Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 21, 2024


Episode 2360 CWSA 01⧸21⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 5 minutes

Words per Minute

150.968

Word Count

9,919

Sentence Count

687

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

44


Summary

In this episode, we talk about a Confederate soldier, fake science on weed, and why you should stop eating food and drink fat. We also talk about why we should not care about the cost of food and other things.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 able to tell by the very first story.
00:00:03.980 Do you ever turn on a movie or a TV show and you're positive you can
00:00:08.160 tell if you will like that TV or movie show in the first
00:00:12.040 30 seconds? You all do that, right?
00:00:16.620 It's like 30 seconds and you know if you want to watch that show.
00:00:21.020 Well, probably the same with me. Our first story
00:00:24.280 is the actor LeVar Burton, who is black,
00:00:27.880 which is important to the story and not a racist comment.
00:00:32.120 He was shocked to discover that he's descended from a Confederate
00:00:35.680 soldier. Now, I don't know if he has
00:00:39.860 any slaveholders on his side, but
00:00:42.960 I just wonder how much he owes himself in reparations.
00:00:49.480 Alright, that's my first joke, but I swear
00:00:51.640 I've got a few seconds left. I can do better. I can do better. Don't leave.
00:00:55.620 Don't leave me. I can do better. Alright, we'll try.
00:01:00.540 Here's some fake science from NBC News
00:01:03.180 on weed. Now, every time you see NBC News
00:01:07.900 as a source of a story, what should your brain
00:01:11.060 say to you to keep you on track?
00:01:14.860 Your brain should say to you,
00:01:16.380 I don't know if this is true, but smart people
00:01:19.820 tell me that NBC News is really just an organ of the CIA.
00:01:23.460 So any message that is
00:01:26.060 in their news, you could
00:01:27.980 imagine, I can't confirm this
00:01:30.180 to be true, it's merely an allegation,
00:01:32.440 that it's what the government
00:01:34.100 wants you to know, or at least
00:01:36.100 the CIA.
00:01:38.160 Do you think the government wants you to
00:01:40.060 smoke less weed? Probably.
00:01:42.780 Yeah, probably they do.
00:01:44.620 So now NBC News
00:01:45.860 says that
00:01:47.300 the science, you know, there's more
00:01:50.120 weed smoking than ever. It's at a
00:01:52.040 high level. And they say that it's now
00:01:54.640 it might be linked to certain heart issues.
00:01:58.140 Oh, well, that's pretty serious.
00:02:00.780 It might be linked to certain heart issues.
00:02:04.080 Do you know what else might be linked
00:02:05.580 to certain heart issues?
00:02:08.940 Everything? Everything.
00:02:11.020 Now, if you saw a story like this,
00:02:12.580 a national story, you would say to yourself,
00:02:14.500 my God, it appears that the studies
00:02:16.880 show that
00:02:19.200 weed is linked to
00:02:20.600 heart disease.
00:02:22.740 But when you read the article, do you think
00:02:24.580 it'll say that?
00:02:25.620 Or will it say,
00:02:26.920 the studies are ambiguous?
00:02:29.360 They do not clearly show
00:02:31.000 a link.
00:02:32.060 But there might be.
00:02:33.480 There might be a link.
00:02:35.300 It's totally possible.
00:02:37.340 Do you know what data
00:02:38.900 they will not show you?
00:02:40.080 Here's the data that
00:02:42.180 this article will not show you,
00:02:44.000 nor will
00:02:44.800 any other article
00:02:46.600 on the harms of weed.
00:02:49.060 Here's the only data
00:02:50.180 that matters.
00:02:51.680 What is the mortality
00:02:52.920 and life expectancy rate
00:02:54.760 of
00:02:55.800 regular weed smokers
00:02:57.560 versus those who have
00:02:58.760 never touched it?
00:03:02.060 It's the same.
00:03:04.640 The only time
00:03:05.540 it's ever been studied,
00:03:07.120 it's the same.
00:03:08.440 Actually, weed smokers
00:03:09.500 might live longer
00:03:10.200 a little bit,
00:03:10.860 but not that much.
00:03:12.900 Yeah.
00:03:13.500 Now,
00:03:14.620 don't you think
00:03:16.320 that overall mortality
00:03:17.600 would be the simplest
00:03:18.580 thing to measure?
00:03:20.420 You know,
00:03:20.700 wouldn't it really jump out
00:03:22.020 if the overall mortality
00:03:23.840 was worse
00:03:24.500 for weed smokers?
00:03:26.460 Wouldn't you notice that?
00:03:28.580 Well, I think you would.
00:03:30.540 And some people argued,
00:03:32.600 but Scott,
00:03:33.140 don't you know
00:03:33.680 that weed smokers
00:03:35.240 have more,
00:03:36.620 what is it,
00:03:37.320 schizophrenia?
00:03:37.800 They have more
00:03:39.900 like mental problems.
00:03:41.940 To which I say,
00:03:43.380 I don't know.
00:03:44.760 Is that true?
00:03:46.880 How would we know that?
00:03:49.020 Isn't it more likely
00:03:50.100 that people have
00:03:50.780 mental problems
00:03:51.480 or drawn to weed
00:03:52.760 to help them
00:03:54.260 with their mental problems
00:03:55.320 as they see it?
00:03:57.520 Well, I don't know.
00:03:58.980 But I do know this.
00:04:01.340 Anytime you hear
00:04:02.180 somebody say
00:04:02.960 you should or should
00:04:03.800 not do something
00:04:04.640 because of its cost,
00:04:06.900 you are not dealing
00:04:08.260 with a smart person
00:04:09.180 because everything
00:04:11.180 has a cost.
00:04:12.620 I've got a recommendation
00:04:13.300 for you.
00:04:14.260 Stop eating food.
00:04:16.460 It just makes you fat.
00:04:18.960 Stop eating food.
00:04:20.240 It's taking your money.
00:04:22.360 So if something's
00:04:23.120 going to take your money
00:04:23.900 and make you fat,
00:04:24.660 you should stop doing it.
00:04:25.800 Am I right?
00:04:26.420 Because all you should
00:04:27.120 look at is the negative.
00:04:29.220 Why should you ever
00:04:30.020 look at the positives
00:04:30.860 and then weigh the positives
00:04:32.100 compared to the negatives?
00:04:33.800 No, we don't do that
00:04:35.100 in today's world.
00:04:35.880 No.
00:04:36.580 All we do is pick one side
00:04:38.380 and say that's all
00:04:39.260 you need to know.
00:04:40.880 If you're for marijuana,
00:04:42.260 you say,
00:04:42.760 it's medicinal.
00:04:45.540 Well, what about
00:04:46.400 the negatives?
00:04:47.900 It's medicinal.
00:04:49.480 Yeah, but what,
00:04:50.100 you know,
00:04:50.460 there is indication
00:04:51.560 there are some negatives.
00:04:52.960 It's medicinal.
00:04:54.500 And then you talk
00:04:55.120 to somebody who's anti-weed
00:04:56.260 and they'll say,
00:04:57.080 causes XYZ problems,
00:04:59.700 maybe.
00:05:00.840 Yeah, but what about
00:05:01.560 all the obvious
00:05:02.920 medical benefits
00:05:04.540 people get?
00:05:06.440 What about freedom?
00:05:08.500 It causes more schizophrenia,
00:05:10.660 we think,
00:05:11.160 but we're not sure.
00:05:13.140 So the arguments
00:05:14.560 on marijuana
00:05:15.340 are almost always fake
00:05:17.720 in both directions
00:05:20.180 because both sides
00:05:21.760 will just tell you
00:05:22.580 what's good
00:05:23.500 or what's bad
00:05:24.120 and they won't mention
00:05:24.920 the other side.
00:05:25.660 So all the weed stories
00:05:28.540 are fake.
00:05:30.260 Here's more fake science.
00:05:32.720 It's called
00:05:33.160 the fake science
00:05:33.920 of polling.
00:05:35.540 So the Wall Street Journal
00:05:37.360 looked at a study
00:05:39.400 that said that
00:05:40.280 they talked to a lot
00:05:41.660 of Trump supporters
00:05:42.780 who said,
00:05:44.040 well, we would vote for him
00:05:45.520 if he doesn't get convicted
00:05:46.940 of any crimes,
00:05:48.860 but if he's convicted
00:05:50.240 of a crime,
00:05:51.840 something like,
00:05:52.600 I don't know,
00:05:52.980 a quarter of the people
00:05:54.080 say they won't vote for him.
00:05:56.420 Is that a big problem
00:05:57.580 or a small problem?
00:05:58.560 Go in the comments.
00:06:01.360 Is that real news?
00:06:02.680 Real science?
00:06:03.660 Because the polling
00:06:04.580 is scientific, right?
00:06:06.800 All right.
00:06:07.120 Here's what's wrong with this.
00:06:09.880 People don't vote hypothetically.
00:06:13.760 So the question is,
00:06:15.300 hypothetically,
00:06:16.580 if he's convicted of a crime,
00:06:19.360 how would you vote?
00:06:20.500 That's not anything that's real.
00:06:22.940 Here's what would really happen
00:06:24.100 in the real world.
00:06:25.720 Trump gets convicted
00:06:26.720 of a crime,
00:06:28.400 the 20,
00:06:29.140 let's say 28%
00:06:30.380 or whatever it was,
00:06:31.560 who said that they would
00:06:32.520 never vote for him
00:06:33.800 if he's convicted
00:06:35.080 of a crime.
00:06:36.360 Now, the election's coming up.
00:06:38.000 It's in a few days,
00:06:39.040 you know, hypothetically.
00:06:40.160 And it's Biden versus Trump.
00:06:43.020 So somebody's going to look at
00:06:44.540 Trump being convicted
00:06:46.760 on any one of those charges,
00:06:48.540 and they're going to say,
00:06:50.420 you know what?
00:06:51.940 Given that,
00:06:53.840 I'm going to choose Biden.
00:06:56.200 In the real world,
00:06:58.520 in the real world,
00:06:59.920 you think that's going to happen.
00:07:01.160 But if you asked me
00:07:04.020 in a poll
00:07:04.640 what would I do,
00:07:07.260 there's a good chance
00:07:08.520 I'd say,
00:07:09.720 well, you know, pollster,
00:07:11.260 you called a upstanding citizen
00:07:13.700 who cares about the rule of law,
00:07:16.120 unlike those unwashed heathens
00:07:19.160 out in the rest of the world.
00:07:20.740 I am the kind of person
00:07:22.760 with a strong moral core,
00:07:24.980 and ethical behavior
00:07:26.160 is the most important thing for me.
00:07:28.140 So let me tell you hypothetically,
00:07:30.180 because it doesn't matter at all,
00:07:31.720 it's just a way for me
00:07:32.820 to feel good about myself,
00:07:34.340 I would never vote
00:07:35.560 for somebody convicted of a crime.
00:07:37.880 That would never happen.
00:07:39.060 So go write that down.
00:07:40.780 Go write that down,
00:07:41.680 because that's true.
00:07:44.700 All right, here's the real world.
00:07:47.440 In the real world,
00:07:50.240 let's say Trump gets convicted of,
00:07:53.440 I don't know,
00:07:54.300 whatever bullshit
00:07:55.080 they're talking about now.
00:07:56.960 I lose track,
00:07:58.720 because none of it seems real to me.
00:08:00.300 It all just seems made up.
00:08:01.980 So he gets convicted of some thing.
00:08:03.700 It doesn't even matter what,
00:08:05.580 as long as it's one of the things
00:08:07.300 he's charged with.
00:08:08.780 So there's nothing new
00:08:09.780 in this example.
00:08:11.480 So he gets charged with,
00:08:12.900 let's say convicted of any one
00:08:15.020 of the 91 counts,
00:08:16.400 any one of them.
00:08:18.660 What does the left-leaning media
00:08:20.920 say about it?
00:08:22.360 And what is the right-leaning media?
00:08:23.860 Well, the left-leaning would say,
00:08:25.540 he is disqualified.
00:08:27.200 But the right-leaning media,
00:08:29.620 having now really only one chance
00:08:32.100 of controlling the presidency,
00:08:34.360 just Trump,
00:08:35.540 do you think that they would report it
00:08:37.400 as, you know,
00:08:39.040 until that conviction,
00:08:41.480 we really thought this Trump
00:08:43.080 might be a viable candidate,
00:08:44.600 but now he's not.
00:08:45.760 Now he's not.
00:08:46.880 So probably all you people
00:08:49.060 watching Fox News,
00:08:50.740 you should probably just vote
00:08:52.000 for Biden now,
00:08:53.000 because, you know,
00:08:53.640 at least he's not convicted
00:08:54.660 of anything.
00:08:55.820 Is that going to happen?
00:08:57.780 Or is it more likely
00:08:59.500 that the pundits
00:09:01.080 and supporters of Trump
00:09:02.380 will say,
00:09:03.120 you know what?
00:09:04.220 That was a bullshit charge
00:09:06.260 with a bullshit crime
00:09:08.240 and a bullshit conviction
00:09:10.000 in a totally biased
00:09:11.400 bullshit court.
00:09:13.140 I'm going to vote for him twice.
00:09:15.940 Which is more likely?
00:09:16.980 It's far more likely
00:09:20.000 he'll get more popular.
00:09:21.840 It's far more likely.
00:09:23.560 And why is the Wall Street Journal
00:09:25.600 even pretending?
00:09:27.580 This must be some kind
00:09:29.000 of a Nikki Haley play, right?
00:09:32.280 Something to get Nikki Haley
00:09:33.840 slotted in there?
00:09:35.500 Because there's no way
00:09:36.680 anybody's dumb enough
00:09:38.080 to think that if Trump
00:09:39.680 gets convicted
00:09:40.380 on a bullshit charge,
00:09:41.680 which are the only ones
00:09:42.620 there are,
00:09:43.440 there aren't any real ones,
00:09:44.940 that's my opinion,
00:09:46.980 you're thinking people
00:09:49.580 are going to drop him
00:09:50.300 for Biden because of that?
00:09:52.340 So you're going to drop Trump
00:09:54.260 because he was abused
00:09:56.180 by the government
00:09:56.940 he's trying to fix.
00:09:59.380 So you want more
00:10:00.540 of the abuse.
00:10:01.800 You're going to vote
00:10:02.380 for more Republicans
00:10:03.540 being hunted and abused.
00:10:05.780 That's never going to happen.
00:10:08.900 There isn't the slightest chance
00:10:10.920 that won't make Trump
00:10:12.520 more popular.
00:10:15.560 All right.
00:10:15.900 So that's some good
00:10:17.740 fake polling.
00:10:21.580 What's the name
00:10:22.260 of that fake group
00:10:26.060 of white supremacists?
00:10:27.540 What are they called?
00:10:28.420 Stormfront or something?
00:10:30.040 Do I have the name right?
00:10:32.340 Oh, Patriot Front.
00:10:33.860 Why did I say Stormfront?
00:10:35.300 Is that something?
00:10:37.060 Patriot Front.
00:10:38.800 So the Patriot Front,
00:10:41.160 these are the guys
00:10:41.900 who wear their nice khakis
00:10:43.220 and they put in, you know,
00:10:44.780 really full masks,
00:10:46.020 the kind that are really masks.
00:10:47.680 You know, they're covering
00:10:48.240 even the backs of their heads.
00:10:50.040 They don't even want
00:10:50.680 their ears to show.
00:10:52.400 That's how serious they are.
00:10:54.240 So they're out marching again.
00:10:57.260 I don't think there's
00:10:58.340 a single Republican
00:10:59.480 who thinks that's
00:11:00.360 anything but feds.
00:11:02.580 Do any of you believe
00:11:03.900 that's a genuine organization?
00:11:06.000 Even one of you?
00:11:06.740 Now, here's what I do believe.
00:11:11.160 There probably are real
00:11:12.900 racists in the group.
00:11:15.760 But I don't think
00:11:16.640 they're the organizers.
00:11:18.560 I think they just make sure
00:11:19.820 there's some real ones in there
00:11:20.940 in case they get caught.
00:11:22.500 They can say,
00:11:22.980 this is a real one.
00:11:24.640 All right, so sure.
00:11:25.900 Sure, we had a fed or two
00:11:27.260 because that's what we do.
00:11:28.720 We infiltrate.
00:11:29.960 But look, this guy's real.
00:11:32.940 Look at his social media.
00:11:34.840 Total racist.
00:11:35.680 I told you.
00:11:37.780 Aren't you glad
00:11:38.800 we infiltrated this group?
00:11:40.160 Because look at that guy.
00:11:41.520 Just look at him.
00:11:42.740 All racist all over.
00:11:45.980 I think it's funny
00:11:47.140 that they're trying
00:11:48.540 all the same tricks
00:11:49.740 that we figured out.
00:11:51.940 I don't think
00:11:52.720 there's any chance
00:11:53.460 they're real.
00:11:54.040 Do you?
00:11:55.340 I actually have reduced
00:11:56.700 the odds of them
00:11:57.540 being a real organization
00:11:58.840 to zero.
00:12:00.060 There was a time
00:12:00.720 when I thought it was,
00:12:01.460 well, you know, 90-10.
00:12:03.520 10% chance
00:12:04.540 it might be real.
00:12:05.680 You know,
00:12:06.040 you could be wrong
00:12:06.720 about stuff like that.
00:12:08.080 But now I think
00:12:08.900 there's no chance at all.
00:12:10.480 It's actually hilariously fake
00:12:12.500 because as many people
00:12:14.680 said today
00:12:15.140 on social media,
00:12:16.280 if these guys were real,
00:12:18.880 the media would be
00:12:19.740 all over it.
00:12:20.780 The regular media
00:12:22.120 would have uncovered
00:12:23.040 their secret lair.
00:12:25.380 There'd be stories
00:12:26.100 about their leadership,
00:12:27.880 you know,
00:12:28.120 and how the FBI
00:12:29.240 is on their trail
00:12:31.960 and all that stuff.
00:12:33.680 Yeah.
00:12:34.040 The fact that there's
00:12:35.140 no story about
00:12:36.040 their real identities,
00:12:38.060 it's exactly
00:12:40.200 what it looks like.
00:12:43.000 All right.
00:12:43.520 Military recruitment
00:12:44.540 for white straight males
00:12:47.320 is way down.
00:12:48.740 Like, way, way down.
00:12:50.460 Are you surprised?
00:12:52.140 Why would,
00:12:52.900 why would straight white males
00:12:55.300 not want to join the military?
00:12:57.420 Could it be
00:12:57.940 because of all the DEI?
00:12:59.540 Of course it is.
00:13:00.820 I mean,
00:13:01.220 what else would it be?
00:13:02.700 Why would you join
00:13:03.480 an organization
00:13:04.260 that tells you
00:13:05.380 from the start
00:13:06.080 they're going to
00:13:06.680 discriminate against you?
00:13:09.440 Now,
00:13:09.760 they would say
00:13:10.200 they don't do that.
00:13:11.620 They would say
00:13:12.120 that they're just trying
00:13:12.860 to get some diversity.
00:13:14.560 But it's all the same.
00:13:16.660 In terms of its impact
00:13:18.260 on a straight white man,
00:13:21.340 it's all the same.
00:13:23.020 Now,
00:13:23.700 I don't mind
00:13:25.100 if people like Mark Cuban
00:13:26.280 pretend that they
00:13:27.720 don't understand
00:13:28.400 why it's bad.
00:13:29.880 He's running a company
00:13:31.040 and, you know,
00:13:32.300 as a leader
00:13:32.960 he might want
00:13:33.620 to support diversity
00:13:34.620 and that impulse
00:13:36.680 is all good.
00:13:38.600 I like the impulse.
00:13:40.600 So he's,
00:13:41.360 I think he's defending
00:13:42.480 his employees
00:13:43.720 and defending his companies
00:13:45.000 and he's,
00:13:46.640 let's say,
00:13:48.140 establishing his brand
00:13:49.360 as being very
00:13:50.920 diversity conscious.
00:13:54.180 The way he's doing it
00:13:55.540 is arguing that
00:13:56.420 DEI is good
00:13:57.260 in general,
00:13:57.920 which he's not
00:14:00.560 dumb enough
00:14:00.960 to actually believe.
00:14:03.100 So,
00:14:03.780 I'm going to assume
00:14:04.680 the best,
00:14:06.300 which is that
00:14:07.040 he's super smart,
00:14:08.140 super capable.
00:14:09.320 It probably is good
00:14:10.520 for him
00:14:10.920 and his companies
00:14:11.620 to present himself
00:14:13.740 as a DEI supporter,
00:14:16.420 probably.
00:14:17.240 but,
00:14:18.960 but anyway,
00:14:21.320 so here's my question
00:14:22.320 about the military.
00:14:23.460 Why would any
00:14:24.120 straight white man
00:14:25.220 join the military
00:14:26.560 when they're being
00:14:28.340 discriminated against?
00:14:30.600 It's the opposite
00:14:31.440 of what you would
00:14:32.220 fight for.
00:14:33.140 This is what I,
00:14:34.080 this is a country
00:14:34.800 I would fight against,
00:14:35.980 not for.
00:14:37.680 If my country says
00:14:39.060 I'm going to discriminate
00:14:39.920 against people like you,
00:14:41.480 I'm not going to join
00:14:42.920 to fight
00:14:43.680 for you.
00:14:44.960 No,
00:14:46.960 I'm going to fight
00:14:47.460 against you
00:14:48.300 because you just said
00:14:49.400 you're my enemy,
00:14:50.720 that you're,
00:14:51.260 you're going to
00:14:51.720 discriminate against me.
00:14:52.760 No,
00:14:53.020 I'm on the other side.
00:14:55.060 Let's be very clear.
00:14:56.740 You know,
00:14:57.020 I'm all American,
00:14:58.260 but I'm on the other
00:15:00.020 side from you.
00:15:01.560 So,
00:15:02.260 no,
00:15:02.540 I'm not going to join
00:15:03.440 your army
00:15:04.160 to fight against
00:15:05.700 people like me,
00:15:07.200 I guess.
00:15:07.720 I don't know.
00:15:08.760 So,
00:15:09.500 what's going to happen?
00:15:12.260 Here's my
00:15:13.040 provocative,
00:15:14.960 statement.
00:15:16.320 Remember,
00:15:16.700 I keep saying
00:15:17.800 the same thing
00:15:18.440 over and over
00:15:18.940 in different stories,
00:15:19.980 which is that people
00:15:21.140 like to look at
00:15:21.880 one part of the topic,
00:15:24.320 either just the benefits
00:15:25.680 or just the costs,
00:15:28.120 like the,
00:15:28.520 like the other side
00:15:29.180 doesn't even exist.
00:15:30.600 That's what DEI is.
00:15:32.540 Let me ask you this
00:15:33.400 and watch your,
00:15:34.000 watch your head explode.
00:15:35.960 Do you believe
00:15:36.900 there's ever been
00:15:37.720 an academic paper
00:15:39.540 or study
00:15:40.320 that looked at
00:15:42.200 what the effect
00:15:43.060 of DEI
00:15:43.900 would be
00:15:44.420 on straight
00:15:45.420 white males?
00:15:46.800 Do you think
00:15:47.500 that's ever been done?
00:15:48.960 Do you think
00:15:49.360 anybody ever said,
00:15:50.820 you know,
00:15:51.420 if we do this,
00:15:52.860 you know,
00:15:53.160 set of things
00:15:53.880 for DEI,
00:15:54.920 we're going to get
00:15:55.740 a bunch of benefits
00:15:56.700 for non-white,
00:15:59.600 non-male people.
00:16:01.080 And those benefits
00:16:02.140 would be good
00:16:02.760 for them.
00:16:03.980 Do I agree
00:16:04.980 with that?
00:16:06.080 Absolutely.
00:16:07.260 Yeah.
00:16:07.920 Totally.
00:16:09.280 Yeah.
00:16:09.860 If I were a person
00:16:11.060 of color,
00:16:11.640 I'd be all for it
00:16:12.540 because it'd be good
00:16:13.380 for me.
00:16:14.240 And you're allowed
00:16:14.960 to do that,
00:16:15.560 right?
00:16:16.120 In a democracy,
00:16:17.940 you're allowed
00:16:18.340 to say,
00:16:19.020 I'm in favor of that
00:16:19.740 because it's good
00:16:20.360 for me.
00:16:21.480 That's not unethical.
00:16:23.380 I like it
00:16:23.980 because it's good
00:16:24.520 for me.
00:16:25.320 We can all vote
00:16:26.040 that way.
00:16:26.560 You don't have to.
00:16:27.680 I mean,
00:16:27.880 if you don't,
00:16:28.820 I might respect
00:16:29.580 you even more.
00:16:30.480 But I'm not going
00:16:31.140 to disrespect you
00:16:32.220 if you vote
00:16:33.180 for your own interest
00:16:34.080 in a democracy,
00:16:35.220 your semi-democracy.
00:16:36.520 So I don't think
00:16:41.280 any white man,
00:16:42.740 straight white man
00:16:43.620 should have anything
00:16:44.260 to do with any
00:16:44.980 organization that has
00:16:45.840 DEI.
00:16:46.620 But here's the thing.
00:16:49.680 You know how some
00:16:50.320 people,
00:16:51.720 the racist people
00:16:52.840 like to say,
00:16:54.080 America was built
00:16:55.680 by all these white
00:16:56.700 people.
00:16:57.980 That always bothers
00:16:58.880 me, right?
00:16:59.560 Because obviously
00:17:00.260 a lot of people
00:17:01.040 contributed to building
00:17:02.300 the Chinese slaves
00:17:04.100 on the railroad
00:17:05.180 and the black slaves.
00:17:06.280 So a lot of people
00:17:06.980 built America.
00:17:08.700 But you know
00:17:10.740 what else made America?
00:17:12.900 It wasn't the building.
00:17:15.220 That's the part
00:17:15.880 we focus on.
00:17:16.860 You know,
00:17:17.020 the part where
00:17:17.480 the country is founded
00:17:19.340 and then,
00:17:20.680 you know,
00:17:21.040 from the founding
00:17:21.900 there's all these
00:17:22.980 great things
00:17:24.280 that great people
00:17:24.920 did to make it
00:17:25.640 the country it is.
00:17:27.280 And that's a good story.
00:17:28.380 It's all true.
00:17:29.480 But here's another way
00:17:30.240 to tell the same story.
00:17:32.300 America wasn't
00:17:33.100 about the building.
00:17:33.900 It was about
00:17:34.260 the leaving.
00:17:34.720 It was about
00:17:36.120 white men,
00:17:37.220 mostly.
00:17:37.940 I mean,
00:17:38.200 they took women.
00:17:39.840 But it was about
00:17:40.420 white men saying,
00:17:41.380 I'm going to get
00:17:41.740 the fuck out of this
00:17:42.640 place because it's
00:17:43.480 not for me.
00:17:44.600 And coming to America
00:17:45.780 because it wasn't
00:17:46.640 the place they were.
00:17:48.120 Leaving is what we do.
00:17:50.460 Right?
00:17:51.080 So if you want
00:17:52.400 the white straight men
00:17:53.900 to leave,
00:17:55.320 just create a system
00:17:56.640 that guarantees it,
00:17:57.680 which is what we have
00:17:58.440 now.
00:17:58.680 So when I say
00:18:00.320 I'm looking for
00:18:00.840 an alternative
00:18:01.360 to living in America,
00:18:03.340 it's not my first choice.
00:18:06.480 My first choice
00:18:07.280 is to stay right
00:18:08.020 where I am
00:18:08.540 and fix stuff.
00:18:09.820 But I'm not an idiot.
00:18:11.960 Right?
00:18:12.600 The pilgrims
00:18:13.460 probably wanted
00:18:14.000 to stay and fix
00:18:14.760 things too.
00:18:16.880 I'll bet
00:18:17.400 the pilgrims
00:18:17.960 gave at least
00:18:18.540 a little thought
00:18:19.340 to try to fix
00:18:20.800 it where they were.
00:18:22.080 They probably
00:18:22.700 complained.
00:18:24.140 Right?
00:18:24.660 It didn't work.
00:18:25.940 So in the end,
00:18:28.120 being the straight
00:18:29.240 white men
00:18:29.760 that they probably
00:18:30.460 mostly were,
00:18:33.340 they packed up
00:18:34.360 their women
00:18:34.800 and their children
00:18:35.440 and they said,
00:18:36.320 you know what?
00:18:37.420 Let's just go
00:18:38.140 where we don't have
00:18:38.820 to be bothered
00:18:39.400 by this stuff.
00:18:40.100 So they went
00:18:40.460 to America.
00:18:42.080 But it looks like
00:18:43.720 America is getting
00:18:44.540 spoiled in a similar
00:18:45.860 fashion to the places
00:18:46.900 they originally left.
00:18:49.060 So we should think
00:18:50.500 seriously about
00:18:52.700 leaving America.
00:18:54.340 not right away.
00:18:56.060 I mean,
00:18:56.320 it's not,
00:18:56.780 we're not at that point.
00:18:58.440 It's definitely worth saving
00:18:59.600 and, you know,
00:19:00.260 it looks like
00:19:00.780 corrective forces
00:19:01.600 are in play.
00:19:03.340 I think we'll be fine
00:19:04.520 in the long run,
00:19:05.200 actually.
00:19:05.580 I have an optimistic
00:19:06.440 view of America.
00:19:08.780 But,
00:19:09.380 as advice,
00:19:11.240 I always say
00:19:11.880 diversify your
00:19:13.020 portfolio
00:19:13.940 and always have
00:19:15.160 a backup plan.
00:19:17.320 So,
00:19:17.960 I think it's really
00:19:19.240 time for a backup plan
00:19:20.600 for white,
00:19:22.400 straight men
00:19:22.980 and the people
00:19:23.820 who like them
00:19:24.460 to find
00:19:26.000 another country.
00:19:27.500 And it turns out
00:19:28.560 that's completely
00:19:29.160 practical,
00:19:29.960 or almost,
00:19:31.260 through seasteading.
00:19:33.480 So,
00:19:34.160 I think seasteading
00:19:35.100 is going to be
00:19:35.700 where straight white
00:19:37.240 men escape,
00:19:38.940 essentially.
00:19:40.420 Because they can't go
00:19:41.580 where the majority vote
00:19:43.100 controls their lives
00:19:44.360 because they won't
00:19:44.920 be the majority.
00:19:46.800 So,
00:19:47.140 and by the way,
00:19:47.660 I would advise that
00:19:48.680 to anybody.
00:19:49.920 You know,
00:19:50.120 if you're abused
00:19:51.000 and you're a place
00:19:51.660 where you don't
00:19:52.720 have enough people
00:19:53.480 to vote
00:19:54.020 any improvement,
00:19:56.300 leave.
00:19:58.080 Because if people
00:19:58.960 are voting against you
00:20:00.240 and there's just
00:20:00.700 more of them
00:20:01.320 and it's not going
00:20:01.880 to change,
00:20:02.460 leave.
00:20:03.540 Go somewhere
00:20:04.200 where you can have
00:20:04.900 some control
00:20:05.500 over your life.
00:20:06.880 So,
00:20:07.060 I think seasteading
00:20:07.880 will be a thing.
00:20:08.700 Seasteading is where
00:20:09.400 you build a big
00:20:10.060 artificial boat
00:20:12.020 island that's so big
00:20:13.720 a bunch of people
00:20:14.320 live on it.
00:20:15.480 Now,
00:20:15.740 here's what's new.
00:20:16.440 I don't know
00:20:18.020 if you saw it
00:20:18.620 at the big
00:20:19.960 electronic trade show.
00:20:22.220 There's a device
00:20:23.500 that's about the size
00:20:24.580 of an outside air
00:20:25.500 conditioner that can
00:20:26.460 create water
00:20:27.220 out of air.
00:20:29.460 And that's what
00:20:29.960 you need if you're
00:20:30.640 going to be on the
00:20:31.040 ocean because you
00:20:31.660 can't just desalinate
00:20:32.840 very easily.
00:20:34.140 Desalination is
00:20:34.820 expensive.
00:20:35.660 You can do it
00:20:36.220 but it's expensive.
00:20:37.320 But this thing
00:20:37.920 just picks the water
00:20:39.200 out of the air.
00:20:39.860 There's no salt in it.
00:20:41.160 It can do it all day
00:20:41.980 long.
00:20:43.600 We can also make
00:20:44.620 the power
00:20:45.620 using temperature
00:20:47.760 differentials
00:20:48.620 which is perfect
00:20:50.140 for the ocean.
00:20:51.260 It's not great
00:20:52.020 if you're on a
00:20:52.580 moving ship
00:20:53.300 because you'd have
00:20:54.060 to have something
00:20:54.760 that's below the
00:20:57.120 water.
00:20:57.620 That's not good
00:20:58.180 if you're moving.
00:20:59.020 But if you're a city
00:20:59.880 you can go out there
00:21:01.920 and drop something
00:21:02.940 into the cold,
00:21:03.800 cold deep
00:21:04.700 put something else
00:21:06.140 above where it's
00:21:08.040 warmer
00:21:08.340 and it's the
00:21:09.380 temperature differential
00:21:10.400 called a sterling
00:21:11.800 engine basically
00:21:12.600 that creates
00:21:13.960 electricity.
00:21:14.460 and it's a
00:21:15.540 well-known
00:21:16.100 very old
00:21:17.460 technology
00:21:18.220 and very powerful.
00:21:19.600 Way more powerful
00:21:20.440 than people imagine
00:21:21.500 it is.
00:21:23.280 So,
00:21:23.940 oh that device
00:21:25.040 makes 110 gallons
00:21:26.180 of water a day.
00:21:28.180 Enough for your
00:21:28.960 family.
00:21:29.340 Just put one
00:21:29.800 next to your
00:21:30.260 place.
00:21:31.560 So now we have
00:21:32.320 between solar
00:21:33.640 and sterling
00:21:35.820 engines you have
00:21:36.540 all the power
00:21:37.100 you need
00:21:37.620 for your
00:21:38.440 seasteading.
00:21:39.560 You've got all
00:21:40.140 the fresh water
00:21:40.840 you need
00:21:41.240 with that
00:21:41.820 new technology.
00:21:44.220 I imagine
00:21:45.000 waste could
00:21:45.740 be handled
00:21:46.260 in a good
00:21:47.980 way or a bad
00:21:48.600 way because
00:21:48.940 you're in the
00:21:49.360 ocean.
00:21:50.720 It looks like
00:21:51.540 your food
00:21:52.160 would mostly
00:21:52.740 be right there
00:21:53.340 in the ocean
00:21:53.760 wouldn't it?
00:21:55.140 Don't you think
00:21:55.820 you'd be able
00:21:56.200 to fish yourself
00:21:57.200 up plenty
00:21:57.740 of protein?
00:21:59.180 And you
00:21:59.480 could probably
00:21:59.800 do some
00:22:00.340 vegetables and
00:22:01.260 stuff that you
00:22:01.880 could grow
00:22:02.260 in there.
00:22:02.920 I think
00:22:03.260 we're at a
00:22:03.680 point.
00:22:05.740 Yeah,
00:22:06.100 Kevin Costner
00:22:06.780 was not
00:22:07.180 wrong.
00:22:10.060 I think
00:22:10.700 we're at a
00:22:11.100 point where
00:22:11.540 building your
00:22:12.140 own nation
00:22:12.680 is going to
00:22:13.460 be completely
00:22:14.020 practical.
00:22:15.020 The only
00:22:15.300 thing you'd
00:22:15.620 have to
00:22:15.820 work out
00:22:16.180 is defense.
00:22:18.840 All right,
00:22:19.340 I've been
00:22:19.600 asked a lot
00:22:20.000 about Rob
00:22:20.500 Reiner,
00:22:21.400 who is
00:22:21.840 often active
00:22:22.880 on X
00:22:23.760 and old
00:22:24.760 Twitter,
00:22:25.420 and he would
00:22:25.800 be very
00:22:26.260 anti-Republican,
00:22:27.280 anti-Trump.
00:22:28.620 And he's
00:22:29.120 doing a,
00:22:29.600 I guess he's
00:22:30.780 doing a series
00:22:31.260 of podcasts
00:22:31.960 on who
00:22:33.540 killed JFK,
00:22:34.960 the JFK
00:22:35.540 assassination.
00:22:36.000 Now the
00:22:37.020 reason that
00:22:37.380 people are
00:22:37.760 curious and
00:22:38.580 say,
00:22:38.940 Scott,
00:22:39.220 what do
00:22:39.400 you think
00:22:39.640 about this,
00:22:40.460 is because
00:22:41.260 smart people
00:22:42.800 believe that
00:22:44.440 Rob Reiner
00:22:44.980 has a CIA
00:22:46.860 connection and
00:22:47.940 that his
00:22:48.640 political
00:22:49.840 activism might
00:22:51.100 be more
00:22:51.560 related to
00:22:52.660 our intelligence
00:22:53.680 agencies than
00:22:55.080 just his
00:22:55.620 pure singular
00:22:57.480 opinion.
00:22:58.540 Now I don't
00:22:58.980 know that,
00:22:59.740 no way to
00:23:00.180 prove it,
00:23:00.780 but we do
00:23:01.280 know that
00:23:01.600 Rob Reiner
00:23:02.020 has lots
00:23:02.640 of CIA
00:23:03.140 friends,
00:23:04.040 because he
00:23:04.500 just said
00:23:04.880 it yesterday.
00:23:06.000 I just
00:23:07.120 watched a
00:23:07.560 video where
00:23:08.000 he was
00:23:08.220 describing,
00:23:09.260 who was
00:23:09.860 he talking
00:23:10.240 to?
00:23:10.940 I forget
00:23:11.420 who he was
00:23:11.720 talking to,
00:23:12.200 one of the
00:23:12.500 podcasts,
00:23:13.540 and he
00:23:14.000 actually said
00:23:14.500 he knows
00:23:14.860 a lot of
00:23:15.180 CIA people.
00:23:16.900 And I
00:23:17.520 think Mike
00:23:17.920 Benz also
00:23:18.520 found that
00:23:19.860 he heads
00:23:20.820 an organization
00:23:21.620 that has a
00:23:22.900 number of
00:23:23.700 past CIA
00:23:25.100 leaders.
00:23:27.040 I think
00:23:27.500 Clapper is
00:23:28.040 actually in
00:23:28.500 an organization
00:23:29.180 that Rob
00:23:29.680 Reiner
00:23:29.940 organizes.
00:23:31.600 So we
00:23:33.980 know he
00:23:34.360 has personal
00:23:35.280 connections
00:23:35.720 in the
00:23:36.140 intel world,
00:23:37.320 and we
00:23:37.940 know that
00:23:38.640 he's
00:23:40.460 blaming
00:23:40.860 the CIA
00:23:41.820 for the
00:23:43.560 murder of
00:23:44.180 JFK
00:23:44.780 along with
00:23:45.460 the mafia.
00:23:46.880 So his
00:23:47.460 take is
00:23:48.000 that it's
00:23:49.160 a little
00:23:49.840 more complicated
00:23:50.760 than the
00:23:51.280 normal way
00:23:51.800 the story
00:23:52.280 is told,
00:23:53.160 but that
00:23:53.540 basically
00:23:54.000 there were
00:23:55.220 elements in
00:23:55.860 the CIA
00:23:56.380 who worked
00:23:57.160 with elements
00:23:57.780 in the
00:23:58.100 mafia who
00:23:59.320 were mad,
00:24:00.160 the mafia
00:24:00.560 was mad
00:24:01.240 that they
00:24:02.820 got kicked
00:24:03.240 out of
00:24:03.540 Cuba.
00:24:04.820 So the
00:24:05.560 mafia wanted
00:24:06.220 Kennedy to
00:24:06.920 make good
00:24:07.940 with Cuba
00:24:08.840 so they
00:24:09.660 could go
00:24:09.940 back and
00:24:10.340 get their
00:24:10.660 casinos and
00:24:11.560 their business
00:24:12.260 back.
00:24:12.840 So the
00:24:13.160 mafia didn't
00:24:13.780 like
00:24:14.200 Kennedy's.
00:24:15.600 I don't
00:24:15.920 know if
00:24:16.160 Rob Reiner
00:24:16.560 mentions it,
00:24:17.280 but when
00:24:18.740 Bobby Kennedy
00:24:19.980 went after
00:24:20.540 the mafia,
00:24:21.420 that probably
00:24:22.800 seemed like
00:24:23.480 some kind
00:24:24.160 of a
00:24:24.380 betrayal.
00:24:25.360 So they
00:24:25.580 had Cuba
00:24:26.040 to hate
00:24:26.560 him for,
00:24:27.300 the mafia,
00:24:28.360 and they
00:24:28.880 had the
00:24:29.940 fact that
00:24:30.320 he was
00:24:30.520 going after
00:24:30.960 the mafia
00:24:31.400 to hate
00:24:31.720 him for.
00:24:32.380 So the
00:24:32.820 mafia certainly
00:24:33.560 didn't love
00:24:34.520 Kennedy.
00:24:35.120 I feel
00:24:35.520 that's
00:24:36.020 obvious and
00:24:37.220 easy to
00:24:37.760 say.
00:24:39.520 But the
00:24:40.200 question is,
00:24:41.240 if it's
00:24:42.360 true that,
00:24:43.940 as people
00:24:44.520 say,
00:24:45.780 that Rob
00:24:46.240 Reiner has
00:24:46.780 some intel
00:24:48.080 connection and
00:24:49.880 that he might
00:24:50.500 be in a
00:24:51.140 propaganda role
00:24:52.180 more than
00:24:53.280 just telling
00:24:53.920 you his
00:24:54.260 personal opinion,
00:24:56.620 but why
00:24:57.080 would he
00:24:58.000 throw the
00:24:58.380 CIA under
00:24:59.100 the bus?
00:24:59.620 That doesn't
00:24:59.940 make sense,
00:25:00.500 does it?
00:25:01.240 Can you
00:25:01.580 explain that?
00:25:02.760 Why would
00:25:03.360 he go hard
00:25:03.920 at the
00:25:04.260 CIA,
00:25:05.480 blaming them
00:25:06.040 for killing
00:25:06.540 Kennedy,
00:25:07.740 if he were
00:25:09.080 working with
00:25:09.640 them and on
00:25:10.060 their side?
00:25:10.680 How can
00:25:11.020 you explain
00:25:11.400 that?
00:25:12.920 Well,
00:25:14.320 easily,
00:25:15.060 as it turns
00:25:15.560 out.
00:25:17.160 Again, I
00:25:17.900 don't know
00:25:18.140 what he's
00:25:18.420 thinking or
00:25:19.200 who he's
00:25:19.560 working with
00:25:20.200 or what,
00:25:22.640 but let me
00:25:23.240 tell you what
00:25:23.620 he said,
00:25:24.480 the parts we
00:25:25.080 do know.
00:25:25.480 What he
00:25:26.800 said was it
00:25:27.700 wasn't the
00:25:28.520 CIA as
00:25:29.600 an order
00:25:30.300 from the
00:25:30.800 top,
00:25:31.460 it was
00:25:32.160 rather rogue
00:25:33.780 right-wing
00:25:36.060 elements of
00:25:37.860 the CIA.
00:25:39.460 So the
00:25:40.240 CIA leadership,
00:25:41.660 no problem,
00:25:42.500 they weren't
00:25:42.860 involved.
00:25:44.240 But rogue
00:25:45.080 right-wing
00:25:46.060 elements of
00:25:46.900 the CIA,
00:25:47.500 what does
00:25:47.720 that remind
00:25:48.180 you of?
00:25:49.280 The rogue
00:25:50.200 right-wing
00:25:51.300 elements.
00:25:52.400 Does it
00:25:52.800 sound a lot
00:25:53.520 like the
00:25:54.560 military looking
00:25:55.480 for the
00:25:55.840 white supremacists
00:25:56.860 in the
00:25:57.180 military?
00:25:58.540 Oh, it
00:25:58.900 does, doesn't
00:25:59.500 it?
00:25:59.880 Yeah.
00:26:00.400 Because then
00:26:00.820 the military
00:26:01.460 can be good,
00:26:03.160 but the
00:26:03.900 white supremacists,
00:26:05.300 those damn
00:26:06.240 Republicans,
00:26:07.140 as they might
00:26:07.720 say, well,
00:26:09.060 they're bad.
00:26:10.100 If you just
00:26:10.720 get rid of
00:26:11.140 them, you'd
00:26:11.620 be in good
00:26:11.980 shape.
00:26:12.860 And it
00:26:13.120 seems that
00:26:14.160 Rob Reiner
00:26:14.800 would like
00:26:15.240 us to
00:26:15.600 believe something
00:26:16.640 similar like
00:26:17.480 that is
00:26:17.860 happening with
00:26:18.520 the CIA.
00:26:19.540 Oh, the
00:26:20.020 CIA is not
00:26:20.780 totally clean.
00:26:22.480 Yeah.
00:26:22.740 No, he's
00:26:23.100 not saying
00:26:23.500 that.
00:26:23.680 They're not
00:26:23.960 totally clean.
00:26:25.160 But if you
00:26:25.700 could only
00:26:26.100 get rid of
00:26:26.600 those right-wing
00:26:27.440 elements, it
00:26:29.220 might be.
00:26:31.980 So do you
00:26:32.720 think he's
00:26:33.280 throwing the
00:26:33.820 CIA under
00:26:34.520 the bus, or
00:26:35.700 is he giving
00:26:36.200 them cover and
00:26:37.580 throwing Republicans
00:26:38.680 under the bus?
00:26:40.520 To me, it looks
00:26:41.420 like he's making
00:26:42.200 a case, CIA
00:26:43.680 good, unless
00:26:45.360 they're Republicans
00:26:46.120 and right-wingers.
00:26:47.940 It's all good
00:26:48.940 except for those
00:26:49.540 right-wingers, so
00:26:50.360 we've got to get
00:26:50.780 rid of them.
00:26:51.240 Yeah, that's
00:26:54.940 what I think.
00:26:57.220 So if Rob
00:26:58.440 Reiner is
00:26:58.960 trying to look
00:26:59.640 exactly like a
00:27:01.200 CIA asset, he's
00:27:03.240 pulling it off
00:27:03.900 perfectly.
00:27:06.260 Somebody says
00:27:07.100 that John
00:27:07.540 Cusack falls
00:27:08.640 into that
00:27:09.140 category, and
00:27:10.380 I would say
00:27:11.060 Cusack might
00:27:13.680 be a little
00:27:14.080 more complicated.
00:27:16.620 He might be a
00:27:17.500 little more
00:27:17.820 complicated.
00:27:18.280 So I don't
00:27:20.720 know what his
00:27:21.140 deal is.
00:27:22.740 All right,
00:27:23.480 Sam Altman
00:27:24.300 apparently is
00:27:26.240 looking to
00:27:27.040 create a
00:27:27.800 network of
00:27:28.480 factories to
00:27:29.120 make AI
00:27:30.300 related chips
00:27:32.000 in the United
00:27:32.540 States.
00:27:33.060 Now, you
00:27:33.400 might know
00:27:33.820 that we
00:27:34.760 can't have
00:27:35.500 China or
00:27:36.040 some other
00:27:36.340 country control
00:27:38.120 our AI
00:27:39.040 chips, because
00:27:40.680 those will be
00:27:41.120 the most
00:27:41.480 valuable ones
00:27:42.160 probably.
00:27:43.320 But the
00:27:44.240 United States
00:27:44.800 has not been
00:27:45.440 super good at
00:27:46.440 building chip
00:27:48.140 factories for
00:27:48.860 reasons I don't
00:27:49.540 know.
00:27:50.520 So now Sam
00:27:51.140 Altman, in my
00:27:51.920 opinion, is
00:27:52.780 putting together a
00:27:53.800 portfolio that
00:27:54.900 could make him
00:27:55.840 as rich as
00:27:56.720 Elon Musk,
00:27:58.420 because he's
00:28:00.180 going to have
00:28:00.720 investments in
00:28:02.660 AI, which will
00:28:04.300 be the biggest
00:28:04.820 thing.
00:28:05.620 He's long had
00:28:06.640 investments in
00:28:07.440 fusion, which
00:28:09.000 if it ever
00:28:09.660 comes online,
00:28:10.960 will make AI
00:28:12.040 and robots
00:28:12.860 and everything
00:28:13.420 far more
00:28:14.620 practical.
00:28:16.720 And if he
00:28:17.560 builds a chip
00:28:18.240 factory, he's
00:28:20.000 going to own
00:28:20.380 the AI, the
00:28:21.860 AI chips, and
00:28:23.860 the infusion
00:28:25.320 would be the
00:28:25.880 power to power
00:28:26.700 all this.
00:28:29.000 You know, I
00:28:29.400 love how Elon
00:28:30.520 Musk's companies
00:28:31.600 have, they
00:28:32.760 always seem to
00:28:33.280 have something in
00:28:34.060 common, or they
00:28:34.780 work with the
00:28:35.360 others, you
00:28:35.840 know.
00:28:36.400 The Skylink
00:28:37.360 seems to work
00:28:38.080 really well with
00:28:38.960 cars and
00:28:39.820 spaceships.
00:28:40.420 If you've
00:28:42.320 got AI, it's
00:28:43.260 going to work
00:28:43.620 with all those
00:28:44.260 things.
00:28:44.840 If you can
00:28:45.160 manufacture
00:28:45.840 anything, it's
00:28:46.960 you know.
00:28:47.700 So it feels
00:28:48.400 like Musk's
00:28:49.860 businesses have
00:28:51.140 all these, I
00:28:51.820 hate to say
00:28:52.320 synergies, but
00:28:53.160 it's the word.
00:28:55.420 Nobody's come up
00:28:56.120 with a better
00:28:56.520 word for it yet,
00:28:57.300 so I'll just
00:28:58.220 say it.
00:28:59.260 You know, as
00:28:59.840 the creator of
00:29:00.460 Dilbert, I hate
00:29:01.060 to say synergies
00:29:02.200 because I mock
00:29:03.640 that word all
00:29:04.200 the time, but
00:29:05.360 that's what it
00:29:05.800 is.
00:29:06.280 But if you do
00:29:06.900 it right, it's
00:29:07.380 actually a good
00:29:07.920 idea.
00:29:09.940 Well, a
00:29:10.520 bunch of
00:29:10.860 states, 33
00:29:11.620 states, are
00:29:12.180 going to sue
00:29:12.620 Meta, the
00:29:13.500 Facebook parent
00:29:15.100 company, for
00:29:16.660 its damage to
00:29:17.860 children's mental
00:29:18.640 health, they
00:29:19.740 say.
00:29:20.820 They say,
00:29:21.740 quote, Meta
00:29:22.080 has harnessed
00:29:22.540 powerful and
00:29:23.160 unprecedented
00:29:23.680 technologies to
00:29:24.660 entice, engage,
00:29:26.180 and ultimately
00:29:26.600 ensnare youth and
00:29:27.780 teens.
00:29:29.080 Its motive is
00:29:29.900 profit, blah,
00:29:31.060 blah, blah,
00:29:31.320 blah.
00:29:32.240 Kids and
00:29:32.920 teenagers are
00:29:33.620 suffering from
00:29:34.200 record levels of
00:29:35.080 poor mental
00:29:35.660 health.
00:29:36.600 You think this is
00:29:37.320 going to work?
00:29:37.920 I don't know.
00:29:41.280 You know, I
00:29:41.620 always say
00:29:42.040 insurance is the
00:29:43.060 only thing that
00:29:43.780 predicts.
00:29:45.260 So if Meta
00:29:46.420 wins the
00:29:46.980 suit, then I
00:29:48.060 guess there's no
00:29:49.000 insurance
00:29:49.420 implication.
00:29:50.500 But what if?
00:29:52.120 What if?
00:29:53.520 What if this
00:29:54.340 science showed
00:29:55.240 that young kids
00:29:56.580 are actually
00:29:57.420 injured?
00:29:58.180 And what if
00:29:59.020 some enterprising
00:30:00.340 lawyers find a
00:30:02.260 way to tie any
00:30:03.480 one kid's
00:30:04.360 suicide or
00:30:05.360 mental health
00:30:05.940 problem to
00:30:07.940 the platform?
00:30:09.780 You know,
00:30:10.200 sort of like
00:30:10.700 cigarettes tied
00:30:11.680 to smoking?
00:30:13.060 Will any
00:30:13.900 lawyer be
00:30:14.780 able to tie
00:30:15.440 mental health
00:30:16.660 of children or
00:30:17.720 any bad
00:30:18.140 outcomes to
00:30:19.700 the platforms?
00:30:21.220 And if they
00:30:22.000 tied it to
00:30:22.560 more than one
00:30:23.540 platform, would
00:30:24.260 it still work?
00:30:25.680 You know, could
00:30:26.140 they say, well,
00:30:27.500 it's not one
00:30:28.240 platform, it's a
00:30:29.000 combination of,
00:30:29.720 you know, TikTok
00:30:30.180 plus this, and
00:30:31.320 would that still
00:30:31.940 work?
00:30:33.120 I don't know,
00:30:33.520 I'd keep an
00:30:34.000 eye on the
00:30:34.420 insurance angle
00:30:35.740 to see what
00:30:36.960 kids will be
00:30:37.700 able to do.
00:30:38.520 Because I feel
00:30:39.200 like an adult
00:30:40.000 would not be
00:30:40.840 able to sue so
00:30:41.800 well because
00:30:42.800 they kind of
00:30:43.200 know what
00:30:43.480 they're getting
00:30:43.800 into.
00:30:46.260 Whereas, you
00:30:46.960 know, much
00:30:47.260 like cigarettes,
00:30:47.940 you can't
00:30:48.240 really sue a
00:30:49.180 cigarette company
00:30:49.820 for giving you
00:30:50.400 cancer because
00:30:51.000 it says that it
00:30:51.580 gives you cancer
00:30:52.140 right on the
00:30:52.580 package.
00:30:53.720 You know, so
00:30:54.000 adults know what
00:30:54.660 they're getting
00:30:55.020 when they do
00:30:55.480 social media,
00:30:56.200 kids don't.
00:30:57.480 So you can
00:30:57.960 imagine that maybe
00:30:58.800 you could sue on
00:30:59.480 behalf of a kid
00:31:00.420 where it'd be
00:31:01.160 harder on behalf
00:31:02.180 of a parent who
00:31:02.800 was more aware
00:31:04.440 of the real
00:31:04.960 situation.
00:31:06.500 So I think it's
00:31:07.500 all going to come
00:31:07.940 down to insurance
00:31:08.660 companies.
00:31:10.720 All right, so
00:31:11.160 Fetterman,
00:31:12.180 Senator Fetterman,
00:31:13.420 Democrat,
00:31:14.940 continues to rack
00:31:16.320 up topics which
00:31:18.140 Republicans like.
00:31:19.440 So I made a list
00:31:20.260 of the ones I
00:31:20.740 know of.
00:31:21.860 Tell me if I
00:31:22.400 left one out.
00:31:24.120 So Fetterman is
00:31:25.620 very anti-Menendez,
00:31:28.740 the senator who
00:31:31.720 is accused of
00:31:32.640 bad, bad
00:31:33.980 bribery behavior.
00:31:36.160 And Menendez is
00:31:37.760 a prominent
00:31:38.480 Democrat.
00:31:39.940 So just the
00:31:40.620 fact that another
00:31:42.000 prominent Democrat,
00:31:43.180 Fetterman, is
00:31:43.740 against him, and
00:31:45.080 very against him,
00:31:46.040 like a main
00:31:47.480 topic, gives
00:31:50.120 you some comfort
00:31:50.920 that even as a
00:31:52.900 Democrat, he's
00:31:53.540 willing to police
00:31:54.280 his own side.
00:31:56.500 He's opposed to
00:31:57.600 people in Congress
00:31:58.780 being able to
00:31:59.460 trade stocks.
00:32:01.500 Makes sense to
00:32:02.360 me.
00:32:03.480 He's against
00:32:04.380 defunding the
00:32:05.300 police.
00:32:05.860 Makes sense to
00:32:06.420 me.
00:32:07.060 He's pro-Israel.
00:32:08.260 So am I.
00:32:09.320 He's, you know,
00:32:10.280 and he's really
00:32:11.160 against the people
00:32:12.260 chanting from the
00:32:13.340 river to the sea.
00:32:16.220 So he's got what I
00:32:18.560 would consider all
00:32:20.480 smart opinions on
00:32:21.480 this stuff.
00:32:22.540 He's anti-open
00:32:23.640 borders.
00:32:24.240 On the
00:32:25.940 climate, do you
00:32:27.360 think he's a
00:32:27.980 climate alarmist?
00:32:30.480 Not so much.
00:32:31.980 He says you need
00:32:32.700 to balance the
00:32:33.420 climate with our
00:32:35.320 other threats and
00:32:36.180 national security.
00:32:37.940 Meaning, maybe
00:32:40.040 you ought to use a
00:32:40.840 little coal and a
00:32:41.840 little bit of oil
00:32:42.500 because otherwise
00:32:43.500 we're all screwed.
00:32:45.700 Perfectly sensible.
00:32:49.100 He even supports
00:32:50.360 fracking in his
00:32:51.260 state, but not the
00:32:52.280 fracking industry
00:32:53.340 in large.
00:32:55.740 Pretty reasonable.
00:32:57.420 Pretty reasonable.
00:32:58.180 I don't know what
00:32:58.580 his exact complaint
00:32:59.440 is about the
00:33:00.000 industry, but he's
00:33:01.040 not against the
00:33:01.660 technology, and
00:33:03.120 he's not against
00:33:03.680 using it in his
00:33:04.340 state.
00:33:05.820 And he said
00:33:06.660 directly he's no
00:33:07.420 longer progressive.
00:33:08.340 He just likes to be
00:33:09.080 called the
00:33:09.400 Democrat.
00:33:10.760 So what exactly
00:33:11.980 is left?
00:33:14.160 What topics
00:33:15.580 does Fetterman
00:33:17.920 favor that a
00:33:19.540 Republican wouldn't?
00:33:20.480 I think he's
00:33:22.680 pro-Second
00:33:25.820 Amendment, but he
00:33:26.620 would be more
00:33:27.260 restrictive than
00:33:28.040 others or not?
00:33:30.200 What kind of
00:33:30.620 Well, I'd like to
00:33:33.240 just know more
00:33:33.960 about his
00:33:35.520 situation.
00:33:38.460 Don't buy
00:33:39.220 as Scott
00:33:39.860 is a swing
00:33:40.960 state.
00:33:41.880 Oh, well, yes,
00:33:42.900 let's say this.
00:33:44.080 Let me say this
00:33:44.900 about their swing
00:33:45.620 state.
00:33:46.940 He's, I think
00:33:48.220 he's a perfect
00:33:48.920 Democrat for
00:33:49.640 Pennsylvania.
00:33:52.460 Because
00:33:52.860 Pennsylvania is
00:33:53.860 not like super
00:33:55.000 progressive.
00:33:58.460 I would say
00:33:59.220 even, I would go
00:34:00.220 further and I would
00:34:00.860 say that, you
00:34:02.100 know, I grew up in
00:34:02.620 upstate New York.
00:34:04.120 No, upstate New York
00:34:05.000 is not exactly
00:34:05.960 Pennsylvania.
00:34:07.840 They're a little
00:34:08.460 different, but not a
00:34:10.060 lot.
00:34:11.280 You know, if you
00:34:11.740 grew up in upstate
00:34:12.980 New York, you
00:34:14.320 probably have some
00:34:15.280 sensibility about what
00:34:16.780 Pennsylvania person
00:34:18.040 thinks, right?
00:34:19.200 It's not that
00:34:19.860 different.
00:34:20.920 And Fetterman seems
00:34:22.760 very Pennsylvania
00:34:23.500 to me.
00:34:24.940 He can work in
00:34:25.700 upstate New York,
00:34:26.520 too, you know,
00:34:27.320 even though that's
00:34:27.900 more Republican,
00:34:29.160 or used to be.
00:34:31.640 All right, so
00:34:32.580 it's just an
00:34:34.880 interesting story.
00:34:35.760 I like to keep an
00:34:36.420 eye on him.
00:34:37.020 It's funny that a
00:34:38.120 Democrat can make
00:34:38.920 news by not being
00:34:40.700 crazy.
00:34:43.060 Oh, there's another
00:34:43.680 upstate New Yorker
00:34:44.560 agreeing with me
00:34:45.340 about the
00:34:45.740 Pennsylvania
00:34:46.280 similarity, yeah.
00:34:50.940 So, so
00:34:52.940 End Wokeness,
00:34:54.140 one of the fun
00:34:55.720 accounts on X,
00:34:57.320 says it's going to
00:34:58.500 cost, this is
00:34:59.540 according to a
00:35:00.080 2023 estimate,
00:35:01.800 the cost for the
00:35:03.500 illegal immigrant
00:35:04.460 population, or
00:35:05.720 migrant population,
00:35:07.100 is $451 billion
00:35:09.340 just for one year.
00:35:11.980 So America is
00:35:13.040 paying $451 billion
00:35:14.840 to make sure that
00:35:15.860 the migrants are
00:35:16.840 safe and taken
00:35:17.580 care of.
00:35:19.360 Relative to that,
00:35:21.000 End Wokeness says
00:35:21.760 it would have cost
00:35:22.320 $15 billion to
00:35:23.360 build a wall to
00:35:24.040 keep them out.
00:35:25.160 So we're paying
00:35:25.880 $451 billion to
00:35:28.200 take care of
00:35:28.760 somebody, the
00:35:29.640 people that we
00:35:30.260 could have kept a
00:35:31.960 lot of them out
00:35:32.520 for.
00:35:32.920 I don't think it's
00:35:33.540 $15.
00:35:34.000 I think it's closer
00:35:34.700 to $25, and that
00:35:36.380 means it's closer to
00:35:37.300 $50.
00:35:37.820 But it's not close
00:35:38.680 to $451 billion.
00:35:41.040 I mean, if you're
00:35:41.960 doing it, if money
00:35:43.540 is what matters,
00:35:45.080 apparently it isn't,
00:35:46.780 then walls are
00:35:49.840 pretty good investments.
00:35:52.480 All right.
00:35:55.780 Kamala Harris is
00:35:57.260 apparently going to
00:35:57.840 be the leading face
00:36:00.020 for abortion.
00:36:00.660 So that will be
00:36:02.920 her job in the
00:36:03.900 coming election
00:36:05.700 year, to talk
00:36:06.560 about abortion.
00:36:08.140 And, you know,
00:36:09.800 I usually say a
00:36:10.540 lot of bad things
00:36:11.220 about Kamala Harris,
00:36:12.180 but this might be
00:36:13.480 the perfect job.
00:36:15.800 Because think about
00:36:16.640 how this goes over
00:36:17.560 with Republicans.
00:36:19.940 The Republicans are
00:36:21.080 going to look at
00:36:21.660 Kamala Harris saying,
00:36:22.580 hey, more abortions,
00:36:23.600 and they're going to
00:36:24.040 say to themselves,
00:36:25.420 okay, but, you
00:36:26.960 know, in my family,
00:36:28.800 we wouldn't have an
00:36:29.680 abortion whether it
00:36:30.440 was legal or not.
00:36:32.400 So it doesn't really
00:36:33.540 affect my family,
00:36:35.160 because we Republicans
00:36:36.420 are just going to
00:36:37.020 have the baby if we
00:36:38.040 get in that situation.
00:36:39.740 So really, it's,
00:36:41.460 the abortion question
00:36:42.420 is mostly whether
00:36:43.420 the Democrats can do
00:36:44.560 it.
00:36:45.520 You know, it's a
00:36:46.080 generality, but it's
00:36:47.800 more about whether
00:36:48.480 the Democrats can do
00:36:49.520 it.
00:36:49.940 Because the
00:36:50.320 Republicans, even
00:36:51.220 though they do
00:36:51.640 have abortions, of
00:36:52.380 course, they're more
00:36:53.580 likely to say, oh,
00:36:55.020 we would just have
00:36:55.580 the baby because we
00:36:56.260 don't like abortions.
00:36:58.420 But Kamala Harris is
00:36:59.660 saying,
00:37:00.440 and I'm going to
00:37:02.040 sort of characterize
00:37:02.820 her, she's saying
00:37:05.480 to Republicans that
00:37:06.500 if abortion is legal,
00:37:08.880 there will be less
00:37:09.460 of me.
00:37:11.120 That's right.
00:37:12.220 Because Republicans
00:37:13.140 presumably wouldn't
00:37:14.200 care one way or the
00:37:15.040 other because they're
00:37:15.720 not having the
00:37:16.260 abortions anyway, on
00:37:17.740 average.
00:37:19.040 Whereas the Democrats
00:37:19.980 want to have them,
00:37:21.160 and the face of can we
00:37:23.160 kill our babies is
00:37:24.140 Kamala Harris.
00:37:24.740 And I look at Kamala
00:37:26.320 Harris and I say, so
00:37:28.560 you want permission to
00:37:29.940 kill your baby who
00:37:31.840 would grow up to be
00:37:32.880 like you.
00:37:34.620 Okay, I don't want to
00:37:35.540 think that the baby
00:37:36.320 would necessarily be
00:37:37.140 exactly like the
00:37:37.840 parent.
00:37:38.260 You know, you can't
00:37:38.700 blame the parent, can't
00:37:39.840 blame a baby for
00:37:40.640 something the parent's
00:37:41.440 doing, so it wouldn't
00:37:42.100 be a fair thing.
00:37:43.400 On the other hand, my
00:37:44.300 subconscious is telling
00:37:45.340 me I do want less of
00:37:46.340 you.
00:37:47.320 Not for racial reasons,
00:37:49.020 not for gender
00:37:49.620 reasons, for political
00:37:50.960 reasons only.
00:37:51.620 So it's a weird, it's
00:37:54.600 a weird sales thing
00:37:56.140 where it's weirdly
00:37:58.240 effective.
00:38:01.200 Because the Republicans
00:38:02.240 are the only ones who
00:38:03.640 have to be convinced
00:38:04.560 are looking at it and
00:38:06.220 go, okay, that's a
00:38:06.980 pretty good argument.
00:38:07.760 You probably do need
00:38:08.540 less of you.
00:38:09.480 It won't affect
00:38:09.920 us.
00:38:11.920 All right.
00:38:15.020 Lloyd Austin, the
00:38:17.080 news is reporting that
00:38:18.020 Lloyd Austin, the
00:38:18.860 defense secretary, is
00:38:19.860 back to work.
00:38:20.600 But I have a
00:38:21.860 question.
00:38:23.840 How can we be sure?
00:38:26.940 Did he tell anybody?
00:38:31.120 That's all I had on
00:38:32.160 that.
00:38:32.840 That's all I had.
00:38:33.940 I have nothing else to
00:38:35.060 say about that.
00:38:36.160 Did he tell anybody?
00:38:37.960 Or did he, I feel like
00:38:39.000 it's George Costanza's
00:38:40.280 situation where he just
00:38:42.260 sort of shows up at work
00:38:43.440 after he quit and people
00:38:45.980 just sort of notice he's
00:38:47.280 there.
00:38:48.280 I feel like I, did
00:38:49.460 somebody see Lloyd?
00:38:50.600 I feel like, I feel like
00:38:52.440 he's working.
00:38:53.640 Did he mention it to
00:38:54.580 anybody?
00:38:55.160 Does anybody know?
00:38:56.820 Anyway.
00:38:59.240 Has DeSantis backed
00:39:00.680 down to the race yet?
00:39:01.820 Some people said he was
00:39:02.800 going to do it today.
00:39:04.300 Apparently he canceled
00:39:05.240 some interviews which
00:39:06.360 make people suspicious and
00:39:07.800 it would be about the
00:39:08.500 right time and people
00:39:10.000 are calling for it.
00:39:11.020 Vivek is calling for it,
00:39:13.000 et cetera.
00:39:13.360 But do you really think it
00:39:16.540 would happen before the
00:39:18.000 New Hampshire?
00:39:20.680 Oh, he's in New Hampshire
00:39:21.720 today?
00:39:23.580 I feel like he wouldn't
00:39:24.840 pull out before New
00:39:25.800 Hampshire.
00:39:28.820 That he wouldn't call out
00:39:29.900 because he could at least
00:39:32.540 take some votes away from
00:39:33.720 Nikki Haley.
00:39:35.340 Because shouldn't DeSantis,
00:39:37.080 if he's going to drop out,
00:39:38.720 shouldn't he at least let
00:39:40.140 Trump do the best that Trump
00:39:42.060 can do in New Hampshire by
00:39:43.920 maybe keeping some voters
00:39:45.600 from going from DeSantis
00:39:47.180 to Haley?
00:39:49.260 Or do I have the, is my
00:39:50.720 analysis wrong?
00:39:53.460 Trump would do better with
00:39:55.240 him in the race, right?
00:39:57.080 Or do I have that backwards?
00:39:59.640 Would anybody say the
00:40:00.520 opposite?
00:40:01.840 That Trump would be better
00:40:03.040 off with him in or out?
00:40:06.960 34 minute glitch.
00:40:10.080 Yeah.
00:40:10.880 Better with him out?
00:40:13.020 Oh, better with him out
00:40:13.860 because his votes would
00:40:15.320 mostly go to Trump, not
00:40:16.960 Haley.
00:40:18.460 So we, okay.
00:40:20.120 I think either way he's
00:40:21.280 going to win New Hampshire.
00:40:24.040 So we'll keep an eye on
00:40:25.260 that.
00:40:27.440 Certainly the DeSantis
00:40:28.740 energy all suggests that
00:40:30.940 he's done.
00:40:32.060 Would you agree?
00:40:33.580 I feel like DeSantis is
00:40:35.100 making no attempt to get
00:40:37.520 like a big publicity hit.
00:40:39.220 I think he's just going
00:40:40.240 through the actions for
00:40:41.200 his, I think he's just
00:40:42.680 paying back his donors by
00:40:44.840 saying, well, you gave me
00:40:45.860 money.
00:40:46.440 I guess I better appear at
00:40:47.560 these events because I
00:40:48.760 haven't quit yet.
00:40:50.680 So I feel sorry for him
00:40:52.120 because I think he's just
00:40:52.840 going through the motions.
00:40:54.280 There's a Vivek update.
00:40:55.740 I think Sean Hannity asked
00:40:58.380 him about possibly being a
00:41:00.720 VP in the Trump
00:41:01.640 administration and Vivek,
00:41:03.760 because he's smart, said,
00:41:05.840 quote, there's a lot of
00:41:06.580 ways to drive change in the
00:41:07.960 country inside and outside
00:41:09.020 the government.
00:41:09.620 You know, my only issue
00:41:13.020 with Vivek is he might be
00:41:14.220 too qualified for a lot of
00:41:16.500 the jobs that you keep
00:41:17.640 suggesting you should have.
00:41:19.380 I think he's too qualified
00:41:20.400 to be a vice president
00:41:21.360 because they're a little bit
00:41:23.540 wasted in that job.
00:41:26.200 He's also too qualified to be
00:41:27.480 a spokesperson.
00:41:30.620 You know, if you think that
00:41:32.520 Vivek's skill is that he's
00:41:35.000 just a good talker, I think
00:41:37.480 you're missing the, you
00:41:39.600 buried the lead.
00:41:41.360 He's a good talker because
00:41:42.640 he's insanely smart.
00:41:44.720 It's the insanely smart
00:41:45.960 part we like, not just the
00:41:48.500 good talking.
00:41:49.660 So would he be a good
00:41:50.700 spokesperson?
00:41:51.640 Yeah, he'd be the best.
00:41:52.600 He'd be the best there ever
00:41:53.740 was.
00:41:54.940 Is that a good place for him?
00:41:56.120 No, no.
00:41:57.500 That would be a place for a
00:41:58.600 good talker, right?
00:42:00.760 Somebody who understands
00:42:01.680 everything well enough to
00:42:02.840 really communicate it well.
00:42:05.500 But if you're strategically
00:42:07.340 you know, brilliant, you
00:42:10.680 need to be inside the room
00:42:11.880 not just talking about what
00:42:13.180 happened in the room.
00:42:15.700 So we'll see where he goes.
00:42:18.440 How many of you are following
00:42:19.780 this Ireland free speech
00:42:21.620 situation?
00:42:23.740 Which I was trying to ignore
00:42:25.340 but now it's too big to
00:42:26.700 ignore.
00:42:28.120 So I don't know if I have this
00:42:29.720 right yet because I'm only just
00:42:31.440 wading into it today and I was
00:42:32.940 kind of in a hurry this
00:42:33.720 morning.
00:42:34.000 So here's what I think I
00:42:35.660 understand.
00:42:37.960 So Ireland is considering some
00:42:40.220 legislation that would ban so
00:42:44.340 called hate speech for anybody
00:42:47.220 who's got an Ireland connection
00:42:49.680 like a business that's there or a
00:42:52.280 citizen.
00:42:53.060 Now you say to yourself, well, why
00:42:54.680 do we care about that?
00:42:55.980 That's just little Ireland.
00:42:57.660 But it turns out that Ireland,
00:42:59.340 little Ireland, has a lot of the
00:43:01.160 big tech companies over there.
00:43:03.780 So the thinking is that they
00:43:05.660 could put pressure on the tech
00:43:07.040 companies and it wouldn't be easy
00:43:10.700 for them to move out of Ireland
00:43:12.100 because there's quite a big
00:43:13.600 presence there.
00:43:15.300 Now, the thought is that it's not
00:43:19.880 really a hate speech issue at all.
00:43:22.900 It's if you can get a hate speech
00:43:25.420 bill passed in one little country,
00:43:27.240 then you can just say, oh,
00:43:29.600 everything those Republicans are
00:43:31.560 saying is hate speech.
00:43:33.060 So you basically just close down
00:43:34.860 the opposition.
00:43:36.500 So that's what people worry.
00:43:38.380 I'm reading Michael Schellenberger's
00:43:40.080 post and stuff on this.
00:43:42.800 People worry that the real play,
00:43:45.080 that it's a Trojan horse, it's not
00:43:47.060 about hate speech, it's about
00:43:48.300 stopping the opposition speech and
00:43:51.140 that it would be expanded.
00:43:53.580 But here's the part I don't get yet.
00:43:55.540 Maybe somebody in the comments can
00:43:57.140 fill me in if there's a quick way
00:43:58.820 to do that.
00:44:00.100 Why wouldn't the tech companies
00:44:01.840 just say, okay, we're gone?
00:44:04.360 Is it just cost?
00:44:06.160 It would just be too expensive?
00:44:09.020 Is that the only reason?
00:44:10.600 And in taxes.
00:44:12.940 So basically it's, oh, so they have
00:44:14.940 a big tax haven over there.
00:44:16.660 So it would be prohibitively
00:44:18.480 expensive for them to leave.
00:44:20.040 So it would be easier for Google
00:44:23.180 to say, ah, we like free speech,
00:44:26.300 but we don't like Republicans either.
00:44:29.420 So, all right, we'll give you
00:44:30.920 all you want.
00:44:32.120 Is that what's going to happen?
00:44:33.820 That would be very dangerous
00:44:35.180 if that's what's going to happen.
00:44:37.180 All right.
00:44:39.340 And as Michael Schellenberger points out,
00:44:42.520 that people think it's an anti-Semitic
00:44:44.040 sort of a conspiracy theory
00:44:48.440 that George Soros is trying to,
00:44:50.160 you know, buy influence
00:44:51.400 and control the governments.
00:44:53.020 But then he points out that Alex Soros,
00:44:55.200 who's running the show at the moment,
00:44:57.420 is always being photographed
00:44:59.480 with the top leaders of all the countries.
00:45:02.720 Do you know why anybody takes a picture
00:45:04.440 with a top leader of another country?
00:45:06.040 Do you know what that's all about?
00:45:08.300 Well, Michael Schellenberger's take
00:45:12.800 is that it's so Alex Soros
00:45:14.640 can show everybody who he bought.
00:45:17.480 All right, I'm paraphrasing.
00:45:18.660 He didn't say it that way.
00:45:19.860 But the idea is that you're advertising
00:45:21.860 your control over the people.
00:45:24.540 Do you see it that way?
00:45:26.400 So if every time you saw a world leader,
00:45:28.380 you saw them smiling too big
00:45:30.860 and acting like they're really,
00:45:32.260 really good friends with Alex Soros,
00:45:33.780 wouldn't you think who Alex Soros
00:45:37.820 is controlling things?
00:45:39.960 Because he gives a lot of money
00:45:41.680 to a lot of people
00:45:42.500 and the people he gives money to
00:45:44.620 in the political realm
00:45:45.620 like to take a picture smiling really big.
00:45:49.120 So maybe they get more money later.
00:45:52.060 So if all the money works,
00:45:54.920 it does appear that
00:45:56.340 if you look at all the money
00:45:57.560 that Alex Soros is giving to the NGOs
00:45:59.880 and the politicians
00:46:00.820 and the way he's doing it,
00:46:01.960 it does look like he's either
00:46:04.080 the dumbest guy in the world
00:46:06.700 or he's intentionally trying
00:46:07.860 to destroy the world
00:46:08.880 for reasons that are a little unclear.
00:46:11.960 So I'm actually still confused about him.
00:46:15.840 Maybe he's some kind of weird,
00:46:17.580 true believer in something.
00:46:20.280 But it feels more like
00:46:21.780 he's enjoying the power
00:46:23.220 and the influence.
00:46:26.000 And so if he just keeps giving to people
00:46:27.820 who act a certain way
00:46:29.680 and they act a certain way to him,
00:46:31.040 maybe that's all he cares about.
00:46:33.660 I can't believe he thinks
00:46:35.420 he's fixing the world.
00:46:37.760 Like there's no evidence
00:46:38.900 that he's making the world
00:46:39.820 a better place.
00:46:41.240 Do you think that the open borders
00:46:42.960 is entirely one guy,
00:46:44.540 Alex Soros?
00:46:47.040 What do you think?
00:46:48.640 Do you think it's entirely one person?
00:46:50.520 No, you're saying no.
00:46:52.100 You think it's the World Economic Forum?
00:46:53.720 It's the whole UN.
00:47:00.440 Yeah.
00:47:01.260 Who in the world thinks
00:47:02.300 that massive immigration
00:47:03.360 is going to turn out well?
00:47:06.060 I don't know anybody honest
00:47:07.720 who gets to think that would work.
00:47:09.940 Well, there's a Chinese bio lab
00:47:12.080 found in California.
00:47:13.220 Robbie Starbucks was writing about it
00:47:14.800 on X.
00:47:15.400 I don't know what to think of this.
00:47:18.200 So there's this Chinese guy
00:47:20.600 who had a lab
00:47:21.600 with every kind of bad,
00:47:23.360 deadly chemical in it,
00:47:25.480 or virus,
00:47:26.500 and he got caught,
00:47:28.320 and apparently he's actually
00:47:29.920 on record as saying
00:47:31.720 he wants to defeat
00:47:32.620 the American aggressors.
00:47:35.840 So it appears that
00:47:37.620 on the surface
00:47:39.380 there was literally
00:47:40.840 a Chinese bio lab
00:47:42.660 by a terrorist
00:47:43.580 who was maybe funded by China
00:47:45.580 who wanted to create a virus
00:47:47.460 and destroy America.
00:47:50.080 I feel like I'm missing
00:47:51.440 something in this story.
00:47:53.380 It's a little too
00:47:54.240 on the nose or something.
00:47:56.560 I don't know.
00:47:57.000 I'm going to put a pin
00:47:58.020 in this one and say
00:47:58.960 it's all scary stuff.
00:48:01.080 Better pay attention to it.
00:48:02.900 But I feel like
00:48:03.660 there's more to know.
00:48:05.780 Don't you think?
00:48:06.760 I feel like,
00:48:08.180 I don't know,
00:48:08.700 there's a variable missing in that.
00:48:10.180 No, Mr. Bond.
00:48:13.240 We want you to die.
00:48:15.220 I don't know why
00:48:15.760 we're saying that,
00:48:16.440 but somebody's saying it.
00:48:19.620 All right.
00:48:26.040 There's a,
00:48:27.260 if you didn't see the video,
00:48:28.600 there was a big UFC fight
00:48:30.220 in Toronto,
00:48:31.740 and I guess the chanting
00:48:32.820 was F Trudeau.
00:48:35.200 So the UFC fans
00:48:37.980 in Canada
00:48:38.580 are not big fans
00:48:40.160 of the president.
00:48:41.520 But I use this story
00:48:43.340 to remind you
00:48:44.200 that sometimes
00:48:45.380 we think we're in
00:48:46.320 some kind of
00:48:46.840 political opinion difference.
00:48:49.700 I'm not sure that's true.
00:48:52.340 I think it's
00:48:52.840 a testosterone difference.
00:48:55.440 Because if you fill
00:48:56.660 a stadium full
00:48:57.660 of high testosterone people,
00:49:01.060 they praise Trump
00:49:02.540 and they yell at Trudeau.
00:49:04.620 Is that always
00:49:05.580 a coincidence?
00:49:06.240 I don't think
00:49:08.860 that's a coincidence.
00:49:10.340 Isn't it literally
00:49:11.200 just the high testosterone
00:49:12.440 people detest Trudeau
00:49:14.440 and love Trump?
00:49:15.640 I think that's all it is.
00:49:18.040 Yeah.
00:49:19.440 All right.
00:49:20.160 Speaking of testosterone,
00:49:21.420 there's a news,
00:49:22.860 let's see,
00:49:23.300 I think it was
00:49:23.620 the Wall Street Journal,
00:49:24.920 saying that
00:49:25.540 there are more American
00:49:28.100 single men
00:49:29.260 who say they don't
00:49:30.200 have any close friends.
00:49:31.340 So 20% of single men
00:49:33.580 say they don't have
00:49:35.000 any close friends.
00:49:36.200 Was that shocking to you?
00:49:38.140 Who is shocked here
00:49:39.460 that 20% of single men
00:49:41.680 don't have any friends,
00:49:43.920 close ones?
00:49:45.900 Well?
00:49:47.540 Oh, really?
00:49:49.120 Okay.
00:49:49.440 I thought it would be
00:49:56.940 much higher.
00:49:58.720 I don't think it's 20%.
00:50:00.360 I think it's closer to half.
00:50:02.100 What do you think?
00:50:03.440 I think at least half
00:50:04.500 of all men
00:50:05.820 don't have any friends.
00:50:08.440 Yeah,
00:50:08.740 closer to half.
00:50:09.680 So I think that's
00:50:10.300 a terrible poll.
00:50:11.920 My only advice
00:50:15.540 for men
00:50:16.080 who want to have
00:50:16.540 more friends
00:50:17.120 is that it has to
00:50:18.060 come through
00:50:18.620 joint activity.
00:50:20.880 Men don't make friends
00:50:21.980 because somebody
00:50:23.480 was nice at the bar.
00:50:25.680 That doesn't really happen.
00:50:28.540 Somebody chatted
00:50:29.400 with you at the bar
00:50:30.200 and you made friends
00:50:30.920 and then you became
00:50:31.540 friends forever.
00:50:32.560 I've never heard of that.
00:50:34.060 I've heard of people
00:50:34.760 who were roommates
00:50:35.460 who stayed friends,
00:50:37.040 but they were roommates
00:50:37.860 for accidental reasons.
00:50:39.780 I've heard of people
00:50:40.440 who played sports together
00:50:41.760 becoming friends.
00:50:42.940 I've heard of people
00:50:43.480 who worked together
00:50:44.260 being friends.
00:50:46.240 You've got to do a thing
00:50:47.440 with other guys
00:50:48.160 if you want to be friends.
00:50:49.860 Take up a sport,
00:50:51.600 join a,
00:50:52.340 you know,
00:50:52.600 work somewhere
00:50:53.140 where there's guys.
00:50:54.360 That's the only thing.
00:50:55.340 It's just activity.
00:50:57.120 It's activity,
00:50:58.340 activity,
00:50:58.860 activity.
00:51:00.620 I'm not even sure
00:51:01.600 of Rotary.
00:51:02.960 If you join the Rotary,
00:51:04.960 that probably only works
00:51:06.740 if you're getting involved
00:51:07.720 and really doing the work.
00:51:09.060 You know,
00:51:09.240 you're not just a member
00:51:10.480 who attends meetings.
00:51:11.760 But it could work, yes.
00:51:15.760 All right.
00:51:18.500 End wokeness noted
00:51:20.720 that in Australia,
00:51:23.680 they've got mass
00:51:24.500 migration problem too.
00:51:27.400 737,000 migrants in 2023.
00:51:31.400 So one out of 36 Australians
00:51:34.120 arrived last year.
00:51:35.960 Wow.
00:51:38.260 But 70% of Australians polled
00:51:40.580 wanted less immigration.
00:51:42.700 Only 10% wanted more.
00:51:44.920 Is Australia a democracy?
00:51:47.880 They're getting more immigration,
00:51:49.960 but 70% don't want it.
00:51:52.960 No.
00:51:53.820 It's obviously not.
00:51:55.820 Obviously not.
00:51:56.700 And is America
00:51:59.300 a republic
00:52:01.400 with democratic principles?
00:52:03.980 Obviously not.
00:52:05.360 I don't know who's in charge.
00:52:07.600 Now,
00:52:08.040 when I say that,
00:52:08.700 I don't say that
00:52:09.340 like a hyperbole.
00:52:11.000 Like,
00:52:11.480 oh,
00:52:11.700 we don't know who's in charge.
00:52:13.120 You know,
00:52:13.280 conspiracy theory.
00:52:14.720 I mean it literally.
00:52:15.880 I actually don't know
00:52:17.320 because there's no evidence
00:52:18.980 that Biden's in charge.
00:52:21.080 If it's not him,
00:52:22.880 who is it?
00:52:25.760 I actually don't know.
00:52:27.340 That's legitimately
00:52:28.300 I don't know.
00:52:29.580 I don't think it's Obama.
00:52:31.560 I think Obama
00:52:32.400 gets involved
00:52:33.000 in some political stuff
00:52:34.280 and maybe a few things
00:52:35.180 he cares about.
00:52:36.360 Like,
00:52:36.580 I'm sure he wants
00:52:37.180 a Democrat for a president,
00:52:38.580 so he might be involved
00:52:39.420 in the campaign.
00:52:41.400 Klaus?
00:52:42.340 I don't know.
00:52:44.280 I don't know.
00:52:44.980 So the U.S.,
00:52:54.940 there's a story
00:52:55.580 that the U.S.
00:52:56.240 is getting more involved
00:52:57.280 in trying to blunt
00:52:59.140 the influence
00:52:59.940 of China and Russia
00:53:01.440 in Africa
00:53:02.500 because as you know,
00:53:04.060 China's aggressive
00:53:05.660 in Africa,
00:53:06.880 building infrastructure,
00:53:08.920 giving them loans
00:53:10.040 and really trying
00:53:11.420 to get economically tight
00:53:12.700 with the African nations
00:53:13.720 to get a big advantage
00:53:15.720 with them in the future.
00:53:17.460 A lot of it
00:53:18.180 has to do with resources
00:53:19.880 because China needs
00:53:21.100 a lot of natural resources
00:53:22.220 and Africa has them.
00:53:23.640 So they figure,
00:53:24.500 you know,
00:53:24.700 the more they wrap
00:53:25.700 their economic futures together,
00:53:27.600 the more they'll have
00:53:28.600 access to the resources.
00:53:30.540 So let me ask this.
00:53:32.000 How is it working out
00:53:32.900 for China so far?
00:53:35.940 Is China pretty happy
00:53:37.500 they put their money
00:53:38.300 in Africa
00:53:38.800 because they built
00:53:41.040 some gleaming facilities
00:53:42.960 that are working out
00:53:43.900 just the way they hoped?
00:53:46.940 As far as I know,
00:53:48.700 China has basically
00:53:49.760 wasted immense amount
00:53:51.900 of resources in Africa
00:53:53.220 and got almost nothing
00:53:54.220 in return.
00:53:55.720 Now, I'm not positive
00:53:56.900 that's true.
00:53:59.280 Well, the rare,
00:54:00.160 actually the rare minerals
00:54:01.220 might be,
00:54:02.260 that might be
00:54:02.880 a valid argument.
00:54:05.420 So I do think
00:54:06.320 they're getting resources.
00:54:07.120 But what I don't think
00:54:08.960 is that they're delighted
00:54:11.180 with the return
00:54:12.160 on their investments
00:54:13.100 because America also has,
00:54:15.760 seemingly,
00:54:16.840 all the rare materials
00:54:17.900 we need.
00:54:18.840 I mean,
00:54:19.080 we're building stuff.
00:54:20.880 So China has raw materials
00:54:22.900 like rare earth.
00:54:23.900 We have rare earth.
00:54:25.560 But we didn't spend
00:54:26.700 a gazillion billion dollars
00:54:28.340 in Africa.
00:54:29.560 They got pissed away.
00:54:31.320 So I think it would be
00:54:33.400 a toss-up strategy-wise
00:54:35.420 whether it's smarter
00:54:37.060 to compete with China
00:54:38.600 and try to get
00:54:39.960 as much control
00:54:40.800 of Africa as we can.
00:54:46.320 And it doesn't know,
00:54:49.840 but it was a better use
00:54:51.380 of 10 trillion
00:54:52.260 than our stupid wars.
00:54:53.940 I don't know.
00:54:54.860 I guess the question is,
00:54:56.220 is any amount of money
00:54:57.440 that you put into Africa
00:54:58.480 going to work out?
00:54:59.360 Because there's
00:55:01.700 a theoretical amount
00:55:03.000 of corruption
00:55:03.640 that makes it impossible
00:55:05.460 to invest.
00:55:07.240 And I think they're
00:55:08.140 below that line.
00:55:09.660 I think they're
00:55:10.260 uninvestable.
00:55:11.260 So if you try to make
00:55:12.220 it investable by investing,
00:55:14.640 I don't know if that
00:55:15.360 could get you
00:55:15.820 from here to there.
00:55:17.580 I don't know.
00:55:18.360 I don't know if that's
00:55:18.980 really a path.
00:55:20.620 So, of course,
00:55:21.480 Africa will improve
00:55:22.680 like everything improves
00:55:23.660 over time.
00:55:24.740 But if you try to make
00:55:26.020 it improve too fast,
00:55:27.520 you might have
00:55:27.860 some issues there.
00:55:29.360 So I'm not sure
00:55:30.480 we should be competing there.
00:55:33.300 Well, let's talk
00:55:34.180 about Israel
00:55:34.760 and the two-state
00:55:36.520 versus one-state solution.
00:55:38.300 So Netanyahu
00:55:38.960 has said directly now
00:55:40.380 that there's no real,
00:55:42.140 there's no plan
00:55:43.620 for, from him anyway,
00:55:45.960 for a two-state solution.
00:55:47.500 He wants Israel
00:55:48.540 to control the West Bank
00:55:49.680 and Gaza,
00:55:50.320 and that's it.
00:55:51.560 And then you're done.
00:55:52.840 Israel controls it,
00:55:54.400 and we're done.
00:55:55.700 Forever.
00:55:56.180 Now, as you might imagine,
00:55:58.900 that is very provocative,
00:56:00.400 and the Arab world
00:56:01.760 doesn't love it,
00:56:02.980 and the Biden administration
00:56:04.340 wants a two-state solution,
00:56:06.300 and all the protesters
00:56:07.560 want an end to the violence
00:56:09.180 and for them to work out
00:56:10.680 with something that would look
00:56:12.140 like a two-state solution.
00:56:13.780 So what's going to happen?
00:56:14.720 Well, things are getting bad there.
00:56:18.980 Well, they were always bad,
00:56:20.400 but getting worse.
00:56:21.600 The numbers of people
00:56:23.900 killed, civilian,
00:56:25.720 you know, I think I won't
00:56:26.960 even say the number
00:56:27.860 because you're just going to say,
00:56:29.780 that number came from Hamas.
00:56:31.720 That is exaggerated.
00:56:32.980 And I'll say,
00:56:34.040 yeah, you're probably right,
00:56:34.980 but it's the only number we have.
00:56:36.720 And I told you where it came from.
00:56:38.440 And then you'll say,
00:56:39.560 but still, it's so misleading.
00:56:42.060 Maybe it'd be better
00:56:43.020 you didn't mention it at all,
00:56:44.580 so I'm not going to mention it at all.
00:56:46.460 So just know that there are claims
00:56:48.700 of, you know,
00:56:49.540 immense numbers of wounded and dead,
00:56:52.980 civilians and fighters,
00:56:54.580 but estimates of how many
00:56:55.980 Hamas fighters they got
00:56:57.360 is more like 20%,
00:56:59.420 and progress is slowing.
00:57:05.000 So the suggestion is
00:57:06.460 that Hamas is on the border of winning.
00:57:09.560 Hamas is on the border of winning.
00:57:13.020 Because for them,
00:57:14.740 not losing is winning.
00:57:16.520 If they lost half of their fighters
00:57:18.060 but stayed in power,
00:57:19.900 that's a win, right?
00:57:22.020 Because they would have degraded
00:57:23.520 Israel's reputation in the world.
00:57:25.780 They don't care so much
00:57:26.840 about their own deaths.
00:57:28.760 That'd be a win.
00:57:30.300 So if Israel is really
00:57:32.980 only degraded 20%
00:57:34.880 of the actual fighters,
00:57:37.580 that doesn't look like
00:57:38.720 they're winning to me.
00:57:39.980 What do you think?
00:57:40.620 Because they're hurting public opinion,
00:57:42.720 and they're not getting
00:57:44.640 what they wanted for it,
00:57:45.800 which is kill Hamas.
00:57:48.320 So that's not ideal.
00:57:51.380 But if you have Netanyahu,
00:57:53.480 who's against the two-state solution,
00:57:55.840 and you've got Biden who wants one,
00:57:57.460 and of course we're going to have to get
00:57:59.180 on the same page at some point,
00:58:01.540 what do you do?
00:58:03.100 Well, let me give you
00:58:04.840 a lesson in negotiating.
00:58:06.160 If you have a situation
00:58:08.600 which cannot be solved
00:58:10.000 anytime soon,
00:58:12.420 your best bet...
00:58:15.540 All right, somebody's saying
00:58:17.220 Israel isn't losing.
00:58:23.080 Like that...
00:58:24.160 I don't want to get into
00:58:25.080 a dumb argument, right?
00:58:27.040 So let's see if I can say it
00:58:28.280 in a way that you'll stop saying that.
00:58:30.260 You don't know who's winning and losing
00:58:33.960 because that depends on the final state,
00:58:37.640 and that's unknowable.
00:58:39.420 You don't know if Israel
00:58:41.260 will be forced by public opinion
00:58:43.080 to slow down what they're doing,
00:58:45.540 which will leave Hamas intact,
00:58:47.480 which would definitely be losing.
00:58:50.060 But you also don't know
00:58:51.780 if Israel is just going to
00:58:53.940 ignore public opinion
00:58:55.120 and do whatever they need to do
00:58:56.380 until they do win,
00:58:57.640 which they could.
00:58:58.880 It's possible.
00:59:00.600 So you can't say
00:59:02.000 Israel is winning
00:59:02.840 and you can't say
00:59:03.660 Hamas is winning.
00:59:04.700 You can say there's an argument
00:59:06.320 for both situations.
00:59:09.120 Are you okay with that?
00:59:10.240 There's an argument for both,
00:59:11.940 but you don't know
00:59:12.760 which way it's going to end.
00:59:13.900 How would you?
00:59:16.700 Well, I'm going to give you
00:59:17.680 a prediction based on
00:59:18.680 the only way it could end.
00:59:20.540 When there's only one way
00:59:21.960 it can go,
00:59:23.440 it's not hard to predict.
00:59:25.540 Would you agree?
00:59:26.660 I don't think it was hard
00:59:27.880 to predict where Ukraine
00:59:29.160 and Russia would go.
00:59:31.060 They would kill more people
00:59:32.480 until they got tired
00:59:34.180 and they would make
00:59:35.220 some kind of agreement
00:59:36.120 that looks sort of like
00:59:38.240 the borders the way
00:59:39.540 they are now.
00:59:41.440 So you don't have to be
00:59:42.540 a genius if there's
00:59:43.460 literally only one way
00:59:44.820 things can go.
00:59:46.400 I mean, you could say,
00:59:47.480 well, it'll be a nuclear war,
00:59:49.000 but not really.
00:59:50.360 It doesn't really look like
00:59:51.560 it could be a nuclear war.
00:59:52.900 So here's the way
00:59:55.560 I think Israel and Gaza
00:59:56.660 is going to go.
00:59:58.120 The two-state solution people
00:59:59.740 will never give up.
01:00:01.820 Netanyahu will not be able
01:00:03.080 to stay in office
01:00:04.020 and push his one-nation thing.
01:00:09.880 Biden isn't going to say
01:00:11.740 one nation.
01:00:12.320 And here's what's going to happen.
01:00:17.780 There's only one way
01:00:18.780 to solve it.
01:00:20.120 You make a 20-year deal
01:00:22.060 and say,
01:00:23.180 here's the deal.
01:00:23.920 We can't just hand it back
01:00:25.280 to Hamas.
01:00:25.920 You understand why.
01:00:26.820 But we'll make a 20-year plan
01:00:29.020 for a two-nation solution.
01:00:33.560 If after 20 years
01:00:35.320 the following security
01:00:37.440 and, let's say,
01:00:38.540 education of the people
01:00:39.700 in those areas
01:00:40.840 reaches certain criteria,
01:00:43.420 at that time,
01:00:45.540 we will look into
01:00:47.300 turning it back over
01:00:48.440 to Hamas,
01:00:50.320 or not Hamas probably,
01:00:52.080 but to the Palestinians
01:00:53.020 to run it.
01:00:54.560 Because after 20 years,
01:00:55.820 you've shown us
01:00:57.060 that you can live with us
01:00:58.600 in peace
01:00:59.020 and not be a threat.
01:01:00.780 Now, what would Biden
01:01:02.020 say to that?
01:01:03.060 Oh, that's too slow.
01:01:05.780 And then Netanyahu says,
01:01:07.200 it's all you're getting.
01:01:09.140 All right.
01:01:09.940 We'll try to sell it.
01:01:12.200 So then they can say,
01:01:13.400 this is the only plan.
01:01:15.420 Because you know
01:01:16.120 you can't do it in a day.
01:01:17.980 And you know you can't
01:01:19.120 wait 100 years.
01:01:20.500 So we're going to do
01:01:21.360 the only productive thing
01:01:22.500 we can,
01:01:23.120 which is to say,
01:01:23.840 look, 20 years is reasonable.
01:01:25.820 Because you've got to
01:01:26.680 change a lot.
01:01:28.220 And it's going to take
01:01:29.240 20 years,
01:01:30.060 especially educating the youth.
01:01:32.060 So if Israel gets control
01:01:33.780 of the curriculum
01:01:34.580 in the schools,
01:01:36.260 such that they can actually
01:01:37.860 brainwash the youth,
01:01:39.880 and they can reduce
01:01:41.700 the number of terror attacks
01:01:43.040 to whatever level
01:01:44.660 they say is low enough
01:01:45.940 that they're okay with it,
01:01:47.540 at the end of 20 years,
01:01:50.720 they will definitely
01:01:51.540 be open to that
01:01:53.620 two-state solution.
01:01:55.640 Now,
01:01:56.460 what will really happen
01:01:58.540 in the real world?
01:02:00.560 First of all,
01:02:01.340 it would be hard
01:02:01.920 to say no to that deal
01:02:03.220 if it's the best one
01:02:04.180 you can get.
01:02:06.320 Because
01:02:06.760 Israel is never
01:02:09.120 going to agree
01:02:09.640 to a two-state solution
01:02:10.860 right off the bat.
01:02:12.540 That's just stupid.
01:02:13.980 Like,
01:02:14.300 even to imagine
01:02:15.000 that's going to be
01:02:15.600 a serious conversation
01:02:16.900 is crazy.
01:02:18.200 But eventually,
01:02:20.040 you know,
01:02:20.300 they can make a claim
01:02:21.600 that things can change.
01:02:23.460 They can't make a claim
01:02:24.540 that it would work today.
01:02:26.440 That would be crazy.
01:02:28.400 Literally crazy.
01:02:30.200 So,
01:02:30.740 when you only have
01:02:31.420 one thing you can do,
01:02:33.600 that's probably
01:02:34.340 what's going to happen.
01:02:35.760 So the one thing
01:02:36.720 you can do
01:02:37.320 is say,
01:02:37.780 we'll create
01:02:38.880 some series
01:02:39.880 of confidence-building steps
01:02:41.540 to get us to where
01:02:42.920 we both would like to be.
01:02:44.600 Because I don't think
01:02:45.460 Israel would hate it
01:02:46.540 if they got out
01:02:47.920 of the business
01:02:48.460 of protecting themselves
01:02:49.480 from their neighbor.
01:02:51.420 It just doesn't seem possible.
01:02:53.700 But if it could be done,
01:02:55.180 I think they'd like it.
01:02:57.780 I don't think
01:02:58.580 that their lust
01:02:59.500 for extra land,
01:03:01.500 you know,
01:03:02.140 expanding in this way,
01:03:03.380 I don't think
01:03:03.980 that's as much
01:03:04.780 as they would like
01:03:05.600 to just not have
01:03:06.220 the problem at all.
01:03:07.920 That's my guess.
01:03:09.740 So,
01:03:10.300 I'm going to predict
01:03:11.040 that there will be
01:03:11.740 a phased
01:03:12.660 kind of approach.
01:03:15.320 oh yeah,
01:03:16.760 maybe the Abraham Accords
01:03:18.900 will be wrapped into that
01:03:20.060 as in,
01:03:21.120 you know,
01:03:21.380 if you guys
01:03:21.900 can get along
01:03:22.580 for a while,
01:03:23.360 then Saudi and Israel
01:03:24.840 will get along
01:03:25.460 for a while
01:03:26.040 and maybe help
01:03:26.720 with the rebuilding.
01:03:27.960 You could tie
01:03:28.580 all that stuff together.
01:03:29.900 But the important thing
01:03:30.780 is Israel
01:03:32.620 would have to know
01:03:33.540 that they could say
01:03:35.240 no after 20 years.
01:03:37.160 And then they would.
01:03:39.460 They would definitely
01:03:40.420 say no after 20 years.
01:03:41.840 because there isn't
01:03:42.740 a chance in the world
01:03:43.580 that the Palestinians
01:03:45.240 will stop
01:03:45.980 their attacks.
01:03:48.100 There's no chance
01:03:49.060 of that.
01:03:50.480 And if they poll
01:03:52.340 the public,
01:03:53.080 and maybe one
01:03:53.580 of the criteria
01:03:54.180 is polling.
01:03:56.400 Maybe one
01:03:57.100 of the criteria
01:03:57.640 is if we poll you,
01:03:59.740 you can't be 80%
01:04:01.540 in favor of killing
01:04:02.500 all of the people
01:04:03.420 in Israel
01:04:03.920 because we're not
01:04:05.400 going to give you
01:04:06.020 a state
01:04:06.640 if that's the situation.
01:04:07.920 So, you know,
01:04:09.880 even though polls
01:04:10.580 can be faked
01:04:11.340 and whatnot,
01:04:12.440 they could say
01:04:13.380 you're going to have
01:04:14.060 to get public opinion
01:04:15.000 down to some
01:04:16.140 reasonable level
01:04:17.340 of wanting to kill us
01:04:18.540 before a two-state solution
01:04:20.480 is even, you know,
01:04:21.780 something we could
01:04:22.500 take seriously.
01:04:25.400 So, yeah,
01:04:26.320 that's the only way to go.
01:04:29.240 So, therefore, it will.
01:04:30.780 There's talk
01:04:31.540 of a hostage deal.
01:04:33.360 Hamas is saying
01:04:34.080 they'll give back
01:04:34.660 all the hostages
01:04:35.520 if the fighting stops
01:04:38.420 and Hamas can go back
01:04:39.680 in charge of Gaza.
01:04:43.300 That's not going to happen.
01:04:46.240 So, these are all
01:04:47.380 fake offers.
01:04:49.800 So, why is Hamas
01:04:51.100 making a fake offer
01:04:52.340 that they know
01:04:54.020 will be turned down?
01:04:55.460 So that it looks like
01:04:56.640 they're negotiating.
01:04:58.160 So it looks like
01:04:58.940 they care about,
01:04:59.860 you know,
01:05:01.360 giving back to hostages.
01:05:03.220 Yeah.
01:05:03.720 So it's a fake offer
01:05:04.920 and Israel should
01:05:05.980 match it with a fake
01:05:07.040 offer of their own.
01:05:07.980 Oh, hey, what?
01:05:08.980 I'll make you a deal.
01:05:10.460 Can't give you that
01:05:11.240 state right away,
01:05:12.140 but if you work with us,
01:05:14.880 keep things safe
01:05:15.720 for 20 years,
01:05:17.820 yeah, totally possible.
01:05:20.860 All right,
01:05:21.380 that, ladies and gentlemen,
01:05:23.080 is the end of my content.
01:05:25.520 Tight and perfect,
01:05:26.780 I think, for today.
01:05:27.700 I'm going to say bye
01:05:28.880 to the YouTube
01:05:30.860 and Rumble
01:05:31.880 and ex-viewers.
01:05:35.420 Thanks for watching
01:05:36.220 and I'll see you again
01:05:38.080 tomorrow.
01:05:39.180 Same place,
01:05:40.140 same time.
01:05:41.620 Bye for now.