Episode 2358 CWSA 01⧸19⧸24
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1 hour and 33 minutes
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149.30272
Summary
Coffee with Scott Adams is a show about the one thing that makes everything better, and it happens to be the most important thing you can do with your morning cup of joe: stay in the "flow state" of your brain.
Transcript
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the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.
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I mean, honestly, I'm a little jealous of all of you.
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Because you get to watch this. You know, it's fun to do it.
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That's why I'm here. But, wow, do I envy you right now.
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Today's show is going to be lit. I've got a theme.
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No, it won't be the usual random miscellaneous.
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But before we get to that, would you like to take this experience up to levels
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that nobody can even understand with their tiny human brains?
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a cuppa, a mug, or a glass, a tanker, chalice, or stein,
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a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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All right, well, that is just the beginning of your happiness.
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I may have mentioned before my new coffee maker.
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Now, it turns out that my coffee maker is the theme,
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The concept is you buy this, you know, high-end machine.
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and makes this incredible coffee with creme on it,
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You just walk in, and you go, boom, brilliant coffee.
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you don't want to have to mess with making coffee.
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You hear it for programmers, computer programmer.
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Now, if you all agree that the concept is amazing,
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and sometimes the water spillover thing is full.
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to do the maintenance when I'm not in flow state.
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Hello, locals. Did you miss me? We had a little catastrophic failure there. It made me log
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out, log back in. But we're all good. All right, so here's the part you missed. ABC News
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says that boys have better navigational skills, but it's because they play outdoors more.
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And it's not even because they want to play outdoors. It's because people encourage boys
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to play outdoors. So as I was saying, you know, my brother and my sister and I would be playing in
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the backyard and mom would say, it's time for dinner. My brother and I having these good
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negotiation, you know, these good navigation skills, we'd like, okay, there's the house.
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Here's me. I can solve for this. And I'd walk like toward the house and I'd go inside. And that's
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called good navigational skills. But my sister, God bless her soul, she'd be out in the house and
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she'd be looking at it. And she'd be like, I can see it. But how do I get to it? And honestly,
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she's still there. She died in the yard. So we'll miss her. All right. Sorry, sis. She's listening
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to this right now. She's laughing. You're laughing, right? You're laughing, right? No, she did not get
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lost in the yard because she has excellent navigational skills. And as a second part of
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this story, I have terrible navigational skills. I don't have any navigational skills. I have none.
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I've got spatial skills, but I don't pay attention when I go anywhere so I can never get back.
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Here's what I think is happening. Here's what I really think the science is without any benefit
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of any studies. I believe that after, let's say, 300,000 years of humanoid evolution, that boys
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are designed to go hunt and control territory. The men are designed by evolution to hunt and to
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control territory. Militarily, if we don't have a military, we'll do it with football. If we don't
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have football, we will literally whip out our penis and spray down your lawn. So we, you know,
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dominate it, own it a little bit. We're basically owned for terror. We're built for territory.
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So when I go into a place, I'm thinking territory. You know, when I play football, I'm trying to gain
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a yard, right? And if I'm playing a game, I'm trying to make my impact be as large as possible.
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If I'm a batter in a baseball game, I don't want to bunt. I mean, sometimes I have to, but I want to
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get a home run, thus increasing the physical range of my impact. So boys, I think, evolved to be all
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about the physical space because if they hunt, they got to know where to go and they got to know how to
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get back, right? So I would think that nature is selective for people who could get back home after
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the hunt. Probably it's just that. Or it's because boys are encouraged to play more outside.
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Well, there's a funny video compilation. Rand Paul had some fun mocking Nikki Haley.
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So he was retweeting a compilation of, he says, since Nikki Haley is refusing to debate Ron DeSantis
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before New Hampshire, I present to you Nikki Haley debating herself. Now, the first thing I thought
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was, oh, it's going to be one of those AI things where somebody has an AI Nikki Haley debating herself.
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Nope. It was actually video clips of her saying, I will not do X. And then followed by, we should
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really do X. But I will not do Y. Followed by, you know, it would be a really good idea. A lot of Y.
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So it's actually hilarious that she doesn't seem to have any standards or philosophical mooring
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or anything. Yeah, she's just sort of going with whatever's going to get her elected.
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So that's hilarious. If you want to see that, it's in my X feed. I guess the court's judge said
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that Trump can be on the ballot in Washington state, which is a big deal, because this, I guess it was
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the 14th Amendment, was trying to be used to say he's a damn insurrectionist, and so he can't be on
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the ballot. But the judge said no. Now, can somebody give me an update? So far, he's not been denied
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the ballot of any state, right? In a confirmed final way. There may be some still challenges.
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Okay. Yeah, I think he's on every ballot. I think it's going to stay that way.
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Yeah, there may be some temporary hiccups, but I feel like if it came to the Supreme Court,
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how's that going to go any other way, right? The Supreme Court's not going to keep him off the
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ballot. I don't see how it could. All right. Well, so we'll see. So I see you mentioning Maine,
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but, you know, until it's election day, I think you can assume that that will get corrected.
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Maybe not. All right. But anyway, that's good news. So Tucker Carlson had a new video. He has a
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theory that basically goes like this, that what the Democrats are up to. According to Tucker,
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the evidence would suggest that their strategy looks like this. They know Biden can't win,
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so that's not part of their strategy. Their strategy would be more along the lines of
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supporting Nikki Haley, because in some of these primaries, Democrats can just vote for the Republican
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candidate. So I guess Reid Hoffman, famous, rich Democrat funder and founder of LinkedIn,
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which got sold to Microsoft. He's one of the main funders of not only Nikki Haley,
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but the lawsuit against Trump for that E. Gene Carroll thing. So the same person who's funding
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Nikki Haley's campaign, a Democrat, is funding a Republican, that same Democrat is funding the
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lawsuit against Trump and the E. Gene Carroll. Now, that's not the only things he's funding,
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but it gets you a little sense of him. There are some who claim, and I don't know if this is true,
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that he visited Epstein Island. Do you think, is that true? Or is that just another one of those
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rumors? Because there are people on that list that really did not go to Epstein Island. So I'm going
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to say I don't know that's true. I'm going to not state that to be true. I'm going to state that to
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be something somebody claimed. Because if I don't have a picture of him on the island, I'm not going
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to base it on somebody's list on the internet. So whether or not that's true, and I'm going to say
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I'll assume innocence until proven guilty. Remember, that's always the standard. That's
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an accusation, but he's not the government, right? Reid Hoffman is a private citizen. So you should
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assume that he's innocent of anything illegal unless somebody really proves it in court. Anything
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short of that, he's innocent. So I'm not going to buy that he's on the Epstein list or that he's ever
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been to the island or anything like that. However, may I remind you that we don't have the Epstein list
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or the videos, which means that somebody does. Whoever has the videos is who's running the country.
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You know that, right? Whoever has the Epstein's stuff, it was all designed to blackmail the most
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important people. Do you think whoever had that power, like the power of Thanos, you know,
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at all the rings, do you think they said, you know, this is too dangerous? We better put this in a
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drawer somewhere. No. No. Whoever has his blackmail material still controls whoever Epstein was trying
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to control. And the thing is that you just have to hint that you have it and you've got all the
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control you need. Hey, you know, I would never, I would never out you as being on Epstein Island and
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having illegal sex. I would never do that. But I do have the videos. I do have the videos.
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They're in my control. But I would never, I would never show them to anybody. By the way, you know,
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it'd be a great idea is if you were to fund the Democratic Party to the tune of $20 million.
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It's a separate conversation. No, no, I'm not tying it to the Epstein's. No, no, no. No,
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I would never, I would never show that stuff in public. I have it all. And it would, it would
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take a lot for me to want to like show it in public or leak it or something. But, you know,
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I just want you to know I have it all. Right. You don't need to directly blackmail anybody
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if they know you have the goods or if they suspect it. So there might be more than one
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blackmailer. There might be a blackmailer who has the stuff and there might be another blackmailer
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who is even smarter, who is pretending to have it. You know, who might potentially have actually
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had it. So I think we're a blackmailocracy and any sense that we're a democracy is kind of
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childish at this point. It feels naive to the point of childish. We're clearly a blackmail
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driven place. Do you know why the border is not closed? There's no American reason. There
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is no American reason for the border to be the way it is. There's none. That's clearly an
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outcome of corruption. I don't know the details. It could be, you know, China trying to destroy
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the fabric of America. Could be the cartels make so much money they bribe the Congress
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to let them keep doing it. Or some combination. Some combination. But I'll tell you what it's
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not. It's not a bunch of Americans deciding what's good for America. And I'm starting to
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think that the idea that the Democrats have a clever plan of replacing, you know, the white
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Christian voters with brown people from other countries that they can get to vote Democrat.
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I have a contrarian theory. Because the Republican, standard Republican conservative theory
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is that it's all a plot to increase the number of Democrat voters. I think they also want to do
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that. And that's why, which state is it that's going to let them vote the illegal migrants can vote
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without ID? Like that's actually, oh, California, right. Arizona. It was actually Arizona. You're
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right. Arizona recently said that you can vote if you're illegal. You just vote. They just decided
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to ignore the Constitution or something. So here's what I think. I don't think that's the main reason
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behind the open borders. There's something else driving that. And there's something to destroy the
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country, not to make Democrats stronger. But while it's happening, Democrats quite wisely, I assume,
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say, well, if they're going to come here anyway, we might as well take advantage of it and let them vote
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vote because I think they'll vote for us. So I think that the whole replacement theory is a head
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fake, meaning that in practice, something like it is really happening. There will be more voters of
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a different type than are already here if things go the way they are. But I don't think that's what's
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starting it. I think that's just people taking advantage of a situation that was going to happen
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anyway. So whatever is behind it, we don't exactly know. But you have to assume corruption in Congress
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because at the very least, if somebody just disagrees politically, they would make an argument for what
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they're doing. Nobody on the Democrat side is making an argument for it. They're literally saying
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it's not happening. All right. Explain that. A normal topic would be two people with an argument
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that they disagree. This isn't that. No, this is not two people with some kind of philosophical
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disagreement. This is something that's coming from the outside. I don't know where. My guess is the
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cartels have bought Congress. But it could be something else. Right. Yeah. So not replace, but combine.
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Yeah. So I think the replacement part's the add-on. I don't think that's the underlying cause.
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All right. Here's some fake news that you probably believed. Oh, by the way, the alternative to Tucker's
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theory that Nikki Haley is like the secret Democrat in Republican clothing, that they're going to try to
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sneak in there as a, as like a hidden Democrat. That's plausible. I'm not sure I completely buy into
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that, but it's plausible. The alternative theory is that the Democrats know Biden is shot, but they
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also knew that having a president of low capability was working for the deep state or the people who
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wanted, I don't know, military things to happen, whatever. So they may say, you know, what would be
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the best thing? Is another low capability president that we can control. So that theory would say,
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let's, let's limp Biden over the finish line. We'll just get him there one way or the other. And then he
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immediately retires for health reasons and Kamala takes over and she's easy to control.
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Because she is an idiot. You know, I'm very reluctant to say somebody who's risen to the
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highest levels of politics has any kind of mental deficiency because, you know, that seems deeply
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unlikely. But the more you listen to her, the more you think, no, the base problem is you're not smart
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or even a little bit smart about, you know, important things. She might have a good memory,
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you know, so she can get through law school and stuff like that, but she seems not smart. That seems
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to be the basic problem. All right. Imagine, imagine that it's today and you still believe that January
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6th was an insurrection. At what point does that become embarrassing, if ever, to imagine that
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trespassing was the way that a bunch of scraggly people who were there for the purpose of protecting
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the Republic against what they thought was a fraudulent election, that the real plan was to conquer the
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military of the United States and take power by trespassing or something. So I would ask you to just
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ask your Democrat friends who still believe that hoax to connect the dots and simply describe
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how those protesters were going to get control of the nuclear triad. Like, what were the steps
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after the trespassing? Surrender? Was the military on the verge of surrendering to them? Just connect
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the dots. I'm not asking for, I'm not even disagreeing with you. You just tell me what you're
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thinking, and then I'll tell you if I agree or not, but I haven't heard what you're thinking. Just
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tell me your actual opinion. Show me how you believed that trespassing and taking selfies and
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abusing a lectern were going to lead in a cause and effect, you know, A leads to B way to physical
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control of the country. Do you know how you could have defeated that insurrection? You could put a fence
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around it and wait to wait for them to starve. They didn't have weapons. There's no insurrection
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that would ever be easier to thwart than the people who didn't have food and they locked themselves in
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a building. So to imagine that you still thought there was something like an insurrection
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is embarrassing at this point. So I think you should treat it that way when it comes up as just mock it
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as the most ridiculous belief. Michael Schellenberger has a whole thread and post on this today that
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people still think it was an insurrection is basically stupid. All right, here's some fake news.
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Do you believe that Joe Biden has inaccurately said in public a number of times, including
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recently, that his oldest son, Beau, died because of Iraq or in Iraq because of the war? How many think
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that Joe Biden is so dumb he thinks that Beau died in the Iraq war when the truth is that he died of a
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brain tumor well after the war, well after he left the war? All right. So here's the truth of that.
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That's fake news. So Biden said it again, but there was a community note. Apparently what Biden believes,
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because he's spoken at greater length about it, he doesn't believe his son died in Iraq. He does not
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believe that he died of military action and has never said that. He says he died because of Iraq.
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Iraq. Specifically, he believes that Beau was too close to, I think, the burn, the burn pits or
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something, something that would have poisoned him and that the exposure may have been the reason
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for his brain tumor that killed him well after he was out of the military. It was some kind of chemical
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cobalt. I don't know. I don't know what the details are. Now, do you think Joe Biden knows that's true?
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Do you, or is it true? I mean, is it, have the medical professionals said, yeah, we're pretty sure
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that's what caused it? It's hard to prove. But here's what is true, if that's true.
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If it's true, then see if I have this right. Didn't Joe Biden support the Iraq war?
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Didn't he? And wasn't the Iraq war optional? So Joe Biden supported an optional war,
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which in his own telling killed his own son. Is that fair? That he supported a war that in his own
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opinion killed his son. Now, what about the Ukraine war? Do you think that Hunter would be in the
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trouble that he's in legally if there was not a President Biden forging a war in Ukraine with
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Russia? I don't think, I don't think Hunter would be in trouble. So Hunter is likely to end up in jail
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or dead, you know, if he does something because he doesn't want to go to jail, because of his father
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entering a second optional war. So you've got a father who may have, in his own belief, supported
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a war that killed his son, an optional war, not a war of national defense, an optional war,
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and is supporting another optional war, in a sense. You know, optional is, you have to stretch that
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definition a little bit. But did he kill both of his sons? Is he in the process of killing both of
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his sons for unnecessary wars? Now, kill or jail or, you know, mentally disable or ruin his life in some
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way. Now, I'm not saying that, you know, Hunter's innocent and should not have the consequences of
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justice. But I'm right, right? Has anybody connected these dots before? That Joe Biden killed his, both
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of his sons with two optional wars? I haven't seen anybody say it, but to me, that's the most mind-blowing
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part of this whole story, that he's so lame that his own sons are dying because of his optional
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wars. Do you know what Don Jr. is doing this weekend? Well, I don't know, but he's probably not
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defending himself against money laundering in Ukraine. I don't know for sure. Do you know what
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Barron Trump is doing this weekend? I don't know, but he's not dying of a brain tumor because he went to
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an optional war in Iraq. That's not happening, right? There's a big difference between Trump and
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Biden. There's a really big difference. And it's so big that it's almost, if it weren't full of tragedy,
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it would be humorously big, the difference between their performances. One got us into two wars that
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killed his own family, and that didn't even slow him down. He's still in favor of it.
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And Trump is whatever is the opposite of that. All right.
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MSNBC's Tiffany Cross, who I guess is no longer with MSNBC, one of her biggest complaints was that
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she got a show on MSNBC, but that her bosses kept telling her she wasn't spending enough time
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trashing Trump. And she kept saying versions of, you know, okay, I mean, that's an important story
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too, but what about all these other stories? And I'm paraphrasing, of course, but her bosses said,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, but you really got to bash Trump. Okay, but not all the time. I mean,
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I could do other stories too. And they were pretty much, no, no, no, there really are no other stories.
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We really need you to bash Trump. So this is another one of those. It was exactly what it
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looked like. Because when you watched MSNBC, you said to yourself, this doesn't look like news.
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This looks like a bunch of people bashing Trump. And that's all it is. There's like literally
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nothing else. And that's exactly what it was. The executives were trying to make the staff do
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nothing but. Remember, I tell you, you have to know the players. I already talked about that.
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Reid Hoffman. So I don't know what's true with Reid Hoffman. But the concept I should have mentioned
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before is that if you only hear the news, you don't know anything. Because the news doesn't tell
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you how the players are connected with the other players. For example, if the only thing you knew was
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that E. Jean Carroll was suing Trump, you say, oh, that sounds like a personal thing. And maybe
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there's something to it, et cetera. But if you knew that the lawsuit was being funded by a Democrat who
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wants to get Trump, you say to yourself, oh, that's not necessarily true then, is it? I mean,
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I don't know if it's true or not. I don't want to get sued for libel. I'm just saying that as soon
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as you put, you know, ugly money behind it, all the credibility goes away. So if you don't know
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there's ugly money behind something, you don't really have the full picture, do you? So there's
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that. All right. There's a viral video of what's being called a angel mom whose daughter was died
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from a fentanyl overdose. So I guess I would make me an angel stepdad because my stepson died of a
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fentanyl overdose. But she was in Congress talking to Dan Goldman, who was doing his best to try to
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get her to support his point of view, which is that the Democrats say they want extra funding for
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Border Patrol. And Dan Goldman is trying to get her to say, but so you would agree, you know,
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I'm paraphrasing, you would agree that if fentanyl coming across the border is a problem,
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and you, of course it is, then adding more Border Patrol would be one step toward decreasing that
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problem. And do you know what the angel mom said? Again, paraphrasing, nope, because I've been to the
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border and you haven't. If you talk to the Border Patrol, they'll tell you they're making sandwiches
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for the migrants. If you add more people, they will make more sandwiches. If you make more sandwiches,
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you have more people coming because they like sandwiches. If you add more people, do you know what
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that's like? Hey, Dan Goldman, I've got a coffee maker for you. In concept, all you have to do is push
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the button and you get a delicious cup of coffee. Mmm, mmm, mmm. So everything's good about that, right,
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Dan Goldman? No. In the real world, they're fucking making sandwiches. And this, this angel mom, she not only
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destroyed him, but she knelt on his fucking neck. It was a, it was just a joy to watch. And the joy was not,
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you know, the subject is so tragic, it's almost unimaginable, literally unimaginable. But
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watching Dan Goldman not understanding anything about how the real world works and thinking he
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can just push the button on that coffee maker and get a delicious cup of coffee and then having his
00:35:15.980
reality shattered by somebody who said, you've never been there, have you? You've never been to the
00:35:21.620
border. Beautiful. Just beautiful. All right. How about, oh, AI education? I was going to talk
00:35:37.260
about this at first, but so Tyler Cowen writing in Marginal Revolution says there might be two ways
00:35:43.720
AI will change education. One is it might make better videos like Khan Academy and come up with
00:35:51.940
tests on its own and, you know, maybe it does lesson plans and just does like some kind of video
00:35:58.100
teaching. Now that would be good. But as Tyler Cowen points out on Marginal Revolution, that the other
00:36:06.520
model might be better, which is having AI or robot as a companion. And then you just hang around with
00:36:14.380
your companion and it kind of teaches you about life as it goes. Not necessarily, you know, teaching
00:36:22.420
you spelling or something like that, but sort of giving you life advice that would maybe put you in
00:36:29.500
the right mindset to go learn how to spell on your own, you know, basically setting you up for success
00:36:35.240
by being effectively a smart parent following you around all the time. But you would think it's just
00:36:41.520
your buddy. Yeah, mentor. And I agree with that because specifically what I wanted was a robot
00:36:49.460
and I will have one. I will have this robot, probably the first Tesla that comes out. And I wanted to
00:36:57.760
follow me around and I want to be able to turn to it and say, you know what? I keep hearing about
00:37:02.120
this Sumerian civilization. Was that like the first civilization? And what kind of technology did they
00:37:08.820
have? And what part of the country or the world were they in? And it just tells you. And then you're
00:37:14.880
just walking down the street and suddenly you know about the Sumerian culture. That literally is
00:37:20.040
something I did with AI the other day. I always wanted to learn about Sumeria, but I was never
00:37:25.340
interested enough to like research it in front of a computer. But while I was, you know, doing,
00:37:31.220
you know, just doing my morning routine, I had my AI out. So I just told it to give me a lesson on
00:37:35.880
Sumeria. So it did. Now I know. So that's the way I like to learn. Dr. Huberman's talking about a new
00:37:44.920
study that says that love can reduce pain. Do you believe that? That if you're in love, the region of
00:37:53.740
the brain that handles that euphoria interferes with the pain part of the, yeah, I mean, it feels
00:38:00.540
like it. Now, what is the thing that causes you the most pain? Love. What's the thing that helps
00:38:11.180
reduce your pain? Love. So it's not a perfect system, is it? The only thing that can reduce
00:38:19.740
your pain naturally is the thing that causes most of it when it goes bad. But my only addition to this
00:38:27.320
is that this is an example of brain hacking. Now, it's not one you can do easily because you can't
00:38:35.000
just say, oh, I'll fall in love if I want to get rid of my pain. But as a hypnotist, this is the sort
00:38:40.740
of brain hacking I've been doing all my life. And let me describe what I mean by that. Brain hacking is
00:38:47.300
taking advantage, this is my personal definition, taking advantage of the accidental connections
00:38:53.560
that exist in your brain that are never activated because they're only accidental connections. It
00:38:58.900
doesn't occur to you to even activate them. They're just an accident of geography. You know,
00:39:06.640
there's something in your brain that's like physically next to or connected to something else.
00:39:11.220
And you can do everything from change your preferences to change your mindset if you can
00:39:17.520
find those weird accidental connections like love and pain. Now, love and pain, like I said,
00:39:23.360
you couldn't work with that because you can't optionally fall in love. But there's a whole bunch
00:39:29.340
of stuff that you can do that would hack your brain in different ways to make yourself more effective.
00:39:34.880
So it's a larger thing, which once you learn how to do it, it really does change everything.
00:39:41.680
If you don't realize you can change your own brain, not just by education, but fundamentally
00:39:46.900
reprogramming what connects to what, so it's just a different machine, then you really lose
00:39:53.200
now because your brain is very, very programmable, not just learning, not just learning, but to
00:40:01.740
become a different machine. Like you can actually change the structure of the machine through
00:40:07.460
your behavior. Well, Trump is arguing that presidents should have total immunity. If you
00:40:14.800
haven't heard of this argument, the argument is that no matter what the president did, the
00:40:20.140
other team would say it's illegal, and then they would always just be prosecuting the president
00:40:24.940
and there wouldn't be anything else. Now, let's do the real world versus the concept.
00:40:31.740
Concept. Nobody's above the law. That even if the president breaks a law, like murdering
00:40:41.160
somebody, right? I mean, it's more important that the president is held to the standard of
00:40:47.460
law. Just like, wouldn't it be great to get a cup of coffee just by pushing one button?
00:40:54.100
Yeah. Let's just hold everybody to the standard that nobody's above the law. Then people will
00:40:58.740
not want to break the law and we're all better off, right? Yeah. Delicious coffee. But in the
00:41:05.980
real world, that place where Trump resides, that place that connects Trump to every working
00:41:13.480
class person is that the real world has no fucking connection to your concept. In the real world,
00:41:22.740
the day somebody took office, they would already be under attack by the other team to try to put
00:41:30.000
them in jail. It's all they would do. Now, if you don't think that's all they would do, you haven't
00:41:37.080
been paying attention because they have the power to impeach. So what did the Democrats do all fucking
00:41:43.420
day? They tried to impeach him all fucking day. And to the point of not even doing the people's work.
00:41:51.160
They were doing that while the pandemic was unfolding and they weren't paying attention.
00:41:57.880
Right? So the real world, if you give somebody a hammer, they start hitting shit.
00:42:04.780
That's it. You give somebody a hammer, they're going to hit some shit. You think it's just going
00:42:10.660
to be nails, don't you? Well, maybe if you're lucky. No, but if you have a hammer, you're going to
00:42:17.360
probably hit more than a nail. All right. So Trump is right about that. And then one of the, I guess
00:42:25.720
some judge asked this dumb question, which is, are you saying that if on the last day of office,
00:42:31.780
the president ordered SEAL Team 6 to kill his political opponent, that that should be completely
00:42:39.060
okay, right? So you're saying, now, I think we need to get better judges. Can I explain how the real
00:42:50.740
world works? Let me explain how the real world works. The president gets SEAL Team 6 together and
00:42:59.120
says, I want you to kill my opponent. SEAL Team 6 then tells their bosses and that guy goes to jail
00:43:06.100
forever. That's how the real world works. SEAL Team 6 isn't going to go fucking kill your political
00:43:12.700
opponent in the real world. Now, suppose they did. Suppose that actually happened. And then
00:43:22.040
suppose we knew. All right. If nobody knows, that's a whole different story. But suppose we
00:43:26.420
knew. And he said, yeah, I did it. I got immunity. Too bad. Neener, neener. Do you think that that
00:43:32.960
president could then just go out in the world, having murdered somebody in front of all of us
00:43:39.320
and just live their life? No. Somebody would kill them. Somebody would try. And their family could
00:43:50.040
never go out in public again. You know, their entire life would be basically never leaving the
00:43:55.300
house. Yeah. Now, nobody's going to kill their opponent on the last day of the presidency.
00:44:01.280
Because nobody thinks that works. It's ridiculous. Right? So in the real world,
00:44:08.140
Trump is 100% right. You can't have presidents, you know, being charged with crimes for what they
00:44:14.880
do in office. You just can't. He's 100% right. And their counter examples are just stupid.
00:44:22.680
Peter Navarro, it looks like he's going to jail.
00:44:25.440
Or he might. The Department of Justice is seeking six months in prison because he defied a subpoena
00:44:33.940
over the January 6th thing. His claim was that he was covered under executive privilege
00:44:38.700
and immunity. But that claim is, you know, sketchy, according to the courts.
00:44:45.120
But let's add Peter Navarro to the pardon list because we see more and more examples of Republicans
00:44:52.960
being hunted. And we don't believe that this would have happened to a Democrat necessarily.
00:44:59.100
And this is my most motivating topic. So we've got a lot of critical things that have to happen
00:45:09.540
from the border to everything else. So there's lots and lots of considerations when you're looking
00:45:14.940
for a new president. But my number one consideration is the weaponization of the Department of Justice
00:45:20.240
and the Pardons. I'll take that over everything. I'll take that over everything. Just give me that
00:45:29.640
one thing. And that's why I could easily support a Vivek or a Trump or a DeSantis, because I think
00:45:38.820
they'll all end up in the same place on the pardons. I think. I hope. But, yeah.
00:45:46.420
The weaponized justice system against Republicans has to be the first thing we fix. It has to be.
00:45:54.840
You've got to fix that, because that's like having something shoved down your throat,
00:46:00.540
and then somebody's inviting you to dinner and asking you why you're not eating. Well, maybe it's
00:46:05.460
because you shoved a broomstick down my entire throat. Like, get that out first, and then we can
00:46:11.620
talk about the other stuff. So, yeah. You better get those guys out of prison right away. All right.
00:46:19.960
And by the way, every second between now and the time a Republican frees those people,
00:46:27.460
which I hope is what's going to happen, is a disgrace. It's a disgrace to the country.
00:46:35.720
I was going to say embarrassment, but I don't get embarrassed. The country should be embarrassed.
00:46:40.600
Like, I don't think you can show your head in public when you're like this. I think that we
00:46:46.720
have nothing to say to other countries. I think we should just shut the fuck up about their abusing
00:46:53.340
civil rights or whatever we think they're doing. Yeah. No. If we're putting our own citizens in jail
00:46:59.640
for political reasons, I know, I know there's crimes involved too, but we all agree, pretty sure in the
00:47:06.440
real world, these crimes would have been ignored, you know, as just protests. So, let's talk about
00:47:16.720
something else. So, you know, the Congress was trying to figure out a deal that if Democrats would
00:47:24.380
agree on something on the border, maybe Republicans would agree on something on the budget. So, they're
00:47:29.840
trying to reach some kind of deal that was both border, security, and budget. Do you know why that
00:47:36.080
can't work? There's a reason it can't work. By design, it can't work. Here's what can work.
00:47:44.960
You can negotiate when the two of you don't want exactly the same things or things that are, you know,
00:47:50.500
opposite logically. If I've got a product and you want it and I don't need the product because, you
00:47:59.480
know, I can make all of them I want, but I want your money, then we can make a deal. Because what you
00:48:05.440
and I want are different things. You want my product, I want your money, boom, we got a deal. We just have
00:48:10.580
to figure out the amount. But if you want the same things, such as, I think I would like the Jewish
00:48:18.700
state to exist. Well, what do you think? I think I would like it to completely disappear.
00:48:25.580
That's not something you can negotiate. There's no middle ground between existing and not existing.
00:48:32.980
Not really. Likewise, there's no logical way you can make a deal on budget and border
00:48:41.000
because both sides need both things. The Republicans need the border to be fixed, but the Democrats need
00:48:52.300
just as hard for it not to be fixed. There's no way to make a deal. They want the same limited
00:48:58.780
resource that can only be one way or the other and there's nothing in between.
00:49:03.640
Same with the budget. The Republicans want what they want on the budget. The Democrats want what
00:49:12.280
they want on the budget and it's not the same. So you can't have the budget being what the Democrats
00:49:18.440
want without it being not what the Republicans want. So you see the point yet? I hope I'm being
00:49:24.540
clear. You can't negotiate by saying that these two things are your two negotiating variables
00:49:30.820
because there's nothing to work with. So the reason it's not solved is that it's unsolvable.
00:49:36.680
It can't be solved under that setup. Now, who do you think would know that that can't work?
00:49:43.140
Trump. Because Trump knows how to make a deal. He literally knows what the real world looks like
00:49:50.260
and how to make a real business deal. And he would know, as 100% of all dealmakers know,
00:49:56.840
you can't make a deal if there's absolutes involved that can't be violated. And the Democrats
00:50:03.740
are never going to be happy with a closed border. The Republicans will never be happy with an open
00:50:07.860
one. There's not really something in between that anybody's even serious about, such as better vetting
00:50:15.600
or something like that. There's nothing practical even being talked about. So no, not only will Congress
00:50:22.400
fail, they have to. It's a designed failure. You're going to have to either add another topic,
00:50:31.040
so there's something to really negotiate on, or get rid of one of the topics, so you're just talking
00:50:37.480
about the budget. And then within just the budget, maybe you could trade this for that. But if you add
00:50:44.200
the complication of immigration to budget, how in the world are they going to make a deal on that?
00:50:50.600
Just commonsensically, how do you reach a deal when you have two things that neither can
00:50:55.340
negotiate on? So to imagine that the public has been so bamboozled to think, oh, we're almost there.
00:51:02.800
Look at us doing this work. We've decided that this is our structure of our deal. Now we just have to
00:51:08.200
work out the details. That can't happen. That can't happen. They've designed a failed system
00:51:14.840
from the start. There's only one way it goes. No. That's it. So I'm going to predict that eventually
00:51:23.580
the border has to be separated from the budget deal, or they're going to have to do something
00:51:30.080
different than whatever this is. They're not going to make any progress on this.
00:51:33.440
And Trump has already said, more to my point, that the only deal that the Congress should accept,
00:51:41.580
and of course Congress, the Republicans are already listening to him, because Trump is the
00:51:46.320
presumptive next president, they would think. And he's saying the only deal that they should accept
00:51:52.800
is a perfect border deal on top of a perfect budget deal. In other words, Trump is saying the same
00:51:59.520
thing I'm doing, different language, but he's saying these are not things that you trade one for the
00:52:04.160
other. But he just says it in a better way, really. No, I want both of them perfect, because that's what
00:52:11.880
the country needs. They need a budget that works. They need a border that works. Don't tell me you're
00:52:17.100
going to give me a fucking bad border so I can get a better budget. That's a sucker play. You walk away
00:52:24.180
from that deal. You walk away from the room if that's the only structure they're dealing with.
00:52:29.740
So Trump is right. He's saying either we shove this completely down your throat,
00:52:34.920
or we need to negotiate with a whole different process. But no, we're not going to take half of
00:52:41.720
this to get half of the other thing. I agree with him. Which means that they can't get anywhere.
00:52:49.180
All right, here's a thought experiment for you. Try this with your Democrat friends.
00:52:57.700
It goes like this. I posted this, so if you want to send it to him, in my words, you can. It's on my X
00:53:03.760
feed. So a thought experiment. All right, imagine one American state that implements nothing but
00:53:11.480
mainstream Republican policies, and they don't even have to argue about it, right? There's nobody on the
00:53:17.160
other side. They just go full Republican in every way, from the school system to taxes to law
00:53:24.760
enforcement and everything else. Then there's another state that goes the other way, and it's full
00:53:29.540
Democrat policies, right? They got everything from reparations to sanctuary city and high taxes for
00:53:37.820
the rich people, just the whole boat. Then you wait 25 years, and now ask your Democrat friend
00:53:45.460
to describe both states 25 years from now. What do you think will happen?
00:53:55.060
Well, in the real world, I'll tell you what would happen. Then I'll tell you what happens if you ask
00:53:59.480
somebody about it. All right. So I've got a hypothesis that Republicans can predict the future with
00:54:05.340
eerie precision on this test. So if you said, all right, how do those two states work out? The
00:54:12.020
Republicans say, well, the Republican state has well-educated people who are doing well,
00:54:17.660
and the families and, you know, everything looks good. And then they would, you would say to the
00:54:25.380
Republicans, well, how do you think the Democrat state went? They say, oh, 25 years of that probably has
00:54:32.020
just decayed into something like, you know, those areas in Seattle that were run by the straight
00:54:36.780
people. What was that called? Yeah, it's probably a complete failed state. Chas. Yeah, the Chas.
00:54:44.300
Chas is actually a perfect example of what the entire state would be if they use the same policies
00:54:51.180
as within Chas, which apparently Democrats were happy enough with. Chas and chop. Yeah. It's funny.
00:54:58.440
Those, those, those, those things that young people will never hear. They'll never hear about
00:55:02.620
Chas and chop. All right. So here's what I think. Under that condition, the migrants would flood only
00:55:10.400
the Democrat state. So all the migrants that would have ordinarily, hypothetically, gone to both states
00:55:16.400
would go only to the one state in unlimited numbers. And all the rich people in the Democrat state
00:55:23.820
would eventually move to the other state for lower taxes. Because if it's just Democrats,
00:55:29.200
they're going to take like a 90% tax on the richest people. You know that, right? So nobody's going to
00:55:35.680
stay there and pay a 90% tax if they're mobile and all rich people are mobile. So they would just
00:55:40.440
immediately pull up stakes and move to another state. So you lose all your rich people. So you lose your tax
00:55:45.860
space. Then the poor people would move to your state because you got better benefits. So you'd have poor
00:55:53.700
people moving from the Republican state to the Democrat state to get benefits. You'd have the rich
00:55:59.040
people moving from the Democrat state to the Republican state. Now wait 25 years and game that
00:56:04.840
out. It only goes one way. There's only one possible outcome to that. A complete failed state in one case
00:56:13.260
and a marvelous happy state in the other. Now you could argue, oh, they're not so happy because abortion is
00:56:19.440
illegal in the Republican state. And you'd have some, you know, at least that's a debate that
00:56:25.160
I would respect the debate no matter which way it goes. But in general, you would have a failed state
00:56:32.720
and you would have one successful one. So here's what I would like to add. We're in this weird imaginary
00:56:41.640
world where we imagine that Republicans and Democrats differ on policy preferences. That's
00:56:49.180
what you think, right? Because every conversation about politics is, I like this policy, you like
00:56:55.660
that policy. I don't think anything like that's happening. My filter says that the people who can do
00:57:03.320
math and can imagine the future, in other words, they can imagine what's happening today and then
00:57:09.560
projected in their mind into the future, that they're all on the same side. And the people who
00:57:16.160
don't have the ability to imagine how current situations would unfold in the future, either
00:57:22.800
because they're mentally limited in some cases, but more often because they just don't have that
00:57:28.040
training or exposure to that kind of stuff. Have you noticed that Democrats skew young and Republicans
00:57:34.660
skew old? People under 25 literally don't have developed brains. And people under 30 literally
00:57:45.300
don't have as much experience as everybody who's 31. Everybody who's 31 has more experience than
00:57:53.860
everybody who's 30. And so by the time you reach your 50s and 60s, it really makes a difference.
00:57:59.220
So this is the difference of the coffee maker one button versus the taking you in a flow state.
00:58:07.140
If you're young, that coffee maker sounds like the best freaking idea. Seriously, one button? I love
00:58:14.140
that. But if you're my age, and as soon as you saw how many features this thing had, you said to
00:58:20.180
yourself, oh shit, I know how this is going to go. I still like it. I still recommend it, by the way.
00:58:24.780
It's a good machine. Well, the Mule makes way better coffee than a Mr. Coffee. And Mr. Coffee is a
00:58:34.560
fine device as well. But there's no comparison of the taste. Yeah. Because the coffee machine adds
00:58:40.160
this crema, like this air-filled thing that's like a replacement for cream and sugar. It's amazing.
00:58:45.700
So anyway, so young people, I think, listen to Democrat ideas, and they say, I like that idea
00:58:54.740
because I like pushing my coffee maker one button and having everything I want. Older people say,
00:59:02.180
that coffee maker has got more features than you need. You're just going to be fixing that shit.
00:59:07.020
And that's the difference. So the difference is purely on being able to project what's happening
00:59:14.600
today into the future and being good at math. That's it. There's no such thing as Democrat or
00:59:22.980
Republican. There's just people who are better at math and can imagine the future better.
00:59:29.100
Science did an experiment once in which they took people who were having trouble saving for the future,
00:59:35.320
and they made a, like an AI, CGI, it was CGI in those days, an image of the person older. So you
00:59:45.140
could see yourself looking older, and then people would save more because they were saving themselves.
00:59:51.740
They saw a picture of themselves as an old person. They wanted to protect that person because it's
00:59:55.600
them. So they basically helped people who couldn't imagine the future on their own. Now, my career
01:00:03.100
has had some success, but I also imagined it perfectly from the age of six. Every part of my entire life,
01:00:11.960
I imagined pretty much exactly the way it unfolded, which is not an accident, you know, because I
01:00:19.100
caused it to go in the direction that I wanted it to unfold. So here's my hypothesis. If you gave this
01:00:26.320
thought experiment to a Democrat and a Republican, the Republicans would laugh and say, that's an easy
01:00:33.240
one. The Republican state's doing great, the Democrat state becomes a socialist hellhole,
01:00:38.080
and would be right. You say this to a Democrat, what do you think they would say? Would they say,
01:00:43.320
you know, the Democrat one's going to be like a utopia, and the Republican one is going to have no
01:00:49.340
abortion, no rights? Everybody has to, you know, be like, I don't know, some religious fanatic or
01:00:56.280
something. Would they say that? I have a hypothesis that they would change the topic.
01:01:04.900
So go like this. Here's my thought experiment. You know, one state does this, one state does the
01:01:09.640
other. What happens in 25 years? Describe it. Oh, you're one of those Trump supporters. Okay,
01:01:15.780
I might be or it might not be, but that has nothing to do with the topic. What do you think
01:01:19.300
these two states would do? Don't try this with me, you Trump supporter. You know, that's how it would
01:01:27.040
go. So my hypothesis is that you would you would soon learn the Democrats can't game forward the
01:01:34.800
current system to know what it turns into. What do you think? And that we just imagine it's a
01:01:41.000
philosophical difference. It's not at all. It's just math and ability to imagine the future.
01:01:50.380
Constantine Kissen said this. He said on X, he said, the people who are the strongest advocates for
01:01:57.700
Western civilization are people like me who have experienced the alternative, which is similar to
01:02:04.680
what I'm saying. So Constantine says he has this thing called experience. And he knows that this
01:02:11.240
set of activities leads to something he's lived through and it's hell. Now he's a youngish guy.
01:02:19.620
So in this case, he had a real life experience, which caught him, you know, put him up to speed
01:02:25.980
pretty quickly. Yeah, he's 38. That's a young guy. I mean, by my standards. So yes, the people who
01:02:34.720
understand cause and effect and math and what leads to what are kind of all on the same side.
01:02:43.080
Speaking of Jamie Dimon, how funny is it that a Democrat and you could argue that Jamie Dimon,
01:02:49.420
he's the CEO of JP Morgan, you could argue he's the most important finance banker money guy in the
01:02:57.740
country. Is that fair? I mean, you can say Warren Buffett, but that's more of a portfolio situation.
01:03:04.760
I think Jamie Dimon would be the number one banker business guy in the country by reputation as well
01:03:12.260
his job. How funny is it that he made national headlines and trended for days simply for saying
01:03:21.880
something that was observable and normal? It was national news that a prominent Democrat said
01:03:30.660
something normal and observable. We can all see it. And what he said was, it's not going to turn out
01:03:37.900
well if you demonize MAGA. How do you not know that? Like, why did Jamie Dimon have to say in public
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that you really need to knock off the demonizing part of your own public? Why? Because Jamie Dimon
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does not have TDS. And he's a certain age where he knows how things work. He knows how things work.
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So he's trying to educate his younger, dumber Democrats. And he told them directly, look, you got to
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cut out this MAGA, you're all bad stuff that will only lead to bad. Correct. And he said, you got to
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grow up and understand that Trump has a lot of supporters strictly because he got the big stuff right.
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He said, Jamie Dimon says he got taxes right, China right, immigration right, something else.
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But just hold in your head the amazingness of the fact that it was national news, not that Jamie Dimon
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said something smart. Because it's kind of obvious. I mean, to all of us, it's obvious that Trump did a
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bunch of things that Biden is not getting right. Obvious. And it's obvious that, you know,
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demonizing one part of the public can't possibly lead to anything good. So when you look at Jamie
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Dimon, he does not look like he's brainwashed. You look at his eyes, you look at his face, you listen
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to the things he says, and he sounds like somebody who is just telling you what's right in front of you.
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Right in front of you. We all see it. And he, and being a Democrat who can simply describe
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what we all see was national news. That's how bad it is. The TDS is so bad that when somebody can,
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you know, cut through it as Jamie Dimon did, it's news. I guess I'm just blown away by the fact that
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that's news. That should have been a nothing. It should have been a guy was talking. Right?
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Because we should have all been on that page. It should have been a guy's talking and nobody cared.
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Because it would be like what you already thought. The obvious.
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by saying that he believes China should own zero farmland in the United States.
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Again, a prominent Democrat made news by saying something that's obvious and observable.
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And how could you disagree with it? Because, and he also said he agrees with DeSantis.
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You know, which I guess made it a little more of a news thing. So,
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Fetterman makes news, not because he's disagreeing with Democrats,
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but because the thing he's talking about is both obvious and observable.
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What possible benefit does the United States get from China owning our farmland?
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They could literally turn off our food if they had enough. Imagine that. They just tell their
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farmers to, you know, leave the crops in the field. If they owned enough farmland,
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And he just went nuts on the crowd, who was just cheering like crazy.
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So he sees all of his competitors who were in the Chinese checkmark.
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you know, here's our next leader and the smartest guy in the room.
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Like, you know, I'm not going to say I agree with everything he says.