we just find out who wins later.
01:19:39.840 I don't know exactly what's happening.
01:19:41.180 But I do know there's very little evidence that we live in a genuine republic where the citizens become informed and then choose their leader.
01:19:51.720 I don't think that's happened, maybe for a long time.
01:19:54.340 And when you look at the lack of interest from both parties in fixing our election system, now there are members who do ask for it a lot.
01:20:05.860 But as a group, neither the Republican Party nor the Democrats seem to show any real interest in fixing it because each of them controls states.
01:20:15.820 And one has to assume that they like controlling their state and winning in their state every time because they control the election.
01:20:25.480 So they don't want to give it up.
01:20:27.540 And maybe it would, you know.
01:20:28.700 So I think under that situation, the working assumption is that we don't live in a republic.
01:20:36.340 We live in a kleptocracy in which there's some group of billionaires who have figured out how to game the system to make more billions of dollars.
01:20:46.180 That's what it seems like.
01:20:47.000 So I would say that I don't feel like I've ever been part of a republic.
01:20:57.000 That's my current opinion.
01:20:58.640 Now, again, I can't say that that's truth.
01:21:02.960 I like to use the phrase a working assumption because it fits the facts better.
01:21:08.520 If the facts were more compatible with us being a real democratically driven republic, then I would favor that.
01:21:18.240 I would take that as my view.
01:21:19.460 But the facts really strongly argue against it.
01:21:23.280 You know, the entire situation with Trump, I don't think it can be much more clear than that.
01:21:28.400 You know, I don't think it can be much more clear than that, but I don't think it can be much more clear than that.
01:21:33.080 Yeah.
01:21:33.700 All right.
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